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Interview: Author on How American Christianity Really Looks
The church is shrinking; Christians get divorced more than anyone else; non-Christians have a very low opinion of Christians.
That's the bad news many people hear when it comes to Christianity in the United States. And a lot of it is lies, says sociologist Bradley R. E. Wright, of Storrs, Conn.
Wright presents an analysis of previous research in his new book, Christians Are Hate-Filled Hypocrites … and Other Lies You've Been Told, to offer readers a more accurate view of American Christianity.
He acknowledges that it'll be difficult to change popular beliefs about Christianity and Christians even with more accurate data and he expects to continue to hear overly negative portrayals of American Christianity both within the media and in churches. Still, he wants to present the data and let the data speak for themselves.
CP: How long have you been studying American Christianity?
Wright: Only for about four years now. Before that I studied crime and homelessness.
CP: So what got you interested in studying Christianity?
Wright: I've always had an interest in studying Christianity. I'm a Christian myself. Once I received tenure, that made it a lot harder to fire me and so I took a year off to sort of reorient my research to something I found more sort of compelling. I wanted to work more merging my faith and my profession.
CP: Did you grow up a Christian?
Wright: I grew up in the Catholic Church. My mom and my sister were devout Catholics for whom the presence of Jesus Christ was quite a reality. For whatever reason it didn't catch with me. And so I had a born-again experience in high school in a Campus Life group. And since then I've been involved with evangelical churches. I spent several years at a Vineyard charismatic church. My wife and I went to an Episcopalian church about seven, eight years. Now we're back to an evangelical community church.
CP: So you're not really loyal to a certain grouping of Christians, but you're just looking for the right community of believers?
Wright: Yeah, that would be one way to put it.
CP: You say you started writing the book after you began blogging. What did you blog about?
Wright: That's the nice thing about blogging is you get to write whatever you want. On my blog, everything from pictures of flowers I've taken to in-depth statistical treatment. But in terms of what's related to this book, I just started blogging about statistics I found about Christianity and one set of those statistics have to do with the divorce rate. We're all familiar with the idea that Christians have divorce rates as high, if not higher, than non-Christians. I heard that for years but as I thought about it, it just didn't make sense. You know my wife and I have received so much support from our pastors, from members in small group, from the church as a whole that I just didn't see how that couldn't make a difference. So I started to look into it and I did analyses on five different data sets and they all said the same thing, that Christians actually have lower divorce rates. And I put this on my blog – a 12 or 14 part series – and I got a lot of feedback and a lot of notice. [People] found that gratifying to sort of bust that myth as it were.
CP: So it was the divorce statistic that got you started on this whole journey.
Wright: Exactly.
CP: When did you start blogging?
Wright: I think it was November 2006.
CP: So you mention that it was both the media and Christians that were spreading this misinformation. Would you place the responsibility more on one of those groups?
Wright: I would say it comes from both but maybe just in different ways.
CP: You mention Christian speakers who are really misinforming their audiences with statistics like youth leaving the church. Do you feel they're doing that because they feel the culture they're in – the postmodernism, the pluralism – is maybe worse than possibly the liberalism from decades ago?
Wright: The short answer is I don't know. But I can give you my speculations. And to be clear, I'm not picking on these people. My sense is that they're using these statistics with the best intentions, that their goal is to try to save the church from what they perceive to be a terrible problem and imminent disaster. The expression I use is "scary statistics are useful," that it helps us to create audiences and create a need for our message.
What you're asking more specifically is why do they so readily believe these scary statistics. One answer might be that they're just very useful for their ministries. Another, especially regarding youth, is throughout history old people have worried about young people's morals. There's a funny quotation in the book from an Assyrian tablet from hundreds of years before Christ where it complains about the young people of the day and how they're not following what the old people say.
CP: Do you feel Christians are maybe too apathetic and maybe they need a little kick to try to get more involved in the church like in outreach?
Wright: I think that might be part of the motivation. If I were to speculate, pastors and leaders and book writers and conference speakers want the church to do even better, to reach out more, to give more, to pray more, to read the Bible more, to do everything more. Now what I would like them to say, "well, I've looked at the data and you guys are going pretty well but let's do even better." But that may not be a compelling enough message, that may not sell books or conference tickets so what it ends up becoming is "you guys are doing terribly. Come on, knock it off, listen to me and we'll turn this around."
CP: Your book clears up a lot of statistics but I'm not sure if it makes evangelicals or Christians overall look that much better, maybe just slightly. Do you think your book would change people's perspectives at all about Christians?
Wright: Well, I would hope so because I think it's more accurate to have a more positive perception of Christians. In many ways, things are going well. But I'm also aware of the whole idea of paradigms. You know once an idea is in place in society it's really really hard to change even if you're correct. An example I use in the book is, up until about two decades ago everyone thought that ulcers came from stress. It turns out that some forms of ulcers come from bacteria. It's a bacterial infection. And the scientists who discovered that spent years trying to convince their colleagues of it. Finally, one of them just drank the bacteria and gave [him]self an ulcer. Just really hard to change people's minds.
CP: I read an article recently in Boston Globe – how facts backfire. Researchers found that even if misinformed people are told the truth or presented with correct information, the facts didn't change their minds. They actually held on more strongly to the misinformation, especially when those facts were presented by the media . Do you think your book could have that kind of effect too? Where people will just refuse to change their minds about Christians?
Wright: That could well happen. That sounds like it's a study version of what I was saying in terms of paradigms.
CP: For you personally after you wrote the book, did your impression of Christians change?
Wright: Yes, it became much more positive. I've been analyzing data long enough that I'm always wrong when I guess what the data's going to say. And so I've just stopped making expectations. But if I had to guess ahead of time, I would've thought that [the statistics] I was going to look at … maybe half would be positive and half would be negative. But I was surprised, especially going into about chapter seven. I was thinking, wow, things are looking great for the church. And then I hit the analyses involving racial and other groups and I was dismayed. But that's part of the value of data is that it tells us where the real problems are. If we think everything's a problem, then in a sense nothing's a problem because it almost becomes white noise.
CP: What do you feel is the worst misperception people have of Christians?
Wright: I'm not sure how to answer that. Let me change it just a little bit. The most unhelpful Christians have about Christianity is that it's on the brink of extinction, that American Christianity will in a decade or two just be gone or we'll all be huddled in basements or something. And that's a problem because, basically if we're in the Titanic and we've already hit an iceberg, why would we want to (I'm going to mix the metaphor here a little bit) invite anyone to join us? Why would we want to devote ourselves to it? Basically, if you have a sinking ship, you don't invite people to it, you jump off and get away. And so I would say it's perhaps the most harmful myth that Christians believe about ourselves.
CP: And the most surprising statistic that you found?
Wright: I'd say the most surprising one was how much non-Christians' opinions of evangelical Christians have become more favorable instead of less favorable in the last two decades. In the 1990s, maybe 70 percent of non-Christians had an unfavorable view of evangelicals. Now it's down to 40.
CP: It was interesting that you found that college faculty have strong negative feelings towards Christians, more than any other religious group. Would you say that rightly confirms what Christians have been fearing where Christianity is being taken out of public square, schools, courts, government buildings, etc. ?
Wright: Well, it would be a bit of a leap to go from professors' attitudes to Christianity in culture as a whole. But I would say that it confirms our fears that a lot of our professors are boneheads. We preach liberal acceptance and tolerance, yet we can be very intolerant.
CP: Regarding the attitudes Christians have towards gay people, it's kind of scary. Does it confirm the notion that Christians really are homophobic?
Wright: Well, I wouldn't go that far. There's two pieces to the puzzle. First of all, I agree that it's scary. It was very upsetting to read that because if any people in society are called to love people different than themselves [it should be] us. The good news is that throughout society, any religious group has become much more tolerant of gays over time. That's the good news. The bad news is that on average Christians don't do as well. So I could see how that could be interpreted as "homophobic." I would say that we have prejudice attitudes towards gays. I don't know if I would take it to a certain level of we're all homophobic because that's just an average. There are many Christians who are kind and loving in their attitudes toward gays. It's just on average we tend to be worse. And that's something that we should work on.
CP: How are you promoting this? Are you encouraging church leaders to pick this up and correct the misinformation in the churches?
Wright: You hit upon a concern I have about the book and that is I think I've done a reasonably good job in presenting the information but I'm not nearly as good at working through the implications of it an applying the implications. So that's the kind of thing that pastors and other church leaders I think would do much better than I would. So what I'm hoping is that the ideas in this book will work themselves into everyday conversation and that pastors and lay people will become more discerning of statistics and have an overall more general and positive attitude, which I think is more accurate, towards Christianity itself. It seems to me that Christian writers will often take a set of statistics as the launching point for a book. So the first chapter will be statistics and chapters 2-10 will be what should we do about this. I'm hoping people do that with my book because there's a lot of information there that Christians aren't used to seeing.


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True, but it's not like this is news, and mileage varies as to how excited one should get about the fact. We've been paying astronomical sales taxes all our bleepin' lives here and I don't see that changing, though I do see the good citizens of Livermore getting a bit testy at the suggestion they should forgo their BART station after half a century of paying sales taxes for it, as it were. Good data point re Millionaire's Tax as well, though the dueling tax proposals seem unlikely to have a good outcome for any of them.
And the Millionaires Tax moves rates closer to where they were historically. That's useful context, but the point of the column is that sales taxes are regressive. Their historic levels don't change that reality.
Well, since what's he's proposing is merely to restore the sales tax to what it was before June of last year, this histrionic response seems a bit much.
Good reporting on abuse of position by a corporation in the same self-interested, anti-community league as the Koch brothers! Occupy Oakland should opt for constructive activities like pushing for open bid contracts by businesses like Block by Block/SM Holdings seeking city support, instead of trashing City Hall and taking their sense of frustration out on the police and Mayor Quan. Success of such an effort by OO could mean more sorely needed, higher paying jobs for Oakland -- just what the 99% supposedly want!
Just what is "God-centered, faith based," about transferring good paying government jobs with benefits, paid for by tax dollars, and converting them to low wage jobs and private company profits - for SMS Holdings? Tax dollars are meant for public services not corporate profits! Try this bullshit in berkeley!
Hey Darwin, this is James, and I love your article.
I am keeping their (Fascist) feet to the fire here in Berkeley... and you're blowing them out of the water there in Oakland.
Saw a Department of Homeland [Gestapo] Security SUV cruise by me while I was on my bag (love your photo by the way) a day after I posted my third scathing post on the chimp.
The SUV was coming out of the general area of... wait for it... wait for it... wait fo-o-o-oooooor it... City Hall.
-James Richard Armstrong II
"Anger is a gift . . . ."
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The "simpler" card check union voting puts good peer pressure on the employee, with the union rep standing there. The horribly complex "secret ballot" must be an evil thing.
The simple card check is so good, for the election next November the voting booths should have screens showing everyone your votes as they are cast. I mean, if you are a good person, what do you have to hide?
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Dear Mr Gammon,
You dismiss the Recall Mayor Quan Now effort because of a 10-year-old election-law reporting penalty incurred by the group's lawyer, and use as one of your chief sources against the recall James Vann, a Quan supporter.
You conveniently fail to mention that Mr. Vann himself was forced to pay a substantial penalty to the Fair Political Practices Commission in 1995 for some very serious offenses as part of a political campaign.
James E. Vann (1995) FPPC No. SI-90/813 [Enforcement decision].
81004 - Numerous counts, 84211(f) - Numerous counts, 84300(a) - Numerous counts
As treasurer, Mr. Vann failed to properly itemize on a campaign statement the campaign's receipt of over $60,000 in contributions. He also illegally accepted cash contributions of $100 or more. The campaign also failed to diligently ascertain the true source of thirty-eight $1,000 contributions.
James Vann was fined $10,625.
But you're the one who believes a penalty from a decade ago is relevant to today's recall. I don't.
To be clear: The big error in the recall application process was made by the City, not by the recall movement, when officials failed at the time of application to tell Gene Hazzard to correctly republish his Notice. At that early stage, he could easily have republished it without discarding the signatures of the people who have now since signed, and without confusing potential future signers.
Even a month ago, when this issue was brought to their attention, the City still had a chance to either make Gene Hazzard republish or ask the court for a ruling on how to proceed without significant impact on the voters who support a recall.
Instead the City froze and did nothing. Now it may make the decision to take no position on the legal issue of publication.
That will only compound the confusion created by the City's original error. This is now a familiar response of our City officials to tough situations.
The competence of the recall participants is irrelevant to the question of the competence of Mayor Quan. But it's a slick way to distract voters from that very real question.
Charlie, it would be refreshing (although I suppose, also shocking) if the champions of the recall would acknowledge their real agendas. This isn't about any particular mishandling of any particular issue by Quan. This is about a desire to see a more conservative, pro-development city government.
Robert Gammon wrote, "That court ruling concerned certification of a recall petition after parts of it was stolen." If I reasoned about Gammon the way that he reasons about recall, I would dismiss everything he said on the grounds that the good reporter does not know elementary grammar.
It would, however, be wrong to dismiss everything Gammon wrote. He has compiled a large though untidy collection of remarks by one person or another about alleged facts - to the exclusion of evidence as to the facts themselves.
The City Clerk certified a recall petition for signature-gathering. The only group of volunteers actually on the street, Recall and Restore, is circulating that petition. (I am active in that committee, which has a website at http://www.recallandrestore.com ) Gene Hazzard is circulating the petition separately, and so could you if you so desired.
A KPIX poll found that 49 percent of Oaklanders already support recall of Mayor Quan. That means we are getting the 20,000 required signatures from among the nearly 100,000 people who see that two more years of Mayor Quan would be a disaster. Everything else is gossip.
I disagree that Occupiers will help the recall effort. Whenever anarchists hijack Occupy Oakland to advance their own agenda, it makes Mayor Quan a more sympathetic figure, not less—as happened on Dec. 15 at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club. This will continue as long as the movement, out of an excess of political correctness, remains too spineless to deal with the extremist 1% who infest Occupy Oakland's fringe. For further thoughts, please see my Allvoices article "Anarchists Again Hijack Occupy Oakland," published shortly after the event. goo.gl/c0C8O
Before signing any recall petition, Oakland voters should read the anti-recall editorial (http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_19…) in yesterday's West County Times. While the wisdom of some of Mayor Quan's actions are debatable, some of them are to be applauded, especially actions addressing the gross, 2-term mismanagement or non-management of the city by her predecessor. Steering Oakland out of the mess he left should and appears to be Mayor Quan's objective, not appeasing the over-the-top emotions of a movement seizing on a recall campaign to give itself direction.
I'm glad the article says that the media and others pointed fingers at Quan for his departure...wrongly in hindsight. Good riddance to Batts, from what I can see.
Recall and Restore (co-chairs Charles Porter and Nancy Sidebotham, for which I serve as spokesperson) began canvassing signatures for the petition to recall Mayor Quan just as this article appears (Tuesday, Dec. 13). As several TV stations reported, there was a lots energy in the air. We are rolling!
Any registered Oakland voter may circulate the petition that the City Clerk has approved for circulation. As far as groups go, Recall and Restore has a real operation on the ground. Recall and Restore is composed of most of the active proponents who signed the original recall application last Oct. 24, plus people who sign up every day.
When someone offers you the petition, you sign if you want a vote to spare Oakland three more years of Mayor Quan. Your reason is your reason, my reason is mine, but we agree: whatever her virtues and skills, Jean Quan does too much damage as Mayor.
You may contact Recall and Restore at email@example.com.
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Just because he left early on Friday's and was away on weekends does not mean he was out of touch with his staff. Didn't he have a cell phone?
Wonderful article revealing yet again the competency of Marcie Hodge.
A year later, and Oakland residents still have NO idea who paid for all those large billboards put up for Marcie Hodge's mayoral run.
She seems to ignore the campaign laws requiring disclosure of the sources of such funding.
I guess she thinks you are entitled to do anything you want regardless of whether it breaks the regulations governing elections.
Were they paid for by friends of Don Perata? Who else would shell out all that money and why? We don't know because Marcie Hodge won't tell us how they were financed.
BTW, I heard or read somewhere that Don Perata has moved out of Oakland since losing the election. I have not seen other confirmation of such a change in residency.
If true, it would seem that if a Quan recall were successful that Perata won't be one of the new candidates.
Molto bene, I miei amici. Comedy of errors is damn straight. If someone who can't find your address and serve you is worth $20 million in potential earnings, I can't wait for my own incompetence to pay off.


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Daily briefs of the top news stories impacting Christians around the world.
In today's edition:
- Christians Mark Easter in Jerusalem Despite Violence
- Internet Co. Suspends Website for Film Critical of Islam
- Statistics Show Traditional Families on the Rebound
- Pope Baptizes Prominent Ex-Muslim
Christians Mark Easter in Jerusalem Despite Violence
The Christian Post reports that Christian pilgrims, undeterred by the recent violence in Israel and the Gaza Strip, sang and prayed on Easter Sunday at the church believed to be built on the site where Jesus rose from the dead. Christians from around the world escaped Jerusalem's sweltering heat to worship in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. The outgoing Roman Catholic leader in the Holy Land, Patriarch Michel Sabbah, preached "We need leaders who are ready to offer their lives for the sake of peace, not leaders who issue orders to kill and assassinate and send others to kill or to get killed." Protestants, who venerate a spot outside the Old City known as the Garden Tomb as the site of Jesus' burial, gathered there early Sunday to sing songs "We can say that resurrection day was the happiest day in history," Peter Wells, the site's chaplain, told the crowd.
Internet Co. Suspends Website for Film Critical of Islam
CNSNews.com reports that a U.S.-based Internet company has pre-emptively suspended access to a Website on which a controversial Dutch lawmaker was planning to post a short film examining links between Islamic terrorism and the Koran. For the past several weeks, anyone typing into their Web browser the URL fitnathemovie.com would have reached only a black screen, an image of the Koran, and the words, "Geert Wilders presents Fitna. Coming Soon." No other pages were accessible. At the weekend, however, the hosting company, Virginia-based Network Solutions, replaced the screen with a message saying it had received "a number of complaints" about the site and had suspended it while investigating whether the "content" violated its acceptable-use policy. Wilders, leader of the right-wing Freedom Party which holds nine of the 150 seats in the Dutch parliament, registered the site late last month ahead of his planned release of a 15-minute film which he said aimed to show how Islam's primary text has been the inspiration in parts of the world for "intolerance, murder and terror."
Statistics Show Traditional Families on the Rebound
OneNewsNow reports that statistics released by the Census Bureau are being acknowledged by many pro-family advocates as a good development for the traditional notion of two-parent families. The Census Bureau's report of 2004 surveys says nearly 62 percent of the nation's 73 million children live with both biological parents. The New York Times reports that the statistics represent a major trend slowdown between 2004 and a previous survey in 1990 versus a dramatic loss in two-parent homes and an increase in single-female parent homes between 1970 and 1990. Mike McManus, co-founder of Marriage Savers, calls the statistics "a good sign" and notes that "more and more marriages are staying together and fewer and fewer children are having [to suffer] these kinds of effects."
Pope Baptizes Prominent Ex-Muslim
According to a Reuters report, a Muslim author and critic of Islamic fundamentalism was baptized a Catholic by Pope Benedict. Magdi Allam said on Sunday that Islam is "physiologically violent" and he is now in great danger because of his conversion. "I realize what I am going up against but I will confront my fate with my head high, with my back straight and the interior strength of one who is certain about his faith," said Allam. In a surprise move on Saturday night, the pope baptized the 55-year-old, Egyptian-born Allam at an Easter eve service in St. Peter's Basilica. The conversion of Allam to Christianity was kept secret until the Vatican disclosed it in a statement less than an hour before it began.


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What if a group of the most knowledgeable college football experts in the world assembled together to study the sport from all angles virtually nonstop, eventually reaching a consensus opinion about every game?
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8th Annual Donnie Solomon Memorial Event
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ASP International sanctioned event for professional surfers.
The Pro-Am Open Mens event took place on Sat. The Championship Tour ratedevent was held on Sun.
This was a fund raising event for the American Red Cross in memory of DonnieSolomon. Donnie was a volunteer Red Cross representative for the VenturaChapter and a top ASP rated Professional Surfer who was taken from us whilesurfing Waimea in December of 1995.
Over the last eight years $40,000.00 has been raised at this event for theAmerican Red Cross, Ventura Chapter. Many surf companies, local businessesand individual contributions were donated towards the raffle that was heldat this event.
A dedication ceremony was officiated by Evan Slater Editor of SurfingMagazine. Three Queen Palms were planted by the City of Ventura. A memorial plaqueand three park benches will be permanently installed around the palm trees.This will serve as a permanent memorial for Donnie Solomon1s legacy as theAmerican Red Cross National and International Ambassador. Thank you to BrentFlaaten and Harold Jones Landscaping for their donation of the three QueenPalms.
Excellent weather and fair surf conditions. Sat. two to three foot waves,Sun. 2 to 4 ft. waves.
Sat. February 7, 2004Pro-Am Open Event: 50 top professional and amateur surfers competed in thisevent.
Total prize money: $2,650.00
1. Henry Mills, Morro Bay $1,000.00
2. Ryan Simmons, Seal Beach $500.00
3. Chris Drummy, San Clemente $350.00
4. Dylan Slater, Ventura $250.00
=5. Micah Byrne, Huntington Beach $150.00
=5. Mike Hoisington, Huntington Beach $150.00
=7. Dave Hopkins, Ventura $125.00
=7. Nick Kovack, San Diego $125.00
Thank you to all of the competitors who participated in this event andhelped to make it such a success. The PRO-AM event featured topprofessionals and amateurs, Keoni Cuccia, Tom Curren, Scott Finn,Sean Hayes, Danny Nichols, Adam Virs, Bron Heussenstamm, James Pribram, DaneReynolds, Chad Wells, David Pinto, Anthony Petruso, Austin Ware.
Sun. February 8, 2004
Championship Tour Series 4 * Rated Event
Good weather and surf conditions. 2 to 4 foot waves
Super Groms
1. Jimbo Borland, Topanga Canyon
2. Gavin Hamilton, WestLake Village
3. Dewey Wojcik, Shelter Cove
4. Shawn Burns, SantaCruz
1. Cheyne Gusmeroli, Newbury Park
2. Nat Young, Santa Cruz
3. Joseph Aaron, Capistrano Beach
4. Chad Underhill, Santa Cruz
5. Cody Bertrand, Huntington Beach
Junior Men
1. Charlie Stevens, Carlsbad
2. Pierce Flynn, Ventura
3. Ryan Peterson, Oak View
4. Garrett Carpenter, Newbury Park
1. Bryson Greaves, San Diego
2. Jason Carroll, Oak View
3. Kengo Satomura, Los Angeles
4. Kaoru Murayama, Huntington Beach
Open Men
1. Charley Stevens, Carlsbad
2. Bryson Greaves, San Diego
3. Brent Flaaten, Camarillo
4. Paul Spencer, Carlsbad
1. Grant Hueth, Santa Cruz
2. Taichi Maruyama, HuntingtonBeach
3. Paul Spencer, Carlsbad
4. Paul Tokunaga, Culver City
Senior Men
1. Terry Gillard, Imperial Beach
2. Kensho Shida, LosAngeles
3. Brent Flaaten, Camarillo
4. Brett Jordan, Ventura
1. Pat Schlick, La Mirada
2. Rick Fignetti, HuntingtonBeach
3. Scott Lewis, Los Angeles
4. Bart Yarnold, Channel Island Harbor
Junior Longboard
1. Joseph Aaron, Capistrano Beach
2. Chase Stavron,Capistrano Beach
3. Chase Vittiitoe, Long Beach
4. Jimbo Borland, Topanga Canyon
Open Longboard
1. Terry Gillard, Imperial Beach
2. Jeff Belzer,Camarillo
3. Zak Fritz, Dana Point
4. David Paquin, Manhattan Beach
Open Prosthetic
1. Ron Warren, San Pedro
2. Rodney Roller, Oceano
3. Dana Cummings, San Luis Obispo
Open Bodyboard
1. Blake Peterson, Encinitas
2. Mark Quiros, RedondoBeach
Super Gromettes
1. Kirra Kehoe, Santa Monica
2. Ginger Wojcik, ShelterCove
3. Betsy Ansorage, Los Alamitos
4. Betsy Ansorage, Los Alamitos
1. Raquel Bartlow, Long Beach
2. Erin Lewis, Ocean Beach
3.Teo Dinger, San Diego
4. Jasmine Lyons, Fountain Valley
Open Women
1. Emiko Hoshino, Torrance
2. Terumi Nakajima, HuntingtonBeach
3. Kate Tehaney, Bolinas
4. Jill Hawtrey, Huntington Beach
Womens Longboard
1. Erin Lewis, Ocean Beach
2. Stacy Ross, SanClemente
3. Karen Katz, Mendocino
4. Megan Rogers, Del Mar


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Amid the exhaustive litany of theories (both regular and conspiratorial) for why NBC unceremoniously fired Ann Curry, perhaps one of the most interesting has been supplied by the former Today host herself: people involved with the show didn't like her kaleidoscopic sense of fashion.
In picture after picture, Sandra Lee is like a virgin. Suggests Stacey London, "there's the idea of purity and the fact they aren't married and she's trying to not look like the girlfriend."
When a Civil Liberties professor finds herself offended by a student's skimpy clothes, she's caught between theory and reality. When is clothing inappropriate? And can a professor ever say so?
"It's the most important day. You want to make a good impression." So says one 12-year-old. She is so right.
I have a love-hate relationship with Stevie Nicks. I mock, but if I said there's something she's worn that I haven't owned or coveted at some point in my life, I'd be lying.
Once I was at a store during a very busy after-Christmas sale. "If I buy this dress for my baby shower in three months and then it doesn't fit, can I return it?" one shopper asked a salesman. No, he said; sales were final. The shopper looked at him like he was crazy. "But I'm pregnant," she said, as if to a simpleton.…
Always-adorable Abigail Breslin has given a video interview to Premiere to promote her new movie, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl. Apparently the preteen actress had her pick of the movie's wardrobe department but what did she choose to take home? The overalls. Young Hollywood: Keeping it real. [Premiere]


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As Americans and world leaders alike struggle to understand President Obama's final and open abandonment of long-time Middle East ally, Israel, at the United Nations last week, controversial radio talk show host and former U.S. Congressman Joe Walsh says he has the answer.
Walsh, no stranger to the firestorms caused by tweeting, says he believes Obama's "secret"faith serves to explain his hatred of Israel.
For better or worse, I'm not afraid to say it publicly. I think Obama is Muslim. I think in his head and in his heart he has always been. /5
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) December 29, 2016
And I think it explains Obama's hatred toward Israel and explains his weakening of America these past 8 years.
It's not complicated. /x
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) December 29, 2016
As Americans and world leaders alike struggle to understand President Obama's final and open abandonment of long-time Middle East ally, Israel, at the United Nations last week, controversial radio talk show host and former U.S. Congressman Joe Walsh says he has the answer.
Walsh says the president is a Muslim.
Admitting that the statement makes the GOP, his radio station and sponsors "uneasy," Walsh goes a step further in claiming that his belief is held by many members of Congress and in the media, who are afraid to express their opinion publicly for fear of repercussions.
Last week, Obama instructed his Ambassador to the U.N., Susan Rice, to abstain from the Security Council's vote to condemn Israeli's building of settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, sending a clear signal to other nations that the U.S., at least for the next three weeks, no longer defends Israel from its critics.
Although Obama has steadfastly claimed to be Christian, his empathetic connection with the Muslim faith has been on display since well before he entered politics.
School records from his childhood in Jakarta list his faith as "Islam," and his reflection that, "the Muslim call to prayer is one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset," reveal his attachment to the faith, but his rare attendance at church services during his presidency after two-decades at the Black Liberation pulpit of radical Jeremiah "G**-d***ed America" Wright on the South Side of Chicago, have called his faith into question.
Walsh, himself, a one-term Congressman from Chicago, has drawn the ire of Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), a Muslim, who has demanded he be investigated by the Secret Service for tweets that were critical of the president for his support of the Black Lives Matter movement in light of attacks on law enforcement officers.
While in Congress from 2011 to 2013, Walsh was an outspoken critic of Obama for what he perceived as his abandonment of the U.S.-Israel alliance, especially after the president abruptly walked out of a White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, leaving him to wait in a reception room for over an hour while he had dinner with Mrs. Obama and their two daughters.
President-elect Donald Trump, who will take office on January 20, has already signaled that U.S. relations with Israel will be very different in his administration than they have been for the past eight-years.
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Adaptation of William Shakespeare's play about a young woman who poses as a boy and the complications that ensue when another young woman becomes infatuated with her. Look-alike sister Viola and brother Sebastian are shipwrecked and each presumes the other dead. Viola lands in the kingdom of Illyria and, disguised as a boy, becomes the attendant and confidante of Duke Orsino, who's in love with Countess Olivia. Olivia uses her bereavement over the recent death of her brother to avoid seeing Orsino, whom she does not love. When Orsino sends Viola, renamed Cesario, to woo Olivia for him, Olivia falls for Viola as Cesario, who is in love with Orsino. Things are complicated further when Sebastian, with his strong resemblance to Viola/Cesario, resurfaces in Illyria.


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Lebanon: huge rally calls for Christian-Muslim unity
More than 300,000 Lebanese took part in a huge rally in Beirut yesterday to mark the anniversary of the assassination of MP Rafik Hariri. The peaceful rally began with welcoming words from Ghassan Tueni who invited the crowd to repeat the oath pronounced by his own son Gibran - who was also assassinated in December 2005 - after Hariri's murder: "Never again war between Christians and Muslims." Waving flags, handkerchiefs and balloons in the blue colour of Lebanon's ruling coalition, the crowd shouted slogans against Syria and its Lebanese allies. At exactly 12:55 pm - the time of Hariri's assassination - the crowd fell silent except for a muezzin making the Islamic call to prayer and the tolling of church bells. Meanwhile, Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone sent the following telegram of condolence, in the Pope's name, to His Beatitude Cardinal Nasrallah Pierre Sfeir, Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, Lebanon, for Tuesday's bomb attack north of Beirut in which three people were killed and around 20 injured: "Profoundly grieved by the terrible attack that struck Lebanon this morning, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI asks Your Beatitude to express his spiritual closeness to the injured and to the relatives of the victims, and give them assurances of his prayers. Entrusting to divine providence those who died so tragically, the Holy Father invokes the maternal protection of the Virgin Mary upon the entire Lebanese nation. He calls upon the Lebanese people and their representatives to unanimously reject violence and hopes that, in this dramatic event, they may find the motivation for a commitment in favor of national unity and the common good." Source: AsiaNews/VIS


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Ever tried to fit a square peg into a round hole? The Wonder Stuff tried, failed and then wrote a song about it.Read more/listen...
A mod call for the disaffected youth of the sixties to party, somewhere… anywhere… probably after raiding the local pharmaceutical shop!Read more/listen...
Creedence just saw a bad moon rising whilst Fugi seem to have a lot more on their plate.Read more/listen...
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Pub rock – a most underrated form of music.Read more/listen...
The definitive version of this track which has been recorded numerous times, although I also have the version by We Five on seven. Love, peace and flowers drip out of the grooves in this universal paean to just getting along maaan, provoking big smiles and the involuntary rocking of the head from side to side to any listeners. Indelibly connected in my mind to the movie adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, as it was used in the soundtrack that introduced me to some outstanding 'new' music. Dialogue from the movie is used to bridge some of the songs on it and Johnny Depp utters the monologue below (adjusted only slightly from the novel) just before the Youngbloods track fades in:
San Francisco in middle of the sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive, in that corner of time in the world, whatever it meant. There was madness in any direction, at any hour, you could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning and that I think was the handle.
That sense of inevitable victory over the forces of old and evil, not in any mean or military sense, we didn't need that; our energy would simply prevail. We had all the momentum, we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look west and with the right kind of eyes, you can almost see the high water mark; that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
Reminiscent of 10cc's I'm Not In Love, with the vocal harmonies; for some reason this track always brings to my mind Holkham Beach in Norfolk. Perhaps the sand dunes that stretch into the distance when the tide is out beneath an open blue sky, give an expanse that mirrors the atmosphere created by this song. Or maybe it was played on a portable radio when I was there and forms one of my first musical memories… Something I'll probably never find out. The album it's from, Please Don't Touch, is very strange but in a positive experimental manner and whilst not as overtly prog rock as his debut solo album, Voyage Of The Acolyte (a title that loudly proclaims it's progressive rock credentials), still has some flute action as well as guests including Richie Havens and Randy Crawford.
Another acoustic guitar led track that leaves a warm glow inside and a smile on the face when listened to. Was brought up in a household with a parent who was a Supertramp fan and became susceptible to their vocal harmonies and trademark keyboard sound.
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A brief track from the Scottish songsmiths which has been ably employed in ambient mixes by those in the know, including Jon Marsh (of Beloved fame) on his simply sublime Travelogue mix. Perhaps this was the beginning of the habit amongst eighties 'rock' artists of including a leftfield slab of ambience tucked away on an album? Always exciting to discover an album that you've previously only recognise from the artist or the songs that were released as singles, has something completely different in pace and vibe tucked away unobstrusively in the middle of the B-side. Long may I continue to discover them.
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Just one track from an accomplished album with perfect production from Daniel Lanois and Tony Mangurian, these are all simply just great songs. My path to discovering the 'Fever In Fever Out' album were the tracks "Naked Eye" and "Under Your Skin" which were, to me, groovy rock tracks with overt dance sensibilities, so it's perhaps not surprising that this album was released on the Beastie Boys' Grand Royal record label. 'Take A Ride' has a chilled out mellow vibe with complimentary over-dubbed vocal harmonies and a bass that loiters across the track.
Live slow, die old
Live slow, die old
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Strange quirky track, the way the male vocals are delivered can take some getting used to but it's a fun latin disco tune. Play it to folk who don't take themselves or the music they listen to, too seriously.
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Fire officials reminding you about fireworks safety
As you're out celebrating America's birthday this week, local fire officials want to make sure you stay safe.
Both the Champaign and Urbana Fire Departments report that most fireworks are illegal in both cities, and if you have to light a wick or a stem that causes an item to explode or fly into the air, it's not permitted. However, novelty fireworks, such as snakes, glow worms, sparklers and pellets, are legal in Champaign and Urbana.
Urbana Fire Marshal Phil Edwards said even though novelty fireworks are legal, he wouldn't recommend them because they can heat up to 1,500 degrees.
Edwards added that some people use illegal fireworks anyway, but when people ask him how to use them safely, he says the only way to do that is to not use them at all.
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@tgorsteve You see this blue team display at @rootscanada @bayshoreottawa UGH!! #Sens #Ottawa #BlueTeamElimination twitter.com/redscarfunion/…
— Red Scarf Union (@redscarfunion) December 10, 2012
Sens fans complained that OTT Roots store had big Leafs merch display. Here's Roots saying it's been taken down. twitter.com/SensReporter/s…
— James Gordon (@SensReporter) December 11, 2012
Crisis averted gang! The people spoke and the corporation relented, all is right in Ottawa once more.
But the scientists at Roots aren't idiots, they know what we all know…
The Senators logo sucks, it just stinks period. No matter which garment you affix it to, I guarantee it will lower the aesthetic value. I think Uni-Watch said it best in August:
"Anyone else out there think the Sens usually look an AHL team that took a wrong turn on their way to the minor league arena?"
Now I'm not here to say Roots is god's gift to fashion, I can't say I've ever bought anything there myself. But if Roots brand identity is anything — it's a kind of classic Canadiana. And while the Senators are quite clearly of Canada, there is nothing classic about this…
Sometimes it takes an outsider to speak a truth the locals have been wary to voice.
So spare Roots your ire, and direct it instead at the organization for saddling us with a logo no self-respecting fan would argue pleases his/her eye.


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Great speech by a lying manipulative snake 🐍🐍🐍!
Wtf do u want jet!!!!!
Was that Jayla-Marie from the rap game at around 0:35?
el mensaje es muy inspirador!!!!
to all those haters please tell me why you hate her so much she has done nothing to you
y'all still using the snake emoji are the real ones that need to grow up are u okay
She's honestly the greatest I can't even. Watching this made me cry.
Kendrick shoulda won album of the year though
So are they throwing shade at dudes? Can't tell. Just scared.
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There is a lot of questionable "advice" floating around. The only measures I took was to disable defrag and delete the hibernation file. Write caching, Page file, Superfetch etc. I let intact. And after 6 months I have seen hardly any degradation as you can see here:
People are too worried about "damage" that write operations may cause to the SSD. I do not think this fear is warrented. The SSDs will last the 3 or 4 years that we keep them.
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sorry for asking in your thread but how do you know if the firmware is up to date, because i will also just be installing the SSD and putting windows staight on it.
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Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
As shown here to get FW revision. then just check the official site (of your particualr drive) for current FW number
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I am building a new super computer and want to use an Intel SSD as the boot drive containing only the Windows 7 OS, with storage on two RAID-configured SATA hard drives. Is there a way to make a system image of my old computer whereby I can retain all of my applications on the new computer? Or will I have to reinstall all of the software?
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Nelsomw, That will not work. You have to reinstall Windows and all programs on the new computer.
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Q: Fuel pump problem on 1992 Ford F-250Edit
My fuel pumps I keep putting in my truck in the rear tank are going bad. I have tried motorcraft and airtex fuel pumps, but same problem. Any idea why these pumps are going bad?
All the other answers are correct, you may want to check there is a black piece of plastic that is bad for coming off. It will cause your truck stop running when you have less than a quarter of a tank of fuel. Good luck.
dirt and debris are the most common reasons for failure. remove the tank and have it completely cleaned out.
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1. After more than one year of preparation a
framework-law had been worked out in 1996-97 in Hungary. The law
was passed by the Hungarian Parliament in March 1998. It is going
to set in force in January 1999.
2. Although the provisions of the law are originally
based on two European Community directives (90/219/EEC Council
Directive on the contained use of genetically modified microorganisms
and 90/220/EEC Council Directive on the deliberate release of
genetically modified organisms into the environment), the subject
of the Hungarian regulation is much broader than the EC's one.
The scope of the Hungarian regulation covers all kind of genetically
modified organisms with the exception of humans. The protected
and wild (game) organisms are prohibited to be modified.
3. The act is a framework-law which is going
to be backed by several decrees of the competent ministries. The
ministerial decrees will adapt in deep details the above mentioned
two directives' rules (for example the annexesforms to
fill in by the applicantsof the directives).
4. Following elements of the law can be considered
fully or partly harmonised with the provisions of the above mentioned
two directives.
(a) Authorising system
Permit is obligatory:
(b) Institutions which are responsible for permitting
5. [Authorising responsibility is shared by
three ministriesMinistry of Agriculture, Ministry of Welfare,
Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourismin accordance
with the most common applications of biotechnology. (Biotechnological
activities are divided into three categories by the law. These
are the following:
6. The Ministry of Environmental Protection
also has an important role as a consultant (veto-authority) in
giving an expert opinion on the activities to be permitted.]
7. Deadlines in decision-making on the applications
for permit.
In case of activity relating to:
8. Publication of the draft-permit[32]
and the permit.[33]
Deadlines for public comments on the draft-permits
(from the date when it was published)
In case of:
9. Publication of the finalised version of the
10. Adaptation of the provisions of the Regulation
258/97/EC of the European Parliament and the Council on novel
food and novel food ingredients.
11. The law on genetechnological activity amends
the Act No. 1995 XC on foodstuffs by adapting the definitions
relating to novel food and to labelling of novel food of the above
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Diomaris Neris of Lakewood got to know Alcantara while he was stationed at Fort Lewis. She wanted to share her memories of the young soldier, killed Aug. 6 in Baqouba.
"He was born in Santiago, Dominican Republic and immigrated to New York City at the age of five months. He joined the Army immediately after graduating high school because he wanted to use his GI bill to pay for college.
"He was very excited about going to Iraq because as he put it 'we are going to kick butt.' He was so excited about coming (home) next month because he couldn't wait to meet his daughter. It breaks my heart to think he didn't get that chance.
"… He also wanted to be a police officer once he got out of the military. In addition to being in love with his daughter and being excited about being a soldier, Cpl. Alcantara was a wonderful and loyal friend. Once he became your friend he was truly your friend.
"He loved to laugh (and make others laugh), dance, play basketball and football. It was through his love for dancing that he and my daughter met – dancing at Latin Sensation in Fort Lewis. They became good friends, especially after he found out that she was of Dominican descent as well.
"The night before his deployment he and members of his unit came over to my house for dinner and despite leaving for war he was upbeat and his jovial self. I am deeply saddened by his death as are all of his friends. Juan truly was a human being that made the world a better place."


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Ctrl Queensland > IQ3 Satellite, Foxtel Now, PS2, PS4, Samsung QLED, Apple TV, iPhone 7, iPad Pro, Apple Watch Series 1, Mac Mini, MacBook Air
QUOTE - Also mentions how Foxtel will be investing in improving Customer Service.
talk is cheap,
throw away PR line
the problem is NOT customer service
the people at Foxtel could help us heaps more,
if they where allowed to ?
The problem is Foxtel corperate policy
they decide what and how much help we get.
until the attitude at the top changes nothing will improve.
perhaps we should all write to the CEO ?
FOXTEL READ THIS: i have a 50 inch tv and have absolutely NO INTEREST in watching ANY movies in standard definition. It is now 2017 and i thought 'i might watch a movie from the foxtel store'. I go to a NEW movie called 'Captain Fantastic' which is well reviewed but it only has the SD option. Foxtel you need to fix this as well as an HD option on anytime or you will continue to lose customers to Netflix etc which is cheaper, has NO ADS, and is ALL HD, because they realise it is 2017. GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER
HD for all IP delivered services is coming early this year. Foxtel Play for Telstra TV is already HD.
I'm surprised the store only had the SD version of that movie. Yes, I'd have thought they'd have the HD version of those movies for those who want and have the bandwidth & data allowance.
The lowest of the three Netflix tiers is SD only.
I've calmed down a bit now, but i was very annoyed last night. The fact is if you go to the foxtel store you can count on your left hand the amount of movies available to hire that have an HD option. I am happy to hire a movie, to give Foxtel $ for it but because of the lack of HD options for brand new movies i am forced to hire from itunes (all HD options) or from YT movies. It seems that when a movie is first added to the store it has HD, then as soon as its 3-4 weeks old its only SD.
Not interested in Foxtel Play, as i have Netflix. I just want more HD options on my current iQ3 setup.
I find it dissapointing that the consumer has to pay so much more compare to other streaming services but don't have the option to watch Anytime in HD.
The world has changed to keep up with the latest development, yet that is not evident here. I've been in South Africa recently, and find the local content provider to offer the option of either HD or SD when whatcing on demand content.
My household watch several Netflix movies simultaneously and experience remain consistent. This is a good indication that we do have the capacity and see no reason to provide this option.
Foxtel have previously announced that HD is coming for all of the IP delivered services.
Note that only Foxtel and Fetch TV offer live linear channels streamed - the other providers are all purely on-demand.
I am told by a well trusted source it's coming soon, REAL SOON
------- You see how by saying it is coming REAL SOON, you instantly think it's coming in a few days or weeks at the most. But nothing I said has qualified how many days in the word "soon" - Foxtel have not given any promises.
They provide Anytime in Standard Def and until it is in HD it is not near good enough for the customers of the most profitable media company in Australia...


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He may have won the toss, but that was about the only call West Indies captain Denesh Ramdin got right on Thursday.
The Windies skipper made a litany of baffling tactical calls during the first day of the second Test against Australia in Jamaica to hand the tourists the initiative.
Ramdin was bold in opting to send Australia in on a Sabina Park wicket which looked like it would be difficult for top order batsmen early.
That decision was justified with quick Jerome Taylor dismissing openers David Warner and Shaun Marsh in a five-over opening spell where he bowled five maidens in a row.
Then Taylor was pulled from the attack, not to return until the penultimate over before lunch.
In his place Ramdin persisted with left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul, who found no assistance from the pitch and allowed the Australians back into the contest.
Then as Taylor cooled his heels for most of the remainder of the day – bowling just nine more overs in the final two sessions – part-timer Kraigg Brathwaite sent down 19 overs while Australia gained all the momentum.
Throw in two poor reviews, little hesitation to set defensive fields and a reluctance to take the second new ball and it all added up to a day of seemingly missed opportunities for Ramdin's men.
Despite having the most reason to be aggrieved, Taylor threw his support behind the wicketkeeper-batsman.
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Terms of Reference : Advanced Pattern Design Trainer (APDT) مدرب تصميم باترونات متقدمة
Education to Work Transition Project
Quality Improvement Fund
Institution: Palestine Technical College – Deir El Balah
Project Title: Fashion Design & Dress Making Dept. Development (FDDM)
تطوير تخصص تصميم الأزياء وصناعة الملابس
Palestine Technical College, Deir El-Balah, "PTC-DB" has received a grant from the Quality Improvement Fund (QIF)-Ministry of Education and Higher Education and Funded by the World Bank, to implement the project entitled "Fashion Design & Dress Making Dept. Development". In the frame of this project, PTC-DB seeks the selection and employment of a highly qualified Advanced Pattern Design Trainer (APDT) to work as part of the training team responsible for developing the professional capacity of the academic staff in the fashion design and dress making department as well as labor from the private sector.
Assignment Objective:
PTC-DB is considering the recruitment of a qualified APDT for the purpose of delivering an intensive advanced training course in the field of Pattern Design & Construction especially for men's and women's garments. Special emphasis shall be dedicated to the teaching of pattern design skills for men's garments including Jacket, Shirt and Trousers (a complete suit). The intended training course shall be given to a group of trainees consisting of academic staff members from the department of fashion design at PTC-DB as well as labor from the local private sector of the fashion industry. APDT will be mainly responsible for developing the training material which will be used as the main reference for the trainees during the course. The requested training course shall consists of 40 contact hours to be delivered within a period of 2 weeks starting from 1st October 2015 till 15th October 2015.
Main Tasks and Responsibilities:
The successful APDT candidate will be required to carry out the following tasks under direct supervision of the project manager:
1. Preparing a detailed outline (syllabus) of all the topics that will be covered during the course.
2. Preparing an educational material containing detailed explanation of each training session with clear illustrations of all the steps that need to be followed by the trainees to conduct the experiments.
3. Monitoring and evaluation of the performance of the trainees during each training session and ensuring the successful delivery of the intended learning outcomes to the trainees before the end of the course.
4. Assigning a project to be completed by each trainee in order to be used as a performance measurement criteria during the grading process.
5. Following all the academic guidelines of PTC-DB with respect to attendance commitments, training and supervision.
Minimum Qualifications:
1. At least a Diploma degree in Fashion Design, Pattern Design & Making, Architecture Engineering, Fine Arts, Home Economics or any other related fields.
2. At least five years of professional experience in the field of Pattern Design & Construction for men's and women's garments.
3. At least two years of working experience as a trainer.
4. Ability to utilize different teaching methods to easily develop strong pattern making skills for a variety of men's and women's fashion models.
5. Excellent computer, technical and creative drawing skills.
6. To be proficient at designing and making conventional and industrial patterns for all kinds of fashion models and garments using both hand and computer.
7. Proven ability to transform new fashion models into drawn patterns.
8. Excellent communication and team working skills.
A successfully delivered intensive advanced training course in Pattern Design & Construction consisting of 40 contact hours including a course outline, an educational material, as well as the projects assigned for the trainees during the course.
Place of work:
The successful APDT trainer will be working at the PTC-DB buildings.
Contract Type: Lump Sum contract
Interested qualified applicants are invited to send their Curriculum Vitae and a cover letter via email to:
Subject title: FDDM-PTCDB_FHCAD. no later than 13th September 2015
This position is open for applicants from Gaza Strip, the West Bank, or Overseas.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and interviewed
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This will be facilitated with networking meetings and the active participation of members to advance the interests of the alpha men. 2. All female members, once accepted, will agree to put the needs of the alpha men first in all decisions. This includes areas of conflict with such people as a cuckolded husband. 3. T.A.O. promotes the natural romantic relationships between alpha men and women. The members will encourage and support this. Various meetings and parties will be held to encourage this. 4. All female members agree that sexual relationships between white men and women is unnatural and in direct conflict with the mission statement. The women members will agree to a program of teasing and denial but accept the rule of complete sexual abstinence for the white man. 5. Marriages between a woman and a white male are ruled "social" marriages. They will be allowed and encouraged in order to promote the development of a white male servant class. 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Additional rules are present for each member class of T.A.O. The members agree to any changes in these rules if the rule is enacted by the board. The board will be selected by vote of all alpha males. Requirements to serve on the board include alpha male status, full membership status, and black male status. Kim looked at the list in front of her. She was impressed. She felt a twinge of guilt and though to herself that she ought to just walk out. At that very moment Karen spoke up. "Kim. If you are like most women you are probably telling yourself you ought to walk out of here. So my question is why aren't you?" Kim sat stunned by the observation of this experienced lady. She was quiet for several minutes and then spoke up. "I guess it is because I agree with all of this. Maybe it is wrong but it just makes sense to me." Karen and Ellie smiled at each other and Karen spoke again "It makes sense because it is the right thing to do. Quit worrying about your husband. If this works out he will be a cuckold servant and you will need to think about the men of this group and not him. It is the best thing for everyone and that includes your husband." As she said this Karen held her thumb and forefinger up to show the size of a tiny white penis and all three women laughed. Kim went home and had to play the waiting game. It took a long week and Ellie called her. "Kim. I am so excited. The board has looked at your information and you have been invited to a mixer-meeting." Kim felt her heart racing but did not know what that meant. Ellie went on to explain that these were meetings that were part social and part business. This would be the first time that Kim would be around the alpha men. Even though this would be a small meeting, it would be her chance to be interviewed by the peolple who really mattered. Ellie hastened to explain things to Kim. "Kim. This is not about sex or swinging. Nothing like that ever happens at a mixer meeting. It is about you and the men deciding if you want to go forward and maybe become a member. Having said that you want to have a certain look. That should not be a problem but you and I are going to go shopping." Kim was happy and excited and nervous all at once. She then asked Ellie about Rick. She could already see the biggest obstacle in her becoming a member. that would be his agreement to basically become a servant and to give up everything, including sex, for the rest of his life. She felt it seemed appropriate and she was amazed that she had come so far in her thinking that she felt this way. But would he agree? Ellie listened to all of these thoughts come out of Kim over the phone. She then said simply "Kim. Trust me. Rick is a cuckold. It is just that he does not know it yet. You can break him and you will break him. I broke Ron and now he does all of the housework and never ever bothers me for sex. He has to watch me get all sexy to be with Greg and he accepts it. 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Here's an interesting perspective on hiring practices at Google, from a New York Times interview with Laszlo Bock, senior vice president of people operations at Google.
Some quotes:
Welcome back to the real world, Google!
Some quotes:
"On the hiring side, we found that brainteasers are a complete waste of time. How many golf balls can you fit into an airplane? How many gas stations in Manhattan? A complete waste of time. They don't predict anything. They serve primarily to make the interviewer feel smart."
"...G.P.A.'s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless — no correlation at all except for brand-new college grads, where there's a slight correlation..."
"...After two or three years, your ability to perform at Google is completely unrelated to how you performed when you were in school, because the skills you required in college are very different."
Welcome back to the real world, Google!
No more Blub for me, thank you, Vicar.
Maneesh Godbole
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posted 4 years ago
I shudder to think how many people's careers were affected, when they were rejected, because "that's how Google interviews their candidates, so will we"
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posted 4 years ago
Heh, I know it may come across as arrogant, but in all my interviews I've refused to answer brain teasers -- yes, including my interviews with Google. I've always felt that there's got to be something more interesting to talk about than how the pirate gets the gold rope, or how to find the heavy marble.
It's never seemed to have hurt my chances though -- I always explained why in a professional manner, and then we just went on with the interview.
It's never seemed to have hurt my chances though -- I always explained why in a professional manner, and then we just went on with the interview.