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Medium-sized enterprises needs are defined separately from small-sized enterprises as those enterprises require different support measures and have other objectives. The former are generally more sophisticated by nature and level of technology, while small enterprises are usually characterised by their more 'developmental' level of operations.
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Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI)
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China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) - Beijing
China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission - Shanghai
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CCPIT Guangdong Sub-Council
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CCPIT Qingdao
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Austrian Federal Economic Chamber
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Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI)
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India International Trade Center
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Seafood Exporters Association of India
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Malaysian Associated Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry
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Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation
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National Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka
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Todd Solondz
Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016
There's no set path for a breakout Sundance director.
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Jon Gordon
Jon has been a student of learning for most of his life, from living and working at an orphanage in Mexico City to working at group homes for young adults in the Bay Area. From creating programs for the Florida Keys school system to facilitating programs for faculties around the country, Jon has seen how the current education system doesn't work for everyone and is passionate about helping people find ways that work for them.
Most recently he has worked for Challenge Day, a non-profit that specializes in workshops based upon social emotional learning, self-esteem building, and creating climates where people can be successful and thrive. Jon has facilitated workshops in 6 different countries (and informally done so in another 4). He has been one of the main subjects in a documentary about Challenge Day in the Netherlands and then subsequently was a part of the spin off TV series for the following four seasons. He has done speaking engagements for the United Way, been a part of the book "Be The Hero", and done numerous interviews for local television and newspapers, as well as many speaking engagements. Jon believes strongly in going against the grain, being creative, and the importance of a little bit of mischief.
This year at RE, John will be discussing UnCollege and Gap Year ideas with our teens and young adults as well as contributing to panel discussions on next steps for young adults. Meet Jon at RE2015 and hear more about his endeavors.


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Reward offered in Walmart theft
Staff Reports
A reward is being offered for information leading to two men who entered the Walmart on April 14 and took a television and DVD player.
According to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, the theft occurred at 2:21 p.m. The men entered the store and selected the items from the electronics department.
The left the store without paying for the items and drove off in a red Ford Taurus.
Anyone with information about the theft is encouraged to call Douglas County Dispatch at 782-5126, Douglas County Secret Witness at 78-CRIME, or sheriff's investigator Ted Jasperson at 782-6299.
A reward is available for information that leads to an arrest and conviction in the case. Tipsters identity is not required and they may remain anonymous.


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A Key to Calm
This has been quite a week. Lots of juggling, reminding, postponing, and generally organising our family as the kids had the first full week back at school after a loooooooong break!
Back to some study and practice, which if I'm honest sort of fell into the background over the loooooooooong break (insert smile here!).
I enrolled into a course over the break, a labour of love put together by a great teacher of mine, Kelly Connor-Sunrose. She's just the most divine teacher, she's earnest, funny and pours her heart into her offerings.
The course is called Just Breathe, and you can find it here http://www.sunroseyoga.com.
Just Breathe is a self guided Pranayama Course offered by Sunrose Yoga, and its THE BEST.
Out of the many pranayama practices she offers in the course, so far I've pretty much stuck with and dived deep into one of the practices, Ajapa Mantra. If you know me, maybe its because its got the word Mantra in it!
Here are my findings through my own experience this week:
Its wonderfully calming for my nervous system, I can feel my heart rate slow down. Tick!
Soothing, so soothing for my body. Tick!
Its simple and I've found myself doing it at the funniest times. Portable so big Tick!
So attractive. This practice has me thinking about it during the day. Like a treat, waiting for me at the end or the beginning of the day.
So big ticks from me. And let me say, I've done many courses, read many books but of course in the end, it is only ones own experience that gives you the experience that you need to feel it in your bones, to really find and soak in the nectar that these practices give you....
If you've been thinking about learning more on Pranayama, I'd recommend this course to you IN A HEART BEAT! (it will calm or lift your heart beat!!)
Its super affordable, Kelly has the most delightful voice and its so simple to learn. The tools are great, you can learn from reading, listening, there's a PDF to print out and a cute workbook illustrated by Kelly herself.
If you've got any questions, email me. I'd love to hear from you.
Much love.
I love ritual.
I love sitting in sacred spaces; a church, a sunrise, beside the lake, on my meditation seat.
I love all of the special tools used in rituals and in ceremony; candles, cards, quotes, malas, flowers.
I love the words, the feel, the smell and the intention behind these steps.
Because if life for me doesn't have any of these, it lacks lustre. It lacks that quality of pause, of coming home to centre, of being close to yourself and your practice.And this is how I found Elena Brower.
Many years ago she was featured in Yoga Journal. The topic was ritual, and it was a few pages featuring many Yoga Teachers and their special spaces in their homes where they sit for ritual, practice, meditation, whichever name you go by. Elena was photographed sitting in front of her Altar, hands in prayer with a big beautiful state us Quan Yin, the goddess of compassion. I began to follow Elena and her teachings from that point.
Fast forward many years later. After one false start, I booked in for her Art of Attention For Teachers 3 day training in San Francisco. EEKK! This was real and about to happen. A dream about to come true.
This happened with the support of a willing and wonderful husband, the encouragement of two children, one of whom turned 10 and gave me his blessing to go and a deep desire to go and learn from this teacher, person to person (along with 43 other lovely Yogi's).
I took myself on an adventure.
I took time for my Self.
I took time to just mooch around.
I took time to make new friends.
I took time for ritual.
I took time to open up for new lessons, new ways of thinking and new opportunities.
Ritual can be so simple. I previously thought it was very complicated and that I didn't have that special "qualification" for ritual. I learned from Elena who loves her ritual and practice, she writes that she has little Pujas throughout her home, serving as little reminders, little notes to ones self to stay close.
I learned from Elena that its simple, its sacred and its so available to us that we may not even know it by that name.
At the commencement of our 3 day training, Elena invited us to place our special items on the Puja table so they could soak up the goodness of the room. I selected 2 of my favourite Malas and 2 crystals to put on the table for the training. I just loved the fact they were up there, behind her, with everyone elses special items. I guess they "were in good company" as were we!
I now know, it surrounds us every day. Its in our home in the form of Puja; the photos that we put on a shelf, a mala that might sit next to a crystal, a quote written out on a special piece of paper or a candle with a postcard or photo next to it. Ritual surrounds us every day in those special things we do. For me its a mid morning coffee, a flat white please! Or a meditation practice, or drawing a card for direction or inspiration that day. That moment for me is a small pause, its a moment of connection and I can make it simple, complex, I can draw it out and read a quote or a passage from an inspiring text or book or I can have it on the go (least favourite option here).
Be bold, set up a little something in your home, office, car, draw, bedside cabinet. Wherever you feel drawn to. Buy a little crystal, look out for special stones, rocks or leaves as you go walking, find a cute note from your child, a small statue if you care.
Do this. I dare you. Create a special little something for you so that as you go through your day, when your eyes fall on this space it reminds you that ritual, puja, love, attention, intention surrounds you.
Dive into this.
I dare you!


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Yiddish Revolution, Copenhagen
4 June – Yiddish Revolution will be a part of Copenhagen Jewish Cultural Festival. More info will follow shortly!Read More
Der Yiddisher Idol, Mexico City
17 February – Louisa Lyne duo will compete in Der Yiddisher Idol, Mexico City. Join this adventure on Facebook and Instagram!Read More
Yiddish Revolution Tour, Norrbotten, 19 – 27 February: 19 Feb – Kiruna 20 Feb – Gällivare 21 Feb – Jokkmokk 22 Feb – Arjeplog + evening concert...Read More
January 2019
Come join our January concerts: 5 January – Malmö Opera 23 January – Yiddish Revolution, utbudsdag. Kulturkvarteret Kristianstad 27 January, 2.00 PM – Yiddish...Read More
Sthlm Synagogue and Limmud
9 November – Louisa Lyne Trio at Stockholm Synagogue. 17-18 November – Louisa Lyne Trio at Stockholm Limmud. We're happy to present two workshop sessions...Read More
Kulturkvarteret, Kristianstad
24 November – See Louisa Lyne & di Yiddishe Kapelye at Kulturkvarteret in Kristianstad. For more information and tickets, visit kulturkvarteret.com....Read More
YIDDISH REVOLUTION TOUR, Västernorrland
12-16 November: Yiddish Revolution tour, Västernorrland with Musik i Västernorrland. School concerts. 14 November: Official concert with Louisa Lyne & di Yiddishe Kapelye...Read More
YIDDISH REVOLUTION TOUR, Skåne
Autumn 2018 and spring 2019, Louisa Lyne & di Yiddishe Kapelye will give their concert program Yiddish Revolution around Skåne: 8-9 October – Ystad Teater 16, 17 and 23...Read More


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In Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWII, players test their air-combat skills as they experience the most famous battles of World War II. As a squadron leader, players can fly up to 38 WWII aircraft in both single-player and multiplayer missions. The game features squadron-based combat, in which each artificial intelligence wingman's specialized skill can be used to the pilot's advantage. During the course of the 18-mission campaign, players will evolve along with their wingmen into an ace fighting force. The heroic storyline that follows the evolution of a single squadron and the cinematic presentation create moments reminiscent of classic World War II movies. Pilots fly in close to Germany's industrial terrain during a bombing raid or emerge from the fog and cloud cover over London to engage the enemy.
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The Sixaxis looks like it just might push Blazing Angels into the stratosphere. Read More »
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Dr Jennifer Hatchell
Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics
Telephone: 01392 725516
Extension: (Streatham) 5516
I am an observational astronomer studying star formation at infrared and millimetre wavelengths. I coordinate the JCMT Gould Belt survey of local star formation, using SCUBA-2 and HARP to probe deep inside molecular clouds. This submm data is combined with infrared data from the Spitzer and Herschel space observatories to improve our understanding of the physical mechanisms which drive star formation.
Further details of my research projects can be found on the Astrophysics page.
Education and Employment
- 2016 - Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics, University of Exeter
- 2009-2016 Lecturer in Astrophysics, University of Exeter
- 2004-2009 PPARC/STFC Advanced Fellow, University of Exeter
- 2000 - 2004 Scientific Staff, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie
- 1995 - 2000 PDRA, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
- 1994 - 1995 Teaching Company Associate, North West Water
- 1991 - 1994 PhD, Radio Astronomy, University of Cambridge
- 1988 - 1991 BA, Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge
Funded Research Projects
- "A PATT-linked grant to support Exeter's observational astrophysics research", STFC ST/K005588/1, 2013-2016, £12k
- "A predictive model for star formation", STFC ST/J001627/1, 2012-15, £53k,
- "Robust spectral index maps from SCUBA-2 data", Nuffield Foundation, 2012, £1.1k
- "A Small Clouds target list for the JCMT Gould's Belt survey", Nuffield, 2007, £1.3k
- "IYA2009 support for Exeter Astrophysics outreach", RAS, 2009, £5k
- "The first real statistics on star formation", PPARC (STFC)PPA/A/R/2003/00173, 2004-2009, £250k
Facilities Usage
Facilities time for which I was the Principal Investigator:
- "The JCMT Gould Belt Legacy Survey", JCMT, 2007-present (joint coordinator), 600h
- "Lonely Cores" (M12AU13), JCMT, 2012, 21h
- "Low efficiency clouds and the minimum conditions for star formation" (OT1_jhatchel1), Herschel Space Observatory, 2010, 20.4h
- "Lonely Cores" (M13AU17), JCMT, 2013, 46h (PI student Emily Drabek)
- "CO in Lonely Cores" (M12BU31), JCMT, 2012, 17h (PI student Emily Drabek)
- "CO in Lonely Cores" (M11BU03), JCMT, 2011, 8h (PI student Emily Drabek)
Invited Presentations
Invited presentations since Jan 2008 given by myself and students and postdocs under my supervision:
- "Star formation (review)" Invited, J.Hatchell, STFC Summer School, Glasgow, 2011
- "Star formation with SCUBA-2" Plenary, J. Hatchell, RAS National Astronomy Meeting, Glasgow, 2010
- "Star formation with SCUBA-2" Invited, J.Hatchell, JENAM, Vienna, 2008
Contributions to the Community
- ALMA ARP, 2016-present
- JCMT Board, 2012-present
- Herschel HOTAC, 2010
- VLA Time Allocation Committee, 2007-9
- JCMT Time Allocation Committee, 2004-7
- Reviewer for MNRAS, A&A, ApJ, STFC grant proposals
- "IYA2009 Astrophysics Open Evening" 2009
- "Astrophysics Open Evening" 2010
- "Big Bang Southwest!" Astrophysics stand 2011
- "Stargazing Live!" support for local schools and Exmoor National Park 2012
- "Newborn stars and unexplored planets" IoP SW Schools Lecture Tour Sept 2012
- "Newborn stars and unexplored planets" IoP Festival of Physics, Plymouth 2012
- "Newborn stars and unexplored planets" IoP Channel Islands Schools Lecture Tour May 2013
- "Stargazing Live!" support for BBC event at Taunton Racecourse 2013
- "Big Bang Southwest!" Astrophysics stand 2013- present
I am a member of the Royal Astronomical Society and the International Astronomical Union.


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Trader's Glossary
The increase in value of a financial instrument, position or currency.
Did you know?
In terms of trading volume, the FX market is by far the largest market in the world.
Word of the day
"Average True Range (ATR)" - A market indicator for commodities, stocks and indexes that measures volatility.
Pro Tip
There is no get-rich-quick formula. If someone promises you one, take a step back, and then run as far away from them as possible.


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You can tell the time by looking at the shadow cast by the Sun as it shines on the pointer (gnomon) of a sundial.
This was for a kindergarten project, and we did it according to their book. It does NOT take latitude and direction into account at all. Which means that it's not going to be super accurate or even explain WHY those things would be important. At this stage, the only point is to show that shadows get longer and shorter, and you can see time by which way the shadow is cast. This work was done by Dash and LittleLad, not the two older kiddos.
Every hour, on the hour, we'd go outside and mark the correct spot. The sun is highest in the sky at midday and casts a short shadow. In the afternoon, when the sun is lower in the sky, the shadow is longer. Wish I'd taken pictures when we got to 6pm and on...
The length of the shadow is also affected by the seasons. Winter shadows are longer than summer shadows.
Now, as you can clearly see, my shortest shadow should be at noon, but our board was on a slant and, again, I did not take other (important) factors into consideration.
Still works, but I had some explaining to do with the older kids who decided to check it out. We'll be doing their version soon. I usually try to do all of these lessons at the same time, and just go more in-depth with the older kids, but I was off my plan. Rough week. You can see that it was SO hot when we did this, that our clay is just gooey and melting. I am thankful that my air conditioner went out this weekend, rather than last.


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Controlling Your Emotional State
Every day is different. Each one brings new challenges and opportunities, new sources of joy and frustration. But no matter what's going on, you should be able to maintain a certain level state that's independent of events, says Jared James, an entrepreneur, real estate speaker, and YPN Lounge blogger.
James, who gave a presentation yesterday afternoon at NAR's Association Executives Institute in San Diego, Calif., says too many people just react to things that happen to them, thus getting blown around like a dead leaf in the wind. But, he adds, there's a very simple way to get into a positive, productive mindset every day, regardless of circumstances.
As a serial entrepreneur who currently runs a few companies in addition to traveling all around the country to speak, James uses the following method to get emotionally grounded: No matter where he is or what he's doing, he spends a half-hour early in the morning each day reading, praying, and reflecting to reach his ideal state.
Additionally, he mentally reviews what he wants to accomplish that day. He says it's important to get very specific about those tasks. "When you have a desired outcome, your brain gives your body marching orders," he says. "Every single day, you're going to have an outcome, whether you set one or not. Wouldn't you rather have some control over it?"
James suggests implementing a similar routine to reach a consistent emotional state every day and help you achieve goals that will improve your business. You may not think you have the time, but as James says, "People say they don't have a half-hour in the morning to do this. Well, do you want a spend a half-hour doing this, or eight hours or more not accomplishing anything?"


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Pride Toronto promises to be the biggest to date with seven full stages of programming ranging from DJs to drag artists. Performers will be hitting some of the main stages, including Lady Miss Kier, Bif Naked, Die Mannequin, DJ Larry Tee, and 80's heartthrob Corey Hart, who will be performing live for the first time in over a decade.
Nearly one million attendees will flock to the streets in various forms of dress and undress to celebrate acceptance and diversity of the LGBT community. The Friday Trans March and Saturday Dyke March bring out the event's activist angle, while the Sunday Pride Parade is a four hour long showcase spectacle that winds its way through several miles of downtown streets. Attendees can also enjoy the Street Fair lined with arts, craft, and food vendors, as well as community groups.
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text: Microsoft's Live Labs threw down an interesting take on mobile browsing today with a technology preview of their new mobile browsing interface, Deepfish. The Deepfish gimmick is the ability to see an entire web page on your Windows Mobile screen and then zoom in on the bits that you want to read, click, and the like. The software takes a screenshot of the webpage and uses it as a map; the rub here is that because of this approach, no dynamic content is supported. The controls are dead simple: hit the joystick on your Windows Mobile device to bring up a small gray focus window, move it where you like, hit it once more and bam! Zoomed. Poking the joystick again displays an arrow to tackle the clickable elements on the page and fill in forms. A fun first effort, and only Microsoft knows where it may end up, so hit the link to download a copy, but hustle, the preview is of the limited variety.


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Wow! "Part I" of Clairsentience as a Teaching Tool sparked more interest than I expected, and I am grateful to colleagues who wrote to me privately as well as those on the Somatic Voicework tm: The Lovetri Method Teachers' forum for lively discussion.
One thing that I need to clarify is that everyone is born with intuitive gifts, but skillful use of them depends upon how open one is to using them and whether or not one has been able to receive mentoring in their development.
Let me state right up front that I think life-long learning in Voice Science, Functional Listening, and other quantitative tools are two cornerstones in becoming a master teacher of singing, but–
–being LEFT-BRAINED and LOGICAL are just two small parts of being scientific. It is possible to be scientific and deeply intuitive, as Einstein was both. "Scientific" has come to mean facts based on quantitative research, but every time science learns more, the view of the facts is shifted to include new information. Sometimes science actually makes an about-face to completely refute itself when more information is uncovered. Science shares the following qualities with Intuition: 1) Openness to possibilities and trial and error to find out what works and what doesn't. 2) Mindfulness, curiosity and wonder which are essential to observation. 3) The use of journals and notes to keep track of outcomes, questions and possible connections.
If you suspect you are an Empath and/or Clairsentient, there are certain skills you need to develop first for yourself if you are to work with others without sacrificing your mental, emotional and physical health over time. If you are not naturally a "grounded" person, the first essential skills are becoming grounded through vitalizing nutrition, exercise and practices such as yoga, meditation and/or prayer. Also, your body may be much more sensitive to noise or toxins in your environment than that of the average person, so take yourself seriously in this regard.
The most common problem with this way of being is that empaths act like "psychic sponges," often unskillfully merging with others' energy fields. Others leave feeling really good, and the empath is drained and exhausted. Empaths are naturally hard-wired to be healers, but an unskilled healer, especially over time, is of no help to anyone, including themselves!
The thing is, if this is what an empath is accustomed to feeling, he/she doesn't know any better, so they keep gravitating to people and situations where this cycle can be perpetuated because it is familiar. Where things get REALLY dysfunctional is when continually feeling used up and depleted is interpreted as being loved or loving.
My own voice teachers who recognized this sensitivity in me tried to help by telling me to toughen up, not leak my energy out, stop being so smart, surround myself with protective egg shapes and light, and a whole host of well-meaning but ultimately unuseful ways to manage myself. At the same time, other musicians, audiences and newspaper reviews from the 1980's—through the early 2000's, praised my musicianship, emotional depth and vocal suppleness. Was it possible that the outer successes were because of the way I was made, not in spite of it? Yes, of course…
…but the bottom line is that I always felt split and anxious..always, like I was carrying heavy secrets or hidden illnesses and neurosis that dared not be exposed.
And maybe I was. Everyone else's and my own. If you are not an Empath, understanding what this feels like is impossible. Of course you can be understanding of other's pain, but you will not end up carrying it in your own body like it is your own pain.
OK. So let's say you are an Empath and/or Clairsentient and have spent the time and effort to learn to become grounded and have even managed to attract people into your life to help you with this task. You also have come to understand that Empath/Clairsentients support others completely with their conscious awareness by stretching their own awareness over to another person, and merging with them energetically.
But, really, all that is required to be with someone is to be physically present, listen and show a sympathetic attitude.
*Only unskilled Empath/Clairsentient teachers routinely interpret 'being there for someone' like this:
1) Unconsciously I will merge with this person's energy field 30 super-quick times in 10 minutes, lifting energy from her field and depositing it into mine.
2) I will give as much energy to this person as possible…until she tells me she is satisfied.* Which may be never.
3) I will do all this plus show her how to technically develop her singing to freely express through music, teach music history and theory, style and technique, play the keyboard while sight-reading multiple scores, advise her on contracts and auditions and deportment, teach at least three other languages phonetically plus English diction, etc., etc., and if you are a high school student who wants to major in music or theater, I will hold your hand and your parents' hands through the totally messed up and crazy college search and audition calamity.
4) I will charge her the equivalent rate of a psychiatrist and lawyer and college search coach combined.
5) If only, on number 4.
By routinely "taking on another person's stuff," an empath naturally will make others feel better and they are left feeling tired and possibly sick. A voice teacher who is an empath may find themselves illustrating singing with student tensions and misunderstandings and then find it hard to reconnect to their own voice. Richard Miller, the great teaching guru who passed away in 2009, said "never, ever sing out of posture," meaning, never illustrate with anything other than your best singing.
In training my gift of Clairsentience, I have received the most help through trial and error, the mentorship of a therapist/healer and studying the Somatic Nervous System and alternative health. Becoming a skilled practitioner of "Somatic Voicework tm" The Lovetri Method" has been crucial to integrating my scientific and intuitive self and learning to listen functionally.
Empathic gifts, Part III of Clairsentience as a Teaching Tool, coming right up this week, will discuss some practical ways to strengthen your own consciousness and free yourself of continually merging with others while you are teaching privately or for groups. You will still support that individual or class or rehearsal with 10 times the awareness of most other teachers, but will not deplete your own energy field in giving to others.


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Increasing profitability – improving supplier relationships, eliminating inefficiencies and maximising savings
October 2017 | EXPERT BRIEFING | BOARDROOM INTELLIGENCE
Organisations are looking for every opportunity they can to reduce costs, improve cash flow and increase overall profitability. As the business landscape continues to evolve, this can be a difficult undertaking. Improving supplier interaction is one simple way companies can eliminate inefficiencies, capture available discounts and drive greater profitability without increasing risk.
There are several ways that companies can reduce the various friction points that exist between its procurement and accounts payables departments and its suppliers. Some of the most effective strategies are noted below.
Improve the quality of supplier information
Inaccurate supplier master data is one of the most common problems in the 'procure to pay' process. Often, enterprise systems contain multiple records for the same supplier or invoices arrive with incorrect or incomplete supplier information. Therefore, it can take time for the accounts payable department to reconcile an invoice against the supplier master data in enterprise systems. By putting a supplier information management strategy in place, companies can increase the quality of supplier information and reduce the number of exceptions in the 'procure to pay' process. While the ultimate responsibility for supplier data lies with the procurement team, the accounts payable team can be an important part of this process by putting procedures in place to quickly identify and correct supplier information on invoices. If the accounts payable team automates this process using intelligent workflows and robotics, it can improve the quality of supplier information and can eliminate the supplier-related exceptions that can cause payment delays that frustrate suppliers.
Enable supplier self-service
The 'procure to pay' process requires constant collaboration between a company and its suppliers. Enabling online collaboration will significantly improve the speed and accuracy of supplier interactions, resulting in faster invoice processing and faster payments. Even in industries with many small suppliers that send paper-based invoices, it is possible to provide suppliers with a website or portal where they can check the status of invoices. Just this simple change will reduce the number of inquiries the accounts payable department receives about supplier invoices, which, in turn, will enable the team to spend more time ensuring the invoices are actually getting processed and paid.
Adding more supplier self-service capabilities can provide additional benefits. For example, a comprehensive e-invoicing submission process is an efficient and cost-effective way of eliminating time-consuming errors and supplier inquiries. E-invoicing ensures the accuracy and consistency of data and documents and eliminates the manual touch points that slow down invoice processing with automated invoice capture. The system should be simple and cost-free to the supplier to encourage adoption by even smaller vendors. Start by requiring all suppliers to send invoices by email. It may be necessary to integrate scanning and optical character recognition (OCR) to streamline the processing of these invoices, but it gets suppliers familiar with a more electronic invoicing process. The ultimate goal should be that all suppliers, regardless of size, submit their invoices electronically, through a standardised online process.
A supplier portal provides a more feature-rich self-service environment for suppliers, and creates more opportunities to gain efficiencies. A portal will not only enable suppliers to assess invoice status but will provide them with a wealth of self-service capabilities and allows them to easily 'flip' purchase orders into invoices. It also provides an effective channel for two-way communications with suppliers and partners so everyone is aware of what is happening from the moment an invoice is received until the moment it is paid. Suppliers have real-time visibility into their receivables and the accounts payable team can quickly manage disputes and inquiries and provide updates to suppliers directly through the portal, instead of over multiple communication channels, for example, phone, email and more.
Increasing 'procure to pay' automation with workflows and robotics
Manual touch points in the 'procure to pay' process slow down processing and can introduce errors which then delay payments to suppliers. While many companies have introduced automated workflows to handle invoice approvals and exception handling, robotic process automation (RPA) takes the level of automation even further. RPA can be used to completely automate, without any human intervention, any task that can be done by applying simple business rules and data validation. Companies should carefully evaluate the 'procure to pay' processes and identify areas where RPA can be used in place of workflows or manual tasks. For example, RPA can be used to automatically post invoices that have a three way match (purchase order, invoice and goods receipt). When RPA is combined with intelligent workflows, the 'procure to pay' process becomes faster and more efficient. It also ensures that the highly skilled procurement and accounts payable staff have more time to work on more complex tasks that require more intervention and that, in turn, will maximise savings for the company.
What are the benefits to buyers?
Simply put, companies save money on each invoice paid early. Holding onto your money for as long as possible is no longer a viable strategy because of the near-zero interest rate environment, and capturing available discounts provides companies with a proactive way to generate the highest return possible with no risks associated.
Additionally, buyers benefit from stronger supplier relationships by providing suppliers with quick, easy payments. Buyers can leverage these strong relationships to negotiate for future discounts, faster delivery times and other advantages which will improve the company's competitive position.
What are the benefits to suppliers?
When suppliers are paid earlier on approved invoices, they have quicker access to funds. All suppliers appreciate this, but it is particularly advantageous for smaller suppliers that often have no choice but to finance their receivables or turn to expensive short-term funding options while they wait for payment from buyers.
Real-time access to information is also valuable for suppliers of all sizes. With portals, suppliers have access to real-time information on invoice and payment status, eliminating the need to call the buyer. Having this information on demand gives suppliers more peace of mind and saves the supplier time and effort chasing down payments.
Finding ways to reduce the friction points that can exist in the 'procure to pay' process between suppliers and the procurement and accounts payable team will save time and effort for both buyers and suppliers. Three ways to do this are to improve the quality of supplier information, introduce supplier self-service capabilities and increase the level of process automation with workflows and robotics. By putting these strategies in place, companies will not only be able to increase efficiencies and maximise savings, they will also be able to strengthen supplier relationships which will pay dividends for years to come.
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Football Highlights of 2010-20110
November 30, 2011 by wcobserver
It was another hard-hitting year of football for Prairie Grove, West Fork and Greenland. Here are just a few of the highlights. Photos by Jeff WinklerRead More...
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More Than Just a Transaction0
November 24, 2011 by wcobserver
We admit it, the Observer is a little rag-tag, fly-by-the-seat-of- your-pants, mom-n-popenterprise that epitomizes the "small" in small business. And we're proud of it. Perhaps that's why we are such advocates of doing as much business with local merchants as possible. And at this time of year, when holiday shopping begins in earnest, we want to remind readers why we encourage them to think before they run to the big box chain stores.Read More...
Category Editorials, Opinion | Tags: Christmas season, editorial, localism, shop locally, shopping
Thankful the Mayflower Sailed Without Me0
November 24, 2011 by Alison Grisham
By Alison Grisham I'm not a history buff nor someone who sits around pondering the past on a regular basis. But I am from Massachusetts, just 30 minutes from Plymouth, which means I've been to Plymouth Plantation, where the Pilgrims first settled, about a dozen times. I've toured the little huts, seen the reenactments and thought about how miserable they must have been without indoor plumbing. So on Thanksgiving, I can't help but wonder about the details we don't get from the history books, like how they made it through that first meal.Read More...
Category Burned Side Down, Columns | Tags: Alison Grisham, burned side down, mayflower, pilgrims, thanksgiving
PREPARED TO PLOW: County Road team prepared for winter conditions0
November 24, 2011 by wcobserver
WASHINGTON COUNTY – Folklore has numerous ways of predicting the harshness of the oncoming winter; the shovel-shaped seed of a persimmon, for instance, or the thick growth of hair on a cow's nap. These days, however, there's a surer sign of the approaching winter conditions – piles of limestone chips along the road. But they don't spring up magically. It's the work of the Washington County Road Department, which has been begun preparing for the area's infamous and icy conditions in the past few weeks. So what's the overall strategy for winter road crew? It's fairly simple, actually.Read More...
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The Eagle Has … Returned0
November 24, 2011 by Joseph C. Neal
We have Bald Eagles every year in Arkansas, including nesting birds. But there was a time, 25 years ago, when Bald Eagles were all but extinct in the state. Just to remind everybody: these eagles plus many other kinds of large birds, including many hawks and pelicans, were hard hit by the widespread use of certain chemicals on crops. The most infamous was DDT. When DDT began to show up in human mother's milk, protective laws were finally enacted. What was designed to protect mother also protected big birds, like Bald Eagles. They bounced back from a single nest in the entire state in the early 1980s, to over 100 now. There are at least three known nests around Beaver Lake. The take home message: sensible laws that protect our health and well-being can also protect the health and well-being of creatures with whom we share earth. Well, this is a long-winded introduction to the arrival in Northwest Arkansas of eagles that nested up north. They have come south for winter. Folks who spend a fair amount of time watching water birds in Arkansas know that as American Coots begin arriving here in big numbers, eagles come in on about …Read More...
Category Bird Notes, Outdoors | Tags: bird notes, eagles, Joseph Neal
West Fork Quilters Sew On0
November 20, 2011 by Renee Reed
By Renee Reed WEST FORK — At one time, it would have been easy to find a group of women around a quilting frame, bent over and focused on tiny stitches as they worked away making beautiful quilts. They would be discussing families, politics and the moments of their days as they created a lasting work of art and comfort for loved ones.Read More...
Category Features | Tags: Quilters, Quilts, Renee Reed, West Fork
Political Spectrum Question: An Answer from the Left0
November 19, 2011 by Richard Drake
District 87 State Representative Justin Harris has received significant media attention regarding his Christian-centered, partially state-funded preschool in West Fork. The Establishment clause aside, what is your opinon on public money being used to teach religious principles? Richard Drake:Read More...
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Troubleshooting Switching Power Converters
1st Edition
A Hands-on Guide
Power Supply design is all about detail. And a large part of that detail lies in the practical domain, largely because of the typically small number of microseconds of switching periods involved, and the even smaller tens of nanoseconds of switch transition times --- all these, in effect accentuating various "second-order" effects, that eventually end up playing prime havoc with "normal" expectations of how the circuit should behave. So not unsurprisingly, even after reading several books, most readers still find themselves no closer to the ultimate goal of designing an actual power supply.
Sooner or later, all engineers start realizing the hard fact that designing a switching power supply isn't the trivial task it once seemed to be. But even after years of successfully mastering the underlying theory, the ultimate goal of creating a cost-effective, reliable and commercially viable power supply may still remain a distant dream, since success ultimately hinges on experience. That is, in fact, what clearly differentiates a senior and seasoned power supply engineer from the others --- the ability to navigate and surmount a veritable minefield of tricky issues that can only be learned the hard way, by actual hands-on experience on the job.
This book presents practical knowledge the author acquired rather painfully, while working "in the trenches" for several years in major engineering companies scattered across several continents. This is intended to be the mythical senior engineer's "bag of tricks," finally made available in the form of an easy-to-read book on your shelf. This book will make life for the ambitious power supply engineer much simpler --- besides reducing significantly, the rigorous requirement of having to be a senior engineer's protégé for years on end, just to gain a small measure of real success in this field.
Key Features
- A practical presentation that answers the important question: why is my switching converter behaving so differently than what I was expecting on the basis of my paper design? And how do I bridge that huge gap?
- For the first time, a systematic and thorough discussion of troubleshooting switching power supplies.
- Coverage of AC/DC and DC/DC power supplies.
- Bench Evaluation of semiconductor ICs used in power conversion --- describing standard and unusual techniques mastered by the author, while testing similar chips at National Semiconductor.
- Detailed coverage of vital topics that haven't been covered by available sources --- grounding systems, the subtleties of component datasheets, and using instruments and probes effectively.
- Systematic investigation (type of failure mechanism, topology, etc.) and solutions for 5 years of reported power supply issues on a prominent, public web forum. This approach will ensure that engineers will not repeat the same mistakes.
- A unique, readable style: personal and direct; no mystification--- just the plain truth, easily and logically explained, with plenty of pictures, graphs and plots.
Power supply design engineers.
Table of Contents
The practical relationship between efficiency and duty cycle; Understanding datasheets and selecting the right components; Power IC bench evaluation and Selection; Proper PCB layout Practices; Practical buck converters; The Forward Converter; Practical boost converters; The PFC boost pre-regulator; Practical buck-boost converters; The off-line Flyback converter; Bench setup and grounding issues; Lab Instrumentation; General Measurements and Troubleshooting Techniques; Specific Troubleshooting Scenarios: High Output ripple and noise, Poor Load transient response, Poor Output voltage regulation, Start-up problems, Unwanted and Desirable Jitter, Alternate Cycle Instabilities, Loop compensation issues, Catastrophic Blow-ups, Output foldback or shutdown, Improperly set Current limit issues, Short circuit, Over-voltage, Short-term and Long-term Thermal failures, Mysterious System Shutdowns, Magnetic saturation failures, Safety issues, Troubleshooting EMI, Line surge test failures, ESD related failures, Acoustic noise issues and techniques to circumvent, Mechanical failures, Diagnosing Low efficiency, Poor reliability and Stress testing, Vibration Testing, Burn-in/HAST/HALT/Overstress/DRT Tests, Design for Manufacturability issues; Sample Component Datasheets; Choosing the Right Inductor for your Application; 5 years of reported problems; Reference Tables and Graphs for Quick Design and Validation.
- No. of pages:
- 320
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © Newnes 2007
- Published:
- 31st August 2007
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- eBook ISBN:
- 9780080551258
- Hardcover ISBN:
- 9780750684217
About the Author
Sanjaya Maniktala
Affiliations and Expertise
Principal Engineer, National Semiconductor, Santa Clara, CA, USA
The senior engineer's "bag of tricks," on power supplies made available in the form of an easy-to-read book!


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of 1941, 30 when they were all completed and was Commanded by Captain Donald Hamilton-Hill
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of Intelligence Officer of the County of Lincolnshire and promoted to full Captain. His two
Officers commanding the Scout Sections were Lt Eric Dring from the
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Hamilton-Hill were two very fine Officers with Dring going on to SOE serving in Asia and Lamb
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|Job Description: The Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics (AMS) at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado invites applications for one or possibly two Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship positions to begin in August 2018. The position is a two-year appointment (based upon satisfactory performance in the classroom) that can be renewed by the department for an additional year. Mines is a public research university devoted to the applied sciences and engineering and located in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, 15 miles west of downtown Denver and 20 miles south of Boulder. Mines has the highest admission standards of any university in Colorado and the AMS Department confers Bachelor's, Master's and PhD degrees in applied mathematics and statistics as well as provides foundational mathematics courses for all other Mines majors.
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Qualifications: This position is intended for recent PhD candidates. Applicants must possess a PhD in mathematics, statistics, or related field by August 2018. Applicants must have experience in teaching mathematics at the collegiate level.
Department Description: The AMS Department at Mines is a diverse and collegial cohort of 20 faculty members, split evenly between research faculty and teaching faculty. Research interests within the department are broad, varied and frequently interdisciplinary in nature, including mathematical biology, mathematical geosciences, environmental statistics, scientific computing, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.
How to Apply: Applicants must submit a cover letter, a curriculum vitae (including a list of courses taught), and a teaching statement (limited to two pages). Two letters of recommendation (at least one addressing teaching) should also be submitted on behalf of the applicant. Please submit materials through https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/jobs/11447. Please contact Dr. Mike Mikucki at email@example.com with any questions. Review of applications will begin on February 5, 2018, and applications will be accepted until the positions are filled.


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Warning: There will be some chances that I'll be referencing the Manga due to it being short so if you don't want Manga spoilers, you're in luck. You're getting some spoilers!
The episode begins with...
Yume with her Onii-chan in her mouth… (O_O; )
Here we go…we're missing a scene here…Anyway, Yume is in the middle of a city and wishes that whatever happened that day was a dream and asking for Utsutsu to come back
I swear that bear is creepy (O_O; )
Oh boy… (O_O; )
Ah… Utsutsu's alive…
After they were reunited…
Just remember, this isn't "H", it's pupa
…Kinda hot… (O///O; )
Another scene missing again…Reasons why I want a longer version!! (>_<; )
To summarize this shorter, Yume wants Utsutsu back, gets her wish, eats his flesh, end of episode.
I really have no after thoughts (and may be my shortest review yet) so I'll see you guys in the next mini episode!
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The changing language of Christmas cards
'It's the most wonderful time of the year.' Well, it might be. If it weren't for greetings card prices. Seriously, those things get more and more expensive with each passing December 25.
I'm wondering, actually, is it socially acceptable to make one's own? You know, like we all did at primary school, complete with a clumsily-torn off chunk of cotton wool for Father Christmas's beard? Surely it'd save us all a small fortune. I swear my Christmas card bill alone has come to £103.23 this year.
Joking aside though, greetings cards have altered over the years in more ways than one. True, you can't buy one for everyone and his dog for a tenner anymore (and still have change left over for a chippy tea), but give card makers their due, we can enjoy a little more variety for our dosh.
While I'd love to harp on 'til the (Christmas) cows come home about how things just ain't what they used to be where the festive season's concerned, this blog has to have a language focus. And so here I am, shoehorning some word-related insight into a piece about Christmas.
Without further ado, then, here's how Christmas cards – or rather, the language used within them – have changed over the years:
The Victorian Era
Did you know the sending of Christmas cards began in the Victorian era? According to Victoriana magazine (where else?!) the first commercial festive card is believed to have been designed and printed in London in 1843. It was the work of John Callcott Horsley – a British narrative painter and Royal Academician – apparently, who put the first card together at the request of his friend Sir Henry Cole, with the plan being to dish them out to friends. The first Christmas card wasn't, however, a success. I know. You can read more by clicking the link above.
Next up, the 1920s – and the Mother Bedford site. On it, you'll find all sorts of charming Christmas cards from the '20s to the '90s, but we just love this one, seen here (fourth image down). (pictured below).
Anyone who celebrates Christmas in the traditional sense of the word, will know it's becoming as difficult to find a festive card with a religious angle as it is to find a solitary sixpence in a pudding.
There's something very charming about the opening line seen on this card, though: 'Christmas Pleasures Be Yours'. In a world of John Lewis TV ads and cut-price Amazon bargains, cards with a non-commercial slant are fast becoming a rarity.
Moving on to the 1940s now – and here's where a spot of 'smut' first began seeping into popular Christmas culture. How very British!
True, you could still find a card or two that kept the religious spirit of Christmas in mind, but popular characters like Disney's Mickey Mouse and Betty Boop were now spotted on greetings cards.
Thanks to the Forties Knitter blog, we're treated to a sneak peek at a typical 1940s card. You thought the 'Jingle My Balls'-esque bawdy humour you see on some of today's cards was reserved for the 21st century – but you'd be wrong (see the third image down). The age of the pin up, the 1940s did risqué humour in language form, at least, well. Very well.
Taking a look at the 1960s now and sauciness most certainly ensues. It might not be the all-out, let's get our kinky cards on the table kind of saucy we expect from today's cards, but it was certainly a little cheeky in its own way.
Say hello to a 1960s Christmas offering unearthed in a museum of similarly saucy greetings cards. With simple yet-not-so-subtle rhymes a-plenty, the 'poetic' 'I am helping Polly hanging up the holly' festive card was certainly the one to buy now that the swinging 60s had rolled around.
Simple and to the point, there's no mixed messages where the language in this card is concerned.
Humour – saucy or otherwise – was the order of the day on Christmas cards and their enclosed greetings in the 1980s. This was still very much the 'kiss me quick' era of smutty seaside postcards, too – and we Brits relished a chance for some 'light relief' via our pack of 30 from Woolworths. Card prices were, of course, rising and while you could still find a greeting with a religious sentiment, it seemed many of us instead preferred a good old belly laugh. Christmas tradition: nil. Christmas commercialism: one.
2000s onwards
Now, there are traditional and sentimental cards aplenty in the sob-worthy festive advert era, but in more recent years, poking fun at our friends and family – in card form or otherwise – seems to be the only way to do Christmas.
These days, you can't move for a no-holds-barred festive card, it seems. And for many of us, the more insulting the message, the better.
Before we sign off, we have to ask this: is the ever-changing English language to blame/to thank for our taste in Christmas cards? Or are we just becoming a little more liberal? Would you be offended if your Christmas card featured a swear word, or is a little bit of tomfoolery really in the spirit of a present-day Christmas? Let us know…
Oh and before I go (honest, I'm going this time!), I'll leave you with this…
Sometimes the funniest festive cards are those that aren't trying to be. When you're living down south, 'Auntie' is most certainly spelled 'Arntee' – thanks James (aged five and ¾) for the 'larrrfs'!


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We have had numerous positive feedback from families, all the mums said they found the sessions informative and relaxed. They reported forming a stronger bond with their babies and forming
We have had numerous positive feedback from families, all the mums said they found the sessions informative and relaxed. They reported forming a stronger bond with their babies and forming friendships within the group.
Families also reported gaining information about their baby's development and being able to link in with the services provided in their local community, as a positive outcome of attending the group. They especially liked the handouts each week to read at home and refer back to.
"Having a break from it just being baby and me, watching her grow and interact with others, feeling like I had support and information…and I loved the scrapbooking"
"This helped me comprehend a lot more about bubs and many things that will make me more confident"
"Great times, great info and nice to meet other mums"
For more information on our Baby Talk program or to find out about upcoming programs in your area please go to our What's On page or contact the Parenting and Early Years team on (02) 4961 0700 or email us on firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The research topic I am doing is Athletic Inconsistency because I want to inform people on the issues of gender equity in athletics. I want to bring up a lot of points in my paper, some include, salary, media attention and opportunities given to athletes. I feel like this would be a great topic to talk about since I am an athlete myself.
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Hi Courtney, your topic sounds very interesting! Will you be arguing for gender equality in sports? Are you looking at professional sports or just college? It might be helpful to focus on a single sport. I would spend tomorrow's class looking to see what kinds of scholarly sources you can find on this topic--see what people in the field are discussing.


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For endangered dolphins like the short-beaked dolphin, there aren't reliable estimates of population sizes or habitat ranges. But scientists report that, by simply listening to the dolphins' calls, they can start filling in the gaps about these rare animals.
The trick to listening to dolphin species relies on the animals' unique vocalizations, which are broken into "evolutionarily significant units" by family. By tracking these distinct sounds, the scientists say, conservationists can improve how to locate and protect dolphin populations.
The researchers found that whistle recordings could be matched to dolphin sightings with 82 percent accuracy. That rate is precise enough to use dolphin sounds, according to the biologists, to track endangered populations.
"Acoustical changes can be used for constant and continuous monitoring of population belonging to endangered species," states Elena Papale, a biologist at University of Torino, Italy, who led the research.
An ocean buoy with a microphone, for example, "may be a viable, low-cost and automated way of monitoring populations of dolphins and rapidly alerting ecologists" to threats, the scientists say in a statement.


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Parent's Morning Out encompasses infants and toddlers. All of the children are cared for by Christian teachers who have a true love for children. They strive to nurture the children's development through compassion and encouragement.
The infants are cared for according to their parent's desired schedule. Music and toys are used to stimulate their development. Overall the primary focus is to love and care for the children.
For the toddlers it's all about having fun. The children play the majority of their time at school. They are learning to explore their world and we want to encourage that. Simple crafts and other activities are used to help them get excited about learning. The children are introduced to circle time where they will hear Bible stories and other fun stories and sing interactive songs. Each week the children will attend a special enrichment program. Here they will have library time, sing songs and play instruments, create an art project or have a science lesson which encourages them to observe the world God has created for them. Biweekly the children will have chapel, a special time to show the children the wonders of God's love for them. Using their manners and cleaning up after themselves will be encouraged throughout the year. The children visit the playground everyday, weather permitting.
Our Classroom: 4 children/1 teacher
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{Guest post by Kiersten Wilkins}
Books have the power to change the world. But more importantly, they have the power to change you.
I believe what we read sets a precedence for how we will choose to stretch and educate our minds.
There is not better way to become prolific in spelling and grammar and evaluating big ideas than to read good literature.


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That kind of praise had given Wallace some stature but little real comfort by 1989. He was living with his closest friend, Mark Costello, an Amherst roommate who would go on to write, among other novels, Big If, a National Book Award finalist. They had a dumpy apartment with milk-crate furniture in a sagging clapboard triple-decker, Costello says, in Somerville, Massachusetts, in a neighborhood with opera from the windows, tough guys in the street, Madonnas on the lawns. Wallace looked less like a literary talent and more like a guy who'd given up high-level tennis for the parking lot at 7-Eleven. He'd soured on his own fiction, which seemed to him empty, and enrolled in a Harvard graduate program in philosophy that began that fall. But the academy and its politics didn't hold the answer either, and Wallace was drinking heavily to try to dull an increasingly severe depression.
In November, Wallace told Harvard health authorities that he felt he was a threat to himself, and he was sent to a locked ward at McLean Hospital, the well-known psychiatric institution in Belmont, Massachusetts. The head of the Whiting Foundation heard the news and asked Mary Karr, who had recently won a Whiting Award for her poetry and was living nearby with her husband, if she would go see Wallace when he was in detox.
At first, she didn't like him, she says; he was both pretentious and fawning. Just seven years older, she didn't take to being called Miss Karr. She knew he was meant to be some kind of genius, but, she says, I was over intellect. Karr was not yet the author of her memoir The Liars' Club, but she already had that voice, funny and bracing and blunt. Wallace was taken with her. Later that winter, he made Costello drive him the width of the city to accidentally on purpose catch a crowd leaving a basement meeting at a big stone church in Harvard Square. They stood in the snow, Costello recalls, and Wallace pointed to a harried but beautiful woman in a sixties-type overcoat (knee-length, like Ethel Kennedy circa 1965) and said, That's Mary Karr.'
Karr was battling to get sober herself. She and Wallace attended the same therapy groups, and she volunteered at the halfway house he lived in, Granada House. In Lit, she describes walking into the shambling building for the first time: I expect to find tattooed thugs and strippers and former felons, which I do. But there was a professor and an ex-lawyer tooa democracy of misery. Wallace was tutoring a former hooker trying to get her GED. Before romance became involved, he and Karr talked books. And Karr spoke her mind.
I hated The Broom of the System, Karr says. I thought it was one of the worst books ever written. She felt Wallace was showing off, writing fiction that pointed to all that he'd read rather than stirring feeling in the reader. And wasn't that the point? If the literary bright white guys were going to follow in the line of the bright white guys of a generation before, she wasn't interested.
Her tough talk didn't dampen Wallace's enthusiasm. The fact that she was outside the amen circle of metafiction was interesting to him, Costello says, and her lucid, personal prose captivated Wallace: Costello remembers Wallace later recounting, in detail, a traumatic episode in the childhood memoir Karr was just beginning to write. It was the kernel of The Liars' Club, the place where Mary found the famous voice of that book, part Flannery O'Connor and part Stop-Time. Wallace heard her out when she tried to pry him from the clutches of the brainiacs who left her cold. That critique would echo.
I was basically running the same line on him, Franzen says. He thought Wallace was favoring the in-crowd at the expense of the broader audience, though some critics were saying the same of Franzen then. Their relationship was beginning to bear some resemblance to the competitive friendship at the center of Freedom, with Richard Katz in a Wallace-like role: And the eternally tormenting question for Walter was whether Richard was the little brother or the big brother, the fuckup or the hero, the beloved damaged friend or the dangerous rival.
In hindsight it was kind of a mean letter I wrote about Girl With Curious Hair, Franzen says, referring to the Wallace story collection that got scant attention when it came out, three months before he was hospitalized. Franzen says he wrote Wallace that there's one story in here that has actual emotional content, as far as I can tell.' And he said, Oh my God, that's the one story in that collection I hate.' It was a prickly correspondence, Franzen says. So much so that at one point he wrote, You seem so mad at me. Why do you want to be my friend?'


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At Oruaiti School all students participate in a variety of sports according to the season of the year. In summer the students have a daily swimming lesson including one lesson each week with a sports specialist.
Our students participate in inter-school sports whenever possible. These events include swimming, rippa rugby, tennis, hockey, soccer, rugby, netball, cross country running and athletics.
Oruaiti school supports our students participation in Saturday sports events. Owing to our small class sizes we are unable to field Saturday soccer or rugby teams as there are insufficient numbers of students of any one size or age so we encourage the children to participate by joining an Eastern club team. However, we endeavour to have at least one Netball team and some years are even able to have both a Junior and a Senior netball team.
We have some wonderfully supportive parents who are willing to give their time to assist in coaching sports teams.


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Roy's Blog: July 2014
July 28, 2014
This is what happens when you flit not lead
Many so-called leaders don't lead at all, they flitter from this to that.
From one crisis to another. From one priority to another.
They don't land on anything. They chase. They are captured by activity; busyness.
They move quickly from issue to issue avoiding any chance of getting pinned down.
They measure the worth of the hours they put in by the calories they burn.
They run toward whatever their boss says is important. And they run AWAY from issues their subordinates claim are critical.
They are skin deep, with a shallow perspective on the issues of the day.
They have no opinion of substance.
They can't give direction.
They are never physically present; always on the go attending "business lunches" and meetings with their flitting colleagues.
They are completely reactive with no proactive bone in their body.
I reported to the VP Marketing at one point in my career, and he was a flitterer extraordinaire. A nice enough person, but not someone you could go to for specific direction. Always passing my proposals on Marketing programs on to the President for his opinion before approving me to take action.
Virtually zero value added from his executive position. An open valve in the decision making conduit of the organization.
They are everywhere.
Observe your own behavior. Be honest with yourself.
Make sure you don't practice flittership under the guise of leadership.
BE DiFFERENT or be dead Book Series
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July 21, 2014
Why is amazing value really about what you give up?
I dislike product floggers who flog what they supply at the unsuspecting consumer or business.
I love value creators who serve the individual wants and desires of others.
What is value?
One way to think of it is what you get.
The other is what you give up by not availing yourself of what is being offered; it's the opportunity cost or lost by not buying.
"By NOT purchasing the Whistler Mountain Adventure Package you miss…." is a perverse way to communicate the value of the package as opposed to "This is what the Adventure Package includes…" that talks to the elements or components of the package (one night stay, breakfast and gondola ride to the top of the mountain for example).
I think the former approach does a more effective job in expressing benefits received and hence value delivered.
It forces you into talking about the experience missed rather than the package elements supplied.
BE DiFFERENT or be dead Book Series
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July 14, 2014
If you really want customer focus don't say this
Most statements organizations use to express their strategy to serve customers are simply not believable.
They raise expectations.
They are hollow claims.
They all say the same thing.
They are cliches that add to the clutter.
Some of the more commonly used slogans:
"We provide excellent service"
"We are customer focused"
"We are a customer-centric organization"
"We exist for our customers"
"We exceed customer expectations"
"We put customers first"
"Customers decide what we do"
Save your breath unless you can come up with something more substantial that at least people are willing to listen to; they don't turn off.
I like this: "... we're on a journey to put customers first…"
It IS believable because of the "journey" reference. It implies that this organization is not there yet so mis-steps can be expected along the way.
It also declares that there is no end point; that putting customers first is a lifelong task. It never ends.
BE DiFFERENT or be dead Book Series
- Posted 7.14.14 at 05:17 am by Roy Osing
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July 7, 2014
Do you really want to be serviced?
"I promise to service you." or "I promise to serve you."
Which sounds more appealing? Which sounds more sensitive to your wants and expectations?
Do you really want to be "serviced"?
Customer "service" in most organizations involves the application of the company's service structure to people. It subjects them to the rules, policies and practices the company has created to control the customer engagement process.
It boils down to a set of policies being applied to everyone regardless of circumstance.
How often have you heard: (even though we all know it's ridiculous) "It's our policy."?
And yes, control. Policies for the most part are intended to minimize risk (for the company), increase efficiency (for the company), maintain or reduce operating costs (for the company) and create consistency (for the company).
What's missing?
Service is ALL about the company yet it implies that it is all for the customer. Nonsense!
If you REALLY want the customer to come first, you need to subordinate the company to a serving role. And you need to start talking about "serving customers" not servicing them.
What it means to serve:
1. The customer is engaged to determine what the company's rules, policies and procedures look like.
2. Employees are driven to "say yes" to every customer request whether it satisfies a policy or not.
3. Frontline conversations with customers always include the question "How can I help you?".
4. The measure of the customer engagement is whether they were dazzled, not how proficiently the rules were applied.
Do you service or do you serve?
What do you think is the winning approach?
BE DiFFERENT or be dead Book Series
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I am doctoral candidate studying American political behavior, political networks, and methodology in Northeastern's Network Science program. My research focuses on developing natural language processing and network analysis techniques to better understand political dialogue and deliberation; modeling the way an individual reasons as a network of interconnected ideas and studying deliberation as process in which groups exchange ideas and collectively create new solutions.
View my full CV.
Microblog Conversation Recommendation via Joint Modeling of Topics and Discourse
Xingshan Zeng, Jing Li, Lu Wang, Nick Beauchamp, Sarah Shugars
Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), June 2018
Games for Civic Renewal
Joshua A. Miller, Sarah Shugars, and Daniel Levine
The Good Society, June 2018
Winning on the Merits: The Joint Effects of Content and Style on Debate Outcomes
Lu Wang, Nick Beauchamp, Sarah Shugars, Kechen Qin
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), July 2017.
Why Keep Arguing? Predicting Participation in Political Conversations Online
Sarah Shugars and Nick Beauchamp
SAGE Open: Social Media and Political Participation Global Issue,
Dissertation Topic
Reasoning Together:
Network Methods for Political Talk And Normative Reasoning
Proposed May, 2018. Expected completion, Spring 2020.
- Chair: Nick Beauchamp, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northeastern University
- Co-Chair: David Lazer, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University
- Lu Wang, Assistant Professor of College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University
- Peter Levine, Associate Dean for Research, Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University
The slides from my proposal defense can be downloaded in Keynote or as a pdf. For those of you who have asked about my use of animation and transitions, note those can only be viewed in the original keynote file.


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Six Surprising Facts About Soy
by E.L. West
(NaturalNews) When people think of living healthfully, usually what comes to mind is eating tofu or drinking soymilk. Why wouldn't they? After all, the popular magazines point to soy consumption as the ultimate form of health. This article will show some surprising facts that many do not know about soy, and facts that are actually contrary to what the magazines print and the health "officials" promote.
Soy is
the cornerstone of Asian diets
This is probably by far the most common misconception about soy products. Many of the fitness magazines, and even some dietitians, overplay the role of soy in the Asian diet.
In China and Japan, people only eat about 10 grams (2 teaspoons) a day. What's more, soy is viewed and consumed as a condiment, not as a replacement for animal products or as an entire meal. Basically, soy in those regions would be like ketchup or mustard, rather than the main dish.
Additionally, the type of soy that is consumed in the Asiatic region is quite different from the way it is eaten in the West. The soy that is prepared in Asian countries is
. More will be revealed below about fermented soy.
The soy that westerners eat is unhealthy
Yes, that's right. The popular soy-mantra that "soy prevents osteoporosis, heart disease, cancer," is what the soy industry would like you to think, but in reality, nothing could be further from the truth. Above, fermented soy was mentioned. The reason it was mentioned is because raw, unfermented
contains anti-nutrients that pose great risks for those who consume soy on a regular basis.
The main anti-nutrients that are in soy are phytates, trypsin inhibitors and phytoestrogens. Soy processing results in some undesirable components as well: toxic lysinoalanine, carcinogenic nitrosamines, monosodium glutamate or MSG (a potent neurotoxin), and aluminum (a toxin to the nervous system and kidneys).
The phytates in soy reduces the assimilation of the minerals copper, iron, calcium, zinc and magnesium, creating deficiencies. Methods such as soaking and sprouting are ineffective at reducing the phytate amounts in soy.
The trypsin inhibitors make digesting proteins problematic and can lead to pancreatic disorders.
Phytoestrogens are potent anti-thyroid agents that interfere with the endocrine system, along with causing menstruation problems in women. Furthermore, women who consumed soy during pregnancy had a higher chance of giving birth to babies born with hypospadias, which is where the urethral opening of the penis is misplaced (near the base of the penis instead of at the tip). Also, phytoestrogens, along with PCBs and DDE, contribute to premature development of girls.
In Asia, soy is fermented, so many of the above problems, with the exception of the phytoestrogens, are eliminated.
Soy does not contribute to bone
Despite popular belief, soy does not contribute to bone health. Soy increases the body's need for calcium and vitamin D, actually taking away from bone health! Also, Westerners are deficient in vitamin D as it is, eating soy foods will just make the problem worse!
Soy contributes to infertility
This fact is what many men and women need to know because if you are consuming large amounts of unfermented soy products, you will likely experience this effect. Since the phytoestrogens interfere with the delicate hormonal systems of healthy individuals, such problems are not uncommon. In fact for women, painful and irregular periods are common and for men, a decreased sperm count can be found among heavy soy consumers.
Additionally in Japan, when housewives want to decrease the virility of their husbands, typically they give them soy products.
Soy is not good for postmenopausal women
Since soy contains high amounts of phytoestrogens, a potent anti-thyroid agent and endocrine disruptor, the problems of low thyroid function during postmenopausal years is heightened. Also, tumors that require large amounts of estrogen can feed off of the phytoestrogens in the soy.
Soy formula is not a good substitute for breast milk or even milk formulas
All infants should be fed breast milk for at the very least, the first year of life. The best substitute after breast milk is raw goat's milk. Soy formula should not be considered. This is because soy-based formulas are high in phytoestrogens and the other anti-nutrients. Bottom line, feeding an infant soy formula is comparable to giving the baby
five birth control pills
. For girls, this can cause premature development such as breast buds, pubic hair and even menstruation before age eight. In boys, this can retard sexual development and even cause learning disabilities.
At the risk of being redundant, the point must be made again: soy formula is not a good replacement for the highest form of infant nutrition, breast milk. It is also poor when nutritionally compared to wholesome raw goat's milk.
Soy has been upheld for many years as the pinnacle of health and wellness. It has been over-glorified by being placed on a pedestal above foods that truly should represent health. Through all of its promotions, through all of the publicity, it has failed many people, leaving them with problems that are difficult to treat. Not every health fad is what it is cracked up to be. A little research into these effects goes a long way.
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