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Don't be afraid of repeating yourself. Repetition is the mother of learning -- and sometimes a pastor's best friend. Read full article
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Date Published: 6/11/2013
If you want to help your hearers focus on God and think on God when they leave your service, then here are 11 things that you cannot do. Read full article
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Date Published: 10/15/2013
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"The 'kerygma' is the essential proclamation of the life, death, resurrection, ascension, and rule of Jesus Christ, as well as a call to conversion and repentance." Read full article
The crucifixion is bloody. Should we shock people out of a religious view of crucifixion, or is it better not to overwhelm people with the gore? Read full article
Daring Preaching Engages the Culture: Does Yours?
Joe McKeever 22 Articles
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Date Published: 3/2/2012
No gospel worker who remains aloof from the culture where he goes to minister will have much effect on it. Read full article
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Ron Forseth 7 Articles
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Date Published: 8/8/2013
Even though no one pays attention to the pre-flight warnings, the message is crucial when things go wrong. Read full article
Finish Your Sermon Strong: 10 Mistakes To Avoid
Peter Mead 59 Articles
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Date Published: 4/11/2011
Finishing a sermon is neither easy nor natural. Peter Mead offers some observances of poor sermon endings and some hints on how to finish strong. Read full article
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Philip Nation 3 Articles
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Date: 07 March 2013
The Department of Conservation is pleased to announce the opening of a further section of the Tongariro Alpine Crossing. This will take effect from Saturday 9 March 2013.
DOC Acting Area Manager Bhrent Guy says this is exciting news as it extends the open section of the Tongariro Alpine Crossing from the beautiful Emerald Lakes to the pass between Blue Lake and North Crater. Although it is only approximately another 1.5 km it will allow visitors to have a great view to the north towards Lake Taupō and the Rotoaira Basin.
The Mangatepopo Road access to the start of the Tongariro Alpine Crossing is open but restricted due to limited car parking. When the car parks are full, visitors need to use a local transport concessionaire to be taken to the start of the track.
"DOC staff are working very hard to manage the Mangatepopo Road and car park to give people the opportunity to access the track using their own vehicles. However visitor numbers are still high and the majority of people will still need to use bus transport to the Mangatepopo car park."
Bhrent advised visitors to book transport from one of the local transport operators to avoid disappointment when the car parks were full.
Te Maari first erupted on 6 August 2012, then again on 21 November 2012. Monitoring of the volcanic activity at the site has been on-going and there are signs that the activity may be slowing.
However scientific advice to the Department indicates the risk of another eruption similar to the August event is still too high to allow public access to the track from Blue Lake Saddle to the Ketetahi car park. This section will remain closed.
A volcanic hazard zone remains in place around Te Maari extending out to 2 km in the south and 2.8 km in the north. Within this the 1 km radius Rahui protective zone is still in place.
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With the improvement of technologies in networked intelligent systems, we will soon be surrounded by large collections of autonomous systems that are equipped with sensors and actuators, aware of their local environment, communicate freely, and organize themselves to perform the required actions and services. These ubiquitous complex systems open up fascinating new areas of study, while requiring innovative research and development methods to control them.
In order to continue the advancement of self-organizing complex systems, Dr. Yan Meng�s research focuses on three specific areas. The first area consists of morphogenetic robotics that are inspired by the biological organisms and gene regulatory network (GRNs) models. They currently study the morphogenetic approaches for swarm robotics and modular robotics. The objective of these morphogenetic robotic systems is to be able to self-organize, self-reconfigure, and self-adapt to environmental changes, self-repair to system failures, and self-learn when the tasks changes.
The second research focus studies evolving cognitive multi-agent systems inspired by civilization human vying society systems. This cognitive system stems from the idea that an agent will not develop complex, intelligent behavior in isolation; it must be part of a culture that supports such development.
Her third point of interest is complex object/pattern/behavior learning and recognition, which can provide efficient perception capability for each robot/agent in the above self-organizing systems.
As the Director of the Embedded Systems and Robotics Laboratory, Dr. Meng has received partial sponsorship for research projects from the NSF, DOD, Honda Research Institute Europe, Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC), National Security Agency, and Stevens Faculty Startup Funding.
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H. Guo, Y. Jin, and Y. Meng. (2012). A Uniform Framework for Self-organized Multi-Robot Pattern Formation and Boundary Coverage Inspired from Morphogenesis, ACM Trans. on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems. (In Press) J. Yin, Y. Meng, and Y. Jin. (2012). A Cellular Mechanism for the Self-Organization of Adaptive Reservoir Computing, IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development. (in press) Y. Jin, H. Guo, and Y. Meng. (2012). Distributed Self-organizing Multi-Robot Systems using a Bio-inspired Hierarchical Gene Regulatory Networks Model, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B. (in press) Y. Meng, Y. Zhang, and Y. Jin. (2011). Autonomous Self-Reconfiguration of Modular Robots using a Hierarchical Mechanochemical Model, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 6 (1), 43-54 Y. Jin and Y. Meng. (2011). Morphogenetic Robotics: An Emerging New Field in Developmental Robotics, IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C. , 41 (2), 145-160 |
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MAC Women's Tennis Weekend Preview
Updated 2/22/2013
Here is a preview of this weekend's MAC women's tennis action.
Women's Tennis Readies for Three-Match Weekend Road Swing
AKRON, Ohio – The University of Akron women's tennis team looks to improve its four-match win streak during a weekend trip to the states of New Jersey and New York. The Zips face off against Wagner on a neutral court at the New Jersey Institute of Technology's facility in Newark on Friday at 1 p.m. ET, at NJIT on Saturday at 1 p.m., and at 52nd-ranked Columbia in New York City on Sunday at 11 a.m.
Akron (5-5) swept a two-match homestand last week with a 4-3 victory over East Tennessee State on Friday and 4-3 decision versus 69th-ranked Oregon on Sunday. Both wins came courtesy of dramatic three-set, last-match-on-court decisions.
Against ETSU, Olga Shkundina clinched match point with a 7-6 (7), 6-7 (4), 6-4 win at No. 4 singles, and versus Oregon it was Angelina Jogasuria's 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 victory at No. 1 singles that did so. Jogasuria's performance earned her Mid-American Conference Player-of-the-Week honors for the fourth time in her collegiate career.
Jogasuria is 3-0 at first flight singles this season and 7-3 overall against singles competition. She partners with Prang Pantusart at No. 1 doubles to make up the nation's 43rd-ranked pair, a duo that takes a 9-0 record into the weekend. Ksenia Berestetska boasts a six-match singles win streak for UA.
The Zips will face Wagner (2-2) for the first time, while the meetings with both NJIT (5-1) and Columbia mark the second ever between the programs. Akron defeated NJIT 7-0 at home last season and lost to Columbia 8-1 on a neutral court in Florida in March 1990.
UA starts a four-match homestand on March 7 when Youngstown State comes to town for a 12:30 p.m. contest. That match was originally scheduled to be played at YSU, but was recently switched to a home event for UA.
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The Cardinals will face Youngstown State on Saturday, Feb. 23 at 5:00 pm ET and Cleveland State on Sunday, Feb. 24 at 10:00 am. Both matches will be in Cleveland, Ohio.
Bowling Green:
Falcons Face Mastodons, Vulcans this Weekend
The Bowling Green State University tennis team, looking to extend a seven-match winning streak, will play a pair of duals at the Perrysburg Tennis Center this weekend. The Falcons of head coach Penny Dean will face IPFW in Friday (Feb. 22) action and California (Pa.) on Sunday morning (Feb. 24) as a season-long seven-match homestand rolls on.
Friday's IPFW match will begin at 12:00 p.m., with Sunday's Cal U dual set for a 9:30 a.m. start. Both matches will be held at the Perrysburg Tennis Center, and admission is free.
BGSU enters the weekend with a 7-1 record in dual-match play. The Falcons' last match was a narrow 4-3 win over Cincinnati on Feb. 10. BG won all three doubles matches against the Bearcats, sweeping the doubles contests for the fifth time in a seven-match span.
The Falcons and UC split the singles matches, marking the first time in BG's seven-match winning streak that the Brown and Orange did not win at least five of the six singles flights.
BGSU competitors have a combined record of 35-7 in singles and 19-2 in doubles during the team's seven-match winning streak.
Several Falcons bring impressive personal winning streaks into the weekend. Junior Nikki Chiricosta has captured 13 consecutive matches (singles and doubles combined), while freshman Katie Brozovich has won her last 11 matches. Senior Katie Grubb had had a 13-match personal winning streak before suffering a loss in singles play against UC. Prior to that setback, she had not lost since the Falcons' Jan. 18 match at Notre Dame.
On the season, all eight Falcons have at least 18 total wins, including at least 11 doubles victories apiece. Every player on the team is at least four games over .500, with seven of the eight players at least eight games above the break-even mark.
Chiricosta leads the Falcons in all three wins categories this season to date. Her 37-11 overall mark includes a 17-5 singles ledger and a 20-6 doubles slate. Fellow junior Emily Reuland is close behind with a 35-13 record, having gone 16-6 in singles play and 19-7 in doubles action.
The Chiricosta/Reuland duo has played at the top flight in six of the eight dual matches this season to date, and the two juniors have played at the top-two singles flights as well.
Grubb has a 29-10 overall record this year, while Brozovich is 28-15 in her first season as a collegian. Brozovich is 16-8 in singles, while Grubb has a stellar doubles record of 16-4.
Seniors Maddy Eccleston and Jade Johnson are 17-7 and 16-5, respectively, in doubles this season. Eccleston has 25 overall victories and Johnson 22 this year. Senior Mary Hill has 19 total wins, while freshman Drew Fillis has an 18-10 overall mark.
Eccleston, a team co-captain along with Hill, continues to climb several BGSU career lists. She has a career total of 86 doubles wins, ranking second in school history. Eccleston is just three doubles wins away from matching Christine Chiricosta's school record. Chiricosta had 89 doubles wins from 2008-11.
Eccleston now has 152 combined career victories, good for sole possession of third place on that chart. She is just one win behind second-place Deidee Bissinger (153 wins from 1997-2000) on that list. Christine Chiricosta holds the BGSU record with 178 total wins as a Falcon.
All four BGSU seniors and both Falcon juniors are on the list of the top-30 players in school history in combined career wins. All six players are within the top 20 on the school's doubles wins list, while five of the six are among the top-25 all-time Falcons in singles wins. All three lists can be found by clicking the PDF stats link near the top of this page.
IPFW enters Friday's match with a dual-match record of 6-4 on the season. The Mastodons were busy last weekend, playing four home matches in a three-day span. IPFW defeated both Robert Morris and Chicago State by 7-0 scores on Friday (Feb. 15), and the 'Dons suffered a narrow 4-3 loss to Youngstown State Sunday morning (Feb. 17) before bouncing back with a 7-0 win over Trine later in the day.
IPFW has faced three MAC opponents already this spring, losing to Toledo by a 4-3 count and to both Eastern Michigan and Ball State by 5-2 scores. The 'Dons came to Northwest Ohio to participate in the BGSU Invitational earlier this season (Sept. 21-22, 2012). IPFW finished last season with a record of 18-11. After winning the Summit League championship in each of the previous two seasons, the Mastodons lost a 4-3 decision to Oral Roberts in last year's league title match.
California is 2-2 on the year, and the Vulcans are riding a two-match winning streak. Cal U, an NCAA Division-II program, hosts Villanova on Friday (Feb. 22) before coming to Perrysburg for Sunday's match. The Vulcans, who are playing seven-straight matches vs. NCAA Division-I opponents to begin the spring, suffered 6-1 losses to MAC opponents (Miami and Toledo) to begin the dual-match schedule. Last weekend, the Vulcans defeated Carnegie Mellon, 6-3, before blanking Denison by a 9-0 result.
The Vulcans were ranked No. 8 in the ITA's NCAA Division-II fall rankings. Cal U also finished last season ranked eighth by the ITA after winning a sixth-straight Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) title. The Vulcans also posted their sixth consecutive 20-win season, going 24-6, and advanced to the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament for the fifth time in those six years.
BGSU holds a 2-0 lead over IPFW in the all-time series between the teams. The Falcons picked up a 6-1 win over the Mastodons at the PTC three years ago (Jan. 30, 2010), and BG went to Fort Wayne the following season and won by a 5-2 result (Feb. 12, 2011).
The Falcons and California (Pa.) have never met in women's tennis.
Following this weekend's matches, the Falcons will next take the court on March 16, hosting Butler at the PTC to conclude the current seven-match homestand. The next day (March 17), the Brown and Orange will be in the Windy City to face UIC in the final non-conference dual match. MAC play begins the next weekend with home matches vs. Toledo (March 22) and Eastern Michigan (March 23).
The Bulls will face Temple on Saturday, Feb. 23 and Binghamton on Sunday, Feb. 24. Both matches at 1:00 pm ET.
Eastern Michigan:
Women's Tennis Hosts Indoor Doubleheader Saturday with Dayton and Oakland at the Chippewa Club
YPSILANTI, Mich. -- The Eastern Michigan University women's tennis team will host a pair of opponents Saturday, Feb 23, inside the Chippewa Racquet Club. The Eagles will face off with the University of Dayton (5-7) and Oakland University (0-2) at 1 p.m. and 8:30 p.m., respectively.
Head Coach Ryan Ray's team currently stands at 3-6 after falling short to Louisville, Feb 8. Freshman Klara Supejova continued to find singles success upsetting No. 62 nationally ranked Rebecca Shine. Supejova is undefeated in her last seven matches and is now 8-1 in singles play.
The most recent and only time Eastern tennis has played the Flyers of Dayton was back on Feb 3, 2007. EMU traveled to Dayton's Graul Tennis complex and emerged with a 6-1 victory. The Eagles were able to set the tempo early by winning all three of the doubles matches. The Green and White then put the finishing touches on the win by taking five of six singles matches from the Flyers.
The Eagles last took the court against the Oakland Grizzles in a 7-0 shutout Jan 14, 2012. That duel, like this Saturday's, was the second act of an EMU doubleheader. Then freshmen, Ankita Bhatia and Daphne Friedrichs won their singles matches after each had a won a singles match earlier in the day. Eastern leads the all-time series 5-0.
The RedHawks will face Boston University on Saturday, Feb. 23 at Noon and Yale on Sunday, Feb. 24 at 11:00 am. Both matches will be played in New Haven, Conn.
Northern Illinois:
Women's Tennis Welcomes Chicago State Friday
Huskies at Home for Second and Final Time This Month
DeKALB, Ill. - Northern Illinois plays its second - and final - home match of February on Friday when the Huskies welcome Chicago State to its indoor home at Rockford Boylan High School. NIU, which is coming off five straight road matches, and Chicago State will battle beginning at 4:30 p.m. with the doubles competition.
NIU is 8-1 on the season and has won five straight matches since suffering a 6-1 loss to Southern Illinois in its last home outing on Feb. 3. The Huskies are led by No. 1 player Nelle Youel (Crystal Lake, Ill./Crystal Lake Central HS), who is undefeated in both singles and doubles this year. Mary Malkin's (Tel Aviv, Israel/Alliance) singles slate almost matches Youel's perfect record as she is 8-1 at the No. 4 spot for head coach Ryun Ferrell.
In its last four matches, Northern Illinois has a pair of 7-0 wins and two 6-1 victories. The Huskies have won the doubles point in seven of their nine matches as Youel and Arantza De La Torre (San Luis Potosi, Mexico) are undefeated at No. 1 doubles, while Stephanie McDonald (Harare, Zimbabwe) and Haley Dekkinga (Allegan, Mich./Allegan HS) have forged a 5-2 mark at the No. 2 and No. 3 spots.
Chicago State comes into Friday's match with a 3-8 record this spring. The Cougars went 1-2 last weekend in Ft. Wayne, Ind. as they defeated Robert Morris (Pa.) 6-1 before losing to IPFW and Youngstown State by 7-0 scores.
Admission to the NIU tennis matches at the Boylan Tennis Courts is free. Following Friday's match, the Huskies travel to Des Moines, Iowa for three matches March 2-3.
Rockets Travel to Duquesne for Lone Weekend Match
PITTSBURGH, PA - Toledo (4-5) will challenge Duquesne (3-3) on Friday, Feb. 22 at 1:30 p.m. inside Alpha Tennis and Fitness. The dual match is the only scheduled contest for this weekend and the final competition before UT's Spring Break trip to Orlando, FL on March 5-8.
Last weekend, the Rockets split a pair of matches on the road by capturing a narrow 4-3 victory over Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Friday, and falling to Illinois-Chicago in a very tight match, 5-2.
Senior Silvia Carvajal was the hero against Milwaukee as she outlasted her opponent in a three-set tiebreaker at No. 6 singles to clinch the win. Sophomore Pia Rygh notched the first UT point at No. 2 singles over Milwaukee, while freshman Katelyn Nguyen followed that up with a straight-set victory at No. 3 and freshman Emily Mazzola took the No. 5 match, also in straight sets.
In the loss to UIC, the Midnight Blue & Gold led early on in both doubles and singles competition, but was unable to hold on long enough. The Rockets posted wins in both the No. 1 and No. 2 singles flights until the Flames took control of the match through the rest of the lineup. Junior Chrissy Coffman won in straight sets at the top flight, while Rygh recorded a come-from-behind victory at No. 2 by scores of 6-7 (7-1), 7-5, 10-6.
The match turning point came at the third singles flight when Nguyen lost to her counterpart in three sets, including tiebreakers in both the second and third frames. Carvajal's match at the final singles flight also extended to a third set, but UIC grinded out the win 3-6, 6-2, 7-5.
Following Friday's matinee, UT will have 10 days off before the first match in Orlando on March 5 against Nova Southeastern.
Western Michigan:
Women's Tennis To Host Michigan State, UIC
Western Michigan Broncos vs. Michigan State Spartans
Friday, February 22 // 5 p.m.
Kalamazoo, Mich. // West Hills Athletic Club
Western Michigan Broncos vs. Illinois-Chicago Flames
Saturday, February 23 // 1 p.m.
Kalamazoo, Mich. // West Hills Athletic Club
This will be the 31st meeting between the Broncos and the Spartans, with Michigan State holding an 18-12 advantage in the all-time series. The last time these teams met was last season, when the Broncos pushed the Spartans to the limit on the road before just narrowly falling 4-3. Nini Sujashvili recorded a huge win over Nicole Herzog in the No. 1 singles match, winning 6-4, 6-1 to cut the Spartans' lead.
This will be the 23rd meeting between the Broncos and the Flames, with Western Michigan holding a 21-1 advantage in the all-time series against UIC. That loss, though, came last season, when the Flames defeated WMU 5-2 on March 4, 2012. Caroline Aleck earned a hard-fought singles win in that match, beating Linda Hricistova 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-4 in the No. 6 singles match.
The Broncos and the Spartans saw members of their teams clash several times over the course of the fall season, with Kathleen Hawkins and Caroline Aleck squaring off against them at the ITA Second Chance Tournament. Hawkins defeated the Spartans' Jennifer Yen 6-0, 6-1 in a singles match, while Aleck just narrowly lost to Emily Meyers. The duo also took on members of the Spartans in a doubles match, losing 8-3 to Nicole Herzog and Michaela Silesova.
Members of the Broncos and the Flames squared off against one another several times over the course of the fall season, with UIC holding a 4-1 advantage in matches played during tournament time. The lone Broncos win came in singles play, when Nini Sujashvili defeated Keti Mebuke 6-2, 6-4 at the Wildcat Invite, hosted by Northwestern.
It was announced earlier this week that Nini Sujashvili was named the Mid-American Conference Female Scholar-Athlete of the Week for Feb. 21. Sujashvili, who carries a 3.96 GPA in Pre-Psychology, helped the Broncos dominate a doubleheader against IUPUI and Bradley on Saturday, notching a perfect 4-0 record on the day winning a pair of No. 1 singles matches, a No. 1 doubles match, and a No. 2 doubles match.


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English Access at IUCA
The 2013-2015 English Access Scholarship Program started its work on October 30, 2013 at IUCA, with the support of the US Embassy. The English Access Program is a new opportunity for Kyrgyzstan's teenagers to study English and American culture in depth. This program emphasizes development of communication skills and intercultural understanding. Young people will attend additional free language courses in Tokmok. The program is implemented by the US State Department which gives it financial support. Participants selected on a competitive basis will attend classes four times a week for a year and a half. Schoolchildren will be provided all the necessary educational materials, including textbooks without cost, and during the summer holidays, recreation in health camps will be organized for the participants.
Students will be awarded certificates by the U.S. Embassy upon completion of the course.
Step towards
A video conference on Intercultural communication in the educational system in the framework of the Eurasia Project was conducted at IUCA on November 11. Students and teachers from our University and NLA University College (Bergen, Norway) took part in it. The topics included:
Why are the issues of intercultural communication of interest today in European and Central Asian countries?
What are the problems faced by teachers and students in a multicultural society?
Which steps does the government take to create a favorable climate for the development of children in a multicultural society?
What do teachers do for the comfort of children in a multicultural community?
Students and instructors of the Pedagogy Program participated. The IUCA students conducted an interesting mini-study, which revealed the level of intercultural competence in preschool children (the study was conducted at of pre-schools in Tokmok and Bishkek). The results of the study were presented at the video conference.
The discussions that took place after the presentations at the video conference showed that all the participants were interested in the exchange of experiences between the two countries (Norway and Kyrgyzstan), starting with the presentation of educational systems in the two countries and ending with the description of specific situations faced by students and teachers in both countries.
The video-conference itself is an example of cross-cultural communication: the participants from both Norway and Kyrgyzstan, students of different nations, were eager communicators. The active discussions during the video conference are evidence of the overwhelming desire to understand each other, desire to share their experience and their desire to find common ground.
IUCA is a land of choice
From the 25th to the 29th of November, the International University of Central Asia (IUCA) conducted a Festival of Education called 'IUCA is a land of choice'. The following events were held within the framework of the Festival:
- Competitions for eleventh-graders: Point of View and Intellectual Ring;
- Meeting of the University Administration with parents of potential IUCA students and freshmen;
- Meeting of the University Administration with the representatives of businesses in Tokmok;
- Meeting of the University Administration with the Principals of Tokmok schools;
- Master classes: Learning to argue, Learning to reflect and Learning to communicate in English.
Intellectual ring competition
IUCA wants to identify and support talented children, create favorable conditions for young people to acquire quality education and promote their intellectual and aesthetic development. The International University of Central Asia is certain that this will help the formation of a favorable social climate in Tokmok.
The major goals of the competitions and master classes were to expose and develop Tokmok schoolchildren's creative abilities and interest in learning, to create conditions for intellectual development, to help them choose a career and to give them motivation to continue theireducation.
IUCA is a land of choice Festival of Education was supported by the Embassy of the United States in the Kyrgyz Republic, the Embassy of Russia in the Kyrgyz Republic (Rossotrudnichestvo) as well as by the Embassy of China in the Kyrgyz Republic. Schoolchildren, who get the highest number of points, were awarded certificates and prizes. They also will have a chance to enter IUCA without entrance examinations.
We are sure that conducting the Festival of Education "IUCA is a land of choice" will help young people choose their future profession, which, in the long run, will play a positive role in the development of youth in Tokmok and as a whole, in our country.
IUCA is 5 years old
We celebrated a holiday on November 6, 2013 which is not marked on any calendar. The International University of Central Asia is 5 years old!
Today, the International University of Central Asia is a modern and rapidly developing university. In just 5 years of its existence, IUCA has taken a worthy place in the educational system of the Kyrgyz Republic. The main products of the University are highly qualified professionals. The University Administration and staff can be proud of the work that has been done and look ahead with pride.
The celebration of the fifth anniversary began with a song that is a translation from Russian, "It's great that all of us are here today!" Then, Mr. Yang, President of the Yraiym Foundation gave a congratulatory speech to the IUCA faculty and students. Mr. Yang said that the University administration cares about the students and appreciates the teachers' work. He wished success to the IUCA staff and success to students in their studies.
The International University of Central Asia is developing and moving forward thanks to its leadership, which seeks to rally the team and to create the conditions for creative work. During the speeches, the IUCA Administration noted that students receiving education at our university, go towards their aim and their academic success is a proof of it. On of the basis of their performance during the previous academic year, students were awarded Dean's List certificates for their academic success.
Not only students and teachers, but also the non-academic employees of IUCA were noted at the celebration, for they have put so much effort in the development of IUCA!
We would like to congratulate the faculty, students and all the employees of the University once again and wish you all good health, success in your work, new creative ideas and we hope they will come true!
IUCA is a ship sailing on the sea of knowledge, and it is led by experienced sailors - teachers who are making great contributions to the development and prosperity of our beloved university. The future may hold new tests, storms, calms, but our ship is steadily moving forward!
IUCA students and teachers in Almaty
A big Internet Forum took place at KIMEP University in Almaty, Kazakhstan on November 8-9, 2013. Instructors and students from the IUCA Information Technology Program took part in it. The Forum program was intense and interesting. Discussion panels, lectures and master classes illuminating current issues of the IT industry were held.
Large IT companies presented their latest developments in software and Internet technologies. There was an exhibition of leaders' achievements in IT industry of Russia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The students had the opportunity to talk to the organizers and other participants at the forum in an informal setting and understand better the main trends of the Internet industry.
The presentations of Andrei Kalinin, Head of Mail.Ru search (Russia), Andrei Andreev, Expert on Microsoft technology development (Kazakhstan), Denis Donchenko, Business Development Manager of 1C-Bitrix Ltd. (Russia) and Olesya Miroshnichenko, Executive director of the Unique Technologies Company (Kyrgyzstan) were especially memorable.
The Forum's organization was on a high professional level and received informational support from information partners in Kazakhstan and neighboring countries.
IUCA in Jashtar Camp
It was the 9th of November - a Saturday. The weather was not the best, but after having come to the library in Kant, we forgot about the cold. Schoolchildren from all the schools in the Chui region and from three Kyrgyz universities: AUCA, Ata-Turk, and of course, we, from IUCA, were invited to the Jashtar Camp Youth Forum which was organized by Soros.kg.
After the official welcoming speech, we visited some sections where young people told how they had achieved success in different areas of life at such young ages. They motivated us to be active ourselves. Lunch was organized in the afternoon, during which a raffle was held. Our students got lucky and were prize-winners. At lunchtime, young performers sang, danced and showed a small flash mob. After this, work was continued in sections, where we learned a lot of interesting things.
Indeed, I will not say anything original if I say that the event was entertaining. We got a positive charge, won prizes and learned a lot of useful things. We would like to thank the organizers of this event.
Begaim Bekbolotova
Education Committee of IUCA Senate


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Dani Sordo says he will wait on word from Ford before responding to the offer he has from Mini for next season.
The Spaniard has been approached by Mini to be part of its entry into the World Rally Championship, but is holding out for a possible Ford drive before committing.
"I will wait a little bit for Ford, but not long," Sordo said. "It's not fair to Mini.
"Nothing is decided at the moment, but Mini is a good idea – with a big company like BMW behind it. I would like to develop the car, that's a good thing, but I also need to be driving a lot next year and this is not the full program."
Sordo is expected to test a Mini for the first time before the end of this month. Kimi Raikkonen has also been linked to Mini, with Red Bull expected to enter a deal with the team in 2012.


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Huggins grateful for second chance at alma mater
Originally Published: July 9, 2007
Andy Katz | ESPN.com
AKRON, Ohio -- The talk of the LeBron Skills Academy wasn't as much about the talent on the floor or LeBron James' daily cameos.
Nope. The countless high-major head coaches and assistants couldn't get over the larger-than-life banner of Bob Huggins that hangs over the Zips' home court. The Scott Baio-like look of Huggs from the late 1980s had everyone giving him a hard time Sunday. But here at Akron, where Huggs coached from 1984 to '89 and is a living legend, taking a few shots in jest is no problem. He considers Akron another home. As for his experience Friday in Cincinnati, where he was wearing his West Virginia colors in the house that he built on the UC campus, well that was another matter. "It was just awkward being on campus," said Huggins, who has gone from being ousted at UC, to taking a year off, to being hailed as a hero in purple and black at Kansas State, to now heading back home to his alma mater at West Virginia. "I hadn't been on campus since the seniors called me wanting to go to the West Virginia game and AK [then-interim head coach Andy Kennedy] wanted me to that last game," Huggins said of his cameo appearance for Cincinnati's regular-season finale in 2006. "It was awkward. I was here [at Akron], and I don't feel awkward here. They have always treated me very well here." And now the towering Huggins, who is still a commanding presence wherever he goes, is settled in at Morgantown, where he played for three years. "I'm back where I know everybody," Huggins said. "I loved Kansas State and the people on campus were as good a people as I've seen. But this is home and this is where I grew up and this is more me." Huggins turned down the West Virginia job prior to the school's hiring John Beilein in 2002. So, in a rare instance, Huggins had a second chance to go back to his alma mater when Beilein went to Michigan this spring. "You're fortunate if you get two chances," Huggins said. "I wasn't going to get another one." The big question this season will be how the disciplined -- and at times you could argue -- restricted Mountaineers will handle playing for Huggins' looser, albeit potentially more pressure-oriented, system. "They honestly don't know what they're getting into," Huggins said of the returning players who won the NIT last March. "They're looking forward to playing freer and faster." In jest, Huggins did say that if his way doesn't work in a game when the Mountaineers are trailing, he could always have them play the way they did under Beilein --with their backdoor cuts -- for a spell. Still, Huggins isn't going to oversell this squad. Despite an NIT title, the Mountaineers lost, as Huggs said, two "very integral parts" in forward Frank Young and center Rob Summers. "Young took 261 3s [actually 270 and he made 117] and that's a lot of 3s," Huggins said. "Rob Summers was a solid player. Darris Nichols is back and there are some players there [Alex Ruoff, Joe Alexander, Da'Sean Butler and Jamie Smalligan], and we'll see if there is enough." More nuggets from Akron• Dennis Felton doesn't like the new July recruiting system. The Georgia coach says there is something missing, some sort of pizzazz, a pop to start the July evaluation period. Perhaps the competing camps the previous few years in Indianapolis (Nike), Teaneck, N.J., (Reebok) and suburban Atlanta (adidas) gave the summer scene that zing. At least they did for Felton.
"You knew there were the 200 best at one place and the 200 best at another," Felton said. "Now there are a lot of guys who are home. It didn't start off this year with a bang."
That's because, maybe, Sonny Vaccaro is out of the summer scene and with him, the ABCD camp is gone. Instead, Nike went individual instruction on everyone, which was the goal of many, by hosting four 20-player individual camps around the country and then convening the top 80 players in Akron this past weekend at the LeBron James Skills Academy. Meanwhile, adidas put its backing behind an AAU event at the University of Cincinnati called the It Takes 5ive Classic. Reebok created the RBK U team event in Philadelphia. A slew of recruits was still out at events in Denton, Texas, Indianapolis and New Jersey (the Eastern Invitational). And that's why in Akron, more than any other place, there was a separation of classes among Division I schools. There were 154 coaches who checked into the event Saturday and Sunday. Of those 154, only two were non-Division I, and seven were from traditionally tabbed mid- or low-major schools: Pepperdine, Oral Roberts, Bradley, Buffalo, Cleveland State, Georgia State and Iona. If you want to take it up a tad, there were only a handful of coaches from non-BCS football conferences such as the Atlantic 10 (Duquesne, Xavier and Rhode Island), C-USA (UAB, Tulsa and Memphis), MWC (UNLV, Utah, New Mexico, Wyoming and BYU) and the WAC (Nevada and New Mexico State). In years past, coaches from more of a cross-section of schools would go to the Nike camp in Indianapolis because they could also spend the day at the nearby Hoosier Shootout. So they could catch an elite player or two and still go back to players that might be more at their level.Still, what was a coach like Scott Sutton of Oral Roberts doing at the LeBron James Skills Academy, only a few feet away from Billy Donovan, Rick Pitino, Mike Krzyzewski and Rick Barnes?
"I'm looking at one kid here," Sutton said. That one kid actually is Rotnei Clarke out of Claremore, Okla., whose father, Conley, was hired as the director of basketball operations at ORU. Sutton said he had gone only once to the Nike All-American camp in Indianapolis and never to ABCD or adidas. Previously, he chose to spend his time in Denton, Texas, for the players that serve his needs. "If we go to other places, we're looking at 30-40 players, not just one or two," Sutton said. "There are very few kids here, if any, for me." Sutton, who is competing against Kentucky, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico and Arizona State for Clarke, made the rare choice recently to stay at ORU instead of chasing more money at Wichita State (or possibly Creighton, had Dana Altman stayed with his decision to go to Arkansas). "I'm not looking for the big money," Sutton said. "We've built something special here, and I'm loyal to the people that gave me a chance." And that's why, in part, Sutton can stand next to his colleagues at an event like this after establishing a Summit League (formerly Mid-Continent) power. But Sutton also has that connection to Clarke. That's usually what brings most of these coaches from nonpower teams to this event, even if they are grossly outnumbered. New Mexico State coach Marvin Menzies, on the job for less than two weeks, is recruiting three or four players that he was working for Louisville but who didn't fit the Cardinals' needs.Nathaniel S. Butler/NBAE via Getty ImagesLeBron James' Skills Academy attracted some of the top high school recruits. And where the recruits go, the top college coaches follow.
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Archive for the 'All things Irish!' Category
How to make Elf Footprints!
Looking to add a little fun into your St. Patrick's or Christmas holiday? Why not add some elf/leprechaun footprints all around your house for the kids to find? It's super easy to do and all you need is paint and your hand!
(our footprints lead to a pot of gold…aka...
March 16th, 2013 | All things Irish!, General, Kid Fun! | Read More
Make a Leprechaun Garden!
There is nothing more charming than a garden is there? Well, possibly one thing…a Leprechaun or Fairy garden! A fairy or leprechaun garden is a miniature garden that can be outside or inside, that uses very small scale plants, cottages and furnishings giving the illusion that wee small creatures...
March 14th, 2013 | All things Irish!, Crafting, General, Kid Fun! | Read More
St Patricks Day Play Dough Activities
Making your own St. Patrick Day play-dough is easy and you can customize it in anyway you wish. It's also a great St. Patrick's Day activity to help kids understand some basic facts about the country of Ireland through guided play!
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Learn hoe to ride safely, with confidence, and enjoy cycling--one of the many ageless activities. You've heard the cliche "you're never too old"? Join us in a bike safety class for seniors, presented by a senior. You don't have to go fast - just go! Also, join us for the Senior Cycle ride - Tuesday, June 25th.
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What if a 12 year old boy had to devise an Invention to get the attention of his love interest?Monica has made it clear, she wants to be just friends... Sad, Danny starts working with his friend Andres in their workshop on a new invention, a big challenge for 12 year old boys; to solve the magic of photography and the mysteries of women.On a golden afternoon in 1976 they discover the power of friendship and love.It all starts with a magnifying glass, a small lantern and a broken heart....
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STARTING with the victim - Pope Benedict XVI - there was nothing normal about the trial of Paolo Gabriele, the Vatican butler convicted of stealing secret papers from the papal palace.
The defendant said he was inspired by the Holy Spirit to rid the Vatican of ''evil and corruption'' and the main judge was from an aristocratic family that has served the papacy for generations who has been knighted by the Vatican.
Gabriele on Saturday was found guilty of aggravated theft and sentenced to 18 months in prison, although Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said a pardon from the Pope was ''very likely'' to come soon, before the sentence was actually implemented.
Adding to the unique nature of a trial in the world's smallest state where the Pope has supreme powers, the sentence began: ''In the name of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, who reigns in glory, and invoking the Holy Trinity.''
In his final statement in a wood-panelled courtroom decorated with Vatican insignia and a large portrait of Pope Benedict, Gabriele said he had acted out of ''visceral love for the Church of Christ and for its leader on Earth''.
The biggest trial in modern Vatican history leaves many questions hanging.
One of the most pressing is whether Gabriele really did act alone as he claims; another is whether the Vatican will investigate some of the most serious allegations of fraud contained in the papers Gabriele leaked to a journalist.
An investigation is ongoing and Vatican gendarmes are still analysing computer files seized from Gabriele's home after finding ''more than 1000'' sensitive documents including letters the Pope had marked ''To Be Destroyed''.
The findings of a parallel inquiry into the ''Vatileaks'' scandal conducted by a committee of cardinals appointed by the Pope have also not been made public.
The cardinals interviewed dozens of people working in the Vatican.
Lombardi said only ''a limited part'' of the criminal inquiry was complete and that other more serious charges - such as the violation of state secrecy, defamation and conspiracy - were still being considered by investigators.
The trial gave a few hints of Gabriele's social network and the jealousies and tensions under the surface in the Vatican's tight-knit community.
He himself claimed there was ''widespread discontent'' in the Vatican and said that senior cardinals and the Pope's former housekeeper had confided in him.
In the only interview he gave before his arrest in May, Gabriele said there were ''around 20'' like-minded people spread across different Vatican departments.
Gabriele also told the police that he had confessed his crime to a priest, Father Giovanni Luzi, and handed him copies of the documents he was leaking.
The priest said he burnt them since he knew they were illegally obtained.
In one interrogation, Gabriele said some papers he leaked with allegations of corruption in the Vatican police had been given to him by a third person.
But investigators have so far identified only one other person who has been charged with aiding and abetting the butler. Claudio Sciarpelletti, a Vatican computer technician, faces a separate trial in the same 19th-century courtroom.
Prosecutors said they first thought he must have acted with others because of all the secret papers found in a search of his home - many more than were ever published - but had since found ''no evidence'' of accomplices.
The documents published in a book by the journalist who received the leaks, Gianluigi Nuzzi, were ''peanuts compared to what he had accumulated in his apartment'', said Paul Badde, a Vatican expert for German daily Die Welt.
''There are many unresolved contradictions. It is quite possible that this could be the beginning of a far more dramatic and important story,'' he said.
But Marco Politi, a biographer of Pope Benedict and Vatican expert for the Il Fatto Quotidiano daily, said he believed the Holy See wanted to ''hush up'' the Vatileaks scandal by not probing deeper into Gabriele's network of sources.
Gabriele's career is also an open question as the court did not accept a request from prosecutors for Gabriele to be banned from positions of responsibility in the Vatican and the butler is only suspended from his duties.
Nuzzi has said the investigation should not be into how the documents were leaked but into the actual allegations contained in the documents.
''With the end of the trial, will the contents of the book be discussed or will there still be a commotion aimed at discrediting Gabriele?'' he asked.


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The Paul Rogers blog: Can England continue the "proud to be British" trend at Euro 2012? (From Hereford Times)
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The Paul Rogers blog: Can England continue the "proud to be British" trend at Euro 2012?
9:30am Thursday 7th June 2012 in Paul Rogers Blog By Paul Rogers
THE past week has been a joy to behold seeing millions of people celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
From street parties, to the Jubilee concert and beacons being lit, it was marvellous to witness so many people doing their bit to thank Her Majesty for giving 60 years of unrivalled service to the UK and indeed the whole of the Commonwealth.
It really did make you feel proud to be British.
Now we come along to Euro 2012 and hope and pray that England can continue the feel good factor that is currently eclipsing the country.
The Three Lions kick-off their group games against France on Monday, before they face Sweden next Friday (June 15) and Ukraine on June 19.
This is the first time that I recall that England have gone into a major tournament with no or little expectation behind them and that could work to their advantage.
Rememeber when Greece won Euro 2004 against all the odds or going further back, Denmark in 1992?
Stranger things have happened, but looking at the England squad, I think it would be nothing short of a miracle if they ended up winning it.
True, the Manchester City and Chelsea players will be going into the tournament full of vigiour after their respective teams won the Premiership and Champions League, but both Frank Lampard and Gary Cahill have been ruled out through injury and been replaced by Jordan Henderson and Martin Kelly respectively.
I don't know what Roy Hodgson's facscination with Liverpool is, but if Henderson and Kelly are the answers to our prayers then we really do need divine inspiration to help us.
Hodgson said that Rio Ferdinand was omitted from the squad due to "footballing reasons" rather than John Terry being embroiled in a racism row with his brother Anton.
But that looks even more stupid now that Kelly has been called up ahead of Ferdinand.
Personally, I think England would do well to get out of the group with an in-form France, a Sweden team that are always hard to beat (as England know from experience) and co-hosts Ukraine being amongst it.
And even if England do finish second (I can't see them winning it) then they will most certainly face Spain in the quarter-finals and then it will be curtains anyway.
Put it this way - I don't think the England flags will be flying out of people's houses for long during the duration of the tournament!
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Fairfield Inn and Suites Hobbs1350 West Joe Harvey Boulevard, Hobbs, NM 88240 (Show map) Located 2 miles away from Zia Park & Black Gold Casino, this hotel serves a daily hot breakfast with scrambled eggs and sausage. It features an outdoor pool and hot tub and rooms with free Wi-Fi. A cable TV with HBO film channels is provided in each air-conditioned guest room at Fairfield Inn and Suites Hobbs. For convenience, all rooms offer a work desk, a seating area, microwave and a refrigerator. A coffee machine and ironing facilities are also included. A business centre with fax and photocopying services and a fitness centre are available to guests at Hobbs Fairfield Inn and Suites. A guest launderette is located on site. Vending machines featuring snacks and drinks are available. Western Heritage Museum is 4 minutes' drive away from this hotel. University of the Southwest is 3 miles away. Hobbs Motorsports Park is 10 minutes' drive away. Hotel Rooms: 94, Hotel Chain: Fairfield Inn.
OutdoorsOutdoor pool (all year) ActivitiesNewspapers, Fitness centre, Hot tub InternetFree! WiFi is available in all areas and is free of charge. ParkingFree! Free public parking is possible on site (reservation is not needed). ServicesExpress check-in/check-out, Meeting/banquet facilities, Business centre, Laundry, Dry cleaning, Fax/photocopying, Vending machine (drinks), Vending machine (snacks) GeneralFamily rooms, Lift/elevator, Safety deposit box, Heating, Non-smoking throughout, Air conditioning Check-inFrom 15:00 hours Check-outUntil 12:00 hours Cancellation/
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What other breed would these idiots that own pitbulls get? Seriously, what other dog is known to kill so many other dogs, kill children and attack people. I say "great", find any other breed than a pitbull to roam free in the front yard, ready to attack the first person that comes by. Thanks again CCPD.
There are any number of breeds or mixes they can get. There are dogs mixed specifically as 'man stoppers' - then there are purebreds as well - sorry you are so unaware of the various breeds. Yes, it is good that the CCPD stopped this situation but it doesn't stop the irresponsible behavior of the people, who are the REAL problem and not any one specific breed or mix of canine.
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Are the parents of the modern world afraid of disciplining their children? Is it because the parents do not want to upset their children or they are scared of the adverse consequences that they imagine to face? Here are some positive hints.
Are the parents of the modern world scared of disciplining their children? Most of the modern parents do not dare to discipline their children, fearing that it may upset them. Experts say that more than 80% of the parents are certain that just one scolding is enough to stop their children from misbehaving again. Yet they do not dare to discipline them fearing that it may upset them. The children take advantage of this weakness(?) of the parents. They have a much easier ride with more than 25% parents openly avoiding disciplining their children. The parents think they may have to face more trouble by disciplining them.
Modern children in the path of indiscipline
Modern children are growing up in a completely different world, a world completely different from the previous decades. They have the small screen to occupy them and guide them. They have the Internet and computer which provide them every kind of knowledge. They have mobile phone and other devices which connect them with others faster. They have everything in their easy access, that takes them away from a disciplined life of the past.
Modern children are too sensitive to face failures. They turn against the society in a negative and emotional attitude. Drug addiction is spreading among the growing children faster than any time.
Modern parents' involvement in disciplining children
1) Children are left to watch TV, etc. most of the time. Parents are unable to control this habit. They take it for granted that it will improve their knowledge. They think watching TV may keep them away from doing mischiefs.
2) Video games, iPod, computer games, etc occupy more time of the children than the parents.
3) Unfortunately, parents spend less time with their children. They have to run around with a busy schedule to earn better "wealth". The parents have no time to check their children. Even mothers of feeding babies have to rush to offices, leaving their kids to all kinds of risks.
4) Above all the presence of parents as "role models" to their children is less in the modern lifestyle. They want to have an easy life. They give lame excuses when their children are pointed out of failures in the school or in the society. They try to defend their misbehaving children without realizing the consequences.
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3) Parental disciplining is a careful task, especially when the children reach teenage. The parents should never smother their children without allowing them any breathing room. It is possible, if they plan well.
4) Accessible parents are good role models, always loving,listening and caring. Praying for the children along with the children is one of the most important responsibilities of a role model parent. http://gomestic.com/family/are-the-modern-parents-scared-of-disciplining-their-children/


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Dr. Susan Robinson talks at the Albuquerque, N.M., clinic where she works in 'After Tiller.' (Oscilloscope Laboratories)
�After Tiller� is pretty tough to watch.
But then abortion, especially later-term abortion, is a pretty tough subject. And this documentary is about the four doctors left in America who perform late-term abortions.
They all have connections to Dr. George Tiller, the Kansas physician who was gunned down and killed in 2009. Two women physicians work together in a clinic in New Mexico, one male doctor has a clinic in Colorado and another is based in Nebraska initially but is forced to relocate to Maryland when laws change.
All are under constant attack from anti-abortion activists. All have gray hair. And all are true believers.
Late-term abortions occur in the third trimester of pregnancy and are outlawed in most states. They also make up less than one percent of the abortions performed in America. Sometimes they are the result of parents finding out their child is going to be born severely damaged, with no chance of survival or happiness, just a future of pain.
Far more difficult � and here the doctors admit they are forced to make judgments no one should have to make � are the cases where a woman simply does not want to have a child and has put off taking action. The film goes through a number of such stories and the doctors� reactions and decisions.
Although the film is undeniably sympathetic to, or at least understanding of, the doctors, it also makes it clear that their consciences are cushioned by convenient terms � they perform �procedures,� they are �providers� � and each has his or her own reasoning as to why their services are needed and humane.
You may or may not be convinced, but you will be affected.
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Hey all,
Ive been a long time user of FT but recently tried 888 poker. Their play itself is alright, seems to be fair but I have some issues:
1. Their bonus system is dodgy as hell, they pretty much force you to pay for an extra bonus. i.e Deposit $20 and you get $20 bonus, however you then have to wager X amount (which ends up being alot). Basicly, you cant withdraw unless you win alot/wager alot.
I started with $60, recieved a $60 bonus(which never ever came). I then wanted to withdraw at $80 but was not allowed, I had to wager another $240ish in order to withdraw anything.This sucked but I thought hey, ill just play some more, maybe win some more. After meeting the wager requirements and bringing my bank roll to $400 I then wanted to withdraw.
This is were 2. comes in:
They only cashout with direct bank transactions, this would be fine but all the money is sent out in USD. In order for anyone to receive money in Australia from overseas banks, it must be sent out in AUD, so basicly, I cant withdraw this money....
The only other option I have is to try and send the money to a relatives bank account in the US and then transfer from there.
Sorry if this was a confusing post, but basicly what Im getting at is... dont use 888.
Thoughts and opinions? Any loop hole ideas on how to withdraw my money?
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after 3 hours on the phone with their support, they worked it out all fine, not a bad site after all...
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Yay! I is happy for you!
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I know someone who went through something similar on their site. It's one of those things, as long as you contact them and spend time trying to retrieve your money back then all should be ok. I think they probably hope some people wont go to the lengths that you did. Quite a pessimistic view, but there are so many sites where their free bonus is complete crap. Well, not crap, just difficult to withdraw. Maybe thats just my personal experience though
However, happy you got your money back all worked out in the end
February 17th, 2011 #5
Wow sounds like to much trouble just to make a withdraw I been on the phone for 3 hours before with Titan poker, but guess what I know longer use that site because its horrible.
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Celebrity Deathmatch (not) and the coming war
Getting around to this a moment or two late (and even later, in print this coming Saturday, I hope) but I wanted to offer a brief summary of impressions from the Town Hall held at the Toronto Free Gallery on Thursday.
You'll find an highly detailed summary of events from Leah Sandals on her blog; I'm not going to do that here. Rather, on the weekend, I intend to use some of these ideas as a jumping off point to examine the hucksterish rhetoric that Florida has sold so successfully, and widely, to a growing number of cities across the continent (not to mention the Globe and Mail, which breathlessly touts him on a bi-weekly basis (at right), despite the fact the column can be a patchwork presentation of other people's work).
I've been down this rabbit hole a few times in the past, in an exhaustive exploration of the class warfare implicit in the very term "gentrification," and a little more recently, in an attempt to gauge what Florida's "Creative Cities" pitch is actually about.
As panel moderator and organizer Heather McLean (and Creative Class Struggler) rightly said in her opening remarks on Thursday, it's mercurial, to say the least -- a loosely-held "philosophy" that seems to suggest anyone who works with their heads, not their hands -- professors, writers, computer programmers, artists, engineers, mathematicians, architects, name your intellectually-based pursuit -- are the proverbial golden geese, and failure to lure them to your city means certain doom in the coming economic re-ordering.
So why is he so popular, particularly in the dying civic economies of the American rust belt? Precisely because what he proposes is so simple; Florida offers a silver-bullet, a one-step cure all. The way he tells it, it's so easy. And this is the problem. Florida's ideas are simple, applied to a circumstance with a set of dynamics -- failing industrial economies, mass immigration, re-urbanization, and now, global economic upheaval -- that are anything but.
As one of the speakers on Thursday rightly pointed out (she called him "Richard," leading one spectator to muse his celebrity had reached the mono-name apex, like Bono or Madonna) Florida offers an incredibly seductive package, an apparent fix-all toolkit that he steadfastly asserts can be applied with equanimity. That's the pitch, anyway, and it doesn't take a member of the "Creative Class" to see that assertion as willfully naiver. But Florida's just the pitchman. Our civic governments -- including Toronto, in fact as well as practice, with various cultural fireworks displays like Luminato and Nuit Blanche, that leave nothing behind -- don't have to buy what he's selling.
But they do. Desperation, it seems, breeds imprudence. We can only blame Florida for opportunism -- I don't know what he charges for his various civic-lifesaving gigs, but he's the only U of T faculty who lives in Rosedale, on the ravine -- but we need to blame our civic leaders as well, for grabbing the rope he threw them. Do they really think it's that easy?
Thursday night was an opening salvo in what I think will become an increasingly public battle against the thin model Florida's selling. This is goign to get interesting, and soon.
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By Steve Weddle
Recently, Brad Listi had Tom Perrotta on the Other People podcast. Perrotta talked about writing novels, as well as his new Nine Inches collection. Perrotta, best known for Election and The Abstinence Teacher, said that writing the middles of his novels is the best part of it.
Short stories, he said, just get going when you have to shut them down.
The first part of novels are essentially laying out the ground-work, setting up characters and plot.
The ending is when the author has to tie it all up into a neat -- or not so -- bow. Or tie it off, I suppose. But, you know, certainly with the tie, Ty.
I've written four books (one publishable) and I'm starting another.
I dig the research part of writing -- the part where you're reading and taking notes and learning so much. Billy Sunday? OK, let's read about him for a few days. Tenant farming in the 1930s? Why not search the internet for bookstores with old out-of-print books I have to have. Great.
And the first few thousand words, where you're just letting the characters talk and you're doing that scene-setting, that's good stuff. And maybe the ending, if you had one in mind, is a great spot to bring it all together.
But that spot that's 10-30% into the book, words 10k-30k if it's a 100k-word book, that's a rough spot, at least for me. And the 80-90% spot. I hate that spot, too.
The middle, as Perrotta said, is a good spot. Your characters are doing the stuff you want them to do, but they don't have to have everything line up perfectly, as they do in the last part. So often, if a character does a thing in the 80-90% part of your manuscript, that action has to mean something. It has to move forward and look behind. It's connective tissue with a purpose. You know, the connecting.
The first part is the setting-up. The middle part is the action, the story. The doing. And then the ending is, well, the ending. The End. Hooray.
The parts between, that's the hard slogging. That isn't the stained glass window or the beautiful oak door. That's the mortar, that's the part you have to get just right, so that everything settles in perfectly.
Maybe some writers hate starting books, but I can't believe that. Why would you keep writing? Why sit down to the desk in the first place? And everyone loves to finish writing, at least in that moment. Before a few days pass and you remember all the stuff you should have put in the book. The research you forgot about. How you'd meant to include a section about tenant farming, but forgot all about it once the sheriff shot that woman. Time to go back in and add a scene, I guess. Probably, of course, around page 40.
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WILLIAMSTOWN -- Tyler Picard had 25 points and Hank Barrett and Nathan Majumder combined for 30 to lead the Mount Greylock boys' basketball team to the win, 74-54 over Mount Everett.
The Mounties earned a second victory on the night when Lee topped St. Joseph's 79-73. The Crusaders' loss clinches the South Division title for Greylock.
Barrett scored 16 while Majumder had 14. Greylock led by just two at the break before exploding for 44 second-half points.
"[Picard] really played big for us tonight," said Mounties coach Bob Thistle. "He got on the glass and converted. He came up huge for us. ... I'm pleased to get to 15 wins."
Hoosac boys' basketball
CHESHIRE -- The Hurricanes led by seven points at halftime, but were outscored 21-10 in the second half as the Green Wave rallied for the win, 41-37.
"We did nothing in the second half," said Hoosac coach Bill Robinson.
A 3-point basket by Greenfield's Parker Hickey with 21 seconds left put the Green Wave up by a point and Vincent Funari clinched the win with a pair of free throws.
Matt Braman had a game-high 16 points for Hoosac (6-11). Connor Eckstrom led Greenfield with 11.
McCann boys' basketball
SPRINGFIELD -- The Hornets cut the deficit to one late in the fourth quarter, but couldn't come any closer losing 49-42 to Dean Tech.
"We played without six of our players tonight," coach Mike Nykorchuck said. "It was a good effort considering we were down so many players."
The win keeps Dean Tech unbeaten in the league. The loss eliminates the Hornets from the Western Mass. tournament.
Josh Superneau led the attack for McCann. He scored a game-high 21 points. Justin Cote contributed seven points in the loss but also recorded 12 rebounds for McCann.
"Defensivly, we didn't have many problems," Nykorchuck said. "They play a full-court man press and we had problems beating it."
Omar Espada led Dean with 13 points. Joseph Colon contributed 12 points.
Drury boys' basketball
DEERFIELD -- Frontier missed a shot at the buzzer and the Blue Devils clung to a 48-46 victory.
Isiah Pantoja returned to the lineup for the Blue Devils and scored 16 points to lead the attack. Nolan Bird contributed 11.
Paul Decker scored 19 points for Frontier including four 3-pointers. He did the majority of his damage in the second quarter and the Blue Devils adjusted at halftime.
"We were really able to shut him down after that," coach Jack Racette said. "This was a good win for us on the road."
The victory keeps the Blue Devils hopes for a tournament bid alive. They host Hoosac Valley on Friday.
McCann girls' basketball
SPRINGFIELD -- McCann now controls its own destiny as far as the Bi-County West is concerned.
After dispatching Sci Tech 47-23 on Tuesday night, a win Thursday against Southwick will clinch at least a share of the league title.
Mary Nguyen led the charge for the Hornets scoring a game-high 16 points. But the rest of the team also got into the action. Melissa Dobbert contributed eight points after being called up from the junior varsity team. Alex Wood also had eight points.
"This was one of the better games they played all year long," coach Mike Dowling said. "They were all hustling and playing hard. Everyone contributed tonight."
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WILLIAMSTOWN -- The Williams College men's basketball team did its part Tuesday night, but the Ephs found out the road to the NCAA Division III tournament will go through Amherst.
Nate Robertson was one of four Ephs to score in double figures as the 10th-ranked Ephs clinched the No. 2 seed in the NESCAC tournament by beating Trinity 68-47.
Robertson had a game-high 18 points, Taylor Epley had 16 and Michael Mayer had a double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds. Matt McCreary scored 10 points for the Ephs, a career-high for the junior guard from Joplin, Mo.
MCLA men's basketball
FITCHBURG -- If the MCLA men hope to get the top seed in the MASCAC tournament, the Trailblazers are going to need some help after losing to Fitchburg 65-57.
Fitchburg's Tom Henneberry came off the bench to score 20 points to hand MCLA (12-11, 8-2) a loss.
Henneberry made two free throws with 15 minutes left in the second half, giving the Falcons their first lead since midway in the first half. The home team never trailed again.
The MCLA loss, coupled with a 77-59 win by Westfield State, gives the Owls a one-game lead in the conference. If MCLA beats Bridgewater Saturday and Fitchburg (12-8, 4-5) beats Westfield, the Trailblazers would get the top seed.