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God loves everyone so much that He Himself became man. He allowed himself to be born in a stable like a normal baby and they called Him Jesus. He grew up and lived as a man for giving us an example of how a good life should be lived. Jesus then died on the cross in our place 2000 years ago. Even though it's so long ago, it is still up to date because He conquered death, arose and live today. He wants us to live with Him and gives us, every one, the opportunity to do so. When we choose to follow Him, we will experience relief from all that binds and redress from anything that would hold us back and put us down.
In the Gospel of John 3:16 expressed it this way: "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
This is good news for us, and for all people at all times. The meaning of life is to know God and to live in communion with Him. To not do so is to miss the target.
That God loves us, you and me, and want to have fellowship with us is the most important in life. We want to show our gratitude to Him by constantly having him in the center and along live in His love. If you have not yet chosen to follow Him, there is nothing to stop you doing that right now. (Do you feel hesitant and / or want to know more, you are more than welcome to contact someone in the congregation or come to any of our collections).


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I have been trying to find the reference for this problem/interpretation In specifically a corner kick but it really applies to all IDFKs. To restart play the ball must be KICKED AND MOVED. Does the action of stepping on the ball and then removing the foot, in solely a vertical manner meet the requirement of KICKED? The ball will move in a vertical manner, ever so slightly, but it will move. And what is the source of you answer please?
HI Steve the FIFA/IFAB LOTG are the ONLY credible source of information. 1. The authority of the refereeEach match is controlled by a referee who has full authority to enforcethe Laws of the Game in connection with the match.2. Decisions of the refereeDecisions will be made to the best of the referee`s ability according to the Lawsof the Game and the 'spirit of the game' and will be based on the opinion of thereferee who has the discretion to take appropriate action within the frameworkof the Laws of the Game.The decisions of the referee regarding facts connected with play, includingwhether or not a goal is scored and the result of the match, are final. Thedecisions of the referee, and all other match officials, must always be respected.• supervises and/or indicates the restart of play LOTG quotethe ball is in play when it is kicked and CLEARLY moves except for a free kick to the defending team in their penalty area where the ball is in play when it is kicked directly out of the penalty area.End Quote A referee must not be in doubt! The kick can indeed use any PART of the foot or ankle, including the sole but NOT as a continuous roll where the ball and foot are always in contact to move it from a to b, as a reposition, versus a foot shove so that the ball actually leaves the bottom of the foot then the ball continues in a forward or backward or sideways motion. Basically (ITOOTR) in the opinion of the referee, we want to see the ball move from HERE 1x ----> to --->2x THERE on its own power imparted from the kick The action of a step, squish, wobble or compression while not really technically correct MIGHT be sufficient if the team doing so and team they play against accept it as such & the referee accedes to their wishes and considers the restart valid by dropping his raised arm on an INDFK. But the corner kick is NOT an INDFK. it is a DFK and while offside is exempt the ball can enter the opposition goal directly. This trick corner play were one guy tries to pretend he is merely placing the ball into the corner arc then step or kind of roll taps it inside the arc , pretending to leave it for another team mate who comes in and then dribbles the already ball in play trying to fool the opposition must not have fooled the referee into also not knowing otherwise a 2nd touch violation. The problems are the ball is not always placed on the ground inside the 1 meter arc area using the hand, the ball is very often rolled in with a foot. Plus a kick does not have to be powerful or travel far not even a circumference. The ball does not even have to leave the arc to be in play while travelling here to there is what we look for, a mere few inches is sufficient as long as we can plainly see the ball has visibly moved not just rocked in place. Mind you a lot of referees are whistling in corners given the crap that goes on in the PA between the two teams jockeying for position is making them almost ceremonial in nature! Cheers
Hi Steve, I think you may be looking at an old copy of the Laws (or some non-IFAB source) as your question contains a small but significant omission. The law does not say the ball is in play merely when it is kicked and moves but ''when it is kicked and CLEARLY moves'' (emphasis mine). The full wording is given by ref Dawson above and is from page 114, Laws of the Game 2018-19 edition, pdf version. This part of the law wording was changed precisely to clarify that the ball must do something more than just wobble imperceptibly, in order to be in play. The exact meaning of 'clearly' can obviously be debated but for me it means that it should be clear to everyone - the match officials, players (including the opponents), people watching on TV, etc that the ball has indeed moved. Under this definition, a tap on the top of the ball that makes it 'move in a vertical manner, ever so slightly' does not meet the standard. Moving 'ever so slightly' means that it is not moving 'clearly'. As for the tap on the top of the ball counting as a kick, I would say that it does. The reference is page 172 (ibid.) and the wording is: ''The ball is kicked when a player makes contact with the foot and/or the ankle.'' Since the sole is part of the foot, contacting the ball with it would qualify as a kick - however (and this is the important part here) just kicking the ball is not enough to put it in play. In addition to being kicked, it has to clearly move and as mentioned above, tapping the top of the ball in such a way that it moves only very slightly and imperceptibly is not enough, based on the way I read the law.
Hi SteveAll our answers are sourced from the current Laws of the Game. At one time the Laws of the Game stated that the ball had to travel its circumference to be in play at a restart. That left little doubt about moving the ball. The issue then was how far the ball had to travel to satisfy a circumference. A circumference is roughly 28 inches or 70cm. IFAB decided in 1997 in a major rewrite of the Laws to remove that circumference requirement from the Laws and replace it with kicked and moves. That was to reflect the way the game was being restarted. In recent times debate has arisen about what is meant by moves as that had led to some game issues on restarts. The Law has now been updated to include CLEARLY moves.So a step on the ball may not clearly move the ball, it could just oscillates it. Stepping on the ball with a clear foot roll of the ball does meet clearly moves. Some players position the ball with the foot. That is not a kick. Now when I read about corner kicks and kicks and moves questions it always relates to ruse plays. The kicker taps the ball in a way that 'moves' the ball yet there is usually more in there such as verbal distraction of an opponent etc. Rarely do I ever have a problem with kicked and moves even at an IDFK once the players see the ball being *touched* and there is a visible move of the ball. The move is the signal that the ball is in play and players respond accordingly. On the ruse plays that I see on the web many of them are double touch infringements by the first kicker using his foot to position the ball and then a final touch. How is the referee to know if the first touch is a kick also? Or that the kick is so insignificant that no one has seen the kick other than two players.Back in 2015 NY Red Bulls against Chicago had a ruse corner kick. The first player moved the ball a number of times with his foot and as he moved away he sort of tapped the ball with a foot. The NY Bulls team mate came over in what looked like he was going to take the corner kick, paused for a while until the defender had moved away and then dribbled the ball away. That to me is not in the spirit of the Law. The referee allowed it although it did cause a furore. Have a look at this videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46pnEQXfIu8Clearly the ball was not touched on what was a DFK. Now IMO had the ball been even tapped / stood on the referee would not have had to deal with the furore that ensued.Notice the reaction of the two players in the defensive wall. Neither react to the lack of touch until the goal was scored. I suspect what happened was that the AR was looking for offside and the CR was busy looking for fouls in the penalty area and that coupled with Red 18 pursuing the scorer the referee assumed incorrectly that the ball was touched and moved.So kicked and clearly moves as part of any restart is when the ball is put into play. The referee should try to eliminate any doubt about that. If everyone on the FOP sees a clear step on the ball as a kick and clear movement of the ball then the referee does not have to second guess that. If on the other hand the action is somewhat uncertain, there is doubt about the action then the referee would be entitled to redo the restart or for that matter penalise for a double touch or disallow a goal scored directly from an IDFK. BTW there cannot be a double touch infringement with the ball played by the same player from outside the corner arc on a corner kick. It is a retake. The ball as to be inside the arc for the first kick to be considered a double touch infringement
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To kick off this week's Beirut blog series, we draw from our co-coordinator Ashish Kothari's reflections from ACKnowl-EJ network meetings in Lebanon, during which we discussed and visited many sites of environmental conflict and alternatives, including cases featured in the EJAtlas like the Bourj Hammoud garbage mountain, the Bisri Dam project, and postwar privatization at Dalieh de la Raouche. Below, three of our visits are briefly highlighted, honing in on coastal issues and conflict between Israel, Lebanon and Occupied Palestine.
Saving Beirut's public coast
Our first day of ACKnowl-EJ global project teams meeting in Beirut fortunately coincided with 'Heritage Watch Day', an event by local activists and artists at the 'Dalieh of Raouche', one of the last stretches of the coast here that still has elements of nature left, and remains accessible to the public. Everywhere else the Beirut coastline is privatised. Here too there has been an attempt at privatisation, being resisted by local groups, including many youth. The event included local tours re. the area's biological and cultural importance, talks about the threats to it, a local produce market, and a music concert. Local activists describe Dalieh as "the last of the coastal headlands, overlooking the emblematic Sakhret el-Raouche, the landmark natural rock formation that dominates Beirut's view from the sea. It includes a prosperous biodiversity, a rich array of geomorphological features, as well as archeological remains…. ". The event featured food from Souk el Tayeb. To learn more about the case of Dalieh, check out this booklet put together by The Civil Campaign to Protect The Dalieh of Raouche, which offers a very thorough overview of the political, social, cultural and economic forces at play in the attempted privatization of the coast.
Protecting Lebanon's last turtle nesting beach
Near the end of our trip, we ventured down south to a different part of the coast, where we met Mona Khalil, who has fought for years (along with other groups in Lebanon) to protect the last remaining public access and turtle nesting beach of significance in the country, at El Mansouri village near Sour. Facing insults, shooting in her house's direction, killing of her cat, and many other kinds of threats, she has endured. The 1.5 km stretch of beach has about 50 nests on average every year, and Mona along with young Rami Khashab (from El Mansouri, now training to be a marine biologist) and other associates patrol it every day during nesting season, to see if any of the nests may be in vulnerable positions. If so, they dig up the eggs and relocate them to safer places on the beach. They also place iron grills on top; post-2006 attack by Israel in the area, apparently a lot of foxes fled from inland towards the coast, and have learnt how to dig up and eat the turtle eggs! (The invasions and occupation by Israel are incidentally a v. common refrain here, with Lebanese and other residents obviously having been scarred by them). Mona also runs a homestay-like arrangement, the Orange House.
Israeli horrors faced by Lebanese (and Palestine)
Visiting the Khiam prison, where Israelis detained Lebanese people during their occupation of southern Lebanon in the 1990s, was a sobering experience. Abu Ali, a detainee, gave us what he called a 'toned down' version of the tortures that he and fellow detainees were put through, including electrocution, ice/cold water treatment in winter, being dragged on knees across rough roads while being beaten by soldiers, having women relatives stripped and paraded naked in front of others, and much more. I was stunned into silence. About 5000 people, only about 500 of them Lebanese liberation fighters and the rest just civilians or relatives of the fighters picked up and 'treated' like this to make an example of what could happen if Israeli occupation was challenged. In 2000 Lebanese civilians and Hezbollah finally got the prison liberated. I'd heard of some of this, but visiting a place where it has happened and meeting one of the persons tortured, is hair-raising, numbing, and enraging all at the same time. Also travelled along the border between Lebanon and occupied Palestine, which some people call Israel, looking down at the fertile valley where Palestinians were evicted to make way for Israelis to settle. Heard several stories of how all this happened, which too were horrifying. Zeina Fakhredin of the Association for the Protection of Nature, Jordan, told us about how the Israelis keep destroying old olive and other native trees, that Palestinians value, and replanting with fast-growing species; as a response her Association has a Million Tree planting campaign that puts back native trees, and enables farmers to claim/reclaim lands that Israelis are trying to take away from them. Rania Masri of Asfari Institute and Karim Eid Sabbath, a researcher, told us about various other aspects of the Israeli occupation.
For more stories like these, keep an eye on the EJAtlas and get ready for the soon-to-be-launched Arab Regional Platform!
Here on the ACKnowl-EJ blog, we'll continue this week with reflections from our meetings in Beirut. Up next: what's it like to form part of a global network of scholar-activists working on transformative knowledge production? Members of our two sister Transformative Knowledge Networks, PATHWAYS and T-Learning, reflect on similarities and differences in our approaches after our recent convergence in Beirut.


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Bud Wilkins – Guitar
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Bud Wilkins is one of our talented Guitar Teachers at Chasing Sound Music School. Bud covers a range of styles and techniques through this teaching as well as performing around Melbourne's Funk and Soul scene.
Bud personalises his lessons for each student and has a positive and engaging approach to teaching guitar. Students of all ages further their skills in a relaxed and friendly environment with a teacher who understands them as musicians.
His adult learners relive tunes from their youth, while students cover VCE content or their own personal music exploration. Beginners are guided through the refinement of fundamental skills and techniques on guitar.
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We all know about the growing obesity and diabetes problem plaguing our kids these days, and it's great that solutions are becoming more prevalent. But we can't treat these issues the way we do a cold. That is to say, we can't just give kids healthy food and expect them to change how they eat. The solution must be holistic, incorporating food education that promotes awareness and connection to what we put into our bodies. Essentially, our kids need Slow Food 101.
Dr. Susan Rubin, a Slow Food chapter leader and also a consultant to Slow Food USA, focuses on changing our children's relationship with food.
"My mission is to reconnect people to food and where it comes from," she says. "I think we're extremely disconnected. It really has to do with raising the food IQ. For me it's no longer totally about nutrition; it's actually about food. I jokingly say it's about the 'F word.' And that, in fact, is what I do almost every day at some level.
"The main problem of children's health is easy," Dr. Rubin points out. "Our kids and grown-ups are eating too much packaged processed food that's made far away. One of the things I discuss a lot in my talks is that obesity is very visible and very measurable, but it's a symptom of a bigger problem. When treating obesity as if obesity is the only problem, we make mistakes such as Nabisco 100-calorie snack packs. That is not the answer. We need to start eating real food, and that is solved by getting kids to grow food in schools and having a really integrated curriculum where food matters."
Dr. Rubin has discovered, as have numerous other school food pioneers, that involvement is the key to getting kids eating healthily. "I'd like to see a garden in every school—and not necessarily to supply the cafeteria, but as a really good teaching tool," she says. "Just putting healthier food in the cafeteria is not a sustainable solution to this problem. By kids growing food, they fall in love with vegetables. A piece of ownership happens. Magic happens.
"There are so many ways to tie curriculum into that garden as well. There's math—you can calculate yields and area and all sorts of stuff; there are various kinds of science, plenty of social studies or history, depending on what crop you're growing, and there's clearly art."
Dr. Rubin also sees teaching cooking as a vital piece of the education. "I love Jamie Oliver's idea that in order to graduate high school, you should be able to cook ten different items," she says. "I meet so many college kids that barely know how to boil water. Knowing how to cook is a life skill that will save them thousands of dollars. I think it's really important that kids know how to feed themselves."
Stir the Pot
One element that has drawn attention to Dr. Rubin's activities is her activism for school lunches—conducted with a bit of humor but designed to bring home a point.
"I've done many different stunts over the years, but one of the things I did early on was because of the darned vending machines," she recalls. "I went one morning to my daughter's middle school and got in line at seven in the morning. I used ten dollars' worth of quarters and bought one of each item in that vending machine—all sorts of candy and silly junk. I brought the whole collection to the principal and dumped it on his desk—and he was kind of shocked! He didn't know that was there. I thereafter used those samples in a lot of talks I did.
"I think making trouble—stirring the pot—is a good thing," Dr. Rubin continues. "I really encourage people to go and have lunch in the cafeteria and to bring their cell-phone cameras and photo-document it; because a menu is kind of meaningless—you really need to see, smell and taste the food."
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She cites another example of this type of activism. "There's an anonymous teacher who spent a year eating school lunch, photographing it, and blogging about it in her school district out in Illinois," Dr. Rubin relates. "Her name on Twitter is Mrs. Q, and her blog is called Fed Up with School Lunch. This is a model that is very powerful. Let's use social media; let's use these tools to build this movement. It really does make a difference to go in, take those photographs, and put them on the web or bring them to your school board meeting. A picture tells a thousand words.
"We've missed the boat at home because everybody was busy, and we've gotten suckered into this cult of convenience and eating on the run and eating processed packaged foods. But by reconnecting and growing more food, we will start to heal that."
Slow Food Down in Your Family
Here are some ideas to bring the values of slow food into your home so that your children can have a deeper understanding and appreciation of food.
- Let your kids pick the menu for dinner one night a week. Give them all the control but with the following caveats: it has to be made from scratch—so, nothing frozen, jarred, canned, etc. Then have them cook it with as little grown-up help as possible.
- Give the kids cookbooks as gifts—not kids cookbooks but adult cookbooks—so they can learn about real cooking skill with a wide variety of ingredients.
- Let them pick out one vegetable at the store or farmers' market that they have to prepare.
- Allow kids to choose and bag produce at the grocery store or farmers' market. Explain what to look for in terms of ripeness and freshness and then let them choose.
- Coordinate a progressive dinner with other neighborhood families, where the kids coordinate a menu and prepare all the food. Example: Italian night with appetizers at one house, main course at the next, dessert at the last.
- Allow younger children to create their own baked goods: provide them with baking mix (flour with appropriate portions of baking soda and powder) and 10 or so edible ingredients, such as honey, eggs, milk, fresh berries, nuts, butter and so on. Help them get the mixture into the appropriate baking pan and into the oven.


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Celebrating 35 Years
Our History
More than 35 years ago, Dr. Milton J. Huber, a professor of public affairs at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, suggested to Milwaukee Rotarians Price Davis and Arthur Riemer, that the Rotary Club of Milwaukee adopt a food bank project that would help get excess food to people facing hunger.
The notion was simple: Instead of plowing under excess crops or discarding product due to slight defects in packaging or weight, we could help reduce food waste by connecting food resources to those facing hunger.
Davis and Riemer were all in. Armed with research from Huber, they soon gained the support of other Rotarians. The group worked for two years, securing funding and a facility and forming the first board of directors, which Davis chaired. On Aug. 1, 1982, America's Second Harvest of Wisconsin, now known as Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin, opened its doors in a small warehouse on the south side of Milwaukee. Our first donation was 600 pounds of apples we received from a local grower.
The food bank soon outgrew its space and the City of Milwaukee sold this current piece of property to the organization for $1. We expanded again in 1987, thanks to the generosity of Joe and Jenifer Tate.
We've come a long way since those early days. Today, Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin is the leading hunger relief organization in the state, operating food banks in Milwaukee and the Fox Valley.
Together, with a network of about 600 member organizations, we provide food to nearly 400,000 people each year.
Our mission has also expanded. Improving access to healthy and nutritious food for those facing hunger remains the foundation of our work. Truly solving hunger, though, requires us to dig deeper. It takes all of us working together as a community to define and solve the root causes of hunger – and we're doing just that.
We are proud members of Feeding America, a national network of more than 200 food banks across the country, and the largest domestic hunger-relief agency here in the United States.
Our Mission & Vision
Our MISSION: To Solve Hunger
Our VISION: A hunger-free Wisconsin
Our Core Values
Guiding Principles
We believe …
… together we can solve hunger.
… access to nutritious food is a right for all.
… all people deserve to be treated with dignity and compassion.
… collaboration with partners throughout our community leads to innovative solutions.
… our people are our most valuable asset.
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Take advantage of all that Lipscomb has to offer and master the English language at the college level.
At Lipscomb, we provide all students with the assistance needed to excel and become fully immersed in our campus life. For some students, that means being supported and encouraged in developing their English language skills at the university level.
The mission of Lipscomb's English for Academic Purposes (EAP) program is to equip students with the language skills necessary to be successful in higher education and academic settings through full participation in English courses and campus life. By developing a stronger command of the English language, you will be more equipped to engage in academic conversations, take class notes, write papers, research and engage in general communication. Invest in your development in order to succeed in college and beyond.
Our English classes happen right on our main campus, just minutes from the heart of Nashville, Tennessee. Often called Music City, USA, the city has a population near 2 million and is growing rapidly. Learn more about Nashville.
Our Programs
University coursework demands a high level of English. This involves developing a strong command of the English language not only for general communication, but for academic conversations, taking notes in class, writing papers, and researching projects. The English for Academic Purposes program provides students an opportunity to learn and improve the academic language necessary in higher education. Learn more about our program, its requirements, and how it will best prepare you for your academic future at Lipscomb University.
Lipscomb's EAP program seeks to ensure Lipscomb University is an environment where meaningful cultural dialogue can take place in safe, respectful, equitable and honest ways while transforming the lives of all students. The EAP program is offered for full-time and part-time students.
Full-Time Classes
If you are an international student whose first language is not English, Lipscomb's full-time intensive English program will prepare you with the skills needed to excel in rigorous academics and participate in our vibrant campus life. Through our EAP program, you will have the opportunity to engage in local, curricular activities and take a set amount of intermediate to advanced level English courses to sharpen and improve your skills for your undergraduate studies and life after graduation.
Part-Time Classes
Students who are already living and working in the U.S., or who have a valid visa, may opt to take Lipscomb's EAP courses on a part-time basis. This is also available for current Lipscomb students whose first language is not English. Take daytime or evening courses throughout the week to refine your language skills in order to ultimately achieve your academic and professional goals. Our courses come in a variety of levels to meet your specific and unique needs.
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Students who participate in EAP on a full-time basis are in a non-degree, certificate program. Upon completion of the full-time program requirements, the university will issue a Certificate in English for Academic Purposes.
Requirements for the certificate program include: current and valid passport, visa or I-20; adherence to Lipscomb's academic policies; maintenance of a grade of "C" or better in all courses; full-time participation for one semester and up to four semesters; achievement of TOEFL or IELTS score that meets current admission requirements; and submission of Intent to Complete form.
English Experience Camp
Come explore our university campus in the heart of Music City, Nashville! Lipscomb's English Experience Camp is a unique opportunity open to international students between the ages of 12 and 18 who have an intermediate level of English. You will get to participate in a variety of fun activities around the city, like museum visits, restaurant outings, stops at cultural and historical sites and more, and take English lessons on our university campus. Your visit will include a stay at the Bison Inn located on Lipscomb's campus, English lessons with American teachers, an official English test and certificate of completion, food as well as transportation into and around town.About English Experience Camp


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Museum of Islamic Science & Technology History
A globe invites you inside for a visit at the entrance to the building, constructed on the basis of one of the most meaningful studies of the Arab-Islamic world. The world map was prepared on the basis of a global design commissioned by the order of Caliph al-Mamun (caliphate: 198-218 H. / 813-833 A.D.) and depicts the geography of the world recognized at his time with surprising accuracy. The discovery of Caliph Mamun's map, the scientific studies conducted on it, the exhibition of the globe in the museum, as well as over 500 other works, are the result of the tireless research of Professor Fuat Sezgin, who founded the Institute for the History of Arab-Islamic Sciences as part of the Goethe University in Frankfurt in 1982.
Years of intensive scientific and historical studies on the Arab-Islamic manuscripts have laid the groundwork for the works exhibited in this museum, providing this unique scientific journey for the visitor today. These works, reflecting the scientific and technical developments of the period between the 9th to 17th centuries, have been meticulously prepared faithful to their details. First of all, the museum presents a worldwide novelty by offering the opportunity to follow the evolution of the history of science in different disciplines in a comprehensive manner. Works displayed with a systematic arrangement in the fields of astronomy, geography, navigation, time measurement, geometry, optics, medicine, chemistry, mineralogy, physics, technical, architectural and warfare, show that the great inventions and discoveries of the Arab-Islamic sciences – Arabic was the universal language of science in that period- found their way to Europe by a variety of ways and they were adopted there.
The history of science is presented to the visitor without interrupting its continuity; the fact that the innovations in the Arab-Islamic world were adopted by Europe becomes apparent when models representing both cultures are displayed side by side.
The distinguished historical scientific works of Islamic culture are seen and as well as explained in detail in several languages on the plaques. The Museum of Islamic Science and Technology does not present just some cursory information about the exhibited work to the visitors, following the trend of European museums; on the contrary, the visitor is invited to take the time to understand in depth this unique exhibition. The museum encourages the visitor to better know the work of Prof. Fuat Sezgi and to better understand the impressive world of Islamic science and technical history. His work was published in five volumes and in addition to German and French printings, the Turkish version has been available since 2007.


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New Diplomates 2019
The ECVP Council and Examination Committee are delighted to announce the following new ECVP diplomates, who have been successful in the recent ECVP qualifying examination held in Ghent, Belgium in February 2019. The formal award of their diplomas will take place at the ESVP/ECVP Autumn meeting. Congratulations and welcome to our new colleagues!
Javier ASIN
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Tutorial Services at UNC
Tutorial Services (TS) provides free peer-led tutoring services and academic skills sessions to UNC students enrolled in undergraduate-level courses.
Tutorial Services is a centralized program with additional satellite and night tutoring options. Certified through the College Reading and Learning Association Tutorial Services serves students and the larger campus community by promoting student academic achievement, retention and persistence through degree completion.
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Stop by Tutorial Services in Michener L149 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. to schedule your appointment and make tutoring a part of your academic plan for success.
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Traditional Media Advertising Continues to Fall
Research company eMarketer has predicted that ad spending in traditional
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The firm's report estimates that spending increased by
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TV advertising is the exception to the traditional media
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Integration is a pivotal concept in migration studies. When migration researchers want to describe how immigrants find their way in the new country, the term they use is integration. Yet, is 'integration' the term we should use? Since its inception the concept has been debated, but currently the very assumptions that the concept of integration rests on are being questioned. The concept aims to be descriptive, but is in fact normative, so claim some of its critics. It would suggest that immigrants' integration requires that they identify with the country of settlement, socialize with the majority population, preferably through intermarriage, and take over the norms and values of the majority population. The host population is thus the norm to which immigrants should aspire. In the lead essay of this commentary series Willem Schinkel gives voice to this critique and many others. Is it that bad? Yes, worse even, so claims discussant Adrian Favell while Leila Hadj Abdou and Fran Meissner believe we should no throw away the baby with the bathwater and put forward suggestions for critical post-integration research, and Rinus Penninx, and Lea Klarenbeek, critiquing the critique, explain why there is no reason to think that we should discard of the concept. We need integration.
Who needs integration? Debating a central, yet increasingly contested concept in migration studies - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-019-0123-9
Integration is a pivotal concept in migration studies. Yet, over time critiques have been formulated that question the very assumptions that the concept of integration rests on. Willem Schinkel, one of the major criticasters explains what is wrong with the concept. Is it that bad? ...
Sawitri Saharso
Main article in this comment series:
Against 'immigration integration': for an end to neocolonial knowledge production - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-018-0095-1
This paper, written on invitation by the editors of Comparative Migration Studies, is intended as a provocation piece for invited commentators, and more broadly for those working with, or concerned about, the ...
Willem Schinkel
1. Commentary
Integration: twelve propositions after Schinkel - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-019-0125-7
By way of a commentary on Willem Schinkel's 'Against "immigrant integration": For an end to neocolonial knowledge production' in this volume, I propose twelve propositions in order to rethink the academic use of the concept "integration" in contemporary migration studies.
Adrian Favell
2. Commentary
Immigrant integration: the governance of ethno-cultural differences - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-019-0124-8
This commentary is a reply to the article 'Against immigrant integration' by Willem Schinkel. It argues that rather than abandoning immigrant integration as a field of research, we have to continue to strengthen critical approaches. Immigrant integration has to be understood and analyzed as a governance technique...
Leila Hadj Abdou
3. Commentary
Of straw figures and multi-stakeholder monitoring – a response to Willem Schinkel - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-019-0121-y
This article is a response to Willem Schinkel's provocation piece. While mostly agreeing with Schinkel, my response questions Schinkel's commitment to losing immigrant integration as an object of analysis. I point to the integrationist logic with which Schinkel assaults superdiversity, to more broadly question how prescriptive a social science that is 'against immigrant integration' should be.
Fran Meissner
4. Commentary
Relational integration: a response to Willem Schinkel - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-019-0126-6
In this essay, I respond to Schinkel's recent statement that 'any claim and practice that concerns 'integration' should be the object of research, rather than the project of research' (2018, p. 8). Although I agree with Schinkel that there are problematic practices of integration research, I do not agree that integration cannot be used as an analytical concept ...
Lea M. Klarenbeek
5. Commentary
Problems of and solutions for the study of immigrant integration - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-019-0122-x
In his contribution, Willem Schinkel makes critical observations on the concept of immigrant integration and its use in Europe, specifically in the Netherlands. Three of these are agreeable: there is a lot of fuzziness around the concept...
Rinus Penninx
Migration studies: an imposition - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-019-0136-4 .
Willem Schinkel
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New scratch cards websites launched by NeoGames
NeoGames, global leaders of online scratch cards, have reported the launch of two new online scratch card websites for Nordic Entertainment Ltd. Nordic Entertainment are provided with enhanced online scratch card offerings by NeoGames, for the two newly created and completely localized brands norgesloddet.com for the Norwegian market and svenskalotter.com for the Swedish local market.
This partnership combines NeoGames' successful experience as the leaders of the online scratch cards segment with Nordic Entertainment marketing expertise and understanding of the local markets. Both companies have the common vision to turn these online operations into local market leaders in the Nordic market.
CFO at NeoGames, Michael Labrecque, commented: "This partnership is a major milestone for NeoGames, as it will extend the venture of our online scratch cards in to the Nordic market. Working with Nordic Entertainment fulfills our strategy of finding local partners that understand the region in the best possible way and can harness our appealing games offering and expertise into significant success".
CEO Nordic Entertainment, Thomas Kalita, commented: NeoGames' white label solution was an easy choice for Nordic Entertainment and its partner (Betsson). NeoGames has not only excellent scratch card products and a really good technical solution that enhance the gaming environment, but are also very good at handling customer retention and taking care of everything important to make a white label solution work really well".


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You have been named the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of a two year old company, CUNY Analytics. Financials have been prepared by a bookkeeper. As CFO, you responsible for the preparation of accurate financials, analysis and review of the financials before they are released and communication of the results of your company to banks, investors, creditors and the government, as necessary.
Please complete the following:
a. What are the four major financial statements and, in depth, discuss their purpose.
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I would advise them to look at the Earnings Per Share and all the other Profitability Ratios listed below. Earnings per share (EPS) measures the net income earned on each share of common stock.
Also, three main factors must be considered.
Firstly, the earnings growth because it examines the current reported earnings, which should exceed the previous reported earnings. The higher the growth, the better. This shows the company's historic ability to grow earnings.
Secondly, the earnings stability must be considered because it is a measure of how consistent those earnings have been in a company's history.
Thirdly, the quality of earnings must be considered in the evaluation of a company's status. A company that has a high quality of earnings provides full and transparent information that will not confuse or mislead users of the financial statements.
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"A genuinely good heart is a heart that is open and alight with understanding. It listens to the sorrows of the world. Our society is wrong to think that happiness depends on fulfilling one's own wants and desires. That is why our society is so miserable..." (Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, Into the Heart of Life, Snow Lion: 2011, Chapter 9 'Practicing the good heart')
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Epiphany: Scrambling For the Real Thing
The word Epiphany, I suspect may conjure up in many minds something like an exotic pastry! It comes from epi + phaino = "to shine out; become manifest". It is one of the principal feasts celebrated in the Church. The liturgical readings offered for reflection include Isaiah 60:1-6, Ephesians 3:1-12, and Matthew 2:1-12.
Isaiah's passage encourages wretched returnees from exile to Jerusalem with news that their light has come. The poet speaks as if to bid someone slumped over in dejection and without hope or purpose to "Arise, shine!" Isaiah insists that Yahweh's saving light and glory comes to all the nations and peoples, and they to the light. Things are beginning to change for them. Their hearts will thrill and rejoice because of the abundance about to pour forth on them. References to Midian, Ephah, and Sheba imply that all of Abraham's descendants are included in the promise fulfilled. They, just as the nations, share in the saving light of Yahweh's glory.
Paul carries the theme forward by speaking of the mystery "made known" and "revealed". What God makes known is that God's light of salvation has come for all: Jews and Gentiles aren't to discriminate, whether in society or in the Church. That is a truth revealed by the Holy Spirit "to...holy apostles and prophets" and holds true whether or not the Ephesians or any others are tempted to think otherwise. In this life we determine who our heirs will be, but in the inheriting of the Good News and all that that implies, God alone chooses. The basic Gospel truth of the oneness of all, Jew and Gentile, is, however, by no means automatic. You and I as the Church must not only preach it, but live as though we believe it. That means finding ways, as individuals and as communities of faith, to model the Light who is Christ in our lives.
Matthew expresses this theme in the form of story theology. God, in Jesus, has come to save all. Matthew's account, generally and in this particular story, presents Jesus as one who fulfills prophecy, as well as one who upsets expectations. An heir of Abraham, Jesus is a second Moses and a second David. Like Moses, he comes out of Egypt; like David, he's born in Bethlehem. But Jesus isn't merely the One to be "born king of the Jews". He's emphatically a child. Centuries before, Isaiah had proclaimed "...a little child shall lead them." Those Jews who had an exclusively kingly, "adult" image of the Messiah didn't seem to take this very seriously. After all, small children are unlikely messiahs.Yet it's this Child of Bethlehem, with several non-Jewish forbears in his genealogy, who is recognized and honored as the Messiah by foreigners, rather than by the Jewish leaders. Matthew prepares us in the Epiphany story for the two principal reactions of people to Jesus later on: homage or rejection.
Matthew speaks of strangers, "Magi", "sages", from the East. The biblical text, by the way, doesn't say that they were kings, nor that they were all male, nor that there were only three, nor that one was black, nor did Matthew know their names. Perhaps Matthew was thinking of Babylonian astrologers who studied the stars. About all their science would have told them is that a king had been born in Israel. The Scriptures would shed light on where.
In speaking of the "star", Matthew may have been recalling the coming together around 7 B.C.E. of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, in the constellation Pisces, thus causing a bright light: an occurrence happening every 794 years. It is said that the ancients thought of Jupiter as the royal star, belonging to the ruler of gods and men; Saturn was viewed as the star of Israel. Or, perhaps, Matthew was thinking of a nova, a short-lived but brilliant light caused by an explosion of a white dwarf star. Such a nova seems to have appeared in the eastern sky around 5 B.C.E., according to Chinese records.
At any rate, the sages' message of Jesus' coming upset not only Herod, the prince of duplicity and evil, but all of Jerusalem. Jesus' epiphany was and is and should be deeply disturbing. Cities, then as now, are seen as centers of power. Matthew's story seems to imply that age-old Jerusalem, the "city of peace", will never be the same. God's saving purpose is now unequivocally extended beyond the Holy City, beyond the people it represents, to the whole world, to all people. The King of the Jews, as Son of God, is Savior of all.
Over the past few weeks many of us have once again awaited and celebrated Jesus' coming in the Advent/Christmas/Epiphany seasons and feasts. But how shall you and I receive the coming of the Saving Light into our lives every day of this New Year 2010, and, indeed, the Holy One's coming at the fulfillment of all things?
The late Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Saginaw, MI, Kenneth Untener, who died in 2004 at age 66, once related a story about his family who lived on Belle Isle island in the Detroit River. On Saturdays his parents would often go to the farmers' market in downtown Detroit to buy food. Before leaving they'd give the children their Saturday chores, expecting the children to have them done upon their return. As soon as their parents left, the youngsters would proceed to have a great time playing baseball or whatever instead. One of the group was posted on the shore with a pair of binoculars as a lookout for the parents. The lookout's job was to watch the distant bridge to spot the family. They knew it took about ten minutes to go from the bridge to the house. As soon as the lookout signaled, the children swung into action and worked as hard as they could during the remaining time. Of course, they were never finished when their folks arrived, but they made a good show of making it look as though their labors had taken several hours!
That's one way to get ready for an arrival. You scramble to get things ready when you find out that it's about time. But that's not a very wise way to prepare for the coming of the Saving Light, Jesus the Christ.
How do you and I prepare for the Lord's coming? The disciples thought that the best way to do that was to know exactly when it would happen. "Tell us," they begged Jesus, "when will all this occur? What will be the sign of your coming and end of the world?" Jesus tells them that no one but God knows exactly on what day or at what hour. There aren't any binoculars with which to spot it from a distance, despite repeated false claims by fundamentalists, even still in the 21st century, to the contrary.
Jesus didn't just leave it at that with the disciples. He taught them how to make ready: by simply making sure every single day that their priorities were straight, that others: the poor, the suffering, the homeless, etc., were the center of their concern. And so should we, remembering that poverty, suffering, and loneliness can take many different forms.
The advice which Jesus gave the disciples wasn't just casual talk. It was the grand summation of all his teaching, as Matthew expressed it in his account: "When the Son of Man comes in his glory...all the nations will be assembled before him." [Mt 25:31-32] We know the rest. The Son of Man tells those gathered that the whole thing is based on how they treated him in the person of the hungry one, the thirsty one, the one who was a stranger, the naked one, the person who was sick, the one in prison. It wasn't a parable or an allegory. It was the real thing, the bottom line. If you didn't serve these folks, then you didn't serve Jesus, because he is in them.
Scholars have long pointed to the text: "The one who hears you hears me..." as showing how Jesus identified himself with the Church's leadership. The stunning truth is that Jesus principally identifies himself with the poor and suffering: "As often as you did it for one of them, you did it for me." Such works aren't reckoned as if they were done to him: they were, in fact, done to him. Imagine: Jesus identifies with the poor and suffering, the people, just as much as with his apostles, the Church's overseers!
Perhaps the best way in which you and I today can live up to our calling and prepare for the Light's coming into our daily lives is by responding, day in and day out, to Jesus' coming in others, in those who need us. How seriously do you and I take this? When the Saving Light, the glory of God, comes will he find this attitude in us? Undoubtedly, many of us do help people whom we find in obvious need. But how front-and-center, really, is this in our awareness? Is it the continual "main event"? Or is it only something which we scramble and struggle to do after we take care of other business?
So, we come back to the original question: how do you and I receive the coming of the Saving Light into our lives each day of 2010? Not, I think, by hustling to make only periodic token efforts for others, among all the other things we're doing. but rather by intentionally training ourselves to recognize Jesus' special presence in them: just as truly as we recognize his special presence in the pregnant, poor young girl named Mary. Just as the Eastern sages recognized the special presence of a poor newly-born child in a manger in Bethlehem.
If we truly believe that the Gospel is "Good News", what other way could there be to receive him?
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Datara often hear that Automation projects are the most challenging and demanding projects that our customer organisations undertake, and often times the benefits realised were not favourable. Datara believe that by adopting the right set of guiding principals many of the pitfalls of Automation can be avoided. And the benefits of successful automation deployments speak for themselves.
Take for instance a simple scenario of a typical enterprise application. Assume there are as many as 25,000 functional tests guarding the organisation from regression. Assuming a human can execute 50 tests per hour, running them all by hand would take 500 hours. And assuming testers earn $50/hour, that's a cost of $25,000 each test run!
Now let's assume that engineers can automate tests at a rate of 5 per hour and are paid $75/hour. All 25,000 tests can be automated in 5000 hours at a cost of $375,000. Sounds like a lot of coin, right? But this investment pays for itself after just 15 executions of the test suite - or, less than a week.
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3 Facts You Should Know About Working With A Mortgage Broker
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Buying a house is going to be one of the biggest financial moves you ever make, which means this is a process that should involve some professional guidance. Many homeowners used to go out and apply for a mortgage loan at a bank on their own without help from anyone. However, because there are so many mortgage options out there in the modern world for most buyers, it can help to bring in a broker who can help you navigate and find the best home loan option. Take a look at some of the facts you should know about working with a mortgage broker when buying a home.
Mortgage brokers do charge a fee, but it is worth it.
If you have ever tried to get a loan for anything, you already know how time-consuming that process can be. You have to fill out applications, gather documentation, and talk to different lenders. When it comes to getting a mortgage loan, one of the largest loans you will ever get, this process becomes even more time-consuming. Even though you will have to pay a mortgage broker to help you, it is well worth the cost. The typical commission for a mortgage broker is one to two percent of the loan amount.
The fee for your mortgage broker can be figured into the loan.
You can choose to pay a mortgage broker outright for their services if you choose, but you can also usually have the fee lumped in with the loan itself when you find a lender. The advantage to this is you do not have to come up with money out of pocket at a time when you will be paying closing costs and coming up with down payment funds. The downfall to this is you will actually be paying interest on what is loaned to cover mortgage broker fees.
Having a mortgage broker can mean a better mortgage deal.
Mortgage brokers have more time to shop around, negotiate terms, and look for the best mortgage terms. Therefore, you are more likely to get the mortgage terms you want if you do have a mortgage broker helping you through the process. You may be able to get perks like lower payments because of longer repayment terms or maybe even a lower interest rate because the broker is not shy about working with lenders to make sure you get the fairest deal.
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Impact Wrestling TV tapings in Orlando this week
Anthem will be holding Impact Wrestling TV tapings this week in Orlando at Universal Studios starting this Wednesday night (January 10).
The tapings will run through January 15 with a local start time of 6:00 p.m. ET (doors opening at 5:30 p.m.). The company is offering VIP passes for the tapings as well.
This will be the first Impact tapings under the new Scott D'Amore and Don Callas executive team. The tapings are scheduled to get them through the month of April on Pop TV.
Date revealed for Lockdown PPV
Speaking of April, PWInsider.com reports that Impact Wrestling will be holding the Lockdown PPV on April 22 this year. Impact has yet to confirm the date or location.
This marks the first time in three years that the company will go back to adding Lockdown as part of the PPV lineup. The company had only been presenting Slammiversary and Bound for Glory as PPV events in 2015, 2016 and 2017.


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This is for treatng insect bites, as well as bee stings. You can also use this mixture to treat diaper rash. Mix
cornstarch with water and make a paste. Apply the paste over the bite or rash. This will draw out the "poisons" of most insect
bites. If you think the bite may be from a poisonous variety, you should seek medical attention.
While there are many ways to deter mosquitoes from biting you, some are more toxic than others. The following suggestions
give you easy ways to repel these pests:
Use Bounce Fabric Softener Sheets--just wipe on and go. This is great for babies.
Supplement with one vitamin B-1 tablet a day from April through October. Add 100 mg of B-1 to a B-100 Complex daily during
the mosquito season.
Don't eat bananas during mosquito season--mosquitoes love bananas! There is something about how your body processes the
banana oil that attracts these female sugar-loving insects.
One of the best natural insect repellents is Vick's Vaporub®.
Planting marigolds around your yard works great as a bug repellent because the flowers give off a fragrance bugs do not
like. This is a great way to ward off mosquitoes without using chemical insecticides.
Campers agree that the very best mosquito repellant is Avon Skin-So-Soft® bath oil mixed half and half with rubbing alcohol.
One of the best natural insect repellants we use in Texas is made from the clear liquid vanilla that is sold in Mexico.
It is reported to work great for mosquitoes and ticks, and spreading a little vanilla mixed with olive oil on your skin smells
Commercial mosquito dunks will kill mosquito larvae before they become mosquitoes. There are fairly environmentally sound
biological mosquito controls containing no toxic chemicals. Each dunk affectively treats up to 100 square feet of surface
water regardless of depth for about 30 days. Dunks may be broken into smaller pieces to treat small areas. Unused and dried
out dunks retain their potency indefinitely, so you can store extras for the long summer season. Put them in fountains, ponds,
rain gutters, flowerpot trays, and anywhere water may pool.
Citronella soap is a product that started in the Bahamas and Belize. The soaps are made with olive oil for moisture and
great lather, Aloe Vera to soothe the skin, and citronella oil to repel mosquitoes. For high intensity protection you can
burn citronella incense. Mosquitoes avoid citronella and they hate the smoke.
Citronella essential oil (Java Citronella) is considered to be the highest quality citronella on the market. The best
quality is steam distilled from the grass giving it a fresh, sweet woody aroma. It blends well with geranium, cedar wood and
other citrus oils. It is 100 percent pure essential oil--no additives, no dilutants, no adulteration, just safe mosquito repellent.
Electronic repellents utilize one to two sound frequencies to simulate dragonflies and other male mosquitoes, creating
a competitive environment for the blood-sucking female. These devices come with Velcro bands for wearing on your wrist or
ankle, or on your pocket or belt. This makes for a versatile, compact unit that you can take anywhere for protection. Some
units even have a built-in red flashlight for nighttime use.
When all else fails--get a frog!
Most commercial insect repellants contain a chemical known as DEET and should be used with caution, if at all. Many studies
have found DEET to have harmful effects. One study found that DEET causes diffuse brain cell death and behavioral changes
in rats, and researchers suggest that humans may experience memory loss, headache, weakness, fatigue, muscle and joint pain,
tremors and shortness of breath with heavy exposure to DEET and other insecticides.
Further, in combination with other chemicals or medications the chemicals could cause brain deficits in vulnerable populations.
Children are particularly at risk for subtle brain changes because their skin more readily absorbs chemicals in the environment
and chemicals more potently affect their developing nervous systems.
In the event that you choose to use DEET, although strongly recommended against it, do not use the products on infants
and be very wary of using them on children at all (at least make sure products for children contain 15 percent or less DEET).
The following precautions were issued by The New York State Department of Health for repellents containing DEET:
Store bottle out of the reach of children and read all instructions on label before applying.
Do not let children apply DEET themselves because they may put them in their mouths or touch their eyes.
Avoid prolonged and excessive use of DEET. Use sparingly to cover exposed skin; do not treat unexposed skin.
Do not apply repellents in enclosed areas. This is especially important when using sprays or aerosols.
Do not apply directly on face.
DEET can be applied to clothing, but may damage some synthetic fabrics and plastics.
Wash treated skin and clothing after returning indoors.
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Handmade candleholder in matt black glazed ceramic. Made in accordance with international fair trade principles.Size 9 cm in diameter and 9 cm high.
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A favorite speaker from Workforce Strategy 2018 was Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance at London Business School. He taught us the '100 Best Companies to Work for in America' outperformed their peers by 2.3%-3.8% per year from 1984-2011 (89%-184% cumulative). This striking evidence demonstrates that investing in the employee experience is a smart business decision.
During a recent Board dinner, the topic of the Jetsons came up in conversation. We're not the first to recognize it, but the writers' ability to predict the future is both fascinating and intriguing.
We can't always predict a natural disaster and the damage it will cause, but we can take steps to be prepared and extend assistance and support to those affected.
NBGH members, including Aetna, Amazon, Apple, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Google, GE, Home Depot, Humana, Lowe's, JP Morgan Chase, PepsiCo, Starbucks, UPS, Walmart, and Wells Fargo, quickly stepped up to donate millions to those impacted by Hurricane Harvey. The emotional and physical recovery will take time, and many of us are looking for ways to sustain our support as affected communities heal and rebuild.
On March 29-31, over 500 HR/benefits and health care professionals came together in Washington, DC for the Business Group's annual conference Business Health Agenda. This year's conference focused on employee communication and engagement, innovation in health care and pharmacy delivery and health care policy and regulation. The following five key takeaways were gleaned from 3-day event.
Through a variety of employer, vendor and expert interviews, Global Business Group on HealthSM (GBGH) staff developed a list of "lessons learned" for employers who are considering purchasing a global employee assistance program (EAP). Some key issues to keep in mind include:
Despite the benefits of EAPs, low engagement rates mean employers are struggling to demonstrate how the program provides value. In response, new trends are driving changes in EAP design and delivery to better support many aspects of an employee's life.
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The two genre shows with the most compelling mysteries both return this month. I already discussed the return of Battlestar Galactica in Part I of SciFi Weekend. Lost returns this week and many hints as to what to expect have been published. TV Guide had an article (which I have not been able to find on line) in which executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse discussed ten episodes of the show which are important to understanding what happens in the upcoming seasons. I will briefly summarize the key points:
Season One: In Walkabout we learned that Locke had been confined to his wheel chair before coming to the island. "Locke and his relation to the island is very central to the fifth season." White Rabit showed Jack's father Christian appearing alive on the island. "The fact that Christian's wearing white tennis shoes is a mystery which will be answered this season." In Deus Ex Machina Locke pleaded with an island and then a light appeared. This will be revisited and "we will learn the whole nature of why the Swan hatch exists."
Season Two: The 23rd Psalm showed that the smoke monster could pull memories from a character's life. We will learn more about the smoke monster this season. A giant four-toed statue is seen in Live Together, Die Alone. We will have to wait until the sixth season to find out what this statue means.
Season Three: Time travel will play a big part in the upcoming seasons. Desmond is shown to experience time in a nonlinear fashion in Flashes Before Your Eyes. The episode introduced Fionnula Flanigan and suggested that characters could not change their ultimate fate. We will see Fionnula again and she turns out to be "important in the overall storytelling of Lost. The Man Behind the Curtain showed some of Ben's back story on the island. We will see more of Ben's life and the Dharma Initiative this season.
Season Four: The Constant showed more of Desmond's nonlinear experience of time, along with Faraday's experiments. Desmond's consciousness from 1996 inhabited his present body when he attempted to leave the island on the wrong bearing. We will see that incorrectly entering or exiting the island will play a crucial return when the members of the Oceanic Six attempt to return, and that the island "pulled off one doozy of a masquerade." The Shape of Things to Come showed the power struggle between Ben Linus and Charles Whidmore. We will see more about this power struggle and whether neither or both are either bad or good guys. Everything is important in There's No Place Like Home including the scenes involving Jacob. Locke's faith will continue to be tested by the island and/or Jacob with "great personal sacrifice." We will see Locke's death midway thorough the season but the question of what the island wants from Locke won't be seen until the sixth season.
If reviewing ten episodes for clues is too much, Entertainment Weekly looks at the clues in five episodes. Most of the episodes overlap with those mentioned above. The one episode which was not mentioned above is Cabin Fever from Season Four which showed Locke's early life, including an encounter with Richard Alpert who never seems to age–or was he traveling in time? Alpert apparently will be an important character this season.
Maureen Ryan also interviewed Lindelof and Cuse with the discussion including matters such as the importance of time travel, and the hazards this presents:
How do you keep the show grounded in emotions and characters, when it seems as though this season is poised to unspool a lot of the mythology and time travel and so forth? Is that a tricky balance to achieve?
Cuse: I don't know if it's a tricky balance. I think that this is what we always saw as the natural evolution of the show, that it would have more overt science-fiction and fantasy elements [as time went on] and that was sort of always our plan. I guess we would say our model is any of a number of great Spielberg movies, maybe even "E.T.," as a primary example of a movie that has, obviously, very extreme science-fiction and fantasy elements, yet at its core it's a deeply emotional story. We hope that even though we're introducing these elements, we're staying true to our central premise, which is that we're making a character-based show.
Lindelof: I think the fun part for us, and this is not so much a challenge as something we hold ourselves to, is the idea that the characters react to these crazy things in real ways. So if you're explaining to Sawyer something about time travel, he's not going to say, "Oh, that makes sense." He's going to say, "That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard and I don't like it and I don't want to be on the time-travel show."
As long as the different characters on our show have real reactions to the things that are happening around them, [it works]. I think if every single character on the show basically accepted that it's their destiny to be on the island, with all these characters sitting around talking about their destiny all the time, [that doesn't work]. Whereas our show — really, Locke is the only one who cares about the island. Jack cares about Jack, and Kate cares about Kate, even Hurley only cares about being jinxed most of the time.
You guys have opened up the time element of the show in this really interesting way, but how do you stop it from becoming a giant story problem? You know, "If a train left Pittsburgh going 50 miles an hour, and another train left Dallas going 25 miles an hour…" How do you make that time element clean and clear for people who might have trouble with it?
Lindelof: Carlton and I spent five weeks last year just breaking "The Constant," with the entire writing staff. The reason it was so tricky was all these things you're talking about, in terms of, "If Faraday told Desmond in 1996 to tell Penny to call him in 2004, wouldn't she say to him …"
And then eventually, you get to a point of saying, "Are we breaking any rules, according to the rules we set, is it emotionally viable, and is it confusing?" So when we were sitting down to talk about Season 5, we were like, "We're essentially breaking 'The Constant' every single week now."
I think since we've gone through the process the first time, we learned valuable lessons. It is very challenging to do clean time-travel stories where you can't change the future, but also rewarding when we accomplish it.
Obviously you accomplished that with "The Constant." The reason that worked so well was because, as you were saying, it wasn't about time travel per se, but about this relationship between two people. Did you know that was special when you were writing it?
Cuse: I think when we wrote it, we realized it was really hard [to do]. The reason, as Damon said, it took us five weeks to break the story was because we were relentless with each other about making sure that the story — we would not consider the story to be finished until it had emotional resonance.
We had to deal with all the consciousness-traveling craziness, but ultimately we felt the story would only be successful [under the following conditions:] Not only did the time-travel stuff have to make some sort of sense and follow its own logic, but there needed to be a really genuine emotional payoff. And it took a long time to get to a place where we felt both goals were accomplished. To echo what Damon said, that really became the template for us in terms of what our goal is this year.
Yes, time travel provides a really cool device that allows us to tell what we consider to be some really great adventure stories. But at the heart, these stories are really about the characters and what we're most interested in, on a character level, is how are they affected by the consequences of time travel? That's really what the show explores.
And the entire season isn't overtly about time travel. It's an element, but I think it would get really boring [to focus too much on that]. We're not interested in — every week, you climb into a time machine. That's not what the show's going to be.
Part III of SciFi Weekend will look at shows including Doctor Who, Torchwood, and 24.


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Local Y023 held our Annual General Meeting Wednesday October 24th. Local President Teresa Acheson provided a comprehensive report on her Union activities throughout the last year, and it is presented here for the members to review.
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How to #MakeChamps in Nigeria ahead of 2020 Olympics and beyond
Nigeria in recent years has derailed from her status as a force to reckon with in the world of athletics to a country that can't even merge with her African counterparts and has since lost the title of being the power house of African Athletics to South Africa who now have some if the fastest athletes in the world today.
Since 1980, Nigeria has never returned from an Olympic Game without a single medal in athletics but everything changed in 2012 when all hopes were on one athlete; Blessing Okagbare. Though she ran a then Personal Best of 10.92s in the 100m semifinal but that wasn't enough for her to medal as she finished 8th in a race won by Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser in a time of 10.75s.
Rio 2016 was even worse as Okagbare couldn't get to the final of any individual event but she alongside Gloria Asunmu, Jennifer Madu and Agnes Osazuwa placed 8th in the 4x100m final. Ese Brume raised our hopes in the Women's Long jump as she got into the final with one of the best jump in the qualifying stage but she remarkably finished 5th in the final.
Blessing Okagbare after her 100m semifinal at London 2012
Now the time is set for everything to get back to normalise and for Nigeria to be restored atop in the World of Athletics. Nigeria's no.1 sport media and management company, Making of Champions is on the verge to reignite the passion and bring back the lost glory for the imagination of all Nigerians for the sports!
Despite the amount of money put into sports like football when it comes to Track and Field little or no attention is given towards it and that's why Making of Champions fondly called MoC started a Track Club that would help lift Nigerian athletes out of poverty, protect them from manipulation and abuse and give them an education, at the same time training them to hopefully represent Nigeria at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and beyond.
Since they began the club in 2016, 13 potential athletes have been recruited into the team and are being trained professionally by two Olympic medallists; Deji Aliu and Uchenna Emedolu.
MOC Athletes pose for a group photo
ARCO Group and Shell Nigeria have thrown their support by sponsoring 3 athletes but your help is greatly needed to ensure that all athletes are supported immensely!
That's why MoC has taken a step forward to launch a GoFundMe account for sports loving Nigerians home and abroad to support the project and grant scholarships to the athletes in the team to ensure all their needs both academically and sportswise are duly catered for.
To be part of history and this great revolution, click this link http://bit.ly/MakeChamps to support and if you want to donate in naira, here's the account details: Making of Champions GT Bank 0148644947 and when you do so also send a mail to email@example.com so that your reward would be sent to you.
You may be wondering who these athletes are, click this link http://www.makingofchamps.com/athletes-profiles/ to read about each athlete.
At MoC they don't just believe in athletes running fast but also getting an education. Let's make it possible. The more the support, the more athletes that would be awarded.
MoC 's Joy Udo-Gabriel coasting to victory at 2016 Top Sprinter competition
With your support, the highly potential athletes would be fully funded four years before the next Olympics and not just 4 months. Get involved!


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