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Research & Tools
Beginning Teacher Salaries
Here are state-by-state statistics for survival.
Core Values
The NEA Aspiring Educators Foundations – Teacher Quality, Community Outreach, and Political Action – are the underlying areas of focus that direct Aspiring Educator activities. It is in these areas that our members and affiliates sponsor programs, educate on issues, and affect change.
Aspiring Educators Handbook for Local Leaders
You'll find recruitment strategies, project ideas, and tips for conducting effective meetings. Additionally, you'll find sample agendas, letters, and even a sample constitution.
Seven Steps to an Effective Chapter Web Site
Today's college students are technology savvy and turn to the Internet first for information. States with a strong Internet presence for their Aspiring Educators are well positioned to attract new members.
Make It Happen: A Student's Guide
Here at NEA we get thousands of letters asking about teaching as a career. We get letters from eighth-graders as well as college graduates. We have developed a brochure to answer most of the common questions people have about preparing to become a teacher.
State Association Resources for New Teachers:
- Maine: New Teacher's Center
- Massachusetts: New Teachers Resources
- Michigan: Skeeter's New Member Tips
- Minnesota: New Teachers
- Pennsylvania: Preparing for Teaching
- Wisconsin: A Career in Teaching
- Missouri: Beginning Teachers
New Teacher Tips
Works4Me: Whether you're looking for strategies to keep your students on task or just get yourself organized, NEA's Works4Me program has the answer. The online library includes more than 400 tips, submitted by fellow educators, offering practical solutions to just about any classroom issue. Be sure to join the mailing list to receive new tips by e-mail each week.
Teachers Network: Teachers Network is a nationwide, nonprofit education organization that identifies and connects innovative teachers exemplifying professionalism and creativity within the public schools. The Web site includes lesson plans, online professional development courses, and information about grants and videos available to teachers. Don't miss the "Daily Classroom Specials," which feature project ideas, tips for working with parents, and special advice for new and substitute teachers.
Survival Guide for New Teachers:The U.S. Department of Education brings together the reflections of award-winning first-year teachers in this handy online guide for beginning educators. The guide focuses on teachers' relationships with their colleagues, university professors, and students' parents, all of which play crucial roles in their success on the job.
First Years: This Web site, started and maintained by two veteran educators, offers classroom activities, sample letters to parents, tips for classroom management, subject-specific lesson plans, and free classroom posters and school clip art. Visitors can join an e-mail listserv for student and beginning teachers as well.
Yes I Teach: This site, maintained by the Florida Education Association, offers lesson plans, articles on students with special needs, classroom management tips, message boards, and even a little bit of humor for teachers of all levels. Users can submit stories and ideas of their own to the site and link to other useful Web resources.
Education World: Tips for interviews, lesson plans, technology integration,professional development, and educator issues are just some of the topics covered on the Education World Web site. You'll also find information on communicating with parents,managing your finances, and even handling holidays in the classroom. Don't miss the icebreaker suggestions and sample worksheets and handouts.
Teachers.net: Teachers.net is all about peer support and there are plenty of offerings for new teachers. Have a burning question you need answered? Go to the Beginning Teachers chatboard. Need inspiration on how to engage kids with a particular topic? Browse the database of more than 3,500 free lesson plans, collected since the Web site's inception 11 years ago. You can connect with other new teachers in your subject area or grade level and get in on live chats.
Community Outreach
NEA's Read Across America: Celebrate literacy all yearlong with NEA's Read Across America Web site. You'll find tips and project ideas for the annual event, free posters and bookmarks to download and print, lists of popular books, and information and resources from NEA's partners. Be sure to sign up for the monthly e-mail newsletter to receive the latest updates on literacy issues and special discounts on members-only merchandise.
Learn and Serve: Learn and Serve America provides grants to community-oriented school projects. The program helps nearly one million students, from kindergarten through college, meet community needs, while they improve their academic skills and learn the habits of good citizenship. Recipients use the grants to create new programs or replicate existing ones and to train staff, faculty, and volunteers. For more, call 202-606-5000 or visit the Web site.
National Youth Leadership Council : The NYLC promotes service-learning through youth camps, conferences, exchanges, forums, and awards. The Council supports projects that integrate community service with academic curricula and oversees the National Service-Learning Exchange, which connects community service student organizations with 450 volunteer peer mentors with experience on service-learning projects. Visit the NYLC Web site or go directly to the National Service-Learning Exchange.
Special Education
NEA's IDEA Web site: Stop by NEA's site on special education and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act for current research, updates on IDEA legislation, and resources for educators working with students with disabilities.
Council for Exceptional Children: The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) works with students with disabilities and the gifted. The organization advocates for sound government policies and offers opportunities for professional development to special education teachers.
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services:The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) supports special education programs for children, youth, and adults. OSERS also conducts research and publishes information on issues related to special education.
National Clearinghouse for Professions in Special Education:NCPS gathers, organizes, and disseminates information for recruiting, preparing, and retaining individuals interested in serving children with disabilities. The Web site includes information on financial aid available to aspiring special educators, research and statistics on students with special needs, and resources for job seekers.
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities : The center provides a variety of resources on disabilities and disability-related issues for families, educators, and other professionals. The Web site includes information on programs and services for infants, children, and youth with disabilities; IDEA; the No Child Left Behind law; effective practices for children with disabilities; materials for parents; and links to professional associations.
The National Association of Special Education Teachers: (NASET) supports those preparing for or teaching in the field of special education. Members have access to comprehensive databases containing thousands of resources and materials; topics include exceptional students and disability information, special education and the law and practical resources for special education teachers. The Special Educator e-Journal keeps members informed and a career center offers current job openings, career advice, career fact sheets, and state licensure information.
Political Action
NEA's Legislative Action Center: Keep up with news from Capitol Hill at NEA's Legislative Action Center. You'll find updates on bills designed to improve the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) as well as information about other legislation before Congress. You can track your state senator's or representative's voting record and even send an e-mail message to your state and federal legislators. Don't forget to sign up for the e-mail action alerts!
Center on Education Policy: As a national, independent advocate for public education and for more effective public schools, the Center helps Americans better understand the role of public education in a democracy and the need to improve the academic quality of public schools. The Center on Education Policy conducts research and informs the public about topics such as testing, vouchers, and school improvement.
National Association for the Education of Young Children: NAEYC is an organization of early childhood educators and others dedicated to improving the quality of programs for children from birth through third grade. NAEYC works to improve professional practice and working conditions in early childhood education and to build public support for high quality early childhood programs.
American Association of University Women: Since 1881, AAUW has focused on expanding women's rights in academia and other areas. Many projects focus on increasing girls' interest and achievement in math, science, and technology. AAUW staunchly defends civil rights, gender equity, and women's health and reproductive choices.
American Civil Liberties Union: The ACLU defends the civil rights guaranteed by the U.S Constitution. Some of the ACLU's focus areas include civil rights in schools, the separation of church and state, and the rights of minorities.
Close Up Foundation: The Close Up Foundation's programs encourage teachers, students, and young adults to participate in the American democratic process through trips to Washington, D.C., and activities with local and state governments. Close Up uses a hands-on approach to educate people about how the government functions.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People: For the past 93 years the NAACP has worked for equity and democracy by opposing discriminatory and unjust policies. The primary focus of the NAACP remains the protection and enhancement of the civil rights of African Americans and other minorities. The NAACP works at the national, regional, and local level to secure civil rights through advocacy for supportive legislation.
National Coalition Against Censorship: The National Coalition Against Censorship works to educate its members and the public about the dangers of censorship. Functioning as an alliance of 50 nonprofit organizations, NCAC denounces the suppression of intellectual, artistic, social, and political activities protected by the First Amendment. The group believes that freedom of speech, movement, thought, and expression are fundamental in a democratic society.
Anti-Defamation League: The Anti-Defamation League combats anti-Semitism, bigotry, and intolerance on various fronts. The organization helps the victims of hate crimes, works to protect individual civil rights, lobbies legislators, and educates people about the dangerpresented by hate groups. The Web site includes programs and resources to help teachers challenge prejudice and discrimination.
Labornet: Labornet compiles online information about labor unions in the United States and abroad. The site highlights workers' grievances and labor campaigns and offers news to keep workers informed about union activities. Visitors to the Web site will find links to labor news publications; labor, employment, and government statistics; and relevant legislation.
Human Rights Campaign: The Human Rights Campaign defends the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered citizens. HRC effectively lobbies Congress, provides campaign support to candidates for federal office, and works to educate the public on a wide array of topics, including workplace, family, and discrimination issues, that affect gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered Americans.
Teaching Tolerance: Founded in 1991 by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Teaching Tolerance provides educators with free educational materials that promote respect for differences and appreciation of diversity in the classroom and beyond. The Web site offers information on classroom activities, tools, grants, and a link to Teaching Tolerance magazine. Visitors to the site also can register for a monthly e-newsletter.
National Dropout Prevention Center: The NDPC provides information for researchers, educators, and policy makers about at-risk students. The NDPC also serves as a clearinghouse on issues related to dropout prevention and offers strategies designed to increase the graduation rate in America 's schools.
NEA Foundation: The NEA Foundation awards grants to educators who propose innovative and promising ways to help all students experience academic success and reach their full potential, especially those who have been historically underserved by society's institutions. NEA Aspiring Educator members can partner with eligible teachers, education support professionals, and higher education faculty who submit grant applications. Examples of grant-funded work include study groups, action research, lesson study, and innovative project-based learning that helps close the achievement gap. Grant amounts range from $1,000 to $3,000.
The Foundation Center: The Foundation Center collects and organizes the names of hundreds of people and organizations that provide funding for socially significant projects. Visitors to the Web site can search an online database for corporate and foundation funding or request a free CD-ROM full of sources. The Center also provides information and research about grant seeking and philanthropic efforts.
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE): More than 30 federal agencies joined together in 1997 to create the FREE Web site. The site includes information on hundreds of federally supported teaching and learning resources in a variety of subject areas, from the arts to vocational education, and adds new resources monthly.
The National Science Foundation: With an annual budget of about $5.5 billion, the NSF represents the primary funding source for approximately 20 percent of all federally supported basic research conducted by America 's colleges and universities. In many fields such as mathematics, computer science, and the social sciences, the NSF is the major source of federal backing. The NSF also offers special funding programs specifically for undergraduate and graduate students.
Education News
NEA Today: Stay up to date on education issues and Association news with NEA Today. The magazine is published eight times a year and is available online.
Education Week: This weekly publication includes local, state, and national education news and covers issues from preschool through grade 12. Education Week also publishes periodic special reports on topics ranging from technology to textbooks. The Web site also includes links to education stories from daily newspapers.
ERIC: The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a national information system designed to provide ready access to an extensive body of education-related literature. The searchable database contains more than one million documents about education issues.
Job Market
Teachingjobs.com: This Web site maintains information on thousands of available positions in schools in the United States and overseas. Job seekers can receive newsletters and updates by e-mail about the most recent job openings.
Teachers-Teachers.com: This free service allows applicants to post their résumés and cover letters online, search for jobs by location, receive news about available teaching positions, view school Web sites, and send application materials electronically.
GreatTeacher.net: This Web site offers a free service that allows applicants to search for teaching openings by geographical location. Each ad includes a job description and contact information. Applicants also can post their résumés online at the site.
American Association for Employment in Education: AAEE provides information to college career centers, school districts, and teacher candidates about the education job market. On its Web site, preservice teachers will find helpful job hunt publications, links to online job databases, and information on teacher certification. Check out the annual supply and demand report for information about the need for teachers in your field.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics, a branch of the U.S. Department of Labor, collects and distributes data about the current job market. In the Bureau's Occupational Outlook Handbook you'll find detailed job descriptions, information on working conditions, training and education required, wage estimates, and future job prospects for a variety of occupations. You can search the handbook online for statistical information about education employment.
Recruiting New Teachers, Inc. RNT works to bolster the teaching profession, expand the pool of qualified teachers, and promote strategies for effective teacher recruitment, development, and retention. At the Web site, prospective teachers can access a national job bank (searchable by state), links to financial aid programs, and information about state requirements for licensure and certification.
EduTech offers search engines that sort jobs by location,category, and job title. You'll also find information on job fairs, the latest job postings, and frequently asked questions about issues prospective teachers face.
State Departments of Education
NEA Professional Library Featured Selections
The Best of Writing Bug
For use in grades 2-8, these 44 writing prompts spark students' imaginations, tickle their funny bones, and motivate their pencils. The helpful, light-hearted "bug in your ear" suggestions (delivered personally by the Writing Bug) address young writers' most common challenges in positive "you can do it" terms.
Available for $7.95.
The Best of Learning Games
Collected from Education World's vast lesson plan library, these "learning games" won't provide teachers with a magic wand, but they can help make learning fun. Covering all major subject areas, you can find something for teachers in all grades—K-12. These lesson plans inject a healthy dose of fun into the serious business of teaching and learning.
Collected from Education World's vast lesson plan library, these "learning games" won't provide teachers with a magic wand, but they can help make learning fun. Covering all major subject areas, you can find something for teachers in all grades—K-12. These lesson plans inject a healthy dose of fun into the serious business of teaching and learning.
Available for $7.95.
The Best of Vocab-u-lous!
How do you expand your students' vocabularies? By making it fun, of course! These 36 Cloze-style exercises help students become familiar with these challenging words, then take the next step toward "owning" each one by bringing them into their common usage. Whether you assign these exercises as class work, homework, or extra credit, your students are sure to end up with a fabulous vocabulary!
How do you expand your students' vocabularies? By making it fun, of course! These 36 Cloze-style exercises help students become familiar with these challenging words, then take the next step toward "owning" each one by bringing them into their common usage. Whether you assign these exercises as class work, homework, or extra credit, your students are sure to end up with a fabulous vocabulary!
Available for $7.95.
The Inspiring Teacher
Making a Positive Difference in Students' Lives
Inspiring teachers teach more than just facts and figures. They teach a way of "being" in this changing world.
The Inspiring Teacher is a valuable resource for teachers new to the profession who want to learn how to create a vibrant and lively learning environment.
You'll learn about brain-based learning, along with information on forming alliances with colleagues and parents. Learn how to inspire your students by drawing forth their potential and living up to your own!
Available for $14.95.
Q & A: The Most Provocative Questions Asked of Education Professionals Today and How to Answer Them
You've selected a major, and you're excited about your decision to become a teacher—until the first time you get asked that dreaded question. "Why?" Chances are, you will be asked to defend public education, and your decision to join the Association. Now, you can have the answers to these "tough" questions right at your fingertips. Understand why it's important for every educator to join the Association, and what you can do to support your noble profession.
Available for $9.95
NEA Professional Library : NEA has hundreds of book and video titles available on a wide variety of education topics. Be sure to get your career off to a good start with our Graduation Gift Pack, a collection of three great handbooks for teaching rookies, each one full of classroom-tested tips from veterans who know what works—and what doesn't. NEA Aspiring Educator members are eligible for member discounts on NEA Professional Library purchases.
Q & A: The Most Provocative Questions Asked of Education Professionals Today and How to Answer Them
David L. Smith and Lynn Coffin
Are you wondering why it's important for educators to join the Association? Have you had to defend your career choice or public education in general? If so, you're not alone. Thousands of teachers and support professionals struggle to overcome the misinformation that surrounds public education today. Written in a straight-forward, easy-to-read format, Q & A helps you answer those tough questions. Available to Aspiring Educator members for $9.95.
The Best of Works4Me-2
NEA Checklist Series
You loved the first edition of The Best of Works4Me, so we went back to the source—experienced classroom teachers—to bring you more "tried and true" tips on organizing your classroom, managing school relationships, using new technology and much, much more! Available to Aspiring Educator members for $4.50.
How to Develop a Professional Portfolio: A Manual for Teachers Third Edition
Dorothy M. Campbell, Pamela Bondi Cignetti, Beverly J. Melnyzer, Diane H. Nettles, Richard M. Wyman Jr.
This versatile and practical book helps pre-service and in-service teachers create a teaching portfolio to use in interviews and throughout their teaching careers. This manual provides clear, manageable, step-by-step guidelines and tips for developing professional portfolios. Available to Aspiring Educator members for $24.95.
The Discipline Checklist: Advice from 60 Successful Teachers
Revised Edition, NEA Checklist Series, Ken Kosier
How would you like to consult with dozens of your colleagues without leaving your desk? This checklist lets you do just that! Sixty teachers—each highly successful at maintaining discipline—share their secrets of classroom management and motivating students. This practical checklist will help you prepare for beginning the school year, coach you on modeling positive interactions, and remind you to maintain flexibility in your discipline strategies. Available to Aspiring Educator members for $4.50.
Countdown to the First Day of School
Revised Edition, NEA Checklist Series
Leo M. Schell and Paul Burden
Does the thought of the first day of school give you that sinking feeling because you're not as prepared as you could be? Help is at hand! This bestseller's time-saving checklist format features tips that can help the beginning, transfer, or student teacher prepare for the first day of school—and the entire year. You'll find practical advice for getting acquainted, determining procedures and rules, and organizing your classroom and materials. Available to Aspiring Educator members for $5.50.
Classroom Management
This kit is designed to sharpen your skills in managing student behavior both inside and outside the K-12 classroom. You'll get tips on how to creat a good classroom floor plan, establish and reinforce rules, communicate with parents, write behavior contracts, and creat effective time-out strategies. Available to Aspiring Educator members for $14.95.
The First-Year Teacher: Teaching with Confidence (K-8)
Revised Edition
Karen A. Bosch and Katharine C. Kersey
This popular book, which features 24 new pages of information, offers beginning teachers a step-by-step plan for their first four weeks on the job. The guide also includes tips for communicating with parents, scripts for parent-teacher conferences, timesaving strategies for handling paperwork, solutions to common discipline problems, and activities to acclimate elementary and middle school students to a new classroom. Available for $16.95.
But High School Teaching is Different! Success Strategies for New Secondary Teachers
Mary C. Clement
This book addresses the specific needs of preservice and beginning secondary teachers. Preservice teachers will find useful strategies and practical advice on getting the most from their education programs and starting the job search. New teachers will benefit from the tips on classroom management, effective communication, and professional growth. Available for $5.50.
Meeting the Challenge: Special Education Tools That Work for All Kids
Patty Ralabate
This toolkit offers general and special educators effective strategies to help struggling students overcome academic or behavior difficulties. It includes useful ideas and time-saving tips as well as sample checklists, lesson plans, rubrics, and conference planning sheets that teachers can copy or customize to meet their needs. Available for $15.95.
Pitfalls and Potholes: A Checklist for Avoiding Common Mistakes of Beginning Teachers
Revised Edition,Barbara A. Murray and Kenneth T. Murray
This handy guide will help you avoid many of the mistakes new teachers say they wish someone had warned them about in college. You'll find tips for landing a job, managing student behavior, getting along with administrators, avoiding lawsuits, and more. Available for $4.50.
Bright Ideas: A Pocket Mentor for Beginning Teachers
Revised Edition, Mary C. Clement
Providing practical advice in a handy checklist format, this book offers helpful tips on getting your first job, establishing communication with parents and colleagues, managing your classroom, and preparing lessons—perfect for beginning educators looking for a bit of wisdom and guidance. Available for $4.50.


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Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is often referred to as the third stage of embracing digital technology (after «digital usage» and «digital competence»). It covers changes associated with digital technology and is more than just a set of isolated technology based changes; it is also a strategic mindset. Synpulse helps clients understand this trend and helps to derive the necessary management actions.
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«The general change potential of digitalization is subject of intense market discussions. Thanks to our industry- and outside-in perspectives across markets and financial industries, we jointly develop concrete fields for action and implement them successfully. Thus digitalization is no longer a threat but becomes an opportunity.»
- Ingo Muschick
- Silvan Stüssi
Digital Business Model
Digitalization is changing the way we do business – customers are getting empowered, process get digitalized, business models need to evolve to keep up with new challenges.
Hardly any industry notices the impact of current and future information technology hypes like digitalization, big data or the internet of things (IoT). These topics provide chances for new business models, new customers and for internal optimization. Threats like new competition and change of customer behavior and expectations can be turned into lucrative opportunities.
For the insurance industry you can see the impact in all areas: life, non-life, reinsurance, and health insurance.
New customer areas are rising where digitalization enables new business models. For example Uber or AirBnB require specialized insurances and clarification of arising questions regarding liability. Simultaneously, traditional business is getting more transparent, and startups building on existing concepts create entirely new approaches (e.g. hioscar health insurance). Digitalization also facilitates proposing new products to customers based on their life style or using big data analytics (wearables, telematics, etc.).
Digital and innovative insurance business models include:
- New operating models (white labelling, outsourcing, alternative distribution channels, D2C sales, etc.)
- Data driven insurance analytics (big data, IoT)
- Telematics (real time & behavior data)
- UW tools for risk assessment
- External partnerships (data ecosystem)
Consumers are increasingly self-service-driven and are looking for empowerment and instant solutions. From searching for information to buying insurance products online, the customer journey is moving ever closer to the digital space.
Now is the right time to operationalize these hypes for your business and start securing results for the future. Synpulse is more than happy to support you with digitalization in the insurance industry by:
- Create business and digitalization strategies, and define new areas for activitie
- Develop and implement measures derived from your strategy, and build prototypes
- Accompany the digital transformation of your organization
The digital transformation of the entire value chain requires a rethinking of traditional business models of insurers. Future success depends on the ability to do this.
- Ingo Muschick
- Silvan Stüssi
Smart Analytics / Predictive Modelling
People and machines increasingly generate vast amounts of data, which could be used to make more informed business decisions by blending it with internal data. Many clients struggle harvesting insights from that newly available data Synpulse helps clients to find suitable vendor solutions, identify use cases and source/cleanse/analyze data so clients can deduce valuable insights from them.
Current trends
The time is now to focus on Smart Analytics and Predictive Modeling. Today, every online action we take leaves a digital trace, which leads to unprecedented explosions of available data. Furthermore, substantial upgrades in available computational power and machine learning technology are being carried out daily. These trends have the potential to revolutionize the way people can glean valuable insights from onslaughts of data.
Realizing this, many financial service companies embark on digital transformations and harness the latest technology to improve their data collection and interpretation efficiency, so they can better understand and serve their customers' needs while obtaining valuable insights into market shifts and product risks.
Areas of interest
Smart analytics and predictive modeling are not limited to one area, but are best applied in the following five areas:
- Market insights
- Client insights
- Risk insights
- Operational insights
- Asset insights
The Synpulse Approach to Smart Analytics & Predictive Modeling
We see financial service companies taking many different routes in their efforts to cope with the smart analytics challenge. Some enlist a smorgasbord of data scientists, statistic experts and SAS programmers to help them build models to prove data-generated hypotheses. Others try to recognize data patterns through machine-learning capabilities in end-user facing applications. At Synpulse, we assist with both approaches, but we notice clients trending toward end user facing solutions that connect business users directly to a machine. With this, the human expert is not made obsolete, but made a leader in the Smart Analytics and Predictive Modeling approach
Synpulse Service Offering and Expertis
Synpulse helps clients with Smart Analytics and Predictive Modeling from data-to-insight as well as insight-to-action on technical or business-related topics. To do so, we employ selective vendor technologies to guide our client through the digital transformation process.
At Synpulse, we are well equipped with a team of experts specializing in Smart Analytics. We also partner with leading tool providers in the area of augmented intelligence using machine learning. Our team and partnerships apply their expertise in the fields of motor insurance, health insurance, commercial insurance, and reinsurance.
Training Solutions
Banks and insurance companies are subject to constant organizational and technological change. Precisely where major restructuring or launch projects are concerned, professional training is key to success. In «Training Solutions», Synpulse has developed a methodology for mastering these challenges with modern and effective training solutions.
If you are facing the challenge of implementing a major change project in your organization, Synpulse is the ideal partner for your internal communication and training. «Training Solutions» is the methodology we have developed to prepare your organization well in advance for change.
Our first step is to explore with you your communication and training needs. Then we jointly decide on the most suitable training resources. Whenever possible, we use modern tools such as e-learning, webinars and e-classrooms. This gives you maximum effectiveness at minimal cost.
Precisely where international projects are concerned, it is essential that training can take place independent of time and place and that assessment is automated. Traditional training methods often break the agreed budget with the cost of travel alone, which frequentlyoften makes this option unviable.
We employ «Training Solutions» continually and successfully in projects and optimize it on an ongoing basis. Its pragmatic approach and the mix of training resources in particular mean that our clients can tailor the training process to their needs. It also means that we can make adjustments as and when they are required. Our customers additionally benefit from experienced Synpulse project team members, whose expert knowledge and skills from an insurance and banking background make them highly effective in putting together training packages.
«Training Solutions» is an ideal way of meeting a large-scale need for training. Our clients benefit from our many years of expertise. We help you to achieve maximum effectiveness from your training at minimal cost and working with modern tools and resources.

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Exploring Hydrocarbon Depletion
Plantagenet wrote:Climate change is much more complex —- and infinitely more important
Michael Morell, who served as acting chief of the foreign intelligence service between November 2012 to March 2013, warned the US was failing to pay attention to longer term issues.'We tend to focus on the immediate, not the longer term'
Nuclear exchange with Russia was still a threat that had the capacity to "destroy" the country, the 59-year-old told the politics podcast Pod Save the World.
"The second is a naturally occurring or manmade biological agent that kills 60 to 70 per cent of the population," he said. "We don't spend enough time on that."
"And then the third, and some people may laugh at this but it's absolutely true, is climate change. It's an existential threat to the United States of America and if you don't believe me look at Puerto Rico. This is an existential threat to us and obviously we're not paying enough attention."
Plantagenet wrote:Public pensions are a simple actuarial problem. It's pretty easy to forecast future outflows from pension funds, assume various rates of return on the invested assets, and calculate how many years until the assets run out. Then it's up to politians and the courts to sort out what happens next.
Climate change is much more complex —- and infinitely more important
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...big question is what happens if various public pensions "fail" and severely weakens the (global) economy? Then shortly thereafter climate change requires large amounts of political, social and/or financial capital to build up various infrastructure (for human beings to adapt)
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...big question is what happens if various public pensions "fail" and severely weakens the (global) economy? Then shortly thereafter climate change requires large amounts of political, social and/or financial capital to build up various infrastructure (for human beings to adapt)
Newfie wrote:Does anyone remember 2008 when both Bush and Obama said we were on the brink of the world financial system locking up? The liquidity crisIs?
Why The Government Sells Flood Insurance
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma caused billions of dollars in destruction in Texas and Florida. The bill for repairing those properties will be enormous and much of it will be paid by taxpayers because many of those homes are insured by the federal government.
SIMON: Let me put it this way. If the National Flood Insurance Program were a private insurance company, would it still be in business?
MIHM: No. It would not. In fact, there was a private insurance industry for floods. After the Mississippi floods of 1927 vanished, they basically got out of it.
http://www.npr.org/2017/09/16/551457535 ... -insurance
Flood insurance problem: same houses, over and over
As communities in Louisiana deal with the aftermath of disastrous flooding, attention is being given to the looming challenges for a federal program that provides insurance compensation for victims. The National Flood Insurance Program is more than $20 billion in debt, owing in part to a spate of heavy flooding around the nation in recent years.
A lot of payouts from the program have gone to the same properties time and again, according to a recent report released by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
https://www.marketplace.org/2016/08/31/ ... lood-study
onlooker wrote:Related to what Dissident stated, the iron clad 2nd law of thermodynamics Entropy manifestng as decay and disorder is evident throughout the Cosmos over time. To expect human societies to be spared is naive.
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According to God's Word, the great Flood of Noah's day was the most devastating catastrophe in history. Noah's Flood ripped apart the earth. We're not talking about boulders but whole mountains. In some places, slabs the size of cities slid dozens of miles in minutes.
The published global sea level curve is inaccurate in an absolute sense, and the Sauk megasequence represented only a partial start to the global Flood.PDF Download
We review four main sections of the book starting with his first trip to Tanzania, H. floresiensis, Australopithecus sediba, and Homo naledi.PDF Download
The evidence for a large impact at Chicxulub may not be as strong as generally believed. A case can also be made that there was no impact.PDF Download
The BioLogos Foundation published a popular-level article by old-earth geologists Gregg Davidson and Ken Wolgemuth presenting arguments for an old earth.PDF Download
Most literature states the average dinosaur was only the size of a sheep. This paper hopefully assists creationists base statements on the best available data.PDF Download
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The Dena'ina Way of Living
by Jones, Suzi (ed.)
Leggett, Aaron (ed.)
Fall, James A. (ed.)
350 p., 600 color plates, 10 x 10
Format: paper
Price: $35.00
The range of the Dena'ina people stretches from the
Cook Inlet region to central Alaska and has been
established for a thousand years. Yet their culture
has largely been overlooked, leaving large gaps in
the literature. Dena'inaq' Huch'ulyeshi, a new catalog
of Dena'ina materials, is an ambitious project that
finally brings their culture to light.
Lavishly illustrated with six hundred photographs,
maps, and drawings, Dena'inaq' Huch'ulyeshi
contains entries on Dena'ina objects in European and
American collections. It is enriched with examples of
traditional Dena'ina narratives, first-person accounts,
and interviews. Essays on the history and culture of
the Athabascan people put the pieces into a larger
historical context. This catalog is a comprehensive
reference that will also accompany a large-scale
exhibit running September 2013 through January
2014 at the Anchorage Museum.
Dena'inaq' Huch'ulyeshi is a beautifully and profusely illustrated, 350 page compendium showcasing the history, art, culture, lifestyle, and artifacts of the Dena'ina people. An impressive body of seminal scholarship.
—Midwest Book Review


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NEW YORK — Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal are having a hearty laugh.
It's their first real display of emotion during a recent meeting in a hotel room overlooking Central Park, where they've come to discuss their new film, "Zero Dark Thirty." The film, which depicts the CIA's quest to find Osama bin Laden in the months leading up to his capture, opened Friday.
The pair previously teamed up for "The Hurt Locker," which won the Academy Award for best picture in 2010. That film explored the emotional and physical toll exacted on a bomb disposal team during the Iraq war. The laughter on this early winter afternoon is precipitated by talk of what they might work on next.
"It's a romantic comedy," says screenwriter Boal, smiling and triggering a deep and prolonged laugh from Bigelow, his favorite director.
The two began their collaboration in 2005, when Bigelow read an article Boal had written for Playboy magazine, titled "The Man in the Bomb Suit," which he wrote after being embedded with troops and bomb squads in Iraq. The story became the inspiration for "The Hurt Locker."
Bigelow, 61, and Boal, 39, are widely rumored to be romantically involved, although they refuse to discuss it publicly. Bigelow was married to director James Cameron for two years and beat him out for the 2010 Oscar.
Clearly buoyed by Bigelow's reaction to his words, Boal continues describing the plot of their next potential film. "It features the complicated relationship between a media-savvy general and his biographer," he says, referring to the scandal that led General David Petraeus to resign as head of the CIA.
But, after considering the idea, Boal concludes it may not be that outrageous after all. "Actually, I keep joking about it but, the more I think about it, the more it could work," he says.
For now, he and Bigelow are laser-focused on their current film, which has received four Golden Globe nominations, including best picture and best director, and is being buzzed about as an Oscar favorite. The film has also won several "best film" honors from critics' groups, including the New York Film Critics Circle, the Boston Society of Film Critics, and the National Board of Review. And whatever their next project turns out to be, if history is any indication, current events will provide the inspiration. Boal and Bigelow were in Tora Bora, in the early stages of working on a film about the failure to find bin Laden, when bin Laden was killed by Navy SEALs in Pakistan in May 2011.
Despite the fact that almost everyone on the planet would know how the movie ends, the pair say they were immediately sure the story had the makings of a thrilling movie.
"I didn't see the ending as a challenge," says Bigelow. "What was fascinating was the inherent drama, and looking at the manhunt through the eyes of the men and women who were on the ground in Pakistan and Afghanistan."
"When people used to ask me about [the end] when we were in the development stage, I'd say, 'Well, everyone knew how "Titanic" ended and that worked,' " adds Boal. "And, of course, by saying that, I was giving the impression that there was a love story at the center of ['Zero Dark Thirty']."
Adding romance to the story to make it more appealing was not an option for these filmmakers. The story stays true to the information that Boal, a veteran journalist, reported about the manhunt. In fact, the project stirred some controversy last year when US Representative Peter King, chairman of the Congressional Homeland Security Committee, claimed that classified information had been leaked to the filmmakers.
Boal says he relied on his reporting skills as he would for any other journalistic project but would not get into the specifics of whom he met with because "that gets into the zone of source protection."
He and Bigelow say every character in "Zero Dark Thirty" is based on a real person, although the names have been changed. (The film title refers to the military term for 30 minutes past midnight, which was the time Navy SEALs first set foot in bin Laden's compound.)
The film is told from the perspective of Maya (Jessica Chastain), a young CIA officer, whose job is finding terrorists. After arriving in Pakistan, she immediately witnesses a horrifying interrogation scene involving waterboarding. Maya's reaction goes from revulsion to steely determination, which is meant to echo the evolution of the nation's conflicted attitude toward the response to terrorism, the filmmakers say.
Jason Clarke, who plays Dan, the agent who leads the torture interrogation, says the role gave him a new perspective on the toll the war has taken on people charged with fighting it.
"They say don't judge a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes — well I haven't walked nearly a mile in this guy's shoes," says Clarke. "Those scenes show us what happens to Dan. It's not about judging him. It's about showing what people do because we ask them to do it. It's very well [to take a stand against torture], but it's another to be in that position."
Clarke adds that he knew his character's humanity would be apparent, despite his inhumane actions, because Bigelow "loves her characters, no matter what they're doing."
"Mark and Kathryn have chosen to tell the story from the perspective of the people who were there," he says. "The material hasn't gotten out there, and this gets it out in a way that print and radio and news flashes can't hope to do."
Boal is adamant that the film neither justifies nor vilifies the actions of the CIA interrogators.
"We certainly didn't come to it with an agenda, and I think we just wanted to bring the audience to the center and show what it would be like to be on the ground for this kind of operation," he explains. "I'm wary of the word 'message,' but if there was a takeaway from the film, it's that these people who work behind the scenes deserve some credit and it's worthwhile to think about them too."
Boal and Bigelow say they included the torture scenes because softening them or avoiding them altogether would be dishonest. Like the graphic bombing scenes in "The Hurt Locker," Bigelow says the torture scenes in this film were necessary for the plot.
"It's not a fascination with war and darkness. It's more of a fascination with events and the kind of journalistic approach to filmmaking," she says. "The stories are unfolding, and an imagistic living history is being created. It's controversial, but it's also on the record as part of our history, and, again, we wanted to be faithful to the research and personal accounts."
Bigelow quickly adds that the CIA agents used other tactics for information gathering, including "ground surveillance, track and trace surveillance, and good old-fashioned boots-on-the-ground sleuthing," all of which were represented in the film.
In fact, a key piece of information was gleaned from tracking the cellphone of one of bin Laden's close subordinates. When it was pointed out to Boal and Bigelow that the terrorists might have learned a thing or two from watching "The Wire," the HBO series about Baltimore police who tap the phones of drug dealers in order to catch them, the filmmakers balked.
"It's true that tracking phones is a tactic known to drug dealers, terrorists, and probably teenagers," Boal says. "Maybe they don't get HBO on Al Jazeera."
Judy Abel can be reached at judyabel


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Master's course in philosophy (one-year) at Stockholm University
The Department of Philosophy offers a one-year master in philosophy, one in practical philosophy and one in theoretical philosophy. Practical philosophy includes such fields as metaethics, normative ethics and political philosophy, while theoretical philosophy includes such fields as philosophy of mind and language, philosophy of science and logic.
The Department
Philosophy at Stockholm offers an intellectually stimulating and supportive postgraduate environment with many different research seminars. You will be taught and supervised by members of faculty who are internationally well connected and actively involved in research in various fields of analytic philosophy.
The course aims to attract students with a strong background in analytic philosophy at undergraduate level. The main purpose of the course is to provide future doctoral students with the skills to conduct independent research in philosophy in their chosen area; and the ability to produce written work that displays sustained argument, independent thought and lucid structure and presentation.
Course structure
In the first semester you will take four modules, one of which is mandatory and the other three are chosen from a range of special topics that vary from term to term. You must pass the examinations of the first semester in order to proceed into the second semester.
The second semester consists of your thesis work. You will be allocated a supervisor with expertise in the topic of the thesis. The topic is elective but must be approved by the examiners and must fit the research profile of the members of the faculty.
After completing the course, you are eligible to apply for a PhD position. For more information about PhD admissions, please visit the web site for PhD programmes.
Course schedule and thesis guidelines and grading criteria
Admission is offered only once a year, for the autumn semester.
For practical philosophy: Bachelor course in practical philosophy (90 ECTS credits) or equivalent
For theoretical philosophy: Bachelor course in theoretical philosophy (90 ECTS credits) or equivalent
Eligibility criteria
If there are more applications than places, the places will be allocated based on the grades and the relevance of academic courses, the quality/subject of the bachelor thesis and motivation letter.
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How to apply
Applications are submitted electronically at universityadmissions.se (English) or antagning.se (Swedish). You can apply online for theoretical philosophy or for practical philosophy. All international students, regardless of country of origin, can use the University's step-by-step guide for applications. Students from countries outside the EU/EEA must pay application and tuition fees - more information about fees.
Application date
The application date for all applicants is April 15.
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Robertson, who was invited to speak at the Union County Republican Men's Club kick-off campaign, spoke candidly about her family's history and the difficult times she endured with her husband, Phil, because she wants people to know that "broken families can be healed."
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A request for additional testing on a key piece of evidence in the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray -- the vial of a powerful surgical sedative that authorities contend was used on the morning of Michael Jackson's death -- was denied Monday.
The defense motion came about two weeks after Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the singer's June 25, 2009 death.
Conrad Murray Trial: Timeline, Images, About Propofol
The defense asked the judge to release to an independent lab the vial of propofol that authorities contend was used on the morning of Jackson's death. Murray adminstered the powerful surgical sedative in Jackson's bedroom at a rented Holmby Hills mansion after the King of Pop finished rehearsing for a series of planned London concerts.
Defense attorneys wrote in a court filing that testing in necessary to analyze prosecutors' theory that the doctor placed Jackson on an IV drip of propofol and the painkiller lidocaine then left the room, according to the Associated Press. Dr. Steven Shafer, the prosecution's key medical witness, testified during the six-week trial that the IV drip is the only plausible scenario that led to Jackson's death.
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The defense knew about the vial at the start of the case and could have requested the testing months ago, Judge Michael Pastor said Monday.
Murray is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 29.
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