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Nabeelah (22) sits in a hotel courtyard. With her bronzed skin, almond-shaped eyes and crop of curls, Nabeelah is beautiful. Her looks can be attributed to her mixed Indian and Zulu heritage. Nabeelah is confident too. She's researching child marriages and female genital mutilation at an NGO aiming to foster Africa-wide solidarity and unity. From the outside, she seems to have everything together. You wouldn't think that she had been victim to bullying and self-loathing because of the colour of her skin. She told The Daily Vox her story.
I was born and raised in a small town in KwaZulu-Natal. It was welcoming, there wasn't a sense of superiority. It was nothing like Johannesburg. I moved here when I was 10. I started Grade 4 in a Muslim Indian school in Lenasia. I felt a shift from the moment I walked into the school. I remember being confused at how people were looking at me. On my first day I didn't straighten my hair, and I have really curly hair. I asked my mother, why are they looking at us? She told me not to worry about it. They took us to my classroom and when I walked in, everyone kept quiet. I remember how uncomfortable I was. Nobody had ever looked at me like that before, as if I was someone to be suspicious of.
I tried to be invisible. But I stood out. They were all fair, with pin-straight hair, nice-coloured eyes and pink pouty lips. I'm nothing like that. I didn't know what to make of how I was being treated. I didn't know it was because of the colour of my skin, I just thought I was weird. I was also loud and opinionated and that fuelled the fire.
Grade 5 was the worst. I started struggling at school and I didn't know how to deal with it. The teacher would pick on me for answers and the kids would be say, "she doesn't know the answers, her kind of people don't know anything". I never understood that either, but it got to me.
There was a free period once and that day I had a scarf on. A boy came to me and said, "this doesn't hide the fact that you're a witch," and he ripped my scarf off. Usually, I laughed off the bullying but that day it was too much. I just cried. Everyone laughed. That day, I stood in front of the mirror for a long time looking at myself. I asked God to fix me. It didn't get better.
I went through stages where my skin used to burn, it was like I needed to get out of myself. I felt suffocated in myself. I developed my anxiety disorder. I didn't realise what it was at the time, I thought everyone struggled to breathe at some point in the day. As I got older, the taunting got more frequent. I decided God is punishing me. I was angry that He made me this way. I used to get physically sick from myself. If I looked at myself in the mirror I would throw up. I hated myself.
I don't think anyone suspected what I was going through. I acted normal around my classmates and family because I felt guilty, like what I was going through was my fault. I used to compare myself to my sister. We look alike but she has a lighter complexion. She's also really smart. She always fit in. I used to ask why she fit in and I didn't.
Varsity helped me. There were so many different people from different backgrounds. I had a lot of black friends. They would always say, "Nabeelah why are you so self conscious, you're so beautiful and energetic and positive". I told them how I felt about my hair and my skin. I straightened my hair every single day at that point, I even have scars from straightening it. They said, "embrace who you are because you're beautiful and God made you this way". One day, they made me come to varsity with my hair curly, but I couldn't do it. I ended up having a panic attack. My curly hair was painful for me. I had to leave campus to straighten my hair.
A couple of years ago, I rediscovered my faith and that helped me accept myself. God clearly thought me being this way is beautiful. If He didn't, He wouldn't have made me this way. Today I can go out with my hair curly, but that insecurity will always live inside me. Are dark-skinned people supposed to accept that other people think they're ugly? When people say you're beautiful for a dark-skinned person, how is that supposed to be a compliment?
But I'm not the type to hold grudges. Kids can be mean but with Indian kids the problems are generational. If you're teaching your kids to treat someone with less respect because they don't look like you or have the same amount of money as you, that's a problem. It creates an endless cycle of viciousness.
We need to be kind. People underestimate the power of kindness and the power of their words.
If someone is going through this, I would advise them to talk to someone they're comfortable with. Keeping that toxicness in your soul is a wound. If left untreated, it will fester. Have conversations with yourself too. Separate what people say to you from you who are. Don't allow them to define you.


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Fetal heart rate monitoring measures the heart rate and rhythm of your baby (fetus). This lets your healthcare provider see how your baby is doing.
Your healthcare provider may do fetal heart monitoring during late pregnancy and labor. The average fetal heart rate is between 110 and 160 beats per minute. It can vary by 5 to 25 beats per minute. The fetal heart rate may change as your baby responds to conditions in your uterus. An abnormal fetal heart rate may mean that your baby is not getting enough oxygen or that there are other problems.
There are 2 ways to do fetal heart monitoring, external and internal:
This method uses a device to listen to and record your baby's heartbeat through your belly (abdomen). One type of monitor is a Doppler ultrasound device. It's often used during prenatal visits to count the baby's heart rate. It may also be used to check the fetal heart rate during labor. The healthcare provider may also check your baby's heart rate continuously during labor and birth. To do this, the ultrasound probe (transducer) is fastened to your belly. It sends the sounds of your baby's heart to a computer. The rate and pattern of your baby's heart rate are shown on a screen and printed on paper.
This method uses a thin wire (electrode) put on your baby's scalp. The wire runs from the baby through your cervix. It is connected to the monitor. This method gives better readings because things like movement don't affect it. But it can only be done if the fluid-filled sac that surrounds the baby during pregnancy (amniotic sac) has broken and the cervix is opened. Your provider may use internal monitoring when external monitoring is not giving a good reading. Or your provider may use this method to watch your baby more closely during labor.
During labor, your healthcare provider will watch your uterine contractions and your baby's heart rate. Your provider will note how often you are having contractions and how long each lasts. Because the fetal heart rate and contractions are recorded at the same time, these results can be looked at together and compared.
Your provider may check the pressure inside your uterus while doing internal fetal heart monitoring. To do this, he or she will put a thin tube (catheter) through your cervix and into your uterus. The catheter will send uterine pressure readings to a monitor.
Fetal heart rate monitoring is especially helpful if you have a high-risk pregnancy. Your pregnancy is high risk if you have diabetes or high blood pressure. It is also high risk if your baby is not developing or growing as it should.
Fetal heart rate monitoring may be used to check how preterm labor medicines are affecting your baby. These are medicines are used to help keep labor from starting too early.
Fetal heart rate monitoring may be used in other tests, including:
Things that may affect the fetal heart rate during labor:
Your healthcare provider may have other reasons to use fetal heart rate monitoring.
Radiation is not used for this test. The transducer usually causes no discomfort.
You may find the elastic belts that hold the transducers in place slightly uncomfortable. These can be readjusted as needed.
You must lie still during some types of fetal heart rate monitoring. You may need to stay in bed during labor.
With internal monitoring, you may have some slight discomfort when the electrode is put in your uterus.
Risks of internal monitoring include infection and bruising of your baby's scalp or other body part.
Note: You should not have internal fetal heart rate monitoring if you are HIV positive. This is because you may pass the infection on to your baby.
You may have other risks depending on your specific health condition. Be sure to talk with your provider about any concerns you have before the procedure.
Certain things may make the results of fetal heart rate monitoring less accurate. These include:
You may have fetal heart rate monitoring in your healthcare provider's office or as part of a hospital stay. The way the test is done may vary depending on your condition and your healthcare provider's practices.
Generally, fetal heart rate monitoring follows this process:
You do not need any special care after external fetal heart monitoring. You may go back to your normal diet and activity unless your healthcare provider tells you otherwise.
After internal fetal heart rate monitoring, your healthcare provider will check your baby's scalp for infection, bruising, or a cut. The provider will clean the site with an antiseptic.
Your healthcare provider may give you other instructions, based on your situation.
Before you agree to the test or the procedure make sure you know:
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Twitter showed off new social features and said it now has 100,000 registered apps, the company's director of platform, Ryan Sarver, said at the Chirp conference in San Francisco today. Seventy-five percent of the company's traffic now comes through external apps.
"Twitter is the way it is because of the ecosystem," said Sarver. "There is no way we can be successful without you guys."
His comments come as Twitter is hoping to reassure developers rattled by the company's recent moves, including comments from investor Fred Wilson in which he suggested some popular categories of apps were "hole fillers" duplicating features that Twitter should handle itself, and launches by Twitter of its own apps for the iPhone and BlackBerry (previously, only third-party developers had created such apps for mobile platforms).
Sarver said that the company's system for allowing people to use their Twitter log-ins on external sites, OAuth, had been rewritten from top to bottom. The company was also retooling the way its denotes places in tweets so all applications "have the same common language" of locations.
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One project potentially useful to developers that Sarver said was set to launch is Annotations. It's a way for developers to add any kind of additional data to a tweet. Specific kinds of metadata — a technical term for data about data –already come paired with tweets. Examples include location, and whether the tweet is a retweet or original.
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Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt Clues and Ideas - How to do a Fun Easter Treasure Hunt!
Are you stuck for Easter scavenger hunt ideas?
When Easter gets near, kids around the world start to get excited. For most young ones, it is the dreamy idea that they are going to be swimming in chocolate eggs for about a week after this popular holiday. However, many parents want to make it something more, especially as many of the kids will be sitting around consuming a LOT of calories during the Easter holiday. For this reason, they want some active Easter games.
This Easter, why not consider running some activities to liven up the holiday. It can make a refreshing change for both the younger members and the more mature folk around (those with a few more years under the belt, but a craving to do something fun still burning strong). These Easter activities can range from challenges similar to that of the famous TV show 'Minute to Win it', crazy scavenger hunts with insane dares, or even educational web fact hunts that are perfect for teaching the real tradition of Easter. There are many ways to run an event, from simple mad dashes for chocolate, to using Easter scavenger hunt riddle clues that challenge teams to think logically, or even setup some photo scavenger hunts where participants must complete tricky photo challenges and present the results to the judges. Whichever you choose, everyone will have a fun day and appreciate that you took the time to organize it.
So, this year consider doing something more than just giving Easter eggs and chocolate. Instead, organize an event that everyone will remember. Easter isn't just about chocolate eggs, it's about history and about people coming together. Scavenger hunts can make the day far more exciting and actually get everyone talking and moving, instead of just sitting in front of a TV.
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Not only is it fun, but it can it can also be very easy to organize, as you can simply download professional ready-made riddle Easter egg treasure hunt clues (you can click the blue link for more info, then click the graphic image of the hunt you want). This site linked to above even has a HUGE page of scavenger hunt ideas that it shares completely free to all visitors, along with downloadable scavenger hunt clues for children and adults ... in case you don't want the kids to have all the fun lol. Alternatively, you can search forums and activity sites for ideas, but either way, there are many ways to make a scavenger hunt amazingly fun, even when on a tight budget.
To reduce costs even further, you could also expand the event with some pre-event craft activities. This not only helps to take up the day varied, but prolongs the anticipation of the main event, dramatically rising excitement levels for the hunt. Organizing an egg painting day with the kids that will be involved prior to the main event can be a wonderful start to the day. Just get everyone around in the morning and get them to decorate 5-10 beautiful eggs each (hard boiled please, you know what will happen if you don't!! lol). This will be fun and keep them entertain for a couple of hours. You could even award small prizes to to the most inventive, beautiful, or colorful eggs.
While the eggs are drying, consider having an Easter picnic for everyone, especially as this will likely be around lunch time. If you tell the kids in advance, they can bring something each to the day, which means the food will surely be fun and random in nature. However, you could also include a simple cooking class at this point, where the participants can create there own exciting sandwich concoctions. Just be sure to set the rule that they eat what they create, as you will get some extreme sandwiches otherwise, most of which will be left after one bite! Pizzas are also another fun activity, but this does depend a lot on the amount of space you have for preparation and also on your cooking facilities. If you have nice neighbors, maybe a few would let you use their ovens for cooking, especially if their kids are a part of the party ;-).
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Ready-made riddle scavenger hunts are available for download now. Easter just became a little more fun with our special Easter scavenger hunt clues, which is sure to be both fun and challenging for all involved.
After an Easter Picnic ...
After the picnic, the hunt can finally begin. If you do the traditions style, you will need to have hidden all of the eggs previously, in order to make sure they don't see where you put them. However, for an easier option, gather some Easter scavenger hunt clues and place the items/creatures around the garden/town (you can also just place pictures or models, depending on what is in your garden). When these are setup, the kids must first solve the riddle in their team. Once they know the answer, they whisper it to you and race off to find the item. Once they find the item, they take a photo with them doing a funny pose (mobile photos are perfect) and run back to you to get the next clue and an egg. Then, finally after the last clue, the team to complete it first wins and will be the team with the most eggs (if nobody has 'swapped' any eggs). To make it last longer, give a prize for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, or even continue for all teams to complete the hunt in their own time, just give the 1st place team something bigger/better than the rest. For older children, a town Easter scavenger hunt can be an exciting day out, as they will literally have to race around the entire town, not just the back garden. All this will make Easter a fun day for everyone!
If you are unlucky and the weather is bad, you can also have indoor scavenger hunts. This is then done either online, or in the house. Online scavenger hunts are great, teams need to find the answer to Easter questions and photos of the answer for Easter clues. Although it is not as fun, it can be educational for those involved and they will still want to win the prizes. You can also hide Easter clues around the house and have an indoor Easter scavenger hunt, but you need to keep the numbers of players lower (unless you have a mansion of course). This is still exciting, especially for children. Even adults like it, as they know a 'treasure' is waiting at the end lol.
So now your have some ideas, go make Easter an adventure this year! I hope this has helped to get you started. If you try some of my suggestions, please let me know how they worked out for your Easter scavenger hunt, or themed day. Thanks for reading
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Scavenger hunts are such fun and kids of all ages love them
Great idea I will share this with the family as we usually have quite a big hunt.
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You are totally a party planner. Your Scavenger hunts are always great and this one is no exception. Thanks for sharing.
Voted up, useful, and interesting, and since its close to Easter, shared.
What a happy day this sounds to be. I love the ideas for adding so much more to Easter festivities for kids than just the egg hunt. The craft ideas before the hunt would be so nice!Thanks!
This was such a great read. I waited till the last minute for easter and this hub gave me some really good ideas that I can do still. Thank you so much!
Easter is almost here again. This hub is full of great ideas for an Easter scavenger hunt. Excellent photos too. Voted up, useful, and will share!
Great ideas! We always have a hunt at the grandparents house so I don't do one at home but i am thinking this year is a great time to start some of our own traditions!! Thanks!
My son was just asking yesterday if we could have a scavenger hunt, so this is very timely. Great, creative ideas and thumbs up!
Loved these fun ideas for Easter! There is always so much candy and a scavenger hunt would be a fun way to keep moving. I also love the idea of a picnic which could also include some healthy options. Voted up and sharing!
Interesting and a fun idea about Easter Fun, sounds a great idea. Easter is close by and you thought of an excellent idea.
i love this idea my kid have fun every easter now. thankyou very much
Please could you post just one challenging clue for my seven year old daughter, iv'e got six and we always do her age in clues, help would be much appreciated
I love Easter because it is the start of my favourite season, spring. I can imagine all the kids will have a great time at your Easter party Brett. Good ideas for the egg treasure hunt.
I love sgbrown's Easter tradition of hiding money and eggs so her grown up children can have an Easter Egg hunt every year too
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Great ideas and updates on the traditional. The pictures are beautiful as well. Remember, if your Easter Egg hunt is done indoors and you actually hide eggs, it's a good idea to write down where they are to avoid forgetting and having rotting eggs in July! Voted up and useful.
Great idea! This would be a great fun not only for the children but also for the adults. Voted up and SHARED. Thanks for the tips.
This looks like it would be a lot of fun for the kids and adults alike, and a great way to keep everyone entertained for an hour or two.
Voted up and shared on Pinterest!
I like the idea that the kids must eat the sandwiches the concoct and the egg painting is always a winner.
Thanks for these useful ideas.
I expect to be invaded by the grandchildren this Easter.
Anything to keep them entertained is helpful.
Thanks Brett
Voted up useful and interesting.
SHARING socially this helpful and topical hub.
Great ideas! Most of my grandchildren are a little too young for this yet. I do have an Easter Egg Hunt for my grown kids after the little ones finish their hunt. I will put some $1's,$5's and one egg will have $50. in it. I have to hide them really good to be challenging enough for my grown kids. They look forward to it every year. They ideas may work for my little ones in a year or two. Voted up and interesting! Have a wonderful day! :)
Excellent ideas for an Easter egg hunt, I always for new ideas and way to be creative during the holidays.
What a great idea for Easter. I was trying to think of something different for Easter as this year we might be hosting. I might have to do some sort of Scavenger hunt. Thanks for sharing your ideas! Now I can even incorporate learning into it as well! :)
I like this updated take on the traditional Easter Egg hunt. Voting this Up and Useful. Thanks for SHARING.
I like the idea of the picnic and the unusual sandwich concoctions!
Lovely ideas for Easter and loved the pictures.
A BIG vote up from me and best wishes Lesley
Great ideas. They'll make a nice change of pace from the same old Easter egg hunt.
Voted up and useful. Socially shared.
Great ideas for Easter activities! Especially like the picnic & Egg hunt idea. Love that photo of the metal eggs at the top. Voting you UP and sharing with my followers as always . . .
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Someone in this household is in DENIAL. And it's not him! :)
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My mom started taking me to see the Nutcracker as a very small child (early elementary) and we have gone annually ever since. As I got older, she took me to see other performances as well- Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella... anything Russian that came to our state, we saw. I danced a bit as a child, and a lot as an adult but have *always* been exceptionally drawn to the art. Many dancers see ballet as an avenue to other forms of dance, or at best a foundation. But for me, ballet is the epitome of dance.
So, I was honored when Nicole of N. KRISTINE PHOTOGRAPHY asked me to participate in a styled bridal shoot that was themed around the grace and beauty of ballet.
The shoot was originally featured by ARTFULLY WED but, I'll be showing you my favorite pictures from the shoot, many of which haven't been featured yet, and giving a little behind the scenes info about the experience.
We shot back in March of 2017 on a cold day in Michigan. The venue was gorgeous with distressed walls and muted colors that played perfectly into the palette. If you were to go and rent this space, it would obviously be heated, but the floor we were on was unheated that day and so cold! The (beautiful) wooden floors were also uneven- there was even a warning sign posted, which was an interesting turn of events for a dancer. Between the numb feet and uneven floors, combined with the weight of the dresses and bouquets, this was challenging. I shouldn't have been, but I was surprised at how much more difficult it was to balance en pointe and hold poses in this situation. That was the difficult part for me- just realizing in the moment that this would be 20 times harder than anything I've done on stage or in a studio and having no way to go back in time to prepare. But that's kind of ballet in general- you can never go back and redo a performance.
Ballet is a struggle toward unachievable perfection. My first (adult) instructor and very dear friend told me that with all art- you cannot look back, but only forward, after it is created. While perfection in ballet is an unattainable goal- the crew we worked with absolutely hit the nail on the head. I'm so excited to share their work with you.
The above two photos were taken at the last minute on a different floor. The dress was actually too big for me, so we originally planned not to use it, but it was the only one short enough to showcase ballet or movement. When we were nearly out of time, with just a few minutes left to shoot, we threw it on and snapped a few photos. They ended up being my favorites.
All of the dresses from ALI NICOLE BRIDAL and DETROIT BRIDAL HOUSE took our breath away. Loads of lace, separates, miles of tulle... they are beautiful and timeless choices. The owners of each shop were wonderfully helpful with great suggestions and personalities that would set any bride at ease. I didn't get the chance to visit Detroit Bridal House in person, but I did spend some time at Ali Nicole Bridal and LOVED her boutique! I would definitely plan a return visit to pick up cute accessories and clothing.
KATHRYN ANN BRIDAL, made me regret my own wedding day! Ladies, if your day is still ahead of you... please order something from Kathryn. Her work is handmade, custom and the passion she has for marriage is reflected in each veil she creates. They will truly be your crowing glory! I've already told Kathryn that if we ever have a vow renewal, I'm coming to her!
She even has a blush veil, pictured above, which made my heart soar.
On set, we had two models, myself (for ballet inspired shots) and an actual model, Tara (for the rest). It was a joy to work with Tara (instagram as @tarafromearth) who is wildly talented. She's an obvious beauty, but also so much fun and easy to be around. I can only imagine how useful her natural intuition in modeling is to those who are photographing her. Tara is so lovable!
It could have been slightly awkward to shoot these photographs, having never met each other before- but it was not! Tara is hilarious, and right after the above right photo she whispered to me, "Sorry about my breath, I just ate an onion bagel." ... it was so unexpected and fantastic that I instantly burst into ugly laughter. The resulting picture was very authentic, but I refuse to share it with you :) When I say ugly laughter- I mean... mega ugly laughter. P.S.- her breath was fine!
I really loved the idea of a bouquet meant to be held upside down, which you can see in most of the more ballet inspired pictures. Samantha had to teach me how to hold it, which was slightly embarrassing.
These invitations from THE INK-STAINED MINSTREL are so well done and perfectly curated. This was one of the only vendors I sadly didn't get to meet, but would love to comment on the beauty of her work!
PRIMP did our hair and makeup for the shoot. I was impressed by their level of knowledge and attention to detail. Kathryn gave each team member photographs of her vision and direction, they took that info and ran with it. They required perfection from themselves, while still having an environment full of fun and laughter- a place any bride would want to prepare for her big day! They're also in The Knot hall of fame, which is a pretty fancy feather to have in one's cap!
You can see the (real) floral comb created by BLOOM in these photos as well. I was pretty excited when Samantha told me I could keep it! I dried the entire comb and am saving it for just the occasion.
This was an eventful day that will go down in history for me as another notch in a dream achieved. I continue to train in the art of ballet, and aspire to get better every day in order to teach those behind me to the best of my ability. I would love to try something like this again!
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For a late walk this afternoon, Susie and I strolled south along the Moselle as far as Montigny-les-Metz. We returned on the towpath of the Canal de Jouy, which links the Moselle river with central Metz. It was constructed between 1866 and 1877 as part of the effort to make the Moselle navigable from Toul to the Rhine. The canal starts near the town of Jouy-aux-Arches, about ten kilometers from the center of Metz. Here's the very point where the canal begins in Jouy with water flowing in from the Moselle (in a picture taken later, on April 11).
Looking downstream from Montigny-les-Metz toward Metz, you can make out the city's main stadium, home to the the local professional soccer team, the Football Club de Metz.
The canal and its banks are home to a lot of wildlife. We saw geese, ducks, swans and other waterfowl, including this heron. A man fishing downstream of the heron was catching fish after fish, with bits of bread as bait. He'd throw the line in the water, wait maybe 30 seconds, and a fish would bite. This happened four times in a row as we watched in amazement.
A number of picturesque barges have found moorings on one side of the canal as it passes by the headquarters of the Football Club de Metz. As the "Chambres d'Hôtes" sign indicates, the blue barge offers bed-and-breakfast accommodations.
As the canal nears the center of Metz, the landscape becomes more formal and the canal's banks become part of the complex of parks along the Moselle. We ended our walk by following paths that past a church garden to the Place de la Republic.
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ESN Coimbra is organised in five departments. However, there are a many and diverse roles and responsabilities to be divided between the members:
President: The President is the leader and the main representative of ESN Coimbra. This role means dealing with institutional partners, supervise the LR (Local Representative) and giving any kind of legal support.
Vice-President: The Vice-President is the one responsible for supervising the main projects organised by ESN Coimbra, such as the Buddy Program, the Mov'in Europe, ExchangeAbility, etc. It also is responsible for helping with the commercial partnerships and for replacing the President whenever its needed.
Treasurer: The treasurer is the one responsible for the financial part of ESN Coimbra, by supervising the budget, by doing the payments, etc.
Communication Department: This department is the one responsible for managing social networks, design, IT, content making, proofreading, online campaigns, website managing, etc. Its mission is to provide useful content to every exchange student living or coming to Coimbra, while making all of our content as pleasing and atractive as possible.
Events Department: This department is the one responsible for organising events such as cultural events, sports and parties. Its mission, being the front line staff, is to integrate exchange students in Coimbra and for providing the most diverse, traditional, and fun activities possible.
Human Resources Department: This department is the one responsible for recruting new members, organising teambuildings and transfering know-how. Its mission is to build a motivated team that is capable to help every exchange student.
Social and Pedagogical Department: This department is the one responsabile for organising social events such as Erasmus in Schools, Social Erasmus Weeks, Tandems, Cinema Nights, etc. Its mission is to make a difference in our community, to let exchange students have an impact in our country and change, not only minds, but also hearts.
Trips Department: This department is the one responsible for organising all kind of trips around the country and for welcoming other ESN sections that are visiting Coimbra. Its mission is to make sure that every exchange student have the oportunity to travel around Portugal.
Secretary: The Secretary is the one responsible for the reunions organisation. It has to provide information of discussed topics in every reunion.
Local Representative: The Local Representative is the 'face' of ESN Coimbra. Also known as "LR", the main objective of this role is to always have someone ready to represent the section either in National Plataforms, either online in major importance discussions.
Buddy Program Coordinator: The Buddy Program Coordinator is the one responsible for the logistic and organisation of Buddy Program IPC and Buddy Program ISMT.
ESNcard Coordinator: The ESNcard Coordinator is the one responsible for updating all partnerships in our website and in esncard.org.
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BALTIMORE, MD (Jan. 9) – The Florida A&M Rattlers had four players to score in double figures, but were unable to hang on in double overtime as they lost by a single point, 79-78, to the Coppin State Eagles at the Physical Education Center on the campus of Coppin State University.
Marcus Barham led the Rattlers with 19 points on 4-17 shooting from the field and 3-of-11 shooting from three-point range. Elijah Mayes and Desmond Williams scored 18 points each, while Justin Ravenel scored 11, including three goals from beyond the three-point arc
Nick Severado led the Rattlers with 12 boards. He was followed by Desmond Williams whose nine rebounds was just one shy of a double-double. Mayes dished out six FAMU assists.
"It was a hard fought game, needless to say. It went to double overtime. Falling behind late there, I thought our guys did a great job of battling…continuing to give ourselves a chance and got it to overtime and things didn't necessarily go our way. We fought and found a way to get it to a second overtime. At the end of the day we had a lot of outstanding individual efforts, but when you commit 23 turnovers on the road, normally that's a recipe for disaster," head coach Robert McCullum said.
The Rattlers kept the game close. After falling behind by as many as eight points in the second half, they battled back to tie the game going into the final seconds of regulation. The Rattlers and Eagles would each score 10 points in the first overtime. In the second overtime, CSU edged out a 12-11 advantage to seal the contest.
CSU's Chad Andrews-Fulton carded 19 points on the night. Lamar Morgan (14), Karonn Davis (14), Cedric Council (11) and Tre' Thomas (10) all scored in double figures for the Eagles.
What's next: FAMU will travel to Daytona Beach to take on the Wildcats of Bethune-Cookman on Saturday at historic Moore Gymnasium.


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Monday, August 29, 2011
Matt Taibbi rightfully lambastes the hypocrisy inherent in the University of Miami football "scandal":
"Objectively speaking, there's no logical reason why it should be wrong to pay a star football player who's helping the University of Miami secure a multimillion-dollar TV deal. But the NCAA says it's wrong, and its officials even wrote a complex series of rules to back themselves up – and, unbelievably, the entire sportswriting community buys the myth.
When stories like this Shapiro thing come out, about teenagers who are caught making the mistake of actually accepting pay for their labor, every pompous, finger-wagging dimwit asshole in the sportscasting world –- and there are a lot of those -- naturally has to sound the moral alarm."
I went to U.M., and even at the time, when the words "Hurricanes" and "football" were never uttered in the same sentence without the word "dynasty" -- and rarely without the word "assholes" -- I couldn't have really cared less about college football. Not saying I don't love football; I do, actually. NCAA football is just one of those things I've never really allowed myself to become a slave to fretting over one way or the other. That said, is the U.M. scandal honestly all that big a deal? Great, so some criminal gave a bunch of kids a leg-up in the grotesque lifestyle our entire culture has programmed them to strive for and which they were almost sure to become the next arbiters of anyway. Are we really gonna pretend that the greed that drives today's college sports is somehow of a higher moral caliber than the greed that drives professional sports? Jesus, that's a laughable conceit. Talk about misplaced righteous indignation.
Although, I really love Taibbi's take on ESPN blabber-putz Colin Cowherd:
"Cowherd, for whom a jewel-encrusted throne thirty feet high is undoubtedly already being constructed in raging sportscaster blowhard Valhalla, went one further – saying these kids should have been more like Jesus, who after all didn't mind being poor."
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- vera lynn said...
ha! I can't stand Colin Cowherd. I love football, but can't stand college football for this very reason. I'll have to go read the whole thing. thanks.
- Adrienne Saia said...
Just watched "The U," a film in ESPN's 30 for 30 series, the other night. I think Luther Campbell's tongue-in-cheek interview therein sums up the "so what" attitude on the open secret of D1 pay for play. Jimmy Johnson's pretty entertaining too.
I'm an engineering student at a pretty small school. I work my butt off and I'm no lazy kid. I spent over half a decade operating reactors for the Navy before I got a chance to go to school. I know the rewards of effort and I don't fuck around when it comes to my education.
However, there is a kid in my classes that puts me to shame every day. He is a student athlete. For the life of me, I have no clue when this kids sleeps, let alone handles our lab courses that typically take 9 to 12 hours a week (all for 2 credits). His sport is baseball so during the season (which is long as fucking hell), he is constantly on a bus. Game gets rained out? He gets to sit there and wait till the very next day because NCAA requires that rained out games are played with 24 hours. He is basically assured that his "four" year degree will take him six years so that even with a "full" ride, if he wants his degree, he is going to have to pay for the extra two years because he can't handle the usual crazy course load of engineering students.
The "extra" support for student athletes is a fucking joke. Anything beyond the general courses...your on your own. You can't find tutors for classes like ENME 430. He gets the "great" deal of turning his assignments in earlier than everyone when his sports schedule conflicts with classes. Same is true for exams. His coaches? Yeah..he gets told on a regular basis that if he was "serious" about his game, he would change his major to something that would not take as much time (such as "general education"). The kicker...we are a tiny school. He is supposed to get a fucking useless degree so he can spend more time for a sports program that at best...has maybe 6 people show up for games. Our school is hard core about academics and even here...we have assholes pressuring student athletes to cut corners on their education, for the benefit of the college sports team.
Screw any of these assholes judging these kids.
- kanye said...
Be more like Jesus?
Well, that would mean a bunch more Hail Mary's, and I was under the impression that Hurricanes aren't all that fond of that particular play.
My favorite dopey blowhard Cowherd line: Bike racing isn't a sport because the bike does half the work. Not an exact quote, but quite close. Think what you want about bike racing as sport... but the bike sure doesn't do half the work.
Like many American middle-aged men, I love football. I am sure a significant number of my ancestral demographic in ancient Rome had the same passion for sports and games. They were much more honest about "athletes." They were kept and paid for entertainment, nothing more. I am sure that some catamite (the Roman version of that twit Mike Lupica) tried to defend the gladiator games as some great moral epic and criticized some slave for dying in the arena without a showing of proper respect for the institution.


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There was a slight problem with this. He ordered it on Friday the 1st of June and needed it for Monday the 4th. This was an issue in that our Queen, god bless her, was having her party! No way it was getting delivered!
Oh the other issue was that this guy runs his shop from Andorra. Which is in the Pyrenees.
This didn't phase us though, so we drove there to personally deliver said power supply, and we had a very happy customer in return....
A few facts about the wonderful country of Andorra.
- Highest capital city in Europe (that's Altitude....not anything else)
- 0% Income Tax
- It doesn't have an airport, or any train lines
- 1 litre of Smirnoff Vodka costs €6.00
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|Alex at MyMac Andorra, giving our staple gift of a MacKing Mug!
|one big ass bridge, me and her maj waving the flag for England!
|The MacKing Mondeo / MacKing Polo were busy so we took this one - soon to be wrapped in MacKing colours!
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It is three days before Christmas and a bitter wind is blowing across Norfolk.
Until her daughter was born, forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway didn't do Christmas, but now that Kate is a year old, she wants it to be special.
She must get a tree, shop for food, clean the house, buy presents, including one for her new boyfriend—who she isn't even sure is her boyfriend—and remember to get the turkey out of the freezer.
But time is rushing by and the best-laid plans don't always work out …
This book is number four and a half in the Ruth Galloway series of books. I am really enjoying this series and very recently read The House at Sea's End and A Room Full of Bones. I also reviewed The Janus Stone just a few months back, all of which I have really enjoyed.
So, it was perfect timing that I had recently read A Room Full of Bones, which was number four in this series as I then came across this little gem of a short story which picks up exactly at the point where the previous book leaves off. What's more, how perfectly seasonal is the timing for this book to fit in so precisely with my reading of this series.
If you want to read something quick and seasonal do give this delightful short story a go. In all honesty, it won't really matter if you haven't read the previous books as this short story is fairly stand alone and I read it in about an hour. Furthermore, it is available as a fee kindle download on Amazon so what's not to like?
I love this series of books and am planning on reading the next in the series very soon. If you haven't previously read any of this series and enjoyed getting to know archaeologist Ruth Galloway, DCI Nelson and their co-hort then I strongly urge you to treat yourself this Christmas. I know I will be.
Publisher: Quercus
Price: Free
About the author:
Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway novels take for their inspiration Elly's husband, who gave up a city job to train as an archaeologist, and her aunt who lives on the Norfolk coast and who filled her niece's head with the myths and legends of that area.
She has two children and lives near Brighton.


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What are new models of scholarly communication? They can be dissemination systems, publications, or publishing practices. Perhaps the one common factor is that they are Internet-mediated. Entirely new dissemination processes—for instance, mediated by digital repositories—are emerging. Libraries and others in higher education are taking on a larger role in the dissemination of research.
Dissemination in multiple forms is becoming the norm for traditional publications. Not only are electronic versions of many print publications now a norm, authors' manuscripts or supporting documentation can be made available through disciplinary or institutional repositories. With digital technologies enabling broader access to research findings, many research funders are encouraging authors to deposit some copy of their work into a public archive.
Publication forms usually are "new" because they offer a new genre (or form of presentation), business model, new way for authors and readers to communicate, approach to peer review, or some combination of these. New models may also combine forms of content that could not be usefully published together in print form. Research articles can be integrated with primary source material on a single site, commentary can be integrated into a monograph, learning objects, working papers, and a blog may be available from a single site.
New models are not hypothetical or looming on the horizon; already, more than a decade into the Internet Age, researchers and scholars have profoundly reshaped their communication practices. These are the beginning of what will be a long process of reexamining and transforming those practices. As a second generation of Web technologies emerges, many research institutions are investing in a new set of activities based on a richer understanding of how much is involved in change and how much change is involved.
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DESOTO COUNTY, Miss. -- "We don't like to say we have a gang problem, but we have a gang problem," DeSoto Sheriff Bill Rasco said.
Now law officers from departments across DeSoto are joining together to stop it.
They say incidents like the recent drug deal just down the street from Southaven Police Headquarters that ended with one man dead and an officer injured likely have gang connections.
Sheriff Rasco says a new gang task force includes officers from all jurisdictions and will root out problems wherever they turn up, "If they have a problem in the city, we're gonna shift to that area where there's been a problem. We're gonna take care of it and move to the next city or move to the county."
He believes by working together, these departments can put a lid on growing violence in DeSoto.
Police say gang members have lived here for years, but mostly did their business elsewhere. Now that's changed, with officers chasing gang violence from town to town across DeSoto County.
Southaven Police Chief Tom Long says it's getting worse, "It seems to us to have changed in the past year to where now, we're starting to see them organize to establish, maybe a territory, a lot more wearing of colors."
The task force also includes an assistant district attorney to tackle violence that's making its way past DeSoto County.
"I've got cases right now where I've got defendants in Tallahatchie County from Horn Lake. I've got a case in Panola County with a defendant from Southaven," District Attorney John Champion said.
Sheriff Rasco says the effort also includes a gang expert working in the jail and help from Colonial Hills Church, "We want this County to be safe and that's the goal for this whole group."
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Should we use Disney Transportation or drive our car?
We will be starting our vacation on March 19, 2011. My plan is to check in to our hotel (Coronado Springs), go to Downtown pick up our park tickets at the will call station, do a little bit of shopping and looking around, and then go to Ft. Wilderness for smore's and a movie, and back to the hotel for an early night because according to Dad we must get up early to be at the parks when it opens.
Now my question. Should we use the Disney Transportation or our car to get around?
Dad's don't leave the driving to Disney AnswerThis is an easy one. To get from the Coronado Springs to Downtown Disney to Fort Wilderness Campground to Coronado Springs on the Disney bus system would try the patience of any bus rider. Just getting back to the resort after the movie will be a challenge. You have to take a bus to one of the parks (if any are still open) then catch another bus back to the Coronado Springs.
Yep, driving your own car is the way to go. (By the way, if you got your tickets from Disney, you should be able to get them at your hotel when you check in.


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WASHINGTON -- Initial claims for unemployment benefits dropped again last week, to 393,000, as the jobs market continued to recover from Superstorm Sandy.
The new data came as a top Federal Reserve official estimated the devastating storm had a significant effect on the nation's economy.
New jobless claims were down 23,000 for the week that ended Saturday compared to the previous week, the Labor Department said Thursday.
It was the first time the figure had fallen below 400,000 since Sandy caused it to shoot up to 451,000 for the week ending Nov. 10, the highest level in more than a year and a half.


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4 days. That's how long Canna-Green on Princess Street was open before Kingston Police shut it down. Thursday night the force's street crime unit executed a search warrant.
It lasted almost 5 hours.
"There were quite a few drinks that are labelled to contain THC…"
This is what they found. Large quantities of marijuana, edibles, soft drinks and other items containing THC along with 35-hundred dollars in cash. The value of the pot alone is estimated at more than 4-thousand dollars. Sergeant Brad Brooker says this crackdown is only the start.
– Read the entire article at CKWS Kingston.