text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Certification??? - useful or a waste?? Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Certification??? - useful or a waste?? Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Discussion View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message DaviniaJoined: 14 Mar 2003Posts: 3Location: New Orleans Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 6:49 pm Post subject: Certification??? - useful or a waste?? Hi there! I've been reading up on all the useful tips being given here, but I just can't figure out exactly what the majority says on becoming certified. So, I'm going to ask you, the "experts," about whether I should get some sort of TESL certification and how. I'm graduating in May with a BS and have wanted for some time to teach english abroad. I want to do it the best way but I'm not sure how exactly. I've researched that getting a CELTA certification is the best way, but how do I find a proper institute? Any advice?? What about these courses that last 4 weeks in say Prague or Barcelona, even Thailand? I want to be prepared to teach my students and give them the best opportunities to learn english, so I want to do as much as I can before i start. Thanks for the time! Back to top IrishJoined: 13 Jan 2003Posts: 371 Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 7:32 pm Post subject: Well, it depends... Davinia: Who do you want to teach and where in "abroad" do you want to work? Not trying to be cute here--I only want to point out that the answer to your question depends very much on your goals. As a general rule, I think any good cert program can help you become a better teacher. Obviously, that's good for you and your students but that may not be enough to get you hired to do the kind of teaching you want to do. You've got to figure out what your potential employers require--this varies by country and institution. Going to Eastern Europe? CELTA has the big name there so maybe that's best for you. Prefer Thailand? Maybe it makes more sense to do the program in Thailand. Testing the waters to see if you really want to make a career out of this? Look for something you can use for credit toward an MA. Got your heart set on a university level post in the ME? Forget the cert programs and start sending applications to MA programs now. Sorry to answer your question with more questions but I think you'll get better advice if you can narrow down your goals. If you haven't done so already, stop by the Teacher Training Forum and do a search on the cert programs that interest you so you can see what their graduates have to say about them. Back to top DaviniaJoined: 14 Mar 2003Posts: 3Location: New Orleans Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 10:03 pm Post subject: thanks! Irish- I know I have to make decisions and I feel like I have a pretty good idea of what I want to do: teach english in Eastern Europe or Spain, where I studied for a semester. I don't want to make this my career, but I do want to invest a great deal of effort into it; make an experience out of it. So, my big decision, is whether to invest the $1000 plus on a certification and which program to go through. Is Cambridge CELTA really the best like others have said? What about TEFL? Which programs are reputable and worth the money? Thanks for your advice, too! Back to top CelesteJoined: 17 Jan 2003Posts: 814Location: Fukuoka City, Japan Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 11:58 pm Post subject: I would definitely go with the Cambridge certificate if you plan to teach in Europe. You never need a certificate to get some kind of teaching job at some school somewhere, but the better jobs will want a certificate and/or experience. The CELTA is, to my knowledge, the European standard. My husband did his in a month, and it was gruelling. If you can, it is much better to do it part time over 3 months. 3 months will give you more time to digest all of the knowledge and to practice your new skills. When my husband did the one month version, he was up 'til all hours preparing the next day's assignments, and he was really stressed out about whether or not he was improving enough to pass the course. He felt that had he done the 3 month option that he would have had more time to reflect and more time to put a lot of thought into his assignments. Back to top Paul GJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 125Location: China & USA Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 12:46 am Post subject: Davina: For some good feedback about teacher training programs, take a look at the Teacher Training Forum. http://www.eslcafe.com/discussion/dz1/ Pay particular attention to the discussions that compare the Trinity to the CELTA. The Trinity and CELTA are equally recognized in Europe, but the concensus seems to be that the Trinity is not only more student friendly but also contains elements relating to teaching children, something the CELTA does not have. (CELTA is an acronym for "Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults". Back to top AlbulbulJoined: 08 Feb 2003Posts: 364 Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 10:47 am Post subject: trinity ! My personal prefernce is for Trinity. I am not selling anything, but it seems to me that Trinity is more oriented to the classroom in the real world. Of "TEFL" I know only that som eone has taken an acronym widelsy used in the educational world to market their courses. Back to top DaviniaJoined: 14 Mar 2003Posts: 3Location: New Orleans Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 8:25 pm Post subject: any tips? Thanks for all your advice! So now, I'm researching a program called the Oxford House College Trinity Certificates in Barcelona and even Prague. Anyone heard any info. about this particular program? By the way, did any of you become certified and where? Thanks again. Back to top IrishJoined: 13 Jan 2003Posts: 371 Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 1:12 am Post subject: Not certified Davinia: I'm working on an MA TESL because that's considered the minimum for the kind of teaching I want to do--certification wouldn't help me. Then again, I'm planning on being a lifer and you're not, so our goals are very different. Unfortunately, I don't know about the specific program you mentioned but maybe you should contact schools in the areas where you would like to work and ask what they prefer. CELTA is the big name but Trinity is well-respected also. From what others have said, it sounds like it might prepare you for a broader range of teaching possibilities. And you sound like you're more interested in getting value for your money than the snob value of your cert (good for you). By the way, thanks for actually taking an interest in doing a good job! That probably sounds absurd but you'd be surprised at the number of people who are just looking for fun and adventure and don't care about their students. It nice to know that some people realize they're actually supposed to earn the money. Good luck and let us know what you decide. Back to top Tripmaster MonkeyJoined: 03 Mar 2003Posts: 32 Posted: Sat Mar 22, 2003 7:01 pm Post subject: Choosing a CELTA program Somewhere on this site, there should be a link to Jeff Mohammed's homepage. He has some good recommendations about choosing a CELTA program that you would like. I think the #1 thing that you can check ahead on is who the trainers are and their qualifications. Trainers who have taught the course many times and have worked with their co-trainer for a long time will provide a better product than less-experienced trainers or ones who have never worked together before. This may seem an awkward question to ask, but it could make a big difference in the experience you come away with. 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Dramaturgie im zeitgenössischen Tanz ist ? positiv gemeint ? ein heißes Eisen. Idealerweise sind Dramaturginnen und Dramaturgen während der Erarbeitung eines Stücks die besten Freunde der Choreografen. more
Berliner Zeitung 06.06.2008
Boris Herrmann reveals how the powerful German tabloid publishers Axel Springer has staged a fake Euro 2008 war between Germany and Poland. The Springer-owned Polish tabloid Fakt collaged an image of the Poland national trainer Leo Beenhaaker looming behind German captain Michael Ballack, his sword ready to strike: "Take us back to Grunwald, Leo" the headline blares, in reference to the Polish victory against German knights in 1410. The Springer-owned German tabloid, Bild Zeitung, then feigned outrage at this Polish affront. "The more poisoned arrows, the better, for Springer Verlag. The more the so-called Euro2008 war escalates, the longer Fakt and Bild can battle it out in their headlines â to the satisfaction of the sales department of the parent company. Alfred Draxler, deputy editor-in-chief of the Bild talked on Spiegel online about 'healthy in-house pluralism'. In-house pluralism is not a bad way to describe the sort of pseudo journalism, which stages reality, only to make a story about it." Today the Bild is up in arms again about Fakt: "No end in sight to their hectoring".
Rheinischer Merkur 06.06.2008
In an interview with Hans-Joachim Neubauer, Günter Grass, back from a German-Russian writers' meeting, jumps to Putin's defence: "We have to take into account that Russia has never had the chance to practise democracy. Not only Putin, but Gorbachev too, came from the secret police. In a closed dictatorial system, all the best minds work in the secret service."
Jungle World 06.06.2998
Doris Akrap talks to Austrian cabaret artist Lukas Resetarits about the great question of left-wing humour. "It exists in Austria. But the worse thing that every entered the world of political cabaret, was German '68 cabaret. This left-wing humour can't even depress the audience, because it's already in a waking coma."
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 06.06.2008
Karen Krüger and Hans-Christian Rößler talk to Sudanese translator Daoud Hari (publishers website), who reports as an eye witness on the genocide in Dafur. He still can't believe that no one is intervening to stop the killing, and he blames China for continuing to deliver weapons to the regime. "What China is doing in Darfur has nothing to do with politics, it's a crime. There are hardly any images of the killings in Darfur. It has become much too dangerous for journalists enter the country and so everything is taking place in the dark. I can't understand how any one can watch the Olympic Games when there is a bloodbath happening in Darfur. No Germans should go to Bejing for the Games and they should try to prevent anyone else from going."
Die Welt 06.06.2008
Berthold Seewald visited an exhibition of the treasures of the Burgundian court â gold and silverware, carpets, jewellery, reliquary, bibles, and liturgical vestments â in Bern, all of which was looted by Swiss armies in the 15th century before the country converted to a business model: "While their neighbours continued to slaughter one other, the Swiss started storing treasure, in museums, but also in the cellars of banks in Zurich's Bahnhofstraße."
Die Tageszeitung 05.06.2008
This year's prestigious Peace Prize of the German Book Trade has been awarded to the artist Anselm Kiefer. Literary editor, Dirk Knipphals, approves of the idea of awarding the prize for non-written intellectual accomplishments, but only in theory: "In the statement issued by the jury explaining its decision, there is a sentence which will dampen any enthusiasm for the choice: 'Kiefer appeared at an ideal moment in history to transcend the post-war dictate of non-committal and non-concrete representation.' This has nothing to do with furthering peace; the Peace Prize is simply being used to tip the scales in the debate about abstract and avant-garde art."
Writing for die Welt, however, Eckhard Fuhr praises the jury for its courageous decision. "There's no way of knowing whether Kiefer approaches the national myths with critical intent or whether is using them to play his artist's game. If such a thing could be decided, Kiefer, alongside Gerhard Richter, would not be Germany's greatest contemporary artist."
Frankfurter Rundschau 05.06.2008
Ursula Baus describes how the Chinese adventures of a German architects office, netzwerkarchitekten, went terribly wrong. "Together with the engineering company Jaakko Pöyry Infra, netzwerkarchitekten entered and won a competition to design the new M5 metro line in Bejing. The station, which has now been built, looks almost identical to the designs on the outside, but its interior is catastrophic. And the prizewinners have neither been credited as creators, not did they receive the 8,000 euro prize money, and they were certainly not commissioned to provide the planning service for the station."
Die Zeit 05.06.2008
In conversation with Hanno Rauterberg, architect Rem Koolhaas defends his Chinese state TV tower against a spleenish media and in the process, delivers up a shining example of dialectical hypocrisy. "The West is critical, only critical... We just have to recognise that China has no tradition of individual rights." And then he goes on to blame the media for making him what he is: "Who invented star architects? The media, with its insatiable appetite for sensation and images. This has had a huge influence on people's expectations of architects. They are no longer called upon to design well-considered, complex buildings; they have to deliver landmarks, icons which can be marketed by the media."
Jörg Lau quotes in his blog from a speech which Islam scholar Christine Schirrmacher, was prevented from giving in Traun, Austria, on the grounds that she was Islamophobic. Here an excerpt: "It is a worrying fact that a number of Islamic organisations are actively trying to prevent anything 'negative' being published about Islam, on the grounds of discrimination. In other words, there should be a veto on anything that is not written from a Muslim point of view (a development which, in Britain for example, is far more advanced through Islamic lobbying). It remains to be seen how 'vigilantly' western society follows this development and to what extent it is prepared to defend its hard-won freedoms of the press and expression."
Neue Zürcher Zeitung 04.06.2008
Lukas Wick reports on the heated debate in France (more here) that was sparked by medievalist Sylvain Gouguenheim in his book "Aristote au Mont-Saint-Michel - Les racines grecques de l'Europe chretienne". "In this book the hitherto irreproachable professor of the University of Lyon voices his doubts about the importance of Arab-Islamic civilisation in the development of European culture. The idea of a medieval Europe sinking in ignorance until it was rescued by the rediscovery of Antiquity in Arabic writings, he says, is a myth. There was never a break with Greek Antiquity in the Middle Ages, however much historians might have tried to claim the contrary."
Süddeutsche Zeitung 03.06.2008
In an tender obituary to Yves Saint Laurent Gerd Kroencke quotes one of the couturier's maxims: "The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there."

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Aah, such fond memories of Blood Gulch. It was easily the most enjoyable CTF map in the original Halo, and it's never been far from Halo players' hearts; it's even playable in Halo: Reach.
YouTube user HitmarkerVS agrees, and has gone so far as to immortalize the classic map in Minecraft. Lookin' good, HitmarkerVS.
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Globe Trekker "London City Guide 1" Jonathan begins his exploration of the city on a double-decker bus tour of famous sites.G
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Outdoor Idaho "Trip to the Moon" One early traveler called it the strangest 75 square miles in North America. Characterized by one of the only continental hot spots in the world, Craters of the Moon encompasses three quarters of a million acres of lava flows, sagebrush, rolling hills... and a few surprises. Part of it is managed by the National Park Service, as a national monument. And it may be as close as any of us will ever come to a trip to the moon.G
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Dialogue "Annette Gordon-Reed: Conversations from the Sun Valley Writers' Conference" The historian speaks with host Marcia Franklin during the Sun Valley Writers' Conference. Gordon-Reed won the 2008 National Book Award and the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for her book on Thomas Jefferson and the Hemings slave family, which he owned.G
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Yesterday, a Friday, my youngest son, a four-year old, attended his first Christmas Party in school. For three days, we have been mulling over what gift he would bring to school as his Nursery teacher suggested that instead of the usual exchange of gifts, parents were requested to buy presents for their own respective child. In this manner, the amount of the gift would not really matter as in the case of exchange gifts when often times, the receiver might get a less costly gift than the giver had given.
Yes, my wife and I asked our youngest son what he would want as a gift. Several choices he said: a guitar, a drum set, and a Ben 10 train set. I have already canvassed the prices of the two musical instruments he was pining for: the guitar costs about ₱800; and the drum set about ₱2,600! The Made in China, Ben 10 No. 877-31 battery-operated train set, consisting of a rail track and three carriages cost only ₱110.
My wife reminded me that maybe we should get a gift much grandiose than what my son's classmates, or their mothers, have said they were getting: an electric motorcycle, a Jillian talking doll, a mini car, etc. These things cost at least ₱3,000 to as much as ₱5,000 each! Explaining to her that with only a six-day duty per half-month for six months now, we simply cannot afford to buy my youngest son a gift just to impress the other parents! We, particularly my son and I, settled on the Ben 10 train set.
The day before yesterday, after a haircut, my son and I bought the Ben 10 train set. Then we decided to shop for some other toys in a local discount department store. He settled on two sets: one six-piece lock-and-brake mini-Police Cars and another four-piece Catena lock-and-break SUVs. All Made in China! At four years old, my youngest son has this peculiar habit of playing with his toy cars as if all of them were members of the wrestling federation. He imagines these toy cars were capable of kicking, boxing, or flying in mid-air collisions that I decided that it was not really economical to buy more expensive versions of these toys only to be shattered after these flying encounters.
On our way back home, we also reserved plane tickets for our Christmas vacation starting 22 December. A one-way ticket Manila to Legazpi per person costs about ₱6,500 each! The return flight would be scheduled the day before school resumes for my youngest son.
On Wednesday, I took a dental appointment for a tooth extraction scheduled for Friday. Thus, while my son, accompanied by my wife, was enjoying his first Christmas Party in school, I was sitting in a dentist chair having my tooth pulled. Also the day before yesterday, I received a SMS regarding a Christmas Party on Saturday for supervisory and up. Initially, I confirmed attendance but declined minutes after receiving the SMS after recalling that I was scheduled for a Friday dental appointment. I know that I would not be enjoying the merriment on Saturday after having a tooth pulled the day before.
While writing this post, my wife and son already home after the Christmas Party and me, still feeling the pain from the tooth pulled, I am contemplating on what my work colleagues were doing in the Christmas Party. It was scheduled to be held at 17:00H today, and with limited power supply inside the plant, maybe they chose another venue for the party.
Since Global Steel Philippines (SPV-AMC), Inc. [GSPI] declared the so-called forced leave last 04 December 2008, all the succeeding Christmas Parties many of my work colleagues planned were for the spirit of just having one. When it comes to the celebrating Christmas, apparently the company had not been as excited as the locals were. The expatriates, being mostly Hindu, don't celebrate Christmas, either. So who could blame them? They're blameless, I guess.
The last time the company celebrated Christmas, as a whole, was three years ago. During the company-sponsored Christmas program in 2007, there were no more fireworks like in 2005, nor was the Jollibee package for each employee was more than the first Christmas celebrated by GSPI in 2004. Apparently, in 2007, only those on-duty personnel were included in the raffle of door prizes, and if one's number was called but was not around, the particular door prize had to be re-raffled.
Ah! Nostalgic of the NSC era, especially during one of its Christmas Programme, when the company raffled off a brand new car and the winner immediately drove it home after winning! And some people said that NSC then was not the golden age for this Iligan-based steel plant? A few yet still believe that the present era, the so-called Golden Orange era, will bring forth a golden age much more greater than the last! Is it not a wonder that these few people still really believe that hype when the current indications are predicting something much lesser than the plans envisioned years ago?
I still believe that Christmas is for children. Being an adult, twice over, or as some say, grumpy, not so young man, this writer still believe that hope is eternal. But hope is not strategy! A certain people have labeled certain posts in «The Grey Chronicles» as misinformation, short of calling it baloney or a pack of lies, well as they are entitled to it, this writer respects their opinion, but stands by what was written.
Maybe in due time, when everything falls into place, when they will have the time to look back and see it with their own eyes what the past foretells, then and only then they would accept the folly of their wisdom. This writer doubts, moreover, when that realization comes to them or when they are no longer afraid of what the future holds, they could not undo any mistake they had done for they would never acknowledge that it was a mistake in the first place.
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Profar called up as Kinsler heads to DL
Best prospect in baseball joins Rangers, to start Monday against A's
ARLINGTON -- Jurickson Profar, baseball's top prospect, is back in the big leagues.
On Sunday, the Rangers placed Ian Kinsler, their leadoff man and most consistent hitter, on the disabled list retroactive to Friday with a strained rib muscle in his right side and recalled Profar, MLB.com's No. 1 overall prospect.View Full Game Coverage
Manager Ron Washington said Profar will get a decent amount of playing time while Kinsler is on the disabled list, including a start Monday against Oakland.
"Obviously, I feel bad for what happened to Kinsler, but he's going to be back soon. I see it as an opportunity for me to play here," Profar said.
Kinsler, who leads Texas with a .302 batting average, tested himself Sunday but experienced discomfort. The Rangers then made the move to send him to the DL and bring Profar up from Triple-A Round Rock.
"He went in the cage, he swung, he actually didn't feel comfortable and he doesn't want it to get worse," Washington said. "Along with him, we decided to put him on the DL. We'll give him some time to make sure it's right."
Kinsler did not speak to reporters before Sunday's game, but Washington and general manager Jon Daniels suggested Kinsler's injury is not serious enough to keep him out past 15 days. They said the Rangers acted out of caution.
"It's probably going to be at least a week or so," Daniels said. "One, you don't want to play short and two, you don't want him to push it to come back before he's ready and make it something bigger than it is."
With Kinsler out, the Rangers will get another look at Profar, who played sparingly with the Rangers in September last year, hitting .176 with two doubles and a home run in 17 at-bats over nine games.
This season at Round Rock, playing mostly shortstop in addition to second base, Profar is hitting .278 with seven doubles and four homers in his first 37 games at the Triple-A level. He's walked 27 times and stolen six bases.
"It's different baseball there," Profar said. "You've got a lot of offspeed [pitches] and stuff. I have tried to adjust myself to the pitching and work from there."
Profar has been seeing more offspeed pitches as he has proven he can hit the fastball, Washington said.
"The key is, he recognizes what they're doing," Washington said. "That's pretty wise of a young man to be able to say that at 20 years old."
Leury Garcia, 22, has been filling in for Kinsler thus far.
"I'm not going to stop playing Garcia either because it's his opportunity to play a little bit," Washington said. "I'll try to keep him in the groove there while he has a chance, but [Profar] will play."
Washington said he may give shortstop Elvis Andrus a day off while Kinsler is on the DL, allowing Profar and Garcia to fill out the Rangers' middle infield.
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The intellectual treasures of the Classical civilizations are called Classics because of their unmatched beauty and intelligence, their continuing relevance to the present world, and their ongoing influence on modern thinking. Classical cultures explain much of Western thought. By studying Classics we understand the development of Western literature, art and philosophy and come to see the world of today from a wider, richer, deeper, and more independent perspective.
The Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies is part of the School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics. The School is comprised of six independent departments and six academic programs creating a collaborative environment for interdisciplinary study.
The department encompasses also the broader Mediterranean world, the birth of Hellenism in 18th and 19th century Europe, the spread of Arabic culture to Spain and the birth of modern Arabic and Greek literature.
One of the strengths of the department is the art and the archeology of Ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt. Another one is its history ranging from antiquity to modern times.
Finally, the department offers language courses: Latin, Arabic and Modern Greek.
The UIC Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies is located in downtown Chicago next to the Loop, in UIC's east campus. It can be reached easily by car (off Harrison and Halsted Street) and public transport (opposite the UIC Halsted "L" stop).


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How Do I Gain a Testimony?
Testimony will come to you in pieces as parts of the whole truth of the gospel of Jesus Christ are confirmed. For instance, as you read and ponder the Book of Mormon, verses you have read before will appear new to you and bring new ideas. Your testimony will grow in breadth and in depth as the Holy Ghost confirms that they are true. Your living testimony will expand as you study, pray, and ponder in the scriptures.
The best description for me of how to gain and keep this living testimony has already been referred to; it is in the 32nd chapter of Alma in the Book of Mormon. You may have read it many times. I find new light in it every time I read it. Let's review the lesson it teaches once again tonight.
We are taught in those inspired passages to begin our quest for testimony with a "particle of faith" and with desire for it to grow (see Alma 32:27). Tonight you have felt faith and that desire as you listened to stirring talks of the Savior's kindness, His honesty, and of the purity His commandments and the Atonement made possible for us. So, a seed of faith is already planted in your heart. You may even have felt some of the expansion of your heart promised in Alma. I did.
But, like a growing plant, it must be nurtured or it will wither. Frequent and heartfelt prayers of faith are crucial and needed nutrients. Obedience to the truth you have received will keep the testimony alive and strengthen it. Obedience to the commandments is part of the nourishment you must provide for your testimony.
You remember the promise of the Savior: "If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself" (John 7:17).
That has worked for me, as it will for you.
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Hi everyone! It's Megan from Makewells and I'm here today with a fun practice prompt for you hand letterers out there.
I really think the best kind of practice is the kind that infuses technique AND creativity. And this exercise is great for that! It's also a bit of a challenge - which really motivates me as an artist. Sometimes I need little assignments like this to encourage myself to practice. It's sort of like a game!
Here's how to play: Gather 10 (or more) pieces of paper of any size (I like to choose different colors/types/sizes) and as many drawing supplies as you can! Pick a short phrase (3-5 words) to hand letter, and get busy!
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So...after drawing the phrase 10 times in 10 different ways, there are some I like, some I don't. But as I worked through all 10 of these, I challenged myself to try and make each one work - even if I didn't like the direction it was going.
Out of the 10 drawings, I was most happy with the way I drew the words in this one below, so I used it as a sketch to make a final illustration that I turned into a coloring page, free for you to download!
You can download it HERE!
Enjoy practicing and happy lettering!
Xo, Megan
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Alternative Learning Opportunities
Community Involvement Center
CIC is a transdisciplinary program in the SF State College of Arts and Humanities, Department of English, which expands the dialogic processes inherent to critical thinking into all the ways of human knowing intrinsic to human experience. CIC provides lower and upper division course work appropriate for undergraduates, graduates, and post graduates which allows the development and maturation of a knowledge and skill set known as Critical Reflection. Through the process and practice of Critical Reflection students achieve the ability to be as effective and accomplished in handling and learning from all life experience outside the classroom as they are in negotiating the specialized requirements of scholarship within the University.
CIC can be as simple as taking a break from the classroom to volunteer in the community for units, as helpful as increasing motivation to stay in college and graduate, as critical as helping students explore and choose a major, as practical as developing skills needed to apply for employment, and as advanced as doing research in the nature and development of human intelligence and learning through experience.
CIC provides 3, 4, 5, and 6 units of academic credit per semester for students utilizing life experience as the source and stimulation for learning. Extensive resources for formal volunteer and paid fieldwork placements in community human service agencies are available for students able to complete internships on- and off-campus. Students who do not have the time for internships can propose existing life experience as the basis for critical reflection skills development. In addition to numerous, standard, service-learning courses (see Department of English listings), CIC offers English 696 which fulfills the forty-five hour early field experience requirement for aspiring credential candidates in the State of California.
At CIC, through a distinctively student-administered, nonhierarchical, systems-oriented organizational design, open and interactive service environments, small seminars, and weekend retreats, students of all cultures, nationalities, economic and social backgrounds, ages, class levels, majors, future careers, and existing abilities learn about themselves and our diverse world through interaction, thereby honing their interpersonal, communications, problem-solving, leadership and professional qualities and skills.
For further information about programs and enrollment, visit the CIC Office in the College of Arts and Humanities, Room 135. The Telephone is (415) 338-1486. The Website is cic.sfsu.edu. The email address is firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The Cooperative Education Program offers students an opportunity to receive credit for academically relevant field assignments in which theoretical course work can be applied to real world problems. Students may receive either six units for part-time work or twelve units for full-time work. Accumulated units count toward a Certificate in Cooperative Education. Units are not intended to replace general education or major curricular course work. Limited free elective units may be substituted upon approval of advising faculty, or the cooperative education faculty coordinator within the student's major field of study. This program is open to all university majors. For further information, go to TH 215 or call (415) 338-1050.
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When hosting a party, the excitement is often about the guest list, invitations and the menu, but what about the amount of trash that comes out of gathering with family and friends? In the spirit of Earth Day, we teamed up with Tatiana Grant, president of Infused PR and Events, to share innovative and eco-friendly party planning ideas, so you can increase the fun, while decreasing your waste.
Below are a few tips Grant suggests for keeping waste to a minimum at parties:
• Reduce — Think about future dinners when preparing your party menu. Serve items that will freeze well. If you have leftovers, this will reduce food waste and give you a head start on dinner the following week. Also, companies like eVite allow you to send free virtual invitations instead of sending paper versions, which are harmful to the environment. If you do need to print something, only use recycled paper.
• Reuse — If you entertain frequently, invest in the real stuff – china, flatware, glassware and napkins. Accumulate them slowly by shopping at thrift stores and the sales at your favorite stores. Select a solid color and stick to that color to build a collection you can use year-round. For example, red is great for everything from Christmas to Valentine's Day to the Fourth of July.
• Recycle — Create sorting stations with proper receptacles — trash, recycling and compost — to make sorting waste easy. Then ensure sorting station signage is bright and noticeable so guests know where things go. Use colored chalk on chalkboards, have your kids draw colorful pictures of the recycling symbol, paint signs on recycled wood, or take photographs of your children holding letters that read RECYCLE. Enlarge the photos, place them in frames and hang them above the recycling bin station.
"You don't have to sacrifice style and individuality when introducing eco-friendly elements that promote the three R's into your plans," said Grant. "From 200 wedding guests to intimate backyard barbecues, you can make small changes that will make a big difference in reducing your waste. Going green is crucial to all facets of our lives, including event planning. These tips not only aid in supporting the environment but also save money, which is essential to every event budget."
For more helpful tips, including a how-to guide on planning and executing a waste-conscious event, head to http://www.Glad.com/onebag.
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Should countries not isolate themselves from the world but instead engage
It is my believe that the countries should collaborate among themselves and not be isolated. To achieve the development it is necessary cooperation to achieve a solution for many social issues that affect us in a global way. As Ernst B. Haas asserts: the need for collaboration arises from the recognition of the excessive cost of self-reliance at the national level.
In the current days, globalization seems to introduce us to a world of interconnections where the problems that emerge in a very far place on the planet can affect us. Collaboration among states appears as the solution to cope with the social issues which emerge from the farthest part of the globe. Making more possible the achievement of development in other countries. The proof lies in the fact of the greater amount between governments are related to welfare and wealth.
Furthermore, we can see a global agenda for developed and developing countries to aim better conditions in trade, welfare and social rights. Likewise, this makes compulsory the openness of the boundaries of the nation states, in other words, not been isolated from this process of cooperation and collaboration.
Many international and supranational agencies, required the participation of the states to solve global issues, the most recognizable is the United Nations Organization, this organization makes worthy effort to deal with the global social problem that strokes the societies. I would like to highlight the enact of the millennium goals, this global agenda aims the achieve basic standards in the nations to solve poverty, starvations, and habitability problems.
Therefore, diplomacy is an important feature in the globalization, any country must a have a good diplomatic corps to deal with great management, the relation with other governments and organizations.
In conclusion, countries should have their boundaries open to obtain the benefit of the collaboration among the countries, but at the same time in relation with the supranational and international organization. Helping them each other the countries would be more prepared to cope with different social issues stated above.


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X-Play has announced the winners of their Best of 2012 awards!
These guys made Fable 2 there game of the year over Fallout 3, MGS4, LittleBigPlanet, and GTA4. With Adam Sessler giving it a perfect score and gushing all over Molyneux's accomplishment for making Fable 2 more mediocre than the first.
The bulk of their staff consists of MS fanboys and actual MS employees. Don't believe me? Google Chris Monfette. Reviewed games and reported the "news" for all platforms despite his obvious bias shown every time he appeared on Feedback.
Morgan Webb is the worst of the lot. She says Mario is for kids and Ratchet is for adults. She's the worst kind of Nintendo hater. She will frequently bash Nintendo whenever she's not on that s***y show that hasn't been good for 5 years. She says hardcore gamers only play Xbox in the middle of her Resistance 3 review.
They had a reviews editor that was in the process of being hired at EA review Medal of Honor, an EA game which she bashed for be buggy but still gave it a 4 on their old scale.
Adam Sessler made a Killzone video about people who questioned his integrity, but somehow never wonders why no one ever ever ever accuses them of being paid off by Sony or Nintendo. A quick glance at their reviews page should tell you why people believe the obvious.
I'll truly miss Tech TV but G4 can die in a fire.


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Being an artist today gives a very exciting opportunity to explore the possibilities of expressing ones worldview. Creating at a time when there are no longer defined boundaries of what is and is not possible, or acceptable, means we have the creative freedom that can sometimes be overwhelming.We are aware of the historical precedents, and the multitude of cultures. These elements, as well as connection to Source, feed our imagination.We employ various means of representation to adequately articulate our ideas visually. A work of art, at this moment in time, cannot be judged from the point of view of one culture, a culture amongst other cultures, but has to speak to the world and have some sort of universal value.Contemplating Time and Space beyond the Duality perception, meditating on the nature of human existence, attempting to see beyond the surface, reflecting on unveiling a fraction of the Truth.


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text: Latest Analysis News Sergey Lavrov and Rex Tillerson to meet next week. Is reconciliation back on the table? There are some subtle signs that the Russia-US relations are very slowly beginning to thaw. Published 2 years ago on May 1, 2017 By Adam 1,177 Views Share Tweet A day prior to the resumption of the Astana Peace Talks on Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson have held a phone call to discuss each side's position on Syria and other pressing matters. America has no official role in Astana, but will be keenly interested in the results of this round of discussions. The Russian Foreign Ministry released a summary of the conversation's subject matter as well as confirming a meeting between the two diplomats next week, "Certain issues of bilateral relations were discussed. The schedule of the upcoming Russian-American contacts [was discussed as well], in particular, the meeting on the sidelines of the ministerial Arctic Council talks in Fairbanks (US) was confirmed to be held on May 10-11. The heads of foreign services also exchanged opinions on the Astana international talks on Syria which is to be held on May 3-4". Rex Tillson had previously visited Moscow for the first time as Secretary of State in April. The meeting came shortly after President Putin said that after America's illegal bombing of Syria on the 6th of April, Russia-US relations had "eroded". READ MORE: Vladimir Putin joins the ranks of those disappointed with Donald Trump During his press conference with Sergey Lavrov, Rex Tillerson maintained his professionalism, but ultimately he was widely seen as losing the factual and logical arguments with Lavrov. READ MORE: CHECKMATE: 5 ways Russia outwitted the US in one days The contents of a meeting Tillerson held earlier that afternoon with Vladimir Putin were not disclosed by either side. Today's phone call and next week's meeting do not represent a revival of the détente policies that many had hoped for upon Donald Trump's inauguration, but it does show that after a difficult period in early April of 2017, both sides are at least communicating with each other. This comes as US troops in Syria seem to have backed away from any attempts at conducting regime change. Indeed, the short honeymoon between Ankara and Washington, when Turkish President President Erdogan got strongly behind America's flirtation with regime change, has come to a crashing end. US troops are now stationed on the Turkey/Syria border in order to prevent Turkish forces and their proxy jihadists FSA from attacking the US backed Kurdish led SDF. READ MORE: Turkish President Erdogan wastes no time in using his new dictatorial powers With Donald Trump apparently backing off of hard military action in both Syria and North Korea, it seems that the US may be rethinking the ideological zeal which defined the third month of the still very young Trump Presidency. It is far too early to say whether this will result in a return to the foreign policy pragmatism that Trump promised throughout his campaign and initial months in the White House. However, it is still a very small step in the right direction. That being said, I wouldn't advise holding your breath. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Related Topics:RussiaSyriaNorth KoreaSergey LavrovUnited StatesRex TillersonAstana Up Next BREAKING: Trump says he'd be 'honoured' to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un Don't Miss Trump signals retreat on North Korea, relations with China Advertisement You may like Russia Gives US Red Line On Venezuela Crimea: The Geopolitical Jewel Russia Continues to Polish Trump Demands Tribute from NATO Vassals Click to comment Leave a Reply This comment form is under antispam protection This comment form is under antispam protection Subscribe Notify of new follow-up comments new replies to my comments Latest Russia Gives US Red Line On Venezuela Political force is out. Military force is out. Respect international law and Venezuela's sovereignty. That's Russia's eminently reasonable ultimatum to Washington. Published 8 hours ago on March 24, 2019 By Finian Cunningham Authored by Finian Cunningham via The Strategic Culture Foundation: At a high-level meeting in Rome this week, it seems that Russia reiterated a grave warning to the US – Moscow will not tolerate American military intervention to topple the Venezuelan government with whom it is allied. Meanwhile, back in Washington DC, President Donald Trump was again bragging that the military option was still on the table, in his press conference with Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro. Trump is bluffing or not yet up to speed with being apprised of Russia's red line. The meeting in the Italian capital between US "special envoy" on Venezuelan affairs Elliot Abrams and Russia's deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov had an air of urgency in its arrangement. The US State Department announced the tête-à-tête only three days beforehand. The two officials also reportedly held their two-hour discussions in a Rome hotel, a venue indicating ad hoc arrangement. Abrams is no ordinary diplomat. He is a regime-change specialist with a criminal record for sponsoring terrorist operations, specifically the infamous Iran-Contra affair to destabilize Nicaragua during the 1980s. His appointment by President Trump to the "Venezuela file" only underscores the serious intent in Washington for regime change in Caracas. Whether it gets away with that intent is another matter. Moscow's interlocutor, Sergei Ryabkov, is known to not mince his words, having earlier castigated Washington for seeking global military domination. He calls a spade a spade, and presumably a criminal a criminal. The encounter in Rome this week was described as "frank" and "serious" – which is diplomatic code for a blazing exchange. The timing comes at a high-stakes moment, after Venezuela having been thrown into chaos last week from civilian power blackouts that many observers, including the Kremlin, blame on American cyber sabotage. The power grid outage followed a failed attempt by Washington to stage a provocation with the Venezuelan military over humanitarian aid deliveries last month from neighboring Colombia. The fact that Washington's efforts to overthrow the elected President Nicolas Maduro have so far floundered, might suggest that the Americans are intensifying their campaign to destabilize the country, with the objective of installing US-backed opposition figure Juan Guaido. He declared himself "acting president" in January with Washington's imprimatur. Given that the nationwide power blackouts seem to have failed in fomenting a revolt by the civilian population or the military against Maduro, the next option tempting Washington could be the military one. It seems significant that Washington has recently evacuated its last remaining diplomats from the South American country. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo commented on the evacuation by saying that having US personnel on the ground "was limiting" Washington's scope for action. Also, American Airlines reportedly cancelled all its services to Venezuela in the past week. Again, suggesting that the US was considering a military intervention, either directly with its troops or covertly by weaponizing local proxies. The latter certainly falls under Abrams' purview. After the Rome meeting, Ryabkov said bluntly: "We assume that Washington treats our priorities seriously, our approach and warnings." One of those warnings delivered by Ryabkov is understood to have been that no American military intervention in Venezuela will be tolerated by Moscow. For his part, Abrams sounded as if he had emerged from the meeting after having been given a severe reprimand. "No, we did not come to a meeting of minds, but I think the talks were positive in the sense that both sides emerged with a better understanding of the other's views," he told reporters. "A better understanding of the other's views," means that the American side was given a red line to back off. The arrogance of the Americans is staggering. Abrams seems, according to US reporting, to have flown to Rome with the expectation of working out with Ryabkov a "transition" or "compromise" on who gets the "title of president" of Venezuela. That's what he no doubt meant when he said after the meeting "there was not a meeting of minds", but rather he got "a better understanding" of Russia's position. Washington's gambit is a replay of Syria. During the eight-year war in that country, the US continually proffered the demand of a "political transition" which at the end would see President Bashar al Assad standing down. By contrast, Russia's unflinching position on Syria has always been that it's not up to any external power to decide Syria's politics. It is a sovereign matter for the Syrian people to determine independently. Nearly three years after Russia intervened militarily in Syria to salvage the Arab country from a US-backed covert war for regime change, the American side has manifestly given up on its erstwhile imperious demands for "political transition". The principle of Syrian sovereignty has prevailed, in large part because of Russia's trenchant defense of its Arab ally. Likewise, Washington, in its incorrigible arrogance, is getting another lesson from Russia – this time in its own presumed "back yard" of Latin America. It's not a question of Russia being inveigled by Washington's regime-change schemers about who should be president of Venezuela and "how we can manage a transition". Moscow has reiterated countless times that the legitimate president of Venezuela is Nicolas Maduro whom the people voted for last year by an overwhelming majority in a free and fair election – albeit boycotted by the US-orchestrated opposition. The framework Washington is attempting to set up of choosing between their desired "interim president" and incumbent Maduro is an entirely spurious one. It is not even worthy to be discussed because it is a gross violation of Venezuela's sovereignty. Who is Washington to even dare try to impose its false choice? On Venezuela, Russia is having to remind the criminal American rulers – again – about international law and respect for national sovereignty, as Moscow earlier did with regard to Syria. And in case Washington gets into a huff and tries the military option, Moscow this week told regime-change henchman Abrams that that's a red line. If Washington has any sense of rationale left, it will know from its Syria fiasco that Russia has Venezuela's back covered. Political force is out. Military force is out. Respect international law and Venezuela's sovereignty. That's Russia's eminently reasonable ultimatum to Washington. Now, the desperate Americans could still try more sabotage, cyber or financial. But their options are limited, contrary to what Trump thinks. How the days of American imperialist swagger are numbered. There was a time when it could rampage all over Latin America. Not any more, evidently. Thanks in part to Russia's global standing and military power. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest With RussiaGate Over Where's Hillary? Hillary is the epitome of envy. Envy is the destructive sin of coveting someone else's life so much they are obsessed with destroying it. It's the sin of Cain. She envies what Trump has, the Presidency. Published 8 hours ago on March 24, 2019 By Tom Luongo Authored by Tom Luongo: During most of the RussiaGate investigation against Donald Trump I kept saying that all roads lead to Hillary Clinton. Anyone with three working brain cells knew this, including 'Miss' Maddow, whose tears of disappointment are particularly delicious. Robert Mueller's investigation was designed from the beginning to create something out of nothing. It did this admirably. It was so effective it paralyzed the country for more than two years, just like Europe has been held hostage by Brexit. And all of this because, in the end, the elites I call The Davos Crowd refused to accept that the people no longer believed their lies about the benefits of their neoliberal, globalist agenda. Hillary Clinton's ascension to the Presidency was to be their apotheosis along with the Brexit vote. These were meant to lay to rest, once and for all time, the vaguely libertarian notion that people should rule themselves and not be ruled by philosopher kings in some distant land. Hillary's failure was enormous. And the RussiaGate gambit to destroy Trump served a laundry list of purposes to cover it: Undermine his legitimacy before he even takes office. Accuse him of what Hillary actually did: collude with Russians and Ukrainians to effect the outcome of the election Paralyze Trump on his foreign policy desires to scale back the Empire Give aid and comfort to hurting progressives and radicalize them further undermining our political system Polarize the electorate over the false choice of Trump's guilt. Paralyze the Dept. of Justice and Congress so that they would not uncover the massive corruption in the intelligence agencies in the U.S. and the U.K. Isolate Trump and take away every ally or potential ally he could have by turning them against him through prosecutor overreach. Hillary should have been thrown to the wolves after she failed. When you fail the people she failed and cost them the money she cost them, you lose more than just your funding. What this tells you is that she has so much dirt on everyone involved, once this thing started everyone went along with it lest she burn them down as well. Burnin' Down da House Hillary is the epitome of envy. Envy is the destructive sin of coveting someone else's life so much they are obsessed with destroying it. It's the sin of Cain She envies what Trump has, the Presidency. And she was willing to tear it down to keep him from having it no matter how much damage it would do. She's worse than the Joker from The Dark Knight. Because while the Joker is unfathomable to someone with a conscience there's little stopping us from excising him from the community completely., even though Batman refuses. Hillary hates us for who we are and what we won't give her. And that animus drove her to blackmail the world while putting on the face of its savior. And that's what makes what comes next so obvious to me. RussiaGate was never a sustainable narrative. It was ludicrous from the beginning. And now that it has ended with a whimper there are a lot of angry, confused and scared people out there. Mueller thought all he had to do was lean on corrupt people and threaten them with everything. They would turn on Trump. He would resign in disgrace from the public outcry. It didn't work. In the end Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen and Roger Stone all held their ground or perjured themselves into the whole thing falling apart. Andrew Weissman's resignation last month was your tell there was nothing. Mueller would pursue this to the limit of his personal reputation and no further. Just like so many other politicians. Vote Your Pocketbook With respect to Brexit I've been convinced that it would come down to reputations. Would the British MP's vote against their own personal best interests to do the bidding of the EU? Would Theresa May eventually realize her historical reputation would be destroyed if she caves to Brussels and betrays Brexit in the end? Always bet on the fecklessness of politicians. They will always act selfishly when put to the test. While leading RussiaGate, Mueller was always headed here if he couldn't get someone to betray Trump. And now his report is in. There are no new indictments. And by doing so he is saving his reputation for the future. And that is your biggest tell that HIllary's blackmail is now worthless. They don't fear her anymore because RussiaGate outed her as the architect. Anything else she has is irrelevant in the face of trying to oust a sitting president from power. The progressives that were convinced of Trump's treason are bereft; their false hope stripped away like standing in front of a sandblaster. They will be raw, angry and looking for blood after they get over their denial. Everyone else who was blackmailed into going along with this lunacy will begin cutting deals to save their skins. The outrage over this will not end. Trump will be President when he stands for re-election. The Wolves Beckon The Democrats do not have a chance against him as of right now. When he was caving on everything back in December it looked like he was done. That there was enough meat on the RussiaGate bones to make Nancy Pelosi brave. Then she backed off on impeachment talk. Oops. But the Democrats have a sincere problem. Their candidates have no solutions other than to embrace the crazy and go full Bolshevik. That is not a winning position. Trump will kill them on 'socialism.' The Deep State and The Davos Crowd stand revealed and reviled. If they don't do something dramatic then the anger from the rest of the country will also be palpable come election time. Justice is not done simply by saying, "No evidence of collusion." It's clear that RussiaGate is a failure of monumental proportions. Heads will have to roll. But who will be willing to fall on their sword at this point? Comey? No. McCabe? No. There is only one answer. And Obama's people are still in place to protect him. I said last fall that "Hillary would indict herself." And I meant it. Eventually her blackmail and drive to burn it all down led to this moment. The circumstances are different than I expected back then, Trump didn't win the mid-terms. But the end result was always the same. If there is no collusion, if RussiaGate is a scam, then all roads lead back to Hillary as the sacrificial lamb. Because the bigger project, the erection of a transnational superstate, is bigger than any one person. Hillary is expendable. Lies are expensive to maintain. The truth is cheap to defend. Think of the billions in opportunity costs associated with this. Once the costs rise above the benefits, change happens fast. If there is any hope of salvaging the center of this country for the Democrats, the ones that voted against Hillary in 2016, then there is no reason anymore not to indict Hillary as the architect of RussiaGate. We all know it's the truth. So, the cheapest way out of this mess for them is to give the MAGApedes what they want, Hillary. And hope that is enough bread and circuses to distract from the real storm ahead of us. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest Trump's CIA Now Unbound And Back To Its Traditional Hijinks There is further evidence that suggests the neo-cons, in cahoots with Haspel at the CIA, set out to disrupt the Hanoi summit. Published 8 hours ago on March 24, 2019 By Strategic Culture Foundation Authored by Wayne Madsen via The Strategic Culture Foundation: Under the directorship of torture and black site maven Gina Haspel, Donald Trump's Central Intelligence Agency has returned to its traditional roots of conducting "black bag" operations and disrupting electrical grids through cyber-attacks. The Venezuelan government has accused the Trump administration of giving the green light for a series of crippling power failures in Venezuela, which affected 22 of Venezuela's 23 states, including the capital of Caracas. The long-duration power failures were cited by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as a reason for the US withdrawing its diplomats from Caracas. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced that an international commission assisted by specialists from Russia, China, Iran, and the United Nations would help his country analyze the sources of the Venezuelan electrical grid cyber-attack. Initial cyber-forensics by Venezuela traced some of the cyber warfare being waged against Venezuela to nodes in Houston and Chicago. In addition to electricity, water service was disrupted in Venezuela. From Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Maduro tweeted on March 12: "From the Presidential Command Post, we monitored minute-by-minute the progress of the recovery of the National Electric System." Cyber-attacks on a country that puts its civilian population in jeopardy might, at first glance, appear to be a violation of the Geneva Conventions on warfare. However, without a Digital Geneva Convention, civilian populations are not covered by the current Geneva Conventions. However, in 2015, the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security (UN GGE), which included experts from the United States, China, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, and other nations, agreed that current international law does apply to cyberspace. Most international legal experts agree that the Geneva Conventions require a digital annex to cover the type of cyber-disruption of the Venezuelan electrical grid carried out by the US intelligence services. Hybrid warfare against Venezuela, which includes economic, diplomatic, and cyber, has the backing of the neo-conservatives who now call the shots for the Trump White House. They include, in addition to Pompeo, national security adviser John Bolton; Iran-Contra felon Elliott Abrams, Trump's special envoy to the US-backed opposition-led rump Venezuelan government of Juan Guaido; Cuban-American Mauricio Claver-Carone, the senior director for Western Hemisphere affairs at the National Security Council; and Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio, a Cuban-American, who represents the interests of South Florida's right-wing oligarch exiles from Venezuela and other Latin American countries. While Trump was preparing for his Hanoi summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Trump's second summit with Kim, Haspel's CIA dug into its old bag of black operations, while also engaging in the more modern form of cyber-attack in targeting North Korea. On February 22, 2019, ten males, all wearing masks, broke into the North Korean embassy, which is located in the residential suburb of Aravaca, north of Madrid, Spain, and subjected eight embassy staff members to brutal interrogation tactics, including tying up the diplomats, throwing black bags over their heads (a specialty of Ms. Haspel), and subjecting them to beatings. One female diplomat managed to escape through a second-floor window and her screams alerted a neighbor, who promptly called the police. Two embassy employees required medical attention from their injuries. The Spanish police and National Intelligence Center (CNI) linked two of the embassy invaders to the CIA. "El Pais," a Spanish national newspaper, reported that the CIA issued one of its standard "denials," however, the paper stated that Spanish authorities found the denial from Langley, Virginia to be "unconvincing." "El Pais" reported that the invasion of the North Korean embassy by the CIA had severely harmed relations between Madrid and Washington. The National Police Corps' General Commissariat of Information (CGI) and CNI concluded that the attack and occupation of the North Korean embassy was not carried out by common criminals but was the work of a "military cell" that stole mobile phones and computers. Two of the embassy invaders were identified as Koreans and, based on CGI's and CNI's analysis of security camera video footage, they were further recognized as Koreans linked to the CIA. Spanish authorities did not rule out the possibility that South Korea's National Intelligence Service assisted the CIA in the embassy invasion. The embassy invaders escaped from the embassy using two North Korean luxury sedans bearing diplomatic plates. The cars were later found abandoned. The criminal inquiry into the incident is now before the Spanish High Court, the Audiencia Nacional, which could order the arrests of the embassy attackers and, if they are in the United States or South Korea, have Spain's INTERPOL national bureau put out a Red Notice for their arrest and extradition to Spain to stand trial. Spanish authorities believe the CIA's embassy attackers were looking for information on Kim Hyok Chol, the former North Korean ambassador to Spain, who was declared "persona non grata" by the Spanish government in 2017. Kim Hyok Chol, a career diplomat from one of North Korea's elite families who studied French at the Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies and speaks fluent English, is now one of Kim Jong Un's trusted diplomatic advisers on nuclear talks with the Trump administration and he traveled with Chairman Kim to the failed Hanoi summit with Trump. With certainty, Kim Hyok Chol thoroughly briefed Kim Jong Un on the CIA's storming of his old diplomatic post in Spain. When Trump and Chairman Kim met in Hanoi on February 27 and if the issue of the CIA's siege of the North Korean embassy was brought up, that could have been enough to derail the summit. Considering the fact that war hawks like Bolton, Abrams, and Pompeo are now calling the foreign policy shots for the Trump administration, the attack on the North Korean embassy in Madrid, just five days prior to the Hanoi summit, may have been ordered by Washington's neo-con cell with the intention of scuttling the second meeting between Trump and Kim and put on ice any future meetings. There is further evidence that suggests the neo-cons, in cahoots with Haspel at the CIA, set out to disrupt the Hanoi summit. While Trump was meeting with Kim in Vietnam, the CIA is believed to have launched a cyber-attack on the Korean American National Coordinating Council (KANCC) in New York, an organization with ties to the Pyongyang government. KANCC is a non-governmental organization with offices in the Interchurch Center building, near Columbia University in Manhattan. It champions the dropping of US sanctions against North Korea, a sore point in Hanoi between Trump and Kim. The Trump-Kim Hanoi summit was reported to have hit a roadblock over North Korea's request for a partial lifting of US sanctions on North Korea, in return for the continued North Korean moratorium on nuclear testing and a partial freeze on production of fissile material. With the CIA's attack on the North Korean embassy in Spain still fresh in the minds of the North Korean side and the neo-cons' insistence, pushed by Bolton and Pompeo, for complete North Korean nuclear disarmament, the Hanoi summit was destined for failure. 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A collection of 31 short monologues and duologues of female roles?with scenes taken from rewrites of Shakespeare plays dating from 1670 to the present day. These various fascinating and diverse works have been written by playwrights who have added acts and scenes, axed or created characters, devised entirely new plots using the original characters, added prequels and sequels or satisfied their own very personal ideas about production.
This material is fresh and unusual and will provide exciting new audition and examination material for female players with the inclusion of scenes from Restoration, Victorian and modern versions of Shakespeare's plays. Comparisons with the original text are fascinating and this book will provide a useful contribution to Theatre Study work from GCSE to beyond "A" level.
Contributors include James Thurber (Macbeth) Arnold Wesker (Merchant of Venice) and Peter Ustinov (Romanoff and Juliet). The collection includes a most unusual Japanese version of Hamlet.
There are twenty-four monologues and seven duologues in the book.
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Welcome to the Asia Stocks live blog, a running account of what the region's share markets are doing, along with other news. Today, Hong Kong shares retreat from their recent gains after the Hang Seng Index scored its highest close since January in the previous session.
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- 8:15 pm
- Japan: One fire sale away from retiring its debt?
- by Mike Kitchen
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If you took everything generated in Japan by both the public and private sectors and used it to repay the government's debt, it would take two and a half years to pay everything off.
Yes, Japan's gross government debt last year was a full 243% of its gross domestic product, according to the IMF.
And in terms of net debt, in which what a nation owes is offset by the value of its financial holdings, Japan's level for 2012 was roughly 196% its GDP, compared to 94% for the U.S., 103% for the U.K., and 104% for France (per World Bank data). Even notoriously spendthrift Greece clocked a 2012 ratio of 164% of GDP.
With this in mind, Marcel Thieliant of Capital Economics took a look at just how bad Japan's debt situation is if all its assets are taken into account. In other words, how much debt would be left if Japan not only liquidated all public financial holdings, but also all the buildings, land and whatnot.
"If all public assets, i.e. financial assets, fixed assets and land, are taken into account, Japan's net government debt falls to a mere 8% of GDP in 2012, the most recent year for which data are available," writes Thieliant in a note out earlier this month.
Of course, such an everything-must-go liquidation of all the government's stuff isn't realistic, and as Thieliant notes, the value of these assets would likely be considerably lower in the throes of the sort of crisis that would prompt Japan to sell them.
And even just using the government's financial assets to offset the debt would be a problem, since some — such as the social security fund — can't realistically be used in their entirety.
What's more important, Thieliant argues, is the trend. And here, regardless of what measure you use, the situation is bad.
"Overall … whether or not public assets are taken into account has no major impact on the overall picture which is that Japan's fiscal situation has deteriorated sharply over the past 20 years," Thieliant writes.
- 8:40 pm
- Japan stocks: Bulls make move after flat start
- by Mike Kitchen
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The yen is little changed from yesterday's levels, Wall Street ended little changed, and so too did Japan open little changed.
However, some positive momentum quickly took hold, sending the benchmark Nikkei Stock Average up 0.5% to pare yesterday's 0.9% loss. The broader Topix is up 0.6%.
The strongest advancers are sprinkled liberally throughout the various sectors, with winners including Toshiba (up 1.4%), Advantest (up 2.4%), KDDI (up 1.3%), Japan Petroleum Exploration (up 2.3%), Resona (up 1.1%), and Japan Tobacco (up 1.5%).
Shares of 7-Eleven owner Seven & I are trading 1.3% higher, as the Nikkei reports that the company's quarterly operating profit likely rose 5% to a second straight record.
On the downside, shares of Sony are off 0.1%, and those of Nintendo are down a heavier 1.6%, as the two face off in the videogame arena, along with U.S. rival Microsoft, at the annual E3 industry conference in Los Angeles. (Read more here.)
And news that U.S. tech company Synaptics will in fact buy joint venture Renesas SP Drivers is doing little for the JV's Japanese owners: Shares of Renesas Electronics and Sharp Corp. are up by 0.4% and 0.6%, respectively, in line with the broader market, suggesting the deal was already well priced in.
- 9:00 pm
- Markets check -- 10:00 a.m. in Tokyo
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Tokyo (Nikkei Average) up 0.4%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) down 0.1%
Seoul (Kospi) flat
- 9:25 pm
- Australia inching lower
- by Mike Kitchen
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Australia's benchmark S&P/ASX 200 is currently down 0.1%, holding to its range after ending yesterday 0.1% higher.
Blue chips are softer more or less across the board, including miners (BHP Billiton down 0.6%, Rio Tinto down 0.7%, Fortescue Metals down 1.8%), energy (Oil Search down 0.8%, Woodside down 0.6%), and retailers (Myer down 1.5%, Harvey Norman down 0.3%, though David Jones is up 1%).
The financials are providing most of the support, with CBA and NAB up 0.2% each, ANZ up 0.3%, and Westpac up 0.5%.
And shares of Ramsay Health Care are 0.9% higher, after it and a joint venture partner agreed to buy a controlling stake in France's Generale de Sante SA, which Dow Jones Newswires says makes Ramsay the largest private-hospital operator in the European nation.
- 10:19 pm
- Hong Kong retreats as China Mobile gives up gains
- by Laura He
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Hong Kong stocks are retreating after two straight days of gains, with the Hang Seng Index down 0.4%, while the Shanghai Composite Index is managing to hold on to its Tuesday advance, up 0.1%.
China Mobile, shares of which climbed yesterday after it announced a deal to invest $882 million for a 18% stake in Thai peer True Corp., is losing is lower by 1.8%.
However, some of the mainland Chinese banks that rallied the previous day are extending their winning ways this morning. Among them, Agricultural Bank of China, which is set to benefit the most among the state lenders from the central bank's limited reserve ratio cut, is up 0.5%. Its peers China Construction Bank and Bank of China are each edging 0.2% higher, while ICBC is trading flat.
Local mainland bank Chongqing Rurual Commercial Bank, also a major beneficiary of the People's Bank of China's latest move, is up 0.4%, adding to its 3.8% rally yesterday.
Meanwhile, Macau casino operators are enjoying a rebound after a broad sell-off in the previous session. Galaxy Entertainment Group is climbing 2.8%, Sands China and Melco Crown Entertainment are rising 2.2% each, and MGM China Holdings is up 1.9%.
Tech stocks are also stronger, with software supplier Kingdee International Software up 3.2% and Tencent Holdings gaining 1.7%.
- 11:35 pm
- Markets check -- 11:35 a.m. in Hong Kong
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Tokyo (Nikkei Average) up 0.3%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) down 0.4%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) down 0.3% (at break)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) down 0.3%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.1%
Taipei (Taiex) flat
- 11:40 pm
- World Bank worries about China as it cuts estimates
- by Mike Kitchen
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The World Bank is making news today with its downgrade to this year's global growth forecast to 2.8% from its January estimate of 3.2%.
Much of the cut in the headline number was tied to the weather-related contraction in the U.S. earlier this year (it slashed its U.S. growth forecast to 2.8% from 2.1%) and fallout from the fighting in Ukraine, among other issues. (Read more here.)
On the surface, China escaped with relatively light punishment, its 2014 economic growth trimmed slightly to 7.6% from 7.7%, with the 2015 projection unchanged at 7.5%.
But the World Bank also warned of that a hard landing for the Chinese economy represented a "major risk."
"A sharper-than-expected slowdown in China, triggered by disorderly unwinding of imbalances, would generate substantial headwinds in the region," the World Bank report said.
"In the process of rebalancing the Chinese economy, an unexpectedly sharp adjustment of property prices and disorderly deleveraging could lead to a significant fall in investment rates, an abrupt slowdown in output growth, and substantial spillovers within the East Asia region, especially on commodity exporters," it said.
You can read the enitre World Bank "Global Economic Prospects" report here.
- 12:20 am
- Markets check -- 1:20 p.m. in Tokyo
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Tokyo (Nikkei Average) up 0.3%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) down 0.3% (at break)
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) down 0.3% (at break)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) down 0.3%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.1%
Taipei (Taiex) down 0.1%
- 12:23 am
- ... And in other news
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Here are some more news items making headlines in Asia today:
Alibaba completes biggest-ever Chinese Internet merger
Giant Japan fund to buy more stocks, foreign bonds
Australia consumer confidence ticks up
Big Japan corporations see economy deteriorating
Singapore growth to hold steady, economists say
- 1:26 am
- Hong Kong worried after China's white paper
- by Laura He
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Seventeen years after Hong Kong's transfer to Chinese sovereignty, concerns are growing in the former British colony about democratic rights and freedoms.
The rising tensions come after China's central government issued its first-ever white paper on Hong Kong, reiterating Beijing's control over the territory and warning that "external forces have been plotting to interfere in China's internal affairs using Hong Kong."
The document has prompted protests, with some saying it's meant to counter upcoming demonstrations and an unofficial public referendum on how Hong Kong's future elections should be run.
Read more on the political tensions in this MarketWatch report.
(Pictured: Marchers carry colonial-era Hong Kong flags in a previous political protest in 2012.)
- 4:16 am
- Markets check -- 4:15 p.m. in Hong Kong
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Tokyo (Nikkei Average) up 0.5% (closed)
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) down 0.3% (closed)
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.1% (closed)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) down 0.3% (closed)
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.1% (closed)
Taipei (Taiex) down 0.1% (closed)