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Democratic mayors are rushing to protect their cities' businesses from President Donald Trump's promise to cut federal funding from "sanctuary" cities which refuse to help enforce the nation's popular immigration laws.
"Half the new businesses in Chicago and the state of Illinois come from immigrants, nearly half," Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel told reporters on Monday. , while conflating the economic impact of legal and of illegal immigration. "We want to continue to welcome people, welcome their ideas, welcome their families to the city of Chicago, who want to build the American dream for their children and their grandchildren," he said in New York. Trump's opposition to sanctuary cities would not have an impact on legal immigration.
"We will fight to protect the safety and dignity of all Angelenos, and we will work closely with our representatives in Congress to make sure that Los Angeles does not go without federal resources that help protect millions of people every day," said L.A.'s Mayor Eric Garcetti, whose "sanctuary city" policies hinder enforcement of immigration rules.
"We are going to become this administration's worst nightmare," Melissa Mark-Viverito, the Speaker of the New York City Council, claimed Monday. She spoke at a meeting of pro-immigration mayors from many cities Seattle, Chicago, Denver, New York and Philadelphia.
Legal and illegal immigrants play a huge role in expanding the economies — and the national political clout — of major cities. In contrast, most American cities rely on young Americans, new companies, new technology, and greater productivity to grow their economies.
The Los Angeles metro area, for example, hosts roughly 4.5 million legal and illegal immigrants who boosted the city's size by 50 percent, according to data provided by the business-backed Partnership for a New American Economy. Collectively, the immigrants spent $93 billion on goods and services in 2014, boosting the size of L.A.'s economy — even as per-person income has stalled or shrunk in the region since before 2000.
Illinois' population is boosted by 14 percent because of legal and illegal immigration, while consumer spending was increased by $40 billion in 2014, according to PNAE, which also declined to explain the impact of the new migrants on the city's population, which is now suffering from a massive wave of murders. "Chicago was built on the back of immigrants and our future is hitched to the wagon of immigrants who come to the city," Mayor Emanuel said Monday. "I would say that the [administration's] approach of penalizing cities, cities that are driving the economy, driving the energy of the United States – and they do it because we bring people of all different backgrounds to work together – that's just the wrong approach.
New York state and city has 4.5 million legal and illegal immigrants, which boosted the state's population by 25 percent and overall spending by $103 billion, according to 2014 data provided by PNAE, which pushed for passage of the 2013 "Gang of Eight" immigration-and-amnesty bill. The PNAE data did not say if the immigrant population has increased the per-person income of native-born Americans.
The population of the Denver metro area has expanded 15 percent because of immigration, and local spending was boosted by roughly 2.1 billion in 2014, says PNAE.
The PNAE also says illegal immigration helps grow the nation's economy, although it does not highlight the costs imposed on American workers and taxpayers:
Yet, while the undocumented population frequently comes under fierce criticism, the data shows that a large number of the 11.4 million undocumented immigrants here are working, paying taxes, and even starting their own businesses. They also play an integral role in our economy, often filling jobs in agriculture, construction, and hospitality that would otherwise remain vacant.
The PNAE group is run by major business executives who gain from the importation of new workers and new consumers.
Economies grow if when they add more people, because those people need to eat, live in homes, purchase consumer goods. That doesn't mean that the native-born population benefits from that growth.
But studies by Harvard Professor George Borjas, and corroborated by the National Academies of Sciences, show that new low-wage migrants help reduce Americans' wages by roughly $500 billion per year, nearly all of which is transferred to investors and company owners. The business groups also gain up to $60 billion per year when state and local taxpayers are required to fund welfare and support of poor immigrants.
Garcetti and other Democrats hope to block Trump's immigration enforcement measures via lawsuits.
"We are absolutely prepared in the courts — together with the other cities and states — to reaffirm what the Supreme Court literally just decided last year on the Tenth Amendment," Garcetti told reporters. "You can take away funding for a specific program if you don't adhere to specific requirements of that program, but we don't have funding that is for the cooperation of our immigration federal officials and our local officials," he argued.
The Democrats were defying a Monday request by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to help enforce the nation's immigration laws. "I urge the nation's states and cities to carefully consider the harm they are doing to their citizens by refusing to enforce our immigration laws," Sessions told reporters gathered at the White House on Monday, adding that cities which oppose federal law would lose federal funding, including federal grants.
In his Monday appeal, Sessions told reporters that:
The Department of Justice has a view to enforce our nation's laws, including our immigration laws. Those laws require us to promptly remove aliens when they are convicted or detained of certain crimes. The vast majority of American people support this commonsense requirement. According to one recent poll, 80 percent of Americans believe that cities that arrest illegal immigrants for crimes should be required to turn them over to immigration authorities. Unfortunately, some states and cities have adopted policies designed to frustrate this enforcement of immigration laws. This includes refusing to detain known felons on the federal detainer request, or otherwise failing to comply with these laws.
… DUIs, assaults, burglaries, drug crimes, gang rapes, crimes against children, and murderers — countless Americans would be alive today and countless loved ones would not be grieving today if these policies of sanctuary cities were ended. Not only do these policies endanger lives of every American — just last May, the Department of Justice inspector general found that these policies also violate federal law…
Today, I'm urging states and local jurisdictions to comply with these federal laws, including 8 U.S.C. Section 1373. Moreover, the Department of Justice will require that jurisdictions seeking or applying for Department of Justice grants to certify compliance with 1373 as a condition of receiving those awards.
This policy is entirely consistent with the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Program's guidance that was issued just last summer under the previous administration. This guidance requires state and local jurisdictions to comply and certify compliance with Section 1373 in order to be eligible for OJP grants…
The Department of Justice will also take all lawful steps to claw back any funds awarded to a jurisdiction that willfully violates 1373. In the current fiscal year, the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Program and Community Oriented Policing services anticipates awarding more than $4.1 billion in grants…
The American people want and deserve a lawful system of immigration that keeps us safe, and one that serves the national interest. This expectation is reasonable, just, and our government has the duty to meet it, and we will meet it.
Each year, the federal government provide residency to roughly 1 million new legal immigrants and provide work permits to roughly 1 million new foreign contract workers, just as 4 million young Americans enter the workforce. The nation's official population of 321.4 million also includes 11 million illegal immigrants, of which roughly 8 million are employed.


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BJP had released its first list of 184 candidates for ensuing Lok Sabha polls covering 20 states. PM Narendra Modi will contest Lok Sabha elections again from Varanasi seat while BJP president Amit Shah will fight from Gandhinagar in Gujarat in place of party veteran Lal Krishna Advani. Senior party leaders and Union Ministers Rajnath ..


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Can exercise help?
People with Parkinson's disease can improve their ability to move and their coordination by doing exercise. Regular exercise can help to cope better with everyday activities.
Parkinson's damages brain cells that produce the hormone dopamine. One of dopamine's tasks is to send electrical signals along the nerves from the brain to the muscles. These signals control our movements. Typical Parkinson's symptoms include restricted movement, stiff muscles and tremor at rest. You may also have trouble with your sense of balance. That increases the risk of falling and breaking bones.
Sports and exercise in addition to medication
Treatment with medication generally aims to replace the lack of dopamine. That often relieves symptoms, but doesn't slow down the progression of the disease. Because people with Parkinson's can no longer move as much, their muscles become weaker. The aim of doing sports and exercise is to counteract that. Research also suggests that exercise has a positive effect on the brain, for instance by stimulating the formation of brain cells and the secretion of dopamine. But longer studies are needed in order to find out whether this effect is large enough for people with Parkinson's to noticeably benefit.
Research on the benefits of exercise
Many studies have looked into the benefits of exercise in people with Parkinson's. In these studies, one group of participants was offered exercise programs, and the other group was not. These direct comparisons are needed in order to be able to evaluate how effective the treatments are.
The studies looked at a wide range of different types of exercise: stretching, endurance training, muscle activation and relaxation, weight training, balance training, dancing, tai chi, qigong, and walking and running. A number of more recent studies also looked at a technique called cueing: Here the participants receive acoustic or optical cues designed to do things like help them start movements. These cues may include marked lines on the floor that provide orientation when walking, or clicking sounds to provide a walking rhythm.
The exercises themselves differed between studies, as did the frequency and duration of the exercise sessions. In most of the studies, the exercise programs were led by physiotherapists. Some of the studies involved group training, while in others the training was done individually. Most studies lasted several weeks or a few months. So it's only possible to tell what sort of an effect the exercises would have over a time period of one year at the most. This time period is too short to be able to say whether the exercises can slow down the progression of the disease.
Improved movement and coordination
Studies show that exercise programs can have a positive effect. People who took part in exercise programs were better able to move, able to walk slightly faster and kept their balance better than people who did not take part. Some studies suggest that people who have Parkinson's fall less often if they do exercises regularly.
In the studies, the exercise programs improved people's ability to move their body and get around in daily life. To determine this, tests such as the following were carried out: Participants were asked to stand up from a chair without help, walk a short distance, and then sit down again. Those who had taken part in exercise programs performed better.
Some studies looked at whether the severity of the illness changed. This was measured using a scale that included the following criteria: mental abilities and mood, performance of everyday tasks, coordination and ability to move. The studies found that exercise programs improve movement and coordination, and can therefore also help people to perform everyday activities.
There is a lack of research on possible side effects such as injuries. Some kinds of sports may actually increase the risk of falling.
Which exercises are most suitable?
Overall, there are too few studies on specific exercise programs to be able to say whether certain exercises are more effective than others. The most suitable choice of exercises will depend on your personal preferences and on your individual physical and mental state. For example, more strenuous exercises are possible in earlier stages of the disease.
Here are some places that offer sports activities and exercise programs:
- Sports clubs
- Physiotherapists
- Adult education centers
- Support groups
- Fitness studios or gyms
Sometimes, special Parkinson's exercise classes are offered. You can also have physiotherapy prescribed by a doctor. Health insurers may cover the costs of certain sports classes.
De Dreu MJ, van der Wilk AS, Poppe E, Kwakkel G, van Wegen EE. Rehabilitation, exercise therapy and music in patients with Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis of the effects of music-based movement therapy on walking ability, balance and quality of life. Parkinsonism Relat Disord 2012; 18 Suppl 1: S114-119.
Dos Santos Delabary M, Komeroski IG, Monteiro EP, Costa RR, Haas AN. Effects of dance practice on functional mobility, motor symptoms and quality of life in people with Parkinson's disease: a systematic review with meta-analysis. Aging Clin Exp Res 2018; 30(7): 727-735.
Klamroth S, Steib S, Devan S, Pfeifer K. Effects of Exercise Therapy on Postural Instability in Parkinson Disease: A Meta-analysis. J Neurol Phys Ther 2016; 40(1): 3-14.
Shen X, Wong-Yu IS, Mak MK. Effects of Exercise on Falls, Balance, and Gait Ability in Parkinson's Disease: A Meta-analysis. Neurorehabil Neural Repair 2016; 30(6): 512-527.
Tomlinson CL, Patel S, Meek C, Herd CP, Clarke CE, Stowe R et al. Physiotherapy versus placebo or no intervention in Parkinson's disease. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2013; (9): CD002817.
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This Special Publication presents information on the activities on Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) in the sugar industry in Kenya, developed by the IUF Global Sugar Program and the Kenya Union of Sugar Plantation Workers (KUSPW) in the context of the IUF Sugar Project in East and Southern Africa running from October 2007 to September 2012.
Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) is one crucial area of trade union work encompassing several and complex aspects, among them: It's a workers' right to work in a safe environment, free from hazards and conducive to increasing productivity. Then, building a safer workplace is an ongoing task requiring the participation of management and employees, in a bipartite model based on knowledge and effective actions to eliminate hazards and/or reduce risks. From a societal viewpoint, any program of national development requires a labour force that is educated, motivated, and healthy.
The OHS work with KUSPW was approached from a "political angle," highlighting the ways in which an enterprise is run, where both management and employees have to be involved in deciding the use the company's resources when improving health safety conditions for everyone in the workplace. This allowed the project's activities to be organically integrated into the union's organising and mobilising actions, and contributed to the empowerment of the union branches and workers at grass-root level, as they became more proficient on OHS matters vis-à-vis management representatives.
Also important was consolidating the perspective on how hazards have to be dealt with in the workplace. The IUF Sugar workshops stressed that the approach is to try and eliminate hazards first, which contrasts with a common approach that the first action to take is to protect the individual worker, hence the conundrum of the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). On the other hand, such perspective contributes to build an unassuming way to face challenges, because there's always room to improve as no situation is completely risk-free.
The OHS activities developed under the IUF Sugar project, reported KUSPW in April 2012, were directly related to the union affiliating some 520 new members, and to its active presence in five new sugar companies. Tangible results were achieved in several areas, ranging from new structures built in factories to an increased union membership to an improved participation of workers in the Joint Safety Committees substantiating the positive impact of the IUF Sugar project on the work of KUSPW.
The document is divided in four sections. Section I describes the way the project was implemented with KUPSW, its challenges and achievements. Section II includes four testimonials from participants in OHS workshops, and Section III contains the reports on the activities that were posted on the IUF Sugar site (www.iuf.org/sugarworkers/). In Section IV, there is a summary of an evaluation of the project by KUSPW, which was presented to the Regional Evaluation Meeting on the IUF Sugar project in Africa, held from 18-20 April 2012 in Durban, South Africa.
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we are working with our Benefice and have altered the services we are able to offer
As we are able to open churches at certain times please see our updated services available to you in person and continue online.
9am Traditional language Holy Communion on Zoom.
10:30 Common Worship Holy Communion at Holy Innocents, High Beach.
17.30 Holy Communion on Zoom.
If you would like to attend one of these services or connect via Zoom, please contact Beth Horton by email email@example.com or text 07853336880.
1pm Traditional language Holy Communion
Service sheet for Zoom service. Please contact our administrator Beth Horton or our vicar Jane Yeadon to receive details of how to do this.
We also have a Home Order of Service for those who wish to worship privately. If you would prefer to watch a serviced streamed via Facebook or YouTube our neighbours at St John's Epping are producing a service each Sunday at 10am.
Whilst we cannot be with eachother in person, be assured you can contact us via the Parish Office or by email should you need any help at this difficult time.
We have produced a Resource sheet for your use at home, along with a Children & Family Resource List which we hope you will find useful.
Welcome to Holy Innocents Church, High Beach, Epping Forest
A warm welcome awaits you at High Beach Church.
The Church of the Holy Innocents was built in 1873, designed by Sir Arthur Blomfield in Victorian Gothic style and is situated in the heart of Epping Forest. As well as holding Thursday and Sunday services throughout the year. From the beginning of May to the end of September, the church is open every Sunday afternoon between 2 pm and 5.30 pm, visitors can look around and also enjoy home-made cake and light refreshments in this tranquil setting.
High Beach is part of the Benefice of Waltham Holy Cross Team Ministry. Our churches include Waltham Abbey, St Lawrence's Ninefields and St Thomas' Upshire.
Services & Events
Special services
We welcome enquiries for Baptisms, Weddings and Funerals. We would be happy to meet you at our regular services or you can contact the Parish Office.
Please contact the Parish Office on 01992 767897
We hope you find the information on this site useful and are grateful for any feedback. If you are unable to find what you are looking for or able to provide feedback please use this link to email us.
Food Bank
We are continuing to support our community with weekly food donations. Each week there is a container at the back of the church for anyone who wishes to donate a tin or packet of beans, tins of vegetables and/or fruit, etc are always welcome. Donations will be taken to the Waltham Abbey on a regular basis.
Safegarding Notice
We are committed to Safeguarding Children, Young People, Victims/perpetrators of Domestic Abuse and Vulnerable Adults.
The PCC has adopted the Church of England's policies and best practice on safeguarding which may be found on the Church of England's website. Our Parish Safeguarding Officer is Paul Harragan, who may be contacted at church or by email.


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Highbridge school slammed as inadequate by Ofsted
PUBLISHED: 13:00 29 June 2017
A Highbridge school has been branded inadequate following its latest Ofsted inspection.
King Alfred School, in Burnham Road, was given the rating after inspectors criticised its 'poor' GCSE results, 'consistently low' pupil attendance and the lack of 'rapid action' taken by school leaders and governors to improve under-performing pupils.
The report, published last week, rated the school as inadequate in every key area, although its study programmes for sixth form students was judged to require improvement.
The report adds: "Leaders and governors have an overgenerous view of the school's effectiveness, including the quality of teaching, learning and assessment.
"They do not have robust monitoring systems to evaluate their actions. In turn, the governing body is not well placed to challenge or support school leaders.
"The leadership of provision for pupils who have special educational needs and/or disabilities is not good enough.
"Governors do not provide sufficient challenge to the school's leaders. As a consequence, standards have remained too low for too long."
The quality of teaching was also described as 'variable' while 'too many pupils do not take pride in the quality of their work, their appearance or their conduct.'
Headteacher Denise Hurr has vowed the school will 'pull together' to make the improvements needed, with recent changes made to teaching and the curriculum praised by Ofsted.
The Clevedon Learning Trust has also been enlisted to help deliver the improvements needed.
Mrs Hurr said: "I'm sure everyone involved with the school will be disappointed.
"But we are already moving forward and I am confident that the whole school community will continue to pull together to make the improvements that are needed.
"We very much welcome the assistance which I know will accelerate the rate of improvement.
"This is a school at the heart of its community with a strong ethos of care and respect. These are great foundations on which we will build."
A Somerset County Council spokesman added: "The council is committed to working with King Alfred's to bring the rapid improvement that everyone wants to see.
"We have arranged for extra support and have every confidence that it will help take the school in the right direction."
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The competition watchdog is calling for more suppliers to come forward with information on their dealings with supermarket heavyweights Coles and Woolworths.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) says suppliers to Australia's two top supermarket chains have lodged complaints about unconscionable conduct by the retailers and it is trying to find ways to protect those who make such reports.
But ACCC chairman Rod Sims says the Commission needs more details before it can take action.
He says a similar inquiry in 2008 went nowhere as suppliers failed to provide evidence.
"We certainly want more, because we want to build the best picture we can," Mr Sims said.
"We've had small suppliers and we've had some large suppliers come to us, and they've helped paint a story or picture that gives us an insight into what's going on, but certainly would welcome more."
Mr Sims says he is investigating ways to protect suppliers if they find either supermarket has a case to answer.


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Business Secretary Vince Cable has launched another attack on the banking industry, claiming senior industry figures "still don't get it".
The Lib Dem cabinet minister said it was becoming "increasingly clear" that the management of Britain's banks "want to choose the high risk, high reward" path when it was "vital" for the public they did not.
It comes as pressure continues to mount on Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond to quit in the wake of the lending rate scandal at his bank.
Mr Cable has backed calls for a criminal investigation into bankers involved in manipulating the Libor system.
Addressing the Association of British Insurers, he said the revelations strike many "as bordering on the criminal".
He said: "We have done everything we can to get ahead of the curve and deal with macroeconomic risks. But we can't do this alone, and it is increasingly clear that the management of many banks still don't get it.
"They want to choose the high-risk, high-reward path - seeking high returns on shareholder equity - when it is vital for everyone else that they don't.
"And now we are learning that this daredevil behaviour included taking blatant risks, once again to the detriment of the shareholder."
Urging shareholders to demand safer behaviour from banks, he called for banking to become "boring" again.
Mr Cable said: "When investing in bank shares is only for the brave, something has gone dreadfully wrong."


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Is the SE team hard at work tweaking the UI for locked questions, or is the web proxy at my job randomly blocking stuff?
If the former, then it would make sense, I think. Sort of like locking the voting as well. – Mystery Mar 5 '12 at 21:54
3Did you think there would be a ruckus for four straight days and SE wouldn't make any changes? – mmyers Mar 5 '12 at 21:55
Makes perfect sense. The best solution to this content has always been to make it look distinct and different -- you're not in regular Stack Overflow anymore. – Adam Rackis Mar 5 '12 at 21:55
They have indeed gone, voting on historical stuff makes no sense. feature-request: Can the team please place a historical unicorn statue in its place? ;) – Tamara Wijsman Mar 5 '12 at 21:56
Wait for it.... – casperOne Mar 5 '12 at 21:56
@Tom - indeed. I hope they go even further... – Adam Rackis Mar 5 '12 at 21:57
4If that's an attempt to make historical questions look different, it will only work for veteran users. New users don't know what active questions and answers are "supposed" to look like. – user102937 Mar 5 '12 at 21:58
1@Robert - I'm sure it's just a start. I'd say move the historical banner text up above the question title, emphasize it, fade the colors slightly, and so on – Adam Rackis Mar 5 '12 at 22:00
1Related: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/51498/… – Mechanical snail Nov 28 '12 at 1:36
This is something we're experimenting with for truly "historical" questions (that is, questions and answers which no longer benefit from any interaction). They are effectively frozen in time, a record of something that happened and still has some meaning but is no longer a living, breathing part of the site.
More to come...
+1 This train of thoughts is good, instead of throwing a warning at us because you gave the link to us you can just hide the link from us. I'm hoping to see this in other places too... :) – Tamara Wijsman Mar 5 '12 at 22:03
@Shog9: But the real question is, will these "historical" questions still remove reputation as if they were deleted? – animuson♦ Mar 5 '12 at 22:47
1@animuson - I would hope the point of all this is to obviate the need to delete them in the first place. – Adam Rackis Mar 5 '12 at 22:53
6+1 for making an effort to keep historical items around. – cdeszaq Mar 5 '12 at 23:32
It's not just you.
Voting is currently disabled completely on closed questions (maybe allowed in some cases), there's a class on voting buttons
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I think you're mixing some terminology here. The above certainly does not apply to all closed questions, and not even to all locked questions. – Arjan Mar 5 '12 at 23:16
@Arjan: I think I'm not. Read my answer again and this snippet, too:
(maybe allowed in some cases),, which is saying it all. – Martin. Mar 6 '12 at 10:23
More like: maybe not allowed in some cases? Really, all of the closed questions I've looked at do show the voting icons and allow for voting. Do you have any example that proves otherwise? If not, then read your answer again ;-) – Arjan Mar 6 '12 at 17:37
@Arjan: this feature has been removed, once again. My answer was valid before 20 hours.. – Martin. Mar 6 '12 at 18:37
Ah, that explains things! (Well, it was valid for one hour and 15 minutes then, until I posted my comment...) – Arjan Mar 6 '12 at 18:39


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SWIFT solidifies its operations in the region.
New York, 2 June 2015 – SWIFT announces the opening of its new Latin American regional headquarters office in Miami, Florida to support the growth of the company's operations in the region. In the last few years, Miami has become a financial hub with the largest concentration of domestic and international banks on the East Coast south of New York, much of which are regional headquarters for their Latin American operations.
SWIFT is strengthening its presence in Latin America in response to the sustained growth and development of the region's economy and to help the industry respond to developments related to financial reform, such as regulatory compliance. The use of SWIFT in Latin America is growing notably, with financial messaging increasing by 11% in 2014, and similar growth expected for 2015.
Jairo Namur, Regional Manager, Latin America at SWIFT will head the Miami office. Jairo joined SWIFT in 2009 and since then he has been responsible for devising and executing SWIFT's strategy in the region, including the operations in local markets such as Brazil, Mexico and Colombia.
Chris Church, Chief Executive, Americas and Global Head of Securities, SWIFT says: "The opening of the new office is a significant milestone for our Latin American business. We are now better positioned to meet the growing needs of our customers and the industry. Latin America is an important region for us and our office in Miami further reassures SWIFT's confidence in this fast-developing region."
SWIFT has supported global and regional financial institutions and corporations in Latin America for more than 10 years. The new office will help clients with expanded capabilities and help ensure best practices continue to be shared amongst the local markets.
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Mobile Computing Shirley Martin Computer Literacy INF 103 Instructor: Ashish Godbole 02/27/2012 Mobile data communication has become a very important and rapidly evolving technology as it allows users to transmit data from remote locations to other remote or fixed locations. This proves to be the solution to the biggest problem of business people on the move mobility.
In this paper it will define mobile computing, name and tell what you can do with mobile computers, discuss the advantages and disadvantages of mobile computers, name several major trend in mobile computers and finally, we look at the future of Mobile computing in the real world. Mobile computing is a generic term describing just one skill to use technology while stirring as dispute to movable computer, which are only useful for use while deployed in a permanent configuration.
Future of mobile computing with the speedy technological preference in artificial understanding, and combine circuitry and increases in computer processor speeds, the ultimate of mobile computing are build exciting. With the emphasis increasingly on small and covenant mobile commuter, it may also be likely to have all the skill of mobile computer in the magnitude of a hand held organizer or ever smaller.
Mobile Computing: A technology that allows transmission of data, via a computer, without having to be connected to a fixed physical link. Mobile voice communication is widely established throughout the world and has had a very rapid increase in the number of subscribers to the various cellular networks over the last few years. An extension of this technology is the ability to send and receive data across these cellular networks this is the principle of mobile computing.
Mobile Computing, including Smartphone's, tablets, handhelds and laptop computer: "Devices that can contain information are increasingly prevalent; they are used for both work and home purposes, blurring the lines between the two, and results in ceding of control over the devices and the information to employees, service providers and other. " These devices are small, light enough to be carried, and can operate on an internal battery. Although many portables do not need a separate source of electrical power, they can use one when available.
Running a portable computer on AC power can recharge the battery as well as power the computer. In terms of decreasing weight and the order in which they were developed, portable computers can be classified as: * Luggable * Notebook * Laptop * Palmtop (or hand – held, or PDA- Personal Digital Assistants) Hand –held computer resemble pocket calculators but possess many of the capabilities of a personal or even a mainframe (q. v. ) computer. Laptops and notebook computers offer complete personal computer functionality in a size convenient for holding on person's lap.
Luggable computers, no longer competitive because of weight, furnished fully functional machines in a small- suitcase –sized package. Laptop computers are lightweight mobile PCs with a thin screen. They are often called notebook computers because of their small size. Laptops can operate on batteries, so you can take them anywhere. Unlike desktops, laptops combine the CPU, screen, and keyboard in a single case. The screen folds down onto the keyboard when not in use. Laptop computer Hand help computers
Handheld computers, also called personal digital assistants (PDA), are battery- powered computers small enough to carry almost anywhere. Although not as powerful as desktops or laptops, hand helps are useful for scheduling appointments storing addresses and phone numbers, and playing games. Some have more advanced capabilities, such as making telephone cell or accessing the Internet. Instead of keyboards, handhelds have touch screens that you use with your finger or a stylus (a pen-shaped pointing tool). Handheld Computers Tablet PCs
Tablet PCs are mobile PCs that combine features of laptops and hand helps. Like laptops they're powerful and have a built-in screen. Like handhelds, they allow you to write notes or draw pictures on the screen, usually with a tablet pen instead of a stylus. They can also convert your handwriting into typed text. Some Tablet PCs are "with a screen that swivels and unfolds to reveal a keyboard underneath. Tablet PC What can you do with computers? In the workplace, many people use computers to keep records, analyze data, do research, and manage projects.
At home, you can use computers to find information, store pictures and music, track finances, play games, and communicate with others- and those are just a few of the possibilities. You can also use your computer to connect to the Internet, a network that links computers around the world. Internet access is available for a monthly fee in most urban areas, and increasingly, in less populated areas. With Internet access, you can communicate with people all over the world and find a vast amount of information. Here are some popular things to do with computers: The web
The World Web (usually called the Web, or web) is a gigantic storehouse of information. The web is the most popular part of the Internet, partly because it displays most information in a visually appealing format. Headlines, text, and pictures can combined on a single webpage- much like a page in a magazine – along with sounds and animation. A website is a collection of interconnected webpage's the web contains millions of websites and billions of webpage's. Example of a webpage (Microsoft Game Studios): Webpage Surfing the web means exploring it. You can find information on the web about almost any topic imaginable.
For example, you can read news stories and movie reviews, check airline schedules, see street maps, get the weather forecast for your city, or research a health condition. Most companies, government agencies, museums, and libraries have websites with information about their products, services, or collections. Reference sources, such as dictionaries and encyclopedias, are also widely available. The web is also a shopper's delight. You can browse and purchase products- books, music, toys, clothing, electronics, and much more-at the websites of major retailers.
You can also buy and sell used items through websites that use auction- style bidding. For information about how to explore the Internet and the web, see Exploring the Internet. E-mail Email (short for Electronic mail) is a convenient way to communicate with others. When you send an e-mail message, it arrives almost instantly in the recipient's email inbox. You can send e-mail to many people simultaneously, and you can save, print, and forward e-mail to others. You can send almost any type of file in an e-mail message, including documents, pictures, and music files.
With e-mail, you don't need a stamp! See getting started with-e-mail Instant messaging Instant messaging is like have a real-time conversation with another person or a group of people. When you type and send an instant message, the massage is immediately visible to all participants. Unlike e-mail, all participants have to be online (connected to the Internet) and in front of their computers at the same time. Communicating by means of instant messaging is called chatting. Pictures, music, and movies If you a digital camera, you can move your pictures from the camera to your computer.
Then you can print them, create slide shows, or share them with others by e-mail or by posting them on a website. (To learn more about what you can do with photos, see Working with digital pictures. ) and Music from audio CDs or by purchasing songs from a music website. Or, tune in to one of the thousands of radio stations that broadcast over the Internet. If your computer comes with a DVD player, you can watch movies. Gaming Do you like to play games? Thousands of computer games in every conceivable category are available to entertain you.
Get behind the wheel of a race car, battle frightening creatures in a dungeon, or control civilizations and empires! Many games allow you to compete with other players around the world through the Internet. Windows includes a variety of card games, puzzle games, and strategy games (see Learn about games in Windows Visa). The advantages and disadvantages of mobile computing The advantages of mobile computers are selling a product or service in quicker time, reducing transaction cost from one a/c to another; streamline business processes, competitive pricing, and reducing time to order for any products.
Everything can be done through mobile internet. The disadvantages of mobile computers are quality of connectivity, security concerns, lots of power consumption, and working bandwidth using here is very less. There's also the path in which the mobile communication must follows and here is a diagram of the Mobile communication Path to summarize this effect. Mobile computing has several trends that we must mention and they are as follows: Top Ten Trends in Mobile Computing 1-long Term Evolution (LTE) 6. Ant-Virus 2 – W IMAX 7.
Push-button applications 3-3G 8. Supplemental Broadband 4-Smartphone applications 9. Solid State drivers 5 – GPS 10. Security NOW let's talk about the Future of mobile computing. With the rapid technological advancements in Artificial intelligence, Integrated Circuitry and increases in Computer Processor speeds, the future of mobile computing looks increasingly exciting. The future of Mobile Computing is very promising indeed, although technology may go too far, causing detriment to society.
The worldwide market for semiconductor memory will grow at an average annual growth rate (AAGR) of 13. 9% for the period through 2007. Volatile memory, growing at an AAGR of 14. 3%will outpace nonvolatile memory. New applications of flash memory will not be able to keep pace with the overall growth in PC, workstation and network equipment memory requirements. In 2007, nonvolatile MRAM technology will begin to reach mass-scale production. Beyond2007, as the price of MRAM falls, MRAM will become the commonly used memory chip for the main memory of PCs and main memory network server chips.
Here is a Chart showing the Summary. SUMMARY FIGUREWOLDWIDE MARKET FOR SEMICONDUCTOR MEMORY 1999-2007($ MILLIONS) Conclusion Mobile Computing is small, light weighted, and is able to be moved and carried from place to place without being connected with wires. It doesn't need a phone cord to get the internet. It is wireless so it can connect to the internet using wireless network and can be connected to any public internet source. So no matter where you may go if you are carrying a portable or mobile computer or device such as a laptop, handheld, or tablet pc computers then you can pick up the internet anywhere you go.
I really enjoyed during this research paper because I have learned so much about the different types of mobile computers and also what to expect from them in the future. References 1. Aelal, A. A. (1996) Anytime, Anywhere Computing: Mobile Computing Concepts and Technology, Academic Publishers Retrieved from Education, Inc. https: //content . ashford. edu 2. Bowles, M. D. (2010). Introduction to computer literacy. San Diego, Bridgepoint Education, Inc. https:// content. Ashford. edu. 3. http://site. ebrary. com/lib/alltitles/Search= Search+ ebrary 4. ttp:// wiki. answers. com/Q/what are the advantages and disadvantages of mobile computer Retrieved February 27, 2012 5. Introduction to Computer Retrieved from https://www. window. microsoft. Com/enus/window-vista/Introduction-to-computers 6. Pictures Retrieved February 27, 2012. From http://www. En. org/wiki/mobile Computing 7. PORTABLE COMPURTERS. (2003). In Encyclopedia of Computer Science. Retrieved from http://www. credoreference. com/entry/ encyccs/portable computers 8. www. doc. ic. ac. uk/~nd/suprise96/journal/vo114/vk5/repor


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Where you were 50 years ago today? Well, if you were alive that is. If you were at the Gladsaxe Teen Club (yes, in Gladsaxe, Denmark) then you saw the first show that John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, and Robert Plant played together. They were known at the New Yardbirds then, but later became slightly better known at Led Zeppelin. Nicely timed with this historic anniversary, Atlantic/Swan Song has compiled a Zeppelin-sized boxset of classic concert film The Song Remains The Same. The shows were recorded in July of 1973 and the film came out in 1976. I believe in my hometown is played at the then-still single-screened Colony Theater. (Dan, can you remember? It was long ago and far away).
The super deluxe version includes remastered audio on two CDs and four 180-gram vinyl LPs; Two DVD set of the The Song Remains The Same featuring the full theatrical version of the film plus bonus content including four performance outtakes in the original film ("Celebration Day," "Over The Hills And Far Away," "Misty Mountain Hop," and "The Ocean"); a 28-page book; A replica of the Japanese program from 1977 and a DVD of the entire album in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround and PCM Stereo, plus photo gallery. The CD and LP versions also are available separately.
Later this month, the Warner Bros. family is celebrating another 50th anniversary – the recording of the landmark MC5 debut, Kick Out The Jams (okay, it was recorded in Oct. 1968, so the Sept. 21 release date will be a few weeks early. MC5 Total Assault: 50th Anniversary Collection will be a limited-edition boxed set that features all three of the band's albums: Kick Out The Jams, Back In The USA, and High Time. The records will all be pressed on colored vinyl: Kick Out The Jams (red vinyl), Back In The USA (white vinyl) and High Time (blue vinyl). MC5 co-founder and guitarist Wayne Kramer, who just released his memoir The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, the MC5, and My Life of Impossibilities, is going out on tour leading MC50, an all-star band that includes Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil, Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty, and Zen Guerrilla frontman Marcus Durant (Pearl Jam's Matt Cameron on drums and producer/bassist Don Was on bass at select dates).
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On Oct. 19 Craft Recordings is turning the spotlight on R.E.M., specifically the band's performances on the BBC. R.E.M. at the BBC is a massive, rarities-packed 8-CD/1-DVD box set covering over 20 years of R.E.M. on the Beeb. The recordings scan from a 1984 live broadcast from Nottingham's Rock City to a 2004 invitation-only 2004 performance at London's St James's Church. The DVD couples the first US commercial release of the BBC R.E.M. documentary Accelerating Backwards along with UK TV appearance including the complete 1998 Later….With Jools Holland episode devoted to the group. There will also be more compact versions (a 2-CD and a 2-LP version) entitled The Best of R.E.M. too.
New West Records is celebrating its 20th anniversary with an extremely cool retrospective featuring 60 songs evenly divided over 3 CDs. One disc holds songs selected by owner of New West Records, George Fontaine, Sr. One disc contains tunes voted on by fans, and the third disc is stocked with songs chosen by past and present New West artist. Kris Kristofferson to John Hiatt, Rickie Lee Jones to Nikki Lane; Rodney Crowell to Vic Chesnutt; Old 97's to Drive-By Truckers; Ben Lee to Ben Folds; Jerry Lee Lewis to Jason Isbell, Steve Earle to Justin Townes Earle; Buddy Miller to Buddy & Julie Miller. The list is an all-star lineup of Americana music. I have a soft spot for the act opening up the collection (and a George Fontaine, Sr. selection) Todd Thibaud since he was one of the first (if not the first) musician I interviewed. The collection, which is due on Oct. 12, also will be available on 6 red vinyl albums.
Another artist I have a soft spot is Mr. Nick Lowe. When his solo debut came out in 1978, it was called the Jesus of Cool in the UK but Columbia Records re-titled it Pure Pop For Now People in the states. I had a button that proclaimed: "It's Okay to Like Nick Lowe." Guys I went to school with didn't know if Nick Lowe was a politician or a punk rocker. They were wrong on both counts, I guess. Anyway, I bring up this great, great album not to remind myself that it came out 40 years ago, but to share that on Oct. 13 the fine folks at Yep Roc will be releasing Jesus Of Cool on cassette for Cassette Store Day. This limited addition will include the 11 tracks from the UK release plus the 3 songs that were just on the Pure Pop version ("They Call It Rock," "Roller Show," and a studio version of "Heart of the City."
Ska fans should circle Sept 21 on their calendars because that is the date Studio One is reissuing the important 1964 compilation Ska Authentic. This will be the CD debut of the album that features music from The Maytals, Lee Perry, and Tommy McCook's "Freedom Sounds." Bluegrass fans, meanwhile, need to remember Sept. 28 because that's when Modern Harmonic will be releasing a treasury of Louvin Brothers material entitled Love And Wealth: The Lost Recordings. The 29 songs (and one warm, spoken audio letter) songwriting demos from the late 1950's that have never been released before.
And it is not that I don't like new music. Not by a long shot. There are many new and current bands that I can lavish praise on but I will just lavish praise on one right now. If you haven't heard the New Zealand band The Beths, then you use yourself to check them out. I loved them from the first song I heard of them "Whatever," and have loved every songs since. They just have a charming synthesis of 60s-ish power pop and late 80s college rock bolstered by crunchy guitars, some bashing drums, and the wonderful way front-woman Elizabeth Stokes balances an off-beat, slightly gawky sense of humor and honest emotions. Their debut album Future Me Hates Me is out now on Carpark, and they commence a big US tour at the end of September. Here is a link to "You Wouldn't Like Me"


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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A special donation; a gift.
- adjective Characterized by, constituting, or subject to donation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Vested or vesting by donation: as, a donative advowson.
- noun A gift; a largess; a gratuity; a present; a dole.
- noun In canon law, a benefice given and collated to a person by the founder or patron without either presentation, institution, or induction by the ordinary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A gift; a largess; a gratuity; a present.
- noun (Eccl. Law) A benefice conferred on a person by the founder or patron, without either presentation or institution by the ordinary, or induction by his orders. See the Note under
Benefice, n., 3.
- adjective Vested or vesting by donation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or being a
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
His house alone contains wealth sufficient to discharge the donative which is never forthcoming, and is daily cast in your teeth.
So was the whole island of Sicily won over to the realm of Justinian before the end of 535, and Belisarius, Consul for the year, rode through the streets of Syracuse on the last day of his term of office, scattering his "donative" to the shouting soldiers and citizens.
(The more technical term is donative commercial non-profits).
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The Englishmen extricated themselves from their importunity by bestowing, as is usual on such occasions, a donative of small coin upon those who appeared most needy, or most deserving of their charity one tall woman stood on the steps close to the door, and extended her hand to the elder Philipson, who, struck with her appearance, exchanged for a piece of silver the copper coins which he had been distributing amongst others.
So saying he gave the little galopin his donative, and a slight rap on the pate at the same time, which sent him scouring from his presence.
Lion dismissed, upon the occasion, even his ordinary watch, and assigned to his soldiers a donative of wine to celebrate his recovery, and to drink to the Banner of Saint George; and his quarter of the camp would have assumed a character totally devoid of vigilance and military preparation, but that Sir Thomas de Vaux, the Earl of Salisbury, and other nobles, took precautions to preserve order and discipline among the revellers.
Galba undid himself by that speech, legi a se militem, non emi; for it put the soldiers out of hope of the donative.
The personal fruition in any man, cannot reach to feel great riches: there is a custody of them; or a power of dole, and donative of them; or a fame of them; but no solid use to the owner.
TenmfoTt) was a kind of donative, he coming in with - out inftitution and indtl&ion, and that the prcfentable parfonage does not commence till after him, by the words of the ftatute j and that in cafe of a donative, the pro - motion of the incumbent does not make a ccfiion.
Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of King's bench; with some special cases in the courts of Chancery, Common pleas and Exchequer, alphabetically digest under proper heads;
Nice is said to yield the king half a million of livres, about twenty-five thousand pounds sterling, arising from a small donative made by every town and village: for the lands pay no tax, or imposition, but the tithes to the church.
"...they might move in concert and precipitate the revolution: this would be all the more feasible if they were supplied with donatives to win the support of five or six regiments in key positions."
--O'Brian, The Wine-Dark Sea, 151
I dunno, sounds like this could be one of those Finnish cases to me. Not locative, donative.
Sounds like native doughnuts to me.
The Little learn just how the Big give
To those they sift in favor's sieve,
And that Santa's gift
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It's baksheesh more than a donative.


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Vegan BBQ Lentil Sloppy Joes are an easy new spin on classic comfort food that can be on your table in under 45 minutes.
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March is always a stressful time for me at the office. Combine that with the fact that winter finally decided to show up (at this rate, we'll have snow on the ground until June) and I'm craving comfort food like crazy. Creamy macaroni and cheese, roast chicken, pasta – I'll take it all!
I was thinking about making a pot of my lentil and pumpkin chili, when I had the idea of using the lentils for sloppy joes instead. Lentils are a great alternative to meat in recipes like this. They're hearty and full of fiber, protein, and iron but their flavor is relatively mild. Paired with a quick homemade barbecue sauce and piled on top of a soft burger bun, these barbecue lentil sloppy joes will take you straight back to childhood.
Cheese isn't a traditional component of sloppy joes, but what isn't better with a slice of cheddar? GO VEGGIE's cheddar singles complement the barbecue flavor of these sloppy joe's perfectly. I used their vegan cheddar singles for these sloppy joes, which kept the whole recipe vegan-friendly, but you can also use the lactose free version. Either way, you can't go wrong! I love how these singles melt, and the vegan version has 65% less fat and half the calories of ordinary cheese.
You can use your favorite store bought barbecue sauce for these lentil sloppy joes, but it's definitely worth it to take a few minutes to make your own. The flavor can't be matched and it's made with standard pantry items. I start with a combination of ketchup, mustard, vinegar and Worcestershire sauce – just like mom used when I was a kid – but I sweeten it with maple syrup instead of brown sugar and add a good pinch of cayenne pepper. The result is subtly sweet, tangy, and a little spicy. If you prefer a sweeter sauce, omit the cayenne and add more maple syrup to taste.


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Supreme Court strikes down "Share the Roads, Under God" sloganLeague of American Bicyclists issues "Now what was it happened?" statement.
WASHINGTON DC Stating that the phrase "Clearly violates the basic principle of separation of cars and bicycles," the United States Supreme Court on Friday issued a decision finding use of the popular slogan "Share the Roads, Under God" unconstitutional. The case had moved swiftly through the court system after being filed by atheist Nelson Pena of Fort Valley, GA. Pena challenged use of the slogan after seeing the message on a sign near the main library in nearby Americus, GA. "I find it extremely offensive to my most basic beliefs as an American to see the message 'Share the Roads' being displayed on public roadways." Pena was joined in the suit by the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (RTC), the American Lane Painters Union (ALPU) and the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). The 6-3 decision did however allow radical cycling groups some leeway in their promotion of the concept, saying that use of the "Under God" portion of the message would not be affected by the ruling.


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I've been way too devout in my postings of late. So here I've decided to list my nicknames for various people. In general, all primates of the Eastern Orthodox Church get a nickname, usually based on a diminutive of their nom de religion. Most are left out because they don't get much press or I haven't found a suitable moniker yet:
Bart = His All Holiness BARTHLOMEW, Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Ecumenical Patriarch
Pete =His Beatitude PETROS VII, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa
Iggy = His Beatitude IGNATIUS IV, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East
Lexy = His Holiness ALEKSII II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus
Hermie = His Beatitude HERMAN, Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada
A while back a friend and I decided that Orthodoxy is going to sweep Communist lands and there will be various retroactive conversions. Ex.:
The Blessed Che of the RevolutionWe're still looking for other amusing "faux saints" or "anti-saints". During Bent we decided that for his contributions to acetic cuisine George Washington Carver should get the divine nod: St. George the Goober.
Holy Joe the Gulagmeister
Basically, I find the idea of "Welcome to St. George the Goober Orthodox Church!" hilarious. And the Blessed Che already has an icon....


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It speaks to the Orwellian era we are unfortunately living in that the terror-tied Jew-hater Sarsour could frame her supremacist, racist goals in a 60s-style civil rights narrative. There is no more supremacist, racist, misogynist, antisemitic system of governance than the sharia, and no group as dedicated to destroying individual rights, equality for all before the law and above all, the freedom of speech.
Blacks are still enslaved under the sharia in Muslim countries. The translation of black person in Arabic is abeed (slave). 20% of the population of Mauritania are blacks enslaved by Muslims. But Sarsour's Jew-hatred is off the charts, so she projects Islamic racism onto the Jews.
"Former Women's March Leader Upbraids 'Antisemite' Linda Sarsour for Posting Article Claiming Jews Are Waging War on Black People," by Shiryn Ghermezian, Algemeiner, January 20, 2019:
Anti-Israel activist and Woman's March co-chair Linda Sarsour was excoriated as an "antisemite" on Sunday by a former ally who once headed the DC chapter of the popular political movement.
Mercy Morganfield, who is also the daughter of famed American blues singer-songwriter Muddy Waters, took to Facebook to upbraid Sarsour after the latter posted a link to an article that accused the Jewish community of waging a "profound war on black people."
Highlighting the offending paragraphs in a screenshot, Morganfield began, "This is How S**t Gets Started."
She continued, "Linda Sarsour is an antisemite and even when she is apologizing to the Jewish community on the one hand, she is condemning it on the other. She can't help it. This is who she is and as long as the five board members are in power you will continue to see these sharp divisions they themselves foster."
Alluding to the failure of Women's March leaders to fully repudiate infamous antisemite Louis Farrakhan, long a source of concern among mainstream Jewish groups, she added, "During this entire fiasco who has continually attacked whom? Jewish people asking you to condemn an antisemite and antisemitism is not an attack. Writing that Jewish people are waging war on black people is an attack. It is vicious. It is vile. And it is not true. They are their own worst enemy. An appalling lack of judgment on Linda's part. On this day, during this ongoing controversy."
The article promoted by Sarsour was penned by Jodi Jacobson, president and editor in chief of Rewire.News, a progressive website focusing on reproductive rights and other social causes.
On Saturday, Sarsour had used an address to thousands of demonstrators in Washington, DC, to advocate on behalf of the BDS movement against the Jewish state. She called on protesters to stand up for "free speech and our constitutional right to boycott, divestment and sanctions in these United States of America."…
In a separate Facebook post on Saturday, Morganfield lamented that Mallory had become "the face of antisemitism."
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It's time we began to ask if there's a different way of doing things.
Chattanooga, TN (PRWEB) October 16, 2015
Recently, the Obama Administration has put a great emphasis on putting college within every student's reach by lowering tuition costs. Graduating, however, may still be just out of reach for many students. To combat this, the White House is switching its focus from making sure students get the right opportunities to making sure they have the right tools to finish.
No matter how level the financial playing field is, the odds are still stacked against low income and minority students. These students are more likely to drop out because they don't have access to professional tutors, supplemental materials, healthy support systems and other resources middle to upper class students have. When they do start to slip, they are usually less confident in their student-professor relationships and tend not to ask for help.
So, what can be done for these students? That's the question the Obama Administration is responding to, as well as inviting the field's most creative thinkers to respond. The "First in the World" competition is one of the initiatives focused on funding innovative solutions. In addition, the Department of Education's recent launch of the College Scorecard shows students not only the cost of college, but also statistics like graduation rates that can help them weigh their options wisely.
Georgia State University began using analytics three years ago, to help them boost graduation rates. This venture into the world of analytics led them to discover around 800 potential warning signs of students becoming disengaged. Since then, they have hired fifty counselors who respond to these "red flags" and keep students from dropping out.
"Higher education is an institution that is deep in tradition; we're modeling after things that were done back in Oxford and Cambridge," Georgia State Vice President of Enrollment Management and Student Success Timothy Renick said. "It's time we began to ask if there's a different way of doing things."
The field of behavioral analytics has one promising solution that is already available. StREAM Student Success System uses a university's real time data to help students understand in simple terms whether they are on the path to success or failure. StREAM tracks students' digital footprint, finds patterns in behavior, and benchmarks "average" student experiences by class and major. This allows both the student and their counselors to see whether they are on an uphill climb or a downhill spiral, long before it affects their grades.
"Students who come from first generation families to universities sometimes struggle to engage with their [advisors]," Nottingham Trent University's Director of Information Systems Mike Day said. "But even high performance students, we can see sometimes their engagement tailing off, much earlier than we could previously, so we can advise them."
The Department of Education plans to spend $10 million over the next five years to fund research on college completion to tell us what circumstances student success stories have in common. By finding out what good students are doing right, universities can reinforce and encourage those good behaviors. It may come as no surprise that, for a fraction of the amount of money the Department of Education plans to spend, behavioral analytics software can do in 90 days what the government initiative intends to do over the next five years.
To emphasize their commitment to President Obama's efforts in education, many universities have created positions that focus on student success and retention. Most of those universities have purchased or plan to purchase analytics tools to help students and administrators understand success "in their neck of the woods."
Data solutions like StREAM are expected to play a more prominent role in coming initiatives and in the overall push toward improving higher education and student success. Behavioral and predictive analytics are quite possibly the promising future of strong student retention systems.
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Nicole Kidman And Keith Urban Open Up About What Has Kept Them Together For Over A Decade
December 28, 2017
Keith Urban, 50, and Nicole Kidman, 50, got married in June 2006 in a gorgeous wedding ceremony that took place in Sydney. In 2008, they welcomed their first daughter, Sunday Rose, followed by Faith Margaret, in 2011.
Nicole has an adopted son, Connor Anthony, and daughter, Isabella Jane, with her first husband, Tom Cruise. Their 10-year marriage ended in 2001 due to irreconcilable differences, according to Cruise. In 2006, giving an interview to Ladies' Home Journal, Kidman said she still loved him,


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Send messages to other players by using the Mail Server; tap on the "Mail" button at the top of your screen or the blue envelope icon that appears when you tap a Sector on the Map. You can also contact other players in the Global Chat or your Clanmates in the Clan Chat.
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Nestled between Tauranga Harbour and the Pacific Ocean, Matakana Island offers a unique experience. Perfect for swimming and surfing, fishing on the beach can also prove to be a lot of fun. Guided tours here are available.
The island's long, white sandy beach is popular with surfers. Surfers can either catch a water taxi from Mount Maunganui or paddle to the island across the mouth of Tauranga Harbour. A powerful north-easterly swell on a high tide produces great sand barrels.
Matakana's surf side is a nesting site for a large number of seabirds, including the endangered New Zealand dotterel. This island can be seen from most points around the Tauranga Harbour. From Mauao to Pilot Bay and Sulphur point through to and past Otumoetai. The Tauranga Harbour provides great fishing out and around Matakana Island.
The island itself is very narrow, and spans from Mount Maunganui to Bowentown. Matakana Island is 20 kilometres (12 mi) in length but rarely more than 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) wide.
If you are looking for something different to do, this island will provide you with that experience.


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Tai Chi at 10
To stay connected and provide a FREE resource for you to help stay active, maintain strength and mobility whilst you are at home I am aiming to upload a FREE new session every morning at 10am (UK TIME) called 'TAI CHI AT 10'. This session will be a warm up, exercises for strength, stretch, balance and relaxation using our Tai Chi stances and movements and QiGong exercises, much like what we cover in my classes. All the YouTube content is FREE to watch and FREE TO SUBSCRIBE – PLEASE SUPPORT ME 😀 Views, likes, comments and Subscribers all help support my small You Tube Channel. Here's a link to the TAI CHI AT 10 Playlist : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list… Share amongst family and friends and anyone who you think will find these exercises beneficial. Take care, stay safe, keep well and keep in touch. best wishes Daphne


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