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Imrageth ()
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Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2015 3:22 pm
Post subject: RL Charity - local representative needed.
Dear Base
As a newly appointed charity officer, I would like to start implementing processes and procedures that will help us account for all funds raised for charities. My main goal is to identify all charity activities taking place across the world and account for all funds raised, directly and indirectly. Charity is what we are all about so I don't need to highlight how important it is to keep track of our charity work
Let me present you some details and then I will ask you to complete a few things as a base.
Classification of funds raised
Direct fundraising
all initiatives and campaigns started and run by RL members.
Indirect fundraising
campaigns organised by independent charities where RL supported fundraising through costume appearance and was only a part of a larger campaign.
Structure and reporting
- Totals will be published on the main website and updated monthly
- Each base will nominate a representative which will be the point of contact with the LCL
- That Charity representatives will be responsible for collecting information on local fundraising activities and will provide monthly reports on funds raised directly and indirectly including brief summary of what charities were involved.
- A separate topic will be created on each base forum where the reports will be posted and then gathered by LCL
Content on the main charity page
- Funds raised directly
- Funds raised indirectly
- Breakdown by year/base/country/continent
- Charities weve worked with
- Upcoming RL Charity campaigns
So... what I need now is..
1. Your base will select the charity representative that will provide me with charity updates.
2. That person should provide a report on funds raised in the past - I know, it will be difficult but try to dig as much as possible.
This should include a breakdown by year which will list what charities you worked with and how much you raised directly and indirectly. Example:
2010 - Elstree Base
Direct fundraising:
£300 - Help for Heroes
£900 - Variety
Indirect fundraising:
£100 000 - Dreamflight
2011 - Elstree Base
Direct fundraising:
£400 - Cancer Research
£1000 - Variety
Indirect fundraising:
£130 000 - Dreamflight
2012 - Elstree Base
etc, etc.
3. Then I would like to get such reports on monthly basis on current fundraising.
Please let me know if you have any questions and I look forward to seeing people volunteer for the position. Anyone is welcome
Feel free to use this topic to nominate the charity representative.
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Zarvox (Lajos Kondor)
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Location: Budapest, Hungary
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Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2015 11:49 pm
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I think it is a very good idea and I understand how important it is,
but as a small outpost we only have a very few charity events in a year.
Most of these are like visiting hospitals, etc, and hardly (if any) fundraising.
If yes, we do it with the local 501st, and do not have separate accounts in it.
Could you please advise how should we implement these processes in our small group? Or is it strict, and we should just do it like written above?
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Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 6:08 pm
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Hi Lajos, I understand that sometimes there are joint events (with 501st) and in such cases, you can still let me know how much money you have raised.
If you don't have many events, I would suggest collecting information what charity events you do, and if you raise any amount of money, e.g. for children, make a note of those numbers and let me know.
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Zarvox (Lajos Kondor)
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Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 9:17 pm
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Thank you, this makes sense and makes things easier for our little outpost.
Do we still need to officially nominate/elect a local representative or is it enough if someone (who was involved in the event) sends you the report (or posts it to the appropriate forum topic)?
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I would like to see a volunteer to step up and offer to do it and then post reports in a seperate topic.
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I would like to see a volunteer to step up and offer to do it and then post reports in a seperate topic.
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Idoru ()
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I'm a volunteer. I'll do what I can.
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to store to do list items for each day of the month. My main class, myCalendar,
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would so appreciate any help, and I can even send you the code if need be.
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"I want the living room cozier," Melissa tells me. "The openness gives it an element of coldness."
Nancy observes that Melissa's room has the basics right. It has good bones. The green and harvest wheat colors on the walls are attractive. The cinnabar chenille sofa, love seat and oversize ottoman purchased at Nathan's in Hazleton work just fine. And the tapestry rug Melissa's mother, Julia, spotted at Home Depot is a great complement. (Good eye, Julia!)
First, the furniture
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The room is warmer already.
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Up a ladder she goes, drill and brackets in hand. The next thing we know, she's put a wooden shelf about five feet above the sofa.
Hmmm, I still can't quite picture how it's going to work, although I do note that the shelf is a nice counterpoint to the slate shelf over the fireplace and a complement to the exposed wood in the room.
Nancy then hoists up five prints from Marshalls. "I shopped for artwork with the view in mind," she says. The prints feature trees, hills countryside, and pick up on the browns, golds and greens in and outside of the living room.
As the prints are hung with two above the shelf, three below in balanced groupings: the three-dimensional wall-hanging takes shape. Nancy adds fullness with an overflowing silk plant and tall and short pieces of pottery on the shelf.
When she descends the ladder and steps back to regard her handiwork, she observes, "I just love seeing the little $6 Wal-Mart pottery up there."
Melissa agrees.
The room is definitely warmer.
Nancy then fills in the empty corner of the "L" formed by the sofa and love seat sets with a side table -- one she brought from Melissa's basement. The table is a little funky but covered with another fulsome faux plant basket, set with a lamp with a twisted black iron base (which has a conversation with the black metal of the fireplace box) and finished off with family photographs plucked from the mantel, it doesn't matter.
Even warmer
The final fillip for the tall wall is a suitably tall parlor palm that goes by the window, with a complementary plant at its base. Nice way to draw interest down to the floor.
Finishing touches
Among my favorite finishing touches is the accessorizing of the fireplace and windows area.
Nancy has a wall of rectangular prints over the couch, so, in counterpoint, she emphasizes the half-circle arches atop of the second-floor-level palladium windows with a big, round rust-patina-look clock from JCPenney.
Then -- and I love this -- she hangs half-circle decorative scrollwork grills below each palladium window. One good half-circle deserves another. Wonderful!
Of course, the mantel shelf over the fireplace gets another plant -- another big one.
In fact, all the plants are bold in scale, which prompts Melissa to compare the small faux plant she chose for her mantel, which is now on a tray on the ottoman, to the larger one Nancy chose. "Look at the size of the one I had up there," she observes. "If I were to put it back up there, it would look lost."
Nancy and Melissa have also conspired to dress up the landing on the stairway leading from the living room to the second floor, where an antique chest from Jason's boyhood bedroom sits forlorn.
Another plant, overflowing, of course, tall lamp with metal base, a pretty botanical print and a grouping of family photos goes on the wall.
To set off the wall continuing up the stairs. Nancy has rescued a print that she found gathering dust under Melissa's bed, where Melissa had stashed it because she couldn't decide where it could go.
The print, a wedding present, shows a little boy and girl standing sheepishly over a broken pot and the tall parlor palm that has spilled out of it.
This touch is no coincidence. Nancy chose the parlor palm in the living room for the resonance she knew it would have with the palm in the print. She's that good.
When Lexi comes home from school, the 7-year-old eyes take it all in and can tell the difference in her living room.
"I think it should stay this way forever," she says.


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By Carol Cratty, CNN
Washington (CNN) — During a three-day law enforcement sweep targeting the problem of teenage prostitution, officers rescued 79 children and arrested 104 alleged pimps, the FBI announced Monday.
Operation Cross Country 6 took place from Friday though Sunday with more than 2,500 state, local and federal officers working in 57 cities.
FBI Acting Executive Assistant Director Kevin Perkins said the children law enforcement freed from their handlers ranged from 13 to 17 years old with one girl saying she had gotten involved in prostitution when she was 11.
"Many times the children that are taken in in these types of criminal activities are children that are disaffected, they are from broken homes, they may be on the street themselves — they are really looking for a meal, they are looking for shelter, they are looking for someone to take care of them, and that's really the first approach that's made," said Perkins.
"Once the child has been taken out of harm's way, then really the story just begins at that point," said Perkins. "That's where the real work starts, where we have to call upon the community, various social welfare agencies, our own office of victim assistance has to work with each child on an individual basis to see what their requirements are.
"This is a very difficult task. These children are very damaged — very harmed, and they need a great deal of help — it's really taxing the social welfare agencies and it's something that, going forward, we need to pay particular attention to."
Even though the FBI says 79 children were rescued, officials said there's no guarantee those minors won't be lured back into prostitution.
"A lot of these kids feel like they are in love, and therefore many of them will go back, so it's not only important that they get help, but they need a specialized kind of help," said Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
According to Perkins, the people exploiting children in this manner are engaged in organized crime and have business plans and strategies. He said such criminals know their market and will move kids from state to state to service clients. The criminals use various methods including the Internet to find vulnerable kids. They also may find them at bus stations or truck stops and offer them help as a first step to winning their confidence.
Operation Cross Country is part of the FBI's Innocence Lost National Initiative which was started in 2003. With 47 task forces and working groups, the FBI says more than 2,200 children have been pulled off the streets along with more than 1,000 convictions of people exploiting kids. According to the FBI, many of the convictions have resulted in long prison sentences, including eight life terms.
Despite those figures, the FBI and child advocates said child prostitution continues to be a serious problem and they called on the public to realize it can happen in any town and neighborhood.
Allen said the best estimate is that at least 100,000 American kids get lured into prostitution every year.
cant the FBI do some thing more important
If there really are 100,000 new children victimized each year, then why did 2500 officers nationwide find only 79 of them?
Because Americans are major bullsheeters. They exaggerate the numbers, then they also exaggerate the work they did. Idiocracy era has begun in the US far before the rest of the world, imbeciles fall for it all but life has become unbearable for decent people which make up a very small percentage of the population.
It was only 3 days.
All they could locate from their arm chair and computer they were going to go outside and look!
snuff films, overseas slave trade, etc. i grew up in NC in the 50's the state facilitated kidnappings and cash adoptions.
@NEAL More important? Than what? Should they focus on illegal music downloads?
No but good thing they got the soda size under control before looking on craigslist for these children. Sure would have helped if they did some foot work too?
What is more important than protecting children?
Let me guess. You don't have any. That is probably a good thing.
what you mean can the FBI do something more important? This is important .
Always the victim...
Neal you are a jerk and very insensitive.
Like what? Our children are the most important thing to us parents, and your statement leaves the rest of us wondering about you.
What pops up in my mind is "this does not sound like an organised ring, why is this not a continious effort rolling from state to state?".
To busy with people smoking weed more money in tracking those guys down and getting them in the system. Privatized prisons pay good money for convicts and make better money off them.
Obama is more occupied with funding Libyan terrorist leaders ( now diseased) into uprrisingings, if gays can hold hands public-
Ally , and if there is enough abortion funding
Overseas ... He must be really ticked about this Tony Perkins doing something good for women or children. Hope he doesn't fire him.
Was that your comment – oh,
commander in cheap – or just one of your minions ?
This Sting was Monday – and the Papers still
Won't report – propably implicated your corrupt
Cohort organization ... Starting with the DOJ –
The new ACORN GROUPS , PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND EVEN THOSE UNDERGROUND "fronts" at Some COOKIE
Finally, the U.S. government actually did something right for a change! Kudos to the F.B.I.! Now if we can get out of all these useless and unnecessary wars overseas and mind our own business for a change!!!
We still need to talk to many of the chrildren and advice them on seting issue and encourage them about the future.
So you think it is not imporant to help kids. Your mother must be proud.
I can believe that you think it not important to save children...what if you were one of them.. or someone you loved. Neal your just messed up. Congrats to the FBI!
Great to hear the FBI is focused on saving our future generations. IT is very sad to think how many children have already been shipped and lost overseas before they got to them! To think how many clues they picked up from 79 children!!!
the government should change the law, when the system is certain that the convicts are guilty, castrate them,
these convicts have ruined the lives of so many children, they don't deserve to even live!
why let these convicts enjoy prison life doing nothing, they should do community work in chains!
i like to know, do prisons have a section (laundry) where organisation / NGO can send soiled cloths / materials to these convicts to be washed and ironed. the government should make forced labour from these convicts, then make money from these labour and the profit should be donated to NGO and some into the government... isn't this a more logical approach
Don, i like the way you think!
Well, now that the media spotlight is thteeraning to move on to someone else, the Pastor is saying he was duped this Friday morning and will now re-consider going back to burning the books again. i hope his congregation abandons him in light of his intolerance and acting like a petulant child by trying to force the Muslims into not building the mosque in NY via this threat.
Thats not actually a bad idea, theres a process utilizing chemical castration that some convicts opt into. The ones that do it(they are still life sentencers) say that it really helps them with their "urges"
It is not true abouth your FBI agents child phornographi went the same Robert mueller did act along with new recruits at the marine or withe marines USA , not only that but the FBI does criminal thinks they enjoy under no body's is watching or by he Icc who's watching them how they use our family to do on politics the same FBI the same FBIoes this he knows the a child killer leaves on union st in Newark who happens to seduce children's and make them post nude or ask the same mother to ask their children's to post name it thru their lo tops in order to be in politics or act wrongly in order to use derail the planes from north to south or viseveza FBI FAA CIA ins , and many more Authorities my case is International.
I can't forgive the exploitation not for one day... NOT FOR ONE DAY!
This is really crazy!where is the mother of morality and discipline in the US?
Maybe we should take some of the millions/billions of dollars invested in taking down medical marijuana facilities and move that over to this cause...
This world is truly Hell.
When money talks, all ears and eyes go deaf and blind. sad i tell ya.
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Anyone who thinks slavery is a thing of the past, is sadly mistaken.
The people organizing and making money off the suffering of children are beyond pathetic, they are monsters and the penalties for this behavior should be at a minimum life in prison without the possibility of parole. They make me sick to my stomach. God forbid they go near my children, I will rip their heads off with my bare hands.
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Ok Neal, what should they be doing? Who should the government be working to protect? These people matter just as much as any of us. It is sickening how poeple will take advantage of a kid's poverty or home situation and decieve them.
you,re right they are not super human they are didoing what they can.i say keep tring to bring these children home save.
iagree they are doing a good job.keep it up bring these children home save.
Good one FBI, Kudo,s!,.. more please!,..This type of trafficing in persons is a lot more prevelent than most seem to realise[or want to admit?]..and the gangs in play are!! international in scope,..very much so!,..re,the pimps?[sad,sick creatures],..this kind of mentality can never recover,.. no jail sentence, group hugs deal, or anything for that matter can ever! change them,, they are "broken" and can not be repaired,, this leaves the real question,, what do! we do with them??..besides stripping them clean of everything they possess and slamming them in jail for life,, there is no other real viable solution that works and also serves as a detterent,..btw, we have found that these networks in play are also into virtually every other kind of abuse,, women,children, the elderly and the disabled,, often at the same time,..this is THE! dirty side of orginised crime,..next time you druggies buy some cocaine,crack etc,, be aware,, this!! is what you! are supporting,, and "I didnt know" aint gonna fly,..if you "didnt"?? you should have!...so far?.. global?.. well over 78,000! victims have been recovered from this,, it is not!! only an US problem,..the FBI ask,"what can we do to keep these kids from further harm??..first, get them far away from the abusers, small towns are best,,move them into a family situation asap,, then get them real psychological help that is victim based and not blame! based,..you might even consider setting up entire communities for this purpose, so the kids are not alone, and dont feel left out etc,..farms??.. small towns,, remote??..semi remote maybe even??..with real, active and immediate! consequences for anyone not only firstly abusing them, but re abusing as well[immediate life would be my take]...and these "pimps" have others!! over them,,and quite often they are hiding as "respectible" people in positions of power,, that!! has to be addressed as well,...abusers can be and so often are as DR R Hare says,;"casuisticly cunning",He also says;"they network for protection".. he is correct,..be sure and check"what else"..it so often is going down at the same time,..meantime,, keep it up,, sic parvis magna,..indeed!..no??.. good work!..
79 victims are "taxing" the system. sounds like another govt giveaway. better shut em down
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The End of History and The Last MOOCs
Francis Fukuyama wrote in 1997 "The End of History and The Last Man", a book that became soon extremely popular and so influential that some say that international policies were shaped at that time by the strange vision promoted by the author. Fukuyama is a former official of the US State Department's policy planning staff and his ideas were at that time widely adopted as facts and vision of a certain future. In very few words, the theory advanced by the book is that all nations are or aim to become capitalist democracies. Therefore, history "has ended" as ideological conflicts are things of the past. One vision prevailed – that of neoliberal capitalism and democracy – and institutional revolution reached an end. As economic and ideological major issues have been settled in one final perfect vision of neoliberal capitalism, the future is just peace, trade and consumption within universally accepted principles of democracy and free trade. The vision adopted in late 90's in most centers of power proved soon to be just a superficial utopia. It became clear that taking this as a vision for the future was a colossal mistake. The history offered a painful succesion of unpredictable events, various conflicts caused by ideological differences, new crises and a rise to power of countries openly against democratic ideals (yes, China is here one notable example). The End of History and The Last Man is not only one of the most influential books of a decade, but stays as a source of some of the most reckless ideas that made the democratic world more vulnerable to crises and attacks. However, universities seems oblivious that this has happened just few years ago and fail to lern an important lesson.
The current discourse and most visible debates in education currently take the same dangerous path of shallow analysis, tendentiousness, twist of facts to fit an agenda and stay relaxed with the suppression of alternative perspectives. Higher education proudly promotes nowadays that the end of its history was reached and MOOCs – as "revolutionary change" – finally came to solve the problems of Academia, leaving behind the ivory tower.
This narrative states that students across the world will have (online) equal access to higher education, university administrators have a way to secure continuous growth, profits and expansion, while profits, peace and harmony became the only foreseeable future of new online universities. Oblivious to the complexity of current problems facing higher education and youth, these voices focus on the single problem seen on their horizon: some brick-and-mortar universities still fail to understand that this is the only path to survival. We hear that their hesitation to fully adopt MOOCs and for-profit solutions ineluctably lead to a future of suffering and painful dissolution.
In "An Avalanche is Coming. Higher education and the revolution ahead" – a widely publicized new report with a title in line with the already old "tsunami of change", "disruptive innovation" etc. – the authors announce that even elite universities could struggle to survive if they don't adopt a for-profit model and MOOCs. The little detail that this analysis is provided by Pearson, one of the biggest corporations in education with a set of investments and interests that stand against an objective analysis is vastly ignored. Facts seems to matter only if they serve a well funded and professionally promoted agenda.
Vested interest are not the only explanation for this phenomenon characterized by a focus on (not even new) technological solutions and utter disregard of pedagogical, cultural and even economic issues at the core of higher education. Facts such as that typically less than 10% of students in these courses "graduate", that even in non-marked courses with no credits plagiarism is widespread and quality assurance is a worrying and recurrent issue escapes in the avalanche of these biased reports. It is clear that this is not the place to repeat the long list of concerns and issues related to MOOCs as analysed in the recent book "What Undermines Higher Education". However, there are some additional concerns to this online solution that seems to be at the heart of a tunnel vision on education.
In 1972 the sociologist William H. Whyte coined the term "groupthink" to describe how a group converge to normatively "correct" ideas and interpretations while becoming impervious to alternative perspectives and criticism. Symptoms of groupthink were presented in 1972 by Irving L. Janis in the influential "Victims of Groupthink". They are important to keep in perspective when we find ubiquitously that the current debate in higher education is reduced to MOOCs.
We find often that the "group" within and around Academia seems mesmerized by the new hype and insists to remain unaware of important challenges facing our students and unchartered implications of MOOCs, a solution used since 2008 (!) by Dave Cormier, Manager of Web Communication and Innovations at the Canadian University of Prince Edward Island, also the author of this term.
Summarizing, the inventory of groupthink symptoms includes "discounting warnings that might challenge assumptions", "unquestioned belief in group's morality", "shutting down of ideas that deviate from the apparent group consensus", "illusion of unanimity" or "mindguards – self-appointed members who shield the group from dissenting opinions". Many organizations became extremely vulnerable to 'groupthink' as internal mechanisms of freedom of thinking, dialogue and critique for progress and sustainable evolution were sacrificed for immediate profits. A top-down management style – with a limited focus on profitability justifying the ruthless approach to work-relations and employment – came with this corrosive and ultimately fatal effect.
Too often "mindguards" are lecturing now about the use of MOOCs even if it stays clear that they have no expertise in massive open online courses, use of learning management systems and online solutions for learning. The "group" insists to ignore the obvious consequences of following the advice of dilettantes in shaping the future of their institutions.
Even if we assume that most MOOCs will step beyond the reality of a simple reading list, some video /audio files and a vast discussion forum (hoping that we agree that this cannot be considered higher education), the question remains if the place of MOOCs on the agenda of most institutions of higher education coincides with the real agenda of our students. After decades of "student-centered" approaches we see that the voice of students is the least important factor in the current conversation.
There is no sign of alarm when it is widely accepted that a corporation with a revenue of over £5 billion in 2012 is telling universities that "the next 50 years could see a golden age for higher education, but only if all the players in the system, from students to governments, seize the initiative and act ambitiously". Of course, "ambitiously" is translated in a convenient agenda for the company listed on the London and New York Stock Exchange, including MOOCs (with no clarification of solutions for their pedagogical challenges), "niches or market segments" that universities "want to serve".
The context of the "golden age"
Universities are at the center of our economic, cultural and social life. Determined by the economy, political decisions and cultural preferences, their performance impacts directly on the future of the social fabric, culture and economies. This interdependence is important to be grasped when we talk about the present and future of higher education. Their importance explains why we have to look at the promise of a possible "golden age" with great care.
Young people – those between 15 and 24 years old, who are the key group for higher education – felt the most the effects of the economic downturn through the GFC. Currently, the situation is truly dramatic. In Ireland, Greece, Italy, UK or Spain staggering numbers of young people stay unemployed or join the increasingly massive group of NEETs (youth not in employment, education or training). Societe Generale is warning in a recent note that:
"Economic crisis in developed countries have reinforced unemployment, especially with the youth… With lower population support, large upheavals could threaten government stability. Social unrest is also looming in many emerging markets, where income inequality has increased or remained high since the 1980s".
It also notes that this should be a source of concern around the world and rise of inequality is a general trend: "Distribution inequalities and corruption are among the main concerns of the Chinese population according to recent surveys". Poverty affects the lives of millions of people not only in developing countries, but across the European Union. The International Red Cross announced that that the amount of food aid distributed to people in Europe by their institution has reached levels not seen since World War II.
In the US, unemployment among 18-29 year olds is above 12% (and we can add 1.7 million young people who have just given up looking for work entirely – with this figures included the effective unemployment rate for youth is over 16%). Muhtar Kent the Chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company, publicly expressed the concern that youth unemployment "has a chance of cracking the social fabric".
The fact is that inequality across the world reached unthinkable proportions and youth are one of the most disadvantaged groups. A recent report released by the Urban Institute reflects: "Despite the Great Recession and slow recovery, the American dream of working hard, saving more, and becoming wealthier than one's parents holds true for many. Unless you're under 40. Stagnant wages, diminishing job opportunities, and lost home values may be painting a vastly different future for Gen X and Gen Y."
Youth, including prospective students and graduates, find that their future is bleak and a diploma is not dramatically changing what they can expect. The Urban Institute study documents that youth is facing a decline in opportunities with a clear impact on all aspects of their (and our) future.
In the last years, the most important international organizations – from OECD and UN to Eurostat and Oxfam – release severe warnings to politicians and governments around the world on the risks involved by the record inequality between rich and poor, youth marginalization and social injustice. However, academics and universities (and loud voices of all mindguards of academic dialogue) insist to believe that higher education is looking at "golden age" if MOOCs are adopted and markets are served. It may come as a surprise that most students don't care if they are part of a class of 100,000 and do what they already do on their own Twitter and Facebook accounts. If we continue our parallel dialogue about technology and ignore their interests and concerns students see just that they don't find educational solutions to feel engaged and effectively learn for their future.
Before this 'golden age' universities will see – providing MOOCs or not – that prospective student find harder and harder to go into insurmontable debts and social tensions are on the rise. Online chats and the illusion of higher learning in massive crowds with resources that are most of the time already accesible may be insufficient to deal with daily realities. There are too many cases in history when the mistake to believe an utopian "golden age" turned into a nightmare. The next 50 years definitely require much more from higher education than an online platform solution and old neoliberal ideas packaged as serious visionary analysis.
The last MOOCs
MOOCs are one solution for an area of higher education. Online education opened decades ago new opportunities and possibilities for students and educators. Nevertheless, this is already part of learning in all modern universities. There is a time to take a look if we are not contaminated by groupthinking and shift to seriously explore wider implications of the future of higher education. We can start by seriously questioning the strident voice of those mimicking academic analysis for their vested interests. Adopting the long forgotten academic skepticism may prove once again the solution for our common progress.
If higher education reached the point of simple delivery of various reading lists, different resources, standardized tests and formal processes then it may be that the history of education really ended and we reached the days to accept it. If universities find the idea that they are responsible to their societies to provide alternative and courageous solutions, unaffected by corporate interests and short-term profit perspectives, to contribute to the world by making of higher civilization, then we have to admit that the entire discussion should be reduced to the packaging and technological solutions. We just have to provide pre-packaged education to all who can pay a small price. If it works for cheap hamburgers, it should work for junk education. Moreover, the idealistic perspective of alternative thinking as solution for flexibility, creative and new ideas for our crises may be just a futile and dangerous exercise for consumers and amenable employees.
The last MOOCs will most probably serve independently as academic ATMs for delivery of resources, tests and "academic credits", charging just few cents per transaction. Creativity, imagination and the aristocracy of the intellect will be part of a MOOC course on ancient history.


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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian militants violated the laws of war by launching rockets at Israeli cities from the Gaza Strip during last month's fighting, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday.
The New York-based group also said that militant organizations in the territory, which is ruled by the Islamist movement Hamas, put Palestinian civilians in harm's way by firing the rockets from within densely populated areas.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri dismissed the charges: "This report is biased because it equates a nuclear-armed country using all means of aggression against civilians and a people subject to the occupation who are defending themselves against Israeli violations of international accords amid the silence of the international community," he said.
Israel launched a November 14-21 air offensive with the declared aim of ending persistent rocket barrages on its territory.
Medical officials in the Gaza Strip said some 170 Palestinians, mostly civilians, were killed in the hostilities. HRW said two of the Palestinian dead were apparently hit by rockets that fell short of their intended targets in Israel.
Six Israelis, including two soldiers, were killed in rocket strikes, the Israeli police and military said.
"Palestinian armed groups made clear in their statements that harming civilians was their aim. There is simply no legal justification for launching rockets at populated areas," HRW said in a report.
It said rocket crews fired from areas "near homes, businesses and a hotel, unnecessarily placing civilians in the vicinity at grave risk from Israeli counter-fire".
As the ruling authority in the Gaza Strip, Hamas should, "stop unlawful attacks and punish those responsible", HRW said. "The laws of war prohibit reprisal attacks against civilians, regardless of unlawful attacks by the other side", it added.
In reports issued earlier this month, HRW said Israel had targeted journalists and killed 12 members of a single family in a strike on their home, violating the laws of war.
The Israeli military said in response to the HRW allegations that it "acts in accordance with the laws of armed conflict, despite the ongoing deliberate violations and abuse of these laws by the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip".
(Writing by Ori Lewis, Editing by Jeffrey Heller and Jon Boyle)


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Angels start second half with 'sense of urgency'
ANAHEIM -- It's no secret that the Angels' first half was disappointing.
Despite lofty preseason expectations, the Angels begin the second half of play five games under .500 in third place, 11 games out of first, in the American League West.
The 162-game schedule is certainly more of a marathon than a sprint, but time is running out.
"The sense of urgency has to be there every game of the schedule, and maybe it takes playing a team in first place to kind of stoke it a little bit," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said before the club opened a three-game series with the division-leading A's. "We'll see, but we need to start doing things on a consistent basis."
While their current place in the standings does not allow the Angels any room for error, neither does their schedule.
Thirteen of the Angels' next 20 games are against either Oakland or the second-place Texas Rangers.
"Those are the teams in front of us," Albert Pujols said. "Those are the teams we need to beat, one game at a time. I think second half of the season, every game is critical. It's not like there's tomorrow. Before you know it, you're in September."
If the Angels are able to make a second-half push, they will likely be getting strong production from Pujols.
Throughout his career, Pujols has hit .334 -- best among active Major Leaguers and fifth all-time -- in the second half. During 2012, his first season with the Angels, Pujols hit .305 in the second half.
There is no doubt Scioscia hopes to see production from Pujols, but he needs to see it from the rest of his team as well.
"Our challenge is focusing on that process and playing good baseball," Scioscia said. "In stretches this year we have done a good job of it, and then it seems like we get knocked back a little bit."


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* Expansion plan draws criticism from U.S. and Europe
* Move seen as retaliation for Palestinian U.N. bid
* Netanyahu's cabinet formally rejects U.N. vote
By Maayan Lubell
JERUSALEM, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu on Sunday brushed off world condemnation of Israel's
plans to expand Jewish settlements after the Palestinians won de
facto U.N. recognition of statehood.
"We will carry on building in Jerusalem and in all the
places that are on the map of Israel's strategic interests," a
defiant Netanyahu said at the weekly cabinet meeting.
In another blow to the Palestinian Authority in the West
Bank, Israel announced it was withholding Palestinian tax
revenues this month worth about $100 million.
Israel said the reason for the move was a Palestinian debt
of $200 million to the Israeli Electric Corporation, an
obligation that has existed for some time.
Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz cautioned last month that if
the Palestinians went ahead with the U.N. bid Israel would "not
collect taxes for them and we will not transfer their revenues".
Yasser Abed Rabbo, a senior Palestinian official, said
confiscation of the tax funds due the cash-strapped Authority,
vital to meeting its payroll, was "piracy and theft".
Stung by the U.N. General Assembly's upgrading of the
Palestinians' status from "observer entity" to "non-member
state", Israel said on Friday it would build 3,000 more settler
homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, areas Palestinians
want for a future state, along with Gaza.
An Israeli official said the government also ordered
"preliminary zoning and planning work" for thousands of housing
units in areas including the so-called "E1" zone near Jerusalem.
Such construction could divide the West Bank in two and
further dim Palestinian hopes, backed by the United States and
other international sponsors of the Middle East peace process,
for a contiguous country.
"It would represent an almost fatal blow to remaining
chances of securing a two-state solution," United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement on Sunday.
Israeli officials said it could up to two years before any
building begins in E1.
At the cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said the "unilateral step
the Palestinians took at the U.N. is a gross violation of
previous agreements signed with Israel". The government of
Israel, he added, "rejects the General Assembly's vote".
The upgrade, approved overwhelmingly, fell short of full
U.N. membership, which only the Security Council can grant. But
it has significant legal implications because it could allow the
Palestinians access to the International Criminal Court where
they could file complaints against Israel.
Israel's settlement plans, widely seen as retaliation for
the Palestinians' U.N. bid, have drawn strong international
condemnation from the United States, France, Britain and the
European Union.
"The recognition of Palestine as a state changes a lot of
the facts, and aims to establish new ones," Palestinian
President Mahmoud Abbas told a cheering crowd in the West Bank
city of Ramallah on his return from the United States.
"But we have to recognise that our victory provoked the
powers of settlement, war and occupation."
Netanyahu heads a pro-settler government and opinion polls
predict his Likud party will come out on top in Israel's Jan. 22
parliamentary election, despite opponents' allegations that his
policies have deepened Israeli diplomatic isolation.
"All settlement construction is illegal under international
law and constitutes an obstacle to peace," the EU's foreign
policy chief Catherine Ashton said in a statement on Sunday.
The United States said the plan was counterproductive to any
resumption of direct peace talks, stalled for two years in a
dispute over settlement expansion in the West Bank and East
Jerusalem, both captured by Israel in a 1967 war.
Netanyahu says Israel, as a Jewish state, has a historic
claim to land in the West Bank and to all of Jerusalem.
Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of a future
state. Israel considers all of the holy city as its capital, a
claim that is not recognised internationally.
Israeli Housing Minister Ariel Attias said that within weeks
the government would publish invitations for bids from
contractors to build 1,000 homes in East Jerusalem and more than
1,000 in West Bank settlement blocs.
"E1 is in planning, which means sketches on paper," Attias
told Army Radio. "No one will build until it is clear what will
be done there."
The E1 zone is considered especially sensitive. Israel froze
much of its activities in E1 under pressure from former U.S.
President George W. Bush and the area has been under the
scrutiny of his successor Barack Obama.
Benny Kashriel, mayor of the Maale Adumim settlement
adjacent to E1, told Army Radio building "will take a year or
Yariv Oppenheimer, head of the Israeli anti-settlement group
Peace Now said: "If we build in E1 the two-state vision will
truly be history ... it is a strategic point that if built, will
prevent the Palestinians from having a normal state."
Approximately 500,000 Israelis and 2.5 million Palestinians
live in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.


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2510 Beaubien St. E. (near d'Iberville St.)
Phone: 514-439-8599
Website: www.geppettopizza.com
Licensed: Yes
Credit cards: All major cards
Wheelchair accessible: Two steps up
Vegetarian friendly: Yes
Open: Mon. & Tues. 11:30 a.m.–10 p.m., Weds.-Fri. 11:30 a.m.–11 p.m., Sat. 5 p.m.–11 p.m., Sun. 5 p.m.–10 p.m.
Price range: Appetizers $8–$15, pizza $14–$18, pasta $15–$23, dessert $7–$10
If you were looking to launch a cross-town location of your pizzeria, you could do worse than this strip of Rosemont, where Molson Park acts as a stately town square. There are several cute businesses on the commercial row across from the still-green-for-the-moment greenery. While I've eaten on either side of it — at the laundromat and the breakfast place — I never once stepped inside the predecessor at this address, the similarly themed La Tomate.
The east-side Geppetto, named for the old carpenter who carves a puppet called Pinocchio in the Italian fairy tale, has a similar esthetic to its original Notre-Dame St. W. location. Dark furnishings, generously proportioned leather booths and a collection of framed prints on the wall bring a veneer of historic credibility, a cosy and chic but not-too-upmarket décor where neighbourhood types can feel comfortable dining without or with children.
Right off the bat, the staff here seemed more pleasantly engaged than during my experience at the Little Burgundy restaurant four years ago (I remember a fairly tasty but distractingly buzzy and surprisingly pricey meal). Maybe my tolerance has increased; I wasn't raising my eyebrows over the price points as I scanned a menu that does a lot of what I'd call back-stroking — crowd-pleasing dishes of creamed up carbohydrates that communicate the message of relax, you know you want it.
Who isn't a sucker for a Caesar salad? This one wasn't striving to be more than fresh and functional, with soft and crunchy romaine hearts, gum-piercing croutons, morsels of pancetta and a salty flurry of Parmesan gratings, but was still enjoyable. Other salads, like the vaguely seasonal-sounding apple, endive, blue cheese and walnut, were largely combinations we've seen and liked before; maybe the appetizer grilled octopus with chickpeas and confit tomatoes would have had more personality.
The Margherita was a non-gimmicky traditional Italian-style pie, fast-cooked in a wood-fired oven, emerging with a pale doughy rim like a drawing of a planet with a fiery core. Thinly sauced with tomato, lightly covered with mozzarella and garnished with gigantic basil leaves, it was pliable enough to fold with that irresistible crispy sound. Easy to enjoy, not podium worthy, but above-standard in a town where standards have risen in recent years. Many of the 20 or so topping options sounded both tempting and too much: the Funghi with mushrooms and smoked Îles aux Grues cheddar; the Hawaii 5-0 with braised bacon, pineapple salsa and Stilton; and the béchamel-smeared Bianca with sausage, leek and three cheeses.
The pizza turned out to be the best thing on the table, the bottom line at a place like this. If I were to go back to Geppetto — and if I lived around the corner and had the type of income referred to as disposable, I probably would — the meal plan of attack would be to keep it simple. There are indubitably things on the roster that could become favourites, we just didn't stumble across them. I'll credit my dinner mate with summing it up as the night progressed.
"I just want this place to be 20 per cent better than it is."
Case in point, a plate of pasta and polpette. Broad ribbons of pappardelle were breaking apart in places and had little bite left in them. The choice of ingredients, oddly matched for the shape, didn't help the noodles shine. They were weighed down by the meatballs (though these were fluffy and nicely herbed), stuck with stems and florets of rapini and coated in tomato sauce. A tasty mess, but a mess.
From a page of daily specials (nice to offer that), an autumnal risotto delivered a load of creaminess that contrasted with the texture of still-resilient grains. I liked the pops of sweetness from the tender cubes of butternut squash and wilted spinach, but the rounds of merguez didn't work. This sausage has its own type of lingering spice and grease profile that just didn't go; I found myself avoiding bites that contained the sausage rather than looking forward to them.
The dessert list — a warm brownie with vanilla ice cream, a crème brûlée — tugs at the heartstrings even if you think your tummy can't take more. What's nice about ending on a dark chocolate pie — rich, firm and more bittersweet than sugary in flavour — is that you can finish your wine (the Dolcetto D'Asti if available) with it. Which is what we did.
Sarah Musgrave writes about casual restaurants for The Gazette.
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Oct. 18, 2002
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Investigations have shown that a faulty electrical connection between two magnets (shown in red) was the cause of the incident in sector 3-4 of the LHC on 19 September.
Geneva, 16 October 2008. Investigations at CERN1 following a large helium leak into sector 3-4 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) tunnel have confirmed that cause of the incident was a faulty electrical connection between two of the accelerator's magnets. This resulted in mechanical damage and release of helium from the magnet cold mass into the tunnel.
Proper safety procedures were in force, the safety systems performed as expected, and no one was put at risk. Sufficient spare components are in hand to ensure that the LHC is able to restart in 2009, and measures to prevent a similar incident in the future are being put in place.


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Notice the reaction of the "crowd." I believe it was Barney Frank who could only respond by taking a donut break and I'm sure to call his central banking pals to figure out ways to "off" Mr. Grayson.
Hmmm, I can just imagine the conversation… "What shall it be, Mr. Dimon, hookers?"
"No, no, that wouldn't work, and besides we used that one last time. Call the boys at the IRS and see what they can trump up… By the way, Barney, your latest 'contribution' is in the mail."
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