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Course Description
PY 460 Administration of Preschool Programs 2 cr.
- Offered: Winter
- Prerequisite: Senior standing, PY 156 with a "C" or better, PY 285 with a "C" or better.
Study of program development, implementation and control. Operational topics include staffing, licensing, certification requirements, equipment and facilities for operating a preschool education facility.

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Governing Climate Finance: The Importance of Reporting Guidelines and Review Mechanisms to Ensure Transparency & Accountabilityby -
This "Budget Brief" originally appeared on the International Budget Partnership website. You can read the entire text, and download a PDF of the brief, here.
The international community has come together to address the challenge of global climate change. Through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), participating governments have established a goal of stabilizing the global average temperature within 2 degrees C and are engaged in an ongoing process of negotiating what needs to be done, who needs to do it, what it will cost, and who will pay for it. The next round of negotiations, the COP-16 (Conference of Parties), will be from 29 November-10 December 2010 in Cancun, Mexico. One of the most critical – and contentious – issues that will be addressed will be reaching agreement on financing climate change mitigation (actions to reduce emissions and stabilize temperatures) and adaptation (actions to reduce impact of current climate shifts and increase resilience to future impacts).
The COP-16 follows the last round of negotiations that took place in Copenhagen in December 2009. In Copenhagen countries committed to short-term, ―fast start financing and to coming to agreement on a long-term ―balanced package that provides adequate and equitable funds for mitigation and adaptation. In addition to decisions about how climate change finance will be implemented at the international and national level, whether through existing agencies and processes or new institutions and mechanisms, agreement must be reached on how to ensure that finance flows are completely transparent in order to enable sound decision making about distribution and use of resources, public participation, and adequate oversight. Thus parties to the COP-16 must decide on the format and review process for reporting financial data from donor and recipient countries and guarantee that the public within countries has full access to this information.
Agreements reached in Cancun can lay the foundation for a more robust climate regime in the long run. It will be critical for negotiators to reach decisions on key finance building blocks that can be implemented immediately and not fall back into a ―nothing is agreed till everything is agreed position. There is simply no time for that; the latest science tells us we need to accelerate actions if we are to stabilize temperatures at a safe level.
This brief looks at climate finance over the past year and how the current level of reporting is inadequate to the task of ensuring that funding commitments are fulfilled and funds are used effectively. It touches on the important role that civil society and public participation within countries receiving climate funds can play in decision making and oversight and presents recommendations for reporting mechanisms and public participation for the COP-16 and future negotiating sessions to consider.
This Brief was prepared by Athena Ballesteros, a senior associate for Institutions and Governance at the World Resources Institute, and Vivek Ramkumar, manager of the Open Budget Initiative at the International Budget Partnership.


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The J. Paul Getty Museum plans to acquire Virgin with Child, St. John the Baptist, and Mary Magdalene (about 1530-40) by Parmigianino (Italian, 1503-1540), one of the most celebrated painters of the Italian Renaissance. Extremely well-preserved, the painting is a supreme example of the artist's mature Mannerist style and represents sixteenth-century painting at its finest.
Francesco Mazzola, better known as Parmigianino—a nickname derived from his native town of Parma—is one of the greatest Italian painters, draughtsman, and printmakers of the sixteenth century. During a career that lasted only two decades, he executed a wide range of work, from small panels for private devotion, to large-scale altarpieces and frescoes, to brilliantly executed portraits. Few painters had a greater influence on the art of their century, and his intellectual and elegant style spread far and wide, despite his very brief life.
The unconventional iconography of this painting typifies Parmigianino's innovative work: the Christ Child turns from the Virgin Mary to embrace his young cousin, John the Baptist, whose hands are joined in prayer. Mary Magdalene holds the Christ Child under his arms while looking back at the Virgin. Intended for private devotion, the intimate religious subject exhibits Parmigianino's characteristic polished and enamel-like paint surface and exquisitely rendered details; the lush landscape, elaborate hairstyles of the two women, interplay of hands, and still life with the jewels of Mary Magdalene enhance the transcendent beauty of the composition. Parmigianino executed the painting on paper laid down on panel, a unique feature in his surviving work, and one which reflects his accomplishment as a draughtsman.
"Pope Clement VII hailed Parmigianino as 'Raphael reborn,' and his style was extremely influential during the course of the sixteenth century," says Davide Gasparotto, senior curator of paintings at the J. Paul Getty Museum. "This painting, with its impeccable provenance and exceptional state of preservation, shows the artist at the peak of his maturity."
The painting complements a number of the Getty's existing Italian Renaissance paintings, including
Head of Christ (about 1530) by Correggio (about 1489-1534),
The Rest on the Flight into Egypt with St. John the Baptist (about 1509) by Fra Bartolomeo (1472-1517) and works by Giulio Romano (before 1499 – 1546), Sebastiano del Piombo (1485-1547) and Jacopo Pontormo (1494-1557).


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Code of professional ethics
Version 2018
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I. Purpose and Scope
Article 1
a) This Code of Professional Ethics (hereinafter called the "Code") lays down the standards of integrity, professionalism and confidentiality which all members of the Association shall be bound to respect in their work as conference interpreters.
b) Candidates and precandidates shall also undertake to adhere to the provisions of this Code.
c) The Disciplinary and Disputes Committee, acting in accordance with the provisions of the Statutes, shall impose penalties for any breach of the rules of the profession as defined in this Code.
II. Code of Honour
Article 2
a) Members of the Association shall be bound by the strictest secrecy, which must be observed towards all persons and with regard to all information disclosed in the course of the practice of the profession at any gathering not open to the public.
b) Members shall refrain from deriving any personal gain whatsoever from confidential information they may have acquired in the exercise of their duties as conference interpreters.
Article 3
a) Members of the Association should pursue continuing professional development. Regions may adopt specific policies or regulations in this regard either on voluntary basis or on the basis of relevant legislation where continuing professional development constitutes a statutory obligation. Said policies or regulations shall be submitted to the Executive Committee for approval.
b) Members of the Association shall not accept any assignment for which they are not qualified. Acceptance of an assignment shall imply a moral undertaking on the member's part to work with all due professionalism.
c) Any member of the Association recruiting other conference interpreters, be they members of the Association or not, shall give the same undertaking.
d) Members of the Association shall not accept more than one assignment for the same period of time.
Article 4
a) Members of the Association shall not accept any job or situation which might detract from the dignity of the profession.
b) They shall refrain from any act which might bring the profession into disrepute.
Article 5
For any professional purpose, members may publicise the fact that they are conference interpreters and members of the Association, either as individuals or as part of any grouping or region to which they belong.
Article 6
a) It shall be the duty of members of the Association to afford their colleagues moral assistance and collegiality.
b) Members shall refrain from any utterance or action prejudicial to the interests of the Association or its members. Any complaint arising out of the conduct of any other member or any disagreement regarding any decision taken by the Association shall be pursued and settled within the Association itself.
c) Any problem pertaining to the profession which arises between two or more members of the Association, including candidates and precandidates, may be referred to the Disciplinary and Disputes Committee for arbitration, except for disputes of a commercial nature.
III. Working Conditions
Article 7
With a view to ensuring the best quality interpretation, members of the Association:
a) shall endeavour always to secure satisfactory conditions of sound, visibility and comfort, having particular regard to the Professional Standards as adopted by the Association as well as any technical standards drawn up or approved by it;
b) shall not, as a general rule, when interpreting simultaneously in a booth, work either alone or without the availability of a colleague to relieve them should the need arise;
c) shall try to ensure that teams of conference interpreters are formed in such a way as to avoid the systematic use of relay;
d) shall not agree to undertake either simultaneous interpretation without a booth or whispered interpretation unless the circumstances are exceptional and the quality of interpretation work is not thereby impaired;
e) require a direct view of the speaker and the room and therefore will not agree to working from screens except in exceptional circumstances where a direct view is not possible, provided the arrangements comply with the Association's appropriate technical specifications and rules;
f) shall require that working documents and texts to be read out at the conference be sent to them in advance;
g) shall request a briefing session whenever appropriate;
h) shall not perform any other duties except that of conference interpreter at conferences for which they have been taken on as interpreters.
Article 8
Members of the Association shall neither accept nor, a fortiori, offer for themselves or for other conference interpreters recruited through them, be they members of the Association or not, any working conditions contrary to those laid down in this Code or in the Professional Standards.
IV. Amendment Procedure
Article 9
This Code may be modified by a decision of the Assembly taken with a two-thirds majority of votes cast and, if appropriate, after having sought a legal opinion on the proposals.


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As this is being written, Chuck Hagel has yet to be confirmed as secretary of defense. Whatever the outcome of the Senate vote over his nomination, the views Hagel would have brought (or will in fact bring) to this post are extremely problematic.
To take one important example, he is on the record as supporting Global Zero. This is an organization calling for abolition of all the world's nuclear weapons. Another prominent adherent of this movement is former president Jimmy Carter.
Oy vey. This high-minded call for across-the-board nuclear abolition is more than impractical. Plainly, it is also undesirable. For Israel, in particular, any Global Zero-style "solution" could be more than merely unhelpful. It could be authentically catastrophic.
History can instruct. The risks of war between enemy states are not automatically enlarged by any expanded powers of destruction. Sometimes, Hagel should understand, the correlation between war risks and weapon destructiveness can be substantially less direct, or even inverse.
Hagel fails to understand. Utterly. Nuclear weapons are not the real problem. In fact, by themselves, these weapons are neither good nor evil. In certain cases, they can provide the most credible basis for strengthening deterrence.
For Israel, nuclear weapons, whether ambiguous, or (possibly in the future) disclosed, can serve as significant impedimentsto war.
Hagel should now be looking toward a world that exhibits fewer risks for war and terror. While awaiting the Senate's verdict on his nomination, he would have done well to focus on creating an improved U.S. strategic doctrine. This doctrine would concern not only principal jihadist adversaries but also still-prospective national foes in Russia, North Korea, Iran, and a conceivably post-coup Pakistan. Any such doctrine could have profound survival implications for Israel.
During the 1950s the United States first began to codify various doctrines of nuclear deterrence. The world then was tightly bipolar, and the enemy was the Soviet Union. American national security was openly premised on a strategic policy called "massive retaliation." Over time, that stance evolved into "flexible response."
Today the world is characterized by multiple and inter-penetrating axes of real and potentially violent conflict. There are almost four times as many countries as existed in 1945. In this expresslymultipolarworld, Russia, which had once assumed diminished importance in optimistic American strategic calculations, is once again a legitimately major concern.
In part, the Russians are spurred on in their ambitious nuclear invigorations by a plausible fear of planned U.S. ballistic missile defenses in Europe. Such active defenses, in the Russian view, would threaten the long agreed upon deterrence logic of "mutual vulnerability."
What should be done?
Among other steps, it is time to gather together America's best strategic thinkers and put them to work on a present-day equivalent of the Manhattan Project. This time, however, the task would not be to develop any new form of super weapon. Yet this project should not become a pretext to oppose nuclear weapons per se. After all, without a nuclear "balance of terror" during the Cold War, it is likely there would have been a third world war.
A capable American strategic brain trust will need to consider complex matters of nuclear targeting. These core issues would concern critically basic differences between the targeting of enemy civilians and cities (countervalue targeting), and the targeting of enemy military assets and infrastructures (counterforce targeting).
Precisely because the man President Obama felt comfortable choosing as secretary of defense seems to draw his principal strategic policy options from idealized assumptions about worldwide nuclear disarmament, Americans need to understand that they remain at risk of unprecedented enemy attacks.
As for Israel, the existential perils of naive strategic thinking are even greater.
There will not be a "nuclear weapons-free world." And, at least for now, there should not be such a world. It is a bad idea on its face, one that is not only impracticable but also misguided in principle.
The administration should work to create a greatly improved U.S. strategic doctrine, one that would examine, inter alia, fundamentally new directions in preemption ("anticipatory self-defense"), active defense and cyber-war. Such a coherent and purposeful macro-plan is sorely needed to serve critical national security needs in Washington and Jerusalem. Consciously detached from any naive and misconceived ideas about nuclear weapons, it could ultimately prevent major enemy aggressions against both the United States and Israel.


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There is a grace and beauty in unpowered flight. Reading the subtlety of a thermal or suspending a glider in the lightest of lift is a wonderful experience.
This is what the DL50 was designed for. We wanted a glider that would fly well, be easy to build, and would withstand the abuse of a discus launch.
A great deal of time was spent working out a method where a builder could make a fiberglass over foam wing that would fly well but would not require the compexities of vacumn bagging. We are using the AG04-AG08 airfoil for it's excellent performance. This is a very thin airfoil so, in order for such a thin airfoil to withstand the forces of a discus launch, we use a combination of carbon fiber rod spars, carbon fiber tape, and fiberglass to create a strong, lightweight wing. The fiberglass is applied to the foam cores with Minwax Polycrylic water-based finish. It is easy to apply, works well, and cleans up easily.
The pod and tail are laser cut, ensuring an accurate build. The fuselage is then wrapped with fiberglass to give it strength while keeping it light.
The kit comes complete with all the required fiberglass, carbon fiber boom, pushrods, and wing spars.
Wingspan: 50"
Wing Area: 275 sq in
Aspect Ratio: 9.1
Weight: 8 to 9 oz
Loading: 4.2 to 4.7 oz/sq ft
Airfoil: Drela AG-05 to AG-08
cut balsa and plywood
Foam wing cores
Lightweight tapered carbon fiber tail boom
Carbon fiber wing spars and reinforcement
Fiberglass wing covering
Pushrods and pushrod housings
Misc. hardware
Tools Needed:
Sharp knife (#11 X-Acto)
Items Needed to Complete:
Minwax Polycrylic
Thin CA and possibly foam-safe CA
5 minute epoxy
2+ Ch Radio
2 Servos (GWS Pico, HS-55, or similar)
RX Battery (4 cell 370mAh NiMH or smaller)
Tools Needed:
Items Needed to Complete:
Minwax Polycrylic
Thin CA and possibly foam-safe CA
5 minute epoxy
2+ Ch Radio
2 Servos (GWS Pico, HS-55, or similar)
RX Battery (4 cell 370mAh NiMH or smaller)
This 6meg video was shot at SEFF in Georgia by Kirby Pople
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Posted on 28th March 2014 by Media Relations
Last Friday, the Marine Mammal team took part in celebrations for Sustainable Seafood Day.
We have been using our daily Seal Show to promote sustainable seafood choices since 2007 and, with the help of our beautiful seals, have been successful in raising the awareness of this important issue.
Sustainable Seafood Day aims not to discourage consumers from eating seafood altogether, but rather choose products that are caught in a manner that ensures fish stocks are not depleted, supporting jobs and the environment.
This means we can all look forward to an ocean friendly future.
Visitors to Taronga Zoo's Seal Show can collect a free pocket-sized seafood guide to help them make a more sustainable choice.
- Marine Mammal Keeper, Stephen Dalleywater


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A civil rights activist who'd faced jail, beatings that left her near dead and other kinds of violence in an effort to register to vote, Hamer at this convention was vice-chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. The party was challenging its state's all-white, anti-civil-rights delegation at the national Democratic convention. Hamer and other MFDP officials were invited to address the convention's credentials committee, and shared her personal efforts to register to vote, and the barriers thrown in her way. It's an unflinching testimony. She describes being jailed; how the police forced other black prisoners to take a blackjack and beat her, over and over; the hate speech hurled at her and other protestors; how bullets fired into a private home were meant for her on a night when many other blacks were killed; and more. Then she concludes:
Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America?The effort to seat the Freedom Democrats enraged then-President Lyndon Johnson, who had been made president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy; this would be his first actual election as president. It was feared that the Freedom Democrats would sway other southern states to break ranks and diminish support for Johnson, who went so far as to schedule a last-minute news conference to divert attention from the testimony. Several television networks carried it that evening, nonetheless. While Hamer was not seated at the 1964 convention, she succeeded four years later, becoming in 1968 the first African-American to be seated as an official national party convention delegate since Reconstruction, and the first woman to represent Mississippi at a convention. Here's what you can learn from this famous speech:
- Atrocities don't need elaborate language: When your speaking is intended to serve as witness to something terrible, your language can simply describe what happened. No flowery adjectives and adverbs are needed; no effort to further make sense of the insensible is wanted. Plain language lets the terrible tale tell itself.
- Take the listener from the low to the high: As horrifying as her testimony is, Hamer brings it back in that last paragraph to the noble ideals of democracy, a contrast so stark that it's almost like a slap in the face. She doesn't need to frame it for the listener any further.
- Details and specifics make it real for the listener: As a witness, Hamer recounts names and dates, but also details that make an unreal-sounding situation concrete for the listener, from "the bus driver [who] was charged that day with driving a bus the wrong color" because he'd ferried the black protestors, to her cellmate who prayed while she was beaten.