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In order to execute meaningful, large-scale, and impactful programs and projects in our College of Education, we must engage a wide variety of individuals and organizations invested in providing support, talent, and resources to ensure that the work being done today results in a better tomorrow for all stakeholders. Partnerships in our College of Education include corporate, community, governmental, educational, non-profit, and private partnerships.
Relationships with entities including CenturyLink, Celero, the National Math Science Initiative, local school districts, Deans for Impact, pier educational institutions, NASA, the Louisiana Board of Regents, the Cyber Innovation Center, and many more. Learn more about some of our partners, what our relationships look like, and how you can engage with our College of Education.
Since 2009, Louisiana Tech has been instrumental in providing job embedded quality professional development opportunities for Livingston Parish Public School teachers, administrators, and counselors.
Periodically, educators need a jumpstart to inspire ideas and spark innovation in learning. Being immersed in convenient and affordable professional development is often the key to success. If educators do not know what "something different" looks like, how can they possibly be expected to enact change to that effect? Seeking new experiences not only enrich ourselves as people, but provide a wealth of experiences to draw upon when it's time for something different.
The COE partnership with Louisiana Tech University has provided courses with a strong focus on equipping teachers with usable instructional and assessment strategies that are easy to implement. Educators who complete these courses are creating innovative schools for digital-age students.
Jody Purvis
Supervisor, Livingston Parish School Board
Expanding the reach of STEM and its scope is always a goal of Augusta RC Academy (ARC). This past summer we had the opportunity to work with SciTEC at Louisiana Tech University to share remote controlled aviation with Louisiana youth in areas not typically served with STEM resources. From aviation theory to flight simulation to actual drone flights, the experience was as rewarding for us as it was for the students. The event allowed us to learn as much from the students and presenters as we shared with them. We are excited about working together in the future and look forward to expanding the reach of STEM in aviation in Louisiana!
Vern HD Horne
Augusta RC Academy
NASA SSC and Louisiana Tech are joining together in order to provide expertise and facilities for helping educators at all levels access and utilize Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) instructional materials aligned with national standards and State frameworks and based on NASA's unique mission and results. An Educator Resource Center (ERC) owned and operated by Louisiana Tech, will demonstrate and facilitate the use of educational technologies; provide in-service and pre-service training utilizing NASA curriculum materials, and will partner with local, State and regional educational organizations to become part of the systemic initiatives in the State. Louisiana Tech, through the ERC, will disseminate information from NASA within Louisiana.
Dr. Mitch Krell
University Affairs Officer, NASA Stennis Space Center
The Cyber Innovation Center (CIC) and the National Integrated Cyber Education Research Center (NICERC), the academic division of the CIC, headquartered in Bossier City, Louisiana, have been partnering with Louisiana Tech University since 2008. At that time, the partnership included the sharing of faculty and ideas that lead to the development of a Physics curriculum and summer camp for high school students focused on cyber engineering. Fast forward ten years and the partnership has evolved into a curriculum development engine that supports the learning of cyber engineering, computer science, cyber security, and cryptology, from K-12, across the country.
Through the College of Education, the CIC is able to pilot new content with future teachers and use that valuable feedback to help shape future course offerings. The content provided by the CIC and NICERC is all project-based and designed to reach all skill levels and abilities. As a result of this partnership, the teacher workforce that is coming out of the college is able to make immediate use of some of the latest tools and content that is available to reach this newest generation of diverse learners and learning styles. Through the College of Education, NICERC content has also been made available for teacher training in an online, asynchronous environment that can be used to apply for masters-level degree credit.
Three projects that are currently in development through this partnership with CIC and Louisiana Tech include new middle school content in the area of computational thinking, new high school math content in the area of cryptology, and elective content in the area of critical thinking that will aim to have students working in small teams to solve modern-day analysis problems that plague organizations like the Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Agency.
Chuck Gardner
Director of Curriculum, Cyber Innovation Center
Find out more about our Cyber Education Certificate – offered in partnership with NICERC.
AXI Education Solutions is a proud partner with Louisiana Tech University's College of Education to provide a variety of professional development opportunities for area districts, students, and staff.
We understand that in order to maximize the potential impact of technology, all Louisiana Tech College of Education stakeholders must be involved in the continued process of encouraging and enforcing instructional technology best practices. One of our favorite events to promote effective classroom technology integration is the biannual Bulldog Bytes which provides professional development sessions on topics such as STEM, Google, ActivInspire, Swivl, Classflow, and more.
Lisa Dick
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Drunk Proof Cars-- Will Big Brother Save Us?? | McGlone Law Firm, P.C.
MADD has adopted a slogan that they will Eliminate Drunk Driving and it seems clear that new developing technology will attempt to impose passive alcohol sensors on all drivers.
These devices follow a variety of proposed avenues to sense the presence of alcohol and deny the owner the ability to start their car. We already have "blow-and-go" devices for convicted drivers, but our prediction is that the MADD mamas will try to have them put in all cars. The passive devices won't work without all kinds of side effects and ultimately they will want to have us all blowing into an interlock device to start all new cars.
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If such devices are fitted in all cars than the level of alcohol drinkers will soon fall in our society,in other word it will be great news for people who are followers of "no drinking" but it will be too bad for the followers of "do drinking".
Thanks for sharing with us such interesting post, eep up the good job!
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Ok, sorry for the Fantastic 4 reference, but it had to be said.
Another water marbling design today, I totally dig this method, but I promise I'll do something different for tomorrow!!
from the OPI mini halloween set I got from ULTA for $2.99!!, and Sinful Colors Serena & Chloe for the swirls. In retrospect, though, glittered nail polish doesn't work very well for this technique.
like start my nails on fire? :) Thanks Erik, but I think that might be counterproductive to my project.
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By the end of July most companies would have completed their annual pay award adjustments and we can start to see the trend of actual pay settlements versus predicted. Recent data from XpertHR in the UK indicates that the median pay rise awarded by employers was 2.5 percent over the past three months – a level that has remained unchanged since the start of 2018 and is still tracking below inflation. The last time pay rises were higher than inflation was in August 2016. So for employees in the UK the pay squeeze continues.
There is a similar picture in the US where average hourly wages, adjusted for inflation, were unchanged in May from a year earlier, even as nominal pay accelerated to a 2.7 percent annual gain from 2.6 percent in April But Labor department reports for June show the consumer price index rose 0.2 percent from the previous month and 2.8 percent from a year earlier eroding wage gains that remain relatively tepid despite an 18-year low in unemployment.
This makes it tough for employers wishing to leverage pay to engage and retain key talent, particularly in a tight labor market. Making sure rewards go to those who contribute most to your business is key to success. The right compensation software can help to optimize wage allocation calibrating multiple talent metrics to highlight key talent when making reward decisions and intuitive alert functionality ensures that compensation recommendations are made in line with appropriate governance, are equitable, fair and risk aligned. To find out how Curo can help you...just ask us.


The 4C project carried out a review of ten existing curation and preservation cost models. A summary of these models and their capabilities is provided below together with links to additional details for each cost model. Terminological clarifications are provided below.
The 4C project has produced a summary of ten current and emerging cost and benefit models. If you follow the links in the summary table you will find a short description of each of the models and a presentation of their core features structured in tables to allow for easy comparison.
Account - a record of past (ex post) financial transactions.
Activity checklist - A checklist of digital curation activities that incur costs. Activities may be ordered in categories and different levels of sub categories.
Amortisation - a mechanisms for distributing capital costs over the estimated useful lifetime of an intangible asset to indicate how much of the asset's value has been used.
Budget - a record of estimated future (ex ante) financial transactions over certain periods of time.
Capital cost - cost incurred once, by acquisition (building space, equipment, materials) or by investments. Also known as investment cost or one-time cost.
Cost model - a representation that describe how resources, such as labour and capital, required for accomplishing digital curation activities relate to costs. Cost models can further be characterised by their cost structure and how they model cost variables.
Cost parameter - a factor that help in defining the system being costed, including cost elements (e.g. capital/labour cost) and cost variables (e.g. quantity of assets, salary levels).
Cost structure - defines the way a model break down costs in elements according to the dimensions activity, resource and time.
Cost variable - factors that influence the cost, can be divided in service adjustments (e.g. quantity and quality of assets, and quality of curation services) and in economic adjustments (e.g. inflation/deflation, depreciation/amortization, and interest (discount rates)).
Digital curation - digital curation is a series of repository activities including ingest, data management, (archival) storage, preservation planning, access, common services, repository administration, as well as pre-repository (production and pre-ingest (appraisal, selection, preparation, rights), post-repository, and management activities.
Depreciation - a mechanism for distributing capital costs over the estimated useful lifetime of a tangible asset to indicate how much of the asset's value has been used.
Direct cost - costs associated with resources used for performing digital curation activities (e.g. costs of acquisition of storage media, costs of adding metadata), where the amount of resources spent can be directly measured. Also known as variable costs.
Economic model - a representation that describes how economic processes around digital curation work; including the flow of resources (costs and revenues) within the economic lifecycle of digital information assets, and stakeholders (from the demand, supply and management side) interaction with this lifecycle.
Financial information - all types of information necessary for financial management (accounting and budgeting). It includes factual data on the cost (e.g. labour, materials and overhead), additional information describing what is being costed (e.g. assumptions and specifications), as well as information that relates to the benefits and value that the digital curation activities accrue and how these incentives influence economic behaviour and performance.
Fixed cost - costs, which do not vary with the amount of production. Often the same as indirect costs.
Full- time equivalent (FTE) - a unit that indicates the workload of a worker by expressing the ratio of the total number of paid hours during a period by the number of working hours in that period. Also known as annual work unit (AWU). Used to make workloads comparable.
Indirect cost - costs incurred by the usage of shared resources, such as general management and administration or common facilities and systems, where it has not been possible to distribute the cost on specific activities. Also known as residual cost or overhead.
Investment cost - see capital cost.
Labour cost - cost of wages paid to workers.
One-time cost - see capital cost.
Operating cost - see recurring cost.
Periodic cost - cost that are repeated and incur at intervals (e.g. some licenses).
Recurring cost - ongoing cost (e.g. from consumption of media, energy and labour). Also know as running cost or operating cost.
Resource cost - cost associated with a particular type of resource, capital or labour.
Running cost - see recurring cost.
Stakeholder - on the one side the roles of managers and administrators of digital repositories and other suppliers of curation services; and on the other side the roles of owners, producers and consumers (beneficiaries) of digital assets that have a demand for these services and a willingness to pay for the value that they represent.
Value - numerical, Boolean, ordered lists that are assigned to a parameter, or the result of a function.
Variable cost - costs, which vary directly with the amount of production. Often the same as direct costs.


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Aviation Maintenance: Additional Coordination and Data Could Advance FAA Efforts to Promote a Robust, Diverse Workforce
GAO-20-206 Published: Feb 06, 2020. Publicly Released: Feb 06, 2020.
The Federal Aviation Administration requires aircraft be repaired and approved for flight only by mechanics who are "certificated" by the FAA. FAA oversees the certification process of these mechanics and of repairmen who fix aircraft parts. Some stakeholders are concerned that retirements and attrition could reduce the number of certificated workers needed to meet the growing demand for air travel.
One of FAA's goals is to promote the development of a robust and diverse workforce, but it doesn't collect or analyze data to measure progress toward its goal.
We recommend that FAA make better use of existing data to measure this progress.
Airplane Parts in an Aviation Maintenance Technician School
Various airplane parts stored in a workshop area
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What GAO Found
Federal data provide an incomplete picture of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-certificated aviation maintenance workforce. A sufficient supply of certificated workers is critical for safety and to meet the growing demand for air travel. However, supply and demand data for certificated workers are limited. FAA maintains data on the number of individuals newly certificated each year (see figure), but less is known about how many certificated individuals exit the aviation industry each year and the extent of growing demand. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data provide some information on pay and demand for aviation maintenance workers more broadly, but do not differentiate between FAA-certificated and non-certificated workers due to data collection challenges. Demographic data may also be useful for workforce analysis and planning. FAA data provide some demographic information on certificated mechanics and repairmen, such as age and sex, but the agency lacks data on race and ethnicity. According to GAO analysis of FAA data, over half of the roughly 330,000 mechanics and repairmen FAA had certificated as of December 2018 were between 50 and 70 years old and 97 percent were men.
Number of Mechanics and Repairmen Newly Certificated by FAA Each Year, 2014-2018
Government agencies, educational institutions, and businesses coordinate to some extent in support of this workforce, but FAA lacks certain information—including information maintained by other agencies that administer related programs—that could advance its workforce development efforts. One of FAA's strategic objectives includes promoting the development of a robust, skilled aviation workforce, and the agency established a committee, in part, to explore ways to diversify this workforce; however, FAA is not currently positioned to understand whether its efforts are optimally targeted or effective. Without routinely analyzing its own data or leveraging others' data, FAA may not have certain information it needs to track or ensure progress toward its workforce development goals.
FAA has acknowledged that curriculum requirements for Aviation Maintenance Technician (AMT) Schools and mechanic testing standards are outdated. Efforts to revise the curriculum requirements for AMT Schools are ongoing and FAA officials told GAO that a final rule will be published some time toward the end of 2020. FAA officials indicated that the revised mechanic testing standards would likely be finalized after.
Why GAO Did This Study
FAA requires that only mechanics who are "certificated" by the FAA approve aircraft for return to service. The required training to become a certificated mechanic can take between 1 and 3 years. FAA also oversees the certification of repairmen who work on aircraft parts. Some stakeholders have expressed concern that retirements and attrition could adversely affect the capacity of this workforce to meet the growing demand for air travel, and that mechanic curriculum is outdated.
The FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 included provisions for GAO to examine the aviation workforce. This report examines (1) what available federal data reveal about the FAA-certificated aviation maintenance workforce; (2) how selected government agencies, educational institutions, and businesses provide support and coordinate to develop the aviation maintenance workforce; and (3) the progress FAA has made in updating its curriculum and testing standards for mechanics. GAO analyzed FAA data on certificate holders as of December 2018; reviewed BLS employment data for 2013 through 2018; reviewed relevant federal laws and regulations; and interviewed selected federal agency, industry, and AMT School officials.
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GAO recommends that FAA use its existing data and coordinate with other federal agencies to identify and gather information to measure progress and target resources toward its goal of promoting a robust, qualified, and diverse aviation maintenance workforce. FAA agreed with the recommendation.
Recommendations for Executive Action
Agency Affected
Office of the Administrator The Administrator of FAA should direct the Aviation Workforce Steering Committee, as part of its ongoing efforts, to take steps to use existing FAA data and coordinate with other federal agencies to identify and gather the information it needs to measure progress and target resources toward its goal of promoting a robust, qualified, and diverse aviation maintenance workforce. For example, FAA could task a committee working group with developing and implementing ways to improve data sharing among federal agencies to inform decision-making on how to strengthen career pathways and better understand the supply and demand of certificated workers. (Recommendation 1)
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 Actions to satisfy the intent of the recommendation have not been taken or are being planned.

DOT agreed with this recommendation. In August 2021, DOT reiterated that the effective collection and use of data could provide additional understanding of how to promote the aviation workforce. FAA officials said they reviewed and evaluated relevant data, including demographic, pathway, and supply-and-demand information. We will consider closing this recommendation when FAA provides additional information on its review.
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Full Report (38 pages)
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Chelsa L. Kenney
kenneyc@gao.gov
Chuck Young
youngc1@gao.gov
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A sweeping report from CompTIA paints a bright future for IT spending and hiring but shows rising concerns about cyber-security among business and IT execs.
62% of global execs said business conditions are improving, but in the United States, the number is even higher at 69%.
In the U.S, 15% of firms expect technology spending to increase by at least 10% while 74% anticipate it will increase by 1% to 9% in 2015.
Reaching new customers (66%), reducing costs and overhead (54%), and improving staff productivity (48%) were among the top priorities identified in the U.S. for 2015.
While 73% of U.S. executives said cyber-security threats are on the rise, 51% describe human error as a growing factor.
37% of U.S. execs see the greater interconnectivity of devices, systems and users as a growing concern, while 33% view the increasing reliance on Internet-based applications as problematic.
Some 31% of U.S. execs see the rise of social media as another threat to cyber-security while 34% are concerned by the greater availability of easy-to-use hacking tools.
12% of U.S. execs said that human error plays a significantly more important role in security breaches while 47% said human error as a factor has not changed.
87% of U.S execs said that IT skills gaps exist in their organizations, resulting in lower staff productivity and shortfalls in innovation; 53% describe these skills gaps as somewhat extensive, but 35% describe them as small.
In the past 12 months, 94% of U.S. IT personnel took some sort of IT training, while 70% of U.S. executives said they expect certification to grow in importance over the next two years.
In the U.S., 48% of respondents have an IT department with IT specialists, while 36% have IT staff but not as part of a dedicated department.
30% of all U.S. organizations periodically use an outside firm for IT projects or work, while 10% regularly outsource IT functions through managed services.
63% of large firms (those with more than 500 employees) have a formal IT department with dedicated IT specialists on staff, compared with 55% of midsize companies (with 100 to 499 employees).
Nearly four in 10 (or 39% of) small firms (with 100 to 499 people) have their own IT departments with dedicated specialists, while 17% regularly outsource their IT needs.
54% of U.S. companies said they look to IT solutions and service providers for help repairing or troubleshooting IT problems, while 46% seek help with deployment, installation or integration.
Web design (39%), cyber-security matters (28%) and advisory services (33%) are additional reasons U.S. firms seek outside help. Telecom, cloud computing and mobile app development were viewed as lower-priority needs.
In the U.S., 54% of respondents said data storage/backup is the top priority for the next 12 months while 53% identify IT security as a top priority.
New research from CompTIA sees business conditions improving in the United States and worldwide, increases in IT spending, an accelerating pace of innovation and expectations for new hiring. Plus, new strategies are taking shape in IT, relating to data storage and backup, updating old systems and software, and IT security, according to CompTIA. Yet the study reveals that many executives are concerned about cyber-security, based in part on the greater interconnectivity of devices, systems and users. "Attacks can be more dynamic, changing rapidly and targeting with greater efficiency," said Amy Carrado, CompTIA's director of research and market intelligence. "As organizations have embraced cloud computing and mobile technology solutions, they have extended the security perimeter, creating new security considerations. Legacy security systems and practices are often not sufficient to protect the expanded perimeter." The study also explores trends in technology adoption and employment, the use of outside IT help and impediments to cloud adoption—all of which could present opportunities for the channel.


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Q: search a specific string from mysql database from a number of words stored separated by comma i am trying to make a search function in which i require to search the string which is passed through the ajax call. suppose the word is Sound & Lighting and i want to search this in the mysql database table where number of words are stored separated by comma for eg the words stored as bike,light,Sound & Lighting,roses i want the word Sound & Lighting to be searched from those number of words separated by comma which is stored in database table as a value . I tired using item_name like '%$search%' but this also didnt helped much. Any help on this?

A: If I understand your question correctly, I think you need this:
SELECT *
FROM yourtable
WHERE CONCAT(',', col, ',') LIKE CONCAT('%,', 'Sound & Lighting', ',%')

or if you are using MySql also this:
SELECT *
FROM yourtable
WHERE FIND_IN_SET('Sound & Lighting', col);

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Schools, universities and the Ministry of Education and Higher Education – SKILD has already raised the profile of children with special needs across many institutions in Lebanon. Next up are churches.
Diversity: Scientific Knowledge and a Spiritual Mission is a new book aimed at encouraging church leaders, particularly those working with children and youth, to understand and support children in their congregations who have learning differences. It has been produced by SKILD and LSESD's publishing house Dar Manhal Al Hayat and written by Bassem Melki, Pastor, Students' Dean, and a lecturer at the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary, and Carla Najem, a clinical psychologist at SKILD, and lecturer at the American University of Beirut.
The book covers both spiritual and scientific approaches to its subject, providing readers with useful information on developmental disorders and the characteristics of special needs, Bible readings on the church and family, and advice on improving a church service to better include children with special needs. There are also views from many church leaders in Lebanon on the role of the Church in embracing families who have children with learning differences, something which SKILD Center Director, Hiba Al Jamal, says is important.
Over 85 leaders working with children and young people in evangelical churches across Lebanon attended the launch of Diversity on Saturday, 28 January. They received free copies of the book to share with other members of their church. Over 1000 copies have been printed to be distributed in Lebanese churches and another version is being prepared for the wider Lebanese public and other Middle Eastern countries. The church leaders welcomed the new book with many asking for training events as well to inform them of practical ways they can help children with learning differences in their churches.


Doncaster is a busy market town on the edge of Yorkshire with over 2000 years of history to explore. It's particularly well known for its heritage railway lines, horse racing and beautiful Georgian architecture, and also boasts Norman castles and the remains of an ancient Roman wall to explore, giving a sense of the town's former strategic importance. Alongside history, there is a wealth of culture, entertainment, fine retail and diverse dining to enjoy. You'll find restaurants in Doncaster town centre that span cuisines from around the world, with tempting menus, fantastic service and prices to suit all pockets. So, which of Doncaster's town centre restaurants will you try?
Doncaster's town centre is brimming with restaurants, cafes and bars throughout the week and particularly over the weekends. The Filling Station Smokehouse is an American restaurant with plenty of loyal fans where you can enjoy the sticky BBQ ribs or try the famous Liberty burger. If spicy food is more to your taste, try Turkuaz, which serves authentic Turkish and Mediterranean food of the highest quality, with evening entertainment that includes live music and even belly dancers! Just book your table in advance to guarantee the perfect evening, and share your review with your fellow Quandoo diners.


State Farm is one of the leading companies in the auto insurance industry. State Farm has been in business since 1922. They have millions of locations throughout the United States. State Farm insures many vehicles and drivers daily. You can go into one of the offices located worldwide or you may go online to www.statefarm.com.
Discount double check? I would definitely double check before picking State Farm. My suggestion would be to go with a smaller local provider, such as Marchionne Insurance. A company like Marchionne can give you the one-on-one attention that you deserve and at more competitive rates. Just my two cents.
Despite having coverage with State Farm since 1974, they cancelled a policy on our most expensive car due to three unfortunate accidents occuring in rather short order: two of which were essentially fender benders. In addition to auto insurance, we have home and life policies with them. They will not budge on the policy, however..despite the fact that in general I am sure we have been an excellent source of revunue for them in the past decades. We both have very few ..and by that I mean my husband may have a couple and I have a couple..claims over four decades of doing business with them.. and now find ourselves wholly without recourse in this dropped policy. ..which seems to mean that we will not be able to get coverage through them at all on one of our vehicles. Herein lies the problem with big corporations.. Even when I explained we would pull all our policies with them, there seemed little concern. I am going with an independent agent.
Despite I have cars, houses and several life insurances with State Farm since 1978 and had never had 1 auto insurance claim. Now State Farm claimed that I was at 51% at fault of a recent unsafe back up that caused scratches to the other car. In reality, I had the right of way as I was making a 3-way-turn on a sul-de-sac street. I had never left the street the minute I drove in that street. The other car backed down from its driveway to the back of me, and immediate removed the car by sped it up to back the driveway. She also admitted to the claim investigator that she was no longer see my car on the street so she thought I had passed her house and went to the end of the street. She also had admitted to me right after the incident that she was in a hurry and she was late and she wanted to leave even without exchanging insurance info. Still State Farm determined to find fault at me even though they never said what I did was illegal and couple of times the claim processors including a Supervisor had stated that they DO NOT use traffic laws which police and government use to determine fault. Rather State Farm use its own laws (that was NOT published) to determin liabilities. Even though I had followed its process to request the reconsiderations 4 times, they did not reverse the verdict once it was made. I still not accept my likability and still fighting, yet, they had increased my upcoming premium by 73%. This is the worst Insurance company ever have.


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Simone Porter simply marvellous with Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Those unlucky concertgoers who arrived late at the Winspear Centre for the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra's concert on Friday may well have no idea what they missed — one of the most exciting performances of the first movement of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto they are ever likely to hear.
The concerto opened the whole, eagerly anticipated concert, which is being repeated on Saturday. It was conducted by Alexander Prior, who will of course become the ESO's chief conductor in September.
There was a definite sense of the changing of the guard as he took to the podium. Current music director (and future conductor emeritus) William Eddins still has a number of concerts to conduct in this season — including Carl Orff's Carmina Burana on June 16 and 17 — but here, surely, was a signal of things to come.
The repertoire Prior chose was, to say the least, substantial. No overture, but instead one of the great violin concertos, and two symphonies that had never been played by the ESO before.
One immediately obvious change was in the layout of the orchestra. The double basses created a back wall behind the woodwind, violins more traditionally placed to Prior's left, the cellos and then the violas to his extreme right. The trumpets and trombones, up behind the cellos, were matched on the other side of the stage by the horns.
Prior was also responsible for choosing the soloist for the Tchaikovsky, who was making her debut with the orchestra. The 20-year old American Simone Porter made her first professional appearance with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra at the age of 10, premiered a violin concerto by Prior himself at the age of 12, and made her international debut with the Royal Philharmonic at the age of 13.
She is quite simply marvellous. She reminded me most of all of the young Yehudi Menuhin — the same kind of remarkable golden tones and vibrant smoothness, the huge sound, the sense that any technical virtuoso challenges are a figment of the imagination, the seemingly fearless ease of the whole thing. Like Menuhin, she has the energy, the invigoration of youth, but a maturity of emotional expression beyond her years.
She was clearly inspirational to the orchestra, too, as their playing was white-hot in the first movement and again at the end. Typical of the rapport was a marvellously quiet and yet so-intense exchange of the phrases between the violin and the solo cello (Raphael Hoekman) in the final movement.
The name of the Danish composer Rued Langgaard will not, I suspect, have been familiar to many. Largely neglected in his lifetime, he died at the age of 58 in 1952. Recently, though, his prolific output — 16 symphonies, a major opera, and some 415 other works — has undergone a welcome reappraisal.
His Symphony No. 4 was composed in 1916 (reputedly in six days), in a period when his music, while late-Romantic, also showed an awareness of new, modernistic trends. Titled The Fall of Leaves, it is cast in a single 24-minute symphonic structure divided into eight sections, to which he gave descriptive titles.
There is a wide range of mood, from the almost bucolically lyrical (oboe solo against hushed violins) to snarling, muted brass, with some clear tone-painting — a 'rustle in the forest,' thunder, the sound of bells on a Sunday morning.
Prior chose to bring out the considerable drama of the piece, rather than an emphasis on the autumnal lyricism of some interpretations, and this was much to the work's advantage. Even Prior's enthusiasm (ably echoed by the orchestra) can't disguise that this is a quirky and somewhat kaleidoscopic symphony, compelling in its immediate effects, less convincing overall. The audience clearly enjoyed this music, and I do hope that Prior brings us more Langgaard, especially the Symphony No. 6, Heaven Storming.
It was surprising that the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra had never before performed Sibelius' Symphony No. 7, for in many ways it is the culmination of his mastery of the form. It also is in one continuous movement, but Sibelius is here completely original. While the movements of symphonies have traditionally been fixed in tempi, and each have a different key, Sibelius keeps almost the whole symphony in C or C minor, and constantly varies the tempi.
Prior chose to rather play down the yearning elements of the symphony's opening, in favour of emphasizing the smooth glow of Sibelius' sound. Here the arrangement of the orchestra really came into its own, as, with that wall of basses as the back, the various elements — strings, brass, woodwind — were spread across the sound stage, more of a classical 'wall of sound' that entirely suited Prior's approach.
That was to concentrate on the organic flow of the unfolding of the music, the various elements of the sound overlapping and folding into each other. It's an effective way of viewing the symphony. If it does lose some of the drama that others have found in the work, in recompense it presents the whole symphony, so to speak, in one long breath.
This was a powerful concert, one that augers well for the future. And if you want to encounter someone who has all the potential to be one of the great violinists of her era, grab a ticket for Saturday while you can, and go hear Simone Porter play.
Review: Tchaikovsky & Sibelius
Organization: Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Alexander Prior
Soloist: Simone Porter
Where: Winspear
When: Friday, May 12
Repeated: Saturday, May 13 (8 p.m.), tickets $29 to $79, edmontonsymphony.com
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La Capilla Conmemorativa Andrews (en inglés: Andrews Memorial Chapel ) es un edificio de una histórica y antigua iglesia de estilo gótico y Presbiteriana que se encuentra ubicada en San Mateo Drive en Buena Vista, en Dunedin, Florida, Estados Unidos. Fue construida en 1888 como la Iglesia conmemorativa Andrews en la esquina de la calle de Escocia y la avenida Highland. Realizó el relevo de una iglesia presbiteriana de 1871 situada donde está el cementerio de Dunedin ahora y conmemora a William Andrews, hijo de John G. Andrews, quien "murió mientras montaba a caballo en una tormenta violenta".

Véase también
 Cristianismo en Estados Unidos

Referencias

Capillas de Florida
Arquitectura de Estados Unidos de 1888
Iglesias de Estados Unidos de los años 1880
Iglesias en el Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos de Florida

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13 December 1884. Browning, Robert to Bradley, Marian.
I beg to thank the Dean and yourself for the kind invitation with which you honor me,—and to accept it with great pleasure.
Title 13 December 1884. Browning, Robert to Bradley, Marian.
Letter Text 19, Warwick Crescent, W. Dec. 13. '84. Dear Mrs Bradley, I beg to thank the Dean and yourself for the kind invitation with which you honor me,—and to accept it with great pleasure. With all respects to the Dean, pray believe me, Dear Mrs Bradley, Yours very sincerely Robert Browning.


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Congratulations Graduating Senior Public History Interns!
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We've sped up our blog posting from last Fall's Public History Intern Workshop in order to have all the graduating seniors who participated in that workshop be able to see and share their blogs. Congratulations to Spenser Bailey, Sean Good, Austin Justice, Giana Poerio, and Jensen Rehn, whose blog posts about their 2019 internship experiences you'll find among those below. This term some of these senior History students interned again, and you'll be seeing their new blogs along with those of their fellow graduates Gregory Dustin Farris and Allison Valentino in weeks and months to come. Congratulations to all of you, and our very best wishes for your paths ahead.
Public History Intern Blog: Austin Justice
In 1973, director Herb E. Smith produced a short film in southeastern Kentucky. Entitled In the Good Old Fashioned Way, his work explored the spirit of the Old Regular Baptists—a small religious denomination based almost exclusively in rural Appalachia. From their riverside baptisms to their traditional line-singing, the "Ole Regulars" were largely unknown to much of the rest of the world prior to Smith's film. But not to me. To me, the Old Regular Baptist Church in a little concrete meetinghouse on the side of the road had been the place of worship for much of my family. Few things fascinated me more than the past as a child, but the history that In the Good Old Fashioned Way captured wasn't just an abstraction of a faraway place—it was a real and present part of my own history.
This commitment to community histories led me back to my home state this past summer. Looking to both reconnect with those histories and to build my professional skills, I accepted an internship at Appalshop Archive in Whitesburg, Kentucky. Founded in 1969 during the War on Poverty as the Appalachian Film Workshop, Appalshop today serves Central Appalachia as a regional arts and media center. Its archive unit is responsible for preserving the films and other media produced by Appalshop since its inception (including In the Good Old Fashioned Way, directed by Appalshop's co-founder).
Interning with Appalshop Archive gave me the chance to expand my archival training and use it to help preserve local historical records. While I did in fact find myself annotating and cataloging unused oral histories originally recorded for Herb E. Smith's 1973 film, I also found new connections to my region's past.
With the guidance of moving image archivist Caroline Rubens, I learned basic film handling. Inspecting 16mm film reels from the 1950s to 1980s, I wrote physical condition reports on home movies documenting daily life in some of the places I'd known growing up and then rehoused the historic reels into new archive-safe, acid- free containers.
Many of the historical materials that came across my desk weren't directly related to Appalshop though. Operating in a rural area where there's a relative lack of professionally trained archivists, Appalshop Archive also accepts and preserves films, documents, and artifacts from the surrounding communities. One of the most impressive examples of this is the William R. "Pictureman" Mullins Collection, for which I scanned photographic negatives. Mullins, an early twentieth century commercial photographer, snapped more than 3,000 photos documenting life in rural southeastern Kentucky and southwest Virginia. From local baptisms and funerals, to African American family portraits and farm animals, this collection is a window into peoples and places in Appalachia that are often underrepresented in traditional archives or histories.\
At other points in the summer, I processed historical collections of paper materials like Mountain Review magazine, cataloged and created metadata for midcentury Kentucky photographs, and annotated and made accessible online oral histories from some of Appalachia's first African American women coalminers.
Another highlight from my time at Appalshop Archive was using nineteenth century court records and twentieth century oral history interviews to co-curate and help install a small exhibit on an Appalshop play/film entitled "Red Fox/Second Hangin'".
While I have been working in archives and museums since 2015, interning with Appalshop Archive proved a unique experience. It exposed me, for the first time, to the processes used to preserve historic films and other audiovisual materials. But more than that, it offered an opportunity to use my professional background to reconnect with and share the histories of my home communities. That, ultimately, is the purpose of professionally preserving items of the past: to ensure they are accessible to people who can connect with or learn from them.
Public History Intern Blog: Sean Good
My interest in history began at an early age. Probably because I didn't have much relatives that told me stories of how the past world was. I only had my grandma and my father who both got me intrigued in the Vietnam War, my dad that fought in it, and WWII, which my grandfather fought in. I would stumble upon memorabilia from these past two wars from them and was naturally drawn to movies that exemplified fictional historical mystery such as Indiana Jones and Atlantis: The Lost Empire, which served to only widen my love for history and the mystery around it. For me, history had always been about the adventurers. Whether that dealt with doing research about the Corps of Discovery Expedition or writing a final paper on the Apollo missions. These activities such as seeking history may seem boring and unadventurous but to people fascinated with history it's almost as though it's a frontier that's been unexplored. Of course there are others before us and in our times who may know about the past, but personally to me, it feels like something uncovered becoming known. I'm sure it feels the same for other individuals.
When I started again at the Champaign County History Museum this year, I expected to do the same things that I did when I started there last fall. The museum is filled with passionate people about history and most especially about this county. The one thing that hinders the museum is previous employment that has caused organization errors throughout the museum. Now I'm not saying this to talk down about the museum at all, but in order to fix the problem you must be courageous enough to diagnose the cause. What the other interns, Thomas, Mitchell, and I have been working on so far are mostly tasks that deal with organization. Whether it's pictures, documents, online archives etc. we set things in order in the museum. It may seem tedious at times, but in my opinion it's one of the most important tasks in the museum. It's one of our main roles as a place of history to have information easily available to the public and from the looks of how things are going now, I feel as though we're going in the right direction.
Enjoy our graduating seniors' Public History Intern Blog Posts
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We're ramping up the pace on our Public History Interns Blog series in order to have all the graduating seniors who have contributed to this series represented as we approach what should have been their graduation weekend. There are two new blogs today and will be two more tomorrow. Some additional seniors did internships under extraordinary circumstances this term, and we'll be featuring all of their posts in coming weeks and months, and congratulating them tomorrow! It's been great to get to know them all and see their interests in public history unfold!
Public History Intern Blog: Spenser Bailey
"Letting the light into the archives vaults"
I've always had an interest in history – that only grew stronger when I entered the University of Illinois as a history major. Events from the past can be accessed here in the present through books and photographs, and authors do an excellent job of interpreting past events or painting so vivid a picture of them that modern readers can imagine they are there. However, being able to actually handle historical items – documents, artifacts, and even the aging buildings that populate our campus – is far better than reading about them in an abstract way.
So when I needed an on-campus job, I was excited to apply to work at the University of Illinois archives, and thrilled when I was offered the position. I've now worked there for three years, and the things that my job has helped me accomplish and experience are too many to count. I've learned so much about the history of the campus of the University, and also about the students who have gone here. Additionally, it lead me to two internships, at the National Archives at Chicago and the Chicago Public Library Special Collections and Preservation Division. While working at the two of those, I've handled items signed by presidents and a piece of a bible printed by Johannes Gutenberg.
But this is because I worked there. Anyone from the general public would have to know exactly what they were looking for to see such things. They'd also have to know that they exist at all – before I started working at the archives, I had no idea that one could simply request to see historical materials for free. Archivists can't wait for the public to come to them; rather, they need to, without a particular occasion or motive, make historical items available to the public in an easily visible place. People might not know that they want to see old documents until they are actually in front of them. That way, we can shed some light into the closed vaults of the archives and let the people see the things that we're keeping safe for the future.
Public History Intern Blog: Giana Poerio
Museums exist to serve the public and they do so in a variety of ways, but how do museums that are not necessarily "children's museums" serve youth aside from school tours? In the case of Naper Settlement, programs range from summer camps to volunteer programs that appeal to families and younger audiences.
During Summer 2019, I was a building interpreter intern at the Naper Settlement Museum. The main thing I did at Naper Settlement was create lesson plans for summer camps. Every week we would have one to two camps going on with a different theme. The camps were about six hours and ran Monday through Friday. The camps I planned ranged from "Passport to the World," Extreme Animals" and "Mad Science." I also got to help with pre-existing camps like our Civil War Camp and Throwback Camp where we taught campers how to tie dye and use a rotary phone.
We also had several anniversaries at Naper Settlement over the summer that we celebrated with the community. This past July marked the fiftieth year that we have had our chapel at the museum so we invited all of the couples who have gotten married there to come and participate in a group vow renewal with their families. That was also the same day we celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the moon landing so we had a mini rocket launch and created moon themed activities for the younger guests that day.
Naper Nights is another event that I got to be a part of. Naper Nights is a concert series that takes place on the museum lawn. Every Naper Nights had a historical theme. These themes included the 50th anniversary of Woodstock and the 50th anniversary of the weed ladies, a group of historical society volunteers. I worked three of these events and each one had activities to accommodate children. Chuck E. Cheese was one of our sponsors and they provided games for the children to play. The museum itself also provided "retro" games like rock em sock em robots and rubix cubes. There were two other local businesses also in attendance: Pinot's Palette who provided paints and canvases and Players Indoor Sports Center who brought in equipment for guests to play gaga ball. All of these activities were free for people to participate in.
I also got to work with our Junior Volunteers. These volunteers wear period clothing and show museum visitors pioneer era games. They also attend a classroom lesson in our school house. Once junior volunteers age out of the program they are also welcome to become interpreter volunteers, where they can work in one of our many buildings.
Naper Settlement is also unique because it is a primarily outdoor museum that revolves around interpretation. This makes it easier for the material being presented to be adapted to best suit the visitor. Children are able to ask questions as the information is being presented to them, whereas in more traditional museums, when they are shown a label or artifact and they do not fully comprehend what they are being shown, they are more likely to simply move on without gaining and sort of understanding on what is being exhibited. We also had different activities and information we had prepared for different age groups. For example, when I interpreted in our print shop, I had stamp sets so younger kids could be printers.
Because museums are often perceived as places that are full of fragile objects and demand silence, they do not appear to welcome younger audiences, unless they are children's museums. However, Naper Settlement is one of many museums that serve the community and this includes children. Through their many summer camp programs, special events, volunteer program, and accommodating interpretation style, Naper Settlement offers many ways for the younger members of the community to be involved with the museum despite not being a formal children's museum.
Public History Intern Blog: Thomas Weller
In our fourth Public History Blog, History Department Senior Thomas Weller describes some of the Champaign Urbana History he found during his Fall 2019 internship at the Champaign County Historical Museum.
On the second floor of the Champaign County Historical Museum, there is the research library. The room is small but it feels homely instead of cramped. The first thing that greets you when you walk into the room is the smell of old paper. Aged books fill all of the shelves, waiting to be read. The library not only contains books but also has, among other things, a filing cabinet filled with manilla folders labeled with titles such as "Krannert Center" or "Savoy, IL". Each folder is full of papers such as newspaper clippings, maps, and brochures about the corresponding place, person or organization.
Unfortunately these folders have gotten mixed up over the years and it was the job of the interns to sort them out. I had a master list of every single file that was supposed to be in the cabinet and I had to go through each folder, taking out things that didn't belong and noting on the list what sorts of things were inside. This may sound rather tedious but actually it was a great opportunity to look at different aspects of Champaign County's history. I found a lot of interesting things in there, one of which I am going to share with you all today.
I found a folder simply titled "Popcorn Wagon", which piqued my curiosity. Inside there were several newspaper articles about a man named Henry Sansone and his popcorn truck which he operated for over 50 years. Looking up Sansone and the popcorn wagon online yielded few results other than one article by the Champaign County Historical Museum itself. Thus, the only information I had to work with about this man and his wagon were the materials in the folder. Piecing together his story became a sort of puzzle, which is part of the fun of archivist work anyway.
The first newspaper article was from January 24, 1954 and it set up a clash betweenSansone and the Champaign city authorities. The city had passed an ordinance outlawing the sale of merchandise from vehicles parked on the streets. It wasn't drafted to specifically harm Sansone but his popcorn wagon fell under the ordinence's requirements. Notice was given to Sansone to cease his sale of popcorn.
The magic of archives allows us to become time travelers, so I was able to skip ahead to the next article from February 17th. Here, Sansone stated that he was temporarily out of business and was looking for a new place to sell his popcorn. Evidently, he didn't find such a place because on February 23rd he tried to sell his popcorn and was arrested by Champaign police. Sansone indicated at the end of the article that he was planning on getting an attorney and contesting the case. The very next day, he was arrested again for selling popcorn on the street and the case went to trial.
On March 4, 1954, the paper reported that after 45 minutes of deliberation, the jury was divided five to one for Sansone's acquittal. The judge ruled that a hung jury was equal to an acquittal, leading to Sansone's release from his charges. Victorious, Sansone resumed his business as usual.
The story then jumped to October 12, 1974 when it was announced that after 57 years of popping, Sansone was ready to sell his popcorn truck and retire. In reflecting on his half-century long career, two historic dates stood out in his mind. "One was a 1939 sale of a bag of popcorn to the late great Cardinal baseball pitcher Dizzy Dean. The other was a 1954 court fight to continue selling popcorn in downtown Champaign." The article also gave a quick recap not only of the court fight but also of Sansone's origins. He started his business in 1924, operating from a pushcart. He purchased his famous popcorn truck from his brother in 1935. He died two years after the story about his retirement, in 1976.
Looking at the story of Henry Sansone allows us to ask questions about the importance of local community archives, like the one in the Champaign County Historical Museum. Henry Sansone obviously was well-loved back in his day. And yet, I had never heard of him and I would be surprised if any of you had heard of him either.
His significance comes from his importance to the local community. He is no longer a part of the current culture of Champaign but has instead faded into history. Now his story remains in a manilla folder, one out of hundreds, in a cabinet in a small library. Being just a single story out of hundreds, I doubt that many people have looked through his manilla folder besides myself and other museum staff. This could lead some people to question the purpose of it all. Why keep so much old material if most of it is almost never read?
However, I disagree with this sentiment. Discovering Sansone's story allows us to immerse ourselves in the experiences of the past. If these documents had not been stored, then Sansone's story may have been lost forever. At the very least, the documents allowed me to share the tale of Sansone's popcorn wagon, and the joy it brought to so many people. A little bit of Champaign's history has been brought back into living memory, if only for a little while.
Public History at UIUC is the website and blog for faculty-student Research Cluster sponsored by the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities. Our goal is to explore, document, and promote hidden and forgotten stories and persons connected to our campus and the wider Champaign-Urbana community.
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Angels News: Mike Trout Regaining Confidence In Swing
Angels 4, Royals 4 (9 innings) — Cactus League 3/19/21
Los Angeles Angels superstar Mike Trout has been the undoubted best player in baseball for the better part of a decade. His dominance has led to eight All-Star appearances, eight Silver Sluggers, and three MVP's, putting him on track to be one of the greatest players of all time when it's all said and done.
However, the shortened 2020 season was somewhat of a down year, at least compared to his standards. His .281 batting average was his lowest since his rookie year, and the same goes for his .390 on-base percentage. An incredible .993 OPS was Trout's worst since 2016.
Looking back, Trout attributed his struggles to a lack of comfortability at the plate. That has since changed, as he said he's starting to feel comfortable again after a tough year, according to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic:
"It's going to sound crazy, but I've been fighting something at the plate for like the last year, year and a half," Trout said. "Starting this year, I just kind of figured out what I was doing. Just getting back to where I can go up there and feel comfortable.
"I can do all these drills in the cage and it feels fine, it feels right. Then I get in a game, I add a leg kick and it's not right. It's kind of like a battle. I've kind of figured out some stuff in the last few days that really I've been struggling with the last year, especially last year, just fighting it."
It was clear during the 2020 season that Trout was not 100% himself. It was reflected in MVP voting, where Trout finished fifth in the AL, his lowest finish since his rookie year when he did not receive votes.
If he is starting to regain confidence with his swing, it could be a scary sight in 2021. Trout will turn 30 in August, meaning he is still in the heart of his prime. At his best, he's perhaps the greatest player to ever play the game.
He will also do his best to try and bring the Angels to the postseason for the first time since 2014, where he can get his first ever Playoff win.
Felix Pena to start season on Injured List
If the Angels are going to get a postseason bid, they'll need to do so with an unfinished bullpen. At least to start the season, they'll be without Felix Pena as he recovers from a Grade 1 hamstring strain. He could be out at least two-to-four weeks.


Written in Portuguese for teachers of English, this book argues that the use of strategies can facilitate both the learning and the use of the English language. It offers theoretical and practical information about the development of reading, writing, listening and speaking strategies in the English class.
The book starts with a broad yet concise discussion of learner strategies: what they involve, how they can be studied, what we know about them from research in language education. Following that preliminary discussion the book then presents and discusses 15 strategies for the development of each of the four language skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking).
→ Out of Brazil, the book is available on www.amazon.co.uk.


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Council 'more open' than under Tories, says new leader
Stephen Sumner & Tom Wright
Weston Town Hall. Picture: Mark Atherton
The new executive running North Somerset Council believe it is 'rude' for its leader to solely decide how the authority is run.
Cllr Don Davies.
Former council leader Nigel Ashton said last month 'naïve' new members were elected in May, at the expense of Conservative colleagues.
But the new administration has responded saying there is a greater collective responsibility, compared with his time as leader .
Council leader Donald Davies, an Independent, said: "If there's a disagreement about how to do something we talk it over and come to an agreed way forward.
"If you think of the disparate nature of our partnership, if we can't agree on a proposal it's likely the wider area won't support it.
"To say the leader should decide is an incredibly rude thing to do."
The Conservatives stranglehold was lost in May, with a 'rainbow coalition' of Independents, Labour, Liberal Democrats and Green Party councillors occupying the top jobs.
Cllr Ashton feels it is the 'worst of all worlds'.
But Cllr Davies said: "The system wasn't the problem - it was how it was run.
"It's now incumbent on all councillors to be contributors. Policy should be led as much by councillors as the executive.
"That's been virtually impossible until now. It was always stymied by the executive members. We need to be more open."
Liberal Democrat councillor Ash Cartman, the executive member for finance, said: "Cllr Ashton was a lone thinker. He got a reputation as someone who could sit in a room and work something out.
"We've sat down with the chief executive to brainstorm what we want to do, and that's gone back to our individual political groups.
"It may take a bit longer than one person in a room but it's been really positive.
Cllr Ashton's claim about 'naïve' councillors was based on his opinion new members want to spend money which does not exist.
Cllr Cartman said the executive is under no illusions.
He said: "We didn't realise the piggy bank owed a lot of money - there's a hole in the bottom of it.
"We're trying to get a plan in place for four years rather than working hand to mouth.
"We don't know how much money is going to be distributed by Government. We're not saying the money isn't welcome, but it's not plugging the gap.
"We're looking for sources of extra income and trying to do things more efficiently, while trying to protect frontline services."
He said a four-year corporate plan will be released in the autumn.


Guru Rinpoche ("Precious Guru") or Padmasambhava ("The Lotus Born") was the sage guru who brought Vajrayana Buddhism to the Himalayan kingdoms during the eighth century. To this day, he is regarded as the second Buddha in these regions.
Guru Rinpoche's life story is replete with miraculous accounts. For instance, he was incarnated as an eightyear-old child appearing in a lotus blossom in Lake Dhanakosha, in the kingdom of Oddiyana (present day Pakistan). Then in Rewalsar (Tso Pema), the local king tried to burn him alive when he found out Guru Rinpoche was giving tantric teachings to his daughter Princess Mandarava. When the smoke cleared, Guru Rinpoche was found intact and deep in meditation. Guru Rinpoche and Princess Mandarava were also believed to have achieved immortal bodies in the form of the Living Rainbow Body of the Great Transference after practising secret rituals in Maratika Cave in Nepal.
Guru Rinpoche's fame became known to King Trisong Detsen of Tibet (742–797), whose kingdom was beset by evil mountain deities. The king invited Guru Rinpoche to Tibet, where Guru Rinpoche successfully subdued the evil forces. He founded Tibet's first monastery, Samye Gompa, initiated the first monks and introduced the people to the practice of Tantric Buddhism. He also hid a number of termas (secret teachings) in the lakes, caves, fields and forests of the Himalayan region, to be discovered and interpreted by future tertöns or spiritual treasure-finders.
Each year, Thekchen Choling celebrates Guru Rinpoche's birthday on the tenth day of the sixth lunar month. A thanksgiving dinner is offered to sponsors and benefactors as well. For 2011's celebration, Thekchen Choling unveiled for the first time Southeast Asia's largest Guru Rinpoche thangka. Going forward, this awe-inspiring thangka will be unveiled annually on this day.
Guru Rinpoche Retreat is back again!
Mark your dates on 6 & 7 July 2019 (Sat & Sun). This year, we will be celebrating the birthday of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, who is the Guru Rinpoche of our time, on 6 July.
May this retreat Realign our life and meaning through His presence and Accumulate great merits though communal recitation.
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