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The civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s ushered in an era of new employment practices in this country. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination based upon race, color, religion, gender, or national origin in hiring and promotion for businesses that had federal contracts or were involved in interstate commerce. This non-discrimination policy was subsequently adopted by state and local government agencies, and it gradually became accepted as sound business practice by corporations nationwide. More importantly, this shift in employment practices opened the door for more women and minorities to acquire the professional work experience necessary to qualify them to serve on company boards of directors.
Despite these legislative changes, women and racial/ethnic minorities currently remain under-represented on company boards of directors. According to the Alliance for Board Diversity (ABD), women and minorities accounted for only 26.7% of board seats in Fortune 500 companies in 2012. Wespath withholds support for nominating committee members if the company board is not 20% racial/ethnic/gender diverse and a reasonable explanation for the lack of diversity is not disclosed, according to its proxy voting guidelines.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) implemented new transparency rules—effective February 28, 2010—that require publicly-traded companies to disclose in their proxy voting materials any information regarding board diversity. This Proxy Disclosure Enhancements ruling specifically requires companies to indicate whether they have a board diversity policy. If so, companies must explain what characteristics or attributes are reflected in the policy, how the policy is implemented and how is its effectiveness measured. The SEC does not explicitly define diversity as gender or racial/ethnic identification; however, companies are expected to indicate the particular knowledge, skill set and experience (including background) that made the nominee a qualified candidate for director.
Three years after the implementation of the SECs proxy disclosure amendment, Columbia Law School Student Tamara Smallman found that more than half (60%) of the diversity disclosures among the Fortune 50 fail to fully comply with the rule's requirement. In the Winter 2013 Columbia Business Law Review article "The Glass Boardroom: The SEC's Role in Cracking the Door Open so Women May Enter," Smallman notes that women hold less than a quarter of the board seats of these companies.
Companies that have chosen to comply with the SEC ruling vary in their approach to increasing and quantifying diversity. The McDonald's Corporation, for example, does not adhere to any specific standards for diversity, according to its Notice of 2012 Annual Shareholder's Meeting and Proxy Statement. Yet, more than 50% of McDonald's Board is composed of women and minorities. By comparison, JP Morgan Chase and Co. has two women and one African-American among its 11 director nominees according to its Notice of 2013 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and Proxy Statement.
The Coca-Cola Company may be the best example of how this new SEC disclosure should be implemented. In its Notice of 2013 Annual Meeting of Shareowners and Proxy Statement, the company explicitly stated that there is no policy per se, but "diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, age, cultural background and professional experience [are considered] in evaluating candidates for Board membership." What made the Coca-Cola disclosure particularly noteworthy was the use of a diversity tag line indicating specific attributes (i.e. female, African-American, Hispanic, Swedish national, degree in finance, economics, accounting, and professional experience in government, nonprofit/charitable, global markets, organizations, foreign diplomacy and education).
The Thomson Reuters study Mining the Metrics of Board Diversity suggests that companies with mixed-gender boards have marginally better or similar performance to a benchmark index (e.g., MSCI World). By contrast, companies with no women on their boards underperformed, on average, relative to gender-diverse boards. They conclude, therefore, that gender equality in the workplace makes good investment and business sense.
In its August 2012 report, Gender Diversity and Corporate Performance, the Research Institute of Credit Suisse found that companies with one or more women on the board delivered higher average returns on equity, better average growth and higher price/book values. They posit that greater board diversity reduces volatility, enhancing stability in corporate performance and in share price returns.
McKinsey Quarterly reported in April 2012 that companies with diverse executive boards enjoy 14% higher earnings and 53% greater returns on equity in the article "Is There a Payoff from Top-Team Diversity?" They, however, are hesitant to suggest causality. Instead, McKinsey offers the results as part of a growing body of best practices.
The 2012 Board of Directors Survey, conducted on behalf of Heidrick & Struggles and WomenCorporateDirectors (WCD) suggests that diversity is increasingly tied to organizational success, a factor which is compelling boards to make diversity a part of their strategic focus. For example, JPMorgan Chase has made increasing diversity a priority. The company's governance committee reviews "available information about the experience, qualifications, attributes and skills of prospects, as well as their gender, race and ethnicity" for all Board prospects. Coca-Cola also prioritizes diversity, saying that a variety of points of view contribute to a more effective decision-making process.
According to Calvert Investments, companies with a diverse corporate structure are poised for greater success in today's increasingly complex global market. The Alliance for Board Diversity also believes that diversity at the top can help ensure the sustainability of our businesses and economy. In fact, in "Missing Pieces: Women and Minorities on Fortune 500 Boards," the alliance suggests that unless companies begin to reflect their shareholders, markets and employees, they will fail to reach maximum potential as leaders in the global economy.
While companies report advances in promoting diversity, Earl Graves, Jr., publisher of Black Enterprise Magazine, expresses concern that 30% (75 companies) of the largest 250 corporations do not have a single African-American director. These companies enjoy a tremendous market share from African-Americans, and he believes the leadership should reflect the customer base. Graves encourages board members and shareholders to hold corporate America accountable. To aid in that endeavor, Black Enterprise Magazine's July/August 2013 issue provided a special report, which included a listing of companies with and without African-Americans board members. The special report included observations and insights from several African-American board members about the challenges and rewards of serving in this capacity.
As an original signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and recipient of various industry awards, Wespath Benefits and Investments supports leading-edge initiatives, and is proud to be a thought leader in promoting board diversity within our investment portfolio. We view attention to board diversity not only as a moral issue, but one with economic implications that bear on our fiduciary responsibility to our plan participants and institutional investors—a responsibility that we take every opportunity to ensure provides optimal returns for our clients and for the Church.


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The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration (also known as Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth) is the graduate business school of Dartmouth College, a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. The school only offers a Master of Business Administration degree program.

Founded in 1900, the Tuck School was the first institution in the world to offer a master's degree in business administration. It is consistently ranked among the best business schools in the world by The Economist, Financial Times, Forbes, U.S. News & World Report, and Bloomberg Businessweek. In 2021, Tuck was ranked #2 in Bloomberg Businessweek and #6 in Forbes for best U.S. business school.

The Tuck School awards only one degree, Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree, through a full-time, residential program. Tuck is known for its rural setting and small class size — each MBA class consists of about 280 students. As such, both factors, combined with Tuck's commitment to the full-time MBA program, contribute to its high giving rate among the 10,300 Tuck alumni across 73 countries. Almost 70% of all Tuck alumni regularly give to the school, the highest rate among business schools worldwide.

Graduates of the Tuck School of Business earn some of the highest salaries of MBA programs in the United States. MBA graduates of Tuck earned an average $170,000 first year compensation, not including performance-based bonuses or equity-based compensation, the third highest of all US-based MBA programs. Tuck's MBA program ties for 9th place with MIT for the highest average GMAT score of 722 for its entering class.

History

Founding

At the turn of the 20th century, Dartmouth College president William Jewett Tucker decided to explore the possibility of establishing a school of business to educate the growing number of Dartmouth alumni entering the commercial world. Additionally, Tucker was concerned about business leadership in a broad social sense, or, as he put it, "training commensurate with the larger meaning of business", and so began soliciting interest among Dartmouth alumni.

Through a renewed friendship, Tucker enlisted the support of his former roommate from his undergraduate years at Dartmouth, Edward Tuck, who had since become a wealthy banker and philanthropist. Enthusiastically agreeing to help, on September 8, 1899, Edward Tuck donated an initial grant of $300,000  — in the form of 1,700 shares of preferred stock in the Great Northern Railway Company of Minnesota — to found and endow the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance, which was named in memory of Tuck's father and Dartmouth alumnus, Amos Tuck. In January 1900, the Dartmouth Board of Trustees passed a vote to formally establish the school.

The Tuck Pattern
The new school's tuition fee cost $100 for the few students who enrolled in the first year; graduates of the two-year program received a Master of Commercial Science degree (MCS). The curriculum involved both traditional liberal arts fields as well as economic and finance education. Specifically, the first-years were required to take Modern History, Economics, Political Science, Sociology, Foreign Language, and English Composition and Speaking; second-year courses included Modern History and Diplomacy, Finance, Transportation, Insurance, Law, Municipal Administration, Demography and Social Institutions, Language, and Practice Organizations.

Undergraduate Dartmouth professors taught most of the first-year courses at Tuck, while outside guest instructors and business-people, such as an export merchant, an attorney, an insurance company president, and an accountant, educated the second-year students. Edward Tuck, pleased with the breadth of experience found in the school's instructors, wrote to Dartmouth president Tucker in February 1902, "I am glad that it will be the aim of the school to bring students in touch with practical businessmen."

While other business programs tended to offer specialized technical courses linked neither to the liberal arts tradition nor to the broader purposes of business, Tuck maintained itself as a school of general management in the broadest liberal sense, to which a study by the Carnegie Corporation observed, "The Tuck School probably went further than any other institution in the pre-war period in putting its work on a demanding intellectual level." Thus, the Tuck School's emphasis on a broad education in general management was adopted by many other emerging business schools, and was dubbed the "Tuck Pattern."

Succession of leadership and expansion
Students of the first class held their studies in the Hubbard House, located on North Main Street across the College Green. A year later, in 1901, Tuck donated an additional $100,000 to build the original Tuck Hall (now McNutt Hall). The school grew and prospered under the leadership of Frank H. Dixon, who served as the school's first secretary and later left to join the Dartmouth economics department full-time in 1904, followed by Harlow Person, Tuck's first dean, from 1904 through 1919. Person, in 1911, invited 300 leaders of industry, including Frederick Winslow Taylor — who later became a professor at Tuck — and Lillian Gilbreth, to a major conference on scientific management, which business historians consider the kick-off for what later became the worldwide scientific management movement.

Afterward, the school was led by a Tuck alumnus, William R. Gray, from 1919 through 1937. During this period of growth, Dartmouth president Ernest Martin Hopkins wrote often to Edward Tuck reflecting on the school's flourishing alumni and faculty. In the late 1920s, Hopkins sought to unify the Tuck School by establishing a central campus, uniting the school's academic and residential facilities. In order to do so, however, Hopkins had to receive permission to do so from Edward Tuck, as the documents of incorporation stipulated that the original Tuck Hall be used exclusively for a business school. Hopkins wrote to Tuck in July 1928, then 85 years old and living in France, outlining his reasons for the proposed move and asking permission to release Dartmouth from the stipulation regarding the use of the original Tuck Hall.

Edward Tuck, going above merely granting his permission, wrote back in August 1928, "The success and growth of the school have gone far beyond our original expectations, and we have every reason to be proud of it. It would be a satisfaction to me to do it [that is, donate the funds] if I could, rather than have outside capital contribute to a work which thus far I have taken care of financially myself."

Tuck donated 600 shares of Chase National Bank, which was sold for $567,766 a couple months before the Black Tuesday crash at the start of the Great Depression. On the west side of the campus, Edward Tuck Hall was completed in 1930 and was flanked by two dormitories, Chase Hall and Woodbury Hall — named for two Dartmouth alumni, Salmon P. Chase and Levi Woodbury, respectively. Stell Hall, the dining facility adjacent to Chase Hall, was named after Tuck's wife, Julia Stell. With the completion of the project, Tuck students now lived together and took classes together.

Post-World War II changes
In 1937, Herluf V. Olsen succeeded Gray as the dean of Tuck and led the school until 1951. During his tenure, Olsen created the joint Tuck-Thayer program between the business school and engineering school. In 1942, the school's name changed to the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, and under Dean Arthur P. Upgren's leadership, who ran Tuck from 1952 to 1957, the degree program changed from the MCS to the modern Master of Business Administration (MBA) in 1953.

Until the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Tuck School catered primarily to Dartmouth students, accepting undergraduates during their third year. Such students made up 90 percent of each class at Tuck. Under Dean Karl Hill, who led the school from 1957 to 1968, Tuck shifted its focus to soliciting a national student body to create a more diverse student body. In addition, Hill created the Tuck Associates program in 1964 to foster relationships between Tuck and the business community. By securing grants from the Sloan Foundation, Hill also brought in additional faculty to the school by setting up funding for summer research.

The expansion under Hill culminated in the creation of the school's board of overseers as well as a full-time admissions office in the early 1960s. The resulting expansion in the late 1960s saw additional growth of the campus with the construction of a new dormitory and, through a generous donation made by Thomas G. Murdough, founder of Little Tikes, the Murdough Center, which contains the Feldberg Business and Engineering Library.

John Hennessey, who succeeded Hill as dean in 1968, continued to revamp the curriculum and recruit new faculty members. The Ford Foundation's Gorden-Howell report and Carnegie Corporation's Pierson report both singled out the Tuck School as having a serious academic curriculum, including newly emerging disciplines in quantitative and behavioral sciences, as well as organizational behavior and business policy.

Perhaps Hennessey's most significant changes were his efforts to recruit minority students for the Tuck program. He served as the founding chairman of the Council for Opportunity in Graduate Management Education and visited dozens of schools to recruit minority students to Tuck. In 1964, Tuck admitted  its first minority student and, in 1968, its first woman student.

1970s to present day
In 1971, Hennessey established the Tuck Annual Giving program, which, in its first year, drew $71,000 from the 27 percent of alumni who donated. In the same year, Tuck Today, the school's alumni magazine was founded. By 1972, Tuck alumni clubs were established in major cities across the country, which helped establish Tuck's role in Dartmouth's first capital campaign. Hennessey also oversaw the founding of the Tuck Executive Program in 1974 alongside professor Kenneth Davis.

Under Deans Richard West, who served from 1976 to 1983, and Colin Blaydon (1983–1990), the school's curriculum and faculty expanded extensively, and applications increased by one-third. Since the late 1980s, Tuck has continued to expand in student body and faculty size, and has seen the establishment of two new campus buildings as well as several research centers and non-degree business programs.

Academics

MBA Program
The Tuck School offers a single degree: the two-year, full-time Master of Business Administration (MBA). Students may specialize within the MBA in fields such as finance or marketing, but a specialization is not required for graduation. First-year MBA students at Tuck undertake a 32-week core curriculum in general management and a specialized First Year Project. During their second year, students take 12 elective courses and design their own focused field of study. The school stresses a collaborative and teamwork-based approach to learning, which it touts as one of its assets for "building the interpersonal skills required for business leadership." However, this emphasis on cooperative group learning has been criticized as too "touchy-feely" for students entering the competitive business world, and the emphasis on consensus-building as detrimental to students' ability to make quick, independent decisions.

In the past, The MBA program has held a top-10 ranking in multiple publications, including U.S. News & World Report, Bloomberg, The Economist, Forbes, Business Insider, and Vault.

Dual and Joint Degrees
Students seeking other degrees can engage in one of many dual-degree or joint-degree programs offered in conjunction with other academic institutions:
 MBA/Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University
 MBA/Master of Public Policy or Master of Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
 MBA/Master of Studies in Environmental Law from the Vermont Law School
 MBA/Master of Arts from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University
 MD/MBA from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
 Master of Public Health/MBA from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
 Master of Engineering Management/MBA from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth

The school also offers a variety of second-year exchange programs at other institutions such as the Handelshochschule Leipzig in Germany, the HEC School of Management in Paris, IESE Business School in Barcelona, and the London Business School.

Within Dartmouth, faculty from Tuck and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice are partnering to offer a Master of Health Care Delivery Science degree from Dartmouth College. Moreover, Tuck partners with the Thayer School of Engineering to teach management courses through a Master of Engineering Management program offered by Thayer School of Engineering.

Employment statistics
95% of the Tuck MBA class of 2017 had jobs offers three months post graduation and 100% of those students found internships during the summer following the first year. The most popular career industries for graduates are management consulting (33%), financial services (20%), and technology (20%) with graduates' first year annual base salaries averaging $127,986 with a mean signing bonus of $30,208. According to the 2018 Financial Times M.B.A. report, Tuck currently ranks 10th in the world for average three year post-graduation salary at $172,735. This figure does not including bonuses or other forms of compensation.

According  to Tuck's published 2017 employment report, the top hiring companies for full time students in the class of 2016 were McKinsey & Company (21), Bain & Company (18), and Amazon (11). Similarly, the top hiring companies for the class of 2017 internships were McKinsey & Company (16), Bain & Company (11), and Amazon (10).

Non-degree programs
In addition to the MBA program, the school offers an array of executive education and other non-degree programs. In particular, Tuck offers the Tuck Business Bridge Program, a 4-week, intensive program for current and recently graduated university students seeking to build a foundation in core business concepts. There is also a Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) program for high school students. Tuck offers an Advanced Management Program for executives, which spans either one or two weeks depending on the course.

Organization and research

Like the undergraduate portion of Dartmouth College, the Tuck School operates on a quarter system. As part of the larger institution, the Tuck School is ultimately administered by Dartmouth's President and Board of Trustees. The school is directly managed by a Dean (currently Matthew Slaughter) who is advised by a Board of Overseers that was established in 1951.

Since the Tuck School offers only one degree, it does not contain formal academic departments as do other institutions. Instead, faculty are generally grouped in one or more of seven "academic areas": accounting, finance and economics, marketing, operations management and management science, strategy and management, international business, and management communication. Tuck is also home to five research centers which organize research in different fields of business administration. The centers are meant to promote faculty research, establish liaisons between the Tuck School and the corporate world, and sponsor programs for Tuck as a whole; MBA students are occasionally invited to participate as fellows and research associates. The five research centers are the William F. Achtmeyer Center for Global Leadership, the Center for Corporate Governance, the Center for International Business, the Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship, and the Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies.

Campus

The Tuck School is located on the campus of Dartmouth College, which is situated in the rural, Upper Valley New England town of Hanover, New Hampshire. The campus of the Tuck School sits in a complex on the west side of Dartmouth's campus, near the Connecticut River. Shortly after being founded in 1900, Tuck was housed in a single building across from the Green at the center of the campus. In 1930, the institution moved into Stell, Chase, Tuck, and Woodbury Halls in its present location along the Tuck Mall. Today, these original structures serve as four of Tuck's six academic and administrative buildings.

Tuck emphasizes its residential character, describing residential life as "a foundation of the Tuck culture" and crediting it as "a reason that Tuck alumni are among the most loyal of all the business school [sic] in the world." Tuck's isolated location has been described as an "image problem" for attracting successful applicants and faculty to its rural campus, although some students cite the insular location as a positive trait for fostering intimacy and friendship.

Currently, Tuck has five residential facilities: Buchanan Hall (constructed 1968), Whittemore Hall (constructed 2000), and Pineau-Valencienne Hall, Achtmeyer Hall, and Raether Hall (2008). The last three make up the new complex called the Tuck Living and Learning Complex that houses 95 additional students as well as classrooms and study space serves as the home for nearly half of first-year Tuck students. It was constructed in 2008 for around $27.2 million. The Tuck School shares the Murdough Center (containing the Feldberg Business and Engineering Library) with the adjacent Thayer School of Engineering. The Tuck campus is serviced by Byrne Hall, a dining facility operated by Dartmouth Dining Services.

People

Students
Tuck students, known as "Tuckies", typically number about 560 students in total — 280 per class — with international students making up about 37% of the student body. The school has a high percentage of women (44% vs. Harvard's 41% and Columbia's 41%) and has been recognized as having "the best representation of women among top-tier M.B.A. programs" alongside Wharton's MBA program. This marks an 11% increase in female representation at Tuck from 2013. 23% of Tuck's student body are domestic U.S. minorities, a relatively average figure when compared to HBS (28%) and MIT Sloan (15%). Tuck has addressed previous diversity shortcomings by offering additional scholarships to minority applicants and by promoting such programs as the annual Tuck Diversity Conference and participation in the Forté Foundation for women in business.

Like many other business schools, Tuck encourages its students to have post-undergraduate work experience before applying to the MBA program. The average incoming student has five years of full-time work experience, and the average student age is 28, ranging from 25 to 32 years.

Alumni

Tuck reports that they have approximately 10,300 living alumni living across 74 different countries. Tuck also claims the highest percentage of alumni donors of any business school in the world at about a 70% giving rate among its alumni.  2017 was the eleventh consecutive year in which greater than two thirds of all alumni have contributed to the school.

 Jim Butterworth, entrepreneur
 Kinya Seto '96, CEO, Lixil Corporation
 Peter R. Dolan '80, CEO, Bristol-Myers Squibb
 John Bello '74; Founder and former CEO of SoBe Beverages and President of NFL Properties
Kevin McGrath '77, CEO, Digital Angel
 Roger Lynch '95, former CEO, Sling TV, current CEO, Pandora
 Christopher A. Sinclair '73, former CEO, Mattel and Pepsi-Cola
 David T. McLaughlin '55, president of Dartmouth College
 Robert Witt '65, president of the University of Alabama
 Kamran Pasha '00, screenwriter and director
 Herman T. Schneebeli '31, U.S. Representative

Alumni of Tuck's Executive Training program include:
 Janet L. Robinson '96, president and CEO, The New York Times Company
 David R. Brown, President of the Art Center College of Design

Faculty

As of the 2017-2018 academic year, the Tuck School of Business employs 53 full-time faculty members and currently maintains a student-faculty ratio of ~10:1. 96% of these full time members are either tenured or on track to be tenured, and 36% of the faculty are of international origin.

Among Tuck's notable professors and instructors are Professor of Economics Andrew Bernard, Professor of Marketing Kevin Lane Keller, Professor of Finance Kenneth French, Professor of Finance Gordon Phillips, Professor of International Economics Matthew J. Slaughter, Professor of International Business Vijay Govindarajan, Professor of Strategic Management Richard D'Aveni, and Professor of Operations Management M. Eric Johnson. Former faculty include industrial efficiency pioneer Frederick Winslow Taylor, marketing professor Brian Wansink, and Michael Jensen, who taught as a visiting scholar.

See also

Dartmouth College
List of business schools in the United States
Ivy League business schools

References

External links

Tuck School of Business

Business schools in New Hampshire
Ivy League business schools

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The district we're in all arrived on time but the others coming on the bus got a bit held up.
We played some games to kill the time, then we split into groups that Deep Sea World had put us into before we went on the workshops. We were in the crabs, we had a waterpool handling session, then a tour in the tunnel meeting the sharks before a snake meet and greet and then a craft.
We then sang happy birthday to us, before having cake, popcorn and hot chocolate with some fruit.
Then it was PJ time, brush teeth and then in our units down to the tunnel.
The tunnel took about an hour to get everyone rolled out and settled then, it took the girls a bit of time to get comfy. Most were asleep by 1am.
We did have a brownie go sleep walking. 2 who thought they could tell tales on their brown owl not realising she was standing behind them.
It was good to share tales with other guiders about other pack holidays and camps and we took some photo's of some sleeping guiders with me photobombing them.
All in all I had about 2.5 hours sleep before waking.
In the morning it was pack up, in to uniforms, have breakfast of cereal and bacon rolls, then a chance to shop in the gift shop. Then it was time to go home with our party bags.
A brilliant experience which I am glad our brownies were able to experience. And so many thank you's from the girls and the parents. Those 2 words mean a lot to guiders.
We did a surprise for later in June. Unfortunately one of the surprises didn't quite work out but as I had bought loom bands, they helped with filling out the night, infact I think 99% of the brownies would have much preferred to have done them all night.


PreS-Gr 1-Bold and simple illustrations perfectly depict life with cats. Elegant, expressive black line drawings on white backgrounds capture the essence of all things feline and call to mind the work of Clare Turlay Newberry and Nikki McClure. The book follows a lone white cat who gains a small black companion, their life together, and the eventual loss of the elder cat ("Years went by-and more years, too-") and ends with the addition of a new kitten. The spare text does an excellent job of conveying the story from the animals' point of view. Readers are told that "the older cat got older and one day he had to go...and didn't come back. And that was hard. For everyone." VERDICT A gentle, loving look at the life cycle of pets; young readers will be able to gain confidence in retelling the story using the text and the pictures. A must-have for all collections.-Paige Mellinger, Gwinnett County Public Library, Lawrenceville, GA © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Like a Japanese brush painter, Cooper (8: An Animal Alphabet) uses bold, black lines to trace the outlines of a white cat; it roams through an apartment, playing with yarn and gazing at the bird feeder. Then a black kitten arrives, and the white cat shows it "when to eat, when to drink, where to go, how to be." "Big cat, little cat," Cooper writes as the two sleep embraced, their curves a rhythmic composition of black and white. The two grow ever closer until, with little warning, the white cat "got older, and one day he had to go... and didn't come back. And that was hard. For everyone." The black cat is pictured alone on the page; the next spread pulls back to reveal its human family, all bereft. Even younger readers will understand their grief. But when a white kitten arrives, the story begins again: "The cat showed the new cat what to do. When to eat, when to drink, where to go, how to be." With quiet grace, Cooper delivers the message that love persists through loss. Ages 3-6. Agent: Liz Darhansoff, Darhansoff & Verrill. (Mar.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.


Aussie Fitouts were very pleased to chosen as the builder of the very first Funky Mexican Cantina in Cleveland, Qld. Funkys is a very, dare we say "Funky" designed Mexican restaurant with a difference to the norm.
We were given a short time frame to complete a demolition of some existing fixtures and produce a top class restaurant. There were challenges in the drainage due to working on reclaimed land and a building which has issues for the same reason.
Our team achieved the finished product through working closely with the designers, engineeers and management of Funky's.


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Q: How to get unique combinations of pairs in nested tuples? I have a list of pairs of the form [(tuple1), (tuple2)],where the first tuple has variable length and the second has length 1.
Example:
[((0, 1, 2), 0),
((3, 4, 5), 0),
((12,), 1),
((0, 1, 4, 7), 1),
((12,), 1),
((3, 4, 5), 0)]

I want set(pairs), where tuple1_pair_X = tuple1_pair_Y && tuple2_pair_X = tuple2_pair_Y and not all the possible combinations of tuple1 elements with tuple2.
Desired Output:
[((0, 1, 2), 0),
((3, 4, 5), 0),
((12,), 1),
((0, 1, 4, 7), 1)]

A: I guess simply using the set() command on the original list of tuples should work and give your desired output.
tup_list = [((0, 1, 2), 0), ((3, 4, 5), 0),((12,), 1),((0, 1, 4, 7), 1),((12,), 1),((3, 4, 5), 0)]
output = list(set(tup_list))

A: If you want to keep order of your list:
lst = [((0, 1, 2), 0),
((3, 4, 5), 0),
((12,), 1),
((0, 1, 4, 7), 1),
((12,), 1),
((3, 4, 5), 0)]

sorted(set(lst), key=lst.index)

outputs:
[((0, 1, 2), 0),
((3, 4, 5), 0),
((12,), 1),
((0, 1, 4, 7), 1)]

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Jessica Vosk & Seth Rudetsky Stream LIVE In Concert, Sunday, December 12!
LIVE STREAMING PERFORMANCES EVERY SUNDAY FEATURING BROADWAY'S BIGGEST STARS
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Jessica Vosk—Dec. 12, 8 PM ET
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Jessica Vosk is best known for her performance as the lead role of Elphaba in Wicked, which she played on Broadway at the Gershwin Theatre from July 2018 to May 2019, a period that included the show's 15th Anniversary. She also starred as Elphaba in the show's second national tour from September 2016 to September 2017.
Other Broadway credits include Finding Neverland, and The Bridges of Madison County. She starred as Anita in the Grammy-nominated San Francisco Symphony West Side Story.
SiriusXM Broadway host Seth Rudetsky is bringing back his acclaimed concert series every Sunday with his favorite Broadway stars!
Those who have seen Seth's concert series know that there is nothing else like them. Even if you've seen one of the stars in concert before, this is guaranteed to be different because these concerts are never fully planned. Often the stars themselves don't know what songs they're going to be singing!
Yes, each star will sing the classic songs that made them famous, but they'll also answer on-the-spot questions from Seth, take audience requests from the audience chat, and so much more! Join us in the comments and take part of the performance.
And, best of all, because these concerts are completely live, YOU get to participate!
Tickets are now on sale - priced at just $25!
All performances at 8 PM ET only.
(Ticket price does not include additional service fee.)
Andrew Barth Feldman - 12/19
Andrew Barth Feldman won the 2018 National High School Musical Theatre Award (aka the Jimmy Award) as a high school sophomore and went on to make his Broadway debut as the title character in the Tony Award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen as a junior in high school. Since then, he has starred in High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical, and various other television and film, created Broadway Jackbox and Broadway Whodunit, and earned an Emmy Award for hosting the 2020 Roger Rees Awards.
Very Countess Christmas with Luann de Lesseps – 12/13
Yes, the rumors are true! Luann de Lesseps is returning to Feinstein's/54 Below! Everyone's favorite Countess is back for an evening of festive glitz and glamour. If there's anything that's a guaranteed good time, it's seeing Luann de Lesseps, star of one of the most successful franchises in television history, "The Real Housewives of New York." Luann de Lesseps was just ranked the #1 Housewife by TV Guide, topping all housewives across all franchised cities.
54 Celebrates Mel Brooks – 1/17
Got High Anxiety over the winter? Well, Springtime with Mel Brooks is coming! Why not join us for a roll in the hay and a preview of History of the World Part II. Giddy up on your Blazing Saddles and join us for a night of hilarity! Seriously, bring 11 friends and we'll have Twelve Chairs waiting for you. Remember this is a live cabaret and not a Silent Movie – so, screw To Be Or Not To Be, the question is will you be there?
I Wish: The Roles That Could Have Been – 1/23
Everyone has dreams that we fear will pass us by. For actors those come in the shape and form of roles—whether they're grown up and become too old for that child star turn, to the soprano never being considered for the baritone lead, everyone has a song in their heart that they'll likely never get to see come to fruition with a crowd and in lights. Until tonight.
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Romance is in the air, and you know what that means. Valentine's Day is here once again, so come celebrate with us at Feinstein's/54 Below! Join some of your favorite Broadway lovebirds for an evening of heartfelt and hilarious stories coupled with some of Broadway's greatest love songs. Whether you're dating, married, or simply a hopeless romantic, come be our Valentine for a date night affair you won't forget!


Real Estate Market Crash of 2008 - So What Happened?
While many predicted the current collapse of the real estate market, others were taken by surprise when the market that had created so much opportunity for profit prior to the crash, began to crumble. Certainly, one of the leading events that eventually resulted in the collapse of the real estate market was the crash of the subprime loans market. As a result an unfathomable amount of mortgage companies were suddenly forced to close their doors. Even those companies that were not forced out of business found they had suddenly lost billions of dollars.
Just a few years earlier subprime mortgages were a seemingly great advantage to many property buyers; Buyers who were interested in taking advantage of the hot real estate market but who lacked qualification profiles required by conventional and FHA mortgages, and instead turned to non-traditional and exotic mortgages offered by subprime lenders in order to obtain loans. The underwriting guidelines for these loans were generally more lax than traditional mortgages ("No Income/No Asset verification") loans for example. This allowed even buyers with poor credit to obtain a loan. In exchange for making a loan to buyer with less than stellar credit, lenders were able to charge a higher rate of interest.
The money which funded these loans came from a variety of sources. Low interest rates made it possible in many instances for lenders to actually borrow money and then loan out those funds to home buyers and higher rates thereby realizing a higher yield (profit) for themselves. In other cases, the money was obtained from more complicated sources. As you may or may not be aware, it was not uncommon for governments to borrow money from central banks. The housing market was stable back then; In fact, the housing market was experiencing a high that had not been seen in quite some time. Beyond the fact that many home buyers were taking on massive amounts of debt there also existed another problem. Due to the health of the real estate market at the time, there were expectations - by some experts - regarding future growth that, in hindsight, now is proven to have been unrealistic.
The last two full years of the real estate boom occurred in 2005 and 2006. During that time period lenders did not hesitate in the least to lend money to borrowers regardless of their credit profile (unless the applicant was so bad in all areas of qualification it would have been impossible to justify a loan to him/her). These loans represented tremendous money-making opportunities for lenders. Problems really began to occur; however, when interest rates began to rise from their previous lows. Historically, rising interest rates always had a negative effect on the real estate market. When rates are low they help to produce demand; however, when they are high they ultimately cause prices to fall. Until mid-2006 home builders could not build new homes fast enough to meet the growing demand. During mid-year; however, the demand began to slow. It was also about this time that the rate of defaults on loans began to increase.
Before long many mortgage lenders began to find it difficult to obtain money from their previous sources of funding. As a result, would-be buyers discovered that loans were no longer as easy to obtain due to the fact that money was no longer as widely available. Additionally, investors suddenly became wary of taking on risk and underwriting guidelines grew stricter. Homeowners who had taken out loans with adjustable rates began to find it difficult to meet their mortgage payments as interest rates continued to rise and those mortgages adjusted to make payments higher. More stringent underwriting guidelines meant they were unable to refinance to fixed rate mortgages in many cases. As a result, defaults continued to rise; fueling the massive rash of foreclosures.
The supreme purpose of life is to seek and create beauty of the living world.
No-doubt that real estate business is a 'full on' opportunity business and its return of investment is very convincing in comparison to other investment business, but one must have the basic knowledge and risk-taking skills to go long in this field.


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Governor signs "Ban The Box" law on Feb 23rd 2015
State agencies will have to comply with this law.
Due to the incomplete data reported by Georgia counties it is recommended that a current Georgia statewide Criminal and a county criminal background check be ordered for employment Screening.
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Under Georgia First Time Offender Law– Certain first offender crimes in which the offender has been discharged without court adjudication of guilt may not be reported.
The law requires that a "notification of discharge and exoneration" is to be placed upon the record by the court.
This discharge is not to be viewed as a conviction, and therefore may not legally be used to disqualify an applicant in employment.
Obtaining Georgia Criminal History Record Information and correcting inaccurate data:
Arrest: Criminal history record information available to employers is defined to include arrests, detentions, indictments, accusations, information, or other formal charges, and any disposition there from. GA. Code Ann. § 35-3-30.
Employers may not use arrest records that have been discharged under the First Offender's Law when making an employment decision regarding a prospective employee. GA. Code Ann. § 42-8-63. Employers cannot obtain or use sealed records.
GA. Code Ann. §§ 15-11-79.2, 35-3-37.
Arrest:
Employers may not use arrest records that have been discharged under the First Offender's Law when making an employment decision regarding a prospective employee. Ga. Code Ann. § 42-8-63. Employers cannot obtain or use sealed records. Ga. Code Ann. §§ 15-11-79.2, 35-3-37.
Certain first offender crimes in which the offender has been discharged without court adjudication of guilt are not reportable under Georgia law and a notification of discharge and exoneration is to be placed upon the record by the clerk of court.
The discharge is not considered a conviction of a crime and may not be used to disqualify a person in any application for employment.
Exception: Registration requirements with the state sexual offender registry will be followed, if applicable.
GA Code §42-8-60
through 42-8-63
Conviction:
Employers may not obtain or use convictions of those individuals who have had their convictions expunged under Georgia's probation of First Offender's Law. Ga. Code Ann. § 42-8-63. The underlying facts of a criminal action or the employee's guilty plea may, however, be used as the basis of an employment decision. 1986 Op. Att'y Gen. No. U86-25
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Obtaining Criminal History Record Information
How can I obtain a copy of my Georgia criminal history record?
What information is contained in a Georgia criminal history record?
The criminal history record includes the person's identification data (name, date of birth, social security number, sex, race, height, weight, etc.), arrest data (including arresting agency, date of arrest, and charges), final judicial disposition data submitted by a court, prosecutor or other criminal justice agency and custodial information if the offender was incarcerated in a Georgia correctional facility.
What Georgia criminal history record information is released for employment/licensing?
The individual's complete Georgia criminal history record, except juvenile, restricted and sealed records is released to the requesting entity.
Juvenile arrest records are those where the offender was 16 years old or younger at the time of arrest, charged with a felony offense and was not treated as an adult.
Restricted records are those arrest records restricted (not released for employment/licensing purposes) by a criminal justice agency under the provisions of Georgia law (O.C.G.A. § 35-3-37); however, restricted records are available to criminal justice agencies for employment purposes. Sealed records include successfully completed first offender (FOA) sentences where an order of discharge has been entered in the Georgia criminal history database.
The arrest record is not automatically sealed based on passage of the probation sentence. Additionally, Georgia law (O.C.G.A. § 35-3-34.1) provides circumstances when an exonerated first offender's criminal record may be disclosed for employment purposes.
When an individual is requesting access to a secure facility, e.g. confinement facility, military base, etc. as a contractor, vendor, visitor or volunteer, the requesting agency – whether it be a local, state or federal agency – will receive the individual's complete Georgia criminal history record, except juvenile records.
Contractors and vendors are defined as carpet cleaners, cooks, individuals responsible for maintaining vending machines, janitors, painters, etc. Volunteers include individuals providing community or social services rather than rehabilitative services or participants in community ride along programs.
Can I obtain a Georgia criminal history record of another person?
O.C.G.A. §35-3-34 (d.2) provides public access to felony conviction records without consent of the person whose record is being checked.
You can now use the Georgia Felon Search web site to verify if a person has been convicted in Georgia of a felony crime and if the conviction has been reported to GCIC. There is a fee listed on the website, payable by credit card only, for each transaction.
Law enforcement agencies also may provide felony conviction records. The person's full name, race, sex, and date of birth must be provided at the time of the request. With the person's consent, a Georgia record, which includes Georgia arrests and convictions reported to the Georgia Crime Information Center, may be obtained. A signed consent form from the individual whose record is being sought must be provided to the local agency.
How do I obtain a Georgia name-based criminal history record check from GCIC for employment, licensing, or any other non-criminal justice purposes?
Georgia agencies/businesses, and out-of-state agencies/companies with Georgia applicants, that wish to conduct background checks for employment, licensing or any other non-criminal justice purposes must use the on-line Georgia Applicant Processing Service (GAPS) .
Agencies/businesses that wish to conduct background checks for employment or licensing must obtain a GAPS account number.
For information on how to obtain a GAPS account number, visit the GAPS website at, and select the Become a Requesting Agency tab.
Fixed GAPS fingerprinting sites are located throughout the state for conducting criminal history background checks. Results, including the criminal history record should be available for the agency to retrieve from the GAPS website within 24 to 48 hours after the applicant is fingerprinted and the transaction submitted to GCIC for processing.
The GAPS website will handle collection of fees, which eliminates the need for agencies to collect and process fees for fingerprint-based checks. A valid photo ID is required at the fingerprint location.
Visit the GAPS website for details on the GAPS fingerprint background check process, fees, and print site locations
How do I request a correction or update of my Georgia criminal history record?
If your criminal history record has inaccurate or missing information, GCIC cannot correct or update your criminal history record without appropriate documentation and/or authorization of the submitting agency.
As of December 1, 2008, law enforcement agencies must use the web-based Computerized Criminal History (CCH) User Interface to update or modify arrest and identification data submitted by their agency.
All other criminal justice agencies, such as courts, prosecutors, probation/parole offices, are encouraged to transmit online updates or modifications, thereby reducing the time to complete the record update.
Written requests submitted to GCIC must be on official letterhead, with the following information: full name of subject, date of birth, social security number, race, sex, and date of arrest; or State Identification Number (SID) and date of arrest or Offender Tracking Number (OTN) for that date of arrest; and the requested changes.
If the above information is not included in the document, the request cannot be processed.
How do I contest the information contained in my Georgia criminal history record if it is inaccurate or if my identity has been used in another individual's criminal history record?
To contest the accuracy of information in your criminal history record, or if your identification data was used in another individual's criminal history record, fingerprints must be submitted to GCIC for comparison.
See the GCIC Contact Information at the bottom of the web page to schedule an appointment. A fee, payable by certified check or money order to the Georgia Crime Information Center , is required.
Click here for the inspection and finger printing fees.
If you are unable to come in person, the following information is required:
A signed written request with a brief explanation for the request to include the specific data that is being challenged and a complete return mailing address.
Each request must contain two completed applicant fingerprint cards with all of the applicant's personal information (name, date of birth, place of birth, etc.) and a current set of 10 rolled fingerprints and eight flat finger impressions.
Fingerprints and impressions must be taken by a local law enforcement agency; please include a photocopy of the applicant's identification that was presented to the law enforcement agency that did the printing and provide their address and telephone number so that GCIC may contact them if there are any questions.
A fee, payable by certified check or money order to the Georgia Crime Information Center, is required.
Click here for the inspection fee.
Information should be mailed to the address listed in the contact information. Your request will be processed and a certificate (letter) with the results will be mailed back to you.
How do I obtain a copy of a criminal history record from a State other than Georgia?
Contact the State's criminal justice agency (Bureau of Investigation, State Police, etc.) to obtain information on requirements and fees. Requirements may be listed on the agency's website.
How do I obtain a copy of my national criminal history record?
Individuals can obtain a copy of their national criminal history record from the FBI. In order to receive a copy of your FBI record for personal, employment, or international work requirements, please visit the FBI website.
What is Georgia's First Offender Act (FOA)?
Per Georgia law (O.C.G.A. § 42-8-60), "upon a verdict or plea of guilty or nolo contendere, but before an adjudication of guilt, the court may, in the case of a defendant who has not been previously convicted of a felony, without entering a judgment of guilt and with the consent of the defendant, defer further proceeding and place the defendant on probation as a first offender.
If the terms of the first offender sentence are successfully completed, and the probationer discharged, those charges would be sealed on the GCIC database when the discharge is applied to the GCIC criminal history; however, such information may be available through other sources, including court docket books, criminal justice agency websites, or through "third party" vendors. GCIC must receive official notification that the subject has successfully completed the FOA requirements. The record is not automatically sealed based on the passage of the probation sentence.
Georgia law (O.C.G.A. § 42-8-65(b)) requires GCIC to change the first offender sentence to a conviction if, prior to successful discharge, the subject is arrested and convicted of another offense while still on first offender probation or the offender has received prior FOA treatment.
Courts may also revoke a first offender sentence, indicate unsatisfactory completion of the first offender sentence or change to an adjudication of guilt.
Georgia law (O.C.G.A. § 42-8-63.1) notes offenses for which a FOA discharge may be used to disqualify a person for employment; thus the information will be disseminated to prospective employers
What is Conditional Discharge?
Conditional Discharge Programs is different from the Georgia First Offender Act, but there are distinct differences. Conditional Discharge Programs are designed for offenders who have been charged with first time underage possession of alcohol (O.C.G.A. §3-3-23.1) or drug use (O.C.G.A. §16-3-2) and placed on probation without entering a judgment of guilt.
Upon fulfillment of the terms and conditions, the court shall discharge the person and dismiss the proceedings against the defendant.
Discharge and dismissal under this Code section shall be without court adjudication of guilt. Discharge and dismissal, per code section, may occur only once with respect to any person. A person sentenced under O.C.G.A. §§ 16-13-2 or 3-3-23.1 is not eligible for expungement under O.C.G.A §35-3-37(d)(7) unless the terms specifically provided for expungement of the arrest record.
What is a Record Expungement?
O.C.G.A. § 35-3-37(d) (1) allows for the expungement of arrest charges by a local law enforcement agency when certain conditions are met (as outlined in this statute). If approved by appropriate prosecutor, the arrest cycle is sealed on the Georgia criminal history report by GCIC. Access to that arrest information is restricted to criminal justice agencies only.
The following are examples of final court dispositions that may qualify: Dismissed: Not Presented to Grand Jury:
No Further Action Anticipated; Nolle Prossed/Prosequi; Dead Docket; or No Record on File. Dispositions of Guilty, Not Guilty, Nolo Contendre, and First Offender Act are not eligible.
It is recommended that you review a copy of your criminal history, prior to submitting the Request to Expunge Record, to ensure that all charges have a final disposition listed and the disposition may qualify for expungement. If a disposition is missing or incorrect, please contact the appropriate court; the court may transmit the disposition on-line.
All applications must be approved or denied by the appropriate prosecutor.
To apply for the local record expungement, contact the arresting law enforcement agency to obtain an application for Request to Expunge Record. Also the Request to Expunge Record can be found on the GBI website, www.gbi.georgia.gov by selecting Publications and then selecting Georgia Criminal History Record Expungements or click on this link Georgia Criminal History Record Expungements.
The Request to Expunge Record is a three-part form:
Section One – You will complete Section One and return to the arresting agency.
Section Two – Completed by the arresting agency that forwards the request to the appropriate prosecutor (District Attorney or Solicitor).
Section Three – Completed by the prosecutor who will approve or deny the request.
Once the prosecutor completes their portion, all three sections should be forwarded to GCIC with the required processing fee payable by certified check or money order. Click here for the expungement fee.
What is the process for an attorney to request a client's criminal history record?
In criminal cases, O.C.G.A. § 35-3-34 (a) (2) provides that an attorney may obtain criminal history records of a client, other defendant, or witness in a criminal action. The request must be submitted in writing to include the style of the case, case number, full name, date of birth, race, sex, and social security number (if available) for each person.
Mail the request to the attention of "attorney requests" at the address listed in the contact information. A fee payable to GCIC by business check or money order is required for each record requested. Disclosure of criminal history information to the defendant's counsel in criminal cases shall be solely in such counsel's capacity as an officer of the court.
In civil actions, only felony conviction criminal history information is disseminated in compliance with public information law. This information may also be obtained from local law enforcement agencies; fees vary.
Other attorneys may submit requests via fax at (404) 270-8386. Questions may be directed to (404) 244-2639, Option 3.
Someone has been using my identity for financial (material) gain. What should I do?
Effective July 1, 1998, it is a felony in Georgia to use someone else's identity to obtain something of value (O.C.G.A. §16-9-120).
Contact your local police department or sheriff's department to report the theft of your identity
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Q: Create field with length of lines intersecting with polygons In QGIS I`m trying to find an expression (or anything really) that could could do the following: given a layer of polygon and a layer of line that intersects it, I wish to be able to populate or create a field in polygon with the length of the the line where it intersects with the polygon, the reference for the length being always the start point. But this value can only be integer and only store even values.
This image illustrate what I'm trying to achieve.

A: You can find this distance using a virtual layer. It would compute the line intersection, compute the distance from the line start to the intersection start, and from the line start to the intersection end, then it would keep the maximum distance.
Go to the menu Layer > Add Layer > Add/Edit Virtual Layer... and enter the following query. Feel free to add more fields from your layers, and to adjust the names!
select p.*, l.id,
      max(
       st_distance(
          st_startpoint(
            st_intersection(p.geometry, l.geometry)),
          st_startpoint(l.geometry)),
       st_distance(
          st_endpoint(
            st_intersection(p.geometry, l.geometry)),
         st_startpoint(l.geometry))) d
from p
join l
  on st_intersects(p.geometry, l.geometry)

For the 2nd part of your question, you can play with floor minus the modulo (%) between the floored value and 2.

A: Edit: meanwhile, there is a slightly easier way to do that, see: https://gis.stackexchange.com/a/410818/88814
There is a single if somehow complex (at least at the first glance) expression you can use to create the value you look for. See at the bottom for a detailed step by step explanation how to build the expression. You could also use this expression to dynamically label you polygons, so it gets updated every time you change the line or polygon layer and that even without creating any new layer or field.
How to apply it: On your polygon layer, create a new field with field calculator and paste the following expression. The only thing you have to adapt is the name of your line layer - in my example it's called line and appears three times (line 8, 18 and 26). Change this to the name of your line layer.
By the way: the expression rounds the value up or down to the next even number (be it smaller or bigger). If you always want to round down to the next smaller even number, it's even simpler - you have to change the end of the expression, see step 12 at the very bottom of this answer for details.
So this is the full expression to apply:
with_variable (
    'measure',
    length (
        make_line (
            start_point (
                collect_geometries (
                    overlay_nearest (
                        'line',
                        $geometry
                    )
                )
            ),
            closest_point (
                intersection(
                    $geometry,
                    collect_geometries (
                        overlay_nearest (
                            'line',
                            $geometry
                        )
                    )
                ),
                end_point (
                    collect_geometries (
                        overlay_nearest (
                            'line',
                            $geometry
                        )
                    )
                )
            )
        )
    ),
    if (
        round ( @measure) %2 =0,
        round ( @measure),
        if (
            @measure -  floor( @measure) < 0.5,
             ceil( @measure),
             floor( @measure)
        )
    )
)

Screenshot: as you can see, the label on the polygon layer is created dynamically with the same expression as above. The line measurement in the upper polygons from the start_point of the line to the last point of the last polygon is 175.397 m, which is rounded not to 175, but to 176:

How does the expression work? Let's get through it step by step.

*

*As the expression is applied on the polygon layer, you first have to access the line layer and get the nearest feature to the current polygon feature - thus: the line that crosses the polygon. This is done with this expression (the function overlay_nearest is available since QGIS 3.16):

collect_geometries (
   overlay_nearest (
      'line',
         $geometry
   )
)

*Now, get the start point of the line. Here and from now on, I will refer to the expression of each step with this syntax: (square brackets combined with @ and a number, e.g. [@1]) - thus you should replace [@1] with the expression from step 1. Thus, to get the start point, use start_point ([@1])

*Get the end point of the line: end_point ([@1])

*Get the intersection of the line with the polygons - thus for each polygon, get only the segment of the line inside the polygon: intersection($geometry, [@1] )

*From this line (from step 4), get the point closest to the end point. This is the point where the line intersects with the polygon (those of the two intersection points farther away from the start point, as can be seen on your screenshot): closest_point ( [@4] , [@3] )

*Make a line from the start point to the intersection point created in 5: make_line ( [@2], [@5] )

*Measure the length of the line from 6: this is the value you're looking for: length ( [@6])

*Now, before going to round the value, we first create a variable to avoid repeatingly inserting all over again the same expression. The variable is the length of the line we created in step 7: with_variable ( 'measure', [@7], [@9] )

*Create an if condition to see if the (simply) rounded value is already an even value: in this case, we apply round ( @measure) - with @measure we refer to the variable we stored in step 8 (=the length of the line) : if ( round ( @measure) % 2 =0, round ( @measure), [@10] )

*If rounding results in a uneven number, we use another if clause. For values with decimals smaller than 0.5 (line 2 in the expression), we want to bring it up to a round number, thus ceil (@measure) (line 3):  175.397 will result in 176, NOT in 175 as we would expect using round (). In all other cases, we can simply round: 175.6 will result in 176, thus what we want :-)
if (
   @measure - floor( @measure) < 0.5,
   ceil( @measure),
   floor( @measure)
)

*Now put all together using the expression in step 8 and fill all the values with syntax like (square brackets combined with @ and a number, e.g. [@11]) with the expression from the belonging step. Repeat as long until there are no expressions in the style (square brackets combined with @ and a number) left and you're done with the complex epression from the beginning of this solution.

*If you don't want to round up or down to the next even number, but always get the next smaller even number, replace the last 10 lines of the full expression (see above) with this even simpler expression:
    if (
        floor ( @measure) %2 =0,
        floor ( @measure),
        floor ( @measure)-1
    )
)


text:
Herbert Kawan (* 26. Mai 1903 in Dresden; † 1969 ebenda) war ein deutscher Komponist und  Dirigent.

Leben und Wirken
Im Alter von 18 Jahren legte Kawan erste eigene Kompositionen im Konzertbereich vor. Er studierte an der Dresdner Musikhochschule und schlug anschließend eine Laufbahn als Dirigent ein. Er erhielt ein Engagement am Metropoltheater Berlin, wo er erste Bearbeitungen von Operetten vornahm. In Zusammenarbeit mit Peter Bejach als Librettisten entstanden mehrere Operetten: "Treffpunkt Herz" (1951), "Ferien am Schneeberg" (1953) und "Jedes Jahr im Mai" (1954), die am Metropoltheater uraufgeführt wurden und in den 1950er Jahren  beliebt waren. Er komponierte Operetten, Filmmusik und musikdramatische Stücke.

Opern
 Plautus im Nonnenkloster. (Text: Max Butting), 1961.

Operetten (Auswahl) und Werke des Heiteren Musiktheaters (DDR)
 Treffpunkt Herz. (Text: Peter Bejach), 1951.
 Ferien am Schneeberg. (Text: Peter Bejach), 1953.
 Jedes Jahr im Mai. (Text: Peter Bejach), 1954.
 Sterne, Geld und Vagabunden, Musik unter Verwendung italienischer Volksmelodien. Operette in 2 Akten (Text: Erich Geiger), Dresden 1957.
 Die Abenteure der Mona Lisa. (Text: Andreas Bauer), 1960.
 Treffpunkt Herz. (Text: Peter Bejach), 1951.
 Sensation in London. (Text: Andreas Bauer) – Uraufführung: 13. Dezember 1957, Volkstheater Rostock

Musical (Heiteres Musiktheater der DDR)
 Bei Mirandolina. (Text: Erich Geiger), 1962.

Literatur
 Romy Petrick: "War ich gut?" – Der Dresdner Nachkriegsregisseur Erich Geiger, Marburg 2015.

Dirigent
Komponist (Operette)
Komponist (Deutschland)
Komponist (Oper)
Deutscher
Geboren 1903
Gestorben 1969
Mann


Working on this report has been one of the most challenging things I've done thus far in my educational career. The work I've had to do has pushed me outside of my comfort zone and for that, I am honored to have had the opportunity to work on this project. A study showed that New York State ranked 49th out of 51 in volunteerism. So the goal of this project was to determine approximately how many volunteers there are in Westchester County, how many hours they are volunteering, provide recommendations of what volunteer managers in Westchester County need to improve their services, and use the data collected to provide recommendations on ways Westchester County can improve and promote volunteerism. While this report is still a work in progress, the chosen research methodology was mixed-method, with a quantitative survey distributed to various volunteer managers across Westchester County and qualitative follow-up interviews to be conducted. The data received from this survey would be compared to the aforementioned Bureau of Labor Statistics NYS volunteering data. Our study was modeled after one done on Ulster County by The Benjamin Center for Public Policy Initiatives at SUNY New Paltz.
With over 1000 nonprofit organizations in New York State, our goal was to have between 100 and 200 responses for at least a 10% response rate. In order to achieve this, I worked in conjunction with Nonprofit Westchester and Volunteer NY! to reach out to volunteer managers from different organizations and encourage them to take the survey. To date, we have received 149 submitted surveys. Contacting these volunteer managers has definitely been the most difficult part of this entire project because it forced me to leave my comfort zone. I usually revert to just emailing people so that I don't have to deal with awkward phone interactions but, in this case, the most effective method of communication was a phone call. Having to make all of these phone calls taught me how to be more confident in cold-calling people for a cause and also taught me how to be clear and succinct. These skills help me two-fold. First and foremost, they help me in my career. I'm a journalism major so cold-calling sources is an everyday part of my job. Having to do this for the research project has made me more confident in doing so for work and has actually helped me land some very important sources for stories that I'm working on at my current internship in a nonprofit newsroom. The second area in which it's helped me is in my position as an advocate for change. Being an advocate means stepping up and calling on others to make change, like our elected officials. I am now more confident and feel more capable of my abilities to successfully do so.
With this project, I was lucky enough to have not just one, but two mentors guiding me. Whether it was through our weekly email updates or weekly phone calls, they were always there to answer any questions I had about absolutely anything. They've helped me become a better researcher because they've pushed me to think outside the box. When the time came for me to begin looking at the data, they provided me with guiding questions so as not to become overwhelmed by the mass amounts of information the survey left us with. Both of them have been extremely supportive of my endeavors related to the project and otherwise. They both have provided me with affirmations that what I'm doing is valuable to this project, which has helped me push forward.
I plan on working with both Heather and Tyler to see this report to completion. I surround myself with a community, especially at Pace, where volunteerism is made a priority. To see that report about New York State was shocking and is part of the reason why I feel so honored in participating in this research project. Working on this project has altered how I see and understand the community around me. In one of my prior blog posts, I noticed the shocking differences in funding for these organizations. It seemed almost unreal to me that nonprofit organizations were operating with millions of dollars as their budget. Nonprofits are often synonymous with not having much to work with, but these survey results thus far have shown me otherwise. Another thing that was, for some reason, shocking to me, was that most of the nonprofits that participated in our survey are completely volunteer run. This aligns more with the "nonprofits have no money" train of thought but seem strange when the data is saying that nonprofits are operating with millions of dollars in budget. This brings about an entirely different set of questions. Nonetheless, I am excited to see what final results the survey will produce and how it all comes together in our report.
We've made some good progress so far with our survey. Our initial goal was to reach 100 participants and we've surpassed that goal! Now, our next goal is to reach 200 participants and this is is where things start to get more intense. Good time management skills will be essential now more than even because I work full time during the week and sometimes on weekends, but it's important that my work for this project gets done.
One of the greatest challenges thus far has been contacting the right people. I have a spreadsheet filled with information for people from different organizations to contact but I've found that the numbers can be incorrect and, often, the person listed on the spreadsheet doesn't actually work for the organization anymore. Then it becomes a matter of finding who the person is that I need to speak to now, getting their information, and convincing them to participate in the survey. I hadn't realized how much time would be spent leaving voicemails. But it's not all bad. The people I speak with are usually very pleasant and tend to be more than willing to help! It makes all my work worth it when I learn how willing people are to help us.
Some of the findings from the data revolve around budgets and status of the organization. For example, I was under the impression that almost all organizations that would rely on volunteers would be nonprofit organizations but, based on the current results of our survey, there is a significant portion of participants who come from for-profit corporations. In that same respect, most associate nonprofit organizations with having small budgets, hence the need for volunteers but, based on the current results of our survey, some of the organizations we've surveyed have budgets of over $20,000,000. My main question from these findings in particular is: If an organization is operating with a budget this large, what is the need for volunteers? Where is the money going exactly?
On a larger scale, what I've learned from the project thus far is that there are many more aspects behind volunteerism than meets the eye. It's a very large and complex world. Volunteerism is not a universal concept where the same rules apply to everyone. Not every organization (or corporation) that requests the help of volunteers necessarily needs them, in terms of free labor. Some certainly do, like those with smaller operating budgets, but organizations with larger operating budgets may not. And the question is why do they still request this help? These findings are the most interesting to me thus far and, once we've closed the survey, I can't wait to delve deeper into what they could possibly mean for the state of volunteerism in New York.
This project is becoming something much larger than I'd expected it to. I'm looking forward to determining what exactly our findings are by the end of this and presenting them to the Pace community during Undergraduate Research Day in the Spring semester. We are a community that is based in volunteerism and helping others so the fact that there may be another angle to this that we're not quite seeing yet — one that goes beyond just the number of volunteers in Westchester County and figuring out how to improve the ranking of New York State in terms of volunteers — may become a point of conversation and further investigation.
The title of my project is "A Comprehensive Guide to Volunteerism in Westchester County." The purpose of this project is to provide a guide to "Volunteer! New York" to find ways to improve New York State's standing within the Corporation for National Service rankings. The goal of this research is to find approximately how many volunteers there are in Westchester County, how many hours they are volunteering, provide recommendations of what volunteer managers in Westchester County need to improve their services, and use the data collected to provide recommendations on ways Westchester County can improve and promote volunteerism. The methods that will be used to answer our research questions include a survey and qualitative interviews with select figures in the county.
I hope to learn how exactly we can improve volunteerism in Westchester County. Being a member of the Pace community, one that is so focused on volunteering and giving back, it can be easy to stay in this bubble and think that the rest of the world around me feels the same way. However, taking a step back, we can quickly see that that is not the case and that not everyone feels as passionate about volunteering as Pace students do. I don't believe that there are enough people looking into volunteerism in New York from the angle that we are, so I hope that this project has a large impact — preferably one that will move New York State from 49th out of 51 in the ranks of volunteerism.


As we near the end of the year the temptation is always to look backwards at the last 12 months, so it was nice to be asked to look forward and write something on the trends in PR for 2014.
When it comes to making predictions I'm basically in the Paul Gascoigne school of thought – "I don't make predictions and I never will" – but the CIPR asked for my views and I gave it my best shot.
The CIPR PR Trends 2014 report is the brainchild of president elect Stephen Waddington (@wadds) as part of his election pledge to foster a stronger sense of community within the organization.
I think it's a fine idea and the end product offers a strategic look at not just each sector group within the CIPR, but (in my view) more importantly each region across the county.
I gave my views on the North East on page 22 (in black & white soft focus no less) and it was great to be alongside some other communicators who I really admire including Rachel Miller, Laura Sutherland, Erin Portsmouth, Sarah Pinch and of course Stephen Waddington.
I hope you all had a great Christmas and don't worry I'll be looking back over the best of 2013 in the next blog.


text:
The Calcutta Chamber Orchestra is a chamber orchestra based in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was formerly named the Calcutta Foundation Orchestra and assumed its present name after being taken over by the Calcutta School of Music.

The Orchestra came to have its current set up in 2005.

References

External links

Chamber orchestras
Indian orchestras
Culture of Kolkata
Musical groups established in 2005
2005 establishments in West Bengal


Christopher Anthony is the 22nd ranked of 274 active US Southeast Pro Welterweights.
Christopher Anthony is the 92nd ranked of 1240 active United States Pro Welterweights.
Christopher Anthony is the 3rd ranked of 32 active Louisiana Pro Welterweights.


This week we chose a Platinum Gift Box as the brochure of the week. Part of our Signature Collection it was designed and produced for the North Melbourne Football Club nicknamed the Kangaroos in the AFL.
The club wanted to do something for some of their sponsors who participated in the clubs Utah training camp in the USA. The brief was that it needed to be a quality gift, treasured and something that could be passed around to show other sponsors, colleagues and friends.
The Gift Box featured a gloss cover and once opened the large LCD screen displayed a video of the trip. The North Melbourne Video Brochure of the Week was a great keepsake for those sponsors of the event.


Congratulations Kerry on receiving the FCS Undergraduate Research Scholarship!
Kerry Miller is the recipient of the 2014 Faculty of Community Services Undergraduate Research Scholarship. With this grant, Kerry is leading a study investigating the effects of commercial beverages and exercise on blood glucose in boys.


The past couple of months have been surprising. And who doesn't love a surprise?
I am still in the "blush" and "rush" phase of blogging. To see one of my posts appear on someone else's page is enough to make me want to stand up and click my heels together. Sometimes I actually do.
And other times, I'm just misty-eyed and humbled. Each time it happens my heart is squeezed in the best of ways.
Elan Morgan is a writer and web designer who works from Elan.Works, a designer and content editor at GenderAvenger, and a speaker who has spoken across North America. They have been seen in the Globe & Mail, Best Health, Woman's Day, and Flow magazines, TEDxRegina, and on CBC News and Radio. They believe in and work to grow both personal and professional quality, genuine community, and meaningful content online.
In the quiet of the night, my thoughts all jumbled and overflowing in the rush of my day, come together like short plays. They tell the story of relationships, motherhood and an earnest hope for happy endings.
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