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Welcome to the Workforce Education and Development program at the Pennsylvania State University. We appreciate your interest in our program. It is one of the oldest academic programs offered by Penn State.
The mission of Penn State's Workforce Education and Development (WFED) program is to promote excellence, opportunity, and leadership among professionals in the field of workforce education and development, including professionals employed in secondary and postsecondary education institutions, social services, employee organizations, and private sector businesses.
Faculty in the program strive to attain a cost-effective academic program that is recognized nationally as among the best of its type in scholarship, leadership, and professional preparation.
Doctoral students may choose from three different emphases: human resource development/organization development; school-to-work; and secondary career and technical education leadership. Master's degree students have these three choices, plus an additional emphasis in teacher certification.
Refer to the College of Education's scholarships and financial aid information that is available to support the twenty-first century workforce in transforming our economy for the future of work!
Graduate Certificates and Undergraduate Degree Programs and Certificates
Graduate Certificate in Organization Development and Change: Analytics
Penn State's OD&C Analytics Graduate Certificate:
Offered as a Residential course for University Park only, can provide you with the skills and knowledge you need to analyze data to make informed decisions in organization development and change initiatives. This critical skill set can help you stand out in a number of industries in today's highly competitive and ever-changing business climate.
In this 9-credit program by selecting any 3 course from the following: WFED 540; 543; 582;and 585. You can build a strong knowledge base in the use of analytics tools and approaches as they relate specifically to organization development and change initiatives. The curriculum will focus on approaches to evaluating organization development and consulting services; assessing and feeding data in organization development; and using labor supply models to evaluate investments. Additionally, you can apply the credits you earn for this certificate toward a Master of Professional Studies in Organization Development and Change.
WFED 540 Data Analysis in Workforce Education and Development
WFED 543 Evaluation of Investments in Workforce Education and Development
WFED 582 Assessing Data: Organizational Diagnosis
WFED 585 Appraising Organization Change and Development Consulting
Graduate Certificate in Organization Development and Change: Occupational Safety and Health
Organization Development and Change: Occupational Safety and Health (GCT)
Accidents within the workforce and educational environments are metaphorically similar to a line of falling dominos. As one incident occurs, it has the ability to trigger a harmful chain reaction. Therefore this 9-credit Organization Development and Change, Occupational Safety and Health Certificate Program is designed to assist workforce development professionals in building the skills and abilities to create and support workplaces and educational environments free of occupational safety and health hazards. Emphasis is placed on leadership development to promote detection, analysis, and correction of unsafe workplace conditions and procedures
WF ED 573 Needs Assessment for Workforce Development Professionals
WF ED 411 Occupational Safety and Health for Workforce Education and Development Prof.
WF ED 806 Program and Facilities Management for Workforce Development Professionals
Undergraduate Programs and Certification
Workforce Education and Development offers a variety of pathways to earn an undergraduate degree with an emphasis in Career and Technical Education (CTE) or Workplace Learning and Performance (WLP).
The CTE emphasis offers an undergraduate degree through a large off-campus degree and non-degree program leading to two types of certifications: Pennsylvania CTE Teacher Certification and Co-Op Certification.
The WLP emphasis offers flexible programs enabling working professionals to take courses and earn credits in a variety of ways including earning professional certificates, an associate degree, and a baccalaureate degree.
Any questions about Career and Technical Certification, Cooperative Education Certification and Undergraduate WFED studies should be directed to Mark Threeton at [email protected].
Workplace Learning and Performance (WLP) Certificate Programs
Undergraduate Degree Programs
Penn State's Workforce Education and Development program offers certificate programs as well as undergraduate degree programs leading to a Bachelor of Science.
Students interested in these programs leading to the bachelor's degree in Workforce Education and Development should be employed, or wish to be employed, as faculty members, trainers, administrators, or researchers in settings emphasizing education for work in private sector firms, schools, occupational home economics, cooperative education, youth apprenticeship, or employment and training.
Master of Education (M.Ed.) requirements
Master of Education (M.Ed.) - University Park
The M.Ed. candidates must complete six credits taken outside of the Workforce Education and Development program and three credits of WFED elective. A candidate for the M.Ed. must complete three credits of WFED 596, Individual Studies and a comprehensive exam. See the full list of program course requirements.
For more information on the program and faculty, please contact the WFED degree graduate staff assistant:
Susan Berzonsky (University Park)
Learning and Performance Systems department
Master of Science (MS) requirements
Master of Science (MS) - University Park
The culminating experience for the Master of Science (MS) degree is a thesis, essay, or paper acceptable to the student's adviser and graduate program director. An MS candidate must complete the three–credit course WFED 550, Research in Workforce Education. Candidates who choose to complete a formal thesis that will be submitted to the Graduate School must complete six credits of WFED 600, Thesis Research. Those choosing to complete a paper or an essay must enroll in a minimum of three credits of WFED 596, Individual Studies. Students must be enrolled during all semesters in which they are working on the manuscript. See the full list of program course requirements.
Master of Professional Studies (M.P.S.) requirements
Master of Professional Studies - World Campus
The Master of Professional Studies (M.P.S.) in Organization Development and Change is an online degree aimed toward professionals in fields such as talent management, corporate development and performance improvement in government, nonprofit organizations and industry. The program is designed with an international focus, ensuring that students are exposed to global issues and the way change is occurring around the world and will emphasize the importance of technology when it comes to facilitating change.
Students in the Organization Development and Change program will have the opportunity to build portfolios, collections of work samples that they have accumulated throughout their programs that they can share with prospective employers. More details on classes can be found on our course list.
The M.P.S. in Organization Development and Change is a degree offering of the Workforce Education and Development program in the Department of Learning and Performance Systems in the Penn State College of Education. It is offered as an online degree program through the Penn State World Campus.
For more information on the program and faculty, please contact the OD&C program staff assistant:
Whitney DeShong (World Campus)
PennStateODC
Doctoral Degree Programs (Ph.D.) requirements
Doctoral Degree Programs (Ph.D.) - University Park
The Pennsylvania State University Workforce Education and Development (WFED) program offers a graduate degree program leading to degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.). Students interested in this program should be employed in or aspire to be employed as faculty, trainers, administrators, or researchers in education-for-work settings such as business, industry, health fields, occupational home economics, cooperative education, youth apprenticeship, or employment and training.
The Ph.D. degree requires, among other matters:
- Maintenance of satisfactory scholarship, with a minimum grade-point average of 3.00 for work done at the University;
- Completion of Scholarship and Research Integrity (SARI) requirements;
- Attainment of doctoral candidacy status;
- High-level competence in the use of the English language, including reading, writing, and speaking;
- Over some twelve-month period during the interval between admission to the Ph.D. program and completion of the Ph.D. program, enrollment at least two semesters (summer sessions are not included) as a registered full-time student engaged in academic work at the University Park campus;
- Completion of research requirements, in lieu of typical communication and foreign language requirements for most Ph.D. programs;
- Completion of the Ph.D. program, including acceptance of the doctoral dissertation, within eight years from the date of attainment of doctoral candidacy status; and
- Successful completion of a comprehensive examination, acceptance of a dissertation, and completion of a final oral examination for the Ph.D. degree.
Requirements of emphases within the Ph.D. program can be found in the WFED Handbook. To find out what WFED graduate courses are offered and when, please see our course list.
Ph.D. students are eligible to compete for a limited number of graduate assistantships that may become available to serve the research, teaching, and service missions of the WFED program. The regular graduate faculty for the WFED program consider applications in the light of faculty needs and availability of University funding for graduate assistantships. Applications are due on January 29 for assistantships that could be awarded for the upcoming academic year. For more information, see the Graduate Assistantship Application.
If you are ready to proceed to the application but have NOT read the Graduate School requirements, please visit their website.
If you have read the Graduate School requirements and are ready to apply, you may proceed to the application.
Professional Personnel Development Center (PPDC)
The Center provides teacher preparation, online resources, and in-service programs that prepare Pennsylvanians to meet professional standards as career and technical educators. Through these programs, participants may earn state teacher certification and become eligible to teach technical career programs in career and technical schools in Pennsylvania.
Check out what our Professional Personnel Development Center can do to upskill and reskill you and your workforce.
Staci Lynch
PPDC Territory Map
Current Faculty, Affiliate Faculty, Emeritus Faculty
Deadlines for Doctoral Admissions
Doctoral Program Admission Deadlines
Doctoral students are accepted for Fall admission. The following are the deadlines:
- January 29th – those students who want to be considered for funding, please submit the Graduate Assistantship Application.
- April 15th – deadline for international students. This deadline is due to the time-frame needed for Global Programs to process the International Visa Documentation. The process cannot begin until you have accepted your offer of admission/paid your acceptance fees. Therefore, international students must apply by the April 15th deadline for processing purposes.
- June 30th – This deadline is for students who do not wish to be considered for funding.
Applicants must have successfully completed a master's degree from an accredited institution, having earned at least a 3.0 grade point average. All students are expected to exhibit:
- Academic competency,
- Effectiveness in interpersonal relations,
- Written, and oral communications.
Students should be able to document a minimum of two years full-time employment in the workplace. Relevant examples include the following:
- career and technical education,
- vocational guidance,
- industrial training,
- military technical training,
- safety education or technical education,
- or, related experience acceptable to the faculty.
Step 1: Graduate School Application
Complete the online Penn State Graduate School application. Be sure to pay the application fee as outlined on the Graduate School application form.
When completing the online Graduate School application, you will be asked to answer a series of questions or provide written statements regarding the following information:
- Resume or curriculum vitae.
- Letters of recommendation from two people who are best qualified to evaluate your ability to succeed in graduate study. The Graduate School application will ask you to submit the names of references along with their email addresses. Your reference will receive an email directing them to the site to upload a reference letter. You will be notified via email when they have submitted their letter, however you will not be able to view the letter.
- A statement of personal career history and objectives for the future and how the Ph.D. degree will help you accomplish your goals.
- A written statement of your research interests including how this corresponds with WFED faculty member(s) with whom you would like to work with and why.
- A description of your scholarly or applied research studies or reports that involved data collection and analysis.
- A description of other activities in which you plan to be engaged during your Ph.D. study other than taking classes to accomplish your career goals.
- A scholarly writing sample related to Workforce Education and Development, which utilizes the APA 7th Edition Publication Manual.
- An analytical response to a case study facilitated by the program faculty.
Step 2: Workforce Education Development Program Material
- As part of the online application process, applicants are required to electronically upload a copy of an official transcripts/documents from all post-secondary institutions attended. Upon online acceptance of a program recommendation for admission, applicants will be notified that official/original transcripts/documents must be sent from the originating institutions for review by the Graduate School, in order to finalize an admission decision.
Transcripts/documents must be in the official language of the institution(s) attended, but if that language is not English, an official English translation must also be sent. The Graduate School will review all official documents to finalize the offer of admission. An offer of admission will be revoked if official/original documents are not received by the Graduate School within specified deadlines, or if official/original documents differ from the copies uploaded by the applicant prior to the offer of admission. For applicants whose degree conferral is in progress at the time of uploading copies, the deadline specified for receipt of official/original documents will allow for the passage of the reported date of degree conferral, and that conferral must be confirmed on the official/original documents received by the Graduate School, in order for the offer of admission to be finalized.
- International applicants must take and submit scores for the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) or the IELTS (International English Language Testing System),with the exceptions noted below. The minimum acceptable score for the TOEFL is 550 for the paper-based test, 213 for the computer-based test, or a total score of 80 with a 19 on the speaking section for the internet-based test. Applicants with iBT speaking scores between 15 and 18 may be considered for provisional admission, which requires an institutional test of English proficiency upon first enrollment and, if necessary, remedial course work. The minimum composite score for the IELTS is 6.5. Submit official scores using Penn State's Institution Code: 2660. To find out more about the TOEFL Exam visit the TOEFL website. International applicants are exempt from the TOEFL/IELTS requirement who have received a baccalaureate or a master's degree from a college/university/institution in any of the following: Australia, Belize, British Caribbean and British West Indies, Canada (except Quebec), England, Guyana, Republic of Ireland, Liberia, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Scotland, the United States, and Wales.
Students taking the TOEFL should use school code 2660 to send scores to Penn State.
Graduate Handbook (Master & Doctoral programs)
Fall 2021 Masters Calendar deadlines
Fall 2021 Doctoral Calendar deadlines
Spring 2022 Masters Calendar deadlines
Spring 2022 Doctoral Calendar deadlines
Doctoral Program of Study
Doctoral Exams
Comprehensive Exam Checklist
Final Exam Request Checklist
Doctoral Degree Courses
Teaching Schedule (Updated as of May 2021)
Doctoral Degree Course Requirements (Updated as of May 2021)
Doctoral Plan Prior to Fall 2018
Doctoral Plan starting with Fall 2018 thru end Summer 2020
Master Degree Courses
Master Degree Course Requirements
CTE Leadership Courses
Director of CTE Certification and M.Ed. Degree 36 credit hours
Director of CTE Certification 24 credit hours
Graduate Assistantship
Graduate Assistantship Application
History and Rankings
The Workforce Education and Development program originated in 1920 in the School of Engineering and was called the Department of Industrial Education. On June 11, 1923, the Department of Industrial Education moved from the School of Engineering to join three other academic units - Agricultural Education, Education and Psychology, and Home Economics Education - to form the School of Education, now the College of Education.
In 1925, new graduate programs in Vocational Industrial Education were inaugurated. The first Master's degree in Industrial Education were conferred in August, 1929. In 1939, the first doctoral degree in Industrial Education were conferred upon Edward C. Estabrooke and George H. Parks. These programs now lead to degrees of Master's of Arts, Master's of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy.
In 1944, the Department of Industrial Education was officially designated as the agency for the State Department of Education for the administration of Occupational Competency Examinations to qualified applicants in central Pennsylvania.
In 1963, the designation Department of Industrial Education was changed to the Department of Vocational Education. In 1977, the Department of Industrial Education changed its name to the Department of Vocational-Industrial Education.
In 1994, Dr. Kenneth C. Gray, Professor-in-Charge of Vocational Industrial Education, conducted a contest among the graduate students resulting in a name change from Vocational Industrial Education to Workforce Education and Development. The Workforce Education and Development program at Penn State has been recognized consistently by U.S. News & World Report as being among the top three vocational education programs in the United States.
In 2014, Dr. William J. Rothwell, SPHR, RIDC, CPLP Fellow Professor, announced a new online Master of Professional Studies (M.P.S.) in Organization Development and Change (OD&C).
Rankings of Penn State's Workforce Education and Development program by U.S. News & World Report
2018 - Ranked No. 2
Professor In Charge
Hyung Joon Yoon
Professor In Charge, Associate Professor
310A Keller Building , University Park, PA, 16802
Interim Graduate Staff Assistant
Susan Berzonsky
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Q: Why is searching/evaluating an object column in a dataframe with 250milllion rows extremely slow? I have a dataframe of 235 million rows. One column in which is an object that has City names e.g) Chicago, Louxemburg etc.
When I do a simple pandas filter as:
result = data[(data['CITY'] == 'Louxemburg')]

It takes forever. More than 1.5 hrs.
And when i resort to DASK as follows:
ddask = dd.from_pandas(data, npartitions=15)
result = ddask[(ddask['CITY'] == 'Louxemburg')].compute(scheduler='processes')

It takes about 45 mins.
I really think a simple evaluation as such shouldnt be taking THIS long. Am I missing something ??

A: I am not sure how large your data is but based on what you shared, I believe you have an issue with your memory. There is a chance that no tool can help you if you need to load all the columns in each query. However, if you are planning to extract information from certain columns, Bodo is able to make your life much easier. Essentially, Bodo decreases memory usage by optimizing the sequential operations. For instance, Bodo frees up memory space by not loading the unused Parquet columns. You may find Bodo's installation instructions at this link: https://docs.bodo.ai/latest/source/install.html
I slightly modified your code and used three columns instead of all columns. Then, I ran your code with Pandas which took around 6 minutes to run. Your data must have been much larger than mine as it is taking more than 1.5 hr to run. To increase the performance and scalability of the code, I ran the same code using Bodo, which took less than 25 seconds.
Notes on data generation: I generated a large dataset with 10 columns and 235 million rows. Then, I added another column called CITY, which is randomly filled with 24 city names. To make the generated data heavier, the rows of two other columns have been replaced with CITY column content, then the data saved as a Parquet file.
#data generation

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import random

#making a 10 columns dataframe filled
df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(235000000, 10), columns = list('ABCDEFGHIJ'))

#making the City column filled randomly from 24 city names

df['CITY'] = df['J'].apply(lambda x: random.choice(['Chicago', 'Tokyo', 'Delhi', 'Cairo',
                                                       'Dhaka', 'Mumbai', 'Beijing', 'Osaka',
                                                       'Mexico City', 'Shanghai', 'Sao Paulo',
                                                       'Los angeles', 'Boston', 'San Diego', 'Louxemburg',
                                                       'Austin', 'London', 'Denver', 'Pittsburgh',
                                                       'Orlando', 'Memphis', 'Phoenix', 'Tehran']))

#replacing two columns with CITY column
df['H'] = df['CITY']
df['I'] = df['CITY']

df.to_parquet("data.pq")

With Pandas:
import time
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

start = time.time()
df = pd.read_parquet("data.pq")
df = df[['A','B','CITY']]
result = df.loc[df['CITY'] == 'Louxemburg']
end = time.time()
print("computation time: ", end - start)
print(result.head())

output:
computation time:  322.3528618812561
           A         B        CITY
1  -0.553538  1.214924  Louxemburg
16  1.191735  0.437258  Louxemburg
19 -0.973316 -0.220664  Louxemburg
27  0.481840  2.833082  Louxemburg
33  0.093671  0.142565  Louxemburg

With Bodo:
%%px
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import bodo
import time

@bodo.jit(distributed = ['df'])
def filter_data():
    start = time.time()
    df = pd.read_parquet("q3.pq")
    df = df[['A','B','CITY']]
    df = df.loc[df['CITY'] == 'Louxemburg']
    end = time.time()
    print("computation time: ", end - start)
    print(df.head())
    return df

df = filter_data()

output:
[stdout:0]
computation time:  24.971635405003326
           A         B        CITY
1  -0.553538  1.214924  Louxemburg
16  1.191735  0.437258  Louxemburg
19 -0.973316 -0.220664  Louxemburg
27  0.481840  2.833082  Louxemburg
33  0.093671  0.142565  Louxemburg

Disclaimer: I work as a data scientist advocate in Bodo.ai.

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Q. What are Tim's credentials (and why do they matter)?
A. Degrees: Tim has a Masters in Counseling/Sport Psychology, aMasters in Clinical Psychology, and a Doctorate in Counseling Psychology. This means he has engaged in rigorous studies and supervised training to develop a broad skills base and to meet your specific needs. He knows what the research says and how to apply it.
Licensures: Tim has been a licensed provider since 2007. He is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) in Maryland and Montana. This means that he's met academic and supervision requirements to demonstrate that he's equipped to treat mental health diagnoses. Licensure also means your insurance company will consider reimbursing you when you're seeing him for therapy/counseling (see more below).
Tim is also Board Certified in Biofeedback (BCB) with the Biofeedback Certification International Alliance (BCIA certifies individuals who meet education and training standards in biofeedback and progressively recertifies those who advance their knowledge through continuing education).
Q. What is biofeedback and when is it used?
A. Biofeedback is a way to see your physiological stress responses, typically on a computer screen, and learn how to influence them. There are many different modalities of biofeedback, that can be used to influence: heart rate variability, respiration, sweat, skin temperature, muscle tension, and even brain wave activity. Tim views biofeedback as one of many 'tools' at his disposal. He often uses it to teach stress management and to learn self-regulation for performance. If you have a particular interest in biofeedback, speak with Tim about that.
Q. What are ongoing meetings like?
A. Ongoing meetings usually happen weekly, are typically 55 minutes (or sometimes half that for mental performance coaching), and they're typically guided by you, the client. Tim may check in on themes or loose ends, and may be more directive with performance coaching, but typically the focus is up to you and it's okay not to have a plan before meeting.
Q. What is the 1st meeting like?
A. The 'intake' is about 1.5 hours long and is a chance for you to ask more questions, and Tim will give a quick verbal summary of forms (do your reading in advance though!), plus Tim will spend most of the meeting asking questions to gather a comprehensive picture of who you are and to start charting the path forward.
A. Usually folks check in with Tim first by phone first, to make sure he is a good fit, sharing the gist of what you want to work on, and asking any questions including financial ones. Then, you can complete registration information online, including biographical information and (if you're registering for therapy, not coaching) insurance information. Once registered, you should receive an automated email with Tim's forms. If you're doing therapy, the first part of the pdf applies to you, and you can print/sign p.8-9 to bring to the first meeting. If you're signing on for coaching, the second part applies and you can print/sign p.21-22. People usually set the first appointment time with Tim by phone or email, but then your login can be used again in the future to see the calendar and to schedule directly.
Q. What do I need to know about insurance?
A. Insurance only applies when we are talking about psychotherapy/counseling, and not for mental performance coaching. And, if work with Tim is primarily biofeedback, insurance likely won't cover that either. If you want to use insurance, keep in mind, that Tim is an out-of-network provider, meaning that he does not directly take insurance. However, he'll make it a little easier for you by submitting claims directly to your insurance for you (after you pay Reaching Ahead directly). If you call your insurance company to ask them about reimbursement rates, you can tell them that Dr. Tim Herzog is an out-of-network LCPC, who uses the following CPT codes: 90791 (for 1.5 hour intake); 90837 (for ongoing 55 minute sessions); 90876 (for biofeedback/psychotherapy, 55 minutes); and 90901 (for 'pure' biofeedback, which is rarely reimbursed).
Q. What is the difference between therapy/counseling and performance coaching?
A. You can think of the three on a continuum, and you could even add sport/fitness coaching to that continuum.
Psychotherapy is diving deeper, often not just understanding how the past affects you now, but also emotionally working through this difficult stuff. Counseling can overlap with therapy but is often very present focused, directive, and action-oriented. For simplicity, Tim lumps these approaches together and uses what feels most appropriate at the right time, and therapy/counseling is often insurance reimbursable. Mental performance coaching can include some light counseling to overcome barriers to performance, but it is often centered directly on learning mental skills for enhanced performance. Tim sometimes does mental performance coaching or mentoring by videoconference or phone. Sport or fitness coaching involves directly training physical or technical skills associated with performance, the stuff we typically think of as 'coaching'. As a former college coach, Tim knows sailing and can coach when that makes sense for sailing clients, but he doesn't know other sports to that degree.
For a deeper exploration, check out an academic article that Tim and his colleague, Dr. Kate Hays wrote on the topic: Therapist or Mental Skills Coach? How to Decide published in the Sports Psychologist.


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Spio Garbrah Too Old To Contest Flagbearer Position – Vanderpuye
Minister of Youth and Sports, Nii Lante Vanderpuye has said his colleague Minister for Trade and Industry, Dr Ekow Spio Garbrah is too advanced in age to qualify to contest the Flagbearer position of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for election 2020.
According to him, the NDC is not a party that entertains old persons leading the party as its Presidential candidate which is in sharp contrast with the practice of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Outgoing President Mahama led the NDC to a resounding defeat during the December 7 elections. While the NPP's Akufo-Addo won the popular votes in six regions, representing 53.85 of the total valid votes cast, President Mahama polled 44.40 percent.
Few days after the NDC's defeat, party stalwats begun proposing that the President be retained as the party's presidential candidate for the 2020 elections.
Persons such as the Ashanti Regional Minister and Deputy Minister of Power, Alexander Ackon and John Jinapor have publicly expressed their conviction that the NDC will be able to better organize itself for the 2020 elections with President Mahama as leader.
Some have said Hon. Spio Garbrah who once contested the NDC Flagbearership slot is still nursing a presidential ambition and will want to contest again to see if he'll be lucky to achieve his dream.
Speaking to Bola Ray on Starr Chat on Starr FM Wednesday, Hon. Nii Lante Vanderpuye who's also the Member of Parliament for Odododiodoo stated that Dr Ekow Spio Garbrah should he have any presidential ambition will remain a dream because the NDC will settle for a person younger in age.
"Age is not on his side, it's very important for us as a party that if were choosing a Presidential candidate we should look at who we choose. I think he's more than 60 years. With NDC we'll choose somebody who can be there for eight years. That's what we'll be looking at. "
Hon. Nii Lante Vanderpuye was confident the NDC will soon embark on a reorganization drive to energize the base of the party to ready it to wrestle power from the NPP come election 2020.
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I hope everyone had a great weekend. Just like this month, the weekend went by TOO fast. We have had SO much rain this month...so much. But, the last two days have been PERFECT!! Lot's of sunshine. We even went swimming today. My white legs nearly blinded everyone! Ha.
This month was kind of wonky, what with my Dad's surgery and all the stress involving that. While those days at the hospital seemed to drag on forever, I feel like the rest of the month happened while blinking. But, there were some bright spots...and I thought I would share some of my favorite "things" that I have been enjoying this past month.
NCIS. Y'all! Where have I been? I know this show has been on FOREVER. But, I just randomly caught an old rerun a few weeks ago...and I've been dvr'ing (that's a verb right?) every episode since then. I just adore this show!!
Rodan + Fields REDIFINE Multi-Function Eye Cream. Loving this. I have some serious dark circles and puffiness...not to mention some fine lines trying to pop up. I got this after seeing some positive reviews. So far? I love it. I've only been using it about 3 weeks...so I'll try to update again here in a month or two.
Jen Lancaster's I Regret Nothing. Not quite done with this one...but I've laughed so much. I always love her memoirs though. I HATE that I missed a chance to see her this month. She was doing a signing in Dallas, but we were at the hospital in Fort Worth. Anyway, so far it's really cute. I feel like we are kindred spirits...so I always get a kick out of her stuff!
Essie Mint Candy Apple. Such a fun color. I've had this for a while...but I'm really digging it here lately (on the toes).
Fitbit Flex. C got this for me at the very end of April. I LOOOOOVE it. It's a little shocking some days to see how very sedentary I am. I mean, I knew I wasn't running a marathon everyday...but I was SHOCKED at how few steps I normally get. Definitely challenges me to move around a bit more.
Burt's Bees Lip Balm. LOVE this stuff. I always love stuff with mint in the ingredients (I love the tingly feeling..ha). This has been a long time favorite for keeping my lips in check. If I'm not careful...my lips will get SO dry and peely. It's not cute.
So there ya have it....what I've been loving this month. What are your recent faves?


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WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today that applicants who have a pending affirmative asylum application with USCIS can now check the status of their applications online at uscis.gov/casestatus. Only asylum applicants with an application pending with USCIS will be able to use this new feature to check their case status online. It will not cover defensive asylum applicants whose cases are pending in immigration court.
Previously, asylum applicants could only check their case status through an asylum office in person or by phone, fax, or email. Non-governmental organizations and stakeholders within the legal community informed USCIS that asylum applicants have found this process is very difficult. Furthermore, giving asylum applicants the ability to check their case status online allows asylum office staff to better focus their resources on scheduling interviews and adjudicating pending cases.
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This vehicle continues performing to stay considerably not the same as this forerunner with the help of far better dimensions specifically in the particular thickness along with the elevation. The design of the vehicle could be more amazing since it is expected to be tremendously relying on concept 2020 Eyesight Gran Turismo along with toned bonnet not to mention piercing lighting. This particular Nissan GTR possesses 4 cuts. First is basics design to help keep any entrance-stage price reduced, the 2nd is actually a premium version showed within New York Auto Show, as well as the very last can be a performance monitor version with-out and even top quality version Nismo improvements.
Finding Nissan continually affords the ideal for its own buyers, it needs to be far better for that firm to provide the higher performance furthermore for the 2020 Nissan GTR in the future. You will notice it all through the seem which will grows more present-day coupled with advanced. All the interior design will likely look much more classy so that the surroundings from the vehicle could be quite definitely comfy. Airstream from the car is likewise very good so that you can indeed not have weak air flow although travelling the car. Considering that the auto is not merely excellent from the interior, let us look at more about its engine specs.
Nissan 2020 GTR is a lot more gas and also power efficient. The actual performance will likely be backed by hybrid technologies to hold it really is placement as the autos containing used continuously reducing edge-technological innovation. All the hybrid technological innovation is going to take the automobile on the higher-level associated with the group. The real reason for this particular hybrid modern technology installing merely is because Nissan desires to increase performance and its specific performance about the most up-to-date design.
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The newest Nissan GTR is usually expected to get started at the velocity of 150.000 $ to help 200.000 $. This can be an auto really worth the hang on in the long term.


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Cuneglas (Cuneglasus dans les textes latins, Cynlas dans les textes gallois) est un souverain du royaume gallois de Powys ou de Rhos (?) ayant vécu au .

Cuneglas et Gildas
Cuneglasus parfois surnommé également Cynlas Goch (« Cynlas le Rouge ») est l'un des cinq souverains de Bretagne que Gildas le Sage critique violemment dans son ouvrage De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, où il le dépeint comme un tyran débauché.
« Et toi Cuneglassus « boucher roux » dans la langue des Romains, pourquoi te roules-tu, et cela depuis les années de ta jeunesse, dans la vieille fange de tes ignominies, toi qui chevauches maintes montures et conduit le char de l'Etat de l'Ours, toi qui méprise Dieu et rabaisse sa puissance ? Pourquoi livrer un tel combat tant aux hommes qu'à Dieu, tes compatriotes avec les armes appropriées bien sûr, et à Dieu par tes crimes innombrables ? Pourquoi en plus de tes innombrables fautes, as-tu répudié ton épouse légitime ? Pourquoi malgré l'interdit de l'apôtre qui déclare que les adultères ne peuvent être citoyen du ciel lèves-tu les yeux avec toute la passion ou plutôt la débauche de ton cœur sur sa friponne de sœur ? Elle avait pourtant offert à Dieu par des vœux perpétuels, sa chasteté de veuve... »

Identification
Peter Bartrum l'identifie avec Cynlas: Cinglas map Eugein dant guin map Enniaun girt map Cuneda le fils de Owain Ddantgwyn et petit-fils de Einion Yrth ap Cunedda ce qui est possible si sa datation est correcte. Dans ce cas Cynlas n'appartient pas à la lignée principale du royaume de Powys mais sa descendance avec Caradog ap Meirion règnera sur le Gwynedd

Notes et références

Sources
  Mike Ashley The Mammoth Book of British Kings & Queens Robinson (Londres 1998)    « Cuneglasus Powys and Rhos (?) fl.530s. »152

  Ann Williams, Alfred P. Smyth & D.P Kirby A bibliographical dictionnary of Dark Age Britain Seaby (Londres 1991)  « Cuneglasus King fl. early sixth century » 93-94.

Monarque gallois du VIe siècle
Date de décès incertaine (VIe siècle)
Personnalité du haut Moyen Âge par nom
Noblesse galloise du haut Moyen Âge
Roi de Rhos

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The article examines the problems of gifted learners caused by lack of intellectual challenge in case of undifferentiated education in universities and difficulties in relationships with peers who have another system of values. It analyzes the honors programs in American universities which are aimed at solution of these problems. It identifies the elements of the programs, their effectiveness, influence on personal and professional growth of the gifted. Early entrance program (13–14 years) for gifted students is examined, the postponed results of its influence. The article identifies the main characteristics of the programs which can be used in Russian universities for fuller self-realisation of the gifted.
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Smirnov S. D. Psihologicheskie faktory uspeshnoj ucheby studentov vuza. Elektronnaja versija: www.psy.msu.ru/science/public/smirnovstudents.html ,2010.
Brody L. T., Muratori M. E. & Stanle J. C. Earlyentrance to college: Academic, social, and emotional considerations. In: N. Colangelo, S. G. Assouline,& M. U.M. Gross (Eds.) A nation deceived: How schools hold back America's brightest students. Iowa City, IA: The Connie Belin & Jacqueline N. Blank International Centre for Gifted Education and Talent Development, 2004.
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Hertzog Nancy. Impact of Gifted Programs from the Students' Perspectives // Gifted Child Quarterly.2003. Vol. 47.
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Wielkoszlemowy turniej tenisowy Wimbledon w 1946 rozegrano w dniach 24 czerwca – 5 lipca, na kortach londyńskiego All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.

Turnieje seniorskie

Gra pojedyncza mężczyzn

Gra pojedyncza kobiet

Gra podwójna mężczyzn
 Tom Brown /  Jack Kramer -  Geoff Brown /  Dinny Pails 6–4, 6–4, 6–2

Gra podwójna kobiet
 Louise Brough /  Margaret Osborne –  Pauline Betz /  Doris Hart 6–3, 2–6, 6–3

Gra mieszana
 Louise Brough /  Tom Brown –  Dorothy Cheney /  Geoff Brown 6–4, 6–4

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Wimbledon według lat
1946 w tenisie ziemnym
1946 w Wielkiej Brytanii


Burlington High School Principal's Blog: 10th Annual Exercise for Education – This Sunday!
10th Annual Exercise for Education – This Sunday!
MASSAGES, MUSIC and RACE WARM UPs! Lots of great vendors, activities and fun are to be had at BEF's Road Race on Sunday, May 18, 2014 at the Burlington High School, 123 Cambridge Street, Burlington, MA 01803. Come at 8AM to register and enjoy pre-race warm ups with Lucky13 Fitness, a chair massage from The Way Massage Therapy. Grab some Muscle Milk or take a turn on the Party Central inflatable bounce! Post race food supplied by Whole Foods.
This race day is filled with hundreds of runners, walkers and spectators. The certified 5K (through the streets of Burlington) is preceded by a ½ mile Family Fun Run on school property around Burlington High School. You don't want to miss this energized community event with music, vendors, prizes, free samples, and great family fun.
Teams or Groups of 10+ Save $5.00 each!
The 5K boasts tech shirts and the Family Fun Run includes an official cotton race shirt, guaranteed for pre-registered participants.T-shirt designed by BHS senior Jeff Turri (thanks to George Ratkevich, department chair and teacher at BHS, for once again coordinating student submissions for Race T-shirt designs).
Volunteer today and be entered to win a Gift Card!
We are seeking volunteers for the day. We typically have 50-60 helpers on race day. The shifts run from 8:00 am – 11:00 am with many being 1-2 hours (more if you like). All you need is a smile, we supply the t-shirt!
As an added benefit, Burlington High School students receive scholarship points with Adopt-A-Class, or Community service hours. Simply RSVP to Jean Golding at jeanbgolding@verizon.net and indicate any time constraints and we will reserve a spot in accordance with your time available.


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It's how Mandy Paavola Mua describes one of her greatest passions, even to the extent of claiming it as her third child. Prince George Dress Dreams is a relatively contemporary charity with a simple yet honorable objective. Every year, young girls from all levels of society miss their prom. Not due to lack of interest mind you, but simply from a lack of funds for accessories, makeup, or even a proper dress. Mandy's charity helps a variety of teenage girls in the community including those that are homeless, mothers, independent, or from very low-income families.
The procedure is quite simple—each girl is nominated by a member of the community. Mandy confirms with their school that the individual fits the criteria (graduating being one of them). A personal shopper then guides the graduate through a sea of lace, taffeta, and chiffon, "a rainbow of colors overwhelms the senses," Mandy says. A gown is discovered that fulfills a desire the girl may have. Shoes and accessories are added to the mix. Minor alterations are done. Personal care items are graciously accepted, and bags are filled with items that some of these girls only dream of. They are then sent off to hopefully the time of their lives.
And storage. Mandy could really use the space to display nearly 700 gowns.
Those wishing to know more, to volunteer or put forward a name should email Mandy at Pgdressdreams@yahoo.ca or check out the Prince George Dress Dreams website at princegeorgedressdreams.webs.com.


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Lemmy (49% Motherf**ker, 51% Son of a Bitch) – amerykański film dokumentalny z 2010 roku poświęcony brytyjskiemu muzykowi Lemmy'emu Kilmisterowi, liderowi formacji Motörhead. Premiera filmu odbyła się 15 marca 2010 roku w ramach festiwalu South by Southwest w Austin w Stanach Zjednoczonych.

Obraz został wyreżyserowany przez Grega Ollivera i Wesa Orshoskiego. W filmie wystąpili liczni przedstawiciele muzyki rockowej i heavymetalowej, wielbiciele oraz przyjaciele Kilmistera, m.in. tacy jak: Dave Grohl, Ozzy Osbourne, Lars Ulrich, Jason Newsted, Kirk Hammett, Robert Trujillo, James Hetfield, Duff McKagan, Slash oraz Alice Cooper. Ponadto w filmie wystąpili ówcześni członkowie Motörhead - Phil Campbell i Mikkey Dee.

Produkcja spotkała się z niejednoznacznym odbiorem wśród krytyków. W serwisie Metacritic obraz otrzymał 64. punkty na podstawie ośmiu recenzji. Redaktor serwisu Film.org.pl Tomasz Urbański we wstępie do swej recenzji napisał: "Twórcy filmu o wszystko mówiącym tytule postanowili zmierzyć się z żywą legendą. Chodzącą i wciąż aktywną ikoną muzyki rockowej. Właściwie nawet te słowa nie oddają w pełni statusu Lemmy'ego Kilmistera. Próbuje oddać to ta produkcja, mierząc się z trudnym zadaniem okiełznania absolutu. I wychodzi z tego obronną ręką".

24 stycznia 2011 roku nakładem E1 Entertainment film trafił do sprzedaży na płytach DVD i Blu-ray. Wideogram uzyskał status złotej płyty w Stanach Zjednoczonych, Niemczech, Wielkiej Brytanii i Francji.

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Amerykańskie filmy z 2010 roku
Amerykańskie filmy dokumentalne
Filmy dokumentalne o tematyce muzycznej


These cookies are so good! Its like mini gingerbread cakes.
I'm not even a big fan of pumpkin either, but all the flavours and spices work so well together.
Hi Sarah, What a great way to describe the cookies. I'll have to add that to the recipe description!
Thanks Janet. Glad you're enjoying the recipes.
Hi Bridget – I tried this recipe and it was a huge hit – everyone loved them. I substituted the spices in your recipe for 2 teaspoons of pumpkin spice and it worked perfectly. I will definitely make them again. Many thanks!!!!
Hi Karen, Thanks for the suggestion to use pumpkin pie spice. Great idea.


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Ubisoft introduces For Honor's Kensei | PowerUp!
Ubisoft has released a trailer for next year's For Honor which details the hack and slash's Kensei class.
The Kensei are masters of the martial arts and are prepared to die for their emperor and fellow warriors. The Kensei are all equipped with a nodachi (野太刀, field sword) which was used by the samurai class in feudal Japan.
For Honor will be available February 14, 2017 for PC, PS4 and Xbox One.


So it is with three charts and a picture, selected for the eye-opening perspective they offer. The first, in the black outlines favored by a Bloomberg Terminal, shows the fluctuating value of an ETF that is invested entirely in the largest stocks on the Mexican stock market (blue line) vs. the American S&P 500 (green line) since the beginning of this year.
You may remember that when President Donald Trump took office, with his tough talk about trade and his promise to scuttle the North American Free Trade Agreement for something more beneficial to U.S. interests, the conventional wisdom was that the Mexican economy would hit a rough patch and the tougher trade agreements would benefit the American economy.
The month of January, when the new President took office, saw Mexican shares drop on the dire expectation that NAFTA would be ripped up and the Mexican economy would groan under the weight of tariffs. But look what happened. When it became clear that the campaign "promise" was nothing more than empty boasting, the Mexican market has not only recovered; it has roared ahead of the U.S. over the first six months of the year.
So much for the conventional wisdom you were hearing from pundits and Wall Street stock touts.
The second chart illustrates another interesting point. You remember the great trauma that Americans experienced in the Great Recession of 2008-9, and you might be tempted to think that even in the depths of the Great Depression, people didn't have it any worse.
Au contraire! Take a look at the left side of the chart, where the darker line represents the remarkably steep decline in total economic output across the U.S. business sector over the 11 years from 1929 to 1940. You can see that the economy declined by a full 30%, and it took seven years before America had regained its former economic strength.
Still on the left side, notice the less bold line. That represents the decline in GDP experienced by American citizens in the Great Recession—and you can see that the decline never even reached 5%. Not only was the dip less traumatic, but the recovery was much faster, and the growth that is sometimes derided as "anemic" is at least steady.
The right side of the graph portrays the unemployment rate, again with the bolder line showing the experience of the Great Depression, and the pale line showing unemployment rates during the 2008-9 Great Recession. Once again, the people in the 1930s experienced a much tougher economy than anything more recent participants of our recession had to face.
So if you hear grandparents say that people had it a lot tougher in the 1930s than they did in that mild rainstorm we call the Great Recession, believe them.
Now let's look at the map of the U.S., which shows, in color contrast, the average weekly wages in each American state. The darker the color, the higher the wages; the highest are found in New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, Washington and California. In contrast, people in South Carolina, West Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico, South Dakota, Montana and Idaho have the lowest per capita income. What is interesting about the map is that except for Texas and Kansas, the color codings tend to look a lot like the political divide in the U.S. between red states (generally lighter colors on this map) and blue states (darker and tending to be toward the coasts. Can politics really be that simple?
Finally, take a look at the one-hundred-trillion dollar banknote issued by the troubled African nation of Zimbabwe. This is an example of what happens when a nation simply prints its currency in unlimited amounts in order to pay for its government activities. This bill was actually a replacement for pre-2006 Zimbabwean dollars, and was equal to a number of the previous currency so large that there isn't a name for it—a one with 27 zeros after it. Yet this new bill was soon worth a fraction of a U.S. penny.
You already know the lesson here: bad, inattentive or corrupt governments produce bad outcomes.


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We are developing a project for Disclosures which takes place between January and March 2008 at Gasworks.
An ongoing project to create a copyleft licensed 12 inch vinyl scratch tool or battle record containing a range of samples, beats and extracts made from the out-of-copyright 1920s and 30s blues, jazz and folk housed in the Open Music Archive. In the hands of a turntablist, the record player is revealed as a hardware instrument – one that needs vinyl software to operate. The DJ's instrument can only be activated using a set of vinyl tools, in the same way that computer hardware requires an operating system and a suite of software to function. Unlike the conventional battle record, which samples unlicensed commercial recordings, the new scratch tool will be assembled entirely from out-of-copyright material. The project adopts the form and structure of the battle record to build open vinyl code – which, like free/libre and open source software, is distributed freely.
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Heliamphora neblinae is a species of marsh pitcher plant endemic to Cerro de la Neblina, Cerro Aracamuni and Cerro Avispa in Venezuela. It is one of the most variable species in the genus and was once considered to be a variety of H. tatei. It is unclear whether or not there is a consensus regarding its status as a species, with at least a few researchers supporting the taxonomic revision that would elevate both H. tatei var. neblinae and H. tatei f. macdonaldae to full species status.

The pitchers of H. neblinae are some of the largest in the genus, occasionally exceeding 50 cm.

Infraspecific taxa

Heliamphora neblinae var. parva Maguire (1978) [=H. parva]
Heliamphora neblinae var. viridis Maguire (1978) [=H. parva]

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  Brewer-Carías, C. (September 1972).  Natura 48/49: 4–7.
  Brewer-Carías, C. (May 1973).  Defensa de la Naturaleza 2(6): 17–26.
  Brewer-Carías, C. (2011–2012). La Neblina: el tepuy más alto y remoto. Río Verde 6: 61–74.
  Brewer-Carías, C. (2012–2013).  Río Verde 9: 73–88.
 Jaffé, K., M.S. Blum, H.M. Fales, R.T. Mason & A. Cabrera (1995). On insect attractants from pitcher plants of the genus Heliamphora (Sarraceniaceae). Journal of Chemical Ecology 21(3): 379–384.
 McPherson, S. (2007). Pitcher Plants of the Americas. The McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, Blacksburg, Virginia.
 Nerz, J. & A. Wistuba (June 2000). Heliamphora hispida (Sarraceniaceae), a new species from Cerro Neblina, Brazil-Venezuela. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 29(2): 37–41.
 Nerz, J. (December 2004). Heliamphora elongata (Sarraceniaceae), a new species from Ilu-Tepui. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 33(4): 111–116.
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Volvo C40 Recharge, Fjord Blue
By Matt Myftiu |
Electric cars are no longer the vehicles of the future. They are the vehicles of today, with seemingly every new vehicle announcement focusing on a new EV.
Volvo is one brand leading the charge in the EV landscape, having announced publicly a goal of selling only electric vehicles by the year 2030.
Volvo's portfolio today includes the all-electric C40 Recharge – a compact crossover model that takes on competitors such as Ford's Mustang Mach-E, Volkswagen's ID.4, Audi's Q4 e-tron, Mercedes-Benz EQA, and Tesla's Model Y.
The C40 Recharge competes in a segment that focuses on offering extended range and luxury-light styling. Read on for a full breakdown of how it measures up.
Vehicle: 2022 Volvo C40 Recharge
Best feature: Powerful drive and acceleration, no gas station needed
Rating: 4 out of five stars
Who will want this vehicle?: Drivers seeking an stylish compact fully electric crossover
Courtesy of Volvo
The best way to describe the design of the 2022 Volvo C40 Recharge is that Volvo took its XC40 SUV and gave it a haircut, chopping the roof a bit and creating an attractive coupe-like design.
While mechanically and structurally it's quite similar to the larger XC40 Recharge, the C40 Recharge features a lower profile and both looks and drives more like a car than a crossover SUV. In both look and driving feel, the C40 Recharge has a futuristic vibe.
The design does have some drawbacks, though, as one downside directly related to this look is poor rear visibility out the back window. You also lose a couple inches of headroom for back seat passengers.
Standard features on the C40 Recharge include: Adaptive LED headlights that swivel as you turn the steering wheel, providing better lighting as you navigate curves; 20-inch wheels, a panoramic sunroof, and hands-free liftgate.
The vehicle weighs in at just over 4,800 pounds, and cargo capacity with all seats in place is just 14.5 cubic feet, a low number for the segment. My test vehicle also featured sharp 20-inch alloy wheels.
Volvo is skipping the leather seats in its electric lineup, but the C40's unique Nubuck/Microtech seating is still quite comfortable. Microtech is a suede-like material made from recycled polyester — fitting for a company focused on sustainability. Large, clear screens for driver information and infotainment are included.
Interior features include: Power-adjustable heated front seats, heated steering wheel, driver's seat memory, dual-zone automatic climate control, and heated rear seats. There are also several unique, illuminated trim panels throughout the C40.
The back seat is very small, and it's best if children or only smaller adults go in the rear of the vehicle. Beyond space issues, getting out of the rear seats will be more difficult for taller passengers due to the nature of the roofline.
A "frunk" can be found in the front of the C40, but won't hold much more than your charging cable. So it's not really an additional storage space.
HOW'S THE RIDE?
As a pure EV, the 2022 Volvo C40 Recharge features a 1-speed direct drive transmission.
Its power comes courtesy of a 78-kWh lithium ion high voltage battery, and power is sent to electric motors at both the front and rear of the vehicle. So in the end, you're piloting an all-wheel-drive crossover with impressive numbers of 402 horsepower and 486 pound-feet of torque.
The listed driving range on a full charge is 225 miles (more on that later).
One unique aspect of driving an EV is the level of absolute quiet you experience — you can hear a pin drop even after the vehicle has started running.
Also unique is that we've started to move beyond push-button start, as there isn't even a "start/stop" ignition button on the C40 Recharge. You literally just open the door, sit down, put the car into Drive and go. As long as the key fob is in the vehicle, the car will function. And when you stop the car, just put it in park and get out.
The other unique aspect is this vehicle offers one-pedal driving. Instead of hitting the brake to slow down, you just lift up from the accelerator and it slows down, all the way to a stop. I'll admit this was strange at first, but I got used to it, and this one-pedal drive helps with regenerative braking to add more juice to the car as you drive.
But how is the quality of the drive? Put simply, it's awesome.
The C40 Recharge features very fast acceleration and enjoyable handling characteristics, darting in and out of traffic with ease. It blasts from zero to 60 in a very respectable 4.5 seconds (faster than many rivals), and it does a great job on curvy roads.
The C40 Recharge is rated for up to 2,000 pounds of towing. It also features anti-lock brakes, hill start assist, and electric power-assisted steering.
TECHNOLOGY, SAFETY
The center of the tech system on the C40 Recharge is a 9-inch vertical touchscreen featuring a new Google-based infotainment system, which is replacing the previous Sensus system in Volvo vehicles.
The system offered responsive touch controls, and voice commands were mostly understood. My biggest issue with the system in my test vehicle was the navigation interface, which was quirky and didn't work as it should have in my experience.
The Google connections in this system include access to services including: Google Maps, Google Assistant, and the Google Play Store. And the system can receive over-the-air updates.
Other tech features include USB-C ports in front and rear of the vehicle, remote services including lock/unlock and climate pre-setting, and inductive smartphone charging. And of course you can stream audio and phone calls via Bluetooth.
A premium Harmon/Kardon stereo system is also offered, and Volvo's suite of driver-assistance systems includes its semi-automated driving technology, Pilot Assist.
Other safety features include adaptive cruise control, a 360-degree surround-view camera (very helpful in tight parking situations), LED headlights, blind spot system with rear cross traffic alert and steer assist, forward collision mitigation (including automatic braking), run-off road protection and mitigation, lane departure warning and lane keeping aid, a full complement of airbags, and front and rear park assist.
RANGE, CHARGING
The C40 Recharge earns a fuel economy rating of 87 MPGe combined (94 city/80 highway). Its charging time is 8 hours with a 240-volt charger, and you can charge much faster with public 150-kW fast-charging systems (You can go from 0 to 80 percent charge in 35 minutes).
Don't bother charging at home with a standard outlet. Even if you charge overnight, you'll only gain about 15 percent of the battery life.
The total range on the C40 Recharge is 225 miles, which is less than several of its key rivals. And for those in colder climates, be aware that your range will drop by about 30 miles if you are using the heat. And on the other side, depending on how you drive the vehicle, you may be able to push the total number up closer to 250 miles per full charge.
To put all this in real-world terms, for most people using the C40 for a daily commute, and maybe some errands around town, you will have plenty of juice to complete your daily duties, after which you can do a partial recharge each night (or every other night) at home or publicly to get back up to full capacity. The trickier part will be road trips, but if you can map out your charging points along the way, you can still make that work.
Average estimates to power up the C40 Recharge per month come to $87 per month.
The 2022 Volvo C40 Recharge I tested starts at $58,750. Adding in destination charge and a metallic paint job brought the total to $60,540.
This price is representative of some of the current struggles electric vehicles face, as it's definitely out of the acceptable price range for most people shopping for a new ride. Going forward, getting costs down will be key to the masses adopting EV technology.
Warranties on the C40 Recharge include a 48-month/50,000 mile limited warranty, unlimited mile corrosion protection, and Volvo's on-call roadside assistance. The battery warranty is 8 years/100,000 miles.
They also include 250 kW of DC Fast Charging with Electrify America, plus complimentary factory scheduled maintenance and wear coverage for the first 4 years or 50,000 miles.
The 2022 Volvo C40 Recharge is a well-designed, modern EV that's among the most fun vehicles I have tested in the past year. While the high price is a concern, the bold looks and powerful driving experience of the C40 are something I welcome and expect to see on future EV offerings from Volvo and others.
It's definitely worth considering if you are looking for a smaller EV that's stylish and powerful.
Matt Myftiu can be reached via email at matt@autotechreviews.com. His past reviews can all be seen online at autotechreviews.com. Follow AutoTechReviews on Instagram at @Autotechreviews.
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The current 5-second increase in the number of buffs seems to be an error. It is more efficient than the value shown. Only one weapon and armor can be worn. That would be up to two. The rating of the item is the same as that of the mule, but the performance gap is large.
The stamina charge time is between 6:12 and 18:00. I personally use a dragon for 24 hours, It is recommended that you use stamina before and after charging the stamina. There may be people who do not even know what to do when you first start. I think it can be divided into two types.
first. You can turn it on 24 hours, but it's hard to care, If you want to do this even though it is the least efficient, you can concentrate the dragon summoning and bite-wing. Rank is abandoned and platinum is the only way to acquire stones.
Second . Anyone who can care about anything anyway, Passive-driven, step-by-step, and the stamina charge time to consume.
Step by step, every five minutes, while mixing passive and active and balancing. You can consume stamina by consuming it according to the changes of the veins.
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VOLT 2018: Depeche Mode, Iron Maiden & Others
VOLT Festival 2018
VOLT Festival (28-30 June 2018) is another major event organized by Sziget Kulturális Menedzser Iroda Kft. (the company behind Sziget Festival). The event is organized in Sopron (one of the westernmost cities in Hungary) since 1993, initially as an Easter event, later - as its popularity has risen - as a summer festival opposite to Sziget. As its big brother, VOLT is also a multicultural event covering everything from a variety of musical styles to movie screenings, on-stage shows, exhibitions, and many others. And it has already revealed five of its biggest names for VOLT 2018: Depeche Mode (Day 0) Iron
New names tomorrow, maybe Iron Maiden?
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The Sziget Facebook pages are announcing new names for tomorrow, and a very persistent speculation in comments is Iron Maiden, with one of our friends claiming to know so. Could that happen, do you think? Who else do you think will be part of the announcement? We'll know for sure tomorrow, but that doesn't mean we can't keep on speculating…
Sziget 2013 line up speculations round one
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The same Fesztivalok Varosa that have found the latest batch of acts before they were officially announced also has a list of speculations for the Sziget 2013 line up, based on bands touring Europe and the area at the time of Sziget Festival 2013. How about we all give it a look and speculate around it even more, like we do every year? Some of these acts are, we think, very possible additions to the Sziget 2013 line up. Here it is, including the Sziget News readers' input (so keep coming back,as the list gets modified every half an hour or so).
Sziget 2010 video playlist by Apis 38
Szigetnews reader Apis 38 has sent us the full playlist of the videos he's made at Sziget Festival 2010. This is a very cool list, including videos from performances by a lot of the big names, including Muse, Iron Maiden, The Hives, Paradise Lost, Madness and many more. Check out these great videos below. Use the side arrows to cycle between videos.
Sziget 2010 over…
We're back from the fantastic week that Sziget 2010 was, and everything was fabulous, as always. Still under the spell of the exceptional Muse show last night, or the great Iron Maiden performance (even if we got the impression that there were some sound problems there). It's hard to even mention what our highlights were. We loved Monster Magnet, but also Danko Jones. We enjoyed Ska-P's energetic show, but also Chapelier Fou's beautiful music. And we loved the fact that there was something cool to see every time we went by the Blues Stage (including the incredible Hubert Tubbs). We wanna hear
Sziget Eddie
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Quite an interesting press release we received today from the Sziget Office. To anticipate Iron Maiden's performance at Sziget, Derek Riggs, creator of Maiden mascot Eddie, has made a special Sziget drawing for the cover of New Noise magazine. The image features Eddie withe the Hungarian Parliament as a hat, shouting "Sziget". See the large image here. We can't wait for the festival to start, either...
Iron Maiden: "The Final Frontier" teaser online
Iron Maiden, one of the headliners of this year's Sziget Festival, has released the "Final Frontier" teaser online recently. They also announce that the video will be available on July 13. These things are just to keep you busy until we meet in front of the main stage at the Maiden show. Until then, enjoy the teaser below.
The (almost) full Sziget 2010 schedule
The official Hungarian site lists an almost full schedule for this year's Sziget Festival. It also lists the whole listof acts for the Main Stage. We've updated our Sziget 2010 lineup page to include all the new dates and schedules. Feel free to check it out if you want.
Iron Maiden – album release date & free track download
Iron Maiden, one of this year's Sziget headliners, has announced the release date for their new record, "The Final Frontier". The new record will be out on Monday, August 16, just after their performance at the Sziget Main Stage. Also, the band have made the artwork of the new album available. You can see it below. Iron Maiden have also made a new track, off "The Final Frontier", available as a free download to their fans. It's called El Dorado and you can get it here (the server's a bit crowded...).
Iron Maiden – Sziget 2010's Saturday night act
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Iron Maiden has posted the Sziget 2010 date on their official website. According to the "Tour Dates" section on the Iron Maiden official site, they will play Sziget on August 14. This might be important news for people that only want to come to Sziget for the week-end. That's because they'll be the main act for this Sziget's Saturday night.


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Who did Petr Čech share the Golden Glove with? Who played when we knocked our Real Madrid? Be careful in your assumptions.
WHY ONE SHOULD BE CAREFUL WITH THE HISTORY
He screams out, so loud that Mike Dean comes to his house, sees him in an Arsenal shirt and give him a red card for a violent conduct.
by Josif
Some football clubs have a history book thicker and bigger than others. Some of those books are full of colourful pictures that, when put all together, make the big picture.
Imagine a rather young Arsenal supporter who was born in, say, 2005. He was born after The Invincibles and it is safe thing to say that, unless he is some sort of a genius like Mozart, he has been watching Arsenal only after the move from Highbury to Emirates.
Now, imagine him living a life of a supporter burdened with (justified or, more often, unjustified) cliches Arsenal supporters have been bombed with since our last league title. In order to avoid the grey shades of Present, he decides to make a trip to Past by reading The History Book of Arsenal. He has been told many times that Arsenal had been so much better during Highbury-era, that we haven't been good in big games since Vieira and Henry had gone etc.
Our little Arsenal supporter opens the book to go through some glorious moments from Highbury and finds a picture with a bold-written title:
ARSENAL – INTER 0:3 (THE JOINT BIGGEST EUROPEAN DEFEAT AT HOME)
"0:3?! At home?! To Inter that hadn't won Serie A for years?! This had to be the worst Arsenal team in Wenger's era!" he might have thought. "Who played this game? Maybe those crappy defenders Eboue, Senderos and Cygan I've heard about?"
And then, he gets shocked furthermore to see that happened during The Invincibles Season with all our best players on the pitch – Jens Lehmann with a performance that makes David Ospina's against Olympiacos a solid one, Sol Campbell who couldn't deal with Obafemi Martins (who would be a part of an ugly picture seven-and-half years later), Patrick Vieira aka The Beast in the middle of the pitch and both Thierry and Dennis leading our attack.
He gets a bit shocked that our best team ever didn't have the most successful of European campaigns. He wants to go further back and sees a page with statistics at which he notices a headline :
ARSENAL EUROPEAN RECORD: 12 games played, five victories, one draw, six defeats.
"Below 50 percent of victories in Europe? What a shitty team that had to be!"
Then he sees the title of the chapter:
ARSENAL FOOTBALL CLUB STATISTICS SEASON 2001-02
But…but…that team won the double!? How…? He is very confused and going through pictures of 2001-02 doesn't help him. He did know that Arsenal had won the league at Old Trafford but can't believe when he sees our team-sheet from the game. "Where are Robert Pires, Dennis Bergkamp and Thierry Henry?! How could we possibly win such a huge game without those three players?
It's becoming a rather frustrating for the young Arsenal supporter. He's becoming a bit suspicious about things he has read or been told over the years. He wants to see when those jokers Emmanuel Eboue and Phillippe Senderos played for Arsenal and turns page by page to find some of their appearances. He finds them. He screams out, so loud that Mike Dean comes to his house, sees him in an Arsenal shirt and give him a red card for a violent conduct.
The reason why our young supporter screamed is a page with these headlines:
REAL MADRID – ARSENAL 0:1
ARSENAL-REAL MADRID 0:0
The youngster reads our team-sheet
REAL MADRID?! The team wint Zidane, Ronaldo and Raul! Eboue and Senderos kept them at bay? Campbell and Cole didn't play! Flamini at left back.
Of course, our young Gooner stops with random reading and decides to forget everything he has been told in the last ten years. He did it just before he was about to realize a few interesting things about Arsenal in Wenger-era:
1.Since our last title we have had quite a few captains: Thierry Henry, William Gallas, Cesc Fabregas, Robin van Persie, Thomas Vermaelen and Mikel Arteta.
Both the most successful one in terms of final league points and the least successful one were born on the same day – 17th August 1977. The most successful one is, of course, William Gallas and the least successful one is Thierry Henry under whose captaincy Arsenal have collected the fewest points in Wenger-era (67 – 2005-06).
2.Much-praised Jürgen Klopp has an excellent record against Jose Mourinho (W3D1L1) and Manuel Pellegrini (W3D2), he is level with Louis Van Gaal (W2L2) and he still trails Arsene Wenger (W2D1L3).
3.The last time Petr Čech has won The Golden Glove, he had to share it with…Wojciech Not-Good-Enough Szczesny of Arsenal Can't Defend in 2013-14.
So, what is the point of all this?
The Book never stops writing itself. It may sound cliched but indeed, each day is a separate page that makes sense come May or, in some cases, years after. Therefore, don't skip pages as you might spoil everything to yourself.
From the anniversary files (full list of today's anniversaries on the home page)
16 January 1892: George Davie's first FA Cup match for Arsenal (Small Heath 1 Arsenal 5). He subsequently took Arsenal to court and won, and in so doing changed the way transfers worked for the next sixty years, instituting the notorious retain and transfer system which was eventually overturned by George Eastham.
16 January 1907: Arsenal 3 Grimsby Town 0 (FA Cup 1st round replay). Arsenal continued to the semi-final for the second successive year. Over 119,000 people came to the six cup games Arsenal played, helping the finances enormously.
Insult of the day (dedicated today to PGMO): You blunt monster with uncounted heads! (Henry IV part 2)
January 16th, 2016 | Category: Arsenal stories | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
8 comments to Who did Petr Čech share the Golden Glove with? Who played when we knocked our Real Madrid? Be careful in your assumptions.
Matt Clarke
Excellent piece – thank you Josif.
I hope that it can change some people's perspectives somewhat.
Hmmmm…great read.
Wonder how loud our young lad will scream on seeing Milan 0 2 Arsenal…with world class performances of two teenagers – Fabregas and Walcott.
Still a mystery how the Invincible team lost to average Chelsea at Highbury in the UCL while the team without the spine went ahead to play in the final two years later.
Brilliant 🙂
Very enjoyable article, Josif. The truth is often very interesting, when it gets told.
Coach Mike
And were you aware who Chelsea's coach was by that time? Of course the current coach of Leicester City FC, Claudio Ranieri. He took them to 2nd on the table top in the year of the invincible, he later departed to Italy after a lucrative offer to coach in the cocaine island. After his departure, Jose Mourinho came in, meeting a readymade team that consisted of a young John Terry, Frank Lampard,Makalele, Marseille Desaily, Celestine Babayaro etc. Mourinho took these same boys and won the premiership in 2004/05 season. Wow!!! Exclaimed everyone, the very first year of his appointment, as you know he love free gifts, and always love to save face a lot. No one knew his history that he couldn't and will never be a developmental coach who nurtures younger talents till maturity.
Then the shift became, Le Prof. Wenger has to devalue his assets in order to pay for the newly acquired Emirates stadium. He sold 90% of his Invincible squad members, by promoting his youth academy players for sustenance,between 2005-2008. Players the likes of Emmanuel. Cesc Fabregas, Theo Walcott, Alex Song, Abou Diaby, Robin Vanpersie, while adding a couple of France based players like Emmanuel. adebayor, Alex Song, Sami Nasri, Bacary Sagna, Gael Clitchy and fewer like Rosicky from Dortmund, Alexander Hleb, Sam Alladier, Edu, Nicolas Bendtner etc. They were not the world class players that we were having at that time, but were later passed by , with the emergence of more youth players. Not forgetting that we had Matthew Flamini, Kolo Toure.
This incident gave Alex Ferguson a notable rise in his career because he doesn't have to sell any player at that time, he kept Scholes, Giggs, Van dar ser, Van Nistel Roy, etc Imagine, only Mourinho and Man City was active in the rivalry market for 10years.
And now we all can see clearly, Just 2 world class players in 2years we are back in contention. 2 FA trophies in successions, top of the EPL. Now where is the world class and rich club Man city, Aguero, David Silva, Jesus Navas,Yaya Toure has gone on a tour,even De Broyne turns brown and red sometimes in the heat of the game, Sterling. Now we are confident world beaters because our youth products have come of age. Tomorrow will see a different approach against stoke city, they will get smoked on their own soil.
Till then Fellas.
Durodola Quadri Folarin
Wow. Best article I've read in years on Arsenal. Beautifully constructed.
Great stuff Josif
Brickfields Gunners
Very nice , Josif . I'm sure if that said kid were to go back in time to before the Wenger era , he'd find even more fine eye opening shit !


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