There are about 4,590 students graduating yearly from a Nursing degree program in California with 26 colleges and universities offering the major.
College students are going to pay prices around $20,998 and $345,008 in California to obtain their Nursing degree.
Starting salaries of $53,333 and mid-career salaries of $70,116 are normal for a Nursing graduate. View the rankings below to find out what college offers the very best degree program for Nursing students.
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It is hard to beat Azusa Pacific University if you wish to study Nursing. At Azusa Pacific University, nursing learners enjoy the benefit of a really focused program. Situated in Azusa, California, Azusa Pacific offers a comfortable, suburban atmosphere for young people.
Applicants shouldn't let affordability concerns prevent them from applying to Azusa Pacific University as 93.0% of undergraduates get some sort of financial aid. Azusa Pacific is dedicated to helping students succeed, as evidenced by its 51.2% four-year graduation rate. If you're interested in learning more, you will find every one of Azusa Pacific University's rankings here.
It's hard to find a better school than University of California - Los Angeles if you wish to pursue Nursing as a major. In addition to its bachelor's programs, University of California - Los Angeles offers graduate degrees in Nursing. Los Angeles, California is the perfect surrounding for college students who like the active city life.
Worried about student debt? (We don't blame you!) this school and its $23,423 annual net price may be a great match for you. This school does not require freshman students to live on-campus. For more info, look at college scorecard.
University of San Francisco is one of the finest schools in the United States for Nursing. In addition to its bachelor's programs, University of San Francisco offers graduate degrees in Nursing. Positioned in San Francisco, California, this college is a sound final choice for students who enjoy the joy of a substantial city.
In America, only 37.0% of students graduate on time. USFCA is way ahead of the pack on that mark with a 61.6% on-time graduation rate. 86.0% of freshmen return for their second year of school. For more info, check out the college scorecard.
Any student who is interested in Nursing has to look into Mount Saint Mary's University. Mount Saint Mary's University offers graduate degrees in nursing for those interested in an advanced degree. Situated in Los Angeles, California, this university is optimum for individuals who thrive in an urban setting.
Top quality education for veterans and military members has earned Mount Saint Mary's University top marks. 79.0% of first-year students come back for their second year. The scorecard provides a great summary of MSMU.
San Diego State University is among your best bets if you're planning on studying Nursing. Nursing majors from San Diego State University earn a boost of around 20.2% above the average earnings of nursing graduates. Looking for a big school? This college has more than 20,000 students on campus.
Around 55.0% of applicants send ACT scores, with the typical score in the 26 range. San Diego State University's rate of student loan default of 3.6% is considerably below the national average of 7.0%. Want to learn more about San Diego State University's campus? Have a virtual tour.
Point Loma Nazarene University is a great option for individuals interested in a Nursing major. Point Loma Nazarene University nursing students receive 10.1% more than the typical nursing student. The surrounding area of a significant urban center is tremendous for young people trying to find adequate chances for social networking, experience, and life.
Parents, you will be happy to find out Point Loma Nazarene University features a relatively low crime rate. With the diverse campus at PLNU, you will have plenty of opportunities to meet individuals from many backgrounds. The scorecard provides a good summary of Point Loma Nazarene University.
It is hard to find a better school than University of California - Irvine if you wish to study Nursing. University of California - Irvine nursing students receive 13.1% more than the standard nursing grad. With over 20,000 undergraduates, University of California - Irvine is among the largest schools in the nation.
You'll be able to meet others from many different ethnicities thanks to UC Irvine's diverse student body. You shouldn't be concerned about affording University of California - Irvine; 68.0% of their undergraduates obtain financial assistance. A virtual tour is a good way to find out more about University of California - Irvine.
It is hard to beat California State University - Long Beach if you wish to study Nursing. California State University - Long Beach offers graduate degrees in nursing for those interested in an advanced degree. Long Beach, California is the perfect surrounding for young people who get pleasure from the fast moving city life.
California State University - Long Beach does not require freshmen to live on-campus. The campus at California State University - Long Beach is extremely diverse and includes undergraduates from over 21 U.S. states and 47 nations around the world. A virtual tour may be a great way to explore California State University - Long Beach.
San Jose State University is a great option for individuals interested in a Nursing major. San Jose State University offers graduate degrees in nursing for those interested in an advanced degree. This school is among the largest schools in California.
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San Francisco State University is among your best bets if you're planning on studying Nursing. San Francisco State University offers graduate degrees in nursing for those interested in an advanced degree. With over 20,000 undergraduates, San Francisco State University is among the biggest schools in the U.S..
This institution features a superior freshman retention rate, with 80.0% of first-year students returning the next year. Worried about student loans? (We understand!) San Francisco State University and its $21,819 annual net price could be a good match for you. The scorecard provides a good overview of San Francisco State University.


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James Hamilton Paterson is an author of fiction and a poet. He is also an author of some splendid non-fiction on Egypt, the sea and deep sea exploration. Playing With Water is about his time spent on the island of Tiwarik in the Phillipines and his experiences there. James Hamilton Paterson is a one-off. A loner who does what he wants. But he does it brilliantly. Born on November 6, 1941 in London, Hamilton Paterson went to Windlesham House, Essex. He continued to go to Oxford. Following his work as a hospital orderly in St.Stephen's Hospital for a period of two years, Paterson got a job as a reporter with the New Statesman. He did this for five years, until 1974, when he landed the job of features editor for Nova magazine. From 1979 he has lived in the Philippines most of the year, somtimes spending time in Austria or Italy.
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The latest report from Cushman & Wakefield shows how the drop in oil prices since mid-2014 has impacted the world's major energy cities.
Chicago—While we all like to pay less for gas at the pumps, the drop in oil prices since mid-2014 has had a "profound impact on global office markets," according to a comprehensive new report from Cushman & Wakefield that assesses the fallout on each of the world's major energy cities and their office markets.
The 36-page Occupier Research Report, Oil: the Commodity We Love to Hate, states that oil prices are expected to remain below $60 per barrel through the end of next year and possibly below $70 per barrel through 2020. One of the main takeaways from a protracted low-oil scenario is that consumers and non-energy producing markets benefit, while oil-producing markets around the globe are facing pressures, some more intense than others.
In the United States, which provides 13.9 percent of global oil production and is set to surpass Saudi Arabia as the top-producing country, Houston and Oklahoma City are the top oil-centric markets. The energy industry accounts for between 13 and 17 percent of the economy in those cities. Since the drop in oil prices in 2014, they have had some of the highest office vacancy rates in the U.S. Those markets were hit hard because prior to the slowdown construction was booming to deal with increased demand. Unfortunately, new product hit the market after oil prices dropped and demand had slowed. Cities like Dallas and Denver, which have more diverse economies, have seen their office markets hold up much better.
Canada, which provides 4.8 percent of the global oil production, has also been hit hard by energy sector job losses and office vacancy increases, particularly in the Alberta province. Alberta is responsible for nearly 80 percent of the nation's energy output and so the sustained low oil prices have hurt many of the cities, including Calgary. The CBD office sector in Calgary has seen 4.3 million square feet of space returned to the market.
"Prior to the oil price bust, Calgary boasted the highest 15-year CBD office growth rate in the country, with 750,000 square feet absorbed per year. With 2.7 million square feet of new developments underway, the availability rate in Calgary's premium class A CBD buildings is projected to reach around 27.5 percent by late 2017," the report notes.
Latin America, which provides 11.2 percent of global oil production, has had different impacts because of the varied political structures and economic conditions among the countries. Similar to the U.S., those cities that rely heavily on energy for their economies have been hit harder than those with more diverse economies. Caracas, Venezuela, has an office market that is highly influenced by the oil industry, compared to Mexico City and Bogota, Colombia, which have not seen as much impact on their office markets.
"Caracas, however, sits apart as its economy is dominated by oil. The negative impact of low oil prices on this city's office market has been compounded by the catastrophic mismanagement of the overall economy in Venezuela," the report stated.
In Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), demand for office space by the energy sector is likely to fall in cities that are more driven by the oil industry.
Moscow, for example, has seen office rents fall by almost a third year-over-year and office leasing and rental growth are also expected to be down in 2017.
Markets in the Asia-Pacific region have also mostly benefited from the lower oil prices, the report found.
"The filtering down of lower oil prices to lower food and fuel prices has subdued inflationary pleasures, boosted consumer spending, and given Asian central banks greater scope for monetary easing," stated David Jones, international director of global occupier services for C&W.
Office space in cities like Singapore has hardly been affected because energy companies are not large occupiers. But Perth, Australia, has seen its office vacancy rate increase to 17.2 percent from 15.2 percent, much of it blamed on the oil slump.
In China, job growth slowed sharply in cities like Dalian and Tianjin, but still remained positive. Other cities like Shanghai that aren't energy-focused have benefited from the effects of cheaper oil and many companies are growing. The report notes "substantial office supply" is expected to come online with the next two and a half years leading to an increase in space availability in some oil-centric markets.


Smart door locks from Yale allow secure and keyless access to 1,700 state-of-the-art homes in Istanbul.
Galaxy Macau, a world-class resort destination in Macau, has selected a range of electromechanical solutions from ASSA ABLOY Hong Kong to secure its premises.
ASSA ABLOY Hospitality provided a flexible wireless security solution for the hotel floors and independent office floors at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel Berlin.
Prague's most exclusive hotel, a single suite of 6-star quality located in the city's tallest building, has been secured with radio-frequency identification (RFID) hotel security products supplied by ASSA ABLOY Hospitality.
Clarion Hotel Post chose VingCard Signature RFID for its system for hotel doors. Guests simply hold a contactless key card up to the door to open it.
The Waterfront Congress Centre is Sweden's newest and most versatile venue for large scale meetings and events – and when choosing locks and security solutions, flexibility and convenience were top priority.
ASSA ABLOY Hospitality supplied an entry system for US-based Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide that enables guests to use their smartphones and smart devices as room keys.
Each winter, huge blocks of ice are harvested from Sweden's Torne River to build ICEHOTEL, one of northern Europe's top visitor attractions. ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems had the unusual task of providing a solution that would be installed into the ice.


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import org.apache.spark.network.client.RpcResponseCallback;
import org.apache.spark.network.client.StreamCallbackWithID;
import org.apache.spark.network.client.TransportClient;

/**
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public abstract class AbstractAuthRpcHandler extends RpcHandler {
  /** RpcHandler we will delegate to for authenticated connections. */
  private final RpcHandler delegate;

  private boolean isAuthenticated;

  protected AbstractAuthRpcHandler(RpcHandler delegate) {
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  /**
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  public final void receive(TransportClient client, ByteBuffer message) {
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      delegate.receive(client, message);
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  }

  @Override
  public final StreamCallbackWithID receiveStream(
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  public void channelInactive(TransportClient client) {
    delegate.channelInactive(client);
  }

  @Override
  public void exceptionCaught(Throwable cause, TransportClient client) {
    delegate.exceptionCaught(cause, client);
  }

  public boolean isAuthenticated() {
    return isAuthenticated;
  }
}

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So what will happen to me if I don't file a return or contact the IRS?
The IRS will file a substitute return for you. But this return is based only on information the IRS has from other sources. Thus, if the IRS prepares this substitute return, it will not include any additional exemptions or expenses you may be entitled to and may overstate your real tax liability.
Once the tax is assessed the IRS will start the collection process, which can include placing a levy on wages or bank accounts or filing a federal tax lien against your property.
Even if the IRS has already filed a substitute return, it still makes sense for you to file your own return to make sure you take advantage of all the exemptions, credits, and deductions you are allowed. The IRS will generally adjust your account to reflect the correct figures.
Whatever you do, don't delay. It can cost you money.
You stand to lose social security benefits on income from self-employment. The Social Security Administration relies on information from your filed tax return to calculate social security benefits. For your income to be reported to the Social Security Administration, you must file a tax return.
These are important practical reasons for filing your return: Copies of filed tax returns must be submitted to financial institutions, mortgage lenders/brokers, etc. whenever you want to buy or refinance a home, get a loan for a business, or apply for federal aid for higher education.
If you have back returns, such as multiple year unfiled returns, you are at risk for these SFR returns ensuing. You will then be in the collection process. Ignoring back tax problems and unfiled tax returns will likely lead to IRS tax problems that do not go away on their own.
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7/7 - 10am-1pm Screenprint & Letterpress: Flora/Fauna — Bay View Printing Co.
This one day workshop includes both screenprinting and letterpress printing!
Make a sweet print for yourself, or other nature lovers. We'll provide a variety of screens for you to choose from, ink, instruction and paper; you provide the creativity and any snacks and beverages you may want to enjoy while you're here. In the first part of this class, attendees will screen print native Wisconsin plants, trees or flowers using pre-burned screens. Then we'll head to our letterpress space to design and set your wood type to print on top of the first image.
Class size is limited to 9 people.


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TV: Is Kris Jenner a Bad Mother?
By Scarlett Harris ¶ Posted in TV	¶ Tagged Bruce Jenner, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Khloe & Lamar, Khloe Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Lamar Odom, Scott Disick	¶ 5 Comments
She's constantly on Khloe for her weight, Kim to prioritise her money-making appearances with family and love, and Kourtney to get married before she has another child. Not to mention that she neglects, according to them, Kendall and Kylie in favour of her older daughters.
But is Kris Jenner a bad mother because of this?
One could argue that she spent her former days of motherhood raising her six kids (not to mention Bruce's four other children from previous marriages), and is rewarded by earning 10% from their business endeavours.
But some of the things Kris says and does arguably aren't in the best interests of the wellbeing of her children. Or is that just how they choose to portray her on the show?
In the first season of Khloe & Lamar, Kris berates Khloe for her size (in the same episode that Lamar calls her "not small" in Playboy magazine), saying it's not cohesive with her other sisters' frames, nor with QuickTrim, the diet supplement the Kardashian sisters promote. In other episodes of the Keeping Up with the Kardashians franchise, Kris is on Khloe's back to have a baby. After all, she has been married for two years (who would have thought that would last?!) and is relatively young, so it shouldn't be that hard, right?
Kris also doesn't approve of Kourtney's boyfriend and baby daddy Scott Disick, and in earlier seasons of the show, who could blame her? But even after Scott made a 180° turnaround in his behaviour after son Mason was born, Kris still can't accept him.
Kim, the head moneymaker of the Kardashian cklan, can usually never put a foot wrong in her mother's eyes, but every now and then Kris will get upset with her for being so uptight. So do her sisters, for that matter.
But, in the latest season of Keeping up with the Kardashians, Bruce surprises Kris and the family with a trip to Bora Bora to celebrate the couple's twentieth anniversary. The tables are turned from Khloe's weight woes to Kris', as she worries about her body and even contemplates surgery before they go away.
Kris asks how she's supposed to strut around poolside in a bikini, when all of her young, hot daughters are, too? When I heard this, I wanted to throw up in my mouth a little bit. If anyone had any doubts about Kris being a "stage mum" of sorts, I think the proof is in the pudding (pardon the pun) here, as she's jealous of her children.
I'm not a mother, so I don't know if this is a common occurrence, but mothers should be proud of their daughters, not envious. And it's not healthy for mothers to talk down about their own weight and appearance at the risk of passing that attitude on to their children. At the end of the day, she helped make them the way they are, and she should be proud they're so successful.
It's a peek into the insecurities she perhaps projects onto Khloe. I know my mum and I have clashed because of our similar traits.
If you've ever watched an episode of the show, you'll see each 20-minute installment is wrapped up nicely by the time it comes to an end. Like Beverly Hills, 90210, each episode has a message, and everyone learns their lesson and it's all hunky-dory at its culmination. Khloe realises she has nothing wrong with her body, and she'll become pregnant sooner or later. Kim realises she needs to loosen up and, incidentally, her new husband, Kris Humphries, helps her do that.
But does the neat little package the Kardashians' antics are tied up into mean that Kris's overbearing and insensitive nature is just for show, or edited from an even more tyrannical version of herself?
Elsewhere: [Jezebel] Is Kris Kardashian Just a Glorified Pimp?
[Jezebel] Kris Jenner, Momager Extraordinaire, Has Body Issues Too.
Image via Celebuzz.
5 thoughts on "TV: Is Kris Jenner a Bad Mother?"
Japandaman says:
Hate Scott with a passion, would love to win a couple of rounds with him with the gloves one. Worst role model!
Mary Lou Baertschi says:
SHE MAKES BRUCE JENNER, ALL HER KIDS, AND HERSELF LOOK LIKE FOOLS! WISH THEY WOULD ALL GET OFF TV AND WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO ENDURE THEIR FACES EVERYWHERE. WHO REALLY CARES?????
PEOPLE WHO SAY NEGATIVE THINGS ABOUT SOMEONE NEED TO TAKE A LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND LOOK AT THEMSELVES. IF WE WERE ALL PERFECT WHO WOULD THEY HAVE TO TALK ABOUT?
YOU'RE A GREAT MOM KRIS!!!!
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ROL'SMellissa K. Holt and Alana M. Vivolo-Kantor et al (2015) conducted a meta analysis to understand the relationship between suicidal behaviors and bullying. Database from a variety of online portals and references of articles was obtained to establish a cross sectional analysis. The findings revealed that each of the predictors were connected with the risk of suicidal ideation and associated harmful behaviors(after making moderations). The conclusion suggested that implications should be made for preventing such outcomes that are a consequence of bullying.
mitch Van Geel, Paul Veddar and Jenny Tanilon et al 2014, conducted a research to understand the relationship between "peer victimization, cyber bullying and suicidal tendencies in youth." Victimization of peers included various aspects like continuous persecution, misuse of authority and power, and done with an intent to harm the victim. This type of victimization was found to be related to both suicidal thoughts as well as attempts to take one's life.Gianluca Gini and Dorothy L.
Espelage et al 2014 did a study to recognize the relationship between risk of suicide from cyber bullying and victimization on peers. The technological aspects of cyber bullying were considered to calculate the impact on the individual's cognition and consciousness. It was found that incessant and relentless actions of cyber bullying can have long term and damaging impacts on the individual.Charisse L. Nixon et al (2014) conducted a study to find out the effects of cyber bullying on the health and well being of teenagers and youth.
A bunch of studies were referred and reviewed to understand the concepts and impacts of the "virtual" type of bullying that is prevalent now a days. Depressive and somatic symptoms, suicidal thoughts, self esteem and self harm issues were commonly found in the victims of cyber bullying. The offender or bullies were found to have high levels of aggression, substance abuse instances, and rebellious behavior. The researcher stressed that a higher and more deeper level of study is required on this topic to intervene in and furthermore prevent the ills of this form of bullying.
Gary W. Schroeder et al (2014), did a research to critically analyze and review the influence of cyber bullying among the youth. He hypothesized that even though the literature and amount of studies on this topic were increasing the theoretical backing of such studies and researches was not strong enough (or even nonexistent in a few).
He used the "general aggression model" to establish a relationship between aggression as a factor of cyber bullying. Additionally he also studied the correlation between traditional and technological forms of bullying and discovered that there was a solid relationship between stress and suicidal ideation and cyber bully victims.Christopher B. Davidson et al (2014), discussed and reviewed the literature in the field of cyber bullying and researches conducted in the above domain.
This study included and considered mental, social, physical, and socio economic perspectives as well as causality factors. Suggestions were made by the author to identify and shelter users from cyber bullying. To achieve this goal; teachers, parents, and members of society need to be vigilant and aware of the harms that are associated with cyber bullying as this will in turn help the community control the situation especially in the phase of increased use of social media.
M. Catherine Cappadocia et al (2013), studied the phenomena of cyber bullying using longitudinal information and data. The prevalence of cyber bullying and victimization and its accompanied risk factors were studied in approximately 2000 adolescents. The result concluded that risk factors connected with cyber bullying included frequent emergence of antisocial behaviors and simultaneously a decrease in peer friendly and pro social behaviors.
This research also divided its finding nd implications on the basis of gender.Brett J. Litwiller et al (2013) performed a study to understand the role of violent behavior, unsafe sexual acts and substance abuse along with cyber bullying in the suicide of youngsters(specifically adolescents).
New means of bullying through technology were taken as the main samples to analyze the impact of cyber bullying and its various manifestations. The findings of the study showed that these forms of behaviors associated with cyber bullying lead to suicidal tendencies. These behaviors acting as mediators as well as risk behaviors led to increase in suicidal behaviors too.Robin M. Kowalski and Susan P. Limber et al (2012), did a study to find out if there was any link between cyber as well a traditional bullying and its effects on the physical, mental and educational aspects of an individual's overall personality.
For this purpose the subjects were divided onto four subgroups based on various parameters to carry out the tests. It was later found that subjects who were victims of cyber bullying scored negatively on the above dimensions. It meant that the impact of bullying was scientifically proven to be detrimental for an individual's mental, physical and emotional heath.Sheri Bauman, Russell B. Toomey and, Jenny L.
Walker et al (2012) did a study to determine the connection between suicidal ideation, depression, peer victimization and bullying in high school students. The results revealed that depression was a mediator between offenders and victims but its level and magnitude was varied in individuals of both genders. The findings of the research helps us understand that more emphasis is needed to be put on intervention programmes related to the above mention topics specially in case of middle and high school students.
David D. Luxton et al (2011) investigated the increased amount of evidence there was in favor of the fact that suicidal behavior and social media bullying are interrelated. He studied how such a vicious system of bullies and victims affect the public and how forms of public health approaches can be useful in controlling and addressing the problem. The impact of social medial on suicidal behavior was evaluated on both positive and negative bases. Intervention and prevention programmes were formed after looking into all these dimensions.Katerina Sameer Hinduja and Justin W.
Patchin et al (2010), conducted a research to find out the correlation between suicidal thoughts and various forms of bullying; taking cyber bullying as a major factor. In this cyber bullying was considered as a non conventional form of aggression, from and towards peers. It was found that suicidal ideation was more prevalent in victims as well as bullies that have used cyber bullying as a medium as compare to those who haven't experienced or enforced such form of aggression.
Scottye J. Cash et al (2010), carried out an empirical research to understand the variables underlying suicide in youth and associated behavior. The purpose of the analysis was that suicide, which is a major cause of death in the U.S population, is turning into a community health problem globally.
The recent findings and results clearly portrayed the major causes of of suicide a few of which were "bullying, internet use, psychopathology etc." which were divided into gender specific categories on the basis of the risk of suicide.
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Companies has opened a new soap factory in Tanzania, in a bid to widen its regional market niche.
By Ricks Kayizzi MUKWANO Group of Companies has opened a new soap factory in Tanzania, in a bid to widen its regional market niche.
Alykhan Karimali (right), the Mukwano Group managing director, said last week the new Dar es Salaam factory is producing soap and edible oil.
"Ugandan manufactured products are at a disadvantage, even as we move into the East African customs Union. We are mainly infant industries, and can be easily swallowed up in a wider market," he said in an interview.
He said that the company has charted out a strategy to popularise its products in the region, by opening up as many new manufacturing points as possible.
Karimali said that by June 2004, their Kenyan subsidiary in Mombasa, would also have opened up its doors to cater for Kenyan consumers.
Turning to the domestic scene, he said Mukwano Group have strived to produce good quality and competitive products, at the right prices, so that all Ugandans should be able to afford them.


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What the hell is Lantan?
An island full of Tinker-like gnomes, or so, and "technology". It is pretty much irrelevant in the overall plot of the Realms, but it seems it has fans.
Unless the technology literally can't function anywhere off this island, it absolutely wouldn't be irrelevant. Our entire universe was transformed by technology. If it works on the Realms, there won't be any Realms anymore; it'll turn into a steampunk setting with no trace of fantasy cliches, faster than the Iphone took over our planet.
I think the same, but Lantan isn't prominent in the canon Realms, and the Lantanese aren't relevant despite their technology.
AFAIK, the priesthood of Gond has this technology controlled. The Lantanese had ablot of marvelous stuff, but people only knew about their small clockwork items. Gond seems to have technology downplayed in the Realms as well, as, for instance, powder is pretty much useless in the Realms due to something in the ambient.
Also, Lantan was destroyed during the Spellplague, and while 5e says Lantan survived, most of their technology was lost.
I've always thought it would make for a good place for a Gnomish Sidewheeler, from Krynnspace to visit.
I've also thought that Lantan would make a good place for some of the non-Dragonlance gnomes in Spelljammer (and specifically Realmspace) to originate from.
We have had technology in the real-world for ages without it turning the real-world into a steampunk setting.
The Antikythera mechanism is the sort of thing that Lantanese gnomes would have built if they were on our world. It was lost in the sea and only rediscovered in 1900. It never went into mass production and people have been trying to figure out exactly how it works for ages.
We have had other mechanical devices, like orreries for hundreds of years. How many people have you met who actually own something like this? Most of these things are in museums or owned by rich people.
We also know that, even in more recent times, it was very difficult to build things like difference engines. Charles Babbage was never able to finish his Analytical Engine. I actually saw a documentary about it and the British Government refused to fund it, as it was far too expensive to build.
Something like an iPhone would be useless as a communication device in the Realms if you didn't have the telephone masts to back it up and the internal abilities of the phone would only work for as long as you could keep the thing charged. Once the battery drained, it would be totally useless. So, take that back to a Lantanese device in Faerûn and you have something that may well be awesome, but if it gets bashed, it becomes junk.
If you have owned a mechanical clock in your life, you must have had one jam up, need winding up or break. That sort of thing would happen to Lantanese devices discovered in treasure hordes.
I've seen old station clocks with keyholes in the front, where a winding key was inserted (presumably by someone standing on a ladder) to wind the clock. So you need someone with skills (maybe not major skills) to keep these things operating normally.
The bottom line is that this stuff would not radically transform the Realms...because it didn't. If Lantan was supposed to have just discovered this stuff, and the gnomes were aggressive traders who were happy to let other people steal their ideas, maybe you could suggest that it would spread. But Lantan is not new.
However, if you want to see a campaign setting that does play with this sort of trope, I suggest you look to Eberron. The Dragonmarked Houses put out low-level magic items and mundane items on an industrial scale there. They have telecommunications, shipping and healing taken over by Dragonmarked houses.
And if the idea of Lantan growing in power appeals to you, maybe you could look at ways to use ideas from Eberron's Dragonmarked Houses and maybe also Thayan Enclaves to build some communities of gnomes that can start to spread the ideas of Lantan that you would like to see change a Forgotten Realms campaign into something more steampunkish.
But, I think you would need to explain why the gnomes of Lantan would give up their hard-won industrial secrets, if you wanted to have other races building similar stuff.
But seriously, we don't have magic. Technology would affect a world that has magic somewhat differently than it did our universe, but it unquestionably would affect it. Technology is reliably reproducible and can be mass-produced; magic allows you to miraculously overcome the limitations of technology. Get both of them working, and the results are going to be reliably insane. You're not going to end up with the same kind of medieval cliches as in the classic Realms (again, unless Lantan's technology only works on that island, because of some sort of non-portable phlebotinum).
Because they have very little practical value. On the other hand, how many people own flashlights? How gigantic would the effect on any classic D&D world be if *you didn't need torches any more*, didn't need to buy lamp oil and flint/steel, never had to pay 100 GP or whatever for an Everburning Torch.
It'd still be a massively transformational effect. If you could get a device on Lantan that broke all the rules of normal D&D effectiveness - let's say that it lets anybody make multiple attacks as a standard action, one of the biggest issues in 3E rules - then even if it broke five minutes after you arrived, you'd spend the rest of your life trying to arrange more expeditions to Lantan, with the objective of trading with them, or plundering and enslaving them, or anything in between.
Now, I'd be very much behind getting into a D&D setting that had this kind of 18th-century tech as commonplace (similar to, but distinct from, Eberron). But all of this wouldn't be Forgotten Realms anymore, it'd be something similar to a game whose exact title I can't recall, but which has the subtitle "Of Steamworks and Magic Obscura" or something to that effect, which is what I was trying to reference with the steampunk thing earlier. It would be a fascinating world, but Drizz't and Elminster wouldn't recognize it as their homeland.
However, if you want to see a campaign setting that does play with this sort of trope, I suggest you look to Eberron.
The moment knowledge of this place reaches the mainland, an arms race begins. Industrial espionage is big business; when the stakes are that high, bad people are going to take the gloves off. The gnomes might be able to keep their secrets, but they'd have to work for it. They'd be captured and tortured, they'd have 30th-level thief-acrobats pillaging their vaults or eavesdropping on their workshops...the resources that the rest of the world could marshal toward this objective far exceed what Lantan itself would have to defend, even with their miracletech.
Indeed Lantan should have influenced the Realms much. The reference you were thinking of is the Arcanum videogame: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcanum:_ ... ck_Obscura which shows indeed a fantasy world where technology is developing fast.
In the RW too people tried to control or limit technology in many ways from the Renaissance to the XIX century. Eventually all such efforts failed, but some were effective for limited times, hence a Church like Gond trying to limit or control tech could be effective, at least for a while, but tech will spread eventually in the turn of 2-3 centuries.
I thought the name might be some variant of Arcana, but I wasn't sure.


After having clinched its first winning season of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference era with last week's win, Tiffin University will look to build on it this week against struggling Lake Erie.
While the Dragons are enjoying one of their best seasons, Lake Erie comes into this game having lost nine straight games to start the season. The Storm lost their first game of the season to Northern Michigan, 38-35.
Since then, they've been blown out by every opponent, losing every subsequent contest by at least 30 points.
Lake Erie also has gone through a midseason coaching change, as Mark McNellie, the first coach in program history, resigned last month; he was replaced on an interim basis by Gerald Hazzard.Despite that, Tiffin University coach Gary Goff isn't considering the game a walk through.
Goff said what makes the Storm different is the number of formations they run on both sides of the ball.Goff compared it to going up against Malone a few years ago.
Those games against the Pioneers were difficult for the Dragons.Of course, Tiffin is much better than it was a few years ago.
Goff said the Dragons will need to be smart and under control.
Tiffin ran the ball plenty against Northwood a week ago. Goff said that wasn't by design; rather, it was a result of what the Timberwolves were giving TU.
Goff said the goal is to get receivers Charles Holland and Jordan Nobles involved, as well as the running backs.
On defense, Goff said the Dragons have to be ready against the Storm. Even though Lake Erie hasn't scored a good deal of points, it is able to move the ball down the field.
Lake Erie quarterback John Banyasez leads the way with 1,261 passing yards and seven TD passes. Running back Desmon Turner has run for more than 300 yards.
"Anytime you move the ball like that, you've always got a chance to score," Goff said. "Defensively (we've) got to prevent them from having the big plays. Their quarterback's dangerous; he's a pretty good runner. He's an effective passer. They've got a couple of wideouts who have some pretty good speed. They put you in a lot of conflicts. They like to spread you out, run the ball inside the tackles and then run jet sweep at you, but play-action pass off it, and do a lot of different things.
Kickoff is at 1 p.m. in Painsville.


Prospects are a little brighter for thousands of children who have gone back to school with their friends.
After a profoundly stressful event like Cyclone Pam it's important to get children back to learning and playing as soon as possible. Every day that children are left on the streets is another day of vulnerability and missed opportunity.
Many schools in Vanuatu have been badly damaged or completely destroyed and it will take months to rebuild, but UNICEF is helping students into temporary learning spaces right now.
On Efate Island, St. Joseph's Primary School was first to open in a UNICEF tent stocked with the vital materials teachers and students need to start learning again.
12-year-old Ellen is finally smiling again after seeing Cyclone Pam's disturbing impact. "When we got to the garden after the storm we saw the birds were all dead. The wind had killed them," she remembers.
Now Damasen has a chance to start playing with his friends again and to start putting the events of Cyclone Pam behind him.
Most children found their school gear was washed away or destroyed by flooding and the harsh reality is that many parents just can't afford to buy new supplies. UNICEF is distributing thousands of schoolbags filled with the exercise books, pencils and other basics that every student deserves.
To reach children in an emergency like Cyclone Pam as soon as they need us, UNICEF needs to be ready to launch an emergency response without delay. You can help give our teams the medical, hygiene and water supplies they need to take action and save children's lives.
Donate now to help UNICEF reach children where the need is greatest.


A newly released PC version of IonFX's award-winning mobile game, Obulis. An addicting puzzle type game perfect for the casual gamer. Obulis really kicks things up by complementing highly compelling gameplay with outstanding graphics, music and state of the art physics effects.
The goal of Obulis is move all of the coloured spheres into their like-coloured pots using only the the forces of gravity and physical interaction. Manipulating the playfield by cutting the chains and ropes holding the Obulis Spheres.


Elevated budgets in unbiased movies: It was that indie flicks had been low finances, poorly acted dramas that were produced with dangerous sound. Filmmaker Luca Guadagnino (A Larger Splash) directs this 1983-set story of a blooming intimacy between two young folks. Kumail Nanjiani, star of Silicon Valley and Mike and Dave Want Marriage ceremony Dates, stars in this romantic comedy, which he has written with spouse Emily V. Gordon.
Stephen Chbosky, the writer and filmmaker of The Perks of Being a Wallflower," directed. Dan Stevens is a young Charles Dickens as he writes his basic novel, A Christmas Carol, in this biopic co-starring Jonathan Pryce. While investigating a harmful criminal, Main makes a surprising discovery – the corporation that created her lied about her previous life to be able to management her.
Syuting utama dilakukan di Shepperton Studios di Surrey, Inggris, pada tanggal 18 Mei 2015, dan berakhir pada tanggal 21 Agustus 2015. James Franco directs and stars on this comedic, stranger-than-fiction, account of the making of cult movie phenomenon The Room.
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THE PRESENT WARFARE Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (Me and Earl and the Dying Woman") directed this story of the rivalry between Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) to set the usual for electrical power. Timothée Chalamet stars as Elio, and Armie Hammer is Oliver, and the 2 are outrageously good in the movie.


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Tel Aviv to try Scientology founder's drug rehab program
Haaretz, Israel/January 30, 2006
By Yuval Azoulay
The Tel Aviv municipality will soon be running a drug rehabilitation program developed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. Drug addicts enrolled in the program, called Narconon, spend extended periods in a sauna and receive food supplements and vitamins to increase their perspiration rate and speed up the detoxification of their bodies. The program is being financed by private donors.
Despite City Hall's enthusiasm, the Health Ministry and the Israel Antidrug Authority have not approved the program.
"In my opinion, the Tel Aviv municipality cannot start such a process without the approval of the Health Ministry and the Antidrug Authority," said authority director general Haim Messing last week.
"The patients will receive large doses of vitamins and food supplements while in the sauna to increase the excretion of toxins by the body," explained Messing. "This method has not been checked out in Israel. We are in favor of pilot programs in Israel and will follow it with an evaluation study."
A few months ago three representatives of Tel Aviv City Hall visited the United States and were impressed with the success rate of the program, which Dr. Benny Avrahami, director of the Tel Aviv Municipal Anti-Drug Authority, reported as ranging between 50 and 75 percent.
Avrahami explains that the program will be run twice a year, with 150 participating drug addicts. The patients will be treated at a special rehabilitation center on a residential basis. During their first six weeks at the center, patients will spend 40-60 minutes in a sauna three or four times a day.
Between the sauna sessions, they will participate in physical exercises in a fitness room at the center and will receive food supplements. The second stage of the program, called Criminon, involves studying a curriculum that teaches participants how to cope with various situations.
"We received a donation of $1.5 million in the U.S. to run the program," says Avrahami. "The only condition set by the American donors was that we run this specific program." Avrahami is aware that the man behind the program is the founder of Scientology, but is undeterred.
"There is nothing in the implementation of this program that indicates spiritual goals. There will be no religious messages, not even veiled ones," assures Avrahami.
Criminon, which is part of the Narconon program, has been implemented in Israel's prisons for five years. So far 60 inmates addicted to drugs have been treated through the Criminon program. An Antidrug Authority source noted that in the Prison Services case, approval was given for the program because it did not involve the physical side of the program, only the educational one.
Brigadier General Yossi Beck, the Israel Prison Authority's head of treatment and rehabilitation, highly recommends the program.
"Of the 60 men treated via the program and released from prison, only one is back behind bars for a drug-related offense," says Beck. "The program seems to have a positive effect." Beck also hastens to add that despite the connection between the program and the founder of Scientology, there are no religious or spiritual messages in the program.
"Sure, the program was developed by the founder of Scientology and Scientologists use it, but a professional theory should not be discounted because its propounder is a member of a certain religion," says Beck.
Messing, too, does not link his objection to the program with its relationship to Scientology.
"In all my conversations with various people, I have not found any connection between Scientology and saunas. We are in favor of effective methods for drug rehabilitation, on the condition that programs be adopted only after being properly researched."


text:
import { SelectQueryBuilder } from 'typeorm';

export function makePaginationQuery<T>(q: SelectQueryBuilder<T>, sinceId?: string, untilId?: string, sinceDate?: number, untilDate?: number) {
	if (sinceId && untilId) {
		q.andWhere(`${q.alias}.id > :sinceId`, { sinceId: sinceId });
		q.andWhere(`${q.alias}.id < :untilId`, { untilId: untilId });
		q.orderBy(`${q.alias}.id`, 'DESC');
	} else if (sinceId) {
		q.andWhere(`${q.alias}.id > :sinceId`, { sinceId: sinceId });
		q.orderBy(`${q.alias}.id`, 'ASC');
	} else if (untilId) {
		q.andWhere(`${q.alias}.id < :untilId`, { untilId: untilId });
		q.orderBy(`${q.alias}.id`, 'DESC');
	} else if (sinceDate && untilDate) {
		q.andWhere(`${q.alias}.createdAt > :sinceDate`, { sinceDate: new Date(sinceDate) });
		q.andWhere(`${q.alias}.createdAt < :untilDate`, { untilDate: new Date(untilDate) });
		q.orderBy(`${q.alias}.createdAt`, 'DESC');
	} else if (sinceDate) {
		q.andWhere(`${q.alias}.createdAt > :sinceDate`, { sinceDate: new Date(sinceDate) });
		q.orderBy(`${q.alias}.createdAt`, 'ASC');
	} else if (untilDate) {
		q.andWhere(`${q.alias}.createdAt < :untilDate`, { untilDate: new Date(untilDate) });
		q.orderBy(`${q.alias}.createdAt`, 'DESC');
	} else {
		q.orderBy(`${q.alias}.id`, 'DESC');
	}
	return q;
}


The Market is a modern and cosmopolitan restaurant with innovative asian cuisine.
We are well-known for our unconventional ideas and bold creations and are eager to add new accents to the asian kitchen. At the same time we remain faithful to our principles – we refrain from convenience products and solely provide homemade dishes.
The location right at the famous Viennese Naschmarkt provides us with direct access to the freshest ingredients right "from the market".
Our flexible opening hours welcome a wide range of guests to authentic asian breakfast, lunch as well as dinner with international wine pairing at highest culinary niveau.
Every single detail at the Market is carefully thought through – from the simplicity of our menu to the complexity of our bar – uncompromising and systematical.
This is exactly how we work towards every new event: with new interpreted dishes and inspirational open-mindedness, in order to demonstrate our best sides to our guests.
Fine dining, aesthetic ambience, modern bar.
The Market Restaurant is located directly on the Viennese Naschmarkt between the underground stations U1 Karlsplatz and U4 Kettenbrückengasse. You can best reach us by public transport. The nearest parking garage can be found at Kühnplatz or in Windmühlgasse.


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package org.sourcepit.osgifier.core.model.context.impl;

import org.eclipse.emf.common.notify.Notification;
import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EClass;
import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.InternalEObject;
import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.impl.ENotificationImpl;
import org.sourcepit.common.manifest.osgi.VersionRange;
import org.sourcepit.common.modeling.impl.XAnnotatableImpl;
import org.sourcepit.osgifier.core.model.context.BundleCandidate;
import org.sourcepit.osgifier.core.model.context.BundleReference;
import org.sourcepit.osgifier.core.model.context.ContextModelPackage;
import org.sourcepit.osgifier.core.model.context.EmbedInstruction;

/**
 *
 * An implementation of the model object 'Bundle Reference'.
 *
 *

 * The following features are implemented:
 *

 *
{@link org.sourcepit.osgifier.core.model.context.impl.BundleReferenceImpl#getVersionRange Version Range}
 *

 *
{@link org.sourcepit.osgifier.core.model.context.impl.BundleReferenceImpl#isOptional Optional}

 *
{@link org.sourcepit.osgifier.core.model.context.impl.BundleReferenceImpl#getTarget Target}

 *
{@link org.sourcepit.osgifier.core.model.context.impl.BundleReferenceImpl#isProvided Provided}

 *
{@link org.sourcepit.osgifier.core.model.context.impl.BundleReferenceImpl#getEmbedInstruction Embed
 * Instruction}

 *

 *

 *
 * @generated
 */
public class BundleReferenceImpl extends XAnnotatableImpl implements BundleReference {
   /**
    * The default value of the '{@link #getVersionRange() Version Range}' attribute.
    *
    *
    *
    * @see #getVersionRange()
    * @generated
    * @ordered
    */
   protected static final VersionRange VERSION_RANGE_EDEFAULT = null;

   /**
    * The cached value of the '{@link #getVersionRange() Version Range}' attribute.
    *
    *
    *
    * @see #getVersionRange()
    * @generated
    * @ordered
    */
   protected VersionRange versionRange = VERSION_RANGE_EDEFAULT;

   /**
    * The default value of the '{@link #isOptional() Optional}' attribute.
    *
    *
    *
    * @see #isOptional()
    * @generated
    * @ordered
    */
   protected static final boolean OPTIONAL_EDEFAULT = false;

   /**
    * The cached value of the '{@link #isOptional() Optional}' attribute.
    *
    *
    *
    * @see #isOptional()
    * @generated
    * @ordered
    */
   protected boolean optional = OPTIONAL_EDEFAULT;

   /**
    * The cached value of the '{@link #getTarget() Target}' reference.
    *
    *
    *
    * @see #getTarget()
    * @generated
    * @ordered
    */
   protected BundleCandidate target;

   /**
    * The default value of the '{@link #isProvided() Provided}' attribute.
    *
    *
    *
    * @see #isProvided()
    * @generated
    * @ordered
    */
   protected static final boolean PROVIDED_EDEFAULT = false;

   /**
    * The cached value of the '{@link #isProvided() Provided}' attribute.
    *
    *
    *
    * @see #isProvided()
    * @generated
    * @ordered
    */
   protected boolean provided = PROVIDED_EDEFAULT;

   /**
    * The default value of the '{@link #getEmbedInstruction() Embed Instruction}' attribute.
    *
    *
    *
    * @see #getEmbedInstruction()
    * @generated
    * @ordered
    */
   protected static final EmbedInstruction EMBED_INSTRUCTION_EDEFAULT = EmbedInstruction.NOT;

   /**
    * The cached value of the '{@link #getEmbedInstruction() Embed Instruction}' attribute.
    *
    *
    *
    * @see #getEmbedInstruction()
    * @generated
    * @ordered
    */
   protected EmbedInstruction embedInstruction = EMBED_INSTRUCTION_EDEFAULT;

   /**
    *
    *
    *
    * @generated
    */
   protected BundleReferenceImpl() {
      super();
   }

   /**
    *
    *
    *
    * @generated
    */
   @Override
   protected EClass eStaticClass() {
      return ContextModelPackage.Literals.BUNDLE_REFERENCE;
   }

   /**
    *
    *
    *
    * @generated
    */
   public VersionRange getVersionRange() {
      return versionRange;
   }

   /**
    *
    *
    *
    * @generated
    */
   public void setVersionRange(VersionRange newVersionRange) {
      VersionRange oldVersionRange = versionRange;
      versionRange = newVersionRange;
      if (eNotificationRequired())
         eNotify(new ENotificationImpl(this, Notification.SET, ContextModelPackage.BUNDLE_REFERENCE__VERSION_RANGE,
            oldVersionRange, versionRange));
   }

   /**
    *
    *
    *
    * @generated
    */
   public boolean isOptional() {
      return optional;
   }

   /**
    *
    *
    *
    * @generated
    */
   public void setOptional(boolean newOptional) {
      boolean oldOptional = optional;
      optional = newOptional;
      if (eNotificationRequired())
         eNotify(new ENotificationImpl(this, Notification.SET, ContextModelPackage.BUNDLE_REFERENCE__OPTIONAL,
            oldOptional, optional));
   }

   /**
    *
    *
    *
    * @generated
    */
   public BundleCandidate getTarget() {
      if (target != null && target.eIsProxy()) {
         InternalEObject oldTarget = (InternalEObject) target;
         target = (BundleCandidate) eResolveProxy(oldTarget);
         if (target != oldTarget) {
            if (eNotificationRequired())
               eNotify(new ENotificationImpl(this, Notification.RESOLVE, ContextModelPackage.BUNDLE_REFERENCE__TARGET,
                  oldTarget, target));
         }
      }
      return target;
   }

   /**
    *
    *
    *
    * @generated
    */
   public BundleCandidate basicGetTarget() {
      return target;
   }

   /**
    *
    *
    *
    * @generated
    */
   public void setTarget(BundleCandidate newTarget) {
      BundleCandidate oldTarget = target;
      target = newTarget;
      if (eNotificationRequired())
         eNotify(new ENotificationImpl(this, Notification.SET, ContextModelPackage.BUNDLE_REFERENCE__TARGET, oldTarget,
            target));
   }

   /**
    *
    *
    *
    * @generated
    */
   public boolean isProvided() {
      return provided;
   }

   /**
    *
    *
    *
    * @generated
    */
   public void setProvided(boolean newProvided) {
      boolean oldProvided = provided;
      provided = newProvided;
      if (eNotificationRequired())
         eNotify(new ENotificationImpl(this, Notification.SET, ContextModelPackage.BUNDLE_REFERENCE__PROVIDED,
            oldProvided, provided));
   }

   /**
    *
    *
    *
    * @generated
    */
   public EmbedInstruction getEmbedInstruction() {
      return embedInstruction;
   }

   /**
    *
    *
    *
    * @generated
    */
   public void setEmbedInstruction(EmbedInstruction newEmbedInstruction) {
      EmbedInstruction oldEmbedInstruction = embedInstruction;
      embedInstruction = newEmbedInstruction == null ? EMBED_INSTRUCTION_EDEFAULT : newEmbedInstruction;
      if (eNotificationRequired())
         eNotify(new ENotificationImpl(this, Notification.SET, ContextModelPackage.BUNDLE_REFERENCE__EMBED_INSTRUCTION,
            oldEmbedInstruction, embedInstruction));
   }

   /**
    *
    *
    *
    * @generated
    */
   @Override
   public Object eGet(int featureID, boolean resolve, boolean coreType) {
      switch (featureID) {
         case ContextModelPackage.BUNDLE_REFERENCE__VERSION_RANGE :
            return getVersionRange();
         case ContextModelPackage.BUNDLE_REFERENCE__OPTIONAL :
            return isOptional();
         case ContextModelPackage.BUNDLE_REFERENCE__TARGET :
            if (resolve)
               return getTarget();
            return basicGetTarget();
         case ContextModelPackage.BUNDLE_REFERENCE__PROVIDED :
            return isProvided();
         case ContextModelPackage.BUNDLE_REFERENCE__EMBED_INSTRUCTION :
            return getEmbedInstruction();
      }
      return super.eGet(featureID, resolve, coreType);
   }

   /**
    *
    *
    *
    * @generated
    */
   @Override
   public void eSet(int featureID, Object newValue) {
      switch (featureID) {
         case ContextModelPackage.BUNDLE_REFERENCE__VERSION_RANGE :
            setVersionRange((VersionRange) newValue);
            return;
         case ContextModelPackage.BUNDLE_REFERENCE__OPTIONAL :
            setOptional((Boolean) newValue);
            return;
         case ContextModelPackage.BUNDLE_REFERENCE__TARGET :
            setTarget((BundleCandidate) newValue);
            return;
         case ContextModelPackage.BUNDLE_REFERENCE__PROVIDED :
            setProvided((Boolean) newValue);
            return;
         case ContextModelPackage.BUNDLE_REFERENCE__EMBED_INSTRUCTION :
            setEmbedInstruction((EmbedInstruction) newValue);
            return;
      }
      super.eSet(featureID, newValue);
   }

   /**
    *
    *
    *
    * @generated
    */
   @Override
   public void eUnset(int featureID) {
      switch (featureID) {
         case ContextModelPackage.BUNDLE_REFERENCE__VERSION_RANGE :
            setVersionRange(VERSION_RANGE_EDEFAULT);
            return;
         case ContextModelPackage.BUNDLE_REFERENCE__OPTIONAL :
            setOptional(OPTIONAL_EDEFAULT);
            return;
         case ContextModelPackage.BUNDLE_REFERENCE__TARGET :
            setTarget((BundleCandidate) null);
            return;
         case ContextModelPackage.BUNDLE_REFERENCE__PROVIDED :
            setProvided(PROVIDED_EDEFAULT);
            return;
         case ContextModelPackage.BUNDLE_REFERENCE__EMBED_INSTRUCTION :
            setEmbedInstruction(EMBED_INSTRUCTION_EDEFAULT);
            return;
      }
      super.eUnset(featureID);
   }

   /**
    *
    *
    *
    * @generated
    */
   @Override
   public boolean eIsSet(int featureID) {
      switch (featureID) {
         case ContextModelPackage.BUNDLE_REFERENCE__VERSION_RANGE :
            return VERSION_RANGE_EDEFAULT == null ? versionRange != null : !VERSION_RANGE_EDEFAULT.equals(versionRange);
         case ContextModelPackage.BUNDLE_REFERENCE__OPTIONAL :
            return optional != OPTIONAL_EDEFAULT;
         case ContextModelPackage.BUNDLE_REFERENCE__TARGET :
            return target != null;
         case ContextModelPackage.BUNDLE_REFERENCE__PROVIDED :
            return provided != PROVIDED_EDEFAULT;
         case ContextModelPackage.BUNDLE_REFERENCE__EMBED_INSTRUCTION :
            return embedInstruction != EMBED_INSTRUCTION_EDEFAULT;
      }
      return super.eIsSet(featureID);
   }

   /**
    *
    *
    *
    * @generated
    */
   @Override
   public String toString() {
      if (eIsProxy())
         return super.toString();

      StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer(super.toString());
      result.append(" (versionRange: ");
      result.append(versionRange);
      result.append(", optional: ");
      result.append(optional);
      result.append(", provided: ");
      result.append(provided);
      result.append(", embedInstruction: ");
      result.append(embedInstruction);
      result.append(')');
      return result.toString();
   }

} // BundleReferenceImpl


Ralph Berteaux (53 years) is appointed as Director Format & big Box as per 1 February 2017. Ralph started his career as store manager and has 29 years of experience in DIY retailing. At Leroy Merlin he working in general management, operations and several commercial roles.


The phrase "value-based contracting" is both overused and under-implemented in healthcare today, leading to a general misunderstanding of its potential impact.
In the simplest terms, a value-based partnership represents a "win–win" for providers and vendors. The goal of a value-based contract is to derive value from efficiency, as opposed to price and quantity. Instead of pushing one another for savings of pennies on the dollar, value-based contracts task both vendors and providers to come up with creative ways to generate clinical and financial value from mutually beneficial improvements.
In effect, vendors and providers create a partnership. If done correctly, both parties are stronger working together than they could ever be working against each other. But these partnerships don't just happen. Both parties need to be prepared and understand what is important to them when entering a negotiation.
Following are five key focus areas necessary for providers to effectively negotiate value-based supplier partnerships.
Have an accurate understanding of the current state and a clear vision of the future: Prior to negotiating a value-based partnership, providers should equip themselves with operational, financial, and quality performance results to allow for more collaborative discussions with suppliers. This must be an honest reflection of the current state of not just the vendor, but of how the service truly works for the provider.
Generate executive support, streamline contracts: Another essential but often overlooked component is generating executive-level support during the contracting process. Such support shows the importance of the relationship to both parties and promotes a higher level of contract compliance, thus increasing savings potential for everyone.
Know your total cost of ownership: A value-based partnership is much more than a simple line item on the balance sheet. These agreements must take into consideration myriad cascading costs and operational factors that ultimately help to determine what the current total cost of ownership and what it will be once the final agreement is completed.
Be transparent: Simply put, if suppliers and providers better understand what is going on within each other's environment, inefficiencies can be identified and potentially mitigated or eliminated, benefiting both organizations. This requires a perspective that looks below the surface to determine the root cause of non-value-added activities.
Metrics matter: The metrics used to measure a partnership set the tone for how information is leveraged. Certain metrics encourage both parties to drive improvement, while others are seen as bargaining chips.


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A: With the current API, you have to indicate this in the AndroidManifest.xml:
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... and the user also needs to enable "install from unknown sources", in the settings.

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ACS Hillingdon Latest News
Cutting-edge Science Centre officially opened at ACS Hillingdon
Mark Thompson, astronomer and BBC Stargazing Live presenter, opens ACS Hillingdon's £10 million science centre. ACS Hillingdon International School welcomed students, staff, families and special guest, astronomer Mark Thompson, to the official opening of its £10 million science centre yesterday. BBC's Stargazing Live's Mark Thompson opened the new centre, giving a fascinating introduction to the beauty of the Universe and highlighting the importance of the practical aspects of science education in inspiring the next generation of scientists.
During the evening, guests and students also took part in practical experiments exploring human spaceflight run by the National Space Academy. The school's new science centre includes seven new laboratories and features a specialist binocular microscope and reflecting telescope among its cutting-edge technology, as well as a electrophoresis unit which students can use to investigate and visualise DNA. ACS Hillingdon students enjoying the new Science Centre BBC Stargazing Live presenter, Mark Thompson, with Head of School, Martin Hall Students will also benefit from the centre's enhanced testing capabilities, such as the high quality Vernier temperature probes, allowing them to conduct advanced scientific experiments. New flexible furniture has also been used throughout the labs to facilitate student collaboration and project work. Mr Thompson commented:
It is fabulous to see the new superbly equipped science centre at ACS Hillingdon. The school clearly understands the importance of hands on science and I am excited to see how the students will respond to this amazing new facility.
Dr Neelu Sharma, Head of Science at ACS Hillingdon, commented: "This summer several of our graduating students won places to study bio-chemistry, pre-medicine, bio-medical sciences, physics and medicine at top universities. Our new science centre will ensure we provide the best possible resources for any of our students wanting to pursue an interest in the sciences at any level."
A recent survey by One Poll, commissioned by ACS to celebrate the opening of the new science centre, recently found that 54 per cent of UK parents are regularly flummoxed by the deep and meaningful scientific questions put to them by their children. On average a parent will turn to Google six times a month to find the answers.
Martin Hall, Head of School at ACS Hillingdon added: "We know that students, passionate about science, are a force for positive change in the world. It is important to encourage children's curiosity and their inquiring minds from a young age, and stimulate thirst for learning – even if us parents sometimes have to resort to search engines to find answers to difficult questions."
The new state-of-the-art science centre and a wide STEAM – science, technology, engineering, art, maths - curriculum, will encourage broader student collaboration and discovery, enabling them to forge future science careers and giving them a clear advantage in the world of work.
"As well as the science centre, a number of other developments have been completed at ACS Hillingdon, including a dedicated High School library, a modern resources centre and an increase in classroom areas to create more shared learning spaces. A new Middle School technology lab is set to open in December with mobile technology at the heart of its design. The tech lab will include projectors and writable walls allowing student work to be shared in real time using mobile devices", Martin Hall concluded.


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Tableware by any name just as sweet
By Terry and Kim Kovel
Tuesday, September 23, 2014 4:54pm
Is it called a fruit bowl, berry bowl, fruit stand, fruit dish, epergne, basket or bride's basket?
A search of 1880s and '90s catalogs of silver and glass tableware manufacturers had similar pieces called by any one of these names. A formal Victorian dinner party served multiple courses with special serving pieces for each one. The many-named stand was used at the end of the meal. A typical dinner had up to nine courses. First was raw oysters, then soup, meat, poultry, salad, dessert, then fruit and perhaps cheese, followed by coffee and tea in the drawing room.
The table was cleared between courses and sometimes even fresh tablecloths were used. The bowl with many names often was the centerpiece for the dessert and fruit courses. There were small berry bowls and berry sets that held strawberries or raspberries or similar fruit served with fresh cream and sugar. Elaborate stands that held colored glass bowls probably held fruit like bunches of grapes, or apples that are easier to serve since the bowl and stand would be too heavy to pass around the table.
The silver-plated stands were decorated with three dimensional figures, animals, flowers or strange groupings like a cupid driving a chariot pulled by a peacock or the Greek god Poseidon with his spear poised to catch a piece of fruit from the bowl below. The bowls were sometimes silver but more often were colored art glass like Amberina, Burmese, Peachblow, Pomona, satin glass, or pressed or cut glass.
Because collectors since the 1960s have preferred colored glass, art glass pieces found in stands today often are replacements for the original old clear glass bowls. An all-original "berry bowl set" on a silver-plated stand with two Burmese bowls decorated with flowers sold recently. The silver stand featured young boys riding on turtles. It sold in 2014 at an Early's Art Glass auction in Milford, Ohio, for $3,220.
Q: A family member has a coffee table and two end tables that are stumping us. The tables were purchased in Germany in the late 1950s or early 1960s. The tops are hand carved, stained and painted, and covered with a piece of glass that can be removed. The legs are screwed in. They are marked on the bottom "D.B.G.M. Geschutzt." I hope you can help with some information and a value.
A: Your tables are in the style called "Black Forest," a term used to describe the elaborate, naturalistic wood carvings of animals, plants and landscapes thought to be made in the Bavarian Black Forest region of southwest Germany. But most pieces were really made in Brienz, Switzerland, where the carving style started in the early 1800s. From the mid-1880s to the 1940s, Brienz wood carvers made rustic clocks, benches, hall trees, smoking stands, chairs, tables and other furniture they sold to tourists. It was popular with Americans. The mark on your tables stands for Deutsches Bundes Gebrauchsmuster (German Federal Registered Design) and was used in West Germany from 1948 to 1985. So your tables were probably made in the 1950s. Black Forest carvings from Brienz are from the 1880s to 1920s are sought after and sell for a lot of money. Most midcentury Black Forest style pieces made for tourists in Germany or Austria, are machine made and worth much less. Your tables could sell for $50 to $100.
Q: Please tell me the value of a 1939 San Francisco World's Fair lady's compact. It has an image of a tall building on the front.
A: The Golden Gate International Exposition was held on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay in 1939-40. Among the many souvenirs of the fair are several different styles of compacts. The building pictured on your compact is the Expo Tower at the fair's main entrance. Any lady's compact from the fair sells for about $10-$20.
Q: I have an antique doll that reads "Dainty Dorothy, Germany" on the tummy. It has yellow hair, a bisque head, open mouth with teeth, and a kid body. It is jointed but is missing a hand. It has shoes and socks and a new dress. The doll is about 21 inches tall. Can you tell me how old it is and what it might be worth?
A: Dainty Dorothy was a line of dolls sold by Sears, Roebuck &Co. and by T. Eaton Co., a Canadian department store, from 1910 until; at least 1922. Kestner, Simon &Halbig, Armand Marseille, and Gebruder Heubach made bisque heads for the dolls. If you find a manufacturer's mark on the doll's head on the back of the neck, you can identify the maker. Dolls with composition forearms and lower legs were made beginning in 1912. An all composition version was sold by Eaton in 1918. Not having the original dress doesn't affect the value very much but the value of your doll is lower because it's missing a hand. Your doll is worth $50 to $75.
Tip: Cover the nose of your hammer with a piece of felt to protect the wall when you are putting up picture hooks. If the wall is smooth, some of the new stick-on hooks might work.
Write to Terry Kovel and Kim Kovel at Kovels, The Herald, King Features Syndicate, 300 W. 57th St., New York, NY 10019.
Current prices are recorded from antiques shows, flea markets, sales and auctions throughout the United States. Prices vary in different locations because of local economic conditions.
Match safe, Odd Fellows, fraternal symbols, metal, Hendrick Hudson Hotel, Troy, N.Y., $120.
Mahatma Gandhi figurine, seated, crossed legs, Royal Dux, 10 inches, $220.
Coca-Cola postcard, woman, seated, large black hat, frame, 1910, 7¾ x 5¾ inches, $390.
Sterling-silver flask, embossed, men drinking around table, R. Wallace &Sons, c. 1900, 5¼ inches, $470.
Butler's desk, Hepplewhite, cherry, mahogany banding, six drawers, c. 1810, 47 x 22 inches, $515.
Toy car, Edsel, convertible, cream, light green, box reads "New Edsel," "Child Land," Haji trademark, Japan, box, 10 ¾ inches, $3,894.
Contemporary glass basket, "Untitled No. 1," green lip, mottled designs, signed D. Chihuly, 1988, 17 x 12½ inches, $4,750.
Walking stick, maple, patriotic relief-carved scenes, Zachariah Robinson, c. 1865, 35 inches, $4,890.
Boneshaker bicycle, transitional high-wheel ordinary, bronze oiler cast pedals, rear brake, coaster pegs, c. 1870, $6,145.
'The Boxtrolls' is a bit macabre, but still delights
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My house was clean three weeks ago. Sorry you missed it
Sticker-shock quotes from housecleaning businesses inform a mom just what her labor is worth.
Fine-tune your coping skills for when life gets difficult
Here are four ways to develop healthy ways to deal with the stress that inevitably comes our way.
Poland's milk bars dish up memories and cheap eats
You can eat well there for just $5, making them perhaps the best legacy of the communist era.
Trainline charges a $43 change fee after train was canceled
When Neale Gonsalves' train trip from Stockport, England, to London is canceled, he rebooks on another train. But Trainline, his ticket agency, charges him a $43 ticket change fee. Is that allowed?
Music, theater and more: What's happening in Snohomish County
Village Theatre's production of "Cinderella" closes Jan. 29 in Everett.
Fruit tree season is upon us. Choose wisely
Unlike growing veggies, fruit trees are a long-term investment, so make sure you start out on the right foot.
This injury changed me from a 'human-doing' to a 'human-being'
A painful torn calf muscle doesn't require surgery — just a LOT of rest. So pass the Advil and the TV remote.
Great Plant Pick: Giant snowdrops
This bulb flowers early — as in right now. It also rewards gardeners with a honey-like fragrance.
How do we teach our children to be mindful consumers?
A few ground rules, on screen time especially, will help adults raise kids with the capacity to amuse themselves.
These are a few of Rick Steves' favorite things to do in Dublin
Visiting Trinity College, Kilmainham Gaol and more in Ireland's capital city.
With a hurricane on the way, are these tickets now worthless?
Char Collins has to cancel flights from Minneapolis to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, after a hurricane threatens her destination wedding. Will she have to throw away her airline tickets, or can she reuse them?
2023 Cadillac XT4 is handsome, roomy and agreeable on the road
The compact luxury SUV has two new paint colors and adds some driver assistance features as standard.


Throughout 2018, GreenEarth has seen its most successful year to date, when it comes to building relationships with garment retailers and manufacturers.
There have been more labels with with our logo than ever before, but we are now starting to see our branding and messaging appear on instore leaflets, hang tags, websites and packaging. And not only is GreenEarth being adopted by more brands, they are positioning OUR logo on more product within their ranges.
The key to achieving this is continued engagement with Retailer and Manufacturers.
So far this year, there have been 21 Technical Visits to Johnson Cleaners Specialist Centre in Rugby, U.K. In addition, we have hosted a Technical visit at Jeeves of Belgravia in London, 3 webinars and held our own event in London.
There have been 130 delegates on the Technical Visits to Rugby, across 25 companies – These include high end retailers through to online fast fashion.
There have been 10 approved care labels in 2018 so far, 7 of which are from brand new recommending retailers. The same label is often used in many products for the same brand, just changing the style code. So, the consumer is becoming more aware of our brand.
This is something GreenEarth aims to build on in 2019 because GreenEarth IS what all the best labels are wearing!
If you are a manufacturer or retailer and would like to find out more about our events, please visit our Events Page.


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Gotta Cache 'Em All
In this month's edition of Stuff White People Like, we explore geocaching, which I just recently learned was a thing.
By Hilary Cadigan | Tue 2 Dec 2014
What is geocaching, you ask? A fair query. According to the official geocaching website, it is "a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices" that has been going on under our noses since the year 2000. In other words, it is a way to force indoor people (I didn't say nerds) outside without separating them from their screens or the internet. Initially it was called the "GPS Stash Hunt" (which sounds a lot more exciting to me), but apparently this name was dropped because it was attracting the wrong sorts of people. Now it's geocaching, derived from the word "geo" which means earth and "cache" which means treasure trove, but is conveniently also a tech term referring to information stored in a computer's memory.
The aim of the game is to find a series of "caches" which can be anything from a thimble-sized canister to a large bucket filled with shitty prizes. Once you find a cache, you add your name to the paper logbook inside it as well as the virtual one within the app.
Discovering geocaching is quite a revelation. There is an entire culture built around it, and the official geocaching website features interactive maps, a glossary of special geocaching terms and acronyms for those who can't be bothered to type out actual words of gratitude ("FTF" means "First to Find" and "TFTC" means "Thanks for the Cache") and an online store filled with all manner of strange, seemingly worthless geocaching gear, from "geocoins" to "hitchhikers" (which are little trackable items, also known as "trackables," that can travel across the world from one cache to another, by way of geocachers).
It's all slightly overwhelming. But people are into it, y'all.
At time of press, there are over six million geocachers and 2,527,582 geocaches hidden around the globe. And guess what? About four dozen of those are in Chiang Mai province. Betcha didn't know that.
Personally, I hold no affinity for games or looking for things, but I do like not being in the office. I also like prizes, even shitty ones, so I decided to give geocaching a try. Here is my story.
Preparing for the Hunt
One of my favourite things to do is to go around my house and collect various useless items to give to people as gifts. (This, friend, is why your Christmas present last year was a large ceramic cow with a candy company logo stamped on her hindparts.) In this case, because these would be presents for people I didn't even know nor had to make eye contact with during the giving process, I was especially excited. So I spent most of the morning going around the house and gathering up crap. Chosen items included a holographic tree frog bookmark, a teddy bear keychain stamped with the words "I'm love-holic," a McDonald's Happy Meal Barbie, and a dysfunctional toilet paper holder shaped like a kimono.
I happily loaded these items into my little green backpack, which perfectly accompanied the outfit I'd selected for this outing: jean shorts and a tank top from the Night Bazaar printed with a tree, meant for camouflaging as a backpacker and also a tree.
The next thing I had to do, which I probably could have done ahead of time but didn't, was to get 3G access on my phone. To the mall! Twenty confusing minutes at the AIS store later I was hooked UP. Hilary, girl of the 21st century. I left the mall with a swing in my step, returning the salute of the doorman on my way out with unprecedented enthusiasm.
Now, without further ado, it was time for my first cache, which just so happened to be mere steps outside the mall. So I pulled out my newly functional smartphone, opened the official geocaching app, zeroed in on the closest marker, and clicked "Start." While I was doing this, I was also walking, so I fell down a small flight of stairs. But no matter. The hunt had begun.
My First Cache
As it turns out, I am really good at geocaching. Actually Rob, my trusty photographer/boyfriend, was the one who found the cache in a telephone pole hole while I was saying something along the lines of "how the hell are we supposed to find this thing?" (the official hint given by the app was "telephone pole hole"), but I was the one who poked it out with a pen. Sadly, there was nothing inside but a paper logbook so I just got to write down my name and the date, neither acquiring nor dumping – I mean gifting – any treasures. But the thrill of the hunt had opened up a strange aquifer of greed and desire within me. I wanted more, more, more!
The next cache, while not far from the first, proved a bit harder. I had a small tantrum when my 3G stopped working (sorry for yelling at you, Rob) and then reached my hand into a nest of fire ants trying to retrieve what turned out to be a piece of trash. But, just when all hope seemed lost, miracle of miracles! My 3G started working again. And with that, another cache was found (!) despite a number of curious Chinese tourists (a.k.a. "muggles," which is how geocachers refer to anyone who is not a geocacher) trying to interfere. Again no treasures were inside, but in a rare burst of generosity I decided to donate my lucky monk-blessed string bracelet which I have been wearing and not washing for the past month. You're welcome, future geocachers of Chiang Mai.
Also, I met a friendly dog.
To the Old City
At this point in the day, my backpacker camouflage ensemble proved to be a smart choice. For the next batch of geocaches that popped up on the map, we would have to venture to their mecca: the old city.
The first old city cache turned out to be a dud. It seemed that several of my forebears had reported DNF (a shame-drenched designation which stands for "Did Not Find"), which meant it had been a) stolen b) eaten c) knocked into the moat or d) really, really hard to find. Ain't nobody got time for that, so we skipped it and paid a visit to the haunted house on the northwest corner of the moat instead, which is quite a nice place.
Next up: Buak Hard Park, which allegedly houses not just one but TWO caches. We found neither of them, but I admit I didn't care very much because I had my hands full eating a coconut I bought at the park shop. And also the app said they were too small for treasures. So we said f*%k it and journeyed across the street to the much lesser known – and as a result quite peaceful – Kanchanpisek Park, a hidden stretch of green bisected by a dodgy-looking little stream. Here, legend had it (and by legend I mean the official geocaching map), was one of the only geocaches in Chiang Mai that actually has space for some treasures, thanks to the local Boy Scout Troop that planted and maintains it.
At this point, my phone battery was down to six percent, and dying fast (geocaching is to phone batteries what Keeping Up With the Kardashians is to the moral fabric of America's youth, plus I forgot to charge it), but I was determined to obtain at least one treasure on this journey. For awhile, I was trapped like a rat on the wrong side of the dodgy stream, but eventually I found a bridge (phew!) and with four percent left to go, acquired my third successful cache, this time with TREASURES.
These treasures turned out to be a goddamn seashell and a "trackable" that required you to move it in the direction of a tennis court in Malaysia (?). This seemed like an unpleasant degree of responsibility so I left it behind and opted for the shell. In exchange, again in a curious fit of generosity, I left not one but TWO treasures behind: a seed bead necklace of unknown origin that has been hanging on my towel rack for the past year and a half, and a small lady made of wooden beads that I bought for 20 baht because it was the cheapest thing at a charity fair I once went to. I chose these items because they were the only ones in my collection that would fit into the very small cache box.
At this point, all the strenuous caching was making my compatriot Rob and I quite hungry. Conveniently, there happened to be another cache just outside SP Chicken, so away we went. We considered looking for the cache upon arrival, but instead decided to order all the chicken and pork ribs and som tam we could afford. After feeding, with one percent left to go, I made my most heroic cache of the day, finding a bottle cap sized cache magneted to a sign, with nothing of any worth inside.
I upped the ante by leaving behind a 7-Eleven stamp and one baht.
And there you have it. With a dead iPhone, one seashell and happy hearts, we returned home. Was my first day of geocaching a success? I will answer that question with another question. Is any day wasted when it is spent outdoors, discovering new places in a familiar neighbourhood? I don't know, but I sure felt good about the fact that I didn't have to go into work on a Thursday.
Ultimately, however, the biggest winner of the day is whichever lucky friend of mine who, this holiday season, gets to receive the toilet paper kimono that I still have in my possession. Merry Christmas to you.
In case you're interested: www.geocaching.com


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VOX celebrates with sex education
Post author:Bianca Benedi
Andelloux's performance drew more than 100 New College students.
VOX Week took its spot on campus for the third year in a row, bringing with it a variety of events ranging from an Affordable Care Act (ACA) information session to a performance and workshop by Sonya Reneé, founder of the The Body Is Not an Apology movement. Starting with Renée's performance on the evening of Sunday, Nov. 3 and lasting until Megan Andelloux closed the week with a performance on Nov. 8, VOX Week, which is hosted by the Voices of Planned Parenthood (VOX) club, offered a variety of opportunities for New College students to educate themselves on various aspects of sexual health and rights.
Renée's opening performance and workshop, the first time she has ever performed at New College, was kickstarted with three performances by New College students: first-year Logan Schulman, first-year and Catalyst staff member Allya Yourish, and second-year Anna Rodriguez. "I thought [the opening poems] were really cool," first-year Gabriella Frankhouser said after the performance. "I have some of the students in my class and … it was nice to hear them say things you can connect with, even if you don't know them."
Renée followed up the student poems with poetry of her own, interspersed between small speeches about reproductive rights, racism and privilege in the United States. "Some of [Renée's] poems brought me to tears," Frankhouser admitted.
Renée, who is a National and International Poetry Slam champion, performed a number of poems that addressed hard issues, such as her poem on reproductive rights titled "Why we hold our tongues." In it, Renée is unapologetic and upfront about her decision to get an abortion, ending the poem with the passionate line, "I did choose life. I did choose life – mine."
"It ended up being a great way to kick off the week," thesis student and co-president of VOX Lynn Gusman said.
Renée's performance was followed on Tuesday, Nov. 5 by the Sex Olympics.
Initially a small event held in the Nook, the Sex Olympic has grown in scope and size over the past couple of years, now encompassing most of Z-Green from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday. The event held an assortment of games, such as the Blindfolded Flavored Lube Tasting and a Safer Sex Relay and prizes ranging from lubes to to a "blowjob in a box" kit.
Renee's opening event marks the first time she has performed at New College.
"Sex Olympics was actually really fun," second-year Cole Ingram said. Ingram won one of the events, a sex-related BINGO game. Ingram is a returning Sex Olympics participant, having taken part in the games held last year.
On Wednesday, Nov. 6, VOX Week hosted a screening of the documentary "Let's Talk About Sex". Around 30 students showed up to watch the documentary, including second-year Dannie Benedi. "It was really eye-opening to watch," Benedi said. "Even 'liberals' in America treat sex like a sacred thing, which is damaging to kids. I don't get why Americans are such prudes about this."
Thursday's event was an ACA information session, led by New College alum Caitlyn Miller ('02), the grassroots outreach manager for Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida. Miller passed out an informational packet and walked the 12 or so attendees through a customized explanation about the ins and outs of the ACA, tailoring her performance to the needs and questions of the students who attended. "I think that very few people our age realize how Obamacare is going to impact them," Gusman said.
"We believe that a lot of students don't realize that it may be their responsibility to obtain health insurance and they need to know all of their possible outlets," third-year and co-president of VOX Cassandra Corrado said.
"A lot of people there had a lot of questions," second-year Wilmarie Rios-Jaime said. "And she did really well in answering and taking the time to really explain what's going on." Rios-Jaime, who explained that she had a vested interest in the details of the ACA bill because she has many friends who are uninsured, admitted that the topic remained partially confusing, but added , "It is a confusing document and a confusing bill, [and] I did get a sense of what is going on and how people are being affected by this."
Rios-Jaime said, "If you have an expert explaining it to you who's saying 'this is really complicated', imagine how the general public feels dealing with it."
Friday's VOX Week event brought the biggest performance with it to end the week: Megan Andelloux's "Super Sex College Style" presentation drew a crowd of more than 100 students to listen to her talk about masturbation, sex toys, various forms of barrier protection and sexual pleasure. Her performance included a demonstration of how to put a condom on with your mouth, a new sex toy that can be used on flaccid penises, discussion about the benefits of kegel exercises and the specifics of the necessity of pap smears (it is unnecessary and potentially dangerous before the age of 21).
"The turnout for Megan's workshop was impressive, as usual," Gusman said of the event. "People seemed really engaged and interested, and I was impressed at how many first years attended." Andelloux has performed at New College six times before, the most recent before VOX Week being during the Fall 2013 Orientation.
"I think there was a greater turnout for this year's events than last year," Gusman said of the week. "Especially considering a fair amount of people came to the less cool events like the ACA info session and movie night."
"VOX Week is kind of about everything sexual and reproductive health related," Gusman explained.
"The events that we currently do for VOX Week are kind of things that have formed over the past two years," Corrado said. "Ultimately, we're trying to educate people in a lot of different ways, whether that means sending one million e-mails, handing out tons of condoms, or hosting a bunch of workshops. We want to help facilitate that conversation."
Unfortunately, one part of the planned VOX Week, a Sex Positivity zine, had to be cancelled due to a lack of submissions.


Increasingly local businesses are recognising the contribution Leeds City Vixens plays in the community. This provides an opportunity, at High School Level, for these businesses to form closer links with the High Schools in Leeds.
So what form do these links take?
Business may provide careers advice to inform potential school leavers with the opportunities that their industries offer.
As potential school leavers are facing the outside world these business may introduce them to topics not ordinarily covered by the school curriculum. Therefore business will provide presentations on subjects like "Women in Industry" and "Health & Safety"
Leeds City Vixens provide extra interest to these links, as students may enjoy presentations on the opportunities for young ladies to pursue their football careers beyond the schools environment and establish contacts within the ladies game, be these at their chosen places of higher education or the appropriate ladies teams in the areas that they will be moving to.
Further details to be published soon.