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A Local Approach to Continuing Higher-ed: Bar Room U

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Christopher Beha looks at a new approach to continuing higher education started by our friends over at The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, in New York Magazine:

One recent Tuesday evening, nine twenty- and thirtysomethings gathered in the back room of Boerum Hill?s Building on Bond to discuss a crucial text for understanding our sociopolitical moment: Plato?s Republic. While a waitress brought dinner and $3 pints of Bud, their conversation meandered from the foundational treatise to related matters left unexplored by its author, like whether Ron Paul?s libertarianism is more deontological or consequentialist. (The consensus: probably deontological at heart, though voters demand consequentialist arguments.) Two hours in, the crowd migrated up to the bar, where the discussion continued in the same vein. They were still drinking and talking when the bartender announced last call.

What transpired that night just may represent the future of higher education?or at least one proudly low-tech vision of it. Politics of the City, the formal name for the somewhat informal gathering, is the first course offered by the new Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Its instructor, Ajay Chaudhary, dreamed up the institute while teaching in Columbia?s famed Core Curriculum, in which every undergraduate reads the classics of Western civilization. ?Whenever I talked with people outside the university about what I did,? Chaudhary said, ?they would tell me, ?I want to do that. I want to read Aristotle and Augustine.???

Continuing-education programs tend to be bluntly functional (professional-development courses like computer programming or bookkeeping), less than rigorous (culture ?appreciation? classes), or flat-out silly (see ?Transformers Star Tyrese Gibson: How to Get Out of Your Own Way?Tips for Making It? at the Learning Annex). More serious academic fare is proliferating online, but those classes are primarily for quants not quals.

In addition to classes, they are raising money over at Kickstarter to develop a knowledge tool, ~Archive. Consider a donation:

The ~Archive is a tool to provide easy electronic access to out-of-print or hard to find texts.

Okay, it's a tool. How does it work?

It happens every day. Mostly to academics, journalists, and other knowledge professionals, but also to anyone who is conducting independent research or simply trying to figure out something that's just beyond the reach of Google, Wikipedia, or even the local library. You find a reference to an important but impossible to find text. It could be old. It could be out of print. It could be rare. All you know is that you need it and you can't have it. These are not the old books you can already get for free on your Kindle or iPad through Project Gutenberg, or what you can find, sometimes incomplete, on Google Books. We love these services and wonder how we ever lived without them. We are talking about a lot of other stuff. Stuff that fell through the cracks. Works that history forgot to record, except for a tiny reference in an essay or a newspaper review. Books that are crumbling in an archive or private collection, which normally couldn?t be reproduced without permanent damage. And that's where our ~Archive comes in.

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MLM Training Basics ? Simple Business Solutions

Multi-level marketing or Network marketing business is a home based business possibility through which individual associates recruit new members into the organization as down-lines. This way, the sponsor or perhaps up-line is able to earn an income over sales and marketing efforts of these down-lines. Before you can make money in an MLM business, you will very first need to learn how to market your business via Multilevel marketing training.

During Network marketing training, new members usually are taught how to current market their MLM business by buying phone or subsciber lists leads. Such directories feature individuals who are on the lookout for opportunities for possessing their own home businesses. These types of leads are available for buy online, as well as by way of mass mailing list vendors such as the Direct Promoting Association. Once the fellow member has their qualified prospects, they are able to directly call people or deliver their prospects post cards. MLM business marketers are also taught various ways associated with promoting their organizations online through the use of search results placement.

MLM Success will often involve having the new member prerecord messages on an 800 telephone line. This will likely enable them to increase the fascination level of those who call in after having received a new postcard. What?s more, this enables this caller to leave their particular name and telephone number such that the online marketer is able to get back to this caller at his / her convenience. MLM firm marketers are thought to get ready for every call generally through the use of a phone software which enables them to offer an effective sales pitch.

It is usually possible to learn how to advertise your MLM business via internet websites. To begin, all you need to complete is simply contact the MLM Company that you?ve joined and check out whether or not they provide internet websites for members to control. You may also request them to set up a site for your benefit which will feature your business, the name of your business, telephone number and email address. You should however note that a number of MLM parent corporations will charge a fee for such providers.

Today, unlike during the Fifties when Multi level marketing marketing programs started out, more sales and marketing methods are available to new online marketers. Unlike before while marketers had to advertise their MLM plans in person, today they can make use of social-networking sites. And with recent technological developments, many more people are utilizing the MLM marketing method to earn a living.

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3 Delicious Low Calorie Vegetarian Recipes for Weight Loss ...

People usually think that vegetarian food is tasteless. They also tend to think that it?s by default low in calories. Well, neither of this is true. Vegetarians need to lose some weight from time to time too. Here are 3 delicious and low in calories vegetarian recipes for weight loss. Suitable for carnivores and omnivores too!

1. Stuffed Zucchini

Zucchinis are very tasty and very healthy vegetables. They can be prepared in numerous ways, but I personally love this particular recipe. Try vegetarian stuffed zucchinis.

Ingredients for four people: 2 large zucchinis, 1 large onion, 2 carrots, 1 celery root, 1 potato, 50gr of rice, parsley leaves, oil, salt and pepper.

Preparation: Wash the zucchinis, dry them, cut horizontally into halves and scoop out the pulp. Chop the onion, grind the carrot, the celery and the potato. Chop zucchini pulp and parsley leaves. Preheat a pan with 1 tablespoon of oil and fry the onion together with the carrot, the celery and the potato. Add zucchini pulp and parsley leaves and pour 1 cup of water. Simmer for a couple of minutes; add rice, salt and pepper. The rice doesn?t have to be completely cooked, it will bake in the oven.

Fill each zucchini shell with the equal amount of stuffing and bake in the oven until golden brown on top. Serve with fresh cabbage salad and low fat white cheese.

2. White Bean Casserole

This is one of the best vegetarian dishes I have ever tried. I completely fell in love with this casserole after I?ve tried it for the first time, and you will too. To make it, you need: 500gr of uncooked white beans, 3 bell peppers ? 1 yellow, 1 red, 1 green, 2 leeks, 3 big tomatoes, oil, salt and pepper.

Put the beans in a pot and pour water over. Bring to boil, strain, pour fresh water and cook until done. Be careful not to overcook it, different types of white beans need a different amount of time to be done. Chop the leek and simmer it on a tablespoon of oil until softened.

Take an oven dish and put the leek on the bottom. Add Salt and pepper and add strained beans. Arrange slices of tomatoes and strips of bell peppers over the beans. Pour some of the water that beans were cooked in over your dish and bake in the oven at 175C for around half an hour or until the fluid evaporates.

Serve hot with fresh salad and yogurt.

3. Spinach Burgers

This vegetarian recipe can really help you with weight loss. It?s low in calories and spinach is known to be a great allay when it comes to dieting and losing weight. Plus, it?s super healthy and it boosts your immune system.

To make your spinach burgers you will need: ? kg of spinach, 250gr of rice, 100gr of breadcrumbs, parsley leaves, oil, salt and pepper.

Blanche the spinach in salted water, strain it and leave it to cool. Cut it in small pieces. Cook the rice, strain it and mix it with the spinach. Add chopped parsley leaves and half of the breadcrumbs. If it?s still too mushy, add more breadcrumbs or flour. Coat every burger in breadcrumbs and fry in hot oil. Serve with sour sauce made out of sour cream, lemon juice and chopped basil and thyme.

You will like these delicious recipes for sure. Plus, they will help you on your way to weight loss. Extra advice: drink a lot of water and exercise, there?s no losing weight with just changing your diet.

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Choosing the Right Auto Loans Online | welcome to pestrada.info

Investing in a new car or a car need not supply you with headaches nowadays. Getting automobile financing has become simple; you can now select from auto loans online lending communities or receive an auto loan through your car vendor. And there a variety of auto loan solutions to choose from.

Competition to provide automobile financing has quite simply to better, and also faster, discounts for car loans borrowers. For those times you apply for car finance today you can almost certainly drive home with your dream device by the nighttime!

Choosing the correct auto loan involves some research on your part ? you should be able to do some research. Not that it is difficult; you can actually do it on-line.

First and foremost, you?ll want to evaluate your current credit rank. You need to determine how much of car finance you can afford. This is important before deciding on to the car to buy. Auto loans require monthly bills, so it needs to be an amount that suits into your regular monthly budget. Several auto loan web-sites have auto loan calculators which could give a thought as to how much your auto loan is going to set you back each month. When you have worked this out, you can obtain ready to make application for your auto loan.

Again, the Internet is a great support here. There are thousands of auto loan web-sites where you can make application for an auto loan on the net. Completing people forms can be quite a breeze: just fill in a number of fields and then click the ?Submit? switch!

Generally the on the net lenders offer you interest rates 1-2 per cent lower than in which offered by the motor car dealers. That cash saved can be used to bear additional costs associated with buying your car.

On the internet auto loan varieties ask for your current basic financial details, your career status, and also residence evidence. Loans online software are ready-made immediately through lenders from the network next to your place regarding residence. Mortgage approvals usually consider less than an hour or so, and more crucial, on most web-sites this is a free of charge service. Better yet, an approval doesn?t put just about any obligations you about getting a loan by that bank.

If you have some sort of clean credit ratings status and also a co-signer, then contemplate your loan semi-approved! The beauty with auto loans is you can get one even though you have a sub-standard credit history. Many auto loan financial institutions offer poor credit auto loans. On the other hand, some financial institutions may ask you for higher interest rates and a more substantial down payment by the bad credit rank. Some financial institutions also limit the choice of cars and trucks models if you have a bad credit rank.

Once the mortgage is approved, you?re going to get loan delivers from the financial institutions and you can find the loan you want.

The main criteria for choosing car finance should be the interest and the mortgage period. The credit period to have an auto loan is frequently three to five decades. You can ask for a longer period on your auto loan, say, seven decades. But it is usually better to pay the loan within a shorter interval; that will put a lower awareness burden you. You must likewise find out in the lender as long as they allow more rapidly repayment regarding auto loans without penalty charges. If they carry out, you can prefer to repay the actual loans more rapidly a few months later on (depending on your earnings) and save the the loan charges.

Auto loans online are for sale to new and used cars and trucks. Usually, the financing charges on used car loans usually are higher than in which for new car loans. Research the various auto loan solutions and always see the fine print on the loan understanding before you decide on your auto loan.

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BlackBerry Mobile Fusion launches today, including Universal ...

Today Research In Motion? (RIM?) has launched the next-generation in enterprise mobile device management (MDM) ? BlackBerry? Mobile Fusion. This tool acts as a central platform giving IT managers the ability to effectively and efficiently manage the following:

I recently spoke with some enterprise customers during the BlackBerry? Innovation Forum in both Toronto and Atlanta about their thoughts on BlackBerry Mobile Fusion ? clearly customers are excited. Beyond Mobile Fusion Studio and BlackBerry? Device Service ? both of which we?ve discussed previously ? many seem eager to deploy the Universal Device Service. Check out a video overview of BlackBerry Mobile Fusion below:

[ YouTube link for mobile viewing ]

RIM has now officially released the entire BlackBerry Mobile Fusion solution, including the Universal Device Service. Similar to how BlackBerry Device Service provides a set of security and management features for BlackBerry PlayBook tablets, the Universal Device Service provides Mobile Device Management for iOS and Android based devices.

Now let?s be clear: this does not turn a random phone into a BlackBerry smartphone! BlackBerry? Enterprise Server (conveniently accessible through Mobile Fusion?s unified, web-console, Mobile Fusion Studio) pushes out 500+ IT policies to BlackBerry smartphones. This is the champagne of enterprise mobility solutions, giving organizations back-end integration and end-to-end security that only BlackBerry offers; accessed through feature rich BlackBerry smartphones in a multitude of form factors that end-users desire.

As more devices come to market, however, IT managers need to accommodate individually purchased units that come into the enterprise, whether by a sales rep deciding to expense the latest handset, a doctor bringing in their personal phone for hospital work, or a field worker getting whatever?s available on special as a replacement unit. Universal Device Service offers you ? if not a champagne solution ? perhaps a Cava or Prosecco. And, given how individual-liable devices are typically used, this is often quite sufficient. BlackBerry Mobile Fusion finally gives you a solution, managed from a single web-console, to deal with the influx of personal-liable devices in the enterprise and ensures that a range of suitable security mechanisms are in place.

Once the server software is installed and the device side client is loaded (conveniently accessed by the end user through their OS-specific app store), you?re good to go. Each component (BlackBerry Device Service, Universal Device Service, and BlackBerry Enterprise Server) runs on a single server, keeping things straightforward and simple to maintain. To get you going, in addition to the BlackBerry Mobile Fusion server software always being a free download, currently several Client Access Licenses are included in a FREE 60 day trial, so you can deploy a pilot immediately before budgeting for a full enterprise roll out.

So what exactly does BlackBerry Mobile Fusion let you do in terms of managing non-BlackBerry devices? I could write a year?s worth of blog posts on each of the different functions (and probably will!). Obviously the specific capability will vary for each OS based on the APIs that are available, but here are some of the highlights of what BlackBerry Mobile Fusion is designed to do:

  • Activate and configure devices and profiles over the air
  • Enable access to enterprise Mail, Calendar and PIM
  • Administer users and groups, natively and directory based
  • Establish corporate IT Policies and Security
  • Manage lost devices ? Password Reset, Device Lock, Device Wipe
  • Set Wi-Fi? and VPN settings
  • Deploy internally-developed apps
  • Define (and enforce) public applications as mandatory or optional
  • Provides Notifications to the Device User
  • Provides Rooting & Jailbreak Detection
  • Help manage Roaming to control your data costs
  • Prevent apps from accessing corporate mail accounts

So with the ability finally to control the chaos that seems to be the state of mobility in many organizations?when will you be deploying BlackBerry Mobile Fusion?

How do you manage non-BlackBerry devices today? Does your organization have a policy for personal versus corporate devices? How do you control the chaos? We?d love to hear what you?re doing now, and how you plan to leverage this new technology.

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FOR KIDS: Squeeze power

Under pressure, plastics produce energy

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The ?lightning shoe? looks like an ordinary Nike LeBron sneaker. But it hides a secret that isn?t revealed until the sneaks have been for a 30-minute walk. Then, a liquid solution inside the sole begins to glow an eerie blue.

Visit the new?Science News for Kids?website?and read the full story:?Squeeze power


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The Kardashians Kover Lady Marmalade


Move over, Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mýa and Pink. The Kardashians are koming!

Kendall and Kylie Jenner posted a video on YouTube yesterday, one that was filmed during the family's Christmas card shoot in December. Like that annoying Kardashian take on Katy Perry's "ET," here we see Kim, Khloe and Kourtney and Kris Jenner lip syncing along to a popular track.

In this case, the 2001 chart topper from Moulin Rouge, "Lady Marmalade." And the lyric repeated most often in that song? Voulez-vous Coucher Avec Moi Ce Soir.

Sounds about right for the Kardashians, doesn't it?

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America's Biggest National Security Threat: U.S. ... - Yahoo! Finance

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The biggest threats to U.S. national security are the nation's domestic policies and not Iran, China, North Korea or Russia says Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations.

"What we do to improve our schools, our infrastructure, what we do to reduce the budget deficit?this is going to be critical in years and decades ahead," Haass says in an interview with The Daily Ticker. "The most important national security question for the coming year is actually the domestic set of issues that involves the economy."

A Council on Foreign Relations Task Force released a report last month that found the nation's ailing public school system "threatens the country's ability to thrive in a global economy and maintain its leadership role" and "educational failure puts the United States' future economic prosperity, global position, and physical safety at risk."

Haass says these policy failures and intransigence by lawmakers to seriously and vigorously tackle the looming budget crisis portends a weaker U.S. in an increasingly competitive global economy.

"The United States right now has put itself in a position of some vulnerability," he says. "We're vulnerable to the inflows of dollars, we're vulnerable on the energy front, and the challenge for the United States in the national security realm is to do things that reduce our vulnerability to the decisions and behaviors be it foreign governments or markets."

Entitlement reform, typically a "third rail in American politics," will be the top priority after the November election, regardless of who wins the White House, says Haass. The nation's current fiscal situation cannot be reversed without changes to these entitlement programs, but it's "unrealistic to look to campaign positions as a serious guide" to how the 2013 White House will fix these critical budgetary obstacles.

Budget proposals put forth by both President Obama and Republican Congressman Paul Ryan address Medicare and Medicaid spending. But there "has to be bipartisan governance moving forward" for any reform to happen, Haass says.

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