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And before entering high school, local eighth-graders choose career paths to explore.
But connecting with students at an even younger age is critical, said Shelley Davis, vice president of existing industry with the chamber.
For student Emma Carter, the career fair was an opportunity to do one of her favorite things.
Carter said she wants to study music education one day.
And for Kayley Williams, the future is something she looks forward to.
“I want to be a doctor,” she said.
Even while many students may have an idea of what career they want to pursue down the road, important lessons were on display from a host of employers.
“I think those are pretty good principles no matter what your career path,” he added.
Davis said she hopes the career fair can be expanded next year to include more students, employers and local education partners.
“We just want to make sure that what we’re doing is the most effective for the students and the schools and the employers,” she added.
The scientific community isn't alone in getting excited about this tech. Its promise is also consistent with IBM's recently-released Next 5 in 5 YouTube video: their prediction for the five innovations that will change our lives in the next five years. IBM predicts that simple sensor networks based in cell phones and l...
Chime in below with your own ideas for scientific usage of consumer technology.
This story was written by Ethan Gutmann and originally published by Ars Technica on Dec. 28.
It's bound to happen; once the EDM community (family?) got wind of the results of the results of the 2013 DJ Mag Top 100 DJs list, you knew there'd be some questions... and debates going by. DJ Yoda from the UK has already submitted his own 100 DJ list, but many other DJs have taken to Twitter to voice their ...
The Houston community of approximately 50,000 pack up their bags as Rita approaches.
Barbara Raynor sat in her car Thursday morning alongside her two daughters, their stuffed animals, her family photos, her husband's baseball-card collection and the tallit he wore at his bar mitzva and watched the traffic inch along on the highway out of Houston. It went so slowly that some of those trying to escape th...
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi authorities, breaking with religious codes that require women to be accompanied by a male guardian, have decided to allow women to stay in hotels on their own, a newspaper reported on Monday.
A royal decree allowed the Ministry of Commerce and Industry to lay down new regulations simply requiring women to show personal identification including a photograph, which hotel managers must register with local police, al-Watan said.
Tribal custom and hardline religious strictures limit women’s movement in the conservative Islamic state, the only country in the world where women are forbidden from driving.
Saudi women can face harassment from the religious police if they are not accompanied in public areas by a male relative who acts as her “guardian”. The rules are less strictly enforced for foreigners and in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia’s most liberal city.
The paper said the rules, set out in last month’s decree, were worked out in coordination with the Ministry of the Interior and the religious police organization, two bodies who rights activists say stand in the way of improved women’s rights in Saudi Arabia.
Concern over the country’s image abroad and a desire to integrate women into the national economy have driven liberal voices within government to advance more freedoms for women.
King Abdullah has said he supports reforms, including lifting the driving ban, but only when “society” accepts it.
A Saudi delegation faced tough questioning before a panel of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in Geneva last week.
According to The Wrap, Luke Wilson and Imogen Poots will star in Cameron Crowe’s Showtime pilot about roadies, which is appropriately titled Roadies. The series will focus on the hardworking, surly assholes who make a rock and roll tour happen, with their expert loading of instruments into cases, wrapping up of cables,...
J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot studio is also on board, with Crowe saying that he came up with the idea for the show because he and Abrams are “fans of crews.” Also, Crowe has spent a lot of time following Pearl Jam around, so he might as well get some ideas out of those experiences other than movies about Pearl Jam and...
Season 1 of History’s Knightfall didn’t quite hit with the same immediate impact as, say, the network’s long-running, soon-to-be ending (and soon-to-be-spun-off) series, Vikings. The Templar Knight saga had all the right ingredients to follow in the footsteps of Michael Hirst’s violent, decades-spanning Norse family dr...
Leave it, then, to Mark Hamill to reinvigorate the show at the start season 2, and to help the series see that not all of its baser instincts are bad, it just needs to be pickier about the ones it chooses to emphasize. On that note, Knightfall begins its second season with an episode the falls somewhere between hasty r...
As a season premiere, ’God’s Executioners’ works at seemingly cross purposes, trying at once to move beyond what transpired in season 1, yet also use many of the major events that unfolded during that initial 10-episode run as the foundation on which the future of the series would be built. Somehow, the episode manages...
Nevertheless, the premiere is nothing if not genuine in its efforts to derail the show entirely before setting it back on what amounts to a slightly altered course. That new(ish) course sees Landry’s complete banishment scaled back considerably, to the point that he’s now a lowly initiate, eager to prove his worth to a...
So, is Knightfall now Hamill’s show? Well, yes and no. The main narrative of the series is still very much about the fall of Landry and his efforts to once again scale the ladder that is the order of the Knights Templar, but now it’s clear he’ll be doing so with the help of someone with a considerable amount of pop cul...
In essence, then, Hamill’s presence brings a lot to the table, not the least of which is a lightening of the series’ tone and a readiness to steer into the soap-operatic qualities the series seemed to be at odds with in season 1. It also doesn’t hurt to see Landry knocked down a peg or three, as his various non-Templar...
The series still has a ways to go before it can become the show meant to step into Vikings’ bloody footprints, but the start of season 2 and the addition of Hamill suggest that Knightfall might at least be on the path to doing so. With a dark and Spartacus-y subplot involving Gawain (Pádraic Delaney) getting his own ch...
Knightfall continues next Monday with ‘The Devil Inside’ @10pm on History.
THE SOCIAL CON'TRACT. A Personal Inquiry Into the Evolutionary Sources of Order and Disorder. By Robert Ardrey. With drawings by Berdine Ardrey. 405 pages. Atheneum. $10.
But, as you very well know by now, Mr. Ardrey is not in the business of simply stringing together items of nature news. For he is a member of that rampant band of men who devoutly believe in man as a risen ape who hasn't risen all that far. Ardrey is the band's barker. His animal stories are always part of a message. A...
What we now understand—thanks to geneticists like Sewall Wright, J. B. S. Hal dane and Sir Ronald Fisher and biologists like Sir Julian Huxley, George Gaylord Simpson and Ernst Mayr—is “population genetics,” “a wild child of mathematics conceived in a forest of impenetrable equa tions.” Put oversimply and obliquely, po...
Thus, at the approach of danger, several members of a herd of Thomson's gazelles will begin bouncing up and down in place. This may waste good running‐away‐from the‐lion time, but it warns the rest of the herd to run away. So the Thomson's gazelle population with “bouncing” genes in its “gene pool” stands to do better,...
Very interesting. But it still isn't the point of “The Social Contract,” the point that Ardrey saves his purplest prose to make. You must know, after the diet of Desmond Morris, Lionel Tiger, Konrad Lo renz and Arthur Koestler that's been fed us of late, that the major point concerns man the naked, aggressive, bonding,...
Are we to swallow all this? I honestly don't know. Ardrey's case is a lot more beguiling than this summary has made it sound. And one notes with interest how the heartier detractors of ethnological theory— the environmentalists, the philosophers of women's liberation and the defenders of human culture—go on behaving as...
All I know is that “The Social Contract” is outrageous and provocative, entertaining, whenever its prose gets untangled, and finally not to be taken too, too seriously, otherwise heart attacks will interfere with read it.
A city match angler sitting on top of the local form book carried off the Norwich and District Individual Angling Championship on Sunday.
Norwich-based Robert Hubbard added yet another scalp to his over-crowded belt with a magnificent catch of 194 River Bure roach totaling 40lb 6oz, much to the delight of the NDAA chairman Tony Gibbons, who is staging the prestigious Norfolk Broads Championship on the Rivers Bure and Thurne this Saturday.
Hubbard, who along with his brother Glenn fishes under the Daiwa Angling Direct banner, drew peg two behind the ancient abbey ruins and caught fish throughout the five hours despite fears (unfounded) that a saltwater incursion would be forced into the Broads rivers by a high spring tide. His successful strategy was off...
Runner-up was Nick Larkin (Nisa Feeders) with a mixed bag of 34lb 11oz, followed by John Platten (Nisa Feeders) with an all roach catch of 32lb 15oz.
The final round of the Nisa Feeder League series on the tidal River Yare produced a grandstand finish.
Crack Hopton angler Brian Gooch, who was trailing third on match morning, came up on the rails to overtake pace-setters Nick Larkin and Robert Hubbard during a dramatic run in.
Gooch (Daiwa Angling Direct Suffolk) easily closed a 6lb deficit and romped home at peg 78 with a magnificent mixed catch of 72lb that included half a dozen bream over 5lb, the remainder smaller skimmers and roach.
On a day when water levels rose up river, the conditions were ideal for bream and quality roach and John Platten (Nisa Feeders) scaled 51lb 5oz to come second, with Reg Bryanton (Deben) third with 45lb 7oz. Gooch finished champion with a runaway eight-match aggregate of 285lb 15oz, Larkin was runner-up with 252lb 15oz,...
The semi-final of the Angling Times/Shimano Norfolk County League went ahead at Barford and those qualifying for the grand finals staged on Barston Lakes and Packington Somers Fishery on Sunday, October 17 are: Gary Kiddell 77lb 15oz; Jim Randell 67lb 13oz; Warren Martin 66lb 7oz; Steve Crowe 60lb 5oz; Lewis Murawski 4...
In the final the Norfolk quintet will fish as a team in appropriate sections with further details of arrangements to be sent them by the Angling Times.
On the club match lakes, the heaviest catch of the week fell to Oddfellow’s winner Dennis Goodwin with 109lb 4oz at Barford. On the same venue, Andy Forest was the winning Codger with 105lb, Chris Humphrey headed the Disabled card with 104lb 10oz at Colton and, on the same water, Paul Edwards scored a winner with 101lb...
On the specimen lakes, carp of the week was a splendid 35lb 12oz common heaved out of the Taswood Fishery by Norwich regular Nigel Dade. Other specimens in the 20s were recorded by locals Oliver Robinson, Darren palmer, Kevin and Adam Smith and Barry Harmer.
Dominic Parr of Norwich reeled in a 29lb mirror carp from the Lyng Kingfisher Lake and the only fish over 20lb reported from Taverham Lake fell to city rod Jamie Seaman.
On the main Broads, pike anglers appeared more numerous than their quarry, and while these predators are benefiting from a wide choice of natural prey fish, sport in unlikely to pick up until a cold snap sends the shoals of roach and bream migrating to their winter quarters in the boatyards and dykes.
Getting on for 14 billion years ago the universe suddenly sprang into life.
I can’t actually do the math, as they say, but I’m happy to accept the word of those who can that the physics is unambiguously nailed down. But for all their undoubted brilliance, mathematicians and physicists don’t know what was going on before the big bang.
There are consequently two possibilities it seems to me: mysterious matter has always existed and spontaneously blows up on occasion; or there is some sort of animating force in the universe – let’s call it “God” for the sake of argument – that got the metaphorical ball rolling. I can’t work out which of these two poss...
I mention this because religious beliefs and “faith” remain surprisingly important despite the remarkable advances of science and – as we’ve seen yet again this week – a potential source of, and justification for, casually inflicted carnage on the innocent.
While you might get bored to death over dinner by your local agnostic endlessly agonizing about their uncertainties and ambivalence, I confidently predict that we’ll never read about heavily armed non-believers slaughtering passers-by to cries of “I’m not quite sure about the underlying principles of this action”.
Atheists aren’t much better, though, and are often true believers of a different sort. They’re unbearably smug and patronizing at best, homicidal megalomaniacs at worst. The secular supermen who ran the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany or China under Mao unleashed more than their fair share of death and destruction.
But fundamentalists of one sort or another have been at it for a lot longer and have more to answer for. The one saving grace of Christianity is that no-one seems to take it too seriously anymore. There’s nothing like endless religious wars and a reformation to engender a bit of tolerance and pluralism.
Even the current pope seems to realize that he’s not actually infallible. As for recent Archbishops of Canterbury, they don’t believe in God anyway, do they?
Unfortunately, there are still plenty of true believers out there. It seems not to occur to them that the beliefs to which they so zealously cling still have a strikingly geographical basis. Does Christianity really make sense to most Americans, for example, or Islam to most of the population of the Middle East, becaus...
But even if we put contingency to one side, evidence that God is actually concerned about the sort of religion we subscribe to is a bit thin on the ground – or anywhere else, for that matter. If God does exist, He – always seems to be a chap for some reason – doesn’t seem overwhelmingly preoccupied with our fate.
True, someone can always be relied upon to claim it’s “miraculous” that an individual has survived some earthquake/hurricane/mass atrocity while blithely ignoring the fate of the departed. But the reality is that we’re still routinely dispatched by the tens of thousands with apparently little concern from the Big Guy i...
One of the distinguishing features of modern life is that if God’s around He’s gone a bit laissez-faire on us. In the Old Testament, by contrast, He was very hands on, always smiting someone or other, reducing cities to ashes or performing sundry violations of the laws of physics. Is it just a coincidence that as our u...
It is striking that radical Islam is distinguished by a remarkably medieval world view in which critical thinking and individualism – let alone humor – are savagely discouraged. Theological nuance isn’t something the jihadists seem to do. The phrase the blind leading the blind has never seemed more appropriate.
Nevertheless, if you happen to be reading this, God – which your more enthusiastic admirers would have us believe You are, of course – You might do us all a favor and supply a bit of old style empirical evidence of Your continuing existence. Who wouldn’t have become a true believer if their wife was unexpectedly turned...
Not sure about the effectiveness of talking to people in dreams or from bushes these days, though: we tend to think such people have just got psychiatric problems.
However, if You could be persuaded to do an old-fashioned, big production miracle, this would put to rest all the questions about Your existence and might even induce a useful sense of collective fate amongst Your increasingly divided peoples.
Could I be bold enough to suggest parting the Swan River near where I live? It’s not too deep so it wouldn’t require much effort on Your part. If You could see Your way to making it a permanent feature I’d be able to walk to work as well.
Mark Beeson, Professor of International Politics at University of Western Australia, does not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has no relevant affiliations.
Young West Australian Irving Mosquito is causing a buzz ahead of the AFL draft.
Essendon recruit Irving Mosquito is well aware of the buzz surrounding his highly anticipated move into AFL ranks.
The 18-year-old draftee has already drawn comparisons to four-time Hawthorn premiership livewire Cyril Rioli and Bombers speedster Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti because of his blend of pace, creativity and goal sense.
But Mosquito is determined to be his own man when he lines up in red and black next season.
“I just play like myself, just Irving Mosquito,” he said.
Mosquito moved to Gippsland as a 12-year-old from his home in Halls Creek to chase his football dream and could have replaced the retired Rioli at Hawthorn.
However, the Hawks declined to match Essendon’s bid of pick 38 for their Next Generation Academy graduate.
Upon arriving at the Bombers’ Tullamarine base for the first time on Monday, Mosquito seized a moment to take in his new surroundings and spent time gazing at a statue of club legend Michael Long.
Soon he felt right at home at a club renowned for nurturing indigenous talent.
“Moving away from WA was pretty big, but now I’m used to it,” Mosquito said.
He was joined for his first day at Essendon by fellow Gippsland Power player Noah Gown (pick 60), Brayden Ham (72) and rookie draft selection Tom Jok (eight). Jok, 22, is an athletic Sudanese key-position player who played with Collingwood’s VFL team this year and grew up idolising David Zaharakis.
He was in awe of Essendon coach John Worsfold.
“He’s been very gentle so far and very welcoming,” Jok said.
Trump’s team is floating an attack on North Korea. Americans would die.
David C. Kang, author of “American Grand Strategy and East Asian Security in the Twenty-First Century,” is a professor of international relations and business at the University of Southern California.
The Trump administration has been floating the idea of a “bloody nose” attack on North Korea that advocates believe could punish its aggressive threats without starting a war. This is dangerous: North Korea will respond, Americans will die, and nobody knows how bad a war could become. Rather than try a fanciful and ext...
The bloody-nose option imagines that it is possible to launch a limited, surgical strike on North Korean nuclear or missile facilities that would force Kim Jong Un to chart a new course. But this is wishful thinking, based on two deeply flawed assumptions: that North Korea won’t respond and that the United States can c...
Proponents of the bloody-nose option also hope to attain two highly unlikely goals: convince North Korea to come to the negotiation table to denuclearize and to stem proliferation.
But North Korea is the most consistent country in the world: It always meets pressure with pressure of its own. There is overwhelming, decades-long evidence that North Korea will fight back. From the sinking of the South Korean corvette Cheonan in 2010, to skirmishes along the border at Yeonpyeong in 2010, 2002 and 199...
There is a logical reason for North Korea to respond to an attack, as well. If it does not, all it will have done is show that its leadership will accept a minimum level of punishment. There is no way for the United States to credibly promise to attack only once — so North Korea has to assume that if there is one blood...
The second faulty assumption is that the United States can control the escalation ladder if North Korea does respond. What are the next steps if North Korea attacks a U.S. base in Japan or South Korea? What if 500 American civilians and military personnel are killed in a North Korean retaliatory strike? The pressure fo...
What’s at stake? The lives of 300,000 Americans — roughly the population of Pittsburgh.
On any given day, there are between 250,000 and 300,000 U.S. citizens in South Korea. This includes 23,000 military personnel, their families and thousands and thousands of Americans who work, study or live in South Korea. The largest evacuation the United States has ever done was to remove 60,000 people from Vietnam i...
Some argue: “If there is a war, at least it will be over there.” Putting aside the astonishing callousness of that attitude, if there is a war on the Korean Peninsula, thousands of Americans will die, many of them civilians.
Military strikes are only likely to reinforce the desire in North Korea for a military deterrent. Strikes are thus likely to spur and increase North Korea’s missile development, not slow it. After all, if someone is attacking you, there is a powerful logic to get more weapons, not fewer. The Olympics have provided a pa...
The latest sanctions the United States has placed on North Korea, along with deterrence, are an appropriate way to pressure the regime. Both these tools can limit North Korea’s influence without inciting a war.
North Korea won’t attack first, because to do so would be regime suicide. But it will fight back if attacked. Deterrence has worked for 65 years, and it can continue to do so indefinitely. In the meantime, the United States, South Korea and other powers need to work to find other ways to affect the regime and its strat...

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