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My Catholic parish is participating in this project to commemorate the children of Gaza killed in the war there by writing their names on a giant shroud which will join others in a display in Washington DC as part of an Interfaith Action on Palestine rally July 5th-7th. This post is part of Linda's One-Liner...
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Alaska Still waiting to hear back from the Government on my job app progress. This is pretty normal, but they haven't been completely silent. Weeks ago, I got an email from someone at the agency I applied to. In basic terms, they were confused with one of the forms I had to submit, as a part of the tentative offer. The issue, my city of birth. How is that confusing you might ask? Well I was born in the capital. Washington, DC. The normal way to fill this in on an electronic form, is to put Washington as the city, and DC as the "state". After all, that's how it is on both my birth certificate, and passport. However, the fed was somehow confused. They emailed me, asking me to "fix" the error. I just resubmitted the form as it was and responded
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In which a Texas legislator explains why some of her colleagues got cussed out a while ago.
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Universities are facing growing internal and external pressures to generate income, educate a widening continuum of learners, and make effective use of digital technologies. One response has been growth of online education, catalysed by Massive Open Online Courses, availability of digital devices and technologies, and notions of borderless global education. In growing online education, learning and teaching provision has become increasingly disaggregated, and universities are partnering with a range of private companies to reach new learners, and commercialise educational provision. In this paper, we explore the competing drivers which impact decision making within English universities and their strategies to grow online education provision, through intervie...
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