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Position: The TESOL and Applied Linguistics Programs at Teachers College, Columbia University are seeking a scholar with demonstrated research interests and teaching experience in PreK-12 second language (L2) education. We are particularly interested in individuals whose area of research is content and language integration, addressing concerns such as pedagogical strategies in mainstream classrooms, the relationship between mainstream content learning, core standards, and L2 learning, the collaboration between ESL teachers and content-area teachers (e.g., science teachers), ESL teaching in the content areas, and ESL training of content teachers.

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Responsibilities: Teach graduate courses in some of the following broad areas: PreK-12 L2 pedagogy, L2 teacher observation and supervision, L2 classroom-based research, L2 curriculum design, materials development, and L2 literacy. Supervise PreK-12 student teachers, advise masters and doctoral students, and collaborate with teachers in schools. Play an active role in program administrative and development activities. Provide substantive leadership in PreK-12 L2 education. ?

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Qualifications: Earned doctorate in TESOL or Applied Linguistics; evidence of scholarly accomplishment in PreK-12 L2 education; a record of successful experience working with PreK-12 L2 teachers and students; service to the field of TESOL and Applied Linguistics.??

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To apply: Send a cover letter specifying how you would fit the position, a CV, a two-page statement of your research agenda for the next three years, a copy of three relevant publications, and three letters of reference to:

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Professor Hansun Zhang Waring

TESOL Search Committee Chair

Teachers College, Columbia University

Department of Arts and Humanities

TESOL Program, Box 66

525 West 120th Street

New York, NY 10027-6061, USA

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Review of applications will begin on November 30, 2012, and will continue until the search is completed.

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Teachers College as an institution has long been committed to a policy of equal opportunity in employment. In offering higher education in the discipline area of TESOL, the College is committed to providing expanding employment opportunities to minorities, women and the disabled in its own activities and in society.

Source: http://careers.tesol.org/jobs/4937805/professor-in-tesol-and-applied-linguistics-open-rank

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Must See HDTV (October 1st - 7th)

Must See HDTV October 1st  7th

We're still trying to clear our DVRs from last week's flood of fall premieres, but luckily there's only a few brand new shows arriving this week. On the other hand, there are a slew of Blu-ray releases and videogames debuting, so plan your time carefully. Find any new favorites among the shows making their debut last week? Let us know in the comments below and check out the highlights this week, followed after the break by our weekly listing of what to look out for in TV, Blu-ray and videogames.

NBA 2K13
With competitor NBA Live shelved (again) there's only one option for hoops on your console this year, luckily it's a pretty good one. NBA 2K13 has reworked its control scheme (again) and listed Jay-Z as its executive producer to promise some extra flair and a booming soundtrack. We can't wait for the annual rite of popping the game in, taking on our friends online and quickly getting disconnected as the servers get overloaded (again.)
($58.99 on Amazon for PS3 and Xbox 360)

30 Rock
One of NBC's best comedies finally returns this week with Liz Lemon, Jack Donaghy, Tracy Jordan and all the rest trying to put together their sketch comedy series each week. We have no idea what this season has in store but Tina Fey and the rest of the writers rarely disappoint. Now, just bring back Community and we'll be happy NBC.
(October 4th, 8PM, NBC)

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Crowley in the Ottawa Citizen, Calgary Herald & Vancouver Sun: CEOs only have eyes for China

September 29, 2012 ? In his latest column published in the Ottawa Citizen, Calgary Herald and Vancouver Sun, MLI?s Brian Lee Crowley cautions Canadian CEOs to not only have eyes for China. An excerpt below:

It is time for them, and us, to do what the CEOs professed to admire so much about the Chinese: to think about our interests in terms of centuries, not quarters. If we do, we will follow the sage advice of another speaker: not to act as supplicants grateful for crumbs, but to maintain the leverage that our coveted natural resources and other advantages give us.

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CEOs only have eyes for China

By Brian Lee Crowley, Ottawa Citizen, September 29, 2012

East is east and west is west, wrote Rudyard Kipling, and never the twain shall meet.

Clearly dear old Rudyard was never exposed to the Canadian business class hot on the scent of Chinese profits.

The twain appeared to meet with a vengeance at an Ottawa conference put on several days ago by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives on Canada in the Asian century. Clearly Canada?s CEOs never met a Chinese business opportunity they did not want to embrace. And yet these titans of our business world weren?t listening to what was being said at their own conference.

Speaker after speaker sounded important qualifications and dangers about the opportunities offered by Asia.

One of the most important was the observation that Asia was not a single thing, country, opportunity, or danger. India and Indonesia, Vietnam and even Japan were only some of the Asian economies and societies repeatedly singled out, for instance, for the opportunities they offered.

The CEOs in the room only had eyes for China.

Speakers told them the U.S. business class, five years ago equally bedazzled by China, is increasingly disillusioned. ?Nobody makes money in China? is now their mantra, and while you are struggling to establish yourself in their market, your Chinese partners are often helping themselves to your intellectual property and showing you the door when they?re done.

Our business leaders clearly thought that nothing like that would happen to us nice Canadians. One of them assured the audience that if only we came to know the Chinese as he has, we too would learn to trust them.

Hmmm.

Are we talking about the same Chinese with thousands of missiles pointed at Taiwan, who turn out large, militantly chauvinistic mobs at the drop of a hat to denounce neighbours whose behaviour the regime disapproves of, and who have been repeatedly exposed as engaged in military and industrial espionage on a large scale, including in Canada?

Is this the same China whose ambassador to Canada threatened us recently that if we didn?t approve of a Chinese state-owned company?s bid for Nexen, a Canadian energy company, that we ?wouldn?t be able to do business together?? The same China that ruthlessly and insouciantly throws peasants off land they have been farming for generations with little or no compensation because their presence has become inconvenient for Communist Party apparatchiks?

The same China whose belligerent behaviour in Asia has driven most small and medium-sized Asian countries to beg the United States to increase its military and other commitments in the region to counter-balance this overweening behemoth? The China that executes more people every year than any other country in the world?

I feel more warm and fuzzy already.

Speaking of the United States, our business leaders were also reminded that China and the United States, while clearly sharing many interests, are also locked in a power struggle. This is not the first time, after all, that a dominant world power has faced a resurgent nation bitter at its treatment by a world adjudged hostile and exploitative. China has lots to complain about regarding its treatment by western powers and their allies over the last two centuries. But one of the reasons that such rises frequently end in tears is that the rising power is wont to cast aside the ?corrupt? system that ?kept us down.?

That system would include, say, the regime of collective security that for decades has guaranteed the peace and freedom of western nations and their allies against external threats; America?s role as the guarantor of freedom of the seas; the rule of law and much more. China thinks these institutions are hostile to its interests. Canada and the U.S., in common with the vast bulk of responsible nations, see them as bulwarks of international order and prosperity. Out of this will arise unavoidable and repeated conflicts. Best to think now about how to limit the damage. Hint: not by heedlessly throwing in our lot with the Chinese.

The CEOs spent most of their time whistling past the graveyard. To the warning of one of the conference?s distinguished speakers that Canada needs at all costs to avoid being caught between the U.S. and China, between our largest market and the fastest growing, most appeared to feel the correct response was to hope they had misheard.

They hadn?t. It is time for them, and us, to do what the CEOs professed to admire so much about the Chinese: to think about our interests in terms of centuries, not quarters. If we do, we will follow the sage advice of another speaker: not to act as supplicants grateful for crumbs, but to maintain the leverage that our coveted natural resources and other advantages give us.

China respects strength and resolve. So should we.

Brian Lee Crowley is managing director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, an independent non-partisan public policy think tank in Ottawa: macdonaldlaurier.ca. @MLInstitute

Copyright (c) The Ottawa Citizen

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The Drill Hall Emporium: antiques fair soon at Runnymede in ...

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Late next week we are lucky enough to be exhibiting at an antiques and decorative arts fair at the historic National Trust property Runnymede in New Town, Tasmania.? The event is being organised by Warwick Oakman of Warwick Oakman Antiques and Gemma Webberley, Runnymede's curator.? Along with ourselves and Warwick Oakman, other exhibitors include Despard Gallery, Eaglemont Antiques, Evandale Antiques, J.B Hawkins, Leven Antiques, Miles Davis Keilar Antiques, Ricketty Rix Antiqus and?Walkers of Richmond.? As such, there will be a fantastic and?diverse?range of antiques, art and objects.? ?

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We will be setting up in the kitchen, above.? It has a?fantastic stone floor and nice simple white walls which will show off our pieces really well.? Then it is just a matter of deciding on what pieces to take!? We have a gorgeous little Tasmanian?huon pine dresser which I think would suit the property.? We will also take 19th century garden furniture for the courtyard and gardens, which are really beautiful.? I am quite excited, I love planning for fairs!? ?

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There will be antiques exhibited?in the stables or coach house, above.? Again, a gorgeous stone floor!?

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Runnymede?has a?fantastic history.? It is a?rare 19th century whaling family?s home named after Captain Charles Bayley?s favourite ship, Runnymede.? It?was the home of members of the family for more than 100 years.?

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Friday 12th October?- Sunday 14th October 10am until 5pm.? (10-4 on the Sunday).? Entry $10 proceeds of which go to the National Trust of Tasmania.? Refreshments available throughout the event.? ?

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Today's Transactions Medtronic Inc. Acquires China Kanghui Holdings for $816M

The target distributes orthopedic devices in China

Medtronic Inc. (NYSE: MDT) will acquire China Kanghui Holdings (NYSE: KH) for $816 million.

The Changzhou-based target distributes orthopedic devices throughout China.

Medtronic, a Minneapolis-based medical-device manufacturer, expects the deal to strengthen its presence in the emerging Asian market.

The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2012.

O?Melveny & Myers LLP represented China Kanghui Holdings.

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Apple taps obscure Asian suppliers to bring the iPhone and other products to the masses

BADE, Taiwan -- On a November afternoon two years ago, a taxi pulled up to the gate of Ta Liang Technology, one of countless nondescript companies that make up the global gadget supply chain.

Sitting in the back seat was an American wearing a T-shirt, shorts, sandals and carrying a backpack, looking like a tourist who took a wrong turn in this town south of Taipei that has few English speakers. But the passenger's business card needed no translation: Supply Base Engineer, Asia Procurement Operations -- Apple (AAPL).

The unscheduled visit, a glimpse of Apple's

R & D engineer Jyh Shu Tung checks a cut glass sample for chipping , at the R & D center at the Ta Liang Technology plant in Bade, Taiwan, on Tuesday, September 10, 2012. (LiPo Ching/Staff) ( LiPo Ching )

global supply chain in motion, set off a scramble. Within minutes, the Apple rep was sipping coffee with Ta Liang's chairman and other executives, who were presented with a technological challenge that could lead to a sizable contract.

Apple's massive supply chain is what enabled the record-breaking rollout Friday of the iPhone 5, more than 5 million units of which were sold by the end of the weekend. While the Cupertino-based company outsources component production to numerous corners of the globe, Taiwan is at the center of the Apple manufacturing ecosystem.

The island is packed with aggressive and nimble companies vying to provide under-the-cover but critical technology that ensures that Apple's latest gadgets arrive on the

global stage by the millions at Apple's command. And Taiwan's importance is apt to grow if Apple shifts the production of its iPhone chips from Samsung, with whom Apple is engaged in a patent war, to Hsinchu-based Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, which industry insiders here believe will happen soon.

"Apple's supply network is perhaps the most sophisticated in the world," said Creative Strategies President Tim Bajarin.

But even that finely tuned system has been strained by the high demand for the iPhone 5. Kinks along the global supply chain caused Apple to delay its original delivery dates for pre-ordered phones and many retailers ran out of iPhone 5s to sell in the days after the launch. Apple CEO Tim Cook promised in a news release to smooth things out, asking everyone for patience and vowing that the company is "working hard to build enough iPhone 5s for everyone."

Among the suppliers Apple relies on are big names like Taiwan-based Foxconn, whose factories across China employ more than a million workers who assemble everything from MacBooks to iPads. But it is off-the-radar-screen companies like Ta Liang that Apple consistently relies on to figure out hard-to-solve production problems on tight deadlines. A contract with Apple can send a supplier's stock share soaring -- or even represent most of its revenue.

But working with Apple is not easy. Its engineers are uncompromising and it imposes a code of silence enforced with financial penalties for product leaks. And its history of cutting suppliers in a heartbeat helps create a "love-hate relationship" between Apple and the companies that build its products, said Stephen Su, general director of Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute, who used to work for a company that supplies camera modules for iPhones, iPads and MacBooks.

"Apple does not co-invest in a new technology with a supplier," he said. "And they are not patient. 'Can you do it? If not, I will go to another

supplier.' "

Still, when the world's undisputed leader in consumer technology comes calling, company executives often order their engineers to work around the clock.

Initially, Ta Liang executives were aghast at Apple's specifications. They were handed flexible, folding panels made of fiberglass and told to make them without the slightest rough edge or blemish -- even though consumers would not see them because they would be covered with another material.

"That made it almost impossible," recalled Jerry Chen, president of the 325-employee-company, which builds sophisticated machines weighing 12 tons each that are used to create tech components such as circuit boards for iPhones and other devices. A week later, however, Chen invited the Apple rep back for another coffee -- and the proud unveiling of a machine that had been configured to seamlessly make the cuts Apple wanted.

"We took him to our factory to see the production," Chen said. "He used his hand to check out the cut. 'Oh, wonderful!' he said."

Apple ordered 21 machines from Ta Liang to produce the world's first iPad covers.

"He never told me what the product was for," Chen said. "It wasn't until after Steve Jobs announced it that I saw what it was for."

According to a report Apple released earlier this year, the company relies on 156 official product and components suppliers, about a third of which are based in Taiwan. But the report doesn't include companies like Ta Liang Technology, which says about 20 percent of its business is derived from building sophisticated factory machines that produce Apple products. Nor does it include TeamChem, a 17-employee startup also in Bade that makes chemical coatings for circuit boards for Foxconn.

"We are just a tiny screw in the machine," said Todd Yeh, TeamChem chairman.

But the small "screw" remains on Apple's radar screen. An Apple engineer called to inquire about TeamChem's new conductive adhesive technology that, among other things, would allow chips to be mounted directly on an iPhone circuit board, eliminating the need for tiny sockets. This would lower manufacturing costs, increase the speed in which the devices roll off assembly lines and allow them to be even thinner. The adhesive, which has yet to be mass produced, could also be used on flexible circuit boards for future devices with flexible panels.

As long as Apple remains on top, companies will do just about anything to work with it, Su said.

He recalled traveling to Cupertino a few years ago to make a product proposal. He arrived at San Francisco International Airport from Taipei in the afternoon, drove to Apple's campus for a one-hour meeting, then returned to SFO for a midnight flight back to Taiwan -- a common practice among suppliers.

"For us, time is money," said Su, who declined to say what product his former company was talking with Apple about.

Apple's willingness to cut suppliers loose on a moment's notice could ultimately damage the company's global supply chain should it lose its competitive edge, Su said. If that were to happen, many suppliers might first line up behind other companies with whom they have enjoyed long-term relationships, potentially making it more difficult for Apple to find partners, he said.

For now, though, Apple calls the shots. And suppliers willingly follow.

Working with Apple, Bajarin said, "raises their status immeasurably. If they are a supplier to Apple, they are considered a first-rate manufacturer."

In the third quarter last year, Ta Liang's Chen received an email from the Apple representative who visited his company. He wanted to know if the company could create a new metal cover for what most likely would be the iPhone 5. Once again, Apple's request required extraordinary efforts.

"They wanted it cut perfectly smoothly," Chen said. In the end, "It was too difficult for us," he said.

Still, he eagerly anticipates the next call: "We are always serious about Apple."

Contact John Boudreau at 408-278-3496; follow him at Twitter.com/svwriter

Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_21635790/apple-taps-taiwan-asia-iphone-manufacturing-supply-chain?source=rss_viewed

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Match Making Tips: Love, Dating and Marriage

For one who has spent quite a number of years on the love, dating and marriage scene, I feel qualified to make certain bold statements. Without apology it is quite clear that every normal human being desires to be happy. However let the truth be told to those who care to listen that being married or being single has nothing to do with being happy. Deciding to get married because you are presently unhappy may open you up to a rude shock! Conversely, deciding to stay single because many marriages these days don't last may leave you equally unfulfilled and unhappy. Being happy is a choice, remaining single is a choice and being married is a choice. You can CHOOSE to be the way you want to be. What you choose is what you become! It is this basic lack of understanding that has precipitated the numerous cries of "help save my marriage" that is noised all over the place these days.

The western world has the greatest number of relationship experts, counselors, books and materials yet holds the record of having the highest divorce rate, most number of single parents, and a greater ratio of single women of marriageable age to married than at any other period in time. Furthermore there is a consistent move away from heterosexual relationship and an emphasis on same sex relationship/marriage.

In my extensive study and research on the internet, one cannot but wonder if the aim of these so called experts giving advice in love relationship is to mislead the vulnerable, gullible and unsuspecting consumers of their products and services and sabotage their relationships. One of the tenets of capitalism is to find out what the consumers want, produce, sell and make a killing out of it. The direct consequence of this phenomenon on the relationship scene is that in order to produce best-sellers, experts have continued to churn out stuffs that THE CONSUMERS WANT TO HEAR not the things they NEED TO HEAR!!! No wonder the high rate of relationship failure and a destruction of the marriage and family institutions. It is all a game of numbers, and bountiful sales lead to plenty dollars in the bank. It is this burden to make a positive difference in the lives of people and correct all the false psychological theories that birthed this article

Marriage comes with certain ENJOYMENTS that singles are not afforded. Marriage is an adventure that you are encouraged to explore. However with the enjoyments come the responsibilities. Note that you may enjoy without being happy. You may enjoy the financial security that comes with being married or the sex, the status, the respect you are given for being a married woman/man, the joy of parenthood e.t.c No wonder some stay married despite the fact that they are not really happy. The reason is that there are some aspects of the relationship that they are enjoying and to them the benefit of staying married outweighs the divorce/single life option.

UNDERSTANDING THE RESPONSIBILITIES

The male man (man) and the female man (woman) are both human beings but with different roles. In a relationship, two is attempting to become one. They must thus understand that to operate as ONE TEAM each must understand and operate in its

unique role. The male becomes the HEAD of the team while the female becomes the HEART of the team. The man is called to lead while the woman is called to help. The heart is the organ to love with while the head is the organ to think, reason and coordinate with. As the heart, it is easy for the woman to be tender and loving but she has to learn to yield, submit to the leadership of her man and to complement and not compete with him. As the head, it is easy for the man to lead and co-ordinate and take the initiative but he must learn to be tender and loving always responding to the heart deep advice and nudging of the woman. This is the perfect team! Anything other than this arrangement is CONFUSION!!

The woman in a relationship may be intelligent and richer than the man but she

has to step aside and let him take charge because that is his calling. To illustrate this: Take for example a car. All the occupants of the car may know how to drive. But to get them to their mutual destination only one of them will have to drive. This is because there is only one driver seat. Others may give their opinion as to where and when to turn in order to get them to where they are going but the decision and the responsibility lies in the hands of the driver. That is the man's role. The moment each person in the relationship understands that marriage comes with enjoyments as well as responsibilities and each person is willing to accept and carry out their responsibilities, true happiness will be the result. This I believe is the best relationship love advice that can be offered at such a difficult time on the relationships scene.

Do you know how to attract your soul mate? Do you know how to build a fulfilling relationship? Relationship Coach Adekunle Kolawole can assist you with more helpful information leading to your success and advise you with all you need to attract and sustain long-term, healthy relationships. Please visit meetyourspousenow.com. Providing quality reviews, articles and writings on love, dating, relationships and marriage online.

Source: http://matchmakingtipsblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/love-dating-and-marriage.html

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