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This public lecture was organised jointly by the Royal Society and FSTC. It traced the stages in the discovery of Arabic culture by European scholars from the early middle ages until the early-modern period.
European Discovery of Arabic Culture
Reception and Lecture at the Royal Society 24th October 2011,5.30 pm -7.00pm
This public lecture was organised jointly by the Royal Society and the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation (FSTC). It traced the stages in the discovery of Arabic culture by European scholars from the early middle ages until the early-modern period.
Reception (5.30-6.00pm)
Celebrating 12 years of a journey: Uncovering the Past to Built a Better Future
- Master of Ceremony: Bettany Hughes, Historian and TV Presenter.
- Welcome Address by Prof. Lorna Casselton, Vice President and Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society.
- Speech by Prof. Salim T S Al-Hassani, Chairman of the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation (FSTC) and 1001 Inventions
- Speech by Peter Fell, Director of Regional and Economic Affairs ,University of Manchester and Vice President for strategic Affairs of FSTC.
Lecture (6.00-7.00pm)
European Discovery of Arabic Culture
- Chairman: Prof. Jim Al-Khalili, Professor of Physics and Chair of Public Engagement in Science, University of Surrey.
- Lecture by Prof. Charles Burnett, Professor of History of Islamic Influences in Europe at the Warburg Institute, University of London
- Tour of Arabick Roots Exhibition: Dr Rim Turkmani, Research Fellow, Imperial College.
(Left to Right) Prof. Lorna Casselton and Mr. Peter Fell
(Left to Right) Dr Rim Turkmani, Ms Bettany Hughes, Prof. Jim Al-Khalili, Prof. Lorna Casselton,
Prof. Mohamed El-Gomati, Sir Crispin Tickel and Prof. Salim T S Al-Hassani
Prof. Charles Burnett giving his lecture at The Royal Society
Professor Charles Burnett's Lecture
The subject of the influence of Arabic/Muslim culture on Europe is becoming increasingly important in today's socio-political-economic environment. The cultural roots of science, technology and art can play a significant role in enhancing inter-cultural respect.
In his lecture, Charles Burnett traced the stages in the discovery by European scholars of Arabic culture from the early middle ages until the early-modern period, through their translations of secular and religious works from Arabic into Latin. He addressed questions such as:
- Why did the early European scholars, including some founders of the Royal Society, study Arabic?
- How did the acquisition of manuscripts take place?
- How was the study of Arabic established in European universities?
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(Left to Right) Prof. Charles Burnett and Prof. Lorna Casselton
Professor Lorna Casselton's Speech
It's a great pleasure to welcome you to the Royal Society this evening to hear Professor Burnett's lecture and to see the wonderful exhibition, which I hope you may have time to see afterwards, which the exhibition curator Dr. Rim Turkmani will show you later in the evening.
Now, as Jim's just said, I'm foreign secretary of the Royal Society and my brief from the 1663 charter, the 1663 charter which was three years after the Society was founded, it said that Fellows had to go out and have affairs with all manner of foreigners... well, it's been a very good job for the past five years, I have to tell you!
Well the early Fellows were not just interested in living scientists, but in the giants of science that went before. When the Society was founded, as I said in 1660, 350 years ago, the Fellows were not content to just think about science: they were experimentalists. They had to carry out experiments and make observations. Their motto, as it still is, was nullius in verba, which sort of loosely translated, is "take no man's word for it". From the very beginning, they were interested in the observations and experiments of others, of course, which is why they were so interested in the Arabic and Persian manuscripts arriving at that time in England and describing so many experiments and observations, some written by scholars living centuries before. And not content with translation, they wanted to read them in the original script. The most famous chemist at that time, Robert Boyle, had studied Arabic for other reasons, but he was able to use this knowledge and that of his friends, who were familiar with Arabic and Persian, to read many treatises. Edmund Halley, the astronomer, learned Arabic when he was 50 because he had spotted errors in a Latin translation he was reading. The Royal Society does not just elect Fellows from the UK and the Commonwealth, it always elects foreign Fellows each year, who we always welcome, but it is interesting to note that the Society elected three Arabic Fellows in the 17th and 18th centuries.
I should like to thank the Foundation for Science, Technology and Civilisation(FSTC) and the Qatar Foundation for sponsoring the curating and research of the Arabick Roots exhibition, and of course that was done by Dr Rim Turkmani, who will show you round later, and I also think this is a really wonderful occasion for us to meet together and hear about the Arabic world.
(Left to Right) Prof. Lorna Casselton and Prof. Salim Al-Hassani
Highlights of Prof. Salim T S Al-Hassani's Speech
- Thanked Professor Lorna Casselton.
- Thanked Bettany Hughes for flying all the way from Geneva to lead this reception, when Peter Fell was standing by. Such is the passion of our members and associates. Another example of the passion of our supporters is an unbelievable story. A recent member of FSTC, who shall be nameless, was lying down in hospital bed undergoing a surgical procedure for inserting a stent in his heart arteries. Whilst observing video screen showing the catheter being navigated through arteries, he though he must of think of something to take his mind away from that. So he said let me think of Salim's Royal society's speech to be given on the 24th Oct. At that moment his heart stopped. After few seconds he was resuscitated back to live by electric shock. The following day he wrote to tell that story with bullets points he had wished that I consider in my speech. Fantastic ! What a demonstration of passion and loyalty to the cause of our noble mission. I now tell you a mixture of his thoughts and my words.
- 12 years go with a single question from my colleague professor Donald Cardwell saying there is a gap of a 1000 yrs , which we call the dark ages, How can we filled it with the contributions of other cultures and civilizations? and another question from the Lord Mayor of Watford, Dorothy Thornhill, asking why are none of the inventions and scientific achievements of non-European civilizations in our National curriculum?
- It was a humble beginning in one room. We recognized when we look at history through the lens of science and inventions, we see harmony and mutual respect. We saw how male and female Muslims, Jews, Christians and others worked together within the Muslim civilization. We saw how Muslims inherited and added upon knowledge from previous cultures and how Christian Europe inherited and added upon all that, hence the use of the term "Muslim Heritage". We understood the meaning of Newton's famous sentence of "I stood on the shoulders of giants".
Prof. Salim Al-Hassani giving his speech at Royal Society
- We had resonance very quickly.
- Since then we have been round the world, met many many people
- Our academic portal MuslimHeritage.com and our book, 1001 Inventions have reached 100's of thousands of people.
- Via 1001 Inventions Exhibitions, films and websites, we have helped millions to enrich their identity and to see that we can work together for the future
- The key point is that we all have a partly shared past. This means that we have a partly shared identity. This in turns means that we can look at how we work in the present for a better shared future in new ways.
- Along the way we have always focused on the cultural roots of science as new space for dialogue, neutral to religion and politics
?The next part of the journey
- I never thought, 12 years ago, that I would be standing here at the Royal Society, the oldest living established scientific institution in the world, representing FSTC as a sponsor of the research that produced this excellent Arabick Roots exhibition. Dr Turkmani has done a wonderful job and we are proud to be associated with this work, which is so directly in line with FSTC's vision and mission. Thank you to the Royal Society for their openness to allow access to their archives and enabling us all to see the kind of connections that mark the transfer of knowledge, discovery, invention and wisdom from the many Arabic scholars into the West. Of course there are other roots that form the basis of our global scientific knowledge, but it is good to see these specific roots being illuminated in such an august institution as the Royal Society – it stands as a beacon for other such organisations around the world.
- Nothing ever stands still and FSTC must be the same, it is time for the next part of our continuing journey, our unfolding adventure is about to commence
- Starting in January 2012, FSTC will begin the next chapter of its story with the appointment of a new Chairman, my distinguished colleague Professor Mohamed El- Gomati, Professor of Nanotechnology at the University of York.
(Left to Right) Professor Mohamed El- Gomati and Prof. Salim T S Al-Hassani
- I will continue my work with FSTC, in the role of President. I will be representing our organisation on an international basis and leading our efforts to build new relationships and ensure that our existing ones flourish during our new era.
- The new chapter has new goals, new energy, and new people. The vision remains the same – to help all people enrich their identity by an understanding of a shared past so that we can all work better together for a share future. Surely that is what we all want and need?
- But how will we do this?
- We will continue with the many projects that we have under way. We are now embarking upon new strategic relationships with many important institutions e.g. British Science Association (UK), MIT(US), National Geographic Society (US), The Warburg Institute, University of London (UK), Six key Turkish universities including the new Istanbul civilization university (Turkey), various Arab, Malaysian, Indonesian, Chinese and Indian educational institutions. We must find new ways of funding these and our new endeavours. FSTC has a very well proven track record of achieving great things with modest funding, for our new work we must now think bigger.
- Just how big we are now thinking is revealed by our new goals, we believe that from the platform we have built so far, we can achieve them.
- As of today, I am announcing four key goals for FSTC:
- Global Education Heritage Fund to support project promoting the cultural roots of science.
- Programmes for our noble mission reach10% of all shools and educational institutions worldwide
- Campaign to set up new version of Davos. Using the successes in the past to build a better future.
- Lobby the United Nations to recognize and honour those great men and women scientists and inventors from all cultures who have been overlooked.
- These are really big goals for a relatively small organisation, but let us not forget the words of Margaret Mead "never doubt that a small group of thoughtful dedicated people can change the world, indeed it has never been any other way". I believe that we are such a group and that others like you will join us in our work
- When you look at what FSTC has achieved so far, I have no doubt that we can do it, it is something we have to strive for. Maybe not for ourselves, but for our children and their children's children. We need to get back to thinking about the long term and not just about ourselves and the short term
- To achieve our vision we will need help and support. I ask you to join us in this noble endeavour.
- Thank you for your time, enjoy the lecture and the exhibition.
Dr Rim Turkmani's Speech
Dr Rim Turkmani is a Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow of the Royal Society and FSTC. She works at the Astrophysics group at the Imperial College London. She also specialises in the impact of the Arabic science on the scientific revolution, and has conducted original research in this area which was developed into the 'Arabick Roots' exhibition. Having studied and worked as a scientist in many countries, including her home Syria, she has particular appreciation of cultural diversity in science and the importance of dialogue in the making of modern science.
Exhibition Curator Dr Rim Turkmani said: "This exhibition uncovers the never-before told story of the connections between the early Royal Society and contemporary and classical Arabic learning, and how they were used to solve some of the most pressing problems of the day."
"This was a time when British society as a whole was largely ignorant of the cultural achievements of the Arabic world – yet we find that the early Royal Society's group of 'ingenious and curious gentlemen' included three Fellows from the Arabic world. This forgotten history reveals a rich tradition of communication between two very different cultures, and shows that then – just like today – collaboration across linguistic and cultural boundaries can lead to great results.
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As one of the top-rated environmental law centers in the Western United States, the Stegner Center is home to a talented group of faculty fully committed to shaping environmental policy. Faculty members serve on local and national NGO boards and advisory committees, are consulted by state and federal government officials on a range of policies, and testify before Congress and other policy-making entities." Discover future events, resources, news and more on their website.

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Brought to the U.S. from Mexico at the age of 4, Eric Balderas' life has resembled that of Texas' newest senator, Ted Cruz.
Both were born outside the United States and rose from humble origins to attend Harvard.
But Balderas' visit to the Capitol Tuesday wasn't intend to cheer on his fellow Harvarder. The San Antonian came to the Senate Judiciary Committee's immigration hearing to see Cruz fail.
The reason is simple: Cruz's amendment, which was overwhelmingly rejected by the committee Tuesday, would have barred Balderas and other so-called "Dreamers" from ever becoming American citizens.
Balderas, an advocate of comprehensive immigration reform, said a pathway to citizenship is integral to fixing the nation's broken immigration system.
"You can't exclude citizenship in the bill," Balderas said in an interview.
He said he knows many students who are unauthorized immigrants, who work hard, and yet are ineligible for benefits such as certain scholarships and loans.
Balderas, now 22, was the valedictorian of San Antonio's Highlands High School in 2009, and studies government at Harvard. Cruz also graduated valedictorian in 1988 and went on to Ivy League schools Princeton and Harvard Law School. Balderas is unsure if he will follow Cruz's path and go to law school, but he is considering it.
"I just walked through the law school two days ago," Balderas said in an interview.
Both men were born outside the country, but because Balderas did not have an American parent, when he was brought to US, he lived as an unauthorized immigrant. In 2010 he was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He received deferred action and now lives legally under DREAMer provisions for those on the path to graduation.
Cruz was born in Canada and was born a U.S. citizen because his mother was an American.
Balderas said he could not believe Cruz's opposition to citizenship considering his position as a Latino leader and his life story.
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A posse was on the hunt recently to lasso interest in the Pine Cliff Equestrian Trails at the Croatan National Forest.
A posse was on the hunt recently to lasso interest in the Pine Cliff Equestrian Trails at the Croatan National Forest.
A group of 86 horse riders turned out earlier this month to celebrate completion of 13 miles of trails and draw attention to the need for camping facilities at the site as a draw for equine tourism.
�We just want everybody to know about it. We�re trying to get camping here,� said Buffy Blood, president of the Benefiting Intracoastal Trails, a nonprofit organization formed eight years ago to spearhead the effort to create the equestrian trails in the national forest.
�We�re trying to get more interest and more facilities here in the eastern part of North Carolina. There are camping areas for horses in other parts of the state and we�d love to see it start here,� she said.
The effort to get the trail established goes back more than half a dozen years, said Dennis Foster, assistant ranger for recreation and engineering at the Croatan National Forest.
Foster said a $71,000 federal Race to the Top grant funded creation of the trails, and another $75,000 grant would pay for completion of the parking lot.
�It�s a unified effort. They help us maintain it,� Foster said of the trails group. �They did all the mowing this year and all the brushing and a lot of maintenance. There�s a lot of maintenance. Because everything grows here; they�ve got to be brushed twice a year.�
Foster said the horse trails are rare in the eastern part of the state, and he has already been contacted by two other groups about them.
�It�s going to be a point of destination for the Croatan,� he said. �There are not many trails of this magnitude in Eastern North Carolina. Once that it becomes established I believe that people are going to drive from all across the state to do this trail.�
Foster said the trail has a variety of scenery.
�It goes down along the river. There�s some really magnificent things down there to look at,� he said. �It goes all the way through upland hardwood to bottomland hardwood.�
Edward Lloyd, of Havelock, called the trail an asset for horse enthusiasts.
�One of our big hopes is that the forest service will turn this into a facility where we can camp overnight with our horse trailers,� he said. �That�s something that we really need because it would help draw in more people from further away.�
Lloyd said there were about 300,000 horses in the state making up a multi-billion dollar industry.
�Some place like Pine Cliff here is very, very important; and the economic impact is just far reaching, much more than anybody realizes,� he said.
Peggy Grammer, of Newport, came out for the ride through the forest.
�It�s beautiful,� she said. �We just so thoroughly enjoy coming out here. It�s a piece of paradise because of the serenity, the woods, the water. It�s just a great ride.�
She thinks camping on the trails is a good idea.
�If you come from a long distance, you want to have a place to camp and keep your horses,� Grammer said. �The more we promote it, the more people will come out.�
All of the trails start at a gravel parking lot one mile down the access road to the Pine Cliff Recreation Area on the left. The trees at the start are marked with large red splotches of paint. There are three trails � red, yellow and blue � of various lengths.
�I love to ride here,� said Debbie Geraty, a member of the trails group from Newport. �We love the fact that since we live on the flatlands, this has a little bit of up and down. You get a lot of the changes in the colors of the seasons. You can ride along the Neuse River and walk on the sand and then head back into the forest.
�It�s one of my favorite places really. It gives you the illusion that you�re in the mountains but you�re really not.�
Mary Humphreys said the blue trail is her favorite.
�The horses love it,� she said. �It�s just very peaceful and quite out here.�
Eventually the trails could be linked with the state�s Mountains to the Sea Trail.
There is no admission charge to use the trails. The use of motorized all terrain vehicles is prohibited and there is a $500 fine for anyone caught using an ATV on the trail. Pedestrians and bicycles are allowed.
For more information on Benefiting Intracoastal Trails, contact Blood at 252-249-9850 or email@example.com.
More information is also available by calling the Croatan National Forest office at 252-638-5628.


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Melissa McCarthy and Other Best Actress Nominees Play Beauty Pageant at the Emmys [VIDEO]
'Mike & Molly' star Melissa McCarthy was the surprise winner at last night's Emmy Awards, taking Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy.
The nominees for the award — including Tina Fey and Amy Poehler — broke tradition by all appearing onstage together before the winner was announced like they were competing in a beauty pageant.
When McCarthy's name was called, she was given a tiara and flowers by presenter Rob Lowe and the other nominees. "Wow, this is my first and best pageant ever," McCarthy, who also starred in the hit summer movie 'Bridesmaids,' said. Watch this memorable moment below.
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Reigniting his clash with Republicans over how to tame the debt and deficits, President Obama delivered a blistering attack on the House Republican budget Tuesday, calling it "thinly veiled social Darwinism" and a "prescription for decline."
The Republican budget proposal, Mr. Obama said, would bring draconian cuts to education, transportation, and the social safety net for seniors and the poor as the wealthy receive tax cuts.
And even as Obama derided Reagan-era "trickle-down economics," he sought to paint the current Republican Party as being to the right of the conservative icon, noting that President Reagan once worked with Democrats to save Social Security.
The $3.5 trillion Republican budget "is a Trojan horse," Obama said in a lunchtime address to the annual meeting of the Associated Press in Washington. "Disguised as deficit reduction plans, it is really an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country. It is thinly veiled social Darwinism."
"It is antithetical to our entire history as a land of opportunity and upward mobility for everybody who's willing to work for it, a place where prosperity doesn't trickle down from the top, but grows outward from the heart of the middle class," Obama continued. "And by gutting the very things we need to grow an economy that's built to last — education and training, research and development, our infrastructure — it is a prescription for decline."
The president spoke as Republicans headed to the polls Tuesday in Wisconsin, Maryland, and the District of Columbia for primaries that could effectively seal their party's nomination for Mitt Romney. Obama mentioned Mr. Romney by name, as he sought to lash the former Massachusetts governor to a radical — and, he hopes, electorally unappealing — image of the Republican Party.
"One of my potential opponents, Governor Romney, has said that he hoped a similar version of this plan from last year would be introduced as a bill on Day 1 of his presidency," Obama said. "He said that he's very supportive of this new budget."
Obama tweaked Romney for calling the budget "marvelous."
That's "a word you don't often hear when it comes to describing a budget," Obama said, chuckling. "It's a word you don't often hear generally."
But aside from that light moment, Obama mostly sought to paint the Republicans darkly, as a party that envisions a country "where a shrinking number of people do exceedingly well while a growing number struggle to get by."
He then laid out a future of budget cuts that he said would set the country on a path of decline: Nearly 10 million college students would see financial aid cut by an average $1,000 each; 1,600 fewer medical grants; 4,000 fewer scientific research grants; reduced investments in clean energy; cuts in nutritional aid to 2 million mothers and young children.
"That's just a partial sampling of the consequences of this budget," he said.
Leading Republicans dismissed Obama's speech as campaign rhetoric, calling his attacks distortions and partisan pot-shots.
"If the president were serious, he would put forward a plan to deal with our debt crisis and save Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid for future generations of seniors without raising taxes on small businesses that are struggling in this economy," said House Speaker John Boehner in a statement. "Instead, he has chosen to campaign rather than govern, and the debt crisis he is presiding over is only getting worse."
In his speech, Obama maintained that he had put out a plan — one similar to the Bowles-Simpson deficit commission that he commissioned in 2010, which entails a "balanced approach" to deficit reduction: cuts in discretionary spending, cuts in mandatory spending, and increased revenue.


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Joseph James DeLuca, 80, of Mount Bethel, passed away peacefully on Feb. 8, 2013, at Brookmont Healthcare Center in Effort.
Born in Newark, N.J., he was the son of the late Philip and Anna DeLuca.
Until his retirement, Joseph spent his working years doing what he loved as a car salesman.
A veteran of the U.S. Army, he served during the Korean War.
In addition to his love of cars, he was also an avid outdoors man who enjoyed hunting and fishing. He also enjoyed woodworking.
He is survived by his four children, Philip DeLuca and his wife, Jeanna, of Honesdale, Janet Pepe and her husband, Albert, of Tobyhanna, Steven DeLuca and his wife, Janet, of Hawley, and Lynda Yosco and her husband, Richard, of Cresco; two brothers, Vincent DeLuca of Manahawkin, N.J., and Frank DeLuca of Flemington, N.J.; a sister, Jennie Niebylski of South Plainfield, N.J.; seven grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by a sister, Caroline Kummer.
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March 08, 2013
New Game Design Merit Badge/Contest
The BSA has released a new Game Design merit badge. In addition, they are encouraging participation in the STEM game design contest to promote the new merit badge. Here is the info from the BSA:
- Compete in the National STEM Video Game Challenge and win prizes.
- Entry submissions for the competition, which is for middle school
- and high school students, are due by April 12.
- Visit http://stemchallenge.org/ for more details.
February 08, 2013
Wiki Updates
Advancement changes for rank and merit badges based on the new 2013 Boy Scout Requirements have been completed.
July 08, 2012
Unscheduled maintenance
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April 23, 2012
New BSA Health and Safety guidance
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- Age Guidelines for Tool Use and Work at Elevations or Excavations, BSA Pub. 680-028 (2012 Printing) (3 pgs)
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March 25, 2012
All merit badge worksheets have been updated
I've just finished uploading all Merit Badge Worksheets (workbooks), which were recently reviewed and updated by User PaulSWolf. —RWSmith (Bureaucrat), 16:53, March 25, 2012 (EDT)
|Special thanks to... PaulSWolf and the U.S. Scouting Service Project (USSSP) for allowing us permission to use his work and re-format (wikify) it for our use here. Paul is a Sysop (here and on our forums), as well as Secretary of the USSSP.
February 21, 2012
New Sysop
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Gerity Named New Vice President for Academic Affairs, July 13, 2000
SOCORRO, July 13, 2000 -- Peter F. Gerity recently was named vice president for academic affairs at New Mexico Tech, administrators at the state-funded research university announced today.
Gerity previously served the past six years as vice president for research at Utah State University in Logan, Utah's second-largest public university.
"New Mexico Tech is indeed very fortunate to have hired such an outstanding individual to fill this key administrative position at our school," says Tech President Daniel H. López. "Throughout his career, Dr. Gerity has established a proven track record of excellence in teaching and research, as well as in academic administration."
In his new leadership role as vice president for academic affairs at New Mexico Tech, Gerity will oversee and supervise all aspects of the college division at the university, including personnel and budgetary matters for all academic departments and related units.
"We look forward to an efficient and progressive tenure as Dr. Gerity takes the helm of New Mexico Tech's Office of Academic Affairs," López adds.
Gerity earned his baccalaureate degree from Delaware Valley College in Doylestown, Pa., his secondary science education certification from Montclair State College in Montclair, N.J., and both his master's and doctoral degrees from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Va.
Prior to assuming his former administrative position at Utah State University, where he also served as both a professor of engineering and a professor of agriculture, Gerity was an associate dean at the University of Utah's college of engineering.
In addition to his active involvement with several, ongoing research projects, Gerity also currently serves as president of AMS, Inc. Consulting Services and A&G International, an international and domestic agribusiness and technology marketing company.


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Aviva Premiership
Lowe goes under the knife
ESPN Staff
October 5, 2012
George Lowe is set to be sidelined for six weeks after undergoing ankle surgery © Getty Images
Harlequins have revealed that centre George Lowe will be sidelined for six weeks after undergoing surgery on an ankle injury.
The 22-year-old has missed Quins' last two Premiership clashes after picking up a knock in training and went under the knife on Friday to remove a bone fragment from his ankle.
The versatile Lowe started the defending champions' first three games of the campaign, scoring a try in the 40-3 demolition of London Welsh, having battled back from an ankle ligament injury suffered on international duty with England in South Africa in June.
Quins' director of rugby Conor O'Shea has made two changes in the wake of their defeat to Saracens last weekend for Saturday's clash with Exeter Chiefs. Karl Dickson starts ahead of Danny Care at scrum-half while in the forwards, Mark Lambert makes his first start of the season at loose-head with Joe Marler covering from the bench.
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SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - A federal agency working to rein in the population of wild horses in the West should rely more on fertility control than roundups because it would be more effective, a National Academy of Sciences review said on Wednesday.
The critique of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) handling of 37,300 free-ranging horses and burros also faulted the agency for a lack of transparency and public involvement in key decisions about the federally protected animals.
An independent panel at the National Academy of Sciences conducted a two-year assessment at the request of the BLM, amid growing controversy surrounding a program that authorizes roundups, adoptions and sale of thousands of wild horses, also called mustangs, and burros.
The roundups in 10 western U.S. states are popular with ranchers, who see the efforts to curb wild herds as a means to ensure their sheep and cattle have enough grass to feed on. Groups in support of wild horses point to inhumane roundups that routinely injure and sometimes kill animals.
The National Academy of Sciences report found the BLM's roundups of horses and burros were counterproductive because in the long-run they decreased competition for food and resulted in higher birth and survival rates.
The panel of scientists urged federal horse managers to curb herds through increased use of fertility control, such as vaccines shot by dart at female horses, rather than roundups and removals. The BLM currently allocates to fertility control on wild herds only a fraction of what it spends on roundups.
The BLM, which is part of the U.S. Department of the Interior, says Western public lands - leased for everything from cattle grazing to oil and gas exploration - can support 26,500 wild horses in states from Idaho to Nevada.
Wild horses unlikely to be adopted or sold are shipped to open-air enclosures that contain 50,000 animals, or nearly 13,000 more than roam free. The roundups, removals and warehousing of mustangs last year consumed much of the bureau's $75 million budget for managing wild horses and burros.
Neil Kornze, the bureau's principal deputy director, said in a statement that the agency was in agreement with the panel's view that "no quick or easy fixes exist to this pressing issue."
He added that the bureau agreed that investments in science-based approaches and alternatives like fertility control could reduce costs and boost public confidence.
Suzanne Roy, director of the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign, said her group supports the conclusions of the scientific report.
"We're calling on the Bureau of Land Management to immediately halt roundups and removals and implement a sustainable and humane program that treats wild horses and burros in the way the public demands," she said.
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This month, Greene presents research data about corporate buying practices that reveal some interesting inclinations and give an up-to-date look at the market for wide-format graphics.
By Tim Greene
Early in 2009 someone asked me, "How much overcapacity do we see in the US right now?" He asked this leading question in the context of wide-format printing equipment. His point must have been that so much equipment is installed, and it is so productive, that we must be over capacity—especially in light of the economic downturn. The question got me thinking. We're seeing news of layoffs all over corporate America, we are in an era when my three year old knows what downsizing is, and people are as productive as ever.
Maybe he's right. Maybe we're over capacity as an industry, but I don't see that as a condition that will change. I think it's a characteristic of the printing industry as a whole. After all, shop owners want to be prepared for the busiest times. Most businesses have their ebbs and flows, but the extremes are highly disruptive. The extreme ebbs cause layoffs and ruin companies; the extreme flows create jobs and make people invest in new and more productive equipment.
I really can't say whether the market for wide-format digital graphics is any more prone to run at low capacity than any other segment of the market, but I do understand why it is the way it is. In a recent InfoTrends study, we asked more than 300 corporate print buyers, all who regularly buy wide-format digital printing, about their typical turnaround requirements for wide-format graphics. The answer to this question helps us understand why the need exists to invest in faster and faster digital equipment for the production of wide-format graphics. Our data show that these buyers need 20% of the graphics they purchase to be printed on the same day the place the orders and that 70% of orders must be fulfilled within two business days.
The need for speed is likely to accelerate. In the same study we asked these corporate print buyers why they chose certain print-service providers. Their responses indicate that the top three considerations are price, quality, and turnaround time. These responses far outweighed the other decision-making points: knowledgeable staff, convenient location, customer service, range of products/services, and availability of expert design help. This makes sense, right? Even if a printer can meet the price you need and you trust they will do a good job, what good is that if they can't meet the deadline?
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A new study is driving home the seriousness of the situation.
Using National Health and Nutrition Survey data from more than 12,000 youth age 2 to 19, researchers found that the rates of childhood obesity in the nation have tripled, with the prevalence of severe obesity climbing from 0.8 percent in the period 1976 to 1980 to 3.8 percent in the period 1999 to 2004.
That suggests some 2.7 million children in the United States are severely obese -- a frightening trend which, if not reversed, could see a generation of children dying younger than the generation before them.
More sedentary lifestyles and poor food choices are key culprits. While schools have made headway in nutrition and wellness initiatives in recent years, there's a long way to go. Exercise, naturally, remains a priority.
But just as findings of the study on childhood obesity became known, a separate study revealed an increase in injuries to children during physical education classes. With a growing emphasis on more vigorous exercise in schools, injuries to youngsters were up 150 percent from 1997 to 2007.
The trend isn't a reason to discourage physical activity, of course, but rather a sign that school districts should consider ways to make phys-ed classes safer.
Too often, teachers who supervise gym classes -- particularly in elementary schools -- aren't trained in physical education, and might not recognize situations that could lead to injury. They also may not know proper warm-up exercises.
Children need help establishing good fitness habits early in life. With many youngsters more interested in video games, we have to wonder if they have any idea how to exercise. No one wants to see a child get hurt. But that possibility shouldn't keep children on the sidelines when exercise is a needed weapon against childhood obesity and chronic illness. Bumps and bruises, even broken bones that can occur during exercise and sports will heal. It's not so easy to mend the long-term health problems of children who become dangerously overweight.
On the Web:
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes.htm What do you think could be done to curb the rising child obesity rate? Talk about it at SWKTalk.com.
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Audio Network
From Bloominglabs
Bloominglabs has a speaker network throughout the space. An audio input also made of CAT5 is available in the front room. The excellent noise rejection capabilities of CAT5 helps keep 60Hz noise to a minimum as long as the input is connected to an output device.
How to use the stereo
- Turn on the stereo along the far back wall of the workshop.
- Make sure the input is set to "CD", also that both the "A" and "B" speakers are displayed (one set is the workshop and the other is the front room)
- Plug your audio source into the 1/8" phono jack hanging in the front room if you are working from there (yellow CAT5 with adapter and plug on the end). You can also jack directly into the stereo if you are only working in the workshop.
Future upgrades
We have a 4 channel mixer which we plan to use to link both the CCTV_Network and this audio network, as well as our friendly in-space AI called Wintermute. Wintermute currently has the ability to greet members as they use their RFID both with text-to-speech and by using our scrolling LED sign in the front room. Wintermute also watches our WiFi network and other signs of life in the space.


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text: On the way to Pewter City and then the Battle Pyramid, Ash and May encounter a Golden Sudowoodo. Ash tries to catch it but fails. In town, Brock doesn't believe them but a bunch of people do and want info. After the people mob them for information, they retreat with a boy named Keenan where they learn that Sudowoodo is his. Keenan tells them for some reason Sudowoodo will not come back to Keenan. Meanwhile, Team Rocket hear of this and decide to capture Sudowoodo, however the townspeople also have their eyes on Sudowoodo! It turns out that Sudowoodo is Gold because of an experiment that Keenan performed on it, which is why it will not go back to Keenan. Can Ash and friends stop Team Rocket and the townspeople from taking Sudowoodo? And can Keenan get the chance to reconcile with his pokémon?


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I have one religious friend.
That's a bad way to start a blog post, because as Kevin Hart once brilliantly said (albeit about black people):
"Nothing is more racist than having one black friend. Zero black friends is somehow less racist than having one black friend."
He and I get along just fine, thank you very much. He knows I'm an atheist and doesn't bother me about it, and I know he's religious and I don't bother him about it. The reason we both get along so well is mostly that we both recognize that belief (or lack-thereof) is a personal matter and not subject to argument or reasoning, something that many of my fellow atheists fail to realize.
Many people are scared to define themselves as 'Atheists' because of the stigma perpetuated by what I like to call "Anti-theists"; those people you know very well who aren't satisfied with being Atheists themselves, but go around preaching and trying to convert other people as well. Many people think, somewhat justifiably, that those people are just as bad as religious preachers - and it's therefor become a common practice among theists and anti-atheists to define 'Atheism' as a 'religion' because of that group of people who are as strict, militant, and extreme as some religious people are.
Personally I have a problem with both the people who define atheism that way and the people who justify that definition. I'm a 'Live and Let Live' kind of Atheist, and I would like to reclaim the title 'Atheist' from them and restore it back to what it means for me: Not believing in god(s) or any other supernatural force. It is not a 'religion' to me, there aren't any 'rules', there is no dogma and I do not preach. I am an atheist – in the most literal and simple form of the word, and that is all that means.
Two of the favorite "Atheist Celebrities", at least online, are Richard Dawkins - an evolutionary biologist and the inventor of the word 'Meme', and Neil deGrasse Tyson – an astrophysicist and one of the people responsible for the demotion of 'Pluto' from a planet to a mere dwarf-planet. The two however are vastly different in their approaches to the religious debate.
The former is famous mostly for his anti-religious rants and his almost militant views on theism, while the latter is famous mostly for advocating science literacy. And while most people might think that those two go hand-in-hand, you'll notice how Tyson never said ANYTHING for or against religion – he sticks strictly to science. He is – after all, a scientist.
But Tyson has not just neglected to refer to the subject – he actively refuses to 'take sides' in the 'Theists vs. Atheists' debate. As he puts it:
"Unlike Dawkins, I'm not gonna run around telling people what to believe and what not to believe, I'm not interested in that – that's not my mission."
Tyson even goes as far as criticizing Dawkins' approach straight to his face, saying to him:
"You are a professor of the public understanding of science, not professor of delivering the truth to the public, and these are two different exercises. Persuasion isn't always: "Here are the facts, and then you're either an idiot or you're not", persuasion is "Here are the facts, and here is a sensitivity to your state of mind" – and it's the facts plus that sensitivity that create impact. And I worry that your methods and how articulately barred you can be, end up simply being ineffective when you have much more power of influence than what is currently reflected in your output".
And Tyson makes a very good point: You cannot have a conversation with someone when your entire premise is that they're stupid if they disagree with you, or that their premise is innately wrong. Furthermore, it's Dawkins' approach that causes people to shy away from what might otherwise be a strong and important message about science literacy and understanding. For all we know, Tyson might not even be an atheist! And that's fine.
Tyson goes on to explain:
"I don't care what you believe – so long as it doesn't harm another person".
And that's an important line to draw: any freedom – be it the freedom OF religion, the freedom FROM religion, or any other type of freedom – is only defendable so long as it doesn't interfere with other people's more innate freedoms. My freedom to be an atheist shouldn't interfere with other people's freedom to be religious – and for the most part it does not. Sadly, the other way around isn't as clear, as in many societies religious practices and ceremonies are not only supported by the states – they're sometimes even enforced.
It gets even more complicated when you talk about education. Tyson there puts this distinction:
"… However! If what you believe is demonstrably false, and you want to pass it off as true in a science classroom – I have an issue with that. If you want to say it in a religion class – fine… in the "Belief System" class, fine. In the "History of Human Thought" class, fine!"
And that is exactly the kind of distinctions we should be making. People are free to believe what they want, but when a history school teacher in New Jersey tells his students that they will "burn in hell if they don't believe in Jesus Christ" or that "the big bang and evolution are not scientific theories" and that "Noah's Arc carried dinosaurs", that's where the line should be drown – as he's not just passing off his own personal beliefs onto other students, he's doing so under the title of 'history teacher'.
The separation of church and state, or rather "the separation of ignorance from the ranks of schoolteachers" as Tyson better specified it while referring to that particular case, are battles worth fighting for. However, it is not our place to go around telling people that what they believe is or is not true – for after all, so long as it doesn't interfere with our rights and our freedoms – it's their right to believe whatever the hell they want. The least we can do is respect that, and not do unto them what we would not like them to do unto us: preach.
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The important distinction the Tyson-Dawkins dichotomy fails to address (and, which I think both men themselves often fail to address) is that between belief and reason. It is conceivable for Atheism to be practiced in the same way as a religion, but this has never (to my knowledge) been the case. This is because a 'strict atheist' does not necessarily have strict or dogmatic beliefs, but rather is strict about trusting logic, scientific methodology and reason in forming beliefs about the world, and is always open to revising his opinions, beliefs and even definitions.
This is the reason that there should be no equation of Evangelizing and trying to propagate atheism, and the reason there's really no difference between Dawkins and Tyson. Their spat is not based on any sort of disagreement about ends, or even methods. Tyson simply takes a nicer approach, which involves not spelling out the inevitable result of the arguement they're both making, which is that it is irrational to be religious. He leaves it at giving people the answers to find that out for themselves, while Dawkins simply states the logical imperative that follows from doing this.
I can only emphasize that it is outrageous and incorrect to equate advocacy of critical thinking with militancy or evangelism (despite the phrase Dawkins suggests-- 'Militant Atheism' is an attention-grabber, and Dawkins is as opposed as anyone to actually spreading it via indoctrination or force). Letting falsehood or systematic uncritical though go unchallenged in the name of peoples' feelings provides tacit endorsement to these things. Allowing a little bit of irrationality is no different in principle from allowing a lot of it, and your middling distinctions mean very little. One can be less prigish than Dawkins and Hitchens often are without compromising the basic policy of never letting irrationality go unchallenged.
Elad, like you and your friend, I feel the same way. Your post is well said, even though it is clear that a number of people take issue with it, but that is the cost for speaking one's mind.
Tolerance of and opposition to religion are each appropriate depending upon the situation. I wouldn't try to reason with the little old lady I met yesterday whose siblings are all terminally ill and who takes comfort in her beliefs in an afterlife/loving god/cosmic justice. Now, say she tried to convert me to her religion, backed the movement to make my nation a theocracy, or tried to restrict my life-style, choices, or opportunities by throwing around her religious 'weight.' In such cases, she would have encounter a very different side of Kairan.
Atheists should be militant when it's called for, and tolerant when it is not. Everyone is entitled to his or her religious beliefs and should not be confronted about them. But when theists inflict harm on individuals (like the woman who let her babies die), or society (like the promotion of ignorance in the public schools), those beliefs should be ridiculed mercilessly.
"Nothing is more racist than having one black friend. Zero black friends is somehow less racist than having one black friend."
I have one black friend and one East Indian friend. I guess I'm a super-racist.
Some people simply are more social than others. Suppose you have one black friend but you only really have four real friends, for example.
Anyway, how many black friends you have is irrelevant.
What's relevant is what kind of friend you are to your black friend.
Great thread, surprised I missed this 3 yrs ago. Thx, Unseen. I just happened to be about to post a link to an excellent, very recent podcast with Tyson where he eloquently covers this (militancy) topic, and even explains why he never brings up the topic about being black.


text: Jack and Dinos Chapman's latest installation is currently on view in Hong Kong. The work is comprised of four dioramas depicting historical events with miniature figures. Violence, holocaust, and death pervade the work, as well as commercial images of characters from McDonald's. This creates a landscape rife with gritty humor and heavy irony. This work evokes a level of discomfort that is shockingly arresting. Jake says, "It's as pessimistic as we can make it but it's pessimistic in a joyful sense. Fatalistic in a joyful sense. There's nothing foreboding about this. It doesn't serve any kind of moral end…We take McDonald's as being a marker of the transformation from industrialisation to the end of the world. McDonald's once represented the idealism of fast food and the space rest era. Now it's consistent with the dilation of the ozone and a litigious clown who's lost his sense of humour.'" Check out other posts we've done about these artist brothers here.


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We all know people who say they can get by with little or no sleep, folks who can burn the midnight oil, then wake early raring to go.
We hate those people.
Most people, however, need between seven and nine hours daily to refresh their minds and bodies - and most people don't get it. This lack of sleep muddles their thinking, raises their irritability levels, diminishes their joy and turns a happy face into a tired, lined one. (If you're one of the people who can get by with less sleep - actress Betty White says she needs only four hours a night - you're in just 5 percent of the population.)
Remember, the name of the fairy-tale character is Sleeping Beauty, not Tossing and Turning Beauty.
Ronald Kotler of Pennsylvania Hospital is a sleep specialist. But he's not just anyone's sleep specialist - he's Oprah Winfrey's.
Kotler's road from his office at 7th and Spruce streets in Philadelphia to Winfrey's Chicago studio in May started a few years ago in the green room of "Good Morning America," where he met Winfrey's fitness guru Bob Greene. Kotler gave Greene a copy of his book, "365 Ways to Get a Good Night's Sleep," and a few months later got a call from Greene to write the sleep section of Greene's new book, "20 Years Younger," which attempts to build a healthier, "younger" you through exercise, nutrition, skin care and good, reinvigorating sleep.
Medically speaking, Kotler is a pulmonologist who specializes in treating apnea, a potentially dangerous condition in which people stop breathing while they sleep. "Your muscles relax when you sleep," Kotler said, "but if your airway muscles relax too much, you get an apnea."
In a chicken-egg health problem related to sleep, obesity can lead to apnea and poor sleeping can in return lead to obesity.
"(The protein hormone) leptin suppresses appetite," Kotler said, "and sleep deprivation leads to decreased synthesis of leptin.
"Some patients lose weight just by treating the apnea." But Kotler's sleep practice goes well beyond apnea. His decades of research and state-of-the-art sleep center, which monitors patients whose lack of sleep is adversely affecting their health, have made him an expert on all sleep matters.
"A lot of people have sleep problems and don't realize there's help," Kotler said. The doctor said the key to getting a good night's sleep is to "go to bed the same time and get up the same time."
He's a fan of the 20-minute power nap, but said longer naps can interfere with healthy snoozing.
"The nap can be energizing," he said, "but it is not a substitute for night sleep." "All of us have a dip in our circadian rhythms from 3-6 p.m.," he said, referring to the post-lunch afternoon malaise many experience, and that afternoon sleep debt can be masked with activity or caffeine (activity is healthier and won't make you restless at night). "Often on the weekend, when you have less activity, you're also masking that sleep debt." You can't, by the way, pay off sleep debt by sleeping more.
Many senior citizens have accumulated decades of sleep debt and although they say they need less sleep, Kotler disagrees.
"They just get less sleep," he said. "You sleep less as you get older because you're more susceptible to internal (bathroom trips, aches and pains) and external disturbances." Stress can also play a role in hindering a refreshing rest.
"A lot of things that happen to us during the day carry over into sleep," he said. A bad day at work can easily turn into a bad night's sleep, with the cycle repeating daily. If your sleep is constantly interrupted around 3 a.m., you may want to see a doctor - possibly a psychiatrist.
Kotler said "3 a.m. wakening is a classic early sign of depression, although we don't know why."
But sleeping pills, in moderation, can help.
"The stigma attached to sleeping pills has changed," the sleep doctor said. "They're very good for short-term use following a traumatic event. You don't want a short-term sleeping problem to become a long-term sleeping problem."
But long-term sleeping pill use is not an answer and can mask a deadly problem such as apnea because narcotics dull the brain's ability to realize you're not breathing. That can lead to the big sleep, which we're all trying to avoid.
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Junior Matthew Richards of Goessel, junior Karis Janzen of Hillsboro, and senior Ashley Evans of Marion were recognized as McPherson College honor roll students. Senior Tiffany Rooker of Hillsboro was named an honorable mention on the honor roll.
To qualify for honor roll, students must be a full-time student and earn a grade-point average of 3.55 or higher during the previous term. Honorable mention requires a GPA between 3.25 and 3.54.


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I recently wrote an "e-book" for Internet Evolution overviewing agile software development at scale. The goal of the Agility at Scale: Become as Agile as You Can Be ebook is to get people thinking outside of the box a bit when it comes to agile development strategies and see that they really are ready for primetime.
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The Scrum community has adopted a different set of terms than the other agile methodologies. This is done on purpose to help people realize that Agile approaches are different than traditional approaches, which can help in their adoption, but it can also hinder people's understanding because some of the terminology is not only non-standard it really doesn't make much sense. Because of this I'm often asked by people that I'm coaching to convert back and forth between terms, and recently wrote a detailed article on the subject. The following summarizes the mapping:
For more details read my article Translating Scrum Terminology which includes explanations of a wider range of Scrum terms and discussions of why some of them really are questionable.
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Charter of the RAS Conference Editorial Board
I. Scope of the CEB
- The CEB is in charge of providing quality reviews and acceptance/rejection suggestions for papers submitted to IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA);
- A goal of CEB will be to provide consistency over years for what concerns the minimum number of reviews, their constructive nature, their confidentiality and fairness.
II. Structure of the CEB
- The CEB consists of an Editor-in-Chief (EiC), several Editors (Eds) and Associate Editors (AEs).
- The number of Editors and Associate Editors is decided on the basis of the number of submissions to the handled, considering a maximum of 15 papers assigned per AE per year, and a maximum of 15 AEs supervised per Editor.
- Each AE is supervised by an Ed, to whome they report. The choice of the supervising Ed is made on the basis of expertise and topics covered. In exceptional cases, an AE may report to more than one Ed. 4. Editors are supervised by the EiC.
III. Appointment of CEB members
- The Editor-in-Chief (EIC) is appointed by the President of IEEE RAS, upon recommendation by the Steering Committee for Technical Programs (SCTP).
- The Editors will be proposed by the EiC and will be appointed by a committee of six, consisting of the Associate Vice President of Conference Activities for the SCTP, the Vice President for Publication Activities and the Vice President for Technical Activities or their delegated Associate Vice Presidents, the EIC of the Transactions on Robotics, the EIC of Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, and the EIC of the Robotics and Automation Magazine.
- The Associate Editors will be appointed by the EiC, upon consultation with the Editors. Individual applications to the AE position will be considered. It will be required to submit a CV and evidence of the ability to review and overview referees.
- The appointments above will be made according to the criteria of scientific and managerial abilities of individuals, taking into consideration also a balance in expertise and regional distribution.
- All members of the CEB will serve a term of three years, renewable once. Performance will be reviewed every year and terms may be shortened if performance is inadequate. The review for AEs will be conducted by the Editor-in-Chief and Editors of the CEB. The review for the Editors will be performed by the EiC with the selction committee mentioned above. The SCTP will review the performance of the EIC.
IV. Operation of the CEB
- The EiC and the Editors prepare and maintain a list of keywords adequately describing the technical scope of the Conference. The number and breadth of the keywords will be such that roughly an even number of submissions will be associated to each.
- Based upon matching of keywords, and taking in consideration an even balance of the workload, subitted papers will be assigned by the EiC to the Eds.
- Eds assign papers to AEs in their area, on the basis of keywords and load balancing.
- AEs will solicit at least two external reviews per paper from experts of their choice. The AEs will inform reviewers of the requirements on timeliness, accuracy and constructiveness of reviews, and will supervise so that these are met by the reviews. AEs do not provide reviews for the papers themselves. Based on the reviews and on their own reading of the submitted paper, the AEs will make a recommendation about acceptance or rejection, accompanied by a report briefly summarizing the reviews and providing thorough motivations for the decision to the authors.
The summary rejection of a paper may be proposed by the AE assigned to that paper. The AE writes a review justifying the summary rejection, and transmits the summary rejection to the appropriate Editor. If the Editor approves the rejection, then the paper is summarily rejected without further review. If there is any disagreement or uncertainty, the paper is sent out for review.
- The AE's recommendation will be overviewed by the supervising Eds, who will be responsible for checking that the quality standards of the review process (including number and depth of reviews, significance of AE's report) have been met. The Eds will issue a brief statement for each recommendation, whereby the correctness and completeness of the revieweing procedure is endorsed.
- The Eic will supervise the whole process, collect data and statistics, and provide the conference's Program Committee (PC) with a comprehensive and organized set of data on submissions and their reviews. 7. The final decision on acceptance or rejection will be made by the ICRA conference's Program Committee (PC). The EiC will support the PC by providing information on the review process, technical support with data retrieval and presentation, and by participating to meetings of the PC.
- The PC Chair will be in charge of interfacing withe the authors, sending them the decisions, and dealing with possible requests for clarification and complaints. The EiC will provide data and evidence to support the EiC in this phase.
V. Interaction with the Conference's Program Committee (PC)
- A typical PC would be formed the order of 20 members, effectively acting as an executive body;
- The PC sets the target acceptance rate and makes the final decision about acceptance or rejection for all of the papers which have not been summarily rejected.
- The PC handles all aspects of organizing the conference, such as forming the technical program, assigning papers to sessions, special sessions, invited talks, videos, best papers, and 6 workshops and tutorials.
- About a month before the PC meeting, the EIC of the CEB and the PC chair will meet face-to-face for a 1-2 day meeting. They will go over the results of the review process, identifying particularly those papers which are borderline or otherwise require further PC scrutiny.
- Afterwards, and during the month before the PC meeting, the PC chair distributes papers to PC members and possibly Technical Committee (TC) chairs for session formation and decisions about borderline papers.
- The Program Chair will consider the opportunity to recruit members from the TC Chairs into the PC, upon consultation with the VP for Technical Activities.
- The EIC of the CEB and his assistant will attend the PC meeting.
VI. Costs
- The RAS will pay for a part-time assistant to the Editor-in-Chief
- The RAS will pay for the EiC and his/her assistant or other CEB members to attend CEB and other society meetings as it may be required
- A conference will pay for the travel expenses of the Editor-in-Chief and his/her assistant to attend the PC meeting or other meetings as it may be required by the PC Chair.
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When Kim Edwards is asked about Save a Child's Heart (SACH), she finds it hard to stop talking.
For the past six years, the 25-yearold has spent part of her summers volunteering with the Israeli organization, living in the SACH house and helping look after the children. Since 1995, SACH doctors have performed heart surgery on more than 2,400 children all over the world.
Edwards found out about SACH while attending Queen's University for her undergraduate degree. She was involved in the Hillel chapter there, and one of their fundraisers was for the organization.
Going to Israel and volunteering with SACH for the first time was an amazing experience, she said.
"I fell in love with the charity and the people who work there and the children who come."
Edwards, who is currently studying to get her PhD in clinical psychology, is very passionate about helping children, evidenced by the way she talks about the ones she's met through SACH, including Salama, who was three years old when she came to Israel from Zanzibar.
"Salama had come over without her parents… she was really ill so she was taken to the hospital right away. I met her just after her surgery," Edwards said.
"I really developed a motherly instinct that summer, because when I left I felt like I was leaving a child of mine behind. The bond that we had was so amazing. When she cried at the hospital and I was at the house, the nurses would call and ask me to speak to her."
Another child, a one-year-old boy, came from Romania with his 17-year-old mother. Before his heart surgery, he had spent his entire life in a hospital in Romania because he was so sick.
"The mother's from such a poor town – there was no running water, no nothing, and [he] would have died if he stayed in that town," Edwards said. "There were some volunteers in the hospital who had seen a bunch of other children die from heart-related complications, and they decided they didn't want the same thing to happen to this little boy. So they got on the Internet to search for options, and they found Save a Child's Heart.
"He took his first step in Israel," she added. "Before he'd been crawling around, and after his surgery, his little body was able to support his weight."
Then there was Happiness, who was three years old when she came from Tanzania.
"She's just so cute," Edwards said of Happiness. "We used to sing 'if you're happy and you know it, clap your hands' when she was being fussy. She just loved it and she would start clapping her hands."
Edwards formed close bonds with many of the parents who came with their children to Israel, including one mother from Ghana.
"I came back to [the University of] Western [Ontario this past] September, and one afternoon I was really stressed out and working on a big paper. Then I got a phone call… and it was this mother from Ghana," Edwards said.
"She had walked to another village and bought a phone card, and called me just to tell me that her baby was doing well and how much she missed me. It was so amazing to get that kind of call because it puts life in perspective."
Seeing how surgery has saved so many young lives puts the availability of first-class medical care in Canada into perspective for Edwards.
"After the surgery, they're like a whole different child and the future is so bright for them. To know that a six- or eight-hour surgery can add 40 or 50 years onto someone's life is really amazing."
Edwards remembers watching a Palestinian child undergoing heart surgery.
"It was amazing to see this child's heartbeat on a monitor beforehand and have the doctors explain to me how the blood flow looked different after. This operation completely changed this child's heart," she said.
"[Afterward] the boy's father came over to me and said 'thank you' in broken English, I thought he had mistaken me for a doctor… and tried to explain that I'm not the person he should be thanking. Eventually I realized how much it meant to him when he saw me [in the operating room] and recognized me from playing with his child.
"Going to Save a Child's Heart for me is like a break from reality. You enter a different world where it doesn't matter what you look like or what you're wearing – it just matters that you are able to use hand gestures and smile and give a hug and be silly," Edwards continued.
"Someone once told me if the world was more like the SACH house, then the world would be a better place, and I think it's true."
In addition to performing heart surgeries, SACH also trains doctors from other countries.
"At SACH this summer, I learned that Israel has around a population of seven million and there are 65 pediatric cardiologists for Israel," Edwards said. "Ethiopia has around a population of 70 million and they have three pediatric cardiologists.
"Everyone deserves a chance," she added. "I was chatting with [a woman from Gaza] a few years ago, and her daughter was extremely sick. She took her daughter to a hospital in Gaza, and they basically told her to let her daughter die and have another child.
"She refused to give up. She found her way to… Israel, and the doctors agreed to operate."
For more information on SACH, visit www. saveachildsheart.org.


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STOCKTON - A 14-year-old freshman was arrested Thursday afternoon at one of Stockton Unified's small high schools after he was found in possession of a loaded semiautomatic handgun, the third incident involving a gun on a district campus in less than one month.
STOCKTON - A 14-year-old freshman was arrested Thursday afternoon at one of Stockton Unified's small high schools after he was found in possession of a loaded semiautomatic handgun, the third incident involving a gun on a district campus in less than one month.
Stockton Unified police arrested the Merlo Institute student shortly before noon in the school's computer lab and confiscated a Ruger 9mm semiautomatic weapon with one round in the chamber and several in the magazine, Chief Jim West said. It is not known why the boy brought the gun to school, West added.
Thursday's incident came 24 days after two seventh-grade boys were arrested at Van Buren Elementary. One brought a .22-caliber handgun into a classroom, and a second fired it into the floor, possibly by accident, police said.
Last Friday, two Cleveland Elementary eighth-graders were arrested after bringing two pellet guns to the school, according to district police.
No one has been injured in three incidents characterized Thursday by West as "frightening."
"The thing that wakes me up in the middle of the night is we know there are guns on campuses, and it just feels almost inevitable there's going to be a tragedy," West said. "We're redoubling our efforts to keep guns off campuses."
A drug- and gunpowder-sniffing dog has been touring Stockton Unified classrooms this week and was brought to Merlo after Thursday's incident. The dog sniffed the backpacks of about two-thirds of Merlo's 250 students and found nothing incriminating.
Merlo, a magnet school focusing on environmental technology, is about half a mile from Van Buren in a crime-plagued section of south Stockton.
Thursday's events began to unfold when a student told Principal Yanik Ruley that a classmate might be carrying a gun. The principal said his first response was to put the school on lockdown and contact district police.
Ruley, campus security monitor Rosa Lopez and counselor Alejandro Duran then entered the computer lab and subdued the student suspected of possessing the gun. In the process, the weapon fell to the floor, according to West.
The incident occurred during class time, shortly before the start of lunch. Ruley said he chose not to wait for police before confronting the student because the boy posed a potential danger to others in the computer lab, and also because he did not want the boy carrying the gun into the crowded cafeteria before officers arrived.
"I made a judgment call that, for the safety of my students, it was the right thing to do at the time," Ruley said, adding that officers arrived at Merlo three minutes after they were called.
West said, "All's well that ends well, but ideally I'd like somebody wearing body armor."
The problem of weapons on campuses is not a new phenomenon, nor is it confined to Stockton Unified. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that in 2009, 5.6 percent of high school students in the United States - including 8 percent of the boys who were surveyed - reported they had brought a knife, gun or club onto campuses at least once in the previous 30 days.
"The number of firearms in the city seems to increase year after year after year," West said. "There seems to be a flood of them. Now, we're seeing nationally a trend of younger and younger kids being involved in more and more violent crime."
Contact reporter Roger Phillips at (209) 546-8299 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/phillipsblog.


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This recipe is based on one I have seen in Nigella's new cook show 'Nigellissima' and couldn't resist trying it myself. It sounded far too easy to be any good as it doesn't involve churning and I could keep the ice cream machine in the back of the cupboard for some time longer. It hardly involves prep time either and is ready after 6 hours of freezing so you can whip it up right before a dinner party if needed. You don't need to remember to defrost it before serving either as the alcohol in the recipe prevents it from becoming solid.
I have given it my own spin and changed the flavour to a Christmas version with spices and rum and a different texture by adding biscuits, similar to cookie dough ice cream.
300ml double cream
175g condensed milk
4 tbsp rum or spiced rum
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ginger
1 tsp all spice
pinch of nutmeg
gingerbread biscuits
Mix the cream, condensed milk, rum and spices together and whisk with a blender until soft peaks form. Mix some of the ice cream with crushed biscuits. Fill your moulds or a container with the plain ice cream until 3/4 full and top up with the version with the biscuit pieces. Freeze until serving.


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My focus here is on what we experience on our family history journey.
K is for:
Kith and Kin plus Knowledge the foundation of our family history activities.
|The wedding of my Uncle Fred (Weston) in 1929, surrounded by family members
Keeper of the Family Archives - I am sure, that like other bloggers, we see ourselves in this role - discovering the past, preserving the present, recording for the future and keeping contact with relatives.
|A small painting by my aunt - Edith Danson
|Crossstitch card sewn
for my mother's brthday
Mum was also a "Joiner". Because of my father's work, we moved around a lot, and Mum joined whatever women's group was there - Mother's Union, Townswoman's Guild, Church Work Group, Parent-Teachers Association, Women's Rural Institute (WRI) .


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Will Follow in Footsteps of McCarthy
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Junior Jeffrey Hatten has been elected to captain the Yale men's golf team next year, following an excellent season that saw him make the first-team All Ivy under the leadership of senior captain Thomas McCarthy. The announcement, which came at the team's end of season banquet, was accompanied by the naming of the award winners for the season's play: McCarthy took home the Widdy Neal award and Russell Holmes was voted the Most Improved Player.
It is appropriate that Hatten takes on McCarthy's role on the back of a stellar season – just as McCarthy took on the captaincy after being selected as the Ivy League Player of the Year, so Hatten will go into next season with an All-Ivy selection and numerous top-10 finishes under his belt. Both Hatten and McCarthy will take to the course at least one more time this year, at the NCAA Regionals hosted by Viriginia Tech at the Pete Dye-designed River Course in Blacksburg, Va..
Hatten, who hails from Farmington, Conn., was the team's standout player in the final month of its regular season, according to head coach Colin Sheehan '97.
"I want to point out that Jeff Hatten was our player of the month," Sheehan said as Yale took home the Ivy League Championship on Apr. 24. "His contributions have been critical to our success and without his play, we would not have won at the Princeton Invitational or the Ivy League Championship."
Report filed by James Lu '14, Yale Sports Publicity.


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Nob Hill is one of San Francisco's signature neighborhoods, renowned for its city landmarks, jewel-box homes and famous luxury hotels. In addition to its swanky character, the area is influenced by the diverse personalities of this downtown neighborhood. Dotting the hill are vintage barber shops, old corner coffee shops and cocktail lounges from bygone decades. Nob Hill is also home to some of the city's most expensive and renowned restaurants. Russian Hill, a residential neighborhood with pockets of restaurants and shops, feels a bit more visitor-friendly than its more formal neighbor, Nob Hill, and the views are just as dazzling. Charming restaurants and small businesses cluster on leafy Hyde Street between Jackson and Union Streets, and Polk Street is crowded with unusual boutiques, antique shops, trendy restaurants and night spots. A mini French quarter has sprung up around Polk and Green, including a great bistro, a traditional cafe-boulangerie, a French antiques store, and several French-influenced gift and home decor shops. Russian Hill is also home to Lombard Street, known as "the world's crookedest street," which winds past ornate houses and lush, flowering bushes.
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