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Chris - Scientists at Bristol University, and this is a piece of research led by Dr Ian Bond, have come up with a material that can automatically put things right. Ian's with us to talk about it. Hello Ian, thank you for joining us. How does this actually work?
Ian - We've been developing, over a couple of years now, a composite material that can self-heal. We have small vessels inside the structure with a liquid inside them. Upon a damage event these rupture and bleed out liquid to effect some kind of healing within the structure.
Chris - What are the chemicals you are using to do it?
Ian - We've been concentrating primarily on using standard 2-part epoxy systems which are the mainstay of the aerospace industry. There's obvious improvements that can be made to those because they're pretty much off-the-shelf systems at the moment.
Chris - So the way it would work is you would have one chemical in one type of tube, one in another and where the damage is the two chemicals are blended together and they react?
Ian - That's exactly how it works so you do need both of them to be present. I guess one of the challenges at the moment is somehow making that reaction or mixture less sensitive to the particular mixed ratios, for instance, so that you can have quite a robust healing process that's not dependent on a certain amount of one or the other being there.
Chris - How much of this stuff do you need and what are the applications for this immediately here on the ground.
Ian - We're looking to address the very subtle damage in the structure. If there's a hole in the structure, for instance we like to think that somebody may notice that beforehand. It's the dings and bangs and wear and tear. It's the small cracks that begin in the structure which are difficult to detect which we're hoping to address.
Chris - So this would be aeroplanes, cars even?
Ian - It could be used in cars, yeah. I guess safety critical structures are what we're aiming at primarily. I guess in a car if it breaks you can generally pull over to the side of the road. In an aeroplane you don't have that option. Certainly in space you definitely don't have the option.
Chris - How much weight does this add? In the aerospace industry weight is everything. Does this make a plane weigh twice as much and therefore it's not going to be useful?
Ian - The idea here is although we may be adding some weight you can use lighter weight structures. At the present design is such that you allow for damage from day one. You have to have a heavier-weight structure than you would otherwise. You have to cope with the fact that you're fighting with one hand behind you back, as it were. You're assuming there's damage there. If you could somehow build in an ability to recover some of that damage by healing you could potentially have a lighter-weight structure overall.
Chris - With the current missions to Mars on the agenda for the next 30 years or so and the fact that space rockets get hit by things like micrometeors quite often could this system work in space?
Ian - It could do. We've done some previous work looking at this. There's a lot of challenges. The temperature is an issue, the low vacuum. The extremely high velocity of the impact you mentioned from things like micrometeoroid. I guess it's the inner structure you might want to protect where they're perhaps not as exposed to the external environment. You want to maintain structural integrity on say a liner where you have a manned vehicle. I wouldn't necessarily advocate that we use this on an external structure that's going to be hit by a micrometeorite but it could be used in some form, perhaps in an inner structure within that.


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Hey guys ❤
I know it's been a while since I posted anything on here so I thought I would kick off the New Year by sharing some memories from my getaway with Kyle for our anniversary!
Kyle planned and booked the whole trip and I knew barely anything minus where we were going and when so it was so lovely to get out of Sheffield together as well as doing something memorable for our first anniversary!
We went to Edinburgh for two nights and stayed in an AirBnB and it was honestly perfect. We stayed in Leith which is just outside of Edinburgh city centre and closer to the coast which was so, so beautiful ❤
The whole weekend was honestly so calm, relaxing and cute I just loved every second. Our anniversary falls at the end of November so we were there for the Christmas Markets too which was, in my case, a dream! I adore Christmas so adding in some Christmas magic into a perfect weekend away was just lovely!
We ended up driving up from Sheffield with a rental car so by the time we arrived we chilled for a little, grabbed some snacks and drinks from the corner shop then got ready to head out for dinner that evening. We ended up going to a lovely tapas restaurant in Leith called Tapa and it was SO yum! It was the perfect meal after a long day of travelling too! Quick and delicious! We then went for a bit of a wander, froze to death in the baltic winds that surround Edinburgh thanks to it being so close to the coast and took shelter in a cute little bar for a drink or two! ❤
The next day we went into Edinburgh city centre, explored the city and did some touristy things whilst we were there too! We ended up going into the Scottish National Portrait Gallery (mainly to get out of the cold), we did the Edinburgh Castle tour, we went into Camera Obscura which is an optical illusions museum and had a wander around the Christmas Markets, explored the city and just enjoyed a nice relaxed day in Edinburgh. Edinburgh is one of my favourite cities in the world and to go there with the guy I adore for our Anniversary was a dream come true ❤
We then grabbed a quick bite whilst we were in the city and headed back to our cosy little flat for a film night by the fire with a couple of drinks and snacks. It was honestly perfect ❤
The next day we woke up and headed in Leith for a bit of a wander and to hunt down some yum brunchy foods. The weather was actual perfection on the Sunday, clear blue skies, crisp breeze.. dreamy. I love Winter days like the one we experienced in Leith so I was all about it! We went for a walk around the harbour then went to warm up in Toast which was in Leith for some beaut coffee and the best eggs benedict ever ❤
On our drive up we drove past some absolutely stunning coastlines and I just couldn't resist dragging Kyle to one so we could experience it whilst we were there! We googled which beaches were nice and near Leith and found one that was only a tiny bit away from our journey home route so we headed on over!
The beach we went to was called Longniddry and it was honestly breathtaking. I am such a water baby, I honestly adore anything to do with the beach and being near the water so this was just perfection. Clear blue skies, no other people in sight and just stunning views all round… I was honestly in heaven and it was such a perfect ending to our perfect little getaway! It was absolutely freezing and so windy it was ridiculous but honestly.. it was perfect ❤
Kyle out did himself with this trip for our anniversary, I don't know he'd ever top it to be honest but I'm sure he will try too! It was just perfect, and such special memories for us to make together ❤
I feel so full of love and happiness looking back at these photos and I hope you enjoy looking at them too! Lots of love ❤
Talk soon,
Laura xo

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Israel is the world's start-up nation. It boasts the highest number of start-up businesses per capita, with one start-up for every 1,400 people. Therefore, it is no surprise that it is also one of the rising forces in the legal tech revolution, as Adv. Zohar Fisher, founder of legal consultancy company Robus, explains.
Israel's legal tech sector is booming and increasingly muscling in on the UK and US markets. Given the size of the Israeli legal market it is no surprise that legal tech start-ups, such as LawGeex and Litigate to name just two, have the large US, UK and global law firms in their sights.
"It is an amazing place to start a tech business," says Adv. Zohar Fisher, founder of legal consultancy Robus. "There is strong government support, an active investment infrastructure, an international perspective, and a strong and growing community providing entrepreneurs with the support they need.
"This approach was seen in action with the emergence of fintech a decade ago, where Israel now considers as one of the world's leaders. Legal tech is heading in the same way."
Fisher and his team at Robus established three years ago a legal tech department within the company called "Tech&Law Israel", which is now considered the gateway to the Israeli legal tech scene and operating at the heart of the legal tech community, providing the much-needed interface between Israeli tech companies and global legal community.
"Many of the legal tech start-ups are early stage companies and still need to conduct proof of concept (POC) for their products," says Fisher, "and that is, among others, where we come in. We bring the two together, allowing Israeli and international law firms to explore new technologies with a view to invest or become early adopters, and for technology companies to refine and further develop their technology."
The Israeli legal tech sector can be neatly divided into two seemingly contradictory camps: there are those with strong connections and a deep understanding of the legal market, and those outside of the sector. And it is the later that are really shaking up the legal tech space.
"There is a lot happening in both camps," explains Fisher, "but the truly exciting stuff is coming from those that can see an industry in need of a shake-up. It may seem a contradiction, but those without experience of the legal market are threatening the greatest change."
"We are seeing tech businesses focusing on E-discovery, E-legal research, legal document automation, contract review and predictive analytics technology working with law firms across the globe. AI and big data are the primary focus globally – as well as in Israel."
And as with all start-ups, the large majority of emerging legal tech companies will fail. Fisher suggests that just three to five per cent of legal tech businesses will go the full distance.
"Those that will succeed are the businesses that spend considerable amounts of time working with law firms around the world," says Fisher. "They will be flexible and prepared to change and adjust their product to meet the evolving demand of the global legal market.".
It has been said many times before, but the emergence of legal technology will change the role of the lawyer.
"It should free-up lawyers' time allowing them to shift to a higher value advisory role," says Fisher. "Associate lawyers will really benefit, relieved of much of the grunt work. It will also create new roles in law firms, and we are already seeing the rise of legal technicians, Chief Digital Officers (CDO), Chief Information Officers (CIO) and Chief Innovation Officers (CINO)."
But it will also bring commercial challenges for legal businesses. Much of a lawyer's work is commoditised, and whilst that has traditionally given a boost partner earnings legal tech will fast take that work away.
"Law firms have for too long charged clients for quantity, not quality," says Fisher. "The time-consuming processes are being replaced by technology, and rightly so. Legal technology will in time help legal businesses protect revenue, but it is should first and foremost focus on improving the way legal businesses work with their clients."
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MIKA BRZEZINSKI, GUEST HOST: Tonight, coordinated terror attacks rock the Indian city of Mumbai. Police say that as many as 80 people have been killed, hundreds wounded, and there are new reports coming in that a hostage situation is still under way at two luxury hotels in the city. We're going to bring you the very latest on this developing story. Plus, the president-elect holds another economic press conference today, pledging that help is on the way in the form of his economic recovery team. It is all next on 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. Good evening. I'm Mika Brzezinski, in for David Gregory tonight. We're going to continue to cover this breaking story out of Mumbai, India, where a series of terrorist attacks at two luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, and at a train station have developed over the past few hours. We are hearing reports now, and I'm looking at our hot file, in term of the wounded, The Times of India now reporting 900 wounded, along with 80 dead. And we are dealing with a potential hostage situation. Let's get the very latest. We have a panel of experts who are going stay with us throughout the hour. Jim Miklaszewski at the Pentagon, Roger Cressey is with us, NBC News terrorism analyst and also Colonel Jack Jacobs, MSNBC military analyst. Let's start at the Pentagon. Mik, bring us up to date.
JIM MIKLASZEWSKI, MSNBC CORRESPONDENT: Mika, U.S. military and intelligence officials are scrambling here at the Pentagon and other agencies around Washington to try to figure out exactly who is this group that carried off what is being described as a very sophisticated but low tech attack that was perpetrated primarily with AK-47s, some grenades and some small bombs, several which of did not detonate, but at least one car did detonate there in Mumbai. And they're also trying to figure out if any Americans are either casualties or being held hostage right now. According to U.S. military officials, just statistically alone, as many as 8,000 Americans are believed to either be visiting or reside in the Mumbai area. But must stress that at point there is no word yet that any Americans have either been killed or wounded or have been taken hostage. But with the kind of numbers we're seeing coming out of Mumbai tonight, there is a good likelihood, according to U.S. officials, that some Americans have been involved. Counterterrorism officials say it is really too early to tell so far exactly who is responsible. There is one group that called itself the Deccan Mujahedeen, which nobody has heard of it, and nobody is putting any early credibility in that report. But counterterrorism officials say it could be al Qaeda, an al Qaeda-inspired group, Kashmiri separatists or jihadists. Nobody knows just yet. I can tell you though that there have been meetings here at the Pentagon and it has been determined that so far, there is no role for the U.S. or particularly U.S. military in what's going on there now in Mumbai. But according to some officials, one of the major tasks may be to try convince India, if there is evidence to this, that Pakistan may have not been directly involved. And so far, counterterrorism officials say that there is no indication that Pakistanis were involved in this attack. But they're keeping a close eye on this situation, particularly in trying to track down who is responsible and if any Americans have been involved-Mika.
BRZEZINSKI: As we wait for that, Mik, thank you very much. He points to the fact that the U.S., at this point, trying to figure out what if any role it should take in this. President-elect Obama has put out a statement saying he strongly condemns today's terrorist attacks in Mumbai and his thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families and the people of India. These coordinated attacks, he goes on to say, on innocent civilians demonstrates the grave and urgent threat of terrorism. Let's go to terrorism expert Roger Cressey on this. Anything, Roger, do you know about this group that is claiming to be behind this attack where we've got The Times of India now reporting 900 wounded? These numbers are going to grow.
ROGER CRESSEY, NBC TERRORISM ANALYST: Absolutely, Mika, and we know nothing about them. So the first question you ask is, is this the group that is responsible or are there other individuals and this group is trying to take advantage of this tragedy? To what Mik said, this is a low tech event, yet highly coordinated. Multiple sites hit nearly simultaneously, a hostage environment as well. So there was a fair amount of preparation involved in this type of attack. So this wasn't something that was kicked off in the past couple of days. That's one point. Second point is, quintessential target set, soft targets, hotels, transportation, restaurants. So the probability of Indian defensive forces, police being in a position to respond to the initial-repel the attack would be low. So again, that works in the terrorists' favor. So you've got several dynamics going on here right now. And of course, the one that's still ongoing is the hostage situation. And that's why we'll get to see how that plays out.
BRZEZINSKI: That's what we're watching now. You were just looking at live pictures. We've gone to videotape at this point of the chaos ensuing in Mumbai. That's the Taj Hotel in flames as we speak. And we are hearing of one, potentially several, hostage situations that are still underway. Jack Jacobs, talk to me a little bit, if you could, about how complicated it is for the Indian government to figure out how to react to this coordinated multiple attack?
COL. JACK JACOBS, MSNBC MILITARY ANALYST: Well, Roger laid a couple of the items on the table. The things that make it extremely difficult for them, first of all, it was a surprise attack. So there was no preparation. Undeniably, the Indian government will have the anti-terrorist team, will have somebody, some unit that is on duty and on alert at all times. We do it all the time. And so do they. However, not enough to cover all the targets. Multiple targets hit simultaneously, hostages taken, don't know who the group is, don't know exactly where inside the edifices they are located. And there is always the danger-which we've seen in Iraq all the time, always the danger that these attacks were set but that there are others, ambushes waiting to attack first responders. That makes it extremely difficult. That's why you saw the responses being so ginger, particularly at the Taj Hotel. It took the fire department a long time to get to where the blaze was and are now moving very quietly and selectively across the face of the hotel. You don't know how many people are inside among the terrorists, how much of the area in front they have covered with (INAUDIBLE).
BRZEZINSKI: Do we still have Jim Miklaszewski at the Pentagon? Mik, are you t here?
MIKLASZEWSKI: I'm here, Mika.
BRZEZINSKI: All right. What, are you getting anything there? And I know the numbers are tough. In terms of hostages, what information do we know about at this point?
MIKLASZEWSKI: All U.S. military and intelligence officials have been able to tell us is that as this group was moving through the city, attacking those eight separate sites in what they say was a highly coordinated and well-planned attack, that the attackers said that they were in fact looking for Westerners. And some of the sites they attacked, not only the hotels but the train station and one of the most popular restaurants, tourist sites in Mumbai certainly would have attracted Westerners, if not Americans. And so far, that is all they've been able to tell. And that is based primarily on the reporting they are getting out of Mumbai as opposed to what they themselves haven't been able to discern directly.
BRZEZINSKI: And chances are Westerners, Jack, are being held if they're holding hostages. And they were looking for Westerners, but at this point, it is just too soon to tell.
MIKLASZEWSKI: And, Mika, I may add that U.S. officials also suspects that the death toll the casualty count will probably climb because in some of these areas, in the hotels in particular, where hostages are being held, they're being told that Indian officials haven't been able to go through the entire hotel itself looking for any possible survivors or additional victims.
BRZEZINSKI: OK. Jack, do you want to...
JACOBS: Yes, this is a very low-cost operation though highly coordinated. I saw some pictures of some of the people who were captured, terrorists who were quite young. That's exactly the kind of guy you would select in order to do this kind of operation, because although it is low-cost, it is high-risk. The expectation is that they will all be killed.
BRZEZINSKI: OK. We're looking at picture coming in from Mumbai, India. This is the Taj Hotel, one of two major hotels in Mumbai that has been part of a coordinated terrorist attack, two hotels targeted, a train station, a popular restaurant. We're going to go now to Peter Greenberg, NBC travel expert, who actually knows somebody who runs the Taj Hotel. Peter, tell me your story.
PETER GREENBERG, NBC TRAVEL EDITOR: Well, actually, he's the managing director of all the Taj Hotels. And I should tell you there are about 75 of those hotels, including many hotels here in the United States. Right at this moment, he is locked down in the first story office in the hotel, the Taj Hotel itself. His wife is in the restaurant with 200 other guests also locked down. The last report I got from him by e-mail was that the police have cornered five gunmen at the Taj Palace Wing, that's on the sixth floor, where you saw the fire. And they were preparing to storm those terrorists. That's the last we've heard from him. But he is trying to call us now. When he does, we're going to put him on the air.
BRZEZINSKI: All right. So, Peter, you keep tabs on that. You know now a couple, they're in two separate areas inside the Taj Hotel that are under lockdown right now as this ensues. A dramatic situation for your friends there, Peter. We wish them the best. Please bring them to us as soon as they call you.
Jack and Roger, I think, Roger, first, I'll ask you, because we've talked about how this is a highly coordinated, well-planned attack in multiple locations. What does that tell us about where this group may be coming from, and any potential links to al Qaeda?
CRESSEY: Mika, it is important to remember that Mumbai had a very high operational tempo of terrorism attacks in recent years. Go back two years ago to the train bombing where 188 people were killed. As recently as mid-September, there were a series of bomb blasts. So Mumbai has had to deal with this problem for a while. As a result of that, I think you have a lot of just internally focused individuals who have developed a networked capability, an expertise to do this type of attack. What that means is that people assume that al Qaeda is going to be a direct associate to this. That may not be the case here. So I think as the events continue to unfold, we should be careful about not jumping to conclusions about external influence of this operation right now.
BRZEZINSKI: Jack, hold on. Jim Miklaszewski, are we getting a sense on just hearing about certain suspects who have been killed, others that are being cornered, are there many suspects in this? Were there many terrorists involved? Do we get a sense of the numbers there?
MIKLASZEWSKI: Don't know the total number. at least from the officials I've talked to. But clearly, if you had eight separate sites and they appear to have been quite affected, although, as Jack pointed out, this is a very low-tech operation, they were pretty effective to kill 90 people-or 80 people and wound 900, that the numbers would probably-given eight, probably well exceed 100 if not a couple hundred of these terrorist suspects. While they're talking about the casualties-the civilian casualties, we have yet to hear exactly how many of the terrorists themselves were captured, killed or wounded in this attack.
BRZEZINSKI: Jack, now we're-highly coordinated, multiple locations, well-planned attacks, but also a low-tech operation in terms of what Mik is talking about.
JACOBS: Yes, you're talking about small unit tactics which any new recruit can undertake after a few weeks of training. And they don't have to come from Pakistan or any place else. It is a big country. There are 100 million or more Muslims. I think several hundred million Muslims who are Indians and who live in India. And there is no shortage of enemies of the Indian government from inside. So these people could have been trained anywhere inside India. They could have been recruited from disaffected people, probably young people from just about anywhere. But possibly-most likely in the far east or far west of the country where the Muslims are located. And-but coordinating-planning the attack is one thing, took a little sophistication, executing it, required practice, but it's a very low-tech operation.
BRZEZINSKI: All right. Jack Jacobs, Roger Cressey, Jim Miklaszewski, Peter Greenberg, stay with us. A recap of this developing story, Mumbai, India, eight separate sites have been attacked by terrorists. Teams of heavily armed gunmen have stormed these sites. Up to 80 people dead, up to 900 wounded. The numbers expected to grow. We're told that the secretary of state has briefed the president on her communications with the U.S. consul general in Mumbai. And The Times of India now reporting 900 wounded. We'll watch those numbers. We'll watch this developing story. You're looking at live pictures of the Taj Hotel in flames in Mumbai. We'll be right back.
BRZEZINSKI: The Taj Hotel in Mumbai, in flames after a series of terrorist attacks. We're going to hear from a reporter who has just toured inside that hotel after the attack in just a moment.
BRZEZINSKI: All right. Our breaking news coverage continues out of Mumbai, India, we're continuing to follow the deadly coordinated terror attacks there across the city, more than 80 people have been killed. Here's the latest report from the scene of the ambushed Taj Hotel courtesy of our India news network IBN.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So we're right here in the front of the main entrance of the Taj (INAUDIBLE). You can see firemen coming. Also, what have you seen inside? What is the extent of the damage?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ... people, they are now safe. Just going to take a bus (ph) here, OK.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But what have you seen inside?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, there is nobody inside.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What kind of damage?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is major damage inside.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They are inside the door-main door. They have stopped people and guests. But the six are now safe.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right. So here you are (INAUDIBLE) and this is the first pictures of the kind of damage you've seen at the Heritage Wing. The entire thing has been broken down, luckily. The two big symbols of what defines the Taj Hotel, the Taj Heritage Wing are pretty much intact, but as you can see, these were broken open by the fire brigade trying to gain access. And if we can walk around here, we can just show you the kind of damage that has happened in terms of the metal detector, which doesn't (INAUDIBLE) obviously scans people for (INAUDIBLE). Obviously today could not do its job. Also look at the kind of damage inside the Taj Hotel if we can show you. It is all broken inside, there's a lot of water. obviously the fire alarms did go on and the kind of water, which is coming inside. We have not seen any people inside as the fire people said, they have been rescued, but clearly a lot of damage to this great old hotel, a part of history. All these doors have been broken down and they were locked after the terrorists gained access. So clearly this has been a huge setback for Mumbai, for Mumbai's sense of security. (INAUDIBLE) tried to aim (INAUDIBLE), this is the first time they have made (INAUDIBLE) such a (INAUDIBLE) target of attacks. Again, the damage and the kind of fire that broke out at the top end of the dome of the old Heritage Wing is a clear indication of the intention of the terrorists. The entire encounter is over here at the Taj Heritage Wing. People are being rescued. They are completely shaken and completely overwhelmed by the enormity of the situation, but they're at least happy that (INAUDIBLE).
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BRZEZINSKI: All right. That was a reporter, just moments ago, from inside the Taj Hotel which you can see there is still in flames. We're told there is a hostage situation taking place in there by a group that carried out a series of coordinated attacks at several-eight different locations in Mumbai. Apparently, targeting Westerners. We don't know how many hostages are being held at this point. We also don't know how many injuries and fatalities there are at this point because these hotels are in lockdown. Two hotels that we know of, a train station, a popular restaurant. Peter Greenberg is waiting to hear from friends who are locked down inside the Taj Hotel. We do have confirmation though that the Marriott in Mumbai is not under any fire, not impacted by this. But the Taj, as you can see, one of the central focal points of these coordinated terrorist attacks and still a pretty chaotic situation there right now. We're going to wait to hear from Peter, hopefully his friends will call in, hopefully they're OK. Joining me now, Gary Berntsen, longtime CIA operative and the field commander who cornered Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. He is also the author of "Human Intelligence, Counterterrorism, and National Leadership." Thank you very much for joining me, sir. We know very little about exactly who was behind this. From what we do know about how these attacks have been carried out, how they've been coordinated, and the few that are in custody, which Jack Jacobs says appear to be young, on the younger side. What can we tell about any links to this organization behind this?
NATIONAL LEADERSHIP": What I would guess under these circumstances is that, of course, it is one of the Kashmiri groups. And likely to be Lashkar-e-Toiba. Lashkar-e-Toiba, the LeT, is an organization-of course, that's a Kashmiri organization. It's headed by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. They don't do suicide bombings. They do what they called "Fedayeen attacks." And that's what this looks like. They don't just go and blow themselves up. They go head-on into places and they do attacks. It looks very much like a LeT operation. The LeT also coordinates its activities and frequently works with Dawood Ibrahim. Dawood Ibrahim is a narco-terrorist in South Asia, functions out of Karachi now, and he was the architect of the 1993 bombings in Mumbai. And frequently neither Dawood Ibrahim or the LeT take credit for these sorts of attacks. They use throwaway names and that's what it looks like we have got right now.
BRZEZINSKI: Is Jim Miklaszewski still with us from the Pentagon?
MIKLASZEWSKI: Yes, indeed.
BRZEZINSKI: All right. Hey, Jim, give us a little recap in terms of what we do know at this point. We know there are hostages. We don't know how many. We don't know how many suspects, some potentially in custody. What are the basics here?
MIKLASZEWSKI: Well, you know, at the Taj Hotel alone, there are at least six terrorists believed to be holding hostages. And from report we're receiving from Mumbai that Indian military or police forces are preparing to storm the area where the hostages are being held, and at least six of these terrorists are said to be holed up. Now that's in the Taj Hotel. We don't know specifically about any other hostage situations there in Mumbai. But there were at least eight separate locations where terrorists carried out a highly coordinated, even sophisticated, but at the same time, a low-tech attack using primarily AK-47s, grenades, and a couple of bombs, at least one car bomb is said to have exploded. And you asked me earlier, Mika, about how many terrorists could have been involved in this attack. Even though 80 people have been reported killed, 900 wounded, the majority of those casualties have occurred at the main-the Victoria Train Station there in Mumbai. And you can only imagine how crowded that might be at any time. And that's where the majority of the casualties occurred. And when you think about it, in a crowded place like that, it wouldn't take too many people armed with AK-47s, and throwing grenades into those crowds, to come up with those kinds of casualties numbers.
BRZEZINSKI: I guess you're right. Jim Miklaszewski at the Pentagon.
You know, Jim, we've got Roger Cressey, Jack Jacobs, and Gary Berntsen. Jump in any time you want-into the conversation. Because I know you're bringing stuff to the table and you may have good questions, too. I'm going to the White House right now. Right now President Bush is being updated on the terror attacks in Mumbai. NBC's Kevin Corke is live at the White House with more reaction from there. And, Kevin, I've just been handed a piece of paper that says the state chief minister in Mumbai says the situation is still not under control. I take it the White House is trying to figure out what if anything should be done from that standpoint.
KEVIN CORKE, NBC CORRESPONDENT: Yes, you're right. Mika, I just received word from Gordon Johndroe, and he says, among other things, look, I'm traveling today. We did know that he would be heading out to the west. He says, the White House has convened a meeting with the NSC, with State, with counterterrorism, and intelligence officials as well. They're monitoring the situation, obviously, on the ground. And they continue to seek more information. We're also hoping to get more clarification from the White House as to what they learned, when they learned it. Because, as you know, and as we've been following the story throughout the day here on MSNBC, information has been conflicting. There have been some reports of hostage circumstances that we've been monitoring, there have also been other reports of more coordinated attacks. We simply don't have as much information as we would like to have at this hour. So we continue to reach out to the White House. But again, I'm just getting bits and pieces of information from Gordon Johndroe. As I get more, if you'll give me a couple of minutes, I'll come back to you and give you the very latest from here at the White House.
BRZEZINSKI: Absolutely. Kevin, thank you very much. And we do know that Secretary Rice has been briefing the president on her talks with the U.S. consul general in Mumbai. Definitely a very delicate situation in terms of how the United States responds to this. Because this is still very much developing. Hostages being held at one, possibly two hotels in Mumbai, India. Live pictures right now. This is, I believe, the Taj Hotel. Now we're on videotape. Eight separate locations attacked by terrorists. Fires still burning. And Indian police trying to deal with how to close in on these people and put an end to it. We'll stay with it. We have a statement from Barack Obama, the president-elect. We'll bring you more of that when we come back. We're also awaiting word from friends of Peter Greenberg who are locked down inside the Taj Hotel as we speak trying to get a live look at what's happening in there from them. Stay with us, live coverage of this breaking news when we come right back.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI, MSNBC ANCHOR: All right. We're following breaking news out of Mumbai, India, where a series of eight separate attacks, terrorist attacks, have left at least 80 people dead and up to nine hundred, possibly many more injured. This situation is still very much developing. There are hostages being held at this hour. We don't know much more, but to recap what we do know, let's go back to the Pentagon. Jim Miklaszewski is standing by with the very latest-Jim.
JIM MIKLASZEWSKI, NBC NEWS PENTAGON CORRESPODENT: Well, Mika, one of our guests here earlier had mentioned that one of the prime suspects in this attack might be an Islamic militant group by the name of Lashkar-e-Toiba . That is raising concerns among U.S. officials who had feared that there may be some kind of link between these attacks and militants in Pakistan. Now, that particular group, the LET, was founded in Afghanistan and is based outside Lahore, Pakistan. There have been some attacks in India in the past in which both the LET and the ISI, the Pakistan intelligence agency, were implicated. U.S. officials are concerned, of course, that if in fact there is the attempt to make the link to ISI, the Pakistan intelligence agency, that there might be some kind of backlash, or even a retaliation against Pakistan. That is a major concern to U.S. diplomatic and military officials, who are doing their best to figure out exactly who is involved, and to try to convey whatever information they may be able to obtain about this to Indian officials, Mika.
BRZEZINSKI: This against the back drop of the hotel that we're looking at, right here, in flames, under lock down, hostages being held inside and other people, in other areas of the hotel, waiting it out because it is locked down; including friends of NBC Travel Editor Peter Greenberg getting e-mails from his friends there. So, we're trying to figure out, first of all, how many lives can be saved, how many lives have been lost, and how many hostages are being held at this point, let alone leads as to who is behind this..
MIKLASZEWSKI: I can tell you, Mika, that U.S. officials, so far, have not been able to determine that any Americans were among the casualties or among the hostages involved here. But with 80 reported killed and 900 wounded, a number that is expected to grow as this situation unfolds, according to U.S. military officials, it could be likely that statistically alone, since many of these locations were either commuter hubs like the Victoria Train Station, or tourist attractions, one of the primary tourist restaurants in town, and several hotels among the eight locations that were attacked, they believe it is probably likely there were Americans that could be casualties, or hostages, but so far, they don't know that. As terrorists move through these various areas, they are said to have been looking for Westerners, as they carried out their attack.
BRZEZINSKI: OK, Jim Miklaszewski, stand by. Thanks very much. We want to get to our translator in just a moment, but Mort Zuckerman has joined table here. You want to jump in real quick, Mort?
MORT ZUCKERMAN, MSNBC CORRESPONDENT: It is very important for the United States that relations between Pakistan and India improved. Zardari, the new president of Pakistan has basically just said that Pakistan will not initiate the first strike in the use of nuclear weapons. And this is a very important breakthrough in terms of Pakistan-Indian relations. The hope is that if the Pakistani military can stop focusing on Indiana as their principle opponent, they would be much more helpful to us as we try to deal with the problems in Afghanistan. And this is something that we have encouraged and Zardari has been undertaking. So, if this goes in the other direction, and the Pakistanis are involved, particularly the ISI, in this issue, it will have a very big impact on Pakistan and India, and therefore what we can hope for from Pakistan.
BRZEZINSKI: Also getting some leads, MSNBC Translator Jacob Keryakes has been listening to Al Jazeera for us. And, Jacob, you're hearing different angles on this in terms of maybe who carried out this attack.
JACOB KERYAKES, MSNBC TRANSLATOR: Yes, they're saying that we have to remember that in September 13th, five bomb exploded in New Delhi. And 20 people were killed and over 100 were wounded. The Al Jazeera reporters is trying to link these attacks to what took place in New Delhi. He said that there is this guy, called Abdul Zupan al-Koraishi (ph), who heads this group. He has heard the Indian authorities, in the past two months, saying that we're watching you. And await the right moment to respond to your bloody actions. They said he might be behind these attacks just taking a different name for the group. And he they are also saying that this might have a link to do what the conflict in Jamal (ph) and Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
BRZEZINSKI: OK, Jacob, you stand by and keep monitoring that for us. We appreciate it. We should also let you know that Peter Greenberg is waiting for word from a couple that he knows, manager of the Taj, actually, who are inside the Taj Hotel, which is locked down. The husband is in one section of the hotel. The wife is in the restaurant. They're emailing him and hoping to call in at this point, a very frightening situation for anyone who is still in that hotel. Obviously, there are hostages being held as well. There are other sites across the city of Mumbai that have been attacked as well. Eight separate ones, including a train station and a popular restaurant. Jack Jacobs, anything from what Jacob said that gives you any type of thought in terms of the group behind this? Or we have to wait at this point? At the White House, monitoring the situation, trying to figure out if and how they should respond?
JACK JACOBS, MSNBC ANALYST: The immediate Pakistan response, the intellectual response will be that, the Indian response of Pakistan's-that Pakistan is behind it. It sounds from what Jacob has gleaned that it is a homegrown operation. We have to also remember that the premier flash point between Indian and Pakistan, and also internally in India, happens to be Jamal (ph) and Kashmir, up in the mountains. So that anybody who comes from there is immediately going to be suspect. Whether or not India will go up there then and start to pay back remains to be seen. That will be very nasty for them.
BRZEZINSKI: Well, Jacob is still listening to Al Jazeera, he'll pop in when he gathers more information that is pertinent to this. Also with us, for our breaking news coverage, Roger Cressey. Jay Carney, Washington bureau chief for "TIME" magazine, Pat Buchan is with us, MSNBC political analyst, and also Democratic strategist Bob Shrum. Jay, if you can, if you would like to jump in, please? Mumbai, so key on so many levels but also a city where there are always many Westerners, at all hours, traveling through that city, because it is a financial hub.
JAY CARNEY, WASH. BUREAU CHIEF, "TIME": What is important about this besides the immediate tragedy of it, is the impact it has on the sort of psychology in the West about where terrorism is. This is a major attack on a site with a lot of Westerners. It is probably been carried out --.we don't know yet - but probably carried out Islamic jihad group. Whether home grown, whether it is related to Kashmir, or not, whether it has links to Al Qaeda or now, we don't know. But it is a reminder, I think, to both the outgoing and certainly to the incoming American administration, that there is just so much volatility in the world right now. As was previously pointed out, anything that could create more uncertainty and volatility within Pakistan at this point is a huge risk. That country is already on the edge of total breakdown and incohesian (sic), and it is a nuclear armed country. So, if there is an India-Pakistan conflict to arise out of this, it is a huge threat to world peace, I think.
BRZEZINSKI: Pat Buchanan and Bob Shrum, as we recap for our viewers, we're hearing up to 80 dead, up to 900 wounded, expecting those number to rise. A hostage situation still underway in Mumbai, India. A series of coordinated terrorist attacks carried out over the past few hours and we're watching live pictures coming in. this is video streaming in to us, but live pictures that we're going to where the Taj Hotel is still in flames. As Indian police try to figure out how to move in and figure out if they can save any of these hostages. Let me ask you, Barack Obama, the president-elect, put out a statement. And Bob, you can chime in as well. Strongly condemning the terrorists attacks. He says the United States must continue to strengthen our partnerships with India and nations around the world to root out and destroy terrorist networks. We stand with the people of India whose democracy will prove far more resilient than the hateful ideology that led to these attacks. This is Barack Obama, the president-elect, according to Brooke Anderson, the chief national spokesperson. So we have a transition underway, right now, while the president, President Bush, and the president-elect, monitor the situation and try and figure out how to respond. Talk about those dynamics, Pat, and then, Bob.
PAT BUCHANAN, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: All right. Mika, first we've got massive slaughter, killed and wounded of a 1,000 people, indiscriminately at these eight sites, except Westerners are targeted. That suggests these people want the attention not only of India, but the whole world and they have got it right now. We're going full time. Other networks are as well. Secondly, obviously, some of these people were suicide bombers. If there is a hostage taking, as we've been led to believe, it suggests they have a message that they want to send and they have demands they want to make before they're wiped out. What are those demands? If they're an Islamic group, my initial thought was it would be something to do with Pakistan' response to American and British attacks. Because they were sorting out American and British passports. But I think we're going to have to wait until we find out whether we ever hear from these people what the political game here is. But there is clearly political motivation behind this terror, as well as mass murder and mayhem to bring the attention of the world to their demands.
BRZEZINSKI: Bob Shrum?
BOB SHRUM, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Look, we may not know who precisely did this yet. We know two things. One, I don't think there is any division between Barack Obama or George Bush, or in America about how we have to stand up to this and we have to stand with the Indians in a very difficult time. Secondly, these terrorists clearly want to set India and Pakistan at each other's throats. That's probably one of their principal objectives. And that would be a huge problem for U.S. foreign policy. As Jay said, Pakistan is already so fragile and yet we need help from Pakistan. We need to be able to operate inside Pakistan. We need Pakistanis to do something about the northwest border as well as the U.S. from the Afghanistan side. This could make things much, much more difficult.
BRZEZINSKI: We have a foreign policy crisis on our hands now. Just minutes ago a witness at the ambushed Taj Hotel talks about being at the center of all the chaos. Take a listen.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I didn't see anything. We were in a room, we didn't see anything. So, we don't know anything (ph).
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How long were you inside.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: About five hours.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And you came here for the wedding party?
UIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, no. I just came for dinner
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What did the hotel staff tell you.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They were very cooperative. They were
attacked the same way. I don't think there was anything they could have done.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And all this, while this was going on, what did they tell you what was happening?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, we could make out there was an attack going on.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did they (UNINTELLIGIBLE)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, we could hear the gunshots out our doors and windows as they were shot at.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They were shot at
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did anybody get hurt inside where you were?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, I told you we - our section was very safe, luckily, but-
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Which part of the restaurant where you were?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I live -
BRZEZINSKI: All right. Our coverage of the terrorist attack in Mumbai, India, continues in just a moment. We have Pat Buchanan, Jay Carney, Bob Shrum, Mort Zuckerman, Jack Jacobs, Jim Miklaszewski, at the Pentagon, Roger Cressey, and Gary Burnson (ph), all standing by for comprehensive coverage of this breaking story. We'll be right back.
BRZEZINSKI: Welcome back, we continue to cover the terrorist attacks at eight separate sights in Mumbai, India. There are live pictures that we're monitoring right now. It is the Taj Hotel, one of the major, central focuses of the attack. Still in flames and apparently there is a hostage situation, still underway, inside the hotel which is locked down. You can see somebody hanging a sheet out the window. This is all coming into us, fresh video, or live pictures as we try and ascertain what is going on inside that hotel. And Indian police trying to figure out exactly how they can corner these guys. There were multiple attacks and many different groups of terrorists carrying out these attacks will we're trying to figure out who was behind it. The White House is monitoring the situation trying to figure out some sort of response, if any. Here now we have a British hotel guest describing the terrifying experience when the Taj came under attack by terrorists. Take a listen.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We, basically, were having-just starting our dinner, by the pool, and then we heard some gunfire. And then we heard some sporadic gunshots. And then we ran, and we just ran up the stairs, and we basically just, the staff just moved us into two rooms, a sea lounge and another room, I think there were about 20, 30 people in each room. And then the doors are locked, very quickly, and the lights are turned off and everybody just lay very still on the floor. And then, basically, six hours passed with like gunfire and blasts. There were two blasts that were very, very loud one. And then at one point a piece of ceiling fell in, as well, and then a pipe got punctured, so then there was water all over the floor. And just five minutes before we got rescued, the smoke was really coming through and I think we were all quite worried then, actually. But, yes, it was very, very painful and six, seven hours.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How many people were inside and what were they exactly doing. Did you see any of them fighting or gunshots -
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, no, we didn't see anything, We were basically ahead of it so we ran in front of it. So, basically, there were about 25 people in my room, and everybody was just lying still, lying under tables, lying under furniture. And just, you know, being very quiet and just hoping it would pass.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How were you rescued from the place?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: From the fire brigade. And what happened was, they just smashed our windows and we all had to come out through the ladder, which just happened about a half and hour ago.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What were you told, inside. What exactly -
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They didn't tell us anything, because nobody knew anything. I mean, we only had the Taj hotel staff, who I must say were absolutely brilliant. But they didn't have any more information, so you know, they just kept on saying to us all, be quiet, stay calm. It will be okay. But nobody actually had any information. But we could just hear it. We knew when the army were in, because we could hear the army running through the hotel. And just we heard a little gunfire and we heard all the blasts.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You are from London. Why did you come here?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm here with two friends of mine, actually. And they're all from London, actually. And so, I haven't found them yet, actually yet, but they're probably just around here somewhere.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. Six hours, painful hours, what do you have to say about that?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Most definitely, the worst experience of my entire life. It was just so horrendous. It was absolutely horrendous. I have next experienced anything like it and I hope I never do again, actually. I just give the credit to the hotel and to the military services they go us out in the time and the way that they did, you in our group, at least, there were no casualties, anyway.
BRZEZINSKI: All right. As we follow the Mumbai terror attacks, the Taj Hotel, a hostage situation underway there. We're hearing reports of gunfire inside the Taj. We will be back in just a moment with comprehensive coverage of this developing story. Still very much underway, the Taj Hotel in flames, eight separate sites in Mumbai, attack by terrorists. We'll be right back.
BRZEZINSKI: OK, we are hearing reports of gunshots now, inside the Taj Hotel, where a hostage situation is underway. The hotel is locked down. Eight separate sites have been attacked by terrorists in Mumbai, India. The story still very much developing. The White House monitoring it, and figuring out what if any reaction they need to carry out at this point. You're looking at video coming in to us raw. We have live pictures of the Taj burning. Jack Jacobs has been with us for the hour, Jack, how in the world do Indian police, Indian security forces deal with this situation. It sounds to me like this will not end well?
JACK JACOBS: No, I don't think it is going to end well. Their standard operating procedure is not to negotiate with hostages. As we see frequently in the United States in police situations their objective is to demonstrate that they can get control of any situation like this. And that means when you have hostages, and there is someplace located inside a large building like this. It is a question of pinpointing where they are and attacking, and unfortunately the result of that is going to be all the hostages killed or unfortunately there will be many more casualties likely among the terrorist as well. But, Roger, I was thinking-we were talking during the break about this. And does not this mean, the way this was carried out, the possibility that today is just not the last day of this. That there is liable-as the government is really trying to find its way. What happens next? What do the terrorists do, what do they have in store?
BRZEZINSKI: Roger Cressey?
ROGER CRESSEY: Well, Jack it's a very good question. Because when you think of the level of attack we saw today, it's a virtual certainty they didn't exhaust their pool of available recruits. We've seen a high operational tempo in Mumbai over a number of years. I think for the Intelligence Bureau, which is the domestic intelligence service for India, they have their work cut out for them. Trying to identify who else might be involved. To get to a point that Gary made earlier, about Lashkar-e-Toiba. The LET has a network throughout India. And they've been known in the past to work with other Islamic groups that may not share their particular objectives in Kashmir, but a meeting of the minds to try and execute attacks. So I think that is an element to keep in mind. The last point I want to make, though, is that the police and the intelligence service do have one thing going in their favor. They've arrested a number, and taken into custody, a number of the terrorists. So there will be an interrogation, an exploitation phase to this. And they may be able to get to the bottom of who is involved in it, sooner rather than later.
BRZEZINSKI: OK, and Mort Zuckerman, the bigger issue, the back drop here, the relationship between India and Pakistan?
ZUCKERMAN: Yes, well, from our point of view, of course, that is a critical relationship, particularly if it unsettles and destabilizes Pakistan. Which as Jay was suggesting before, Jay Connick (ph), it is not exactly the most stable country. The things that we can do, however, to help ourselves with Pakistan are really quite simple. I'll just give you two examples. They need two things, increased textile quotas from Pakistan, because that employs not only a lot of men, but a lot of women. And flour, they have tremendous shortages of flour just to make the basics of the bread they eat. This is something we can provide and would be enormously helpful and widely appreciated.
BRZEZINSKI: And it is something that-everyone is going to be looking at this as we try to get out of this situation and watch how the Indian government responds. As you can see this video coming in. Extremely disturbing. Terrorists attacks at eight separate sites in Mumbai, India. The Taj Hotel, under lockdown right now, a hostage situation inside. And reports - as we watch this injured man crying in pain-reports of gunshots now inside the Taj Hotel. More breaking news coverage right here MSNBC when we return.
BRZEZINSKI: We have been following this breaking news for several hours now, live pictures of the Taj Hotel, which parts of it are in flames. A highly coordinated, well-planned attack in Mumbai, India, targeting eight separate sites including that famous hotel. And apparently the attackers were targeting Westerners. We know of 80 dead, 900 wounded. And there are an unknown number of hostages being held right now and reports of gunshots coming out of the Taj. I'm Mika Brzezinski. Our coverage continues with David Shuster and "Hardball", next.
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Alberta Whittle wins 2018 Margaret Tait Award
Barbadian artist Alberta Whittle has been announced as the Margaret Tait Award winner in the centenary year of the Orcadian filmmaker's birth
Last night saw the world premiere of April, Sarah Forrest's 2017 Margaret Tait Award commission. The event at Glasgow Film Festival also saw the baton being passed to Alberta Whittle, who was announced as this year's winner.
"Alberta is at an earlier stage in her career than many former recipients, but the panel were impressed by the way that her practice offers up new ways of thinking about place, landscape, ownership and agency in Scotland and further afield," said the Award panel in a statement. "All members of the panel are excited to see the work at Glasgow Film Festival 2019 and are thrilled to be able to offer this talented artist a new platform on the moving image arts scene in Scotland."
For the uninitiated, the Margaret Tait Award, founded in 2010, supports experimental and innovative artists working with film and the moving image. It's named in honour of Margaret Tait, the great Orcadian filmmaker and writer whose film poems, hand-painted animations and documentaries were pioneering in the field of experimental filmmaking. Born 1918, she would have been 100 this year.
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Based in Glasgow, Whittle's practice, which includes sculpture and performance as well as moving image, is described as being "motivated by the desire to work collectively towards radical self-love." Nicole Yip, director of LUX Scotland, commented that "we are thrilled to be able to champion a bold and radical voice such as Alberta Whittle's through this Award." Yip added that Whittle's "contribution has not only manifested visibly in a thoughtful body of work that explores urgent concerns around decolonisation, but also less visibly in her tireless commitment to community-building, artistic education, research and writing."
Whittle herself said: "I am so excited by this opportunity to develop a new body of ambitious work. The award will allow me to bring together my research on authenticity, memory, history, loss and healing."
Whittle's work has been exhibited all over the world, including the Johannesburg Pavillion at the 56th Venice Biennale; Galerie de l'UQAM, Quebec; BOZAR, Belgium; Intermedia and David Dale Gallery, Glasgow; National Art Gallery of the Bahamas; VAN Lagos, Nigeria; and the Apartheid Museum, Goethe on Main and Constitution Hill, South Africa. This year, Whittle will also act as Associate Artist at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) in Glasgow and a Fellow at RAW Académie in Dakar, Senegal. She will be presenting her research at The Showroom in London as part of Holding Space in April 2018. She has also been a Committee Member of Transmission Gallery since 2016.
Whittle is the ninth winner of the award, and the moving image work she creates during the Margaret Tait residency will premiere at next year's Glasgow Film Festival.
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I am delighted to read from the Bishop of London that the 2015 Lent Appeal "will now concentrate on supporting Youth, Children and Family projects across the Diocese." http://www.london.anglican.org/mission/lent-appeal-2014-helping-children-be-children/
The Rt Revd Richard Chartres states that "Our vision is to fund an additional 20 youth, children and family workers to present the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to serve their communities."
He also points out that "to double the number of young people involved in the local Christian community" is "one of our key Capital Vision 2020 goals", Bishop Richards states. The Bishop prays that in the next three years the Diocese of London "will invest at least £1 million...in order to realise this goal."
Attending the Church in Wales conference themed, The Time is Now, over the weekend, I spoke to people working with children and young people in Bangor Diocese where the diocese has recently invested around £150,000 in youth and children ministry and four full time staff have been employed to look after the four regions. The staff are passionate and excited about the many possibilities that lie ahead as resources are available. Like in London Diocese, youth and children ministry in Bangor Diocese includes focusing on family.
Last time I worshipped at All Saints' Cathedral in Nairobi, Kenya, was in 2011. Looking through the pew-sheet during service I learnt that the previous Sunday was a special Sunday to raise funds for children and youth ministry. When I checked the amount raised and converted to US Dollars, I was very humbled and impressed to discover that the Cathedral of All Saints had just raised an amount equivalent to US $100,000 on one Sunday!
As Director for Mission at the Anglican Communion Office I hear lots of Churches worldwide saying how they're desperate to attract and keep young people into the church. The above are all examples of "putting money where your mouth is". Not just talk, but action.
In order to reap the benefits, investing in children and youth ministry needs to be an intentional commitment of leadership and of resources, and not simply tokenism.
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Immunotherapies such as PD-1 inhibitors have improved survival for many patients with cancer. However, these therapies are associated with adverse events that, if not properly managed, impair quality of life and may lead to treatment interruptions or discontinuation. Pruritus is one of the most common immune-related adverse events, and while many cases may be managed with conventional therapy, some patients do not respond. Shawn Kwatra, MD and colleagues reported on a case of an 88-year-old woman receiving pembrolizumab, a PD-1 inhibitor, for metastatic lung adenocarcinoma who developed severe pruritus refractory to standard treatment. Dr. Kwatra and colleagues found that intravenous naloxone, an opioid antagonist, resulted in a reduction in pruritus severity from 10 to 1 (on a scale of 0 to 10) within 1 hour. i3 Health spoke with Dr. Kwatra, Assistant Professor of Dermatology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, about his findings and the challenges, potential advances, and role of multidisciplinary care in the management of dermatologic immune-related adverse events.
What is the most challenging aspect of managing immune-related adverse events?
Shawn G. Kwatra, MD: The most difficult aspect of managing adverse events related to therapy is that you don't want to stop the therapy because, oftentimes, patients who have adverse effects, at least in respect to the skin, are having a good response to therapy. What we're trying to do is manage patient symptoms while not taking them off of therapy.
Oftentimes, when a patient has a drug reaction, the drug is stopped and then things get better but, with a PD-1 inhibitor, what you want to do is keep them on the drug if it is effective in fighting their underlying malignancy and find a way to make them a little bit more comfortable. Often, patients who have skin eruptions—rashes, itch, even vitiligo—are responding well to the drug.
How do you counsel your patients through those adverse events?
Dr. Kwatra: PD-1 inhibitors are very new, so one of the main hurdles is knowing if the adverse event is actually related to the PD-1 inhibitor because there are many different reaction patterns. There are lichenoid, eczematous, psoriasiform, lupus-like, and other drug reactions. It is important to tie in what's going on with these patients and explain that we want to manage their symptoms because the cancer is the most important thing that we're dealing with.
The main thing is making sure we do not limit their anticancer therapy. It is a situation where dermatologists have an important role in doing everything they can to make sure therapy isn't stopped. There are many patients whose oncology team held therapy because of the significant skin side effects and diminishment of quality of life. It becomes an important management issue.
What is the role of multidisciplinary care in the management of immune-related adverse events?
Dr. Kwatra: A multidisciplinary team is definitely needed. Oncology treats the tumor, but if patients have a skin reaction pattern, you need a dermatologist involved. You need a rheumatologist if they have joint pain or a variety of other autoimmune phenomenon. There is also a role for many other specialists such as pulmonologists and ophthalmologists. It really is important that you have practitioners of different specialties that have knowledge of these kinds of effects.
I recently had a patient whose immunotherapy was held for a rash that the patient had because there was concern that the rash would be more progressive. Dermatologists can help with the management of these patients because they can say when they think the eruption will be stable or progress more rapidly.
Often, involvement of the mucus membranes is a negative sign. If patients have a rash, but they don't have mucus membrane involvement, that usually is a signal that you may be able to continue cancer therapy. It is a team-based approach because we don't want these patients off therapy.
What is the current standard for treating pruritus?
Dr. Kwatra: There is not an FDA-approved agent specifically designed to treat pruritus although many agents are in development. Thus, treatment is often empiric. Oftentimes, nonspecific therapies are utilized such as antihistamines or corticosteroids. Systemic steroids are an incredibly nonspecific therapy, but currently, they are one of the frontline agents per national guidelines for managing immunotherapy-related toxicity and adverse reactions. They're a global anti-inflammatory, immunosuppressive medicine that have very significant side effects like weight gain, glaucoma, cataracts, and bone thinning. I try to stay away from systemic steroids as much as possible because I don't want patients to be exposed to those side effects.
For this reason, I am always looking for novel anti-itch therapies that have a better side effect profile. In this case, naloxone's side effect profile and its targeted mechanism of action make it an appealing option. More studies are needed to evaluate this medication further in patients with immunotherapy-related pruritus.
I use naltrexone in my clinic off-label for conditions such as prurigo nodularis, atopic dermatitis, and chronic itch. The continuous infusion of the intravenous formulation definitely has the most powerful effect. I've seen it work for many different types of itch.
Can you speak more about what led you to use naloxone in the treatment of PD-1 blockade-induced pruritus?
Dr. Kwatra: The opioid system has a prominent role in both pain and itch. Morphine, classically, reduces pain but can also induce itch. Anesthesiologists have known about that for many years. Recently, we've used other types of opioids, off-label, and some of them can provide relief. We found that naltrexone can help in chronic itch by reducing mu-opioid tone. In chronic itch there tends to be more mu-opioid activity and less kappa-opioid activity, which is one of the reasons there are now several pharmaceutical companies entering the arena with either kappa-opioid agonists or combination kappa-opioid and mu-opioid antagonists for the treatment of chronic itch. Naloxone is one of the oldest, common, acceptable therapies.
We had a patient that had this itch that didn't respond to first-line systemic steroids and antihistamines. Drug eruption-related pruritus in many situations does not respond to anti-histamines. We had the suspicion that naloxone could be effective but were most surprised that the results were nearly immediate. When the medication was started, the itch nearly completely abated and when it was stopped, the itch came back, so there's a very clear relationship between the medicine and the relief the patient felt. I continued to follow the patient for several months afterwards, and I could see how much she improved as we switched to the oral formulation.
The important thing is that naloxone is available in all hospitals around the country. When these patients come in, sometimes unable to sit still because of such a terrible skin eruption and intractable itch, doctors who are aware of naloxone have something they can pull out of their tool bag. I've searched the literature and couldn't find many additional cases. In some cases, it had been used in liver-related itch, but there wasn't a lot of information, especially on how to dose it. Regarding administration, the intravenous route is the fastest acting. Orals take a while to work, and they don't have as high potency, but the intravenous formulations can result in an almost immediate effect.
The hope is that this is something someone can read and try the next day if a patient is recalcitrant to conventional therapy. I want to make sure people are aware of different options. A lot of the agents in the pipeline are many years away, and they may not be accessible for all patients.
We're really in uncharted territory with managing adverse effects for immunotherapy. Immunotherapy is becoming increasingly used as a first-line therapy for cancer, so we have to come up with novel ways to deal with these skin eruptions and other adverse effects.
What advances in PD-1 blockade-induced pruritus do you expect to see?
Dr. Kwatra: One thing I would like to do is partner with some of these pharmaceutical companies producing immunotherapy agents in the future to see if they're open to having us do more studies involving these patients to see what types of signaling pathways are dysregulated. If these drugs are going to become increasingly common, we need to find ways to keep patients on them, and we can try to give them the most effective therapy. That's the direction I'd like to take it in. Hopefully, the companies making these important agents are interested in partnering together.
About Dr. Kwatra
Shawn G. Kwatra, MD is an Assistant Professor of Dermatology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His primary research interest is the pathogenesis and treatment of chronic pruritus. He is a member of American Academy of Dermatology and the Society for Investigative Dermatology.
For More Information:
Kwatra SG, Ständer SS & Kang H (2018). PD-1 blockade-induced pruritus treated with a mu-opioid receptor antagonist. N Engl J Med, 379(16):1578-1579. DOI:10.1056/nejmc1805637
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Who are the department chairs for the new College of General Studies (CGS)?
Department chair elections and recommendations were conducted in May 2018. Interim Dean Stephen Schmid recommended the following chairs to the provost, and they have been approved.
- Dean Kowalski – Arts & Humanities
- Talitha Selby – Mathematics & Natural Sciences
- Julianna Alitto – Social Sciences & Business
The department chairs have begun their work on governance policy for the departments, division, and college, including tenure, retention, and promotion policy. Department chairs also will receive training in academic affairs and curriculum management, student affairs, business affairs, HR functions, and UWM's department chair training.
What is the timeline for recruiting a permanent dean for the CGS? How will recruitment work for other administrative positions within the CGS?
Provost Johannes Britz will determine the timeline for recruiting a permanent dean. Other administrative positions are being filled by existing regional and campus staff, as budget and organization chart allow.
What is the status of the reimagined degree?
Yes, Provost Britz has asked that CGS move forward with the reimagined AAS degree. In 2015, UW System mandated the updating of associate's degrees as part of the UW LEAP initiative (SYS 115, adopted June 2015). The UW Colleges' reimagined AAS degree complies with this UW System mandate and is modeled on AAUP's LEAP Essential Learning Outcomes. UWM's College of Letters & Science has started discussions about GER reform using this model.
Are there any updates on how there will be collaboration with other schools/colleges at UWM to align CGS courses with those at UWM? What is the timeframe for getting this done? What is the role of governance in this process?
A working group has started the curriculum integration process. CGS faculty and staff collected old and new course guides and course syllabi. The appropriate departments at UWM are working to review and compare CGS course guides and syllabi with their own. As UWM departments complete their reviews, the working group will coordinate with future CGS governance representatives to address any changes. In order to prepare UWM's timetable for fall 2019 semester, the entire review and approval process should be completed by December 2018.
In addition, discussions with other UWM schools and colleges about collaborative programming at CGS are starting. Many of these discussions are ongoing and will continue into the next academic year.
Will faculty and staff be reimbursed for travel for shared governance or other required meetings at UWM? Will Skype meetings still be possible?
Required travel is reimbursed. Skype meetings will continue to be cost-effective means of conducting business.
It feels like decisions about who will serve in specific positions in the CGS will be made before the organizational structure is clearly defined and finalized. What safeguards will be in place to ensure that the faculty have input on the decisions?
A draft organizational chart was created for the Higher Learning Commission for purposes of the accreditation review that took place from approximately January to June 2018 and for the creation of a new college within UWM. The draft organizational chart was created to be consistent with UWM organizational practices. This draft CGS organization chart was reviewed and approved by UWM faculty governance in spring 2018, as part of the approval process for the new College of General Studies (CGS). The CGS draft organization chart will be subject to budgetary constraints. Given that the UW Colleges budget being transferred to UWM continues to be reviewed with some parts of the budget not transferring until mid-2019, the organization chart is a work in progress with pieces approved following UWM leadership review. UWM leadership will have the final determination regarding organizational structure.
Is there a requirement for shared governance representation from the CGS? How will the governance representation work before a governance document is in place for the CGS?
CGS will have shared governance representation at UWM starting in fall 2018. Three CGS senators were elected in spring 2018. In absence of complete and approved policies, good faith efforts will guide department, division and CGS actions.
Will the two-year campuses be able to continue to hire for positions at their individual campuses or will the UWM Strategic Position Control apply to them as well?
The College of General Studies, just like other UWM Colleges/Schools will be under Strategic Position Control (SPC). SPC is a mechanism to control expenditures at UW-Milwaukee given the fluctuations in enrollments. UWM's Provost Britz and Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administrative Affairs Robin Van Harpen oversees this process. SPC is functionally like the UW Colleges' past practice of reviewing hiring decisions based on an enrollment adjusted budget model.
Will the CGS faculty members be part of a department or a division? How are the department chairs and members of the Divisional Committee determined?
Each UWM college/school has a department structure, with the number of departments varying by college/school. CGS will have three departments: Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences & Business, and Mathematics & Natural Sciences. Through elections, these inter-disciplinary departments recently recommended chairs, which will be recommended by the interim CGS dean to the Provost. Departments oversee academics, staffing, and assessment standards and quality.
UWM currently has four divisions: Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Professions. Divisions are the governance mechanism for addressing tenure, retention, and promotion after department reviews. In addition, the divisional structure is the mechanism by which schools/colleges at UWM participate in the larger governance structure. As part of the restructuring, a new division is being proposed for CGS. This governance body will be constituted from members of each CGS department following UWM policy.
How will services that are currently centrally provided to UW Colleges be provided in the future?
The decisions about how centralized services for the two-year colleges will be provided, including human resources, IT support and marketing, is being managed differently for each area. For example, human resources and IT will be managed by centralized staff housed in Madison in the near term, while facilities and marketing have been transferred to UW-Milwaukee. There is a goal to determine the future of all such services during the 2018-19 year.
How will general education courses be managed across the three campuses, particularly when there is duplication in the courses?
The Associate of Arts and Sciences degree will be overseen by the new UWM College of General Studies. UWM does not currently offer an associate's degree. The Academic Affairs Functional Team is currently looking at the integration of curriculum, focusing on the UW Colleges' courses and UWM's general education courses. This team is looking at which courses are transfer equivalents and discussing nonequivalent transfer courses with UWM department chairs. Ultimately, there will be no "duplication" of courses since all courses will be UWM courses.
Will faculty at the two‐year campuses have opportunities for sabbaticals and conference travel similar to those for other UWM faculty?
Details on sabbatical opportunities and conference resources for faculty at the two-year campuses have not yet been decided.
How will faculty who are working toward tenure be affected by differences in the tenure and promotion criteria and processes at the two‐year campuses compared to UWM?
The Academic Affairs and Governance Functional Teams are working on this issue. The College of General Studies will have its own faculty promotion and tenure processes, separate and distinct from UWM's current policies and procedures for faculty tenure and promotion.
What will be the expected workload at UWM and the two‐year campuses? Will faculty have the same teaching loads?
For the 2018-19 academic year, workload for instructors in Waukesha and Washington County will remain unchanged.
How will student governance be affected by the restructuring?
Wisconsin law calls for students to determine how they are organized at each campus. Therefore, student governance leaders are being asked to determine how they would like to be organized moving forward. No determination has been made yet.


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Is Cutting Ones Body OK
I am 17 and I cut myself. I heard that it's bad to have permanent markings on our bodies, that's why I don't want any tattoos. But is cutting an acception? Where in the Bible does it say this?
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i have lost alot when i was young...i picked up the habit to cut..when i get sad or feel like ive hurt someone i allways refer to cutting... i belive god would help me to stop but i also think he helps me rid the pain that ive been thru...the indians cut once a month in groups to rid the bad spirits in there blood..strange i will never get tattoos or anything crazy like that but i pray for the lord to guide me and keep me safe and he allways does.
on 10/17/11
Lev 19:28 talks about not cutting yourself or putting marks on yourself for the dead. I guess the pagans used to do that in grief. But it's not God's way. You'll regret the scars later, I did.
on 5/20/08
The scripture is found in Lev 19:28 forbidding tattoos and cutting of one's flesh. It is caused by the influence of Satan in this world, and is the effect of serious sexual, emotional or physical abuse.
To forgive the abuser will set you completely free and change your life. Jesus will teach you how.
on 11/20/07
Blessings manda and everyone, why are you doing this? I know someone that is close to me that self-mutilates their body, and I am trying to get help for this person. I would suggest Christian counciling because you have to get to the root of the problem. God loves you, and He does not want you to harm yourself. Please get into counciling. God bless you my friend!
on 11/18/07
Cutting is like anorexia or bulemia--it is a cry for help. Please get it, before permanent damage is set in.
And be careful--there has been so much about cutting in the media lately it's almost become a fashion. But physically harming oneself is never cool, no matter what others may try to make you think.
(And if you're still in doubt, remember, if somebody else did that to you, they'd be arrested. So how wise could it be to do it to yourself?)
on 11/9/07
What you are doing is not okay with God. You are harming your body, which is the temple of the Holy Spirit of God. Would you paint grafitti on a church? Of course not. Yet, you are cutting into your own flesh in order to deal with negative emotions that you don't want to deal with in a healthy way.
God has a better way for you to deal with your feelings. Ask your parents to get you an appointment with a therapist who is licensed and experienced with teens.
on 11/3/07
whether cutting, marking or scarring is a no no to God..Leviticus 19:28 Ye shall not make any cuttings on your flesh for the dead nor porint any marks upon you. I am the Lord..Remember dear, your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit..by doing so, you are defiling it...God gave you a beautiful body...why mess it up..just think, those markings will not help you get a future husband..will it? and how are you going to explain it if you do?
on 8/27/06
Cutting is not the issue here, SIV is. I am a middle school resource teacher. We have had several self-mutilators on our team over the last few years. I took a razor away from one of our girls last year. Please, please, seek help to find out the reason behind this behavior. It won't go away by itself. Studies show that is typically a 10 yr cycle. I'm praying for you. (magga7345)
on 3/18/06
Thanks to all those who have explained it. I've never heard about it before.
on 3/18/06
As a Counselor and a Survivor of Abuse, please understand that you need help to get to the real reason for why you cut yourself. There are so many different, and self-destructive ways that we use to cry out for attention ... for help. When you cut yourself, that is exactly what you are doing. Please Sweet Jesus help this person to know that you love them, and enable them to get the help they need to be healed emotionally, physically, and Spiritually.
on 3/18/06
Catholic: A person cuts themselves in order to cope with emotional pain. The physical pain that is induced overshadows the emotional pain and brings temporary relief. People who usually cut themselves have not been taught to deal with negative emotions like anger and depression. The scars are reminders to the person.
on 3/18/06
A Catholic; cutting oneself means that this person is cutting their arms or any type of the their body for various reasons.
on 3/18/06
A Catholic--Young people who are "cutters" deliberately cut themselves with a razor blade or other sharp instrument, over and over. They may cut any part of the body. They can tell you it is to make their emotional pain into a physical pain.
on 3/18/06
A Catholic ,,, it is literally just what it says, cutting oneself ... with a blade.
on 3/18/06
I asked before but no one answered. Could you please tell me what cutting oneself mean? Thanks.
on 3/18/06
Not trying to dodge question, what is motive behind the cutting of yourself? Its the chance of infections and sickness you can get when you continuously cut yourself. You need to let you body heal up. In addition, as a Christian, your Body is the Temple of which God resides.
on 3/17/06
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I don't know if having permanent markings on your body is wrong or not. But you are not cutting yourself to make marks on your body. You are cutting to cause yourself physical pain. Do you know Jesus as your Savior? When Jesus was on earth he helped and healed people and He still wants to do that for you.You can tell Him what's hurting you INSIDE. He said "him that comes to me, I will in never drive out"(John 6:37) Talk to Him, please.
on 3/17/06
Manda. In Leviticus 21:5 It says not to make cuttings in the flesh. But it also says not to make baldness on the head or shave the beard, and the list goes on. In the New Testament we are no longer under these laws but are told that our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit. In reality, our bodies belong to the Lord. Could cutting yourself benefit your relationship with Him? Later in life, you may feel sorry becasue of ugly scarring. Please consider carefully.
on 3/17/06
Why would you want to cut yourself? This isn't good at all. Any type of cut can leave a scar, but not always. The only thing that I have found in the bible about cutting is, where a man who was possessed by a demon and he was cutting himself. I'm not saying you are possessed, but that is what I found on a person cutting themselves in the bible.
on 3/17/06
Leviticus 19:25 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.
Mark 5:2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,Mark 5:5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and CUTTING himself with stones.
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Amanda :Read Leviticus 19:28 1n the King James Bible .Where The Lord tell us not to make any cutting on the body or print any marks which means tattos .Pastor Danny in the friendship of the love and compassion of Jesus Christ
on 3/17/06
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on 3/17/06
If permanent markings per se were bad, then surgical intervention itself would make most of us sinners. More importantly here is why you cut yourself. Jesus was wounded so you could receive healing, health, and strength. Those wounds He took not only marked Him outwardly but also inwardly as bruising. The redemption we have in Christ Jesus heals as much inwardly as it does outwardly.
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This year, Detroit PAL will be celebrating its 50th year of building character in the kids of Detroit. During those 50 years, hundreds of thousands of young people have benefited from PAL's programs and were influenced by their caring mentors. Now, we are calling on you to Get in the Game and help the next generation of Detroiters rise up and reach their full potential.
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