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University of Vermont
Department of Physics
Faculty Research
The Department of Physics offers research opportunities in astrophysics, acoustical physics, biophysics, condensed matter physics, the physics of materials, and the history of physics.
Astrophysical research centers on experimental radio astronomy, with particular emphasis on pulsars and the interstellar medium. Observations are carried out using major instruments of the U.S. National Observatories and generally involve computer analysis and interpretation.
Research in biological physics is being pursued in three areas: atomic-force microscopy, to study the structures of biological materials at the submicroscopic level, ultrasonic biophysics, studying the physics of the interaction of ultrasound with living systems, and structural dynamics, looking at the changes in protein structure associated with function. These areas involve collaboration with the College of Medicine. Acoustical and optical tweezers, being developed here, permit manipulating single cells without touching them. Theoretical and experimental studies of the biological effects of ultrasound emphasize the modeling of possible effects on humans. New forms of ultrasonic transducers and biosensors are being developed in collaboration with Electrical Engineering, as part of the Materials Science Program. The research area of biological atomic force microscopy (AFM) is focused on the use of state-of-the-art technology to study biological systems under their native conditions. The goals are to determine the structure of macromolecular and micromolecular assemblies at sub-micrometer resolution, and to study dynamic processes of proteins and membranes in real time. X-ray crystallographic studies of proteins structure tells us not just what the machinery of life looks like but how it much move in order to accomplish biological function.
Theoretical and computational research programs in condensed matter physics deal with electronic, optical, lattice-dynamical, thermodynamic, surface, and magnetic properties of metals, semiconductors, superconductors, laser crystals, and biological materials. Materials of current interest include transition and rare-earth metals, fullerides and fullerenes, ordered, disordered, amorphous and liquid metals and alloys, ionic solids, and doped elemental and compound semiconductors. Some of the general approaches include the analytical and numerical methods of self-consistent band theory, crystal-field theory, multiple-scattering theory, Green's function formalism, and density-functional theory. Experimental condensed-matter physics includes the nonlinear interaction of materials with ultrasound, as well as the submicroscopic structure of biological materials.
Theoretical studies of the optical properties of materials include the electronic structure of defect complexes in ionic crystals, the application of subtracted dispersion relations to optical data analysis, and the separation of inter- and intra-band effects in the infrared spectra of metals. Related studies are concerned with theories of X-ray scattering, of X-ray optical properties, and of X-ray optical elements.
Other faculty members are active in the history and philosophy of physical science, with particular regard to the way in which it evolves. Particular interests include the relationships among science, society, and technology issues in the physical sciences. Several faculty members also collaborate in local and national applied efforts and research in improving physics education.
Current opportunities for collaborative research with other University departments and groups include those with Chemistry, the Materials Science Program, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, the Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
The Department participates in two doctoral programs: Materials Science and Cell and Molecular Biology.
Laboratory facilities for work in biophysics and condensed matter physics are supplemented by computational facilities that include the campus-wide network.
Robert G. Arns
Professor Emeritus
The evolution of new knowledge never follows the neat deductive sequence presented in physics textbooks. The work of Thomas Kuhn and others has helped show the human drama and agony in the evolution of scientific understanding and the connections between the advance of science and other aspects of the human experience. Analogous patterns are found in the development of applications from scientific discoveries. Professor Arns is engaged in research on the history of modern physics and on the evolution of technologies derived from specific discoveries. The results of this work have significance for physics education, for public policy relative to the support of research and development, and for the management of scientific and technological change in industry.
Prof. Arns has a B.S. degree from Canisius College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Michigan. He has numerous publications in experimental nuclear physics. Work in progress includes continuing research on: 1) the persistence of ether concepts in the 20th century; 2) the influence of naive beliefs on the development of scientific understanding; and 3) the history of the field-effect transistor.
- R.G. Arns and B. Crawford, Resonant Cavities in the History of Architectural Acoustics, Technology and Culture, 36, No. 1, 104-35 (Jan. 1995).
- R.G. Arns, Preconceptions in Introductory Physics Courses, Conference on the Introductory Physics course, J. Wilson, ed. (John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1997), pp. 159-164.
- R.G. Arns, The High-vacuum X-ray Tube: Technological Change in Social Context (Technology and Culture, 1995), 38, No. 4, 552-590 (October 1997).
Kelvin Chu
Associate Professor
Proteins are biological molecules that catalyze many of the reactions necessry for life. They are made from a highly condensed polymer chain of amino acids and are, consequently, not rigid. In fact, many proteins need to be able to switch between a number of physical conformations in order to work. Protein dynamics strive to connect the intricacies of structure, and the motion between related structures, with biological function. Our efforts center on trying to understand the physics of how proteins work by determining the functional consequences of protein structure and protein dynamics. We use both time-resolved and equilibrium spectroscopies (visible, FT-IR), coupled with crystallographic methods to study the dynamics and, ultimately, the structure of proteins as they do their job. Systems of interest include heme proteins, such as myoglobin and hemoglobin, as well as several of the non-heme diiron proteins.
Kelvin Chu received his Sc.B. degree from Brown University and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Lab.
- Frauenfelder H, McMahon BH, Austin RH, Chu K, Groves JT. (2001) "The role of structure, energy landscape, dynamics, and allostery in the enzymatic function of myoglobin." Proc Natl Acad Sci USA.. 98:2370 -2374.[Entrez]
- Schlichting I, Chu Kelvin (2000) "Trapping intermediates in the cr ystal: ligand binding to myoglobin." Curr Opin Struct Biol. 10:744 -752.[Entrez]
- Schlichting I., Berendzen J., Chu, Kelvin, Stock A.M., Maves S.A., Benson D.E., Sweet R.M., Ringe D., Petsko G.A., Sligar S.G . (2000) ''The catalytic pathway of cytochrome P450cam at atomic resolution.'' Science 287:1615-1622. [Entrez]
- Brunori, M., Vallone, B., Cutruzzola, F., Travaglini-Allocatelli, C., Berendzen, J., Chu, Kelvin, Sweet, R. M. and Schlichting, I. (2000) ``The role of cavities in protein dynamics: crystal structure of a novel photolytic intermediate of myoglobin.'' Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., USA 97:2058-2063. [Entrez]
- Chu, Kelvin, Vojtechovsky, J., McMahon, B., Sweet, R. M., Berendzen, J., and Schlichting, I. (2000) ``Crystal structure of a new ligand-binding intermediate in wildtype carbonmonoxymyoglobin.'' Natu re 403:921-923. [Entrez]
- Vojtechovsky, J., Chu, Kelvin, Berendzen, J., Sweet, R. M., and Schlichting, I. (1999) ``Crystal structures of myoglobin-ligand complexes at near-atomic resolution.'' Biophys. J. 77:2153-217 4. [Entrez]
- Terwilliger, T.C., Waldo, G., Peat, T.S., Neuman, J.M., Chu, Kelvin, and Berendzen, J (1998) ``Class-directed structure determination: foundation for a protein structure initiative.'' Protein Sci 7:1851-1856. [Entrez]
- Nienhaus, G.U., Chu, Kelvin, and Klemens, J. (1998) ``Structural heterogeneity and ligand binding in carbonmonoxy myoglobin crys tals at cryogenic temperatures.'' Biochem. 37:6819-6823. [Entrez]
Dennis P. Clougherty
Professor and Chair
Dr. Clougherty's research is concerned with several topics in theoretical condensed matter physics, including high Tc superconductivity, magnetism, quantum sticking, density functional theory, and the properties of fullerenes and nanotubes.
Dr. Clougherty received his B.S. degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering, his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, and his Ph.D. degree in Physics from M.I.T. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California-Santa Barbara. He has had visiting appointments at M.I.T., University of California-San Diego, Harvard University, University of Texas at Austin, and the Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, California. He serves as a consultant for several corporations and laboratories.
- Di Xiao, Junren Shi, D.P. Clougherty, and Qian Niu, Polarization and Adiabatic Pumping in Inhomogeneous Crystals, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 087602 (2009).
- T.E. Jones, M.E. Eberhart and D.P. Clougherty, Topology of the Spin-polarized Charge Density in bcc and fcc Iron, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 017208 (2008).
- D.P. Clougherty, Jahn-Teller Solitons, Structural Phase Transitions and Phase Separation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 045703 (2006).
- M.E. Eberhart and D.P. Clougherty, Looking for Design in Materials Design, Nature Materials 3, 659 (2004).
- D.P. Clougherty, Anomalous Threshold Laws in Quantum Sticking, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 226105 (2003).
- D.P. Clougherty, Endohedral Impurities in Carbon Nanotubes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 035507 (2003).
- D.P. Clougherty, Ferroelectricity in (K@C60)n, in Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics, R. Cohen (Academic Press, NY, 2000).
- D.P. Clougherty and F.G. Anderson, Theory of Spontaneous Polarization of Endohedral Fullerenes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3735 (1998).
- D.P. Clougherty and X. Zhu, Stability and Teller's Theorem: Fullerenes in the March Model, Phys. Rev. A 56, 632 (1997).
- D.P. Clougherty, On the Stability of Rare Gas Endohedral Fullerenes, Can. J. Chem. 74, 965 (1996).
- D.P. Clougherty and J.P. Gorman, On the Low Frequency Vibrations of C60, Chem. Phys. Lett., 251, 353 (1996).
- D.P. Clougherty and W. Kohn, Quantum Theory of Sticking, Phys. Rev. B 46, 4921 (1992).
Randall Headrick
Assistant Professor
Dr. Headrick's research is in the area of condensed matter and materials physics. Topics include the kinetics of thin film growth, and etching. He has also been active in the areas of X-ray scattering studies of materials growth and surface evolution.
Dr. Headrick received his B.S. degree in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University, and his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a postdoctoral member of technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ, and a Senior Staff Scientist at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source. He currently has a visiting appointment at Cornell University.
- R.L. Headrick, I.K. Robinson, E. Vlieg, and L.C. Feldman, Structure Determination of the Si(111):B (sqrt 3 x sqrt 3) Surface: Subsurface Substitutional Doping, Phys. Rev. Lett., 63, 1253 (1989).
- R.L. Headrick, B.E. Weir, A.F.J. Levi, D.J. Eaglesham, and L.C. Feldman, The Si(100)-(2x1) Boron Reconstruction: Self-Limiting Monolayer Doping, Appl. Phys. Lett. 57, 2779 (1990).
- M.L. Green, B.E. Weir, D. Brasen, Y.F. Hseih, G. Higashi, A. Feygenson, L.C. Feldman, and R.L. Headrick, Mechanically and Thermally Stable Si-Ge Films and Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors Grown by RapidThermal Chemical Vapor Deposition (RTCVD) at 900°C, J. Appl. Phys. 69 (2), 745 (1991).
- R.L. Headrick, S. Kycia, A.R. Woll, J.D. Brock, M.V. Ramana Murty, Ion-assisted nucleation and growth of GaN on Sapphire(0001), Phys. Rev. B 58, 4818 (1998).
- A.R. Woll, R.L. Headrick, S. Kycia, and J.D. Brock, Nucleation and growth of GaN on sapphire (0001): incorporation and interlayer transport, Physical Review Letters 83, 4349 (1999).
- M.V. Ramana Murty, T. Curcic, A. Judy, B.H. Cooper, A.R. Woll, J.D. Brock, S. Kycia, and R.L. Headrick, X-ray scattering study of the surface morphology of Au(111) during Ar+ ion irradiation, Phys. Rev. Lett 80, 4713 (1998).
- M.L. Swiggers, G. Xia, J.D. Slinker, A.A. Gorodetsky, G.G. Malliaras, R.L. Headrick, C. Dulcey and R.N. Shashidhar, Orientation of pentacene films using surface alignment layers and its influence on thin film transistor characteristics, Applied Physics Letters, 79, 1300 (2001).
- C.C. Umbach, R.L. Headrick, and K.-C. Chang, Spontaneous Nanoscale Corrugation of Ion-Eroded SiO2: The Role of Ion-Irradiation-Enhanced Viscous Flow, Phys. Rev. Lett., 87, 246104 (2001).
Joanna M. Rankin
Dr. Joanna Rankin carries out research in observational radio astronomy with primary interests in the areas of the pulsar radio-frequency emission problem, pulsars as probes of the interstellar medium, and feminist studies of science. During the last few years, she has published a series of papers describing a phenomenological model of pulsar emission. She regularly makes observations using the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and other instruments, and her recent observations have focused on the polarization properties of pulsar emission, both of average profiles and of trains of individual pulses. She actively collaborates with astronomers throughout the world including India and Russia and is actively interested in science as it is connected to militarism, third-world development, and women's emancipation.
Dr. Rankin has a B.S. degree in Physics and Mathematics from Southern Methodist University, an M.S. degree in Physics from Tulane University, and a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from the University of Iowa. At Iowa, she studied under Professor James A. Van Allen.
- Toward an Empirical Theory of Pulsar Emission: VI. Geometry of the Conal Emission Region, Astrophys. J. 405, No. 1, Part 1, (1993), and The Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser 85, (1993 March)
- Microstructure-determined Pulsar Dispersion Measures and the Problem of Profile Alignment, with T.H. Hankins, V.A. Izvekova,
- A.D. Kuz'min, V.M. Malofeev, and D.R. Stinebring, Astrophys. J. (Letters) 373, L17 (1991).
- An Empirical Theory of Pulsar Emission, Texas/European Southern Observatory-CERN Conference on Relativistic Astrophysics, Brighton, U.K., December 1990.
Malcolm Sanders
Senior Lecturer
Dr. Sanders' research involves "Quantum Chaos" which can be loosely described as the quantum mechanical behavior of nonlinear systems, for example, atoms and molecules subjected to strong external electric and magnetic fields. These systems transition from regular behavior to stochastic behavior when the external perturbing fields are increased. He is also interested in national and global energy policy issues.
Dr. Sanders received a B.S. in Engineering Physics from the University of Maine, and M.S., M. Phil., and Ph.D. degrees, all from Yale University. He has held appointments at the Center for Nonlinear Studies at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Maine and Bates College.
- M.M. Sanders and R.V. Jensen, Classical Theory of Chaotic Ionization of Rydberg Helium Atoms, American Journal of Physics, 64, No. 8, August 1996.
- M.M. Sanders and R.V. Jensen, Classical Theory of Chaotic Ionization of Highly-excited Hydrogen Atoms, American Journal of Physics, 64, No. 1, January 1996.
- R.V. Jensen, S.M. Susskind, and M.M. Sanders, Chaotic Ionization of Highly Excited Hydrogen Atoms: Comparison of Classical and Quantum Theory with Experiment, Physics Reports, 201 No. 1, March 1991.
- M.M. Sanders, Energy from the Oceans, in The Energy Sourcebook: A guide to Technology, Resources, and Policy, Ruth Howes and Anthony Fainberg, Editors, AIP 1991.
David Y. Smith
Professor Emeritus
Dr. Smith's research interests lie in the area of condensed-matter, atomic and optical physics. Current research includes (a) Optical properties of matter at X-ray wavelengths, (b) Sum-rule constraints on optical properties, (c) Electron structure of solids, and (d) Defects in insulating solids.
Dr. Smith received his B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his Ph. D. from the University of Rochester. He has held NSF fellowships at Princeton University and the Universität Stuttgart.
- M.S. Malghani and D.Y. Smith, Physical Basis of the Mollwo-Ivey Relation between Lattice Constant and Optical Absorption of Defects in Ionic Crystals, Phys. Rev. Lett. 69, 184-187 (1992).
- M.S. Malghani and D.Y. Smith, Host-Lattice Scaling of Defect Quantum States, Materials Science Forum, 239-241, 365-368 (1997).
- D.Y. Smith and M.S. Malghani, Effective-Mass Effects on Localized Defects in Ionic Solids: Kinetic Confinement, Materials Science Forum, 239-241, 369-372 (1997).
- D.Y. Smith and M.S. Malghani, Configuration of the Self-Trapped Exciton in the Alkali Halides, Journal of Luminescence, 72 and 74, 887-889 (1997).
Kevork Spartalian
Associate Professor
Dr. Spartalian's research is primarily in the area of magnetic measurements on biomolecules and related model complexes containing transition metal ions. Experimental data collected by Mössbauer spectroscopy, electron paramagnetic resonance, and magnetic susceptibility measurements are fitted to theoretical models with specific emphasis on the electronic structure at the metal site.
Dr. Spartalian has a B.A. degree from Princeton University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University.
- B.R. Serr, C.E.L. Headford, O.P. Anderson, C.M. Elliott, C.K. Schauer, K. Spartalian, V.E. Fainzilberg, W.E. Hatfield, B.R. Rohrs, S.S. Eaton and G.R. Eaton, Cytochrome c Oxidase Models: A Dinuclear Iron (III) Porphyrin-Copper(II) Complex with a Sulfur Bridge, Inorg. Chem. 31, 5450 (1992).
- K. Kustin, W.E. Robinson, R.B. Frankel and K. Spartalian, Magnetic Properties of Tunicate Blood Cells II: Ascidia Ceratodes, J. Inorg. Biochem, 63, 223 (1996).
- N.S. Dean, L.M. Mokry, M.R. Bond, M. Mohan, T. Otieno, C.J. O'Connor, K. Spartalian and C.J. Carrano, Vanadium Hydrobis(pyrazolyl)borate Complexes of Diphenyl Phosphate. Heterometallic Complexes of the [LV{PhO)2PO2}3]-, Fragment, Inorg. Chem. 36, 1424 (1997).
Junru Wu
Dr. Wu's research interests are concerned with nonlinear phenomena, phase transitions in condensed matter, ultrasonic and optical applications in industry and in biomedical systems. They include
(a) experimental search for localized states (solitons) in nonlinear media, (b) ultrasound sensors, (c) ultrasound heating in tissues, and (d) biomedical applications of acoustical and optical tweezers.
Dr. Wu has a B.S. in Physics from Nanjing University, China, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Dr. Wu has been a fellow of Acoustical Society of America since 1991 and American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine since 1996.
- D. Warshaw, E. Hayes, D. Gaffney, A-M. Lauzon, J. Wu, K. Trybus, S. Lowey, C. Berger, Myosin Conformational States Determined by Single Fluorophore Polarization, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 95, 8034-8039 (1998).
- M. Ward, J. Wu, and J-F Chiu, Ultrasound-Induced Cell Lysis and Sonoporation Enhanced by Contrast Agents, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 105, 2951-2957 (1999).
- T. L. Szabo and J. Wu, A Model for Longitudinal and Shear Wave Propagation in Viscoelastic Media, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 107, 2437-2446 (2000).
- D. Fischer, W. Varhue, J. Wu, and C. Whiting, Lamb-Wave Microdevices Fabricated on Monolithic Single Crystal Silicon Wafers, IEEE Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 9, 88-93 (2000).
- M. Ward, J. Wu and J-F Chiu, Experimental Study on Effects of Optison Concentration on sonoporation in vitro, Ultrasound in Med. & Biol 26, 1169-1175 (2000).
- W. Chen and J. Wu, Reflectometry Using Longitudinal, shear and Rayleigh Waves, Ultrasonics 38, 909-913 (2000).
- S. Ye, J. Wu, and J. Peach, Ultrasound Shear Wave Imaging for Bone, Ultrasound in Med. & Biol, 26, 833-837 (2000).
- J. Wu, TOFU As A Tissue-Mimicking Material, Ultrasound in Med. & Biol 27, 1297-1300 (2001).
Jie Yang Associate Professor
Dr. Yang's main interests concentrate on biophysics in lower dimensions. One area involves in situ high-resolution structural studies of membrane proteins using state-of-the-art atomic force microscopy, in which the goal is to fully use the power of AFM to obtain nm-resolution structure of membrane proteins. One area aims at an understanding of the 2-D condensation of DNA oncationic membranes, which may have potential impact on our understanding of the packing of genetic materials in higher organisms and in helping to find efficient means in gene delivery trials. A related area is to study the self-assembly of biomaterials under various conditions, by detecting the assembled structure at high resolution in combination with exploring the dynamic aspects and thermal equilibrium phases of these systems.
Dr. Yang has a B.S. degree in Physics from Nanjing University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Princeton University. He joined the University of Vermont in 1994 from a position as Research Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia. Recent publications:
- Zhifeng Shao, Jianxun Mou, Daniel M. Czajkowsky, Jie Yang and Jian-Yang Yuan, Biological atomic force microscopy: what is achieved and what is needed, Advances in Physics 45, 1-86 (1996).
- Ye Fang and Jie Yang, Two-dimensional condensation of DNA molecules on cationic lipid membranes, J. Phys. Chem. 101, 441-449 (1997).
- Ye Fang and Jie Yang, The growth of bilayer defects and the induction of interdigitated domains in the lipid-loss process of supported phospholipid bilayers, Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1324, 309-319 (1997).
- Ye Fang and Jie Yang, Effect of Cationic Strength and Species on 2-D Condensation of DNA, J. Phys. Chem. 101, 3453-3456 (1997).
- Ye Fang, Stephen Cheley, Hagan Bayley, and Jie Yang, The heptameric prepore of a staphyloccocal A-hemolysin mutant in lipid bilayers imaged by atomic force microscopy, Biochemistry 36, 9518-9522 (1997).
- Sean Hand and Jie Yang, Self-assembly of lamellar structures of fatty acids complexed with surfactant in aqueous solutions Langmuir, 14, 3597-3601 (1998).
- M. S. Malghani and Jie Yang, Stable binding of DNA to zwitterionic lipid bilayers in aqueous solutions. J. Phys. Chem. 44, 8930-8933 (1998).
- M.S. Malghani, Ye Fang, Stephen Cheley, Hagan Bayley, and Jie Yang, Heptameric structures of two a-hemolysin mutants imaged with in situ atomic force miscopscopy. Miscoscopy Res. & Tech. 44, 353-356 (1999).
- Jie Yang and Jennifer Appleyard The main phase transition of mica-supported phosphatidylcholine membranes. J. Phys. Chem. 104, 8097-8100 (2000).
- Matthew Mazloff and Jie Yang Morphology and Kinematics of Langmuir-Blodgett Monolayers. Langmuir, 17, 2727-2732 (2001).
- X.E. Cai and Jie Yang, Molecular forces for the binding and condensation of DNA molecules. Biophys. J. 82, 357-365 (2002).


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A Cebuana's death-A A +A
Friday, May 30, 2014
IT HAS been a difficult week for Filipinos in New Zealand, and far worse for the Gotingco family. Last Saturday, Cebuana Blesilda Gotingco got off from a bus to walk her way home after working overtime. Little did she know that she would not make it home, as someone took her away. It was past midnight when her daughter became worried because she didn't find her mother home.
Seriously now
Both the police and the media were alerted of the situation, and the entire country became anxious oof Blessie's mysterious disappearance. While the police scourged for leads, the media sent out appeals to locate the missing mother of three. Theories about her disappearance were many, and these were published in newspapers, broadcast on radio and discussed on television.
Less than four days from her disappearance, Blessie's lifeless body was found in a nearby cemetery. Not only that, the police arrested the suspect, a man who had a criminal record and who lived in the vicinity. Neighbors of the Gotingcos were shocked to learn of Blessie's fate, while those who knew the suspect were surprised.
Blessie's husband Antonio returned from Cebu only to learn of his wife's death.
Instead of hurling angry words at the suspect, he remained calm and cooperated with authorities. The District Court in North Shore was fully packed when the suspect was arraigned. Many felt frustrated when the judge allowed the application for name suppression.
Antonio and his family conducted themselves calmly as media sought their comments. In one of the interviews, Antonio expressed his gratitude to those who condoled with and supported his family. He acknowledged the police for their work. He said that he still believe that New Zealand remains to be a safe place, though changes are happening. He should know, for he has lived for ten years in this country.
I talked to him the other night and he told me that while he showed a strong face, he was hurting inside. The overwhelming support of the people in the community, both Filipinos and Kiwis, helped ease the pain, he said.
I asked him how we could extend help. He said that the presence of many Cebuanos was help enough. He was thankful for friends like Butch Rafols and Alfred Belleza, who led in the nightly novenas. We are raising funds to help alleviate the burden of the family.
But what I observed is the outpouring of public support. During the novenas, non-Filipinos joined in. While the Katilingbang Bisaya sa New Zealand that I head will conduct a People's Prayer on May 31 at the start of LINGAWDUWA, a Filipino sporting event, a group of North Shore residents will have a candle-lighting memorial later in the evening.
I wondered why there is much interest in what happened to Blessie Gotingco last May 24, and I realized that this is because she could have been just anyone who would be walking home after work and gets killed. It was just unfortunate that it happened to Blessie. Please pray for the repose of her soul.
Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on May 31, 2014.
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|15m. Start just left of Birch Tree Wall beneath the small overhang. Step up and pull right, around the roof and into the first groove of Birch Tree Wall. Step up the groove then swing left [crux] to join the Direct Start which leads to the foot of a second groove. There is now a choice of finishes� (1) the variation finish to Birch Tree Wall up the wall on the right, or�(2) climb the wall just left of the groove trending leftwards to the blunt tapering rib (just right of the final groove on Enigma). Finish directly up the rounded rib (no sneaking right onto the ramp).The climbing is reasonably independent and not without interest.
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"We're constantly looking for ways to enhance our customers' in-flight experience," said Brett Muney, Manager Product Development for JetBlue. "With the addition of Google's advanced mapping technology, our customers can enjoy a seat with a view -- tracking their flight's altitude, speed and location on the way to their destination. We look forward to future product developments with Google as we continue to innovate our in-flight entertainment options and other products."
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- Saturday, June 28, 2008
Part of The Rape of the Sabine Women
Date + TimeSaturday, June 28, 2008
6:30 p.m.
LocationPhyllis Wattis Theater
Final Screening
Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation, 2006, 82 min.
Admission + Ticketing
$5 general, students, and seniors; free for SFMOMA members or with museum admission (requires a free ticket, which can be picked up in the Haas Atrium). Tickets are available at SFMOMA (no surcharge) or online.
Support for Live Art at SFMOMA is provided by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.


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Our in-house test of iframes and how search engines treat content and links found within them. Google does appear to be following the source calls found in iframes and passing equity, but seems to be the only search engine doing so.
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Funding of GSD's work in this area has been provided by Lockheed Martin Corporation.
There are two major areas of work at GSD, the display system and development of a local analysis and modeling suite. Papers describing these were presented at the AMS AWIPS Symposium in January 2002:
Tailoring the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS) for space launch range support HTML A completely integrated, cost-effective, local data assimilation and forecasting system to support space launch range operations
The display system is based on the National Weather Service's Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS), to which GSD has contributed for several years. Synoptic and some local data for AWIPS are transmitted over NOAAPORT, with local radars and mesonets processed on a site by site basis. For RSA, GSD was tasked to develop ingest and display of several local datasets, use those data for a local analysis and prediction system, and provide tools to help the Launch Weather Officers prepare and communicate weather information to Range personnel.
In broad terms, we can characterize the data as national and local.
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The initial work, late 2001 through mid 2002, was based on the AWIPS 5.1.2 release, and included requirements in the areas of local data ingest and display. Lockheed Martin carried out an Acceptance Test with the Air Force at the Western Range in June 2002, and the initial installation at the Eastern Range occurred in July. An upgrade including the text subsystem and incorporating AWIPS 5.2.2 enhancements was installed at the Ranges in late winter 2003. A version based on the AWIPS OB1 release was installed at WR in March 2004 and at ER in June. This was followed by a delivery of an AWIPS OB4-based update, delivered to Lockheed Martin in July 2005. Salient improvements included an OS upgrade to RedHat AS2.1, new processors for the model cluster, model improvements, a Field Mill tabular text display, staging ORPG Build 6 software on a Linux platform, and enhancements to the Briefing Tool.
Current work includes continued maintenance and minor improvements to the OB4 release. We merged RSA-developed enhancements into the AWIPS OB6 version, and NWS accepted them into the AWIPS baseline system for the OB7.1 release.


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Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson (born 19 March 1967 in Reykjavík, Iceland), known internationally as Thor Bjorgolfsson and colloquially in Iceland as Bjöggi, is an Icelandic businessman and entrepreneur, and former chairman of the financial firm Straumur-Burðarás and chairman of investment firm Novator Partners.
Björgólfur was the first Icelander to join Forbes magazine's list of the world's richest people in 2005;[2] has been declared "Iceland's first billionaire"; and was ranked as the 249th-richest person in the world by Forbes magazine in 2007—up from 350th the previous year—with a net worth of $3.5 billion.[3] In 2007 the Sunday Times' Sunday Times Rich List put his net worth at £2,000 million. However, following the financial crisis of 2007–2010, Björgólfur's net worth declined to $1 billion by of March 2009.
Early and family life[edit]
Björgólfur Thor is heir to a long lasting family legacy in Icelandic business and politics. His great-grandfather was the legendary Danish-born Icelandic entrepreneur Thor Jensen, who all but introduced the term "big business" to the country in the early years of the twentieth century.[4] The eighth of Thor's eleven children was Margrét Þorbjörg Thors Hallgrímsson, whose daughter Þóra Hallgrímsson had Björgólfur Thor as her only child by her third husband Björgólfur Guðmundsson. Björgólfur Thor has often emphasised this, for example by adapting for his company Novator the old logo of Eimskip, which Thor had originally designed for his company Kveldúlfur hf,[5] and through his association with the biographical documentary Thor's Saga by Ulla Boje Rasmussen, which draws parallels between Thor Jensen and Björgólfur Thor.[6]
Björgólfur Thor grew up in the Reykjavík suburb of Vesturbær.[7] A sketch of Björgólfur Thor's early life is offered by Ármann Þorvaldsson:
- His rare self-confidence made him stand out. He was immensely physically strong and bench pressed over 450 pounds. He was an entrepreneur from early on, and by the age of 11 he was delivering newspapers in the early hours of the morning. A year later he was a delivery boy at the University of Iceland and, at 13, was running his own home video delivery service. While still in high school, he was running a nightclub in Reykjavík and organised the first Oktoberfest beer festival in Iceland. After high school, he studied business in New York. Fluent in several languages, and with an unusual ability to both blend in and stand out, he embodied Iceland's internationalism.[8]
Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson chose to go to the United States in 1986 when his father Björgólfur Guðmundsson's bankrupt firm, Hafskip, was embroiled in a financial scandal; the scandal is widely viewed as arising from the efforts of Hafskip's main competitor Eimskip and its allied political party, the Independence Party to reduce competition, but the events are widely thought to have had a considerable effect on the young Björgólfur Thor,[9] and at least at times he presented his subsequent business activities as an effort to regain his and his father's reputations and pay their opponents back.[10] Graduating from the prestigious Commercial College of Iceland in 1987, he completed a B.S. in Marketing at the Leonard N Stern School of Business at New York University in 1991.[11]
On returning to Iceland, Björgólfur Thor became an events manager at Reykjavík's then two biggest clubs: Tunglið and Skuggabarinn. At this time he met and married the filmmaker Kristín Ólafsdóttir, with whom he has three children, the first of whom was born in 2005.[12]
He is married and currently living in London, United Kingdom with his wife and 3 children.
Beverage businessman in Saint Petersburg[edit]
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Björgólfur Thor went to Russia along with his father and his friend Magnús Þorsteinsson.
A report published in Denmark noted that the Committee on External Economic Relations in Saint Petersburg Mayor's office was responsible for foreigners. The committee's chairman was Vladimir Putin between 1991 and 1996.[13][clarification needed]
The Icelandic businessmen, together with Russian partners, founded bottling company Baltic Bottling Plant, which was sold to Pepsi. Next they founded a brewing company. ООО "Торговый дом "РОСА" was registered in March 1995 and changed its name to Bravo OOO in February 1996 (address was also changed). It further changed its name to Bravo International OOO in August 1996 and Bravo International JSC in December 1997.[13] The founders of Bravo were six companies registered in Limassol, Cyprus — Björgólfur Thor was president of all of them.[13] Bravo Brewery became a success on the premium beer Botchkarov. In 2000, Saint Petersburg opened an honorary consulate in Iceland. Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson was appointed Consul and Magnús Þorsteinsson was appointed Honorary Vice-Consul.[13] The opening ceremony was held on March 10, 2000.[13]
The company became the fastest growing brewery in Russia. Heineken bought the brewery for $400m in 2002.[13][14]
However, Björgólfur Thor's ventures in Russia raised suspicion at the time. An article in The Guardian wondered where Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson's money comes from and noted that in the 1990s the Icelanders "were not only ploughing money into the country but doing it in the city regarded as the Russian mafia capital. That investment was being made in the drinks sector, seen by the mafia as the industry of choice."[15] Similar concerns were raised by Die Welt.[16] Competitors in the Saint Petersburg brewing market faced problems. For instance, Ilya Weismann, deputy director of competing beverage company Baltic, was assassinated on 10 January 2000. Later Baltic director general Aslanbek Chochiev was also assassinated. One competing Saint Petersburg brewery burned to the ground.[13][15]
Björgólfur Thor has strongly denied any connection with mafia activity. In his book, Billions to Bust and Back,[17] he chronicles his time in St Petersburg, detailing how criminal elements indeed tried to intimidate him into giving them access to his business and explaining which security measures he relied on to prevent it.
New businesses[edit]
Leaving Russia, Björgólfur Thor started investing in Iceland in 2002.[18]
Novator Partners, which is managed by Björgólfur Thor, has bought assets around Eastern Europe. The company's owners are unknown.
Late in 2002, Björgólfur Thor and Björgólfur Guðmundsson's holding company Samson ehf. gained 45% controlling share of Landsbanki, Iceland's second largest bank, for about ISK12m in a controversial privatization.[19][20] The board was announced in February 2003, with the chairman being Björgólfur Thor's father.[21] Landsbanki was declared to be acting contrary to the interests of the United Kingdom and placed on a watchlist usually used for the blocking of funds to terrorist organizations by the British government after bankruptcy in October 2008.
Straumur Investment Bank[edit]
He was the main owner as well as the chairman of the Straumur Investment Bank.
Financial crisis[edit]
Two of Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson's companies, Landsbanki and Straumur, left the Icelandic people with several billions of dollars in debt, when they went bankrupt following the Icelandic financial crisis.
He has been heavily criticized for his actions leading to the 2008–11 Icelandic financial crisis.[22]
Two days after the publication of the Icelandic government report on the financial crisis on 12 April 2010, Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson issued a public apology for his role in causing the crisis in the Icelandic newspaper Fréttablaðið, including the statement
- I the undersigned, Björgólfur Thor, request forgiveness from all Icelanders for my role in the asset- and debt-bubble that led to the collapse of the Icelandic banking system. I request your forgiveness for my complacency towards the danger signs which arose. I request forgiveness for having not succeeded in following my instincts when I realised the danger. I request your forgiveness.[23]
Business after the crisis[edit]
Although Björgólfur Thor's fortunes were knocked by the financial crisis, leading him, for example, to cancel the construction of a £100m luxury yacht, he has continued to prosper overall.[18] He has defended his reputation by disputing government and journalistic criticisms of his role in the 2008 financial crisis on his website, through letters to newspapers, and through legal action.[24]
In a news report of December 2013, it was said that
- Mr Bjorgolfsson still leads Novator Partners, a London-based investment firm, sits on several boards and holds shares in companies including Actavis, a Swiss drugmaker, and CCP, an Icelandic computer games company. His representative says any dividends from his shares, or future gains from their sale, will go towards settling debts to creditors following Landsbanki's decline.[25]
Appearances in popular culture[edit]
Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson is the inspiration for the main character of Bjarni Harðarson's satirical novel about the 2008–11 Icelandic financial crisis, Sigurðar saga fóts: Íslensk riddarasaga, where his counterpart is the main character, Sigurður frits ('fótur') Bjarnhéðinsson.[26] He is also the inspiration for the main character of Bjarni Bjarnason's novel Mannorð ('reputation'), Starkaður Leví, who pays for the identity (and the life) of a well respected writer.[27]
Björgólfur Thor and his great-grandfather Thor Jensen are the subject of the 2011 documentary film Thors saga by Ulla Boje Rasmussen.[6]
- ^ Thor Björgólfsson profile on Forbes
- ^ Guðni Thorlaicus Jóhannesson, The History of Iceland (Santa Barbara: Greenwood, 2013), http://books.google.co.in/books?id=Elh1oH6ESSIC&
- ^ Guðmundur Hálfdanarson, Historical Dictionary of Iceland, 2nd edn, Historical Dictionaries of Europe, 66 (Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, 2008), p. 21 (s.v. BJÖRGÓLFSSON, BJÖGÓLFUR THOR (1967-- )).
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- ^ Guðmundur Magnússon, Thorsararnir: auður – völd – örlög (Reykjavík: Almenna bókafélagið, 2005), p. 354
- ^ a b Peter Thorn - http://www.spildaftid.dk. "Upfront Films + 45 888 10 788". Upfrontfilms.dk. Retrieved 2014-05-31.
- ^ Jón G. Hauksson, 'Björgólfur Thor og Jón Tetzchner: Íslendingar eiga tvo leiðtoga í 237 manna hópi "Ungra leiðtoga" sem taka þátt í verkefninu Forum of Young Global Leaders', Frjáls verslun, 67.1 (2005), 16--22 (p. 18); ISSN: 1017-3544.
- ^ Armann Thorvaldsson, Frozen Assets: How I Lived Iceland's Boom and Bust (Chichester: Wiley, 2009), pp. 64-65.
- ^ Roger Boyes, Meltdown Iceland: Lessons on the World Financial Crisis from a Small Bankrupt Island (New York: Bloomsbury, 2009), pp. 64-66.
- ^ E.g. Kroll, Luisa, 'Thor's Saga', Forbes Global, 8.5 (2005), 78.
- ^ Guðmundur Hálfdanarson, Historical Dictionary of Iceland, 2nd edn, Historical Dictionaries of Europe, 66 (Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, 2008), p. 21 (s.v. BJÖRGÓLFSSON, BJÖGÓLFUR THOR (1967-- )); Peter Lee, `Landsbanki's new masters take control', Euromoney, vol. 33 issue 403 (November 2002), pp. 34--47.
- ^ "Where have all the billionaires gone?", IceNews: News from the Nordics (16 June 2009), http://www.icenews.is/2009/06/16/where-have-all-the-billionaires-gone/; Yves Smith, 'Ragnarok - Iceland and the "Doom of the Gods" ', The Automatic Earth (16 December 2013), http://www.theautomaticearth.com/ragnarok-iceland-doom-gods-2/; Roger Boyes, Meltdown Iceland: Lessons on the World Financial Crisis from a Small Bankrupt Island (New York: Bloomsbury, 2009), p. 66; Louisa Kroll, 'Thor's Saga', Forbes, 3/28/2005, http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0328/138.html.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Россия желает спасать Исландию из-за давних офшорных связей чиновников и бизнесменов". The New Times. 21 October 2008.. Another copy: "Зачем Россия спасает Исландию". Rususa. 21 October 2008.. An automatic translation: "Discussion of the relationship between Iceland and Russia from the Russian newspaper.".
- ^ "Who is Thor Bjorgolfsson, Iceland's lone billionaire?". Invest in Greece. 2006-01-20.
- ^ a b Griffiths, Ian (16 June 2005). "Next-generation Viking invasion - They've got the cash to buy big UK groups like M&S. But where does it come from?". London: The Guardian.
- ^ Frank Stocker, 'Holprige Fahrt vom Balkan nach Europa', Die Welt, 08.01.06, http://www.welt.de/print-wams/article136961/Holprige-Fahrt-vom-Balkan-nach-Europa.html
- ^ Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson and Andrew Cave, Billions to Bust and Back (London: Profile Books, 2014), p. 55-65
- ^ a b Simon Bowers and Sigrun Davidsdottir, 'Icelandic tycoon still living the high life in London after the collapse of Icesave', The Observer (28 August 2011), p. 35 (http://www.theguardian.com/business/2011/aug/27/iceland-tycoon-thor-high-life-icesave-collapse).
- ^ Guðmundur Magnússon, Thorsararnir: auður – völd – örlög (Reykjavík: Almenna bókafélagið, 2005), p. 354; Questions over Landsbanki's new shareholder /Euromoney magazine
- ^ "Online, Iceland News, Travel, Vacation, Culture, Hotels, Politics, Business". IcelandReview. Retrieved 2014-05-31.
- ^ Guðmundur Magnússon, Thorsararnir: auður – völd – örlög (Reykjavík: Almenna bókafélagið, 2005), p. 354
- ^ IceNews - Daily News. "Interview with Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson". Retrieved 2009-01-22.[dead link]
- ^ Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson, 'Ég bið ykkur afsökunar', Fréttablaðið 14 April 2010. Quoted from Guðbjörg Hildur Kolbeins, '...svo sem vér og fyrirgefum... Fyrirgefningin og hrunið', Þjóðarspegillinn: Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum, 12 (2011), 112-19 (p. 115), accessed from http://skemman.is/stream/get/1946/10259/25577/1/Rannsoknir_i_felagsvisindum_XII_Vidskiptafraedideild.pdf#page=120 13 April 2012.
- ^ Bjorgolfur Thor Bjorgolfsson, letter, The Observer 11 December 2011, p. 46; Simon Bowers and Sigrún Daviðsdóttir, 'Icelandic tycoon still living the high life in London after the collapse of Icesave', The Observer (28 August 2011), p. 35.
- ^ Yves Smith, Yves Smith, 'Ragnarok - Iceland and the "Doom of the Gods" ', The Automatic Earth (16 December 2013), http://www.theautomaticearth.com/ragnarok-iceland-doom-gods-2/.
- ^ Selfoss: Sæmundur, 2010. See Alaric Hall, "Sigurðar saga fóts: Fourteenth-century Saga to Financial Crisis Satire", http://web.uvic.ca/~becktrus/guest_lects.php?sort=seqEng.
- ^ Uppheimar, 2011. 'Rithöfundur og talsmaður deila um skáldsögu: "Mannorðskaup eru á hans áhugasviði" ', Pressan 12 December 2011, http://eyjan.pressan.is/frettir/2011/12/12/talsmadur-og-rithofundur-deila-um-skaldsogu-a-upplestri-mannordskaup-eru-a-hans-ahugasvidi/.


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Collingwood urges England to focus on winning Windies T20 series before Bangladesh preparations
Former England one-day captain Paul Collingwood has advised his former team to focus on victory in the Twenty20 series in the West Indies now instead of preparation for the ICC World Twenty20.
Following England's 50-over series victory over West Indies, the tourists have three T20s, the first of which is on Sunday, before the World T20 begins in Bangladesh on 16 March.
According to the BBC, Collingwood, who is on a seven-week stint assisting limited-overs coach Ashley Giles, said that England needs to keep their attention on the T20 series at the Caribbean as a few wins under their belt will be more crucial than going in with the team that they would be playing again in Bangladesh.
Although Collingwood admitted that it would be difficult to find a strategy that will work in Barbados and also in Bangladesh, however, he believes that confidence is a key thing going into a World T20 tournament.
Collingwood is England's only winning captain to date in a global competition, having led them to the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 title in the Caribbean, the report added.
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EDF : EDF, Areva et CGNPC signed a joint statement of cooperation. EDF, Areva et CGNPC signed a joint statement of cooperation. HE Yu, Chairman of China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Co. (CGNPC), Henri Proglio, Chief Executive Officer of Electricité de France (EDF), and Luc Oursel, Chief Executive Officer of AREVA have signed a tripartite agreement fostering deeper industrial and commercial cooperation among the three groups. According to the terms of this agreement, CGNPC, AREVA and EDF reaffirm their willingness to successfully complete the construction of the first two reactors in Taishan, and to carry out a successful start of their commercial operation. This will also set the stage for an effective development of future reactors. In this perspective, AREVA and CGNPC will shortly analyze the return on experience gained from the construction of Taishan 1 & 2 units. This cooperation also foresees EDF and AREVA contribution, in their respective field of expertise, to the improvement of safety, maintenance and performance of CGNPC's reactors in operation, and to the evolution of its fleet. Within this framework, the three partners will benefit together from their respective nuclear industrial experiences and will consider cooperation in future international projects. Henri Proglio, EDF's CEO, declared: "Signing this agreement confirm the long-term relationship with CGNPC that began over 30 years ago with the construction and commercial operation of the Daya Bay and Ling Ao plants. Our shared interest, which was formalised today, is to continue with and strengthen this collaboration, which will benefit the whole nuclear sector in France." EDF group, one of the leaders in the European energy market, is an integrated energy company active in all areas of the business: generation, transmission, distribution, energy supply and trading. The Group is the leading electricity producer in Europe. In France, it has mainly nuclear and hydropower generation facilities where 95.9% of the electricity output is CO2-free. EDF's transmission and distribution subsidiaries in France operate 1,285,000 km of low and medium voltage overhead and underground electricity lines and around 100,000 km of high and very high voltage networks. The Group is involved in supplying energy and services to approximately 28.6 million customers in France. The Group generated consolidated sales of €72.7 billion in 2012, of which 46.2% outside of France. EDF is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange and is a member of the CAC 40 index. Please, only print this document if absolutely necessary. EDF SA 22-30, avenue de Wagram 75382 Paris cedex 08 Capital de 924 433 331 euros 552 081 317 R.C.S. Paris www.edf.fr CONTACTS Press Carole Trivi & Aurélien Cassuto : +33(1) 40 42 44 19 Analysts and investors Kader Hidra & Carine de Boissezon : +33(1) 40 42 45 53 David Newhouse (investisseurs US) : +33(1) 40 42 32 45 PR cooperation EDF Areva CGNPC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This announcement is distributed by Thomson Reuters on behalf of Thomson Reuters clients. The owner of this announcement warrants that: (i) the releases contained herein are protected by copyright and other applicable laws; and (ii) they are solely responsible for the content, accuracy and originality of the information contained therein. Source: EDF via Thomson Reuters ONE HUG#1696493
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The company first announced that it would begin rolling out the update in various countries throughout Europe last month via press release.
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May 2006. "Slippery slope" arguments in bioethics are fairly popular, reminding us how initial ethical violations have a way of leading to further violations and misdeeds, and ultimately, to undesirable places. Once you "give away the principle" and start sliding, it becomes difficult to return to the point from which you started. What is genuinely striking is how far down the biotechnology slopes we have already come. In the 1960's, contraception, or sex without babies, became widely accepted. By 1978, the flip side, babies without sex, arrived on the scene with in vitro fertilization. Human embryos were created in the laboratory and implanted into women. Soon this snowballed into the storage of "spare" embryos in the deep freeze, to the point of nearly a half-million humans "trapped" just in the United States (and still more being produced and frozen each hour, like an assembly line, at fertility clinics around the country). The destruction of innocent human life in the womb also became commonplace after the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. In the late 1980's researchers began using tissues derived from abortions to try to treat Parkinson's patients, with minimal public outcry or reaction, so that today abortion clinics have few qualms about providing freshly obtained "research material" to scientists at large universities or biotech companies. In 1998, the next step was to sacrifice some of the previously frozen human embryos to procure their embryonic stem cells. Right on the heels of this development came an even more troubling proposal: making human embryos by cloning, matching them to sick patients, then destroying those embryos to get their stem cells. Because those embryos would be clones, or identical twins of the patient, the stem cells could be implanted into the patient with minimal danger of rejection, since identical twins can exchange organs between each other without immune problems. Thus, in the short space of a few years, we have arrived at the point of creating human life merely to destroy it, harvesting it as little more than raw material, a commodity, for exploitation. The confluence of these various ethical violations points to the next twist down the slippery and well-greased slopes of modern biotechnology. Although perhaps ominous sounding today, the prospect of fetal farming looms large, and may likewise become routine in our future if we continue to acquiesce to the coarsening of our moral sensitivities around these important bioethical questions.
Fetal farming is a method to obtain whole organs or other complex tissues. Currently, researchers speak about stem cells as the ideal, flexible cells that will let us make tissues, organs and body parts in the future. The difficulty is that we really don't have a clue how to make whole organs out of stem cells. Whole organs, like a kidney or a heart, are exceedingly complex structures with many different interacting cell types. There are numerous unknown steps along the pathway of making, say, a kidney from a stem cell. Years, or even decades, of research must first be carried out before whole organs ready for human transplant will become widely available. But a convenient shortcut may be possible. Instead of destroying a cloned, 5-day-old human embryo to get his or her stem cells, why not simply implant that embryo, allow him or her to grow into a fetus, and schedule an abortion a little while before the baby's due date? Then mother nature will already have done all the hard work of making two kidneys, ready to be harvested from the aborted child, thereby saving a good deal of time and trouble in terms of scientific research. These kinds of "fetal farming" experiments have already been done in mice and in cattle, and they provide usable tissues and organs. Scientists at a biotechnology company called Advanced Cell Technologies in Worcester, Massachusetts have published papers where, in one instance, stem cells were obtained by implanting the cloned mouse embryo and gestating it until the human equivalent of the 5th or 6th month. Then the fetal mouse was destroyed to procure its stem cells, which were used to treat the ailing hearts of other mice.
So today we sanction the production of a 5-day old human life to destroy it. Tomorrow it's a 3-month-old, then an 8-month-old fetus. How far is it, really, from a 5-day-old cloned embryo to fetal farming - manufacturing fetal humans to harvest their body parts? Not very far, when one recognizes how well the slippery slopes have already been greased. This is why we must safeguard human life from its earliest beginnings, if we wish to avoid its destruction at any later stage.
As Charles Krauthammer, M.D., a syndicated columnist and member of the President's Council on Bioethics has put it: "We will, slowly and by increments, have gone from stem cells to embryo farms to factories with fetuses hanging (metaphorically) on meat hooks waiting to be cut open and used by the already born." Or, as Richard Doerflinger has perceptively noted, this is all about a new slavery, with biotech companies as the plantation owners.
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Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D. earned his doctorate in neuroscience from Yale and did post-doctoral work at Harvard. He is a priest of the diocese of Fall River, MA, and serves as the Director of Education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. See www.ncbcenter.org


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Yandy Smith's is ecstatic now that her fiancé Mendeecees Harris is finally home from prison.
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UO junior Nicole Blood used a late kick to place sixth in the 3,000 meters with a time of 9:15.84 at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships in College Station, Texas.
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Colorado's Jennifer Barringer lapped the field on the final straight to set an NCAA meet and collegiate record at 8:42.03.
Curtis Anderson covered UO track and field for The Register-Guard from 1990-96, and again since 2005. He covered the 2012 Olympic Games in London, in addition to the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials in New Orleans (1992), Atlanta (1996) and Hayward Field (2008 and 2012). He is the winner of the Jesse Abramson Award, presented by the Track & Field Writers of America for excellence in coverage in 2008.


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Senator Scott Brown: support paycheck fairness for Massachusetts families!
Today's blog was written by Carol Rose and Deborah J. Vagins, Legislative Counsel for the ACLU's Washington Legislative Office and a co-chair of the National Paycheck Fairness Act Coalition.
As members of the U.S. Congress return to Washington, there is no more urgent priority than supporting families during this economic downturn, and there is very little time left in this Congress to do it.
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Unfortunately for women in Massachusets, the ongoing wage gap between them and men doing the same job makes this difficult economic time even worse than it has to be.
According to the National Women's Law Center, in 2009, on average, women in Massachusetts working full-time, year-round earned only 79% of what men working full-time, year-round earned. Women in Massachusetts already have higher rates of economic insecurity; on average, they earn less than men ($29,391for women compared to $40,816 for men in 2009) and are also more likely to live in poverty (11% of Massachusetts women compared to 8% of men lived in poverty in 2009).
Lawmakers meant for The Equal Pay Act of 1963 to ensure equal pay for equal work, but over time, because of weak remedies and loopholes in the law, significant disparities in pay persist.
The Paycheck Fairness Act would give employees the legal tools they need to finally close the wage gap by, for example, requiring employers to demonstrate that wage differences between men and women doing the same work have a business justification; prohibiting retaliation against workers who inquire about their wages; and leveling the playing field by ensuring that women can obtain the same remedies as those subject to employment discrimination based on their race or national origin. The bill would also provide technical assistance to employers and provide important safeguards for small businesses.
The Paycheck Fairness Act already passed the U.S. House of Representatives with bipartisan support and now has 40 co-sponsors in the Senate—more than it has ever had in any previous Congress. Recently, a report from the White House National Economic Council underscored the need for the Paycheck Fairness Act as an important step towards the economic security of women and our nation's families.
Senator John Kerry is a co-sponsor and strong supporter of the bill, but Senator Scott Brown has not yet announced his support. With votes down to the wire, Senator Brown's backing could literally make the difference, not only for the ultimate passage of the bill, but for all Massachusetts women who receive unfair wages and for all Massachusetts families who are living on less than they deserve.
If this election taught those representing us anything, it should be to listen to their constituents. Senator Brown should know that the Paycheck Fairness Act also has widespread public support. According to a recent nationwide poll of registered voters, the Paycheck Fairness Act has the backing of the American public; 84 percent of registered voters polled said they supported "a new law that would provide women more tools to get fair pay in the workplace."
Large majorities of men and women—Republicans, Democrats and Independents alike—all strongly support such a law. We hope that Senator Brown will agree that pay equity should not be about party politics; it is about economic survival for American families.
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Avery Patterson, fr.
How things stand
The loss of second-round NFL draft picks Patrick Chung and Jairus Byrd leaves two glaring holes in the back end of the Oregon defense. That's the bad news. The good news is, the Ducks return two of the Pac-10's best in free safety Ward and cornerback Thurmond III. For Ward, the key to 2009 is consistency. He can't always look to make the big play, because he's also the center fielder against the pass in a lot of situations.For Thurmond, it's simply about staying healthy. If Thurmond is 100 percent, he's probably one of the better cover guys in the country. Problem is, he plays such a physical style, both against the run and on special teams, that he hasn't been 100 percent very often in his career.
Glasper has played a lot of football in the last three years, both on kick coverage and in nickle and dime defensive situations. He has given up some plays, so he'll need to prove he can be a lock down guy across from Thurmond. Byrd allowed a few plays too; the key to being a good corner is recovering from them and minimizing the damage over the course of the game. Glasper has the physical ability to be a starter, and this month we'll find out if he can handle the mental responsibilities, as well. Talmadge Jackson might have been in the running for that job, as well, but he's needed at perhaps the most important position on the Oregon defense, rover. Nobody has more responsibility on any given play, and Chung handled the job like a maestro. Jackson is a tough, athletic player, and he'll need to have Oregon's defense down pat to approach the level of play Chung provided.
Behind Jackson is Johnson, who has chronic knee problems. He's one of the most gifted athletes on the team, an impressive blend of strength and speed (he may have the strongest throwing arm on the team, for instance.) If Johnson can stay healthy and appear capable of holding down the rover job, you might see Jackson shifted back out to corner to challenge Glasper. Behind Ward is Lewis, who was the No. 1 rover for much of the spring, when Jackson and Johnson were slowed by injuries. Titus Jackson and Peppars will be factors on special teams, while recruiting nuts are anxious to see some production from touted 2008 signee Boyett, who has himself battled knee problems over the last year.
The depth at cornerback is questionable. Gildon was having a nice spring until an ankle injury, but he redshirted last year and so doesn't have recent game experience. Barner and Grady are promising prospects, and while Barner came on in the spring, he may also need to play some running back in the event of an injury there. Butterfield is a walk-on who has carved out some playing time on defense and special teams in recent years. Of the newcomers, Patterson missed summer conditioning with a foot injury, and Harris still hasn't been cleared academically, but Jackson is ready to go and enters the mix at safety.
This position sets up a bit like the offensive line. You've got some promising returning starters, and some new starters who the Ducks should feel pretty good about. But there's always the chance those new starters will be slow to come up to speed, and the depth is really lacking in experience.
The Ducks will feel good by Sept. 3 if: Thurmond has avoided any nagging injuries, while Glasper and Talmadge Jackson look up to the task of starting.
The Ducks will have concerns Sept. 3 if: A dependable starter at cornerback and/or rover has yet to emerge, and Barner is needed on offense.