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|Editor's Note:
There are no page numbers in the last section of the book, which contains articles written in various languages.
Compiled by M.D.
Translated by Doron Friedman
|YAD VASHEM _ Remembrance Authority of Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes
19th of Kislev, 5720
Mr. Mendel Duhl
Dear Sir,
Under Discussion: War Criminal Richard Dyga
The prosecution in the town Waldshut, Germany contacted us with a request to assist them in finding witnesses survivors of Jezierna Camp near Tarnopol, who can testify regarding the activities of the war criminal, commander of the camp Richard Dyga.
We have been told by our friend N. Blumenthal that you would be able to assist in the mitzvah of bringing the wicked to justice.
We would be grateful if you could provide names of people who have knowledge of the aforementioned criminal.
Dr. Y. Kermish
Director of the Archives
Translated from German by Shoshana Rappeport
Waldshut, the 5th of February 1960
State Prosecutor at
By Air Mail
Re: Proceedings against
Dear Mr. Blumenthal,
I have received notification from Magistrate Naumann, the investigative judge at the Giessen district court, that you may be able to give information as a witness in an investigation currently proceeding here.
I am conducting an investigation against the former camp commander of the forcedlabor camp Jezierna in the Tarnopol district, Richard Dyga, who comes from upper Silesia.
If you have any knowledge or are in possession of any documentation I would be grateful if you would communicate this information. Should witnesses be known to you I request notification concerning the possible addresses.
Dr. Angelberger
Translated from German by Shoshana Rappeport
To the
State Prosecutor
at the Waldshut District Court
Attorney General
to Dr. Angelberger
Bismarckstr. 23
Waldshut, Germany
Dear Dr. Angelberger,
We hereby confirm the receipt of your esteemed letter dated 2.12.1959, file number 1 Js 8658/59, regarding Richard DYGA, former director of the central work camp Jezierna in the Tarnopol district.
|Copy: Mr. Attorney General Schüle
| With great respect,
Dr. J. Kermisz
Director of Archives
Translated from German by Shoshana Rappeport and Ayelet Ophir
Jerusalem, 14.2.1960
To the
State Prosecutor
at the Waldshut District Court
to Dr. Angelberger
Attorney General
Registered Post
Bismarckstr. 23
Dear Dr. Angelberger,
Regarding: War criminal Richard DYGA
We confirm with thanks the receipt of your valued letter of 27.1.1960 with the enclosed photographs of war criminal Richard DYGA. We also thank you for the information about the confrontation of DYGAS by Mr. Simon Wiesenthal, engineer.
We are endeavoring to find further incriminating evidence against DYGA and will forward such to you without delay.
With regard to witnesses who presently live in Poland whose addresses we gave you in our letter of 24.1.1960, we would like to add that it is possible to make contact either directly or through the Jewish Historical Institute, A1. Gen. Swierczewskiego 79 Warszawa/Poland.
Simon Wiesenthal, Eng.
M. Dol
Dr. J. Kermisz
Archive Director
Translated from German by Shoshana Rappeport
Jerusalem, the 25th of March 1960
To the
State Prosecutor
at the Waldshut District Court
to Attorney General
Dr. Angelberger
Bismarckstrasse 23.
Waldshut, Germany
Regarding: War Criminal Richard DYGA
Dear Dr. Angelberger,
In continuation of our letters from 3.1.1960 and 14.2.1960 we would like to inform you that besides the persons named in those letters we have been able to locate the following witnesses:
In regard to the last witness named, we would like to mention that DYGA murdered her father.
Dr. J. Kermisz
Archive Director
|Copy: Attorney General Schüle
Central Office of the State Judicial Administration
Schorndorfer Str. 28, Ludwigsburg/Germany
Mr. Simon Wiesenthal, Engineer
Translated from Polish by Professor Tomasz Rutkowski
Concentration camp (lager) in Jezierna was created in February 1942 solely as a labor camp (arbeitslager) for maleJews, which was later converted to an extermination camp (vernichtungslager). Initially, a labor office (arbeitsamt) sent prisoners and then the Gestapo.
A type of work building roads. Working and living conditions were unbearable. The camp was guarded by Ukrainian police posts surrounded by a high fence with barbed wire. The sanitation below any criticism. Long time there was no infirmary and sick people were lying together on a single bunk with healthy, and even after death they lay for a few days. High mortality from typhus. Often they died from exhaustion and the blows they received from the executioners.
Local people, Ukrainian, helped camp executioners. And [they died from] cases of denunciation, accidents, because of elimination from the concentration camp, which were on the daily agenda. Often there happened also murders of Jews, asking for a piece of bread, which were committed by peasants from the same village. When someone of the prisoners (lagerinsas) managed to escape, they would hang in public ten innocents, to terrorize.
For minor offenses [prisoners] were shot, beaten and often hanged publicly. In the concentration camp they killed about 20 thousand Jews either from starvation, disease and execution.
lania. [slaughtered like deer]
The concentration camp was burned down in August of year 1943.
|/ Dr. Liblich /
|Histor. Kommiss.
/ J. Eiger /
Translated from Yiddish / Hebrew by Sari and Daniel Avis
Devora Lempert was invited to submit testimony in the trial against war criminal Richard DYGA
By Air Mail
Mrs. Dwora Lempert
State Prosecutor
at the District Court of
Tel. 336, 337, 673
Nordaustr. 18
Nes Cyjona / Israel
Hannah Reichman, born Katz, now in Toronto
26. 1.1960
Dear Mr Duhl,
We received your letter and read it with sadness. The murderer, who killed our loved ones, is still alive!
17 years have already passed and this terrible murderer is still walking free in the world. What kind of a world is this?
You write to me about giving testimony. Of course I will testify. I will remember everything he did. Write to me as to where I should go. We will publish it here in the newspapers. Maybe here in Canada there is someone else who was in the Jezierna camp. There were Jews there from many cities and towns.
I remember how the murderer Dyga, the camp chief, beat and killed Jews in the street.
We wish you and your family well,
Hannah and Max Reichmann
Translated from Polish by Dorota Poteralska
|I. Steinberg
5116 Ft. Hamilton Pkwy.
Brooklyn 19, N.Y.
Mr. Maximilian Dul
Brooklyn, 18 /XI / 1960
Dear Mr Dul !
I took care of the Dyga matter immediately after receiving your letter, in which you informed me about Dyga being arrested.
At the same time my lawyer got to know about it and took care of the case personally, which he knew well from my testimony in the Wiedergutmachtung [reparations] case. I know that, being a man of law, he knew how to present it well.
A few weeks ago I received a letter of summons from the German embassy for 22 November, to give my testimony in the case. The forementioned lawyer offered to accompany me to the embassy.
When am there I will certainly say that in addition to shooting and tying up Jewish people, he let them freeze, leaving them outside in the winter naked. One of them was the fatherinlaw of the pharmacist from Jezierna.
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My name is Dozia Blaustein and I am one of the few survivors from my hometown, Jezierna.
I am the daughter of Ben-Zion Blaustein and Rosa Lechowitz. The names Blaustein-Lechowitz were well known in Jezierna, therefore there is no need for further explanation. We were two children, an older brother, Moishe, named Munio, and myself.
Before the days of the second war, Jezierna had a beautiful and intellectual Jewish community, in which my parents as well as my brother played a great part.
With the outbreak of the second war, and the Nazi occupation, the Jews of Jezierna shared the destiny of the other Jews of Poland. On a rainy Friday, a few days after the occupation, the Nazis did what they called Aine-Accie and a great percentage of the male population were shot and buried, half dead and half alive, at the outskirts of the town. In that particular massacre my father and brother survived. Since that day life became a constant fear, and survival a struggle.
Shortly after the massacre, the Nazis ordered the formation of a Judenrat (a Jewish committee, composed mostly of Jews). Their first law was that every Jew must wear a ten inch wide arm-band with a blue Star of David, and on our windows there had to be posted a ten inch Star.
We all had to do forced labor, and as young as I was I was assigned to the fields to cut the crops. Shortly after, the Nazis formed the first labor camp in Jezierna and the first to be thrown into the camp were the male youth, among them my brother Munio. At the time of the founding of the camp in Jezierna, the remaining Jewish families from Jezierna and the other neighboring towns were sent to a ghetto in the city of Zborow. Unfortunately, Munio never passed the barbed wire, except when working and in July of 1943 the camp was liquidated. Among those few hundred Jews my brother Munio, age 20, met his death.
Life in the ghetto and the living conditions are well known to all of us today. My parents and I shared a three room apartment with four more families. From day to day hunger became more acute and the sanitary conditions worsened. This led to an outbreak of typhoid. People were dying daily by the dozen, but G-d was good to us and we escaped the epidemic. Once in a while the people of the ghetto had to pay a contribution toward The Party. In a short time all of the gold, silver, furs, and any valuables were collected and given to the Nazis.
While in the ghetto we were all assigned to forced labor. Some of us went to build roads, others to factories, and still others went to sew clothing for the Nazi soldiers. I was assigned, with another group of girls, to do the laundry and work in the gardens of the Gestapo Headquarters. A pass was issued to us and every morning we used to leave the ghetto for work and return at night. The work wasn't hard, but we were slapped without reason--but for being a Jew. The worst punishment we received from the Nazi officers was their harsh and sadistic statements about the Jews. Often they would give us their camouflage raincoats to be washed; these raincoats were splattered with blood and they reminded us that this was the blood from other Jews of other ghettos and this was what awaited us the Jews of the Ghetto of Zborow.
Outside the Ghetto of Zborow a forced labor camp was created. In the early spring of 1943 my father was taken into the camp. My mother and I remained inside the Ghetto. I kept on working at the S.S. Headquarters.
Food was getting scarce. Some Gentile people, with heart, used to smuggle some food into the Ghetto. Between those bringing in food, there was a young man from my hometown by the name of Kola Leskof. His father was a good friend of my father and during one of his trips, Mother asked Kola if he could hide us. Without giving it a thought Kola agreed. It was hard to believe that without one word said or thought, this young man should sacrifice himself to hide two Jewish women, but we had nothing to lose; by staying in the Ghetto we knew what was coming, and by leaving we had a chance to survive.
At the end of April of 1943, with the help of a Gentile family from Zborow, we escaped. We were quite lucky, for we made it to Jezierna to the house of the Leskof family. As Kola had promised, they accepted us and made shelter for us in the attic. For a Gentile family to keep Jews the punishment was death. The Leskof family shared with us every piece of bread they had.
In May of 1943, the Zborow Ghetto was liquidated and in July of 1943 the Camp of Zborow, where my father was kept, met the same fate. The day my father and brother died Kola came to the attic to see us. His grief was profound and I remember, as if it were yesterday, his telling Mother, Even if I have to give my life, I shall protect you and shelter you. I shall never forget Kola and his smiling face, for he too met his maker a year later.
We stayed at the Leskof home throughout the winter, until March of 1944. At that time the Russians were advancing and the battlefields were at the outskirts of Jezierna. The Leskof's house was burned by the Germans, for the simple reason that it obstructed the view of the battlefield. We had nowhere to go but into the woods. We wandered from place to place and it seemed that G-d was guiding us out of trouble.
In July of 1944 we were liberated by the Russians. After a short time in Jezierna we moved to Tornopol, where we lived with a few Jewish families.
In 1945, after the worst was over, we were allowed to leave the Ukraine and go to Poland. We settled in Byton and waited for a pass to leave for America, where my mother has brothers and a sister. Unfortunately, my mother's health was deteriorating and as soon as she was confined to bed, in 1946, her brother, Moris Lechowitz, came from Russia and joined us in Byton, for he was alone, as his wife, Netka, and three children lost their lives in a concentration camp in Poland. Together with Mother, in a stretcher, we left Poland to go to Paris. After a few months in Paris, Mother died.
On January of 1947 my uncle Moris and I left France for the United States. Behind I left only graves and bad memories, but I had to forget all this, for I was going ahead to an unknown country in search of happiness and a better tomorrow.
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The smartphone can handle multiple e-mail and social networking accounts, including Gmail, Yahoo, Exchange, Facebook, and Twitter. We had no problems adding our Gmail, Exchange, Facebook and Twitter accounts to our review unit, and we received messages and updates without problem. The Comet offers a unified inbox and calendar, though you can choose to keep your accounts separate if you prefer.
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The Comet has a 3.2-megapixel camera. Editing options are pretty limited, but you get white-balance settings, digital zoom, geotagging, and video capture. Picture quality was pretty much what we expected: grainy with dull colors. Still, you can make out the objects in the photos, and shots taken outdoors fared better. Video quality was pretty murky.
We tested the quad-band (GSM 850/900/1800/1900; UMTS/HSDPA) T-Mobile Comet in New York and call quality was quite good. On our end, the audio was clear with little to no background noise, and voices sounded rich and full. Friends also reported good results and didn't have any major complaints.
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We got pretty reliable 3G coverage in Manhattan, though there were spots, such as Midtown, where it wavered from 3G and EDGE. Over 3G, CNET's full site came up in a minute, while the mobile sites for CNN and ESPN loaded in 7 seconds and 12 seconds, respectively. YouTube videos loaded within several seconds and played back without interruption and with synchronized audio and sound. There is the option to switch to high quality, but with such a low-resolution screen, it doesn't make much of a difference.
The Comet is powered by a 528MHz processor, and though we never experienced any major problems or delays, the smartphone can be sluggish at times. It always registered our commands, but the handset could hang for a couple of seconds before launching the appropriate app or task.
The T-Mobile Comet ships with a 1,200mAh lithium ion battery with a rated talk time of 9 hours and up to 12 days of standby time. The Comet fell well short of the promised talk time in our battery drain tests, offering just 5 hours of continuous talk time. According to FCC radiation tests, the Comet has a digital SAR rating of 1.27 W/kg.


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P0755 2002 NISSAN SENTRA - Shift Control Solenoid 'B' Malfunction
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- Shift solenoid 'B' valve harness is open or shorted
- Shift solenoid 'B' valve circuit poor electrical connection
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When the a transmission solenoid is malfunction, in most cases the problem is not the electrical part of the solenoid; the problem is foreign material obstructing the mechanical function of the solenoid or the flow of the fluid through the transmission valve body. If the transmission fluid is very dirty, it is recommend changing the transmission fluid and if possible removing the transmission pan for further diagnosis. Excessive debris or metal particles on the transmission pan could be an indication that there is a transmission mechanical failure and that the transmission will need to be rebuilt or replaced.
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P0755 2002 Nissan Sentra Description
Shift solenoid valve B is turned ON or OFF by the Transmission Control Module (TCM) in response to signals sent from the park/neutral position (PNP) switch, vehicle speed and Engine Control Module (ECM) (throttle opening). Gears will then be shifted to the optimum position.
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6 Fictional Diseases
The ailments of fiction are the most malicious and indomitable imagined. They're also pretty good plot motivators, which is why we're so drawn to them — morbid fascination and all. In this piece we'll dissect some of the most deadly fictitious diseases devised by humanity. They're fascinating specimens, almost every one is based on some scientific notion. So, does that make diseases like them more likely? Keep reading and find out.
MotabaMotaba is the make-believe African virus that nearly wipes out the whole world in the 1995 film Outbreak. It causes flu-like symptoms, then hemorrhaging from all bodily orifices. Through an unfortunate, but not unlikely, set of events, the disease ends up in a small U.S. town and decimates the population. The virus spreads so quickly that the military considers firebombing the town to keep it from destroying the rest of the country. Thankfully, an antibody is found in the host (a monkey from Africa). Ironically, the species of monkey featured in the film is actually from South America. At any rate, the antibodies are fashioned into a vaccine and it's distributed throughout the town. The world is saved. This is a somewhat unlikely ending as vaccines take many months or sometimes even years to create.
Real-world counterpart: Motaba is a thinly veiled variation of Ebola and Lassa fever, two deadly viruses that spread like proverbial wildfire. Both cause serious problems in Africa, but neither has spread to Europe or America. Also, each virus causes flu-like symptoms and hemorrhaging from bodily orifices — sound familiar? Oh, and they are almost always fatal.
RageIn the movie 28 Days Later, the Rage virus effectively makes the world go bonkers, turning good citizens into furious, blood-thirsty zombies. The infected then attack the few healthy ones left with total disregard for self-preservation. They're oblivious to pain and hell bent on infecting everyone around them. It's a classic zombie tale with a sci-fi twist. There is no known cure for the disease, and you become infected with a bite from the walking corpses or if you happen to ingest their tainted blood. Thankfully, without live bait to sustain them the infected eventually starve to death.
Real-world counterpart: The Rage virus, according to the movie and later the graphic novel written by Steve Niles entitled 28 Days Later: The Aftermath, was genetically engineered. Rest assured, we humans haven't created any new walking corpse-inducing diseases — at least not yet.
KV virusThe KV virus in this 1954 novel, I am Legend written by Richard Matheson transforms the infected into vampires. The protagonist finds himself the sole survivor in Los Angeles — a single man against a world filled with blood-thirsty sickos. Symptoms of the infection include light sensitivity, nocturnal behavior, intense dislike of garlic, and a taste for fresh blood. It's a convincingly scientific explanation for vampirism and it makes for a chilling read. I Am Legend predates movies like Blade (1998) and Underworld (2003) by a few decades, making it one of the first instances of a "vampire virus" in literature or movies. A big-screen version of I am Legend, starring Will Smith and Salli Richardson, went into production in 2007
Real-world counterpart: Plenty of people will tell you that vampirism is triggered by a virus, but there is no conclusive scientific proof that such a virus exists. Some people even claim they "crave" human blood and lend themselves to stereotypical vampire-like lifestyles.
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Lately, I have been reflecting on all of the other areas in my teaching that relate to writing - specifically, oral language and the importance I place on discussion and conversation within my classroom. With Common Core, new teacher evaluations, additional assessments, and everything else that fills our day, it is easy to rush through our lessons in an attempt to "get everything done" on our agenda. It is also easy to rush through our class discussions and not give enough time to really hear our students, challenge them to think deeper and explain more, and listen to their ideas and thoughts. However, when we do that, we rob our students of the gift of thinking and the ability to formulate clear and concise thoughts that can later turn into a beautiful piece of writing.
In order to communicate and write clearly within the Common Core, our students need to be able to think and compose clear, organized thoughts that are backed up with evidence and explanations. Just because we teach our students how to write a complete sentence, does not mean we can expect them to sit down and write a solid opinion piece with supported reasons. We need to allow our students to think, create, and communicate their thoughts through verbal discussion and conversation. How many of your students read out loud? For many of our children, they have not yet fully developed their "inner thinking" skills. They need to say it aloud! Have you ever been on your way to an interview and rehearsed or formulated aloud in the car what you were planning on saying? I do this each and every time I'm on my way to give a workshop to teachers. It's how I think through my thoughts to make sure they make sense and are clear. This is an important part of the creative process for our young writers. Give them time to talk. Be there to facilitate and challenge their ideas and thoughts. Push them to explain more. When you do that, you will foster critical thinkers who are clear communicators in both their speech and their writing.
So how was I going to promote this in my own classroom? I started to think about the ways my teachers had fostered my own writing abilities. I came up with two ingredients:
1. Time to Write
2. Conversation and Discussion
My high school English teacher made us write a lot. For half of our class period, she would send us to the computer lab. Sometimes she just said "Write. Write about anything. Just write the whole time." Other times we would write a reflection to a piece of literature. I remember typing and typing and typing some days. But I also remember being able to whip out a college essay while I was at my university faster and more effectively than any of my college roommates. Time to write is a key ingredient to writing success.
For the second ingredient: conversation and discussion, I'm reminded of my favorite college professor. He challenged me to read books that I would not have ordinarily picked up in a library. Bill Bryson's I'm a Stranger Here Myself is one such book. After college, I went on to read many other books by this author. I fell in love with it because of the discussions we had in class. This professor discussed new ideas with us that we had not given thought to before. He challenged us to express our opinions and thoughts clearly and concisely. Quite a few times, I remember him saying things such as, "Be more specific," or "Give me an example." These are not magical words, yet they helped me to develop my inner thoughts and critical thinking skills. His impact on who I became as a writer is what I hope to give to my students...even if they are only seven years old. :) If he ever reads this, I hope he knows the impact he made on me as a learner. He valued us as young writers and showed us this by taking the time to have true and meaningful conversations with us about our ideas and thoughts. As beginning writers, our elementary students deserve this same respect.
I want to encourage you to slow down in your writing instruction this week. I want to challenge you to let your little ones verbally discuss their ideas before you require them to hit the ground running with their pencil. When their writing does not make sense, ask them to tell you aloud what they want to say. Give them time to talk to one another. In doing so, you will promote their communication skills and vocabulary, which will in turn seep into your students' writing skills. I promise. :) My students are getting there. :)
Here are some recent pictures of our informational penguin essays. I did not guide them through the process as much as I did with their polar bears. Rather, I pretty much helped to facilitate their research skills and then said, "Go! Write!" Take a look. :)
We researched three different kinds of penguins. We organized our research through color-coded paper:
Time to write and discuss thoughts and ideas through collaborative, engaging conversation has played a major role in our writing success this year. In a couple weeks, we will move on to an opinion project, and I can't wait to share it with you! Thank you so much for taking the time to stay with me through this lengthy blog post! :) I hope you and your students have fun writing this week!


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LAS VEGAS – Paul Williams came out of an elevator at the MGM Grand. He was confined to a wheelchair. But his confidence was as strong as ever.
"I feel good," said Williams on Friday before the weigh-in for the Saul "Canelo" Alvarez-Josesito Lopez junior middleweight fight Saturday night, also at the MGM Grand. "This is a small thing for a giant."
Williams arrived in Las Vegas Friday for a fight that was supposed to include him against Canelo before a devastating motorcycle accident in May left him paralyzed.
In his brief comments to RingTV.com and Lance Pugmire of the Los Angeles Times, it wasn't clear what his condition was.
But he was confident that one day he would recover, perhaps enough to even resume his boxing career.
"I think I can come back," said Williams. "Give it two or three years, and I'll come back."
Williams is scheduled for his first televised interview on Showtime on Saturday night.
"My game ain't over," said Williams, during the interview with Showtime's Jim Gray. "Whether I am walking or not walking, my game ain't over until the Lord takes my life."
Gray was impressed with Williams' optimism.
"It was amazing how someone who suffered such a life-changing event was so positive and so upbeat," said Gray. "This interview convinced me that Paul Williams' greatness is in his future."
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> Considering of the data security, I need to set up different groups
> for several project and set every engineer to the proper group. But
> there're some persons, such as leaders, they need more permission to
> manage the whole department. If they are assigned to several groups,
> when need to visit another group's data, will have to run the command
> 'newgrp', which is not so handy, especially when you're running one
> software and have to exit and switch to new group and run again in
> order to get the permission to another group's data. Is there any
> other way to do it? It's good if I may set up one powerful group and
> which have the management permission to those groups and add leaders
> into the powerful one, but how to do it?
You may be particularly interested in ACLs (access control lists).
There are many possibilities to use them. Most importantly you need to
activate "extended attributes" for the filesystems you use, in your
kernel configuration. Most ACL packages require this. In many cases
it's already activated. Depending on which package you're using, you
might have to also activate "POSIX access control lists" for your
filesystems, too.
However, I don't have any experience with ACLs in Linux systems, since I
don't need them for my purposes. If I needed them, then I guess I would
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Faith in Action Blog
Please say a prayer for Rev. Hildebrand Garceau, O.Praem. ('78), a graduate of the College and one of its four chaplains, who today celebrates the 30th anniversary of his ordination.
Fr. Hildebrand is one of three priests from the Class of 1978, having received the Sacrament of Holy Orders at the hands of Timothy Cardinal Manning, then the Archbishop of Los Angeles, on June 16, 1984. He was one of the College's first alumni priests, who now number 60, with another ordination set for this fall.
Over the last three decades, Fr. Hildebrand has served at various churches in Los Angeles and Orange counties, including seven years as the pastor of St. John the Baptist Church in Costa Mesa. He returned to his alma mater as a chaplain in 2011.
Thanks be to God for this good and faithful priest!
On Easter Sunday, CBS Sunday Morning featured the above segment about the Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles, who have topped the Billboard Classical Music Chart with their albums of sacred music. Two of the nuns, Sr. Mary Josefa of the Eucharist, OSB (Kathleen Holcomb '07), and Sr. Sophia Eid, OSB ('08), are alumnae of the College. Sr. Mary Josefa can be seen — front and center in — the video's choir shots.
Last summer Sr. Mary Josefa sat for a rare interview with the Cardinal Newman Society, in which she discussed the role of liturgy, sacred music, and Catholic identity in higher education Among her notable responses, Sr. Josefa had these kinds words to say for her alma mater:
I chose to attend Thomas Aquinas College because it integrated classical and Catholic education; I was fascinated by the liberal arts program, with its consideration and discussion of original sources, introducing the student to the perennial questions with which mankind has always grappled, but I was further drawn by the Catholic identity of the school, which orders this program of studies in order to lead the student from the contemplation of created truth to the contemplation of God Himself. …
At TAC, I was blessed to be part of a community that was really unified and ordered by its Catholic identity. I attended daily Mass and Rosary with my teachers and fellow students; the chapel was the central point of the campus and teachers and students always would stop on the way to or from class for a visit; everyone acknowledged senior theology as the culminating point of the curriculum to which all the other classes were ordered; in these and countless other ways, I experienced a community that recognized that the invisible realities are more real, more important than the visible ones. Naturally, this greatly nourished the inclination that I had had to religious life since I was young. Many of my fellow students were also drawn to religious life as a result of the strong Catholic community and contemplative program of studies, and having peers considering a vocation really strengthened my own.
The full interview is available via Catholic Education Daily.
By God's grace, on Saturday, May 10, the Most Rev. Gregory Parkes will ordain Deacon Matthew Busch ('04) into the priesthood of Jesus Christ for the Diocese of Pensacola–Tallahassee (Fla.). Deacon Busch will the College's 60th alumnus priest. His ordination will take place at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Pensacola.
Just two weeks later, Joshua Mayer ('03) will be ordained to the transitional diaconate on Saturday, May 24, for the Diocese of Gallup (N.M.). Mr. Mayer is currently a second-year seminarian at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver, Colo., where he studies under the direction of another Thomas Aquinas College alumnus, Rev. Gary Selin ('89), the school's formation director.
Finally, Br. Andrew Marie Norton, O.S.B. ('06) will be ordained to the priesthood on Sunday, October 26. A Benedictine monk, Br. Andrew is one of 11 Thomas Aquinas College alumni at Our Lady of the Annunciation of Clear Creek Abbey in Hulbert, Okla. Like Mr. Mayer, he also benefits from the direction of a fellow alumnus, Rev. Mark Bachmann, O.S.B. ('82), the Abbey's co-founder and subprior.
Please pray for these faithful young men and their vocations!
By God's grace, Joshua Mayer ('03) will be ordained to the transitional diaconate on Saturday, May 24, for the Diocese of Gallup (N.M.). Mr. Mayer is currently a second-year seminarian at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver, Colo., where he studies under the direction of another Thomas Aquinas College alumnus, Rev. Gary Selin ('89), the school's formation director.
A few months later, Br. Andrew Marie Norton, O.S.B. ('06) will be ordained to the priesthood on Sunday, October 26. A Benedictine monk, Br. Andrew is one of 11 Thomas Aquinas College alumni at Our Lady of the Annunciation of Clear Creek Abbey in Hulbert, Okla. Like Mr. Mayer, he also benefits from the direction of a fellow alumnus, Rev. Mark Bachmann, O.S.B. ('82), the Abbey's co-founder and subprior.
Please pray for these faithful young men and their vocations!
06, 2014
"Last night I dreamt that Mission Today took place at TAC," writes Jillian Cooke ('04) on her Facebook page.
Mission Today is a conference sponsored by the Fr. Kolbe Missionaries of the Immaculata, a worldwide secular institute of pontifical right, of which Miss Cooke is a consecrated member. In 2010 she took vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. The purpose of her commitment, she explained in an article for the Thomas Aquinas College Alumni Newsletter, was, "living the intimacy of the cloister in the world of secular society."
Four years later, Miss Cooke will be a featured speaker at the Missionaries' conference on Saturday in West Covina, Calif. There she will speak alongside Rev. Edward Benihoff, whom Archbishop José Gomez recently appointed as Director of the Office for the New Evangelization for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Her talk, "An Analysis of Mary's Role in Evangelization," is one of a series of presentations on the theme, "Dialogue and Inculturation: The Relationship Between Charism and Culture."
"I turned into my 18-year-old self," continues Miss Cooke's Facebook post about her dream of returning to her alma mater. "It was hilarious, once I woke up."
She then gets to the heart of the matter: "Why am I telling you this? BECAUSE THERE IS ONLY ONE DAY LEFT TO REGISTER, AND I KNOW THAT IF YOU COME YOU WILL LOVE IT. There are no chalkboards. THANK GOD."
Indeed, Friday is the last day to register, so go sign up now — before it is too late!
13, 2013
One year ago Sr. Erika Brown ('11) entered the first stage of formation, or candidacy, for the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles. Tomorrow, on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Sr. Erika will enter the second stage, or postulancy. According to the Carmelites' website, the postulancy — which typically lasts 6-9 months — is a time "to deepen the postulants' awareness of their personal consecration to Christ through their personal commitment to prayer, doctrinal study and communal living."
"I feel so blessed to be a part of this Carmelite community praying 'in the heart of the Church,'" wrote Sr. Erika last year. "The Lord has been working in my life in wonderful ways. I am so grateful for my time at Thomas Aquinas College: It fostered a desire to know and love the Lord which could not be quenched. God is so good!"
Please pray for Sr. Erika as she continues to answer God's call!
13, 2013
In the Catholic Business Journal, Br. Andrew James DeSilva ('03) tells about his adventures of chaperoning 24 college students on a trip to Rio de Janeiro for World Youth Day. A member of the Community of St. John, Br. Andrew James describes the pilgrimage as having three dimensions: "Service, Formation, and Pope." The students, who mostly hailed from Seton Hall University, spent time serving the poor with the Missionaries of Charity, being formed through daily Mass and morning and night prayer, and seeing Pope Francis up close when he paid a surprise visit to the slum where they were working.
The students he brought to Rio, says Br. Andrew James, were from "very different faith levels," yet all no doubt grew in holiness through the experience. The Holy Father, he adds, has a gift for reaching the hearts of young people:
"Pope Francis understands the thirst of our youth for an Absolute, helping them find a Name for what it is that they are searching for; giving them a direction for their journey beyond normalcy. This World Youth Day (as they all are) was an experience of the Church. A young Church who is excited, and ready to take up the challenge given to them by Jesus in the Gospel: 'If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.'"
… about another alumna sister!
Sarah Kaiser ('02) made her first profession of vows in the Carmel of Our Mother of Mercy and St. Joseph, Alexandria, S.D., on July 26, the feast of Sts. Joachim and Anne. Her name in religion is Sr. Anne Therese of the Child Jesus.
Sr. Anne Therese requests prayers for perseverance in her vocation and promises to return the favor.
Less than a year after entering the postulancy for the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, Elisabeth Sedler ('09) formally entered the novitiate on August 1, 2013. Along with 15 other women, Miss Sedler — now Sr. Juan Jose — received the Dominican habit at the community's motherhouse in Ann Arbor, Mich. She takes her religious name from St. Juan Diego and Jose Luis Sanchez del Rio, a 14-year-old Christero martyr. Sr. Juan Jose is the fourth alumna of the College to join the Sisters of Mary, whose superior general, Mother Mary Assumpta Long, O.P., was the College's 2012 Commencement Speaker.
Deo Gratias!
On Saturday, Rev. Nathaniel Drogin, O. Praem. ('01), received the Sacrament of Holy Orders at Mission Basilica in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. Fr. Drogin is the College's 59th alumni priest, and the fifth at St. Michael's Abbey in Orange, Calif., where four other alumni are currently seminarians or novices. Ordaining Fr. Drogin was the Bishop of Orange, the Most Rev. Kevin Vann, J.D., D.D., who will serve as the speaker at the College's Convocation exercises on August 26. Numerous members of the Thomas Aquinas College community were on hand for the joyous occasion, including President Michael F. McLean and his wife, Lynda.
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This event aims to help you to more effectively manage your ALM to in today's dynamic technological and business environments. We take a look at how traditional ALM is being affected by the ever increasing presence of mobile devices and the cloud, how agility in ALM is now paramount to project success and how you can manage the change effectively. We also touch on APM (application portfolio management) and how this links to ALM.
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Since October 1, many U.S. federal websites have become unavailable due to the U.S. federal government shutdown.
Operations of agencies vary by agency.
On October 1, CNN posted a table, Government shutdown: what's closed, what's open with information on which federal agencies and offices are operating at what levels.
On September 30, the Washington Post's Wonkblog published a plain-English guide to the shutdown, purporting to tell you "Absolutely everything you need to know about how the government shutdown will work."
The UW-Madison is part of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP), and has been a depository library since the mid 1800's. This program, administered by the U.S. Government Printing Office, provides free federal government publications to depository libraries in exchange for the library's commitment to make the publications available to the public at no fee.
This guide has information on the status of some of the major government agencies and web sites, ones consulted often by UW-Madison library users, affected by the shutdown, and work-arounds, when available.
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|"This website was last updated on October 1, 2013 and will not be updated until it reopens; as such, information on it may not be up to date. Transactions submitted via this website might not be processed and we will not be able to respond to inquiries until after appropriations are enacted." More information.
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UW-Madison students, faculty, and staff have access to a commercial version of the Agricola database, via ProQuest.
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|"The EPA website and social media channels will not be updated until the federal government reopens."
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|"Congressional materials will continue to be processed and posted to FDsys. Federal Register services will be limited to documents necessary to safeguard human life, protect property, or provide other emergency services consistent with the performance of functions and services exempted under the Antideficiency Act. The remaining collections on FDsys are not being updated and will resume after funding is restored. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause."
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|"The Department of Health and Human Services [managing partner of the site] anticipates that the Grants.gov system will remain in an operational status, but with reduced federal support staff presence, should a lapse in appropriations occur. In addition, we anticipate that the Grants.gov Contact Center will remain available, and provide assistance to callers."
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Federal Records Centers are operating on a limited schedule.
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|"PubMed is open, however it is being maintained with minimal staffing due to the lapse in government funding. Information will be updated to the extent possible, and the agency will attempt to respond to urgent operational inquiries."
|SciTech Connect (from the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
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If you would like to file a copyright registration online, the online registration system is available. Filing your claim now will help ensure the earliest possible effective date of registration, although copyright registrations will not be processed until the Copyright Office reopens."
|United States Geological Survey (USGS)
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Billy Twelvetrees set to make England debut against Scotland
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Uncapped Gloucester centre Billy Twelvetrees is in line to make his England debut in Saturday's Calcutta Cup showdown with Scotland at Twickenham.
With Manu Tuilagi out injured, Twelvetrees has been confirmed in Stuart Lancaster's 23-man match-day squad in preference to the London Irish outside centre Jonathan Joseph.
Saracens wing David Strettle has also been recalled, having missed the autumn internationals, which means no place in the squad for Northampton full-back Ben Foden.
Lancaster will confirm his starting line-up on Thursday and Twelvetrees is favourite to come into a reshuffled midfield in place of Tuilagi.
Joseph would have slotted straight into the outside centre channel but the England management appear to have cooled on him since his debut in South Africa.
Twelvetrees would come into the side at inside centre with Brad Barritt shifting into the 13 jersey, which he wore for his first two Test appearances in last year's RBS 6 Nations.
Lancaster could press either Owen Farrell or Toby Flood into midfield action alongside Barritt but neither seems a likely option.
Farrell is the incumbent fly-half from England's record 38-21 triumph over New Zealand on December 1 and Lancaster's selection policy leans heavily on rewarding performances.
The experiment of using Flood as an emergency inside centre failed in the World Cup quarter-final defeat to France and he would seem destined for a place on the bench.
Lancaster's other main selection posers are at scrum-half, where Danny Care and Ben Youngs are battling for the nine jersey, and at hooker between Tom Youngs and Dylan Hartley.
Tom Youngs, a converted centre, was one of England's outstanding players when he took over from the injured Hartley in the autumn and that will stand in his favour in selection.
Alex Goode made his comeback from a shoulder injury for Saracens last Sunday but it remains to be seen whether he has done enough after five weeks out to retain the full-back jersey.
If so, then Lancaster must choose between Mike Brown and Strettle on the left wing. If not, then both would start with Brown switching to his natural position at full-back.
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Terbium helps enable energy efficient fluorescent lamps, and Terbium metal alloys help to provide suitable metallic films for magneto-optic recording of data. Sodium terbium borate is used in solid-state devices. It can be used with ZrO2 as a crystal stabilizer of fuel cells which operate at elevated temperature.
Discovered by Mosander in 1843. Terbium is a member of the lanthanide or "rare earth" group of elements. It is found in cerite, gadolinite, and other minerals along with other rare earths. It is recovered commercially from monazite in which it is present to the extent of 0.03%, from xenotime, and from euxenite, a complex oxide containing 1% or more of terbia.
Terbium has been isolated only in recent years with the development of ion-exchange techniques for separating the rare-earth elements. As with other rare earth metals, it can be produced by reducing the anhydrous chloride or fluoride with calcium metal in a tantalum crucible. Calcium and tantalum impurities can be removed by vacuum remelting. Other methods of isolation are possible.
Terbium is reasonably stable in air. It is a silver-gray metal, and is malleable, ductile, and soft enough to be cut with a knife. Two crystal modifications exist, with a transformation temperature of 1289°C. Twenty one isotopes with atomic masses ranging from 145 to 165 are recognized. The oxide is a chocolate or dark maroon color.
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For Immediate Release: June 23, 2005
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NEW YORK—The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today called on the organizations that develop building and fire safety codes, standards and practices—and the state and local agencies that adopt them—to make specific changes to improve the safety of tall buildings, their occupants and first responders. The recommendations result from the agency's investigation of the fires and collapses of New York City's World Trade Center (WTC) towers following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Based on the findings of the most detailed examination of a building failure ever conducted, NIST is making 30 recommendations. "We believe these recommendations are both realistic and achievable within a reasonable period of time, and should greatly improve the way people design, construct, maintain and use buildings, especially high-rises," said WTC Lead Investigator Shyam Sunder at a press briefing in New York City. "The recommendations also should lead to safer and more effective building evacuations and emergency responses. However, improvements will only be realized if they are acted upon by the appropriate organizations."The recommendations, contained within 43 draft reports (totaling some 10,000 pages) released today for a six-week public comment period, cover:
NIST is assigning top priority to work vigorously with these communities to ensure that there is a complete understanding of the recommendations and their technical basis and to provide needed technical assistance for their implementation. As part of this effort, NIST will develop and maintain a web-based system with information on the status of NIST's recommendations that will be available to the public so that progress in implementing them can be tracked.
In addition, NIST will hold a conference on Sept. 13–15, 2005, at its headquarters in Gaithersburg, Md., to reinforce the importance of its findings and recommendations from the investigation and encourage their implementation. Details on this conference and registration information are available at http://wtc.nist.gov.
NIST welcomes comments on the draft reports and recommendations—available online at http://wtc.nist.gov—which are received by 5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Aug. 4, 2005. Comments (instructions for submission are available at on the Web page above) may be submitted via:
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WARNER –Connors State begins its quest to reach the National Junior Athletic Association Softball College World Series in St. George, Utah on Friday with the opening round of the Region II Tournament at Coweta High School.
Connors (36-15) enters the double elimination tournament as the No. 3 seed and will battle Western Oklahoma State (23-22) at 4 p.m. A win over the Lady Pioneers will advance the Cowgirls to the winners' bracket game at 10 am. Saturday against the winner of the Northeastern A&M and Rose State game.
The winner of the Region II Tournament will host the Southwest District Tournament next week against the Region 23 champion with that winner heading to the national tournament.
Two reasons the Cowgirls have reached the Region Tournament are freshman pitcher Kristen Reasnor, the No.1 hitter in the NJCAA and sophomore Chelsie Drew, who has tied the Connors State mark for home runs in a season with 15. The Connors outfielder is expected to break the mark in the tournament.
Cowgirls head coach Rick Carbone has nothing but praise for Reasnor and Drew for their play this season.
"Kristen brings a lot to the table," said Carbone. "She is an unselfish player, with a good attitude and teammate. Chelsie has really developed into a great hitter and is an outstanding defensive player."
Drew, who hit only hit six home runs her freshman year, attributes her new found power to the instruction to assistant coach Mike Deese. "Coach Deese helped me a ton," said Drew, who is also hitting .396 on the year. "I am 100 percent better player than last year. I am a hard player to coach because I learned certain things. He fixed things and gave me the confidence that I needed to be a good hitter.
"I have adjusted my swing and have not been swinging at rise ball like I did last year." Concerning the tournament Drew said, "I feel good about our chances. Just as long we play like we are capable we should have no problem," said Drew.
"With our lineup, the opposition can't just focus on Chelsie and they have to pitch to her," said Carbone. "I am surprised about all the power that we have in our lineup. I told this group going into the season that you are not power hitters. But that hasn't played out," said Carbone.
Reasnor sits atop the NJCAA hitting chart with a national leading .568 batting average, while also knocking out 12 home runs and recording a 14-8 record inside the circle.
The freshman is the first Connors batter, under Carbone tutelage to lead the nation in hitting.
"I am pretty excited about it (batting average) and it's going to be pretty tough to beat it next year," said Reasnor. "I just work on my batting all the time and always practicing. I never quit."
"At the plate Kristen has a general knowledge on how they are going to pitch her, said Carbone." Being unselfish at the plate, she reminds me of Tony Quinn (Hall of Famer Tony Quinn). She sprays the ball everywhere and has a lot of pop in her bat."
The Quinton freshman admitted that her pitching has helped her at the plate. "I would say that having a pitcher's concept at the plate does help. I don't go after any particular pitch. If it's near the plate I go for it."
And go for it she has. Besides her 10 home runs, she has knocked out 18 doubles and drove home 60 teammates across the plate.
Reasnor is confident entering the tournament and says Seminole is on her radar. "I have some revenge in my eye."
Carbone knows his club is looking at No. 1 seed Seminole and No. 2 NEO, but he has warned his club "don't overlook Western; they are a good hitting club."


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Donegal reached their first Ulster SFC final since 2006 with a three-point win over defending champions Tyrone at Clones.
Second-half goals from Colm McFadden and Dermot Molloy ended Tyrone's bid to win a third successive provincial title.
The Red Hands held a 0-6 to 0-1 lead at one stage, but were squeezed out of the game by a tenacious Donegal, who brushed aside criticism of their defensive strategy to deservedly set up a meeting with Derry in the decider.
In front of a crowd of 18,536, Tyrone finished with 13 men after Kevin Hughes picked up a second booking 10 minutes from the end, and 'Brick' Molloy came off the bench to hit the decisive goal.
With Sean Cavanagh revelling in his favourite midfield role, Tyrone tested Donegal's defensive system with direct and penetrative football in the opening stages.
Owen Mulligan, Cavanagh and Brian Dooher all hit the target, with wing back Philip Jordan hoisting a long-range effort for a 0-4 to 0-0 lead.
Michael Murphy, who started at wing forward, was switched to the inside line after 12 minutes as his side continued to search for an elusive opening score, which finally came in the 15th minute from teenager Paddy McBrearty.
Donegal's packed defence could do nothing to counter accurate long-range striking, and Cavanagh exposed that weakness with a quality effort from distance, before Stephen O'Neill intercepted a stray clearance to slot a point for a 0-6 to 0-1 advantage.
But the men from the north-west adopted a more adventurous approach in the final 10 minutes of the half, and were rewarded with points from Kevin Rafferty, Colm McFadden and a wonderful long-range effort by Kevin Cassidy to cut the deficit to just two points at the break, 0-6 to 0-4.
Cassidy turned over possession to send Murphy in for a point, which was quickly cancelled out by Peter Harte's converted 45.
Tyrone full back Joe McMahon, making his return from a broken jaw, was forced out of the game in the 48th minute after shipping a high challenge, with his brother Justin taking over.
And Donegal hit the front for the first time with a 56th-minute McFadden goal.
Karl Lacey made a searing run from deep to take Murphy's pass, before transferring to McFadden, who stepped around Conor Gormley and beat Pascal McConnell from seven yards.
Tyrone midfielder Kevin Hughes picked up a second yellow card in the 62nd minute, but the Red Hands still managed to draw level through substitute Martin Penrose.
But it was Donegal sub Molloy who had the final say, finishing off a sweeping move involving Murphy and Karl Lacey with a clinically taken goal in stoppage time.
Tyrone: P McConnell, M Swift, J McMahon, R McMenamin, D Harte, C Gormley, P Jordan, K Hughes, S Cavanagh, B Dooher, B McGuigan, P Harte, O Mulligan, M Donnelly, S O'Neill.
Subs: M Penrose for Mulligan (51), T McGuigan for B McGuigan (62), A Cassidy for O'Neill (62), C Cavanagh for Dooher (68)
Donegal: P Durcan, K Lacey, N McGee, P McGrath, F McGlynn, A Thompson, K Cassidy, R Kavanagh, K Rafferty, M McElhinney, M McHugh, R Bradley, P McBrearty, M Murphy, C McFadden.
Subs: M Hegarty for McElhinney (23), L McLoone for Bradley (45), D Molloy for McLoone (62).
Referee: J McQuillan (Cavan).


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The end of muted metal has arrived in the form of one of Victory's latest signings, Texas death metal band, SEEKER. Forming from the remnants of various metal bands in the area, SEEKER officially began in the fall of 2011, destroying local venues with their impossibly fast solos and bone-crushing drums. Garnering a loyal following of avid metalheads along the way, SEEKER has been on the road ever since, silencing naysayers with one swift sweeping of chords.
As most bands, SEEKER powered through multiple lineup changes, weeding out bass players and drummers until November 2012, when the band became the four-piece they are today. Comprised of vocalist Bryce Lucien, bassist Chris Keasler, guitarist Justin Edgerton, and drummer Dustin Weaver, SEEKER maintains the right to "create exactly the kind of art we want to." Touring with heavy metal favorites like WHITECHAPEL, STRAY FROM THE PATH, and IMPENDING DOOM, SEEKER has their sights set on the top of metal charts. Operating under the mantra, "Art, community, and aggressive non-conformity above all else", every riff is carefully calculated and each lyric thoughtfully composed.
Providing an in-your-face delivery to fans each performance, SEEKER is the auditory Malitov Cocktail for today's metal scene. Having caught the attention of prominent metal publications Alternative Press, Lambgoat, Metal Insider and more, SEEKER's path is on an upward trajectory, set to surpass their competition with ease. On October 29th, the band released their label debut album Unloved, and it was greeted with praise from even the most selective of heavy metal critics. Dubbed "new heavy metal band to watch" by Metal Riot and asserted by Metal Sucks that they are "restoring credibility to the term deathcore", don't miss SEEKER's imminent takeover of the metal universe.
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The Vaccine Research Center (VRC) Flow Cytometry Core Facility (FCC) works closely with all of the immunology laboratories at the VRC, managing a range of instruments from advanced analyzers to the most sophisticated cell sorters. The FCC serves the research community as well as the clinical trials supported by the VRC. This facility has become an internationally recognized entity, a world leader in the development and application of multidimensional and multicolor flow cytometry. The FCC has collaborated on or directly developed the necessary technologies to perform 20-parameter flow cytometry, analysis, and sorting. This technological feat required the combined development of novel antibody-conjugated fluorochromes, including nano-crystal development hardware (the integration of multiple lasers and detectors, with the associated high-precision optics), software tools (for complex multidimensional data analysis), and validation techniques (for instrumentation and reagents quality control).
The FCC currently manages seven instruments with capabilities of serving a wide range of clinical and research demands: 1) five LSR II instruments equipped with high-throughput robotic units and capable of measuring 20 parameters in a fast-acquisition mode from specimens loaded on a 96-well tray; 2) two FACSAria II instruments, each capable of 20-parameter cell measurements at high-speed sorting (20,000 to 60,000 cells per second), one located in a biosafety level (BSL)-2 environment for non-infectious cell sorting and one located in the BSL-2 plus, capable of infectious cell sorting. The FCC facility leads the development and advancement of cytometric technology at all levels: instrumentation, reagents, detection, and analysis.
Stephen P. Perfetto received a B.S. degree in medical technology from West Virginia University in 1977 and completed his M.S. degree in 1981 from West Virginia University. He studied and worked in the clinical blood bank and clinical immunology laboratories until 1988, when he joined the EPICS Division of Coulter Corporation. In 1990, he was recruited to the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) and was the manager of the core flow cytometry facility. While at WRAIR, he was involved in large HIV vaccine trials and developed functional tools to study the immune system of infected individuals.
In 2000, he joined the VRC as a staff scientist and manager of the flow core facility. This facility is the world leader in multicolor flow cytometry and continues to develop this technology actively on a number of different fronts; one focus is on hardware development and reagent and analysis development. For several years, this lab has collaborated to develop Quantum Dots for use in immunophenotyping experiments. The advent of these fluorochromes provided an enormous advance in multicolor technology, allowing us to proceed from 12-color to 18-color very quickly. This group is actively working on new data analysis techniques: One major focus is the analysis and presentation of metadata (for example, summarizing our functional analysis in which they have broken down each single response into hundreds of categories defined by the expression patterns of individual cytokines or other functional measurements). Another focus is on particular aspects of immune function or viral dynamics, within the context of the major research efforts.
Perfetto SP, Ambrozak DR, Nguyen R, Roederer M, Koup RA, Holmes KL. Standard practice for cell sorting in a BSL-3 facility. Methods Mol Biol. 2011;699:449-69.
Wu X, Zhou T, Zhu J, Zhang B, Georgiev I, Wang C, Chen X, Longo NS, Louder M, McKee K, O'Dell S, Perfetto S, Schmidt SD, Shi W, Wu L, Yang Y, Yang ZY, Yang Z, Zhang Z, Bonsignori M, Crump JA, Kapiga SH, Sam NE, Haynes BF, Simek M, Burton DR, Koff WC, Doria-Rose NA, Connors M; NISC Comparative Sequencing Program, Mullikin JC, Nabel GJ, Roederer M, Shapiro L, Kwong PD, Mascola JR. Focused evolution of HIV-1 neutralizing antibodies revealed by structures and deep sequencing. Science. 2011 Sep 16;333(6049):1593-602.
Zarkowsky D, Lamoreaux L, Chattopadhyay P, Koup RA, Perfetto SP, Roederer M. Heavy metal contaminants can eliminate quantum dot fluorescence. Cytometry A. 2011 Jan;79(1):84-9.
Chattopadhyay PK, Perfetto SP, Yu J, Roederer M. The use of quantum dot nanocrystals in multicolor flow cytometry. Wiley Interdiscip Rev Nanomed Nanobiotechnol. 2010 Jul-Aug;2(4):334-48.
Perfetto SP, Chattopadhyay PK, Lamoreaux L, Nguyen R, Ambrozak D, Koup RA, Roederer M. Amine-reactive dyes for dead cell discrimination in fixed samples. Curr Protoc Cytom. 2010 Jul;Chapter 9:Unit 9.34.
Perfetto SP, Ambrozak D, Nguyen R, Chattopadhyay P, Roederer M. Quality assurance for polychromatic flow cytometry. Nat Protoc. 2006;1(3):1522-30.
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MARTINEZ -- A Contra Costa County Superior Court judge said he is leaning in favor of a group suing the town of Danville for allowing a proposed 69-house development without first seeking voter approval.
Judge Steve Austin issued a tentative ruling Tuesday afternoon in favor of SOS-Danville, which filed a lawsuit last year against the town over the planned SummerHill Homes development off Diablo Road. The judgment was made in advance of a hearing Wednesday between both parties in his Martinez courtroom.
In a mixed ruling, the judge said the town improperly changed its general plan to reassign agricultural land at Magee Ranch for residential development.
"And it did so without complying with Measure S by putting the issue to a popular vote, or by the Council voting (at least 4/5) to make the change," which was required, he wrote.
Measure S requires that general plan amendments obtain voter approval.
"It appears that the town interpreted the (general plan) in such a way to essentially circumvent the mandate of Measure S," Austin wrote.
The judgment, if finalized as is, would amount to a victory on the central issue of the lawsuit, said Maryann Cella, a spokeswoman for SOS-Danville.
And it would mean that any residential development of the site would need to be approved by voters -- and that a new environmental report that addresses bike safety effects be drawn up, said Stuart Flashman, an attorney for SOS-Danville.
Nonetheless, neither side was entirely satisfied with the ruling, which also tackled related issues such as the overall adequacy of the project's environmental report and previous zoning of the area, so they met in Austin's courtroom Wednesday afternoon to hash out the finer points of their arguments hoping to change the judge's mind on his preliminary ruling.
During the hearing, the town's attorneys argued that agricultural and P-1 zoning, which allows for residential development, are both allowed for the site under Danville's general plan, since it was deemed a "special area of concern" in town.
"This isn't an end run around Measure S," said Robert Perlmutter, an attorney representing the town. "It's a vindication that Measure S is working exactly how the (town) council intended it."
He said that as a matter of law, if the general plan in deemed ambiguous or unclear, the court is required to defer to the town's assessment of the general plan, so the judge should rule in favor of the town.
But Austin appeared to side with SOS-Danville's argument that the general plan does not presume that residential zoning is allowed in the area, without first amending the plan via a majority vote of the town.
He maintained that the land use map in the town's 2010 general plan should have been more clearly marked as P-1 -- rather than zoned for agricultural use alone -- if that was what the town council in 1999 truly intended. Then, there would be much less confusion over the plan, and thus no need for court intervention, he said.
But Perlmutter argued that even if the plan "may have not been written well," other pages within the general plan do indicate that the town councilors wanted the site to also be zoned P-1, even if it is not explicitly marked on the map.
"They could have had that vision, but if so, they had pretty cloudy glasses," Austin said. "They could have put P-1 on the map, but didn't."
"Is there a list of all secret areas of zoning (in town)?" he pressed, implying that if that was the council's desire, it was not explicit enough in the general plan.
Also, Austin tentatively struck down the majority of SOS-Danville's claims that the project's environmental report was inadequate. The only section that he granted needed improvement was an assessment on the impact of bike safety on Diablo Road.
Austin also ruled in favor of the town in its petition asking that the final judgment in this case not be applied to future controversies outside of Magee Ranch, such as Elworthy East or Purcell properties, which are among the few Danville parcels remaining for development.
That is because extending the judgment in this case to "unpredictable future events" would essentially be "insufficient and speculative," he wrote.
A final judgment by Austin could be issued in a few days or take months, Cella said.
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