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(The speech was delivered at the Muslim Community Centre, Chicago on June 19, 1977, before a large gathering of educated Muslims.)
Allama Iqbal opens his long Persian poem, Asrar-i-Khudi (Secrets of the Self), with these verses from Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi.
Last night the Sheikh wandered about the town with a lamp
Saying, "I am tired of demon and beast; man is my desire.
My heart is sick of the feeble-spirited fellow-travellers;
The Loin of God(Meaning Hazrat Ali) and Rustam-i-Dastaan (Rustam son of Zal (nicknamed Dastaan) was a famous hero of pre- Islamic Persia) are my desire."
I said, "We, too, searched for him, but he couldn't be found."
He replied, "What cannot be found that thing is my desire."
On a dark night, Maulana Rumi tells, a sage was wandering in the streets of the town, with a lamp in hand, as if he was searching for something that had been lost. The poet enquired from him, what he was trying to find, and he replied that he had grown sick of living in what, in truth, was the abode of wild animals, and was now looking for man, a Lion of God and a Rustam-i-Dastaan, who could restore his faith in humanity. The poet remarked, "You are looking for the impossible; for something that does not exist. Rest assured, you are never going to find him." "It is the rare, the uncommon, the unattainable that I seek. This is the trouble with me," replied the wise, old man.
As you know, I have come here at the invitation of the Muslim Students Association and it is a new world for me, not, of course, in the sense in which it was for Columbus, but from the viewpoint of a student who, also, possesses some knowledge of religion. I am grateful to the Muslim Students Association for giving me an opportunity not only of coming to this great land, but, also, of seeing it from coast to coast and of meeting people and speaking to them. I have travelled from New York to California, and, also, visited Canada, thus covering about four thousand miles during these few weeks. It is at the end of the tour that I am addressing this meeting. You will, naturally, like to know my impressions. Coming, as I do, from a country which, so to speak, is backward at present and lagging behind the West, I would have described to you with relish the phenomenal advancement that has taken place here, but you are more familiar with it than me, and, hence, it will be unnecessary.
To many of you the verses from Maulana Rum I have just quoted will have come as a surprise. Maulana Rum lived in Anatolia which was not backward. On the other hand, it was one of the most advanced parts of the then civilised world. The Maulana belonged to a place where the foundations of the magnificent Saijuk Kingdom were about to be laid. He was born at Balkh, in Iran, which was the most civilised country in those days and could, justly, be called the Greece of the East, In philosophy and literature it had made a glorious contribution and left an imperishable mark on the pages of history. Nevertheless, he has tried to show the wounds of his heart through these verses. He relates the story of the sage. but in fact, it is his own story. He says that in that wonderful city and in that land of culture and enlightenment, he pines for man. There is everything there-stately mansions, blooming gardens, delicious food, elegant dresses and refined manners, but not man. What one sees are not real men; they possess only human forms and figures.
In another verse, Maulana Rum has spoken with greater clarity. He says :
These are not men, only men's faces they have,
Slaves of the stomach, victims of sensuality.
The bloom of the machines
I have seen of America what could be seen during this brief stay and have travelled from north to south and from east to west, but the one thing that has struck me is the supremacy of the machines. The bloom you see here is the bloom of mathematics, trade and technology. The physical sciences have reached the highest point of their development and given to mankind whatever they could by way of progress, ease and luxury.
But what will the answer be if in this country which is bustling with life and activity one were to ask how many real men lived; men whose hearts throbbed and eyes wept for the sake of humanity; men who controlled their carnal desires and, were the riders and not the mounts of this civilisation; who held the reins of life instead of being driven by it; who knew their Creator and whose hearts were filled with love for Him and respect for mankind; who led a simple life, in harmony with nature, and were aware of true joys and genuine pleasures; who did not like tensions and conflicts in the world and hated the selfishness and greed of the politicians; who wished every country well and wanted it to prosper; who were eager to give and not to grab; who did not believe that the aim of life was only to eat, drink and be merry, but thought that there was much more pleasure in feeding the other man and going hungry themselves than in eating the most sumptuous meal; who saw gain in loss and victory in defeat; who dreamt of the reconstruction of the world and were not concerned solely with the growth and development of their own land; who wanted to see the world united, not on the transitory and artificial platform of the United Nations, but on the real and natural stage of the oneness of mankind; who knew what was the beginning and the end of their existence, and were, also, regardful of it; who realised that they had been created by someone and would not turn to dust, like the insects, after completing the span of their life, but had to go somewhere and render an account of the tremendous capabilities God had endowed them with, capabilities which had enabled them to impart life to stones, conquer the vastness of the skies, imprison the rays of the sun and plant their feet on the moon, and felt that the glory of man did not fie in breathing life into inanimate matter and subjugating the world through it, but in enlivening himself? God had created man and placed the crown of Vicegerency on his head: it was, therefore, not the height of his achievement that he became a slave to matter but made the matter his slave, or, rather, the slave of God and took from it the task of the fulfillment of His Will. This was what Vicegerency of God meant. Men who did not see greatness in subjugating the other countries and making them bow to their will but wanted to serve mankind selflessly and put an end to exploitation of one country or community by the other; men who aspired to release humanity from the bondage of the inordinate appetites of power, wealth and even intellect ?
The bedouin of Arabia whose head Islam had raised as high as the heavens had told Rustam, the Commander-in-Chief of Iran, bluntly that "we have been sent by Allah to deliver whom He wills from the overlordship of His slaves (i. e. men) to His own overlordship, from the narrow confines of the world to its boundlessness, and from the oppressiveness of other religions to the fairness and justice of Islam." Now, there was the mighty Rustam whose name was enough to strike terror in the heart of the enemy, and, before him, it had become possible for a poor bedouin to stand up and say : "God has appointed us to rescue men from the worship of fellow-men and lead them to the worship of no one save Him: to take them out of the prison-cell to which you have given the imposing name of the Iranian Empire into the Lord's wide and limitless world and into the open air of freedom. We take pity not on ourselves, but on you. It is your wretchedness that has evoked sympathy in our hearts and compelled us to come out of the desert-land of Arabia. Unfortunate Iranians, we want to bring you out of the golden cage in which you are held in captivity like the nightingales into the boundless kingdom of the Lord. You are the slaves of your desires and habits, of your musicians, cooks and water-men, while we are the slaves of God. We have come to deliver you from the countless forms and varieties of servility to freedom".
Light is one, darkness has numerous faces
Freedom is one; servility is of many kinds, Light is one, but darkness has numerous faces. Hence. wherever Noor (Light) is mentioned in the Quran, it is in the singular number. As for instance, Allah is the Protecting Friend of those who believe. He bringeth them out of Zulumaal(Plural of Zilumat, meaning darkness.) into Noor. (II : 257)
But why? Is the plural form of Noor not found in the Arabic language? Or, was the range of expression of the Quran limited? The fact is that light is one, while 'darknesses' are unlimited. The origin of Noor is one and it is the awareness of God There is no other source of guidance if Light is not available from that eternal fountainhead. Today, as I see this country, the following verses from Iqbal come to my mind. Iqbal had not visited the United States, but his knowledge of the West was deeper than ours. He says :
Though Europe is radiant with the light of knowledge,
The Ocean of Darkness' is barren of the 'Fount of Life'.
A nation unblessed by Divine Light,
Steam and electricity bound its works.
The Westisan, Ocean of Darkness in which the 'Fount of Life' does not exist. There is an old proverb that the Fountain of Life' is found in the Ocean of Darkness'. It is said that Alexander had made Khwaja Khizri (Name of a Prophet who is said to have discovered the 'Fountain of Life' and drunk of it.) his guide and requested him to take him to the waters of immortality in the -Ocean of Darkness', but even Khizr had confessed his inability. Alluding to this brief story, Iqbal observes that though the West is an -Ocean of Darkness', it does not possess the Fountain of Life'. What, then, is the ultimate fate of the nation which is deprived of Divine beneficence and turns its back upon Apostleship and relies wholly upon the intellect and spends all its energies on matter, on minerals, steel and weapons, and makes the terrestrial, and not the celestial, world the sole sphere of its activities? The matter is conquered, but not its own soul; the world is subjugated, but not the spirit of the world. The West made the material world the only field of its struggle and endeavour, and material progress the high aim and ambition of its life. In it, the West has been eminently successful for it is the practice of the Lord that He makes His Help available, in fullest measure, to man in whatever sphere he singles out for his attention. In whatever field a man wants to make progress, God grants him a full opportunity to go ahead. The crux of the matter lies in choice and preference.
Christianity is unsuited to the West
Those of you who have studied the history of the West and the Western Civilisation and read J. W. Draper's History of the Conflict between Religion and Science will agree that when Europe was converted to Christianity and the Christian missionaries got busy in it events took such a turn that it plunged head-long into materialism. Religion could not capture its imagination for Christianity offered no encouragement to intellect, nor gave a practical guidance for the Organisation of society. It wanted to take it backwards while the European races which were eager and restless by temperament wanted to press onward. A vista of opportunity and achievement was opening before them and the competition for advancement urged them to stop at nothing. The revolution that was unfolding itself forced the European people to select for themselves a field in which they had no rivals. They could not rest content with a narrow sphere of growth and progress in which they had to abide by the Bible at each step or ask the ecclesiastics whether such and such a thing was lawful or not. It was a tragedy not only for Europe but for the whole world that Christianity fell to its lot.
If it was asked which religion was most identical to the spirit of Europe and the natural disposition of its people, the answer would invariably be, Christianity. On the other hand, as a little thought will show, no religion could be more in keeping with its genius and capable of giving it a proper sense of direction than Islam.
According to Christianity, man is born a sinner. He is carrying the heavy load of the original sin on his head. How, then, can a Christian have faith in himself? How can a man who is feeling ashamed of himself on account of being a sinner by birth look boldly at the universe, lay bare the forces of nature, piece the bosom of the oceans and dream of reaching the planets?
How can a man who believes that he is a born sinner, that sin is ingrained in his nature and that be is in need of an external atonement which has to be offered on his behalf under- take with pride and courage the voyage of the discovery and conquest of nature? Here was a contradiction the parallel of which could scarcely be found in the world. It was as if two horses had been tied to a cart, one in front of it and the other behind. The same thing happened to Europe. Two horses were fastened to it. Under the influence of climatic and other environ- mental factors, its spirit was eager to go forward, to do some- thing, but the horse of Christianity was pulling it back. It was trying to take it towards monasticism. The ecclesiastics were openly preaching that earthly life was a bad business and the spiritual advancement of man lay in escape from life. If he wanted to attain salvation, he should live in mountains, dedicate his life to the Church, and practice celibacy. A perusal of Lecky's History of European Morals would show how people ran away from the shadow of a woman. The height of callousness was that a mother travelled a thousand miles to see her son and when the son heard that she was coming he took to heels like a man possessed and the mother had to return broken- hearted. This was the Christianity that had reached the West. In the upshot, the West decided that if it had to progress, it should not only free itself from the shackles of the Church, but also take leave of religion. Significantly enough, while the decline of the Muslim World started when it abandoned Islam; the rise of the West began when it forsook Christianity.
Slave of machines
It is this distressing evolutionary process that has, today, made America a slave of the machines. The supremacy of the United States is accepted all over the world and its hand is seen in everything that happens anywhere. No country, Muslim or non-Muslim, is altogether free from its control and domination. In one form or another, its presence is felt at every place. Plans are made here and enforced in our countries and our own leaders implement them. Today, America has enslaved the world, but it has, itself, become the slave of the machines. It is a prisoner of its way of life, of material progress, of factories and laboratories, and of fancy goods and gadgets. The thing that I did not see here was man, the real man whose heart was alive and awake, and not the working part of a machine. Man, here, has got cast so completely in the technological mould of life that his ideas and emotions, too, have become mechanical. The properties of rock and iron have entered into his soul. He has become narrow and selfish, cold, unfeeling and impervious. There is no warmth in his heart-, no moisture in his eyes. This is the reality I have sadly observed during my stay in America.
Guard against the dissolution of your personality
Before I leave for home I would like to tell you one thing do not be overawed by this civilisation. You are the fruit of the tree of Apostleship. Live here, but keep away from the slavish imitation of the Western Civilisation. Derive as much benefit as you like from your stay, but do not be swayed by crude and vulgar materialism. Remember your message and be on your guard against the dissolution of your personality. Do not feel ashamed of your Faith, way of life and culture. Do not imagine that you are the beasts and they are men. No, you are men and they are the beasts. This land is glittering with electric lights; even the night here is bright as day; but it is devoid of true effulgence of blessedness and Divine guidance. As Iqbal has said :
Dark is the Frankish country with the smoke of its machines;
This valley of Blessedness and Hope' is not worthy of Divine Splendour.
Bondmen of idols carved by themselves
These people are the slaves of their habits and of the mechanical contraptions and devices made by themselves. Hazrat Ibrahim (Abraham) had asked the idol-worshippers of his time : What are these images Onto which ye pay devotion ? (XXI : 52). What irony is it that you kneel down tomorrow before what you make today? The same is happening here. To-day a standard is laid down, a law is formulated and a machine is made, and tomorrow, the whole nation becomes a slave to them. Bondmen of the idols and images carved by their own hands!
Deputyship of Ibrahim
This country is an idol-hall in which the Azan of Ibrahim has to be given, and this you, alone, can do. You are the real descendants of Ibrahim, not the Jews who have strayed far away from his path. Not the Christians who are the followers of the Christianity of St. Paul, not of Jesus. They have been divested of true Christianity. It was a colossal conspiracy that bore fruit. No religious conspiracy has,- perhaps, been so successful. It brought about a complete metamorphosis of Christianity. Now, whether Catholics or Protestants, they are the adherents of St. Paul. They have lost the claim to be the successors of Hazrat Ibrahim. You are his successor.
In the words of Iqbal:
Architect of Haram, for rebuilding the world awake;
Out of heavy sleep, heavy sleep arise Out of slumber deep arise !
Only the architects of Haram can build the new world. Today, destruction is rampant. In appearance it is constructions, in truth, destruction. It was the mission of the Apostle- you follow to deliver mankind from every kind of servility to the servility of One God. You therefore, are in America not merely- as masses of flesh and blood, nor simply as Indians, Pakistanis, Egyptians and Slvrians.
Break idols of colour and blood; lose yourselves in the Millet.
Neither the Irani should remain nor Turani nor Afghani. You are not Egyptians and Syrians, but Muslims You are one community, one brotherhood. You are Ibrahimi and Mohammadi. Know yourself. You have not come here to lose your identity and get fitted into this monstrous machine -like a valueless part or to fill your bellies like the animals. No. Take the Message to the peoples of this land; wake them up; tell them how they have gone out of the right way.
If it ever occurs to the Western people how wrong and perverted is their outlook on life, they go to the other extreme. They turn towards Hippie-ism, Hindu asceticism and renunciation. A large bathing festival, called Kumbh, is held every year at Allahabad, in India. If you go to it, you will find educated Americans roaming about like stray cattle, or, rather fanatics. This civilisation has developed indigestion. They have imbibed the wine of culture so excessively that they have begun to vomit. They are seeking satisfaction by descending to the level of the beasts, by rejecting the favours and blessings of God, and by running away from the realities of life. Would to God that our Islamic countries were capable of showing the correct path to the Americans and speaking to them in a confident, self-assured manner. But alas, not one of them is in that position. The result is that when the Americans get disgusted with their own way of life, they go to the Himalayas and use narcotics to produce an unreal feeling of peace and serenity. We, the Muslims, could tend guidance to them if we possessed the capability.
Where are Muslims ?
Brothers and sisters, you are not here merely to earn and spend. This any community can do. You are here to earn according to your need, but you must, also, know your station and present before the Americans a new design of life. You should give the Azan which may stir their minds and offer Namaz so that they may see and ponder over it. Lead a clean life in order that a revulsion is created in them for their own degenerate ways of living, practice moderation so that a realisation may dawn on them of the foulness of sensuality and excessive self-indulgence, and freeing yourselves from the ruthless domination of the machines, live in a cool, calm and collected manner in order that they may know where peace is. Rediscover the world that lies within you and develop the spirituality which might be felt by those who came into contact with you. I wish that devout bondmen of the Lord, men with an illumined heart, came to live here and told these people who are disgusted with life that Verily in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find rest. (XIII : 28).
Today, only the Muslims can give this message, but where are they? Has any Muslim country or community the courage to tell the Americans that in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find rest? They no longer believe in it themselves. How can they convey the message of Divine Unity to others who have them- selves lost faith in the power and efficacy of Namaz, in the truth and veracity of the Kalima, in the control and authority of God over gain and loss, and in the pre-ordination of good and evil, and made the Americans the great provider of the daily bread? How can they tell them that there is no Giver of Sustenance save Allah?
First, try to produce Faith within yourselves, observe Namaz and spend some time everyday in meditation; produce the warmth that has been destroyed by the smoke of the factories, refresh your soul, set right the aim of your life, read the Quran daily, study the life of the Prophet and seek light from it, and, then, convey the message of the Religion of Nature to the Americans.
Only Islam is the Religion of Nature
Islam, alone, is the religion which does not frown upon human nature, but declares it to be essentially pure and flawless.
God had given a clean state to man, a guiltless nature and an inclination towards goodness; we have debased it. Man is, by nature, upright. Left to his natural instincts, he will follow the correct path. First, realise these truths, produce them within yourselves, in your hearts as well as in your minds, and, then, place them before the Americans. You are the people of preaching and instruction; you are the people of Apostleship, a community with a purpose, and the bearers of the Message. It dose not become you to live like two-legged animals, filling your stomachs and procreating.
Discover man
These are some of my impressions. I have spoken to you from the heart. I have seen everything in America, but man. If I have found one here, it is among you. It is not that I am unacquainted with America or the Americans. I have met them in literature, on the T.V., and over the radio. They are not strangers to me.
Find out the man who is the Vicegerent of God and for whom the world has been created and in whose breast beats the heart which is more precious than, the entire universe. All the treasures of the world and the achievements of science are nothing before an illumined heart. 'Produce that humanity in yourselves. You stay here is correct. It is not only justified, but also a worship and a great source of preaching and propagation of Faith. And if it is not that then I have great misgivings. As I have said on various occasions, if you do not take full care to safeguard your religious life and arrange for the religious education and upbringing of your children and make sure that your future generations remain true to Islam then your living in this country is a sin and you are in grave danger.
Lo ! As for those whom the angels take (in death) while they wrong themselves, (the angels) will ask: In what were ye engaged? They will say : We were helpless in the land. (The angles) will say : Was riot Allah's earth spacious that ye could have migrated therein ? (IV: 97).
For us it is legitimate to live only in a country where we can live with our distinctive qualities and observe our duties. If it is not possible in this environment or you feel you cannot carry out your religious obligations then it is not permissible for you to reside in this land. It is your duty to see that you lived here as Muslims, with all your characteristics You should build your own society, and, also, assure that your children will remain Muslims after you, as Hazrat Yaqoob (Jacob) had done in regard to his progeny. It is set forth in the Quran:
or were you present when death came to Yaqoob, when he said unto his sons: What will you worship after me? They said: We shall worship thy God, the God of thy fathers, Ibrahim and Ismail (Ishmael) …. (II: 133).
It was then that Hazrat Yaqoob was satisfied and he departed from the world with a contented heart. It is the duty of all of us to make certain that our children grow up to be Muslims, otherwise, friends, it will be necessary to have a second look at your stay and to decide whether you should continue to live in this country or not.
You must live as Muslims
I highly appreciate the services of MSA and other institutions and individuals who strive in the cause of Faith, form study circles, circulate the Islamic literature and organise meetings. Whether they are Arabs or non-Arabs, they are a blessed lot. God will accept their services and raise them in ranks. Of fore- most importance, however, is the stipulation that you made sure you would be able to live here as Muslims and not break up and lose your identity. Would you melt like wax before the heat of this civilisation? In that case, you would better go back to your native lands, no matter whether you earned only a fourth or a fiftieth part of what you do here. And if you are safe against it and there is no such danger then blessed is your stay in America. A new light may come to it through you, and the path may be opened for Islam.


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The Case Western Reserve University wrestling team will travel to Rochester, New York for the 51st-Annual RIT Invitational Wrestling Tournament on Saturday, December 3rd.
Action at the meet is slated to begin at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday at the Gordon Field House on the RIT campus. The tournament will continue throughout the day, with the finals scheduled to begin at 5:00 p.m.
Live streaming video and results of the event are available at http://www.trackwrestling.com/opentournaments/VerifyPassword.jsp?tournamentId=240510009. The video will cost $9.95 to watch.
In addition to CWRU and host RIT, other schools participating at the meet include Alfred State, John Carroll, Lycoming, Norwich, Oneonta, Oswego, Scranton, Thiel, Washington & Jefferson, Wesleyan and WPI.
Current entries for the Spartans include senior Matt Moy and freshman Jacob Frisch in the 125 pound weight class, freshman Alec Hoover in the 133 pound weight class, freshmen Andrew Hoover and Ben Kring in the 141 pound weight class, freshmen Isaac Collier and Jack Chimenti in the 149 pound weight class, junior Connor Gordon in the 165 pound weight class, junior Nick Tommas in the 174 pound weight class, sophomores Gavin Dersh-Fisher and Chris Zhang in the 197 pound weight class and sophomore Brian McNamara and junior Adam Bloomer in the 285 pound weight class.
This will be CWRU's first invitational meet of the season, after the squad has opened the campaign with two open-style tournaments. Freshman Michael Petersen leads the squad with a 5-3 overall record, and has notched four victories by pins. Dersh-Fisher has added a 5-4 mark on the year, including three pins.
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THIS season of giving, why not give charities your empty bottles to recycle in exchange for a 10 cent refund?
People can donate funds received at the newly launched Return and Earn vending machines to Cancer Council, St Vincent de Paul, Surf Life Saving NSW and Planet Ark.
"Our first four donation partners make incredible contributions to communities across the state - giving people an option to donate their refunds to these four organisations is a great way to open the scheme," NSW Environment Minister Gabrielle Upton said.
"Charities, community and sporting groups, schools, and other not-for-profit organisations can also register their interest to become a donation partner under the rotation system."
Groups interested in becoming a donation partner can register online.
To donate to a charity through the recycling scheme, select the 'donate' option at vending machines and choose the group you wish to donate to.
Customers who donate $2 or more will be issued a receipt for tax deduction.
Ms Upton said local groups could fundraise by collecting eligible containers and return them for a 10 cent refund at Return and Earn collection points.
You can choose to receive your refund via a PayPal account through the myTOMRA app or printed retail refund voucher which can be exchanged for cash or in-store credit at a retail partner.
Containers should be empty, uncrushed, unbroken and have the original label attached to get the 10 cent refund.
The nearest Coffs Coast Return and Earn vending machine is at Woolgoolga.
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In order to improve radiology education and patient care around the world, RSNA is partnering with established radiology departments based in low- or middle-income countries to create Global Learning Centers (GLC).
First introduced in 2019, RSNA's GLC program launched virtually in July 2020 at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. RSNA's second GLC location, announced in September 2020, will be Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Tanzania.
Over a three-year period, a team of RSNA members will work with the GLC to develop a customized educational plan including a curriculum with in-person, hands-on training, didactic lectures (virtual and in-person), conferences, online courses and other education offerings.
Based on the needs of the applicant institution, equipment and technical assistance will also be provided.
RSNA is soliciting applications for both a GLC and a team of RSNA member volunteers to work with the radiology department at the GLC.
Apply to be a global learning center
RSNA will consider host sites from countries eligible to receive discounted RSNA dues. View the RSNA discounted dues eligible countries list.
Past host sites from the International Visiting Professor Program in eligible countries are strongly encouraged to apply.
Hosting requirements
To be considered as a GLC applicant institutions must:
- Must be a university or hospital
- Must be located in eligible countries (from the RSNA discounted dues list)
- Must demonstrate a need for radiology education and resources
- Must have an established radiology department (defined as staffed with at least one radiologist)
- Must have a Team Lead who will serve as a primary contact with English fluency
Upon selection, the GLC will be responsible for covering local expenses and lodging for RSNA team members during visits twice a year. The GLC will be expected to demonstrate the ability to provide IT‐related support, a reliable internet connection and basic classroom furniture.
Application process
The application deadline has passed.
The Committee for International Radiology Education (CIRE) will review applications and communicate results in August/September 2020.
Please note that if a department is selected as a GLC, a local Program Director must be identified to serve as the point of contact with RSNA. Also, members of the radiology department hosting the GLC will be required to become RSNA members, through the discounted dues program. Complimentary membership will be offered at the launch of the program for one year.
Apply to be an RSNA team member
After a GLC is selected, a team of up to four RSNA volunteers will be selected, to match the needs of the GLC and serve a one-year term.
One of the four volunteers will be appointed as RSNA Program Director. The RSNA Program Director will serve a term of three years.
RSNA team members will travel up to twice yearly to the GLC to learn about the host site's educational needs, and present lectures, hands‐on training and point‐of‐care opportunities.
The RSNA team, in close consultation with the local team, will design and present an educational plan, customized to the needs of the GLC, using RSNA educational resources.
Team member requirements
To be considered for a position on the RSNA team, applicants must:
- Must be RSNA members in good standing
- Must be an expert in his/her field/subspecialty
- Must have three years (or more) teaching experience
- Must have experience working in low‐middle income countries
To be considered for RSNA Program Director, applicants must:
- Must be an RSNA member in good standing
- Must be an expert in his/her field/subspecialty
- Must have five years (or more) teaching experience
- Must have experience working in low- and middle‐income countries and/or current RSNA outreach programs
Program participants, which include RSNA team member and the GLC Program Director, will meet at the RSNA annual meeting in Chicago to evaluate progress, share best practices and experiences and discuss the objectives and goals for the upcoming year.
Application process
Applications for the Program Director in 2020 are no longer being accepted. Applications for team members and future program directors are accepted on a rolling basis.
As part of the application, applicants will be asked to submit an abbreviated CV (no more than two pages) and a letter of intent (250-word limit) detailing the applicant's interest in the program and her/his qualifications.
The GLC subcommittee will review applications and communicate with successful applicants on a rolling basis.
The Committee for International Radiology Education (CIRE) will recommend program participants to the Board Liaison for International Affairs for final selection.
If you have questions about the GLC program, please email email@example.com.


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Following is a letter written by one of our VWS pros and sent through the Wall Street community/client base on February 1, 2018:
2017 was a surprisingly good year for almost every market around the world, especially given the global and political underpinnings. The S&P 500's total return was almost 22% in 2017, followed by one of the best January's on record with a gain of 4%. Let's keep in mind a one-month gain of 4% annualizes to 48%; after a 22% gain in 2017, it would be an understatement to say that the market got ahead of itself. Average annual stock market returns are between 9-11%.
At the same time, the S&P 500 hasn't retreated 3%, either in a single day or over several days, since early November 2016. That is the longest period of calm in history, shattering the record from the mid-1990s. How about the last time we had a 5% correction? June 2016…it's been a while, and a good ride. All good things come to an end, but we believe this will bring on another good thing – the opportunity to buy lower. Here's how some key benchmarks pertinent to your portfolio performed:
TOTAL RETURNS: 2017 2016 S&P 500 (U.S. Large Cap) 21.82% 11.92% Russell 2000 (U.S. Small Cap) 14.63% 21.21% EAFE (Developed International) 25.69% 1.59% Emerging Markets 37.51% 11.52% Barclays 1-5 Yr US Govt/Credit 1.27% 1.56% Barclays CA Muni Short 1-5 year 1.61% 0.07% Citi High Yield (taxable) 7.05% 17.77% Barclays High Yield Muni 9.69% 2.98%
Starting with President Trump's January inauguration, the US markets were full of hype, hope, and fear. With the promise of new border walls and a tax plan, no one could have expected such a dearth of volatility. The stock market rarely moved more than 0.5% either way, while the majority of days were tiny gains. Hopes of a corporate tax cut propped up the stock market through the first quarter. A stable economy and an EPS bounce from the 2015-2016 dip replaced the hope of corporate tax cuts through the summer.
Much of the EPS bounce was due to a weaker dollar. Against a common basket of currencies, the dollar was down 7.5% in 2017, its first decline since 2007. Around 30% of the S&P 500's total sales, and 40% of profits, flow from abroad.
Global uncertainty was constant with terrorist attacks and threats looming from North Korea, Russia, and the Middle East. Investors were able to limit pullbacks to single digit percentage points by fearlessly buying. This pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a record of records – closing at more than 70 record highs during 2017. As mentioned in the WSJ:
After eight years of solid returns, investors have become accustomed to buying stocks after even small pullbacks, gaining confidence that the market will rebound and continue its run higher. Corporate profits have been strengthening and the Republican tax overhaul is expected to further boost earnings at many firms. More broadly, economists say growth across the U.S. and globally is hitting its stride after years of a fits-and-starts recovery.
During the last few weeks of the year 2017, the previously highly anticipated tax bill was pushed through the House and Senate before they could go on another vacation…or shutdown. The momentum from this bill started 2018 with record stock market closes. To continue this momentum through 2018, we not only look for earnings growth, but better than expected growth to drive higher stock prices. Wall Street analysts are forecasting that cumulative earnings per share for the S&P 500 will jump by 11% in 2018 and another 10% in 2019. The share of corporate profits has outgrown wages and salaries though – with just 43% of GDP accounted for my wages, well below the long-term average of 47%.
A correction in this measure is good and bad news. Lower corporate profits would also mean more money going to the US consumer in the form of wages. Consumption still accounts for more than 2/3 of GDP so any stimulation here could promote animal spirits in an economy which has longed for greater inflation for a few years now.
Over the past couple years, one of, if not the only criticism of US economic health was the weak sign of inflation. Lack of inflation produces fears of deflation – where prices of everything fall and still nobody can afford anything, aka recessions/depressions. Last week we saw the strongest sign of wage growth since recovering from the Financial Crisis. The exact opposite of deflation. Now that the stock market had a fantastic run of low volatility and steady earnings growth, it seems like we forgot about this fear and flipped to the exact opposite. The markets have replaced deflationary fears with a fear of inflation, fed rate hikes, and whatever else the talking CNBC heads make up day to day. Speaking of, a 1000 point drop with the Dow at 25,000 is a big difference from 1000 points when the Dow was at 10,000. Let's keep that in mind and think in percentage terms, because we care about percentage returns when it comes to your portfolios.
While wage growth was taken as a bad sign last week, this means workers are finally making more money. This increase in paychecks should very well stimulate the economy with consumer spending. Stocks might be slightly overvalued and due for this correction, but in the good ol' USA, money in people's pockets tends to be spent. Consumer spending is the greatest component of GDP, so we wouldn't say there is much to worry about. Any pullbacks in the market should be taken as a buying opportunity, given the strength of earnings growth in companies and economic data.
The VIX, a gauge of investor fear, had an unbelievable year in 2017 when it closed above 15 just 7 times. Expect lower returns given the economic backdrop. Let's look back over the past 70 years to see how stocks performed each time the unemployment rate was less than 4.5%…
Unemployment Rate One-Year Return Less than 4.5% 1.3% All periods 7.6% Greater than 7% 11.2%
Chris Low's comments on short-term equity fluctuations (stocks and bonds, and Fed speeches this week):
The short-run future of equities likely depends on the short-run future of bonds. We wrote about rising yields in the Economic Weekly. At this stage, the key is feedback between stocks, bonds and the economy. As weak links break, yields will establish the top of the new range and calm will return. Fed officials, too, will have an opportunity to calm traders. Chairman Powell is to be sworn in today and will likely have something to say. James Bullard will discuss monetary policy tomorrow. Four Fed Presidents, including Dudley, speak on Wednesday. Three more speak Thursday. Hopefully they will be mindful about averting further market chaos.


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Land Use a Sticky Issue for Partnership
Tensions began to emerge Monday between the goals of protecting habitat for fish and wildlife in Puget Sound and upholding the diverse interests of landowners.
Puget Sound Partnership has been focusing its attention on developing a series of topic papers on issues such as human health, water quality and species diversity. Drafts of the papers are being refined in consultation with scientists and members of the public.
Much of the discussion so far has been on biology and ecology, but the human factor was in play Monday in a Bremerton meeting attended by nearly 200 people.
The discussion was on a draft of a paper called "Habitat and Land Use," and some people were less than enthusiastic about the recommendations.
For example, the paper calls for a "fundamental change" in how the region manages its natural resources, including "a governance structure charged with and capable of ensuring that the policy goals are met."
A single set of rules, the draft suggests, would incorporate all requirements under the State Environmental Policy Act, Shoreline Management Act, Growth Management Act and others. Local governments would update their existing regulations to meet the state guidelines, and a single overarching state agency would make sure the rules are enforced.
Chris McCabe of the Association of Washington Business said his organization would oppose some of those ideas.
"A new layer of bureaucracy or regulations is not going to solve the problems," he said. "An integral part of the ecosystem is human beings."
Naki Stevens of People for Puget Sound said the paper lacks a discussion of the "social sciences." Various plans for Puget Sound — including a huge effort in the 1980s by the Puget Sound Water Quality Authority — were never fully implemented, despite the best intentions. What is needed is a better understanding of what went wrong, she added.
"How are we going to overcome the institutional barriers?" Stevens asked.
Millie Judge, leader of the team that drafted the paper, said the suggestion is a good one.
Gino Lucchetti, an ecologist for King County who worked on the paper, said the decline of Puget Sound's health can be viewed in various ways.
"There's a tendency to throw up our hands and say, 'Nothing is working. Everything is awful,'" he said.
Lucchetti said he tends to break history into two periods: before the 1970s, when people didn't have much concern or understanding about habitat, and since the early 1970s, when environmental laws were implemented.
"Since the 1970s, we may not have done a good job with it, but we have become increasingly aware of the need to protect habitat," he said.
Norman MacLeod of Olympic Stewardship Foundation in Port Hadlock said the Puget Sound Partnership needs to consider how to "engage an individual landowner on his parcel," because owners have a special sense of their land.
"If you leave them out of this, your stewardship program will be missing your greatest opportunity."
Jim Kramer, a consultant who recently served as director of Shared Strategy for Puget Sound, said sometimes the views of landowners match that of scientists, and sometimes they differ. The discussion is important, however, because it helps people understand not only what they cannot do but what is good for the environment.
David Giglio of the Governor's Budget Office asked a question that seemed to catch everybody off guard: "If we had perfect implementation of all the existing rules, would the habitat of Puget Sound improve?"
Lucchetti said it was a question well worth exploring.
During the afternoon, participants joined into five smaller groups to discuss recommendations, and all the groups concluded that landowner incentives and education are important.
Bill Ruckelshaus, chairman of the Leadership Council that oversees the partnership, said the topic paper will be refined as a result of Monday's discussion, but efforts to understand the diverse viewpoints will never end. He said he would like to maintain the partnership as an outside entity, judging what works and what does not work among federal, state and local agencies.
"We've got to figure out what to do here," he said, "and we really are all in the same boat."
For a discussion about water-related issues, check out the blog Watching Our Water Ways at www.kitsapsun.com.


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Thursday, June 9, 2011
A year ago today- June 9th
Remember I am doing a two month series about our trip to Ecuador.
Join us over at my other blog to see more about our second day with little G.
This is the blog where it all started.
I continue to keep this as a place where I talk more about my personal journey.
I would like to share with you that my oldest daughters divorce was final yesterday.
After four short years of marriage.
I never imagined that the 8th of June would be a day filled with such emotion. the one year anniversary of meeting our little G and this.......
I thank God for teaching about his grace and mercy.
that I learned a real, deep faith through our adoption journey to apply to my reality only one short year later.
He dispenses what we need each day.
Its new every morning.
I am living proof of this.
I know that there are much harder situations than this.
Please forgive me if I seem petty.
But this is hard.
Its so painful.
I am human,
scared of the future
messing it all up
Just leaning on the Lord and his word for direction.
begging for forgiveness when I fall oh so short.
I pray that our story continues to have impact on the kingdom.
I want to be real
life sometimes looks very different than what we expected.
I am learning grace and mercy.
Its all grace......
Under His wings,
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Sending you love today as your emotions are so very all over the map.Joy and sadness.They can dwell beside each other... with the help of our awesome God.But you already know that.ReplyDelete
I cannot believe how long it has been that we have been following each others journey...when G was just a dream and now look ... the reality of never stop believing... in the flesh,beautiful girl!!
Sometimes we do suffer loss and that is hard to do gracefully. That's why the Spirit is beside us...giving us the daily guide to turn to when we need that extra push. I tell my Ella--breathe through your nose and calm down so mommy can understand you. But sometimes I too need to take that breath.ReplyDelete
May Blessings always out-weigh sorrows.
All I can say is "Blessings to You" as you travel THIS road, too, remembering you are STILL in the palm of His hand...ReplyDelete
(((( hugs )))
You are so right... life often looks very different than what we expect. His plans are often different than ours. So grateful that He dispenses what we need each day! So happy you shared with us! :)ReplyDelete
Stopping by from Sneak Peek Fridays... what an emotional day of memories. Just wanted to send some hugs and blessings to you~ God is good!ReplyDelete


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Hidalgo's paper is a clear and powerful contribution to a topic of ongoing concern.1 It should be taken seriously by anyone who worries that there is something seriously wrong with the flow of medical expertise from the poor countries of the South to the rich countries of the North because it forces open the question of just what that wrongness is supposed to be. (I count myself among these worriers, but it is not obvious on examination exactly where the problem lies. The parenthetical question mark in the title of my own modest contribution to the debate2 was intended to indicate my uncertainty about whether I had pinned down the wrongness or would have to admit its absence; the more I wrote, the more I felt like an explorer who sets out to find the source of the Nile only to end up doubting the river's existence.)
Being unable to identify the moral problem about migration will not make the problem about poor health in the South go away, of course: and it might be that, if we are genuinely concerned to keep expertise in the South, we simply have to face up to the possibility of subsidising the wages …
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Elite Women's Update
Mt Baw Baw Classic
Cycling Victoria gives every participant a medal just for finishing this race. That should have been our first clue. There's nothing much to say for a race that starts in pouring rain and six degrees, flogs the field over a 100km course with 3800 metres of climbing, and finishes in a snow storm. I guess the final climb should barely crack a mention, if it weren't a nasty behemoth for tired legs at an average of 12% for six kilometres.
We had four ladies representing the team. Victoria had a cold so wasn't feeling flash at all. Alison had spent an entire week doing field work so hadn't been on a bike all week. Jessie was recently imported from New Zealand, so while the weather wasn't as horrendous for her, the course was less than ideal for this track cycling hotshot. Only Margeaux, fresh from her brilliant 5th overall at the Tour of Mansfield, seemed genuinely excited at the grisly prospect of the race ahead. Either that, or Margeaux is just very slightly unhinged.
So, we stood in the rain, envious of the spectators with umbrellas, Ugg boots, and warm vehicles awaiting to drive them effortlessly to the top of the mountain. All the while it just kept sinking in – how very much a bad idea this all suddenly seemed. With some of the country's best climbers in attendance, we were guaranteed a difficult ride from start to finish. The first round of pressure went on at the 30km mark. A series of power climbs in windy conditions had the field threatening to split before the first critical set of longer climbs at the 50km mark.
Victoria was in major distress. Her breathing was out of control in hills she generally excels at, and her vision started to go blurry. This was accompanied by the disorientation a cyclist feels before food-flatting, but food wasn't the issue. All Victoria could do was meekly utter to Alison "I don't think I'm going to finish this race". Jessie however, was tapping along beautifully. There was no hint the constant climbing was doing anything to dent her legs. As the intervening descents became more technical, Margeaux and Alison were unlucky to get caught behind some timid bike handlers. Victoria and Jessie were still together with the front bunch up to the midway climbs, but when the pace was put down by the climbing elite, Victoria knew that following was not an option. Survival was the name of the game now. The four fastest climbers had made their move, and Victoria set about gutting it out in a chase bunch of five, with Jessie finding a few riders to work with in a third group.
There's not much to describe about the final climb – no heroic tactics, or cat-and-mouse play for position. You just ride up the last climb as best you can. Turns out that Victoria's best was pretty awful, climbing sometimes at 5km/hr over gradients reaching 21%. The final three kilometres was a lesson in suffering by the time the snow storm hit. It was so hard to generate body heat, as exhausted legs fought an impossibly relentless climb. Margeaux had recovered enormous ground on the final climb. As Victoria hit the final 500m, Margeaux also crested the Baw Baw beast, the two riders finishing within seconds of each other. Alison had caught and passed Jessie, and was the third team rider over the line, and came as close to suffering hypothermic shock as the team ever wants to see again. Jessie was remarkably good natured about her ordeal, saying that she actually enjoyed herself, meaning we either have a team full or resilient riders, or several absolute nut jobs!
Tandem Project Update
World Track Championships
Report by Kieran Murphy
While cyclists are quite accustomed to early starts, the flight to LA pushed the 'friendship barrier'. An 0230 alarm and a 4am check in, guaranteed some bleary eyes on the flight to Sydney. The 14 hour flight to LA just helped to make everyone feel truly deflated by the time we arrived.
We had 6 days until our first race and as the UCI World Cup was still running we didn't have track access for the first few days. Jet-lag combined with ergo sessions didn't exactly contribute to our sense of joy, but the excitement was beginning to set in, and we had the space we needed to begin the recovery from our journey. Once we were able to get on the track, it all started to sink in, as this being my first competition representing Australia was becoming a reality.
The 4km pursuit was the first race up for us, and it was made a little bit more special by our race being the first Australians to ride at the championships. Considering this was our first time riding for Australia I thought that was pretty cool.
On a slow LA track, our qualifying ride was a solid 4:23sec and we qualified for the gold medal ride off against Spain – the silver medallists from the 2016 World Championship won by team member Kieran Modra. With a hard fought final ride the Spanish were too strong for us, and we rode away with the silver medal. Not bad for our first ever ride.
The 1km Time Trial is a 4 lap dash around the track where the quickest bike wins gold. Bikes are started one at a time and it can be a nervous wait to find out the final placing. We were 3rd to ride and posted a time of 1min 4.512sec. Knowing there were quicker bikes to come we didn't have any expectations of medalling. We were pretty sure both Great Britain teams would post the quickest times which left only the bronze medal up for grabs. At the 500 mark both the Russians and Malaysians were quicker than us.
Spain were just behind but finishing strong. As each team started to fade our nerves grew and so did the possibility of us snatching a medal. In the end we took the bronze, with the second quickest final lap in the field and a very exciting end to our first Worlds campaign.
My pilot Lachlan and I now head to Italy and Belgium in a month for some Road World Cups. You can keep up to date with all our updates by following our Facebook page Formula Tandem.
Audax Alpine Classic
Report by Simon Wong in collaboration with Steve Hampton
I was lucky enough to have Steve Hampton as pilot for the 2017 Audax Alpine Classic challenge/charity ride which was held on 28th January. This was the first Alpine Classic for both Steve and I, and we completed the 200km ride on Steve and Rebecca's Duratek tandem. It was an amazing ride, and an impressively well-run event on beautifully smooth Victorian Alpine roads with sweeping bends, fresh air and peaceful surroundings. Steve and I worked diligently all day especially climbing the four major peaks. We stuck to our plan of not letting our heart rate go too far above 150bpm for extended periods of time, and it was a delight to discover we still had the legs to roll back to Bright like a steam-train over the last 20 km.
The ride started at 6:20am from Bright, Victoria. The first 13km was mainly flat with some slight downhill sections. The first peak was a 19km climb up Mt. Buffalo followed by a short downhill run, before a final 2km steep climb up to Dingo Dell. Mt Buffalo looked incredibly intimidating in the car when we drove up it on the previous day. Riding up this impressive mountain on a bike proved surprisingly manageable. There was a sense of relief and achievement when we got to the first check point. After refreshments, we enjoyed a long fast thrilling descent back to Bright.
The second peak was a climb to the top of the Bright side of Tawonga Gap. It was a 7km climb but steeper than Mount Buffalo. Both Steve and I had to work our heart rate above 160bpm for most of the climb in order to keep on top of the gearing. There was a picturesque lookout on top of Tawonga Gap, where, along with many other riders, we stopped briefly to take a photo and have our photo taken. The downhill run to the second check point at Mt. Beauty was fast and furious. Descending such a steep hill on a tandem gave us a tremendous sense of speed and power as no single cyclist could hope to get onto our wheel.
After a break for lunch at Mt. Beauty, the 31km climb up Falls Creek started as soon as we got back on the bike. This part of the ride was perhaps the most testing. The slow, long, grueling climb in the hot afternoon sun seemed to go on forever. The field had spread so much that we came across very few other cyclists heading in the same direction. We stopped half way up at a water station to fill up our drink bottles and we had to take another little break to take in some gel and food before reaching the top. The temperature was at least a dozen degrees cooler up there, and we were convinced given the amount of climbing we did, we had to have reached the top of the World.
During the break, one of the Audax volunteers took photos of us with the bike and was really interested in our story. In fact, along the way, many riders shouted cheerful hellos and words of encouragement at us, particularly from the high number of women participating in the event. Steve was adamant it was the fact we both had dashing haircuts prior to the ride that attracted people's attention. I thought it was the immaculate and classy looking tandem that was the real chick-magnet.
After the break, we enjoyed a long fast descent back to Mt. Beauty, during which Steve's bike-computer recorded our top speed as over 90kph. The final climb back up Tawonga Gap from Mount Beauty was pretty tough, and by this time we had ridden 160km and had very tired legs. We had to dig deep to push to the top before rolling back down to Bright. Steve's bike computer suggested we did a total of nearly 39,000 pedal revolutions on the day; our actual riding time was about eight and a half hours, but overall, we competed the ride in just less than eleven hours.
According to the event organisers and volunteers that we met along the way, I might have been the first blind/vision impaired tandem cyclist to have completed an Audax Alpine Classic ride. No one could recall having come across another vision impaired stoker having participated in the event before. We believe there were about 1500 cyclists that took part in the 2017 Audax Alpine Challenge over various distances. I was one of a group of nineteen participants who also took up the challenge of fundraising for the Audax Alpine Classic charity partner – The Kids Cancer Project. With great support from Steve, as well as wonderful support from family, friends and work colleagues at Guide Dogs SA/NT, I was the third most successful fundraiser; managing to raise over $2,000 for kid's cancer research.
Elite Women's Update
World Paracycling Track Championships
Meg Lemon flew over to Los Angelis in March for her debut on the Australian Paracycling Track Team. We are enormously proud of this very gusty athlete, who battled through nerves and fatigue to register the following results.
- Third Place C4 500m Time Trial – missed silver by 0.2sec and gold by 1 second.
- Third Place C4 3km Individual Pursuit – missed the gold medal ride off by 0.3sec.
- Fourth C1-5 (mixed classes) Women's Scratch Race 10km.
- Second overall UCI Track Rankings for C4 women 2nd
- There are many exciting things to come for this athlete as Meg heads to the National Road championships in April.
Australian Elite National Road Championships
2017 marked the Nationals retirement for Narelle and Victoria. Both athletes had trained together in the lead up – a staggering degree of difficult and painful training sessions. Narelle could tell that her legs just didn't feel right in the few days before the event. She had hoped that they would pull themselves together on the day, but for Narelle recovery just didn't occur in time. Narelle was challenged early by the climbing pace, when she would otherwise have been quite comfortable. In typical 'never say die' Narelle fashion, she dug in and worked relentlessly to regain contact with the bunch across the challenging Buninyong course. Lap seven signalled the surrender however – an achievement in itself with the class of the field having taken significant steps forward in the last three years. Victoria was feeling good – or at least better than she had for the year before. She was still in contact with the bunch on the last lap, on only dropped off the main bunch heading across the top for the last time. Victoria finished shattered, and ultimately relieved to never have to front up to Nationals again!
Tour of Mansfield
Stage One: 13.8km Time Trial
Solid performance from the ladies in the Stage One Time Trial saw the team sitting in first place overall. It was a mightily chilly stage at 9 degrees, but the course was always going to warm up the ladies quickly. A 13.8km and very undulating course was on the menu for the day, with plenty of tricky pace changes. Victoria and Brittany were the quickest fillies of the team with good times clocked all round.
Stage Two: 69km Road Race
The Elite Women lined up for a 69km course over a testing and very lumpy course. Victoria commiserated with another local SA rider, Alana Haansbergen on the way out – whoever drew up the course profile clearly needed to be shot! The course profile was drawn with a scale that made the stage look practically flat.
The first 3km was neutral and perfectly civilised. In fact, the pace for the first half of the race up to the turnaround was reasonably conservative and only punctuated by a short burst of speed for the QOM, and minor chase downs of two breakaway attempts. Victoria was 4th over the line for the first QOM.
On the way back, Haansbergen from CBR and a Specialized rider went for a breakaway from the turnaround. VV and Alison brought that one back with very able assistance from Justine Barrow of the Rush team and active attempts from CBR to block.
The QOM on the return was the major splinter with five riders including VV making a break. VV couldn't hold the climbing speed with legs having been unable to race since Santos Women's Tour. Frustratingly she had to let them go, and waited for a group of four riders coming up behind her. The chase bunch which came through and regrouped with VV had originally had Alison, but Alison was to suffer the same frustration but to an even narrower margin, only being just off the pace in the last moments of the climb. Alison, having lost touch a hairs-breath from the summit also waited for a working group of three riders to swap off turns with for the next 5km.
Natascha started cramping at the 40km mark. She was with Bree heading to the top of the climb, the two riders working hard to catch the group in front, but history repeated and they could quite make the gap. Natascha and one other rider eventually did ride away from their group, but her companion was knackered and could only offer small assistance on the downhill. Bree had succumbed to the pace and eventually found herself working alone, until the 3km-to-go mark when she was then caught by a group which included Brittany. Bree finished with the sprint from her group, with Brittany safely in the pack.
Back at the front of the race, Victoria's group had a big task at hand. They had the four leaders working hard out in front, and VV's group of five only had four effective workers. At one point the gap to the leaders was enticingly close. VV sat at the front and the other riders were unable to help, so VV just sat there and kept pulling, trying to get the two groups to close. With a 30metre gap still to close, unbelievably another rider attacked Victoria! It didn't work mind you, and Victoria still closed the final gap anyway. One rider had crashed out so that left 8 riders heading into a sprint finish, Victoria taking 6th with no time loss. Next best rider was a very gutsy and determined ride from Alison, with Natascha's ride being the third time to be taken towards the team's classification. The team continued to sit in first place after stage two.
Stage Three: Mt Buller Road Race
Maybe we should call this stage Mt Bully!
The team headed into this stage with a 1m45s lead, which is easily lost on a single climb such as the looming Mt Buller. The team was forced into a defensive position early into the race, with two riders from second-placed team CBR making the smart move to get two riders up the road into a breakaway. MBAB rider Britanny Steele saw the move, and followed, allowing her to share in the nearly three minute lead the group had at the bottom of the climb.
MBAB riders moved to the front of the chase bunch and kept the pace from falling to the point that the breakaway would have a devastating lead on the climb. All four riders swaped turns, and then when the climb presented intself, moved into rest mode and waited for the climbers who would launch the search party for GC to take up the work. We didn't have to wait long. The expected mountain goats embarked on a mixture of short attacks and savage underlying rises in general climbing tempo. The amount of work Natascha had put into the chase bunch had been absolutely crucial but cost her early, and she had to settel back into her own tempo for the remainder of the climb. Bree was feeling somewhat better, and was able to find an effective group of climbers to work with. That left Brittany fighting hard out off the front to preserve as much time as possible, while the team's strongest climbers, Alison and Victoria set to work on bringing whatever time back they could.
Alison stayed with the initial attacks, but eventually had to concede that the tempo was unsustainable. With extraordinary determination however, she relentlessly sustained her own threshold and eventually brought back all but one of the riders from the original breakaway, and several riders who had also fallen off the chase bunch. Victoria also stayed with the mountain pursuit group for a time, but her form was too fragile to stay with them – surviving to stage three in her first race since the Santos Tour being surprise enough. Unfortunately, half way up the climb, the lights did go out, and Victoria pushed against a crushing fatigue to get to the top. Brittany had climbed like a champion, and while she was caught and passed by Alison and Victoria, it was Brittany and Bree riding in together that secured the team first place for the team's classification. Well done ladies!


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Clive Trott, Technical Lead
With over 18 years' experience in the information technology industry, Cognition360's Technical Lead, Clive Trott, has been exposed to a wide range of development technologies, architectures and methodologies. Clive's primary focus over the past fifteen years has been on business intelligence solutions and data warehouses. Clive's 'technology stack of choice' is Microsoft, however he has been exposed to various other technologies and environments such as Oracle, SAP and SAS. Although he would not be considered an 'expert' in these technologies his deep understanding of development principles and the ability to read and understand code allows him to participate and contribute at a very technical level.
Clive believes the most important aspect of delivering any successful technology solution is the business users. Clive has excellent workshop facilitation skills and his inherent ability to communicate confidently and clearly helps to ensure requirements are gathered at an appropriate level of granularity. Clive has a rare ability to communicate effectively with people at different levels with an organization. He has the ability to converse at the CEO and CIO level, discussing strategy and high-level concepts; as well as being able to talk to technical people about the implementation of requirements. Clive has strengths in comprehending complex business process and how technology can be applied effectively in the pursuit of solving complicated business problems.
Throughout his career Clive has been involved in and designed many solutions to fit the needs of the business requirement. His recent roles have involved designing and implementing solutions, including the underlying data structures (Microsoft SQL Server), ETL processes (SQL Server Integration Services) and visualisations (reports and dashboards, SQL Server Reporting Services, PowerBI) to meet the needs of Business Intelligence reporting solutions, primarily within the Microsoft technology stack. Clive has a passion for the 'Kimball' approach to data warehousing as it focuses on delivering business value in a rapid, iterative approach. Clive has also attended the Dimensional Model course presented by Ralph Kimball. In addition to this Clive has implemented a full Data Vault solution while in his role at the Debt Management Office in the Treasury.
Clive was an early adopter and advocate for cloud computing. His work with the Debt Management Office, saw one of (if not) the first government cloud solutions. This was a full infrastructure as a service implementations, utilizing the full Microsoft SQL Server technology stack. Clive was instrumental in not only the business role but also the technical implementation.


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Hands up who's guilty of this parenting fail
As a Busy Working Mum™, I am constantly looking for statistics to make me feel better about my parental fails. This week, I found some.
According to research conducted by The Skool Loop App, lots of Busy Working Mums™ and busy stay at home mums and our (doubtless far less busy) male counterparts are pretty damn slack. In a survey of over 200 parents of school aged children, nearly three quarters admitted to missing major school events.
Now, here's where it gets interesting, though the interesting bit isn't spelled out. According to the research, 32 per cent of parents reported that they were notified of the event too late to attend. Another 25 per cent said that they weren't even aware the event was taking place.
And we've all been there. God knows I barely ever check my diary, and even when I do it's useless because I forget to write in it.
But something isn't adding up. Literally. I asked my kids to do the calculations and apparently 32 per cent plus 25 per cent does not equal 100. In fact, 32 per cent plus 25 per cent only equals 63 per cent (according to one daughter) and 57 per cent (according to the other).
Either way, that leaves a large number of Busy Working Mums™ and busy stay at home mums and (not as busy) dads who knew the school event was on but didn't go anyway.
And I fall into that very large number. (I think it's 43 per cent, but I'd have to check with the teacher.)
Now, many of the others in that 43 per cent would be unable to attend school events because of other commitments. They might be working, or caring for younger kids, or birthing new infants, or stabbing themselves in the eye with a sharp object because this would be preferable to the average school event.
I mean, let's face it. With no disrespect to my kids' school or to parenting in general, most school events are excruciating.
Consider, for example, school sports days (which 39 per cent of parents miss). They are long. They are hot. There is nowhere to get a decent cappuccino and muffin (and really, don't even try the coffee from the tin shed at the stadium, it is awful and then you'll have to use the bathroom which is worse). And your kid is only competing for about three minutes every two hours, which is really a very unsatisfying time-reward ratio.
And let's reflect on parent teacher evenings (which 29 per cent of parents miss). The teachers are supposed to chat to each parent for 15 minutes, which is a ridiculous time frame, because it takes 15 minutes just to introduce themselves and get out little Chloe's Work Samples Folder, so after an hour each teacher is running approximately 75 hours late. And you have to sit around on a teeny chair waiting for your turn, so the teacher can eventually inform you that your kid talks a lot and needs to practice her spelling, which of course you knew already. Wouldn't a note be just as effective?
Oh, and let's not forget school concerts (which 27 per cent of parents miss). These are actually extremely beautiful and moving, if your kid is actually on stage. And your kid is never on stage, except in the group number, during which you can barely make out the top of their head singing enthusiastically in the back row. Really, school concerts should go straight to DVD so we can all skip ahead to the good bits.
The research pointed out that 57 per cent of Busy Working Mums™ and busy stay at home mums and (less busy) dads are unwittingly slack parents. Presumably they feel bad about it, and want to change.
But I am one of the 43 per cent who are slack by design, not accident. And happily, this research made me feel a lot better about it.


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Frances McDormand's Accused Oscar Thief Boasts with Award in Facebook Video: 'This Is Mine'
The man accused of stealing Frances McDormand's Oscar boasted about the theft in a Facebook video before he was arrested Sunday night.
The man accused of stealing Frances McDormand's Oscar boasted about the theft in a Facebook video before he was arrested Sunday night.
Terry Bryant, 47, was arrested on suspicion of felony theft after he allegedly stole the gold statue at the Governors Ball, Los Angeles Police Department tells PEOPLE.
Bryant remains in jail on $20,000 bail.
From inside the Governors Ball, Bryan posted a Facebook Live video holding the golden statue up and saying, "This is mine. We got it tonight, baby!" He then proceeds to let people touch it. A woman is seen asking if he's had the Oscar engraved yet.
In the comments section of the video, users congratulated him on his supposed win.
Bryant seems to have a history of grabbing trophies at awards shows. In a January Instagram post, he shared a video of himself appearing to hold a Screen Actors Guild award. "I proclaim it in Jesus's name. My SAG Award," he says in the video.
In another Instagram post from June, Bryant is seen holding what appears to be a MTV Movie & TV Award's popcorn trophy, saying "It was awesome at the 2017 MTV Awards."
This also isn't the first year he's showed off an Oscar. He posted a photo of himself holding the golden statuette in an Instagram post from last year from inside the Vanity Fair afterparty.
The Best Actress winner, 60, headed to the annual party after the show, where she had her statue engraved with her name. However, she later realized her Academy Award was missing.
RELATED VIDEO: Frances McDormand Lost Her Oscar Statuette For Hours After Her Big Win
McDormand left the party with her husband, Joel Coen, but security was eventually able to find the prize and return it to the actress.
"I can confirm that after a brief time apart, Frances and her Oscar were happily reunited last night. They celebrated their reunion with a double cheeseburger from In-N-Out," McDormand's rep tells PEOPLE.
According to New York Times reporter Cara Buckley, someone allegedly attempted to steal the Oscar.
Chef Wolfgang Puck's photographer captured a photo of the suspect before retrieving the allegedly stolen Oscar, Buckley tweeted. Security personnel continued to search for the alleged Oscar thief, Buckley tweeted, but he had apparently gone back into the party after the confrontation.
"Apparently Frances has said to let him go," Buckley tweeted.
"Best Actress winner Frances McDormand and her Oscar were happily reunited after a brief separation at last night's Governors Ball. The alleged thief was quickly apprehended by a photographer and members of our fast-acting Academy and security teams," an Academy spokesperson tells PEOPLE. "The Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri star resumed her celebrations."
The Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri star was the frontrunner leading up to the Academy Awards as she swept the major awards shows in the months before. The veteran actress picked up the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and BAFTA awards on her way to claim the big prize.
The 2018 Oscars were held at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center on March 4 and were telecast live on ABC.


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You'll remember Ray Nagin from the Hurricane Katrina fiasco. He was mayor of New Orleans when George W. Bush arranged for all those black people to drown (as the Left told it). Or, if he didn't arrange it, he cackled as they did.
Nagin has now been sentenced to ten years in prison — corruption. (For a news report, go here.) Thus does Louisiana continue its long tradition.
As far as I know, one Louisiana senator, Mary Landrieu, is scandal-free. I hope that Louisiana voters hold it against her this November. I also believe that Bobby J. is clean, even squeakily so. Is he sure he's a Louisiana governor?
This very day, Edwin Edwards is running for office — not for the governorship, but for a congressional seat.
Anyway, laissez les bons temps rouler, as they say down there.