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why it is a mistake when organizations confuse progressive discipline with professional development coaching.
As you read the following conversation, list the places where the coaching is ineffective, and evaluate the reasons why. What can you learn for your own coaching practice, as well as the conditions you need to set up a productive coaching relationship?
Coach: As you know, management here at the North Pole engaged me because they are concerned that your performance has slipped. Even though you are on progressive discipline for your poor performance as a toy maker, as well as your frequent absences at choir practice, they wanted to invest in some coaching for you to see if we can't get your performance back on track.
Hermey: Is what I tell you confidential?
Coach: Well, I'm partly here to evaluate your intentions and report back to senior leadership. But I'm also here to try to help you get re-engaged here as a toy maker. Ideally your performance will speak for itself!
Hermey: Hmm. I don't know if I can trust you. Everyone around here seems to feel like they would be better off without me.
Coach: Well, how about if we give it a try and see if this can bring some value to you. As I understand it, you want to be a dentist, and that might be a factor in your recent slip in performance. Is that correct?
Coach: May I ask how you concluded that you want to be a dentist?
Hermey: I can't say for sure. I've just always had a passion for teeth. And then I got this book about teeth and being a dentist and I can't focus on anything else. All I want to do is be a dentist. I am fascinated by teeth!
Coach: I hear you, but can you tell me a bit more about why? What is it about teeth that get you so passionate?
Hermey: I don't know. I love dentistry. No one gets me. You don't get me, either. I guess I'm just a misfit.
Coach: Well, let's not jump to conclusions. Perhaps if we explore your talents we can understand a bit more. What would you say are your top strengths?
Hermey: I don't really know that I have any, outside of being a dentist. All I know is that I'm constantly being yelled at by my manager for poor performance and for not fitting in. Let's just say that making toys is not my strength.
Coach: Are you sure? Maybe you do have the talent and you just don't feel motivated.
Hermey: It's hard to do a good job when I want to be doing something else, like cleaning and fixing teeth, so badly. I am in our Elf choir and I'm fairly musical, but I get so distracted reading my dentist book that I sometimes don't show up for practice. If I had to say, I suppose I'm best at reading my book about teeth and thinking about being a dentist.
Coach: What other career paths have you considered besides being a dentist?
Hermey: Nothing else really. In the North Pole there's really only one career path for an Elf, and that's to make toys and then maybe rise up to be am Elf toy foreman. Options are kind of limited up here. So I haven't been exposed to other career paths. Then I found this book about teeth and being a dentist. Once I did, it was as if a whole new, wonderful, magical world opened up for me.
Coach: Surely there are other options besides being a dentist? Perhaps if we took some time to explore them….
Hermey: Why are you so opposed to my being a dentist? You are just like everyone else up here. I thought coaches were supposed to be unbiased, but it seems like you're just a pawn for the leadership team here, trying to keep me in my place.
Coach: Not at all. I'm trying to do what's best for you, senior leadership, and the entire organization. How about if we try to explore another line of inquiry, if that's okay with you? Perhaps you can tell me your action plan to become a dentist?
Hermey: I have a great plan. What I'm going to do is run away to a faraway place until I find a school to get my dentistry degree. Sometimes I'll hike through the snow. Sometimes I'll float on a piece of an iceberg over frozen seas. Eventually I'll get someplace where I can get my degree and set up a practice somewhere.
Coach: You live on the North Pole. That's a long way to travel in the frozen tundra, especially when you are so small and with reports of an Abominable Snowman lurking about.
Hermey: Who cares? I'm passionate and if you do what you love, good things follow.
Coach: What's your plan to stay warm?
Coach: What's your plan to get food along the way, for instance by hunting seals or polar bears?
Hermey: I'm a vegetarian so I don't have to worry about that either.
Coach: What about the Abominable Snowman?
Hermey: He'll never find me. It's not like I'm walking around with a big red light flashing around me.
Coach: I guess what I'm saying is that it seems quite dangerous and nobody wants you to get hurt. What are other ways you might learn to be a dentist, while still working here safely and while earning your keep?
Hermey: I'm stumped. What are you thinking?
Coach: Do you mind if I share my thoughts?
Hermey: That's why I asked.
Coach: It seems to me that you are being quite impulsive here. You are thinking of putting yourself at significant risk just to become a dentist. I think you are so disengaged with toy making that you are looking for an escape, and being a dentist is what you came up with in order to avoid the opportunities right here in front of you. My guess is that if you took some time to explore other options, we could find you a career path that you will love even more, and perhaps we can even convince leadership to invest in your professional development. But first you have to improve your performance as a toy maker and also show up for choir practice. What do you think?
Coach: May I share another insight?
Hermey: Why not? You seem to be on a roll.
Coach: I wonder if you might not be doing all of this just to get attention. I mean, here you are in the North Pole, one Elf among many. It's hard to be an individual. I wonder if you haven't picked dentistry just to stand out from the crowd.
Hermey: Geez, you are quite a shrink. I thought coaching was different than therapy. Why can't you accept that I love teeth and the dental profession is my calling? What have you got against being a dentist?
How would you rate this coaching session? How would the leadership team rate it? The coach? The Elf?
There is no clear intent. It seems like the Elf is interested in a different outcome than the coach and the leadership team. The Elf is interested in pursuing his dream and being accepted. The coach and the leadership team seem more interested in getting the Elf to perform in his current role.
There is no confidentiality, and so the Elf doesn't trust the coach.
The coach frequently directs the conversation to represent his and the leadership team's agenda. In essence the coach is doing the leadership team's dirty work for them, by serving more as a manager than a coach.
Another feature of this conversation is that the company uses coaching as a synonym for progressive discipline. In the past, coaching was what organizations did for employees they were probably going to fire. They called this process progressive discipline, basically putting the employee in probation and documenting cause for termination.
Today, coaching has evolved. It is a proven leadership development tool for high-potential employees and top performers. Unfortunately, many people still associate coaching with progressive discipline. It is important for organizations to separate the two different activities clearly.
Finally, would you accept a coaching engagement without all parties agreeing that the coaching will be confidential (unless your client confessed to doing something illegal, or threatened to hurt himself or others)? I wouldn't. Nor would I accept an engagement with an unclear intent, or one in which the client, sponsor, and coach are all in agreement about the positive outcomes to achieve through coaching.


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State Legislators Encourage Constituents to Help Hockey Coach
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State Legislators Encourage Constituents to Help Coach
State Senator Art Linares (R-33), and State Representatives Jesse MacLachlan (R-35) and Robert Siegrist (R-36) today called for eligible residents to visit the Be the Match website to see if they can help a local field hockey coach.
Longtime Haddam-Killingworth field hockey coach Patsy Kamercia was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that affects the blood and bone marrow. She needs a bone marrow to treat her Myelodysplastic/Myeloproliferative Neoplasm Unclassifiable Disorder.
Sen. Linares said, "I've been told that Ms. Kamercia has been a selfless volunteer who started the Haddam-Killingworth High School Field Hockey Team 40 years ago and continues to coach the team in her retirement. When I learned about her illness, I knew we needed to get the word out to encourage as many people as we can to get tested as a possible match for her."
A bone marrow drive was held for Kamercia at Haddam-Killingworth High School last week, but people can visit Be the Match to get a testing kit sent to their house. All that is required is a cheek swab to test for a DNA match.
Rep. MacLachlan said, "As a teacher and coach, Ms. Kamercia had a tremendous impact on her students and the young women she coached. The website describes the donation process, which generally is uncomfortable and has minor side effects. It's not as dramatic or traumatic as Hollywood makes it seem."
Be the Match says most donations are taken from the arm, but some may be taken from a donor's pelvic bone, which involves giving the donor anesthesia.
Rep. Siegrist said, "For people with Ms. Kamercia's disease, receiving healthy stem cells from a donor is the only treatment. Even if you are not a genetic match for her, you may be the match that saves someone else's life. Also, as an alumnus of Haddam-Killingworth High School, I am proud to support Ms. Kamercia and this great organization."
The legislators said they hope a match for Kamercia can be found soon so she can get on the road to recovery. Visit Be the Match for more information about marrow donation and other ways to help.
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What Scotland Thinks > Comment & Analysis > Comment > Blogpost > Panelbase Breaks The Pattern
Panelbase Breaks The Pattern
Posted on 9th February 2014	by John Curtice
Hitherto Panelbase have consistently produced the most optimistic estimates of the state of the referendum race so far as the Yes side is concerned. Ever since the exact wording of the referendum question became known a year ago, their polls have consistently put Yes on 44% or 45% once the Don't Knows are excluded. So given the advances for the Yes side registered by many other pollsters in recent weeks, there must have been some hope in nationalist ranks that when Panelbase's first post-White Paper poll finally appeared – as it does in today's Sunday Times and on Real Radio – it would show the Yes vote up to, say, 47% or 48%, thereby injecting real excitement into the campaign.
Not so. Instead Panelbase have reported the first widening of the No lead to be uncovered by any poll since the end of November. Yes are estimated to be on 37%, down one point on the middle of November, while the No vote is put at 49%, up two points. Once the Don't Knows are excluded that means the Yes side are on 43%, lower than in any previous Panelbase poll that has asked how people would vote in response to the referendum question.
Now that Panelbase have reported, we have had at least one post-White Paper reading of the state of the referendum race from all those companies that have been polling referendum vote intentions on a reasonably regular basis. That means we can finally make a reasonably robust estimate of where the polls stand on average as compared with the position up to the end of November. In the dozen polls conducted wholly or mostly between September and November the Yes vote averaged 38% (after the exclusion of the Don't Knows). In the nine polls that have been conducted wholly or mostly since the beginning of December the Yes tally has averaged 40%. The Yes side may have made some progress in the last couple of months, but it evidently still some considerable distance away from the winning post.
The Panelbase poll includes some questions on the economics of the referendum debate, though their findings are not always straightforward to interpret. Unsurprisingly, given the turnaround in the UK economy in recent months, Scots are relatively optimistic about the prospects for Scotland's economy in the next twelve months. As many as 38% expect it will get better while only 21% feel it will deteriorate. Less immediately obvious is the fact that Yes voters (54% think things will get better) are much more optimistic than No voters (29%). One might conclude from that that the Yes side could hope to advance further if the economy does indeed continue to improve. But we might note that much of the relative pessimism on the No side comes from Labour supporters. Their party is the only major one out of power in both London and Holyrood and perhaps as a result it may well be their partisanship rather than anything to do with the independence referendum that makes them reluctant to concede that the economy might be improving.
Meanwhile there is rather less welcome news for the Yes side on both taxation and the currency. In line with others, this poll suggests that arguments that an independent Scotland could be a high spending, high taxation Nordic style state is not a major selling point for the Yes campaign. Even amongst Yes supporters only 26% believe that taxes should go up to pay for better public services. Yet in practice a half of Scots (51%) – and three quarters of No voters – believe that taxes would have to go up in an independent Scotland. Meanwhile even amongst Yes voters only just over one in ten (11%) actually think that taxes would be cut. Evidently the Yes side have still convince Scots that the finances of an independent Scotland would be better than those currently enjoyed by the UK as a whole.
On the currency, the poll uncovers an apparent mixture of unease and confusion. For a start, as many as 28% feel unable to say which currency an independent Scotland should use, while a similar proportion, 29%, say the same about which one it would end up using. Meanwhile, no one option emerges as having majority support, albeit the SNP's preference of using the pound in a monetary union with the rest of the UK is the most popular, with 46% in favour.
But what might concern the Yes side most is that support for monetary union is apparently lower amongst its own supporters (37% in favour) than amongst those who are opposed to independence (58%). The mood amongst Yes supporters seems, if anything, to be to go it alone, either by using the pound outside of a monetary union (18%) or Scotland having its own currency (23%). However, unlike No voters (37%), most Yes supporters (53%) believe a monetary union is what would happen in practice. Evidently for some Yes supporters assurances from Mr Salmond that Scotland would be able to keep the pound as at present is not particularly welcome news.
It is then perhaps some comfort to the Yes side that in a second tranche of the TNS BMRB poll for Sir Tom Hunter released today, only 4% say that the currency is the first or the second most important issue for them in the referendum debate. Job prospects (26%) and the economy (22%) predominate along with heath care (25%). Equally, in further results from last week's Survation poll for the Mail on Sunday also released today, 55% said the speech on monetary union given by the Governor of the Bank of England ten days ago had not affected their views on independence at all – and while 21% said they were less likely to vote Yes as a result of his intervention, they were almost balanced by the 16% who stated they were more likely to do so. As the recent Scottish Social Attitudes survey discovered, it is time for politicians on both sides to start painting in primary colours rather than in the shades of grey currently being produced by complex debates such as that about currency.


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Current Trends Deaths Attributable to Tubal Sterilization – United States, 1977-1981
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From 1977 through 1981, 29 deaths attributable to tubal sterilization were reported in the United States. Eleven of these followed complications of general anesthesia; seven were due to sepsis; four, to hemorrhage; four, to cardiovascular events; and three, to other causes.
Over five million women underwent tubal sterilization during the 1970s, with an estimated case/fatality rate of 3.6/100,000 (1). In 1979, CDC began surveillance of tubal sterilization deaths to determine why they occur and what can be done to prevent them. Sterilization-attributable deaths were identified through a nationwide reporting effort involving individual clinicians, state health departments, medical examiners' offices, and professional societies 1970s, with an estimated case/fatality rate of 3.6/100,000 (1).
In 1979, CDC began surveillance of tubal sterilization deaths to determine why they occur and what can be done to prevent them. Sterilization-attributable deaths were identified through a nationwide reporting effort involving individual clinicians, state health departments, medical examiners' offices, and professional societies and through the Commission on Professional and Hospital Activities (CPHA). CPHA annually collects information on approximately 40% of patients discharged from U.S. short-stay hospitals (2). Medical records were requested for each death, and a detailed clinical summary was prepared without any identifying information. A death was considered sterilization-attributable if it would not have occurred in the absence of the tubal sterilization.
Hypoventilation was believed to have contributed to six of the 11 deaths attributed to general anesthesia complications. No woman whose death was so attributed had been intubated. Of four women who died after intraoperative cardiac arrests of unknown causes, three had conditions that may have contributed to death. The remaining death resulted from an idiosyncratic reaction to anesthesia.
Of the four women who died of cardiovascular complications, three died of postoperative myocardial infarction; they were ages 33, 35, and 37, and none had a preoperative diagnosis of cardiac disease. The fourth woman, aged 24, who took oral contraceptives up to the day of tubal sterilization died of a mesenteric vein thrombosis.
Three of the seven women whose deaths were attributed to sepsis had apparent bowel injury following unipolar coagulation. Of the four remaining deaths, three followed other types of organ injury, and the fourth followed a pelvic infection of unknown origin. Three of the four deaths attributed to hemorrhage followed major vessel lacerations that occurred on entry into the peritoneal cavity during a laparoscopic sterilization; the remaining death occurred after a surgical ligature slipped from a fallopian tube stump. Reported by Epidemiologic Studies Br, Family Planning Evaluation Div, Center for Health Promotion and Education, CDC.
Editorial Note: The 29 reported deaths do not represent all the sterilization-attributable deaths from 1977 to 1981; as many as 108 such deaths may have occurred (3). If this estimate is correct, surveillance has identified 27% of the estimated sterilization-attributable deaths.
In 1981, CDC reported that anesthesia complications were the leading cause of abortion-related deaths and that use of general anesthesia increased the risk of death associated with induced abortion (4). Similarly, the risk of death from tubal sterilization appears greater with general than with local anesthesia. Hypoventilation has been reported as a leading cause of anesthesia-related deaths for a variety of surgical procedures (4,5) and also appears to be a major cause of anesthesia-related tubal sterilization deaths. No women whose deaths were attributed to hypoventilation had been intubated before sterilization; furthermore, four of these six women had laparoscopic tubal sterilizations. Endotracheal intubation–particularly for laparoscopic sterilization–has been recommended in an attempt to prevent hypoventilation deaths (6).
Four women died from cardiovascular complications following sterilization procedures. Among factors that may have increased their mortality risk were: smoking, oral contraceptive use at the time of surgery, and age over 35.
Three deaths due to sepsis were attributed to thermal bowel injury associated with unipolar coagulating devices. Because unipolar coagulation may be associated with greater risk of electrical accidents than bipolar coagulation, without any demonstrated greater efficacy, its continued use in tubal sterilization has been questioned (7). Recently, the Board of Trustees of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists issued a statement suggesting that procedures other than unipolar coagulation be encouraged for laparoscopic sterilization (8).
CDC continues its surveillance of sterilization-attributable deaths and requests that information about individual cases be reported to: Sterilization Surveillance Activity, Epidemiologic Studies Branch, Division of Reproductive Health, CDC.
Peterson HB, DeStefano F, Greenspan JR, Ory HW. Mortality risk associated with tubal sterilization in United States hospitals. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1982;143:125-9.
Jick H. The Commission on Professional and Hospital Activities–Professional Activity Study. A national resource for the study of rare illnesses. Am J Epidemiol 1979;109:625-7.
Peterson HB, DeStefano F, Rubin GL, Greenspan JR, Lee NC, Ory HW. Deaths attributable to tubal sterilization in the U.S., 1977-1981. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1983;146:131-5.
Peterson HB, Grimes DA, Cates W, Jr, Rubin GL. Comparative risk of death from induced abortion at less than or equal to 12 weeks' gestation performed with local versus general anesthesia. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1981;141:763-8.
Taylor G, Larson CP, Jr, Prestwich R. Unexpected cardiac arrest during anesthesia and surgery. An environmental study. JAMA 1976;236:2758-60.
Fishburne JI. Anesthesia for outpatient female sterilization. Biomedical Bulletin: Association for Voluntary Sterilization, Inc. 1983;4:1-6.
Peterson HB, Ory HW, Greenspan JR, Tyler CW, Jr. Deaths associated with laparoscopic sterilization by unipolar electrocoagulating devices, 1978 and 1979. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1981;139:141-3.
Board of Trustees, American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists. Unpublished communication to members.


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Georgia Museum of Art director to speak on abstract expressionist artist
Bill Eiland
Athens, Ga. – William Underwood Eiland, director of the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia, will present a lecture on the work of American artist John Haley (1905-1991) in conjunction with the exhibition "John Haley: Berkeley School Abstract Expressionist" on Feb. 28 at 5:30 p.m. in the museum's M. Smith Griffith Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public and is a Blue Card event for UGA students.
Eiland, who is working on an essay on Haley for the exhibition's catalogue, will speak on Haley's life and career, his critical reception, his role as teacher and his works of art in the exhibition. He will focus in particular on Haley's role as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and his influence as both a professor and an artist in the art world.
"Although he is today relatively unheralded outside the Bay Area, Haley expanded the reputation of Berkeley's school of art, was jointly responsible for a distinguishable current in the history of American watercolor painting and trained several generations of artists, of whom many attained regional and national reputations," said Eiland.
Haley originally trained in the Beaux Arts style and began to move toward abstraction in 1949. His style evolved from geometric compositions to abstract strokes of color. Although best known for his paintings, Haley was also an accomplished printmaker, muralist, sculptor, photographer and mosaicist, as well as a designer and fabricator of stained glass.
The exhibition, organized by the Monterey Museum of Art in Monterey, Calif., includes abstract paintings and two sculptures from the collections of private lenders. The paintings on view feature loosely defined forms and bright colors, highlighting Haley's interest in the movement of color across space.
"John Haley: Berkeley School Abstract Expressionist" is on view at the GMOA through March 3.
Partial support for the exhibitions and programs at the Georgia Museum of Art is provided by the Georgia Council for the Arts through appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. The council is a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. Individuals, foundations and corporations provide additional museum support through their gifts to the University of Georgia Foundation. The Georgia Museum of Art is located in the Performing and Visual Arts Complex on the East Campus of the University of Georgia. The address is 90 Carlton Street, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. 30602-6719. For more information, including hours, see http://georgiamuseum.org or call 706/542-GMOA (4662).
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Emery mine on Naxos Island
Corundite from the Naxos emery deposits. The corundum is blue, or sapphire. Wet slab, 10 cm (3.9 in) wide.
Emery, or corundite, is a dark granular rock used to make abrasive powder. It largely consists of the mineral corundum (aluminium oxide), mixed with other species such as the iron-bearing spinels, hercynite, and magnetite, and also rutile (titania). Industrial emery may contain a variety of other minerals and synthetic compounds such as magnesia, mullite, and silica.
It is black or dark grey in colour, less dense than translucent-brown corundum with a specific gravity of between 3.5 and 3.8. Because it can be a mixture of minerals, no definite Mohs hardness can be assigned: the hardness of corundum is 9 and that of some spinel-group minerals is near 8, but the hardness of others such as magnetite is near 6.
Crushed or naturally eroded emery (known as black sand) is used as an abrasive—for example, on emery boards and emery cloth. It is also used as a traction enhancer in asphalt and tarmac mixtures.
Turkey and Greece are the main suppliers of the world's emery. These two countries produced about 17,500 tons of the mineral in 1987.[1]
The Greek island of Naxos used to be the main source of this industrially important rock type. It has been mined on the eastern side of Naxos for well over two thousand years.[citation needed] However, demand for emery has decreased with the development of sintered carbide and oxide materials as abrasives.
A small quantity of emery is used in coated abrasive products, but its main use in the United States is wear-resistant floors and pavements.[2] Many tons are shipped to Asia to be used in grinding rice.[3]
In the United States, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has set permissible exposure limits for emery in the workplace: TWA 15 mg/m3 total exposure and TWA 5 mg/m3 respiratory exposure.[4]
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According to BBC Sport, both clubs are claiming to have filed the necessary paperwork to sign Robinson, with the Irish FA requesting the matter be clarified post haste.
It's also reported that Crusaders are in pole position to clinch his services, with Robinson having trained with their squad on Tuesday night.
Who knows, maybe the two teams can agree on a rota to play him in alternating matches?


On Jun 23, 2016, the UK voted to leave the EU. The economic and political consequences will be significant and long lasting, and not just for the UK and the EU. The repercussions will be felt everywhere. The key concern for EasyJet and Ryanair, among a number of airlines hypothetically affected, is what will happen if the UK fails to remain part of Europe's single market in air services when Brexit negotiations accomplish.
A challenge for Ryanair is that its biggest base is in the UK, at London Stansted. Its two busiest UK routes in June this year are Dublin–Stansted and Dublin–London Gatwick.
CEO Michael O'Leary was upfront, opinionated and amusing as ever today at a Bloomberg News conference where he warned that Brexit could lead to contagion. The CEO of one of Europe's largest airlines said that he would leave that to greater minds than his—referring to his treasury administrators. He warned that the budget airline would be forced to rationalize investment if Britain votes to leave the EU.
It is this type of large-scale foreign inward investment that is helping to drive the UK economy and job creation. It is exactly this type of investment that will be lost to other competitor EU members if the UK votes to leave the European Union. The single market has enabled Ryanair to lead the low-fare air travel revolution in Europe, as we bring millions of British citizens to Europe each year, and welcome millions of European visitors to Britain, and we are calling on everyone to turn out in large numbers and vote remain.
Brexit may result in Ryanair's formation of UK subsidiary. Ryanair has reported it may create a new subsidiary to operate UK domestic flights if a "hard Brexit" happens, the company said. Under the worst outcome, the UK would be forced to leave the European open-skies system as it exits the EU, which would thwart Ryanair as a European carrier from remaining to operate routes from London to Belfast, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
It would then need to establish a separate UK company, of which Ryanair would be able to own a maximum of 49.9 percent. If the UK continues part of the open-skies area, the company said it forecasts no change in the ownership structures of Ryanair or UK carriers. Ryanair said airlines have been invited to a round table discussion organized by the government department charged with navigating the UK's exit from the EU to discuss the impact this will have on their sector.
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If Britain votes to leave it will be damaging for the UK economy and the European economy for the next two or three years … there'll be huge uncertainty while Britain tries to negotiate an exit out of a single market and tries to replace that with a whole series of trade deals which they won't get done … yet staying in is the way forward the British economy is performing fundamentally well at the moment … unemployment is low … the economy's doing well … it's one of the most competitive economies in Europe … this is the time to stay in and continue to benefit from European membership not leave now.
We speak as Britain's largest airline we carry 40 million passengers to and from the UK this year we're also a large foreign in word investor here in the UK I fly from 2060 British airports I employ more than three thousand pilots, cabin crew, and engineers and I want to keep investing in Britain I want to keep growing the business here in Britain but I can only do that if Britain remains a member of the European Union.
Were they not want to leave not just European Union but also the single market we may not be able to free to fly anymore between the UK and Europe as an Irish airline … now of course the UK is part of the European Union … it's not part of the euro and the single currency … Ireland of course is there's lots of criticisms about the future of the euro if it can survive in its current form overall has Ireland benefited from being a part of the single currency can the single currency survive as it is I think overall iron has benefits usually by being a member the single currency I think the single currency will survive because the strongest economy in Europe … Germany is behind the euro and I think they'll do whatever needs to be done to make sure it does survive but there does need to be more harmonization between the outer relying countries the Greeks, the Italians, the Spanish, and the Irish who have suffered real economic problems in recent years as a result of very low interest rates and … you know property bubbles … but that's why I a single market needs reform we've been very critical of Brussels and over-regulation and I think why this election will bring about more reform in Brussels as long as Britain votes to stay in.


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John Orloff, who wrote the screenplay for the badly titled Anonymous (as Eve points out, it should be Pseudonymous) out-stupided the Huffington Post on their own turf, which is no mean feat. He took issue with the phrase "urban legend." I agree. They should have used the phrase, "unfettered clacking bollocks." I intend to use his little screed in future classes to teach logical fallacies. His letter went as follows:
I'd like to think current and past US Supreme Court Justices don't believe in Urban Legends. Namely, Justices Stevens, Blackmun, O'Connor and Scalia all think there is reason to doubt the validity of the actor William Shakespeare having written the plays history ascribes to him.
Wow. Not a Shakespearean scholar among them. Ok, you're name dropping, but the sad fact is that just because you don't like to think about it doesn't mean it's not true. This is the appeal to personal incredulity. "I can't believe that these smart people would believe an urban legend, therefore, Shakespeare wasn't Shakespeare."
As does historian David McCullough. As do authors such as Mark Twain (whose last book, "Is Shakespeare Dead" is dedicated to the issue), Henry James (who said he was "haunted by the conviction that the divine William is the biggest and most successful fraud ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting Public"), and Walt Whitman (to name a few).
This is a classic appeal to false authority. You could fart sonnets like an angel and still not have a rollicking clue about the reams of scholarship backing the mainstream view.
As do Shakespearean actors Sir John Gielgud, Sir Derek Jacobi, and Orson Welles (who directed and starred in several Shakespeare plays).
Yawn. Appeal to false authority. Sorry.
And Mark Rylance, who is not only perhaps the greatest Shakespearean actor of his generation, but a man who was also the Artistic Director of the Globe Theater in London for ten years. Think about that last name; the man who ran the Globe theater for a decade doesn't think Shakespeare wrote a single word.
Wow. I'm willing to bet if I look in my university databases I'll find he never had to publish a goddamned thing under peer review:
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That single entry is in a book about the resurrection of the Globe Theater, and it does not address authorship. And it's not you like are citing an independent authority, since he's in the freaking movie. "Well, my friends think so," is as unconvincing as, "My mom says I'm smart."
And we can add Sigmund Freud in there as well.
SO!?!
An Urban Myth is something proven to be false. I'm not sure we're there on this particular issue.
Well, I disagree with your definition of urban myth, but the burden of proof is not on mainstream academia. We don't default to the position that you know your head from your ham hocks.
And how do you know that someone wasn't scared by Eddie Murphy in an elevator?
Either way, I am reminded of Winston Churchill's statement on the subject when he was asked about the Authorship Issue. His response? He replied he wasn't that interested in Oxford because, in his words: "I don't like to have my myths tampered with".
He meant the Shakespeare myth.
He meant, "Get stuffed, bozo. I'm not interested." It doesn't matter how many amateurs you say you surround yourself with, you're still sitting on the short bus. (Yes, the actors and directors have a skill set that is completely unrelated to scholarship.)
Your software is broken, kiddo. Don't try to contribute to the Great Discussion, because you'll only embarrass yourself.
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The important thing is to slip this into the next Republican candidate debate, just to watch them all freeze as they try to figure out what answer the audience wants to hear.
For what it's worth, in the current issue of the Skeptical Inquirer (sorry, no link available yet), Joe Nickell has written an excellent piece titled "Did Shakespeare Write 'Shakespeare'? Joe's conclusion is a definite *yes.* He writes: "Anti-Stratfordians start with the answer they want and work backward to the evidence – the opposite of good science and scholarship. They reserve the standards of objective inquiry, replacing them with pseudoscience and pseudohistory."
Interestingly the article goes on to say, "In 1987 a moot-court debate on the Oxford-verse-Shakespeare controversy was held at the American University. It was presided over by three U.S. Supreme Court Justices: Harry Blackmun, William Brennan and John Paul Stevens. They found in favor of Shakespeare, and Justice Stevens pointedly concluded that 'the Oxfordian case suffers from not having a single, coherent theory of the case.'" That fact that Blackmun and Stevens were convinced Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare appears to contradict Orloff.
Stevens changed his mind–quite publicly and loudly, claiming the case had been proven "beyond a reasonable doubt." His conclusion was based almost entirely on arguments from ignorance (we have no proof Shakespeare ever owned books; therefore, he never owned books, etc. It was shockingly poor reasoning). Even at the time of the mock trial, he was more sympathetic toward the Oxfordians than the other justices. There was another moot court case in front of some eminent law lords in Britain. They also ruled unanimously in favor of Shakespeare and, if I recall correctly, were absolutely scathing toward the Oxfordians.
Pacal says:
When they have a Scholar who knows the documentation and hasn't worked backwards from conclusion to evidence; then I will think they have something worth saying.
It's interesting that the writer Bertram Fields a man who is to put it mildly supportive of revisionist history concluded that Shakespeare co-wrote with Edward de Vere because although his book mightidly strained to find that Shakespeare did not write the plays and that Edward de Vere did so, the evidence compelled him to admit that Shakespeare did write plays. So he rather reluctantly settled for Edward de Vere being a co-writer with Shakespeare. The book is Players: The Mysterious Identity of William Shakespeare.
So even someone who was very attracted to a far out claim was forced to admit upon a half decently fair evaluation of the evidence that William Shakespeare wrote plays.
andrewD says:
Does it really matter who wrote the plays? They will remaine excellent plays even if Eve and Bob went back in a time machine and wrote them for William…( ooh a new conspiracy theory here)
I believe what *is* important is that Eve and Bob are highlighting the pathological thinking being shown by folks; some who have or had a great deal of responsibility like Justice Stevens. Eve is correct in that Justice Stevens did change his mind and now thinks that the 17th Earl of Oxford wrote the plays. Scalia believes the same which gives me even more reason to question his rulings.
Anyone can be wrong, even Justices. That's important. But what really motivates me is the utter disregard for evidence that people can exhibit. In the end, it's not important who wrote the plays, but we do happen to know who wrote these by means of numerous lines of mutually confirming documentary evidence and history. At the same time, Oxfordians offer, "I don't understand this" as their evidence and ignore what competent professionals have found. It's a matter of having an appropriately strong respect for evidence, and high standards of evidence, a standard that scholars in the humanities do actually practice. Shakespeare denialism champions ill-informed hunches over evidence. That's not how the big kids do it.
"…but we do happen to know who wrote these by means of numerous lines of mutually confirming documentary evidence and history."
I would like to add…"and evidence from literary and linguistic analysis."
OH YOU WOULD WOULD YOU?!?!
Mkay. I thought that literary analysis would be under "documentary."
Fair enough, but when I think of "documentary evidence," I think of the small mountain of documents that connect Shakespeare to his works (e.g. quartos of the plays that name him as author, other contemporary references to him as an author, etc.).
Bradley A. Skene says:
The real question here has nothing to do with the Oxfordian (I feel dirty when I use that word) evidence (which is nonsense), but why they make an existential decision to reject Shakespeare before looking for justification.
Peter Gay suggest that in Freud's case it was the projection of his own sense of his false social position as a Jew in Vienna. But in any case, the psychology of these people needs to be examined.
And after a few of them were debunked in the comments, many of the people claimed to be Oxfordians probably need looking into to see whether the charge is even true or not.
By the way, I spell my name two different way–the way one sees it when attached to figures in 19th century British sources (which seems 'right' to me, and the way it says on my birth certificate (which seems 'wrong'). Somebody probably ought to look into that too.
Jew in Vienna? That makes…what's the opposite of sense? 🙂 I see it as evidence that Freud was wrong about more than just how the mind worked in every way.
I see. Well since I'm a pretty strict Freudian, we'll just agree to disagree. I don't want to get banned, after all!
Heheh. BOO! 🙂
As for why people reject Shakespeare: Shapiro relates it to romantic notions of The Author–the Great Man spouting Great Thoughts (sorry for all the Upper Case Letters). The paucity of personal information about Shakespeare is a disappointment to such romantic notions. Consequently, you see Shakespeare-deniers talking sneeringly about his business interests, as if Shakespeare couldn't be both a great poet and a good businessman.
There is also the issue of snobbery: all the main candidates are either better born or better educated than Shakespeare (or both). Again, the Oxfordians (such as the late Charlton Ogburn) talk about what a nasty little money-grubbing middle class dolt Shakespeare was. As far as I can tell, Oxford was a complete and utter douchebag with few redeeming qualities, but somehow he's just misunderstood, poor baby.
Finally, I think that once the idea has been conceived, it just won't die. So someone says Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare and cites a bunch of supposed ciphers and codes. Well, those get discredited and people lose interest. But the basic idea is still there: Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare. Hmmmm. So the next person comes along either with new "evidence" for Bacon or with a new candidate for who really wrote Shakespeare.
A good conspiracy theory never dies. It just has its goalposts moved.
jroach says:
That's why you shouldn't bother taking on conspiracy theorists on their own turf. It makes for nothing more than a bizarre travelogue to a culty cult, like Bob's skep article.
There was another authenticity conspiracy around someone in Korea http://stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2011/julaug/features/tablo.html
It's a compelling read but sad at the same time. What this kid did was fight back with his own records, which is like denying denialists. If I was him, or, say, Obama during the breathless days of the mainstream birthers, I wouldn't have denied s***.
Just put up your hands and say, "you got me *wink*". Then they have no recourse but to go to court, and deal with a succession of judges, each of whom makes their pay by sniffing out bs.
What federaljack and Alex Jones what is exactly what most CT victims give them: a debate out in the wild of the internet. Bottom line – go into caves looking for a fight and you'll get a freaking troll.
Best example, at the end of the Tablo article
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"I posted in a fair manner, so I will not answer the summons," he told them.
The police then issued an international warrant for his arrest, which he has defied now for months. On the TaJinYo forum, Kim questioned whether defamation was an international crime and vented his frustration at being unjustly targeted. "I am so angry they are treating me like a suspect when they have not confirmed I am a criminal," he wrote.
John orloff says:
Klassy.
first, the point was not to bring up the names to prove the issue, but merely point out this is not an urban legend. clearly the distinction was lost on you.
secondly, your intellectual elitism is quite revealing. it doesn't take a doctorate to be quite knowledgable about the few facts we know about Shakespeare.
cheers, and enjoy the film!
You are correct that it doesn't take a doctorate to examine the facts, such as the very large number of documents that clearly identify William Shakespeare as the author of many of the works attributed him.
I read your response to the Huffington Post quite carefully. I saw the points you made about urban legends. They are, of course, not true: being a Supreme Court justice does not make one immune from belief in urban legends. In addition, that is not all you said. You also said, "… Justices Stevens, Blackmun, O'Connor and Scalia all think there is reason to doubt the validity of the actor William Shakespeare having written the plays history ascribes to him." After naming several more names, you say of Mark Rylance, who just happens to be in your film, along with Derek Jacobi, "the man who ran the Globe theater for a decade doesn't think Shakespeare wrote a single word." Clearly, you are using these names not just to refute the "urban legend" label, but also to support the contention that Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare.
Clearly you are a stranger to yourself, for exactly the reasons that Eve mentions.
"secondly, your intellectual elitism is quite revealing."
You're damned right, I claim to be elite. Expertise is a genuine thing and sneering at it doesn't make you any more right. Expertise, had you ever met it, would have told you that not only must you know about the evidence that clearly refers to Shakespeare as the author of the plays, but you must also be able to understand that evidence in context. You need to know what secretary's hand is and what the spelling conventions of the time were, for instance, and why it is so hard for the modern eye to decipher. Then you will understand why genuine experts can't even be expected to waste time on your claims when you say on the basis of a signature that Shakespeare either had difficulty writing his own name or spelling it. Really. The children of Renaissance scholars point and laugh at you in public. It's that bad.
Your disdain for expertise reflects poorly on you and doesn't bode well for the movie. Rejecting expertise out of hand is to embrace ignorance. That's not good enough for some of us.
If you would care to develop an educated opinion you could read some fairly new (and some old) Baconian evidence you can visit either of these sites:
http://bacon-shakespeare-evidence.blogspot.com/
http://www.playshakespeare.com/forum/authorship-debate-and-apocrypha
Yeah, Eve. After all, it's been published on the prestigious internet.
Clay, you need to come up with a theory that explains the stuff at the beginning of the Norton Shakespeare, the historical evidence that we have. What's your new evidence?
Regarding John Orloff's remarks:
I'm trying to understand how the "fact" that prestigious people believe something means it is not an urban legend. That strikes me as a non-sequitor arguement. Intelligent prestigious people can believe urban legends.
I also noted the faux populist arguement about elitism. That is another non-sequitor, aside from being propagandistic.
I note that John Orloff says nothing about the "klassy", incest squared incest porn plot of this movie.
As for the "few facts" about Shakespeare. Well your ignorance is showing.
Emmerich has stated that he never enjoyed Shakespeare, which he was required to read at school, where none of it stuck, and says he picked up what he knows of Shakespeare from watching movies.[26] He knew little of either Elizabethan history or the authorship question until he came across John Orloff's script, after which he 'steeped' himself in the theories by reading discussions on the internet at Orloff's suggestion.[27
To a guy who hangs out with Roland Emmerich the mouth breathers at ATS would be deemed "elitist".
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Holger Syme (@literasyme) says:
I've always found it puzzling that US Supreme Court justices are supposed to have special authority in questions like the authorship (non)issue. The common law distinguishes between triers of fact and triers of law for a reason — historically, lawyers are supposed to judge legal issues, juries judge whether the facts of a case have been establishes beyond reasonable doubt. When does the Supreme Court ever assess facts rather than legal arguments?
True. The moot court hearings in the US and UK were fun little demonstrations, I guess (and both found unanimously in Shakespeare's favor). I know there have been similar mock trials of Richard III (insufficient evidence to convict him of killing the princes in the tower, if I recall correctly). But ultimately, a law court is the wrong venue, even if you assume judges and justices have some sort of special ability to assess evidence as well as legal precedent. Their knowledge of constitutional law doesn't magically qualify them to judge historical, literary and documentary evidence.
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March 16, 2017 / Cory Doctorow / Articles, News, Walkaway
My latest Publishers Weekly column announces the launch-date for my long-planned "Shut Up and Take My Money" ebook platform, which allows traditionally published authors to serve as retailers for their publishers, selling their ebooks direct to their fans and pocketing the 30% that Amazon would usually take, as well as the 25% the publisher gives back to them later in royalties.
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Tor has produced a multitool to commemorate my forthcoming novel Walkaway, and if you pre-order the book, they'll send you one! Protip: pre-order from Barnes and Noble and you'll get a signed copy!
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New Yorkers! Come see Edward Snowden and me onstage at the NYPL on the Walkaway tour!
February 26, 2017 / Cory Doctorow / News, Walkaway
I'm touring 20 US cities (plus dates in Canada and the UK!) with my forthcoming novel Walkaway; the full tour hasn't been announced yet, but I'm delighted to reveal that the NYC stop on May 3 will be at the New York Public Library, where my interlocutor will be the whistleblower Edward Snowden. Tickets are $10-25! (Reminder: there are also signed first-edition hardcovers available for pre-order in the USA and UK).
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Now in the UK! Pre-order signed copies of the first edition hardcover of Walkaway, my first adult novel since Makers
The UK's Forbidden Planet is now offering signed hardcovers of Walkaway, my first novel for adults since 2009 — this is in addition to the signed US hardcovers being sold by Barnes and Noble.
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Ohio State fired up for chance to make statement with win over SEC power Alabama in Sugar Bowl
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NEW ORLEANS – Michael Bennett has heard it before and he's tired of it.
Time and time again, the Ohio State defensive lineman was asked his thoughts on the significance of a win over a program like Alabama in regards to the perception of his league.
Time and time again, Bennett downplayed the idea of this game being anything more than just a spectacular matchup between two strong programs in the inaugural College Football Playoff.
But Thursday's Sugar Bowl is so much more – it's about the Southeastern Conference versus Big Ten.
"We get tired of a lot of things that are continuously said, but, it is what it is," Bennett said. "So, you just have to accept it and try to do your best for your conference, because of whatever happens, this will be the game that everyone says, 'The Big Ten is better than the SEC, or the SEC is better than the Big Ten.'
"I think the SEC versus Big Ten is something that's never going to go away."
An astute observation by the Buckeyes co-captain, especially when you consider Ohio State's opponent.
Alabama is the cream of the crop of the SEC.
The Tide have enjoyed double-digit win seasons in seven straight years since 2008 and Alabama is trying to get back to the national title game for the first time since 2012.
Credit the SEC for the league's longstanding tradition of success, including placing a team in the past eight national championship games – winning seven straight from 2006-12.
On the other hand, the Big Ten's struggles during the Bowl Championship Series era are well documented, with the conference winning just one title (Ohio State, 2002). And the league's perceived weaker strength of schedule nearly cost the Buckeyes a chance at a spot in the College Football Playoff.
It's why Alabama opened as a nine-point favorite to beat Ohio State.
"We always trash talk because we are in the SEC," Alabama quarterback Jacob Coker said. "If we didn't say the SEC is the best, then there would be something wrong with us because we played in the SEC for a reason."
Added Alabama linebacker Landon Collins: "Every game we get to watch, I root for an SEC team because I want the SEC to win a majority of the [bowl] games."
As a result, some Ohio State players are embracing the underdog role.
"We love being underdogs. It puts more pressure on us to keep working hard and get ready to go out there and compete," Buckeyes senior linebacker Curtis Grant said.
Ohio State coach Urban Meyer acknowledged his players are driven to reach the title game and make a point about the program's strength in the process.
"I don't feel like we're going to have to rock the boat to get them fired up to play the game, this is a motivated team right now," Meyer said.
Meyer saw the impact of the SEC brand first-hand when he coached the Florida Gators from 2005-10, winning two national championships along the way. So he knows what a win over a coach like Nick Saban and a program like Alabama would do for the Big Ten.
"First, my reaction is that's none of our business, but it is our business. And it is big." Meyer said. "But that doesn't change if we're going to practice a little harder today for the Big Ten. We're responsible for Ohio State.
"There's one way to change perception, not talk about it, go play very well."
For Joey Bosa, the hard-hitting All-American linebacker from Ohio State, it's simple, "You don't have to like them, but you have to respect them because they know what they're doing and they're going to win football games."
Still, Bennett isn't buying into the mystique of the SEC.
"Football is football across the country," he said. "You have good teams and you have bad teams. There's no perennial power conference."
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Q: Calculate mean every 5 rows specific column and select last data (fifth) of another column in pandas dataframe I have pandas df with say, 100 rows, 4 columns. I want to calculate mean in specific columns("Value") every 5 rows and select last data(Fifth) of another column("Date") to keep in new dataframe. How can I do that?
My dataframe that looks like this :
>>df
          Date     Product     Location       Value
0   12-08-2018           A           S1       1.313
1   12-08-2018           B           S1       3.089
2   12-08-2018           C           S1       1.890
3   12-08-2018           D           S1       3.136
4*  12-08-2018           E           S1       3.258
5   13-08-2018           F           S1       3.113
6   13-08-2018           G           S1       2.651
7   13-08-2018           H           S1       2.135
8   13-08-2018           I           S1       1.555
9*  14-08-2018           J           S1       2.009
10  14-08-2018           K           S1       1.757
11  14-08-2018           L           S1       1.808
12  14-08-2018           M           S1       1.511
13  15-08-2018           N           S1       2.265
14* 15-08-2018           O           S1       2.356

and I would like to turn it into new dataframe looks like this :
>> new_df
      Date           Value
0  12-08-2018       2.5372
1  14-08-2018       2.2926
2  15-08-2018       1.9394

Can you help me out?
Note : I add * for easy to observe at every 5 rows.

A: Use groupby with aggregate by agg with last and mean with np.arange with floor division by 5:
df = df.groupby(np.arange(len(df)) // 5).agg({'Date':'last', 'Value':'mean'})
print (df)
         Date   Value
0  12-08-2018  2.5372
1  14-08-2018  2.2926
2  15-08-2018  1.9394

If default RangeIndex solution should be simplify:
df = df.groupby(df.index // 5).agg({'Date':'last', 'Value':'mean'})

Detail:
print (np.arange(len(df)) // 5)
[0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2]

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Here is a look at the life of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud.
(CNN) -- Here is a look at the life of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al Saud.
Marriages: Wives' names not available publicly, but according to Islamic tradition he is allowed no more than four at a time.
Other Facts: Is one of 37 sons.
Is prime minister and head of state.
Helped create the Allegiance Authority, a committee of princes who vote on the eligibility of future monarchs and crown princes.
Under his leadership, Saudi Arabia joined the World Trade Organization.
Breeds pure Arabian horses and founded the equestrian club in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Timeline: 1962-2010 - Commander of Saudi Arabia's National Guard.
1975-1982 - Is Saudi Arabia's second deputy prime minister.
1976 - During his first visit to the United States, he meets with President Gerald Ford.
June 13, 1982 - King Khalid dies and Fahd Bin Abdulaziz al Saud is named king of Saudi Arabia. He names his half-brother, Prince Abdullah, crown prince and successor.
1982-2005 - Deputy Prime Minister.
October 1987 - During his second visit to the United States, Crown Prince Abdullah meets with President George H.W. Bush.
March 1, 1992 - Is confirmed heir to the throne of Saudi Arabia by King Fahd.
November 1995 - King Fahd has a stroke, and Crown Prince Abdullah assumes his duties.
September 1998 - Meets with President Bill Clinton in the United States.
February 2002 - Proposes a comprehensive peace plan to address the violence in Jerusalem and other Israeli-Palestinian areas. It is the first such plan introduced by an Arab nation since 1947. This plan calls for full Arab recognition of Israel as a nation, and a complete withdrawal by Israel from territories gained since the 1967 war.
April 25, 2002 - Meets with President George W. Bush at the president's ranch in Crawford, Texas.
2004 - In a 2004 speech broadcast on Saudi television, Abdullah warns Saudi citizens not to support extremists who want to overthrow the ruling family, and vows to hunt them down, regardless of how long it takes.
August 1, 2005 - Becomes sixth king of Saudi Arabia following the death of King Fahd bin Abdulaziz al Saud. He chooses Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz el Saud as crown prince.
2008 - King Abdullah hosts President George W. Bush at the royal ranch in Jenadriyah.
February 2009 - Appoints Saudi Arabia's first female to the council of ministers.
November 13, 2010 - Transfers his position as commander of Saudi Arabia's National Guard to his son Prince Mitab bin Abdullah.
November 24, 2010 - Is in New York to undergo back surgery on a herniated disc and blood clot.


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UK - UK scientists have successfully synthesised molecules that mimic naturally occurring smells able to deter insects.
The scientists were able to make similar smelling insect repellent molecules by providing the enzyme which creates the smell with alternative substrate molecules.
They tested the effectiveness of the smell to function as an insect repellent.
The team found that the smells repelled insects but in one case a reversal of behaviour - an attractant - was observed which raises the prospect of being able to develop a trap-and-kill device.
"We know that many organisms use smell to interact with members of the same species and to locate hosts of food or to avoid attack from parasites," according to Professor Rudolf Allemann from Cardiff University's School of Chemistry, who led the research.
"However, the difficulty is that scientifically smell molecules are often extremely volatile, chemically unstable and expensive to re-create.
"This means that, until now, progress has been extremely slow in recreating smells that are similar to the original.
"Through the power of novel biochemical techniques we have been able to make insect repellent smell molecules which are structurally different but functionally similar to the original."
Pesticides are toxic by design and are used widely to kill, reduce or repel insects, weeds, rodents, fungi or other organisms that can threaten public health and the economy.
Many concerns have been raised on the potential dangers to humans and the impact on the environment and local ecosystem, and scientists hope the smell molecules could be used as an alternative to pesticides.
Professor John Pickett, FRS from Rothamsted Research said: "This is a breakthrough in rational design of smells and provides a novel way of producing a smell with different properties and potentially better ones than the original but at the same time preserving the original activity.
"By using alternative substrates for the enzymes involved in the ligand biosynthesis (biosynthesis of the smell) we can create the appropriate chemical space to reproduce, with a different molecular structure, the activity of the original smell."
The team hope that their research could provide a new way of designing and developing small smell molecules which would be otherwise be too difficult to produce by usual scientific and commercial methods.