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The Kamajors of Sierra Leone: A Model for Survival, by CYA
James Wesley Rawles September 19, 2012 September 19, 2012
Those that are concerned with TEOTWAWKI scenarios, as we are, can find great benefit in looking to history for meaningful lessons on what to expect and how to plan and prepare. In many of these circles we often here of and reference the heroic exploits of bands of citizen warriors throughout history.
Rogers Rangers, the Minute Men of New England, The Green Mountain Boys of Vermont and other Revolutionary War militia, The guerilla fighting Comanche and Cheyenne warriors of North America, and of course the various books, movies and television shows that constitute our survivalist-militia paradigm. I wish to add another relevant and realistic event and militia group to our lexicon and highlight a bit of recent history that took place just about 3,000 miles from North America. This true and well-documented period of time and events can be mined by our communities for numerous insights into preparedness.
The tiny African nation of Sierra Leone first won their independence from the British Empire in 1961. This was a joyous time for Sierra Leonians. Sierra Leone, a beautiful nation on the West African Coast, with beaches to make many vacationers jealous, became a vacation spot for Europeans and Africans on holiday. The country was awash with valuable minerals, metals, and diamonds which brought the financial interests of global powers. If you were a member of the elite ruling class and politically connected then times were good and money flowed; allowing you an increasingly comfortable lifestyle. But by the 1970s corruption was entrenched. Wikipedia summarized:
"…politics in the country was increasingly characterized by corruption, mismanagement, and electoral violence that led to a weak civil society, the collapse of the education system…"
In 1968, [Siaka Stevens,] a popular leader rose to power and would leave office 17 years later with the result of turning what was once a constitutional democracy into a one party state.
The Prime Minister's 17 year term of office is described by Wikipedia as:
"…the 17 year plague of locusts" saw the destruction and perversion of every state institution. Parliament was undermined, judges were bribed, and the treasury was bankrupted to finance pet projects that supported insiders."
He stepped down in 1985 leaving a short list of ineffective leadership behind him. Wikipedia characterizes the social ruin that the country now found itself in only 30 years after its independence, with the following…
"With the state unable to pay its civil servants, those desperate enough ransacked and looted government offices and property. Even in Freetown (the capitol city), important commodities like gasoline were scarce. But the government hit rock bottom when it could no longer pay schoolteachers and the education system collapsed. Since only wealthy families could afford to pay private tutors, the bulk of Sierra Leone's youth during the late 1980s roamed the streets aimlessly. As infrastructure and public ethics deteriorated in tandem, much of Sierra Leone's professional class fled the country. By 1991, Sierra Leone was ranked as one of the poorest countries in the world, even though it benefited from ample natural resources including diamonds, gold, bauxite, rutile ([the] main ingredient in titanium), iron ore, fish, coffee, and cocoa."
This became the foundation for the decade long civil war that would lay waste to the country and forever change its people.
A rebel army named the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) formed and funded by the criminal government of neighboring Liberia, under convicted war criminal Charles Taylor, grew and quickly took over many areas of the country. This rebel movement was a result of the intense interest in the diamond mines within Sierra Leone and Liberia, and also the large number of disaffected youth that were easily swayed by riches, power, and promise of adventure. The Government of Sierra Leone and its army were either unable or unwilling to effectively challenge the well-armed and funded rebel army. The RUF tormented the cities and countryside forcing children to become soldiers, getting them hooked on hard drugs, and encouraging them to engage in unspeakable behavior aimed at terrorizing the civilians into subservience. The RUF would quickly become known for rape, murder, torture, burning, looting, and a terror previously unknown in the region.
Sierra Leone, like much of Africa consists of both dense cities and rural countryside. People fled the cities for their ancestral homes still occupied by family in their rural villages. Many of these families can trace their family histories in these villages back hundreds of years. This is their native land. These were agrarian villages where people were mostly farmers. It was West African slaves from these areas that would make the American colony and future state of Georgia's largest export and cash crop rice, grown in the lowlands of the coast similar to their homeland. The average home was armed with only farming tools and instruments.
Making a living from the land for generations, extended families controlled large fields and swathes of land to graze their animals and grow food. They lived in tight ethnic communities where everyone knew everyone. These were not people that were concerned with national politics. They made little to no money from the diamonds, gold, minerals, and everything else that drove the international greed for the resources of their country. These were extended families living a peaceful existence in their ancestral land, practicing and maintaining their culture and history. These communities had strong men that were willing and qualified warriors but these men were the first targets of violence, and they were not prepared or trained for organized military threats on their communities.
Imagine the ease that a light rebel army would experience when pulling up to a sleepy farming village, rounding up the able-bodied men for torture or execution, the male children for conscription, and the women and girls for slaves or throw-away sex toys. Rural police stations were no match for the rebels and would flee, be killed, or join them. Many in these villages became entertainment for depraved rebels mad with drug use and traumatized by their own situations. Old men and women were chopped down with machetes or burned to death with kerosene or car tires. Babies' heads were bashed in by gun butts or by soldiers' boots. Sometimes the child's own parents were forced to bludgeon them to death at the gunpoint of crazed men and boys in soldier uniforms. Pretty girls became a commodity traded by soldiers. People were shot indiscriminately in the street and in their homes. Houses, farms and fields were burned. The chopping off of limbs became an all too often exercise and horrific scene during such attacks. The movie Blood Diamond starring Leonardo Dicaprio used the backdrop of this war to tell its story and illustrated many of these documented atrocities. [JWR Adds: Blood Diamond provided some valuable insights into the depravity of man under the circumstances of civil war. The history of the 20th Century is replete with similar examples, worldwide. (West Africa was not unique!) It was a surprisingly good film, despite Dicaprio's pitiful attempt at mimicking a Rhodesian accent.]
Resourceful and physically able people fled to "the bush", their term for the thick untamed jungle wilderness. Their communities destroyed, families dead or dispersed. Many people had to rely on their wilderness survival skills or risk being caught in public areas looking for food and shelter. They had to learn to evade others in the bush that may alert others to their presence. One man on foot in the wilderness is no match for a mobile light army. He would easily be found, caught, and become a victim. A family would be even easier to hunt and track down.
Rebel armies had taken control of many areas and where they did not control, the government armies were often no better. They brutally purged villages looking for rebels and often accused the innocent and made them examples to others. They helped themselves to food, supplies, and women. They were feared by all and were rumored to be soldiers by day and rebels by night, earning them the name "sobels". There was no one on the side of the regular people. These armies fought each other and used the communities as their battlegrounds. Civilians were collateral damage and/or simply resources to be taken, killed or abused by either side. Roadways were controlled by these forces so any resources such as food, medicine, or ammunition, traveling along them was subject to seizure by the armies. The best homes and structures were taken and used by rebels or government armies for cover, command centers, flophouses, storage, barracks, or other military needs.
This is the extreme of our human experience on Earth, my friends. I can't imagine a more terrifying experience. It does not matter how bad-ass one man is, he could either evade these forces or become another casualty. Period. Where was the humanity, you ask? How could they all behave this way, you say? Well how could the Germans behave as they did under the Nazi regime? Or Cambodians under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge? The ethnic cleansing by Serbs under Slobodan Milosovic? These things happen. When people are pushed by extreme socioeconomic forces they are capable of unspeakable cruelty. In the midst of this turmoil and unimaginable violence a resistance movement grew in the south. A group called the Kamajors.
Wikipedia summarizes: "The Kamajors are a group of traditional hunters from the Mende ethnic group in the south and east of Sierra Leone (mostly from the Bo district)."
These hunters came from a long line of traditional tribal-warriors. In Africa each ethnic group is typically associated with a secret society. These secret societies teach the younger generations survival skills, cultural history, and prepare them for being an adult in their society. For the boys this would often include warrior training, hunting and trapping skills, wilderness survival and so on. These Kamajors came from this tradition. They banded together early on and protected their immediate communities. They had weapons that they had used for hunting along with warrior training and preparation. They had an intimate knowledge of the land and its people. And they had the not just the will to fight their aggressors but the means and know how. This was a modern day tribal militia.
The Kamajors successfully repelled both the RUF/rebel army and the government army over and over again when they would approach their protected regions. They reacted swiftly to enemy threats in their patrolled areas and gained a reputation for being fearsome fighters and protectors of their communities. Rebels and the government army, like any marauding groups, will choose the path of least resistance and focus on soft targets. They were reluctant to engage the Kamajor fighters, because a dust up with the Kamajors was certain to end in casualties and depleted resources. They fought fiercely for maintainable ground and quickly retreated and regrouped when outnumbered or overwhelmed. They were light quick and effective. Youth from all over the affected parts of the country sought out the Kamajors for protection, and many joined their ranks, multiplying their strength. They suffered casualties and we can be sure they suffered their own defeats, but they remained the only alternative and safe haven for thousands.
These were hunters and family men that joined together to protect their families and communities. They were unflinching in their mission and quickly earned names for themselves as the only ones with the strength and knowledge to protect themselves and others from the new realities of their world. The Kamajors answered to their traditional tribal leadership who were often seasoned veteran elders, which was a true government of and by the people. Rebels and soldiers alike intensely feared these Kamajors and African superstition strengthened those fears. Claims spread of the Kamajors participating in sacred rites that would make them bulletproof. It was said that sexual abstinence made them fierce in battle. Stories of their being invisible and being protected by magic persist to this day. The Kamajors were so successful that when international will was finally strong enough to bring peace to the country the Kamajors were enlisted by international peacekeeping forces to successfully return peace to the country with the help of the UN, an army made from a number of West African countries (ECOMOG) and private mercenary groups.
The war lasted more than ten years and ended in 2002. It is only now, ten years after the wars end that the economy of the country is picking up, experiencing international investment, and people are finally able to start putting the war behind them. Regular electricity to the nations capital, Freetown, and other major cities, was restored in 2007 due to international assistance and the construction of new hydroelectric facilities. Markets are booming and people have returned to the cities twofold. The nations' future is bright and the worst is behind them but for a long time their future was in doubt.
So after a roughly twenty year period of economic and social decline, we have what was basically a twenty year period where a country was in a total state of war, economic collapse, depression and dysfunction. A messy war with no boundaries or clear enemy, caused by outside forces, political corruption and mismanagement. Caught in the middle were a peaceful people, largely of rural background, forced to find a way to survive a situation that quickly became desperate and deadly. Their ancestral farms and homesteads were attacked and burned. Local currency became worthless. Food was scarce. Resources were taken and consumed by the armies leaving little to nothing for civilians. Civilians became the targets of the new power structure, controlled by the ruthless and lawless armies.
A grassroots fighting force of hunters and family men rose as the only effective resistance force. They were effective because through their hunter/warrior culture and vigilance they were more prepared than others to defend their communities and way of life. These irregulars were the Minutemen of their time. If they had not been trained and organized ahead of time they would have been decimated early on and would not have had the strength to raise a defense later on. The Kamajor fighters were prepared from the beginning and when the SHTF they did what they were prepared to do without hesitance.
Many lessons can be drawn from this history, but a few themes are easy to take away here. It was their community and culture that created the success of the Kamajors. They had a hunter/warrior culture that could be easily compared to our survivalist/prepper culture today. They also maintained a community within this culture that not only rallied when threatened, but had enough training to be organized when the SHTF to not lose too much ground or strength.
Could they have foreseen the situation that they found themselves in? Perhaps. Could they have done much to prevent it? Probably not. This is a relatively basic SHTF threat. It does not require asteroids, or volcanoes, or even Al Qaeda. Defense against lawless but organized armed personnel; that is what all preppers and survivalists should strongly consider when preparing for SHTF/TEOTWAWKI.
One armed man can't effectively respond to such a threat of course, yet it is one of the most predictable and relatively common of social upheaval threats and one of the most terrifying. It is basically a home invasion on a regional scale. Some people behave as if these types of events or scenarios are ancient history, or unrealistic. Hurricane Katrina highlights this possible threat, so does the constant narcotics traffic violence in the southwest, the Rodney King Riots in Los Angeles, or even Pine Ridge in the 1970s. But for continued insight, moral support and inspiration we only have to look across the Atlantic to a little over 10 years ago when a resourceful group of hard-nosed warriors banded together to protect all that they knew. These were the Kamajors of Sierra Leone.
About the Author: CYA is the pen name of a first generation American on his father's side, and a U.S. combat veteran. His father was born in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone in 1951, and his mothers' family can be traced to colonial New England.
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FAREWELL TO FRUENE AS WE KNOW IT: New Year's Eve is the final day for the familiar cafe before it undergoes a complete month-long upgrade
Fruene, the landmark 16-year-old cafe that is the last "untouched" space in the renovated Lompensenteret shopping center, will close its familiar space for the last time at 4 p.m. on New Year's Eve in preparation for a complete redesign expected to take about a month to complete.
One employee at Fruene makes an espresso drink while another removes shelving in the kitchen on Tuesday, the last day the cafe is open before it closes for a month-long renovation. Photo by Mark Sabbatini / Icepeople.
The three-million-kroner project will relocate the counter, install a podium in the center of the cafe space, remove the bathrooms next to the outside entrance, and change the ceiling and floor, among other modifications. Work is scheduled to be completed by Jan. 27, in time for the annual Polarjazz festival.
Tove Beate Eide, owner of the cafe she opened in 2003, told Svalbardposten that while the look will be different – and she's heard from some residents who aren't eager to see drastic changes – she hopes the character of the business will remain.
"The space is characterized by a lot of wear now," she said. "My dad always talked about having to find out if some was 'nice or need,' and this is definitely 'need.' We would not have made this big investment if it had not been absolutely necessary."
Trym Aunevik, right, is filmed by a television crew as he meets with U.S. Ambassador to Norway Kenneth J. Braithwaite at Fruene in early April, a few weeks after the teen who works at his mother's cafe competed in the Special Olympic World Games in Abu Dhabi. Photo by Mark Sabbatini / Icepeople.
For those eager to get a familiar taste and/or look at the cafe in its final hours, parts of the interior are already being removed. Some favorite foods such as the chicken curry salad are already sold out until the reopening, although on the plus side the homemade chocolates that have become a major part of the cafe's business are 30 percent off – although the selection of them is vanishing as well.
The cafe is a popular meeting spot for numerous regular customers, including a group of longtime/retired residents who meet at the same table each morning, as well as a warming spot for the colorful array of visitors/adventurers both humble and famous. Among the cafe's employees is Eide's son, Trym Aunevik, Longyearbyen's lone lifetime disabled resident after being born with Down Syndrome, who just turned 18 and gained international fame after competing as a swimmer at the Special Olympic World Games in Abu Dhabi in March.
Some of the longtime Longyearbyen residents who meet most mornings at the same table at Fruene gather for a final time Tuesday before the cafe undergoes a complete overhaul. The work will include removing the wall of storage cubicles that divides the dining area in half. Photo by Mark Sabbatini / Icepeople.
The cafe underwent an upgrade in early 2014, greatly expanding its kitchen space, that proved to be both a huge blessing to its business and an infamous curse to local fire officials. The cafe, seeking to expand its new chocolate business, expanded into a space occupied by Classic Pizza, which at the time was the only food establishment with delivery and that was open after pubs closed in the wee hours of the morning. The chocolate business has become an enormous draw both locally and online, but the loss of Classic Pizza resulted in a string of "dry cooking" fires set by intoxicated people trying to cook in the week hours with no other food option available.
Fruene also has significantly expanded its space for clothing (some made by Eide), yarn and other non-food items. While it has hosted some events such as concerts, bingo and trivia nights (and has a knitting club that meets on Thursday evenings much of the year), the current design lacks a dedicated performance space and a large floor-to-ceiling set of cubbyholes divides the main cafe space in two.
Fruene, Tove Beate Eide


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Posted on October 15, 2015 by Weekly Record Herald
Local business focus of Milton Memories
By Susie Spitler
For the Weekly Record Herald
WEST MILTON — The Oct. 13 history recording session of Milton Memories again covered West Milton businesses.
Tom's Pizza
Carol Haworth shared about Tom's Pizza and Lifestyle Realty. Her mom and dad both grew up in West Milton. Her dad, Tom Manning, started Tom's Pizza in 1973 behind the Lawson's Store (now Dr. Ginn's office). From there they moved to the where the NAPA store is now. There were three businesses there at the time, with the North Woods Realty on the north end. When Owl Drug's moved into their spot 1997 they moved into the north end, their present location.
Carol's family is keeping it going in honor of her dad. They have two girls that have worked for them for twenty years. Tom loved West Milton and had many stories to tell of the characters and history of the community. He and his brother, Calvin Manning (who owned the Dairy Queen the south end of town), ate breakfast together around 6-6:30 every morning.
Besides Tom's, Carol is in partnership with Dottie Tyson and Donna Clark at Lifestyle Realty. They have 10 agents.
She loves the West Milton small town atmosphere.
Amber and Jody's Hair Boutique
Jody Rolf shared about Amber and Jody's Hair Boutique. Jody and Amber and their husbands all are Milton-Union graduates. They have been business partners for seven years.
Their present location is on the Wilson property across from Mr. Deal's. She previously worked in Englewood for twenty years. Being located in West Milton has allowed her to be close to family, who have helped out in various ways.
Sunset Cleaners
Brenda Minnich shared about Sunset Cleaners. In 1967 the Minnich's bought two laundromats. The first one located in Milton was at 111 N. Miami (previously the Roxy Theater). It was a self serve coin laundry. In 1972 they bought the present building and bought out Dickey's Cleaners. That is when they started the dry cleaning business, hiring employees from Dickey's to take care of the dry cleaning and laundromat, being open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
In 1994 they purchased two establishments in Piqua, one on Downing Street and one in the Sunset Shopping Center. In 1973 Brenda worked in Milton for six months, then in Piqua for six months. She then returned to Milton for thirteen years.
When her son Jason was born, she would take him to work and for entertainment she would put him in a sorting basket and set him in front of a dryer that was in use. He now manages the Piqua business.
In 1981 they built a Sunset Cleaners on Elm St. in Troy. In 1998 Ron began the carpet cleaning business. In 1990 there was a fire in the Milton facility, amounting to over $100,000 in damages. In renovating they decided to discontinue doing the dry cleaning locally so it is now all done in Troy.
Wertz Stores
Wes Wertz shared about Wertz Stores, Inc. In 1926 his great grandfather, Herbert Wertz Sr., was a ticket agent for the traction line, across from the present store. When the traction line moved out, he started his own store selling cigars and housing a pool hall. Hence the Wertz name on the building.
Potaski started his business in the present Wertz Store. He and Wertz decided to switch stores and rent from each other for tax purposes. And that is why Wertz Variety is not in the Wertz Building.
In 1979 when Huston was ready to sell his hardware store, their common accountant arranged for Wes's dad, Kay Wertz, to purchase the business and building.
Wes manages the hardware store and his sister, Georgia manages the Variety Store. They provide merchandise and services that are hard to find now days. They are fourth generation owners but Wes feels they may be the last. They appreciate all of their regular customers but people choosing to frequent the big box stores is taking its toll.
Netzley Roofing
Bill Netzley of Netzley Roofing graduated from Milton in 1952. He worked for a contractor in Troy for two years, learning the trade.
He started his own business here in Milton in 1954. He roofed anything under three stories, including out houses and tree houses. The first three story building they did was in Dayton and they did not have a power lift to raise the roofing. Shortly after he purchased one.
He also has purchased a number of rental properties. One is the old Miller Department Store where The Gleaning Place is now located. That has been an asset to the community as it brings people into town. While closed so he could replace the ceiling a lady from Germantown stopped by to shop there and was very disappointed to find it closed.
Misty Brown has lived in West Milton for 12 years and her three teenagers have enjoyed attending Milton-Union Schools. Her field is counseling allowing her to work in the corporate world as well as youth ministry. Bill Netzley purchased the building at 11 S. Miami St. next to the Buzz Theater. This has allowed her to fulfill her dream of providing a community center where art and music can be taught. They have a renovation sale going on to dispose of items left in the building. It is now open just on weekends but when the renovations are complete it will provide a family friendly atmosphere where a variety of classes will be taught.
D.W. Kendall Insurance Agency
David Kendall of D.W. Kendall Insurance Agency has his roots in West Milton, where he played in what he called the best football seasons ever played for Milton High. He graduated in 1961, going on to play college football. 1969-1971 he worked for an All State Agency.
In 1971 he started his own agency in a friend's garage in Huber Heights. In 1973 he moved to Needmore Road. In 1985 he purchased and merged with the Gene Kleather Agency in West Milton. In 1986 he moved his business into the present location on S. Miami St. He has since purchased agencies in Pleasant Hill and Englewood.
In 1989 he became involved with Sports World. It is a program to get pro athletes into the schools to help kids to make wise choices. They have reached over 200,000 kids. Several of his family members have become involved in the business. Dave's real focus at this point is helping others and seeing lives changed.
NAPA Store
Todd Lewis shared about the NAPA Store. In the 50's it was located at 47 N. Miami (now the Cozy Cottage). It then moved across the street to where the Hen's Nest is now. Later it was moved to Emerick Rd. where the veterinary clinic is now. For a time it was in the Wertz Building downtown. Todd and his wife lived in Indiana and were looking for an auto parts store to buy. The NAPA stores in Tipp and Milton were for sale. They bought the Milton one and it was moved to the present location on S. Miami St. At one time the NAPA Store was greatly supported by the several auto agencies in town. When they moved to Milton they felt they had moved to the boonies. Turns out they have felt it a privilege to have raised their kids here and have made so many good friends. One of their well remembered employees was Mike Burke, known to all their customers before he passed away. Todd feels the future lies with two present employees, Tyler Shroyer and Ben Woolery.
Clark's Pizzeria
Patty Angle shared about Clark's Pizzeria. The building on S. Miami St. was built in 1979 as a dance studio, later becoming Diana's Pizza. Gary Barga bought it in 2001 and in March of 2015 he sold it to the Angles. Clark's in Bradford was started by Patty's parents in 1987. She worked there in her teens. She became a nurse. As their children are now grown, Gary approached them about purchasing Diana's. The decision was made to do so and they took over this summer. Unfortunately, her mom passed away before they were able to be open for business.
To hear many more details and memories and watch the complete session tune into the local access station, listen on You Tube, purchase a DVD or borrow one from the M-U Library. For further information call Barb at (937-698-6559).
The next session will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 10. The topic will be The Fifties.
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\section{Introduction}
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Red supergiants (RSG) with progenitor masses $\ga10$~M$_{\odot}$ are
high-mass analogues of Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars such as
Mira variables, typically one or a few M$_{\odot}$.  Both classes of
star have surface temperatures of 2000 -- 3000 K and pulsational
periods of up to a few years.  SiO, H$_{2}$O and OH masers are found
in the winds and show that the outflow velocities are similar to
within a factor of two. Such properties appear to be determined by
small-scale physics, such as the opacity of the stellar atmosphere or
the absorptivity of dust, and hence depend primarily on the local
chemical composition.

Other phenomena do scale with the stellar mass.  RSG have stellar radii
of $R_{\star}\ga5$ au and mass loss rates
$dM/dt\approx10^{-5}-10^{-4}$, at least ten times higher than those
of AGB stars. For all such stars the H$_2$O maser zone extends from
$\sim 5 - 30R_{\star}$ containing clouds of average radius
$R_{\star}$ in this region (or a birth radius $\sim0.1R_{\star}$, if
they originate from the surface of the star and expand with the
wind).   The survival times of maser emission
from the clouds scales with their size and is  5 -- $>$10 yr in RSG.

 Most evolved stars which support masers have no detectable rotation
of either the stellar surface or the wind and the presence of a
companion would disrupt masing. The archetype OH/IR stars or H$_{2}$O
envelopes around RSG, for example, appear almost spherical at moderate
resolutions.  This contrasts with the usually axisymmetric shape of planetary
nebulae or into supernova remnants. Early signs of this can be discerned in high-resolution
studies of AGB/RSG stars (e.g. Bowers et al. 1989, Bains et al. 2003;
Murakawa et al. 2003; Etoka \& Diamond 2003), implicating the magnetic
fields detected by e.g. Chapman \& Cohen (1986); Szymczak et
al. (1998, 1999).  We use VLBI and MERLIN observations of OH and other
masers to investigate the CSE of S Per.  This RSG has a distance of
2.3 kpc (Schild 1967) and a stellar velocity $V_{\star}=-38.5$ km
s$^{-1}$ (Diamond et al. 1987). We compare the results for S Per with
those for other stars and with magnetic field models.

\section{Past and present observations of S Per}

   \begin{figure}
   \centering
   \includegraphics[angle=0,width=8cm]{richardsa_sept04_f1.eps}
      \caption{The H$_{2}$O maser emission from S Per (MERLIN 1999) is
      shown in grey overlaid with white contours of OH emission
      observed (VLBI 1997).  The 7-mas VLBI restoring beam is shown
      at bottom left.
         \label{ohh20.fig}
         }
   \end{figure}
   \begin{figure}
   \centering
   \includegraphics[angle=-90,width=7cm]{richardsa_sept04_f2.eps}
      \caption{Angular separation of masers from S Per as a
      function of $V_{\rm LSR}$.
         \label{ravel.fig}
         }
   \end{figure}

In 1997 Masheder et al. (1999) observed S Per and VX Sgr with Global
VLBI.
The data were correlated in Socorro
to give a velocity resolution of 0.176 km s$^{-1}$.
We took great care in calibration and editing to remove instrumental
offsets between LL and RR and between the 1665- and 1667-MHz bands, on
all baseline lengths.  We then imaged the brightest channel of the
brightest S Per line to use as a model for iterative phase and
amplitude self-calibration. We applied the resulting solutions to all
the S Per data and then imaged and self-calibrated the other lines
individually.  In this way we were able to retain the correct relative
positions and intensities.  The final data cubes (in LHC and RHC and
in Stokes parameters $I$ and $V$) were made using a 7-mas circular
restoring beam and had a typical noise $\sigma_{\rm rms} \approx 7$
mJy beam$^{-1}$ in quiet channels. We fitted Gaussian components to
measure the properties of each patch of maser emission and grouped
components adjacent in position and velocity to form features thought
to represent physically discrete clumps.  The individual maser
components were mostly spatially resolved, as were the features,
allowing us to measured their angular sizes and line widths.

MERLIN observations made in 1993 (Richards et al. 1999) also showed
 that OH mainline emission appeared to originate at a similar distance
 from the star as the H$_{2}$O masers. In 1999 we made observations in
 full polarization, to produce data cubes in Stokes $I$, $Q$, $U$ and
 $V$ from which we deduced the total linear polarized flux $P$ and
 polarization angle $\chi$.  The individual components and features
 were spatially unresolved.

\label{h20obs}

MERLIN observations of H$_{2}$O masers made in 1994 (Richards et
al. 1999) and 1999 have a similar resolution to the VLBI OH data.  The H$_{2}$O maser shell is consistently well-filled and shows strong
acceleration. At
each epoch the thick shell has a similar size and contains $\sim$100
clumps, about half of which can be cross-identified.  Maser theory
(Cooke \& Elitzur 1985; Yates et al. 1997) suggests that at the inner shell
boundary, 55 au from the star, these have a
number density of $n\sim5\times10^{15}$ which is $50\times$
the wind average at that distance, for a typical temperature
$T\sim1000$ K.
 The integrated maser emission appears almost spherical using a
logarithmic intensity scale but if the brightest components are
selected they are seen to lie in an ellipse elongated NE-SW in 1999.
In 1994 the elongation was more nearly E-W.  Hotspots in an NE-SW
ellipse were also detected in 1998 by Vlemmings et al. 2002 using the
VLBA, see Section~\ref{pol}.

Multi-epoch VLBA monitoring of SiO masers (Ostrowski-Fukuda et
 al. 2002) shows that at some stellar phases the hot-spots trace an
 elongation similar to that of the H$_{2}$O masers.  Thompson \&
 Creech-Eakman (2003) imaged S Per at 2.2$\mu$m and found that the star
 appeared elongated with the minor axis at a similar position angle of
 $40^{\circ}$, suggesting that it is limb-darkened in the direction of
 strongest mass-loss.

\section{Emerging axisymmetries}
\subsection{OH and H$_{2}$O maser distribution}

Fig.~\ref{ohh20.fig} shows the OH mainline and H$_{2}$O maser
distributions, aligned on the centres of expansion, assumed to be the
stellar position. This shows that the OH masers have a very pronounced
elongation NNE-SSW, also seen in 1993. The OH emission is
brightest in between the H$_{2}$O clumps.  The OH 1612-MHz masers have
an angular distribution which is similar in shape to the mainlines but
$>6\times$ greater in extent, covering nearly 1 arcsec N-S (also seen in 1985 observations).
Fig.~\ref{ravel.fig} shows
the angular separation of masers from the stellar position as a
function of $V_{\rm LSR}$.

These Figs. show that the H$_{2}$O masers form a thick limb-brightened
shell typical of strong acceleration whilst the OH masers are brighter
at the extreme velocities near the front and back caps of the shell
suggesting that they are expanding more steadily.
For all
species the extreme velocities are found near the centre of emission
and there is no indication of rotation.  Both H$_{2}$O and OH mainline clumps
have an average radius of $r_{\rm c}\sim9$ au with a maximum of almost
30 au.

 The interleaving of OH mainline and H$_2$O masers appears to conflict
 with the classic model in which penetration of interstellar UV forms
 an OH shell outside the H$_{2}$O shell.  It can be explained in the
 context of the high density of the H$_{2}$O clumps mentioned in
 Section~\ref{h20obs}. The dust-gas collision rate is lower at lower
 density.  If the OH comes from surrounding regions at 1/50th the
 density, they are likely to be cooler and less effectively
 accelerated since both heating and expansion are driven by the dust
 absorption of stellar radiation.

   \begin{figure}
   \centering
   \includegraphics[angle=-90,width=7cm]{richardsa_sept04_f3.eps}
      \caption{OH masers observed using VLBI. Circles and squares show
      total intensity
      emission at 1665 and 1667 MHz respectively. The darker gray symbols
      show components which are more red-shifted with respect to
      $V_{\star}$. The $+$ and $-$ symbols show the sign of Stokes $V$
      for components with $>25\%$ circular polarization.
         \label{ohv.fig}
         }
   \end{figure}

   \begin{figure}
   \centering
   \includegraphics[angle=-90,width=7cm]{richardsa_sept04_f4.eps}
      \caption{OH masers observed using MERLIN, symbols coded as in
      Fig.~3.  The lines show the linear polarization vectors (thicker
      for 1665 MHz) for components with $>25\%$ linear
      polarization. The numbers are the values of $B_{\parallel}$ in
      $\mu$T inferred from MERLIN circular polarisation measurements.
         \label{ohl.fig}
         }
   \end{figure}

\subsection{Polarization}
\label{pol}
Figs.~\ref{ohv.fig} and~\ref{ohl.fig} show the OH mainline circular
and linear polarised emission.  A 1 km s$^{-1}$
difference between RHC and LHC peaks corresponds to a magnetic field
$B$ of 0.17 and 0.28 $\mu$T at 1665 and 1667 MHz respectively (Davies
1974).  We found 7 possible Zeeman pairs in the EVN data at 1665 MHz
and 2 at 1667 MHz, by looking for features of opposite Stokes $V$
which coincided in position and were the closest matches in velocity.
These had velocity separations (of the Stokes $I$ peaks) of magnitudes
between 0.5--2.8 km s$^{-1}$, giving a magnetic field component
parellel to the line of sight of magnitude $0.1\le
B_{\parallel}\le0.8$ $\mu$T.  Six out of the 9 pairs showed the
magnetic field pointing away from us ($B_{\parallel}>0$).  Where there
were multiple matches we compared  the position and
velocity pattern made by the components within the features. In only one
case an alternative match over 12 km s$^{-1}$ was possible,
giving $B_{\parallel}=3.4$ $\mu$T.  The thermal linewidth of OH at
$T=300-500$ K is 0.9--1.2 km s$^{-1}$; our magnetic field values for
narrower velocity differences may be overestimated (Elitzur 1998).  We
performed a similar analysis of the MERLIN data and found 8 Zeeman
pairs including 6 with $B_{\parallel}<0$. There are also a number of
maser feature groups where Stokes $V$ is entirely of the same sign.

The mean magnetic field is $B_{\parallel}\approx0.2$ $\mu$T and
$\approx-0.3$ $\mu$T for the EVN and MERLIN data respectively.  There
are some similarities e.g. the most red-shifted pair is seen in all
data with $B_{\parallel}<0$ and the only pair detected in the NNE limb
is at 1665 MHz in both data sets with $B_{\parallel}>0$.

Significant linear polarization is only detected from the near
(blue-shifted) side of the shell and rarely exceeds 50\%, stronger at
1665 MHz.  The dominant direction of polarization vectors $\chi$ is
E-W but there are some anomalies such as in the S where the vectors
change direction by $\sim90^{\circ}$.  The vectors may be parallel or
perpendicular to the component of $B$ in the plane of the sky,
$B_{\perp}$, depending on whether $\pi$ or $\sigma$ maser components
are detected (Elitzur 1998) and also depending on the angle of $B$ to
the line of sight.  The high fraction of circular polarization
relative to linear polarization could suggest that $\sigma$ components
dominate and $B_{\perp}$ is perpendicular to $\chi$, implying that the
magnetic field axis lies along the direction of maser
elongation. However other interpretations are possible (e.g. Deguchi
\& Watson 1986) including Faraday rotation or depolarization.  In any
case it is likely that the $\sim90^{\circ}$ jumps in $\chi$ are caused
by the detection of $\pi$ components or by a small change in the
direction or strength of $B$, not by a full $\sim90^{\circ}$ kink.

Some Faraday rotation is present as shown by the change in $\chi$
across individual features, typically 16$^{\circ}$, which could be
produced by an internal free electron density of $\sim5\times10^7$
m$^{-3}$ across an $\sim18$ au-deep OH masing clump
(a fractional number density of $\sim10^{-6}$). If the OH masers are
distributed in a partly filled spherical shell, the red-shifted
emission travels $\ge100$ au further through the inner CSE which
could, if inhomogenous, convert linear to circular polarization or
produce depolarization averaged over a MERLIN beam.

Vlemmings et al. (2002) used the VLBA to measure Zeeman splitting of
the brightest H$_{2}$O masers.  This is only a small fraction of the
thermal line width as H$_2$O is non-paramagnetic, making analysis
model-dependent. The deduced magnetic field component $B_{\parallel}$
is in the range $15 - 20$ $\mu$T.

\subsection{Biconical outflow model of OH emission}

 The elongation of the 1612-MHz maser shell, which represents material
which left the star several centuries ago, suggests that the OH axis
is stable.  The distribution of  emission suggests a biconical
outflow such as in the models of Zijlstra et al. (2001) .  The
H$_{2}$O masers could  form a complementary distribution with an
equatorially enhanced density surrouding the polar axis of the bicone.
 The slight E-W elongation of the H$_{2}$O masers observed in 1994
appears more compatible with this picture than the more NE-SW
elongation seen in 1999. Projection effects may be confusing the issue
and patience is needed to ensure that the H$_{2}$O elongation is not
chance effects.  Over 6 years, the projected outline of the H$_{2}$O
maser shell of the Mira U Ori has changed apparent orientation,
probably due to chance distribution of bright masers; several decades
would be needed to see if the hotspot distribution around S Per is
systematic.

\section{Polarization interpretation: complications and outlook}

The magnitude and direction of $B$ measured from OH masers shows no
clear pattern nor direction and there are discrepancies between the
MERLIN and EVN data.  This may be due to falsely matched Zeeman pairs
and a more rigorous analysis taking into account single-polarization
features may give a fuller picture. The combination of velocity and
magnetic field gradients can mean that only one sense of polarization
is amplified in a particular clump (Cook 1976).

The average magnetic field strength measured from OH masers is
$\sim0.3$ $\mu$T at a distance from the star of $R\le180$ au; the
largest $B_{\parallel}$ value from a reliable match is $0.8$ $\mu$T.
At our adopted distance of 2.3 kpc the brightest parts of the H$_{2}$O
maser shell are at $R\sim90$ au where Vlemmings et al. (2003) estimate
$B_{\parallel}\sim 15-20$ $\mu$T or $\sim50\times$ the OH value, yet for
a dipole field where $B\propto R^{-3}$ there should be at most a
factor of 8 difference between the field strength in the H$_{2}$O and
OH regions.

The discrepancy could be due to a selection effect; only the strongest
Zeeman splitting of H$_{2}$O masers can be detected but a magnetic
field of even 10 $\mu$T would produce a line split of 59 km s$^{-1}$
for the 1665 MHz OH masers, greater than the total velocity span of
the CSE.  If the magnetic field axis was parallel to the line of sight
the OH masers could lie in the plane of the sky where $B_{\parallel}$
would be very small; however this seems unlikely in view of the
centrally-located extreme velocity OH masers unless the apparent
velocities are due to Zeeman splitting.

The ratio of thermal to magnetic pressure $\beta=8 \pi \times 10^{-7}n
  k_{\rm B}T/B^2$ is $\sim 0.05$ in the H$_{2}$O maser clumps and
  $\sim2$ in the OH regions, so magnetic pressure is dominant in the
  former and significant in the latter.  It has been suggested
  (including by the present first author) that if the magnetic field
  is a stellar-centred dipole the lighter OH-masing gas could be
  following the dipole axis and/or the dust concentrated in H$_2$O
  clumps could be trapped by the equatorial field lines.  However it
  is hard to see how a static field could shape the wind.  In
  star-forming regions the dust grains spin round the field lines (the
  Whittet-Greenstein mechanism) but in CSEs the grains are the source
  of heating and so such ordered flow would be disrupted by
  thermalisation. Moreover, if this was responsible for concentrating
  the denser dustier clumps in an equatorial belt we would not expect
  to find the strong acceleration which is observed in H$_{2}$O masers
  associated with the clumps.

The origin of a dipole field is also problematic; AGB stars have
already started to accumulate a degenerate core which will ultimately
be exposed as a white dwarf and it has been suggested (Blackman et
al. 2001) that interaction between rotation of the core and convection
cells form a dynamo producing the magnetic field.  This explanation
cannot hold for RSG as they do not become degenerate until the final
catastrophe.  Soaker \& Zoabi (2002) suggest an alternative turbulent
dynamo mechanism which still requires some some internal rotation to
define a symmetry axis. A related possibility is that the pulsation
modes and convection cells in the star create a preferred direction
for denser or less dense mass loss and a stronger or weaker magnetic
field is carried in these directions. Freytag et al. (2002) develop
such a model for $\alpha$ Ori without requiring rotation.  A similar
model for mass-loss involving a shock-compressed field frozen into
clumps at their formation near the stellar surface was suggested by
Hartquist \& Dyson (1997).  The magnetic field strength $B\propto\sqrt
n$. The OH-masing gas is $\sim1/50$ of the density of the H$_{2}$O
clumps at the same distance from the star.  If $n\propto R^{-2}$ then
for OH masers at $R=180$ au, $B$ would be $\sim1/15$ of its value for
H$_{2}$O masers at 90 au, closer to the observed strengths.

 The supergiant VX Sgr does
appear to have an ordered magnetic field measured from OH 1612 MHz
masers (Szymczak \& Cohen 1997; Szymczak et al. 2001), the axis of
which defines a biconical region containing a lower density of
H$_{2}$O masers (Murakawa et al. 2003). The full analysis of OH
mainline masers observed by the EVN/Global VLBI and by MERLIN will
confirm or modify this model.  The magnetic field configuration
appears to evolve with time; OH masers around NML Cyg show an old shell with tangential
polarization vectors surrounding a more recent bipolar outflow
parallel to radial polarization vectors (Etoka \& Diamond 2004).
Full 3-D modelling of S Per is needed, if possible including
further epochs of observation to measure proper motions and examine
the persistence of the magnetic field.

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New Scottish referendum poll – No 'Commonwealth Games Boost' for 'Yes' campaign
Survation's latest Scottish independence referendum poll, conducted on behalf of the Mail on Sunday, shows essentially no change from our most recent previous poll:
Yes – 40% (-1)
No – 46% (nc)
Undecided – 14% (+1)
Excluding undecided:
Yes – 47% (nc)
Full tables can be found here.
Any hopes the 'Yes' campaign may have had for a boost from the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow do not seem to have materialised. Only 12% of Scots said the games had made them more likely to vote 'Yes', with more than 4 out of 5 of all respondents saying the games had made no difference to the way they would vote. About the same proportion of those who are currently undecided were similarly unmoved, and only 14% of 'undecideds' said they more likely to vote 'Yes'.
Darling vs. Salmond
With the head-to-head debate between Alex Salmond and Alistair Darling imminent, we asked our respondents who they thought would win.
There is a clear expectation that Salmond will out-perform Darling, but neither candidate seems to have inspired a majority of the Scottish public to believe they will make a decisive impact in the debate, with more than half choosing 'neither' or 'don't know'. Darling's lukewarm support even among 'No' voters may be source of concern (24% think he will win), as will the fact that no 'undecideds' believe he will win the debate. That said, Salmond has more to lose if he fails to meet these expectations, and Darling has a far easier job in terms of exceeding expectations.
The Scottish public seem to have even less sympathy for David Cameron – nearly half (47%) believe that he is a 'coward' for not debating Salmond head-to-head, and has not done so only because he fear he would lose. Unsurprisingly, this rises to 80% of 'Yes' voters. 63% of 'No' voters agreed with the view that Cameron was 'sensible' to leave the job of debating with Salmond to Darling, compared to 36% of all respondents.
Survation polled 1,000 residents of Scotland aged 16+ between 30th July and 1st August 2014. Full tables can be found here.
Survation Polling
Published: 4/08/14
As the gap closes between the Yes and No campaigns, who do Scots trust with Scotland's future?
Latest Scottish Referendum Polling – Survation for Daily Record, Dundee University and Better Nation
Is England Winning The World Cup More Important Than Preserving The United Kingdom?
New Scotland referendum and voting intention poll by Survation


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If you have interest in participating in this group, please email Dr. Polito.
The task force will focus on the following areas.


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Searching for bible verses for the wedding ceremony is a normal step in wedding planning especially for a Christian couple. Where the right scripture is concerned, we definitely have you covered. You might be trying to find religious marriage quotes or even Bible verses for wedding blessings.
Follow us on this journey to discover more.
A wedding is a ceremony where two souls are joined together and they agree to this union under God. And so it is only proper for Bible verses and scripture to be used throughout the wedding. This is done mostly in a Christian or religious wedding. Some couples choose Bible verses for wedding vows, some others use it only for the blessings.
Contrary to popular belief, there are many wedding Bible verses on love.
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Living Libraries Podcast
The podcast all about Oxford's libraries and the librarians who look after them
Episode 6: Daryl Green
Episode 5: We Look to the Moon
Episode 4: Owen McKnight
Episode 3: Dr Julia Walworth
Episode 2: Dr Lee Macdonald
Episode 1: Dr Petra Hofmann
Listen to the podcast recording here:
Episode 5: We Look To The Moon ExhibitionArtist Name
This recording can be listened to in isolation, or you can scroll through the pictures of the objects and locations we're discussing below.
In this special episode of the Living Libraries podcast, we interviewed Dr Karen Patricia Heath and Dr Sarah Griffin, the curators of the 'We Look To The Moon' exhibition on display in the Old Bodleian's Proscholium from 13th of July to 15th of September 2019. We spoke to them in the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, with Sarah joining us from Germany via Skype.
As well as the physical exhibition , there is also a significant digital element to the project. Sarah and Karen talk us through the process of supplementing the display with images and film shown on the Blackwell Hall Heritage Screen. They also tell us about the Cabinet project, which hosts a digital extension for the exhibition by providing detailed information about all of the objects on display, interactive images and other cultural referents. The website may be accessed here:
https://www.cabinet.ox.ac.uk/lunar
We Look to the Moon display
Copyright: Bodleian Libraries
Photographer: Daniel McNaboe, Courtesy of Bodleian Libraries
We start the interview by asking how Sarah and Karen came to be in their current positions, and what elements they enjoy about their work the most. We then asked them how they conceived the idea of their exhibition, which is displayed on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo XI Moon landing (20th of July 1969), and which explores humanity's understandings of, and fascination with, the Moon across time and different cultures.
Caption: Heritage screen in Blackwell Hall, Bodleian Library, with Moon landing footage playing
Photographer: Karen Patricia Heath, Courtesy of Bodleian Libraries
"I wanted to do something that was object-based, that was unusual, that was perhaps unexpected" - Dr Karen Patricia Heath
Sarah's Wild Card:
The Pergamon globe is the only three dimensional representation of the Moon in the display. It is so called because it was published by the Pergamon Press here in Oxford in the 1960's, using Russian satellite photographs taken in 1959. One side of the globe is left blank because they didn't manage to completely map the far side of the Moon!
Pergamon Moon globe (Oxford, c. early 1960s)
Photographer: Sarah Griffin, Courtesy of Bodleian Libraries
Karen's Wild Card:
Karen's choice is an advertising card from Massachusetts in the late nineteenth century. Lydia Pinkham was a pharmaceutical business woman who developed a vegetable compound which claimed to cure a variety of ailments. It was predominantly advertised as providing relief from period pain and other female complaints, and Karen notes how the image of the Moon is used to symbolise ideas of femininity and sell the product to women.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound (Lynn, Massachusetts, c. 1880-90), John Johnson Collection: Patent Medicines 5 (48a)
Sarah's Librarian's (or Curator's!) Choice:
Sarah's choice is the lunar volvelle contained in a late fourteenth century astronomical calendar. The volvelle would have been used to track the Moon and Sun's relationship, and then compare it to the Zodiac Man below to help cure medical complaints. The moving elements of the volvelle may be seen here: https://www.cabinet.ox.ac.uk/lunar-tool
John Somer, Astronomical calendar (England, after 1387), MS. Savile 39, folios 6v-7r
Karen's Librarian's (or Curator's!) Choice:
Karen's first choice is that of all of the colleagues who helped her and Sarah put the exhibition together - this was an illegal move, but we let her have it as it was so illustrative of the exhibition's ec. Karen's second choice was the images and film projected on to the Blackwell Hall Heritage Screen, which she felt really brought the exhibition to life.
Thank you for listening to this episode of Living Libraries. The 'We Look To The Moon' exhibition runs until the 15th of September 2019, see here for more details :
https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/whatson/whats-on/upcoming-events/2019/july/we-look-to-the-moon
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James Carey
James Carey has served as a member of our Board since 2018. Mr. Carey is a Managing Director of Stone Point. He has been with Stone Point or its predecessor entities since 1997 and is actively involved in all of Stone Point's portfolio investments. Mr. Carey currently serves on the boards of directors of public companies Enstar Group Limited and Focus Financial Partners, as well as several other Trident Fund portfolio companies. He is also a board member of Waterside School of Stamford, Connecticut. Mr. Carey holds a BS from Boston College, a JD from Boston College Law School and an MBA from Duke University, Fuqua School of Business.
Mark Dzialga
Mark Dzialga has served as a member of our Board since 2018. Mr. Dzialga is the Managing Partner of Brighton Park Capital and is a member of the Investment Committee. Prior to starting Brighton Park Capital, he was a Managing Director at General Atlantic for more than 20 years and had been a member of the firm's Executive Committee, Portfolio Committee, and Human Resources Committee through September of 2018. He was also a member of the Investment Committee at General Atlantic from 2003 to 2018 and chaired the Investment Committee from 2007 until the end of 2017. Before joining General Atlantic in 1998, Mr. Dzialga was co-head of the High Technology Merger Group at Goldman Sachs, where he advised many of the firm's technology clients on mergers, acquisitions and restructurings. Mr. Dzialga received an MBA from the Columbia University School of Business and a BS in Accounting from Canisius College.
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Josh Feldman
Josh Feldman has served as a member of our Board since 2020. Mr. Feldman is a Vice President at General Atlantic and focuses on investments in the technology sector. Prior to joining General Atlantic in 2014, he was an investment banker with Goldman Sachs in the Financial Institutions Group from 2012 to 2014. Mr. Feldman received his undergraduate degree from University of California- Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
James LaPlaine
James LaPlaine has served as a member of our Board since 2021. Mr. LaPlaine is a Senior Advisor to Brighton Park Capital providing technical diligence for potential portfolio companies primarily in the advertising, e-commerce, and healthcare industries, and a Strategic Advisor to Red Ventures, LLC, after serving as EVP and Chief Technology Officer from 2018 to 2021. Before joining Red Ventures, LLC, he was Executive Director at Technology Business Management Council, and held various executive-level positions including Chief Information Officer & SVP, Technology Operations at AOL. Mr. LaPlaine holds a degree in Computer Science from State University of New York at Oswego.
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Whānau, Cardinal John Dew, Principal Martin Elms, students and staff.
After two years of planning, fundraising, design and construction, Our Lady of Kāpiti Parish's new school and hall, at 3 Presentation Way, Paraparaumu, were formally opened on Friday 17 March. Hundreds of students, parishioners, guests and project operators were on site to enjoy the realisation of their magnificent and shared vision.
Pauline Takiwa called manuhiri (guests) onto the new site with a karanga and they were greeted by students with the school haka.
Kaumātua Tuki Takiwa gave a welcome on behalf of the tangata whenua.
Cardinal John Dew, and students Francis Mettrick and Grace Postlewaite gave blessings and readings and guests joined in prayers and waiata. Board of Trustees Chair Martha Stuart-Berrisford spoke on behalf of the Board.
Guests included past students of Paraparaumu's St Patrick's School – predecessor to the newly located school – Presentation Sisters, clergy, teachers, staff, families, parishioners, Catholic Education and Diocesan staff, architects and project contractors.
Cardinal John said the relocation project has come through the commitment, dedication and generosity of many people. 'It reflects the spirit and commitment to Catholic faith and education since St Patrick's School opened in 1954, and whose foundation stone was laid by seven Sisters from the Presentation Convent house in Thurles, Ireland.
The school is built for 250 students, with 10 classrooms combining modern and traditional layouts. The school-parish hall, featuring re-located stained-glass windows of St Patrick, is also being used for parish Masses.
Cardinal John led a group of guests through the three main building blocks – Aubert, MacKillop and Nagle – as he blessed the new facilities, while students entertained visitors in the courtyard with prayer, song and Kapa Haka.
Cardinal John then formally handed over Our Lady of Kāpiti School to the Board of Trustees.
Mr Elms acknowledged and thanked Cardinal John and Parish Priest Fr Michael McCabe for their 'courage, foresight and wisdom', the school staff and Board, Pacific Architecture, LT McGuiness builders, Rick Goodman and his infrastructure team, the steering committee and Archdiocesan school property adviser Sarita Smit.
Morning tea was served in the hall and the school was open for viewing.
Parish Priest Fr Michael McCabe said the opening of the new parish school and hall, fittingly on St Patrick's Day, was a wonderful opportunity to give thanks and gratitude for all who had made this new beginning possible for the school and parish, not least to the Presentation Sisters who took the first brave steps to establish Catholic education in Kāpiti. Planning continues for the building of a new parish church and administration centre, to be built in two stages alongside the school, he said.
From left: Cardinal John and Martha Stuart-Berrisford.
From left: Sr Teresa Tierney, Sr Breda Ryan and Mons John Carde.
From left: Marguerite Osborne, Tuki and Pauline Takiwa.


Arttu is a nice black and tan male dog with strong bone and characteristic expression.
lines in Finland which we really adore.
Arttu has became father of his first offspring in 2016, inheriting his special character and build. More pictures of Arttu can be found on our website.


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Keynote Speaker – Predictive Analytics World Business Conference, London, UK, October 28-29, 2015
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Predictive Analytics World London, the leading vendor-neutral analytics conference, is holding its fifth annual conference this October 28-29 in London, UK at etc.venues, 155 Bishopsgate. PAW focuses on concrete examples of deployed predictive analytics. Join PAW London to learn exactly how top practitioners deploy predictive analytics, and the business impact it delivers.
Predictive Analytics World Octover 28-29, 2015 in London, UK is packed with the top predictive analytics experts, practitioners, authors and business thought leaders including:
Usama Fayyad
Chief Data Officer, Barcalys
Wednesday, 28 October 2015 10:55 am
What Happened to Data Warehousing? Challenges & Opportunities in the Rapidly changing era of Predictive Analytics
Programme Chair
Prof. Dr. Sven Crone
Director, Lancaster Research Centre for Forecasting
Industry Leader:
Dr. John F. Elder
CEO and Founder Elder Research, Inc.
Dean Abbott
Founder and President, Abbott Analytics
Post-conference workshop: Predictive modeling methods – with Dr. John Elder
On-demand workshop: Predictive Analytics Applied – An Online Introduction – with Dr. Eric Siegel
Join PAW London to interact and learn from an international network containing both managers and practitioners in the field of advanced analytics.
What is Predictive Analytics?
Predictive analytics is the process of discovering patterns in past behavior to predict the outcome of future cases. Drawing on a combination of computer science, statistics, and operations research, predictive analytics reduces fraud, waste, and abuse, automates manual processes, and drives smarter decisions by extracting actionable insights from the vast quantities of data within government agencies.
What Delegates Thought of Predictive Analytics World London 2014
Predictive Analytics World London
etc.venues, 155 Bishopsgate, 28-29 October, 2015
Day 1 – Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
8:00 am Registration
9:15 am Room: London
Welcome & Opening
Opening Featured Session
Analytics for TV Audiences – A Case Study on Combining Descriptive, Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics
Sven Crone Dr.
Lancaster Research Centre for Forecasting
10:00 am Room: London
Sponsored Session
How Analytics is Adapting in a Rapidly Changing World
Nuno Antonio
Pre and Post Sales Senior Manager
10:30 am Coffee Break
Keynote: What Happened to Data Warehousing? Challenges & Opportunities in the Rapidly changing era of Predictive Analytics
11:40 am Session Change for Combo Pass Holders
Analytics in the Supply Chain – Forecasting, Cross-Selling and Pattern Recognition at Shell
Alex Hancock
Head of Treasury Analytics
Shell Oil Company
12:30 pm Lunch Break
1:40 pm Room: London
My Three Predictive Analytics Pet Peeves
Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist
SmarterHQ
Predictive Customer Interaction Beyond Attribution – Keep your friends Close but your Enemies Closer
Alwin Haensel
Business Analytics & Founder
Werner Vorstmann
Bookit.com
Session Change for Combo Pass Holders
Room: London
Top Five Technical Tricks to Try when Trapped
John Elder
Elder Research
3:30 pm Coffee Break
Guerrilla Analytics: 7 Principles for Delivering Predictive Analytics in Dynamic Fast-Paced Projects
Enda Ridge
Head of Algorithms
4:40 pm Session Change for Combo Pass Holders
Web Analytics to Optimize Keyword Selection and Pay-Per-Click Pricing for Online Retailing – A Collaboration between Summit and Argos
Hedley Aylott
David Wooff
Mathematical Sciences and Statistics and Mathematics Consultancy Unit
Predictive Analytics for Personal Banking – Enhancing Credit Scoring with Transactional Customer Data and Genetic Algorithms
Richard Davis
Head of Analytics
5:45 pm Networking Reception in the Exhibit Hall
Dinner with strangers:
meet your fellow attendees.
See the registration desk for more information
End of First Conference Day
Day 2 – Thursday, October 29th, 2015
Developing Predictive Web Analytics at iProspect – Statistical Techniques or Machine Learning?
Michael Georgakopoulos
Management Consultant & Analytic Solutions Architect
Costas Mantziaris
iProspect
Spotting Unusual Behavior in Internet Traffic Data: A Case Study of Predictive Analytics Usage at uSwitch
Abigail Lebrecht
Principal Analyst
uSwitch.com
Leveraging Big Data With Predictive Analytics
How to Surf a Data Lake without Drowning? Leveraging the Data Landscape at GfK for Better Predictive Analytics
Anna Machens
Data Scientist GfK Data Lab
Ralph Wirth
Global Head, Science & Technology
SUPERCRUNCH by GfK
How Valuable is Your Hotel? A Case Study of Using Predictive Analytics at Expedia
Sandro Saitta
Expedia Inc.
AFRAID: An Active Inference Approach for Fraud Detection Using Advanced Social Network Analysis
Veronique Van Vlasselaer
KULeuven
Removing the Barriers to Rapid Analytics in R&D at GlaxoSmithKline – The Inside Story of an Analytics Partnership
Nick Clarke
Tessella
Stephen Pickett
Computational Chemistry
The Soul in the Machine: Anomaly Detection meets Image Mining in Predictive Maintenance
Phil Winters
Senior Managing Partner
CIAgenda
Closing Note and Feedback
5:30 pm End of Conference
See the Predictive Analytics World London 2014 agenda here
Workshops – Friday, 30 October, 2015
9.00 am – 4.30 pm Workshop:
The Best and the Worst of Predictive Analytics: Predictive Modelling Methods and Common Data Mining Mistakes
John Elder, Ph.D., CEO and Founder
Elder Research, Inc.
Online Workshop:Predictive Analytics Applied An Online Introduction
Eric Siegel, Ph.D. , Conference Founder
Predictive Analytics World
Dean Abbott is Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist of Smarter Remarketer, Inc., and President of Abbott Analytics, Inc. in San Diego, California. Mr. Abbott is an internationally recognized data mining and predictive analytics expert with over two decades experience applying advanced data mining algorithms, data preparation techniques, and data visualization methods to real-world problems, including fraud detection, risk modeling, text mining, personality assessment, response modeling, survey analysis, planned giving, and predictive toxicology.
Mr. Abbott is the author of Applied Predictive Analytics (Wiley, 2014) and co-author of IBM SPSS Modeler Cookbook (Packt Publishing, 2013). He is a highly-regarded and popular speaker at Predictive Analytics and Data Mining conferences and meetups, and is on the Advisory Boards for the UC/Irvine Predictive Analytics Certificate as well as the UCSD Data Mining Certificate programs.
He has a B.S. in Mathematics of Computation from Rensselaer (1985) and a Master of Applied Mathematics from the University of Virginia (1987).
Information about Dean Abbott's session will follow soon.
With a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters in Music Composition, Hedley Aylott's route to leadership of a Top 10 digital company is, to say the least, unconventional.
In 1995, he worked with a group of prisoners in Manchester's HMP Strangeways, recording and releasing a Top 40 single – and winning a BAFTA in the process.
Hedley launched Summit in 2000 at HMP Humber to provide online strategy, marketing and technology to businesses whilst establishing a rehabilitation programme for prisoners.
Today Summit is a multi-award winning business with a turnover in excess of £40 million and employs over 120 staff at its offices in Yorkshire, London and Prague.
Summit helps some of Europe's most successful retailers and brands such as Argos, Homebase, Selfridges, Carpetright, Office Depot, Reckitt Benckiser transform the way they trade online.
Hedley is an engaging and enthusiastic speaker about all aspects of business, retail and a Digital evangelist.
Away from work, Hedley is a passionate polo player, pilot, water-ski instructor and sailor.
Hedley Aylott is speaker of the following session:
Nick Clarke is Head of Analytics at Tessella. After a research career in chemical physics Nick joined Tessella in 1999 to utilise the same set of skills to make data talk in the commercial sector. Nick now leads Tessella's analytics division, crafting managed analytics services offerings that support data-driven enterprises to generate maximum value from their data and technology platforms.
Nick Clarke is speaker of the following session:
Sven F. Crone is an Assistant Professor in Management Science at Lancaster University, UK, where his research on forecasting with artificial intelligence has resulted in 40+ peer reviewed articles (including EJOR, JORS, IJF) and received international awards. As the Deputy Director of the Lancaster Centre for Forecasting, with 15 members of staff & PhD students one of the largest units dedicated to business forecasting, Crone has more than 10 years of consultancy experience in corporate projects, including supply chain forecasting (e.g. Beiersdorf, Sanofi-Aventis, Bayer, Celanese, Hapag-Lloyd), retail forecasting (e.g. Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsbury, Wilkinsons), and utilities demand and price forecasting (e.g. DONG, Codelco). Crone regularly provides corporate training courses for the Forecasting Centre, IBF and IEEE worldwide as well as custom-made in-house courses. He has been a regular speaker at 50+ academic and practitioner conferences, including different keynote lectures.
Sven Crone Dr. is speaker of the following sessions:
Sven Crone Dr. is moderator of the following sessions:
Dr. Richard Davis is Group Head of Analytics at Lloyds Banking Group. He leads a team of data scientists who work across the Group looking to employ novel analytical solutions to problems facing the bank. This encompasses a number of "Big Data" technologies from data acquisition and cleansing, visualisation including dynamic dashboards, predictive analytics and data mining using artificial intelligence. Richard has previously held roles in alternative investments companies where he developed machine learning tools for hedge funds. Prior to this he was a researcher in applied mathematics, he has a PhD in Chemistry where he developed a non-lethal diagnostic test for mad cow disease.
Richard Davis is speaker of the following session:
John Elder chairs America's most experienced Data Science consultancy. Founded in 1995, Elder Research has offices in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and Washington DC. Dr. Elder co-authored 3 award-winning books on analytics, was a discoverer of ensemble methods, chairs international conferences, and is a popular keynote speaker. John is occasionally an Adjunct Professor of Systems Engineering at the University of Virginia, and was named by President Bush to serve 5 years on a panel to guide technology for national security.
John Elder is speaker of the following session:
Usama M. Fayyad, Ph.D. is Group Chief Data Officer at Barclays in London where his responsibilities include building and delivering the data infrastructure for BI, data warehousing, BigData and analytics/insights technologies across the Barclays Group globally as well as data governance, and enterprise Data Architecture. He also took on an additional role at Barclays as CIO of Risk, Finance, and Treasury Technology. He is Chairman of Oasis500 in Jordan following his appointment in 2010 by King Abdullah II of Jordan to be the founding Executive Chairman. Oasis500 a tech startup investment fund that runs an accelerator, entrepreneurship training program, and angel investment network aiming to fund 500 Internet and Technology startups in the MENA Region. From 2011-2013 he served as Chairman & CTO of BlueKangaroo, a mobile search engine to help consumers benefit from the vast offers environment that is difficult to search and benefit from. 2008: founded Open Insights: data strategy/technology firm to help enterprises develop data strategy & BigData solutions to effectively grow revenues. 2004-2008: Yahoo!'s chief data officer & Executive VP of Yahoo!'s global BigData systems/policies & data scientist group using Big Data for content/ad targeting: growing Yahoo! revenues from targeting by 20x in 4 years while processing 25+ Terabytes of data/day. Founder of Yahoo! Research Labs: the premier scientific research organization to develop the new sciences of the Internet.2003: co-founded/led DMX Group, a data mining/data strategy company — acquired by Yahoo! in 2004. In early 2000: co-founder/CEO of Audience Science (digiMine, Inc.) the leader in Behavioral Targeting & ad networks.1995-2000: led Data Mining & Exploration group at Microsoft Research, built data mining products for Microsoft's server division. From 1989-1996: held a leadership role at NASA's JPL in analysis of Big Data in Science earning him the top research excellence award from Caltech, as well as a U.S. Government medal from NASA.Fayyad's Ph.D. in engineering is from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1991). He holds BSE's in both EE & CSE (1984); MSE in CSE (1986); and M.Sc. in mathematics (1989). He published over 100 technical articles, holds over 30 patents. A Fellow of AAAI (Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence), Fellow of ACM (Association of Computing Machinery), editor two influential books on data mining; Founding editor-in-chief of primary scientific journal in field (Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery) and of SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter, Chairman of ACM SIGKDD which runs the world's premiere data science, big data, and data mining conferences: KDD. He is an active angel investor in U.S., EU and Middle East specializing in early-stage tech companies.
Usama Fayyad is speaker of the following session:
In more than 12 years of professional experience working with large multinationals and institutions across the globe, provided leadership and problem solving expertise on various operational improvement initiatives. Functional expertise ranges from business analysis using advanced simulation and predictive modelling techniques to project and product management, operational and process reengineering, marketing mix optimisation, strategic cost reduction and risk assessment. Industry experience covers a wide range from Defence, Healthcare and Energy to Education, Banking, Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Marketing.
Michael Georgakopoulos is speaker of the following session:
Alwin Haensel is the Founder and Managing Director of the Big Data & Analytics company Haensel AMS – Advanced Mathematical Solutions. He holds a Phd in Applied Mathematics and studied in London, Berlin and Amsterdam. His main fields of interest are the modeling of customer purchasing behavior, data prediction and optimization under uncertainty. Most recently, he concentrated on eCommerce topics such as: Conversion Attribution, optimal SEA bid strategies, recommendations, dynamic pricing, as well as specific data mining and forecasting projects.
Alwin Haensel is speaker of the following session:
Alex Hancock is Head of Treasury Analytics for Shell. He leads the Treasury Analytics Team in tackling challenges such as short and long term cash forecasting, counter party exposure, credit & risk. In a former role he was Analytics Manger for Shell Lubricants Supply Chain with a focus on forecast accuracy, supply chain optimisation and inventory management.
Alex Hancock is speaker of the following session:
Abigail has a background in probability and statistics and a PhD in Queueing Theory from Imperial College London. As Principal Analyst at uSwitch, she focuses on using statistical and machine learning techniques to get the most value out of available data. Abigail is passionate about encouraging an understanding of uncertainty in both big and small data.
Abigail Lebrecht is speaker of the following session:
Anna is a Data Scientist at GfK Data Lab. Together with an international team of Data Scientists and Data Science Engineers she researches the possibilities of GfK's data landscape and develops data-driven products. Before joining GfK she worked as a Data Science freelancer in South East Asia. She holds a PhD in physics from Aix-Marseille University where she did research on epidemic processes on dynamic networks.
Anna Machens is speaker of the following session:
Costas' professional journey was "digital" all the way!
Starting in 2001 as an e-business consultant, he was the founder and CEO of Mindworks Interactive since 2003. By 2015, when Mindworks was acquired by Dentsu Aegis Network, it had already become the fastest growing and biggest independent digital agency in Greece, with a team of over 60 people and a leading position in performance marketing and online communications in general.
In the same time, never-resting Costas had also managed to create and then sell 2 more start-ups.
Since 2015, Costas and Mindworks are proud members of the global Dentsu Aegis family and he is the Managing Director of iProspect Greece.
Costas believes that data beats opinion. He works with some of the leading brands in Greece and abroad such as Allianz, Mondelez, Aegean Airlines, Heineken, to support data-driven strategic decisions.
Costas Mantziaris is speaker of the following session:
Sephen Pickett, Ph.D. works in the Computational Chemistry department at GlaxoSmithKline, leading a team of scientists applying state of the art computational methods to drug discovery. He has over 20 years experience in pharmaceutical R&D and is an author of over 40 peer-reviewed scientific articles and six patent applications.
Stephen Pickett is speaker of the following session:
Enda is Data Scientist with over 10 years experience and author of the book "Guerrilla Analytics – a practical approach to working with data". He is currently building a Data Science team and capability at Sainsbury's, one of the UK's largest grocery retailers.
Enda has significant experience across the predictive analytics life cycle. He has worked in pre-sales of social network software for fraud detection and as a professional services consultant helping clients in government, financial services, insurance, and audit. His Data Science has been reported to high-profile stakeholders including regulators, banking CROs, government committees and international bodies. Enda's PhD was in "Design of Experiments for Tuning Algorithms", establishing methodical approaches to evaluating predictive analytics solutions.
You can find further information at: http://guerrilla-analytics.net.
Enda Ridge is speaker of the following session:
Sandro Saitta is a Data Scientist Manager at Expedia. He has 7 years of experience in different industries such as Civil Engineering, Finance, Telco, Security and Travel. More particularly, he applied data science in topics such as system identification, stock picking, online advertising, ink authentication and competitive intelligence. He is a blogger at www.dataminingblog.com and President of the Swiss Association for Analytics (www.swiss-analytics.com). Sandro holds a Master and PhD in Computer Science from EPFL.
Sandro Saitta is speaker of the following session:
Victor Schlegel
Head Business Intelligence/BigData Services
Victor Schlegel began his career in Japan at Fujitsu Inc., Global Marketing Department. After further positions at T-Systems and Credit Suisse where he worked as Black Belt in efficiency projects, he took the position in the strategy department of Swisscom Inc., where he developed and rolled out analytical services.
Information about Victor Schlegel's session will follow soon.
Véronique Van Vlasselaer graduated magna cum laude as Master Information Systems Engineer at the faculty of Business and Economics, KU Leuven (Belgium). For her master thesis topic "Mining Data on Twitter", she received the best thesis award from the faculty's student branch.
In 2012, Véronique started as a Ph.D researcher with prof. Bart Baesens at the Faculty of Business of Economics at KU Leuven, department of Decision Sciences and Information Management. Her main research topics include social network analytics, fraud detection and net lift modeling.
Veronique Van Vlasselaer is speaker of the following session:
Werner is Finance Director at Bookit BV, a short break specialist for hotels and holiday parks with market leading positions in the Netherlands, the main website are Weekendjeweg.nl and BungalowS.nl. He holds an MSc in Environmental Science and Business Administration, as well as an executive master in finance & control. Werner is a heavy R user and a big-data enthusiast.
Werner Vorstmann is speaker of the following session:
Phil Winters is known internationally as The Father of Customer Intelligence. An independent business advisor, author, keynote lecturer and workshop leader with 35+ years' experience working with some 300 companies, he focuses on Customer Intelligence and championing the customer perspective to help organizations raise customer value through outstanding customer experience.
Phil Winters is speaker of the following session:
Ralph is heading up GfK Data Lab – a new, global Data Science team that focuses on researching, leveraging, and enhancing GfK's data landscape, experimenting with new data sources, and developing valuable data-driven products.
He started his career in GfK's Marketing & Data Science unit in 2005 and quickly became a renowned methodology expert in the market research community. Prior to launching the Data Lab, Ralph was part of the Global Innovation team, managing all stages of GfK's innovation process – from continuous monitoring of emerging digital trends and strategy development to the roll-out of new, innovative market research tools.
Ralph holds a PHD in statistics and is author of numerous articles and conference papers.
Ralph Wirth is speaker of the following session:
David is Professor of Statistics at Durham University , and Director there of the Mathematical Sciences Consultancy Unit. He has been working in the area of applied statistics for around 40 years, with particular interests in Bayesian statistics and applications of statistics to commercial and industrial problems. He has published around 70 articles and books on a wide variety of applications. For the past six years he has been deeply involved in developing award-winning statistical methods and predictive analytics in digital commerce, in collaboration with Summit.
David Wooff is speaker of the following session:
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