As faculty and staff, you may come into contact with students who are struggling and/or in need of extra assistance. There are many reasons why students may be struggling or in distress, including relationship difficulties, stress, physical or mental health issues, academic challenges, or financial problems. Students may provide a number of signs that they are having difficulty. Being aware of these signals, as well as resources to help, plays an important role in supporting student success at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
We have designed several resources, materials, presentations, and trainings, specifically for faculty and instructors.
The Student Assistance Center in the Office of the Dean of Students offers presentations and specialized trainings to students, faculty, and staff on a variety of issues impacting students' lives. Please review our available presentations (pdf) and visit the link below to submit a request for a presentation. Please understand that while we will make every effort to meet your requests, we may have a high volume of requests and/or student need at certain times of the year. To make the best use of our services, we generally request at least 15 people and a minimum of 30 minutes with your group. If you have any questions or concerns, please let us know!
The Student Assistance Center in the Office of the Dean of Students offers brochures and magnets on a variety of our programs and services. To request materials for your office or class, please complete the information at the link below at least one week before you would like to have the requested items. Please understand that certain times of the year may result in a large volume of requests for materials. We will do our best to accommodate your request.
Students face a number of challenges throughout their academic life here at Illinois, which include increased responsibility, academic and personal stress, complex relationships, drugs and alcohol, and emerging psychological difficulty. It is our hope that you, as a faculty member, will recognize some basic signs of distress and respond with care, concern, and support. This resource outlines campus support services, signs of distress, and practical ways you can intervene to support a student in distress.
Classroom disruptions can be signs of a student in distress, or acts of ignorance and disrespect that indicate a student is now aware of the impact their behavior has on the broader classroom environment. Common examples include students who persistently arrive late to class in a disruptive manner, loudly and frequently interrupts class, or responds inappropriately to the professor or peers. The resource outlines three levels of responding to such behavior, with suggested action steps and offices to consult along the way.
The Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning provides several wonderful teaching and learning resources to assist faculty and staff who manage courses. In particular, you may find their information on creating a syllabus and teaching in specific contexts to be useful as you plan for your courses each semester.
Because students may not always be eligible to obtain an absence letter for a missed class/classes, this resource is intended to provide example course policies regarding such instances.
Because students may not always be eligible to obtain an absence letter for a missed exam, this resource is intended to provide example course policies regarding such instances. It is not an exhaustive list, and is simply a resource of examples from your academic colleagues across the country who also must manage student absences from tests/exams.
We recognize that it can sometimes be difficult to support students in your class, particularly when you have several hundred students per section! However, sometimes all it takes is a small effort, and including information about support in your syllabus is one way to do this. Below we have included some syllabus language that outlines support resources on campus, and encourages students to refer others or themselves when they notice behavior that worries them. We would appreciate if you consider using this language in your syllabus, and when communicating with students about your expectations for the classroom setting. Please help us promote a caring campus community by providing critical information and resources to your students.
The University of Illinois expects and encourages students to maintain a reasonable concern for their own self-welfare. One of the times the University formally requires that such a concern be maintained is in the area of suicide. The University of Illinois Suicide Prevention Team coordinates the timely response, intervention, and support to students who are engaging in suicidal behavior in order to facilitate a safe, respectful, and productive educational environment for all students.
In the event that the University is presented with a credible report that a student has threatened or attempted suicide, engaged in efforts to prepare to commit suicide or expressed a preoccupation with suicide, that student will be required to attend four sessions of professional assessment. The purpose of this assessment is to provide the student with resources to adhere to this standard in the future and to monitor the student's willingness and ability to adhere to this standard.
The University of Illinois community cares about the well being of every student. To ensure that students who are distressed get the support they need, the University of Illinois Counseling Center has partnered with Kognito At-Risk to provide online training simulations. We hope that each faculty/staff member and each student will participate in this Kognito At-Risk training, which will help you to better identify, support, and connect distressed students with campus services. Kognito At-Risk has the feel of a video game as you make choices about what to say and do in conversations with students who may be distressed. It takes just 30-40 minutes to complete. Choose from faculty/staff or student modules. There are also specific modules for reaching out to students who are military veterans and those who identify as transgender.
Identify students who are at risk for suicide.
Motivate distressed students to seek help.
Put students in touch with support services.
Outreach and prevention services include providing consultation services to academic and other student service units across campus. The Counseling Center has worked to establish strong relationships across various units on campus. Currently we provide direct liaison services to the College of Engineering, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Graduate College, and all cultural centers on campus. Our clinical staff also provides services to family housing and campus housing. The liaison service provides clinical consultation to students within the units and/or develops programming designed to meet their psychological and developmental needs. If you would like to access liaison services, please contact the appropriate staff member listed here.
What happens when I refer a student?
Often, the first step following a referral is for SAC staff to contact you to gather additional information. This can help to provide additional useful context for the behavior, and ultimately helps SAC staff determine the most appropriate way to follow-up with the student. SAC staff will also provide you with resources and strategies for working with the student and managing the situation.
What happens next depends on the behaviors described, the urgency of the situation, and other information we may know about the student. In some cases, it may be best for you to follow-up directly with the student to outline your concerns. In other cases, SAC staff may reach out. We will talk with you about all of the possible steps.
Can I make a confidential referral?
Many people are concerned that students will be upset when learning that they were referred to our office. In most cases, students are very appreciative that someone has expressed a concern; they understand that the referral was because someone cares about their health, wellness, and success at Illinois.
It is difficult to share concerns with a student about their behavior without sharing the source of that information. Additionally, students may have only behaved this way in one setting, or shared certain information once, which makes it easy for them to determine the reporting party. If you have specific concerns about making a referral and how your name may be used, please contact us before you submit a referral. We can be reached at (217) 333-0050.
I have a student being disruptive during class. Can I have them removed from my section?
Many classroom disruptions, such as consistently arriving late to class or leaving early, interrupting the lecture at inappropriate times, and inappropriate use of technology, food, or drink, are examples of disrespectful behavior that are not indicative of a broader concern. In these cases, we recommend that you share your concerns with the student in a private setting. This also provides you with an opportunity to talk with the student about whether or not they would benefit from additional support or resources. Learn more about how to manage classroom disruptions (pdf).
What do I do if a student is missing or I cannot get in touch with them?
Sometimes it is difficult if students are missing or simply voluntarily non-communicative. Students are adults, and able to make independent decisions regarding their attendance and assignments. If you are concerned about the well-being of a student who has not responded to your efforts at contacting him/her, but you do not believe it is an emergency, you can call the main Student Assistance Center line at (217) 333-0050 during business hours, or UIPD after hours at (217) 333-1216. We will put systems in place to attempt to contact your student, inform him/her of your concern, and ask that he/she contact you. If a student has been missing for over 24 hours or you have other reasons to be immediately concerned about a student, please contact UIPD at (217) 333-1216 or 911.
In either type of situation, after the student has been located, the Student Assistance Center will work with that student to coordinate any longer term medical or academic care to work to prevent a similar situation from arising.


With increasing environmental concerns and greenhouse effects, almost every country is looking for ways to mitigate these concerns. Solar energy reaching the Earth's surface provides an energy supply potential surpassing the power consumption of our civilization by three orders of magnitude. Still, this immense source of energy is unused because of certain very specific problems such as high cost, low throughput, available only at morning, etc. There are three major developments that need to be done in a reasonably short timeframe to achieve the terawatt-scale power generation capacities using solar cells. These three major developments include high and durable power conversion efficiency, sufficient and low-cost material availability and low-cost processing.
Thin-film chalcogenide materials, in particular, CuInGa(S, Se)2 (CIGS) and CdTe, have attracted considerable attention in past few years and are already commercialized in the market for large-scale PV manufacturing. Chalcogenide-based materials offer stable and efficient (above 10%) photovoltaic modules fabricated by scalable thin-film technologies. Still, these materials hold just 7% of solar-cell market share that is led by Si-based solar cells with almost 90% of market share. Indium and Tellurium are the rare materials that certainly act as a limiting factor in the mass production of these kinds of solar cell but Indium-free kesterite-related materials such as Cu2ZnSnS4 and Cu2ZnSn(S, Se)4 (collectively referred to as CZTSSe) are under R&D. In kesterite materials, indium is replaced with earth-abundant zinc and tin metals and sulphur is substituted at for sulphur to tune the band gap from 1.0 to 1.5 eV.
How a thin film solar cell work?
As the name suggest, unlike Si-solar cells in a thin-film solar cell the absorber material is deposited over a relatively cheap substrate such as glass, plastic or metal foil that significantly reduces the cost. These kind of thin-film structures have many advantages over Si-based solar cells. Some of the materials which are generally deposited over the substrate for solar cells fabrication include Cadmium Telluride (CdTe), Cadmium Sulphide (CdS), Copper Indium Gallium Selenide (CIGS), Amorphous Si, Tandem cells based on Si, Polycrystalline Si and GaAs. In all of these materials, CIGS and CdTe based solar cells are most popular in thin-film solar cells market. The basic concept of working is similar to Si-based solar cells except direct band materials are used as a base for fabrication of these kinds of solar cell. Once the thin film is deposited a heterojunction or a p-n junction is created by deposition of suitable material which helps in the extraction of photo generated electrons and holes. These electrons and holes are then drifted or diffused toward corresponding metal contacts so that the current can be generated. In these kinds of devises, the I-V curve starts in the fourth quadrant and ends in the first quadrant, unlike normal transistors where I-V is restricted to the first quadrant. As can be understood, the power would be negative for the fourth quadrant so we can harness the energy and store it for further use.
What makes Chalcogenide better than Si-based solar cells?
Si-based solar cells are most famous among people, therefore, let's compare Si solar cells Vs. Chalcogenide solar cells.
Si-based solar cell modules are fabricated on wafers that are almost 35-microns thick whereas thin-film solar cells use only a few microns of material to absorb complete visible range sunlight.
The band gap engineering in Si-based solar cells cannot be attained easily whereas band gap in chalcogenide based solar cells can be engineered just by changing concentration of Sulphur and Selenium in the CIGS materials.
In general, heavy and costly machinery are used for making of Si-based solar cells whereas chalcogenide based solar cells can be fabricated with ultrahigh-throughput coating techniques such as liquid-based printing or casting.
Both CdTe and CIGSSe technologies yield efficiencies greater than 15% (16.7% for CdTe and 20.1% for CIGSSe that is not far behind of crystalline Si technology.
Overall Chalcogenide based solar cells seem to a better option than Si-based solar cells but there are other factors such as low efficiency, durability, use of rare earth materials, lack of R&D, etc. which needs to be solved before this material can compete with Si-based solar cells market.
The quest to develop thin-film solution processing approaches that offer low-cost and preferably low-temperature large scale deposition, while simultaneously providing quality semiconductor characteristics, has become an important area of research among solar cells material scientists. While inorganic compounds offer the potential for outstanding electronic properties when compared to organic systems, the very nature of these materials rendering them good electronic materials—namely strong covalent bonding—also leads to poor solubility. Poor solubility makes the band gap engineering tough. So, material scientists are looking for ways in which the solubility of metals in these chalcogenide compounds can be increased. In addition to it, there is the lot of research going on to find the replacement of rare earth materials such as In, Ga and Te, which are used for making efficient chalcogenide based solar cells.
There is no doubt that chalcogenide materials have shown excellent overall performance, both in device and commercial viability, and in future can be a good replacement for Si-based solar cells. The present efficiency record already shows promise for practical commercial applications, though there is still room for further improvement by changing the solution processing chemistry and using different technologies such as heterojunction, tandem, light trapping etc.


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Morning Interuptus – lisapomerantzster: Are we there yet?
Since we moved from our house to our new digs at the Manor, I've made a new friend. Only this is a very different kind of friendship. You see we've never met. Our apartment view looks out over the parking lot and into the senior home next door. Each morning, as I rise at 4:30 am and look out the windows, I see darkness with bits of information brightened by the parking lot security lighting.
I go about my morning routine, as a true creature of habit tinged with OCD, in the extreme quiet (well, silent as apartment living allows—yes, that is clearly directed to those of you who live in T-4, right above us), savoring my one-cup of coffee over a nice nosh and playing Words with Friends with the greatest sister one can imagine. I read some news online, answer some emails, do maybe one or six loads of laundry…partner and children sleeping soundly, with hours to go, and I bask in my new definition of quiet time.
I start my Tai Chi practice around 6:00 am and almost daily, at 6:32, my pal past the pavement, springs to life. I know this because I can see, through my own myopic vision (no binoculars or surveillance tools), the lights dancing across the TV screen through the windows. I imagine the volume at stunning capacity. And, I am so utterly content in knowing that this new friend of mine (who wouldn't know me, nor I know he or she, if we fell on top of one another) has arisen and began their daily regiment. I mentally nod and say, "Good morning," smiling between my Tai Chi forms, and finding solace in how we begin another day, together.
And then Ben Franklin, his farmer buddies and U.S. Federal Law steps in from centuries ago, and forces us all with the task of turning back the clocks. Even Cher can't "Turn Back Time." Yet we do. Since I am not gleaning any crops for harvest and despise the early loss of daylight, I find this action absurd and downright ludicrous for our modern times. Even more illogical, this changing of time gives me reason to align with the state of Arizona, who says, "Nope, we're not gonna do it." Me, aligning with Arizona! Mishegas.
Worse than my now lack of daylight, and perhaps tinged with a touch of SAD, the sun rises earlier (crop-crap) and I can no longer tell how my friend is doing. I can no longer observe good morning TV or any signs of life across the way. With the morning light, I see bubkes and I find myself a little worried about my buddy. Okay, maybe more than a little.
And I guess really, when I think more about it, it is not just my new friend that concerns me. As one of two moms in this family, I've watched my two wee ones grow to be 5 and 7 ½, in what feels like thirty seconds. Dare I blink for fear that we will be attending college (can we home-college them)? I know how the first half of the car gas tank goes so slowly, and then, before you know it, you are on 'E' with disco lights, warning alarms, and strange dashboard symbols (German engineering at its finest) reminding you of the artist, formerly known as Prince.
I get shpilkes (anxiety) when I think how very precious each and every moment is with my family. And then I get over it and regain presence. You see, have not found a way to be both present and worried at the same time. It just doesn't work.
And now, with my family, a new day begins.
And to my pal past the pavement, I do hope to see you when we spring ahead. Until then, know you are in my thoughts, and part of my every day.


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Michael covers news and issues primarily in Northwest Indiana, Chicago's Southeast side and South Suburbs.
The first 13 years of Michael's journalism career was in print. He's worked for the Post-Tribune of Northwest Indiana (part of the Sun-Times Media Group) and the Daily Herald based in Arlington Heights, Ill. Michael got his start in radio as co-host of the Latin Lingo Show on WJOB AM 1230 in Hammond. He joined WBEZ in 2006.
The NWI Studio in Crown Point is WBEZ's only studio outside the City of Chicago. He earned a B.A. in Communications from Calumet College of St. Joseph in Hammond, Indiana where he now teaches as an adjunct professor.
Michael's stories on WBEZ have earned more than three dozen awards including from the Indiana and Illinois Associated Press broadcasters associations, Indiana Society of Professional Journalists, the Chicago Headline Club, and National Headliner Awards. Michael is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and a former board member of the Latino Council on the Media of Chicago.
Michael is an avid White Sox, Bulls, Blackhawks and Bears fan. He also acts on occasion in community theater in Northwest Indiana.
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The Catholic Church in India is part of the worldwide Catholic Church under the leadership of the Pope. There are over 20 million Catholics in India, representing around 1.55% of the total population, and the Catholic Church is the single largest Christian church in India. There are 10,701 parishes that make up 174 dioceses and eparchies, which are organised into 29 ecclesiastical provinces. Of these, 132 dioceses are of the Latin Church, 31 of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church & 11 of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church. Despite the very small population that Indian Catholics make up percentage wise, India still has the second-largest Christian population in Asia after the Catholic Church in the Philippines.

All Catholic bishops from all dioceses, come together to form the Catholic Bishops Conference of India, first convened in British India, 1944. The Vatican City's representative ambassador to the government of India, is the Apostolic Nuncio to India. The diplomatic mission of the Holy See to India, similar to an embassy, was established as the Apostolic delegation to the East Indies in 1881. It was raised to an Internunciature by Pope Pius XII in 1948, and to a full Apostolic Nunciature by Pope Paul VI in 1967. Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli  is the current Apostolic Nuncio named by Pope Francis on 13 March 2021. The Nunciature is located at 50-C, Niti Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi.

History

Early Christianity in India

Christianity reached India in AD 52 when Thomas the Apostle reached Muziris in Malabar Coast presently called the state of Kerala. He preached Christianity in Eastern and Western coasts of India. These Saint Thomas Christians are known as Nasrani, which is a Syriac term meaning Follower of the Nazarene Jesus. The Christian community in India later came under the jurisdiction of Bishops from Persia. Historians estimate this date to be around the fourth century. As a result, they inherited East Syriac liturgy and traditions of Persia. Later, when the Western missionaries reached India, they accused this community of practicing Nestorianism, a heresy that separates Christ's divinity from his human nature. They formed the most ancient church, diocese, and metropolitan province in the Indian subcontinent and the Far East. The East Syriac diocese of India was elevated as a metropolitan province in the eighth century by Patriarch Ishoyab III. In the words of Pope John Paul II, this community, while being a part of the East Syriac Church, had never broken the communion with the worldwide catholic Church explicitly. Today, the continuity of this early Christian community is found in the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, an Oriental Church in communion with Catholic Church, following East Syriac traditions.

Early missionaries

John of Monte Corvino was a Franciscan sent to China to become prelate of Peking in around 1307. He travelled from Persia and moved down by sea to India, in 1291, to the Madras region or "Country of St. Thomas". There he preached for thirteen months and baptised about one hundred persons. From there Monte Corvino wrote home, in December 1291 (or 1292). That is one of the earliest noteworthy accounts of the Coromandel coast furnished by any Western European. Travelling by sea from Mailapur, he reached China in 1294, appearing in the capital "Cambaliech" (now Beijing).

Friar Odoric of Pordenone arrived in India in 1321. He visited Malabar, touching at Pandarani (20 m. north of Calicut), at Cranganore, and at Kulam or Quilon, proceeding thence, apparently, to Ceylon and to the shrine of St Thomas at Maylapur near Madras. He writes he had found the place where Thomas was buried.

Father Jordanus Catalanus, a French Dominican missionary, followed in 1321–22. He reported to Rome, apparently from somewhere on the west coast of India, that he had given Christian burial to four martyred monks. Jordanus is known for his 1329 "Mirabilia" describing the marvels of the East: he furnished the best account of Indian regions and the Christians, the products, climate, manners, customs, fauna and flora given by any European in the Middle Ages – superior even to Marco Polo's.

The Diocese of Quilon headquartered at Kollam is the first Roman Catholic diocese in India in the state of Kerala, first erected on 9 August 1329 and re-erected on 1 September 1886. In 1329 Pope John XXII (in captivity at Avignon) erected Quilon as the first Diocese in the whole Indies as suffragan to the Archdiocese of Sultany in Persia, through the decree "Romanus Pontifix" dated 9 August 1329. By a separate Bull "Venerabili Fratri Jordano", the same Pope, on 21 August 1329 appointed the French Dominican friar Jordanus Catalani de Severac (OP) as the first Bishop of Quilon.
(Copies of the Orders and the related letters issued by Pope John XXII to Bishop Jordanus Catalani (OP) and to the diocese of Quilon are documented and preserved in the diocesan archives).
In 1347, Giovanni de Marignolli visited the shrine of St Thomas near the modern Madras, and then proceeded to what he calls the kingdom of Saba, and identifies with the Sheba of Scripture, but which seems from various particulars to have been Java. Taking ship again for Malabar on his way to Europe, he encountered great storms.

Another prominent Indian traveller was Joseph, priest over Cranganore. He journeyed to
Babylon in 1490 and then sailed to Europe and visited Portugal, Rome, and Venice before returning to India. He helped to write a book about his travels titled The Travels of Joseph the Indian which was widely disseminated across Europe.

Arrival of the Portuguese
In 1453, the fall of Constantinople, a bastion of Christianity in Asia Minor to Islamic Ottoman Empire, marked the end of the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantine Empire, and severed European trade links by land with Asia. This massive blow to Christendom spurred the age of discovery as Europeans were seeking alternative routes east by sea along with the goal of forging alliances with pre-existing Christian nations. Along with pioneer Portuguese long-distance maritime travellers, that reached the Malabar Coast in the late 15th century, came Portuguese missionaries who introduced the Latin Catholic church in India. They made contact with the St Thomas Christians in Kerala, which at that time were following Eastern Christian practices and were under the jurisdiction of Church of the East.

In the 16th century, the proselytism of Asia was linked to the Portuguese colonial policy. The Papal bull Romanus Pontifex, written on 8 January 1455 by Pope Nicholas V to King Afonso V of Portugal, confirmed to the Crown of Portugal dominion over all lands discovered or conquered during the age of discovery. Further, the patronage for the propagation of the Christian faith (see "Padroado") in Asia was given to the Portuguese. The missionaries of the different orders (Franciscans, Dominicans, Jesuits, Augustinians, etc.) flocked out with the conquerors, and began at once to build churches along the coastal districts where the Portuguese power made itself felt.

The history of Portuguese missionaries in India starts with the neo-apostles who reached Kappad near Kozhikode on 20 May 1498 along with the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama who was seeking to form anti-Islamic alliances with pre-existing Christian nations. The lucrative spice trade was further temptation for the Portuguese crown. When he and the Portuguese missionaries arrived they found no Christians in the country, except in Malabar known as St. Thomas Christians who represented less than 2% of the total population and the then-largest Christian church within India. The Christians were friendly to Portuguese missionaries at first; there was an exchange of gifts between them, and these groups were delighted at their common faith.

During the second expedition, the Portuguese fleet comprising 13 ships and 18 priests, under Captain Pedro Álvares Cabral, anchored at Cochin on 26 November 1500. Cabral soon won the goodwill of the Raja of Cochin. He allowed four priests to do apostolic work among the early Christian communities scattered in and around Cochin. Thus Portuguese missionaries established Portuguese Mission in 1500. Dom Francisco de Almeida, the first Portuguese Viceroy, got permission from the Kochi Raja to build two church edifices – namely Santa Cruz Basilica (founded 1505) and St. Francis Church (founded 1506) using stones and mortar which was unheard of at that time as the local prejudices were against such a structure for any purpose other than a royal palace or a temple.

Primate of the East
In the beginning of the 16th century, the whole of the East Indies were under the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Lisbon. On 12 June 1514, Cochin, Goa& Bombay-Bassein became the prominent fields of missionary activity, under the newly created Diocese of Funchal in Madeira. In 1534, Pope Paul III, by the Bull Quequem Reputamus, raised Funchal as an archdiocese and Goa as its suffragan, deputing the whole of India under the diocese of Goa. This created an episcopal see – suffragan to Funchal, with a jurisdiction extending potentially over all past and future conquests from the Cape of Good Hope to China.

Portuguese explorers arrived in Chennai in 1523 and built the Santhome Church over the tomb of Saint Thomas the Apostle, it was the first church in Chennai. In 1545, Saint Francis Xavier visited this church, prayed in the Tomb of St. Thomas and stayed for about one year before his Apostolic trip to China. This church was later elevated to the status of a cathedral in 1606 by Pope Paul V, with the inauguration of the Diocese of Saint Thomas of Mylapore at the request of Portuguese King. Later the cathedral church was rebuilt by the British in 1896 with the style of Neo Gothic. It was made a basilica in 1927 by Pope Pius XII.

Around 1540, missionaries from the newly founded Society of Jesus arrived in Goa. The Portuguese government supported their work, as well as the work of the other religious orders in Goa (Dominicans, Franciscans, etc.) who had been arriving since the Portuguese conquest of Goa in 1510. Native Goans who converted were rewarded by the government with Portuguese citizenship. At the same time, many New Christians from Portugal migrated to India as a result of the Portuguese Inquisition. Many of them were suspected of being Crypto-Jews and Crypto-Muslims, converted Jews and Muslims who were secretly practicing their old religions. Both were considered a threat to the solidarity of Christian belief. Saint Francis Xavier, in a 1545 letter to John III of Portugal, requested the Goan Inquisition but the tribunal was set up only in 1560.

In 1557, Goa was made an independent archbishopric, and its first suffragan sees were erected at Cochin and Malacca. The whole of the East came under the jurisdiction of Goa and its boundaries extended to almost half of the world: from the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, to Burma, China and Japan in East Asia. In 1576 the suffragan See of Macao (China) was added; and in 1588, that of Funai in Japan.

The death of the last East Syriac metropolitan Archbishop – Mar Abraham of the Saint Thomas Christians, an ancient body formerly part of the Church of the East in 1597; gave the then Archbishop of Goa Menezes an opportunity to bring the native church under the authority of the Latin Catholic hierarchy. He was able to secure the submission of Archdeacon George, the highest remaining representative of the native church hierarchy. Menezes convened the Synod of Diamper between 20 and 26 June 1599, which introduced a number of reforms to the church and brought it fully into the his control. Following the Synod, Menezes consecrated Francis Ros, SJ, as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Angamalé for the Saint Thomas Christians; this created another suffragan see to Archdiocese of Goa and Latinisation of St Thomas Christians started, against the wish of St Thomas Christians (East Syrian Tradition). The Saint Thomas Christians were pressured to acknowledge the authority of the Pope and most of them eventually accepted the Catholic faith, but a part of them switched to West Syriac Rite. Resentment of these measures led some part of the community to join the Archdeacon Thomas, in swearing never to submit to the Portuguese or to accept Jesuits as their masters in the Coonan Cross Oath in 1653. Those who accepted the West Syrian theological and liturgical tradition of Mar Gregorios became known as Jacobites. The ones who continued with East Syriac liturgical tradition came to be formally known as the Syro-Malabar Church from the second half of the 19th century onward.

The Diocese of Angamaly was transferred to Diocese of Craganore in 1605; while, in 1606 a sixth suffragan see to Goa was established at San Thome, Mylapore, near the modern Madras. The suffragan sees added later to Goa were the prelacy of Mozambique (1612) and in 1690 two other sees at Peking and Nanking in China.

Missionary work progressed on a large scale along the western coasts, chiefly in Portuguese Bombay and Bassein, that extended from Damaon and Diu, to Salsette Island& Chaul, the missions were a great success until the Mahratta Invasions of Goa and Bassein, during which a number of churches and convents were demolished. Conversions were also carried out on the eastern coasts at San Thome of Mylapore and as far as Portuguese Chittagong, and beyond Bengal in the East Indies. In the southern districts the Jesuit mission in Madura was the most famous. It extended to the Krishna river, with a number of outlying stations beyond it. The mission of Cochin, on the Malabar Coast, was also one of the most fruitful. Several missions were also established in the interior northwards, e.g., that of Agra and Lahore in 1570 and that of Tibet in 1624. Still, even with these efforts, the greater part even of the coast line was by no means fully worked, and many vast tracts of the interior northwards were practically untouched.

With the decline of the Portuguese power, other colonial powers – namely the Dutch and British and Christian organisations – gained influence.

18th century
Bettiah Christians, the northern Indian subcontinent's oldest Christian community, was established in the 18th century by Italian Christian missionaries belonging to the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, a Roman Catholic religious order. The patron of the Bettiah Christian Mission was Maharaja Dhurup Singh, king of the Bettiah Raj in Hindustan, who requested Giuseppe Maria Bernini to treat his ill wife and was successful in doing so. The Bettiah Christian Mission flourished under the patronage of the royal court of the Bettiah Rajas, growing in number.

The Portuguese spread the Catholic faith in Goa, then in Cape Comorin, inland districts of Madurai and the western coast of Bassein, Salcette, Bombay, Karanja, and Chaul. With the advent of suppression of Jesuits in 1773 the missionary expansion declined in India along with the need for organisations within the Church in India. Especially when the Vicar Apostolate of Bombay was erected in 1637 which was under the direct ruling from Rome, this caused misunderstanding between the Portuguese missionary and the Apostolate. The Inquisition of Goa had caused strained relationship and mistrust with the Hindus of India. The strained relations between the Church and the Portuguese missionaries reached a climax when in 1838 the Holy See cancelled the jurisdiction of the three suffragan Sees of Crangaqnore, Cochin, and Mylapur and transferred it to the nearest vicars Apostolic, and did the same with regard to certain portions of territory which had formerly been under the authority of Goa itself. Finally in 1886 another concordat was established, and at the same time the whole country was divided into ecclesiastical provinces, and certain portions of territory, withdrawn in 1838, were restored to the jurisdiction of the Portuguese sees.

Role in the Indian independence movement
On 30 October 1945 in the All India Conference of Indian Christians (AICIC) formed a joint committee with the Catholic Union of India to form a joint committee that passed a resolution in which, "in the future constitution of India, the profession, practice and propagation of religion should be guaranteed and that a change of religion should not involve any civil or political disability." This joint committee enabled the Christians in India to stand united, and in front of the British Parliamentary Delegation "the committee members unanimously supported the move for independence and expressed complete confidence in the future of the community in India." The office for this joint committee was opened in Delhi, in which the Vice-Chancellor of Andhra University M. Rahnasamy served as President and B.L. Rallia Ram of Lahore served as General Secretary. Six members of the joint committee were elected to the Minorities Committee of the Constituent Assembly of India. In its meeting on 16 April 1947 and 17 April 1947, the joint committee of the All India Conference of Indian Christians and All India Catholic Union prepared a 13 point memorandum that was sent to the Constituent Assembly, which asked for religious freedom for both organisations and individuals; this came to be reflected in the Constitution of India.

Social services

Concern with charity was common to Catholics and Protestants, but with one major difference: whilst the former believe that salvation comes from faith in God which manifests itself in good works such as charity, the latter could not rely on such a possibility, since they believe that only one's faith is a requisite of salvation, and that one's works are insufficient to gain or lose salvation. Consequently, Catholic charitable efforts in India have been extensive.

In Portuguese India, for instance, Saint Francis Xavier and his fellow missionaries were especially careful to help the local charitable institutions by tending to the sick, both spiritually and physically, and performing other works of mercy. The Jesuits' educational institutions have left a prestigious impact through their education institutions. Education has become the major priority for the Church in India in recent years with nearly 60% of the Catholic schools situated in rural areas. Even in the early part of the 19th century, Catholic schools had emphasised relief for the poor and their welfare.

In 2019, Father Vineeth George, a 38-year-old Catholic priest, was awarded as the 'Best Citizen of India'. The title is an acknowledgment of his work with the marginalized in the north of the country.

Statistics
Statistics for 2011
Bishops: 126
Diocesan priests: 9,322
Religious priests: 6,765
Religious brothers: 2,528
Religious Sisters: 50,112
Colleges and schools: 14,429
Training Institutes: 1,086
Hospitals and dispensaries: 1,826
Publications: 292

See also

Bombay East Indian Catholics
Goan Catholics
Goan Catholics under the British Empire
Latin Catholics of Malabar
List of Catholic dioceses in India
List of Catholic churches in India
List of saints of India
Reddy Catholics
Bettiah Christians
Mangalorean Christians
Christianity in India

References

Literature

 Christopher Becker, SDB, The Catholic Church in Northeast India 1890–1915, Revised & edited by Sebastian Karotemprel, S.D.B., Becker Institute Sacred Heart Theological College: Shillong 2007, 488 pp.,

External links

GCatholic.org
Catholic Encyclopedia article on India
Catholic Bishop's Conference of India
Syro-Malankara Church
Syro Malankara Catholic Church International website
Our Lady of Snow Kallikulam, Tamil Nadu, India
Our Lady of Snows Church, Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, India

Catholic Church by country
Catholicism in India
1st-century establishments in India


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Alisa Perren is an associate professor in the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research and teaching interests include television studies, media industry studies, US film and television history, and media convergence.
Dr. Perren is co-editor of Media Industries: History, Theory, and Method (Blackwell, 2009) and author of Indie, Inc.: Miramax and the Transformation of Hollywood in the 1990s (University of Texas Press, 2012). Her work has appeared in a range of publications, including Film Quarterly, Journal of Film and Video, Journal of Popular Film & Television, Cinema Journal, Managing Media Work, and Moving Data. Her current book project is The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood, co-authored with Gregory Steirer for BFI's International Screen Industries series.
From 2010 to 2013, Perren served as Coordinating Editor for In Media Res, an online project experimenting with collaborative, multi-modal forms of scholarship. She is co-founder and a member of the editorial collective for Media Industries, an online, peer-reviewed, open-access journal. She also served as co-managing editor for Media Industries from 2012 to 2017. Perren is the organizer of Media Industry Conversations, a speakers series through which industry professionals discuss today's evolving media landscape.
Some of her research as well as sample syllabi can be viewed here.


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Paris Fintech Forum: Distributed Lab's founder Pavel Kravchenko to consider blockchain as the next big thing in asset management
From left to right: Paolo Sironi, FinTech Thought Leader, IBM (Germany); Olga Feldmeier, CEO SmartValor (Switzerland); Pavel Kravchenko, founder at Distributed lab (Ukraine)
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The Paris Fintech Forum is among the biggest European fintech events. Over 30 & 31 January 2018 for two days it brought together more than 2000 participants, and more than 200+ CEOs from all continents and 45+ countries. Distributed Lab's founder Pavel Kravchenko discussed blockchain as the next big thing in asset management at the Paris Fintech Forum
From left to right: Paolo Sironi, FinTech Thought Leader, IBM (Germany); Olga Feldmeier, CEO
SmartValor (Switzerland); Pavel Kravchenko, founder at Distributed lab
(Ukraine)
Six keynote stages, panels & interviews, pitches & showcases, and workshops spotlighted the most innovative fintech ideas. Ministers of Finance from several European countries, institutional leaders, CEOs of major banks and Fintech unicorns gathered in January in Paris for what has now become the "Davos of digital finance and fintech ". Over the two days, all topics related to digital finance in general, and to Fintech in particular were discussed.
Pavel Kravchenko, founder of Blockchain expertise center Distributed Lab, took part in the 'Markets and Wealth Management Stage' panel discussion titled 'Is blockchain the next big thing in asset management industry?'. The founder of Distributed Lab and his opposite number, Olga Feldmeier, the CEO of SmartValor (a Swiss-based blockchain start-up, building a decentralized marketplace for tokenized alternative investments), debated the changing paradigms of investment, as well as the role of asset tokenization in improving the appeal of the asset management industry to mainstream investors.
As Pavel Kravchenko said: "We are on the edge of a major breakthrough, which will see new business models and applications of tokenization. These will become possible through technological improvements to cryptographic tools, mesh networks, networking infrastructure, and so on. Such new business models will largely rely on new synthesized types of assets, and will entail significant economic and social shifts."
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Pavel Kravchenko is a technology entrepreneur, cryptographer, software architect, blogger, public speaker and relentless dreamer.
Pavel studied information security since 2003, including topics in advanced cryptography. He then won a series of all-Ukrainian academic competitions (2005 -2007) and received awards for producing the best student research in 2007 and 2008.
Pavel received his PhD in Cryptography in 2012 from the Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics, after publishing a groundbreaking thesis on securing public infrastructure.
From 2006 to 2009, Pavel worked as a security engineer at the leading security company in Ukraine, was involved in an SAP security project, and built out the PKI infrastructure in Ukraine. From 2009 to 2013, Pavel was the team leader and project manager for several IT projects, including being responsible for Rabobank's mobile application development. Pavel started his blockchain and cryptocurrencies career and research at Silicon Valley startup, Stellar.
In 2014 Pavel cofounded Distributed Lab, a venture dedicated to advancing the cryptocurrency and blockchain state of the art through independent R&D, government projects, collaborations with national universities, and standard-setting initiatives. Beyond operating as a successful business, Distributed Lab has as a core mission developing cutting-edge enterprise tokenization solutions, laying the groundwork for the coming "Financial Internet". Distributed Lab now has 50 full-time and highly dedicated employees.
Distributed Lab organizes dozens of events every year for the Crypto community – ranging from intensive small-format meetups and hackathons to large-scale international conferences which draw 1000+ attendees. Pavel himself travels around the world to speak at conferences and give seminars. Pavel has conducted over ten full-term courses in universities on blockchain technology and related topics since 2014.
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MedX Health Corp. announced that Dr. Trevor Champagne, a clinician in Quality and Innovation at Toronto's Women's College Hospital, has joined its Medical Advisory Board. He is a board certified dermatologist in Canada and the United States.
Champagne has a bachelor's degree in mathematics in computer science from the University of Waterloo and a B.Sc. in molecular biology and biochemistry from Simon Fraser University. He received his medical degree from the University of Western Ontario and is a graduate of the University of Toronto Dermatology residency program. He is a Lecturer in the Division of Dermatology at the University of Toronto.
"The ability for a health care technology to succeed at creating a viable artificial intelligence product depends on both the quality of the product and the company's ability to understand the safest, most effective way to use it. I think MedX has both," said Champagne.
MedX, headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, is a medical device company focused on skin cancer with its SIAscopy technology that is imbedded in its products SIAMETRICS, SIMSYS, and MoleMate, which MedX manufactures in its ISO 13485 certified facility. SIAMETRICS, SIMSYS, and MoleMate include hand-held devices that use patented technology utilizing light and its remittance to view up to 2 mm beneath suspicious moles and lesions in a pain free, non-invasive manner, with its software then creating real-time images for physicians and dermatologists to evaluate all types of moles or lesions within seconds. These products are Health Canada, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, ARTG and CE cleared for use in Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, the European Union, and Turkey. MedX also designs, manufactures, and distributes quality laser and light therapy technologies to provide drug free and non-invasive treatment of tissue damage and pain.


The ACCOUNT_AGE_C field currently gets calculated by using the SYSDATE as source for that calculation.
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GSK appoints HSBC's Iain Mackay as CFO
GlaxoSmithKline has appointed Iain Mackay as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), marking another high-level appointment under new CEO Emma Walmsley. He joins from HSBC, where he has been Group Finance Director for the last 8 years.
Iain will join the company on 14 Janurary 2019 and will also be appointed as an Executive Director to the GSK Board. GSK announced in May that its current CFO, Simon Dingemans, is to retire in May 2019.
A chartered accountant, Iain has worked in Asia, the US and Europe and before HSBC was at General Electric, Schlumberger Dowell and Price Waterhouse. He is a trustee of the British Heart Foundation and a member of the Court of the University of Aberdeen.
GSK's CEO Emma Walmsley said: "I'm delighted to welcome Iain to GSK. As a proven CFO of a complex, regulated global organisation, he brings tremendous finance experience and will be a great addition to the team. He is a strong leader with a track record of driving cost, cash and capital allocation discipline to deliver strategy. These capabilities will be vital as we continue to implement our Innovation, Performance and Trust priorities for the benefit of patients and shareholders."
Since taking over as CEO in April last year, Walmsley has appointed Luke Miels as head of pharmaceuticals and Hal Barron as head of drug research, as well as finding a new head of digital operations in Karenann Terrell.
Philip Hampton, Chairman, GSK said: "On behalf of the Board I welcome Iain to GSK. His experience in different sectors and in complex, regulated environments will be valuable to the Board and I look forward to his contributions."
Simon Dingemans will continue to be accountable as CFO for GSK's financial governance through March 2019. There will be a transition period from 14 January when Iain is CFO Designate, with him taking formal accountability as CFO from 1 April.


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What is energy? Forms of energy
Scientists define energy as the ability to do work. Modern civilization is possible because people have learned how to change energy from one form to another and then use it to do work. We use energy to move cars along roads and boats through water, to cook food on stoves, to make ice in freezers, and to light our homes.
Many forms of energy exist, but they all fall into two basic categories:
Potential energy is stored energy and the energy of position.
Chemical energy is energy stored in the bonds of atoms and molecules. Batteries, biomass, petroleum, natural gas, and coal are examples of chemical energy. Chemical energy is converted to thermal energy when people burn wood in a fireplace or burn gasoline in a car's engine.
Mechanical energy is energy stored in objects by tension. Compressed springs and stretched rubber bands are examples of stored mechanical energy.
Nuclear energy is energy stored in the nucleus of an atom—the energy that holds the nucleus together. Large amounts of energy can be released when the nuclei are combined or split apart.
Gravitational energy is energy stored in an object's height. The higher and heavier the object, the more gravitational energy is stored. When a person rides a bicycle down a steep hill and picks up speed, the gravitational energy is converting to motion energy. Hydropower is another example of gravitational energy, where gravity forces water down through a hydroelectric turbine to produce electricity.
Kinetic energy is the motion of waves, electrons, atoms, molecules, substances, and objects.
Radiant energy is electromagnetic energy that travels in transverse waves. Radiant energy includes visible light, x-rays, gamma rays, and radio waves. Light is one type of radiant energy. Sunshine is radiant energy, which provides the fuel and warmth that make life on earth possible.
Thermal energy, or heat, is the energy that comes from the movement of atoms and molecules in a substance. Heat increases when these particles move faster. Geothermal energy is the thermal energy in the earth.
Motion energy is energy stored in the movement of objects. The faster they move, the more energy is stored. It takes energy to get an object moving, and energy is released when an object slows down. Wind is an example of motion energy. A dramatic example of motion energy is a car crash—a car comes to a total stop and releases all of its motion energy at once in an uncontrolled instant.
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Q: Relationship between areas of circles and spheres How can the surface area of a sphere be exactly 4 times the area of it's cross-sectional area? This seems too clean; why 4?
If I sliced 4 thin circles from the middle of a sphere and stuck them together (and was able to morph them)  would I end up with another hollow sphere?

A: Here the $4\pi$ should be viewed not as $4$ times $\pi$ but rather as $2$ times $2\pi$ and then there is a reasonably nice geometric explanation.  Namely, if you project the sphere to, say, the $z$-axis, then the inverse image of each small subsegment of $[-1,1]$ will have area $2\pi h$ where $h$ is the length of the subsegment. You see this particularly clearly in the case of a small subsegment around $0$ in which case you get a thin strip which is roughly the product of the equator (of length $2\pi$) by a segment of length $h$. Therefore the total area is $2\times 2\pi=4\pi$.
Four unit disks do have the same area as the unit sphere, but you can't patch them together without distorting them so as to form the sphere. One way of seeing it is in terms of a metric invariant called Gaussian curvature (this invariant vanishes for the disk but is equal to 1 for the sphere).

A: If you consider a cross-section of the sphere at a height $h$ above the equatorial plane, you get a circle of radius $\sqrt{r^2-h^2}$, and circumference $2\pi\sqrt{r^2-h^2}$.
Then you can be tempted to conclude that the area of the sphere is the average perimeter from $-r$ to $r$, which would yield $\pi^2r^2$.
But you must take into account the fact that the surface is not vertical but oblique and there is a correction factor equal to the secant of the angle of the normal, or $\dfrac r{\sqrt{r^2-h^2}}$.
So after simplification you are just integrating $2\pi r$ from $-r$ to $r$, which explains the factor $4$.
A geometric interpretation is by saying that any slice of small height $\delta h$ in a sphere has the same area (!)

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Abiola deserves to be honoured – Obasanjo
Posted on June 2, 2014 by Anthony-Claret Ifeanyi Onwutalobi
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, said the late business mogul and undeclared winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Chief MKO Abiola, deserves to be honoured, saying he sacrificed for Nigeria.
Obasanjo, who spoke in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, at the fourth Founder's Day celebrations and 85th birthday of the founder/patron of the Nobel House College, Chief Olatunde Abudu, lamented that Abiola was denied being the President of the country due to what he called 'bad belle'.
The former President, was reacting to a statement by the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Aremu Gbadebo, who said bad 'belle' robbed Ogun of producing three Presidents. Obasanjo acknowledged the contribution of Abiola to the development of Nigeria in all areas of human endeavours, saying the late politician sacrificed a lot for the development of the country.
Obasanjo, a special guest of honour at the event, spoke in the presence of a former Head of Interim National Government, Chief Ernest Shonekan; a former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Prince Bola Ajibola; governor of the state, Senator Ibikunle Amosun; and some traditional rulers.
Others dignitaries at the event include Oyo State governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, represented by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Chief Lekan Alli, Major General Oluwole Rotimi (retd) and Chief (Mrs) Ayora Kuforiji-Olubi. The remarks came days to the 15th anniversary of the annulled June 12, 1993 election, as Obasanjo acknowledged that Ogun has produced many firsts in different spheres of life. According to the former President, Abiola contributed to the development of Nigeria,
"Yes, I agree, Abeokuta would have produced a third President if not for bad 'belle'. They did not allow him to be President," he stated. "He deserved to be honoured because he sacrificed for Nigeria. "
Also speaking, Amosun stressed the essence of developing the education sector by all stakeholders, maintaining that government should provide the enabling environment for its growth.
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Being a TV critic often involves solving mysteries. The latest: why is America so fascinated with procedural crime dramas?
I began my investigation by collecting evidence. Last week, four of the five top-rated programs were crime dramas: CSI, Without A Trace, CSI: Miami and NCIS. (Rounding out the top five was Two and a Half Men, which, frankly, is a puzzle that never may be solved.) A look at the 10 highest-rated programs last week, revealed four more crime dramas among the elite: three versions of Law and Order and the absolute best of the bunch, Cold Case.
Apparently, we are a nation obsessed with justice. We want criminals to pay for their crimes. And they do, in primetime. But it's a little disheartening to the TV-lover in me that eight of the top-10 programs are of one genre.
Seriously, if aliens landed here and watched our most popular shows, they'd be so intimidated, they would never commit a crime. And maybe, therein, lies the attraction of these programs. The good guys usually win, and they do it with panache, earning the respect of audiences everywhere and giving us mere mortals something to believe in.
I've watched at least one episode of all the top-rated crime shows. Yep, I've tried them all. And while they're good dramas, the only one that compels me to watch is Cold Case. It's the standout of the bunch.
The show centers on Lilly Rush, played by the wonderful Kathryn Morris. She is an investigator whose team tackles "cold cases" or crimes that have never been solved. They use modern science and their sleuthing skills to try and give families peace. Sometimes, it opens up old wounds for families and sometimes it leads to new crimes being committed.
The great thing about Cold Case is that it isn't cold, like some of the other crime shows. Each episode feels more like a movie than a TV show. When the old cases are reopened, the time periods come alive. It plays like a video history of the decades in America, complete with music, fashions, hairstyles, and the slang of the era.
Music lovers, you will appreciate the show on a different level. No matter the year, the music is carefully chosen to reflect the time period and set the mood. A recent Cold Case set in the 1980s was like reliving my childhood all over again. The 1981 Trans Am was a key player. As the case played out, tunes from REO Speedwagon, Foreigner, Styx, Air Supply, and Kim Carnes provided the background music. If you didn't grow up in the '80s, that was as good a feel as you could get. Trust me.
I don't normally watch procedural crime shows. I prefer character-driven dramas to plot-driven, villain-of-the-week shows. But, if I want to watch a crime drama, Cold Case is my choice.
For those of you who like these types of shows, and even those who don't, check out Cold Case. Missing this one really would be a crime.
Cold Case airs at 8 p.m. on Sundays on CBS.
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But the answers also come from stories of Freedman's own mentors-a sawmill worker turned surrogate grandparent, a university administrator who served as Einstein's driver, a cabinet secretary who won the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the gym teacher who was Freedman's father.
Marc Freedman is CEO and president of Encore.org, an organization he founded in 1998. Freedman is a member of the Wall Street Journal's "Experts" group, a frequent commentator in the national media, and the author of four previous books.
Freedman was named Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the World Economic Forum and the Schwab Foundation, was recognized as one of the nation's leading social entrepreneurs by Fast Company magazine three years in a row, and has been honored with the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship. He has been a visiting fellow at Stanford University, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and King's College, University of London. Freedman serves or has served on the boards and advisory councils of numerous groups, including the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, the Stanford University Distinguished Careers Institute, the Milken Institute's Center for the Future of Aging, and the EnCorps STEM Teachers Program.
A high honors graduate of Swarthmore College, with an MBA from the Yale School of Management, Freedman lives in the San Francisco Bay area with his wife, Leslie Gray, and their three sons.
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Summary: 1st in a 4 part series on God's X-Files, "unexplained phenomenon" and the lessons we can learn from it.
That lays the foundation for the television show The X-Files. Each week, starting in 1993, Agents Muldar and Scully came into our living rooms, studying and contending with some of the most bizarre stories, cases that they could not explain rationally but that always taught them something. The X-files became a huge cultural hit and remains so for many.
1st in a 4 part series on God's X-Files, "unexplained phenomenon" and the lessons we can learn from it.


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Q: How to identify Duplicate Timestamps and delete duplicate that has NA I Have a dataframe as follows, I have inputted extra timestamps to so I can insert NAs where there was no timestamp available. However not all timestamps in the original data were at :52 seconds, therefore duplicates have no arisen just one second or so apart.
I would like to be able to find the instances where there are two entries for a given minute, and then mark these rows as either drop or keep in a separate column.
This would be based on keep = data available in the values columns (input, output), drop = the row with nas.
             datetime        output     input         m 1       m2
1   2012-01-01 12:00:52        NA        NA        24.42250    24.37881
62  2012-01-01 12:00:53     24.92     20.93        24.92000    24.92000
2   2012-01-01 12:01:52        NA        NA        24.60500    24.55069
63  2012-01-01 12:01:53     24.35     21.23        24.35000    24.35000
3   2012-01-01 12:02:52        NA        NA        24.78750    24.72320
64  2012-01-01 12:02:53     24.81     22.35        24.81000    24.81000
4   2012-01-01 12:03:52     24.97     22.18        24.97000    24.97000
5   2012-01-01 12:04:52        NA        NA        25.05500    24.98035


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"Sweet Saint Catherine, send me a husband, A good one, I pray; But arn a one better than narn a one. O Saint Catherine, give me your aid! Grant that I may never die an old maid!"
In such folk rhymes, unmarried girls of Dorset, England, once implored Saint Catherine, patroness of spinsters, to send them husbands. In those days girls were not too particular. Any husband was better than none!
Several chapels dedicated to Saint Catherine still stand on Dorset hilltops. Formerly, maids made pilgrimages to these shrines to petition their virgin saint. Legend claims that after Catherine was martyred in 307, at Alexandria, angels bore her body over the Red Sea and buried her on the summit of Mount Sinai. Supposedly this is why many sanctuaries to Saint Catherine occupy high places.
Since Saint Catherine is guardian of lace makers and spinners, as well as of spinsters, young girls and unmarried women in many industries once celebrated November 25, her anniversary, as their great holiday. Mumming, merrymaking, draughts of "hot pot" (warm rum-flavored beer, thickened with beaten eggs), and feasting characterized the day. In Bedfordshire, November 25 still is the "Lace Makers' Feast," and country folk continue to enjoy at least two traditional holiday foods-Kattern cake and wigs.
Kattern (Catherine) cake is made from bread dough, with ample additions of caraway, butter, eggs, and sugar, while wigs — also called wiggs, or wigges — are light caraway-flavored cakes or buns, made from fine white flour and molded into various shapes — round, oblong, or triangular — according to locality. In Bedfordshire they explain that the buns are called wigs because the batter, when poured into round tins and baked, "curls over the sides like the curls of a wig."
Often youngsters of five and up attended lace making schools. Ordinarily the pupils could not go home until they had finished their allotted stints. But on Saint Catherine's Day they had their freedom, as well as a tea with plenty of goodies and fun. Girls dressed up as boys and begged from farm to farm. In songs about Saint Catherine and Saint Clement, whose day is November 23, the children demanded apples, pennies, and hot pot. This custom was called "Catherning," "Catterning," or, in Worcestershire, "going Catten and Clementing."
"Catt'n and Clement comes year by year, Some of your apples and some of your beer, Some for Peter, some for Paul, Some for Him who made us all. Peter was a good old man, For his sake give us some; Some of the best and none of the worst, And God will send your souls to roost."
"Up the ladder and down with the can, Give me red apples and I'll begone."
On "8th April, 1664," Samuel Pepys made this entry in his Diary: "Home to the only Lenten supper I have had of wiggs and ale." Why, not follow Mr. Pepys's excellent example and have wigs for your Lenten suppers — or better yet, for any meal, at any time of year?
Combine yeast with lukewarm water and 2 tablespoons sugar. Stir and set aside for 15 minutes.
Scald milk, add butter and 1/2 cup sugar. Sift together flour, salt, and spices. When milk has cooled to lukewarm combine first mixture with the second. Stir and gradually add flour mixture, a little at a time. Stir well after each addition. Knead dough thoroughly and set aside to rise in greased covered bowl. When dough has doubled in bulk (approximately 2 hours) form into large flat buns. Place on greased baking sheet, brush tops with egg yolk beaten with 1 teaspoon cold water. Cut deep cross on each bun so the baked wig can be broken into quarters. Set to rise in warm place until doubled in bulk.
Bake in hot oven (400° F.) for 10 minutes. Then reduce heat to moderate (375° F.) and bake 10-15 minutes longer, or until thoroughly done inside and well browned outside.


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Ruh roh: Inexplicably popular Wisconsin blogger/reported professor of law Ann Althouse is in horrified semi-dudgeon over a remark made by State Supreme Court candidate JoAnne Kloppenburg:
At a forum at the Waukesha County Courthouse [Thursday]:
"Justice Prosser has sent a clear message that he will favor the agenda of Gov. (Scott) Walker and the Republican Legislature," Kloppenburg said. "I will apply the law to the facts of the cases before me and decide them without prejudice."
What is her basis for attributing a "clear message" like that to Prosser? If she doesn't have a solid basis for that statement — and I can't see what it is — how is that supposed to jibe with her self-image as a dutiful applicant of law to fact?
Ever the keen observer, Prof. Althouse* proceeds to link to a column by the Isthmus's Bill Lueders which clearly describes Kloppenburg's "basis" and further provides Kloppenburg's own statement:
In a press release on 12/8/2010, the Prosser Campaign promised that returning the incumbent to the bench would "[protect] the conservative judicial majority" on the Court which would then be able to "act as a common sense compliment [sic] to both the new administration and legislature."
Twice, right there in Althouse's own link, yet: "I can't see what it is."
It's old news anyway.
Pro Tip: Read own links before engaging the fauxtrage.
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Helen harvests silver rosette at World Flower Show in RDS
Brian O'Connor
THOMOND Flower and Garden Club's Helen Cusack blossomed in the heat of competition at the eleventh World Flower Show, winning the silver rosette for her flower arraging skills.
Held every four years the World Flower Show is considered to be the Olympics of flower artistry and Helen faced stiff competition for her second place finish from almost 1,000 competitors from 32 countries that transformed Dublin's RDS into a wonderland of colour and art for the competition which was held from June 18.
Helen who resides at Larkin's Cross and works at Lawless Flower Shop on Roche's Street told the Leader she has been flower arranging for a "long long time"; since she joined Thomond Flower and Garden Club she has been entering competitions ever since.
Helen, a qualified floral demonstrator, expressed delight at "bringing something back to Limerick" from this most prestigious of events and she ecstatically added, "This is my first time entering the World Flower Show and it's been brilliant, I still don't believe it myself. It's fantastic, absolutely fantastic.
"The support has been absolutely tremendous, between all my family and friends, from my club members to members of different clubs. It's been fantastic with the amount of congratulatory phone-calls and cards."
Describing her efffort, the Limerick said: "My category was Verdant Bowers and I had to create a stunning display of foliage.
"I was up that morning at 4.30am and I was totally flat out for the day. We were allowed to begin arranging from 6am and we had to be finished by 12noon when the judging commenced. I didn't get to meet with President Higgins later that evening as I was too tired from the day."
Limerick was also represented at the event by three members of Limerick Flower and Garden Club, Geraldine Nicholas, Patsy Quinn, who was commended for her entry and Tony Mackessy.
Each of the entrants wished to thank Dan Lawless of Lawless flower shop on Roches Street for his continued support of both Flower and Garden Clubs. Dan's mother, the late Nancy Lawless, was herself a former All-Ireland flower arranger.
An Post have issued a commemorative orchid stamp to mark the eleventh World Flower Show being held in Ireland for the first time.


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Julie London: The Best of Julie London - The Liberty Years
It was from Steve Brown that I first heard of Julie London, at university. It seemed an unusual recommendation, and that's probably what made me curious — always important to check out music that you wouldn't hear on John Peel. But I cheated at first, and bought a cassette of Julie London that I gave to my dad to listen to in the car on his way to work. "I've liked all the music you've bought me before, but this just isn't for me."
It didn't sound like it was for me, either. But I never forgot about Julie, and her name cropped up from time to time. Was she some kind of gay icon?
You can guess what's coming next, can't you? Yes, I was in Fopp and saw this compilation going very cheap. It was one of no less nine CDs I bought on 20th December 2000.
I found myself in a record shop yesterday. Well, I found myself very near one, and decided to drop in, as Rough Trade East is supposed to be one of the best in London. I was hit by that disorientation: so what do I do now? Where do I start? Is there anything I want/need to buy? Best not to browse too aimlessly lest I get tempted by something inessential (another Julie London compilation going cheap, say). I saw a Krautrock section, and was impressed that they had a good few Cluster CDs. If they'd had Agitation Free's second album , I might have got that, but no. So I decided to check if they had any rarities by The Clientele or Alasdair Roberts — the two artists of whom I count myself as a fan at the moment. Faced with multiple 'C' racks, I experienced a twinge of truculence: you expect me to flick through all those manually?! Where's the list view? Then I remembered that I spent most of my adolescence flicking through racks, and it would be interesting to see how it felt again. They had three Clientele albums on CD — not bad — but nothing on vinyl. By then I'd been in the shop for ten minutes, and was getting twitchy, so I left, forgetting about Alasdair Roberts (but I made up for that by buying a record of his at this evening's gig).
As for Julie, maybe she was a kind of postmodern feminist icon, rather than a gay one, because a fair few of her songs seem to be about exploiting sugar daddies and generally getting her own back on men who treat her poorly by somehow rechannelling their evil desires against them.
Stop Press: ah, now it comes back… Julie's Cry Me a River features as the 1955 entry in Stephin Merritt's 100 best recordings of the 20th century. So that may explain why I had the gay thing in my head (ahem, not that there's nothing more to Stephin than him being gay, of course).
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