The Force India team is "delighted" at securing fifth place in the constructors' championship, the highest finish the team has ever achieved in its eight-year history in Formula 1, according to deputy team principal Bob Fernley.
Nico Hulkenberg's sixth place finish in the Brazilian Grand Prix means the team is now on 120 points and cannot be overhauled by Lotus or Toro Rosso, the teams that currently sit sixth and seventh in the constructors' points table. It also improves on the team's previous highest championship position of sixth, which it achieved in 2011, 2013 and 2014.
Speaking after the race in Interlagos, Fernley said: "Everybody in the team is delighted that we have secured fifth place in the championship with a race to spare.
The bulk of Force India's points have been scored since the team introduced a B-spec car at the British Grand Prix back in July. Since then, the squad has racked up 89 points, of which 55 have come courtesy of Sergio Perez and 34 from Hulkenberg.
As well as being the team's best ever championship result, Force India are also set to gain financially as fifth place means it will receive $63m in F1 prize money.
Force India also maintains its position on the F1 strategy group just two months after it jointly launched a complaint to the EU, alongside Sauber, relating to the way the sport is run.
There is also speculation that the squad could be rebranded as Aston Martin for the 2016 season with team boss Vijay Mallya recently admitting that he would be willing to change the team's name as the Force India moniker had served its marketing purpose for Indian motorsport. As part of that potential deal, alcohol conglomerate Diageo is in discussions with Mallya to unravel some of their drinks business activities, which could see Johnnie Walker sponsorship appear on the car next season.
The new funding would boost the team's chances of making a further step up to go on and challenge Williams in 2016.
Mallya said: "I could have easily named [Force India] Mallya F1 or Kingfisher F1 or whatever.
"I said Force India because I wanted to fulfil aspirations of all the motorsport enthusiasts in India who never could have even dreamed there would be an Indian F1 team on the grid.
"That was the objective and I've fulfilled that objective. We've fulfilled the objective over eight years."
After his run to sixth at Interlagos, Hulkenberg also praised the team's progress in 2015 and was delighted with the aggressive strategy it employed to help him move in front of Daniil Kvyat's Red Bull in the race.
He said: "I'm very happy with sixth place and with scoring the points that helped the team secure fifth place in the championship, which is great news. It's the best result in our history and shows the progress we have made over the years.
"This fifth place is a result of all the hard work from everybody in the team and we should feel very proud of what we have achieved together.
Perez, who scored the team's best result of the season with third place at the Russian Grand Prix, explained that he struggled with the set-up of his car before the race in Sao Paulo, where he could finished 12th, only the second time he has been out of the points since the Belgian Grand Prix.
"Today's result, however, should take nothing away from what has been a great championship so far. The team has now finished fifth, so there are a lot of positives to celebrate.
What have you made of Force India in 2016? Will the team improve further next season? Leave your thoughts in the comments section below.


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'An abomination': Government given final warning on encryption laws
By Emma Koehn
January 29, 2019 — 12.09pm
Australia's encryption laws are very difficult to understand and could result in tech entrepreneurs serving jail time, according to the final round of submissions on the government's assistance and access legislation.
Business groups have warned the federal government the amendments to the laws, which were passed in December, are "difficult to understand and interpret" and don't help the tech industry's worries about the fallout.
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The policy, which allows ASIO to compel businesses to help decrypt messages in order to fight serious crime, are currently open for a final round of submissions despite already being law. This is because of the way the legislation was passed in 2018, where a series of amendments were passed without full debate but with the promise of a review in 2019.
Cryptography experts have taken this opportunity to warn the government the laws still don't make it clear when a developer would have to act to help with a law enforcement operation.
The laws are designed to consider systems security by forbidding orders for decryption where this could result in a 'systematic weakness" being created.
However, academics at the University of Melbourne's school of computing and information systems have said the definition of "systematic weakness" is too vague and has "rightly been described as an abomination".
Dr Chris Culnane and Associate Professor Vanessa Teague warned the current definition of "systematic weakness" means a whole class of technology will be affected by the decryption actions and the laws could create security flaws in systems and "may jeopardise the security or information of others".
A collection of business groups and peak bodies including the Communications Alliance and AI Group have also warned amendments need to be revisited to make it clear when businesses will have to act.
In their submission, the groups also said the threshold of crime that allows a decryption order should be revisited. At the moment, the laws allow orders to be made to investigate crimes carrying three years or more in prison, which would mean a "prank or menacing phone call" could be used as a justification to use the laws.
'Innocent Australian technologists targeted'
The technology and startup communities voiced significant opposition to the laws at the end of 2018 and said its passing spoke to a bigger issue in the government's approach to innovation.
Culnane and Teague warned in their final submission, it will be Australian developers and startup staff that are at most risk of possible jail time if they are unable to comply with the laws.
"We would like to know whether any MP or Senator stood up in parliament and seriously advocated jailing innocent Australian technologists, mathematicians, or engineers for refusing to undermine the security of critical Australian infrastructure," they wrote.
The Law Council of Australia says there are still questions to answer about how individuals will be treated by law enforcement if they are the person that can help with decryption.
It's currently not clear how long an individual can be forced to provide decryption assistance for or an outline of safeguards including whether a technology professional can contact a lawyer or family member if they are asked to comply with a encryption law notice, the organisation says.
"If a person is required to attend a place to provide information or assistance, this may arguably amount to detention of the person," the council said in its submission.
The department of Home Affairs declined to comment on individual submissions.
A Home Affairs spokesperson said a parliamentary joint committee is conducting a review of the legislation and is due to report back to the parliament on 3 April 2019.
The Assistance and Access Act is currently law after being given royal assent on December 8.
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Known for its incredible biodiversity and natural beauty, Malaysia is also home to some of Asia's most compelling, cutting edge and sophisticated cities. Kuala Lumpur, capital of the country, is a fascinating blend of old and new whilst Georgetown, Malacca and Ipoh have charming historic centres with beautifully preserved colonial architecture. The little-visited cities of Kuala Terengganu, Kota Bharu and Alor Setar are bastions of Malay culture known throughout the region as centres for traditional arts and crafts whilst the remote cities of Sabah and Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo are entry points to spectacular national parks and isolated indigenous village communities. Here is our guide to Malaysia's best cities.
1. Kuala Lumpur
Capital of Malaysia and its largest city, Kuala Lumpur has in the space of a century developed from a small trading outpost to become one of Asia's most cosmopolitan urban centres. The modern skyline is dominated by the twin towers of the Petronas building which, when completed in 1998, were the tallest buildings in the world. However, part of Kuala Lumpur's charm is the fusion of old and new with traditional Malay and Chinese neighbourhoods alongside grand Victorian, Mughal and Art Deco buildings. Highlights include Merdeka Square which is home to the largest flagpole in the world and some of the city's finest colonial architecture including the Royal Selangor Club and St Mary's Church, the serene Masjid Jamek mosque, National Monument, Chinatown and KL Tower from which there are panoramic views of the city.
Kuala Lumpur skyline
2. Georgetown, Penang
The largest town on the island of Penang, Georgetown is a gem – a beguiling warren of busy streets, colourful markets and historic buildings. Contrary to other Malaysian cities, Georgetown has managed to preserve much of its heritage and this is most immediately seen in the diversity of its architecture. Chinese temples and wooden homes stand beside pre-war British buildings and those constructed by the Indian, Thai and Burmese communities. Different neighbourhoods each have their own distinct feel and part of the joy in exploring Georgetown is in its discovery, exploring side streets, enjoying cafes and curio shops and stumbling across roadside shrines. Georgetown is also Malaysia's oldest British settlement and Fort Cornwallis, the Jubilee Clock Tower and Eastern & Oriental Hotel encapsulate this period of the city's history.
Heritage house in Georgetown
3. Kuching
'Land of the Hornbill', charming Kuching is the capital of isolated Sarawak. Lining the banks of the Sarawak River, Kuching has a charming waterfront and some beautifully preserved colonial-era architecture. Mirroring much of Malaysian society, Kuching has a diverse population, predominately Malay and Chinese but also with notable Indian and indigenous Dayak communities. Highlights include the renowned Sarawak Museum which opened in 1891 and is built in the style of a French town hall, Fort Margarita that was constructed by Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, in the 1870s, the Astana palace and 19th century Chinatown. From Kuching, nearby places of interest include three major national parks, including Gunung Gading National Park, and the Semenggoh Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre.
Hornbill in Kuching
First settled at the beginning of the 15th century Malacca is a cosmopolitan port city that for centuries was one of the most prosperous and influential settlements on the Malay Peninsula. Strategically located at the narrowest point of the Straits of Malacca, the town quickly established itself as the region's main port, securing commercial links with Ming China, the Indian Subcontinent and Arabia through the trade of textiles, spices, silk, sandalwood and tin. This brought great wealth to the town which in turn attracted the European colonial powers and over the subsequent centuries Malacca exchanged hands between the Portuguese, Dutch and British. Today Malacca still has a striking Dutch colonial core, clearly evident British and Portuguese heritage and a colourful Chinatown that continues the country's five hundred year association with the city.
Malacca / Image credit: Dennis Sylvester Hurd
5. Ipoh
Located to the north of Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh is much more than just a gateway to the Cameron Highlands. Home to some of the finest colonial architecture in Malaysia, beautiful Buddhist temples, a fabulous setting and renowned food scene, there is plenty to see and do in Ipoh. The atmospheric Old Town is arguably the best preserved in the country – the tangle of charming lanes and wooden shopfronts of Chinatown sit alongside grand British buildings, restaurants, cafes, bars and boutiques whilst outside of the city the impressive Perak Tong cave complex is one of Malaysia's largest Chinese temples and well worth visiting. Built during the 1920s by a Buddhist priest from China, Perak Tong is a major pilgrimage site where a series of opulent temples have been built into the hidden recesses and grottoes of a limestone hill.
Perak Cave Temple / Image credit: Dennis Sylvester Hurd
6. Lahad Datu and the Danum Valley
The unassuming town of Lahad Datu is an eco-tourism centre and the gateway to the virgin rainforests of the Danum Valley Conservation Area. A vast undisturbed area of primary lowland rainforest, the ecological and environmental importance of the Danum Valley is immeasurable. Supporting some of rarest species on the planet, endangered animals that call this region home include the Sumatran rhinoceros, clouded leopard, orangutan, sun bear, langur, long-tailed macaque, proboscis monkey and Bornean pygmy elephant. The Danum Valley is also a birdwatcher's paradise and provides sanctuary to hundreds of different tropical bird species including several endemic to Borneo such as the Bornean bristlehead, Bulwer's pheasant, Bornean ground-cuckoo and eight different types of hornbill.
Proboscis monkeys
7. Kota Kinabalu
Kota Kinabalu is the capital of Sabah and located on the Malaysian portion of the island of Borneo. Originally a small trading settlement, instigated by the British North Borneo Chartered Company that actually started life in 1881 on Gaya Island (which can be seen across the bay from the present-day city), the fledgling town was moved to the mainland a few years later and christened Jesselton after one of the company directors. In contrast to Sandakan, the town remained a quiet backwater for the next fifty years until it was taken by the Japanese during the Second World War. The post-war period saw considerable development, the city was re-named Kota Kinabalu and developed as a base from which to visit the coral reefs of Tunku Abdul Rahman National Park and the jungle-clad mountains of Kinabalu National Park.
Fish market in Kota Kinabalu / Image credit: Marufish
8. Kota Bharu
Royal capital of Kelantan and a stronghold of Malay culture, Kota Bharu is in the far north of mainland Malaysia close to the Thai border. On the South China Sea and largely cut off from the rest of the peninsula, over the centuries the city developed a maritime trading network that stretched from Siam to Funan (modern-day South East Asia). Life in Kota Bharu also has a strong Islamic flavour and, although more conservative than many regions of Malaysia, this culture is mostly experienced through the arts and crafts, from batik printing and woodcarving to traditional dance and shadow puppetry. City highlights include the fabulous Central Market, Istana Batu and Istana Jahar, both of which are former royal palaces which can now be visited, and the Kampung Kraftangan handicraft market.
Central Market in Kota Bharu / Image credit: Marufish
9. Sandakan
Located in Sabah in the far northeastern corner of Borneo, Sandakan has always been a hub for trade and, more recently, provides visitors with a base from which to explore both the interior and coast. Sandakan's wealth came from timber, beeswax, pearls and edible bird's nests (exported to China and made into bird's nest soup) and the town attracted those in search of their fortune from as far afield as Africa, Arabia, Europe and Japan. Sandakan's strategic location resulted in the town being heavily bombed during the Second World War but the fish market, Australian war memorial, St Michael's Church and two 130 year old Chinese temples are well worth visiting. From Sandakan travel inland to take a cruise on the Kinabatangan River, join a jungle walk or visit the Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre at Sepilok.
Orangutan at Sepilok's Rehabilitation Centre
10. Kuala Terengganu
For centuries a sleepy fishing port and textile centre, Kuala Terengganu is a traditional city little visited by foreign tourists. During the 1980s the discovery of oil and gas offshore brought great prosperity to Kuala Terengganu and since then the city has grown exponentially. However the modern day development has not been to detriment of the city's character and charm. Glistening high-rises sit comfortably next to the quaint streets of Chinatown, the stylish harbour is close to the city's original kampong stilt-houses and the new parks and promenades add to the laid-back atmosphere. Located in the northeastern corner of the Malay Peninsula, Kuala Terengganu is renowned for the quality of its textiles, especially silk sarongs, pine mats and batiks, and is also a good place from which to visit the islands and beaches of the east coast.
Fishing port of Kuala Terengganu
11. Alor Setar
Usually a stopping-off point for travellers heading to the tropical island archipelago of Langkawi, Alor Setar is well-worth a day's exploration. Capital of Kedah, the city has a number of grand architectural buildings and a lovely setting surrounded by paddy fields and gentle jungle-clad hills. The Zahir Mosque is arguably Malaysia's most beautiful mosque, the adjacent century-old Balai Besar is still used by the Sultan of Kedah on ceremonial occasions and there is the unique octagonal-shaped Balai Nobat tower which houses the state's royal instruments. Alor Setar is also an excellent base from which to travel on to Langkawi, with is palm-fringed beaches, excellent beach resorts and pretty fishing villages, or north over the border into neighbouring Thailand.
Alor Setar / Image credit: Marufish
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SPACE EXPLOPRATION YIELDS INTERSTELLAR REVIVAL!!!
As to Religion, I think the basic feeling is all too clear. For example, at a recent UFO conference with the government, representatives of the modern Religious Establishment petitioned the officials that if Space Aliens were visiting Our Planet that they prefered that the government keep it a secret--FOR SUCH KNOWLEDGE WAS HELD TO RADICALLY CHANGE THE RELIGIOUS VIEWS THAT THEY HELD.
What! Don't these guys read the Scriptures? Don't they have any Faith in God as the God of the Universe? Where are their heads at???
Hey, if they are so weak in the Faith that they are afraid of the little green men coming here, then what are they going to do when the Descendants of Abraham (yes, their Faithful Flock) blasts off for worlds unknown! For, the Interstellar Rush is sure to be as strong as the Gold Rush or the Rush to Immigrate to America. Sorry, if they have any smarts in their head, then they had better get busy ADAPTING! Or, they will get left behind in the Rush!
Consequently, this Article is offered in an attempt to make some sense of what is about to happen. And give you a good idea of the Future Judeo-Christian Faith! As well as present some guidelines to help manage the changes. And adapt to it! For, we will not be able to stop it (as it is God's Will--Manifest Destiny).
So, what will this Interstellar Revival be like? Will it be a New Age thing? Or, will we have some kind of World Religon to express all the old Cultural values of Earth--including the Pagan Religions? In what was will the Judeo-Christian Philosophy change? Or, will it?
One of the tools used in Future Studies for projecting the Future, is to take a good look at the Past, and make a reasonable guess of where we are likely to end up, based on what we have done in back there.
In Our immediate past, we find the history of America. America was founded on those good old Judeo-Christian Values and Teachings. And as a God-fearing Nation, America prospered and became world influential.
Another step back into the Past, and we find Great Britain, the parent of America. Once again, the British People have a long history of following the Judeo-Christian Philosophy. And, under its influence, they rose to build a world-wide empire, in the last century. And their Heritage of the Faith is still with us, in America, today.
Even farther back, we have an even more clear distinction. As the Western Roman Empire rejected the Judeo-Christian Teaching (and even persecuted Believers), prefering Pagan Idolatry, they came to Fall and be over-run by barbarian hordes. However, the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium), which embraced the Judeo-Christian Teachings, continued to survive and lasted another thousand years! Then, as the Eastern Empire slipped from the Faith (and degenerated into Idolatry), they lost their power, whereas the West slowly accepted the Faith and then rose to replace the East in Feudal Europe.
CONSEQUENTLY, I think the historical record is clear! Follow the Pagans and Idolatry, and you won't be around for long. Follow the Teachings of the Judeo-Christian Heritage and you will eventually come to prosper and rise in power. Therefore, KoReY firmly rejects the teachings and influences of non-Abrahamic groups (those who do not believe in a One True God: monotheists). And, we heartily encourage everyone else to do so, too! For this will be a definate trend of the Great Stellar Reformation (even as it has been, in the Past). The Future Theology of the Judeo-Christian Philosophy is very clear, here!
According to Scripture, the Hebrew Peoples were founded by 'Eber or Heber (Genesis 11:16-17). His belief in the One True God (and the rejection of Idolatry) carried over into his Family, for generations. Abraham was born of this lineage and he produced the 3 main branches of the Hebrew Peoples today--Jews (by Sarah), Christians (by Keturah), and Ishmaelites or Muslims (by Hagar). And over the centuries, these Peoples have been Faithful to their Ancestorial Calling to worhsip and serve the One True God ONLY.
Consequently, as it has been in the Past, these Hebrew Peoples will have a big impact upon the Great Stellar Reformation. For, under KoReY, many of them will come to Unite in the Faith in what we have come to call the Tri-Unity of the Faithful (Isaiah 19:24-25) or the Tribes of Abraham's Descentants (TAD). For, the Hand of God, through the forces of the Interstellar RUSH will throw these Peoples together and make them depend on one another for survival!
Consequently, we of KoReY are dedicated to the Messianic Movement, to call back and regather a Holy Israel from among all the Hebrew Peoples, even to those that may be (or will be) scattered out among the Stars!
One of the most flowering, prosperous, and colorful Times of the Greater Hebrew Community (and the Judeo-Christian Philosophy) was during Feudal Europe. For, while there was much friction between the brothers in Abraham, down throu8gh the centuries, the Crusader State enjoyed a period of Peace, when all 3 (Jews, Christians, and Muslims) lived together, civilly! Moreover, the Vikings and Varangians held an open atmosphere to all 3, and produced a prosperous trade amongst them!
Furtherover, it was much of this Hebrew Foundation that propelled the other European Nations on to their heights and glories (such as we have recounted, above). For, here, a lot ot the Traditional Judeo-Christian Teachings were spread and preserved. And these became a Social Perservative that strenghtened the European Nations, especially Northern Europe.
Consequently, there is an absolute Gold Mine of Cultural Resources here, that will come forth and be used in the Great Stellar Reformation! For, KoReY is basically a Mediavel World! (Yes, the Mediavel World IS Returning!) And, as it fueled Europe into the Modern Era of World Colonization and Dominance, so will it fuel KoReY on to Interstellar success and promenience.
For, therein are presented Our 5 Basic Teachings that have bound the Judeo-Christian World together for centuries. And, consequently, will be the cement for the Society of KoReY, as well. Thus, as the focus of the Future Thelogy for the Great Stellar Reformation, they will help to define the Future Judeo-Christian Philosophy!
In addition to these Mediavel Teachings (which other groups will no doubt attempt to copy), KoReY will concentrate on 3 Main Scriptural Teachings, that will be the focal point of the Great Stellar Reformation. There will be the 2 parts of the Full Gospel. And the 3rd part of Holiness and Sanctification.
The First Part of the Full Gospel holds to Salvation (getting to heaven) by the Blood Atonement of Christ on the Cross (which is to pay for your sins--by the blood sacrifice of a Paschal Lamb).
The Second Part of the Full Gospel holds to the giving of Spiritual Gifts (or miraculous powers) by the Holy Ghost, which empower Believers to do works for God, today!
Now, these 3 concepts Unified earlier Hebrew Peoples and propelled them to great heights and accomplishments. Consequently, in holding on to them, we expect to be carried far, too! And, we encourage our members to cling to them as well.
HOW FAR WILL THE REFORMATION GO?
While the skeptics and critics will laugh and say that Interstellar Revival will never come, the Scriptures present a different story. Clearly, Christ will reconcile ALL that are in the starry-heavens to God, even as HE has to those of the Earth (Ephesians 1:10 and Colossians 1:20). And, that the Wisdom (or Teachings of God) will be delivered to the authorities (governments?) in the starry-heavens by the Congregations of God (Ephesians 3:10), even as Paul's Gospel (Teachings) shall be preached to every Creature of the starry-heavens (Colossians 1:23). With such clear prophecies, how can you even doubt that the Interstellar Revival will come? Consequently, the Great Stellar Reformation will reach unto the Stars, as missionaries travel out to find New Worlds in Space! And in so doing, it will bring a radical transformation to Religious Thinking and Teaching on Earth (or at least what is left of Earth).
Well, the point of this whole article of the Great Stellar Refomation is that it will provide a chance for masses upon masses of People to make their RETURN to God. Which is the reason for us writing all this--that you will be inspired to be Regenerated or Renewed. And, in making your own personal RETURN to God, you will catch the Fire that is burning bright, lighting Our Way into the Future!
And, if you are already spiritually reborn or born again, then consider becoming an active member. We need all the help we can get!
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Within hours of entering the world, little Sebastiana Manuel's entire body froze in a rigid spasm. Her neck twisted, her face turned blue, and one side of her body stiffened as if someone were yanking her violently. She screamed.
At first her doctor wasn't too concerned; some newborns have seizures. But Sebastiana's kept coming every few hours. And the way her arms and legs stiffened during each episode was unusual. When her mother Dolores Sebastian tried to breast-feed her, she wouldn't eat. After the baby's body convulsed more than a dozen times in her first night, an ambulance rushed her from the local hospital in Fallbrook, Calif., where she was born, to the only advanced-care children's hospital in the area, Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego.
But even the specialists there were baffled by Sebastiana's symptoms. As doctors hooked up her brain to monitors and conducted test after test from her crib in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), Dolores and her husband Pascual Manuel couldn't touch or hold their baby. The nurses used one of Dolores' shirts as a pillow so Sebastiana could still smell her mother's scent and know that she was there.
Hours later, they received devastating news from Dr. Jeffrey Gold, director of neonatal neurology at Rady and the University of California, San Diego. "He told us he wasn't sure what was wrong with her, but he didn't think she was going to make it," says Dolores. "I cried and cried in the corner, and I tuned out the rest of what he said. I wanted to blame someone about why she was that way."
Because Sebastiana's brain scans were abnormal, Gold suspected that her brain was not fully developed, which could have triggered her seizures. Repeated seizures can interrupt a newborn's brain from making all the right connections it needs to develop its myriad networks–for an immune system, digestive system, functioning brain, strong bones, growing muscles. Without those networks, babies can suffer from severe developmental disorders, and many don't make it past their second birthday. Gold wanted to do an MRI the next day to be sure. In the worst case, he advised the Manuels, they would have to decide whether to allow doctors to insert tubes to help Sebastiana breathe and eat or let her die a natural death without them.
The Manuels prepared for the worst. Catholics from Guatemala, they didn't want their daughter to die without being baptized, so they hurriedly arranged a ceremony in the NICU, with the priest and family surrounding Sebastiana's crib.
But Sebastiana had one thing going for her. A year before she was born, Dr. Stephen Kingsmore launched a genomics institute at Rady designed to help babies like her. From any infant younger than 4 months who has a sickness that can't be explained, Kingsmore's team takes a vial of blood to run a genetic test. Within days, they sequence the entire genome of the baby, looking for clues to explain the undiagnosed symptoms and alert doctors to any abnormalities they see in the DNA.
On the basis of those results, which arrived six days after Sebastiana's birth–and a few days after her baptism–Gold adjusted his initially dire prognosis. Sebastiana's DNA told him that an antiseizure drug different from those that doctors normally use–one that is rarely used in infants–would be more effective at treating her seizures. The other drugs were making her sleepy, and if they were used for too long, her development could be slowed. The MRI showed that there wasn't likely anything physically wrong with her brain, so if Gold controlled Sebastiana's seizures, there was a chance it could develop normally. Once he made the switch, she became more alert, responding to her parents and eating as any healthy infant would. And her seizures stopped.
The genetic-testing program at Rady is still in the study phase, which means it's not part of standard care for babies with mystery symptoms–yet. All the infants who have had their DNA mapped are part of a research trial. But so far, Kingsmore's team has decoded the genomes of about 100 newborns with unexplained illnesses. Of those, about half had their symptoms explained with a proper diagnosis, and of those, 80% received life-changing treatments that doctors otherwise might never have considered. The power of using genetic testing in real time persuaded the Food and Drug Administration to allow Kingsmore's group to report their results directly to doctors without the additional confirmation that the agency normally requires (which could take up to a week) if it would change the baby's treatment. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has supported Kingsmore's work with a $6 million grant, and other doctors are starting to appreciate how useful genetic information can be. By the end of the year, 15 children's hospitals across the country will start sending samples from their most challenging patients to Rady so that they too can make better decisions about how to diagnose and treat those patients.
If Kingsmore gets his way, mapping the DNA of these babies will one day be as standard as ordering a blood test. These infants often carry the answer to their own mystery illnesses in their very DNA; it's just a matter of recognizing and reading the genetic clues. "If they don't have a diagnosis, doctors are trying to hit a piñata with a blindfold on," says Kingsmore. "All we're trying to do is take the blindfold off." The babies whose genomes Kingsmore is sequencing, including Sebastiana, are part of the NIH study to document how useful DNA mapping can be. With more babies and more genetic maps, he hopes to prove that smart genomic testing can save lives, which in turn will persuade not just doctors treating newborns but other physicians treating adults for nearly any disease to start thinking of their patients' DNA as the next indispensable tool in medicine. It could pave the way for using genetics to diagnose and treat disease, and validate the power of personalized medicine. "His project is going to be a watershed," says Dr. Tracy Trotter, chair of the council on genetics at the American Academy of Pediatrics. "When you see that it saves lives and it saves brains, when you are touched by that as a physician one time, you are forever interested."
Kingsmore's genetic operation is concentrated in a 2,700-sq.-ft. space on the second floor of one of Rady's medical office buildings. An affable 57-year-old Irishman prone to sports analogies, he has a gentle lilt and warm demeanor that make him an apt advocate for babies. Previously, he led the Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., where he pioneered a rapid genetic-sequencing program with the goal of providing real-time DNA information to doctors that would change treatments for the sickest babies.
Kingsmore still remembers the first child whose genome he mapped, which convinced him that genetic sequencing was needed in every children's hospital. That 7-year-old girl had a genetic abnormality that could have been easily treated with a supplement found in pharmacies and supermarkets–for about 5¢ a dose. But the genetic testing was done too late, and the girl had already suffered from brain damage due to her condition, as had her younger sister. Had the genetic test been run when they were newborns, their brains might have been saved. "Those first cases made us realize, Holy cow, for the sake of 5¢, these children could have had a completely different outcome," says Kingsmore. "That's when I, and all of us, got really serious about this."
But while he was adamant that genetic screening could help diagnose and treat newborns, not everyone in the medical community agreed that screening was mature enough for use in the daily care of patients. It costs about $8,500 to sequence a baby's DNA, and no insurers then or now cover the test. Many experts still saw DNA sequencing as an experimental curiosity rather than a medical necessity. Ever since the human genome was mapped in 2001, the promise of using that trove of medical information has lured many a scientist and investor into ambitious ideas for making genome sequencing more routine. But doing sequencing right takes time. Commercial gene-testing companies often take up to six weeks to map a genome–far too long for newborns whose every breath is a struggle.
Frustrated, Kingsmore moved his operation to Rady in 2015. Ernest Rady, the Canadian-American financier and entrepreneur for whom the hospital is named, agreed with his vision and donated $120 million to create the Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine. To make his genetic testing more practical, Kingsmore has limited it to a very defined population of patients who could benefit: the sickest newborns in the NICU who don't have a diagnosis. "These are little tiny babies looking for an excuse to die," says Dr. Donald Kearns, CEO of Rady.
When Kingsmore maps the genomes, he doesn't scan them randomly hoping that an answer will miraculously pop out. If the genome is like a person's Internet of everything, then he uses a refined keyword search to extract only what he needs to know to explain a baby's sickness. He's not interested in whether that infant has a gene that makes her more likely to develop Alzheimer's, for example. That laser-like focus is the key to finding the right answer for the right newborn.
When Kingsmore began his program, he created a custom database of the known symptoms and conditions that can affect babies; he now folds in commercial software that does the same. ("We're a bit like pigs–we'll eat anything," he says of the scope of symptoms he scans.) Those symptoms are matched with whatever mutations scientists have described in studies and compared with the results of the sequencing. If there are no reported mutations fitting the symptoms, Kingsmore's group documents the first case and provides the best treatment based on what they know. Genetic testing can provide a significant number of answers, but it can't solve every mystery. Kingsmore is hoping that will soon change.
Kingsmore holds the world record for fastest genetic diagnosis from mapping the human genome: 26 hours. In his lab, DNA decoding machines run nearly 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Even commercial sequencing companies can't produce a map of a human genome as quickly. On average, it takes Kingsmore's team 96 hours from the time a blood sample enters the lab to the time that the specific sequence of 3 billion base pairs unique to that person is churned out.
Mapping the genome is the easy part. Once the DNA is decoded, the real challenge lies in figuring out what it means. A small percentage of genetic mutations are associated with disease, while a much larger percentage make up so-called variants of unknown significance. These are the genetic changes that doctors don't know how to decode yet. And they are the reason that many are still wary about ordering whole genome testing. "When you crunch a genome, you're talking about 600 to 800 million data points, and in trying to analyze that, there are lots of gray zones," says Dr. Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute. "There is no magic Google search for the genome today."
To address that problem, Kingsmore is intent on making the genomic information he generates useful to doctors and patients by making sure that every test is connected to a list of suggested treatments, if they're available, that doctors can consider. "We need to break the artificial glass barrier where we think the genomics job is done if we print the report," he says. "We're not done until our babies have had a change of care or we're convinced that they are getting the best care possible for their particular diagnosis."
That's what happened in Sebastiana's case. The sequencing found a rare defect in a gene called KCNQ2. Aberrations in this gene can contribute to Ohtahara syndrome, which causes continued seizures. But depending on where the gene is mutated, the outcomes can be dramatically different. A mutation in one part of the gene can mean seizures in the first few months but no serious long-term consequences. Children with those mutations develop normally and live healthy lives as adults.
Mutations in another part of the gene, however, can cause persistent seizures that disrupt the development of the brain, leading to severe problems. "We worry about epilepsy, developmental delays, intellectual disability and cerebral palsy," says Gold. About half these infants don't make it past age 2.
Sebastiana had a mutation that was in neither of those regions. Hers was smack in the middle of the gene. There were no previous descriptions of her variant in case studies; it was a completely new mutation. Gold couldn't tell the Manuels whether they could expect their daughter to outgrow her seizures or whether she would fail to develop like other newborns and continue to have seizures until her early death.
The genetic testing did tell him, however, that her mutation affected a particular pathway in her brain, and he knew there was a drug that could address that. It wasn't an antiseizure drug doctors normally use in infants; still, with the genetic support, he felt confident it would control her seizures and hopeful that it would give her brain a chance to develop normally.
So far, it seems he was right. Sebastiana's brain scans have improved considerably since her first ones. That means there's a strong chance that she will not have the severe developmental delays that other children with Ohtahara syndrome experience. Sebastiana is a little slower to hit her milestones, such as holding up her head and crawling, but Gold is cautiously optimistic that her case may show how powerful genetic testing can be in diagnosing and treating seizures in newborns early, which could lead to better health outcomes for them. Three weeks after her emergency admission at Rady, she went home for the first time, on Christmas Day. "I thank God every night that I get to sleep with my daughter, that I get to cuddle her, and she doesn't have tubes in her and she doesn't have seizures," says Dolores. Since she's been home, Sebastiana has had only one seizure, but that might have been due to an unrelated respiratory infection.
These are the kinds of second chances that Kingsmore and his colleagues hope to continue to make by introducing genetic testing as early as possible to help newborns. "I do this because I am haunted by the kids we could have saved had we tested earlier," says Dr. David Dimmock, medical director of the Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine.
Even when DNA mapping does not lead to a diagnosis or change in treatment, it can be valuable. For Liz and Tristan Holbrook, an accountant and software developer in San Diego, genetic sequencing of their first child, Grace, gave them much-needed clarity. Grace was born with a congenital hernia and heart condition that required two operations in her first four weeks. The Holbrooks agreed to get genetic testing to learn if DNA defects were causing Grace's condition; the answers could help her treatment and their family planning. "If her condition was something we could pass on to future children, we might think differently about doing that," says Liz. However, Grace's DNA didn't reveal anything out of the ordinary, indicating that the issues Grace faced wouldn't affect future kids. "It was a big sigh of relief," says Liz.
More doctors are seeing the value that genomics can provide. At Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, physicians are launching a program that offers genetic sequencing to infants referred there for whatever reason as part of their medical workup–similar to the way doctors order a CT scan to learn more about a patient's health. At the University of Michigan, doctors sequence a specific portion of children's genomes to help guide treatment of those with undiagnosed diseases. And it's not just infants who can benefit; as the testing expands, it may improve diagnosis and treatment of adults as well. "I would love to see genomic sequencing used more often," says Dr. Jeffrey Innis, a pediatric geneticist at the University of Michigan.
Standing in the way are not just concerns about the practicality of genetic testing but also the cost. No insurers currently reimburse the expensive test. But Kingsmore's strategy is to change the cost-benefit equation by proving through his studies that genetic sequencing for the sickest babies will save money in the long term, sparing them the expensive and lengthy medical care they will need if they remain undiagnosed or are treated with the wrong therapies. He estimates that genetic testing could save about $1 billion in annual NICU costs across the country.
For parents of babies who have benefited from the testing, it's obviously priceless. "There is a reason why things happen," says Pascual. "I think Sebastiana is here to educate our entire family to grow together and understand the basic blessing of life and to never forget it. She is a miracle."
Source: TIME HEALTH


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TV Is Dying, and Here Are the Stats That Prove It
By Jim Edwards
Nov 25, 20133:17 PM
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This post originally appeared in Business Insider.
The TV business is having its worst year ever. Audience ratings have collapsed: Aside from a brief respite during the Olympics, there has been only negative ratings growth on broadcast and cable TV since September 2011, according to Citi Research. Media stock analysts Craig Moffett and Michael Nathanson recently noted, "The pay-TV industry has reported its worst 12-month stretch ever." All the major TV providers lost a collective 113,000 subscribers in Q3 2013. That doesn't sound like a huge deal—but it includes Internet subscribers, too.
Broadband Internet was supposed to benefit from the end of cable TV, but it hasn't. In all, about 5 million people ended their cable and broadband subs between the beginning of 2010 and the end of this year.
People are unplugging
Time Warner Cable, for instance, lost 306,000 TV subscribers in Q3, and 24,000 broadband web subscribers, too. And Tom Rutledge, CEO of Charter Communications, told Wall Street analysts he was "surprised" that 1.3 million of his 5.5 million customers don't want TV—just broadband Internet. "Our broadband-only growth has been greater than I thought it would be," he said.
The following charts show the evidence that cable TV is dying, and that people are also unplugging from broadband Internet service.
Fewer people are watching TV
This is the macro problem: Ratings are falling across the board. They have been for years. It's not too surprising that broadcast TV ratings are down. The major networks have faced increasing competition for years from niche-interest cable channels and the better-quality programming on places like AMC and HBO. But ratings for both cable and the broadcast networks are down.
For the first time ever, the number of cable TV subscribers at major providers is about to dip below 40 million
So why are ratings in decline? We're at the beginning of a major historical shift from watching TV to watching video—including TV shows and movies—on the Internet or on mobile devices. This is going to hurt cable TV providers.
Nearly 5 million cable TV subscribers have gone elsewhere in the last five years. The number of subscribers remaining could sink below 40 million later this year, according to this data from ISI Group, an equity research firm.
ISI Group
Cable and broadband companies are increasingly unable to retain customers
This chart (below) is the most important chart in this set: It shows the number of net subscriber additions across all types of customers—cable TV, broadband Internet and landline phone.
The cable and broadband subscriber business is seasonal. The net number of people leaving or adding services changes with the seasons, because people like to move house in the fall.
It used to be that up to 500,000 new subscriptions would be added across all companies in any given quarter. But now, cable and Internet companies are lucky if they get any new subscribers at all. Increasingly, the industry loses subscribers rather than gaining them, according to this data from One Touch Intelligence:
One Touch Intelligence
For the first time ever, less than half of subscribers at the major broadband companies now subscribe to cable TV
What's happening is that people are giving up on cable TV as a standalone product, and the market is shifting in favor of telco companies like AT&T and Verizon who offer TV as a package with high-speed Internet access, according to media equity analysts at ISI Group. (Direct Broadcast Satellite appears to be remaining steady, in part because its customers often live in more rural areas and have fewer alternatives.)
Mobile video is booming
Even though iPhone and Android phones still struggle to show video seamlessly, the amount of video seen on mobile devices is going through the roof. About 40 percent of all YouTube traffic comes from mobile.
Ad revenue increases are masking the macro decline of TV.
The collapse of TV is having a counter-intuitive effect on TV ad sales: prices are going up, even though the number of commercials is going down.
The reason? It's still really, really difficult to gather a large, mass audience in any kind of media, mobile or otherwise. The Super Bowl—on TV—is the only media property than can reach more than 100 million people in a three-hour stretch. That scarcity of large audiences makes TV's dwindling-but-still-big audience increasingly valuable.
The TV business may actually be addicted to the very thing that is killing it.
Even though cable TV has had its worst year ever, cable TV revenues are still rising because companies are charging the dwindling number of customers more in subscription fees. According to analysts Craig Moffett and Michael Nathanson, those higher prices are "part of the problem" that pushes out poor subscribers—losing the TV business even more eyeballs:
"Of course, the fact that pay-TV revenue is still rising smartly is part of the problem … We have always argued that cord-cutting is an economic phenomenon, not a technological one. … Pay-TV revenue growth reflects rapid pay-TV pricing growth and that is precisely the problem. Rapidly rising prices are squeezing lower-income consumers out of the ecosystem."
Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt said in his last-ever conference call that the cable business has been 'in denial.'
Britt, who is retiring because he has been diagnosed with cancer, told analysts on his Q3 2013 earnings call that he thought the cable business had spent too many years complacently dismissing the competition:
Regarding competition, well, duh, we have competition. I say that because when I first got this job 12 years ago, I think the cable industry as a whole, including our company, was in denial that we had real, viable competition. And I still hear some of my peers saying dismissive things about our competitors. And certainly, each of them has strengths and weaknesses, just as we do. However, they are around to stay, and we need to keep getting better at competing.
People who are unplugging from both cable TV and broadband Internet are likely going to free Wi-Fi.
So if fewer people are watching cable TV and fewer people are paying for Internet service, does that mean that we just don't care about watching our favorite shows anymore? Not necessarily. Free Wi-Fi—at work, in coffee shops, and on campuses—is making it easier for consumers to get the shows, movies and videos they want without subscribing to any kind of cable or broadband service. All of Starbucks offers free Wi-Fi, for instance.
Fifty-seven cities in the U.S., including Los Angeles, offer free Wi-Fi. Facebook and Cisco have joined to offer free wifi access to customers in any business who check in to Facebook. Facebook's original free wifi test included just 25 stores in the Bay Area. The company has now expanded it to 1,000. For some people, there is just no need for a cable or pipe to deliver the Internet or TV to their residence specifically, as long as they are within range of a free Wi-Fi hotspot.
See also: All Business Insider's Stories on the Death of TV


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Woolf sightings: Why women need a variety of rooms of their own
Monday 26 November 2012 by Paula Maggio
This week in Woolf sightings, a transgender activist makes a case for a rest room of her own (1), Houston novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explains her need for a writing room of her own (2), 22-year-old pop star Ke$ha references Room (3) and an art reviewer connects the Deborah Kass Effect to the Virginia Woolf Effect (8).
'My womanhood is valid': transgender activist Janet Mock calls for change, Telegraph.co.uk
Virginia Woolf famously called for a A Room of One's Own, setting out the need to make space for women in a man's world. More than 80 years later, another woman is making a similar argument. But this time, rather than claiming a space to write and …
Author Chitra Divakaruni's favorite room is a space of calm during creative storms, CultureMap Houston
According to Virginia Woolf, having a room of one's own is essential for female artists to create. Almost a century later, award-winning Houston novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni understands that essential need for a writer to have a room that is …
Why Ke$ha's New Memoir Is 2012's Answer to 'The Feminine Mystique', The Atlantic
Now, let's be real—it'd still be a big, big stretch to cast America's frattiest female pop star as the neon-painted face of the feminist movement on that basis. Virginia Woolf almost certainly would have objected to lyrics like "I don't care where you …
The Art of the Critic: On James Wood, lareviewofbooks
Virginia Woolf's essays do this, as do Randall Jarrell's and V. S. Pritchett's. (Pritchett: "Beckett's novels are lawsuits that never end.") Because these critics tend to be novelists or poets their perspective on books is firmly rooted in the creative …
Michael Cunningham shares his thoughts, The Star Online
You tend to draw on literary references in your works, for example Virginia Woolf in The Hours and Walt Whitman in Specimen Days. Does that happen organically when you're writing? Whitman and Woolf, and Thomas Mann, who is a smaller presence in By …
Iyambo, God Father of ?Nyama Choma?, AllAfrica.com
Eenhana — British novelist Virginia Woolf is quoted as saying, "one cannot think well, love well and sleep well, if one has not dined well." "Dinning well" is the feeling one gets while digging into scrumptious nyama choma, and spinach at Ekanda …
Lindsay Lohan 'too serious' for friends, Belfast Telegraph
"My friends didn't come to my trailer a lot because I was Cleopatra and Virginia Woolfthe entire time," she laughed during an appearance on Good Morning America today. "I hope my love for acting really shows through. I did the best that I could and I …
Deborah Kass at the Andy Warhol Museum: Seeing Through the Mirror of Her …, Huffington Post
For those who haven't experienced the Deborah Kass effect, suffice that I compare it to the Virginia Woolf Effect–the phasing in and out of time streams and locales, masculine and feminine identities. The difference is that, the Kass Effect isn't …
AfterEllen.com's Best Lesbian Week Ever: Nov. 10 – Nov. 16, Huffington Post (blog)
Getting lit: NYC has a new lesbian bar, The Dalloway, and it's named after a Virginia Woolfcharacter. Something tells me the women aren't going there to do any reading. LOL: Ellen DeGeneres said she enjoyed Kate McKinnon's impression of her on SNL …
Jungle law unchanged, The Age
Woolf returned to England, married Virginia Stephen, and dedicated his only novel, The Village in the Jungle (1913) to her. In Sri Lanka, a century later, the system remains as inadequate as he described it, to serve communities that are still divided …
Gift Guide 2012: Travel, Wall Street Journal
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Human face of suffering, Sydney Morning Herald
Virginia Woolf, whose novel Jacob's Room was written for her dead brother Thoby, inspires Barker's title. Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell, is briefly glimpsed, as is Lady Ottoline Morrell. The story of Toby and Elinor Brooke is fictional but it echoes the …
A room of her own: The battle for the Women's Library, Telegraph.co.uk
If a woman is to write fiction, declared Virginia Woolf in 1929, she must have a room of her own. And, the author noted, money. The Women's Library, based in London's East End, has provided just such a room for more than 75 years. But money has, of …
A 'Wicked' test of time, Albany Times Union
The idealistic nerdess bears some chromosomal resemblance to the young Virginia Woolf, for her acerbity and intellect; and to the young Laura Nyro, for her invention and energy; and to the older Emily Dickinson, for her willingness to retire when the …
The Read Balloon: Virginia Woolf for Little Wolves (householdwords.wordpress.com)
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UAH alumna Charlotte S. Fulton ('69 BA English) and local actor Frank Travis prepare for the play Arise and Build. The performance is based on Fulton's best-selling book, "Holding the Fort." The play will run Feb. 3-5 in Athens.
For more than 100 years Trinity High School in Limestone County AL, was the only school in the county where African-American students could get an education. The beloved high school closed in 1970 due to court-ordered desegregation. Charlotte S. Fulton ('69 BA English) acclaimed author and alumna of The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) spent nearly six years researching and penning the historical book, Holding the Fort: A History of Trinity School in Athens, Alabama, but her interest in the subject dates back to 1991, when she was a feature writer for the local newspaper, The Athens News Courier.
On Tuesday, Feb. 21, at 3 p.m., in the UAH Louis Salmon Library room 111 (reception Art Gallery), Fulton will talk about her journey researching and compiling oral histories for the book. After her talk she will conduct a question and answer session. The event is co-sponsored by the UAH Office of Alumni Relations, Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs and the Louis Salmon Library. The event is free and open to the public.
Holding the Fort was published in 2014, and tells the story of educating generations of African-Americans in Athens and surrounding areas during the Civil War era through the Civil Rights Movement. Book sale profits go toward the operation of the Pincham-Lincoln Center, renovated from the extant portions of Trinity School.
"The high point of my Athens News Courier experience was the Trinity Profiles series I initiated, featuring former students and teachers from Trinity School, which from its establishment in 1865 by the American Missionary Association until its closure in 1970, was the only high school for African-Americans in Limestone County," Fulton said. "Having attended all-white schools in the era of segregation and begun my teaching career during desegregation, I had developed an interest in that aspect of our nation's history. Now I could gain a new perspective by interviewing people whose careers as students and teachers in all-black schools had bridged these two eras."
Born in the Madison County community of Big Cove, Fulton was the youngest of 10 children. When she wasn't "picking cotton or gathering tomatoes or cutting corn off the cob, I was reading." Reading and writing were two of her favorite pastimes.
For Fulton, going away to college wasn't an option. She had no money for tuition and no transportation. "Fortunately, I was within commuting distance of UAH, where two of my brothers had gone before me — the oldest one of them attending classes at the fledgling institution, then known as the University Center, when classes were being held in the old Butler High School. I majored in English with certification in secondary education, honing my writing skills under memorable English teachers such as Eleanor Hutchens, Carter Martin, Jo Ann Harrison, Herb Francis, and Robert Welker."
Fulton graduated from UAH in the spring of 1969 and began teaching junior high school English at Hazel Green High School. "I had attended an all-white high school in the era of segregation and had seen UAH peacefully integrated by a handful of African-American students during my time there. Integration in Alabama's public schools had begun gradually in the 1965-1966 school year under the Freedom of Choice Plan."
I majored in English with certification in secondary education, honing my writing skills under memorable UAH English teachers such as Eleanor Hutchens, Carter Martin, Jo Ann Harrison, Herb Francis, and Robert Welker.
Full integration, Fulton said, began with the 1970-1971 year, and as a young teacher she transferred to West Madison Jr. High, a previously all-black school. "I spent the next few years teaching in Madison County schools (Madison Jr. High and Bob Jones High) before taking time off to rear two sons." Her husband Bruce Fulton ('75 BS Engineering) graduated from UAH as well.
The family moved to Athens in 1970, and Fulton renewed her teaching certificate, at Athens College (now Athens State University). Intending to return to the classroom, Fulton "got diverted" when a class in journalism reignited her love for writing.
In 1990, Fulton went to work at the News Courier, and launched a new career as a feature writer. For the next 15 years she interviewed Limestone Countians on a wide range of subjects. Fulton garnered several Associated Press and Alabama Press Association awards. Also Fulton and Kelly Kazek co-wrote Etched in Limestone, a two-volume pictorial history of Limestone County, Alabama.
Fulton began the monumental task of conducting oral histories in 1991. Trinity Profiles, she said, began with a history of the school and continued with stories about former Trinity students. Trinity alumni include: The Honorable Judge Robert Eugene Pincham, a noted civil rights attorney and appellate court judge in Chicago; Dr. C. Eric Lincoln, scholar, theologian and college professor who wrote more than 20 books; Charles Tisdale, owner and publisher of The Jackson Advocate, a black newspaper in Jackson, MS; George Ruffin Bridgeforth, who became head of the Department of Agriculture at Tuskegee Institute during the tenures of Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver, and Patti J. Malone, born into slavery in Athens, was a mezzo-soprano vocalist with the world-renowned Fisk Jubilee Singers.
Fulton said she found the interviewees to be "exceptionally articulate, exceptionally successful, exceptionally public service-minded – and exceptionally loyal to Trinity. Each person I interviewed told me about someone else. My list of Trinity Profiles grew longer and longer, and I became more and more intrigued about what made this school so special. I always intended to write a book about Trinity, so when, after retiring in 2006, I was approached about researching a book to be used as a fundraiser to help restore the old Trinity property, I said yes."
The school is located on the former site of Trinity-Fort Henderson, a Union breastworks fortification built in 1863 by slaves-turned-Union soldiers.
Fulton considers her six year journey of research and writing "eye-opening" as the picture emerged of white women missionaries who left their homes in the North, coming South to teach freedmen immediately after the Civil War.
"It was a story of courage and sacrifice — on the part of teacher and student. Trinity's founder Mary Fletcher Wells assembled her first classes just weeks after General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, initially teaching under the guard of Union soldiers," Fulton said. "When the American Missionary Association (AMA) planned to close Trinity in 1879 and transfer Wells to another field, the people contracted with the AMA to make the brick themselves if the AMA would build another school and allow Wells to remain in Athens," Fulton added.
While difficult to imagine now, Fulton said by 1892, Trinity would have its first African-American teacher on staff. "She would be joined a few years later by others who had graduated from Fisk or Talladega and returned to teach at their alma mater. Just think: an integrated faculty in Athens, Alabama, in the 1800s. The tradition of success would continue throughout Trinity's years of operation and beyond, with Trinity alumni filling the nation's pulpits, leading its classrooms from kindergarten through college level, creating art and music, becoming entrepreneurs, and excelling in the military and other fields of endeavor," Fulton said.
In 2015, Fulton and actor Frank Travis co-wrote the play Arise and Build, based on Holding the Fort. Sponsored by the Athens-Limestone Community Association (ALCA), the play features some of Limestone County's most talented gospel singers. The play will be reprised this year, and performances will be held Feb. 3-5, at Friendship Church in Athens. For ticket information, please call 256.777.9727.


Clinton Hill Foodie: Have a Drink at Tamboril...Finally!
Have a Drink at Tamboril...Finally!
I'm a fan of this place but haven't frequented it much because I'm also a fan of a drink with dinner. Glad to hear they finally got that sorted out - the food is pretty great.


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Pittsburgh Convention Elects Black Woman as Bishop
Saturday, June 26, the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh chose the Rev. Dr. Ketlen Solak as their next bishop. It took three ballots for the lay deputies and clergy choices to converge and grant Solak the needed majority among both lay and clergy voters. On the first ballot, laity spread their votes almost evenly among three candidates (including Solak) with two others receiving many fewer votes. The clergy votes were likewise split three ways, but for a slightly different group of three. Solak had the highest number of votes. On the second ballot, Solak was the leading choice among the 5 candidates. Two, the Rev. Jeffrey Murph and The Rev. Kim Coleman then withdrew. On the third ballot just over 53% of of the laity and 55% of the clergy voted for her. With degrees in church music from the Catholic University and both an M.Div and D.Min from Virginia Theological Seminary, the Haitian-born Solak has been serving 3 parishes in Delaware that retain separate identities and governance while working cooperatively. Assuming approval by the diocesan bishops and Standing Committees of the Episcopal Church, she will be ordained as bishop in Pittsburgh on November 13, 2021. The diocese issued a press release announcing her the election. The area newspapers Post-Gazette and the Tribune Review each added other details. Update covered the search including the addition of 2 male candidates by petition to a slate that originally was comprised of three women, two of whom were of African descent.
Presiding Bishop Urges an Even Greater Focus on Racial Reconciliation
At the opening session of the Episcopal Church's Executive Council, Presiding Bishop Michael Curry announced a renewed effort to engage all the dioceses in racial reconciliation and anti-racism. He noted the work already done by many dioceses, but then stressed that there were still some dioceses lagging and that there was more to do everywhere. The Executive Council, which includes laity, clergy, from every region of the church and representatives from the House of Bishops, has been working on these issues for several years. In January, the Council had reaffirmed its commitment to the Church's efforts to bridge the racial divide and bring healing.
Hong Kong Primate Raises Concern About Freedom of Expression
Andrew Chan, the new Archbishop of Hong Kong has raised concerns about the limitations of freedom of expression under the Chinese National Security Law. He is concerned that clergy will be limited in what they can say or preach, and is also raising the possibility that the government may punish churches who are seen as politically "incorrect." Chan's statements are a decided contrast to the support the previous Archbishop showed for the implementation of the security law.
Bishop of Liverpool Says It Is Time for the Church of England to Bless Same Sex Marriages.
Paul Bayes, the Bishop of Liverpool has said that it is time for the Church of England to revise its marriage canon to be gender neutral, and to recognize and bless the marriages of same-sex couples. He made the comments at a conference of supporters of an inclusive Anglican Church. The Thinking Anglicans article has a link to the full text of Bishop Bayes's address. Update has followed the steps by Parliament that have put the Church of England increasingly out of step with the government on this issue see this article and this one as examples.
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PHILADELPHIA — A woman has filed a lawsuit alleging race discrimination against Thomas Jefferson University, claiming that her application to medical school was rejected because she is white.
Nicole Katchur filed a complaint on Aug. 13, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Thomas Jefferson University alleging that the non-profit corporation violated Title IX of the Education Amendment Act.
The plaintiff alleges that after obtaining a degree from Princeton University in 2017, she decided to pursue a career in medicine at defendant's Sidney Kimmel Medical College. As a result of defendant's discriminatory conduct, she will forever be precluded from admission to the said school, she says.
The plaintiff holds Thomas Jefferson University responsible because the defendant allegedly retaliated against her for registering a complaint of discrimination and rejected her application to medical school because of her race and national origin.
The plaintiff requests a trial by jury and seeks an order enjoining defendant from denying her admission, award for all damages, with interest, costs, attorney's fees and such other just and proper relief. She is represented by Sidney L. Gold of Sidney L. Gold & Associates PC in Philadelphia.


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Independence Day is a time to celebrate, but barbecue supplies, fireworks, and drinks can add up in cost. Celebrating doesn't have to be so expensive this 4th of July. Make your holiday more affordable by taking advantage of one of the many free celebrations around Charlotte, North Carolina, and York County, South Carolina.
The Carolinas are full of free July 4th celebrations that let you enjoy the holiday without needing to drain funds. Here are a few of our favorites.
When it comes to 4th of July fireworks, the bigger, the better. So why settle for anything less than the biggest? Skyshow in Charlotte, North Carolina, bills itself as the largest fireworks display in the Southeast, and it is truly a sight to behold. Although the best seats are from BB&T Ballpark, you can get a stunning view of the spectacle from Romare Bearden Park or one of the nearby parking lots.
The town of Harrisburg in North Carolina always put together an impressive 4th of July Celebration, and 2017 is their 20th year. With three days of great activities, shows, and events, there is something for the whole family to enjoy.
Although there is a pageant on the 29th of June, and plenty to do on the 3rd of July, festivities kick into full steam on the 4th. After a 9 a.m. parade, visitors can enjoy a full evening of food, fun, live music, and fireworks.
Take in some classic patriotic music this holiday with a free concert from the Queen City Brass Band. Bring along folding chairs or a blanket to lay out and enjoy the show. Even kids who might not appreciate the music will have fun with face painting and inflatable bounce houses.
Want a nautical Independence Day? Then you'll love Tega Cay's 4th of July Celebration. After a land parade at 9 am, decorated boats will make their way around the peninsula for the boat parade.
Your kids will love free swimming, snow cones, waterslides, and more at the Tega Cay Golf Pavilion Area from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Finish the night with fireworks for a perfect holiday.
Still low on cash? Stop by a Cash Fast Loan Center. We have convenient locations around the Carolinas. Appointments take 15 minutes, so you get your loan fast.


One of Cherry Mobiles greatest phone is Cherry Mobile Omega HD 2.0, with its 5 inch IPS 720x1280 display you can enjoy great video and game quality, that every details are found. Running on 1.2GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6589 processor, Cortex-A7, multitasking has never been easy, background apps are running while doing something. Running on the latest Android software Jelly Bean 4.2, Cherry Mobile Omega HD 2.0 can surely download any app in PlayStore without any compatibility issues. The battery can also last for half a day of heavy usage equivalent to 2,100mAh. Cherry Mobile Omega HD 2.0 can be bought at P8,999 (SRP), for a quad-core phone the price is worth the cost.
Cherry Mobile Omega HD 2.0 is one of the most powerful mobile phone as of now for local made, like the above specification suggest. One of the best thing about Cherry Mobile Omega HD 2.0 is that the camera is 12MP autofocus BSI camera with LED flash, enough clarity to see the holes of your skin (exaggerated), but honestly its 12MP.
Note: Stay tuned for my rooting tutorial for Cherry Mobile Omega HD 2.0, so how to root Cherry Mobile Omega HD 2.0 you say? Coming soon.
heard a l0t of issues like dead pixel and backlight leaks...any c0mments?
I stopped reading at "Cherry Mobile Omega HD 2.0 is one of the most powerful mobile phone as of now for local made" - PLEASE!!! Local made? Really? Where is their manufacturing plant in the Philippines? I do not know if you made a mistake here or you do not actually know that they buy manufactured phones in China and rebrand it as Cherry Mobile. When writing, credibility is important. So do your research first.
lahat naman ng company like samsung,apple,sony at iba pa... meron din made in china kasi pumili din sila ng mas cheaper manufacturer which is China... eh kahit nga Playstation Vita ko Asian Version and made in china pero same quality lang sa mga US,Europe and japan version... pero kung ayaw mo nito then bumili ka na lang sa mga mamahalin brand saka wala naman phone or any gadget na hindi nasisira boom!!!!
Tama si Anonymous. Apple has a plant, Samsung has a plant. Pero Cherry Mobile get their phones from OTHER brands and then rebrand them as their own. It's not a matter of whether it's MADE in china or not, it's a matter of WHO ACTUALLY BUILT these phones.
For example, iPhone is a phone from Apple, Galaxy S is a line of mobile phones from Samsung, The Cherry Mobile Flare (let's just use FLARE as an example for the time being) is actually a KARBONN phone, an Indian(?) company.
pag dating sa pinas ni rebrand ang fon na ito at bkit naging 12mp ang rear cam from 8mp pati front naging 2mp from 1.2mp, at wla nmang nabago sa fon... Any one can EXPLAIN????
sa unang bwan na gamit ko kala ko sira battery mabilis ma lowbatt. but habang tumatagal ginagamit ko lalong tumatagal ang life ng batt. no other issue. be practical mura n para sa isang pinoy. china man o hindi nasa paggagamit yan.
Don't believe in the given specs but the review of one another :) ..
Peace of advice, do not remove the screen guard.. I dont think Dragon Trail Glass is enough to trust that the screen of this phone will not get any scratch. Sad to say, but my CM Omega HD 2.0 got a scratch after removing the screen guard.
But above all, I love the quality of this phone..enjoying it so far. Im planning to root this phone, any advise if it's safe?
It's safe, if you know the way around. Otherwise don't do it.
hello po, ask ko lang kung pede gamitin ang any CM phones outside the country like Qatar. plano ko po kasi magpabili jan ng skyfire 2.0 or omega hd 2.0 then gagamitin ko siya dito. any previous issues po ba about compatibility ng CM regarding telecoms outside PH?
Ok naman po gamitin yung CM phone sa labas, openline na kasi yan.
Interesting kau ha. Bibili nga aq!! Wish q lng d aq mapahiya ha.?
There's so many bad issue about this new Cherry Mobile omega HD 2.0 like the camera, the photo was not really clear for a 12mp camera. it is not a scratch free resistant.


I am really sick of it. He keep boasting how good he is, and tell others to shut up.
Some games he will switch like 3 time.
Market always blue...most lame guy with 16 year or so experience.
It piss me of each time.


I have had this book on my TBR (to be read) shelf for ages and ages. Now that Gibson's new book, Peripheral, is being released (Oct. 28, 2014) I thought I should read his classic.
At first I was really disappointed because, first, I've only followed Gibson since Pattern Recognition and I'm used to his books being set in a contemporary world with cutting edge techno/cyber stuff. When a book was written 30 years ago it's just not going to be that.
Neuromancer is set in a world decades in the future – 2030? – rather than the cutting edge reality of 2014. It's also about computer and medical technology as well as the world of crime rather than fashion and advertising plus all the above. – heh. I might have enjoyed this when it came out, but maybe not – I'm not big on the medical parts.
Otoh, I understand why this book is important – it's a classic and as I read on, as well as read about it, I came to realize that it was deservedly so.
Neuromancer was the first cyberpunk novel and it took the sci-fi world by storm winning the big sci-fi awards and becoming a cult classic. It may hold some resonance for those who read it back then or for those who want to know the origins, development and evolution of the genre (sub-genre?) – Gibson has very much "created a world" in the tradition of sci-fi and he did it so well that it's hard to distinguish which parts were invented and which were real. This was true even in 1984.
When this ground-breaking novel was published in 1984 there were no cell phones as we know them, the first Macintosh was released, video games were in their prime ( home- programers could code simple ones) . The basics of computer programming were becoming known to a larger public, the internet was coming together (networked banks, universities and military) and with Neuromancer, Gibson provided the word "cyberspace." The development of Artificial Intelligence had stalled, but there was huge interest in some circles. The book was aimed at high school and college age males who popularized it by word of mouth.
The Plot: Henry Case is a low-life convicted computer hacker and drug-dealer in a place called Chiba City, Japan. His body has been poisoned for his crimes and more than anything he wants to find a cure. Thanks to a modified woman named Molly, Case ends up in a trade of his hacker skills for a cure but the cure is deliberately turned against him by Amitage (and they nullify the effects of his drugs), Molly's boss and the "buyer" of his skills. Molly has Case checked by her old friend and hacker buddy, Finn.
Then Amitage (Corto) hires a guy who can project scenarios because he's been implanted with cybernetic devices. And this is how we come to the deceased Wintermute, an AI, whose consciousness is kept alive in a special habitat in Switzerland by some crazy scientists for the Tessier-Ashpool family some of whom are kept frozen (cryotstasis) awaiting a cure.
But poor Wintermute is only half of what he could be if he were joined with Neuromancer, his counterpart in Rio, kept there by the same family because to join the two AIs would be against the law. Now Amitage's reconstituted mental condition starts to break down and havoc ensues.
The narrative is strewn heavily with sci-fi jargon, computerese, bad-boy lingo, slang, patois, etc. It sometimes become tedious to read this kind of ambiguity, but I suppose it adds to the ambiance.
Robertson Dean is a great reader for the Gibson books.
It's probably been an interesting ride to follow Gibson's career as he's written the books – I know I'm looking forward to the new one due out in a few weeks – Peripheral – due Oct. 28, 2014 – but I don't think I'm going to go back and read his other priors.
I've been meaning to reread Neuromancer. I read it when it came out, but not since then. I've always wondered if it has held up to be the instant classic everyone claimed it would be all those years ago.


Why Google's Street View Trusted Virtual Tour?
Shoot. While not always the case, it is usually the best to avoid times of high traffic any time of the day where a lot of sunlight stream in through main windows should typically be avoided.
Depending on the size of your location, the photographer will be at your location for one to three hours. Before they start shooting, they will complete a walk through with you to determine the areas of your facility that you want to highlight. The photographer will collect the one-time payment at this time.
Back at our offices, we will edit and stitch the photography together to create the photo-spheres that will make up your virtual tour. This process usually takes less than one week, but can take up to three weeks once in a while.
As soon as your business's virtual tour is edited and stitched together, we will publish it through Google's portal to Google Search, Maps, and Plus. This process is typically completed in a matter of days but delays in the system do occur from time to time. Once your tour is published, we will email you the HTML of your tour so that you can easily embed it on your website & Facebook.


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Marcus & Millichap is pleased to present for sale the fee-simple interest of an 80,000 square foot multi-tenant tech-flex industrial building, located at 785 N. Freedom Street, Ravenna, Ohio 44266. The class B building was built in 1952 and renovated in 1962. Recent improvements include a new 18,500 square foot section of roof installed in 2014 with a 15-year warranty. An additional 1,365 square foot section of roof received a spray-on EDPM in the same year. The front parking lot was resurfaced in 2017. Other recent improvements include new HVAC, electrics, lighting, and siding. The property is situated on approximately 6 acres zoned Industrial and is accessible by the ABC railway. The building and grounds are maintained in a pristine condition and is priced well below replacement cost and at a cap rate of 12.9%. Johnson Matthey (JM), the major tenant which occupies 55% of the building, will not be renewing their lease, which expires in three years, however, they will continue to pay rent for the balance of their term until October 31, 2023. The JM lease alone can carry the expenses of the entire building producing a modest residual cash flow. This provides a savvy investor a value-add opportunity to re tenant at higher market rents with no carrying costs during stabilization. The owner's motivation to sell is retirement. Ravenna is in the Portage County submarket which has a declining vacancy rate of 2% and a net absorption of 295,000 square feet over the last 12-months. This combined with low construction, has contributed to the high demand for long-term and short-term on-demand industrial and tech-flex space.
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Our articles from Respect for Life Month continues with Life's end care and compassion. Below is a synopsis of the article.
Invite God In: As you enter into this season with your friend or family member, ask God to accompany both of you.
Listen: Listen with a non-judgmental ear so your loved one feels free to speak openly.
Be Steadfast in Compassion: The patient's suffering can be alleviated by your empathy, as well as by quality hospice care by medical personnel.
Help Them Achieve Closure: Help your family member or friend define the unfinished items in their life. Creating and accomplishing this list of unfinished business can help the person discover a sense of purpose and feel more at peace.
Provide Opportunities for Resolution: You can help ensure a peaceful transition for your loved one by facilitating opportunities for reconciliation with others and for mutual expressions of love and gratitude.
Reminisce: Think of other small comforts you can provide that would spark meaningful memories, like special photos or mementos.
Provide a Peaceful Presence: Hearing can become very acute, so placing the phone in another room, playing favorite music, reading a favorite passage, praying together, or simply sitting quietly with him or her can all be very soothing.
Show Tenderness: Those who are dying remain in need of the tenderness of personal human contact.
Bear Their Transition Patiently: Try to be patient, and allow the "how" and "when" of death to be between God and your loved one. Ask God for the wisdom to know what final words to say—if any—and when.
Accompanying a loved one in his or her last days is enormously important, but we do not need to fear our own limitations.
**References do not indicate endorsement.
 United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, To Live Each Day with Dignity: A Statement on Physician-Assisted Suicide, 10.
Excerpts from Morning Meditation © 2013, General Audience © 2016, Misericordiae vultus © 2015, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Vatican City. Used with permission. All rights reserved. Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition © 2001 LEV-USCCB. Used with permission. Reprinted [Excerpted] from Respect Life Program, copyright © 2018, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, D.C. All rights reserved.


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Anirudh Nopany and Sreeram Anvesh of Brik Oven on how they started and where they want to take the brand.
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(L to R) Sreeram Anvesh and Anirudh Nopany of Brik Oven want to expand their brand across south India.
It was over a lunch meeting back in 2016 that the first Brik Oven restaurant was born in Bengaluru's thriving Church Street. Anirudh Nopany and Sreeram Anvesh spoke to ET HospitalityWorld about their brand and looking beyond the city.
A graduate from Le Cordon Bleu in London, Nopany was at that time thinking of opening up his own space while Anvesh (who has a pronounced sweet tooth), having worked a couple of years in the corporate sector as a tax consultant, was also keen to do something with thick shakes—in fact, the day they had their lunch, was also when their first location on Church Street became available, they shared.
"We started out with the first outlet in 2016—in fact January 23 this year we will complete seven years of the brand," said Anvesh.
The early days were heady, Nopany remembers how he and his partner, along with their circle of friends all worked together nonstop for two weeks when Brik Oven opened for customers.
"We signed up the space and we had no idea what we were doing—we knew we wanted to do pizzas, and we wanted to do thick shakes at that point. We wanted a wood fired oven inside of that little spot in Church Street. It took us about eight months to get the place up and running stage. At that point it was only me, (Sree)ram (Anvesh), a bunch of our friends who were just standing around. As soon as we flipped the open sign, given Church Street is a high footfall area, we got a lot of walk-in traffic. I think the first few days we were just serving them for free because we didn't have the POS in order at that point. We were just having fun. Our friends, girlfriends, friends were standing there doing service. We were all having a great time doing this because it was like a pizza party," Nopany recalled.
From its inception, the brand has been striving to also control their supply chain and have been able to indigenize as much of it—they even make their own cheese.
In 2018 they began scouting locations for a central kitchen and restaurant space in Bengaluru to be their second location, which they found in Indiranagar. This is currently the brand's flagship store.
"Indiranagar worked well for us because we wanted to keep our central kitchen there to standardise production—no matter how many outlets we open in the future, we wanted to make sure it's the same product," said Avnesh, adding that they had been able to achieve standardisation.
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