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Their sisters' keeper: Siblings bring additional joy to religious life
The stained-glass window in the church at the Immaculate Conception Monastery in Ferdinand, Indiana, is known as "the monastery angel" because she holds the monastery in her hand. (GSR photo / Dan Stockman)
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The Immaculate Conception Monastery, a grand convent that crowns the rolling landscape for miles, is home to about 150 Sisters of St. Benedict. It's also home to four sisters.
To clarify: That's sisters who are also sisters to each other. As in siblings.
Sr. Mary Carmen Spayd and Sr. Mary Carmel Spayd are twins, and Sr. Rosemary Dauby and Sr. Agnes Marie Dauby were born a year apart.
Their blood relation may be interesting — especially to outsiders — but what matters, they say, is that they are where God wants them to be.
"You can always have the best-laid plans," Rosemary said, "but that's not always how they work out."
In this area of southern Indiana, the monastery is hard to avoid. It sits on a hill overlooking the town and can be seen miles away. In addition to the convent, once home to nearly 500 women religious, there was a Catholic college and a Catholic girls' high school, all run by the Sisters of St. Benedict. The college closed in 1970, and the girls' academy closed in 2000.
From left: Benedictine Srs. Mary Carmel Spayd, Rosemary Dauby, Mary Carmen Spayd and Agnes Marie Dauby talk about what it's like to have a sister at the same convent, the Immaculate Conception Monastery in Ferdinand, Indiana. (GSR photo / Dan Stockman)
The outside of the church at the Immaculate Conception Monastery in Ferdinand, Indiana. (GSR photo / Dan Stockman)
Agnes, 65, Rosemary, 64, and two of their three other sisters attended the high school, and one of their older sisters was a Sister of St. Benedict for 17 years before leaving the order in 1982. They also had two aunts — blood siblings, as well — who were sisters there. That's five women from the same family.
"When Rosy entered, our brother said, 'One is OK, maybe two. But not three!'" Agnes said.
Kathleen Sprows Cummings, director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, said there was a time, especially during the first half of the 1900s, when multiple siblings entering the same order was not unusual.
"It was much more common in the past, though there are no statistics at all to back that up," Cummings said. "Usually, the common path was that they were taught by nuns, and often an older sister would join, making it seem that much more viable for the younger ones."
The church at the Immaculate Conception Monastery in Ferdinand, Indiana. (GSR photo / Dan Stockman)
At that time, the career choices for many women were limited, and while some siblings would join different orders, it was much more likely they would join the one their family was already familiar with.
In the area around Ferdinand, the obvious choice was the Benedictines. In larger cities, Cummings said, there were often many congregations to choose from, but young women were more likely to choose the order that taught them in school.
'It just became a love affair'
Mary Carmen and Mary Carmel, both 90, grew up just 7 miles from the Immaculate Conception monastery. Mary Carmen said the Benedictines were the only sisters they ever knew.
"I was impressed by their kindness, and they were great teachers," she said. "Attending the academy on this hill, I became more acquainted with the sisters, and it just became a love affair."
Mary Carmen said becoming a sister was never really talked about, but from grade school on, both girls wanted to become sisters.
"Our mother encouraged it," she said. "She had always wanted to join, but her mother wouldn't let her until she was 21, and by then, she said, 'Forget it.'"
Outside the family, however, no one believed the two would become nuns.
Benedictine Sr. Mary Carmel Spayd points to the dome in the church at Immaculate Conception Monastery in Ferdinand, Indiana. Spayd, 90, and her twin sister, Benedictine Sr. Mary Carmen Spayd, have climbed to the top of the dome to look around. (GSR photo / Dan Stockman)
Benedictine Sr. Rosemary Dauby points out the features of the church at Immaculate Conception Monastery in Ferdinand, Indiana. (GSR photo / Dan Stockman)
"We were tomboys," Mary Carmen said.
After graduating from the academy, the twins went to work in the offices of Republic Aviation in nearby Evansville, which built P-42 Hellfire fighter planes for World War II.
After a few months, Mary Carmel told her sister she thought they should go to Mass at the convent, and Mary Carmen agreed. From that day on, their paths were set. They formally entered the convent in 1944.
"It was very difficult for our mother in losing two," Mary Carmen said. "Our brother was already in the Navy, so it was very difficult for her."
And, unlike today, it was indeed a loss — women religious were not allowed to visit home, and when they did, the visits were short.
"We were here five years before we got to go home," Mary Carmel said. "And when we did go home, it was like leaving all over again. It was very painful. We had to be back by 8 at night, so we hardly had time to see anyone."
And there was another love they had to leave behind.
"We loved to dance. It was the hardest thing to give up," Mary Carmel said.
Benedictine Srs. Mary Carmen Spayd and Agnes Marie Dauby talk about what it's like to have a sister at the same convent. (GSR photo / Dan Stockman)
While still in high school, the two would take the bus to Camp Breckinridge near Evansville to go to the dances held for the soldiers training there.
"They had these wonderful bands," Mary Carmen said. "Tommy Dorsey and all the others. We just danced our lives away."
They almost danced their vocations away. It was very common for girls at the academy to enter the congregation after their junior year, Mary Carmen said. "Well, the twins did not do that. The sisters were very concerned."
They were so concerned that at one point, the twins were sent a letter implying that they viewed going dancing as much more important than their future.
When they lived in Evansville and worked at Republic Aviation, they would sometimes skip meals to be able to afford to go dancing. And when they were candidates in the monastery, they would sit in chapel and could hear a dance being held in the makeshift gym below.
"My foot would be tapping in time to the music," Mary Carmen said. "I was dying to go down there."
"I think I was in tears sometimes," Mary Carmel said.
Now they say they're "too old" to dance — but their eyes still light up talking about doing the Charleston and the jitterbug.
'God was telling me — I just didn't want to listen'
Agnes and Rosemary also found their way to the convent through the girls' academy.
"I went to a retreat and remember the director said it was important to pray to know what your vocation is," Agnes said. "So I made a deal with God. I said, 'If you help me know what to do by my senior year, I'll go to Mass every Saturday morning.' Saturday was the only day we didn't have to go, so that was a real commitment for me."
But by her senior year, she had decided not to join religious life and was accepted at a college in Louisville, Kentucky, to study social work.
Twin sisters Sr. Mary Carmel Spayd, left, and Sr. Mary Carmen Spayd, both Benedictines, talk about living at Immaculate Conception Monastery in Ferdinand, Indiana. (GSR photo / Dan Stockman)
"Sisters would ask me if I ever thought about it. And people would say I had leadership qualities and had I ever thought about being a sister," Agnes said. "I remember trying to forget all about that. I didn't want anything to do with it. I went to a dance and a girl I knew from a Come and See weekend said, 'Are you going, or what?' I couldn't get away from it!
"Here I had prayed and prayed and prayed, and God was telling me — I just didn't want to listen," she said.
Then her older sister, who was already in the convent, asked her if she had thought about joining.
"I wrote her an 11-page letter saying, 'I wish people would stop asking me,'" Agnes said. "I went on and on about it."
Finally, on Feb. 9, 1968, midway through her senior year at the academy, Agnes met with the mother superior to talk about the possibility. After working as a carhop at the A&W root beer stand over the summer, she entered the congregation in August.
Agnes' younger sister, Rosemary, took a different path: She wanted to join, but didn't want anyone to know about it. Whenever people asked her if she had thought about religious life, she said no.
"If I was going to join, I wanted it to be because I wanted to, not because my sisters were here," Rosemary said. "When they had a Come and See weekend, I didn't go. The girls all came back and said how much fun it was, and I said, 'Nuh-uh!'"
Usually, when girls met with the mother superior to talk about joining, they were given a St. Benedict medal to wear, signifying that they were going to enter religious life. Rosemary met with her in secret and didn't get the medal. She told no one until graduation day, and entered in 1970.
The twins have been Benedictines for nearly 72 years and tell stories about teaching in the same school, where students could not tell them apart. At one point, their classrooms were next to each other; Mary Carmen taught junior boys and Mary Carmel taught senior boys.
"Students would say, 'This is not fair,'" Mary Carmel said, laughing. "One boy never figured out which one of us he had."
"Some of the boys called us Sisters X and Y," Mary Carmen added.
The twins can also tell you about all the physical labor they've done around the grounds, including mixing and pouring concrete and placing stones for a walkway. Giving a tour of the magnificent church at the monastery, they point to the dome that towers above the sanctuary and ask Agnes and Rosemary if they've ever been up to the dome.
The Immaculate Conception Monastery looks out over the town of Ferdinand, Indiana. (GSR photo / Dan Stockman)
The view from the church at the Immaculate Conception Monastery in Ferdinand, Indiana. (GSR photo / Dan Stockman)
"We have!" Mary Carmen says.
And then they tell how, when the church was undergoing restoration in the early 2000s, the outside was covered with scaffolding. So the two of them climbed to the top so they could see what the countryside looked like from atop the dome, which sits at least seven stories above the top of the hill. They would have been about 78 at the time.
"This is home," Mary Carmel says. "But I never cease to be amazed. Sometimes I stand on the colonnade and just marvel. It could never be replaced."
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panel displays, light-emitting devices, or heated windows .
also single crystalline or epitaxial TCO materials have been investigated [7–9].
Film deposition at low substrate temperatures (down to room temperature).
Sputter deposition of alloys and compounds.
Formation of homogeneous, dense, and well-adhering films.
High chemical reactivity of atomic/molecular species due to the plasmaassisted dissociation/excitation of species in the vapor phase.
used on a very large scale, for instance, for architectural glass coating [12, 13].
the dopant boron, limiting the carrier concentration to about 2 × 1020 cm−3 .
caused by the low deposition rates and the high costs .
very suitable for large-area applications.
when the first liquid crystal displays were developed and commercialized .
least in the research area, titanium oxide (TiO2 ).
conductivity (𝜎 ≈ 5 × 103 S cm−1 ). Nevertheless, it can be used in flat panel displays and as window and contact layer in thin film solar cells .
transparent conductive film in harsh environments.
as a donor since it leads to very high carrier (electron) mobilities.
oxides, which are used as transparent electrodes.
result and hence low effective electron masses [34, 35] (see Table 2.1.1).
masses of different transparent conductive oxides.
Table 2.1.2 Properties of TCO materials in comparison with that of silicon .


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Breivik a Neo-Nazi?
Submitted by Edward Cline (United States), Jul 27, 2011 at 13:22
I'm firmly convinced that Breivik would have been an ardent Nazi in some notable capacity in Hitler's time, perhaps as a functionary in Hitler's outer cadre of supporters. Hitler also considered Muslims to be a useful tool to help exterminate Jews in Palestine, and approved the formation of brigades of Muslims in the Balkans (wearing German uniforms, but under the command of Germans). According to Breivik's manifesto, he also planned to enlist the aid of Muslim "extremists" to wage a war of terror on Europe. But if Hitler had won the war, I often wonder what he would have done about his Muslim "allies." After all, they weren't Aryan, and I don't think the compatibility of Nazi and Islamic ideologies would have mattered to him much. It wouldn't have stopped him from beginning to exterminate Muslims just as he'd helped to exterminate Jews, gypsies, and other "impure" folk. Islam would have been a rival ideology that also required unqualified submission to the state, in this case, a caliphate. The racial supremacist elements in both ideologies were strikingly similar, as well.
Again, I disagree that there can be any such thing as "moderate Islam," just as there could not have been any such thing as "moderate Nazism." Nazism and Islam are ideologies, not tamable or modifiable religions. The religious character of each ideology (and Nazism certainly had its religious character) is just frosting on the cake. Excise either ideology of its totalitarian tenets, demote Hitler and Mohammad from their iconic roles as exemplars of their faiths, and condemn the primitive and brutal practices that are sanctioned by the Koran and Mein Kampf, and nothing inimical to the West would be left of the ideologies. They would be emasculated of their strength and appeal to anyone wishing to lose himself in a collectivist identity. Each would require a new name. They would not be the Nazism and Islam that we know all too well.
Daniel Pipes replies:
I wish to thank Mr. Cline for his fine article, "MSM Thuggees Run Amok Over Breivik," on the coverage of the Norwegian terrorist atrocity.
Mark my comment as a response to Breivik a Neo-Nazi? by Edward Cline


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Got about 700 words out of my head and on paper today. Or in pixels, I guess if you want to be technical about it.
Not really sure why a royal wedding of all things would get me going, but there you go. I guess I just needed something nice instead of all the dumpster fires that we have going on.
At least to me. I signed up for Ancestry.com a few years ago, in an attempt to figure out what was beyond my grandparents.
It's also great for trying to map out a family you're making up. Just set the new tree private so you don't confuse anyone else.
Patreon.com – Finally pulled the trigger.
It's great when you can create a completely new world when you're writing something, because you control all the history.
It's really annoying when you're trying to write something in the current "real" universe. While you can make dragons be real – if invisible to those not in the know – you can't change the fact that Margaret Cross Norton didn't head up the Society of American Archivists until 1943.


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Balancing school work and activities requires time management
Marge Steele's two high-schoolers think they have too much homework – most students do. Mrs. Steele agrees with her sophomore and senior sons who attend Calvert Hall College High School, Towson.
"Our biggest issue is that they play sports and the days they have games they get home very late," said the mother of Ryan and Brendan Steele. "So usually they are rushing through their homework, going in early to complete it the next morning, and if they have free periods … they do it then."
Why the need for homework? "Homework gives a student time to ponder material covered in class and commit it to memory," said Karl Dotterweich, social studies teacher at Our Lady of Mount Carmel High School, Essex, "without distractions that can occur in a classroom."
His students can expect 15-30 minutes of homework several times a week; he is aware that other teachers are simultaneously assigning homework.
Yet he does not think teachers assign too much nor has he received parental complaints. It doesn't have to be an issue for busy students to balance homework and school activities, he said, "if they are responsible. I believe school comes before activities, but there is no reason a student cannot participate in a club or sport if they budget their time well."
Golf coach and science teacher Jon Cupp, of Our Lady of Mount Carmel High School, knows it's an issue. His team has returned from golf matches sometimes at 9 p.m. He witnesses kids on buses to and from games perusing notebooks and texts on their laps, and arriving in school earlier than teachers to get it done.
"There are a lot of students who work to fit in everything," he said. "To some extent, that can be a good thing … but it does need to be addressed and planned for by the students, teachers and parents."
Mr. Cupp works with athletes, in conjunction with coaches, to address homework concerns. "If there is a big game that is far away, I may give students an extra day on an assignment," he said.
As in other schools, Mount St. Joseph High School, Irvington, students are involved in many activities "that are important for their overall development," said ninth-grade biology teacher Pat Abrahms. "A burden of excess homework would simply be counter-productive for students who are balancing a demanding load." She assigns no more than 15-20 minutes of homework nightly.
However, it can be more challenging to learn time management when a student has no extra activities, said Mr. Cupp. "Activities tend to force students to plan their time more effectively as opposed to watching TV or playing video games." English teacher Dan Peightel of Mount St. Joseph agreed. He noted that busy students can be more competent at organizing and prioritizing their schoolwork.
More than "a lot" of homework, he assigns "challenging" homework. "When our expectations about the amount of work become unreasonable, even the best students simply shut down," he said.
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IBRI Diabetes Center
Focusing on the molecular basis of diabetes and its complications
Robert Considine, PhD
Indiana Biosciences Research Institute
1345 W. 16 th St. Suite 300
rconsidine@indianabiosciences.org
Lab: 317-983-3350
IBRI DIABETES CENTER (IDC)
Focus: The molecular basis of diabetes
Researchers in the IBRI Diabetes Center (IDC) focus on the molecular basis of diabetes and its complications, including mechanisms for beta cell regeneration. The IDC is highly collaborative and structured to support basic science research seeking to understand the disease while achieving technological breakthroughs in the way we diagnose, treat and manage diabetes in Indiana and beyond.
The IDC includes the lab of the center Director, Robert Considine, Ph.D., the Considine Lab, the Lilly Diabetes Center of Excellence (LDCE), a collaboration between Eli Lilly and Company, Indiana University School of Medicine and the IBRI, the Mastracci Lab and the Eizirik Lab.
The IDC aims to become a nexus of strategically aligned basic diabetes research in Indianapolis and the state.
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Professor of Medicine, Director, IBRI Diabetes Center
Robert V. Considine, Ph.D., joined the Division of Endocrinology at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, Ind., as an Assistant Professor in 1997 and was promoted to Professor in 2013. Prior to his appointment at the IU School of Medicine, he was on the faculty of the Department of Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pa., where he had completed his doctoral training.
Dr. Considine's research is focused on understanding the contribution of obesity to the development of diabetes and its complications. In early work, his lab made seminal observations about the function of the adipose tissue hormone leptin in humans. More recently, the Considine lab has focused on the effects of bariatric surgery to alter gut hormone release and improve glucose homeostasis and insulin sensitivity. In collaboration with David Kareken, Ph.D., at the IU School of Medicine, Dr. Considine is also utilizing neuroimaging techniques to understand the reward system response to food cues in human subjects.
Dr. Considine is currently the Associate Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded Diabetes Center at the IU School of Medicine, and oversees the Analyte Laboratory, which provides quantitation of adipokines, cytokines, gut peptides and hormones from human and animal samples. He is also the Statewide Director for Endocrine and Reproductive Biology, a second-year course in the IU School of Medicine curriculum.
Decio Eizirik, MD, PhD
Research Fellow, IBRI Diabetes Center
Dr. Eizirik is Full Professor and Director of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Center for Diabetes Research, Brussels, Belgium, and a member of the ULB medical faculty. He is also a Research Fellow for the Indiana Biosciences Research Institute (IBRI), Indianapolis.
He has published more than 350 full papers and reviews in peer-reviewed international journals and has received several national and international prizes, including the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) Diabetes Care Research Award in 1998; the "2012 Albert Renold Prize Lecture for Outstanding Achievements in Research on the Islets of Langerhans" awarded by the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in 2012, and the "2013 Rumbough Award for outstanding achievements in type 1 diabetes research" awarded by the JDRF.
Dr. Eizirik is listed by the ISI Essential Science Indicators among the 1 percent most cited scientists in Clinical Medicine and Biology & Biochemistry, with an h-index of 78. He has served as Honorary (Scientific) Secretary of the EASD and as Deputy Editor of Diabetologia, the official journal of the EASD. His research focuses on the molecular mechanisms regulating insulitis and beta cell apoptosis in type 1 diabetes, pancreatic beta cell imaging, generation of beta cells from inducible pluripotent cells and on the search for novel approaches to prevent the progressive loss of beta cell mass in diabetes.
Teresa Mastracci, PhD
Senior Scientist, IBRI Diabetes Center
Teresa Mastracci, PhD, was hired as the first independent investigator to commence innovative scientific research at the Institute in the spring of 2016. Dr. Mastracci is a molecular and developmental biologist who comes to the IBRI from the Indiana University School of Medicine where she was an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, the Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research, and the Center for Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases.
Mastracci completed her post-secondary education in Canada, earning her bachelor's degree from the University of Guelph, and her PhD from the University of Toronto at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute. Mastracci moved on to postdoctoral studies at Columbia University and the Naomi Berrie Center for Diabetes Research in New York. Here she merged her interests in developmental biology and human disease by studying how the pancreatic insulin-producing beta cell develops and functions in the normal and diabetic contexts. In 2007, Mastracci was named the Naomi Berrie Fellow in Diabetes Research and was granted research support by the Russell Berrie Foundation. Subsequently in 2010, she was awarded a prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, which continued to support her career development and research. Together these fellowships were instrumental in launching Mastracci's career in the field of diabetes research, and as a result she was recruited to the Indiana University School of Medicine where she continued to grow her research.
Currently, Mastracci is focused on understanding how pathways that direct protein synthesis drive the development and differentiation of the hormone-producing islet cells in the pancreas. This research is funded in part by a prestigious Career Development Award from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The research goal of Mastracci's lab is to discover pathways that can be exploited to create new treatments that provoke the regeneration of the insulin-producing beta cells that are dysfunctional or destroyed in people with diabetes.
In addition to her primary appointment at the IBRI, Mastracci holds an adjunct Assistant Professor faculty position in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Indiana University School of Medicine. In 2017 Mastracci was recognized as one of IBJ's Forty Under 40 rising stars.
Studying the signals that permit pancreas development and beta cell regeneration, with the goal to generate novel therapeutics for type 1 diabetes.
Morgan Robertson
Research Analyst, IBRI Diabetes Center
Morgan Robertson is a research analyst in the Mastracci Lab in the IBRI Diabetes Center (IDC). In this role he is responsible for projects in regenerative medicine, consisting primarily of developmental biology and genetic-based research using the zebrafish and mouse model systems.
He joined the Mastracci Lab at the IBRI in 2016. Before joining the IBRI and since 2012, he worked at the Wells Center for Pediatric Research at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. At the Wells Center, he worked as a lab manager, research technician and research analyst on diabetes and islet biology-related research.
He earned his B.A. in biological sciences from DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind.
Craig Connors
Associate Research Analyst, IBRI Diabetes Center
Craig Connors is an associate research analyst in the Mastracci lab, in the IBRI Diabetes Center (IDC). In this role, he is assisting with the analysis of genetic mouse models, which will provide a greater understanding of beta cell growth and regeneration.
He joined the Mastracci lab at the IBRI in 2017 first as a zebrafish technician before moving into his current role. Zebrafish are a model system used in diabetes research, especially for the study of pancreas development given that they closely resemble human organogenesis. Prior to the IBRI and since 2017, he was operations manager at The Reef Aquarium Shop in Indianapolis where he cared for and treated inventory, quarantined new arrivals as needed and ensured proper balance of freshwater and saltwater systems. Before working at the aquarium shop and since 2015, he worked as a husbandry and lab technician at the Herman B. Wells Research Center at Indiana University School of Medicine where he also maintained zebrafish systems for diverse experiments.
He earned his B.S. in Biology from Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis (IUPUI).
Donalyn Scheuner, PhD
Senior Staff Scientist, IBRI Diabetes Center
Donalyn Scheuner, Ph.D., joined the IBRI in March 2019 as Senior Staff Scientist in the IBRI Diabetes Center. In this role, she is responsible for planning and coordinating the research on the mechanisms of pancreatic beta-cell dysfunction and death in type 1 diabetes, working in close collaboration with Dr. Decio Eizirik.
Prior to the IBRI and since 2017, she worked as a Scientific Consultant for DLS Consulting in Greenfield, IN, on a multisite NIH project grant. From 2009 to 2017, she served as Senior Scientist in Islet Biology at Lilly Research Laboratories in Indianapolis. From 2004 to 2009, Dr. Scheuner was a Research Specialist at Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. From 1995 to 2004, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at HHMI. And from 1994 to 1995, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow focusing on NIH Developmental Neurobiology and Neuroscience at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH.
Dr. Scheuner has been responsible for more than three-dozen scientific publications and nearly the same number of presentations, and she has been recognized with numerous honors, awards and fellowships. She earned her Ph.D. in Pharmacology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, and her B.S. in Chemistry, also at Michigan.
William Carter
William (Bill) Carter joined the IBRI in July 2019 as research analyst in the IBRI Diabetes Center (IDC). In this role he is establishing a lab to facilitate various cell studies that will support the IDC's regenerative medicine program and other diabetes research efforts.
Before joining the IBRI and since 2014, he worked on his family's Indiana farm where he was able to apply his extensive scientific and research background to crop genetics and animal breeding and nutrition. From 2003 to 2014, he served as manager of the Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis (IUPUI) Transgenic Core Facility (TGF) in Indianapolis where he ran multiple cell manipulation studies. He also served as the TGF's research technician from 2001 to 2003.
Bill earned his B.S. and M.S., both in Biology from Ball State University in Muncie, Ind.
Jonathan Flak
Senior Research Scientist, IBRI Diabetes Center
Jonathan Flak joined the IBRI in September 2019. Immediately upon arrival he began setting up his own lab within the IBRI Diabetes Center. In his lab, Jonathan will focus on studying the central nervous system's regulation of glucose metabolism as it relates to diabetes.
More specifically, Jonathan will build on work he began at the University of Michigan that is aimed at distinguishing markers for ventromedial hypothalamic neurons involved in glycemic regulation from the rest of the nucleus, a known brain area critical to balancing glucose, to help determine new targets/brain systems that may prove important in future therapeutics. He plans to identify the downstream systems from these subsets of ventromedial hypothalamic neurons to establish the mechanisms of how the brain can tune metabolic function (e.g. energy expenditure, glucose uptake and glucose mobilization).
Prior to establishing his lab here at the IBRI, Jonathan worked in the lab of Martin Myers at the University of Michigan. This project was an outgrowth from his work in this lab, where he began using cre-dependent mouse models and viral systems to study leptin action in the brainstem periaqueductal gray and lateral parabrachial nuclei. His work with Prof. Myers led to research published in Nature Neuroscience and the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
Jonathan received his Bachelor of Science degree in Biopsychology and Cognitive Sciences with honors from the University of Michigan in 2004. And, he obtained his PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Cincinnati in 2011.
David Johnson joined the IBRI in November 2019 as an associate research analyst in the IBRI Diabetes Center (IDC). In this role, he will work with Johnathan Flak to study the central nervous system's regulation of glucose metabolism as it relates to diabetes.
David was previously a study technician at Covance Laboratories in Greenfield, IN, where he performed absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion (ADME), good laboratory practice and toxicology research studies. He also was responsible for the collection and documentation of pertinent data, including test material administration, sample collections and sample processing. While studying at Michigan State University, he served as a teaching assistant in the Charles Drew Science Scholars Program and was an undergraduate research intern in the College of Veterinary Medicine.
David received his bachelor's degree in neuroscience – cognitive and computational from Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich.
Stephane Demine
Postdoctoral Fellow, IBRI Diabetes Center
Stephane Demine is a postdoctoral fellow working in the Lilly Diabetes Center of Excellence located here in the Diabetes Center. He works with Decio Eizirik, whom he partnered with at the University of Brussels.
While at the University of Brussels, he helped to identify new biomarkers suitable for the in vivo imaging of pancreatic beta cells, in collaboration with other universities (University of Mons, University of Brussels (VIB)) and industrial partners (Eurogentec). The most-advanced probe, a short camelid antibody targeting DPP6, was recently shown to accumulate in human beta cells grafted in mice and to correlate with the number of cells transplanted. The preclinical development of these probes is continuing at the IBRI Diabetes Center.
He also focused on the characterization of beta cells derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC). He showed that human iPSC-derived beta cells respond to pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL-1β + IFNγ and IFNα), by activating the same pathogenic processes as adult human primary beta cells. These cells thus represent a valuable tool for future research on the pathogenesis of type 1 diabetes. His future goal is to use this cell model to better understand how some single nucleotide polymorphisms are associated to type 1 diabetes developments.
Stephane obtained his PhD at the University of Namur in Belgium in 2016, where he worked extensively on the elucidation of the molecular mechanisms triggered by a mild mitochondrial uncoupling in white adipocytes, a new anti-obesity therapeutic approach.


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Opening day of state track meet marred by sweltering conditions
May 17, 2019 by Dan Holm
Ankeny's Mytika Mayberry competes in a preliminary heat of the girls' 100-meter dash during the Class 4A state meet on Thursday at Drake Stadium. She qualified for Saturday's final with a time of 12.50 seconds. (Photo by Drue Wolfe)
The heat took a toll Thursday on many of the athletes competing at the coed state track meet.
With temperatures reaching a record 91 degrees at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, the sweltering conditions proved to be a huge obstacle for the competitors, regardless of the event.
Even some of the state's best sprinters struggled to adapt.
"I was a bit delirious before my (preliminary heat in the) 200," said Ankeny sophomore Eva van de Mortel. "For some reason I thought (teammate) Mikala (Sidney) was in my race, and I didn't see her in front of me so I thought I was doing pretty well and just kept my pace. I probably could have gone faster, but I can't go back and change it."
Ankeny Centennial's Hannah Wilson and Ankeny's Eva van de Mortel compete in a preliminary heat of the 200 during the Class 4A state meet on Thursday. Wilson placed 23rd in 27.52 seconds, while van de Mortel finished 18th in 26.65. (Photo by Dan Holm)
While van de Mortel posted a time of 26.65 seconds in the first heat and finished 18th overall, Sidney ran in the second heat and was clocked in a season-best time of 25.69. She qualified for Saturday's final.
Both van de Mortel and teammate Mytika Mayberry later competed in the preliminaries of the 100. Mayberry qualified for Saturday's final despite posting a time of 12.50 that was well off her best mark.
"I wasn't really happy with my race. My start was very slow," said Mayberry. "Next time I'm going to hydrate more."
Mayberry was seeded fourth in the event going into the state meet. She posted the fifth-fastest qualifying time on Thursday.
Ankeny Centennial's Jesslyn Gaumer gets ready to run the opening leg of the 4×800 relay during the Class 4A state meet on Thursday. Gaumer helped the Jaguars to a 16th-place finish in the event. (Photo by Dan Holm)
"I definitely can run faster in the final," Mayberry said.
Unfortunately, van de Mortel will not be joining her in Saturday's race. She was seeded fifth in the event, but finished 13th overall in 12.79.
Like Mayberry, van de Mortel was slow to get out of the blocks.
"I couldn't really tell. I didn't really feel anything," van de Mortel said of her start. "But I'm not surprised. I'm not supposed to say it's hot out, but it is."
Ankeny Centennial's Sophie Lampe competes in the high jump during the Class 4A state meet on Thursday. She placed 18th in the event with a jump of 4 feet 10 inches. (Photo by Drue Wolfe)
Neither the Ankeny nor Ankeny Centennial girls' teams scored any points on the opening day of the three-day event. But both squads did produce some solid performances on Thursday.
The Jaguars placed 16th in the 4×800 relay. The foursome of Jesslyn Gaumer, Sophia Lee, Sydney Lee and Brianna Smith posted a season-best time of 10:02.21.
Ankeny finished 18th in the same event. The quartet of Sarah and Megan Bosch, Madeleine Murphy and Cierra Fillinger was clocked in 10:05.00.
The Hawkettes got a 14th-place finish from Sydni Wendling in the 400. She posted a season-best time of 1:01.05.
Ankeny's Sydni Wendling reacts to her time after running the 400 meters during the Class 4A state meet on Thursday. She placed 14th in the event with a season-best clocking of 1:01.05. (Photo by Drue Wolfe)
Centennial's Morgan Graybill met her goal of a top-16 finish in the 3,000. Graybill, who came in seeded 24th, was clocked in 11:20.34.
Sprinter Hannah Wilson competed in both the 100 and 200 for the Jaguars. She placed 16th in the 100 (13.04) and 23rd in the 200 (27.52).
Centennial's Calea Jones took 16th in the high jump with a season-best leap of 5 feet. Teammate Sophie Lampe jumped 4-10 and finished 18th.
The afternoon session was called off with two events left due to inclement weather. Both Ankeny and Centennial were slated to run in the preliminaries of the shuttle hurdle relay, but the event will now be reseeded and run as a timed final on Saturday.
A thunderstorm that rolled through the Des Moines area early Thursday evening forced the postponement of the final two events in the coed state track meet at Drake Stadium. (Photo by Drue Wolfe)
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Ivan's prayer group met at the Blue Cross tonight. The apparition began at 10:00 p.m. and lasted about 6 minutes. The following is Ivan's description of the apparition:
This evening Our Lady came - She was very, very happy. After saying, "Praised be Jesus my dear children." Our Lady prayed especially tonight for all the sick present. She prayed for their intentions. Afterwards She prayed for all of us forlong time, and blessed all of us with Her Motherly blessing. I then recommended all of your intentions, all your families, and especially the sick to Her. Our Lady, tonight, especially prayed for peace in the world. I prayed with Our Lady an Our Father andGlory Be. Our Lady then left, saying "Go in peace, my little children."
Tonight when Our Lady came She was very, very happy. She greeted us by saying "Praised be Jesus my dear children." Our Lady then prayed forlong time with Her hands extended over us present. She then blessed us all with Her Motherly blessing. She blessed all the religious articles brought for blessing. Ivan recommended all of our needs, our families and especially all of the sick. Tonight Our Lady prayed especially for vocations in the Church. After we prayed with Our Lady an Our Father andGlory Be and then Our Lady left in an illuminated Sign of the Cross saying, "Go in peace my dear children."
Tonight, most important from the meeting with Our Lady was that Our Lady came joyful and happy. At the begining, as always, She greeted us by saying "Praised be Jesus my dear children." Our Lady then prayed forlong time with Her hands extended over us present. She then blessed us all with Her Motherly blessing. As always, so today, I recommended all of you, your needs, your intentions, your families and inspecial way the sick to Our Lady. Then Our Lady prayed especially for all the sick present here tonight. Our Lady then said:
"Dear children, also today, the Mother calls you, pray for my children who have distanced themselves from my Son. Pray. Pray that they may return to my Son and find peace in Him. The Mother prays with you. Thank you for having responded to my call."
After we prayed with Our Lady an Our Father andGlory Be and then Our Lady left in an illuminated Sign of the Cross saying,
"Go in peace my dear children."
Our Lady appeared to Ivan at 10:00 p.m. and stayed for several minutes. The following is Ivan's description of the apparition:
Tonight Our Lady came joyful and happy. At the begining, as always, She greeted us with Her Motherly greeting, "Praised be Jesus my dear children." Then with Her arms extended, She prayed over us fortime and blessed us with Her Motherly blessing. She blessed all the religious articles brought for blessing. Our Lady prayed especially for all the sick present. Then Ivan recommended all of us and our intentions and especially the sick to Our Lady. Our Lady then said:
"Dear children, also today the Mother calls you: renew my messages, live my messages. Dear children, I am with you and I intercede before my Son for all of you. Pray. Pray, my dear children. Thank you for having responded to my call."
After, we prayed with Our Lady an Our Father andGlory Be and then Our Lady left in an illuminated Sign of the Cross saying, "Go in peace, my dear children."
Our Lady appeared to Ivan at 10:00 p.m. at the Blue Cross. The apparition lasted several minutes. There were several thousand pilgrims present tonight for the apparition. The following is Ivan's description of the apparition:
Tonight Our Lady came very happy. She greeted us with Her Motherly greeting, "Praised be Jesus my dear children." Our Lady prayedlong time for all of us, for our intentions. She blessed all of us with Her Motherly blessing. She blessed all the religious articles brought for blessing. Our Lady prayedlong time with Her hands extended. Our Lady prayed especially for all the sick present. Then Ivan recommended all of us, our intentions, our families, and especialy the sick to Our Lady. After that, Our Lady continued to pray for all of us with Her hands extended. After that She left saying, "Go in peace, my dear children."
Our Lady appeared to Ivan during his prayer group on top of Apparition Mountain at 10:00 p.m. The apparition lasted several minutes. The following is Ivan's description of the apparition:
Tonight when Our Lady came She was very, very happy. She greeted us by saying, "Praised be Jesus, my dear children." Our Lady then prayed forlong time with her hands extended over us present. She then blessed us all with Her Motherly blessing. She blessed all the religious articles everyone brought for Her blessing. Ivan recommended all of our needs, our families and especially all of the sick. Tonight Our Lady prayed for peace in the world. After we prayed with Our Lady an Our Father andGlory Be and then Our Lady left in an illuminated Sign of the Cross saying, "Go in peace my dear children."
Our Lady appeared to Ivan during his prayer group on top of Apparition Mountain at 10:00 p.m. The apparition lasted about eight minutes. The following is Ivan's description of the apparition:
Tonight Our Lady came exceptionally joyful and happy. When She came She greeted all of us with Her Motherly greeting saying, "Praised be Jesus, my dear children, my dear little children." She then prayed over all of us with Her hands extended forlonger time. Inspecial way She prayed over those who are sick, present on the hill. She then blessed us with Her Motherly blessing. She blessed all of the religious articles that have been brought for blessing. Ivan recommended all of the sick. with Her hands extended, Our Lady continued to pray over all of us. And then She said:
"Dear children, also today I call you with responsibility to accept my messages. Live, dear children, my messages. Today, in a special way, I call you, renew family prayer. Dear children, only by the renewal of the family prayer can today's world be renewed spiritually. Spiritual renewal, dear children, is necessary for today's world. Dear children, know that the Mother prays with you. The Mother intercedes with Her Son for all of you. The Mother loves all of you. Dear children, thank you for having responded to my call."
Afterwards, Ivan prayed together with Our Lady an Our Father and Glory Be. There wasbrief conversation between them. And then Our Lady left in an illuminated Sign of the Cross, with the greeting, "Go in peace, my dear children."
Our Lady appeared to Ivan during his prayer group at the Blue Cross at 10:00 p.m. The apparition lasted almost eight minutes. The following is Ivan's description of the apparition:
The most important from tonight's meeting with Our Lady is that Our Lady came joyful and happy. As always at the beginning, She greeted us with Her Motherly greeting: "Praised be Jesus my dear children." Our Lady then prayed forlong time especially for the conversion of sinners. Our Lady then prayed especially over all of you sick who were present, and then fortime, She prayed over all of us present with Her hands extended. She then blessed us all with Her Motherly blessing, and She blessed all that you brought for blessing. I then recommended all of your needs, your intentions, your families, and especially all of the sick.brief conversation between us followed. I spoke to Her and She spoke to me. And then I prayed with Our Lady an Our Father andGlory Be. Our Lady then, in prayer inSign of the Cross left, saying, "Go in peace my dear little children."
Our Lady appeared to Ivan during his prayer group on top of Apparition Mountain at 10:00 p.m. The apparition lasted about ten minutes. The following is Ivan's description of the apparition:
Most important from tonight's meeting with Our Lady is that Our Lady came joyful and, at the beginning, greeted us all with Her Motherly greeting: "Praised be Jesus, my children." Our Lady then prayed forlonger time for unity of the Church and for priests. She then blessed us all with Her Motherly blessing and blessed all that you brought for blessing. With Her hands extended over us, She then prayed over us forwhile and She prayed over the sick. Then we conversed, I spoke with Her and She with me, which remains only between us. Then I recommended all of you, all of your needs, your intentions, your families, and especially all of the sick. I then prayed an Our Father and Glory Be with Our Lady and afterwards, as She prayed over us, She left in prayer, in an illuminated Sign of the Cross, withgreeting, "Go in peace, my dear children." This would be the most important from tonight's meeting described in the words that I have.
Our Lady appeared to Ivan during his prayer group at the Blue Cross at 10:00 p.m. The apparition lasted about six minutes. The following is Ivan's description of the apparition:
Tonight, the most important from the meeting with Our Lady is that Our Lady came happy and joyful and at the beginning, as always,greeted us all with Her Motherly greeting: "Praised be Jesus, my dear children." Our Lady tonight prayed forlonger time with Her arms extended over all of you here, and especially She prayed over those of you present here who are sick. She then blessed us all with Her Motherly blessing and She blessed everything that you brought for blessing. I recommended all of you, all of your needs, yourintentions, your families and especially the sick. Then Our Lady, with Her arms extended, continued to pray over all of us here. I then prayed one Our Father and Glory Be with Her and Our Lady then left in an illuminated Sign of the Cross, saying: "Go in peace my dear children."
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Annual First Robotics kick off held at MTHS
By Stephi Smith, Executive Editor|January 14, 2016
© HAWKEYE Stephi Smith
The MTHS Robotics team, "Chill Out," laughs at the jokes made by inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen in his FIrst Robotics video.
Saturday morning at 6:30 a.m., more than 40 robotics teams from across Washington state filled the Mountlake Terrace High School (MTHS) gym for the annual First Robotics kickoff.
The teams viewed a livestreamed video of inventor and entrepreneur Dean Kamen announcing the contest's specific rules and regulations. This event was one of 114 total kickoffs being held worldwide.
While robotics teams knew the theme was "First Stronghold" and centered around the medieval era, they did not know what they would have their robot do nor the game field each team must focus around. Students will have six weeks to fully build and prepare a robot before a competition in March.
After they were shown the video, teams dispersed into separate rooms to collaborate and brainstorm with one another. There, they watched a second video explaining the guidelines within each gamefield and robot.
Washington First Robotics president Erin McCallum said she believes each team is being prepared for later life, when they are given a task at work and have a short amount of time to follow the directions and present their work.
"They are a deer in the headlights as of now, but soon they'll get the hang of the work schedule and how their robot will look and it'll be fine," McCallum said.
While many of the students have done First Robotics competitions in the past, there are a handful of new team members who have never had an experience like this one.
"The new kids [on the Lynnwood High School (LHS) team] have no idea, but I think the returning students are prepared, even amidst the chaos," LHS Robotics coach Brad Nelson said.
Each team has allotted times throughout the week that they will work, most starting after school until evening and afternoon to night on weekends. McCallum says both her and the students are grateful for parents of students who bring in food and allow their children to stay late at school in order to help with the robot.
Edmonds Woodway High School senior Peter Matulich said the competition looks "interesting and complex" and he's very excited to see what he and his team will build. He also said this would be an amazing experience and felt prepared for the next six weeks.
Different teams have prepared for this competition in different ways. MTHS Robotics president Ian Davidson said he's helped his fellow teammates advance their skills since September and tried to better understand the design process and due dates for different aspects of the robot.
Davidson said his team may not be as prepared as they could be, but that this is a "hard challenge" and he plans on giving his all.
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Stephi Smith, Executive Editor
Stephi Smith is one of the co-Editors-in-Chief of the Hawkeye. Her official title is Executive Editor.
This is Stephi's fourth year on the Hawkeye. Last year, she created a Hawkeye Snapchat account with the hopes of advancing the organization's coverage of online and social media reporting.
Prior to serving as Editor, she was the News Editor her junior year and Copy Editor her sophomore year, as well as taking the lead on the Crime and Police beat. During her sophomore year, she attended the JEA National Convention in Washington, D.C. where she learned she wanted to be a journalist. Since then, she's fallen in love with reporting and reported on many different kinds of stories, from School Board meetings to sexual assault on campus.
Next year, Stephi will be attending the University of Missouri with a major in Journalism. As a career, she hopes to report on either crime, government and politics or education.
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For stainless steel finishes we do recommend that you try an area first that won't be seen as not all stainless steel is created equal, there are different grades and while almost all will be fine getting cleaned with BKF some can scratch, even if it is extremely minor. we've not come across one that has yet but better safe than sorry.
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A meeting of the University Court will be held at 2.00 pm on Monday 25 October 2010.
To note the resignation of the President of the Students' Association.
To receive an update from the Director of Human Resources.
To confirm the decision taken at the business meeting on 3 September 2010 to approve the making of a new Ordinance regulating the election of a matriculated student to serve on Court, subject to endorsement by the Senate (given on 13 October 2010, Paper L refers), and thereby to confirm the Deputy President of the Students' Association as a member of the Court until 31 July 2011.
To note that the Tribunal established by the Court at its meeting on 3 September 2010 has now met and made a recommendation to the Principal.


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Oshawa Driver Arrested Following Fatal Dufferin and Briar Hill Crash
June 26, 2018 Car Accident Lawyer, Latest News, Personal Injury Lawyer, Resourcesaccident benefits, accident benefits claim, Accident lawyer toronto, Brampton Car Accident Lawyers, Car accident, hit and run accident, motor vehicle accident, motor vehicle accident lawyer, personal injury lawyer brampton, Personal Injury Lawyer Torontoadmin
Toronto police last week arrested a 27-year-old Oshawa man now facing charges in a fatal hit-and-run accident.
Jesse Petroff ended the life of a 50-year-old woman, later identified by family as Isabel Soria, when his Dodge Ram pickup truck struck her around 3 p.m. on June 11 at the intersection of Dufferin Street and Briar Hill Avenue. Police said surveillance footage and still, photos confirmed the driver left his stopped vehicle and approached the victim but immediately got back into his vehicle and fled the scene. Clear photos of the vehicle released Thursday accompanying a plea for citizens to provide any relevant information about its whereabouts and driver led to an arrest later that day.
Petroff now faces charges of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death, criminal negligence causing death, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle and failure to stop at the scene of an accident causing death.
Elderly Woman Dies After Being Hit by a Car as She crossed the Street
April 10, 2018 Latest News, Resourcesaccident benefits, accident benefits claim, accident injury lawyer, Accident lawyers Toronto, Catastrophic Injuries in Toronto, injuries in a car accident, pedestrian accidentsadmin
A senior woman, at the age of 76 was crossing a street in Paris, Ontario when a car hit her.
According to the police, the woman was crossing Silver Street in the morning at around 5:45 am, at Oak Street, when she was hit by a car.
She was rushed to the hospital but succumbed to her injuries. She died in hospital.
The police say that the driver is cooperating with investigations. Investigations about the crash are undergoing.
Crash outside St. Catharines Home leaves Driver in Critical Condition
April 10, 2018 Latest News, Resourcesaccident, accident benefits, Accident injury, Brampton personal injury lawyer, car crash, Car Crash Toronto, collision, personal injury lawyer, TORONTO PERSONAL INJURY LAWYERadmin
A car crashed outside a private home in St. Catharines, on Glenridge Road. The driver, a 26-year old man, is believed to have lost control of his Cadillac. And in turn, crashed into a tree in the front yard of the home.
The people within the vicinity rushed to help him after calling 911.
He was taken to a hospital for treatment out of the city and in life-threatening condition. The accident happened on Sunday afternoon.
Bicycle & Pedestrian Accidents; What you need to Know?
April 10, 2018 Articles, Resourcesaccident benefits, accident benefits claim, Brampton personal injury lawyer, motor vehicle accident, Motor Vehicle accident Injury, motor vehicle accident lawyer, pedestrian accidents, Personal injury, personal injury lawyer, Personal Injury Lawyer Toronto, TORONTO PERSONAL INJURY LAWYERadmin
According to a news feature by CBC news in 2015, in Toronto, six pedestrians are hit every day. And the number was increasing. That is so, even though the law stipulates that pedestrians have the right of way.
As the roads become less safe for pedestrians, early last year, a new pedestrian law was introduced in Ontario. It emphasized that motorists should wait for the pedestrian to cross the crosswalks or pedestrian crossovers completely.
However, if you are injured from colliding with a motor vehicle, you are entitled to compensation.
Types of Claims
• No-Fault Benefit/ Accident Benefit
It applies to all persons involved in a collision with a motor vehicle. If you are a pedestrian or cyclist, then your auto insurance applies. But if you have no insured car, you can claim the insurance policy of the vehicle involved in the accident.
• Claim against at-fault driver
In addition to the above claim, you may also be entitled to claim the driver who is at fault. First, you have to provide proof that some blame, is the driver of the car.
Some of the benefits you can claim if you suffer injuries due to the collision include, medical expenses, replacement of income, etc. It all depends on the circumstances of the accident.
In Ontario, the laws on auto insurance are complex and change frequently. It is advisable to seek the guidance of a personal injury lawyer to advise you on the measures to take. You can reach out to out Toronto Personal Injury lawyers, at Kalsi & Associates at 1-844-905-2993 for a FREE consultation.
Reasonable Doubt: Why Cuts to Insurance Benefits are a Social Justice Issue
July 15, 2016 Latest News, Resourcesaccident benefits, Car Accident injuries, Car accident lawyer, Insurance benefits, personal injury lawyeradmin
Source: Now Toronto
Car insurance is a topic that has a big impact on Ontario's population because it can cause major impacts. Every year, nearly 50,000 people suffer from car accident injuries in Ontario and many of them experience significant cases of injuries that can lead to a more problematic scenario. On June 1, 2016, the government has make more cuts to car accident benefits and that means people who have suffered from car accident injuries are going to have fewer benefits.
The impact of this measure is even bigger on the most vulnerable or marginalized people from Ontario because the ones with lower income are more likely to have physical jobs and be deprived to work because of possible injuries caused by car accidents.
That is why they are the ones that can benefit the most from having the assistance of a personal injury lawyer. The personal injury law firm can help them get the compensation and the assistance they need when they are injured by a car accident.
Contact Kalsi & Associates' personal injury lawyers in Toronto at
for your car accident benefits.


These days, we had the pleasure of testing Acer Iconia A3 A40 for few hours. Ever since the unboxing, we understood that this tablet offers more than we have paid for in terms of details. Acer Iconia feels like a premium product, the quality of the build materials and finishes are really nice.
But what really shines is the 10.1 inch display having a resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels, that's 224 ppi pixel density. For around $200, you can't really get a tablet with a better display. It's far better than most of the tablets you can buy in this price range. I loved the color reproduction and the way Youtube videos look and run when you play it.
Acer tried to market this tablet as a device with great sound system. There are four front facing speakers and multiple EQ presets that can be switched from one button. My own conclusion is that the sound was stereo and… that's it. I was expecting better sound quality and volume from this one.
Under the hood we find a Quad-core Cortex-A53 processor clocked at 1.3 GHz and Mali-T720 MP2 GPU. The internal storage has 16/32/64 GB that can be extended via microSD card and there is 2 GB of RAM on board. This mid-range configuration is reflected in the price, but also in the performance. Everything works great, but when I was opening and running apps, I couldn't help but notice that it's slower than other Android tablets on the market like Samsung Galaxy Tab S2. Compared with Samsung Galaxy Tab S2, it also feels a bit heavier.
The primary camera has 5MP, the secondary camera has 2MP. Nothing to complain here, the captured images are decent.
The internal battery has a capacity of 6,100mAh. In our tests, we have managed to drain the battery from 100% to 50% in 2 hours of heavy use (we have installed few apps, we have run few games and we have used it for browsing and social networking). You should expect the battery to last up to 5 hours on fair use.
This affordable tablet runs Android OS, v6.0 (Marshmallow). What's cool about this tablet is the fact that it features a HDMI port. This is really helpful if you plan to connect the tablet to a TV and play movies from Kodi (for example).


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7 Up-and-Coming Wine Regions
Skip Napa and visit one of these up-and-coming wine regions this year.
Erin De Santiago
Erin De Santiago is a travel and food writer who writes for various publications and her own sites, including her award-winning blog, Our Tasty Travels.
More posts by Erin De Santiago.
When people think of high-end wine producers, regions such as Napa Valley, Bordeaux, Burgundy and Piedmont are the powerhouses that usually make the list. However, if you want to try something new, without significantly sacrificing on quality, consider sourcing wines from one of these seven up-and-coming wine regions.
Anderson Valley, California, U.S.A.
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Given its remote location several hours north of San Francisco, the Anderson Valley doesn't see as many vineyard hoppers as Napa and Sonoma. That doesn't mean the wines aren't worth it, though. The cool climate has shown tremendous success with both pinot noir and chardonnay grapes, perfect as well for producing French-style sparkling wines. Today, Anderson Valley produces some of the best sparkling wines in the country.
Rias Baixas, Spain
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Rias Baixas is located along the Galician coast in Spain. There are a number of small inlets, called rias, where you'll find nutrient-rich waters. The water plays a big role in making Rias Baixas wine so delicious. One wine variety that has shown significant success is albariño, a white wine with a nice blend of minerality and acidity.
Finger Lakes, New York, U.S.A.
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New York is one of the largest wine producers in the country, thanks in part to the Finger Lakes region that is producing some phenomenal cool-climate wines, especially rieslings. There are more than 200 brands of rieslings produced in the Finger Lakes region alone. Impressive for a wine region that only really established itself in the early 1980s.
Kakheti, Georgia
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The country of Georgia has been producing wines since at least 6,000 B.C., based on archaeological excavations that uncovered qvevri, a traditional winemaking vessel that allowed ancient winemakers to ferment wine underground. Today, wines produced in this mountainous region of Georgia utilize both traditional and modern techniques. UNESCO has since recognized the importance of the qvevri winemaking tradition, adding it to UNESCO's list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Beqaa Valley, Lebanon
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Lebanon is another place where winemaking traditions date back quite a ways. Even in modern times, Lebanese wineries have faced their share of challenges, including Château Musar, which still managed to produce wine throughout the horrific civil war that tore Lebanon apart between 1975 and 1990. When the war ended, there were only around five wineries left in Lebanon. By 2014, that number had jumped to almost 50. While French grapes primarily dominate here, there are some local Lebanese wine grapes like merwah and obaideh present.
Valle de Guadalupe, Mexico
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When most people think about Mexico and drinks, they probably picture tequila, mezcal and beer, not wine. Mexico is bucking the stereotypes and demonstrating that it has areas that are capable of producing award-winning wines as well. The mountainous terrain helps cool the hot summer days, allowing the grapes to flourish.
Texas Hill Country, Texas, U.S.A.
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The hot and dry climate of Texas is not the ideal condition you'd think of for an up-and-coming wine region, but Texas Hill Country is producing some pretty incredible wines, especially big reds. The climate is working well for varietals like tempranillo, syrah and tannat.
4 of the Largest Memorial Day Parades in the U.S.
Want to attend a Memorial Day parade a tad bigger than the one in your town? Here are four of the largest ones in the country.
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10 Happiest Countries in the World
In which countries will you encounter the most smiles? Here's a look at the 10 happiest countries in the world.
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import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.util.Map;

import org.docx4j.openpackaging.exceptions.Docx4JException;
import org.docx4j.openpackaging.io3.Save;
import org.docx4j.openpackaging.packages.OpcPackage;
import org.docx4j.openpackaging.packages.WordprocessingMLPackage;
import org.docx4j.openpackaging.parts.WordprocessingML.MainDocumentPart;

import com.google.api.client.http.ByteArrayContent;
import com.google.api.client.http.GenericUrl;
import com.google.api.client.http.HttpRequest;
import com.google.api.client.http.HttpResponse;
import com.google.api.client.util.IOUtils;
import com.google.api.services.drive.Drive;
import com.google.api.services.drive.Drive.Files.Insert;
import com.google.api.services.drive.model.File;

public class GoogleDriveConvertFromDocxTo {

	private static String DOCX_MIME = "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document";

	/**
	 * Convert a WordprocessingMLPackage to the specified output format, using Google Drive
	 *
	 * @param di
	 * @param wordMLPackage
	 * @param outType
	 * @return
	 * @throws IOException
	 * @throws Docx4JException
	 */
	public static InputStream convert(Drive di,
			WordprocessingMLPackage wordMLPackage, OutputMime outType)
			throws IOException, Docx4JException {

		ByteArrayContent mediaContent = new ByteArrayContent(DOCX_MIME,
				getDocxAsByteArray(wordMLPackage));
		Insert insert = di.files().insert(new File(), mediaContent);
		insert.setConvert(true); // convert this file to the corresponding Google Docs format.
		File file = insert.execute();

		System.out.println("File ID: " + file.getId());

		System.out.println(file.getMimeType());

		String url = null;
		if (outType == OutputMime.GDOC) {
			// Just download it
			url = file.getDownloadUrl();
		} else {
			Map<String, String> exportLinks = file.getExportLinks();
			url = exportLinks.get(outType.getMime());
		}
		if (url == null) {
			throw new IOException(outType.getMime() + " not supported");
		} else {

			HttpRequest req = di.getRequestFactory().buildGetRequest(
					new GenericUrl(url));
			HttpResponse res = req.execute();

			if (res.getStatusCode() == 200) {
				InputStream contentStream = res.getContent();

				// delete
				di.files().trash(file.getId()).execute();

				return contentStream;

			} else {
				throw new IOException("response code: " + res.getStatusCode());
			}

		}

	}

	enum OutputMime {

		// see https://developers.google.com/drive/web/integrate-open#open_files_using_the_open_with_contextual_menu
		GDOC("application/vnd.google-apps.document"),
		HTML("text/html"),
		TXT("text/plain"),
		PDF("application/pdf"),
		RTF("application/rtf"),
		DOCX("application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document"),
		ODT("application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text");

		private String mime;

		public String getMime() {
			return mime;
		}

		private OutputMime(String mime) {
			this.mime = mime;
		}
	}

	public static byte[] getDocxAsByteArray(OpcPackage opcPackage)
			throws Docx4JException {

		ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
		Save saver = new Save(opcPackage);
		saver.save(baos);

		return baos.toByteArray();
	}

	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, Docx4JException {

		// Create a new authorized API client
		// Do this first so things fail fast until you have it configured
		// correctly
		Drive service = CredentialsViaCommandLine.getDrive();

		// For this sample, create a docx from scratch
		WordprocessingMLPackage wordMLPackage = WordprocessingMLPackage
				.createPackage();
		MainDocumentPart mdp = wordMLPackage.getMainDocumentPart();
		mdp.addStyledParagraphOfText("Title", "Example 1");

		OutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream(new java.io.File(
				System.getProperty("user.dir") + "/out2.PDF"));

		IOUtils.copy(convert(service, wordMLPackage, OutputMime.PDF),
				outputStream);

		outputStream.close();

	}

}

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