Late in the afternoon of Sunday, June 10, 1985, Cole McFarland Jr. went walking. He took with him two dogs — Noble, his 3-year-old golden retriever, and Starbell, Noble's "girlfriend." The path they chose borders the train tracks in Carlsbad, a coastal city 30 miles north of San Diego.
To anyone living nearby, the path is an old friend. During daylight hours children ride bicycles, lovers walk arm in arm and dogs scamper about freely, silhouetted by the sunlight dancing off the ocean.
Starbell headed into a clearing. Noble, taking his "evening constitutional," climbed onto the tracks. McFarland, only a few feet away, heard a sudden roar, felt the ground shake and looked up at a terrified Noble. Thundering into view was an Amtrak passenger train, roaring along at 90 miles an hour, southbound from Los Angeles.
" Vindar ," he screamed. It is a Sanskrit command, meaning "Come into my presence." Normally, Noble reacts instantaneously but this time he didn't move. Without hesitating, McFarland leaped--six, maybe seven feet. He grabbed Noble by the chest, flinging him backward, to the east.
From that point on, everything, he said, seemed to happen in slow motion.
"There was that instant of realization when I thought, 'I've saved him; isn't this great!' While the train seems to be moving slowly, in ever-increasing increments. And it's happening, of course, lickety-split. The instant I realized I'd saved him — bam! — the train hits me broadside.
"My entire torso had cleared, but it hit my leg, knocking me to the side. The train's roaring by, and I'm on the ground, trying hard to shake off the blow. I realize I'm hit — I don't want to lose consciousness. Noble's licking my face. I look at the ground and my left leg is severed below the knee, just dangling by a thread. (The leg was amputated several hours later.) But Noble's licking me, taking care of me, being my friend." In the eight months since, McFarland, 35, has gotten letters from all over the world — from Belgium and Australia, Italy and Norway. He has been publicized by two major wire services and the Star, a supermarket tabloid. All the letters are the same. We would do it too , they say. We love our animals just as much .
Others, who have talked to McFarland, are more skeptical. Why? they ask. Why such a risk — especially for a dog? These, McFarland answers with a promise. He would do it again, he says. Without hesitation.
Most who knew Cole also know the story of him saving his golden retriever, Noble. Noble had frozen on the railroad tracks in front of an oncoming train. Cole saved Noble, but lost his own leg in the process. Cole would call it a small price to pay for saving his best friend, an animal who went on to live a long and healthy life by his side.


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In very good condition, no chips or broken bits. It's a great feature in the garden! Very solid. Only selling due to moving to a retirement home. We live at Springwood near IKEA(south).
2 Large Planters one with a beautiful japanese succulent plant. Excellent condition. Muted turquoise gloss finish. Price is for both.


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Donwood (Double Glazing) Ltd- Terms and Conditions
1 APPLICATION AND VARIATION OF THESE CONDITIONS
Unless otherwise expressly agreed in writing by the Seller, these Conditions apply to any contract between Donwood (Double Glazing) Limited (the Seller) and the Buyer for the supply of goods ("Contract") and supersede any earlier Conditions issued by the Seller and shall override any terms or conditions of the Buyer. These Conditions are open to negotiation before the Buyer's order is accepted (whether or not in writing) by the Seller, which negotiation may result in change to any price published or earlier referred to.
2 PRICES
Prices are subject to withdrawal without notice, and unless agreed otherwise in writing, goods will be invoiced at the prices ruling at the date of delivery. There are minimum area and shape charges which vary according to the goods ordered and shall be notified to the Buyer as appropriate. Prices quoted are exclusive of VAT. In addition to the price, an energy surcharge may be payable. The circumstances in which an energy surcharge is payable and the amount thereof can be obtained from Seller on request.
(a) Time of payment shall be of the essence of any Contract. For an account holding Buyer payment is due on or before the last day of the month next following the month in which despatch is made unless otherwise agreed. If the Buyer makes default on payment, payment in respect of all goods delivered but not paid for shall immediately become due and payment in respect of any goods delivered during the continuance of any such default shall become due immediately upon delivery.
(b) Non account holding Buyers will be required to pay the whole purchase price of the goods before the goods are manufactured and/or delivered.
(c) Interest shall be payable on overdue payments in accordance with the Late Payments of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998.
(d) No retentions are permissible and the Buyer has no right to set off disputed moneys whether or not in respect of goods under any Contract to which these Conditions apply.
(e) The Seller may at any time suspend the performance of its obligations under any Contract until the Seller is satisfied that the Buyer is able to pay, or has given security for payment, for the goods.
(f) We will send account holding Buyers a statement at the end of each month where deemed appropriate but, in any event, at intervals of no more than three months when they have purchased any goods from the Seller. Buyers will be required to pay the due balance shown on each statement in one payment within the period specified on the invoice.
(a) Notwithstanding delivery and the passing of risk in the goods, or any other provision of these Conditions, the property in the goods shall not pass to the Buyer until the Seller has received in cash or cleared funds, payment in full of the price of the goods and all other goods agreed to be sold by the Seller to the Buyer for which payment is then due.
(b) Until such time as the property in the goods passes to the Buyer, the Buyer shall hold the goods as the Sellers fiduciary agent and shall keep the goods separate from those of the Buyer and third parties and properly stored, protected and insured and identified as the Seller's property. Until that time the Buyer shall be entitled to resell or use the goods in the ordinary course of its business, but shall account to the Seller for the proceeds of sale or otherwise of the goods, whether tangible or intangible, including insurance proceeds, and shall keep all such proceeds separate from any moneys or property of the Buyer and third parties and, in the case of tangible proceeds, properly stored, protected and insured.
(c) Until such time as the property in the goods passes to the Buyer (and provided the goods are still in existence and have not been resold), the Seller shall be entitled at any time to require the Buyer to deliver up the goods to the Seller and, if the Buyer fails to do so forthwith, to enter upon any premises of the Buyer or any third party where the goods are stored and repossess the goods.
(d) The Buyer shall not be entitled to pledge or in any way charge by way of security for any indebtedness any of the goods which remain the property of the Seller, but if the Buyer does so all moneys owing by the Buyer to the Seller shall (without prejudice to any other right or remedy of the Seller) forthwith become due and payable.
(e) In the event that goods are supplied on different dates, and covered by separate invoices, some of which have been paid for and some of which have not, it shall be presumed that the Buyer has used the goods which have been paid for before the goods for which payment has not been made.
5 DELIVERY AND RISK
(a) Delivery shall unless otherwise agreed, be at the Buyer's normal place of business. The Seller reserves the right to choose the form of transport for the goods and the composition of the consignment load.
(b) Any time specified for delivery is given as an estimate only and shall not constitute a contractual obligation. No loss or damage shall be attributed to any delivery that has not been effected by any such date.
(c) Where the Buyer fails or declines to take delivery of goods on the date specified for delivery or if no date is specified when goods are ready and available for delivery, then the Seller may give 7 days notice to the Buyer upon expiration of which the goods shall be deemed to have been despatched and delivered for the purpose of clause 3(a), 3(b) and 5(g) and Seller may additionally charge Buyer for any reasonable storage or additional transport costs which result.
(d) If the Buyer establishes to the satisfaction of the Seller (acting reasonably) that goods have been damaged in transit or that the consignment of goods is incomplete or incorrect and the Buyer has given the Seller written notification (other than on the carrier's delivery document) of such damage or shortage within 3 days of delivery, the Seller will replace such goods or credit the Buyer with the value thereof. The Seller shall be permitted a reasonable opportunity to inspect any damaged consignment.
(e) Where delivery is to be made by transport other than the Sellers own carrier, the failure of goods to arrive within 14 days of receipt by the Buyer of the advice note, must be reported to the Seller within the said period of 14 days failing which, the Seller shall have no liability for non-delivery.
(f) Except as provided in Clause 5(d), the Seller shall have no liability to the Buyer arising out of or in connection with damage to, or incomplete, or incorrect consignments of goods.
(g) When the goods or any number of them (whether or not being in the actual quantity ordered) are either collected by the Buyer from the Seller's premises or are free of all vehicle transit restraints and ready for unloading by the Buyer at the agreed delivery address, delivery in relation to those goods is complete and the risk in them shall pass to the Buyer.
(h) On arrival of the goods at the place of delivery the Buyer shall promptly provide unloading facilities and when the goods are ready to be unloaded shall unload the goods promptly. The Seller shall be entitled to recover from the Buyer all and any costs and expenses incurred as a result of the Buyer's failure so to do. Any assistance given in respect of any unloading and any unloading carried out by the Seller or its agents' (including the positioning of goods on Buyer's storage equipment) is entirely at the Buyer's own risk. The use of any distribution equipment within or outside Buyer's premises following unloading is at Buyer's risk.
(i) The Seller shall have no liability for any loss or damage to goods in transit when the Buyer has signed the delivery note or, other delivery documents as received in good condition.
(j) All distribution equipment is the property of the Seller and must be returned to the Seller on demand. Should Buyer fail to return any distribution equipment within 7 days following such demand, a charge at the rate of £50 plus VAT per week for each item of distribution equipment retained thereafter will be incurred. Use of distribution equipment for any purpose other than carriage and storage of glass supplied by the Seller is prohibited.
(k) The Buyer shall not be entitled to reject any goods on the grounds that they have been delivered in incomplete quantities.
6 WARRANTIES, LIABILITIES AND STANDARDS
(a) The Seller warrants to the Buyer that goods shall conform to appropriate product published by the European Committee for Standardization or British Standards Institute (where applicable), or otherwise to recognised industry standards defined and published by the Glass and Glazing Federation, 54 Ayres Street, London, SE1 1EU. www.ggf.org.uk
(b) Sellers' Standard Five Year Warranty in the format current at the date of the relevant Contract shall apply to insulating glass units.
(c) Save as expressly provided by these Conditions, or as expressly provided in any specific written warranty issued by the Seller, or as otherwise specifically agreed in writing by the Seller, all Seller's representations and statements (whether express or implied) and all warranties, conditions or other terms implied by statute or common law are excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.
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sports | women's basketball
IU, Butler put undefeated records on the line for an in-state battle Wednesday
By Dylan Wallace
Published Dec 3, 2018 8:38 pm
Junior forward Brenna Wise and sophomore center Linsey Marchese go up for the ball against University North Florida on Nov. 18 in Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall. The Hoosiers were up 32-19 at halftime. Ty Vinson Buy Photos
One team is leaving Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall on Wednesday night with its first loss of the season.
The Butler Bulldogs, who are 6-0 this season, will travel one hour south to Bloomington to take on the 7-0 Hoosiers.
For IU Coach Teri Moren, these are the games she wanted in the nonconference schedule. Filling the November and December slate of games with easy teams won't prepare her squad for the tough, resilient Big Ten teams that loom ahead.
"This is the way we intentionally designed our nonconference schedule," Moren said after IU's 67-65 win at UCLA.
She said they wanted games at home, but also wanted to go play in tough environments like UCLA's Pauley Pavilion, which had seen its Bruins lose just three games over the last three seasons.
With 3,511 fans in attendance, the largest crowd IU has played in front of this season, the Hoosiers handed the Bruins its fourth home loss in those three seasons.
Just three days prior, IU beat Wake Forest on the road by 14 and has beat Milwaukee and Florida at home this season.
Now, perhaps the biggest test comes to town Wednesday night with Butler.
The Bulldogs have outscored their opponents this year by a total of 169 points and have only played one game in which they didn't win by double figures — a 58-56 win over Northern Illinois on Nov. 25.
But Wednesday night will be the first time this season Butler will play on the road. Like the Pauley Pavilion, Assembly Hall is known for drawing good crowds. In the four home games this season, the average attendance has been 3,279, and with an in-state opponent like Butler, don't be surprised if that number rises.
As raucous as the environment can get around Assembly Hall, IU's defense on Branch McCracken Court will be in for a tough matchup against a dynamic Butler offense that has four players averaging in double figures.
The leader of that group is Whitney Jennings, averaging 15 points per game. After scoring just four points in the season-opener, the 5-foot-5-inch senior hasn't seen a number in the single digits since, putting up 20 points in the team's most recent win against Ball State. Last season, Jennings led the team in points and assists, and her 539 total points were fourth highest all-time in Butler history for points in a single season.
Jennings' companions in the backcourt consist of Michelle Weaver, 10 points per game, and Kristen Spolyar, 13.7 points per game. All three have posted 15 or more points in at least one this season, and all three can score in a variety of ways.
Luckily for IU, its trio of guards has been on fire as of late. Junior guard Ali Patberg, along with sophomore guards Jaelynn Penn and Bendu Yeaney, have been the igniting force for the Hoosiers so far.
Patberg and Penn each added 17 points against UCLA, while each dropping 30 and 25, respectively, in the prior game against Wake Forest. Yeaney hasn't been putting up the scoring numbers like her counterparts, but she has been the team's most consistent and versatile defender. Yeaney is constantly assigned to the opponents' best player and has been praised by Moren after each game for her job defensively.
IU's freshman guard Grace Berger has also been a spark off the bench this year and will be able to fill in nicely whenever Penn, Patberg or Yeaney need a breather.
It will be a battle of the backcourt Wednesday night, but both team's bigs are also capable of posting big numbers and altering shots defensively.
The Hoosiers and Bulldogs are evenly matched, but one will have to receive a blemish on their record after the ball tips at 7 p.m.
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Shocking News
Jesse Eisenberg says he was 'mischaracterised' in notorious 2013 interview
The actor was labeled "offensive" after a clip from an interview with Romina Puga went viral.
Jesse Eisenberg has addressed the backlash to journalist Romina Puga's interview accused of being an 'idiot'.
The Social Her Network star spoke with Puga when she was promoting her 2013 movie Now You See Me. Puga, among other things, asked her magic card to perform her tricks and say her name on camera just like all her guests.
During the conversation, Eisenberg repeatedly appears to attack Puga's interviewing style, jokingly accusing him of basic questions written on her hand and telling her to rush to him. She accused him of being "on his time" when he asked.
A clip of the interview went viral, and Eisenberg was called "rude" and "offensive." Puga later wrote her own account of what happened, saying she was "humiliated" by the actor.
However, Eisenberg spoke with NME in his new interview, giving his own take and revealing he was somewhat surprised by the ensuing commotion.
"I remember she was laughing," Eisenberg says. "Even after she left, I said to the people in the room, 'what a relief'. Like, that was the most funny, interesting interview I'd had all day."
He said he received a call from his publicist, who said a number of news networks wanted a statement from him about an interview.
"And I said, 'what interview?!'" Eisenberg recalled. "I watched the thing and she had written an editorial [saying] I had made her upset.
"It was, like, the exact opposite of what my experience was, and I didn't know the appropriate way to handle something that's completely mischaracterised.
He concluded: "Everyone that's seen it tells me they thought it was a funny thing. Listen, I would never wanna upset somebody, and if I did upset her, obviously I would have acknowledged that."
Eisenberg claimed he had attempted to contact Puga to apologise after learning she had been upset, but was unable to reach her.
Now You See Me star Jesse Eisenberg is being labeled a "jerk" after a very uncomfortable, and kind of rude, interview with Univision reporter Romina Puga.
"So Freeman plays a magic debunker," Puga begins, starting the awkwardness almost immediately.
"Freeman? Who are you? What are you, on a baseball team with him?" Eisenberg interrupts.
Puga then goes on to say she's going to perform a trick, and Eisenberg has to reveal the secret. She pretends to be removing part of her index finger, but Eisenberg notes that "the thumbs don't look like the end of a finger."
He then asks her what she has written on her hand and she says nothing, but he continues to prod her and ask if she's "secretly hiding questions."
Eisenberg asks Puga if she's heard of Carrot Top, to which she responds, "Yeah, horrible."
"Well, you're like the Carrot Top of interviewers," Eisenberg retorts.
Puga says she's "going to go cry now" and Eisenberg says to wait until after the interview because then he'll look responsible — Puga says he is.
Visibly flustered, Puga asks Eisenberg to show her a magic trick so they can wrap the interview up.
"You're on my time," he replies.
Both Eisenberg and Puga have been criticized for the interview. Some said that it was Puga's fault for not being prepared and not playing along with Eisenberg, but others felt the 29-year-old actor was being rude and mean.
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I finally did it! We recorded our Level 1 Assessment yesterday.
Oh well, perfect practise makes perfect!!
Have a look at it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrP5mg7Ngdk and tell me what you think!
In other fantastic news, Sante and I had THE BEST CANTER EVER yesterday, it was long, it was on a loose rein, and it was sllloooowww.
I had ot control myself, because i wanted to go yahooing up the hill, it felt that good!!
More soon, but in a bit of a hurry.


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Mountain Brook es una ciudad del sureste del condado de Jefferson, Alabama, y un suburbio de Birmingham. De acuerdo con estimados de la Oficina del Censo 2005, la población de la ciudad es 20821. Mountain Brook es una ciudad especialmente rica en el área metropolitana de Birmingham y apareció en varias listas de las comunidades más ricas de Estados Unidos. Mountain Brook es bien conocida por ser la ciudad más rica del estado de Alabama.

Mountain Brook fue desarrollada originalmente en 1929 por el desarrollador local Robert Jemison como una subdivisión residencial extensivA, y se incorporó el 24 de mayo de 1942. Los planes, con sede en Boston por el arquitecto paisajista Warren H. Manning, llamado por muchas empresas de bienes a lo largo de sinuosas carreteras escénicas y denso desarrollo comercial centrada en tres "aldeas" datos conocidos como Village en Inglés , Mountain Brook Village y Villa Crestline. Reservas naturales en las laderas protegidas adyacentes de la zona de expansión urbana y caminos de herradura creado una red de recreo en el desarrollo.

Mountain Brook se refiere a menudo como "el pequeño reino" debido a su reputación como un enclave para la élite de la zona y la disparidad de riqueza entre éste y la ciudad de Birmingham donde casi un cuarto de la población vive por debajo del umbral de la pobreza, según el Censo de datos.

Mountain Brook es la ciudad natal de los actores Wayne Rogers, Kate Jackson y Courteney Cox, el ex quarterback de los Empacadores de Green Bay Bart Starr, y Natalee Holloway, un joven graduada en una de sus escuelas de secundaria que desapareció durante un viaje de graduación a Aruba el 30 de mayo de 2005, en un el caso fatal en el que hay muchas personas implicadas.

Enlaces externos

 City of Mountain Brook website
 City of Mountain Brook Chamber of Commerce
 Emmet O'Neal Library
 Mountain Brook Schools

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Localidades del condado de Jefferson (Alabama)

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Frustrated Mickelson explains decision to hit moving ball
Phil Mickelson's decision to deliberately hit a moving ball and incur a two-shot penalty at the US Open on Saturday had everyone shaking their heads.
Already four over par for his third round and 10 over in total when he reached the 13th hole, a frustrated Mickelson was clearly not fancying the prospect of having to play out the rest of the weekend at Shinnecock Hills despite having no chance of winning the tournament.
His frustration at seeing his career Grand Slam dreams go up in smoke boiled over on the 13th green when he hit his ball before it had stopped moving.
All credit to Phil 'I couldn't be arsed playing anymore' Mickelson. I wish him well. #usopen pic.twitter.com/5J98Y757m0
— Darth Monty (@Darth_Monty) June 16, 2018
Mickelson risked disqualification for the move – and maybe that's what he wanted, but the end result was a two-shot penalty and a 10 on the par-four hole.
Afterwards, the veteran American said he knew exactly what he was doing.
"Look, I don't mean disrespect to anybody. I know it's a two-shot penalty," he said.
"At that time, I just didn't feel like going back and forth and hitting the same shot over. I took the two-shot penalty and moved on.
"It's my understanding of the rules. I've had multiple times where I've wanted to do that. I just finally did.
"It was going to go down in the same spot behind the bunker. I wasn't going to have a shot. I don't know if I was able to save a shot or not.
"I know it's a two-shot penalty hitting a moving ball. I tried to hit it as close as I could on the next one, and you take the two shots and move on."
Mickelson ultimately signed for an 11-over-par 81 to sit on 17 over par for the tournament.
That wasn't quite dead last in the field – England's Andrew Johnston and South Korean Byeong Hun An are tied last on 19 over after both carding rounds in the 80s on Saturday as well.
As for Mickelson, 18 more holes at Shinnecock await on Sunday.
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You are here: Home / In the News / Dear Transnet, How about a cool Sea Organ on PE's Waterfront?
Zadar, Croatia has a sea organ which plays music by way of sea waves and tubes located underneath a set of large marble steps.
It forms an attractive visual and aural part of the sea front and was made by the architect Nikola Baši? as part of the project to redesign the new city coast. The site was opened to the public on 15 April 2005. Waves interact with the organ in order to create somewhat random but harmonic sounds.
White marble steps leading down to the water conceal a system of polyethylene tubes and a resonating cavity that turns the site into a large musical instrument, played by the wind and the sea. 35 musically tuned tubes with whistle openings on the sidewalk use the movement of the sea and air to play musical chords dependant on the size and velocity of the waves.
The 5 musically tuned pipes of each section are arranged in 1.5 meter spacings. A listener, standing or sitting on a chosen point on the scalinade, should be able to hear 5 to 7 musically tuned pipes play their natural music. Thus, whole five-pipe sections are tuned to one musical chord.
The mournful organ tones are reminiscent of whale song so should be quite a hit with our tour operators taking tourists to see whales, dolphins, sardines and the other aquatic sea life in Algoa Bay.
1. The San Francisco Wave Organ: An acoustic sculpture constructed on the shore of San Francisco Bay in May 1986 by the Exploratorium. Through a series of pipes, the wave organ interacts with the waves of the bay and conveys their sound to listeners at several different stations. The effects produced vary depending on the level of the tide but include rumbles, gurgles, sloshes, hisses, and other more typical wave sounds. The structure incorporates stone platforms and benches where visitors may sit near the mouths of pipes, listening.
The Wave Organ is located at the end of a spit of land extending from the Golden Gate Yacht Club. The stone pieces used in its construction were salvaged from the demolition of the Laurel Hill Cemetery in San Francisco. Exploratorium artist in residence Peter Richards conceived and designed the organ, working with sculptor and mason George Gonzales.
There is a panoramic view of the city across the narrow channel into the St. Francis and Golden Gate yacht clubs, bounded on the left by the Fort Mason piers and to the right by a towering eucalyptus grove bordering Crissy Field. The Marina Green park lies directly across, just beyond a stone sea wall.
The Wave Organ includes 25 PVC organ pipes and is dedicated to Frank Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer was the founding director of the Exploratorium, led the fundraising efforts for the Wave Organ, and he died seven months before construction started.
2. The Blackpool High Tide Organ: The High Tide Organ is a tidal organ 15 metres (49 ft 3 in) tall constructed in 2002 as part of "The Great Promenade Show" series of sculptures situated along Blackpool's New Promenade in the UK. The artwork, described as a "musical manifestation of the sea", is one of a few examples of a tidal organ; others include the San Francisco Wave Organ and the Sea Organ in Croatia.
The sculpture was designed by the artists Liam Curtin and John Gooding, and was constructed in concrete, steel, zinc and copper sheet. The harnessing of wave energy, and the sculpting of the concrete and metals, is said to produce a unique interpretation of Blackpool's natural and man-made environments. The instrument is played by the sea at high tide through eight pipes attached to the sea wall. These are connected under the promenade to 18 organ pipes within the sculpture. The swell of seawater at high tide pushes air up the sea-wall pipes and causes the organ pipes to sound. The best time to hear the High Tide Organ is two to three hours before or after high tide. On very calm days the organ is silent for part of its cycle. The pitches of the pipes are based on the harmonic series in B flat.


Mother Nadia McKenzie and father Tom Casey with Ben (left, then 3) and Mac (9 months). The photo was taken in May, 2010. Photo supplied.
The parents of a Dunedin toddler who died on the way to participating in research in the United States on his rare metabolic disorder say they are proud they made the last months of their son's short life special.
Mac Casey, who died on October 31, aged 14 months, had infantile Krabbe disease, a metabolic disorder with a grim prognosis.
Lacking an enzyme for forming the myelin sheathing needed for nerve insulation, a suffererhad an average life span of 13 months, and few lived beyond 2 years. The disease affects one baby in about 100,000.
Mac's parents, Nadia McKenzie and Tom Casey, say battling a rare disease is especially difficult in New Zealand, where doctors are less likely to have seen or treated them.
Mac was aged nearly 4 months when Ms McKenzie knew something wasn't right.
Her second son was a "terrible feeder", suggesting reflux, and he was treated for the common ailment.
From the age of 6 months, she realised her baby was losing skills he had acquired, and again sought help.
Gaining access to a paediatrician was easier because their son was taking part in the University of Otago's prevention of overweight in infancy study.
Told they had reason to be concerned about their son - it took two months to get a firm diagnosis - it was hard to believe their then 10-month-old had a fatal disease, Ms McKenzie said.
His intense suffering was apparent, however, and even cuddling him his parents had to be careful because of nerve pain.
Advice from a paediatrician at North Carolina University, contacted through the internet, was invaluable in making the rest of their son's life as comfortable as possible.
While pointing out she did not intend it as a criticism, Ms McKenzie said the lack of exposure to rare diseases in New Zealand made things tougher for parents.
None of the doctors Mac saw in New Zealand had seen Krabbe disease.
At a time the family was making Mac's remaining life as special as possible, his parents had to focus on relieving his pain, and fighting for the best pain management.
They are proud that a trip to Auckland, and Hanmer Springs, and a special first birthday party, all featured in his final months. Four-year-old brother Ben was "fabulous" and there "through it all", Ms McKenzie said.
Following surgery for Mac's feeding and reflux problems in September, the family was able to travel to the United States.
Research into stem-cell therapy has shown promise for Krabbe disease, and synthetic enzyme replacement was a possibility in future. Early detection was crucial for treatment, and in the United States Krabbe disease had been added to the newborn testing schedule in three states.
It was unlikely New Zealand, with its small population, would have newborn screening, at least in the foreseeable future.
Mac would have been clinically observed, for a week, for two Krabbe disease studies under way at the University of North Carolina.
The family was participating in the hope of learning more about his illness for pain relief, and to contribute to Krabbe disease research for future generations.
On a stopover with friends in Los Angeles, on the way to the university, Mac became ill with a bacterial infection and died.
In an ironic twist, the last doctor who examined him while in the United States was the first they had met who had seen Krabbe disease before, Ms McKenzie said.
Upon arriving home, Ms McKenzie discovered she was carrying her third child, and the baby, who had a 25% risk, tested negative to Krabbe disease.
While "bittersweet", the family is excited and looking forward to the baby's arrival in July.
They had been overwhelmed by support from colleagues at John McGlashan College and Anderson Lloyd, friends and family, and also thanked Air New Zealand for its support.


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Johnson vs. Burk: line drawn in sand
By PAUL NEWBERRY
AUGUSTA, Ga. Hootie Johnson and Martha Burk are a lot alike, hard as that is to believe.
They are tenacious about their causes, steadfast in their beliefs and convinced theyve claimed the moral high ground on the issue of female members at Augusta National Golf Club.
Of course, thats where their paths veer off sharply.
Johnson, chairman of the Masters tournament and the club, is the staunch defender of Augustas all-men membership, saying that is the prerogative of a private club.
Not so, says Burk, head of National Council of Womens Organizations. She believes Johnson is stuck in a gender time warp.
After months of verbal haggling, angry letters and attempts to sway others to their sides, the dispute comes home, so to speak.
The tournament starts Thursday, with Tiger Woods going for his third straight green jacket. And TV viewers will see more of it than ever before, thanks to the dispute.
Johnson cut loose corporate backers to shield them, he said, from possible backlash, so the Masters is commercial free. One of the lines Johnson drew in the sand.
Burk and her supporters plan to protest on Saturday, during the third round. They wont be allowed to march in front of the main gates as requested; instead, theyll be kept to a tract about a half mile away.
In Burks eyes, shes already won.
There is a turning point that will not change, regardless of when Augusta changes its policy, she said. It is a place that corporate America will not want to go near, and thats appropriate.
Johnson sees the dispute much differently.
You know, some of the media tries to portray us or this woman portrays us as being discriminatory, and being bigots. And were not, he said last year. Were a private club. We will prevail because were right.
Many of Johnsons friends and colleagues are surprised hes taken such a high-profile stand on such a contentious issue. Theyve always known him to be a backroom operator, a genteel banker who would prefer to solve problems quietly, without a fuss.
During the civil rights movement, Johnson remained largely under the radar while chipping away at discrimination in his native South Carolina. He helped get blacks elected to the state legislature. He promoted blacks in the corporate boardroom. He ran a committee to desegregate the states colleges.
He had the reputation of being progressive, said I.S. Leevy Johnson, one of three blacks elected to the legislature in 1970 with Hootie Johnsons backing. He was diplomatic in his opinions. He had a general concern for the feelings of others. And he was a very strong-willed person. Thats characteristic of leaders.
His strong-willed side came to the forefront when Burk demanded that the club initiate a female member. He fired back with an angry statement, saying Augusta National would not admit women at the point of a bayonet.
A few weeks ago, Georgias conservative governor, Sonny Perdue, raised Johnsons ire by suggesting almost in passing that everyone would like to see the club admit women at some point. Johnson wasted no time answering with a stinging letter.
For the governor of our state to suggest that we should capitulate to special interest groups when the Constitution is on our side and we have done nothing wrong is a bit surprising and very disappointing, he wrote.
While Johnson appears increasingly thin-skinned, some say Burk has gone too far by linking the membership dispute to the war in Iraq.
Its appalling that the women who are willing to lay down their lives for democratic ideals should be shut out of this club, she said recently.
Burk later said she was merely trying to compare women returning from this war to blacks who endured continued segregation after fighting for their country in World War II.
While detractors portray Burk as a media hound who keeps reporters phone numbers on her speed dial, she says that even she is surprised at the amount of attention her Augusta campaign has generated.
I had no idea that golf was a separate religion, or as my son puts it, Augusta is the Westminster Abbey of golf, she said.
Burk points to her other causes: abortion rights, lobbying for female aid on Capitol Hill, taking part in a United Nations program on family planning.
All that has gone unreported, she said. Id kill for this kind of attention, just to get that other stuff mentioned.
Though some might characterize his stance on female members as stubborn, Johnson has shown plenty of flexibility when it came to tinkering with the clubs signature event. Since taking over in 1998, hes overseen more changes than the previous three chairmen combined.
The qualifying criteria changed, television coverage expanded and the course underwent its biggest renovation since the club opened in 1933.
Tiger Woods knows firsthand that Johnson will listen to suggestions.
Woods and Mark OMeara recently played a practice round at Augusta and this is what Woods said afterward:
I mentioned to (Johnson) that on 18, there was a tree on the right side of the fairway, one limb that I thought was unfair. Mark-O hit it out there 280 yards, which is good for him, and he had no shot. I mentioned that to Hootie and he said, Ill go take a look at it.
The next day, the limb was gone. So he does listen.
Johnson also has gone back and forth on the clubs policy of allowing former champions to play in the Masters as long as they like even when they are barely capable of getting around the course.
First, Johnson drew the ire of three aging former champions by asking them not to play. Then he set up a written policy that cut off playing privileges for everyone at age 65. Then he backtracked again in recent days, welcoming back all former champs as long as they feel competitive.
Augusta National avoided that sort of public mea culpa when the issue of racially exclusive clubs came to the forefront. The club didnt admit its first black member until 1990, but it moved quickly after the dispute at Shoal Creek made white members-only clubs a potential target for protests.
When it came to women, Johnson chose a different tack.
Shoal Creek has got nothing to do with this. Nothing, he said last year. Racial discrimination and gender are two different things. Do you know of any Constitutional lawyer thats ever said they were the same? Do you know any civil rights activists that said it was the same? Do you? Its not relevant.
To Burk, it is.
Some day, she says, there will be a woman wearing a green jacket.
Its just a matter of time.
I dont know why the club just doesnt take the high road and announce a change in policy on a reasonable timetable, Burk said. The club cannot see the inevitable. Instead, they have put the world of golf, us, their members, through a ringer.


In today's highly connected and collaborative world, organizations are recognizing the benefits of empowering employees and teams with the tools that make collaboration in this high-tech age possible. Many public cloud technology offerings help to eliminate the complexities of being able to allow team members to collaborate despite different geographical locations, sites, or other physical boundaries. Shared storage became a staple for organizations of every size. Google Team Drives is one of the premier collaboration cloud storage spaces.
In this post we will take a look at Google Team Drives, what are they, what are a few best practices organizations can use to outline a migration to Team Drives, and how can they begin to perform the initial evaluation of resources to migrate? In the next post, we will continue looking at migrating to Team Drives including – deciding who migrates files and how they are migrated, whether professional services should be leveraged, staged vs single cutover migrations as well as the importance of backing up Team Drive data.
What are Google Team Drives?
Google Team Drives are shared spaces where teams can easily store, search, and access their files anywhere, and from any device. Many who are familiar with the Google ecosystem may have utilized the My Drive as a personal public cloud storage account. However, unlike files stored in a My Drive account, the files on the Team Drive belong to the team and not to any individual. This is an important benefit to Team Drives – file permissions of an employee do not have to be assumed if an employee leaves. Files that are put in Team Drives are automatically shared with members of the Team Drive. These files can also be shared with others in the organization as well that are not members of the Team Drive.
The ease of administration with Google Team Drives allows G Suite organizations to be agile when it comes to provisioning and deprovisioning storage and collaboration tools for employees, as well as to quickly and easily set appropriate permissions on public cloud resources. This helps to make the onboarding process for organizations efficient and streamlined, and allows them to have the access they need quickly.
Google has also poured countless research and development into what they call "Quick Access," which leverages powerful machine learning techniques to provide the most relevant documents as soon as you visit the Team Drives home screen. Google has been able to cut the time it takes to find the documents you need in half with the power of "Quick Access" machine learning algorithms. The accurate predictive models that have been developed computes a relevance score for each of the documents in the Team Drive, and top scoring documents are presented at the top of the home screen.
As we can see in this overview of Google Team Drives, organizations are able to benefit from the power, efficiency, and ease of administration simply by migrating from on-premise, or other public cloud file storage, to Google Team Drives.
How to Migrate to Google Team Drives?
Performing evaluation and discovery of current file, folder, and share resources used by the organization and various departments who will comprise members of various Team Drives.
Decide who migrates files and how the migration is performed.
Enlist professional services to assist with the migration.
Will this be a staged migration or a single cutover? If staged, how will data be accessed during the interim?
Backup Google Team Drives data – Organizations must plan on how to start backing up Google Team Drives data during the migration and thereafter.
By far, one of the most important aspects of any migration is understanding the data that is being migrated. The importance of proper evaluation, discovery, and planning when it comes to any type of migration cannot be stressed enough. Well before the cutover date of implementing team drives, organizations need to have a thorough understanding of the data, where it lives, and who accesses it.
All too often, users may utilize obscure file shares or other unknowns when it comes to server resources including files and shares that applications may depend on. Making a point to thoroughly document and understand where data lives for all departments, as well as how any applications make use of this data, makes a migration to Team Drives much easier.
Recently, Google acquired a company called AppBridge whose sole focus is to allow organizations to seamlessly migrate on-premise data to G Suite. Additionally, AppBridge allows organizations to migrate to Google's platform from other cloud services such as Box.net, Microsoft SharePoint, Office 365, etc. There is a cost involved for the AppBridge products.
Scan – A scalable, efficient scan and collection of information about source systems both on-premise and in the cloud.
Report – Surveyor creates very useful reports on the layout of the data involved with the migration, from folder structure and shared information, either public or private.
Analyze – With the analysis performed by Surveyor, organizations can make data-driven decisions based on the content that is needed, and how this data should be represented in the Google environment.
Help identify potential roadblocks in the migration, including folders, insufficient permissions, etc.
As shown, the AppBridge Transformation Suite is a powerful tool that organizations can utilize in performing the initial discovery and evaluation of resources to migrate. Even if not using the AppBridge tool, organizations must realize and understand the importance of this step in the process as often it can mean the difference in a successful or failed migration to Team Drives.
In this post, we looked at Google Team Drives, what are they, what are a few best practices organizations can use to outline a migration to Team Drives, and how can they begin to perform the initial evaluation of resources to migrate. Proper planning and evaluation beforehand is a crucial step for organizations as it identifies and evaluates resources to be moved. Utilizing powerful tools such as Google's AppBridge Transformation Suite can make this process much easier and more effective as well as efficient. Next, we will continue to look at the migration process to Google Team Drives as we delve into deciding who migrates the files and how, using professional services, staged vs. single cutover, as well as the importance of backing up Team Drives.
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More on #ArtCOP21 from Coal
December 8, 2015 ArtCOP, news
Echoing the COP21, COAL and lyric Gaîté invite 200 artists, professionals, scientists, thinkers and doers to imagine all other narratives and other perspectives to reinvent our worlds.
Media tray of lyric Gaîté – Open to the public and free Fully streamed on gaite-lyrique.net and rebroadcast on artcop21.com
14.30 – The Arctic Is Paris, Carte blanche to Mel Chin and writer Gretel Ehrlich
Mel Chin, artist (USA), Gretel Ehrlich, writer (USA), Jens Danielsen and Mamarut Kristiansen, elite hunters of Greenland, representatives of Pacific islands, Nuuk an interpreter. Moderated by Neal Conan, journalist (NBA). ++
17.00 – Face to face with Lucy + Jorge Orta artists (ARG and UK),an internationally acclaimed duo for 25 years that explores the major concerns of the 21st century ++
12:00 to 7:00 p.m. Performance Bureau of Linguistical Reality
Heidi Quante Escott and Alicia (USA), work on the words to facilitate cultural change around climate change. ++
Tuesday, December 8th
14.30 – Face to face with the artist Stefan Shankland (FR).
Artist winner COAL Art & Environment Prize 2011, which conducts art projects integrated with the transformation process at work in urban settings, industrial and natural. ++
15.30 – Introduction to survival in the global brain.
With Gwenola Wagon and Stéphane Degoutin, artists, researchers and directors of the film essay World Brain (FR), Pierre Cassou-Nogues, philosopher and writer (FR), Julien Imbert, graphic designer (FR), Emmanuel Ferrand, mathematician (FR). ++
18h – Screening of "World Brain"
In partnership with Arte. ++
Wednesday, December 9
14.30 – The race for technological innovation
With Renewable Futures, Rasa Smite and Raitis, artists and co-founders of RIXC (LVA), Cédric Carles and the Paleo-Energy Laboratory (FR), Yacine Ait Kaci, artist (FR), Kevin Anderson, Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (UK), Alice Bowes researcher (UK). Moderated by Andrew Simms, writer and co-founder of the New Weather Institute (UK). ++
17h – Face to face with Shaun Gladwell, artist (AUS).
Finalist prices COAL Art & Environment 2015 for its Climate Change Hip Hop opera project, Shaun Gladwell puts dialogue magnitude of natural phenomena and the practice of extreme sports. ++
14h – Language as a battlefield
Nathalie Blanc, researcher and artist, and David Christoffel, writer (FR), Heidi Quante and Alicia Escott Bureau of Linguistical Reality, artists (USA), Magali Daniaux & Cédric Pigot, artists, (FR), Led by Shannon Jackson, Director of the Research Centre for Arts Berkeley University (USA). ++
17.00 – Face to face with Anaïs Clipper, artist (FR).
Fed literature, scientific experiments in laboratories or historical research, the mise-en-narratives take shape from shipping in areas on the border of reality and asks another habitable earth. ++
15h – Rebuilding common
Jeremy Leggett, scientist and activist (UK), Michael Pinsky, artist (UK), Akootchook Allison Warden, representative activist Alaskan Native (USA), Beka Economopoulos, activist, founder of Not an alternative (USA), Juan Carlos Sanchez, a former member of the IPCC and Nobel Peace Prize (VEN). Led by Patrick Degeorges, Philosopher, Special Adviser to the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy (FR). ++
6:00 p.m. Closing Ceremony of ArtCOP21
See until December 7
Ackroyd & Harvey, The tree ceremony
In continuation of the work of the 7000 oaks Joseph Beuys, the artist duo Ackroyd & Harvey realizes the monumental installation of a majestic oak in front of a live grass drapery to celebrate the role of trees in the adapting cities to climate change. A COAL event – the National Museum of Natural History, Au Jardin des Plantes +
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package org.apache.camel.component.aws2.ddb;

import org.apache.camel.Exchange;
import org.apache.camel.impl.DefaultCamelContext;
import org.apache.camel.support.DefaultExchange;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;

import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;

public class UpdateTableCommandTest {

    private UpdateTableCommand command;
    private AmazonDDBClientMock ddbClient;
    private Ddb2Configuration configuration;
    private Exchange exchange;

    @BeforeEach
    public void setUp() {
        ddbClient = new AmazonDDBClientMock();
        configuration = new Ddb2Configuration();
        configuration.setTableName("DOMAIN1");
        configuration.setReadCapacity(20L);
        configuration.setWriteCapacity(30L);
        exchange = new DefaultExchange(new DefaultCamelContext());

        command = new UpdateTableCommand(ddbClient, configuration, exchange);
    }

    @Test
    public void testExecute() {
        command.execute();

        assertEquals("DOMAIN1", ddbClient.updateTableRequest.tableName());
        assertEquals(Long.valueOf(20), ddbClient.updateTableRequest.provisionedThroughput().readCapacityUnits());
        assertEquals(Long.valueOf(30), ddbClient.updateTableRequest.provisionedThroughput().writeCapacityUnits());
    }
}


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Q: Using same function for sorting a vector and custom comparator in set This might sound like a stupid problem but I wondered for a long time is there a better way that this:
struct X
{
    int a;
    int b;
};
bool sortComp(const X first, const X second)
{
    if (first.a!=second.a)
        return (first.a<second.a);
    else
        return (first.b<second.b);

}
class setComp
{
public:
    bool operator() (const X first, const X second) const
    {
        if (first.a!=second.a)
                return (first.a<second.a);
            else
                return (first.b<second.b);
    }
};
int main()
{
    vector<X> v;
    set<X, setComp> s;
    sort(begin(v), end(v),sortComp);
}

As you see I implement the same functionality twice, once for sorting, and once for implicit sorting in the set. Is there a way to avoid code duplication?

A: Sure, just choose one of both and change the call of the other.
// choosing the function object
sort(begin(v), end(v), setComp()); // create setComp, sort will call operator()

// choosing the function
set<X, bool(*)(const X, const X)> s(sortComp); // pass function pointer

I personally would recommend the functor version.

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I am trying to use PID control for an ISCO syringe pump with bumpless manual to automatic control but I cannot seem to get it working.
This syringe pump has input and output in pressure and is used to apply a force in order to keep vertical displacement of a sample constant. The amount of pressure applied is related to vertical displacement through an equation that is shown in the attached VI. The goal of this VI is to apply a variable force depending on the displacement of the sample in order to try to keep the displacement 0.
The pump is in steady state as shown in the pressure and setpoint chart in manual mode initially and then switched over the automatic control (where the huge bump is). I did this twice to show what happens when I transition back and forth. Automatic to manual is bumpless because I used a local variable to constantly change the manual setpoint.
I also tried to play with the PID gains in the VI and found that if I disable the "I" and "D" parameters (set both to 0), I no longer suffer from the huge bump, but the PID controller cannot bring the process value to the setpoint as there is always an offset.
I am not sure whether or not this is a result of poor PID tuning, but after the initial bump during transition from manual to automatic, the PID controller seems to be able to maintain the correct pressure nicely.
The reason why I am using a PID controller rather than sending the pump commands (since it can independently maintain a pressure) is because it is a lot more smooth.
In the attached VI, there are a few sub-VIs that are called that are specific to the pump and the LVDTs used for sensing vertical displacement. I don't think these have any effect on why I am not getting a smooth bumpless transfer, so I only put comments to explain what they do.
also tried to play with the PID gains in the VI and found that if I disable the "I" and "D" parameters (set both to 0), I no longer suffer from the huge bump, but the PID controller cannot bring the process value to the setpoint as there is always an offset.
Did you try to find good PID gains using Ziegler-Nichols or similar?
Why do you use the Autotuning version of PID? Why not use the "simple" PID-Advanced (without autotuning)?
I tried finding better PID gains using the trial and error method as described in the following link, but I still have not managed to get the system to stabilize. Oddly, the system appears to be the most stable with the PID parameters that I previously used in the screenshot before.
Without any derivative action, I tried a variety of values for both P and I ranging from 0 to 10 and I cannot seem to find one that allows for the system to stabilize. The process value always ends up having large oscillations which prevents the system from stabilizing.
I used the autotuning advanced PID vi to test out autotuning; however, the Vi would also output maximum pressure and the PID parameters would not change.
Is there a specific tutorial on how to tune a PID controller using the Ziegler-Nichols method? The white paper I linked isn't very helpful in terms of step-by-step instructions.
I am likely doing something wrong, but I can't seem to figure out what it is.
I've run into this problem with the NI PID algorigthms as well. The problem has to do with the way the NI VI stores old information for calculating the integral and deravitive that go into the PID.
The best way I found to solve this problem was to create my own PID VI, that way I can control how old information is written and stored.
the system appears to be the most stable with the PID parameters that I previously used in the screenshot before.
Then again: why do you use the autotuning PID instead of normal "Advanced PID"?
Did you do any usual way of finding PID gains? Wkipedia explains it quite extensive!
Can you show your system's reaction on a jump of the control variable u(t) (without any PID control enabled)?
How fast does your system react?
Does your system react in a linear fashion? PIDs are good for (more or less) linear systems! Otherwise did you try to use gain scheduling to adapt for certain working points/areas?
Can you provide measurement data for such a reaction?
Your topology is not quite how we recommend to do bumpless transfer. Can you do something like this?
That will make manual setpoint to be in Pressure (Units) and you will need to update your gain, but this should track it better. Is this an option?
try to edit the advanced pid vi (or a temporary version of it), and force the output of the integrator to the manual control value, (if manual mode).
My program works after making the changes that you have suggested.
It looks like the cause of the bump from manual to automatic was a result of the topology being incorrect.
The only thing left is to tune the PID parameters, but since that is specific to each system, I will try the suggestions in previous posts and take it from there.
Thanks for taking the time to help me solve this issue.


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Bakst Leads 92nd MGA Senior Amateur
WEST ORANGE, N.J. (May 6, 2019) – Seven birdies led Ken Bakst of Friar's Head to a 4-under 66, Monday, at Montclair Golf Club as the 2019 MGA championship season teed off with the 92nd MGA Senior Amateur Championship. Bakst fired one of just two sub-par rounds on the day, the other coming from Jim Graham of Winged Foot with a 1-under 69.
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With play taking place on Montclair's Second and Third nines, Bakst began his round with a bogey on the par-4 10th, but quickly bounced back with a trio over birdies over the next four holes. Upon making the turn, he added three more on Nos. 1, 2 and 5 before a closing bogey led to his 66 total.
"I drove it well, I hit some good irons and I hit a lot of good putts today," said Bakst, the 1997 U.S. Mid-Am champion. "I'd love to add an MGA championship," said Bakst, who already has the 1996 Met Amateur title to his name as well. "That's what we all play for."
Looking forward to the final round, Bakst has his sights on the prize. "I always have high expectations," he said. "It's a little early in the season for me. I don't play a lot of golf in the winter like some of the guys that go down to Florida, but golf's a funny game—you come out and do your thing, one shot at a time, and hopefully I can do that again tomorrow."
Graham's round was also highlighted by a hot stretch early in his inward nine, as he posted birdies on Nos. 10, 13 and 15.
"I've always considered myself kind of a good field filler in the Met," said Graham. "I haven't won too many things over the years, but I'm playing good. I like the golf course, so hopefully I can come back and do it all over again tomorrow and see what happens."
Eight players sit within six shots of Bakst's pace, with Dave Scialabba of Meadow Brook and Peter Van Ingen of Deepdale posting matching 1-over 71s as part of the morning wave. Meanwhile, a host of players came in at 2-over 72, including reigning champion Adam Kugler of Alpine, two-time champion Jay Blumenfeld of Mountain Ridge, and 2018 U.S. Senior Amateur quarterfinalist Ned Zachar of GlenArbor. Also firing 2-over were Jim Craffey of Arcola, Anthony Fioretti of Ballyowen, and Roger Hoit of Baltusrol.
Following Monday's opening round, a cut was made to the low 40 scores and ties. A total of 45 competitors made the cut at 77 or better. Tuesday's final round will begin at 8:00 a.m., in groups of three off both Nos. 1 and 10. The final group begins play at 9:24 a.m.


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List of the best universities and engineering colleges in the country
The Human Resources and Development Ministry (MHRD) will issue the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) India Ranking 2019 in the evening on April 8, 2019. President Ramnath Kovind will release NIRF ranking 2019 in the evening at the Plenery Hall of Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. Ranking will be announced in many categories - Overall, University, Engineering, College, Management, Pharmacy, Medical, Architecture and Law. On the basis of many standards NIRF is ranked. Such as a reading-learning environment,
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According to NIRF Rankings 2019, the country's top 10 engineering colleges IIT Madras, IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Kanpur, IIT Roorkee, IIT Guwahati, Anna University, Chennai, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli Web results FREE Hindi to English Translation - Instant English Translation
Top 10 University of 2018 released by NIRF
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Banaras Hindu, Navarity, Varanasi, Anna University, Chennai, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, University of Delhi, Delhi, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
NIRF ranking will be made available on the official website of Ministry of Human Resource Development in 2019. Human Resource Development Ministry will also release the Atal Ranking of Institutions in respect of the achievements of innovation this year.
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Jeffery W. Yabuki
Jeffery W. Yabuki is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a global leader in technology and payments that enables commerce, banking and the safe and secure movement of money. With approximately 44,000 associates, the company serves thousands of financial institutions and millions of businesses in more than 100 countries and had $15.3 billion in pro forma revenue* in 2018. In 2020, Fiserv was recognized among FORTUNE World's Most Admired Companies® for a seventh consecutive year.
With more than 30 years of experience in the financial services industry, Yabuki joined Fiserv and its Board of Directors in 2005. Under his leadership, the company has transformed from a traditional holding company model into an integrated operating company focused on providing best-in-class financial and payments software, services and solutions that enable people to move and manage money at the point of thought.
Since 2005, the company has grown through a combination of internal investments and strategic acquisitions. With the acquisition of First Data in 2019, Yabuki expanded the company's ability to deliver differentiated value to its clients through market-leading fintech and payments solutions for financial institutions, corporate and merchant clients, and consumers.
Prior to joining Fiserv, Yabuki was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at H&R Block for more than six years. Before H&R Block, Yabuki held a progression of leadership positions during 12 years at American Express, culminating with President and Chief Executive Officer of American Express Tax and Business Services.
Yabuki is currently a member of the Board of Directors for Royal Bank of Canada (TSX: RY and NYSE: RY) and Ixonia Bancshares, Inc. He is also a trustee of the Milwaukee Art Museum.
*Pro forma 2018 revenue as presented in Exhibit 99.7 to Form 8-K filed on June 10, 2019.
Frank J. Bisignano
Frank J. Bisignano is President, Chief Operating Officer and a Director of Fiserv, Inc. Before joining Fiserv and its Board of Directors in 2019, Mr. Bisignano served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of First Data Corporation. During his tenure at First Data, Mr. Bisignano transformed the 48-year-old company from the world's largest traditional payment processor into a technology innovator, industry collaborator, and commerce enabler for the 21st century. He also improved the company's balance sheet, leading a $3.5 billion private placement in the company and its $2.6 billion initial public offering in 2015, the largest U.S. IPO of the year.
Before joining First Data, Mr. Bisignano served as Co-Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer of Mortgage Banking at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Mr. Bisignano has also served in multiple leadership positions at Citigroup, including Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Executive Officer of the company's Global Transaction Services unit.
Among his non-profit commitments, he serves on the boards of the Partnership for New York City, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, The Perelman Center for Performing Arts at the World Trade Center, the Mount Sinai Health System, the advisory board for the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF), St. Patrick's Cathedral, and The Battery Conservancy. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Humana Inc.
Alison Davis has served as a Director at Fiserv, Inc. since 2014 and is an advisor to Fifth Era, a firm that invests in and incubates early stage technology companies, and previously served as its Managing Partner from 2011 to 2015. Prior to Fifth Era, she was the Managing Partner of Belvedere Capital Partners, Inc., a private equity firm serving the financial services sector, from 2004 to 2010. Prior to joining Belvedere, she served as Chief Financial Officer for Barclays Global Investors, an institutional asset manager that is now part of BlackRock, Inc., from 2000 to 2003, a senior partner at A.T. Kearney, Inc., a leading global management consulting firm, from 1993 to 2000, and a consultant at McKinsey & Company, another leading global management consulting firm, from 1984 to 1993.
In the past five years, in addition to Fiserv, Ms. Davis has served as a director at the following publicly traded companies: Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (current), a British bank holding company, Ooma, Inc. (current), a consumer telecommunications company, Unisys Corporation (former), a global information technology company, Diamond Foods, Inc. (former), a packaged food company, and Xoom Corporation (former), a digital money transfer provider.
Henrique De Castro
Henrique De Castro joined the Board of Fiserv, Inc. as a Director in 2019 after serving as a Director of First Data since 2017. Mr. De Castro is also a Director of the Board at Banco Santander S.A. (BMAD: SAN) and Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT). He led Cantor Fitzgerald's venture capital arm, Cantor Ventures, from 2015 to 2019 and served as Chief Operating Officer at Yahoo! Inc. between 2012 and 2014. Prior to that, Mr. De Castro held senior executive positions at Google including President of Partner Business, responsible for approximately a third of Google's revenues and President of Media, Mobile & Platforms where he built and scaled the business globally to over 50 countries.
Prior to Google, Mr. De Castro had senior executive roles at Dell Technologies and McKinsey & Company. Mr. De Castro has extensive experience across the globe in the Technology, Internet, Media and Retail industries. He has an MBA from IMD in Switzerland and a Bachelor in Business and Economics from ISEG in Lisbon. He is fluent in English, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese
Harry F. DiSimone
Harry F. DiSimone has served as a Director of Fiserv, Inc. since 2018. Mr. DiSimone founded and has served as President of Commerce Advisors, Inc., a consulting and advisory services firm for the retail financial services and payments industries, since 2008. From 2010 to 2015, he served as Co-Managing Partner of Encore Financial Partners, Inc., a company focused on the acquisition and management of banking organizations in the United States, which Mr. DiSimone also co-founded. Prior to 2008, Mr. DiSimone spent over 30 years at J.P. Morgan Chase & Company and its predecessor organizations holding various senior level positions including Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer of the Chase credit card business, Private Label Card and Merchant Processing Executive, Retail Bank Chief Marketing Officer, Consumer Banking, Investments and Insurance Executive and Chase Personal Financial Services Executive.
Mr. DiSimone also currently serves as a director at Reliant Funding, Inc., a privately held provider of short-term small business loans, and ClearBalance Inc., a privately held provider of patient loan programs to hospitals and health care systems nationwide.
Mr. DiSimone previously advised a number of retail banking and payment organizations, including The Direct Marketing Association (now known as The Data & Marketing Association), the NYCE Payment Network, Chase Paymentech, MasterCard's U.S. Business Committee, Visa Global Advisors, the New York Clearing House's Strategic Planning Committee and the Federal Reserve Bank's Payment Card Council.
Dennis F. Lynch
Dennis F. Lynch has served as a Director of Fiserv, Inc. since 2012. Mr. Lynch served as Chairman of Cardtronics plc, a publicly traded company and the largest owner and operator of retail ATMs worldwide, from 2010 until his retirement in 2018 and as a director of Cardtronics from 2008 to 2018. He also previously served as: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of RightPath Payments, Inc. from 2005 to 2008; a director of Open Solutions, Inc. from 2005 to 2007; President and Chief Executive Officer of NYCE Corporation from 1996 to 2004. Mr. Lynch was employed by Fleet Financial Group from 1981 until 1994 where he was Senior Vice President in charge of retail payment products. While at the bank he also served as a founding director and Chairman of Yankee 24 ATM Network from 1988 to 1990.
In the past five years, in addition to Fiserv, Mr. Lynch served as a director at Cardtronics plc (former).
Member of the Compensation Committee
Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Heidi G. Miller
Heidi G. Miller joined the Fiserv Board of Directors in 2019 after serving on the Board of First Data since 2014. She is an accomplished senior executive in the financial services industry. Prior to retiring in 2012, Ms. Miller was president of JPMorgan International, a division of JPMorgan Chase & Co. Before that she served as CEO of JPMorgan Chase's Treasury and Security Services, leading 35,000 people in 50 countries. Ms. Miller also served as executive vice president and chief financial officer for Bank One Corporation. She has held other CFO positions including at the Travelers Group and later at Citigroup.
Ms. Miller has an extensive background leading diverse companies and organizations. She has been a director for General Mills Inc. since 1999, and a director of HSBC Holdings PLC since 2014. Previously she served as a director of Progressive Corp. from 2011 to 2014 and as a trustee of the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation.
Ms. Miller was featured in American Banker's Most Powerful Women ranking from 2003-2010 and was No. 1 on the banking list from 2007-2009. In 2008, she topped Crain's list of the "50 Most Powerful Women in New York".
Ms. Miller graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor's degree in history and completed her doctorate in history at Yale University in 1979.
Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Scott C. Nuttall
Scott C. Nuttall joined the Fiserv Board of Directors in 2019 after serving on the Board of First Data since 2007. He is the Co-President and Co-Chief Operating Officer of KKR. He joined KKR in 1996. Prior to joining KKR, he was with the Blackstone Group where he was involved in numerous merchant banking and merger and acquisition transactions. He received a B.S., summa cum-laude, from the University of Pennsylvania.
Chair of the Compensation Committee
Denis J. O'Leary
Lead Director
Denis J. O'Leary has served as a Director of Fiserv, Inc. since 2008. Mr. O'Leary is a private investor, and from 2009 to 2015, he served as Co-Managing Partner of Encore Financial Partners, Inc., a company focused on the acquisition and management of community banks. From 2006 to 2009, he was a senior advisor to The Boston Consulting Group with respect to the enterprise technology, financial services and consumer payments industries. Through 2003, he spent 25 years at J.P. Morgan Chase & Company and its predecessors in various capacities, including Treasurer, Chief Information Officer, Head of Retail and Small Business Banking, and Managing Executive of Lab Morgan (strategic equity investment in fin-tech). He has a B.A. in economics from the University of Rochester and an MBA from the Stern School at NYU.
Mr. O'Leary also currently serves as a director at CrowdStrike, Inc., a computer security software company
Doyle R. Simons
Doyle R. Simons has served as a Director of Fiserv, Inc. since 2007. Mr. Simons served as President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of Weyerhaeuser Company, a publicly traded company focused on timberlands and forest products, from 2013 to 2018. He then served as a senior advisor at Weyerhaeuser until his retirement in April 2019. Prior to joining Weyerhaeuser in 2013, Mr. Simons served in a variety of roles for Temple-Inland, Inc., a manufacturing company focused on corrugated packaging and building products which was acquired in 2012. From 2007 to early 2012, he was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; from 2005 to 2007, he was Executive Vice President; from 2003 to 2005, he served as its Chief Administrative Officer; from 2000 to 2003, he was Vice President – Administration; and from 1994 to 2000, he served as Director of Investor Relations.
In the past five years, in addition to Fiserv, Mr. Simons served as a director at Weyerhaeuser Company (former).


Vivotecnia has joined the agreement on Openness on Animal Research, promoted from the Federation of Scientific Societies in Spain (COSCE), with the collaboration of the European Association of Research Animals (EARA), and launched on 20 September 2016.
An important part of the research undertaken at Vivotecnia aims at contributing to the improvement of human health and wellbeing and is carried out thanks to the use of animals, for example during the preclinical toxicity and efficacy studies needed to bring new drugs to clinical phase.
The welfare of animals used for research purposes is of paramount relevance for Vivotecnia, and also the strict compliance and respect to the current legislation on the protection of animals used in research and for other scientific purposes, including education. Our aim is to achieve the highest standards in animal welfare, not only from the point of view of our moral responsibility on them but also because we are convinced we could not achieve research excellence without proper animal welfare. Our experiments with animals follow the legal standard and are assessed by an Ethics Committee on Animal Experimentation that promotes the use of alternative methods, the reduction in the number of animals used and the refinement in the experimental protocols applied. Not a single research project requiring the use of animals could start without the appropriate and required Ethics assessment and the eventual authorization from the competent authorities.
Vivotecnia also ensures that the personnel involved in animal care and researchers do have the adequate education and training and the required professional skills and that all resources are provided to properly keep research animals in terms of facilities, husbandry, wellbeing, and veterinary care.
All Vivotecnia work procedures are in adherence to EU Directive (2010/63/UE) and Spanish Regulation (RD 53/2013).


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NEXT SUNDAY – 2ND COLLECTION for CATHOLIC CAMPAIGN FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
This annual collection by the U.S. Catholic Bishops Conference allocates funds to community projects in our own country that work to eliminate the local causes of poverty. CCHD promotes the vision of systemic change rather than just giving temporary aid to the poor, and CCHD adheres to the moral and social teachings of the Catholic Church. CCHD also helps American Catholics to know more about the root causes in our economy and our communities that perpetuate poor economic conditions for too many Americans
Please visit www.usccb.org/cchd to view funding criteria and see a detailed list of their most recent grants to community organizations and their annual report. Pray for those who benefit from this campaign, and connect with the work of CCHD by supporting generously this collection by using the extra envelope in your monthly packet. (Or if you are using on-line giving, you can access the special list of second collections to make your donation.)
A BIG "THANK YOU!" TO:
* the parish Stewardship Committee and their "event helpers" for planning and executing the first St. Bernadette Parish Appreciation Dinner on Saturday. About 75 parish members had a great meal and a great time as the Parish showed its gratitude to all the members who serve the parish in so many diverse ministries and activites.
* the parish Landscaping Committee who planned and planted new shrubbery and blooming plants on the front (north) side of the Rectory/Parish Office, and for one parish couple who donated the cost of this effort to make our facilities look more attractive.
A SUGGESTION FOR YOUR PERSONAL FINANCES
You have worked hard to save for your retirement and now you can maximize you savings with an IRA Charitable Rollover gift. At the 70 ½ or older, you can use you Individual Retirement Account to sustain your Catholic parish, or any other charitable organization. Reduce your taxable income, even if you not itemize deductions. Gifts to support the work of your parish, St. Bernadette Church, are tax exempt; and you pay no tax on the transfer of funds. The money you give goes straight to the parish. Talk to a financial adviser or tax consultant for details on how to do your IRA mandatory withdrawal without increasing your taxable income.
A RECENT NEWS ITEM:
The Catholic Church is growing in Asia and Africa according to recently released statistics from 2019. The world population of Catholics grew by 15.4 million people to a total of 1.3 billion world-wide and 18% of the global population. In Africa, the Church grew by 8 million, and now Catholics make up 19% of the continents population. In Asia, which has 4.5 billion people, Catholics make up 3% of the population at 149 million with nearly half of that population in the Philippines. It is great to see the Catholic Faith continue to flourish in these parts of the world that we often think of as "mission territory". We need to pray for evangelizations efforts in our own country so that Catholics may not only remain in the Church here but also reach out for new members. We also need to pray and work for more vocations to the priesthood in the U.S. to keep the Church strong in our midst. Because of the shortage of American priests, former mission countries in Africa and Asia, like Nigeria and India, are sending their surplus priests to work in American parishes. What a change in roles !


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Escaping Eden brings together feminist biblical scholars to explore how aspects of social location such as gender, ethnicity, class, and religious background affect biblical interpretation.
The volume combines feminist reading strategies with sustained methodological inquiry. Writing in a range of modes including historical and literary criticism, cultural studies, satirical fiction, and the personal essay, the contributors challenge the presumed objectivity of conventional biblical scholarship.
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The 2012 election cycle was full of contentious voting rights disputes, few of which seemed to have dimmed in the 2014 election cycle. In recent months, there has been a flurry of court-related action relating to voter ID laws, with the U.S. Supreme Court preventing Wisconsin's law from going into effect for the 2014 election, a federal judge striking down a Texas law — a decision which was then quickly reversed by a federal appeals court and upheld at least for this election cycle by the U.S. Supreme Court — and the Arkansas Supreme Court striking down that state's law.
As of June 2014, some 33 states had laws in place requiring voters to provide some proof of identity in order to fill out a ballot. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), in 2014 seven states had "strict" laws requiring photo ID and three had strict non-photo ID laws; in both cases voters without ID are required to vote on provisional ballots and then follow up after voting day with proof of identification in order to make the vote count.
At times, there is some confusion with absentee ballot fraud, whose remedies would necessarily be different than in-person fraud. And fraud accusations can take many forms — from allegations around "deceased" persons voting to voter fraud by non-citizens or even by people registering under their pet's name. In a contemporary context, the specific voter ID issue comes down to two empirical questions: First, is there any contemporary evidence of fraud that would necessitate such laws? Second, when voter ID laws are in place do they suppress turnout in a way that disadvantages certain classes of persons, such as the elderly or racial minorities?
Important investigative news projects, such as News21's 2013 report, have found little evidence of in-person voter fraud. Perhaps the most comprehensive research review effort to date comes from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), which was asked by Congress to review these laws in light of the 2012 election. The GAO's 2014 report, "Issues Related to State Voter Identification Laws," first examines data relating to ID ownership rates across various states and then looks at studies that correlate these statistics with turnout patterns. The report, more than 200 pages in length, then discusses a quasi-experimental research study, conducted by the GAO, analyzing the results of voting in Kansas and Tennessee. These two states changed their laws between the 2008 and 2012 elections; the results are then compared to outcomes in other parallel states — Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware and Maine — that did not "substantively amend" their voting laws over that period. (This comparison group was also selected because each state saw stable voting patterns and did not have confounding factors, such as ballot initiatives, that would skew comparisons.) The GAO researchers also examine issues of potential voter fraud.
The GAO researchers note that because there is no central data source for reporting fraud, valid conclusions about fraud rates are difficult. However, they did review five academic studies, five investigative reports by states and information from the U.S. Department of Justice.
Related research: A 2014 study published in The Journal of Politics, "Who Asks For Voter Identification? Explaining Poll-Worker Discretion," explores an additional issue in this debate: That street-level poll workers do not necessarily implement laws uniformly. The authors — Lonna Rae Atkeson of University of New Mexico, Yann P. Kerevel of Lewis University, R. Michael Alvarez of the California Institute of Technology and Thad E. Hall of the University of Utah — analyze results from a survey of a random sample of poll workers in four New Mexico counties. They conclude that "it seems when poll workers are given substantial discretion in the application of voter identification requirements, they tend to rely on their own attitudes and beliefs rather than the law and their training." At least in this context, there was "little evidence that race, training, or partisanship matters" in terms of enforcement of voter ID standards. Further, a 2014 study in the Social Science Quarterly, "Balancing Fraud Prevention and Electoral Participation: Attitudes Toward Voter Identification," examines survey data and draws conclusions about the power of various rhetorical frames around these laws.
Key legal background: See the 2013 majority opinion in the 5-4 Shelby County v. Holder case, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, who said that a provision of the Voting Rights Act should no longer be enforced, opening the door for ID laws in some states; and a widely reported 2014 opinion by Judge Richard Posner, an influential appeals court jurist and scholar, who criticized the empirical basis for voter ID laws.
Citation: Issues Related to State Voter Identification Laws, Government Accountability Office, GAO-14-634: Published: Sep 19, 2014. Publicly Released: Oct 8, 2014.


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Source The San Antonio Weekly Star (San Antonio, Texas), Vol. 1, No. 10, Saturday, December 11, 1869, p. 4.
Name Variations Bell & Brothers. ; Bell & Bros.