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Bobby Brown Responds to Critics, Calls Upcoming New Edition Film 'Excellent'
| June 27, 2016
Bobby Brown isn't afraid to speak his mind. The self-proclaimed King of R&B recently released his memoir Every Little Step and spilled some serious tea about his upbringing, his New Edition days, and his marriage to music legend Whitney Houston.
In an illuminating 20/20 interview to promote the book, Brown anger Houston's mother, Cissy, who criticized her former son-in-law for speaking ill of her daughter.
"I saw Bobby Brown's interview with Robin Roberts. It was disturbing. Although the interview was supposed to promote HIS autobiography, he never spoke about his parents and siblings and any issues they might have or have had that impacted and may continue to impact on 'Every Little Step' he takes," Houston said in a statement earlier this month. "Instead he chose to concentrate his comments primarily on Whitney. I can't help but wonder why."
Sunday night, Brown stopped by the BET Awards media room and discussed the critics who've been outspoken about his decision to write so candidly about his life.
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Brown's challenges have been public knowledge for years. Between his multiple arrests, substance abuse issues, marriage to Houston, and his on-again-off-again relationship with his New Edition band mates, Brown's troubles have been on display for all to see. However, in Every Little Step, Brown takes readers behind the headlines to give them the real deal, as he knows it. While some wonder why Brown is spilling all the secrets now, the crooner said he wants to help others by showing how he's become a better man after dealing with so much adversity.
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Honored with Five Gold Stevie® Awards for Company of the Year, Innovation of the Year, Employee Engagement Event, Achievement in Management, and Consumer Services
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BOSTON, May 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ – John Hancock was honored with eleven Stevie® Awards in the 18th American Business Awards®, including five Gold, four Silver and two Bronze. The winners will be presented their awards on Wednesday, August 5 during a virtual ceremony. John Hancock awards include:
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The American Business Awards are the premier business awards program in the United States. More than 3,600 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories. More than 230 professionals worldwide participated in the judging process to select this year's Stevie Award winners.
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\section{Introduction}
Two-dimensional (2D) materials have garnered considerable attention as platform for gas sensing, owing to their large surface to volume ratio which renders their electronic properties very sensitive to environmental influences such as adsorbed molecules or external field \citep{yang2017, liu2017, wang2016}. Thus far, gas sensing based on extended 2D materials has relied on schemes involving changes in conductance \citep{schedin2007, yim2016, zhan2014, abbas2015}, surface work function \citep{nomani2012, qazi2008}, or their contact-barrier heights \citep{singh2014, quang2014, liu2014}, with the main underlying mechanism being charge redistribution due to physical or chemical adsorption. These sensors function at room temperature, require relatively low input power, and can be highly sensitive. Their major drawback is poor gas specificity, due to the lack of spectroscopic identification of a particular species, so they may respond similarly to various analytes within a gas mixture.\\

Plasmon-enhanced infrared optical absorption based on 2D materials is regarded to be a promising spectroscopic technique for probing vibrational modes of large complex biopolymers (proteins, nucleic acids, synthetic polymers, or adsorbed molecular layers), as it enables high-fidelity mode sensing at room temperature \citep{avouris2017, yang2018, li2014, rodrigo2015, hu2016, oh2018a, farmer2016}. To be able to excite the 2D plasmon by direct optical excitation, nanoribbon arrays have been used \citep{ju2011, yan2013}. This technique, however, has not been proven as effective to identify the vibrational modes of gas molecules, where the main challenge is the small adsorption strength of the vibrational modes of individual molecules compared to biopolymers. However, the gas dielectric response is proportional to its concentration. This suggests that via trapping molecules close to 2D material, one might be able to enhance the interaction of gas molecules with the evanescent plasmon fields.\\

In a plasmon-based sensing setup, the analyte species may interact with the incident optical field \citep{jonas2008, yuan2017, zhang2010}, sensing material surface (via adsorption) \citep{kurihara2002, allsop2016}, and the applied bias field \citep{barik2014, oh2018, schafer2015, gascoyne2002}. These interactions have also been exploited in 2D-based platforms to control the positioning of nanoparticles \citep{engel2018, zhang2016, marini2015, vasic2015, barik2017}. In this work, we calculate the contributions of each of the three mechanisms (optical field, bias electrostatic field, and adsorption) in redistributing a homogeneous gas and thus facilitating gas sensing via plasmon excitation in a graphene nanoribbon (GNR) array sensor geometry.

\section{Trapping Molecules}
The sensor geometry is illustrated in Fig. 1(a), where a simple metal-oxide-GNR is used to tune electrostatic doping in graphene. The gas is in direct contact with the GNR array. The incident light is impinging normally on the device with polarizations parallel and perpendicular to the GNR array. The reflected light is spectrally analyzed for gas signatures. The gas dielectric function is assumed to follow a Lorentzian form with frequency, $\omega$ within the spectral window of interest \citep{haug2009, rodrigo2016}:
\begin{equation}
\epsilon_{g} = 1 + \frac{\Delta \epsilon \,\, \Omega^{2}}{\Omega^2 - \omega^2 - i\gamma\omega},
\label{epsilon_gas}
\end{equation}

\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{fig1.pdf}
\caption{(a) The schematic of the sensor setup. (b) The real and imaginary parts of gas permittivity vs wavenumber for 1 and 10 ppt gas concentrations under standard temperature-pressure condition.}
\label{schematic}
\end{figure}

\noindent where one IR-active vibrational mode is considered for the gas; the mode is characterized by its frequency $\Omega$, linewidth $\gamma$, and absorption weight $\Delta \epsilon$. We use $\Omega$ = 1300 cm$^{-1}$ and $\gamma$ = 10 cm$^{-1}$ as representative gas parameters. The absorption weight varies linearly with the gas concentration, i.e. $\Delta \epsilon = p_{0} \, \mathcal{C}$ \citep{liu2013, hu2019}, with the proportionality constant $p_{0}$ = 10 cm$^{3}$/mol \citep{hu2019}. The dielectric function in Eq. (1) is used for gas in both free and trapped states. The polarizability of the gas can then be obtained via \citep{griffiths2005}:
\begin{equation}
\alpha_g = \frac{3\epsilon_{0}}{\mathcal{C}}\left(\frac{\epsilon_{g}-1}{\epsilon_{g}+2}\right),
\label{Lorentz-Lorenz}
\end{equation}

\noindent where $\epsilon_{0}$ is the vacuum permittivity. The gas dielectric function at 1 and 10 part per thousand (ppt) are shown in Fig. 1(b). Accordingly, the gas dielectric function can be tuned through its concentration, the peak magnitudes in both real and imaginary parts of $\epsilon_{g}$ vary linearly with concentration.\\

For gas molecules treated as classical particles in thermal equilibrium, the connection between local gas concentration, $\mathcal{C}(x,z)$ and trapping potential, $\mathcal{U}(x,z)$ can be obtained via statistical arguments (see Supplemental Material) \citep{kittel1998}:
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{C} = \frac{h\,l\,\mathcal{C}_{t} \left[1+\exp \left(-\beta \,\mathcal{U}\right)\Theta \left(-1-\beta \,\mathcal{U}\right)\right]}{h\,l + \int_{-\beta \,\mathcal{U} \, \geqslant 1} \exp\left(-\beta \,\mathcal{U}\right) dx dz}
\label{conc_gas}
\end{equation}
where $\Theta(\cdot)$ is the step function, $h$ is the height of the gas chamber, and $l$ is the array period (see Fig. 1(a)). We consider $W =$ 50\,nm and $f = 0.7$ for the GNR width and width-to-period ratio, respectively. We note the setup has translational symmetry along $y$-coordinate, hence trapping potentials do not depend on $y$. The initial gas distribution is uniform with the concentration $\mathcal{C}_{t}$; unless denoted otherwise, 10\,ppt is taken for its value.\\

The last input is the trapping potential, to be written as a sum of two terms, one repulsive and the other attractive. The former is dominant when the molecule is in close vicinity to the surface and is modeled as an infinite potential for $z < z_{0}$ \citep{atkins1998}, with $z_{0}$ the equilibrium distance between the adsorbed molecule and graphene, and is comparable with molecule radius. The attractive term depends on the trapping mechanism involved and is to be developed for each mechanism separately. For adsorption, this is approximated via:
\begin{equation}
\mathcal{U}_{\textsf{ad}} = - D_{0} \exp\left[-\gamma_{0}(z-z_{0})\right], ~~~~ |x| < W/2
\label{Morse}
\end{equation}
which coincides in form with the attractive term in Morse potential commonly used to describe van der Waals interaction \citep{weinberger2016, pu2014}. $D_{0}$ denotes the binding energy of the molecule-2D material system, and $\gamma_{0}$ is related to the potential force constant close to $z_{0}$. Here, we assume: $\gamma_{0}$ = 10 nm$^{-1}$, $D_{0}$ = 0.3 eV, and $z_{0}$ = 0.3 nm \citep{liu2014a, zhang2009, lee2009}.\\

\begin{figure}[!b]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{fig2.pdf}
\caption{(a) The $z$-component of optical force and optical potential energy along the cutlines parallel to $z$-axis, with $x$ = 0, -12.5, and -25\,nm. (b) The $x$-component of optical force and optical potential energy along the cutlines parallel to $x$-axis, placed 0.2, 2.5, and 5\,nm above graphene. The data are computed at 1295\,cm$^{-1}$ with 0.05\,kW/cm$^{2}$ as input power density.}
\label{opt_force}
\end{figure}

To determine the effect of the electrostatic gate bias, we solve for a self-consistent solution of Poisson's equation and the graphene net electron density \citep{barik2017}:
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
\vec{\nabla}. \left(\epsilon \vec{\nabla} \phi\right) & = e n(x)\delta(z)/\epsilon_{0},\\
n(x) & = \frac{1}{\pi} \left(\frac{\mu(x)}{\hbar v_{F}}\right)^2- n_{\textsf{D}}, ~~ |x| < W/2
\label{Poisson}
\end{split}
\end{equation}
where $e$ is the electron charge, $\phi(x,z)$ is the electrostatic potential, $v_{F} = 10^8$ cm\,s$^{-1}$ is the graphene Fermi velocity. $\epsilon$ is the spatially varying dielectric constant, which is assumed to be unity within the chamber and is equal to $\epsilon_{\textsf{ox}}\,$= 2.5 for the oxide region. $\mu(x)$ is the position-dependent chemical potential, which is given by: $\mu(x) = e\phi(x,z = 0)$. $n_{\textsf{D}}$ is the density of donor impurities in chemically doped graphene and is set to be 1.45 $\times$ 10$^{13}$ cm$^{-2}$. The problem is solved with COMSOL Multiphysics, AC/DC Module, where we applied the Dirichlet, periodic and Neumann boundary conditions for the bottom, sides and top edges of the simulation domain, respectively. The electrostatic force acting on a molecule is computed via: $\vec{F}_{\textsf{es}} = \frac{1}{2}\alpha_{0}\vec{\nabla} |\vec{E}|^2$ and the potential energy due to induced dipole is given by $\mathcal{U}_{\textsf{es}} = -\int\vec{F}_{\textsf{es}}.d\vec{r}$, where $\alpha_{0}$ = 10$^{-36}$ F.cm$^2$ is the static polarizability of a typical gas molecule \citep{duley1984, sircar2006}.\\

The optical force is calculated using, $\vec{F}_{\textsf{op}} = \frac{1}{4}\Re \{\alpha_{g}\} \vec{\nabla} |\vec{E}|^2$, where $\vec{E}$ is the sum of incident and reflected fields at a given point \citep{jonas2008, novotny2012}. The relation used here for optical force corresponds to its conservative component, known as gradient optical force \citep{novotny2012}. The scattering optical force, proportional to field phase gradient is negligible ($\sim\,$2 orders smaller in magnitude relative to gradient force for the parameters used in Fig. 2) and is disregarded throughout this work. Force calculations are performed using COMSOL Multiphysics, RF Module, and the corresponding potential energy is computed with, $\mathcal{U}_{\textsf{op}} = -\int\vec{F}_{\textsf{op}}.d\vec{r}$, implying that the optical potential energy is governed by the light intensity at a given point in chamber.\\

With the numerical recipes at our disposal, we proceed with the discussion of these trapping potentials and their relative abilities in trapping the free gas. We begin with the optical force and its potential energy, as summarized in Fig. 2. The ribbon edges constitute the hotspots for optical trapping. This is expected as the underlying plasmon field decays quickly away from the edges. For the parameters used in Fig. 2, the field amplitude at the edge is $\sim\,$20 times larger in magnitude and decays $\sim\,$145 times faster along the $z$-axis compared to those at the ribbon center (the 1/e amplitude drop in units of $\pi/W$ at the edge and center are 130 and 0.9, respectively), see Supplemental Material. Our simulations show the depth of the trapping potential is maximum when the plasmon resonance occurs near the gas mode resonance, i.e. when both the real part of gas polarizability and the field intensity at graphene surface are maximized. Moreover, the depth increases linearly with the intensity of the incident light. Despite this trend, however, for power intensities typically used in FTIR experiments (0.01-50 kW/cm$^2$), the maximum depth of the trapping potential is much smaller than the thermal energy at room temperature. Thus, for the geometry shown in Fig. 1(a), the field enhancement due to plasmon excitation does not help in trapping the molecules for sensing. We should point out, however, that the conclusion drawn here is for gas molecules atop graphene under plane wave illumination. The optical trapping force can be enhanced for molecules with larger $\Delta \epsilon$ under tightly focused light fields \citep{liu2011}, or for other 2D systems which exhibit in-plane hyperbolic response with larger plasmon-induced field confinement close to the material surface \citep{nemilentsau2016, van2018}.\\

\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.9\linewidth]{fig3.pdf}
\caption{(a) The spatial profile for electrostatic force components and potential energy in 1\,nm vicinity of ribbon edges. The potential energy at the ribbon center is also shown. The results are obtained for 10\,V bias and oxide thickness of 1.22\,$\mu$m. (b) Left: The region where the attractive electrostatic energy is smaller in magnitude relative to thermal energy. The data are shown for three pairs of (bias V, thickness nm). Right: The minimum electrostatic potential energy for $z\geq z_{0}$ as functions of bias and oxide thickness.}
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We next look into electrostatic potential due to gate bias. From Fig. 3(a), the trapping hotspots again resides at the ribbon edges, and the potential energy decreases in magnitude rapidly towards the center, which is qualitatively similar to what we observed for the optical force. From Fig. 3(b), with increasing bias or reducing oxide thickness, the region where the electrostatic potential can surpass thermal energy becomes wider. For the assumed $z_{0}$ and with the repulsive potential included, 20\,V bias across 5-nm thick oxide are needed for the electrostatic potential to initiate gas trapping.\\

Lastly, we focus on surface adsorption and its effect on redistributing the gas molecules. In Fig. 4(a) the adsorption potential and the corresponding concentration of trapped molecules versus vertical distance from graphene surface are depicted. The inset shows the linear dependence of the surface density of adsorbed molecules, $n_{\textsf{ad}}$ as a function of the concentration of free molecules (proportional to gas pressure) in the chamber. The slope increases for a larger binding energy, which could occur in defective graphene, or via introducing chemical dopants \citep{zhang2009, dai2009, liu2010}. Our calculations show that for 5\,nm oxide thickness, 20\,V bias, and $z_{0}$ as small as 0.1\,nm, the maximum trapped concentration due to adsorption remains larger ($\sim$\,10$^{4}$) compared to that of the electrostatic trapping, which indicates that adsorption is the main mechanism that redistributes the free gas.

\section{Plasmon-Based Sensing}
For gas modes to appear vividly in the sensor response one needs for the graphene plasmon resonance to match the gas characteristic mode while the quarter-wavelength condition is also satisfied. These criteria restrict both the oxide choice and oxide thickness ($\epsilon_{\textsf{ox}}\leq5$ and thickness of 0.5\,$\mu$m or more are needed), for typical background dopings ($n_{\textsf{D}}\lesssim 5\times10^{13}$\,cm$^{-2}$) in graphene \citep{lee2018, liu2011a}. We, therefore, focus in this section on how adsorption may facilitate gas sensing with graphene plasmons. We define the plasmon extinction as: 1-$R^{g}_{\textsf{per}}/R^{g}_{\textsf{par}}$, where $R^{g}_{\textsf{per}}$ and $R^{g}_{\textsf{par}}$ are the reflected powers when the chamber is filled with gas and the incident light is polarized along the $x$- and $y$-axes, respectively (for an alternate extinction definition, see Supplemental Material). The electromagnetic simulations are performed with COMSOL Multiphysics, RF module. The adsorption affects the sensor response through: (i) gas redistribution, which is incorporated via Eqs. \ref{epsilon_gas} and \ref{conc_gas} with the adsorption potential as input, we define accordingly an effective conductivity for the adsorbed layer: $\sigma_{\textsf{ad}} = -i\omega\epsilon_{0}h_{\textsf{ad}}\left(\epsilon_{g}(n_{\textsf{ad}}/h_{\textsf{ad}})-1 \right)$ \citep{hu2019}, where $h_{\textsf{ad}}$ denotes the height of the trapping region for which $-\beta \,\mathcal{U}_{\textsf{ad}}\, \geqslant 1$. (ii) doping through adsorption charge transfer. The latter is accounted for within the expression used for graphene conductivity \citep{gonccalves2016}: $\sigma_{\textsf{gr}} = ie^{2}v_{F}\sqrt{(n_{\textsf{D}} + n_{\textsf{ad}} Q)/\pi}/\left(\hbar\omega+i\eta\right)$, where $\eta$ = 50 meV is the broadening and $Q$ is the effective fractional charge transferred between graphene and one adsorbed molecule. For molecules which act as acceptors (donors) upon adsorption, $Q$ is negative (positive); in this work $Q$ = -0.05 is assumed \citep{kong2014}.\\

\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{fig4.pdf}
\caption{(a) The adsorption potential and trapped gas concentration vs $z$. The horizontal dashed line denotes the $\mathcal{C}_{t}$. The inset shows the adsorbed surface density vs free gas concentration. (b) The plasmon extinction for homogeneous and adsorbed gas (with and without adsorption charge transfer). The inset
shows the plasmon extinction at various initial homogeneous gas concentration. Following the arrow $\mathcal{C}_{t}$ increases from 0.1, to 1, 5, 10, and 50 ppt. (c) The plasmon extinctions for $\sigma_{\textsf{ad}}$ included and when it set to zero. The corresponding plasmon extinction difference is also shown. (d) The variation amplitude in plasmon extinction difference vs gas homogeneous concentration. The solid line is obtained from the analytical model.}
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To examine how adsorption modifies plasmon extinction, we begin with a comparison between the homogeneous and adsorbed gas distributions in Fig. 4(b). For graphene plasmon, adsorption in principle may shift the resonance either via doping or through modifying the dielectric function atop graphene. The latter, however, is relatively weak for all relevant adsorption densities. This is shown in Fig. 4(b) where the extinction peaks for homogeneous gas distribution and adsorbed gas with $Q$ = 0 (i.e. excluding adsorption charge transfer) are compared. Adsorption can affect the vibrational mode absorption strength in two ways, by tuning the gas concentration close to graphene (thereby modifying the mode weight) or by plasmon-gas mode resonance detuning. From the inset, it is clear that increasing the adsorbed density (via increasing $\mathcal{C}_t$ or $D_{0}$), results in more apparent gas-induced dips in the extinction. The inset data also imply that the mode weight is a more critical factor than detuning to control the dips amplitude in this setup.\\

We note that label-free plasmonic gas sensing schemes, commonly rely on direct chemisorption or physisorption of gas molecules atop the plasmonic surface \citep{shegai2012, hu2019}, with either wavelength-shift or intensity inspection adopted as the sensing method \citep{tittl2014, farmer2016}. The wavelength-shift, for example has been used for direct sensing of chemisorbed hydrogen on palladium plasmonic nanodisks \citep{wadell2014, tittl2011, tittl2012}. This metric, however, is not generally gas specific, which restricts wavelength-shift to situations in which sensing device is exposed to one gas only. In this work, the gas-graphene interaction involves physisorption. Moreover, we rely on intensity interrogation to achieve gas identification. In Fig. 4(c), the difference between plasmon extinctions when $\sigma_{\textsf{ad}}$ is included and when it is set to zero, are shown. The zero case denotes the extinction when the plasmon shift triggered by adsorption charge transfer is included while the contribution due to adsorbed gas dielectric response (which is the origin of the extinction dips) is left out. The peak-to-peak variation in the extinction difference, denoted with $\Delta$ is then recorded as a function of gas concentration in Fig. 4(d). From this, we conclude that for gas concentration of ppt level, plasmon extinction changes of the order 0.1\% can be observed, a level measurable by common far-field spectroscopic techniques \citep{hu2019}.\\

Finally, we note that a simple analytical model can be used to estimate the electromagnetic response of the sensor \citep{kotov2017, khaliji2017}. This is accomplished via introducing an equivalent conductivity for the total system of graphene ribbons and adsorbed molecules:
\begin{equation}
{\bf{\underline{\sigma_{t}}}}^{-1} = \frac{1}{f}\frac{1}{\sigma_{\textsf{gr}}+\sigma_{\textsf{ad}}}\,{\bf\underline{I}} +
\begin{pmatrix}
-\frac{1}{i\omega \mathcal{C}_{c}} & 0\\
0 & 0
\end{pmatrix},
\label{cond_tot}
\end{equation}
where, $\bf{\underline{I}}$ is the unity matrix and $\mathcal{C}_{c} = \frac{l}{\pi}\epsilon_{0}\left[\epsilon_{\textsf{ox}}+\epsilon_{g}\left(\mathcal{C}_{t}-n_{\textsf{ad}}/h\right)\right]\log\left[\csc\left(\pi (1-f)/2\right)\right]$ is the coupling capacitance. Transfer matrix method outlined in ref. \citep{zhan2013}, is used to obtain the reflection spectra for the layered structure. From Fig. 4(d), the simple model recovers the magnitude change in gas-induced dips with the gas concentration.\\

\section{Concluding Remarks}
We examined the plasmonic sensing of gas vibrational modes using the graphene nanoribbon scheme. The sensitivity of gas detection depends on the trapping forces exerted on the gas molecules and by the confinement of the plasmonic field. These in turn also depend on the device structure. Here, through systematic modeling of the likely gas trapping mechanisms in experiments (optical forces, electrostatic forces and adsorption), we found that surface adsorption is the dominant mechanism in trapping free gas molecules atop graphene, which then enables plasmon enhanced sensing of the gas vibrational modes. Further increases in sensitivity are expected by utilizing a perfect absorption scheme \citep{thongrattanasiri2012, kim2018, guo2018} or the recently described approach \citep{lee2019, iranzo2018, alonso2017, chen2017} of placing an underlayer metal in close proximity to graphene to exploit extreme plasmon confinement due to the excitation of acoustic plasmons.

\section*{Acknowledgments}
This research was supported by grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation (ECCS 1809723 to T.L. and S.-H.O. and ECCS 1809240 to S.-H.O.). S.-H.O. also acknowledges support from Seagate through the MINT consortium at the University of Minnesota.

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The Billabong Pro Tahiti presented by Air Tahiti Nui has been called off for the day, with lumpy four-foot (1.5 metre) swell and onshore winds replacing the near-perfection of yesterday.
The Billabong Pro Tahiti presented by Air Tahiti Nui, Stop No. 3 of 10 on the 2009 ASP World Tour, got underway this morning, with the world's best surfers contesting the first 14 heats of the elimination, man-on-man Round 1 in pulsing four-to-six foot (2 metre) barrels on offer at Teahupoo.
The 2009 Billabong Pro Tahiti presented by Air Tahiti Nui is days away from commencing with the world's best surfers descending upon the tiny town of Teahupoo at 'the end of the road' for Stop No. 3 of 10 on the 2009 ASP World Tour, running from May 9 – 20, 2009.


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William "Bill" Gerig g61 has been a hallmark of the Fort Wayne campus since he first moved to Fort Wayne with his family in the 1940s. He grew up with such giants in the family as the late Dr. Jared Gerig g29 and Dr. Wes Gerig g51, yet Bill developed his own unique gifts and used them with remarkable success on the mission field in Sierra Leone for 15 years. He founded and coordinated the Missionary Church's theological education through extension program in Sierra Leone, reaching hundreds of bi-vocational pastors with essential coaching and training
Upon his return the U.S., Bill served the Fort Wayne campus for two decades in several capacities, including teaching missions courses, directing the Correspondence Studies program, and leading the campus through the transition to TUFW as alumni director.
Through many ups and downs, Bill has been a minister of kindness and grace to those around him. He has been a faithful steward of his family's spiritual heritage, using his unique gifts to serve God in many ways, touching hundreds of lives, both around the world and in his own backyard.
Bill is married to Joyce (Wiggle) g61 and they have two daughters, Sandy g84 Kinde and Sharon g89, and four grandchildren.
William "Bill" Gerig g61 has been a hallmark of the Fort Wayne campus for more than half a century. Born in Cleveland, OH on February 6, 1937, Bill's early life was marked by his father's call as a pastor and educator. Bill spent the early years of his life in Phoenix, AZ where his father, the late Dr. Jared Gerig g29, served as a pastor in the Missionary Church. In 1945, Dr. Gerig was invited to serve as dean of Fort Wayne Bible College (FWBC), so he and his family, including his older brother, Dr. Wes Gerig g51, and his sister, Gwen, moved to Fort Wayne. After several years, they moved to Susa, CA so Dr. Gerig could obtain his doctorate at UCLA while serving as dean of Pacific Bible College. Two years later, Dr. Gerig was elected president of the Missionary Church, and the Gerigs moved across country to Fort Wayne once more. In Bill's words, "We made big moves when we moved." His father became president of FWBC in 1957.
Bill's earliest memories of the campus were from his family's first move to Fort Wayne. Their family lived behind Founders Hall in a faculty residence building, and Bill spent Saturdays in the gym playing basketball with the college students and attending Friday night "Mission Band" services. These services and the association with many of the students had a big impact on the direction of Bill's life.
His parents were another key influence during Bill's childhood. A true husband-wife team, they set an example for Bill of what Christian service is all about. He also had a very close relationship with his older brother, Wes, and his sister, Gwen, which continue through this day.
Bill attended high school at South Side and played on the basketball and tennis teams. As he approached graduation, he felt called to be a missionary, but not necessarily to be a pastor. He had been inspired by an English missionary doctor to Sierra Leone who had once stayed in their home, so he decided to pursue medical missions. He had hoped to attend FWBC, but at the time the campus did not offer a science program. Bill entered Wheaton College as a pre-med major, graduating with a degree in zoology.
While at Wheaton, Bill played on the basketball team, which went on to win the NCAA Division II National Championship during his sophomore year. He was team captain and All-Conference player his senior year. The summer after graduating, he participated in a Venture for Victory basketball trip through Asia organized by Taylor University basketball coach Don Odle, playing in Korea, the Philippines, Hong Kong, and Okinawa. He was convinced that if the Lord was calling him to overseas missions specifically in Asia, the trip would confirm it. He did not feel this call and knew his missions destination would be elsewhere.
In 1959, Bill married (Wiggle) g61, whom he had met while working at Maranatha Bible Conference in Muskegon, MI the summer after graduating high school. While Bill was attending Wheaton, Joyce was in nurse training in Detroit, so their courtship was by correspondence for four years. Someone once said, "Absence makes the heart grow fonder." Bill and Joyce will celebrate their 60th anniversary in 2019.
That same year, Bill and Joyce moved to Martinsville, IN with the hope of attending Indiana University Medical School. When he was not accepted to the medical program, Bill decided to complete courses in anthropology and linguistics, which would later help him on the mission field. With the door to medical missions closed, Bill's next move was back to FWBC to pursue a missions degree.
While attending FWBC, Bill and Joyce's first daughter, Sandy g84 Kinde, was born. The family was living in the basement of Founders Hall, and Sandy slept in a crib in a closet beneath the main stairway leading to the building – and could sleep through anything. When the students came to Founders, they would often stop in and say hello.
One of Bill's favorite professors at FWBC was Dr. Tim Warner g50 with the Missions Department, who later become head of Trinity Seminary's graduate Missions program. Bill also took classes from his brother, Wes, who he remembers as a great but tough teacher. Bill graduated with his degree in missions in only a year and a half.
In 1962, Bill's call to missions led their family to Sierra Leone, West Africa to serve as house parents at Kabala Rupp Memorial School, the only boarding school in the country missionary children. For two years, they looked after 27 to 35 students from three or four denominations. While house parents, Bill and Joyce had their second daughter, Sharon g89. The children at the school loved playing with Sharon – Bill jokes that she had dozens of babysitters. He still hears from many of these former students and their parents, who thank them for everything they did while at the school.
At the end of this assignment, Bill and Joyce went through language studies, took a furlough in the U.S., and returned to live in a village and continue learning the local language. However, the school asked them if they would be willing to return as house parents once again, as enrollment had grown to over 50 children. After two more years with the school, they were called to teach for one year at Sierra Leone Bible College near the capital city of Freetown.
During their next furlough, Bill attended Trinity Seminary to obtain a master's degree in Missions. In the meantime, Sierra Leone Bible College was looking to implement a theological education by extension (TEE) teaching model to better reach the agrarian pastors who had families and vocations and couldn't relocate to the city for training. Bill spent a semester researching the TEE model while at Trinity in preparation to spearhead this innovation. The Missionary Church stationed him at their headquarters in central Sierra Leone, and Bill started extension programs in several of the surrounding towns with great success. The students learned through repetition and coaching, using curriculum designed specifically for their needs. The TEE in Sierra Leone eventually grew to 23 centers all over the country, led by missionaries or experienced pastors. Bill shared the following story about the result of this effort:
"I'll never forget, I went to one town where the program had been going for a while, and one of the parishioners said, 'What did you do to our pastor?' I said, 'What do you mean?' He said, 'Well, his preaching is so much better!' The TEE program was a very rewarding ministry, as far as the African church was concerned. After four years, we had over 300 students in the extension program, so many more were preparing for ministry."
The TEE program was Bill's last overseas assignment. He returned to Fort Wayne and became assistant overseas director for the Missionary Church. In this capacity, Bill met with new candidates, worked with missionaries on furlough deputation, promoted the mission, and organized a summer overseas experience for college students. While in this role, he was invited to teach a missions course at FWBC and then to serve as director of Correspondence Studies at the college. Finally, he came on staff at FWBC as alumni director, serving in this role for 12 years. His tenure as alumni director included the transition to Taylor University, and Bill was integral during that process. His history with the campus, plus his natural gift for peacemaking, made him a calming influence, and many have credited him and Joyce with anchoring the campus through that transition.
After retiring from TUFW 1997, Bill and Joyce moved to Arizona to care for Bill's aging parents. They both worked and lived at Glencroft Retirement Community in Glendale, AZ where his parents lived. Finally, after 40 years, six different positions, and 20 moves, Bill and Joyce officially retired to Fort Wayne in 2005.
Bill now serves as a volunteer and historian for the Fort Wayne Alumni Center. He has spent the last 10 years organizing the college archives to preserve the 105-year history of God's ministry in the lives of all the faculty, staff, students, and alumni of the Fort Wayne campus. Bill and Joyce also help their daughter, Sharon, who is the director of emergency services for the Fort Wayne Rescue Mission. They visit their daughter, Sandy, and her family in Virginia as often as they can.
Romans 15:13 is about the hope, joy, and peace that God gives us each day. Bill has cherished this verse for many years, after experiencing the ups and downs of life, whether in a third-world country or in the turmoil of a campus transition. Through it all, Bill has been a minister of kindness and grace to those around him. He has been a faithful steward of his family's spiritual heritage, using his unique gifts to serve God in many ways, touching hundreds of lives, both around the world and in his own backyard.
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Graduated from FWBC with B.A. in Missions
Joined the mission field in Sierra Leone
Graduated with master's in Missions from Trinity Seminary. Director of Extension Studies, Sierra Leone Bible College
Assistant Overseas Director of Overseas Missions for Missionary Church, started teaching missions courses at FWBC
Served FWBC is a variety of positions: Director of Correspondence Studies, Alumni Director, retiring in 1997


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History's final chapter will be written in Jerusalem.
When an Iranian president thunders amurderous threat or an obscure Turkish drunkard has a dream in Mecca or aJewish couple from Brooklyn lands at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport, theseevents might seem disconnected. But they're not. In Dateline Jerusalem,CBN News correspondent Chris Mitchell connects the dots and unveils Jerusalemas the epicenter and crossroads of the spiritual, political, and, yes,supernatural worlds.
For thousands of years, Jerusalem's powerfuldraw has always transcended simple economics, military strategy, and religiousaffiliation.
In our own time, as the Arab Spring threatensto become an Islamic Winter, one commentator warns: "The Arab Spring doesn'tlead to democracy, it leads to Jerusalem." Indeed, the fragile peace of Israelis in new peril as violent Islamic factions vie for control of surrounding nations.Yet Muslims are converting to Christianity in record numbers. DatelineJerusalem untangles and chronicles all this through the riveting narrativeof a Christian reporter in the upheaval of the modern Fertile Crescent.
We live in a world where we cannotafford to be ill informed. What happens in the strategic Middle East, Israel,and Jerusalem is critical. It matters to you. Today's news might focus onWashington, New York, London, or Moscow, but history's final chapter will bewritten in Jerusalem.
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Joe Renner's goal gave the Youth Team a 1-0 victory over Carlisle United on Saturday. He spoke to iFollow after the game...
"It turned out to be a scrappy game in the end, but I thought we dominated. Sometimes you win off a set piece and that's all that matters. I always fancy myself in the air against anyone.
He has played the majority of his Youth Team matches at centre-back, but was in the left back role on Saturday.
"I loved it. I've played right back before, but Browny wanted to test myself at left back. I thought I played well and I'm happy I took on the challenge."
Renner Captained the side against Carlisle, and scored the only goal of the game, heading in Aaron Morley's set piece.
"I always try to lead whether I have the Captaincy or not, but it is always a pleasure to Captain the side and lead the boys out.
"When Aaron plays I always fancy myself [to score], because he's got a great delivery and hopefully he keeps doing it so I can get myself some more goals from set pieces!"
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SpaceX, whose rockets are set to carry the Israeli unmanned probe into space, informs SpaceIL of 'a delay of a number of weeks,' leading to the postponement of the Israeli launch; work on Israeli craft proceeding successfully, says SpaceIL.
SpaceIL, which is behind Israel's first mission to the moon, announced Wednesday a delay in the vessel's launch from December to early 2019.
SpaceIL stressed that the delay was SpaceX's decision, noting in a statement that tests on their craft, shaped like a pod and weighing some 585 kilogrammes (1,300 pounds), were proceeding successfully.
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using LanguageExt;
using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Reactive.Concurrency;
using System.Reactive.Linq;
using static LanguageExt.Prelude;

namespace Echo
{
    public static partial class Process
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Publish a message for any listening subscribers
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// This should be used from within a process' message loop only
        /// </remarks>
        /// <param name="message">Message to publish</param>
        public static Unit publish<T>(T message) =>
            InMessageLoop
                ? ActorContext.Publish(message)
                : raiseUseInMsgLoopOnlyException<Unit>(nameof(publish));

        /// <summary>
        /// Publish a message for any listening subscribers, delayed.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// This should be used from within a process' message loop only
        /// </remarks>
        /// <param name="message">Message to publish</param>
        /// <param name="delayFor">How long to delay sending for</param>
        /// <returns>IDisposable that you can use to cancel the operation if necessary.  You do not need to call Dispose
        /// for any other reason.</returns>
        public static IDisposable publish<T>(T message, TimeSpan delayFor) =>
            InMessageLoop
                ? safedelay(() => ActorContext.Publish(message), delayFor)
                : raiseUseInMsgLoopOnlyException<IDisposable>(nameof(publish));

        /// <summary>
        /// Publish a message for any listening subscribers, delayed.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// This should be used from within a process' message loop only
        /// This will fail to be accurate across a Daylight Saving Time boundary
        /// </remarks>
        /// <param name="message">Message to publish</param>
        /// <param name="delayUntil">When to send</param>
        /// <returns>IDisposable that you can use to cancel the operation if necessary.  You do not need to call Dispose
        /// for any other reason.</returns>
        public static IDisposable publish<T>(T message, DateTime delayUntil) =>
            InMessageLoop
                ? safedelay(() => ActorContext.Publish(message), delayUntil)
                : raiseUseInMsgLoopOnlyException<IDisposable>(nameof(publish));

        /// <summary>
        /// Subscribes our inbox to another process publish stream.  When it calls 'publish' it will
        /// arrive in our inbox.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="pid">Process to subscribe to</param>
        /// <remarks>
        /// This should be used from within a process' message loop only
        /// </remarks>
        /// <returns>IDisposable, call IDispose to end the subscription</returns>
        public static Unit subscribe(ProcessId pid)
        {
            var savedSelf = Self;
            return InMessageLoop
                ? ActorContext.Request.Self.Actor.AddSubscription(pid, ActorContext.System(pid).Observe<object>(pid).Subscribe(x => tell(savedSelf, x, pid)))
                : raiseUseInMsgLoopOnlyException<Unit>(nameof(subscribe));
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Unsubscribe from a process's publications
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="pid">Process to unsub from</param>
        public static Unit unsubscribe(ProcessId pid) =>
            InMessageLoop
                ? ActorContext.Request.Self.Actor.RemoveSubscription(pid)
                : raiseUseInMsgLoopOnlyException<Unit>(nameof(unsubscribe));

        /// <summary>
        /// Subscribe to the process publish stream.  When a process calls 'publish' it emits
        /// messages that can be consumed using this method.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// The process can publish any number of types, any published messages not of type T will be ignored.
        ///
        /// Because this call is asychronous it could allow access to the message loop, therefore
        /// you can't call it from within a process message loop.
        /// </remarks>
        /// <returns>IDisposable, call IDispose to end the subscription</returns>
        public static IDisposable subscribe<T>(ProcessId pid, IObserver<T> observer) =>
            InMessageLoop
                ? raiseDontUseInMessageLoopException<IDisposable>(nameof(subscribe))
                : observe<T>(pid).Subscribe(observer);

        /// <summary>
        /// Subscribe to the process publish stream.  When a process calls 'publish' it emits
        /// messages that can be consumed using this method.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// The process can publish any number of types, any published messages not of type T will be ignored.
        ///
        /// Because this call is asychronous it could allow access to the message loop, therefore
        /// you can't call it from within a process message loop.
        /// </remarks>
        /// <returns>IDisposable, call IDispose to end the subscription</returns>
        public static IDisposable subscribe<T>(ProcessId pid, Action<T> onNext, Action<Exception> onError, Action onComplete) =>
            InMessageLoop
                ? raiseDontUseInMessageLoopException<IDisposable>(nameof(subscribe))
                : observe<T>(pid).Subscribe(onNext, onError, onComplete);

        /// <summary>
        /// Subscribe to the process publish stream.  When a process calls 'publish' it emits
        /// messages that can be consumed using this method.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// The process can publish any number of types, any published messages not of type T will be ignored.
        ///
        /// Because this call is asychronous it could allow access to the message loop, therefore
        /// you can't call it from within a process message loop.
        /// </remarks>
        public static IDisposable subscribe<T>(ProcessId pid, Action<T> onNext, Action<Exception> onError) =>
            InMessageLoop
                ? raiseDontUseInMessageLoopException<IDisposable>(nameof(subscribe))
                : observe<T>(pid).Subscribe(onNext, onError, () => { });

        /// <summary>
        /// Subscribe to the process publish stream.  When a process calls 'publish' it emits
        /// messages that can be consumed using this method.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// The process can publish any number of types, any published messages not of type T will be ignored.
        ///
        /// Because this call is asychronous it could allow access to the message loop, therefore
        /// you can't call it from within a process message loop.
        /// </remarks>
        public static IDisposable subscribe<T>(ProcessId pid, Action<T> onNext) =>
            InMessageLoop
                ? raiseDontUseInMessageLoopException<IDisposable>(nameof(subscribe))
                : observe<T>(pid).Subscribe(onNext, ex => { }, () => { });

        /// <summary>
        /// Subscribe to the process publish stream.  When a process calls 'publish' it emits
        /// messages that can be consumed using this method.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// The process can publish any number of types, any published messages not of type T will be ignored.
        ///
        /// Because this call is asychronous it could allow access to the message loop, therefore
        /// you can't call it from within a process message loop.
        /// </remarks>
        /// <returns>IDisposable, call IDispose to end the subscription</returns>
        public static IDisposable subscribe<T>(ProcessId pid, Action<T> onNext, Action onComplete) =>
            InMessageLoop
                ? raiseDontUseInMessageLoopException<IDisposable>(nameof(subscribe))
                : observe<T>(pid).Subscribe(onNext, ex => { }, onComplete);

        /// <summary>
        /// Get an IObservable for a process publish stream.  When a process calls 'publish' it emits
        /// messages on the observable returned by this method.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// The process can publish any number of types, any published messages not of type T will be ignored.
        ///
        /// Because this call is asychronous it could allow access to the message loop, therefore
        /// you can't call it from within a process message loop.
        /// </remarks>
        /// <returns>IObservable T</returns>
        public static IObservable<T> observe<T>(ProcessId pid) =>
            InMessageLoop
                ? raiseDontUseInMessageLoopException<IObservable<T>>(nameof(observe))
                : observeUnsafe<T>(pid);

        /// <summary>
        /// Get an IObservable for a process publish stream.  When a process calls 'publish' it emits
        /// messages on the observable returned by this method.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// The process can publish any number of types, any published messages not of type T will be ignored.
        ///
        /// Because this call is asychronous it could allow access to the message loop, that's why this
        /// function is labelled `Unsafe`.  Careful disposing and capture of free variables is required to not
        /// break the principles of actors.
        /// </remarks>
        /// <returns>IObservable T</returns>
        public static IObservable<T> observeUnsafe<T>(ProcessId pid) =>
            ActorContext.System(pid).Observe<T>(pid);

        /// <summary>
        /// Get an IObservable for a process's state stream.  When a process state updates at the end of its
        /// message loop it announces it on the stream returned from this method.  You should use this for
        /// notification only.  Never modify the state object belonging to a process.  Best practice is to make
        /// the state type immutable.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// The process can publish any number of types, any published messages not of type T will be ignored.
        ///
        /// Because this call is asychronous it could allow access to the message loop, therefore
        /// you can't call it from within a process message loop.
        /// </remarks>
        /// <returns>IObservable T</returns>
        public static IObservable<T> observeState<T>(ProcessId pid) =>
            InMessageLoop
                ? raiseDontUseInMessageLoopException<IObservable<T>>(nameof(observeState))
                : observeStateUnsafe<T>(pid);

        /// <summary>
        /// Get an IObservable for a process's state stream.  When a process state updates at the end of its
        /// message loop it announces it on the stream returned from this method.  You should use this for
        /// notification only.  Never modify the state object belonging to a process.  Best practice is to make
        /// the state type immutable.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// The process can publish any number of types, any published messages not of type T will be ignored.
        ///
        /// Because this call is asychronous it could allow access to the message loop, that's why this
        /// function is labelled `Unsafe`.  Careful disposing and capture of free variables is required to not
        /// break the principles of actors.
        /// </remarks>
        /// <returns>IObservable T</returns>
        public static IObservable<T> observeStateUnsafe<T>(ProcessId pid) =>
            ActorContext.System(pid).ObserveState<T>(pid);

        /// <summary>
        /// Subscribes our inbox to another process state publish stream.
        /// When a process state updates at the end of its message loop it announces it arrives in our inbox.
        /// You should use this for notification only.  Never modify the state object belonging to a process.
        /// Best practice is to make the state type immutable.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// The process can publish any number of types, any published messages not of type T will be ignored.
        /// This should be used from within a process' message loop only
        /// </remarks>
        /// <returns></returns>
        public static Unit subscribeState<T>(ProcessId pid)
        {
            var savedSelf = Self;
            return InMessageLoop
                ? ActorContext.Request.Self.Actor.AddSubscription(
                    pid,
                    ActorContext.System(pid).ObserveState<T>(pid).Subscribe(x => tell(savedSelf, x, pid)))
                : raiseUseInMsgLoopOnlyException<Unit>(nameof(subscribeState));
        }
    }
}

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Elizabeth Debicki: biography
Many popular actors began their careers from the theater stage: Daniel Day-Lewis, Kevin Spacey, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Jackman, Daniel Craig, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Natalie Portman, and others. The Australian actress Elizabeth Debicki is one of them.
The future star was born on August 24, 1990. At that time, her parents, the professional dancers, worked in Paris. In 1995, the family moved to the mother's home country, Australia, and settled in Melbourne.
The actress Elizabeth Debicki
In that city, the father got hired at the local theater, and the mother opened her own dance school. Elizabeth attended Huntingtower School in the eastern part of the city. Soon, her brother and sister were born. The girl graduated from school with honors; she was particularly good at English and Drama.
In 2007, Debicki enrolled at the University of Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts. She was accepted. In 2009, the young woman gained the Richard Pratt Bursary award for her academic achievements; in 2010, she graduated from the university.
In 2011, the actress debuted in the comedy A Few Best Men by Stephan Elliott (Frauds, Eye of the Beholder, Easy Virtue). Xavier Samuel, Kris Marshall, and Tim Draxl also appeared in this project.
Elizabeth Debicki in The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby was the actress's next work. Baz Luhrmann (Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!, Australia) directed the movie. The cast was full of stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton, Jason Clarke, Carey Mulligan, and Isla Fisher. Luhrmann noticed Debicki thanks to her theater roles.
In 2014, the actress appeared in the Australian detective series Rake starring Richard Roxburgh.
Elizabeth Debicki in the movie Macbeth
2015 was marked with the screen version of Shakespeare's play Macbeth by Justin Kurzel (Snowtown, The Turning, Assassin's Creed). Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Paddy Considine, and David Thewlis got the lead parts.
The same year, Guy Ritchie's The Man from U.N.C.L.E. came out; it was the remake and the adaptation of the 1960s series under the same title. Debicki had the chance to cooperate with Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, and Hugh Grant.
Later on, Elizabeth appeared in Baltasar Kormákur's Everest telling the tragic story that took place in spring 1996 at that mountain. The actress worked with Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sam Worthington, Michael Kelly, and Keira Knightley.
In 2016, several series with Elizabeth Debicki were presented. Susanne Bier's The Night Manager was one of them; it was based on John le Carré's book under the same title. Hugh Laurie, Tom Hiddleston, and Olivia Colman were the woman's stage partners. In some scenes, Debicki appeared naked.
Tom Hiddleston and Elizabeth Debicki in the movie The Night Manager
The Kettering Incident was another series. It was the Australian version of David Lynch's Twin Peaks created by Tony Krawitz and Rowan Woods; Elizabeth had already collaborated with them during the shooting of Rake.
In 2017, the movie Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 by James Gunn came out. Just like in other Marvel movies, its cast was impressive: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Kurt Russell, and Sylvester Stallone.
Elizabeth Debicki in the movie Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
At that period, the premiere of another comics screen adaptation, Luc Besson's Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets took place. Just like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, many famous actors starred there: Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Ethan Hawke, Rutger Hauer, and Rihanna. However, the movie reviews were not as positive as in James Gunn's case.
The actress keeps her personal life secret. She rarely uses social networks; in 2015, she abandoned her Twitter page.
Debicki is not married and has no children. The media were spreading rumors that she was dating her stage partners, Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Hiddleston; no confirmation or denial followed.
The actress's height is 190 cm., and her weight is 60 kg.
The artist regularly appears at social events. For example, in November 2017, she visited the GQ Man of the Year party. Debicki's fan group shared this information on Instagram and posted a photo from the event.
Elizabeth Debicki in the movie The Cloverfield Paradox
At the end of 2017, a new movie starring the actress, Breath, came out. The sports drama became Simon Baker's (The Mentalist) debut as a director.
2018 was rich in projects. The prequel of Cloverfield (2008) by Matt Reeves and 10 Cloverfield Lane by Dan Trachtenberg, the fantastic movie The Cloverfield Paradox by Julius Onah was released. The movie adaptation of the 1908s popular series Widows by Steve McQueen (Hunger, 12 Years a Slave) followed. Jon Bernthal, Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell, and Michelle Rodriguez took the lead roles in this movie.
Elizabeth Debicki in 2017
Apart from that, the English-speaking audience can hear the actress's voice in the animated movie Peter Rabbit by Will Gluck (Friends with Benefits, Easy A). Margot Robbie, Domhnall Gleeson, Rose Byrne, and Sam Neill worked on this project as well.
Chanya Button's movie Vita and Virginia is one of Debicki's recent works. The brightest years of the writer Virginia Woolf (Elizabeth Debicki) are pictured here. Besides, the artist agreed to work on the upcoming movie Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
2011 – A Few Best Men
2013 – The Great Gatsby
2014 – Rake
2015 – Macbeth
2015 – The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
2015 – Everest
2016 – The Night Manager
2016 – The Kettering Incident
2017 – Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
2017 – Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
2017 – Breath
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This packing list contains general recommendations for a Yellowstone winter safari. If you are currently booked on a Yellowstone adventure with Nat Hab, please consult your pre-departure materials for the most up-to-date packing list specific to your trip. You will receive these pre-departure materials 60-90 days before your departure.
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Keep in mind that winter temperatures in Yellowstone National Park can be extremely cold, often hovering near 0°F during the day (and can dip well below zero). Be sure you're properly prepared with warm outerwear. We can't stress this enough!
At any time of year, it is important to be prepared for sudden weather changes. Unpredictability, more than anything else, characterizes Yellowstone's weather. To prepare for variable temperatures, bring very warm layers of clothing, including heavyweight long underwear, heavy insulated mittens or ski gloves, a warm hat, and rain/snow gear.
Bring extra layers with you every day to ensure you stay warm while participating in outdoor activities.
A winter parka and boots are provided for all travelers while on this adventure. If you wish to use them, please indicate your size on the form provided with your Confirmation Package. (Call our office if you require an especially large or small size, as we may be unable to accommodate you.) You will still need to bring warm pants (insulated ski pants are ideal), as well as a warm hat, scarf and gloves. Hand warmers (limited supply) will also be provided on outings.
If you have your own gear, we highly recommend bringing it to ensure your comfort and a proper fit.
Wear water-repellent outer garments that will keep you dry on the outside and still breathe so that moisture from your body can escape.
Body heat is most likely to be lost from the head, hands and feet. It is important to keep them warm and dry, which can be a challenge. A warm hat is critical. Thin polypropylene gloves can be worn underneath heavy, insulated mittens or ski gloves. (For warmth, mittens are better than gloves.) If you have liners, you can take off the mittens to operate your camera and still have some protection from the cold. It is a good idea to bring an extra pair of mittens in case your other pair gets wet (or lost).
Warm wool socks worn over silk or polypropylene liners will provide more insulation for your feet. Bring several pairs.
Dress in comfortable, loose layers. In the cold, it is far better to wear layers of relatively light, loose clothing than one thick or heavy item. Between each layer, a film of trapped air is heated by your body, providing excellent insulation.
Wool and silk are superior to cotton because they trap warm air. Synthetic fabrics that spring back into shape after compression are also good. When damp or wet, polyester fiberfill is better than goose or duck down. Polar fleece is also recommended.
It is crucial to bring a high SPF sunscreen for your lips, hands and face, as the reflected glare from snow and ice can be intense, especially at higher altitudes.
Each vehicle will have a few spotting scopes on board to use in the field, and binoculars will also be available. Therefore, you only need to bring your own if you prefer your personal optics.
— Provided by NHA. Wool-lined "pac boots," such as Sorels, are highly recommended—make sure they're large enough to accommodate heavy wool socks without constricting your feet.
Wool or other warm hat, neck gaiter (optional) or scarf, and HEAVY ski gloves or insulated mittens—extremely important!
— Fleece hats and neck gaiters will be provided by NHA, so you only need to bring your own if you prefer them.
— Make sure your hat covers your ears. Please do not bring thin gloves or hats, as your hands and head will definitely get cold! If you are sensitive to cold temperatures, you may also wish to bring a ski mask or balaclava that covers the entire face.
— Several pairs of moisture-resistant or moisture-wicking wool or synthetic socks. Cotton socks are not recommended.
— Optional. Vortex Diamondback 10x42 binoculars will be provided for each traveler, but if you have a pair you especially like, you are welcome to bring them.
— With spikes appropriate for icy conditions, if you require walking assistance. NHA will have a few on hand to loan out, but we may not have enough for the entire group.
— If you are bringing walking poles, they must fit in your checked luggage, as you will not be allowed to carry them on the plane.


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Meet John Palfreyman – Bringing first-hand industry expertise to our apprenticeships
Working with business news Tuesday 12 October 2021
John Palfreyman brings first-hand industry experience to our Leadership Apprenticeship programme. We interviewed John to understand more about the programme and the skills people can learn.
John has worked for Leeds University Business School for close to 4 years. His first role was as a supervisor, giving students an industry perspective on how to make their dissertations and projects more applicable to a real-life business audience.
After more than 20 years at IBM working in new technology, which included cyber security and blockchain, John has a wealth of industry experience that he has brought to the business school. He has helped develop and teaches a module on Business Leadership for our Level 7 Leadership Apprenticeship programme.
Can you tell us about the business leadership module?
The module covers key strategy areas, including leadership, ethics, governance, strategic choices and the internal and external environment. As part of the module, we run interactive webinars where we explore how we can apply this knowledge to their organisation or role. The module also includes a full day workshop where teams play the role of strategy consultants looking at a hypothetical case study. The participants also compile a learning log, which really draws out how they've managed to implement what they've learnt into their day-to-day roles.
What makes you perfectly placed to teach business strategy?
I can empathise with the participants. Having spent my career in industry and done strategy work throughout, I can explain the theory in terms that the cohort can relate to. Through my professional career I have got to understand the obstacles and challenges people face, so I can also give them confidence to see what can be achieved.
What are the key things that people learn?
The key lesson is that business strategy doesn't need to be complicated and that there are lots of great tools available to help you manage any situation.
The best reaction is when people say "Wow there are tools here I can really use in my day job!". They expect strategy to be shrouded in mystery but it's really not. That's what my role is all about, to bridge those two worlds of academia and industry and give people the tools to apply what they've learnt to their day job.
Why do you think apprenticeships are important?
I first came across apprenticeships during my time at IBM. I was Chairing a government / industry group and we discussed how we could offer apprenticeships in cyber security. I found that they are a brilliant way for people to gain a qualification whilst working full-time. The apprenticeship still has the same academic rigor whilst allowing people to keep working and apply what they learn immediately.
What makes this apprenticeship so valuable?
What works really well is when you can mix the cohorts so that you get people from different sectors and industries. People always think their organisation is unique but with business strategy there is so much crossover and so much that people can learn from each other. I've learnt that industries are more similar than they are different.
That networking and cross-fertilisation of knowledge and experience helps give people that wider commercial awareness and ability to apply what they've learnt with confidence.
Why do you think it's important for industry to connect with their local business schools?
Local industry should benefit from local universities and in turn local universities should benefit from a vibrant local industry. And a healthy interaction supports a strong local economy.
I experienced this first hand, because IBM always looked to build strong university relations, but many organisations wouldn't think to do so and they're missing a trick. Key areas at the moment where I think businesses need to be engaging universities is sustainability and becoming carbon neutral, as well as diversity and inclusion in the workplace. There are so many benefits to joint working and projects.
You can connect with John on Linkedin or find out more on the Palfreyman Ventures website.
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GUSA Senate reconvenes with a new speaker, condemns university handling of financial aid
By Amelia Wanamaker
The GUSA Senate reconvened for its first meeting during the spring semester with a new speaker. The Jan. 31 meeting focused on condemning the Capitol riots and university cuts to financial aid, culminating in two statements.
The first statement responds to the violent insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6. The statement calls for any student, administrator, faculty member, or employee found to have participated in the riot to be sanctioned if they violated university policies.
The statement also condemns former-President Donald Trump's behavior and rhetoric in encouraging white supremacists and inciting the Jan. 6 attack. It asks the university to ban Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani, and those who promote violence from coming to campus. The statement also called on the university to implement accountability criteria for members of the Trump administration seeking employment at Georgetown.
Citing political instability and threats of future attacks in D.C., the statement asks the university to provide support for students and workers living in and around campus in providing sufficient food and security. GUSA representatives will meet with the university administration this Friday, Feb. 5, to continue discussing the needs of university staff and students after the violence.
"Every time this occurs, Georgetown students living on campus, who are among the most marginalized of our community, must set their daily tasks aside and avoid going outside," the statement reads, "The actions of these mobs regularly put community members' lives at risk and should by no means be normalized or at all tolerated by University administrators."
The second GUSA statement criticizes cuts made to student financial aid packages for the Spring 2021 semester, after a form surveying the student body showed a pattern of financial aid reductions and student dissatisfaction at the lack of transparency.
According to senators, Georgetown administration members explained in meetings that the refunds students received in the fall were for the entire year. Students, however, were not made aware that these refunds were for the whole school year and instead believed they would be given on a semesterly basis.
The statement calls for the administration to revisit financial aid policies and transparency. Senators had another meeting scheduled with administrators for Feb. 2, but Speaker Melanie Cruz-Morales (COL '22) asked the Senate body to anticipate an ongoing effort with the administration over the next few months.
Last weekend's meeting marked Melanie Cruz Morales' first official meeting as speaker of the Senate. Cruz-Morales stepped into the role from her former position as vice speaker after Speaker Leo Teixeira (COL '21) resigned on Jan. 7. Sen. Eric Perez (COL '23) was elected to fill the vice speaker position on Jan 10. The Senate will accept applications for the new vacancy in the class of 2023 over the next few weeks.
Cruz-Morales began the meeting with her vision for the spring semester. "We need to create a better space for all of us that will [allow us to] do the work that we came here to do," she said. "I am going to be running things very differently. We need to become a community in order to come here to get things done."
She also emphasized that the Senate needs to focus primarily on representing student interests. "We are here to improve the experience of all Georgetown students. We are not here to advance our own personal agendas," she said.
The body also approved a new constitution for the Student Advocacy Office (SAO), which is an office originally founded within GUSA. The recent restructuring of the SAO to include a leadership board created a need for a constitution, stipulating rules and procedures for the board to follow.
Senators also unanimously passed an act describing the Senate's outreach offices and positions. Acknowledging the need for a GUSA social media presence and a structured outreach program in a virtual environment, the act details the responsibilities and positions of the Senate outreach and communications officers.
The next GUSA Senate meeting will be held Feb. 7 at 6 pm via Zoom.
Amelia Wanamaker
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Jazz pull away in 4th quarter, beat Timberwolves 120-108
by: By JOHN COON
SALT LAKE CITY (AP)Donovan Mitchell scored a season-high 39 points and the Utah Jazz beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 120-108 on Friday night.
Mitchell added six rebounds and five assists in his return from a two-game absence due to a back strain. With both Mike Conley and Joe Ingles sidelined, he handled point guard duties in his first game back and shot 57% from the field, including 6 of 11 from 3-point range.
"I thought we executed well offensively with a group that hasn't played together as much," Jazz coach Quin Snyder said. "And then we got stops. We were able to run out and get some things in transition."
Bojan Bogdanovic added 24 points and 12 rebounds, Jordan Clarkson chipped in 20 points and Rudy Gobert added 14 points, 16 rebounds, and four blocks.
Utah went 35 of 41 from the free throw line.
"You look at last year how they guarded us, how they played us with physicality. It kind of gave us trouble," Mitchell said. "So this year, the way we were able to combat that, get to the free throw line and continue to play through it with force (and) pushing the pace. As a group, we did a really good job of just continuing to put pressure on them."
Minnesota's Anthony Edwards scored 26 points in his return after a six-game absence due to health and safety protocols. Malik Beasley added 22 points for the Timberwolves.
Minnesota was short-handed offensively with both Karl-Anthony Towns and D'Angelo Russell, who are still sidelined due to health and safety protocols, absent from the lineup.
After Patrick Beverley hit a go-ahead 3-pointer a minute into the fourth quarter, the Jazz scored 22 unanswered points to pull away from the Timberwolves. Mitchell ignited the run with back-to-back baskets and scored 12 points during the outburst. Gobert and Mitchell finished it off with back-to-back baskets that gave Utah a 113-92 lead with 5:51 left.
"Guarding them is tough," Edwards said. "Our lineup, I think everybody held their own. Guarding them is tough because they got so many shooters on the floor."
Utah built a 13-point halftime lead, going up 63-50, by knocking down 3-pointers and repeatedly getting to the free throw line.
The Jazz made seven outside baskets – with four coming from Mitchell – and shot 54% from the perimeter before halftime. Utah also shot 22 of 26 on free throws in the first half. Bogdanovic and Gobert each had eight free throw attempts, equaling Minnesota's total free throw attempts in the first two quarters.
Minnesota rallied in the third quarter and erased Utah's lead. Jaden McDaniels capped a 12-2 run with a go-ahead jumper that gave the Timberwolves a 79-78 edge. Edwards and Naz Reid each scored a pair of baskets to fuel the spurt.
"I didn't think we brought the right amount of intensity in the first half," Minnesota coach Chris Finch said. "I think we ran out of gas because we had to exhaust so much (energy) in the third quarter."
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Timberwolves: Jordan McLaughlin had a season-high three steals, all in the first quarter. . Jaylen Nowell has totaled 11 assists in his last two games. . Edwards and Nowell fouled out in the fourth quarter.
Jazz: Joe Ingles (lower back strain), Mike Conley (rest), and Eric Paschall (personal reasons) were sidelined for Utah. . Trent Forrest made his first career start. Forrest finished with four points, three rebounds, and three assists. . Hassan Whiteside did not return after halftime because of concussion-like symptoms. Clarkson inadvertently struck Whiteside across the face during a collision in the second quarter.
Gobert registered an emphatic fourth block against Beverley with 5:55 left near the tail end of Utah's game-clinching 22-0 run. Beverley publicly downplayed Gobert's defensive playmaking abilities after the previous meeting between the teams.
The three-time NBA defensive player of the year denied having any extra motivation to make that sort of statement play on Beverley specifically.
"I always play with emotion," Gobert said. "It was a good moment. It was a key moment of the game. We were playing great. We were making a run. Just a cool block. I think if it had been anybody else, I would have reacted the same."
Minnesota: At Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday.
Utah: Host Golden State Warriors on Saturday.
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by KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press / Jan 20, 2022
ATLANTA (AP) — The Georgia prosecutor investigating possible attempts to interfere in the 2020 general election by former President Donald Trump and others has asked for a special grand jury to aid the investigation.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Thursday sent a letter to Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Christopher Brasher asking him to impanel a special grand jury. She wrote in the letter that her office "has received information indicating a reasonable probability that the State of Georgia's administration of elections in 2020, including the State's election of the President of the United States, was subject to possible criminal disruptions."
by JILL COLVIN and FARNOUSH AMIRI , Associated Press / Jan 20, 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection is asking Ivanka Trump, daughter of former President Donald Trump, to voluntarily cooperate with its probe.
The committee sent a letter Thursday requesting a meeting with Ivanka Trump, who served as an adviser to her father, in early February. In the letter, committee chairman Bennie Thompson says Ivanka Trump was in direct contact with her father during key moments of Jan. 6, when the former president's supporters stormed the Capitol building.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Most fraternities at the University of Southern California will be allowed to start having parties again in March if security guards are posted at stairs or hallways in fraternity houses that lead to bedrooms, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Strict rules issued in advance of spring recruiting known as "rush" follow allegations of drugging and sexual abuse at several fraternities last year, the Times said Wednesday.


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The "John Paul Jones" U.S. Navy & Marine Corps Ship's Decanter is named in honor of the U.S. Navy's first great hero- Captain John Paul Jones of the Bon Homme Richard.
Jones was born in Scotland in 1747, and was taken to America at age 13 years. After sailing for several adventurous years on merchantmen in the American trade, he was appointed a first lieutenant in the new U.S. Navy on December 22, 1775. A year later as first lieutenant on board the Alfred, he hoisted by his own hand the first flag ever flown on a U.S. warship.
It was a curious banner of yellow silk bearing the figure of a rattlesnake. In June, 1777, he was given command of the ship Ranger 18-guns, which was the first ship to fly the new national flag of stars and stripes. At Quiberon Bay, on February 14, 1778, he secured a salute to the new American flag by the commander of the French fleet. This salute was the first acknowledgement of American independence by a foreign power. Finally, in 1779, he was given command of a small squadron which he commanded from the 40-gun Bon Homme Richard.
It was for an action on this ship that he is best remembered. On August 23rd, he encountered a fleet of forty-one sail of merchantmen under convoy of two British ships-of-war, the Serapis, 44-guns, and the Countess of Scarbrough, 28-guns. Jones at once prepared to give battle. It was nearly dusk when the two ships closed and began the fight. Shortly, the Bon Homme Richard began to suffer heavy battle damage. Only three of her nine-pounders or heavier were still firing; the ship was a shambles and in danger of sinking. The Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis came together, and the Serapis hailed to know if Jones had surrendered. "I have not yet begun to fight!" was his memorable answer.
Most others would have surrendered as his officers urged, but defiantly, Jones continued the battle with the ships lashed together. Finally after a desperate fight, the Serapis struck her colors, and the legend of John Paul Jones was born. The United States Navy had its first great hero.