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#8 Nikki Freeman
Class Jr.
Hometown Whitehouse Station, N.J.
High School Hunterdon Central
2021 Honors – Big Ten Sportsmanship Award honoree… named to NFHCA Division I National Academic Squad… Academic All-Big Ten selection. 2021 – Started all 20 games and logged 953 minutes… scored six goals (on just six shots) and had six assists for 18 points… scored a goal and had an assist in road win at Boston (9/5) and home win over Saint Louis (9/12)… notched the game-winning goal in 2-1 road win at Rutgers (10/1) and in 3-0 win over Ohio State (10/17) that clinched the Big Ten regular season title.
2020 Honors — NFHCA Division I National Academic Squad selection… Academic All-Big Ten… Big Ten Sportsmanship honoree… Dean's List honoree. 2020 — Played in all 18 games, tallying one goal and seven shots.
2019 Honors — Named to NFHCA Division I National Academic Squad
2019 — Started 17 of 22 games… recorded goals against California (9/13) and UC Davis (10/6)… played 50+ minutes in eight games, including a full 60 against Michigan (Nov. 3) to clinch Big Ten regular season title.
2018 — Started 15 of 21 games… registered four shots against Indiana (Sept. 16).
2017 — Started 17 of 18 games… scored first collegiate goal at Duke (Oct. 8) on two shots… finished with two goals and two assists on the season.
High School — Two-time all-conference, first team all-county, and North Jersey first team All-Star Team selection… member of the Total Dutch Field Hockey Club from 2011-16 and the Princeton Field Hockey Club… participated in the 2015 Junior Olympics… competed in the National Futures Championship the past two years.


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November 6, 2012 / 12:20 AM / 7 years ago
U.S. judge tosses Apple vs. Google lawsuit over patents
Dan Levine, Alexei Oreskovic
(Reuters) - An Apple lawsuit against Google's Motorola Mobility unit over alleged patent abuse was thrown out on Monday just hours before trial, a setback for the iPhone maker in its efforts to gain leverage in the smartphone patent wars.
A woman walks past a tunnel of Google homepage logos at the Google campus near Venice Beach, in Los Angeles, California January 13, 2012. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
The two rivals were set to square off in a Madison, Wisconsin federal court over the library of patents Google Inc acquired along with Motorola for $12.5 billion in May. Apple Inc claimed Motorola's licensing practices were unfair.
However, late last week District Judge Barbara Crabb questioned whether she had the legal authority to hear Apple's claims, and on Monday she dismissed the case.
A Google spokeswoman said the company was pleased with the order, while an Apple representative declined to comment. In a legal brief filed after Crabb's ruling, Apple contended that the judge does indeed have the authority to hear its claims.
Lea Shaver, an intellectual property professor at Indiana University School of Law, said a ruling against Google would have diminished Motorola's patents as an effective bargaining chip in settlement negotiations.
"This puts Apple back into the position it was before," Shaver said.
Apple and Microsoft Corp have been litigating in courts around the world against Google and partners like Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, which use the Android operating system on their mobile devices.
Apple contends that Android is basically a copy of its iOS smartphone software, and Microsoft holds patents that it contends cover a number of Android features. Microsoft is set for a trial against Motorola in Seattle next week in a case with similar issues as the Apple matter in Wisconsin.
Apple and Microsoft accuse Google of demanding too high a royalty for some of its so-called standard essential patents. Motorola promised to license those patents on fair terms, they argue, in exchange for Motorola technology being adopted as an industry standard.
In Wisconsin, Crabb had ruled during the run-up to trial that she might decide what a fair royalty for Motorola's patents should be.
However, in a court filing last week, Apple argued that it would not consider itself bound by Crabb's rate if it exceeded $1 per Apple phone.
Given Apple's position, Crabb questioned whether she had the power to issue merely an advisory opinion. "It has become clear that Apple's interest in a license is qualified," Crabb wrote on Friday.
Microsoft, by contrast, has agreed to live with whatever terms U.S. District Judge James Robart sets at the Seattle trial.
In Wisconsin, the trial was scheduled to begin Monday afternoon in Madison, but Crabb dismissed the case during a morning hearing. If Apple cannot convince Crabb to reconsider, then the matter could be appealed.
In its statement, Google said Motorola has long offered licensing at reasonable rates. "We remain interested in reaching an agreement with Apple," the company said.
The case in U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin is Apple Inc. v. Motorola Mobility Inc., No. 11-cv-178.
Reporting By Alexei Oreskovic in San Francisco; Additional reporting by Dan Levine in San Francisco; Editing by Leslie Adler and Tim Dobbyn

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Coastal Aviation ist eine Fluggesellschaft in Tansania mit Sitz in Daressalam am Terminal 1 des Julius Nyerere International Airport.

Geschichte
Coastal Aviation wurde 1987 von Nicola Colangelo gegründet. Das Unternehmen bot personalisierte Safaris und Flugcharter an und besaß eine Cessna 206T sowie drei Daus. Als sich der Schiffsverkehr nach Sansibar auf Schnellboote verlagerte, konzentrierte sich Coastal Aviation auf den Flugverkehr, behielt aber die Dau im Sonnenuntergang als Logo. Mit Stand 2020 werden neben Charterflügen zu mehr als 40 Orten in Tansania, Ruanda und Kenia auch Linienflüge angeboten. Die wichtigsten Flughäfen sind Daressalam und Arusha.

Flugziele
Die Fluggesellschaft fliegt rund 100 Landebahnen in Ostafrika an. Die wichtigsten Ziele sind:

Flotte
Im Jahr 2022 bestand die Flotte aus 15 Flugzeugen. Mit 300 Angestellten wurden 2019 mehr als 150.000 Passagiere befördert:

 10 Cessna C208
 5 Pilatus PC-12

Zwischenfälle
Für Coastal Aviation wurden folgende Zwischenfälle gemeldet:

 25. Oktober 2017: Eine Cessna 208B Grand Caravan kam beim Landeanflug auf den Lobo-Wildlife-Lodge-Airstrip in der Serengeti von der Landebahn ab und prallte gegen einen Baum. Zwei Passagiere und der Pilot wurden leicht verletzt, die übrigen acht Passagiere blieben unverletzt. Das Flugzeug wurde irreparabel beschädigt.
 15. November 2017: Auf dem Flug in die Serengeti stürzte eine Cessna 208B Grand Caravan ab. Alle Passagiere, vier Touristen und sechs Mitarbeiter des Safari-Camps sowie der Pilot kamen ums Leben.

Einzelnachweise

Fluggesellschaft (Tansania)
Arusha
Gegründet 1997

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Colleges Seeking Teacher-Educators
By Julie Blair — March 21, 2001 11 min read
George Mason University is the kind of place that is easy to sell to prospective professors.
Salaries are competitive with those of other large schools, and the university's location—in Fairfax, Va., a suburb of the nation's capital—is ideal for academics interested in partnering with the federal government or with researchers who work in the nearby science and technology corridors. Many of George Mason's programs are not only thriving but are considered innovative, including its school of education, which was ranked among the nation's top 50 this year by U.S. News & World Report.
But Martin E. Ford, the acting dean of the education school, is having a hard time hiring qualified educators to train future K-12 teachers. He's got 10 vacancies to fill this year and, so far, fewer than 10 candidates per opening.
"The current applicant pool is about half the size it was in the mid-1990s," Mr. Ford said. "It used to be that we would get, say, 40 or 100 applicants for a full- time faculty position. Now, we're more likely to get between 15 and 40 people. It is a bit nerve-racking."
Stories similar to Mr. Ford's are surfacing at schools of education around the country. As educators and policymakers turn their attention to widespread shortages of teachers for precollegiate classrooms, experts say few are recognizing a similar and perhaps more disturbing trend: the dwindling supply of teacher-educators.
"The shortage is significant as shown by the number of searches that go unfilled ... and by the inadequate pool of candidates," said David G. Imig, the president and chief executive officer of the Washington-based American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, a membership organization that represents 735 institutions.
Without an adequate supply of teacher-educators, colleges will be able to keep open fewer sections of course offerings, Mr. Imig warned. That could mean that fewer K-12 teachers will be trained overall, exacerbating school districts' own current and impending shortages.
Failed Searches
No one knows for sure when the teacher-educator shortage began.
Mr. Imig said he first noted it about five years ago while talking to the dean of the education school at Indiana University Bloomington about that institution's challenges in hiring faculty members.
"Indiana University was looking for a social studies teacher-educator, and it shocked me because Indiana has always been known as the home of social studies education," Mr. Imig said. "If they didn't have adequate numbers, well, it stunned me."
More worrisome stories from deans around the country were forthcoming, so Mr. Imig's association commissioned researchers to study the problem. The result was a paper presented last spring at the AACTE's annual meeting. The work is believed to be the lone report on the teacher-educator shortage to date.
To determine how far-reaching the problem had become, the study analyzed data produced during the past three academic years from more than 400 small, medium, and large public and private colleges and universities with teacher-preparation programs.
"We had received a lot of anecdotal evidence from deans saying, 'We're not getting anyone to apply for our jobs,'" said Richard Arends, a co-author of the report and a professor of educational leadership at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain. "Essentially, [the study] confirmed what I think people believed. In many, many fields, we were getting less than 10 applicants per each job opening. Thirty percent of searches were unsuccessful—that's a very, very high rate," he said.
The greatest number of failed searches and small applicant pools were for faculty members in mathematics, reading, business, library media, and early-childhood, elementary, vocational, and special education, the study found. Colleges had less trouble hiring faculty members with specialties in education policy, English/language arts, and school psychology; however, a significant number of those searches failed as well.
Surprisingly, the teacher-educator shortage was visible across the board, Mr. Arends said. Public and private colleges and universities of all sizes had an equally difficult time hiring qualified professors.
"A lot of people thought that the big research institutions would have a simpler time recruiting faculty than, say, liberal arts schools, but we didn't find any difference," Mr. Arends said.
The survey showed the number of vacancies for teacher-educators rose by 34 percent between the 1997-98 and 1998-99 academic years alone, up from 1,268 available positions to 1,700.
What's more, it is likely that the teacher-educator shortage has worsened since the study was completed, Mr. Arends said.
The shortage sneaked up on many officials in higher education, in part because the job of college professor had appeared to hold great appeal regardless of the field, according to the AACTE report.
As recently as the mid-1990s, several major studies indicated that hiring for academic posts was highly competitive, with literally hundreds of candidates vying for each opening.
But few, if any, of the researchers on academic hiring specifically studied the field of education, the report says.
Higher Expectations
It isn't that there aren't enough people who hold doctorates in education—it's simply that they're not choosing to go into teaching college, experts say.
The number of conferred doctorates in education has been fairly consistent over the past decade, according to the Digest of Education Statistics, produced by the National Center for Education Statistics, the arm of the U.S. Department of Education that collects such data. During the 1997-98 academic year, for example, 6,729 degrees were awarded.
In many cases, academe undoubtedly is losing out to corporate employers who can offer higher pay. But jobs in K-12 schools may also offer greater financial rewards.
Beginning teachers, who aren't required to have advanced degrees, earned an average of $27,700 during the 1999-2000 school year, according to the American Federation of Teachers.
By comparison, beginning teacher-educators make an average of just $24,380 annually, according to a study released this year by the Association of Colleges and Schools of Education in State Universities and Land Grant Colleges and Affiliate Private Universities, based in Athens, Ga.
Just as the pipeline of teacher-educators has begun to narrow, schools of education have experienced "tremendous growth" over the past few years, strengthening the demand for faculty members, said Frank B. Murray, a professor of education and psychology at the University of Delaware in Newark and the president of the Washington-based Teacher Education Accreditation Council. TEAC accredits teacher-preparation programs at 65 colleges and universities.
The number of bachelor's degrees earned in education grew by about 17 percent between the 1986-87 and 1996-97, the Digest of Education Statistics shows. During the 1986-87 academic year, 86,936 degrees were awarded. A decade later, 105,233 were conferred.
The problems in attracting enough teacher-educators are also compounded by new, higher expectations for schools of education, said Virginia Richardson, a professor of education at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Such changes are a reaction to the pressures that state and federal policymakers are putting on those schools to satisfy accountability measures, as well as institutions' own recognition that they need to attract higher- achieving recruits and prepare them better.
In addition to requiring teacher- educator candidates to complete more meaningful research, institutions have recently begun placing importance on their teaching in K-12 classrooms as well as at the college level, Ms. Richardson said. Ideal teacher-educator candidates work in precollegiate schools while training future teachers, she added.
"We need people who understand inquiry and research as well as practice," Ms. Richardson said. "In the past, it was just a matter of having a Ph.D."
Those tougher standards, however important, mean institutions have even fewer choices when it comes time to hire faculty members, she said.
"This is the beginning of a nightmare," Gerry Giordano, the dean of the college of education at Utah State University in Logan, said of teacher-educator shortages. "Given the number of persons who are retiring, the [small] number of people attracted to careers in higher education, and the competition from industry and [precollegiate] public education, there is no immediate solution for this problem. That's just a reality."
Incentives Offered
Despite that dire outlook, administrators at Utah State are attempting to keep the university competitive by employing new strategies to recruit and retain teacher-educators.
The university, the state's largest producer of teachers and one of the biggest in the nation, is seeking to hire eight professors this spring to join a faculty that already numbers more than 460 teacher- educators.
The college of education hiked beginning salaries across all disciplines from $32,000 to $40,000 between the 1998-99 and 1999-2000 school years, Mr. Giordano said. Teacher-educators whose specialities are in such shortage areas as mathematics, technology, and special education can earn up to $52,000 as assistant professors.
The institution is also offering a variety of bonuses to entice candidates, Mr. Giordano said. Some professors are offered cash bonuses of, say, $10,000 and moving expenses, or are promised summer work to raise their pay.
Such increases are helping to attract new talent, but the new incentives are also proving to be politically divisive, Mr. Giordano said. "This really undermines the morale of senior professors, who feel they deserve to be treated with the same largess," he said.
Utah State is also considering a policy in which candidates would be identified long before they were awarded their doctorates, he added. Faculty members would sign on with the institution and work in adjunct positions until they completed their Ph.Ds. If new hires met expectations within the first few semesters, the university would guarantee them tenure—several years before it is currently offered, Mr. Giordano said.
In Starkville, Miss., meanwhile, Mississippi State University for the first time dispatched education school recruiters to top Ph.D. programs around the country in an attempt to track down doctoral candidates to fill 18 vacancies, said William H. Graves, the dean of the college of education. Generally, faculty positions are listed in trade publications or are publicized by word of mouth.
"We've moved from a passive form of recruiting to an aggressive one," Mr. Graves said. And yet, he said, such tactics "didn't yield a single application."
Mississippi State has had more luck hiring when providing incentives, he said. MSU now offers many teacher-educators start-up funding for research projects, money for housing, and a reduction in their teaching loads.
If the university can't fill positions, administrators will continue to rely on the "teachers in residence" program started in the fall of 1999, Mr. Graves said. The school began hiring K-12 teachers who have completed master's degrees to work as adjunct faculty members under the tutelage of full- time professors, he said.
The program is providing experienced, capable teacher-educators, Mr. Graves said, but it is not a long-term solution. High- quality schools of education must provide students with seasoned professors who can teach students how to conduct research, among other skills, he said.
Administrators at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn., have turned to the same solution. "We went a year without a full-time professor by hiring a highly qualified K-12 teacher who was able to take the year off" from her school position, said Michael A. Miller, the chairman of the education department and the associate dean for assessment at the college.
Though the teacher had earned a master's degree and had worked as a K-12 curriculum director, she wasn't considered for the permanent position because she didn't hold a Ph.D., Mr. Miller said.
"Even if she did, it would have meant a significant pay decrease," he said.
'Outside of the Box'
Given the shortage of teachers in both colleges and K-12 schools, administrators at all levels of learning will need to think differently about how they train, recruit, and retain talented people, said Barnett Berry, the director of policy and state partnerships for the National Commission on Teaching & America's Future, a privately organized, blue-ribbon panel made up of public officials, business and community leaders, and educators, housed at Columbia University.
"This is a terrific opportunity to get outside of the box," Mr. Berry said. "We could have joint appointments and place more and more teacher- educators and methods courses inside of real schools where real children are taught."
Many schools of education have already adopted such an approach, called the professional-development model, and are preparing teachers "very effectively," said C. Emily Feistritzer, the president of the National Center for Education Information, a private research group based in Washington.
"The best teacher preparation is done when the local school personnel and college and university personnel collaborate actively," she said. Ms. Feistritzer also suggests that schools of education look to their institutions' arts and sciences faculties. Such professors provide much of the schooling for teachers and could possibly do more.
In the meantime, Mr. Graves, the Mississippi State dean, is continuing the search for teacher-educators. He reminds prospective faculty members of the intangible perquisites that are all too often overshadowed by the prospect of modest paychecks when shopping for work.
"You have an opportunity to engage in learning as part of professional development, engage in research, and teach bright young men and women who will challenge you and help you grow as a person," Mr. Graves said.
That, he said, elevates the position from a job into a passion—a benefit that can't be matched by many corporations.
Julie Blair
A version of this article appeared in the March 21, 2001 edition of Education Week as Colleges Seeking Teacher-Educators
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Our laboratory is devoted to understanding nuclear architecture and chromatin organization within human cells, especially myeloid cells. For many years we have studied the human leukemic HL-60 cell line, because it can be readily differentiated in vitro into granulocyte or macrophage forms. We have employed monoclonal anti-nucleosome antibodies to identify a new nuclear domain ("epichromatin"), which is adjacent to the interphase nuclear envelope and at the outer surface of mitotic chromosomes. Epichromatin can also be visualized by antibodies that react with phosphatidylserine (PS), the principal anionic phospholipid of cell membranes. Our current structural hypothesis is that PS forms a noncovalent bridge connecting the nuclear envelope inner membrane with the surface of chromatin displaying histone cationic peptide arms. In collaboration with scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (Heidelberg), we have performed (ChIP-Seq) chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by DNA sequencing to characterize the DNA associated with the epichromatin. We find a significant enrichment of repetitive DNA (i.e., retrotransposon Alu) within the epichromatin region. Furthermore, epichromatin regions have been mapped to the human chromosomes, demonstrating that only a small percentage of nuclear DNA is affiliated with these regions.
A second direction of research in the laboratory involves the nucleosome, which we first described in 1974, present as a 10 nm chain of chromatin "beads". For many years, a 30 nm diameter fiber was thought to be the next level of nucleosome compaction, but its existence has proven to be controversial. Recent collaborative studies with scientists at EMBL (Heidelberg) have demonstrated the existence of parallel arrays of 10 nm chromatin fibers adjacent to the nuclear envelope in HL-60 granulocytes, an indication of the structure of epichromatin.
Travis J. Gould, Katalin Tóth, Norbert Mücke, Jörg Langowski*, Alexandra S. Hakusui, Ada L. Olins, Donald E. Olins. (2017) Defining the Epichromatin Epitope. Nucleus 8(6) 625-640. doi.org/10.1080/19491034.2017.1380141.
Vladimir B Teif, Jan-Philipp Mallm, Tanvi Sharma, David B Mark Welch, Karsten Rippe, Roland Eils, Jörg Langowski, Ada L Olins, Donald E Olins. (2017) Nucleosome Repositioning During Differentiation of a Human Myeloid Leukemia Cell Line Nucleus 8(2):188-204. doi: 10.1080/19491034.2017.1295201.
M . Derenzini, A.L. Olins, D.E. Olins. (2014) Chromatin structure in situ: the contribution of DNA ultrastructural cytochemistry. Eur J Histchem 58(1):2307-2316. doi: 10.4081/ejh.2014.2307.
Mikhail Eltsov, Sergey Sosnovski, Ada L. Olins, Donald E. Olins. (2014) ELCS in Ice: Cryo-electron Microscopy of Chromatin Sheets. Chromosoma 123:3 303-312. doi: 10.1007/s00412-014-0454-0.
Igor Prudovsky, Calvin P.H. Vary, Yolanda Markaki, Ada L. Olins and Donald E. Olins. (2012) Phosphatidylserine colocalizes with epichromatin in interphase nuclei and mitotic chromosomes. Nucleus 3:2, 200–210.
Ada L. Olins, Markus Langhans, Marc Monestier, Andreas Schlotterer, David G. Robinson, Corrado Viotti, Hanswalter Zentgraf, Monika Zwerger and Donald E. Olins. (2011) An epichromatin epitope: Persistence in the cell cycle and conservation in evolution Nucleus 2:1, 47-60.
Ada L. Olins, Aurélie Ernst, Monika Zwerger, Harald Herrmann and Donald E. Olins. (2010) An in vitro model for Pelger-Huët anomaly: Stable knockdown of lamin B receptor in HL-60 cells. Nucleus 1:6, 506-512.
Ada L. Olins, Gale Rhodes, David B. Mark Welch, Monika Zwerger and Donald E. Olins.(2010) Lamin B Receptor: Multi-tasking at the Nuclear Envelope. Nucleus 1:53-70.
Donald E. Olins and Ada L. Olins. (2009) Nuclear Envelope-Limited Chromatin Sheets (ELCS) and Heterochromatin Higher Order Structure. Chromosoma. 118:537-548.
Ada L. Olins, Thanh V. Hoang, Monika Zwerger, Harald Herrmann, Hanswalter Zentgraf, Angelika A. Noegel, Iakowos Karakesisoglou, Didier Hodzic and Donald E. Olins. (2009) The LINC-less granulocyte nucleus. Eur. J. Cell Biol. 88:203-214.
Peter Gaines, Chiung Wen Tien, Ada L. Olins, Donald E. Olins, Leonard D. Shultz, Lisa Carny and Nancy Berliner. (2008) Mouse neutrophils lacking lamin B receptor expression exhibit aberrant development and lack critical functional responses. Exp Hematol. 36(8):965-76.
Monika Zwerger, Harald Herrmann, Peter Gaines, Ada L. Olins, and Donald E.Olins. (2008) Granulocytic nuclear differentiation of lamin B receptor-deficient mouse EPRO cells. Exp Hematol. 36(8):977-87.
Ada L. Olins, Monika Zwerger, Harald Herrmann, Hanswalter Zentgraf, Amos J. Simon, Marc Monestier, Donald E. Olins. (2008) The Human Granulocyte Nucleus: Unusual Nuclear Envelope and Heterochromatin Composition. Eur J Cell Biol. 87(5):279-90.
Katrin Hoffmann, Karl Sperling, Ada L. Olins and Donald E. Olins. (2007) The granulocyte nucleus and lamin B receptor: avoiding the ovoid. Chromosoma 116:227-235.
Leonard D. Shultz, Bonnie L. Lyons, Lisa M. Burzenski, Bruce Gott , Rebecca Samuels, Peter A.Schweitzer, Christine Dreger, Harald Herrmann, Vera Kalscheuer, Ada L. Olins, Donald E. Olins, Karl Sperling and Katrin Hoffman. (2003) Mutations at the Murine Ichthyosis Locus are within the Lamin B Receptor Gene: A Single Gene Model for Human Pelger-Huët Anomaly. Hum Mol Genet 12: 61-69.
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OBWAVE: Orphan Basin Wide-Angle Velocity Experiment
In collaboration with industry
Funded by ExxonMobil
The Orphan Basin is a large, deep water basin located north of the Grand Banks and northwest of Flemish Cap (Figure 1). It is one of the largest rift basins to have undergone hyper-extension without continental breakup and seafloor spreading. Gravity modelling shows that the extended crust might be as thin as 5 km in the thinnest areas of the basin. Such a setting allows detailed imaging of a cross section of a complete continental crustal extension system along a single profile. Several industry boreholes exist within the deep-water basin, and the extensional structures also connect to wells within Flemish Pass and the petroleum prolific Jeanne d'Arc Basin to the south.
Previous studies show that Orphan Basin is divided into eastern and western sub-basins by a series of faults and high relief basement ridges. Within each sub-basin, there are series of smaller ridges and troughs trending N-S in the west to NE-SW in the east, which formed during Mesozoic rifting between N. America and Africa/Europe and the rotation of Flemish Cap to the southeast. An older Lithoprobe MCS profile and a more recent grid of extensive industrial MCS profiles have provided detailed images of these structures. However, the link between basement structures with underlying crustal layers and Moho depths remains uncertain. The only basin-wide wide-angle seismic profile used to constrain deeper crustal structure crossed the basement structures at an oblique angle and had wide spacing (~10-50 km) between the OBS that limited the resolution of the velocity model.
Figure 1. (top) Location of the OBWAVE profile superimposed on a bathymetric map of the study area. The red line shows the position of the OBWAVE shot line, and the black dots are positions of the OBS along the line. Two orange lines show the positions of two other refraction lines. Black circles bordered by white show the positions of Orphan Basin boreholes. The yellow lines show the position of the initial seafloor magnetic anomalies, and the green lines show the position of the main tectonic features. The black rectangle indicates the position of the map at the bottom of the figure. BF, Bonavista Fault; CBTZ, Cumberland Belt Transfer Zone; FP, Flemish Pass; JAB, Jeanne d'Arc Basin; OK, Orphan Knoll; MeF, Mercury Fault; MuF, Murre Fault; and WSF, White Sail Fault. The map inset (top left) shows the location of the study area (black rectangle) relative to eastern North America. (ottom) Magnification of the main map showing position and numbering of the instruments along the line and nearby boreholes with their names. The color scale for the bathymetry is the same as in the main map.
In order to improve imaging of crustal structures, high resolution wide-angle data were acquired in 2010 during the OBWAVE (Orphan Basin Wide Angle Velocity Experiment; Figures 1 and 2) project with financial backing from ExxonMobil. The refraction line (Figure 1) stretches along a NW-SE profile from Flemish Cap across the eastern sub-basin and into the western sub-basin. The profile is coincident with MCS profile OR0-122, previously acquired by GSI. Usable 4-component OBS data were collected at 89 receiver stations with 3-5 km spacing along a 500-km-long profile. An airgun array, consisting of 3 clusters of 3 G-guns (total volume of 4680 cu. in.), was fired every 60 s for an average shot spacing of 140 m. The western half of the profile was double-shot to increase fold. The first phase of the data analysis was carried out with financial support from ExxonMobil. First arrivals and wide-angle Moho reflections (PmP) were picked from common receiver gathers. Tomographic inversion for the first arrival picks and PmP arrivals was ran using the Tomo2D algorithm. The traveltime tomography results, published in Geophysics (Watremez et al., 2015), are of remarkably high resolution and show that dense regional OBS deployments at extensional basins have the potential to image the crustal structures with details that cannot be observed with coarser OBS deployments that have been used routinely for regional crustal investigations of rifting. For the Orphan Basin study, increased velocity image resolution was particularly useful to delineate the tilted blocks, top of the crystalline basement, and capture the extreme thinning of the continental crust. Traveltime tomography was followed by picking of secondary arrivals and layered velocity modeling using RAYINVR software. Detailed interpretation based on the results of the layered velocity modeling was published in Geophysical Journal International (Lau et al., 2015). We teamed up with researchers from the University of Western Ontario for the second phase of data analysis that encompasses running full waveform inversion. In 2015, a preliminary full waveform inversion was applied to the dataset as the second phase of OBWAVE data analysis. These results have not yet been published in a journal article but are presented in Akbar Zuberi's Ph.D. thesis and are deposited in the NFSI database.


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The video takes a little time to unfold, as it introduces how posters sessions work to grad students who may not have attended one. However, it's well worth watching through as thinking through how posters are created and used explains the design.
When I started making academic posters, I tried doing something different. What I hadn't appropriately understood was the audience. Morrison's design works well with the audience, especially when you think who the audience is.
The audience of your poster could be divided into two groups. People who should be interested in your work and people who are not. Think about the people who are not interested. You can divide these into two groups: people who know someone who would be interested, and people who do not. The people who have no interest, and no friends who'd want to know about your poster, you can forget about. The people who have a friend are a useful audience. These are people who can say, "Did you see the poster in the main hall on «topic»?" A simple, easy to grasp message can turn people into a sales force for your poster.
But what about the people who would be interested?
Again, split them into two groups: people who would recognise your poster is important, and people who wouldn't. That simple message grabs the second group and helps convert passers-by into readers. So, it seems it's only people who would find your poster is relevant and recognise that that seem to lose out, by having a slightly less info-dense poster. Of all the people passing your poster, this last group is likely to be a depressingly small minority.
What turns a good poster design into a great one is that even these people get more out of your poster. It's because of that QR code. Some people want to present posters. A lot of people want to give talks and end up getting poster slots. That QR code is a doorway to handing out detailed text, slides, papers and anything else you want to add. Even the people who want the details are better off with this design, because you can go into depth that you would never be able to do with a poster anyway.
Thinking of the posters I've seen in the past few years, I'm struggling to remember any that would be worse if they used Morrison's design. I think there might have been one or two that had a big arresting image. The fact I'm struggling so much to think of them suggests that even they didn't work.
As great as I think this poster design is, there is something even better. Not only has Morrison made it usable for the audience, but he's also made it replicable. You can download the poster as a template. You can almost copy and use it with cut 'n' paste. It's a poster design you can do today.
There are a couple of issues you will need to tackle if you do use this design.
First, that simple summary in the centre of the poster is doing a lot of work. It will do that work better if it is simple. To make the design work, you will need to have the backbone to cut back as much as possible. That will be a lot of work. If someone who isn't so invested in your design is offering helpful clarifications, then this will be difficult. They may, subconsciously or not, guide you to make the poster conform to the norms they've seen.
You'll also need a backbone to stand by this poster at a conference. It will look staggeringly different from the other posters – even if it carries much the same information. It's easy to buy into an assumption of a binary opposition between scholarly and popular. If you do that then it's easy to make your work more scholarly, write it in opaque language. It's obvious that isn't a way to improve your work, but it's still going to take some nerve to test it in the real world.
And that's the sting at the end of the video. The poster sounds like a good idea, but is it? Everyone else is doing something different, so how does anyone know this poster design will work? Mike Morrison wants to test the design at actual conferences. For me, this is possibly the most exciting part of the video. I think the design is good. It makes sense, but is it going to work at a conference? In fields that embrace obscure language, this design could bomb because it clashes with the culture. In botany that isn't a problem. If you're presenting interdisciplinary at a conference outside your field, you might find someone equates "accessible poster" with "doesn't appreciate the complexity of my field".
Testing will give reassurance to people if this design can show improvements over the status quo. At the very least, it will add scrutiny to an under-valued form of communication at conferences.
If you want to find out more you can follow @mikemorrison on Twitter.


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About The Patients Rights Council
The Patients Rights Council is committed to the principle that you have the right to know all the facts about the critical issues of life, death, and assisted suicide. Few issues are as important as the compassionate treatment and care for those who are most vulnerable.
Our primary responsibility is to offer understanding and practical support to those who are facing critical situations for themselves or a loved one.
Our second responsibility is to provide the public with rational, factual information about the results of doctor-prescribed suicide and euthanasia.
Eventually, each of us will confront end-of-life decisions for ourselves or in the lives of those we love. Most people understandably have mixed emotions. That's why our laws must be sensitive to the human dimension of policies surrounding end-of-life decisions.
We all have the responsibility to understand how proposed laws, ballot measures and even court cases will impact our lives, our families, and our society as a whole. We have to balance our feelings with our rational consideration to reach a result that works best for individuals and for everyone else in society.
You have the right to know about proposals surrounding end-of-life decisions.
We have the responsibility to provide you with that information.
(The Patients Rights Council was previously known as the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide.)
The Patients Rights Council builds and maintains strong networks with individuals and groups to influence policy and news coverage.
As part of this networking, the Patients Rights Council provides assistance and training in the most effective ways to address particular audiences regarding doctor-prescribed suicide, euthanasia, and end-of-life issues.
Individuals and organizations that network with the Patients Rights Council share a common concern about the dangers of doctor-prescribed suicide and euthanasia, but often hold widely differing views on other issues.
Educational Research & Materials Production
We believe that you are entitled to the best, most thoughtful, credible information. We have the responsibility to vulnerable patients, and to you, the public, to provide that information.
Patients Rights Council information is accurate and well documented. It is presented in clear, concise terms.
Current materials include:
Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide & Health Care Decisions: Protecting Yourself & Your Family
Health Care Advance Directives: What? When? How? Why?
Protective Medical Decisions Document (Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care – available in multi-state and state specific versions)
Oregon plus One (CD)
Beyond the Headlines (CD)
Not a Slippery Slope (CD)
Assisted Suicide & Death with Dignity: Past, Present & Future
Assisted Suicide: The Continuing Debate
The Food & Fluids Debate (Questions and Answers about "Artificial Feeding")
Frequently Asked Questions about Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide
Euthanasia: False Light (video)
Update (Patients Rights Council)
Books currently available include:
Power over Pain: How to Get the Pain Control You Need
Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America
Deadly Compassion: The Death of Ann Humphrey & the Truth about Euthanasia
Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder
The Patients Rights Council's Frank Reed Memorial Library maintains the most extensive and up-to-date collection in the world of books as well as periodical, newspaper and professional journal articles devoted to euthanasia, assisted suicide and end-of-life issues.
Patients Rights Council spokespersons are often seen on conference rosters and news programs, but it primarily works behind the scenes with policy makers and journalists around the world to influence the court of law and the court of public opinion.
The Patients Rights Council maintains an excellent relationship with media professionals, often providing information and initial leads for feature stories and investigative reports.
Center for Law and Bioethics
The Patients Rights Council analyzes the legal and bioethical implications of policies and laws. It frequently provides assistance to attorneys and those involved in the field of bioethics. The Patients Rights Council is developing a network of attorneys willing to devote time to protecting the rights of vulnerable people and their families.
The Patients Rights Council is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) educational and research organization.
It addresses euthanasia, assisted suicide and end-of-life issues from a public policy perspective.
It is funded by private donations and foundation grants.
Donations to the Patients Rights Council are tax-deductible.


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Teaching pupils to manage their finances is an increasingly important part of the curriculum.
Students at a school in Dumfries and Galloway have an altogether tougher budgeting challenge: spending millions of pounds generated by two community-owned wind turbines.
A team of eight S5 and S6 pupils at Sanquhar Academy decides how to invest the profits from the turbines at Glenmuckloch Community Energy Park for the benefit of the local area.
A first in Scotland, the community energy park has been designed to provide financial assistance for public groups and organisations across Upper Nithsdale using the revenue produced by the two 100kW turbines on a site adjacent to the former Glenmuckloch surface mine.
Buccleuch is leasing the land to the project free of charge and together with mine operator Hargreaves provided additional funding for the purchase of the wind turbines.
The 30 meter high turbines have the potential to generate £2.5 million over the next 25 years, which will remain with Glenmuckloch Community Energy Park until distributed to local causes.
This task falls to the Glenmuckloch charitable purposes committee – known as Propel – which is run entirely by pupils from the school. They are actively encouraging local groups to make applications for funding.
The project was delivered by four key partners; Scottish Mines Restoration Trust, Buccleuch, Hargreaves and Dumfries and Galloway Council. Dumfries and Galloway Council and Buccleuch each contributed £50,000, Hargreaves £150,000 and SMRT £75,000.
The Glenmuckloch park was officially launched by business, energy and tourism secretary Fergus Ewing in July 2014. The wind turbines began operating in autumn 2015.
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Today's post is a shot of the patio bar outside the Paisley Violin Cafe. We stopped there on our photowalk last Saturday to grab something cold to drink. So much of what's interesting in the area is BEHIND what you see from the street. The front of the Paisley certainly catches your eye from the street, but the really interesting stuff is in the back–a group of small artists studios in various colors, a patio bar, a fountain, big shady trees, and outdoor art installations. If you don't get out of your car and use your feet to carry your eyes around, you miss a lot of really cool stuff!
I love this shot, even if the composition isn't the greatest. This HDR was created from three hand-held brackets, and I just love the little details that make up the image–the empty Coke machine, the movie poster, the leftover fast food wrappers on the bar, and especially the mirror over the sink that reflects the house across the street with the wooden shingles.
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Quotes on Activism
There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk "his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor" on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else.
— Robert Heinlein , Stranger in a Strange Land
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.
— Friedrich Hayek
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.
It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
— H. L. Mencken
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
— Ayn Rand
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
— Elie Wiesel
This country belongs to the people and whenever they shall grow weary of their government they can exercise their constitutional right to amend it, or revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.
We are descended in spirit from revolutionaries and rebels — men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.
— Dwight Eisenhower
You may think your actions are meaningless and that they won't help, but that is no excuse, you must still act.
— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters.
— Frederick Douglass
We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look.
— Ronald Reagan , First Inaugural address (1981)
Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong – but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.
— Robert Heinlein , Double Star
Any man who inflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
Those that say that individuals are not capable of changing anything are only looking for excuses.
— Vaclav Havel
The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.
— William O. Douglas
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession -their ignorance.
— Hendrick van Loon
One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
— John Stuart Mill , On Representative Government (1861)
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
— Henry Ford
The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.
— Louis D. Brandeis
Those who choose not to empathise may enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.
— J.K. Rowling
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
— Thomas Carlyle
Let them call me a rebel and I welcome it; I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of demons should I make a whore of my soul.
One man can completely change the character of a country, and the industry of its people, by dropping a single seed in fertile soil.
— John C. Gifford
— Epictetus
The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must be guarded by the readiness of all men and women to die rather than submit to tyranny.
— Winston Churchill , Speech at Zurich University (19 September, 1946)
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
— Aristotle
If this be treason, make the most of it!
— Patrick Henry
An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.
— Thomas Jefferson , 1785
It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
At a time when most movements that are thought to be progressive advocate further encroachments on individual liberty, those who cherish freedom are likely to expend their energies in opposition. In this they find themselves much of the time on the same side as those who habitually resist change.
— John Stuart Mill , Why I Am Not a Conservative
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent … the greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
— Louis D. Brandeis , Olmstead vs. United States, United States Supreme Court (1928)
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any reason but because they are not already common.
— John Locke , Essay concerning Human Understanding, 1690
The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me.
— Ayn Rand , The Fountainhead
The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest painis the pain of a new idea.
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
The best things in history are accomplished by people who get "tired of being shoved around."
— Robert Heinlein , Have Space Suit—Will Travel
Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world – and never will.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
— Bertrand Russell
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive, that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
— Herbert Spencer , Essays on Education
Alone among the animals, man has the capacity to invent imaginary worlds, and is always making himself unhappy by trying to move into them.
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?
— Winston Churchill , Speech at Kinnaird Hall, Dundee, Scotland (10 October, 1908)
If one does not carefully trace the problems back to their roots in a previous intervention, it is very easy to believe that yet another intervention is just the ticket for rectifying them.
— Gene Callahan
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism…. It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn.
I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.
— Frederic Bastiat
Extremism in the defense of Liberty is no vice. And . . . moderation in the pursuit of Justice is no virtue.
— Barry Goldwater
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather bed.
— Thomas Jefferson , Letter to Lafayette (2 April 1790)
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. On all sides they are guarded by masses of armed men, cannons, aeroplanes, fortifications, and the like – they boast and vaunt themselves before the world, yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts; words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home – all the more powerful because forbidden – terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind. Cannons, airplanes, they can manufacture in large quantities; but how are they to quell the natural promptings of human nature, which after all these centuries of trial and progress has inherited a whole armoury of potent and indestructible knowledge?
— Winston Churchill , 16 October, 1938
One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Attempts to create heaven on earth invariably produce hell.
— Karl Popper
Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have lived have forced me to commit myself on the boisterous ocean of political passions.
Men are failures not because they are stupid but because they are not sufficiently impassioned
— Struthers Burt
But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction [that] you give it.
— Ayn Rand , Atlas Shrugged
Noncooperation with evil is as much a duty as cooperation with good.
In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated, and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it cost nothing to be a patriot.
— Mark Twain , Notebook, 1904
I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just so a relative handful of self-righteous environmental cultists can go around feeling puffed up with themselves.
Before preparing to improve the world, first look around your own home three times.
If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a job. Get a secure base of income. Otherwise, you're going to get corrupted and destroyed.
— Milton Friedman
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
— William James
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it – walk.
To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
— Confucius
The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations . . . This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.
— John Adams , February 13, 1818
Anyone who fights for the Future lives in it today.
— Ayn Rand , The Romantic Manifesto
The chief cause of problems is solutions.
— Eric Sevareid
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed. It is the man-made that must never be accepted uncritically: it must be judged, then accepted or rejected and changed when necessary.
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
— Robert Jackson , United States Supreme Court Decision: American Communications Association v. Douds
To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.
The future is better than the past. Despite the crepehangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands…with tools…with horse sense and science and engineering.
— Robert Heinlein , The Romantic Manifesto
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
— Charles-Louis De Secondat
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success and more dangerous to carry through, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has against him those who benefited from the old system; while those who should benefit from the new are only lukewarm friends, being suspicious, as men generally are, of something new and not yet experienced. In speaking of innovations, it is first necessary to establish whether the innovators depend upon the strength of others or their own…in the first case, things always go badly for them, in the second, they almost always succeed. From this comes the fact that all armed prophets were victorious and the unarmed came to ruin.
— Niccolò Machiavelli
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.
— Dr. Samuel Johnson
The most depraved type of human being . . . (is) the man without a purpose.
Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the things you did.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever has!
— Margaret Meade
As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full. Moreover, I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.
— Martin Niemoeller , From the Kirchenverwaltung der Evangelischen Kirche in Hessen and Darmstadt
I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.
If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable.
— John F. Kennedy
Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
— Robert F. Kennedy
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
— Thomas Huxley
You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
— Henrik Ibsen
Before beginning, plan carefully.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
— Edmund Burke , Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discontents
The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.
They can conquer who believe they can.
— Virgil
One determined person can make a significant difference; a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
— Sonia Johnson
If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.
— Richard Stallman
No man can expect to be an innovator and, simultaneously, expect to find a ready-made audience sharing-the values he has not yet produced.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
The most important of all revolutions, which may be dated from that day, I mean a revolution in sentiments, manners, and moral opinions.
— Edmund Burke , Reflections on the French Revolution
Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
— T.S.Eliot
When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.
— Rudy Giuliani
My country is the world. My religion is to do good.
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. … And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
— Thomas Jefferson , In a letter to William Stephens Smith on 13 November, 1878.
I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
— James Garfield
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends… when millions are slaughtered, when torture is practiced, starvation enforced, oppression made a policy, as at present over a large part of the world, and as it has often been in the past, it must be at the behest of very many good people, and even by their direct action, for what they consider a worthy object.
— Isabel Paterson , The God of the Machine
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
— George Eliot
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Economic system transformation and related to it new opportunities for enterprising people together with previous housing problems and aggregation of the large number of Poland's residents in housing estates resulted in the mid-90's with a building boom. They were constructing rapidly, usually anyhow and anywhere. The dynamic economy growth stimulated investments, including contracting numerous housing and constructing loans. However, in late 90's domestic and international business cycle had collapsed resulting in crisis. In such circumstances many households and enterprises were not able to pay off the contracted constructing loans. As a result a lot of scattered among Poland plants and lone breeze-block house shells appeared, often built on cheap parcels, sometimes in the centre of recently cultivated field, devoid of any infrastructure. A documentary record of specific for the free-market economy trends fluctuation in Pustoła's project is formally sophisticated criticism of the embryonic turbocapitalism reality making it a 'silent monument of failure, disappointed expectations, family dramas and harsh lesson on the dark side of the free-market economy'.


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Robert Castle Jenkins1
Robert Castle Jenkins lived at Beachley, Monmouthshire, Wales.1
Child of Robert Castle Jenkins
Mary Jenkins+2 d. 22 May 1922
Alfonso Calice1
M, #572592, b. 12 May 2008
Alfonso Calice was born on 12 May 2008.1 He is the son of Matthias Graf Calice and Donna Stefania Lucchesi-Palli dei Principi di Campofranco e Duchi della Grazia.1
[S6498] Stegania Calice, "re: Lucchesi Palli Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 9 January 2013. Hereinafter cited as "re: Lucchesi Palli Family."
William Meldrum of that Ilk1
Child of William Meldrum of that Ilk
Elizabeth Meldrum+1
Hon. Amy Louise Savile-Lumley1
F, #572594, d. 4 February 1943
Hon. Amy Louise Savile-Lumley was the daughter of Reverend Frederick Savile-Lumley and Mary Jenkins.2 She married, firstly, John Ferguson Goodfellow in 1885.1 She married, secondly, Harry Fitzmaurice Huntsman, son of Benjamin Huntsman, on 27 February 1906.1 She died on 4 February 1943.1
From 1885, her married name became Goodfellow. On 5 November 1904 she was granted the rank of a baron's daughter.1 From 27 February 1906, her married name became Huntsman.1
John Ferguson Goodfellow1
John Ferguson Goodfellow married Hon. Amy Louise Savile-Lumley, daughter of Reverend Frederick Savile-Lumley and Mary Jenkins, in 1885.1 He died in 1897, without issue.1
Hon. Minnie Emma Susan Savile-Lumley1
F, #572596, d. 28 May 1946
Hon. Minnie Emma Susan Savile-Lumley was the daughter of Reverend Frederick Savile-Lumley and Mary Jenkins.2 She died on 28 May 1946, unmarried.1
On 5 November 1904 she was granted the rank of a baron's daughter.1
Henry Savile1
M, #572597, b. 2 August 1820, d. 28 August 1881
Henry Savile was born illegitimately on 2 August 1820.1 He was the son of John Lumley-Savile, 8th Earl of Scarbrough and Agnes (?)2,1 He died on 28 August 1881 at age 61, without issue.1
He was given the name of Henry Lumley-Savile at birth.1 He held the office of Captain, 2nd Life Guards.1 His name was legally changed to Henry Savile under the terms of his father's will, who bequeathed him the Rufford and Thornhill estates worth £37,000 p.a. on condition he took the name Savile.1 He held the office of High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1861.1 He owned the racehorses Cremorne (who won the Ascot Cup 1873, Grand Prix Paris 1872) and The Ranger (Grand Prix Paris 1863.)1
Augustus William Savile1
M, #572598, b. 5 December 1828, d. 13 April 1887
Augustus William Savile was born illegitimately on 5 December 1828.1 He was the son of John Lumley-Savile, 8th Earl of Scarbrough and Agnes (?)2,1 He died on 13 April 1887 at age 58 at Cannes, France, without issue.1
He was given the name of Augustus William Lumley-Savile at birth.1 He lived at Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire, England.1 In 1881 his name was legally changed to Augustus William Savile.1 In 1881 he inherited Rufford Abbey from his brother Henry.1 He was Assistant Master of Ceremonies between 1881 and 1887.1
Alice Lorna Grimshaw1
F, #572599, b. 1887
Alice Lorna Grimshaw was born in 1887 at Esher, Surrey, England.1 She was the daughter of James Robert Grimshaw and Alice Margaret Wood.1
[S4567] Bill Norton, "re: Pitman Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger LUNDY (101053), 6 April 2010 and 19 April 2011. Hereinafter cited as "re: Pitman Family."
Miriam Kathleen Maud Grimshaw1
Miriam Kathleen Maud Grimshaw was born in 1892 at Streatham, London, England.1 She was the daughter of James Robert Grimshaw and Alice Margaret Wood.1


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HOST Paris, the youth of the Charismatic Episcopal Church in Paris, presented a Worship Night on Saturday, November 6, 2022.
We have had several Worship Nights before — our first one being in 2018. We were not the first ones to come up with such an event. Many churches and communities host "nights of worship". At that time, we only knew that we wanted to spend an evening fully praising the Lord. Little did we know that evenings like these would enable to connect with God and others in a new way.
For most of us, a Worship Night, or Worship Concert, is an occasion to spend intimate time with God. For this 5th Worship Night, the youth coordinators were praying for a theme. The Lord led us to the word "Sanctus".
When we surrender our lives to God, our own will is slowly being replaced by God's. It is easy to believe that our lives are now trapped. On the contrary, it is when we anchor ourselves in Him, that we feel the lightest. Despite the storms we face, we remain steadfast, filled with the hope for a better life.
This Worship Night was the exact reminder of that promise. A worship filled with the hope that, though death marks the end of an earthly life, it is, above all, the beginning of eternity in the majestic Kingdom of God.
We worship to thank God for giving us this hope, but most importantly, we worship as part of our sanctification.
We pray that visitors will understand that hope can be found through God. This Worship Night was indeed the opportunity for us to invite people from all backgrounds: especially people going through disappointment or loss, who have lost all hope, and who may have probably never experienced the Lord's goodness.
See you at our next Worship Night!
Hanna Salvador-Bautista
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office granted a patent to Emplicure on 9th April 2019 for its patch technology. This patent provides protection for Emplicure's transdermal patch with abuse deterrent properties for the treatment of chronic pain until September 2031.
"Both USA and Europe are important markets for Emplicure and to get approvals of patent applications in these territories are important steps in the product and business development", says Susanne Bredenberg, CEO at Emplicure.
The protection provided by this patent should extend to future, related products that are in development based on this technology. A patent for this technology was also granted by the European Patent Office in 2017.
Emplicure is a research and development focused pharmaceutical company based in Uppsala, Sweden. The company develops new patentable pharmaceutical products based on drug delivery platform technologies originating from the interface between the materials and pharmaceutical sciences. Emplicure currently has several products in the pipeline in formulation or preclinical development phase. The first product to enter the clinical phase is a transdermal patch with abuse deterrent properties for the treatment of chronic pain. The products will be sold or out licensed at different development stages to larger pharmaceutical companies.


This project has investigated the requirement for, and practicality of, extending automated road carriageway condition surveys to those parts of the network for which the current SCANNER surveys are considered to be impractical or not cost effective. The project has investigated, through consultation, the requirements for surveys of unclassified roads, and how these needs could be met using an automated road carriageway condition survey. This has generated a draft specification for automated machine surveys of unclassified roads. However, further investigation has shown that there may be difficulties in supporting two different automated road carriageway condition surveys on the local road network. It may more practical to extend current SCANNER surveys to (appropriate) unclassified roads, supplemented by driven visual surveys where SCANNER is not appropriate. Survey contractors should be encouraged to include the additional capability desired for unclassified roads on any new vehicles. This will lead, in the longer term, to survey vehicles capable of meeting the needs of both classified and unclassified roads.


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import json
import os
import random
import argparse

def getlink(file):
    if os.path.islink(file):
        path = os.path.dirname(os.readlink(file))
    else:
        path = os.path.dirname(file)

    return os.path.dirname(path)

def quote():
    abspath = getlink(__file__)

    if os.name == 'nt':
        data_dir = os.path.join(abspath, 'motivate', 'data')
    else:
        data_dir = os.path.join('/opt', 'motivate', 'data')

    try:
        num_of_json = len([f for f in os.listdir(data_dir)
                           if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(data_dir, f))])
    except FileNotFoundError:
        print("Can't find the data folder. You probably haven't run 'install.sh' yet.")
        exit(1)

    rand_no = random.randint(1, num_of_json)
    filename = os.path.join(data_dir, str(rand_no).zfill(3) + '.json')
    with open(filename) as json_data:
        try:
            quotes = json.load(json_data)
        except ValueError:
            print ("---------------Debug info begins:--------------")
            print("Oops, we met a ValueError.")
            print("Please check this file "+filename)
            print("1. A Possible reason is that there is a redundant comma behind last group of author/quote in this json file.")
            print("   If so, delete that redundant comma, then it will run smoothly.")
            print("2. Another possible reason is that there is hard line-break or tab in that file.")
            print("   However JSON don't support that. Please use '\\n' or '\\t'.")
            print("For later actions, I help you wrote this filename to JSON_ERROR_LIST.txt.")
            print("I suggest you to test those json file in this website: jsonlint.com")
            f_tmp = open('JSON_ERROR_LIST.txt', "a")
            f_tmp.write(filename+"\n")
            f_tmp.close()
            print ("---------------Debug info ends:--------------")
            return

        ran_no = random.randint(1, len(quotes["data"])) - 1
        if "quote" in quotes["data"][ran_no]:
            quote = quotes["data"][ran_no]["quote"]
            author = quotes["data"][ran_no]["author"]
            if os.name == "nt" or args.nocolor:
                quote = "\"" + quote + "\""
                author = "--" + author
                white_code = ""
            else:
                quote = "\033[1;36m" + "\"" + quote + "\"" + "\033[1;m"
                author = "\033[1;35m" + "--" + author + "\033[1;m"
                white_code = "\x1b[0m"
            output = quote + "\n\t\t" + author
            print(output + white_code)
        else:
            print ("---------------Debug info begins:--------------")
            print("This is a message indicating an error in your json database:")
            print("No key 'quote' is found in the file: "+filename+", item_index = "+str(ran_no))
            print("Possibly this json file uses capitalized inital letter in its key.")
            print("You might need to change substitute 'Quote' to 'quote', and 'Author' to 'author'.")
            print("Try to print this problematic item:\n"+str(quotes["data"][ran_no]))
            print ("---------------Debug info ends:--------------")
            cmd_tmp = 'sed -i "s/\"Author\"/\"author\"/g; s/\"Quote\"/\"quote\"/g" '+filename
            print("Try to fix the problem by using command:")
            print(cmd_tmp)
            os.system(cmd_tmp)
            print("Let's check the output:")
            f_tmp = open(filename)
            quotes = json.load(f_tmp)
            print(str(quotes["data"][ran_no]))
            print("Hopfully this problem has been solved.")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='A simple script to print random motivational quotes.')
    parser.add_argument('--no-colors', dest='nocolor', default=False, action='store_true', help='Argument to disable colored output. Disabled by default.')
    args = parser.parse_args()

    quote()


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Scottish Universities introduc....
Scottish Universities introduce plan for easier foreign student visas
Students from the United States and the Far East are to benefit from a new scheme which makes it easier to get a visa to study in Scotland.
University of Glasgow and University of Edinburgh will be the first two Scottish universities to join the scheme, which will make it easier for foreign students to get visas or find permanent work in Scotland and the rest of the UK. Other Scottish universities will join the scheme as quickly as possible.
International students will be able to apply for new Tier 4 visas. The scheme will provide greater support for students who wish to switch to a work visa and take up a graduate role as it allows them to remain in the UK for six months after they have finished their course - compared with four at present.
The universities taking part are given responsibility for eligibility checks which means that students can submit fewer documents than required in the current process alongside their visa applications.
If you are interested in studying in Scotland, you can find out more about it here.
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This is a scenic landscape I've been anxious to capture for some time. Finally, during August of 2018, all the beautiful natural elements and atmospheric conditions were in place to photograph the second largest natural lake in Glacier National Park from this exact perspective.
I hiked down to the lakes wonderfully rugged northeast shore to my pre-scouted location that included an amazing array of fissures and cracks in the massive rocks making for an interesting and dramatic foreground. The brilliant blue St Mary waters churned with the wind, and finally, alpenglow bathed the Lewis Range of the Rocky Mountain front with its rich vibrant golden glow.


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Summary: The survivors have to deal with a huge walker that has fallen into one of the Greene Family's wells. The search for Sophia continues with Daryl finding a sign. Glenn and Maggie go into the town for some supplies, but end up doing more than just scavanging for medicine.Rick and Hershel have a discussion over God's role in the world and about how long Rick's group can stay at Hershel's farm. Finally, Lori asks Glenn to bring her a special item which could have grave effects on her family.


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Job Vacancies Surge Across UK Eases Competition for Work
By Ian Silvera
March 29, 2014 00:01 GMT
The UK labour market is turning a corner as competition for jobs has reached a two-year low after falling more than a third in the space of a year.
According to research by jobs site Adzuna.co.uk, competition for work has plummeted by more than a third (35%) year-on-year.
The research found that there were just 1.55 job seekers competing for each advertised vacancy in February – 35% lower than the year before (2.39).
This is in stark contrast to February 2013 when 1,700 applicants chased just eight jobs at a Costa Coffee outlet in Nottingham. Even as recently as February, the ratio of applications to jobs for a position at a Center Parcs resort was more than 7:1.
"More jobs are popping up all over Britain as employers gear up for a busy spring, and as a result, competition between candidates is easing," said Andrew Hunter, co-founder of Adzuna.
"In many parts of the country there are now more jobs advertised than jobseekers, and top talent is becoming harder to source."
The research also revealed that advertised salaries sank 4.4% year-on-year to £32,023 in February – representing a real-term fall of £2,077 over the last year.
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The study found salary stagnation hit hardest in London (-6%), East Anglia (-5.3%) and the Southeast (-4%), while the Northwest saw moderate growth (2%)
The report found that salaries did not always follow vacancy growth.
Job vacancies in the Southeast, for example, grew by 10,000 in the month to February, reaching 113,324 but the region recorded the third largest annual decline in terms of salary, dropping 4.4% to an average of £30,418.
Adzuna said this negative correlation was echoed in London.
The capital featured on the top 10 best cities to find a job for the first time in February, with 1.01 jobseekers per vacancy, after vacancies increased 16% year-on-year.
But London was also the region in which salaries have fallen the most in the last year.
The findings came after the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that average UK earnings rose at an annual rate of 1.4% in the three months to January. Private sector wages grew at a rate of 1.6% (excluding bonuses) against CPI inflation of 1.7%.