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Extending Lifelong Learning
Serving Rural and Aboriginal Communities: A Serious Gap in Educational Innovation
Ken Coates | Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation, University of Saskatchewan
There are a number of significant roadblocks standing in the way of higher education institutions adequately serving non-traditional Aboriginal and rural students.
From the start of public universities and colleges in the 19th century, educators have committed themselves to serving the needs of rural and remote learners. After the 1970s, institutions expanded their outreach to include Aboriginal students, many of whom are place-bound in remote communities. Now, with the growth of the Internet (even with notoriously poor service in Northern and remote regions), our ability to reach well beyond the major cities and towns has expanded exponentially.
While there are thousands of individual success stories — Indigenous and non-Aboriginal rural learners who completed advanced study via distance education — the reality is the effort is not working particularly well overall. Most online learners are either regular on-campus students (studying in their pajamas rather than getting to class on time, perhaps?) or from urban areas. Major advances in e-based education may be exacerbating the urban-rural divided rather than addressing it.
Nothing, save for technical challenges, stops Aboriginal and other rural residents from capitalizing on the educational opportunities available. So, what stands in the way of mass participation? I would highlight five key challenges:
1. Poor Prior Experience
Many rural and Aboriginal adults experienced inadequate high school preparation and had bad experiences with schooling. Students who are not well prepared in terms of basic skills and who are not keen to learn are unlikely to approach postsecondary institutions.
2. Shortage of Local Role Models
Most teachers and professionals in these areas come from outside the area. Where small groups of students engage in postsecondary education (PSE), they appear to draw others into the world of advanced learning.
3. Limited Local or Accessible Mentoring
Online, self-directed learning is difficult in the best of times. In remote and rural communities, the absence of mentors, tutors and people familiar with local social realities makes it more difficult for independent learners to progress.
4. Disconnect between Local Realities and Postsecondary Curricula
Rural and Aboriginal communities are unique and fascinating places. Most PSE curricula make scant reference to these socio-economic environments and therefore feel disconnected and less relevant to some learners.
5. Disconnect in Expectations
Many institutions significantly underestimate the challenges associated with launching a PSE program. Because of the limited local or regional engagement, many rural and Aboriginal students do not always appreciate the length, intensity and difficulties of a distance education PSE program.
As a result of these and other challenges, rural and Aboriginal students are not fully engaged in the PSE sector, despite the proliferation of program and course offerings. As a way of creating a conversation about expanding PSE participation among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal rural residents, I offer some suggestions that might prompt an expansion of activity.
1. Develop eLearning Familiarity
Build distance education into the last two years of high school so all students in rural and remote communities learn how to study online. Developing a familiarity with e-learning can be really beneficial as they enter postsecondary education and more online learning opportunities.
2. Improve Adult Preparation
Use these same high school courses as the core of adult basic education (ABE) for mature learners, and engage the high school teachers as mentors for the adult learners. Success at ABE lays a good foundation for advanced study.
3. Unite Regional Students
Even if the students are taking different courses, they benefit from recognizing they are part of a larger and local community. Students are great at supporting each other, but this can't happen if they don't know about other learners in the same situation.
4. Engage in Proactive Recruitment
Colleges and universities are effective at recruiting for on-campus enrollment. They are less accomplished at finding students for e-learning. Institutions tend to be passive, allowing students to find them. Outreach activities focused on people currently in the workforce, particularly if done personally, can help a great deal.
5. Link Programs with Reality
Institutions must develop regionally-relevant programs with rural and Aboriginal content as appropriate and provide PSE offerings that respond to local employment opportunities. Targeted courses that prepare students for local opportunities are mostly likely to generate enthusiasm and enrollment. There are many such examples across the country.
Canada has some superb rural educators and institutions with exceptional track records for working with Northern and remote regions. Despite a solid track record, Aboriginal and other rural residents are not capitalizing in full on the educational opportunities available, contributing to economic and personal challenges in these regions. Proactive and creative policies can help; in all cases, knowing the people and the region is absolutely essential.
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Helen C 2013/10/04 at 9:36 am
The issues Coates identifies all boil down to a lack of time spent in the communities in question and a lack of understanding of the unique contexts in which they operate. This is particularly true for Aboriginal students, many of whom are still healing from the trauma of residential schools, which have created a very negative association with the education system. Coates mentions some small-scale ideas to improve this demographic's enrollment and, presumably, retention, but he falls short of admitting we need a complete overhaul of higher education as it is if we truly want to reach Aboriginal students. The measures Coates discusses would merely prepare this group to enter a very Western education system. What we should instead be focused on is building community capacity so that Aboriginal communities have input in the curricula (both design and delivery) for Aboriginal students, as well as a role in educating them. When a community is actively involved in education design and delivery, I believe we will see greater success among its members.
Oliver Wayne 2013/10/04 at 2:38 pm
I don't know if we need to go as far as creating a separate education system for Aboriginal students in order to encourage them to pursue higher education. What I think they need is more local role models. One idea is to have recent graduates, especially those from Aboriginal communities, to go to remote areas and share their experiences to motivate students. Initiatives like this will build motivation for postsecondary education.


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Escape and Evasion files at the National Archives
September 29, 2010 May 28, 2021 by hparkins, posted in - World War II
The B-17s, including this one, called the Big Yank, flew many raids from England into Europe (Roosevelt Library; ARC 195654).
Escape and evasion files are firsthand accounts of a military personnel's escape from behind enemy lines. In World War II, thousands of U.S. troops crashed in Nazi territory and had to evade capture or escape from German prisons. The National Archives recently digitized 2,953 firsthand accounts of escape and evasion during the war.
Each account reads like a Hollywood script, and although each is a gripping tale of perseverance, there are some that stand out as truly remarkable. We here at POH have summarized and linked our 10 favorite tales, including emergency landings into soccer games, fake Nazi salutes, and Boy Scout disguises.
2nd Lt. John Dunbar – It was the Fourth of July in 1943 when Dunbar's plane was shot out of the sky over La Pallice, France. After receiving assistance from local Frenchmen in the German-occupied territory he marched for 18 days through France dressed as a peasant. For five of those days he had no food. For the rest, he survived off beer and scraps of food that had fallen off carts along the road. Three weeks later he crossed the Pyrenees mountains on foot into Spain, where he was captured by the Guardia Civil and later released.
Sgt. William Davidson was taken prisoner after becoming lost in the woods near St. Die, Germany, on October 25, 1944. A Nazi patrol captured him and interrogated him and were moving him to the rear when artillery struck nearby and he escaped. He headed south toward Switzerland. Three weeks later he arrived at the Swiss border, where a Swiss soldier put him in a cell block with 60 German officers. When he was identified as an American, he was removed and eventually asked if he wanted to stay in Switzerland or return to his unit. He asked to be returned to duty and was released at the Swiss border, one month after his initial capture.
Maj. Donald Willis crash-landed his P-38 in the middle of a Dutch soccer game, scattering 500 players and spectators in German-occupied Holland. He immediately disembarked the plane, stole a bicycle, donned a stolen jacket, and started riding toward a German patrol with a group of other bikers. Days later, after sleeping in barns and haystacks, he accidentally wandered into a German anti-aircraft battery and was sent away, mistaken as a civilian on his way into friendly territory. Later, he entered a bar in Antwerp and ordered a Bock beer. "The few people in the cafe paid no attention to me," he writes, "but the Belgian who gave me the beer guessed my identity." The bartender took him to a back room and fed him. "Just as I was leaving the Belgian brushed off some straw that was clinging to the back of my coat and smiled while doing it." At Broom the only way to cross into safe territory was to cross a German-controlled bridge. He watched workers moving back and forth, carrying heavy poles for much of the day, and after the German guards tired of their presence, Major Willis tailed onto the back of one of the crews and crossed the bridge with them. He was rescued soon after.
Anonymous – Buried within Major Willis's escape and evasion account is the tale of another soldier who may have escaped the clutches of the German military. Willis writes:
"During my evasion while I was living in a large Belgian city I watched a . . . B-17 catch fire and leave formation. Soon after that several parachutes opened above the city and one floated down into the section of town where I was. I had a good view of it and watched this parachutist land in the walled-in garden of a house. Just as he touched the ground a German motorcyclist stopped in front of the house and ran around to clamber over the garden wall at the back. When the German got into the garden the American burst through the front door of the house and hopped on the German's motorcycle and tore off down the street blowing his horn as loud as he could and cheered on by the Belgian people."
2nd Lt. Jack E. Ryan was co-pilot of a bomber on a mission to Le Bourget airdrome near Paris on August 16, 1943, when the plane was attacked by a German Me 109F. The order to bail out was given at 18,000 feet. As Ryan parachuted down, he saw the scattered pieces of the bomber burning on the ground and the fighter passed so close to him that he thought "he was going to take my chute with wing tips." A French family saw him on the ground and urged him to hide. Five minutes later, two Germans arrived and offered candy and tobacco to the group of children that had gathered, rewards for finding the American parachutist. Even though the searchers came with 10 feet of Ryan, he was undetected and remained hidden in his brush-covered hole for four hours. He then encountered French Resistance agents who guided him to a safe farm. There Ryan met his bombardier, 2nd Lt. Wayne Rader. Rader's own escape from the burning plane had been far more dramatic than Ryan's: "Did not jump. Was trapped in plane in a spin. Plane spun down 10000 feet and exploded. Was blown from plane by force of explosion through the nose. Blacked out for a few seconds but came to in time to open parachute." The rest of the crew were either killed or taken as prisoners of war. After six weeks at the farm, they were taken to Paris and given false papers. They then proceeded to the coast of Brittany, where they and a larger group of Allied fliers were put on fishing boats bound for England.
Sgt. Richard C. Hamilton's file combines his report with his crewmate Sgt. Rudolph Cutino. Their bomber was attacked on February 11, 1944, as it was returning to England after a bombing raid over Frankfurt. Hamilton, the ball turret gunner, stated that he "was last out of fuselage. Opened chute at once." Upon landing near Amiens, a couple of Frenchmen hid him, but two Germans found him and took him to a shack. Hamilton tripped one and hit the other in the cheek and dove through a row of trees, where the Frenchmen were waiting for him. After staying in a safe barn for a few days, Cutino, the bomber's right waist gunner, arrived. Five days later, three more crew members—Sgt. Thomas Glennan (left waist gunner), Sgt. Abe Helfgott (radio operator), and Lt. Philemon Wright (navigator)—were brought in. All the Americans were taken to Paris, where they got false papers and met the pilot of their plane, 2nd Lt. Robert Laux. All the crew had gotten out of the plane by parachute. Six of the 10 successfully made it back to England. After a train ride to Quimper in Brittany, they (along with other Americans and Canadians) were taken to the coast and put on boats bound for England.
2nd Lt. Robert Laux – Laux's own report contains some amazing close calls for the downed pilot. After getting some civilian clothes from a friendly French woodcutter, he headed south down a road, thinking to escape through Spain. Along the way, a "German motorcyclist stopped, raised his hand, and shouted 'Halt!' I thought he was saluting me, so I gave him the Hitler salute back. A number of truckloads of Germans passed, and I saluted all of them. They returned my salute." That wasn't his last encounter with German forces in France. The next day, he set out and as he was looking at road signs at a crossroads, "a German staff car full of heavily armed MP's pulled up. I was still carrying my flight jacket to use at night. I thought to myself, 'Here goes,' and walked right on. A German got out of the car, motioned to me to come over, and said in French something I did not understand. I looked dumb. He repeated slowly with gestures asking whether to go this way or that. I pointed down the road and the car drove off." After this lucky break, a woman at the next house took him in, and the rest of his journey back to England was arranged.
S/Sgt. William Howell was a tail gunner in 533rd bomb squad when his plane was attacked by Germans and there was an explosion in the plane. Although his oxygen was cut off, he continued to fire at the enemy planes before bailing out and tearing open his parachute with his hands. He was hit several times in the hand, leg, and head. He heard the plane crash and explode. Howell landed in the woods, and "borrowed a couple of the fox's ideas" from his hunting experience in North Carolina. He evaded several Germans in the woods and even slept behind a sentry at one point. Howell was eventually taken in by a couple whose son had been a soldier in the French army in 1939. The son got Howell "pretty high" on cognac and then "pulled a lot of metal" from the wounded soldier. Howell spent the rest of his stay disguised as a boy scout and sleeping in a pup tent, listening to the wild boar snuffling around at night. His escape was arranged, and during the journey Howell was treated by a doctor and anesthetized to have metal removed from his head. He continued onward and managed to cross through the Pyrenees on his third attempt. Once in Spain, he notes he ate a banana and concluded that "Once I got warm things did not seem bad at all." The story of Howell's pilot, 1st Lt. Olof Ballinger, is also included in the files. He details the fates of the rest of Howell's crew.
Sgt. Elton Kevil, a waist gunner in the 365th squadron, was on a bombing run to Bremen. They were looking for their escort of P-47s when they were joined by two planes with USAAF insignia on the sign. Kevil thought that the planes seemed to be the awaited escort—but he noticed they did not "tip up" their wings. Less than a minute later, these German decoys shot past the plane and attacked it, and the crew had to crash land the damaged plane. The crew survived the landing, and after the navigator burned their documents, split up into pairs. Kevil and his partner spent three days hiding and watching a bridge before they were able to evade the guards and cross. Eventually they were able to get assistance from a Dutchman, and later crossed the Pyrenees and escaped.
2nd Lt. Eugene Squier was on his way to bomb a railroad bridge at Nantes when his plane was attacked. He parachuted to safety. Squier was taken in by an old farming couple, who hid him in a chicken coop for six days before passing him to another man, who had recently assisted and sent on Squier's other six crew members. Squier was forced to remain behind for the next three weeks. Meanwhile, the Americans took the nearby town of Rennes. Afterward, as the American vehicles rolled through Squier's host town, he tried to make contact, but he was unsuccessful, since the vehicles were going too fast and he was wearing civilian clothes. But the next day, 11 Germans were looking for an officer to surrender to, and Squier found himself persuading them that he was in fact an American officer. The next day, Squier contacted an American colonel, who lent Squier a reconnaissance car. Squier drove back to the original farmer who had sheltered him and retrieved his uniform. Then he drove back to the village where had been staying, where he was received by the mayor and celebrated with the townspeople.
Almost all his crew successfully evaded captured: pilot Lt. Col George Stalnaker, Capt. Edgar Williams, flight navigator 1st Lt. Jim Clark, bombadier 1st Lt. Francis Murphy, radio gunner T/Sgt. Richard Smith, and gunner S/Sgt. Stanley Miller.
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Paul Hamilton says:
These stories would have been rejected as too farfetched had they been part of a movie script. Amazing.
Jan (Squier) Andersen says:
My father, Eugene Squier, just passed away last month at the age of 92. My nephew found this site when he was looking for the obituary. I am amazed and touched to find my father's story in the National Archives.
The account is the same as the stories he told my sister and me about his time hiding in France. What is missing is his tales of life among the lively French family who took him in and treated him like a member of their family. My father and mother maintained their connection to the Bodard family, visiting them in France several times.
For the 40th anniversary of D-Day, the city of Rennes (near where the plane crashed) invited my father and 3 members of the crew back to France for a celebration. There were parades, ceremonies, banquets, television coverage and speeches. The villagers gave the crew pieces of their plane that had crashed; my father received a very burned tail gun. The children in town even asked for autographs – the men and their wives were treated like celebrities.
The other crew members who were there were the pilot, George Stalnecker, the navigator, Jim Clark, and the engineer (I don't have his name.)
I can't begin to explain what this site means to my sister and me. To be able to read my father's account of his crew's evasion in his own words, in his handwriting, is priceless. Thank you so very much for making this military information available to us.
Jan, we were thrilled to read your comment. It means a lot to us that our blog post shared your father's "Piece of History" with the public and with you.
Keeping our veterans' stories safe and making them accessible is huge part of the mission of the National Archives. We were sorry to hear your father passed away, but we are happy to have given you access to a memory and to have you share your memories with us.
And we loved the postscript! What a wonderful ending to a (harrowing) adventure. Thank you for sharing the rest of the story with us.
You could probably even read more of your father's story here at the National Archives. You can request his military record from the National Personnel Center in St. Louis, MO. http://www.archives.gov/veterans/
And you might want to share your story here too http://usnatarchivesfoundit.tumblr.com/
Reading this comment from you has made our day and reminds us why our work here is so important–thank you again!
Ed Renière says:
It's been a few months I had been told by American friends that the WWII Escape & Evasion Reports were avaialble on-line at NARA. Since then, I've often visited the site and read the reports of many US airmen, particularly of those who were helped by the Belgian COMET Line, one of the most successful networks involved in helping downed airmen get back to the United Kingdom.
My research in those documents helps in the writing, together with other researchers in our group, of pages on our website which lists more than 900 Allied airmen and others who were helped by COMET, not all of them being successful, as many were arrested on the way (and thus have no E&E report in your Archives).
Our website's address is at http://www.evasioncomete.org
It's in French only for the reasons explained in English also on the Home Page.
Thanks to all involved in the gigantic task of making those documents available to the public.
With best regards to the team,
Edouard Renière
Voluntary researcher,
Chris Laux says:
Several years ago I stumbled across this and couldn't believe that I found handwritten accounts from my Grandfather, Robert Valentine Laux. Very humbling to know that my Grandfather, who passed away just before I was born went through such a harrowing experience. It appears that the link to his hand written account is now broken, is there any way I can find this information again?
My Dad, Henry Barr was the Tailgunner on the B17 that your Grandfather piloted
The Plane was nicknamed "Laux's Angels" My dad was severely wounded by flax before parachuting from the plane, he survived and spent 13-1/2 months as a pow,
He spoke of fondly of your grandfather and of the whole crew, said they were a great bunch of guys. Dad was 91 when he passed away, New Year's Day 2015
Laurent Viton says:
Hello Henry ,
I would like to contact you regarding your father's crew lost in my area in Normandy on 11 February 1944 .
Thank you ,
Luciano Fernandes says:
I´m writing a biography about Lt. Roberto Brandini. The P-47 piloted by Lt. Brandini from the 1st Brazilian Fighter Squadron (attached to the 350th FG) was hit by German FLAK and he bailed out near Ostiglia, Italy in Feb 10 1944. He was imprisoned by the German army and sent for treatment in a Hospital in the small town of Todeschini, where a FLAK shrapnel was removed from his brain! After 5 weeks, he was sent to another hospital and POW camp in Verona (camp PG148, could be in Campagnola or Bussolengo). There, he met one US airman, crew of B-24 bomber Liberator, totally covered by plaster (broken limbs and legs), being cared by a Brit sergeant pilot. Later, they were transferred to another larger prison Hospital in Verona. By April 09, Germans moved to a POW camp in Mantua (likely the Dulag 339). They were kept there until April 17, and soon dispatched to the Villafranca air field, where he met more American airmen. In April 25, they headed north to "Brunwick" (Bruneck or Brunico), marching across Trento, Braxeu, and arrived in Bolzano by April 28. By early May 03, American troops arrived and liberated the POWs. Next day they were transferred to Villafranca airfield in trucks, and then to Florence by plane. If you have any information concerning the POWs in North Italy, I would be grateful!
Luciano Felicio Fernandes says:
Anyone here know where and how to get access to POW reports? I have been researching about a relative of mine, Lt. Roberto Brandini (USAAF 350th FG in Pisa, 1944-45), who was POW in North Italy. I wonder whether NARA archives or the UK Archives would have more reports!
I am sorry, I made a mistake. He was imprisoned by Feb 10th, 1945,NOT 1944. thanks!


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Wirral Council
Egremont landmark Andrew Gibson House could be listed by English Heritage after all
More than 3,600 people have signed petition to save building
Lorna Hughes
Andrew Gibson House is threatened with demolition
Plans to save a treasured demolition-threatened building on the River Mersey have been boosted with confirmation heritage chiefs are treating it as a "priority case".
More than 3,600 people have signed a petition to save Andrew Gibson House, an Edwardian home for sailors' widows on Seabank Road, Egremont.
It has been empty and derelict for over a decade and the Seafarers' charity that owns it, Nautilus Welfare Fund, has applied to demolish it.
English Heritage today said it had made the building a "priority case" after receiving a nomination for listing – which could save it from the bulldozer. It is understood an application to list the building 10 years ago was rejected.
Jonathan Brown, a chartered town planner who started the petition, said: "It is a stay of execution and what this means is that Wirral Council will not give permission for demolition.
"The fact that they are looking at it again gives us another chance to speak to Nautilus."
The imposing brick and stone property on Egremont Promenade was completed in 1906 to provide a sanctuary for the widows of elderly sailors and men lost at sea.
It was built by individual philanthropy and maintained by the collective contributions of individual union members. The petition organisers argue that the building represents "a unique piece of Britain's maritime and welfare history".
Nautilus told the ECHO it had spent ten years trying to find a way of saving the building.
Mr Brown added: "We had 3-400 names through social media, then when our story was in the ECHO we got about 1,000 more between 8pm and 8am – it's now over 3,000, which has exceeded our expectations."
In a statement, Nautilus said the proposal to demolish Gibson House had been made "reluctantly".
Mike Jess, secretary of Nautilus Welfare Fund, said: "It is not an easy option and it is not a cheap option. We have worked long and hard to seek a viable future for the building.
"Over the past decade we have entered into public and private sector partnerships to explore redevelopment proposals and to produce a conversion plan. "However, factors such as the substantial structural challenges presented by the building mean that none of these plans proved to be viable. No one else has produced a proposal or a bid for the building which would secure its future in its current form."
A spokesman for English Heritage said: "We have received a nomination for listing. We are currently compiling our advice which will be sent to the Department for Culture Media and Support who make the final decision."
She said there was no definite time scale for the decision but Andrew Gibson House had been made "a priority case."
To sign the petition, go to http://bit.ly/1HePDAs


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This article is part of our Yahoo DFS Baseball series.
Wednesday's MLB slate begins at 1:05 PM Eastern time and features 16 games, including a doubleheader between the Orioles and Red Sox. Owners don't need to break the bank to find quality pitching in this slate, which should allow plenty of room to pursue expensive hitters, such as some of the Nationals set up for success in their home ballpark.
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Cody Reed, CIN vs. KC ($31): Reed's been downright filthy in his past two starts, posting a 16:2 K:BB while allowing only seven hits over 11 scoreless innings. There's little reason for the young lefty to slow down against a 25th-ranked Royals offense that's scoring just 3.91 runs per game. At just $31, using him also opens up crucial cap space to spend at other positions without sacrificing production in the pitcher spot.
Masahiro Tanaka, NYY at TB ($44): This will likely be Tanaka's final pitch (no pun intended) to start the Wild Card game for New York, and he's already made a pretty convincing case for himself with a 2.64 ERA in 12 starts since July 15. That strong stretch includes one start in Tampa Bay – a three-hit, one-walk complete game shutout. He likely won't be quite as dominant this time, but Tanaka's strong second half and lofty 25.2 percent strikeout rate should be enough to get owners excited here.
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Omar Narvaez, CWS vs. CLE ($13): Left-handed hitters have pummeled rookie Indians righty Shane Bieber to the tune of a .391 wOBA over a 246-batter sample. Narvaez is primed to add to Bieber's struggles, as the catcher has a .360 wOBA against right-handed pitching this season and bats in the heart of Chicago's order.
Ryan Zimmerman, WAS vs. MIA ($17): Zimmerman has been limited to 69 at-bats against lefties this season, but he's made the most of those limited chances with a .472 wOBA over that sample. That success should continue against Marlins southpaw Wei-Yin Chen, who has an astronomical 9.29 ERA in 51.1 road innings.
Travis Shaw, MIL at STL ($17): Cardinals righty John Gant has had major command issues recently, issuing 21 walks in 30.2 innings over his past six starts while failing to get through five frames in three of his last four. Those control problems should put more ducks on the pond in front of Shaw, thus allowing Milwaukee's cleanup hitter to maximize the damage from his .377 wOBA against righties.
Alex Bregman, HOU at TOR ($24): Blue Jays starter Sean Reid-Foley has been brutal in righty-on-righty matchups, allowing a .391 wOBA. That .391 mark also happens to be Bregman's wOBA against right-handed pitching this season. Reid-Foley isn't expected to go deep into the game, and Bregman's .409 wOBA against lefties suggests he's ready for whatever Toronto's bullpen throws at him.
Trea Turner, WAS vs. MIA ($22): Turner's decent .347 wOBA against lefties climbs to a much more dangerous .394 in 77 at-bats facing them at Nationals Park (1.14 park factor). Given Chen's aforementioned road struggles, Turner's primed for a strong home performance out of the two-hole in Washington's batting order. He's also a major threat to add value with his legs, having stolen 89 bases since the start of last season.
Robbie Grossman, MIN vs. DET ($15): Grossman's a switch-hitter with a heavy preference toward batting right-handed. His wOBA against lefties is .373 while his mark against righties is a paltry .306. Luckily for Grossman, he'll get to bat from his preferred side against Tigers southpaw Matt Boyd, who has allowed a .338 wOBA to right-handed hitters en route to a 5.52 ERA on the road. Grossman should also benefit from batting cleanup for the injury-riddled Twins.
Nick Martini, OAK at SEA ($15):Felix Hernandez hasn't been the king of anything except getting hit hard by left-handed batters this season, serving up a .359 wOBA in that split. With a .361 mark against right-handed pitching coming into this contest, Martini's an affordable yet effective option operating out of the leadoff spot for Oakland.
Kyle Schwarber, CHC vs. PIT ($19): Left-handed hitters have produced a .345 wOBA against Pirates righty Ivan Nova, and that number jumps to .393 over a 148-batter sample on the road. Wrigley Field's eighth-ranked, 1.09 park factor makes it one of the league's more hitter-friendly road venues, which should make things even tougher for Nova. Meanwhile, Schwarber's in the midst of a solid campaign, with a .359 wOBA versus righties.
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Will Metal Powder be the Fuel of the Future?
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This flame contains an energy that could fuel the cars of tomorrow. And there`s not a trace of petrol to be found. The fuel of the future could be renewable and completely emissions-free.
LIVE Fabien Halter
"So we're in the process of burning a powder comprised of metallic particles in open air, and we've managed to stabilize a flame. This flame is full of energy, which we can see by how much light it emits."
Faced with the reality of climate change, finding alternatives to hydrocarbon fuels has become a priority. As well as being abundant in nature, powdered metals like magnesium or aluminum burn very well in open air.
ITW Fabien Halter
"If we want a substitute for traditional fossil fuels we need something comparable. The advantages of powdered metals, aluminum and magnesium for example, is that their potential energy is very similar to that of a fossil fuel. That's really important to us. The second major advantage is the absence of carbon emissions. These metallic powders don't contain any carbon and therefore can't produce carbon dioxyde."
This combustion is produced by oxidation at high temperatures. At the touch of a flame, the metal reacts with oxygen from the air to create a metallic oxide. But before this powder can power our cars, there are a number of challenges to overcome. scientists are looking to optimize this chemical reaction, that is already used to propel rockets, and adapt it for ground vehicles. This means manufacturers will have to develop new; specially adapted engines..
"The massive difference between metallic particles and hydrocarbons is principally in the fact that thermal energy is emitted in the form of light. It gives off massive amounts of heat. Thankfully there are a number of available options to recapture this energy. The first is to use a process which converts that light into electricity with photovoltaic systems. That could be a good alternative. The second is to take refractive materials which could absorb the light, convert it to heat, and then we could transfer that heat to air that could then turn a gas turbine for instance."
Another major challenge posed by metal combustion: avoiding pollution. Other than nitrogen oxides, there are also a number of other pollutants to deal with.
"Above all what we want to avoid is the emission of metallic oxide particles that could find their way into the atmosphere. That's something that just isn't an option. Our objective is to capture the particles that we've produced before they ever exit the motor."
This is even more important as metal oxides are not a renewable resource. The by-product of combustion could be recycled and restored to its pure metallic form. In other good news, this regeneration could be carried out with the help of the most renewable energy available: the Sun.
We're in the Pyrenees Mountains where, since 1969, scientists have been researching concentrated solar energy. These massive ovens generate over 1MW of power. They're the only ovens of their kind. This site has enabled numerous advances in researching materials at high temperatures and the conversion of solar energy.
ITW Marianne
"The trick is to restore the magnesium from the oxides formed in combustion while traveling. To regenerate them with clean solar energy so that they can be reused in a vehicle."
In this case, metal oxides are recycled in a reaction called "Carbo-Reduction."
"Here we're focusing the Sun's rays. We can concentrate them up to 15,000 times their original power and raise the temperature of a sample very quickly, by 2,000 degrees in a few seconds. That's essential. We can't achieve that with other kinds of heating. At the first floor of the building, there's a heliostat, which is a mirror that can send solar rays vertically via these parabolas and then concentrate them at the level of the foyer. So it's at the foyer that we can place the magnesium oxide and begin carbo-reduction.
"So we intensify the concentrated solar rays until the temperature of the sample is ready to begin its reaction. We can see it vaporize through the viewport before condensing into magnesium."
This injection of solar energy enables the separation of metal and oxygen. The metal regained from the process is pure, its potential energy restored.
LIVE Marianne
"We collect these magnesium particles deposited in the filter. And now the cycle is complete as it can again serve as fuel."
These metallic powders serve as a medium to store and transport solar energy right up to the moment they're used in a vehicle. Once the energy is consumed for transportation, the metallic oxide can be recharged in a solar factory, and the cycle can start over. But in order to refill one's tank, a little bit of new metal will always be necessary.
ITW Marianne Balat Pichelin
"We can't make a perfect cycle, because we will always lose some material. There's always a bit that won't be restored to magnesium. So in order to minimize these losses and have a superior conversion, we're trying to work out different parameters to control within the reaction. In other words pressure, temperature, expulsion of gas, and other methods by which we can attain an efficiency of 90%, which would be a great goal to reach."
Even beyond the auto industry, metallic powders could one day become an additional solution for storing renewable energy across the globe.
What if we could power our vehicles with metal powder? Aluminium and magnesium have the same energy density as fossil fuels and the waste—metal oxydes—can be recycled with concentrated solar energy.
Powdered Sunlight
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Marc Aderghal
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Fabien HALTER (Université d'Orléans)
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réactivité et environnement (ICARE)
CNRS / Université d'Orléans
Marianne BALAT-PICHELIN (CNRS)
Laboratoire procédés, matériaux et énergie solaire (PROMES)
CNRS / Université de Perpignan via Domitia
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The Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences acknowledges Australia's First Nations Peoples as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land and gives respect to the Elders – past and present – and through them to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are advised that the MAAS website contains a range of material which may be culturally sensitive including records of people who may have passed away.
Powerhouse Museum
Sydney Observatory
Museums Discovery Centre
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The Space exhibition looks at space and man's discoveries relating to it. It includes a life-size replica of the forward section of the space shuttle, an early rocket made by the pioneering scientist Robert Goddard, images from the 'space race' and an actual Moon rock, on loan from NASA. Suspended above are satellites and spacecraft, including a giant Saturn V rocket engine and a model of the first artificial satellite, Sputnik-1.
Other displays include a Soviet flight suit, spacecraft emergency equipment and images from the outer reaches of the solar system taken by robotic space probes.
Venues at a Glance
Turbine Hall
Powerhouse Theatre
Theatrette
Charles Kerry Room
Learning Centre Studio
Kings Cinema
Transport exhibition
Steam Revolution
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AUBURN - Auburn's gymnastics team stole the show at the Elevate Gym Fest Invitational in North Highlands, Calif. with four gymnasts winning all-around gold and seventeen claiming top spots on the podium.
Thirteen-year-old Ana Hamilton claimed the all-around title and took the gold, in the older age division as well as 1st place on the floor exercise, balance beam and the uneven bars with a record-breaking performance on floor that earned her a 9.775 on the floor.
Annaliese Nobile won the all-around in her age bracket and division as well. She nailed her vault, bars, floor winning 1st on all three events. She took home the 1st place all-around medal.
Holly Hansen took 1st place in her competition winning a total of five of five 1st place medals.
Joining her team for the first time this gymnastics season was 17-year-old Emily Esteban, who is recovering from an ankle injury she suffered just before the season started back in December.
Esteban competed on the bars, floor and beam and won 1st place on every event.
The level 7 team was led by Kyla Rector who scored a 36.65. Teammate Marissa Jilot scored a 36.625 while Maya Thrasher scored a 36.5, Katelyn Carter scored a 34.25 and Midori Ogino scored a 33.625.
The level 6 team was led by Mariah Belman who scored a 9.475 on vault winning the 2nd place honor while Delaney Stetka stood out on the vault and beam and coming in 4th on both events.
While Auburn Gymnastics Center's girls team was claiming their share of medals, the dominating boys' team was in Pleasanton, Calif. Making their own mark.
Leading the effort was Zeph Thomas who was 2nd on both the pommel horse and the vault.
Rings was where the Auburn team medaled most frequently. Level 5, Gavin Otis, won 1st place and teammate, Johnathan Lyda took 3rd. Level 4 Noah Al-Shaikh was 2nd and teammate Wyatt Walker came in 3rd.
Level 6 Kohen Rugg took 3rd on the pommel horse while teammate Christopher Otis took 5th.
Level 6 Beck Thomas and Kannon Rector delivered on the parallel bars with Thomas earning 4th and Rector earning 5th.
Level 5 high bar top score came from Parker Steinmann.
Level 4 super vaulter Daniel Medrano was in the top 10 and John Wood earned an 8.8 on the vault while Alex Harris scored an 8.9.


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Jewish leaders join N.Y. Gov. Cuomo in budget push to combat hate crimes and anti-Semitism
By Denis Slattery
New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo (Anthony DelMundo/New York Daily News)
ALBANY — Jewish leaders joined Gov. Cuomo on Thursday to denounce recent anti-Semitic attacks and push his plan to create a state law that would treat hate crimes as domestic terrorism.
Cuomo launched a new campaign, dubbed #NoHateInOurState, at the Manhattan event and called on the Legislature to get on board with his budget plan to create a domestic terrorism law, allocate $25 million for religious not-for-profit organizations vulnerable to hate crimes, create an education curriculum on diversity and tolerance for students and invest $2 million to support the State Police Hate Crimes Task Force.
"As New Yorkers, as Governor of New York, I want to make it clear that there is no tolerance for this activity on any level," Cuomo said. "It's not just immoral, it's not just wrong it's also illegal. And we're going to pass additional legislation to make that position clear. We will enforce the law to the fullest extent."
The state has seen 42 acts of anti-Semitism already this year, the governor noted.
This past weekend, several Jewish community centers around the country, including one in the state capital, received anonymous bomb threats via email. Cuomo visited the Albany Jewish Community Center on Sunday after it had been evacuated and searched.
"As we continue to see a disturbing surge of hatred and violence against our community, Governor Cuomo has not only stood firmly in solidarity but also taken aggressive action to protect marginalized communities and educate the next generation to end hatred once and for all," said Jack Rosen, the president of the American Jewish Congress.
Cuomo's New York Hate Crime Anti-Terrorism Act would include hate crimes as domestic terrorism The measure would include mass violence motivated by hate and create penalties of up to life in prison for offenders.
The governor's budget proposal also calls for $25 million for religious and non-religious not-for-profit organizations that are vulnerable to hate crimes and will expand the eligibility criteria to include houses of worship.
Cuomo also wants to include $2 million to support the State Police Hate Crimes Task Force. The money will support the task force's ongoing work to "bolster the monitoring of digital media which promote violence, intolerance, selling of illicit substances and terrorism," according to the proposal.
"We won't tolerate it, and New York, we're not just about words, we're about action," the governor said. And when people say, 'I offer my thoughts and prayers,' I say, 'Well you're an elected official. I don't need thoughts and prayers from an elected official. I'll go to my Rabbi. I'll go to my priest. From an elected official I want action. I want deeds. I want progress.' And that's what we're going to deliver in the State of New York."


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Q: PL/SQL and JDBC Commits: Does writing commit in PL/SQL commits to database even if i do conn.rollback in jdbc? I am developing a project which does the following :

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*truncate a temporary table T1.

*insert some thousand rows into temporary table T1.

*Execute a procedure  which has some commit statements in it.

*insert rows from table T1 to other identical table(with respect to structur) T2.

*Execute 2 more procedures with commit statement in them.

Above 5 steps form one transaction to me. So either all should be done or none of them should be done.
Now even though i do conn.rollback if some error occurs few changes are getting reflected into database.
Is commit statement in procedures the reason ? Does truncating table implicitly commits to database ?
If yes ? What could be possible solution ?
Thanks in advance !!!
P.N. : Database is in oracle and i have less knowledge of PL/SQL

A: Truncating the table (or doing any other DDL statement) causes an implicit commit before and after the statement is executed.  Committing in your procedures will also terminate your transaction.
If you really want all those steps to be part of a single transaction, you would need to remove the TRUNCATE (are you sure you really need that for a global temporary table?) and to remove the commit statements from your procedures.  In general, stored procedures should not contain transaction control statements for precisely this reason-- it makes it exceedingly difficult to reuse them if you want your transaction to encompass multiple different calls.


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The death of Osama bin Laden: it's a pity …
Richard Jackson
Updated: September 18, 2016 12:39 IST
An entry in a personal blog about the killing of the al-Qaeda leader, situating it within the locus of U.S. militarism.
The fact that Osama bin Laden, a man who fought his enemies with violence that frequently killed the innocent, is now dead is from many perspectives a positive development. That the world now has one less influential leader who is willing to kill and destroy as a means of engendering political change is hopefully a small step towards a more peaceful world…
But it's a pity that the U.S. chose to pursue a massive 'war on terrorism' as a response to bin Laden's violent campaign, a war in which far more innocent people have been killed and injured than bin Laden's initial attacks. Their deaths are also part of this story and must be counted and acknowledged in our reflections on the real costs of this so-called act of 'justice'…
No mention of Iraq
And it's a pity that the Bush administration and the coalition of the willing wrongly linked Iraq to al-Qaeda and bin Laden, and then invaded with the result of more than 600,000 dead and millions displaced. The immeasurable suffering of that nation is one of the most shameful episodes of the hunt for bin Laden, but I have seen no mention of Iraq in all the discussion. To the victims of the invasion, the rejoicing in the death of bin Laden will most likely leave a bitter taste…
And it's a pity that so many people, including many innocents, were kidnapped, rendered and tortured for information on bin Laden's whereabouts, and in the end, normal methods of intelligence-gathering found him anyway. Those innocent individuals who can no longer sleep properly because they endured sleep deprivation torture, who suffer nightmares and post-traumatic stress from being waterboarded, also have to be counted as part of the enduring costs of the hunt for bin Laden…
And it's a pity that the U.S. did not respond to the Taliban's offer to hand over bin Laden to trial in Pakistan in 2001, and that they did not take the opportunity to strengthen international law and the ICC, so that bin Laden (and any other wanted terrorist or war criminal) could be captured, tried and imprisoned at the Hague. A strong international legal system guaranteed by the U.S., rather than the rule of force, would have been far better outcome than the disastrous decade of war on terrorism that we have had instead…
And it's a pity that so many are celebrating using violent means to fight a violent group, and that it will most likely lead to a continuing, maybe even intensifying, cycle of violence. It's sad that so few today recognise or understand that the use of violence rarely leads to any long-term solutions, but instead, most often creates ever more violence and suffering in the long run. This event and the response to it are an opportune moment to reflect on our addiction to political violence and our belief that conflict can best be solved by killing…
And it's a pity that some think we should just celebrate his death without thinking about the context in which it occurred, the history of suffering he and his enemies engendered, the inherent moral and strategic problems with the way it was done, and the likely future consequences for so many. This small death should be a moment to reflect on how many lives were lost in the campaign to finally get bin Laden and whether killing terrorists without dealing with the reasons why they fight is a useful long-term strategy. These deeper questions have been lost in all the rejoicing…
And it's a pity that the U.S. and other Western states view 'justice' as killing a man extra-judicially and then disappearing his body in the ocean. Apart from the denial of full justice to the victims of 9/11 who will never know now what really happened, this seems like a surrender of our own values, norms and beliefs in the rule of law. Making exceptions to human rights and legal standards of justice only succeeds in creating a world in which law and justice is ever weaker. By responding to bin Laden in a lawless manner, and treating him as he treated his victims, we simply go down and join him in the pit of immorality. We become the monster we hunt…
And it's a pity that targeted killing is now a core tactic of counter-terrorism, especially when the Israeli experience clearly demonstrates that it does not work to reduce terrorism, kills many innocent bystanders, and leads to more recruits for terrorist groups…
About 'one evil guy'
And it's a pity that bin Laden came to be seen as the personalisation of evil, the mastermind who could be blamed for causing most of the world's terrorism, and who therefore needed to be eradicated at all costs. Solely focussing on one man meant that the history and context of real political grievances which lead to bin Laden's rise was silenced and erased; terrorism was about one evil guy, not decades of U.S. foreign policy, entrenched grievances, structures of oppression and daily physical, structural and cultural violence. Now he's gone, one wonders who will take his place as the next personification of evil…
And it's a pity that it happened so late that it will have no positive effect at all on terrorism or counter-terrorism, or on bin Laden's mythical status as the man who stood up to the Western world for more than a decade…
And it's a pity that they dumped his body in the sea, which will most likely add to his mythical status. It won't be surprising if many of his supporters refuse to believe he is really dead. They may also be further angered that his corpse was desecrated by not being given a proper burial on land. Killing him in this way now makes him even more of a martyr to his followers and a potent symbol of resistance. It probably would have been much better to de-mythologise him and exorcise his power by putting him on trial and showing him in prison — an ordinary man growing old, rather than some kind of super-terrorist who eluded the world's greatest superpower for years…
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And it's a pity that all the resources and efforts put into killing bin Laden over 10 years was not instead put into strengthening international law, dealing with political grievances, supporting peace constituencies, resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, genuinely promoting political participation and democracy, and reforming the oppressive and unjust foreign policies which provoke violent resistance…
And it's a pity that so many Americans are on the streets celebrating and so many political leaders are crowing about it as a major victory. It will be a further humiliation for some in the Middle East, and they may rightly feel that the celebrations contain no acknowledgement of the suffering they have experienced from U.S. invasion, counter-terrorism operations, drone attacks, rendition, etc. I wonder how we would react to celebrations in Iraq if George W. Bush was to die…
And it's a pity that no one is talking about the other three people killed in the operation, one of whom was bin Laden's son and another an unknown woman. They may turn out to be far less guilty than bin Laden, more 'collateral damage' in our war on terror. It illustrates something about our real values that their lives, and the lives of all the others lost in the hunt for bin Laden, are so unimportant that they won't be discussed or mourned in all the euphoria over killing bin Laden, the evil mastermind. And it's a pity that Obama said 'no Americans were harmed' in the operation, as if American lives are more valuable than others. This way of ordering the world into worthy and unworthy victims, people to be mourned and people to be erased, is what keeps the cycle of violence ever turning…
And it's a pity that it will not lead to the end of the war on terror, the culture of fear, and all the intrusions into daily life of militarised forms of counter-terrorism. It's a pity that in response to bin Laden's initial attacks, we irrevocably changed our way of life and undermined our own values, and that political leaders are still saying that his death changes none of these things but that we will have to (endlessly) continue the fight against terrorism…
It's a pity that this event will do nothing to end the sheer stupidity and shameful waste of ten years of war and violence.
( Professor Richard Jackson is Secretary, British International Studies Association and Editor, Critical Studies on Terrorism. He is in the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, Wales. rsj@aber.ac.uk)
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Enzyme-assisted reforming of glucose to hydrogen in a photoelectrochemical cell
Michael Hambourger, Alicia Brune, Devens Gust, Ana Moore, Thomas Moore
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Hydrogen gas has been produced by reforming glucose in a hybrid photoelectrochemical cell that couples a dye-sensitized nanoparticulate wide band gap semiconductor photoanode to the enzyme-based oxidation of glucose. A layer of porphyrin sensitizer is adsorbed to a TiO2 nanoparticulate aggregate sintered to a conducting glass substrate to form the photoanode. Excitation of the porphyrin results in electron injection into the TiO 2, and migration to a microporous platinum cathode where hydrogen is produced by hydrogen ion reduction. The oxidized sensitizer dye is reduced by NADH, regenerating the dye and poising the NAD+/NADH redox couple oxidizing. The NAD+ is recycled to NADH by the enzyme glucose dehydrogenase, which obtains the necessary electrons from oxidation of glucose. The reforming of glucose produces gluconolactone, which hydrolyzes to gluconate; the electrochemical potential necessary to overcome thermodynamic and kinetic barriers to hydrogen production by NADH is provided by light. The quantum yield of hydrogen is ∼2.5%.
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Hambourger, M., Brune, A., Gust, D., Moore, A., & Moore, T. (2005). Enzyme-assisted reforming of glucose to hydrogen in a photoelectrochemical cell. Photochemistry and Photobiology, 81(4), 1015-1020. https://doi.org/10.1562/2005-05-15-RC-528R.1
Enzyme-assisted reforming of glucose to hydrogen in a photoelectrochemical cell. / Hambourger, Michael; Brune, Alicia; Gust, Devens; Moore, Ana; Moore, Thomas.
In: Photochemistry and Photobiology, Vol. 81, No. 4, 07.2005, p. 1015-1020.
Hambourger, M, Brune, A, Gust, D, Moore, A & Moore, T 2005, 'Enzyme-assisted reforming of glucose to hydrogen in a photoelectrochemical cell', Photochemistry and Photobiology, vol. 81, no. 4, pp. 1015-1020. https://doi.org/10.1562/2005-05-15-RC-528R.1
Hambourger M, Brune A, Gust D, Moore A, Moore T. Enzyme-assisted reforming of glucose to hydrogen in a photoelectrochemical cell. Photochemistry and Photobiology. 2005 Jul;81(4):1015-1020. https://doi.org/10.1562/2005-05-15-RC-528R.1
Hambourger, Michael ; Brune, Alicia ; Gust, Devens ; Moore, Ana ; Moore, Thomas. / Enzyme-assisted reforming of glucose to hydrogen in a photoelectrochemical cell. In: Photochemistry and Photobiology. 2005 ; Vol. 81, No. 4. pp. 1015-1020.
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