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Lewis' "good trouble" extends to LGBTQ voters, too
By Irene Monroe, published in Bay Windows, August 13, 2020.
Rep. John Lewis speaks at an event outside the Capitol Building honoring the victims and survivors of the mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando. Paul Morigi / AP Images for Human Rights Campaign
Civil rights icon U.S. Rep. John Lewis, who died on July 17th of pancreatic cancer, spent his life advocating equal access to the ballot for all Americans. Lewis nearly lost his life on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965, when he attempted to lead a nonviolent voting-rights march from Selma to Montgomery. He was beaten at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, resulting in a fractured skull. Fifty-five years later, on July 26, was Lewis's final crossing of the Edmund Pettus Bridge as a horse-drawn carriage carried his flag-draped casket.
John Lewis, the 'conscience of Congress, preached a lived theology and activism of "good trouble." Good trouble was the work of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and it was an expression of Lewis's faith. The immediacy of his "good trouble" was heard in his jeremiads, inviting all to action to right wrongs. "If not us, then who? If not now, then when?" Lewis repeatedly said throughout his lifetime.
Lewis's clarion call for "good trouble" advocated for LGBTQ civil rights, too. The then living Black Civil Rights icons who gave full-throated support for LGBTQ struggles as a legitimate civil rights were Coretta Scott King, Julian Bond, and John Lewis. Lewis's advocacy for LGBTQ rights was informed during his formative years in the Civil Rights Movement, understanding all human rights need protection. In advising LGBTQ activists to make "good trouble," Lewis stated the following:
"If we are going to continue to make progress, whether it is for marriage equality or discrimination against members of the gay community in the workplace, you have to continue to be physical, continue to speak up and speak out. To find a way to do what I call 'making some noise, getting in the way,' and educating people and sensitizing them."
Lewis spoke out for LGBTQ rights that went against his fellow clergymen. For example, Lewis advocated for marriage equality. He thought to employ the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Loving v. Virginia decision affirming the freedom to marry as a "basic civil right" of every American extend to LGBTQ Americans. As a theologically trained, ordained Baptist minister, his stance incensed Black clergy, one of the largest groups in opposition, here and across the country. "The gay community is pimping the civil rights movement and the history. In the view of many, it's racist at worst, cynical at best," the Rev. Eugene Rivers, a local African-American Boston minister and then president of the all-male National Ten Point Leadership Foundation, told The Boston Globe in 2003.
As a counterpunch to Rivers's homophobic position, Lewis penned an October 23, 2003 op-ed in the Boston Globe the following week titled "At a crossroads on gay unions." His statement highlighted the connection between black and LGBTQ civil rights struggles:
"I've heard the reasons for opposing civil marriage for same-sex couples. Cut through the distractions, and they stink of the same fear, hatred, and intolerance I have known in racism and in bigotry."
Lewis's clarion calls for "good trouble" forced us to look at where we are in our democracy- whether it was advocating for black civil rights or LGBTQ civil rights. In this presidential election season, "good trouble" would be making sure all Americans have access to the ballot.
To honor Lewis's life and legacy and work of "good trouble," Democratic lawmakers want to pass the 2019 Voting Rights Advancement Act (VRAA) he fought for, and name it the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of 2020. The VRAA would prohibit discrimination against people of color and other marginalized communities, like LGBTQ voters, by assigning election observers to states or municipalities with repeated problems- especially those with a history of discrimination. It would give the federal government the ability to take action against them if the discrimination continued.
These are needed safeguards in this upcoming election. Lewis championed the bill to reverse the deleterious damage done by the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision, which invalidated a key portion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Regrettably, the Republican-controlled Senate ignored Lewis' request.
The GOP tactics to dissuade people of color to the polls pose challenges for many transgender voters, too, who have transitioned but do not have a government-issued photo ID reflecting their gender. The Williams Institute at UCLA found that ahead of this November's election, over 378,000 "voter-eligible transgender people do not have IDs that reflect their correct name and/or gender."
John Lewis said, "Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble." To honor him, "good trouble" this November election would be to vote out our present Republican thugocracy. As LGBTQ voters, we don't have to capitulate to the powers that be, because the power of the people is greater than the people in power.
Published in Bay Windows, August 13, 2020.
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COPS WILL STILL HAVE 'IMPACT' ON CRIME
By David Seifman
A program that floods high-crime areas with legions of cops won't be phased out after all, Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday.
The mayor said Operation Impact, as the program is known, would continue for at least six months and would be funded through overtime.
"Any way you look at it, Operation Impact has lived up to its name," the mayor told members of the Citizens Crime Commission at a Midtown breakfast.
He said there were about 6,200 serious crimes in Impact neighborhoods in the first six months of last year – but only 4,000 in the same period this year.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly estimated the cost of continuing the initiative, mostly with rookie cops, at about $20 million.
Bloomberg also announced an expansion of 911 digital calls, making it easier for prosecutors to access them as evidence in criminal cases.
In Brooklyn, where digital 911 has been available the longest, the mayor said judges are 70 percent more likely to require suspects to post bail when the calls are played. Over the next two years, the city plans to provide cops with the ability to click on a computer map and locate every probationer and parolee on his or her beat.
Sources said the mayor asked to speak before the Crime Commission, a nonprofit group supported by businesses. The war on crime is one of the few undisputed successes of the administration.
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Q: Show that $\int_{0}^{\pi\over 2}\arctan(\tan^8{(\pi^2{x}}))\mathrm dx={5\over 4}$ Can anyone help to provide a proof for $(1)$? Pleases! Thank you.
$$\int_{0}^{\pi\over 2}\arctan(\tan^8{(\pi^2{x}}))\mathrm dx={5\over 4}\tag1$$
Enforcing $u=\tan^8{(\pi^2{x})}$ then $du={8\over \pi^2}\tan^7{(\pi^2{x})}\sec^2{(\pi^2{x})}dx$
Recall: $1+\tan^2{x}=\sec^2{x}$
$du={8\over \pi^2}\tan^7{(\pi^2{x})}+{8\over \pi^2}\tan^8{(\pi^2{x})}dx$
$${\pi^2\over 8}\int_{0}^{k}\arctan{u}\cdot{\mathrm du\over u+u^{7/8}}$$
$k=\arctan{\left(\tan^8{\left(\pi^3\over 2\right)}\right)}$
This is where I got so far. Can't go any further.
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I think this is the correct version
$$\lim_{n\to \infty}\int_{0}^{\pi\over 2}\arctan(\tan^{2n}{(\pi^2{x}}))\mathrm dx={5\over 4}\tag2$$

A: We can solve this using our friend, the dominated convergence theorem. $\tan^{-1}(x) \leq \frac{\pi}{2}$, so the integrand satisfies the conditions for the theorem. Let $u = \pi^2x$ and apply d.c. by moving the limit in.
$$\lim_{n\to\infty}\int_0^{\frac{\pi}{2}} \tan^{-1}(\tan^{2n}(\pi^2 x)) dx = \lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{1}{\pi^2}\int_0^{\frac{\pi^3}{2}} \tan^{-1}(\tan^{2n}(u)) du$$
$$= \frac{1}{\pi^2}\int_0^{\frac{\pi^3}{2}} \tan^{-1}(\lim_{n\to\infty}(\tan^{2}(u))^n) du$$
Depending on the value of u, the inside of the arctangent will either be $0$, $1$, or $\infty$. In other words, the function we are integrating only takes on the constant values $0$, $\frac{\pi}{4}$, or $\frac{\pi}{2}$ (we actually don't care about the middle value since it only happens on a set of measure zero). Taking the limit, we get a rectangle function centered at every odd multiple of $\frac{\pi}{2}$, with height and width $\frac{\pi}{2}$. Such a function is $\pi$-periodic. $$\frac{9\pi}{2} < \frac{\pi^3}{2} < 5\pi$$ so we obtain the full area of 5 of the squares (the only piece cut off has height zero). Thus
$$= \frac{1}{\pi^2}5*(\frac{\pi}{2})^2 = \frac{5}{4}$$

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With a slow spring warm up, seeing 55 on the graph was a welcomed surprise. From the trips that we have had in the boat so far this spring, nothing else has matched up or even come close. Even though the water was warm, finding the fish was difficult. We fished every bit of water that we have located fish at and nothing. Not even a bite. Over the course of a few hours, the water warmed only slightly. Not having much for luck, we packed up and headed elsewhere.
Arriving at our destination, we headed towards the shallows working slowly in hoping to stumble on the fish and they moved in. There was not much happening but we kept at it. Eventually, we found some bluegills in 4-5 feet of water. They were not present in numbers but the action was more than welcomed. As we kept tip toeing in shallow, a few crappie were busting at the surface. We sat still for a bit and then got to catching. The fish were skittish in the clear, shallow water we we did our best to minimize movement and sound.
The day wasn't spectacular but it was good to see things actually heading in the right direction!
Hmmm, I fished yesterday, couldn't find a single sunnie. Nice to hear I'm not the only one.
It's been a whacky spring Dave but they are really coming into it now!


I tend to be one of those people who like to have everything spelled out, cut and dried, able to be checked off my list, and definable. I struggle with those things that are, as I wrote in another article, part of the unwritten order of the Church. So when someone wrote a comment on social media that got my hackles up, I decided to write an article about service and our duties in the Church. And, as usual, the more I learned about both topics, the more I realized I don't have the answers I thought I had, and that guidelines are often the best that can be given to us. The rest is between us and the Lord.
This article contains quotes from multiple Conference talks. The references are all at the bottom of the page. Every one of them is worth another read. Some of them extend back into the early 1980's, so you may not have been alive when it was first given. In that case, the talks are definitely worth a first read.
I posted a question in the Facebook group Latter-day Saint Ministering. I asked how the members of the group were dealing with the ministering program of the Church. In my personal conversations with people across Utah and Idaho, I had heard of some wards rising up in open rebellion about the new way of teaching in the Church, and about the ministering that replaced home/visiting teaching. There are also wards who have embraced all the new changes and have had wonderful experiences with the new way of doing things in the Church.
The response that got me started was a seemingly off-handed remark that they couldn't be bothered to do ministering in their ward because they were too busy with their jobs and their families, almost as though ministering was optional. It was this seeming dismissal of the prophets divine mandate to minister that got me going. As I mentioned in the first paragraph, I am one who likes to think along clearly definable lines. The prophet commanded it, so it has to be this way. But the more time I have spent in discussion with my wife, and in reading the Conference talks by the Brethren, the more I see that there are no hard and fast rules here about how we are supposed to behave. And I will clarify that remark as I continue.
Our priorities are given to us by God, but he doesn't tell us how to achieve or when to achieve those goals. This makes life messy for all the members of the Church, because we are all in different stages of our conversion process, and many of you reading this are like me, and like things to be easy to define. Letting others wander a different path than we have personally tread is hard to mentally or emotionally process.
The rest of this article will be filled with quotes from the Brethren, which I pulled seemingly at random off the Church's website, www.lds.org. Read what the Brethren are saying, along with any comments or questions I may insert along the way then I'll have some questions for you to consider at the end of the article. I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments section below the article.
I didn't realize how big President Monson was on the topic of duty. If you do a topic search of General Conference talks under the word duty you will see that about every 10 years President Monson gave another talk on duty. Even other Apostles referred to President Monson when talking about duty. And no, I haven't included any quotes from President Monson. Those previous remarks were an aside about the topic. My first quote is from Elder Jeffrey R. Holland.
President Monson, we love you. You have given your heart and your health to every calling the Lord has ever given you, especially the sacred office you now hold. This entire Church thanks you for your steadfast service and for your unfailing devotion to duty.
This is the shortest sermon on the importance of fulfilling our duty I have ever read. Since it has to be included somewhere in this topic, I'll just say what I want to say here. No Christian outside of this Church is bound by priesthood covenant in the performance of their duties to God and their family. Only in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are we bound by sacred covenants to perform our proscribed duties to God and family. This means that we can't get by glibly serving as we wish, expecting the ultimate salvation as reward for our labors. Because all we do is tied to covenants it is required of us to seek the Lord's direction and to do all we can to be the most responsible stewards in the assignments we are given.
Unfortunately for people like me, this means I can't just tick something off my list because it is so well defined I can put a checkbox next to it and call it done. Our duties in the kingdom are for the duration of mortality, and learning to fulfill our earthly duties prepares us for our eternal ones. We will receive greater eternal responsibilities no faster than we can demonstrate our ability to handle the lesser mortal ones. Here is a quote from Elder Rex D. Pinegar.
Instead of home teacher read ministering brother/sister. Our duties in our ministering efforts are to be carried out by the "small, kind acts that exemplify the basic teachings of His gospel." We are duty bound by the covenants we have made to serve one another as ministers in the Lord's kingdom. Not only does our personal salvation depend on it, but the salvation of others as well. And if you haven't noticed yet, since President Nelson was sustained as prophet in April of 2018, he has stated repeatedly that the ministering we are doing is intended to bring all of God's children, on both sides of the veil, into His Church. That means our ministering efforts also have to include those efforts that include those in our families who have already passed through the veil. Family history and temple work cannot be ignored without the dire consequence of us having to face the Lord when he asks us why we failed in our duty to our family members.
All of our duties are performed by way of service in the kingdom. Whether they are mundane tasks or heroic gestures, service is the backbone of our behavior and the greatest agent for personal change in our quest for our eternal home. In the following quote Elder Dallin H. Oaks is listing six forms of service. His last on the list is service done out of charity.
If our service is to be most efficacious, it must be accomplished for the love of God and the love of his children.
There are many levels of service, and there are many motivations for doing service. In this Church we are only really interested in that which will lead us home to the Celestial kingdom, so we focus on learning how to do service in the highest way possible, out of the pure love of Christ. In speaking about duty Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin of the First Quorum of the Seventy had this to say.
We must always remember that duty reminds us we are stewards of all that our Creator has entrusted to us. When we accept duties willingly and faithfully, we find happiness. Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself. Happiness comes from doing one's duty and knowing that his life is in harmony with God and his commandments.
The dismissal of ministering because it was inconvenient was what set me off in the first place. But I'm sure we are all guilty at some time or other of setting aside what we are supposed to do, claiming we do so because we are keeping yet another commandment instead. It is almost like we can't keep all the commandments at once, so we are free to pick and choose which ones are easiest to live today. Perhaps when I no longer have a profession to advance in I will have the time (inclination) to do those other things I don't want to make time for today. And let's be honest, there is no one who is really too busy to keep all the commandments. If they truly are that busy then something else must be truly out of whack in their life, and they might want to reconsider their priorities.
Elder Jeffrey R. Holland made this remark: "Christlike love is the greatest need we have on this planet in part because righteousness was always supposed to accompany it." By righteousness, think ministering. We can't be righteous without doing good, and doing good is what ministering is all about. Charity is all about doing good with the highest motives. As we work on doing the good we should we can also work on our motives. But the doing part has to come first. The following quote came from a Church press release of President Nelson's talk "5 Lessons Life Has Taught Me" at Safeco Field in Seattle, Wash., on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018.
This came clearly into focus years ago as President Nelson was traveling with four passengers on a flight from Salt Lake City to St. George Utah; during the flight, one of two engines exploded, sending the small plane into a downward spiral.
In his dying moments those honors meant nothing to him. What did matter was his wife and children — to whom he was sealed in the holy temple.
For my last quote I give you the last part of President Nelson's talk on service and duty.
This is also why the Church engages in humanitarian service around the globe. "Whether we are digging wells in Africa, providing wheelchairs to those in need in Peru, or among the first to respond after natural disasters anywhere in the world, our efforts are designed to help all mankind," President Nelson said.
"As a Church, we need to be doing what the Savior wishes us to do," concluded President Nelson. "And as a people we need to be looking and acting like true followers of Jesus Christ.
Lest you think I am just out to bash the guy who tossed out ministering, seemingly without a second thought, please let me interject here that I understand that mortality has seasons in it. There are times when getting established in the world is important for the temporal welfare of your family. But when does the pursuit of the world's temporary comforts become a deadly distraction to our personal salvation? At what point does each person need to decide which is more important, the life the Savior wants for us, or the life the world says we deserve?
Living the gospel isn't easy. It requires that we make the covenants that bring exaltation, yes, but at some point in our trying to find our way down the path to that exaltation we need to establish our loyalties. Our loyalties will be what colors our view of the duties we have accepted through covenants, and the service in which we will choose to engage.
So my question to you is this: When I feel overwhelmed by the demands of mortality, what are some actionable things I can do to include all my duties and responsibilities to serve in the kingdom? I don't want to lose my way, but sometimes it is difficult to fit it all in. How do you do it? We'd all love to read your thoughts in the comment section below.
Actually, I am now more confused than before. So do we still do home teaching, or has "ministering" replace home teaching. When you have a great and successful system of caring for people, why not continue instead of injecting a state of confusion.
If done correctly, home teaching would have worked well for the Church. Unfortunately, too many of the brethren of the Church devolved to a checkbox mentality, instead of a ministering mentality. This is why the Church has gotten rid of the checkboxes. Now when you have your interviews with your priesthood leaders they should be asking you questions about whether you have been praying for your families by name, have you been receiving guidance from the Spirit on how to meet their needs, how have you followed the Spirit in your ministering efforts, etc. These kinds of questions were rarely ever asked before. In the past they were mainly asking if you had visited the family (check), delivered the First Presidency message (check) and had a prayer with your family (check). Does this help a little?


We've just returned to Dover from a little cruise to the Channel Islands and I'm very pleased with the new Maxprop on Vega.
It performs pretty much exactly the same as the old fixed prop when motoring - max rpm is 1700 giving 9.5 kts in calm water. Balance seems better and there is less vibration. Maximum sailing speed is about the same - we hit 6.7 kts with a force 5 abeam. Presumably that is limited by hull speed. Much better is sailing performance in light winds, we can now trundle along most satisfactorily in 5-10 kts when we would hardly have been moving before. The propeller feathers very easily.


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Can any wood-wizards out there identify this firewood bark?
Discussion in 'Homeowner Helper Forum' started by usergray, Jan 29, 2019.
Can anyone tell me what type of wood I have here?
I'm in west Michigan if that helps.
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ATH is right, snow doesn't help.
I'm guessing there are no leaves anywhere? What about the top of the tree.. can you get a picture of a twig?
I'm not sold on sugar maple just because they don't typically look like that here. Looks more like a mature red maple.
Second one looks like hickory.
I like sugar maple for the first. Second looks like ash to me.
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Ash and Bitternut hickory can look pretty similar. The reason I went with hickory is because the bark is a little more "flat". Again...with the snow, hard to say.
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Thanks for all the replies. I want to set some of this aside for woodworking projects. This at least helps me feel that that is worthwhile.


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Charles Schroeder
Charles Schroeder: Advancing a Molecular Understanding of Nature
This profile originally appeared in the Fall/Winter 2017 issue of Mass Transfer, the magazine for alumni and friends of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Illinois. For a listing of all our faculty members, please visit our directory or explore the department's research pages for overviews of our groundbreaking research programs.
A faculty member since 2008, Charles M. Schroeder characterizes soft materials at the single molecule level. A major focus of his research is to understand how molecular scale properties give rise to emergent behavior, including mechanical, structural, electronic, or fluorescence properties. In recent years, he has established himself as an innovator in the field of single polymer dynamics, extending the field to molecular studies of new materials, complex molecular architectures, branched polymers, and much more.
Schroeder has been the Ray and Beverly Mentzer Faculty Scholar since 2015 and in August, he was promoted to full Professor. He holds affiliations with several departments on campus, including Chemistry, Materials Science & Engineering, and Bioengineering. He is an affiliate at the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, a member of the Biosystems design group at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, and this fall he joined a new collaborative research group at the Beckman Institute that will lead large-scale research efforts in computational molecular science.
Schroeder's research also extends into the areas of colloids and `squishy' particles. In 2016, Schroeder's group developed the Stokes Trap, which is a fundamentally new way to trap and manipulate multiple particles in a free solution using just fluid flow. His group is using this new method to understand the process of vesicle adhesion and fusion, which will provide fundamentally new insights into a broad class of materials used in personal care products. In a different area of research, his group works at the frontiers of developing new insights into new electronically active materials and polymers. Recently, his group studied the sol-gel transition and optoelectronic properties of synthetic pi-conjugated oligopeptides, which directly informs how these materials can be processed. In addition, Schroeder is part of a multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary team creating a new class of synthetic sequence-defined polymers that can be used in batteries, energy storage, and sophisticated lightweight electronics.
With his research, he aims to achieve a molecular understanding of advanced materials or functional materials and how to understand their non-equilibrium behavior, with an eye toward how to process those materials.
"A materials scientist or a materials chemist will try to come up with a new material. But then, how do we understand how to take the material and process it and make something useful out of it? We strive to understand the molecular properties of these materials, and how they can be used to inform macroscopic behavior during processing and ultimate end applications," Schroeder said.
The Charles Schroeder Research Group
Experimental and Simulation Foundations
A native of New Jersey, Schroeder gravitated to engineering and the sciences at an early age. His father was an electrical engineer who worked at Bell Labs and during the company's open houses, he would visit the lab where his father drew fiber optic cables from a three-story-high furnace. In high school, he excelled in chemistry, and as a freshman at Carnegie Mellon University, he decided to major in chemical engineering.
At Carnegie Mellon, Schroeder received a rigorous undergraduate education, which he credits for establishing a strong fundamental basis that has helped move him forward in his career. As an undergraduate researcher, he worked on experimental projects and computational modeling with mentors Bob Tilton and Myung Jhon. In the Tilton group, he investigated colloidal suspensions and stability or instability issues that occurred when the suspensions were mixed with polymers, so called depletion flocculation. In the Jhon group, he conducted Monte Carlo simulations of polymer spreading dynamics on solid surfaces, specifically related to data storage and hard drive computer discs. The latter project got him thinking more about complex fluids and soft materials, and ultimately Schroeder decided to pursue a graduate degree and focus on those areas. He spent two summers of his undergraduate years at an internship at Intel in Portland, Oregon, working in a microchip fabrication facility (Fab 15). The experience helped solidify his decision to pursue fundamental research in the engineering sciences, instead of process engineering.
For his graduate education, he enrolled at Stanford University. As a graduate student, Schroeder knew he wanted to work in complex fluids, soft materials, and polymer dynamics, and several faculty members at Stanford were active in those areas. He joined up with Eric Shaqfeh, an expert in theory and computation of complex materials and soft materials. At the time, Shaqfeh had recently begun collaborating with physicist Steve Chu, who was conducting some of the first single molecule studies of polymer dynamics and biophysics.
"I couldn't have asked for a better set of mentors. They were demanding and had high expectations. They were a superb set of mentors, both scientifically and in supporting my development as a young scientist," he said.
At Stanford, Schroeder built his experience in conducting simulations and experiments. Back then, and still today, he was drawn slightly more to the experimental side of things, in imaging and microscopy. As his years as a graduate student wrapped up, Schroeder knew he wanted to expand his knowledge in biochemistry and biomolecular materials and, at the same time continue working in fluorescence microscopy and imaging. For his postdoctoral position, he chose the lab of chemist Sunney Xie at Harvard University. Xie ran a single molecule lab focused on biophysics and advanced imaging methods.
"That experience expanded the horizons of what my skill set would enable me to do. It was more than thinking about the physical aspects of materials. I started to learn about chemical and biological aspects of how to make materials, how to synthesize them, how to study them as well," he said.
As a postdoc, Schroeder worked in DNA replication, but he gravitated back toward more advanced materials, ones inspired by biology. That's where his research program is situated today.
"All the biochemistry and experimental methods that I learned (as a postdoc) help us to study the problems that we do today," he said.
Characterizing, Understanding New Materials
After three years as a postdoctoral scholar at Harvard, followed by a six-month fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, Schroeder joined the faculty of the University of Illinois Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
"There's an appreciation for pursuing fundamental work in this department, and I knew my research program would fit in well. Having the strength of all the science and engineering departments on campus is a huge benefit. You can find top-notch collaborators, expertise, equipment—it's all here. The combination of scientific excellence and the capacity and desire for collaboration really makes this place a great place to be," Schroeder said.
In recent years, through collaboration and interest, Schroeder's research has gone in the direction of optoelectronic materials and single molecule studies of complex polymers. (Optoelectronic materials are optically active, meaning if you shine light in certain wavelengths, they respond. Their applications are in OLEDs, energy storage, and energy capture applications.)
Schroeder is interested in combining elements from biology, chemistry, and materials science to understand how to not only make new materials, but also how to characterize them in unique ways.
Cryo-electron microscopy image of pi-conjugated oligopeptide gells (quaterthiophene-peptide) formed via concentration-driven self-assembly.
For example, his lab has worked on synthetic pi-conjugated peptide-based polymers, which are conjugates between natural peptides and synthetic polymers that are good at transporting charge. Schroeder is studying the self-assembly properties of these materials into supramolecular structures and their functions and how they conduct charge. In recent work, his lab is extending these ideas to nucleic acid conjugated materials.
"At the same time, we've also been taking one of our main tools, which is direct imaging or single molecule imaging, and applying that to more complex systems, trying to understand molecular scale dynamics and more complex materials systems like branched polymers or concentrated or entangled solutions." Entangled polymer solutions generally exhibit complex topological chain crossings, not too different than a bowl of cooked spaghetti. Understanding dynamics in these systems at the molecular level is a grand challenge in the field.
One of the newer developments to come out of his lab is the Stokes Trap, a fundamentally new way to trap and "micromanipulate" multiple particles in a free solution using just fluid flow.
Manipulating two particles using the Stokes trap, where the objective is to precisely control the paths of two 2.2-um beads to trace the letter I. Snapshots of both particles at various instants of time, with the yellow line showing the past history of both particles.
"Unlike optical trapping or electrical trapping, our method doesn't require perturbative force fields such as a strong electric field. It only uses gentle fluid flow to confine and manipulate particles. We're using it now to look at interactions between soft materials like vesicles or cells, such as how does the process of vesicle collision or adhesion happen? Our work tends to be focused on these fundamental questions, but these are materials that are used in foods, personal care products, detergents, and liquid fabric softeners," he said.
Looking ahead to new projects, Schroeder is excited about combining elements of biopolymers with synthetic polymers to look at the additive or new properties that arise. Specifically, they're using elements from nucleic acid hybridization or base pairing to guide the structure of optoelectronic materials.
For the project in collaboration with Northwestern University's Michael Jewett and funded by the Department of Defense's Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives (MURI), Schroeder built a new experimental apparatus in Roger Adams Laboratory called a scanning tunneling microscope-break junction (STM-BJ) instrument. With this new scanning tunneling microscope, they are able to measure charge transport through a single small molecule or oligomer. The MURI team also includes chemists such as Jeffrey Moore from Illinois, and the overall goal is to synthesize sequence-defined polymers that are conductive.
"This is a long polymer chain where we control at every site the chemical identity of each monomer. If this is possible, then we can directly determine how the charge transport properties depend on the primary monomer sequence. It's the combined advantage of having sequence control and then how does this level of control affect functional properties."
"It's cool to think about charge transport or conductance in a single molecule to begin with, but then to also think about how you can control that by changing sequences is pretty fascinating. This is an example of applying molecular scale tools or single molecule tools to characterize advanced materials," Schroeder said.
Another newer collaboration of Schroeder's is centered at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. Led by Yang Zhang, a professor of nuclear, plasma, and radiological engineering, the Computational Molecular Science Group is a new research theme that consolidates campus-wide expertise on computational molecular science. It aims to facilitate interdisciplinary research in several strategic areas and push the frontiers of theory-driven computational molecular science. For example, members of the group will attempt to understand various chemical reactions and transport phenomena from the molecular and electronic level; design new synthetic pathways for radical forms of materials and medicines; and characterize and rationalize the behavior of matter far away from equilibrium. The group also includes fellow ChBE faculty member Charles Sing.
"This will be a great opportunity for computational scientists and experimentalists to work together in the field of materials, which will synergize our work," Schroeder said.
Since establishing his research program at Illinois, Schroeder has trained graduate students from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and other departments, including Biophysics, Mechanical Engineering, and Materials Science. His graduate students have obtained positions in academia (going on to postdoctoral positions and faculty) and industry (such as Intel and Google). One of his first Ph.D. students (Dr. Arnab Mukherjee, PhD '14) is now an Assistant Professor at the University of California-Santa Barbara in the Department of Chemical Engineering. Like most ChBE faculty, Schroeder has had numerous undergraduates work in his lab—close to 30 undergraduates, including several who have gone on to top-ranked PhD programs.
Recently he took a sabbatical and was a visiting associate at the California Institute of Technology, where he interacted with many researchers, including John Brady, Julia Kornfield, Dave Tirrell, and Mikhail Shapiro.
"It was nice to get away to have some space to think about new directions and see a different program of research, to come up with new ideas. It was also great to come back."
In his free time, Schroeder enjoys running and relaxing with his two dogs—a Pointer-Beagle and a Pointer-Greyhound.


2010: UAB Women & Infants Center opened.
2009: Tony's Terrific Hot Dogs closed.
1997: Abortion clinic bomber Eric Robert Rudolph detonated a bomb outside the Otherside Lounge, a nightclub in Atlanta.
1994: Hithchiker Vickie Deblieux was picked up in Trussville by four teenagers who beat and kicked her to death and later mutilated her corpse.
1945: Marine Sergeant Ross Gray single-handedly cleared a mine field on Iwo Jima while taking enemy small arms fire, earning a Medal of Honor for his heroism.
1913: The dormant Oxmoor Furnaces were put back into blast to supply iron for World War I.
1899: 5 miners were killed in the 1899 Blocton No. 2 Mine explosion.
1883: The Elyton Land Company sold Central Park (Linn Park), East Park (Marconi Park) and West Park (Kelly Ingram Park) to the City of Birmingham for $10 each.
1931: Artist and historian James Walker was born in Birmingham.
1920: Jazz musician Sam Ranelli was born.
1919: Attorney Louis Oberdorfer was born in Birmingham.
1887: Fire Chief B. O. Hargrove was born.
2019: Real estate agent Bettie Hurd died.
2013: Attorney Louis Oberdorfer died on his 94th birthday in Washington D.C.
2000: Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial writer Ron Casey died.
1914: Birmingham Barons manager Harry Vaughn died in Cincinnati, Ohio.
2001: The Birmingham Thunderbolts lone season began.


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Netflix's The Staircase is Your True-Crime Obsession for the Summer
by Brian Tallerico
June 5, 2018 |
It's not too much of an exaggeration to compare "The Staircase" to "Citizen Kane" in the way it impacted its form. Modern true crime docu-series like "The Keepers," "Making a Murderer," and "The Jinx" owe a great debt to Jean-Xavier de Lestrade's award-winning chronicle of the fascinating case of Michael Peterson. Perhaps knowing the debt that their true crime series owe to it—as well as being aware that anyone who likes their buzz-building mysteries will fall for this one hard—Netflix has picked up the original 10-episode series (8 episodes aired on BBC/Sundance in 2005 with 2 more added in 2013) and added 3 brand-new episodes to catch viewers up on where the Peterson case is today. It's a must-watch for anyone interested in true crime shows as it's not only a fascinating case on its own but really the template for so much that's on television and streaming services today.
On December 9, 2001, North Carolina resident Michael Peterson, a writer and former reporter, called 911 to report that his wife Kathleen was at the bottom of the stairs in their home, bleeding profusely. Almost immediately, suspicion fell on Peterson. Kathleen has seven lacerations on the top of her head, a number deemed too high for a fall and which led some experts to conclude that she had been assaulted, possibly even using a blow poke that the Peterson's had been given as a gift years earlier. Michael claimed to have been outside, having had a few drinks with his wife earlier in the evening. She went in before him and fell down the stairs. How could he not hear her screaming for help? What about the wounds on her head?
And then the Peterson case gets even weirder. It's revealed that another woman in Michael Peterson's life was found dead at the bottom of a staircase twenty years earlier. Could he have done this twice? Or learned how to make Kathleen's murder look like the accident he witnessed before? And then the prosecution brings in the fact that Michael Peterson was bisexual, cruising online outlets for anonymous gay sex. Did Kathleen find out about this facet of Michael's life and that's why he killed her?
Clearly, there's a fascinating case at the center of "The Staircase"—one that still has chapters being written 15 years after Kathleen's death—but the reason the series works so well is its remarkable thoroughness. Lestrade and his team were allowed access to Peterson, his defense team, and his family from shortly after his arrest, and throughout the trial. And so one gets to see how a defense is mounted in procedural detail. Every revelation and decision is carefully chronicled in the kind of detail you don't get from most true crime series. For example, you'll see long discussions about burden of proof and value of expert testimony that you don't get from most series. There's a fascinating discussion after the prosecution closes about whether or not to mount a defense at all if one believes the case hasn't been proven. "The Staircase" is so thorough that it allows you to appreciate other true crime shows and mini-series more completely as you'll have greater insight into how a major murder trial like this unfolds from the focus groups to determine different defense strategies to the divides that form within the family as to Michael's guilt or innocence.
Perhaps "Hoop Dreams" is the better comparison for "The Staircase" in that both films go into levels of detail and involve hours of footage in ways that others within their genre skip over. And like "Hoop Dreams," we get to know Michael, his daughters, and the team of attorneys behind him. It becomes about more than just whether or not Michael Peterson did it—don't be surprised if you're still not 100% sure when the series is over and don't get started if you can't handle that lack of closure. For me, that uncertainty is part of the brilliance of "The Staircase" in that it further exemplifies the fact that most cases involve decisions and judgments that don't directly reflect guilt or innocence. It can be more about a man's hidden sexuality or dark past than what happened that night. It can be about a strategy of the defense or a brilliant move by the prosecution, or just that the jury finds an attorney smug. Big cases like Peterson's involve so many people working at the top of their games, and yet only one of them will ever know for sure exactly what happened that night at the bottom of the stairs.
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Interview with Tim Lopez aka Timothy Howls
We had the pleasure of interviewing Tim Lopez aka Timothy Howls over Zoom video!
Santa Barbara-born, Austin-based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Tim Lopez is excited to unveil his new solo project under the moniker Timothy...
Santa Barbara-born, Austin-based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Tim Lopez is excited to unveil his new solo project under the moniker Timothy Howls. After writing dozens of songs, performing thousands of sold-out gigs, igniting several multiplatinum anthems and receiving two GRAMMY Award nominations with Plain White T's, the artist has uncovered another side of himself with his remarkable independent debut EP, The Rubble (out May 21st). Today, he introduces this body of work with the Adrian Quesada-produced (Black Pumas) and Jim Eno-mixed (Spoon) single, "Lightning From The Blue Sky." A snappy guitar riff strikes in tandem with the punchy beat before giving way to jazz-y piano as the artist sings with swagger and style. Pair that with a trippy, sci-fi, attack-of-the-fishman-style visual and you've got yourself a good look into the inner psyche of Timothy Howls – PRESS HERE to watch the official video and HERE to read American Songwriter's "first look."
The songs on The Rubble came to life in the middle of the pandemic while Tim took advantage of the time at home to record demos on Garage Band without any expectations. He penned tunes straight from the heart in search of a classic sound and inspired by some of his personal favorites including: Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Jeff Lynne, Traveling Wilburys, and Elliott Smith. Looking for a local collaborator during quarantine, he teamed up with Black Pumas guitarist and producer Adrian Quesada. They bonded over the direction and seventies-style musicianship and recorded a handful of tracks together. Tim personally handled guitar, bass, and some keys, and he eventually finished the EP with producer Sam Kearney before Jim Eno of Spoon handled mixing.
"Timothy Howls is the best version of myself," says Tim Lopez. "The etymology of 'Lopez' is Latin for 'Wolf'. That's where Howls came from. This moniker has no expectations. This is a chance for me to get on stage, embody a new persona, and say, 'screw it'."
In the end, Timothy Howls empowers Tim Lopez to shine like never before.
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FRANK KIRBY
Posted on 17th April 2016 by
Image from 1917 Suffolk Chronicle & Mercury Newspaper.
Born: 1893, Walton, Suffolk.
Died: 8th August 1917; age: 24; Died of Wounds – 53 Casualty Clearing Station. Served 6 years.
Enlistment Details: Location: Ipswich; Date: 16th November 1911; Age: 18 years & 7 months; Religion: Congregationalist. Height: 5ft 7 3/4ins, grey eyes, brown hair.
Date of Entry Therein: March 1915 – Egypt.
Frank returned from India at the outbreak of war, and after serving with the 29th Division in the Dardanelles, joined the British Expeditionary Force in France, and was wounded on the 31st July 1916.
Embarked at Avonmouth with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force – 20th March 1915.
22nd January 1916 – Embarked H.T. 'Caledonia' Gallipoli – Disembarked – Port Suez 20th January 1916.
By train to Alexandria 21st January 1916. Embarked Alexandria 8th April 1916 – Disembarked Marseilles 15th April 1916.
Granted 8 days leave to UK from 1st May 1916.
Slightly wounded 31st July 1916.
Appointed paid Acting Bombardier – Gallipoli Peninsula – 30th June 1915.
Rank: Sergeant; Service Number: 36083
Regiment: Royal Garrison Artillery, 90th Heavy Battery.
Medals Awarded: Victory & British War & 1915 Star.
Grave Reference:
II.I.E.252.
Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension,
Brother to ROBERT GLADSTONE KIRBY & CALEB KIRBY.
1901 33, Alan Road, Ipswich.
Frank was 8 years old & living with his parents & siblings.
Charles Kirby, 60, a Cab driver, born Bredfield, Suffolk.
Elizabeth Ann Kirby (nee Jarmy), 45, born Leiston, Suffolk.
Maud Kirby, 16, born Ipswich.
Randolph Kirby, 12, born Felixstowe, Suffolk.
Ernest Kirby, 10, born Walton, Suffolk.
Reginald Kirby, 6, born Walton, Suffolk.
Frank was 18 years old, a Moulder – Iron Foundry. He was living with his widowed mother & siblings.
Elizabeth, 55.
Maud, 26, a Waitress – Cafe.
Randolph, 22, a Printer – General Printer.
Ernest, 20, a Moulder – Iron Foundry.
Reginald, 16, a Printer Machinist – General Printer.
Frank's father, Charles Kirby died, 1908, Ipswich.
Frank played football for several seasons with the St. Clement's Institute Club, and was in the 90th Heavy Battery, R.G.A. team that won the cup at Cape Helles, Gallipoli on Christmas Day, 1915. The beaten finalists were 'B' Battery, of the Royal Horse Artillery.
On the 4th January 1918, Mrs Elizabeth Kirby received at her home, 33, Alan Road, Ipswich the personal property of her late son Frank:
Disc, letters, photos, pocket book, wrist watch (damaged) & strap, cigarette case, pair of scissors, 1 case, leather purse, pocket knife, leather wallet, 7 coins, 2 notebooks, Bible, 4 hankies & small mirror (broken).
On the 19th January 1921, Elizabeth Kirby received her late son Frank's British War medal.
On the 21st June 1922, Elizabeth received Frank's Victory medal.
Soldiers' Effects to Elizabeth A. Kirby – mother.
Frank is also remembered on the war memorial at Christ Church United Reformed Church, Tacket Street, Ipswich – formerly from the Crown Street Congregational Church, Ipswich and at St. Clement's Congregational Church, Ipswich,the Orwell Works Memorial Ransomes Sims & Jefferies Ipswich
Royal Garrison Artillery, 90th Heavy Battery:
CALEB, FRANK & ROBERT KIRBY
On the 1st December 2004, DNW Auctions, sold the Kirby Brothers medals.
Date of Auction: 1st December 2004
Estimate: £1,200 – £1,500
A very poignant family group:
A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Company Sergeant-Major R. G. Kirby, Bedfordshire Regiment, who was killed in action on 26 July 1917
Military Medal, G.V.R. (9517 Sjt. R. G. Kirby, 2/Bedf. R.); 1914 Star, with clasp (9517 L. Cpl., Bedf. R.); British War and Victory Medals (9517 W.O. Cl. 2, Bedf. R.), with original campaign award card forwarding boxes, extremely fine
Three: Acting Sergeant F. Kirby, Royal Artillery, who died of wounds on 8 August 1917
1914-15 Star (36083 Gnr., R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (36083 A. Sjt., R.A.), with original campaign award card forwarding boxes, extremely fine
Four: Private C. Kirby, Royal Marine Light Infantry, who was killed in action while serving in the 1st Royal Marine Battalion, R.N.D., on 26 October 1917
1914-15 Star (PLY. 10040 Pte., R.M.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (PLY. 10040 Pte., R.M.L.I.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (PLY. 10040 Private, R.M.L.I.), with original campaign award card forwarding boxes, extremely fine
Four: Major R. Kirby, Bedfordshire Home Guard, late Suffolk Regiment
1914-15 Star (2458 Pte., Suff. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2458 Sjt., Suff. R.); Defence Medal 1939-45, privately engraved 'Major R. Kirby, 6th Bedfs. H.G.', mounted as worn, one or two edge bruises but otherwise good very fine (15)
In The Suffolk Chronicle & Mercury of 14 January 1916, a special feature was published to mark the extraordinary case of the Kirby brothers, no less than seven of whom were serving with the Colours at that time. Their story had come to the attention of King George V in the previous year, and, via the offices of the Keeper of the Privy Purse, their mother, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Kirby of No. 33 (previously No. 57) Alan Road, Ipswich, received a letter in December 1915, in which the King's gratitude for her family's shining example of patriotism, loyalty and 'devotion to the Empire' was duly acknowledged. Inevitably, this example was not without cost, and within a shockingly short period of time in 1917 – just 12 weeks – three of them died as a result of enemy action.
Robert Gladstone Kirby was employed out in South Africa prior to the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, but had returned home in time to enlist in the Bedfordshire Regiment and join the B.E.F. out in France by early October 1914. A member of the 2nd Battalion, he was wounded at Neuve Chapelle in March 1915, but later rejoined his unit and was awarded the M.M., almost certainly as a result of bravery on the Somme in July 1916 (London Gazette 16 November 1916). Robert was killed in action on 26 July 1917, when his party, en route to Chateau Segard, was knocked out by a shell near "Bedford House". He was 30 years of age and was interred in the Bedford House Cemetery.
Frank Kirby had witnessed active service in the Dardanelles prior to his death from wounds on 8 August 1917, while serving in France with the 90th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery. He was interred in the Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension (Nord).
Caleb Kirby was born at Saxmundham, Ipswich, Suffolk in February 1881, and entered the Royal Marines in November 1899. Posted to the Plymouth Division, he had a number of seagoing appointments in the period leading upto the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, but none of them of an active service nature, and he was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in July 1915, by which stage he was serving in the Royal Naval Division. Caleb was killed in action on 26 October 1917, while serving in the 1st R.M. Battalion of the R.N.D., and was interred in the Ancre British Cemetery at Beaumont-Hamel. He was 36 years of age.
Reginald Kirby served as a Sergeant in the 4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment during the Great War and was commissioned into the Home Guard in the 1939-45 War.
‹ CALEB KIRBY*
NELSON KIRBY ›


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Luigi Trussardi (6 June 1938 – 29 April 2010) was a French jazz bassist.

He was born Louis Félix Angelo Trussardi in Clichy on 6 June 1938.

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Die Liste der Kirchengebäude im Dekanat Meißen enthält Kirchengebäude des römisch-katholischen Dekanats Meißen im Landkreis Meißen, Landkreis Nordsachsen und Landkreis Mittelsachsen im Bistum Dresden-Meißen.

Geschichte
Nach der Reformation in Sachsen ernannte der letzte Bischof des Altbistums Meißen, Johann IX. von Haugwitz, im Jahre 1559 Johann Leisentrit zum Diözesanadministrator für die verbliebenen katholischen Gebiete in der Lausitz. Damit war das alte Bistum Meißen in Sachsen (Mark Meißen) untergegangen. Die Reste des ehemaligen Diözesangebiets wurden zur Apostolischen Präfektur der Lausitzen mit Sitz in Bautzen ernannt.
Im Jahr 1827 errichtete der Apostolische Vikar von Sachsen Joseph Dittrich einen eigenständigen Pfarrbezirk Meißen, zu dem 87 protestantische Kirchenorte gehörten, 1849 wurde von Meißen aus erstmals seit der Reformation in der Klosterkirche Riesa ein katholischer Gottesdienst gehalten.
Im Jahr 1921 wurde das neue Bistum Meißen mit Sitz in Bautzen gegründet, 1979/80 erfolgte die Umbenennung in Bistum Dresden-Meißen und die Verlegung des Bischofssitzes nach Dresden.

Liste der Kirchengebäude
Die Liste enthält die römisch-katholischen Pfarrkirchen im Dekanat Meißen und die jeweils zugeordneten Filialkirchen bzw. Kapellen. Die Zahl der Katholiken im Dekanat beträgt 8374 (Stand 2016).
Erläuterungen zum Status: P = Pfarrkirche, F = Filialkirche, K = Kapelle

Weblinks

 Bistumskarte auf der Homepage des Bistums Dresden-Meißen (abgerufen am 30. Januar 2021)
 Dekanatsübersicht auf der Homepage des Bistums Dresden-Meißen (abgerufen am 30. Januar 2021)

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Kate Middleton Pregnant: Duchess Will Get One Hull of a Send-Off
By Yaw Plug
Pregnant Duchess of Cambridge will have a smashing time naming a ship weeks before her baby is due.
The hard-working Kate, 31, is determined to crack a bottle of bubbly over a new passenger liner's hull on June 13, a month before her July 13 due date.
The Royal Marines Band and the pipers of the Irish Guards will perform as she christens Princess Cruises' 3,600-passenger Royal Princess in Southampton before taking maternity leave.
The ceremony will mark a break in Kate's working life and echoes her first official engagement with husband Prince William, 30.
In February 2011, two months before their wedding, hundreds of people saw the couple dedicate a new lifeboat at Trearddur Bay, near helicopter rescue pilot William's Anglesey base.
Since then Kate, who had worked as a website designer and photographer at her family business Party Pieces, has travelled around the world on royal duties, including to the US, Europe and Singapore.
She had to take time off in December after being admitted to hospital with severe morning sickness but then resumed her engagements. Last month she visited the Harry Potter studios in Hertfordshire, became patron to three charities and made a TV appearance.
A royal source said: "Kate has really enjoyed her job and wanted to work as close to the birth date as possible.
"The cruise ship christening on June 13 will be her last official solo engagement."
The baby means the couple are unlikely to carry out another tour together until 2014. And Kate wants to focus on being a mum before she returns to her public duties.
The source said: "She takes her royal role very seriously and is looking forward to taking up her duties when her maternity leave has finished."
The Prince and Princess of Wales took the infant William with them on their first tour after his birth and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are likely to do the same.
Earlier this month we told how Prince Harry, 28, had let slip to his friends that they are expecting a boy.
And Kate has admitted both her and Wills have plenty of things to do before the highly anticipated arrival.
They have already decorated a nursery for the youngster and Kate said: "Apparently babies have their own agenda and we have got a lot to do."
Kate for first royal baby shower (nation.com.pk)
Kate Middleton: Pregnant Duchess of Cambridge to join royals for 60th anniversary of Queen's Coronation (mirror.co.uk)
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Mighty Numa's moniker was not baseless. This huge man supposedly had inhuman grit which he was liked to show off by, among other things, arm wrestling. He had no equal in this discipline. They say his grip could crush the hands of weaker opponents. Many tried to win the title of champion from him, yet nobody had managed to best him at this competition.
Skalen Burdon once challenged him to an arm wrestling match. After being defeated he could not move his arm for weeks.
There's a possible glitch in the game, if you beat him at arm wrestle, you can no longer die or regain vigor.
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Ich glänzte bei der Hochzeit.
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Significant event analysis causes upset in practice
Three GPs share their approach to a practice conundrum
You organise a whole-practice significant event analysis (SEA) exercise after a patient dies from myocardial infarction.
He had mentioned chest pains when he saw the nurse for a cholesterol check, and she suggested he made a doctor's appointment. He booked for the following week when his result would be back, but rang on the day asking if he could be seen before his booked appointment time. However, there were no free slots, and he eventually collapsed and died in reception that afternoon.
The analysis raises other questions about the practice's general management of coronary heart disease; several training needs are identified, and you conclude that the whole exercise has been very useful.
However, after the discussion, the nurse and receptionist concerned come to you separately in tears, saying they feel they were blamed for the man's death.
'The priority is to reassure staff that the patient's death was not their fault'
If this SEA has resulted in staff feeling blamed and upset then this should be an SEA in itself. The key priority here is to support and reassure both nursing and reception staff that the patient's death was not their fault.
I would simply start by apologising on behalf of the practice that the SEA has upset them, as this is not the purpose of the exercise. More generally, I would explain that the problems raised by this event are problems for the practice and not individual staff. Also that the responsibility ultimately lies with the doctors and any 'blame' largely rests with them.
More directly, they should understand that medical intervention for myocardial infarction saves relatively few patients.
A different perspective also helps and I would ask them to consider the scenario where the patient had in fact been seen the previous week and referred for an exercise ECG. If the patient had died at home while waiting for it, how would they have felt? Don't dismiss the patient's death but 'uncertainty' is a core general practice theme as in life itself.
I would also do a little honest 'sharing' of 'mistakes' past and present of my own. These can be dark professional experiences but talking them through I have always found cathartic.
Most colleagues can relate to my diagnosis of constipation in a girl who delivered a concealed pregnancy in her bathroom three hours later. Mother and child were both well but the local newspaper enjoyed my misery.
Finally, I would thank them for being able to come to me to speak about their concerns and ask them to reflect on what we had discussed. I would informally meet both members of staff the next week. The practice would review the process by which it conducts SEA as a matter of urgency.
Things that I wouldn't do: to re-run the SEA with all the practice would merely serve to open more wounds. I would not suggest occupational health or counselling for the same reasons. The key in this situation is closure.
Des Spence is a full-time GP in Glasgow and a tutor in general practice at the University of Glasgow – he completed the VTS in 1995
Dr Jason Twinn
'We must deal with this properly now or pick up the pieces later'
The staff have either not been informed properly about the SEA process or have not grasped the concept of it being a blame-free way of looking at system failures. I can empathise with them as I have squirmed myself in similar scenarios where I have been involved with significant events, however blame-free the environment supposedly was.
Unfortunately no practice systems are robust enough never to need SEA at some point and none of us are infallible enough never to foresee where the cracks in the system are, nor be involved in the failures when they occur.
If we don't deal with the staff sensitively then we will probably end up with sickness and stress problems. It is important that they see we are not apportioning blame and that we have been in the same boat at some point in the past.
I would plan to sit down with them individually or both together and in the presence of the practice manager. The first thing to do would be to explore why they feel they are to blame and see if there have been any deficiencies in the SEA which have made them feel this way, or perhaps the other staff have been whispering behind their backs. If either of these is the case then they need addressing. The second would be to re-explain that the process is not about determining culpability and that if there is responsibility to be borne it is more upon my shoulders as employer and the responsible clinician.
If we deal with this properly and convincingly now then it can be limited to a storm in a tea cup, but if we don't we could be picking up the pieces for months to come
Jason Twinn completed the VTS in 2001 and is about to launch a career as a full-time locum in Scotland
Dr Jane Bowskill
'Further training in identifying serious illness would be helpful'
While this man's death was probably unavoidable and no one person was to blame, it does sound as though neither the nurse nor the receptionist picked up on the severity of his symptoms.
The patient may well, of course, have played down his symptoms. Chest pain mentioned in passing during a blood test should have been further investigated – a brief history taken by the nurse and the patient referred on to a doctor for assessment, regardless of how busy the practice was.
Staff need proper training in what should ring alarm bells, and if uncertain, should refer to the duty doctor.
Similarly, the receptionist should have been alerted by the fact that the man requested to be seen earlier. Was he asked what the problem was before being told he couldn't be seen? Staff will soon get to know which patients tend to panic, who always demands their child is seen as an emergency, and so on. It doesn't sound as though this man was in either of those categories.
Doctors have the duty of care towards patients, and we carry the can for omissions or errors made by our staff. It is essential therefore that they are given adequate training and not made to feel that they cannot interrupt the doctor if they are uncertain. An
e-mail message is an unobtrusive way of alerting the doctor, or a message can be delivered between patients.
I would try to reassure the nurse and receptionist that it might not have been possible to prevent this man's death, but that further training for both in identifying serious illness might be helpful and reassuring to both of them, and help restore their confidence.
Jane Bowskill is a part-time GP
in Kingston upon Thames and is
also a school doctor and does occupational medicine –she completed the VTS in 1985


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Co-op to ditch use-by dates on its yoghurt to cut waste
By Balmond HyperCategories: Business, Financial, Global Business
The Co-op is removing use-by dates from its own-brand yoghurt in an attempt to address the problem of millions of pots that are still safe to eat being wasted each year.
Instead, starting next month, the Co-op's own yoghurts will carry a best-before date, with shoppers encouraged to "use their judgment" to gauge if they are edible. About 42,000 tonnes of yoghurt – £100m worth – is thrown away in British homes each year because it is out of date, according to the food waste charity Wrap. Half are dumped in unopened packs.
Nick Cornwell, the Co-op's head of food technical, said the "acidity of yoghurt acts as a natural defence. We'd encourage shoppers to use their judgment on the quality of their yoghurt if it is past the best-before date," he said. "Yoghurt can be safe to eat if stored unopened in a fridge after the date mark shown, so we have made the move to best-before dates to help reduce food waste."
The average family with children bins 244kg of food, or 580 meals, each year, with the total bill for this waste being £730. For an individual, the estimated waste figure is 69kg, which adds up to £210. This waste is bad for the planet because about a third of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions are associated with our food and drink.
While use-by dates are about safety, and applied to foods that go off quickly and could cause food poisoning, best-before is an indicator of quality. Food is still safe to eat after this date but the flavour and texture may not be as good.
Use-by dates are often found on products, such as milk and yoghurt, where a best-before one might do, a practice blamed for contributing to food waste. Things are starting to change, however. Morrisons recently switched to best-before dates on its milk, encouraging customers to use the "sniff test" to judge if it is OK.
The "look, smell, taste, don't waste" campaign, run by food waste app Too Good to Go, has so far enlisted 40 brands, including big names such as Nestlé, Danone and Onken. The companies involved have switched from use-by to best-before dates on products, including milk, yoghurt and cheese.
"We know that the date label on yoghurt is a fundamental reason that it is wasted at home," said Catherine David, Wrap's director of collaboration and change. "Applying a best-before date helps give people the confidence to use their judgment to eat beyond a best-before date and use more of the yoghurt they buy."
The Co-op said the dates would start to change over next month with the switch due to be completed by the autumn.
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