Aren't they though. I just figured out how to resize them. I am so tech illiterate sometimes.
There's a butterfly garden near here where I go sometimes with my sister-in-law but we never manage pics like these!
You have to be patient and take alot of unusable pictures but with digital cameras and some luck it is possible. Don't feel bad. There are times when I come home with maybe four or five good pictures and everything else is fuzzy.
Thank you but the butterflies deserve the credit they stayed still for me. *looks back at the fluttering wings* Well, most of them did.
Oh my gosh!!!! So gorgeous! Love them!


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Q: Use of foreach in the Controller and use of output it in the view I use codeigniter. How can put foreach in the Controller and use only of output it in the view.(i not want put foreach in the view) ?
foreach ($output->result() as $row)
{
    echo '<option>'.$row->name.'</option>';
}

This is my view now:
<select>
<option disabled="disabled" value="">selected</option>
<?php
foreach ($output->result() as $row) {
   echo '<option>'.$row->name.'</option>';
}
?>
</select>

I want this in the view:
<select>
<option disabled="disabled" value="">selected</option>
<?php
    echo $output_foreach_from_Controller;
?>

A: Although the logic wants the foreach to be inside the view (it's a presentational thing, after all, and Controllers shouldn't do any data manipulation of sorts. Since you're using a db method, you might want to put that in the model, although "logically" wrong too...)
Anyway, coming to your question...You can assign it to a variable, and pass that to the view:
In controller:
function whatever()
{
$string = '';

foreach ($output->result() as $row) {
   $string .= '<option>'.$row->name.'</option>';
}

$data['foreach_output'] = $string;

$this->load->view('viewfile',$data);
}

in view:
<select>
<?php echo $foreach_output;?>
</select>

A: Maybe you can use 'form_dropdown' form_helper.
See: http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/form_helper.html
I hope this help to you.

A: I think in the controller you can assign the value ... to a variable and then pass that variable to the view. See something like given below:

<?php

$variable = "";

foreach ($output->result() as $row) {
   $variable = $variable . '<option>'.$row->name.'</option>';
}

$data["option_values"] = $variable;

$this->load->view('view-name', $data);

?>

And then echo the "$option_values" variable in the view where you wan

A: I think you should really put the foreach in the view. You can also use the template version of foreach to make it look nicer:
<select>
    <option disabled="disabled" value="">selected</option>
    <?php foreach ($output->result() as $row): ?>
    <option><?php echo $row->name.; ?></option>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
</select>

The reason for this is that if you generate HTML in the controller it's not immediately obvious what is being output.

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El fusil tipo AR-15 es un fusil semiautomático ligero, diseñado a partir del fusil de asalto AR-15, que a su vez es un derivado de menor tamaño del AR-10. La ArmaLite vendió la patente y los derechos de producción a la Colt's Manufacturing Company en 1959. Después que las patentes de la Colt caducaron en 1977, esta empresa conservó la marca registrada y es la propietaria exclusiva de la designación "AR-15".

La prohibición federal de armas de asalto restringió la producción y venta del Colt AR-15 y sus derivados entre 1994 y 2004, aunque no afectó a fusiles semiautomáticos más sencillos.

En 2009, la asociación de fabricantes de armas National Shooting Sports Foundation acuñó el término "fusil de cacería moderno" y este fue rápidamente adoptado por la mayoría de fabricantes.

Según The New York Times, en la década de 2010 los fusiles tipo AR-15 se han convertido en "los fusiles más amados y más vilipendiados" en los Estados Unidos. Han sido empleados en varios tiroteos masivos en Estados Unidos. En la cobertura de incidentes donde se emplearon diversas versiones de este fusil, con frecuencia se utiliza la abreviatura AR-15. Este fusil ha sido promocionado como el "fusil de los Estados Unidos" por la National Rifle Association, aunque la popularidad de los fusiles tipo AR-15 se atribuye en parte a las propuestas para prohibirlos o restringirlos.

Cuando es fabricado con un cañón cuya longitud es menor a 406,4 mm y sin culata, legalmente es clasificado como una pistola en lugar de un fusil con cañón corto, siendo descrito como pistola tipo AR-15.

Terminología

El Colt AR-15 está emparentado con los fusiles militares M16 y M4, con los cuales comparte el mismo diseño básico y tiene el mismo mecanismo. El término "tipo AR-15" es usualmente empleado para referirse a las variantes civiles, que carecen del selector de modo de disparo.

En 1956, la ArmaLite diseñó un fusil de asalto ligero y de pequeño calibre para las Fuerzas Armadas, el cual fue designado como AR-15. Debido a problemas financieros y limitaciones productivas, en 1959 la ArmaLite vendió el diseño y la marca registrada AR-15 junto con el AR-10 a la Colt's Manufacturing Company. En 1964, la Colt empezó a vender su propia versión junto a un modelo semiautomático mejorado, conocido como Colt AR-15. Después que las patentes de la Colt caducaron en 1977, emergió un activo mercado para otros fabricantes produzcan y vendan  sus propios fusiles semiautomáticos tipo AR-15. Algunas versiones de los fusiles tipo AR-15 fueron clasificadas como "armas de asalto" y prohibidas en 1994 según el Acta de seguridad pública y protección del uso recreativo de las armas de fuego. Esta acta expiró en 2004.

En 2009, la National Shooting Sports Foundation acuñó el término "fusil de cacería moderno" para su encuesta de aquel año como un término publicitario empleado por la industria armera para describir a los fusiles semiautomáticos modulares, incluyendo los tipo AR-15. Hoy en día, casi cualquier empresa armera importante produce su propio fusil tipo AR-15 genérico. Como la Colt sigue siendo dueña de la marca registrada AR-15 y la utiliza para su serie de fusiles tipo AR-15, otros fabricantes deben usar sus propios números de modelo y nombres para publicitar sus fusiles tipo AR-15 en el mercado civil de armas.

Modularidad
Mientras que la mayoría de los primeros fusiles de retrocarga tenían un solo cajón de mecanismos que albergaba tanto el gatillo como el mecanismo de recarga, una característica innovadora del AR-15 era su construcción modular para simplificar el reemplazo de piezas y evitar la necesidad de enviar el arma a un arsenal para reparar la mayoría de los fallos de un fusil militar. Un característico cajón de mecanismos dividido en dos partes es empleado tanto en los fusiles de asalto como en los fusiles tipo AR-15. Como la tenencia por parte de civiles de fusiles tipo AR-15 fue suficiente para crear un mercado de accesorios, diversos fabricantes empezaron a producir uno o más módulos "mejorados", conjuntos o piezas con características que no se encontraban en fusiles de serie; los individuos con habilidades mecánicas promedio frecuentemente pueden reemplazar estas piezas con piezas originales. Debido a la amplia variedad de piezas y accesorios disponibles, los fusiles tipo AR-15 también han sido mencionados como "la navaja suiza de los fusiles", "muñecas Barbie para chicos" o "LEGOs [sic] para adultos". Estos módulos más o menos intercambiables son una característica definitoria de los fusiles tipo AR-15.

La mitad inferior del cajón de mecanismos es la pieza con número de serie legalmente definida como un arma de fuego según la ley estadounidense. Una mitad inferior completa se distingue por el guardamonte ubicado delante del pistolete desmontable y detrás del brocal del cargador, que sostiene los cargadores extraíbles. La mitad inferior contiene el conjunto del gatillo, que incluye el martillo y el punto de acople de la culata. La mitad inferior se une a la mitad superior a través de dos pasadores. El desmontaje para limpieza o reparación de fallos precisa con frecuencia la retirada de estos pasadores. La retirada del pasador posterior permite que el cajón de mecanismos sea abierto por rotación alrededor del pasador delantero, como si se tratase de una bisagra.

La mitad superior del cajón de mecanismos contiene el conjunto del portacerrojo, y está unida al cañón. Se pueden acoplar miras sobre la mitad superior o el cañón. Un guardamanos usualmente rodea al cañón y un mecanismo de recarga accionada por gas utiliza los gases de la pólvora quemada tomándolos desde una portilla en el cañón, situada cerca del extremo delantero del guardamanos. El guardamanos está acoplado a la mitad superior del cajón de mecanismos y también puede estar acoplado al cañón.

El diseño inicial incluía un tubo que dirigía los gases de la pólvora quemada directamente al portacerrojo, donde se expandían en una cámara con volumen variable y forzaban la apertura y retroceso del cerrojo para eyectar el casquillo vacío. Un muelle recuperador dentro de la culata empujaba de regreso el cerrojo, que retiraba un cartucho del cargador y lo introducía en la recámara. Este sistema de empuje directo tenía la desventaja de introducir hollín en el cajón de mecanismos, que al acumularse produce fallos. Un diseño alternativo más reciente emplea un émbolo metálico conectado a un pistón situado dentro de un cilindro, ubicado debajo del guardamanos y cerca de la portilla de gases del cañón. Este pistón mantiene limpio el cajón de mecanismos, al expulsar el gas debajo del guardamanos. Mientras que los sistemas de empuje directo y pistón hacen que el fusil dispare en modo semiautomático, un conjunto de cañón sin guardamano envolvente incluye un guardamanos deslizante conectado a una varilla que empuja el cerrojo en acción de bombeo y elimina el disparo semiautomático. Algunos fusiles tipo AR-15 tienen sistemas de gas rediseñados, que les permiten disparar con seguridad inmediatamente después de haber sido sumergidos en agua. El diseño inicial no tenía en cuenta esta capacidad.

La mayoría de los fusiles tipo AR-15 eyectan los casquillos vacíos desde el lado derecho del cajón de mecanismos, lejos del rostro de los tiradores diestros. La eyección desde la derecha es una desventaja para un tercio de los estadounidenses, cuyo ojo dominante es el ojo izquierdo, y para la décima parte de los estadounidenses que son zurdos, ya que apoyar la culata de estos fusiles en su hombro izquierdo hace que los casquillos vacíos y calientes sean eyectados hacia el pecho, cuello o rostro de un tirador zurdo. El diseño modular de los fusiles tipo AR-15 ha impulsado a varios fabricantes a ofertar piezas especializadas, inclusive mitades superiores del cajón de mecanismos que eyectan hacia la izquierda para modificar fusiles tipo AR-15 diestros y que puedan ser empleados por tiradores zurdos.

El fusil tipo AR-15 está calibrado para los cartuchos .223 Remington y 5,56 x 45 OTAN, pero se han producido numerosas variantes calibradas para otros cartuchos, tales como el .22 Long Rifle, el 7,62 x 39, el 9 x 19 Parabellum e incluso cartuchos de escopeta. Aquellos fusiles calibrados para los cartuchos 9 x 19 Parabellum o .22 Long Rifle, tienen sistemas de recarga por retroceso o de recarga por retroceso retardado en lugar de recarga accionada por gas, ya que la insuficiente presión de los gases y volumen producidos al disparar no podría accionar un sistema de gas. El sencillo sistema de recarga por retroceso es suficiente y permite retirar el tubo posterior del amortiguador y muelle recuperador. Algunos escasos fusiles tipo AR-15 están disponibles como fusiles de cerrojo. Estos últimos usualmente son publicitados en países donde la tenencia de fusiles semiautomáticos está prohibida, tales como Australia o el Reino Unido.

Algunos fusiles tipo AR-15 tienen características que limitan el uso de cargadores extraíbles, para cumplir con las leyes estatales. Casi todas las versiones civiles del AR-15 tienen un pistolete como las versiones militares, y algunos tienen culatas plegables o extensibles como la carabina M4, que reducen la longitud promedio del fusil.

Comparación con las versiones militares
La Colt introdujo al mercado el AR-15 semiautomático en 1964. La principal distinción entre los fusiles civiles semiautomáticos y los fusiles de asalto es el selector del modo de disparo. Los modelos militares fueron producidos con un selector que les permite disparar en modo semiautomático, así como en modo automático o en ráfaga corta, donde el fusil dispara tres cartuchos en sucesión al apretar el gatillo. Los AR-15 con selector de disparo fueron redesignados como M16 a partir del modelo A1-4. La mayoría de piezas son intercambiables entre los fusiles semiautomáticos y los de asalto, incluyendo cargadores, alzas y puntos de mira, mitades superiores del cajón de mecanismos, cañones y accesorios. La carabina M4 usualmente tiene un cañón de 370 mm de longitud. Los fusiles civiles usualmente tienen cañones de 410 mm de longitud o más largos, para cumplir con el Acta nacional sobre armas de fuego de 1934.

A fin de prevenir que un fusil semiautomático civil pueda ser transformado en uno de asalto con la instalación del selector de disparo, se le cambiaron varias características. Las piezas modificadas incluyen la mitad inferior del cajón de mecanismos, el portacerrojo, el martillo, el gatillo, el fiador y el seguro/selector. El portacerrojo de un fusil semiautomático tiene una ranura de aligerado más larga, para evitar que se encaje en el fiador de un fusil de asalto. Debido a la reducción del peso, el muelle recuperador es más pesado. En el fusil de asalto, el martillo tiene un resalte adicional que interactúa con el fiador automático y lo sostiene hasta que el portacerrojo esté en posición adelantada, al seleccionar el modo automático. La instalación de algunas piezas de un fusil de asalto en un fusil semiautomático no le permitirá disparar en modo automático (esto necesita una pieza registrada en la BATFE). Las mitades inferiores del cajón de mecanismos de los fusiles de asalto pueden identificarse fácilmente por el agujero para un pasador situado encima de la palanca del seguro/selector. La Colt diseñó los pasadores que sostienen el conjunto del gatillo de un fusil semiautomático con un mayor diámetro que aquellos de un fusil de asalto para prevenir el intercambio de piezas entre ambos modelos de fusiles.

Producción y ventas
El primer fusil semiautomático producido por la Colt para el mercado civil fue el modelo SP1 AR-15 Sporter, que disparaba el cartucho .223 Remington, tenía un cañón de 510 mm de longitud y venía con cargadores de 5 cartuchos. Las ventas iniciales del Colt AR-15 fueron bajas, principalmente a causa de sus mecanismos de puntería fijos y asa de transporte, que dificultaba la instalación y uso de miras telescópicas. El desarrollo militar de la carabina compacta M4 impulsó la producción de una carabina civil SP1 con cañón de 410 mm de longitud y culata extensible a partir de 1977. Estas carabinas se han hecho populares entre las agencias policiales para operaciones en espacios urbanos estrechos y la culata extensible compensa el grosor añadido del chaleco antibalas. El cañón más corto reduce la velocidad de la bala aproximadamente un 5%, con la energía de la bala reduciéndose aproximadamente un 10%. La longitud del cañón requirió mudar la portilla de gases más cerca de la recámara, exponiendo el sistema de recarga a presiones y temperaturas más altas, que incrementarían el desgaste de las piezas móviles tales como los tetones de acerrojado del cerrojo y el extractor. Aunque la Colt ofertó un cañón más pesado de 508 mm de longitud para mejorar la precisión desde 1986, el peso del cañón puede reducir el balance ergonómico; por lo que los cañones cortos han prevalecido en los fusiles de producción reciente.

En la década de 1990, las ventas de los fusiles tipo AR-15 se incrementaron dramáticamente, en parte como consecuencia de la introducción de la mitad superior del cajón de mecanismos sin asa (variante M4), que permitía la instalación de miras telescópicas y otros tipos de alza, así como nuevas características tales como guardamanos de movimiento libre que incrementaban la precisión. Mientras que solamente unas cuantas empresas producían estos fusiles en 1994, para inicios del siglo XXI el número de fusiles tipo AR-15 era más del doble. Desde 2000 hasta 2015, el número de fabricantes de fusiles tipo AR-15 se incrementó de 29 a 500. Hoy en día, los fusiles tipo AR-15 están disponibles en el mercado civil de armas estadounidense con una amplia variedad de configuraciones y calibres por parte de un gran número de fabricantes. Estas configuraciones van desde fusiles estándar con cañón de 510 mm, hasta carabinas con cañones de 410 mm, culatas de longitud regulable y miras ópticas, así como fusiles de largo alcance con cañones de 610 mm, bípodes y miras telescópicas de gran aumento.

En setiembre de 2019, la Colt Firearms anunció que cesaría la producción del Colt AR-15 para el mercado estadounidense, citando "un notable exceso de capacidad productiva" en la industria y los "contratos de grandes lotes" de la compañía con las Fuerzas Armadas y policiales que "absorbían toda la capacidad productiva de la Colt en fusiles". Sin embargo, la Colt reanudó la producción del Colt AR-15 después de un incremento de la demanda en el mercado estadounidense.

Las estimaciones sobre el número de propietarios de estos fusiles en los Estados Unidos varían. La National Shooting Sports Foundation ha calculado que en los Estados Unidos existen aproximadamente de 5 a 10 millones de fusiles tipo AR-15, dentro del total de 300 millones de armas de fuego que poseen los ciudadanos estadounidenses.

Cacería
Algunos cazadores prefieren emplear fusiles tipo AR-15 debido a su versatilidad, precisión, amplia variedad de características disponibles y amplia variedad de calibres (véase abajo). Las culatas extensibles son adecuadas para cazadores que llevan sus fusiles a lugares remotos o para adecuarse a la estatura de cualquier cazador. Siendo fabricados con polímeros ligeros y aleaciones resistentes a la corrosión, estos fusiles son preferidos para cazar en ambientes húmedos con menos preocupación respecto al óxido o la deformación de las culatas de madera. La ubicación del seguro de los fusiles tipo AR-15 es una mejora respecto a los tradicionales fusiles de cerrojo empleados para cazar. En los Estados Unidos, varios estados obligan a los cazadores a emplear cargadores con menor capacidad de cartuchos. Si un cazador falla el primer disparo, el sistema semiautomático permite efectuar disparos en rápida sucesión contra animales peligrosos como los cerdos cimarrones, o contra animales veloces como las liebres. Los cazadores de piezas mayores frecuentemente emplean mitades superiores del cajón de mecanismos y cañones adaptados para cartuchos de mayores dimensiones o que montan balas pesadas. La ley de cacería de varios estados de los Estados Unidos considera a los cartuchos de 5,5 mm (.22), tales como el .223 Remington y el 5,56 x 45 OTAN, inadecuados para producir una muerte rápida.

Uso de distintos cartuchos
Como las mitades inferior y superior del cajón de mecanismos pueden ser intercambiadas entre fusiles, el examen forense de las balas y los casquillos vacíos puede revelar marcas características del cañón y la mitad superior del cajón de mecanismos, sin identificar la mitad inferior del cajón de mecanismos, la cual puede tener registros legales disponibles. Una persona puede emplear varias mitades superiores del cajón de mecanismos en la misma mitad inferior. Estas mitades superiores pueden tener cañones de diferente longitud y varios mecanismos de puntería, además de poder disparar distintos cartuchos. Un cazador con una mitad inferior del cajón de mecanismos puede tener una mitad superior con un cañón para el .223 Remington y mira telescópica para cazar alimañas en campo abierto, y otra mitad superior con cañón para el .458 SOCOM y alza para caza mayor en bosques. Las dimensiones de ambas mitades del cajón de mecanismos fueron originalmente diseñadas para el cartucho 5,56 x 45 OTAN e imponen un límite promedio de longitud y diámetro al adaptar módulos para otros cartuchos incluidos en esta lista. El mismo cargador puede contener cartuchos de distinto tipo en cantidades variables.

Uso en crímenes y tiroteos masivos
La mayoría de asesinatos con armas de fuego en los Estados Unidos son cometidos con armas cortas. Según un análisis efectuado en 2013 por Mayors Against Illegal Guns, en 14 de 93 tiroteos masivos se emplearon cargadores de gran capacidad o armas de asalto. Sin embargo, los fusiles tipo AR-15 han jugado un importante papel en varios tiroteos masivos en Estados Unidos y han sido ampliamente caracterizados como el arma de elección para los perpetradores de estos crímenes. Los fusiles tipo AR-15 u otros parecidos fueron las principales armas empleadas en casi la mitad de los 10 tiroteos masivos con más víctimas de la historia contemporánea de los Estados Unidos, incluyendo la masacre de la Escuela Primaria de Sandy Hook de 2012, la masacre de San Bernardino de 2015, el tiroteo de Las Vegas de 2017, el tiroteo en la iglesia de Sutherland Springs de 2017 y el tiroteo en la escuela secundaria Stoneman Douglas de Parkland de 2018. El experto en armas de fuego Dan Hazen y el investigador de asesinatos masivos Dr. Pete Blair creen que las elecciones de armas de los asesinos en masa tienen poco que ver con las características específicas de los fusiles tipo AR-15, sino con su familiaridad y un efecto de imitación.

Tras haberse empleado un fusil Colt AR-15 en la masacre de Port Arthur, el peor tiroteo masivo en la historia de Australia, el gobierno emitió el Acuerdo nacional sobre armas de fuego de 1996, que prohibía la tenencia de fusiles semiautomáticos cuyos cargadores puedan llevar más de cinco cartuchos (Categoría D según la ley australiana). Un fusil tipo AR-15 fue una de las cinco armas empleadas en los atentados de Christchurch el 15 de marzo de 2019. Debido a esto, el gobierno neozelandés aprobó una ley para prohibir armas de fuego semiautomáticas, cargadores y piezas que pueden emplearse para ensamblar armas de fuego prohibidas. Después de la masacre de Nueva Escocia de 2020, la mayor masacre perpetrada por una sola persona en la historia de Canadá, el gobierno canadiense prohibió una clase de fusiles, incluyendo a los tipo AR-15.

Galería

Véase también
 Bushmaster XM-15
 Colt AR-15
 Smith & Wesson M&P15

Notas

Bibliografía

 Stevens, R. Blake and Edward C. Ezell. The Black Rifle M16 Retrospective. Enhanced second printing. Cobourg, Ontario, Canadá: Collector Grade Publications Incorporated, 1994. .
 Bartocci, Christopher R. Black Rifle II The M16 Into the 21st Century. Cobourg, Ontario, Canadá: Collector Grade Publications Incorporated, 2004. .

Fusiles semiautomáticos
Fusiles de Estados Unidos
Armas de fuego de 5,56 mm
Armas de fuego de 6.8 mm

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Briefly: Keep an eye out for this film, it's worth catching. There's a very haunting film titled Blue Caprice that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and also played New Directors/New Films in New York (where I later caught up with it). Sundance Selects picked it up for release and has scheduled it to open limited starting September 20th, 2013 later this fall (date via twitter). That's right around the same time as TIFF and Venice as well. Blue Caprice is a dramatized retelling of the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks, focusing on the two individuals doing the killing, starring Isaiah Washington and Tequan Richmond.
Blue Caprice is directed by Alexandre Moors, with a screenplay by R.F.I. Porto. Here's an except from our friend Raffi's review on The Film Stage: "Featuring one of the best performances from the festival in the form of Washington's frightening portrayal of Muhammad, Moors has crafted a multi-layered dissection of one of the countries most incomprehensible crimes… Perhaps the best debut feature film to come out of Sundance 2013, Blue Caprice is a fascinating and haunting portrait that will leave you conflicted regarding the meaning behind a meaningless crime." For more on the film visit their Facebook or bluecapricefilm.com.
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It was a midweek round of shocks in the Premier League, with only two of the top six recording victories, the cold and snow seemingly freezing limbs in sluggish outings for Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United and Manchester City.
In the circumstances, Liverpool fans can feel relieved to have extended their lead at the top of the table to five points.
On frozen winter days like these, it is often the old-school tactics – the sort invented for mud-soaked pitches – that work best.
Both Fulham and Tottenham recorded wins thanks to their long balls forward to the big men up front, while the nimble-footed patterns of Man City and Liverpool led only to frustration.
Perhaps overly confident following his perfect start, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer made big changes to his starting line-up for the visit of Burnley despite the four-day break either side of the match.
The fact that the fringe players (Andreas Pereira, Juan Mata, and Romelu Lukaku) played badly while mainstays prior to Tuesday (Ander Herrera and Jesse Lingard) were sorely missed proves the 'Solskjaer effect' wasn't just a morale boost. That is the silver lining for United fans ruing two points dropped in the race for a top-four finish.
Solskjaer has deserved more credit than he's been getting for his use of Herrera in midfield and, against Burnley, Pereira struggled in possession where the Spaniard had previously added rhythm.
Pereira's first telling action of the game was a wayward pass that triggered a period of pressure for the visitors, and for the rest of the first half his mostly-sideways passes slowed United right down, making it easy for the visitors to hold their deep defensive shape.
To top it off, it was an error from Pereira – getting caught on the ball on the edge of his own box – that led to Burnley's opener.
Fluency in the final third has been another Solskjaer trait this season, with Lingard's movement the most important factor, while Marcus Rashford's restoration to a centre-forward role has been a revelation.
Why, then, did the Norwegian remove both players?
United were lethargic with Romelu Lukaku ambling up front, Rashford struggled to influence the game from the left, and Paul Pogba and Mata were too far apart, meaning United couldn't play high-tempo short passes to pull Burnley out of their shell.
For the opening 45 minutes at the Emirates on Tuesday night Arsenal's tactical performance was dreadful – at both ends of the pitch.
In a diamond 4-4-2, Mohamed Elneny struggled to shut down Cardiff City's counter-attacks from the base of midfield.
The visitors continually played direct balls through the middle and outmuscled the makeshift Arsenal back-line and, from here, Cardiff quickly worked the ball out to the left to target Stephan Lichtsteiner.
He regularly got tight to his man but failed to make a tackle, getting taken out of the game as Bobby Reid drifted into his channel from a central attacking midfield position.
In attack, Arsenal's narrow midfield shape simply didn't have enough energy without Aaron Ramsey scurrying across the width of the pitch to link with the forwards; Mesut Ozil regularly dropped into a harmless wide right position that left Arsenal flat.
But Emery's switch to 4-2-3-1 at half-time, with Alex Iwobi replacing Elneny, changed the course of the game – albeit only mildly improving Arsenal's performance.
Now with a double pivot of Lucas Torreira and Matteo Guendouzi at the base of midfield, Cardiff's attempts to launch a counter through the middle were nullified.
Arsenal used their increasing control to gradually grind Cardiff down, two Sol Bamba errors ultimately handing them victory.
What's more, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette improved once taking turns to start from the right wing; both are better when building a head of steam by making diagonal runs from deep.
Man City just couldn't find their rhythm at St James' Park.
Their slow, careless passing allowed Newcastle to sit back in a 5-4-1 formation and simply shuffle across in their shape, engaging the City players only in the final third. It was almost as if City couldn't shake themselves out of a complacency caused by scoring so early.
But the biggest flaw in Pep Guardiola's system was the use of inverted full-backs for a match in which City were always going to need width.
The best way to stretch a narrow defensive blockade – forcing players out of their shape and then attacking in the gaps – is to hit the flanks and frequently switch the play.
Guardiola instructed Danilo and Kyle Walker to sit either side of Fernandinho during long periods of City pressure, forming a pointless three-man shield behind the play that left Leroy Sane and Raheem Sterling isolated in the wide positions.
It is no wonder the wingers completed just three dribbles between them, while Danilo and Walker attempted a mere four crosses in total.
Bournemouth thoroughly deserved their victory over Chelsea on Wednesday night despite holding just 32 per cent possession.
This was the perfect opposition for a team that loves to counter-attack, as a lacklustre, uncomfortable looking Chelsea allowed their sluggishness in the final third to infect their defensive concentration.
It was quite incredible how often Eddie Howe's side broke behind David Luiz and Antonio Rudiger, with the full-backs nowhere to be seen.
Bournemouth's breaks betrayed the static nature of Chelsea's formation; a more fluent side in attack would have controlled the transitions considerably better.
Eden Hazard and Pedro both struggled to create chances in the opposition penalty area, primarily because the movement around them was so minimal that Bournemouth could simply hold their ground.
Attention will be drawn to Gonzalo Higuain's quiet Premier League debut: 64 minutes and zero shots on goal.
But the suggestion that his arrival would end Chelsea's goal drought was always missing the point, since what the club lack is the structural elasticity needed to create opportunities for a central striker.
Higuain doesn't stand a chance while the midfield remains a case of square pegs in round holes.
It might not seem like there was much similarity between Tottenham Hotspur's late 2-1 win against Watford and Fulham's turnaround at home to Brighton, but in both cases the winning goals came – indirectly – through hopeful crosses in towards a striker with an aerial threat.
Tom Cairney's 27th-minute introduction at Craven Cottage changed the game by adding purposefulness into Fulham's passing, which ultimately set Brighton into a deeper mould.
Once this happened, the hosts began to pepper the box with crosses (33 to be exact) towards Aleksandar Mitrovic. His mere presence caused alarm, Brighton retreated, and Mitrovic grabbed a brace.
With the clock ticking at Wembley, Spurs started to float balls into Fernando Llorente, a very un-Pochettino-like thing that was perhaps introduced to combat the weather conditions.
In the final 25 minutes, the Spaniard challenged for six headers in the penalty area, eventually scoring the winner with his head.
As at Fulham, Spurs' incessant crosses (a remarkable 17 in the final 30 minutes) pushed a nervous Watford deeper and deeper – until they eventually caved.


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The IPCC today delivered a chilling and much needed warning that the window for action to avoid catastrophic global warming is rapidly closing. The new report lands a few months before national delegates gather in Katowice, Poland, for the next round of UN negotiations on how to achieve the ambitions set out in 2015's Paris Agreement. The report urged a stiffening of ambition from the current agreement for states to keep global temperature rises well below 2 degrees and to 'pursue efforts' to limit warming to 1.5 degrees. What does all this mean for our food system?
The IPCC climate experts agree that keeping the planet on a path to no more than 1.5 degrees of warming by the end of the century will require large-scale, land-related measures such as afforestation or peatland restoration – which may well compete with food production for a growing global population. (Women's right to choose the size of their family, through ready access to contraception and free universal education for girls are two other critical, but much ignored pieces of the land-use puzzle).
In addition, the IPCC reports that the gains provided by the nascent global transition to renewable energy are being cancelled out by uncontrolled deforestation to make room for agriculture – much of it to grow animal feeds such as soy and corn, feeding the profits of the world's intensive meat industry.
The food system is thus at the heart of both our climate and human development destiny. While change in how we use land and produce food, such as afforestation, and low-input farming methods like agro-forestry, will be essential, Feedback urges policy-makers not to forget the potential of changing demand as well, in particular food waste reduction and a shift to diets which are healthy for both people and planet. Reducing food waste alongside meat and dairy consumption would make a serious dent in deforestation, allowing the IPCC's recommendation of large-scale afforestation to reabsorb atmospheric carbon dioxide, to proceed with minimal impact on food availability.
Halving food waste by 2030, in line with the UN's Sustainable Development Goal 12.3, could make a major in-road into the agricultural emissions gap – the gulf that has opened up between nations' stated emissions reduction plans and what is needed to achieve 1.5 degrees. Project Drawdown has calculated that halving food waste by 2050 (20 years later than the UN's current ambition) could avoid emissions equal to 26.2 Gt of CO2 – a huge saving. Feedback has long argued that the common sense measure of feeding omnivorous farm animals such as pigs on currently shockingly high levels of industry food waste, is one way to mitigate the climate cost of the meat industry. Long term however, deeper action is needed.
The world's five biggest industrial meat producers contribute more annual GHG emissions than ExxonMobil, Shell or BP and the livestock sector accounts for around 15% of global emissions. Meanwhile, in industrialised countries the average person eats twice as much meat as is healthy for them. As a recent Chatham House report has argued, it is frankly not enough for governments to deprioritise dietary change towards low-meat and dairy diets as 'too difficult' – large-scale behaviour change is possible if tackled head on, with an appropriate regulatory framework. And it will be necessary if we are to build a food system for the future that combines access to healthy food for all with the contributions needed to avoid high levels of global warming. This report should give us all pause for thought – and redouble our energies to make sure our food system nourishes our planet rather than deplete it.


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September 5, 2014 May 10, 2021 by Tom Maliti
Judges Decline to Declare Witness 604 a Hostile Prosecution Witness
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Trial judges of the International Criminal (ICC) have declined to declare Witness 604 a hostile prosecution witness, following an application by the prosecution and submissions by defense lawyers.
Presiding Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji said on Friday that Trial Chamber V(a) was of the view the prosecution needed to question the witness further to explore the true and false parts of statements Witness 604 made to the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP). Judge Eboe-Osuji said the chamber's decision did not mean the prosecution could not, at a later stage, apply again for the witness to be declared hostile.
The witness is one of a group of nine people the court has ordered to testify under subpoena, at the request of the prosecution, after they disavowed earlier statements supporting the prosecution case. The reversals came against a background of court concerns over witness tampering and intimidation in Kenya.
The decision means that the prosecution will continue to ask neutral questions as is the case when prosecutors are leading a normal examination-in-chief. This also means the prosecution cannot cross-examine the witness or suggest answers in the questions it asks of the witness, as would have been the case if the witness had been declared hostile.
The judges made their decision following an application Senior Trial Lawyer Anton Steynberg made on Thursday. Karim Khan, the lawyer for one of the accused, Deputy President William Samoei Ruto, said the application was poorly founded in law and was premature. Khan made his submission and then the court adjourned for the day.
Caroline Buisman, the lawyer for the other accused, former journalist Joshua arap Sang, made her submission on the matter on Friday. She said the Sang defense wanted the application rejected. Buisman said the prosecution had not clearly shown what had changed in the witness's account to warrant him being declared hostile.
For a witness to be declared hostile, "there must be a wholesale change of account. It is not sufficient if someone is evasive. It is not sufficient that someone departs from the account," Buisman said.
Witness 604 is testifying in the trial Ruto and Sang who each face three counts of crimes against humanity for their alleged roles in the violence that shook Kenya after the December 2007 presidential election. Witness 604 is testifying under subpoena via video link from an undisclosed location in Nairobi.
Steynberg resumed his questioning of Witness 604 on Friday morning by asking him about the August 11, 2014 affidavit he swore. He asked the witness whether the affidavit gave the reasons why he had made false statements to prosecution investigators and whether it was accurate. Witness 604 replied in the affirmative. The witness, however, also clarified that his affidavit did not go into detail about what was false or true in the statements he made to the OTP because he did not have those statements with him to make reference to.
Steynberg then asked the witness a series of questions about another prosecution witness whom Witness 604 had said on Thursday had asked him to testify at the trial and assured him his children's education would be paid for by the ICC and that he would be relocated outside Kenya.
On Friday, Witness 604, under questioning from Steynberg, added that the person who contacted him described the areas of testimony he needed to cover to ensure he became a prosecution witness. He said she told him he needed to talk about rallies he attended where Ruto or his allies spoke. Witness 604 also said she told him to claim he attended a meeting at Ruto's home where plans were made to kill Kikuyus and that he should also testify about the violence that occurred in the Eldoret and Turbo areas.
Steynberg then asked him why this account about the other prosecution witness telling him about the benefits of testifying for the ICC prosecution and what to say was not included in his August 11 affidavit. Witness 604 remained silent. Steynberg repeated the question twice, and the witness still did not answer. At this point, the session had come up to the lunch break, and the witness was allowed to review his affidavit over the lunch break in preparation for the afternoon session.
When the hearing resumed after lunch, Witness 604 said his affidavit was "written in general" to explain why it did not have any detail about what he was told to tell the prosecution or what benefits he was told he could get for being a witness.
Steynberg then began asking the witness questions about the statement he made to the prosecution, going through it paragraph by paragraph. The area Steynberg asked the witness about was his observations about Ruto's status in Kalenjin society. Witness 604 told the court Ruto was not the king of the Kalenjin or its most important leader at the time of the 2007 elections as was said in his statement to the prosecution. The witness also denied that those who opposed Ruto at the time were treated as outcasts and abused, as said in his statement to the prosecution.
Witness 604 also told the court he was not present at a meeting where threats were made against him because of his position, as had been said in his statement to the prosecution. He said he learned about the meeting through two people. He gave details about the two people in private session. The witness said he claimed to be present at the meeting to make his statement, "more concrete."
Witness 604 will continue testifying on Monday.
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barahskikos September 5, 2014 at 7:16 pm
Things are getting hotter for the Ocambos and Bensoudas . Let the justice flow like a river and truth like a fountain of water. The living God hates lies n false witnesses.
frank Ngetich September 5, 2014 at 8:37 pm
lies will never change to be truth it will always remain false no matter how you tried to flavour them.
YEGON September 6, 2014 at 5:51 am
justice must prevail n truth be truth
kolumn September 6, 2014 at 6:25 am
hunter becomes hunted
daniel kiptui September 7, 2014 at 2:37 am
God said never give false accusations against your fellow human being. it is sin to testify falsehood against your neighbour. Traditionally they say truth sleeps down the tree but will never be hart but lies sleeps up the tree and during the night will fall and dies.
Sam areri September 7, 2014 at 2:36 pm
Does icc have a set of laws under which they operate or they create laws as they feel at any time .?I am wondering perhaps like many others,if the indefinite adjournment of a case is common in law or the icc just created in the Kenyan case because clearly they seem to have particular vested interest and not justice. Justice should be even to the suspect.looks here that uhuru is guilty already in the eyes of icc no matter what.I don't favor him, my property was destroyed but,the investigation was poorly executed by ocampo which will never,and I repeat never lead to give the people of Kenya the justice they so desperately needed.why did the prosecution start from why the killing started,who started these killings?you will find the perpetrators are spectators.go to YouTube and listen to postings that are relevant use interpretors where necessary.Do not lose your credibility by following simple people who were bribed to be witnessed.it wastes time and does not serve the purpose.
Joe Areri September 8, 2014 at 6:47 am
Arm chair investigations, are harming the credit-ability of the ICC.
Terminate the cases with a condition that the President and his deputy should oversee compensation for the victims as OTP opens pre trial hearings for the remaining names in the famous envelope. Hopefully they have learnt and will have conducted independent investigations and sidestepped biased NGOs.


Can Teachers Define Teacher Effectiveness in Policy?
How can we measure teacher effectiveness?
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) recently released their report, Student Learning, Student Achievement: How Do Teachers Measure Up? to discuss effective methods of using student learning as a measure of teacher effectiveness.
Few education issues are raising more questions and greater interest than that of how the nation should fairly and accurately evaluate teachers and assess their influence on student performance. And few issues are more important. To help better understand how teachers are assessed in this new era of school improvement, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards convened a task force of leaders in education evaluation, research, and policy to debate and share their collective knowledge about teacher evaluation.
The resulting report, Student Learning, Student Achievement: How Do Teachers Measure Up?, outlines effective methods of using student learning as a measure of teacher effectiveness. The full report and the executive summary provides principles for selecting and using large-scale assessments to evaluate teacher practice.
Additionally, (the report) offers recommendations about how the National Board Certification process can be used more effectively to measure accomplished teachers' contributions to student learning and how those lessons can be shared with the field.
The report provides guidance to educators and policymakers about appropriate ways to ground teacher evaluation in student learning.
Be aligned with the curriculum and student learning goals a specific teacher is expected to teach.
Be constructed to evaluate student learning.
Be sensitive to the diversity of students.
Capture learning validly and reliably at the student's actual achievement level.
Provide evidence about student performance and teacher practice that reflects the full breadth of subject -matter knowledge and skills that are valued.
This 55 page report is an excellent read.
First, this report was written by a diverse and distinguished panel. In today's polarized education dialogue, it is refreshing to read a collaborative and constructive report from a panel with members with traditionally differing views and opinions.
Second, the report provides an alternate vision for how teacher evaluations should be structured that goes deeper than test scores. This is also important since most teachers do not teach in grade levels or subjects that are routinely tested.
Third, and most importantly, teachers now have a report that articulates our concerns and hopes for a better evaluation system. It's our evaluation process and we need to define what we want and in a way that benefits students and values the profession.
How should teachers use this report?
I was fortunate to be given the opportunity to discuss this report with Joseph Aguerrebere, President and CEO of NBPTS, Bob Wise, former Governor of West Virginia and President of Alliance for Excellent Education, and Joan Auchter, NBPTS Chief Program Office, at a webinar last Thursday, March 10.
Below is what I said my opening response during the webinar. I look forward to how this report will be used to engage the public to develop better and more meaningful teacher evaluations.
Teacher evaluations have to be fair, accurate, and relevant to our students and communities. We are concerned with the current direction of proposals for teacher evaluation.
This report helps us engage the public so we can improve teacher evaluation. We can expand the dialogue on three points.
First, the public needs to understand that teacher evaluation should be based on student learning, not student achievement.
We need to help the public understand that relying on student achievement data based on standardized tests give limited information, when compared to what students actually do and learn in classrooms.
Many teachers are not in subjects or grade levels that are tested.
We need a new focus. We need to shift the dialogue to student learning- the growth in knowledge and skills over time. The public needs to understand that it is the quality of student learning that is relevant to defining and assessing effective teaching.
This report empowers us in these conversations.
Second, we have to redefine the process and purpose of teacher evaluation.
Standardized assessments may have a role in teacher evaluation.
But we need to educate the public on the criteria that must be met if we use these assessments. This report highlights the importance of curriculum related scales, test validity for special populations, better data systems, and alignment.
The public must demand that assessments meet these criteria.
More importantly, our current dialogue on teacher evaluation is polarized on how we may use test scores to punish teachers.
We need to change the purpose of teacher evaluation. The report highlights that the hallmark of accomplished teaching is student learning. Therefore, we should focus on supporting the effective teaching that will impact all students, not just those in classrooms being tested.
The purpose of teacher evaluation should be to help all teachers get better.
It has to be an investment in us as professionals.
Third, the development of teacher evaluation must include teacher expertise and leadership.
Teacher leadership can fill the gaps between policy and practice. For example, this report highlights the importance of special populations. Accomplished teachers, who work with these students each day, can be the experts to inform policy makers. This report highlights curriculum alignment: Teachers who are the content and learning experts can guide this development. This report highlights the connection between teacher practice and student learning. Teachers who use best practices, formative, and summative assessments can guide how we understand this connection.
So we have a framework for dialogue to engage policy makers.
We need to collaborate with governance from district, state, to national levels, We need to build cooperation between teachers, professional organizations, universities, and business.
Most importantly, we will need to work with administrators at the school level to ensure that the teacher evaluation system we design is implemented with integrity.
As the report states, our task is "challenging, but not insurmountable."
We have the expertise and experience. Let's have these conversations.
And that was my start for my part during the webinar.... Can we as teachers define teacher effectiveness? We have this insightful document as a framework. What will be the next step?


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A substitute teacher in California got banned for wearing a Black Lives Matter button
By Sarah A. Harvard
A 75-year-old substitute teacher at Clovis West High School in Fresno, California, was banned from working at the school last month after he wore a Black Lives Matter button to class, the Fresno Bee reports.
It's unclear what day David Roberts came to school wearing the button. But on Nov. 8, the Clovis Unified School District told him he was no longer allowed to teach at Clovis West.
Roberts, who is white, had worked for the district 15 years. According to the Fresno Bee, Clovis West High School has the largest percentage of black students (5%) in the entire district (3%). According to the Education Data Partnership, about 43% of the Clovis Unified School District's students are white.
According to the Fresno Bee, an incident report was submitted to the high school's human resources department on Nov. 8 by Deputy Principal Tony LeFore, school secretary Dawni Peisch and teacher Gabe Calderon. Roberts was substituting for Calderon when he wore the button. The three administrators wrote that students were offended by the pin, and that Roberts was not following the lesson plan.
"I was informed by an instructional assistant that the substitute teacher was wearing a political button and that some students were offended, and he wasn't following the lesson plan," the report read.
The report also claimed that Deputy Principal LeFore spoke with Roberts about the incident, informing him that the school is a "politically neutral" space. Roberts promptly removed the button from his shirt.
Roberts said the report was wrong to claim he didn't follow the lesson plan. He told the Fresno Bee that the plan in question only instructed him to conduct a test and assigned readings. Roberts said he believed he was terminated because LeFore told him a parent made a complaint, but did not provide any evidence of this to the Fresno Bee.
"A pin that reads 'Black Lives Matter' is not a political button," Roberts told the Fresno Bee. "It is a peaceful request to end this violence. It is not a protest. It is not intended to be anti-police and does not imply that black lives matter more than other lives. It simply says they matter, too."
Roberts said several students approached him after class and shook his hand out of appreciation and respect.
"That's why I was doing it: to show solidarity to the kids," Roberts added. "They really appreciated it. They understand it."
Roberts has received several complaints from members of the school district in the past for his political views. In 2012, Roberts was banned from Buchanan High School, which is in the same district, after a student complained that he "was against capitalism" during a lesson for an Advanced Placement World History class. Roberts insists that lesson was still within state standards.
"Clovis Unified claims you have to be neutral, but they're not neutral," Roberts told the Bee. "There's a set of beliefs you're expected to have there."
A learning institution should be a place where students should be challenged and exposed to different thoughts and philosophies. Ideally, it should also promote discussion of issues relevant to the world at large, and make students aware of realities outside of their community bubble. With that in mind, banning a substitute teacher who has worked with the school district for over a decade for simply noting that black lives matter seems antithetical to the purpose of education.
Clovis Unified School District did not yet respond to Mic's request for comment.
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The Harsh and Unjust Punishment of Marc Lamont Hill
The attacks on the professor are a threat to academic freedom and the criticism of Israeli human-rights abuses.
By David Palumbo-LiuTwitter
Dr. Marc Lamont Hill giving the keynote address at Newark City Hall for the the 29th annual Sing in Praise of King on January 26, 2017. (Flickr / Flisadam Pointer)
Marc Lamont Hill is a Temple University professor and was, until last week, a commentator for CNN. One of his comments during a speech at the United Nations has been wrenched out of context in order to punish him and to signal to others that such speech is going to bring about similar results. This is abhorrent and wrong. The reaction of his university trustees is especially troubling and signals a serious threat to academic freedom.
On November 29, CNN cut its ties with Marc Lamont Hill, a professor of media studies at Temple University who had been a regular contributor to the network, because of comments he made at the United Nations a day earlier as part of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. This is not a new event—it began in 1977 and has taken place every year since. As part of his address, Hill included a call "to not just offer solidarity in words" but "to commit to political action, grass-roots action, local action and international action that will give us what justice requires and that is a free Palestine from the river to the sea."
Within hours of his remarks, a firestorm had erupted, with anger focused in particular on those last nine words, "a free Palestine from the river to the sea." Several pro-Israel groups, including the Anti-defamation League (ADL), heard in them the old PLO slogan and interpreted them to mean that Hill advocates the destruction of the state of Israel. In an op-ed published in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Hill forcefully rejected that interpretation:
My use of "river to the sea" was an invocation of a long history of political actors—liberal and radical, Palestinian and Israeli—who have called for their particular vision of justice in the area from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. For many, justice will come from a two-state solution. For some, like me, justice will come through a single bi-national democratic state that encompasses Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. I strongly believe that this is the best method to achieve peace, safety, security, and self-determination for both Israelis and Palestinians. Justice requires that everyone, not just a single side, is free and equal.
Marc Lamont Hill Was Arguing for the Rights of Humans, Not of States
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This explanation, however, has not satisfied Hill's critics, some of whom are keying in on the very idea of a "free Palestine." Those two words alone are anathema to those who can only see that geopolitical space as designating the State of Israel, as declared in its recent Basic Law, which effectively erases the Palestinians altogether. Nor are they mollified by the idea of a binational state, organized around the principle of equality for all inside its borders. As a recent JTA news brief intoned: "Israel's government and many Jews regard the call for a single binational state as a euphemism for a political, if not violent, rejection of Jewish sovereignty."
Given the occasion for Hill's speech, it is not surprising that he said what he did, with the meaning he intended. Nor is it altogether surprising that a number of pro-Israel groups have used the incident to once again make the argument that criticism of Israel is anti-Semitism in action. It is not—and the equation of the two terms simply means no one can criticize Israel's ethno-nationalist project and the manners in which it deprives the Palestinians of their internationally recognized human rights. The fact that this has simply led to more violence is exactly what Hill is concerned about.
The criticism of Hill has now extended from one employer to another—his university. As much as I detest its decision, CNN was within its rights to fire Hill. Freedom of speech does not apply in this situation, and we have seen numerous other instances of media figures being dismissed because their speech or behavior has offended their corporate-media bosses. But this no doubt helped fuel the chain reaction that led Hill's university president to make a public statement against him, after which the chair of Temple University's Board of Trustees quickly followed suit.
Each of these statements is problematic for different reasons. As reported by The Temple News, the school's President Richard Englert "said the university condemns hate speech and reiterated that Hill's comments do not reflect the university's beliefs.… He called the university a place of 'divergent points of view,' and condemned anti-Semitic language." The problem with this language is that it accepts prima facie the idea that Hill's statements were anti-Semitic hate speech, and again, this is where CNN's actions were instrumental in establishing that impression. There was no hearing, investigation, faculty committee discussion, as to whether or not Hill's utterances met the criteria for either anti-Semitic or hate speech.
What does this tell us? It tells us that Hill's university administration is quite willing to rush out a declamatory statement to appease offended parties when those parties have political clout, and that due process is in their view a nicety.
Patrick O'Connor, president of Temple's Board of Trustees, readily accepted the labels of hate speech and anti-Semitism, and stated that Hill's speech "blackens our name unnecessarily" (a curious phrase which, if we are going to parse language, raises its own troubling set of questions). And O'Connor added, "I'm not happy. The board's not happy. The administration's not happy. People wanted to fire him right away…. We're going to look at what remedies we have."
While O'Connor's statement leaves open the possibility of "remedies" other than firing, it is nonetheless telling that he leads with the issue of the school's name—its branding—and it's difficult not to imagine that thought flashed through Englert's mind as well. That is to be expected. It is in fact the job of university presidents and boards of trustees to protect the name of their institution—their role is that of fiduciaries. But—and here is the most important thing to bear in mind—their job is not to punish professors for their extramural speech. That belief has long been established by the American Association of University Professors. Thus, while the trustees can express their displeasure as much as they wish, the "remedies" they are likely to consider would be a serious breach of their responsibilities. After all, they are trustees of a university, not (at least for now) a corporation.
Marc Lamont Hill was invited to speak before the United Nations on the International day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. He delivered a passionate and well-reasoned speech based on his deep understanding of the issues and his longstanding work for Palestinian rights. All this uproar is just another example of what has been called the "Palestine Exception": If this were a day celebrating any other people and advocating for their rights, nothing would have happened.
It is time for the attacks on Hill to stop. CNN should immediately reinstate its former commentator; it should not cave in to the idea that criticizing Israel is anti-Semitic or hate speech. And Temple University should remind itself of the proper role of administrators and trustees, and the way our profession has committed itself to due process and academic freedom.
David Palumbo-LiuTwitterDavid Palumbo-Liu is the Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor at Stanford.


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The derailment on the Red Line in June may have been a turning point.
After Gov. Charlie Baker visited the crash site, he decided it was time to accelerate repairs on the MBTA and greenlight more shutdowns of the system to speed up projects. The derailment also galvanized the debate over new transportation revenues – for the MBTA and the state as a whole.
The state's business organizations weighed in last week on the new revenue issue. Several wanted no part of a tax increase and there was scattered consensus on what taxes or fees to raise among those calling for additional transportation revenues. But Jim Rooney, the president and CEO of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, and long-time government analyst Michael Widmer said on the CommonWealth Codcast that the derailment and continuing problems with the T have helped build a case for additional funding.
"Generally, there is a feeling across the board that we need to do better and new revenue is needed to support the Commonwealth's efforts both on roadways and on transportation," Rooney said.
Rooney applauds Baker and his administration for accepting responsibility for the T and dramatically improving management of the agency. But he says the T's operating budget is being squeezed and the capital budget, while fully funded for the next five years, does not include many of the projects that need to be done.
"The question is, should they be doing more over the next five years, and we say yes," he said.
The Greater Boston Chamber has its own detailed revenue plan, which calls for the creation of a commission to figure out roadway pricing across the state, a 5-cent increase in the gas tax each of the next three years, and a $1 to $1.50 increase in the current 20-cent rideshare fee.
Widmer isn't sure how Baker will respond if a transportation revenue bill is approved by the Legislature, as seems likely. "He's very cautious about taxes, and he's cautious generally," Widmer said. "That's why I can't project what he'll do."
Rooney says support for more revenue is building, and notes the bill is likely to include other broadly supported measures dealing with contracting reforms and T governance. "It'll be a tough veto if he decides to do that," Rooney said.
Baker has often said that the T is struggling to spend the money it currently has, but neither Rooney nor Widmer buy the argument that new revenues aren't needed because the transit authority lacks the capacity to spend it.
"This governor got elected and he got reelected because there is widespread appreciation that he is a strong public sector manager," Widmer said. "He's got a strong record on solving problems, so if we don't have the capacity to spend the money we need to spend on the T, then that's a problem that we need to solve. This is a governor who's got a whole career, in government and out, solving problems. So I share Jim's frustration, it's certainly mine, with the argument that somehow we don't need new revenues because we don't know how to spend it. That is not acceptable."
Rooney said he has briefed House Speaker Robert DeLeo, Senate President Karen Spilka, and Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack on the chamber's plan and the broader revenue discussions within the business community. He said the reaction has generally been positive.
"If there's a place where there's a great deal of receptivity, it's on this notion of creating this future, forward-looking 21st century pricing model [for roadways] that everyone can get behind. Because, while there's a lot of ideas out there about let's put tolls there and put congestion pricing there, there's really nothing you can write in legislation and start Monday morning. You need a plan," Rooney said. "The last thing legislators want to do is deal with this on an annual basis. I mean, this is a hot issue."
As for Pollack, who was a leading advocate for new transportation revenues in 2013, the last time the Legislature took up the issue, Rooney indicated the transportation secretary was noncommittal. "They have a plan," he said of the Baker administration. "They're sticking to it."
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Arrowhead Christian Academy quarterback Bradley Mowbray, top, escapes a tackle attempt from Ontario Christian High School's James Hammond during a game on Friday, October 24, 2014 in Redlands, Ca. (Photo by Micah Escamilla/Redlands Daily Facts)
By Ed Castro | Ed.Castro@inlandnewspapers.com |
November 7, 2014 at 12:35 a.m.
Last week's loss at Linfield Christian wrecked Arrowhead Christian's bid for a perfect run in the Ambassador League.
But it did little to wreck ACA's season.
What the 23-14 loss may do, however, is make ACA a better team.
Today the Eagles complete the regular season by hosting Western Christian.
"It's OK," ACA coach John Beck said. "You need a wake-up call from time to time."
ACA was a more focused, dedicated group this week during practice.
"We were just getting back to being focused on the little things," Beck said. "We have been focused on what's important. At the end of the day, it is how we look at things."
Beck said his team was worn out from its last-minute victory over Ontario Christian the week before. It led to a letdown against Linfield Christian.
"We were emotionally drained after the Ontario Christian game," Beck said. "Ontario Christian went through it too."
Beck added: "I kind of saw it coming. We tried to redirect things but it just didn't happen."
ACA can win the Ambassador League title but needs help from Ontario Christian. A win by the Knights over Linfield Christian will deliver the AL title to ACA.
Western Christian is the league's defending champion. Western Christian likes to run the ball and is anchored by tailback Sarkis Panossian, who has rushed for 1,537 yards and 28 touchdowns. Panossian has is averaging seven yards a carry.
"We know all about them," Beck said. "They've got the best running back in the division. We've seen him for four years. We haven't done a good job against him yet."
Beck said ACA's task, at least on defense, is to swarm the ball.
"It is more about us getting guys to the football," Beck said. "We want to get as many guys to the ball as possible. We really want to swarm him and go from there."
Offensively, ACA needs to get back on track. ACA's 14 points last week was the team's fewest in a game all season.
"I would say we were off," Beck said. "They played well and manned up against us better than we have seen. But I think we could have done better."
Ed Castro


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There have been some reports from other boats fishing buoys further out of double digit catches of Mahi Mahi as well. There are a few striped marlin also starting to show up and still a few spearfish hanging around as well. We are heading to a full moon mid week, so if the weather holds out for the next few days the fishing should be pretty decent.
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Dr. Roger Stevenson Recognized by the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) Foundation
SEATTLE, WA – GGC co-founder and senior clinical geneticist, Roger E. Stevenson, MD, has been honored with 'The ACMG Foundation David L. Rimoin Lifetime Achievement Award in Medical Genetics' at the college's annual meeting in Seattle.
Stevenson, a native of Neeses, SC, is a 1962 graduate of Furman University and received his MD from Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest, where as a medical student, he set up the school's first chromosome lab and made a groundbreaking discovery about the risk of birth defects in mothers with PKU, a rare inherited metabolic disorder. He proceeded to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where he completed a pediatric residency and research fellowship. It was there he studied under some of the giants of the emerging field of medical genetics and was a contemporary of the award's namesake, Dr. David Rimoin.
While studying at Johns Hopkins, Stevenson met another research fellow, Harold Taylor, PhD, with whom he formed the Greenwood Genetic Center in 1974 with support from Greenwood businessman and philanthropist Jim Self and the SC Department of Disabilities and Special Needs (DDSN). Since that time Stevenson has led the Center to international acclaim in clinical services, diagnostic testing, research, and educational programs.
With special interests in intellectual disability, birth defects, and autism, Stevenson has contributed broadly to the field of medical genetics. He has published over 200 scientific papers, and numerous books, including the widely utilized reference text, 'Human Malformations and Related Anomalies' which he coauthored with the 2018 Rimoin honoree, Dr. Judith Hall. Along with GGC colleagues, he cowrote 'The Atlas of X-Linked Intellectual Disability Syndromes,' and just last month released 'Overgrowth Syndromes: A Clinical Guide.'
In 1978, he identified a rare genetic disorder that bears his name, Beare-Stevenson syndrome, and several other disorders that, because of his tendency to avoid personal recognition, do not.
Over the past twenty years, he and GGC research colleagues have identified nearly 1/3 of all known genes on the X chromosome that lead to intellectual disability, making GGC the international authority in this area of medical genetics.
Another of Stevenson's passions lies in the area of birth defects prevention. In 1992, in collaboration with SC DDSN, Department of Health and Environmental Control, and the March of Dimes, he founded the SC Birth Defects Prevention Program at GGC which has led to a 60% decline in severe defects of the brain and spine in SC. He champions efforts to educate the population on the importance of folic acid as a preventative supplement and led the charge to fortify dietary staples such as breads, pasta, and cereals with folic acid to help prevent these birth defects. This program has been hailed as a model for other states, and even other nations, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Roger could have been Chairman of any department of genetics in the country and would likely have been a medical school dean had he chosen that path," said Godfrey Oakley, MD, Stevenson's medical school colleague and Director of the Center for Spina Bifida Prevention at Emory's Rollins School of Public Health, "but he chose an important different track to the benefit of children and families worldwide."
In 1995, Stevenson helped start the SC Autism Project, an initiative to uncover the genetic causes of this increasingly common diagnosis. His work on autism continues with a current effort to develop a blood-based autism test, and he is actively involved in researching personalized treatments.
Stevenson also holds a passion and a talent for teaching. GGC's Medical Genetics Training Program has educated dozens of MD and PhD geneticists who count him as their mentor. "The defining features of my genetics training were shaped by Dr. Stevenson," shared Sara Cathey, MD, a clinical geneticist at GGC and graduate of the Center's training program.
Despite his many national and international accolades and prominence in the field, Stevenson continues to prioritize patient care. He is highly regarded by his patients and their families, not because of awards or publications, but because of his gentle nature and genuine compassion and concern for those he serves. "Roger has an instinctive manner with families that puts them at ease and lets them know that he views their child as the most important person in the room," shared Katy Phelan, PhD, a trainee and former laboratory director at GGC.
After relinquishing role of GGC Director in 2011, Stevenson continued an active clinical practice and is very involved in research, particularly as it relates to treatment of genetic disorders. He currently serves as the Ravenel Boykin Curry Chair in Genetic Therapeutics at GGC. In this role, he oversees the Center's treatment initiatives and works toward developing and delivering novel treatments such as gene therapy and gene editing.
"Roger has always been about ten years ahead of everyone in seeing what is important, what the new developments were, and putting them into practice," shared Judith Hall, MD, Stevenson's colleague at Johns Hopkins, and longtime friend and collaborator.
GGC Director, Steve Skinner, MD, commented, "Beyond the respect I have for Roger as a clinician, scientist, and educator, I have even greater regard for him as a man. While accolades and achievements can often lead to arrogance and pride – Roger embodies the opposite traits. He sees his work as that of a servant providing care and hope to families struggling with difficult circumstances."
GGC Clinical Geneticist David Everman, MD, agrees "From the moment I met Roger, he has never been anything except kind, forward-thinking, compassionate, and genuinely interested in impacting the world around him in the smallest or largest of ways, with the utmost humility every step of the way."
Skinner continues, "Roger actively avoids the spotlight, but is quick to point out the contributions of others. Though he would disagree, those of us who are privileged to work with him on a daily basis understand that it was his vision that created GGC and his persistence, will, and sheer determination that has turned it into the success it is today."
Stevenson was nominated for the honor by a variety of colleagues from GGC, the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Emory University, Baylor College of Medicine, University of North Carolina, University of Miami, the University of California San Diego, and the University of British Columbia. The award recognizes an individual in the medical genetic profession who exemplifies a lifetime of achievements including a passion for teaching and mentoring, care of patients and their families, and enthusiasm for integrating the medical genetics and genomics community into mainstream healthcare.
Rimoin was the founding president of ACMG and a pioneer in the understanding of genetic disorders of the skeleton. The award is presented annually by the ACMG Foundation and was renamed in honor of Rimoin after his death in 2012.
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