Matt McGloin and the Penn State Nittany Lions (4-2, 2-0 Big Ten) handed the 24th-ranked Northwestern Wildcats (5-1, 1-1 Big Ten) their first loss of the season in a 39-28 game on homecoming weekend at Penn State.
After starting the fourth quarter down 11 points, McGloin would lead the Nittany Lions to 22 unanswered points, including a game-winning 5-yard touchdown run with 2:37 remaining in the game. Coming into the game, the redshirt senior quarterback was leading the Big Ten in passing, averaging 243 yards per game passing. On Saturday, McGloin was 35-51 for 283 yards and 2 touchdowns.
Penn State head coach Bill O'Brien spoke highly of McGloin's play.
After going three-and-out on their first drive, Penn State converted two fourth downs on their second drive of the first quarter setting up a 21-yard field goal by Sam Ficken for the 3-0 lead.
Northwestern is coming off a school-record setting performance last week against Indiana when it racked up 704 total yards of offense including 394 rushing and 308 passing yards. However, the Wildcats came out flat in the first quarter going three-and-out twice and gaining only 12 yards on six plays. The Nittany Lions have now outscored their opponents 52-0 in the first quarter. Northwestern didn't get a single first down until the 9:19 mark of the second quarter.
In total, Penn State out-gained Northwestern 443-227 in the game, a 30-14 edge in first downs and 39:17 in time of possession to 20:43 for the Wildcats.
Once again, junior running back Zach Zwinak emerged as a threat throughout the game. Zwinak, had 28 carries for 128 yards and 1 TD on the day, capped off an 8 play 40 yard drive early in the second quarter to increase Penn State's lead to 10-0.
O'Brien talked about after the game why Zwinak saw the majority of the carries Saturday.
"Zach, we felt, was running the ball downhill," O'Brien said. "We just felt his physical presence in this type of game is something we wanted to go with."
The Wildcats are known for their spread passing attack, but Northwestern has dictated games this year by dominating the running game. Running back Venric Mark, quarterback Kain Colter and running back Mike Trumpy spearhead the Wildcat running game. Northwestern has averaged 255.8 rushing yards per game in 2012.
After being dominated for the majority of the first half Venric Mark capped off a 3 play 17 yard drive with 2 yard touchdown run, after a Jesse Della Valle muffed punt set up the Wildcats with great field position cutting the Penn State lead to 10-7. That was the first touchdown the Penn State defense has given up in the first half all season long.
Northwestern would take a 14-10 lead into halftime after Tony Jones caught an 11 yard touchdown pass from Trevor Siemian in the closing seconds of the first half after a questionable pass interference call on Penn State cornerback Stephon Morris. The Nittany Lions have now outscored its opponents 86-23 in the first half.
After a Northwestern three-and-out to open the second half, Penn State drove 80 yards over 12 plays, ending with Matt McGloin throwing his 11th TD pass of the season to Allen Robinson to regain the lead at 17-14.
On the 80-yard drive, Zwinak accounted for 43 total yards, including 37 rushing yards and 6 receiving yards.
Allen Robinson talked about his chemistry with Matt McGloin this season.
Quarterback Kain Colter and the Wildcats would take the 21-17 lead, answering right away on their next possession driving 71 yards over 11 plays, finishing the drive with a 10-yard touchdown by Colter. Northwestern would increase its lead to 28-17, when Venric Mark returned a punt 75 yards in final minute of the 3rd quarter.
McGloin responded by throwing his second touchdown pass of the day to Allen Robinson on fourth down, capping of an 18 play, 82-yard drive. O'Brien elected to go for the two point conversion and Michael Zordich converted cutting the Northwestern lead to 28-25. The Nittany Lions were 5-for- 6 on 4th down conversions in the game.
Penn State is off next weekend, but the Nittany Lions return to action in two weeks, when they travel to Iowa City with a matchup against the Hawkeyes. That game will be broadcast live on ComRadio at 8 p.m. on Saturday October 20th.
Tom Zulewski is a senior majoring in Journalism. You can contact him at trz5013@psu.edu.


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Evidence suggests complex Life Forms may have existed on Earth...
Evidence suggests complex Life Forms may have existed on Earth billions of years ago
There is pressing evidence which suggests that Humans may not have been the FRIST complex life form to appear on the planet. In fact, recent studies—and archaeological discoveries—point to the fact that complex life forms may have appeared on Earth at a time when scientists state NOTHING existed on Earth. "Twenty years ago, this would have been heretical; finding evidence of life 3.8 billion years ago was shocking…"
Looking at the history of our planet, we will find that scientists agree Earth is around 4.6 BILLION years old. However, recent findings have given rise to numerous theories which suggest that our planet, and life on it –not just single cell organims— may have called Earth home even before modern humans appeared.
Telltale signs and scientific evidence
Scientists have discovered carbon-laced crystals which are up to 300 million years older than the previously considered 'oldest life on Earth', which go back around 4.5 millions of years.
Even though these crystals are not proof of the existence of biological life, they indicate the presence of chemical signs of life.
A team of geochemists at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) have just found evidence that there was life on Earth 4,100 million years ago. The finding implies that life came into existence very soon after our world was formed, 4.554 million years ago. The work was recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
"Twenty years ago, this would have been heretical; finding evidence of life 3.8 billion years ago was shocking," said Mark Harrison, co-author of the research and a professor of geochemistry at UCLA.
Another study–of great interest—was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, as lead author Michael Kipp, a UW doctoral student in Earth and space sciences, analyzed isotopic ratios of the element selenium in sedimentary rocks in order to measure the presence of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere between 2 and 2.4 billion years ago.
The findings are extremely interesting.
Lead researcher, Eva Stüeken and Roger Buick, state in the paper,
"There is fossil evidence of complex cells that go back maybe 1 ¾ billion years," said Buick. "But the oldest fossil is not necessarily the oldest one that ever lived — because the chances of getting preserved as a fossil are pretty low.
"This research shows that there was enough oxygen in the environment to have allowed complex cells to have evolved, and to have become ecologically important, before there was fossil evidence." He added, "That doesn't mean that they did — but they could have."
Basically, scientists used selenium in sedimentary rocks as a tool to measure oxygen levels in our planet's atmosphere up to 2.4 billion years ago. The study offered new evidence on how selenium had been changed by the presence of oxygen and even affected the appearance and DISAPPEARANCE of COMPLEX life forms.
The results show that there was enough oxygen for complex life cells to develop.
Controversial discoveries
Referred to as pseudoscience, conspiracy or other names along that line, numerous discoveries point to the possibility that life may have flourished on Earth thousands if not millions of years ago.
Giant footprints scattered around the globe suggest that in the distant past, before written history, beings of freakishly large proportions may have roamed the earth. If we look at ancient writings from South America, North America, Europe and Asia, we will find that ancient cultures mentioned giants in their ancient writings. However, some ancient texts not only mention giants but suggest they were real.
One of the most controversial footprints was found in Africa, in the vicinity of the town of Mpaluzi, close to the border with Swaziland.
The granite block where the massive footprint is located on is believed to date back between 200 Million and 3 billion years. This fascinating footprint was discovered over a hundred years ago when a hunter called Stoffel Coetzee stumbled across it in 1912 while hunting in the area.
Due to the fact that the footprint is located in an extremely isolated and remote region of the African continent, the chances of the footprint being a carved hoax are extremely low.
One of the possibilities is that we are looking at an actual footprint, left behind by giant beings millions of years ago when our planet was much different than it is today.
The other possibility, highly unlikely according to many, is that the massive footprint is the result of natural erosions and that a phenomenon called pareidolia is making us see a familiar shape, which in this case is a footprint.
Recently, photographers exploring an area near a Chinese village came across a sensational finding. They discovered (and photographed) a footprint left behind by a massive being. In the image –se below— you can clearly see the footprint embedded into rock. Compared to an ordinary foot of a human being, the footprint embedded into rock is at least twice as big.
A footprint which dates back nearly 300 million years. Impossible right?
The discovery of the 290 million-year-old footprint was made in New Mexico by paleontologist Jerry MacDonald in 1987. The discovery of the human impression has left MacDonald particularly puzzled and not he or anyone who has seen and studied the impression has not been able to explain how this modern footprint could have been located in the Permian strata, which according to scholars dates from 290 to 248 million years, a time period which occurred long before man or even birds and dinosaurs existed on this planet.
Furthermore, artifacts which date back millions of years have been discovered scattered across the globe.
One of them is a controversial artifact discovered in 1889 near Nampa, southwest Idaho, when workers were drilling, searching for water. The small figure, skillfully formed in clay has since remained one of the greatest mysteries creating both confusion and amazement among scholars. Researchers have stated it dates back around 2 MILLION years.
Authors Richard Thompson and Michael Cremo elaborately explain mainstream views about history and evolution in their book The Hidden History of the Human Race (The Condensed Edition of Forbidden Archeology):
"Other than Homo sapiens sapiens, no hominid is known to have fashioned works of art like the Nampa figurine."
"The evidence, therefore, suggests that humans of the modern type were living in America at the Plio-Pleistocene age which dates about 2 million years ago."
Complex Life, COMPLEX Life Forms, Early Earth, Life
Peter Tabor says:
"the FRIST complex life form"? Come on, you even highlight the word and misspell it. Why should I believe any of this if you can't even bother to check the spelling, let alone any "facts" you may have.

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The OpenBTS team tests its network at Burning Man in Nevada's Black Rock desert. Photo courtesy of David Burgess
Open-Source Cell Network Could Cut Costs
contributor: Rob Goodier
In the developing world, cell phones come before land lines. Why? Because installing cell towers is cheaper than running landlines. But even with lower costs, telecom companies avoid the poorest and hardest-to-reach areas. Where they do provide coverage, it's expensive, especially for the 3 billion people in the world who earn about $3 per day.
A small team of telecom industry veterans has solved both of those problems. The team developed OpenBTS, an open-source, software-based cellphone network. Not only does it cost one-tenth as much as traditional networks, but carriers could charge callers about $2 per month and still make a profit.
To do that, OpenBTS has stripped some of the opacity from cellphone service, turning it into a do-it-yourself project. Now, anyone with some technical chops, a Radio Shack nearby, and $4,500 can make a network that works with a standard GSM cellphone. In sum, this project could change how most of the world communicates.
By lowering costs, an open-source network like this one opens doors to small companies that are willing to provide coverage in the world's under-served communities. This kind of network can't sidestep the world's AT&Ts – operating an unlicensed network is illegal in many countries. But it presents investment opportunities that could lead to fundamental shifts in regulations, especially if it becomes clear that this is a cheaper way to talk.
Here's a look at the OpenBTS hardware. Photo courtesy of David Burgess
OpenBTS (BTS= Base Transceiver Station) is a low-cost replacement for a traditional cell network. It allows cellphones to connect to each other if they're all within range of the transceiver, and to connect to any other phone in the world through an internet connection.
At its core is open-source software that creates an interface for cellphones to connect to the network. The software is installed on a computer with a Linux operating system. An open-source device, called a Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP), plugs into the computer. Together, they create a signal that looks just like any signal for GSM phones. GSM, by the way, is the most widely used cellphone standard in the world.
To complete the trick, the software plus the USRP hardware links to an open-source PBX called Asterisk. The PBX, a private branch exchange, is a server that acts like a switchboard to place calls.
With that set-up, anyone in range of the signal can place calls to anyone else in range, exactly as if they had traditional cellphone coverage. To connect to the rest of the world, all that's needed is an internet connection.
The OpenBTS team is on a tower on the Polynesian island Niue, where they tested their network last year. Photo courtesy of David Burgess
Low, low, cost
"Our goal is to drive the cost of the service down low enough and operate a profitable business to provide low-cost service to literally billions of people. Because they're out there and they can't afford the current system," said David Burgess, one of the three brains behind OpenBTS.
A phone company would have to invest about $200,000 to install a network in a rural, off-the-grid village. That would cover a few thousand people in a radius of about nine miles (15 kilometers). Because there's no power, the company would need a generator. If the generator runs on imported diesel, then fuel, plus delivery and security expenses, could cost $12-18,000 per month, Burgess figures.
A comparable OpenBTS network would cost about $20,000. That includes solar panels, so the power would be nearly free. At that price, a monthly calling plan could cost about $2 per month, Burgess says. And, with future improvements, he hopes to drive the cost to the user down to $1 per month.
Streamlining regulations
Burgess' team is working with carriers in Latin America to install OpenBTS networks in their coverage dead zones. And these arrangements won't be the network's first time in the field.
In the past three years, the team successfully field-tested OpenBTS at two Burning Man events in a (mostly) dead zone in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. The network also went to Niue, a Polynesian island with no coverage.
On Niue, the OpenBTS team learned a lesson about regulations. The island's internet coverage is on the same frequency as the network, so it interfered with the signal. In most of the world, the law has set that range aside for cellphone networks. But not on Niue.
This is the OpenBTS network installation at Burning Man. Photo courtesy of David Burgess
Elsewhere, OpenBTS networks (and others like it) could butt heads with the opposite problem: too much regulation. Legalizing even a small network in the United States requires an FCC license as a first step, followed by other bureaucratic hurdles. If small, open-source networks catch on, Burgess foresees an overhaul of the world's network laws. That could open doors to small businesses that are shut out of the industry now by high costs and strict regulations.
"Certainly there are technical hurdles to driving the cost down. There are also regulatory and political hurdles," Burgess says. "But we believe that when you prove it is possible and change the way that people think about it, you'll see new opportunities. You really change the whole nature of the business."
Cell phones for better health
The world is already snapping up cellphone subscriptions. The number should top 5 billion this year, according to a UN study released in February. Such coverage is easing problems of poor development. People in developing regions are using their cell phones for everything from healthcare to financial transactions.
"Even the simplest, low-end mobile phone can do so much to improve health care in the developing world," Hamadoun Touré, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union said in a statement. "Good examples include sending reminder messages to patients' phones when they have a medical appointment or need a pre-natal check-up. Or using SMS messages to deliver instructions on when and how to take complex medication such as anti-retrovirals or vaccines. It's such a simple thing to do, and yet it saves millions of dollars and can help improve and even save the lives of millions of people."
Burgess agrees. "There are very few people in the world who would refuse telephone service by choice. But there are lots who can't afford it," he says.
For more information, please see the OpenBTS site. For the source code, there's the OpenBTS wiki. And Lee Dryburgh posted an audio file and a transcript of his very technical interview with David Burgess at the Emerging Communications Conference in 2009.
This is the command center for the Burning Man test. Photo courtesy of David Burgess
tags : open source technology, open-source, open-source cellphone, open-source cellphone network, OpenBTS
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Aaron Cronkrite says:
this interests me very much. i would love to experiment with this tech.
Hi Alistair, thanks for your interest. You can try asking Kurtis Heimerl: https://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~kheimerl/. Good luck, and please let me know how it goes if you get a system set up. I'd love to post pictures.
27-02-2016 10:26:01 PM
Alistair douglas says:
dear rob, we are looking at funding the installation of an open bts in an island COMMUNITY in indonesia. do you know who we should be talking to about this? regards & thanks, Alistair
Jose Luis says:
Hola me interesa micho este proyecto pero necesito mas informacion
wil says:
saludos y esta buenisimo quisiera probarlo
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Q: can't complete this action I have sp 2010, I want to import and export sub site in the same site collection, but the import through error
Application error when access /layouts/14/newsbweb.aspx Can't complete this action

A: Step 1: Export your subsite by using the Export-SPWeb command.
You can do this on your SharePoint Server and run the command using the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell.  For this sample I had used the following command

Export-SPWeb -Identity "http://someURL/SomeTeamSite/sandbox/" -Path "C:\Exported Sub Site\SandboxSubsSite.cmp" -IncludeUserSecurity -IncludeVersions all

What that command does is basically export the sub site to a .cmp file where we included all Security Settings and Versions for more options check out Export-SPWeb on TechNet
You will notice once it exports you will have a log file showing you whats been done during the export process.

Step 2: Create you site collection.  This is where you will host your new site.
Still on the Sharepoint Server (you can also do this remotely), go to "SharePoint 2010 Central Administration" then into "Application Management" then "Site Collections" then "Create a Site Collection".

Indicate all of the properties needed

Take note you can also create managed paths, which means you can create a site at a specific path. To do that click on "Define Manage Paths" under the "Web Site Address".

Once everything is set up properly you will receive a confirmation that your site collection was created.

Step 3: Import your Content Migration Package (CMP) file that you exported using Import-SPWeb.
Still in the Sharepoint Server using the SharePoint 2010 Management Shell issue the Import-SPWeb command, for this sample it would be something like this

Import-SPWeb "http://someURL/sites/Sandbox" –Path "C:\Exported Sub Site\SandboxSubsSite.cmp"

Like Export-SPWeb the Import-SPWeb can have several parameters which you can see on TechNet

It will also create an Import log and once the import finishes your all good to go.
Now check your new site collection and compare to the sub site, and if your happy feel free to remove the subsite.
Try this, I hope this will work

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Training in Reporting of Child Maltreatment: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Ben Mathews and Donald C. Bross (eds.)Mandatory Reporting Laws and the Identification of Severe Child Abuse and NeglectChild MaltreatmentContemporary Issues in Research and Policy410.1007/978-94-017-9685-9_16
16. Training in Reporting of Child Maltreatment: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go
Maureen C. Kenny1
College of Education, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
Maureen C. Kenny
Email: kennym@fiu.edu
Child maltreatmentProfessionalsTraining programsChild protectionDecision makingReporting
Child maltreatment is an international societal issue. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (United Nations General Assembly 1989 ) emphasized the need for countries worldwide to recognize the importance of children's rights and to take action to promote these rights. Among these was the right to freedom from child abuse and neglect (Article 19). Unfortunately, despite this dictate, child maltreatment continues to be a pervasive issue in both developing and industrialized nations. Many countries have implemented extensive policies and legislation and responsive approaches, often known as child protection systems, with the goal of safeguarding children from maltreatment (Carter et al. 2006 ). While exact rates are impossible to report, between 500 million and 1.5 billion children are estimated to experience violence annually (UNICEF 2010 ). Even in those countries where there are strict laws against abuse and mandatory reporting of abuse, maltreatment occurs at alarming rates. For example, in the USA, 3.4 million referrals to child protection were estimated to include 6.2 million children (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Administration of Children and Families 2012 ), with victims hailing from all socioeconomic groups and ethnicities. From the referrals received, 61 % were screened in (indicating the allegation of child maltreatment met the state's standards for acceptance and became a report), which resulted in two million reports. In National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS), a child is considered a victim of maltreatment if he or she receives a disposition of substantiated, indicated, or alternative response victim. For 2011, the national estimate of victims was 681,000. The national number of victims who received services was approximately 366,000, and the national number of non-victims who received services (in home or foster care) was approximately 747,000. Although it remains a complex social issue that has been addressed in many prevention models, increased focus on training and education of professionals is critical to provide early detection, identification, and referral to treatment.
The purpose of this chapter is to review the current literature on training professionals, reflect on the ongoing need for training, and propose training and education guidelines for mandated reporters. As Chen et al. ( 2013 ) state in regard to reporting child abuse, "education is required before achieving clinical competence" (p. 168) emphasizing that training is necessary to ensuring competence in identifying and reporting child abuse. The crucial need to protect children from abuse and neglect combined with their inherent vulnerability makes this an area of utmost importance in training professionals who will work with them.
It is important to note that the term child abuse will be used to cover the most commonly identified and researched forms of abuse and neglect (e.g., neglect, physical, sexual, and emotional abuse). While the author recognizes that countries vary in their definitions of abuse and neglect, and culture plays a role in defining such actions, for the purpose of brevity, it is assumed that the reader will apply the term accordingly in one's own context and environment. In addition, many countries are addressing issues of training for professionals. Eissa and Almuneef ( 2010 ), for example, wrote about the expanding recognition of child abuse and neglect in Saudi Arabia, which has led to mandatory reporting and improved child abuse data collection strategies. Still, this chapter will draw heavily on the work in the USA and Australia as these countries have the most developed systems of reporting (Mathews and Kenny 2008 ) and have produced a large body of research on training efforts. This work may serve as information relevant to other countries that have also begun to adopt mandatory reporting.
Mandated Reporters and Reporter Training in the USA
In most States, mandated reporters include educators, medical personnel (primarily physicians and nurses), and mental health professionals (psychologists, counselors) (Mathews and Kenny 2008 ). While these professionals vary greatly in their professional activities, they share some commonalities including having direct contact with children, serving as confidants or role models to children, and in most countries require a minimum level of university education. They are also viewed as child advocates, safeguarding children and possessing concern for children's welfare by virtue of their professional role, ethics, and activities. These professionals play an important role in the detection of maltreatment, enabling the provision of services to victims and their families, and the development and conduct of research in the area of maltreatment (Crettenden and Zerk 2012 ).
While many professional organizations in the USA deem child abuse to be a crucial issue for their members and many professionals are mandated reporters in all US states, there is currently no national standard governing the amount and content of child abuse training across the major professional groups – educators, physicians, and mental health professionals. Unfortunately, as Alvarez and colleagues ( 2010 ) state, "There has not been widespread dissemination of training programs to assist professionals in mandated reporting of suspected child maltreatment" (p. 211). This has meant that training programs differ across jurisdictions and across occupational groups even within jurisdictions, may not exist within some jurisdictions or for some professions within jurisdictions, may not be of high quality, may not be well administered, and thus leave professional groups untrained and victims vulnerable.
The Need for Training
Training is critical since the first professional who comes into contact with a victim is the one to direct the child's access to the resources of the child protection team and ultimately the victim's pathway to recovery (Hicks and Tite 1998 ). If professionals who are working with children and youth are appropriately trained, they may contribute to breaking the cycle of abuse (Swann 2000 ). Professionals will be in positions where they may have a legal and professional duty to report suspected abuse and neglect and will require training to develop the specialized knowledge and confidence needed to deal with this complex issue (Mathews 2011 ). As Lidchi ( 2007 ) states, "training needs to …transfer knowledge, improve research methods and develop practical skills" (p. 354). In addition to a need for training, there appears to be willingness for individuals to attend training as evidenced by the results of Orelove et al. ( 2000 ). They found that 92 % of educators and 96 % of investigators (including child protection workers and law enforcement) said they would attend specialized training if it were made available to them.
Proper, well-planned, and executed training is critical for professionals to assist in identification and reporting of child maltreatment. Given the high incidence, as well as the various and complex types of child maltreatment (e.g., sexual, physical, emotional, neglect), and often debilitating, long-term consequences for child victims, professionals need to be equipped to confront this social issue. Detection is frequently difficult due to the nature and context of some types of abuse as well as the secrecy surrounding them. Training allows for an exploration of the often complicated ethical, legal, and moral duties involved in the protection of children. The professional reporter plays a pivotal role in protecting seriously abused and neglected children, and they have the potential to make an impacting difference to the child's and family's life.
Widespread Variation in Training Efforts
While it is recognized that educators and early interventionists can play a pivotal role on child protection teams (Orelove et al. 2000 ), there is also an international consensus that most educators are ill equipped to perform their duties as mandated reporters. For example, although all of the educators and investigation workers in the Orelove et al. ( 2000 ) study in the USA were mandated reporters, less than a third reported being very knowledgeable about the process to report child abuse to child protection services (CPS). Seventy-nine percent of the educators said that their employers had a policy on reporting abuse, but only 25 % of them had received training on the policy within the past 3 years. According to Kenny ( 2004 ), almost two-thirds of the teachers surveyed in the USA reported having no training in child abuse during their preservice training, and very few teachers were aware of their school's procedures for reporting abuse. In addition, teachers claimed inadequacy in their ability to detect and identify all types of child abuse even when they had training. This lack of training has been documented in other countries as well. Buckley and McGarry ( 2011 ) found that 61 % of their beginning teachers in Ireland reported their training in child protection while pursuing their degree to be inadequate. Similarly, McKee and Dillenburger ( 2009 ) found that undergraduate students in Ireland in initial teacher education, early childhood studies, and health and leisure studies had some basic awareness of child abuse and neglect (CAN) issues, but their knowledge base was inconsistent and did not reach the levels required for those who will work directly with children.
The findings from a study by Walsh et al. ( 2008 ) in Australia, although conducted on solely neglect and physical abuse, bear reporting here. They found that teachers with no formal child protection training were more likely to both detect and report child physical abuse and neglect than those with formal training. They hypothesize that training may, in fact, provide teachers with increased awareness of the complexities of child maltreatment, such that "the more teachers know, the more they may realise they do not know" (p. 991). This is consistent with the findings of Buckley and McGarry ( 2011 ) who found that many of those teachers who recall having no training (51 %) considered themselves confident, while the majority of those who had training (59 %) were not confident or certain about their ability to identify abuse. This lack of confidence may indicate the inadequacy of their training as well as a misperception of one's abilities despite lack of education.
Many countries have begun to make programmatic efforts to provide training to teachers. In Queensland, Australia, teacher training includes a 3 h school-based interactive workshop using a standard package comprised of audiovisual segments, activities, question and answer clarification, and small group discussions on case scenarios (Walsh et al. 2008 ). Training is delivered by school leaders, generally principals and school/guidance counselors rather than child protection specialists.
In 2001, Hawkins and McCallum sought to evaluate the South Australian Education Department Mandated Notification Training (Hawkins and McCallum 2001 ). The training is a 1-day workshop designed to prepare educators and other mandated reporters to fulfill their reporting obligations. It includes an examination of one's values, attitudes, and experiences, the importance of maintaining a child/young person's focus and perspective when considering the possibility of child abuse and neglect, legal responsibilities, and recognition and notification of suspected child abuse and neglect. Using a control group, they found that, comparatively, participants in the workshop had increased confidence in their ability to recognize the indicators of abuse as well as increases in awareness of their reporting responsibilities, knowledge of what constitutes reasonable grounds, and of how to respond appropriately to a child's disclosure of abuse.
The literature on educators demonstrates that while they often make many reports of child abuse, they may also lack proper training to carry out their duties. Training is sporadic and inconsistent at best. The extent to which teachers are trained in child abuse seems to vary significantly across countries.
Physicians, especially pediatricians, are often the first to come in contact with cases of suspected child abuse and neglect (Yehuda et al. 2010 ). However, it has been well documented that they may not receive adequate training in medical school (Johnson 1993 ). The majority of medical residents, pediatric program directors, and child protection program directors, in Canadian pediatric academic centers, rated their training in child maltreatment as "somewhat adequate, needs improvement" (Ward et al. 2004 ). Cavanagh et al. ( 2004 ) found that fewer medical staff (nurses and psychiatrists) had received training in asking about abuse than the nonmedical staff (therapists/psychologists). In addition, Kenny ( 2001b ) found that slightly more than half (52 %) of the medical residents in her study reported having some education in child abuse in their training. Further, physicians may be ill informed about specifics related to abuse. For example, it was found that they tend to associate certain factors with child sexual abuse (such as religion, race, and family size), despite research demonstrating a lack of connection between these variables and a risk of experiencing child sexual abuse (Lentsch and Johnson 2000 ).
There is currently no specific mandated training in child abuse and neglect as a required subspecialty experience in pediatric residency education in the USA as per the Pediatric Residency Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (Narayan et al. 2006 ). For residency programs that offer didactic training in abuse issues, the majority (52 %) have been found to offer 3–6 h of training, and sessions were taught by physician experts (87 %) in child abuse and neglect. Overall, many pediatric residents leave residency with limited clinical training in child abuse and neglect, having been exposed to less than five cases of abuse. Narayan et al. ( 2006 ) found that 59 % of pediatric residency programs offer no mandatory rotation and 25 % offered no rotations at all in child abuse and neglect. However, 75 % did offer a mandatory, elective, or both rotations. Interestingly, elective rotations appeared to provide more comprehensive coverage of abuse and neglect.
In New York (USA), where there is a mandatory 4 h child abuse and maltreatment course for professionals (including physicians, mental health counselors, nurses, school service personnel, etc.) prior to licensure, Khan et al. ( 2005 ) surveyed physicians who had completed the course. On average, 90 % of the physicians answered the ten test items on child abuse correctly. Fifty to 85 % stated that the course made a significant difference in their knowledge and practice. However, results revealed that almost half of the surgeons and internists did not know how to initiate a report of abuse. The authors conclude that while the course may improve awareness, it may not increase reporting.
Palusci and McHugh ( 1995 ) utilized a child sexual abuse training for physicians (fellows, students, residents) that consisted of 3 h of didactic training and 6–12 h of patient care exposure and found that participants had a significant increase in their test scores on knowledge of various aspects of child sexual abuse (pre-post). The training utilized a multidisciplinary approach including video, direct patient care, supervision, interview, and medical examination. They believe that this approach had advantages over lectures and case discussions. This is consistent with Ward et al. ( 2004 ) who found that only 7 % of their medical residents reported didactic training as a strength, when being taught about child maltreatment.
The extent of training received by physicians seems to vary according to specialty. Starling et al. ( 2009 ) found that pediatric programs provide far greater training and resources in child maltreatment than emergency medicine and family medicine programs. In addition, pediatric programs were more likely to have a medical provider who specializes in child abuse, have physician faculty responsible for child abuse training, use a written curriculum for child abuse training, and offer an elective rotation in child abuse, than the emergency and family medicine programs. Residents who reported more training and patient experiences performed better on the knowledge quiz than those who did not have such experiences. This resulted in pediatric residents being more knowledgeable, more comfortable, and better trained in child abuse than their emergency and family medicine peers. While they performed better than their peers, their average score was still 73 %.
Donohue et al. ( 2002 ) utilized an abuse reporting skills checklist in a study in order to measure professionals' ability to master these steps when making a child abuse report. The study employed a single subject (third-year medical student) who participated in six training sessions (45 min each) over a 4-week period. The first two sessions focused on education regarding the state reporting laws and rules. The remaining sessions taught skills relevant to initiating child abuse reports, handling upset during child abuse reports, role-play of making reports, and handling reports with clients. A controlled multiple baseline design across behaviors was used to evaluate skills acquisition. Results demonstrated that the participant improved her skills in the area of initiating abuse reports (from baseline to follow-up) and an improved ability to resolve upset by the caregiver to the abuse report. With regard to participant feedback, the participant strongly agreed that the program contributed to her professional development, knowledge in reporting child maltreatment, and confidence in reporting child maltreatment.
McCauley et al. ( 2003 ) trained physicians and other professionals by utilizing a 35 min video, Ask-Sympathize-Safety-Educate-Refer-Treat (ASSERT), and a pre- and posttest measuring both knowledge and attitudes. The video, which featured role-plays to demonstrate different approaches to difficult clinical encounters, such as suspected abuse, was created in conjunction with a multidisciplinary team. Physicians were found to have significantly improved knowledge and attitudes about abuse after the training and the video was rated highly. Compared to the other professionals (nurses and social workers), physicians were found to show improvement in knowledge related to the legal requirements to report abuse and neglect.
As Christian ( 2008 ) concludes, much of the literature on physician training in child abuse suggests that improving knowledge, while not easy, is simpler than influencing medical practice. She contends that clinical competence in medicine is based both in knowledge and experience. Thus, if the aim of medical education is to improve practice, rather than simply just improve knowledge, education must focus not only on knowledge but skill development. These skills would be in the area of identification of child abuse, addressing concerns with families, reporting suspected child abuse, managing consequences of abuse, advocating for families, and working with families affected by child maltreatment.
Mental health professionals are likely to see many cases of suspected abuse as they often work with families in crisis. Clinical and counseling psychologists reported that their graduate training programs and internships were deficient in training them to address abuse issues, but those who were trained more recently rated their training more positively than did earlier graduates (Pope and Feldman-Summers 1992 ). However, overall the ratings were still low. More recent graduates reported that their programs provided little coverage of abuse issues, but it was an improvement from previously trained psychologists. In Australia, Crettenden and Zerk ( 2012 ) found that most psychology programs exposed students to issues related to child abuse and neglect as part of or integrated into other units of study. This is consistent with Champion et al. ( 2003 ) who also found that doctoral programs in psychology included information on child maltreatment in several courses in their curriculum, most often in ethics courses. Crettenden and Zerk ( 2012 ) conclude that there needs to be some agreement on the minimum level of information on child maltreatment required for psychology students, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Alvarez and colleagues ( 2010 ) utilized an in-person 3 h workshop for mental health professionals that included a PowerPoint presentation and video vignettes, dissemination of state and federal laws on child abuse reporting, common indicators of child abuse, and a review of misconceptions resulting in the failure to report suspected child maltreatment. After random assignment to the control or training group, it was found that participants who were assigned to the training group improved their knowledge of laws, were able to identify child maltreatment scenarios, and evidenced knowledge of skills required to make a report of child maltreatment compared to controls.
Cavanagh et al. ( 2004 ) report on a 1-day training program in New Zealand developed to train professionals (nurses, psychologists/therapists, psychiatrists) on physical and sexual abuse inquiry and response. This was developed in response to recommended best practices for trauma and sexual abuse. Evaluations completed on this training at the end of the day found that 94 % of participants found some benefit to the training, including increased confidence in ability to inquire about and respond to abuse. Aspects of the training that were rated favorably by participants included role-playing, written handouts, and research summaries. Many wanted more time for the training, including an extra day. Six weeks after the training, the majority of participants reported that the training changed their clinical practice. The training had a self-reported positive effect on confidence and self-perceived abilities both in asking about abuse and responding to disclosures. These authors recommend a combined skills and knowledge-based program.
Law enforcement plays an important role in identification and responding to child maltreatment. In some jurisdictions, police officers respond along with social services to reports of child abuse, while in other instances they may recognize child maltreatment when investigating other crimes. While police officers are not required to attend university, they typically are trained in police academies. Thus, training in child abuse generally takes place during academy training. In the USA, the Police Training Commission sets the minimum standards that must be achieved, and the topic of child abuse falls into those standards, under the criminal statute of endangering the welfare of children (Rick McGarry, personal communication, December 1, 2013). Frequently, child protection workers will be utilized during these trainings to emphasize policies and procedures. In addition, there may be in-service training classes provided by child protection workers for experienced officers and for officers and detectives assigned to police department patrol and juvenile bureaus. Currently in the USA, there is no mandatory retraining on child abuse during the tenure of an officer, and the focus of training in the academy is often on the criminal aspects of child abuse.
The majority of law enforcement officers in the Portwood et al. ( 2000
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge's breakout BBC America series depicts the romance and rivalry between two very different women, waged through the universal language of style.
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The jet-setting assassin Villanelle, played by British actress Jodie Comer in this year's breakout hit Killing Eve, has a weakness for fashion. She lives in Paris (which makes it easy) and charges a high price for performing precise, ruthless kills, thereby making her haute couture habit affordable. Throughout the season, Villanelle's looks are their own subplot. She slips into a Berlin club wearing a dandified Dries Van Noten brocade suit; she sulkily attends mandatory psychiatric evaluation in a flouncy saccharine-pink Molly Goddard gown—paired, rebelliously, with punky Balenciaga boots. In a gripping scene from the first episode, Villanelle takes time to ask her mark about the designer of an especially sumptuous silk throw he owns before skewering him, through the eye, with a poison-filled hairpin. Show-runner Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who adapted Luke Jennings's novellas into the eight-episode first season for BBC America, has made subverting viewers' expectations about on-screen women into a mordant art.
Killing Eve became a word-of-mouth sleeper hit this spring, increasing its audience by 86 percent from the first episode, an unheard-of streak of viewership gains. BBC America was so high on its expectations for the series that it was renewed for a second season before Season One even aired. The gamble paid off. The drama was nominated for two Emmys, including a lead-actress nomination for star Sandra Oh—the first performer of Asian descent in the category. Killing Eve is not just an overnight sensation but a milestone for inclusion in the industry.
It's this seeing that makes the show so addictive, especially for female viewers. Eve sees Villanelle in the precision of her handiwork; Villanelle sees Eve through the tangle of her hair.
Killing Eve plumbs feminine allure in new and interesting ways, as Eve and Villanelle find cozy, familiar methods of cornering the other. Villanelle barges in on Eve to eat her leftover shepherd's pie; Eve politely stops in for tea and cake at the home of Villanelle's ex-lover. The most taut moments come when Eve is alone but immersed in Villanelle, be it when she's wearing the high-fashion clothes the assassin gifted her or trashing her well-appointed apartment. Eve appears to almost welcome the incursion of Villanelle's ridiculous, petulant personality—but she's increasingly made aware that the killer's seductive qualities are just the surface of an actual psychopath.
There's something to be said for women watching other women—and seeing past the surface, to appreciate what's beyond mere superficial styling. When Eve and Villanelle first glimpse each other, it's in a mirror in the women's bathroom, but each takes note of the other's reflection. The series' core is less two adversaries battling each other than it is two women shadowboxing with the parts of themselves they have, unwittingly, seen reflected in the other.


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Syria's Assault on Aleppo Stalls
The country's rebels now believe they can capture the country's biggest city within days despite being outgunned.
Updated Jul. 13, 2017 9:53PM ET / Published Aug. 01, 2012 4:45AM ET
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By Damien McElroy, Richard Spencer and Magdy Samaan
The Syrian government's assault on Aleppo appeared to have stalled on Tuesday night as rebels claimed new victories against the increasingly demoralised troops of Bashar al-Assad.
Rebels now believe they can capture the country's biggest city within days despite being outgunned.
On Tuesday they stormed a number of bases including police stations in Aleppo suburbs, killing as many as 40 members of the security forces, following their capture of a key checkpoint on the road to the Syrian border the day before.
State media meanwhile said troops were still "pursuing terrorists" in the suburb of Salaheddin, which on Monday it claimed to control, as well a list of other districts.
Mohana Abu Bakri, commander of the rebel Abu Emara Battalion, told The Daily Telegraph the front line in
Salaheddin remained where it had been the day before, despite heavy fighting. Other rebels reported bombing runs by both jets and helicopters.
"Thanks to the shelling there is hardly a street without holes in its houses or totally collapsed houses," he said.
The regime has been forced into using air power as tanks, even those not ambushed on their way in as increasing numbers have been, are proving an ineffective tool in the city's narrow streets.
Rebel units scattered for cover during an air attack on Miayasr in Aleppo's south, next to Salaheddin, following the predawn rebel capture of two police stations, a military court, an air force intelligence headquarters and a branch of the ruling Ba'ath party.
Louay Mokdar, an organiser for the Free Syrian Army in Turkey, claimed the dead from the police station attacks included a colonel, as well as intelligence officers and members of the "shabiha" militia. Dozens more were captured and taken to rebel prisons.
It is now 12 days since a sudden push swept the rebels into the metropolis of two million, with the government counter-attack coming four days ago.
The course of the battle so far has bolstered rebel confidence. The Syrian army has moved cautiously under the cover of artillery fire and air support.
But the rebels were increasingly bullish on Tuesday.
"We don't have goals for the coming months. We have goals for the coming days. Within days, God willing, Aleppo will be liberated," said Col Abdel-Jabber al-Oqaidi, head of the Joint Military Council in Aleppo, who defected from the Syrian army six months ago.
"We secure our areas and then move to other neighbourhoods, pushing towards the city centre.
"The regime's capabilities are also being weakened. They can shell us from afar with tanks and helicopters. But inside their morale is zero."
Four tank crews in Salaheddin surrendered as soon as opposition fighters appeared. Mr Abu Bakri said 16 defectors had crossed over to his side in Salaheddin yesterday and 30-40 more in a neighbouring district.
Taha Ahmed, a military vet who works on securing defections from an Army Ranger's base north of Aleppo said his task was becoming easier.
"The officers have been too scared to move but they are now talking with us," he said. "We have some infiltrators inside and we are gaining day by day defectors to join the Free Syria Army."
Abu Abdul Jabr, another rebel leader, said he believed the fight for Aleppo would be finished by the end of Ramadan, the holy fasting month, in mid-August.
"The government controls nothing any more, except through shelling and artillery," the bearded former interior decorator said in the front line town of Marea. "They can make a massacre but that is it.
"We have the resolution to fight. It means with us one month on the streets is equivalent to five years in military services. The troops don't have the strength to match us and are defecting whenever they can."
But the rebels do not have things all their own way. The regime still has troops in reserve, and is luring the opposition out.
Three rebel convoys were ambushed on Tuesday. In one case, a detachment of 20 men that went to relieve an outpost on the Nerha bridge on the edge of Salaheddin thought it had forged a deal for safe passage with a local family but found itself walking into a trap.
As rebel cars circled a roundabout, Shabiha gunmen opened fire. Grenades were thrown and security forces snipers targeted drivers. By the time the squad withdrew eight were dead.


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The wife of Scientology's leader has allegedly been missing for 9 years, but HBO's new documentary doesn't address it
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HBO's documentary on the Church of Scientology, "Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief," addresses rumors that have been swirling for years about the church. But the film's director, Alex Gibney, didn't tackle one of the biggest Scientology mysteries — the current location of the wife of Scientology leader, David Miscavige.
"At the end of the day, rather than doing stone skipping and covering as much as possible in a superficial way we chose to dig in on certain things," Gibney told Business Insider on why he left the story out of the documentary.
Gibney also told BI that though there was a longer version of the film that included more details about Scientology, the story of Miscavige's allegedly missing wife, Shelley, was never investigated and they never filmed anything about it.
Shelley has allegedly been missing since 2006, reportedly following an incident where she filled several job vacancies without her husband's permission, as initially reported by The New Yorker's Lawrence Wright (who would go on to write "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & The Prison of Belief," the book that inspired Gibney's film).
To be clear, a spokesperson for the Church of Scientology has denied to Business Insider that Shelley is missing. That spokesperson called the HBO documentary a "propaganda film." (See the full statement at the end of this article.)
Church spokespeople have repeatedly denied through the years that Shelley is missing, Vanity Fair reported last year, but the rumors of her absence persist.
In 2012, Steve Hall, a former Scientologist, told BI that he believes she's staying at the little-known "Church of Spiritual Technology," a remote forest compound in Twin Peaks, California, near San Bernadino.
After actress Leah Remini, a 30-year vet of the church, left Scientology in 2013, she reportedly filed a missing persons report for Shelly with the Los Angeles Police Department. Her suspicion reportedly began years ago after noticing Shelly wasn't with her husband at the 2006 wedding of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, in which David was Cruise's best man.
Around the time of Remini notifying the police, the journalist Tony Ortega, a longtime critic of the church with his blog "The Underground Bunker" (who is also featured in "Going Clear"), reported that Shelly is at the church's secret compound in the mountains of Los Angeles.
Here's why Shelly is allegedly banished, according to Ortega:
"Early in 2004, at Scientology's International Base — a secretive, 500-acre compound about 90 miles east of Los Angeles, near the town of Hemet — Miscavige took his ideas about discipline to strange new lengths. A few dozen executives he wanted to punish were locked into a set of rooms that had been an office, and "The Hole" was born. Over the next several years, even more executives who had fallen from his favor were added to the bizarre and harsh office-prison, reaching about 100 total prisoners.
Around that time, Miscavige also became obsessed with the base's "Org Board." It was a roster of jobs that Miscavige wanted filled, but for some reason his underlings could never fill out the empty slots in the roster to his satisfaction. People who worked there at the time tell us that Miscavige's tirades about the org board were maddening and relentless.
Then in 2005, Miscavige did something surprising — he traveled to nearby Los Angeles to work on a publishing project, and Shelly stayed behind at the base. People who worked at the base tell us it was the first time they remembered seeing the couple apart.
Shelly took advantage of her husband's absence to fill in the org board that had proved such a headache. She also made progress on another project Miscavige had been promising to start by moving his belongings out of a set of buildings called the 'Villas.' She moved his things into another set of rooms called 'the G's,' so the Villas could be renovated…
When Miscavige returned from Los Angeles and found the org board filled and his belongings moved, he erupted. A week later — which was sometime late in 2005 or early in 2006, our sources tell us, Shelly vanished."
Business Insider reached out to Scientology to comment on Shelly's alleged disappearance:
"The false allegation about Mrs. Miscavige was debunked by the Los Angeles Police Department in a statement two years ago," a spokesperson for the church told BI in a written statement. "The police declared the rumor 'unfounded' and she continues in the Church as she always has. The notion that Mrs. Miscavige is missing is a conspiracy theory among Alex Gibney and Lawrence Wright's unsavory sources. The rumor has resulted in the disgraceful harassment of Mr. and Mrs. Miscavige. It is disgusting. The Church has made information available about Mr. Gibney's film at www.fredommag.org/hbo."
The Church of Scientology also disputed the existence of a place called "The Hole" to BI:
This is another tired, false and offensive allegation. The only "hole" at the Church property being referred to is on the golf course. This again sources to the same small group of liars. This false propaganda was exposed as a lie in our video at freedommag.org/hbo/videos/exterminating-gibneys-propaganda.html.
But the so-called "hole" is featured in one of the most chilling scenes in "Going Clear."
Former Scientology executives who claim to have been in the hole said Miscavige gathered the group in a room, put empty chairs in the middle of it, and told them to play musical chairs. He allegedly told them when one chair remained that person was allowed to stay in their position, and everyone else would be sent off to remote locations.
According to the film, Miscavige started playing the music, Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," and the staff began circling the chairs. When the music stopped the staff battled for seats. The fewer chairs that remained throughout the game, the more aggressive people were to get a chair, allegedly leading to punching and shoving. After one person finally remained, Miscavige told everyone in the room that he changed his mind and everyone was allowed to stay.
The group stayed in the hole and continued work on the org board, according to the film.
"This just is David Miscavige," Mike Rinder, a former executive of Scientology who is featured in "Going Clear" and was involved in the alleged musical chairs incident, told reporters at HBO's offices last week. "His personality type is sociopath. He takes a lot of things that in the hands of someone else would be innocuous and uses those as tools of weapons to abuse people."
Scientology also disputed Rinder's comments:
"The source for these allegations, and Gibney's primary subject, Mike Rinder, is talking about himself. Mr. Gibney and now yourself, due to prejudice and bias, have obliged in revising history for self-admitted suborners of perjury, perjurers and obstructers of justice.
Mike Rinder admitted in a January deposition to the exact opposite of what he says to Mr. Gibney in the film and now to you. He's also a tainted source because he's admitted to being paid by law firms seeking to score a payday suing the Church. You should know that just today the Church won a decisive victory in the case Rinder and his attorney clients had been hoping to hit the jackpot on.
Rinder's domestic abuse is documented by his ex-wife, brother, daughter and his ex-wife's surgeon, and all of this would have been relevant to the film since Gibney shamelessly has Rinder lie about his ex-wife yet he didn't ask her for comment or to sit for an interview, even when she was in New York to see him.
Alex Gibney and HBO cynically repackaged Mike Rinder into the poster boy for their new propaganda film. They flew Rinder around the country in five-star luxury to shill for their religious hatred, never mentioning that Rinder was expelled from his former religion for gross malfeasance. They hid that Mike Rinder can't hold a job and his only source of income is payment for attacking Scientology. Gibney knew all this but relevant facts would have popped the phony bubble of legitimacy Gibney created around his 'star.'
And, at a time when religious hatred is spreading through the world and inciting violence, it is also irresponsible to release any film about religion with someone so obsessed with inciting hatred as Mike Rinder, an admitted liar and suborner of perjury, a paid anti-religionist and a domestic abuser. http://www.freedommag.org/hbo/videos/mike-rinder.html
Mr. Miscavige has been successfully leading the Scientology religion for more than a quarter of a century during which the Scientology religion has expanded faster in the last 10 years than in its previous 50 years combined. Scientology parishioners worldwide hold him in the highest esteem for what he is doing for the religion."
This is not Gibney's first time examining the alleged abuse of power. He was nominated for an Oscar exposing the corrupt acts by the heads of Enron ("Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"), won one looking at US torture tactics ("Taxi to the Dark Side"), and has done films on the illegal methods done by "Casino Jack" Abramoff ("Casino Jack and the United States of Money"), the untruthful statements made by Lance Armstrong ("The Armstrong Lie") and the questionable motives of Julian Assange ("We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks"), not to mention the illegal sexual conduct by the Catholic Church ("Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God").
With his history of examining infamous characters, how does Gibney see Miscavige?
"He's a true believer who is doing everything he can to protect his religion," Gibney told BI. "And in that way it may be even more terrifying because at some point you can sit someone down who is not a true believer and say 'let's do a risk/reward analysis.' That's not something he'd be willing to engage in."
"Going Clear" opens theatrically in limited release today and airs on HBO March 29.
SEE ALSO: How a filmmaker finally infiltrated Scientology for HBO's explosive documentary
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1) Combine the wasabi and water to make a paste. Using a blender or a mixing bowl with a whisk, add the remaining ingredients except the oil and onion, and blend or whisk until well combined.
2) Emulsify by pouring the oil slowly into the blender while it is running or mixing bowl while mixing. Stir in the onion and set aside.
1) Using a mandoline or knife, cut the carrots and daikon into matchstick size pieces. Using your knife, cut the red pepper into the same shape as the daikon and carrot. Cut the chives in the same manner.
2) Toss all the vegetables together with the pea sprouts. Season with salt and pepper and 1 tbsp of the dipping sauce.
1) In the restaurant, we serve raw slices of kobe beef with a hibachi. The customers then cook the beef at the table on a hot stone. For home use, I suggest cutting the beef fillet into quarters lengthwise. Season well with salt and pepper, to taste.
2) Quickly sear the beef on all sides in a very hot saute pan with a little cooking oil. Let the meat rest for 2 to 3 minutes then slice across the grain into very thin slices.
3) Serve the beef with the dipping sauce and coleslaw.
Cook's note: Kobe beef can be difficult to source – it may not be something you can find at your local butcher. Alternatively, I suggest using a prime cut of beef. In the restaurant we use a whole kobe prime rib. This, however, requires a lot of butchery. For home use, I suggest using beef fillet – ask your butcher for a cleaned centre cut of the beef fillet.


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package etcd

import (
	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/fields"
	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/labels"
	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/registry/generic"
	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/registry/generic/registry"
	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/runtime"
	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/storage"

	"github.com/openshift/origin/pkg/user/api"
	"github.com/openshift/origin/pkg/user/registry/group"
	"github.com/openshift/origin/pkg/util/restoptions"
)

// REST implements a RESTStorage for groups against etcd
type REST struct {
	*registry.Store
}

// NewREST returns a RESTStorage object that will work against groups
func NewREST(optsGetter restoptions.Getter) (*REST, error) {

	store := &registry.Store{
		NewFunc:     func() runtime.Object { return &api.Group{} },
		NewListFunc: func() runtime.Object { return &api.GroupList{} },
		ObjectNameFunc: func(obj runtime.Object) (string, error) {
			return obj.(*api.Group).Name, nil
		},
		PredicateFunc: func(label labels.Selector, field fields.Selector) *generic.SelectionPredicate {
			return group.Matcher(label, field)
		},
		QualifiedResource: api.Resource("groups"),

		CreateStrategy: group.Strategy,
		UpdateStrategy: group.Strategy,
	}

	if err := restoptions.ApplyOptions(optsGetter, store, false, storage.NoTriggerPublisher); err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	return &REST{store}, nil
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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The study of American politics and government at Oxford has a distinguished heritage. Herbert Nicholas, the first Rhodes Professor of American History, was a sophisticated observer of post-war American politics. Other leading scholars of the subject have included Philip Williams and David Goldey, whose research focused on American parties and elections; and Byron Shafer, the first holder of the Andrew Mellon Chair of American Government, the author of numerous path-breaking studies of American partisan and electoral orders.
The current Andrew Mellon Professor of American Government is Desmond King, an expert on American political development and the author of many works on labour markets, race, immigration, and ethnicity. Each year, the RAI also welcomes the John G. Winant Visiting Professor of American Government, which has been held by many of the most distinguished scholars of American politics and government. The current holder in 2018-19 is Professor Stephen Skowronek (Yale). Oxford is also home to a vibrant community of graduate students working on American politics.
"The RAI has a very special role to play in intellectual affairs, as the premier international institution for the study and interpretation of public life in the United States. The Institute provides a place to look broader and think deeper about 'the American way' and its place in the wider world." Professor Byron E. Shafer, Hawkins Chair of Political Science, University of Wisconsin


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University of London - Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
London, Middlesex
The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama was founded by Elsie Fogerty in 1906 to offer a new form of training in speech and drama for young actors and other students. It became a constituent of the University of London in 2005 and its prominent alumni include Cush Jumbo, Laurence Olivier, Vanessa Redgrave, Judi Dench, Harold Pinter, Martin Freeman and Kit Harington.
Acting - Classical
Acting - Contemporary
Acting for Screen
https://www.cssd.ac.uk/
Global - Representative


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Q: Pyomo and cplex solver Here is my code. As you can see it is a simple liner programming that I am trying so solve via pyomo as an interface for Cplex. I added everything to the path to no avail. I really appreciate your help.
from pyomo.environ import *

model = ConcreteModel()

model.x = Var(domain=NonNegativeReals)
model.y = Var(domain=NonNegativeReals)

model.profit = Objective(expr = 40*model.x + 30*model.y, sense=maximize)

model.demand = Constraint(expr = model.x <= 40)
model.laborA = Constraint(expr = model.x + model.y <= 80)
model.laborB = Constraint(expr = 2*model.x + model.y <= 100)

results = SolverFactory('cplex').solve(model)
results.write()
if results.solver.status:
   model.pprint()

print('\nProfit = ', model.profit())

print('\nDecision Variables')
print('x = ', model.x())
print('y = ', model.y())

print('\nConstraints')
print('Demand  = ', model.demand())
print('Labor A = ', model.laborA())
print('Labor B = ', model.laborB())

sys.path would also return
['/Users/navid/project',
 '/Applications/CPLEX_Studio201/cplex/python/3.8/x86-64_osx',
 '/Users/navid/opt/anaconda3/lib/python38.zip',
 '/Users/navid/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8',
 '/Users/navid/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/lib-dynload',
 '',
 '/Users/navid/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages',
 '/Users/navid/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aeosa',
 '/Users/navid/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/chardet-3.0.4-py3.8.egg',
 '/Users/navid/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/docloud-1.0.375-py3.8.egg',
 '/Users/navid/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/locket-0.2.1-py3.8.egg',
 '/Users/navid/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/IPython/extensions',
 '/Users/navid/.ipython']

You can see that Cplex is in the path. I also installed pymo using anaconda. Yet still it returns

WARNING: Could not locate the 'cplex' executable, which is required for solver
    cplex
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ApplicationError                          Traceback (most recent call last)
/var/folders/w4/q3nldmqx4xz8kc24n903cjc00000gn/T/ipykernel_36345/4155455994.py in <module>
     17
     18 # solve
---> 19 results = SolverFactory('cplex').solve(model)
     20 results.write()
     21 if results.solver.status:

~/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pyomo/opt/base/solvers.py in solve(self, *args, **kwds)
    510         """ Solve the problem """
    511
--> 512         self.available(exception_flag=True)
    513         #
    514         # If the inputs are models, then validate that they have been

~/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pyomo/opt/solver/ilmcmd.py in available(self, exception_flag)
     34         if self._assert_available:
     35             return True
---> 36         if not pyomo.opt.solver.shellcmd.SystemCallSolver.available(self, exception_flag):
     37             return False
     38         executable = pyomo.common.Executable("ilmlist")

~/opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pyomo/opt/solver/shellcmd.py in available(self, exception_flag)
    123             if exception_flag:
    124                 msg = "No executable found for solver '%s'"
--> 125                 raise ApplicationError(msg % self.name)
    126             return False
    127         return True

ApplicationError: No executable found for solver 'cplex'

What I am doing wrong? Cplex is in the path.

A: See https://pyomo.readthedocs.io/en/stable/working_models.html#specifying-the-path-to-a-solver for a way to directly specify a path:

Specifying the Path to a Solver Often, the executables for solvers are
in the path; however, for situations where they are not, the
SolverFactory function accepts the keyword executable, which you can
use to set an absolute or relative path to a solver executable. E.g.,
opt = pyo.SolverFactory("ipopt", executable="../ipopt")


text:
BCHL boasts net presence
B.C. Hockey League teams load up on netminding talent.
Kevin Mitchell
Looks like this could be the year of the net detective in the B.C. Hockey League.
Andy Moog, Olaf Kolzig, Mark Fitzpatrick, Byron Dafoe and Wade Flaherty head the list of BCHL graduates who went on to enjoy long NHL careers in goal.
There have been just a few goalies like former Vernon Vipers Wade Dubielwicz and Matt Zaba, along with David LeNeveu of the Nanaimo Clippers, that enjoyed a cup of mocha in the show over the past two decades.
And Aldergrove's Brad Thiessen, who rode the bus with Prince George, Merritt and Penticton before going to Northeastern on a schollie, did hold the Stanley Cup a few years ago as the Penguins' practice goalie.
Some teams have made goaltending a major priority this season with the Vipers locking up Austin Smith from the WHL Swift Current Broncos and Joe Young of the Boston Midget Major Advantage.
Smith picked up three wins as a back-up with the below .500 Swift Current Broncos last year. He got in 31 games in two seasons so carries some decent experience.
Young, who just signed a NCAA scholarship with the Union Dutchmen for 2014, is described by U.S. Hockey Report as "having a good frame, tools, and the upside that goes with it."
He was ranked 31st after a mid-term rating of 24th, in the NHL Scouting Bureau's final list of North American goalies last spring. He went undrafted.
By the time Young arrives at Union in two years, Colin Stevens and Dillon Pieri, who also played for Boston Advantage Midget Major, will be seniors.
Young was ranked just below Sean Maguire of the Powell River Kings, who despite being pegged at No. 28, was the 12th goaltender taken in the draft, 113th overall, by Pittsburgh. Maguire is now with the Boston University Terriers.
The West Kelowna Warriors appear to have a good one in 20-year-old Tyler Briggs (Clarkson Golden Knights). The Sherwood Park product recorded 20 wins with the Lloydminster Bobcats of the AJHL last year, and allowed just one goal in two Showcase wins last weekend. Briggs also helped Team West to a gold medal in the World Junior A Hockey Challenge.
Cole Huggins, a 20-year-old from Colorado, posted back-to-back shutouts with the Coquitlam Express last weekend. How low can he go?
In Nanaimo, the Clippers pulled a major trade to scoop up Jayson Argue, an 18-year-old from Swan River. He racked up 23 wins and a 2.61 GAA with the Manitoba League's Swan Valley Stampeders a year ago.
The defending Royal Bank Cup champion Penticton Vees are solid with returnee Chad Katunar coming off a 13-win season and stellar playoff run in place of injured Michael Garteig.
Veteran Mitch Gillam (Cornell Big Red) will steal a few games for the Chilliwack Chiefs, while 20-year-old Kirk Thompson of the Prince George Spruce Kings and Vernon's Tyler Steel of the Merritt Centennials should do the same.
Mike Stiliadis reportedly couldn't be happier than to be with the Victoria Grizzlies.
Picked up from the Oakville Blades of the Ontario Junior A Hockey League in exchange for defenceman Stefan Gonzales, Stiliadis has settled in with grandparents Bill and Blanche Jeffers.
Stiliadis was 14-5-1 record in Oakville last season with three shootout losses and four shutouts. He previously played with the Georgetown Raiders of the same league and went a spectacular 11-0-0-1 with a 2.80 GAA.
In Port Alberni, the Bulldogs are goalie heavy. They just picked up Adam Todd after he was released by the Saskatoon Blades of the Western Hockey League last week.
Jay Deo, 20, joined the Dawgs from the Calgary Mustangs of the AJHL and Brad Rebagliati, 17, came to the Bulldogs via Cranbrook.
NOTES AND QUOTES: Enderby's Scott Robinson is much closer to home after a two-year stint with the now-defunct Dawson Creek Rage of the NAHL. "We found out (the team was folding) on our last road trip. It's a real shame because the fans were really loving the team. Things were trending upwards. There are so many good things up there. They're gonna miss them this winter. The fans were spectators the first year, but they became the town's team last year." Robinson replaced Troy Mick as the Salmon Arm SilverBacks' head coach the other day…Vernon F Harlan Orr, who had a stellar year with the Major Midget Okanagan Rockets last year, has stuck with the Surrey Eagles. D Jordan Burns, who also shined with the Rockets last season, is with Powell River…F Devon Hascarl is back with the Warriors, while F Alex Jewell, who played a few playoff tilts last spring, is with the Vees…The Eagles have passed the captaincy from one brother to another. Brandon Morley, 18, will serve as captain, taking the 'C' from his older brother, Tyler, who captained the Eagles for two years and this season will play with the NCAA's University of Alaska-Fairbanks Nanooks…Clipper grad Brad Knight, once an assistant coach with the Shipmen, is head coach of the new Junior B franchise in Nanaimo, the Buccaneers…The Whitecourt Wolverines are the newest team in the AJHL. Formerly the St. Albert Steel and Fort Saskatchewan Traders, the Wolverines have been averaging 700 fans a game while dominating Junior B in the booming Northern Alberta town the past few years.
BCHL: Alberni Valley Bulldogs three-deep in goalies
Pitch 'n Putt: Ladies don't lack at hack and whack


Our block this month was Autumn Chain Block, chosen by Kaitie (@thegingerquilter). She chose navy, bright saturated pink, light grey and light blue in the following arrangement. This block went together quickly. I like the different variations shown in the tutorial.
Here's the 5-inch signature block I made for Kaitie from my scraps.
This month Meghan had us make blue exploding blocks using a tutorial from Missouri Star Quilt Company. Since we used 6 fabrics, our squares were: two 4-inch center squares followed by 5-inch, 6.25-inch, 8-inch, and 10.5-inch squares. This made a finished block approximately 14 inches square. This was a super fast block. I'm thinking it would make a fun baby quilt to just keep exploding until it was between 36 and 48-inch square.
Posted in Quilting. Tags: do. Good Stitches, Stash Bee, The Bee Hive on March 31, 2015 by sarah.
What a lovely memory! Thanks for visiting, Bo.


text:
Q: Another representation of $S^n$ as a quotient of disk Let $D^n\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ be the subset consisting of those points $(x_1,\dots,x_n)\in \mathbb{R}^n$ such that $x_1^2+\dots+x_n^2\leq 1$ and let $S^{n-1}\subset D^n$ be the subset of those points $(x_1,\dots,x_n)\in D^n$ such that $x_1^2+\dots+x_n^2=1$ (i.e. the boundary of $D^n$). Define an equivalence relation $\sim$ on $S^{n-1}\subset D^n$ by $$(x_1,x_2,\dots,x_n)\sim (-x_1,x_2,\dots,x_n).$$
Is the quotient $D^n/\sim$ homeomorphic to $S^n$? I think this is true for $n=2$, and am curious about higher dimensions.

A: This is true for all $n$:  $(D^n/\sim)\cong S^n$.
To see this, first note that $\sum ( D^n/\sim) \cong D^{n+1}/\sim$ where $\sum$ denotes the suspension functor: $\sum X$ is $X\times [-1,1]$ with $X\times \{1\}$ and $X\times \{-1\}$ collapsed to points.  One such homeomorphism is $f([x_1,..., x_n],t)\mapsto  [(\sqrt{1-t^2}\,x_1,...,\sqrt{1-t^2}\,x_n,t)].$
Now, ($D^1/\sim) = S^1$ because in this case $\sim$ is the usual identification $S^1 \cong D^1/\partial D^1$.  Now, the fact that $(D^n/\sim)\cong S^n$ follows from induction:  $(D^{n+1}/\sim) \cong \sum(D^n/\sim)\cong \sum(S^n) \cong S^{n+1}$.


text:
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So I use a couple vFolders to read the bulk of my mail.
Then, I expunge (Ctrl-E) and the views refresh and new messages appear.
Is that expected behaviour? Seems silly to have to force refresh.
Evo 1.4.5, Gnome 2.4, Gentoo Linux.


Graz is the second-largest city in Austria and also one with the most educational infrastructure for high-tech industries thanks to our University of Technology and the FH Johanneum. Many companies and research projects use Google technologies but for some reason there has never been a GTUG here (at least I couldn't find any traces of one).
Well, Google kind of abandoned the GTUG format and replaced it with Google Developer Groups (or for short: GDG). Last week a small meet-up took place in order to start working on a plan for launching such a GDG in Graz. We don't yet have any detailed time-frame for a real first GDG event nor a concrete mission-statement or something like that, but we will continue working on that in future meetings within the next couple of months.
The goal here will be to invite newcomers and professionals alike to learn new stuff and share their knowledge an experience about topics as diverse as Google App Engine, Go, Dart, Android, HTML5 and much more in a welcoming environment.
If you want to help, please get in touch!


text:
Q: Make font-size smaller I've this heading in the first tex file - for a computer science thesis:
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,twoside,openright]{book}
\usepackage[italian,english]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage[top=1in, bottom=1.5in, left=1.2in, right=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage[hyperindex]{hyperref} %per l'indice interattivo
\usepackage[all]{hypcap}    % utilizzato per far riferimento ad un'immagine, e non al suo caption
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{esvect}
\usepackage{minted}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage{emptypage}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.14}

\def\changemargin#1#2{\list{}{\rightmargin#2\leftmargin#1}\item[]}
\let\endchangemargin=\endlist

\graphicspath{ {img/} }

\setcounter{secnumdepth}{2}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{1}

\newcommand{\HRule}{\rule{\linewidth}{0.5mm}}

\newcommand{\fncyblank }{\fancyhf{}}
\newenvironment{abstract}%
{\cleardoublepage\fncyblank\null \vfill\begin{center}%
\bfseries \abstractname \end{center}}%
    {\vfill\null}

and I would make the font-size smaller (10pt to 9pt).
Due to the 9pt size, I've to use extbook document class. The problem is that the difference between 10pt and 9pt is too big.
How could I make the font-size a bit smaller?
Thanks!