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Interviewing Seniors About Writing a Thesis and Advice
by Tae-Hee Kim
Hi juniors, sophomores, freshmen, and to-be high schoolers! As we look up to the current seniors, we can appreciate the wisdom and mentorship they bring to HB. Besides applying to colleges and surviving "seniors", if you're anything like me, you might wonder how in the world they're able to balance a busy workload AND write a thesis. Even wondering about becoming a senior and the thesis writing process may make you want to pull your hair out!
But don't fret! To address this potential concern, here is what a few seniors have had to say about this topic and their advice on writing a senior thesis:
Madeline Howarth:
What senior capstone class are you currently in?
I'm in Econ honors.
How happy are you to be writing a thesis?
Um, you know, it depends on the day. Some days I'm thinking about, okay, well this is probably a good experience to have for college, and some days I'm like, well, this is pretty difficult, this is a lot of writing and yeah, this has been a lot of research, but I picked a topic that I think is really interesting, so it's been cool to learn about it but at the same time it's not exactly enjoyable some nights when you're having to get a lot of it done.
How difficult or time consuming is writing a thesis?
I would say it's a lot of time. If you've spread it out well, like if you've been working on it the whole year, you're pretty much good to go. I stupidly have procrastinated on mine, so what means is that I have to spend a lot of time on it now as opposed to having spread it out over the whole year. So, it's definitely a lot, but it's a lot more manageable if you spread it out.
What have you found the most challenging part of writing your thesis? And what has been the most rewarding?
I would say the most challenging part is just figuring out what point you're trying to make, because in a paper that long, sometimes you lose sight of what you're actually trying to prove and you're just spewing out information. The most rewarding part has definitely been just seeing the information I know build up and learning about it and gaining a better understanding of the topic than pretty much anyone else that I know, so it's kinda cool to have that much knowledge on one topic, but it's definitely also a lot of information.
And finally, is there any advice, if at all, that you'd like to give to future HB seniors and potential thesis writers?
Yeah, don't procrastinate. Not a good idea. It makes it not fun.
Oriana Cruz:
Econ.
I mean, I think it's a great experience and is something that I will really benefit from in the future, especially because in college we're going to have to write a lot more papers so the fact is that we're writing a twenty or more paged paper and I think that that is so important. It is a lot of work, but I think I'll be really happy I did it in the end.
It's not really that it's time-consuming, because I think KP and Ms. Moderai do a really good job of breaking it apart—we've been working on it since the beginning of the school year practically. We had to start brainstorming our topics in August and we did our outline by November, so we just had most of the work done during the school year—now it's just typing it all out, which isn't too bad.
I think the most challenging part is finding the research because you have to find a lot of really reliable sources. I chose a topic that's really recent, it's about the Columbian peace negotiations and the effects it could have on the economy. A lot of it isn't something you can really quantify yet because the effects are being seen right now, but obviously, they don't know up to how much the effects will occur. So yea, finding resources and that kind of stuff is kinda challenging, but overall it's been great, I mean, we have a lot of resources that are useful.
I think that just making sure to follow the deadlines—break it apart, don't be too overwhelmed, but just to do the work little by little, maybe just doing a couple of hours each weekend—is really the best advice I could give.
Leah Marks:
World Lit.
I think it's bittersweet. I think it's a valuable experience and I think that I've learned a lot from it, but it takes up a lot of my time.
I think that if you plan it out well, then it's very manageable. I mean personally I procrastinated a lot because I was having a hard time coming up with a topic, but I think if you plan your time well throughout the school year then it should be fine.
I think finding a topic was the hardest part for me, just because I've never written anything of that magnitude, so it was hard to find something that you could write a lot about and know you can write meaningful things. And probably the most rewarding thing has just been learning a lot through the process.
Find a topic that you're really interested and passionate about, because otherwise it's not going to be a fun process. Also start as early as you can, because work builds up a lot at the end of senior year and that's very stressful.
Lina Ghosh:
International Relations, and I took Gov last year.
Right now? On a scale from 0 to 10, a solid 7 (this figure might be a little biased as I have been staring at my less than acceptable conclusion chapter for the past few hours). In all honesty, I fluctuate between a 5 and an 8.5 when I'm on a roll.
If you work consistently, it's a reasonable amount of work. If you're a procrastinator, it's more time-consuming than you think, so I'd suggest taking the former approach (I should probably take my own advice). Think of the entire thesis as five short papers, which isn't too much in the grand scheme of things.
*Nervous laughter* Senioritis? All I'll say is that I have the capacity to be a lot more productive than I am right now, but here's the better answer: I LOVE my topic, but the research process has been quite difficult. I'm writing about music as a mode of diplomacy during times of crisis. Sounds cool, right? Two problems: 1) literature on the subject is sparse. I even ordered a book from another state because it wasn't available in the Ohio library system 2) historically, music hasn't really played a huge role in bringing about cease-fires or putting a stop to major human rights violations (though it has definitely helped in bridging cultural ties and bringing together diverse communities). If it was that remedial, people would have been holding hands and singing Kumbaya instead of fleeing war-torn regions or oppressive regimes that strip them of their rights and identities. I guess it's easy to get carried away with your own idealistic vision of what your thesis is going to be, so I'd say that the most challenging part it is relinquishing control over your expectations.
Be open to surprises, changes, and revelations—discovering something on your own that you hadn't known before is the most rewarding part of this process. Keep in mind that we're really lucky to have this opportunity at HB, so make sure to pick a topic you're interested in and have fun with it!
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I couldn't watch the video of the Florida child being handcuffed in the principal's office. As a writer and a policy wonk, I am not supposed to confess that.
I shared it, I thanked people for sharing it.
I contemplated the deeper issues behind it, considered the relative importance of policy and activist responses at the district, state and national levels. Should we prioritize training teachers, increasing special ed resources, or educating police departments? Wouldn't it be fascinating to do a deep dive into history and theories of child development, and bring to light the outdated origins of the idea that handcuffing any 10-year old in the presence of his parents could ever possibly be a good idea?
Then the video would pop up some new place on my social media feeds. And I'd feel waves of nausea all over, have to push back my chair and go get the thing out of my eye. Again.
It's not like I'm unaware of how much discipline in our schools has taken on a law enforcement culture. Though I didn't know – and maybe you didn't either – that the association of in-school police officers recommends that officers not be used for school discipline matters, though 70 percent say they are; and that Congressional Research Service says we don't actually have good data on what law enforcement is doing in schools, or what its effects are.
And I know that boys, children of color, children of lower socio-economic status and children with special needs are much more likely to be disciplined, to be suspended, and to come into contact with law enforcement.
I even know, because I've watched it with my own eyes in my own wonderful progressive local schools, that kids in those categories tend to get disciplined for behaviors for which other kids get a laugh, a reprimand, or extra help.
Something I know that you may not is that there's a generation of amazing educators who have developed methods to help elementary school teachers manage challenging students – and set those students up to self-regulate, succeed and learn.
Professional development associations offer evidence-based, peer-reviewed development modules for the district or individual teacher level. Researchers have put years of study into what works and what doesn't – including pretty much every step taken by the Florida district. In some parts of the country, cutting-edge clinics, research programs and schools offer training for districts and teachers.
Mid-career training is urgently needed, because studies have found that fewer than half of undergraduate teacher-training programs, and just two-thirds of graduate programs, offered coursework preparing instructors to work with autism in the classroom.
Something else I know, though I wish I didn't; in my state of Maryland, police officers get training on disabilities such as autism, how to recognize symptoms of the condition and how to de-escalate confrontations. Why do I wish I didn't know this? Maryland's program stems from a tragic incident in which a police officer shot and killed a young man, mistaking his anxiety and confusion for belligerence and threat.
Why do I know all these things? I wish I could say it was because I'm just a concerned citizen, that I'm just bothered by the inequities our kids face, and the obstacles in the way of kids who need a hand up to learning the most. But I'm not that civic-minded. I'm actually kind of selfish.
I have a son on the autism spectrum, a boy with a beautiful smile who, like the child in the video, sometimes asks inappropriate questions in a plaintive voice, and whose understanding of cause and effect doesn't always match that of authority figures around him. He does great in school, loves baseball and his family and friends. Selfishly, I'd like him to grow up without being handcuffed, tazed or shot, without being called "retard" too often, and with the idea intact that he's a valued member of society.
We don't use outdated treatments for cancer now that immunotherapy is available. We don't invite unlicensed healers to practice in our hospitals. Nor do we need to cure autism, poverty or American politics to keep our beloved children from being unfairly disciplined or even harmed by law enforcement. We do need to hold our principals, school boards and police departments to the same standards we'd use for our doctors.
Heather Hurlburt is a Montgomery County, MD parent and directs the New Models of Policy Change Initiative at New America, a Washington, DC think tank.


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Opinion: Trump's 'death penalty for drug dealers' plan should apply to doctors, pharmaceutical executives
Written by	Anthony Varriano
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera was scheduled to stand trial in April, but the federal judge in Brooklyn presiding over the case postponed the trial until September. Official mugshot
Donald Trump has repeatedly said he wants drug dealers to face the death penalty for their crimes, but hasn't gone into any detail as to what sort of drug crimes would warrant capital punishment if he and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions had their way.
Are we only talking about the leaders of drug cartels? Are we talking about the drug "mules" who move the drugs into the country? Are we talking about the people who cut up and deliver the drugs? Are we talking about the doctors prescribing the drugs? What about the manufacturers of opioids?
Trump's death-penalty-for-drug-dealers plan is what he thinks will reign in the opioid epidemic. But opioid addicts don't go straight to fentanyl and overdose. They start on Vicodin prescribed by their doctor, one in 12 of whom has received money from drug companies marketing prescription opioid medications, according to a recent study by Boston Medical Center. These doctors are just as responsible for opioid overdose deaths as other drug dealers.
More than 40,000 people died of opioid overdoses in 2016, 40 percent of which involved prescription opioids. So putting drug dealers and drug lords to death for trafficking heroin and fentanyl only addresses part of the problem. If opioid addicts don't have access to the cheaper, stronger heroin and fentanyl, that doesn't mean they're going to stop using opioids. They're just going to use more prescription opioids, whether their doctor prescribes them or not. And they can still overdose on prescription opioids.
Who Deserves the Death Penalty?
The death penalty has been and continues to be reserved almost exclusively for murderers. In fact, of the 31 states still sentencing people to death, only Texas kills people convicted of "criminal homicide" and those suffering from mental illness. Even now, a bill filed by Democratic State Rep. Toni Rose of Dallas to bar the death penalty for the mentally ill is unlikely to pass in the Lone Star State. The state would likely be the first to embrace Trump's death-penalty-for-drug-dealers plan given the border it shares with Mexico, from where 90 percent or more of America's heroin supply originates.
Drug Lords
Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera was scheduled to stand trial in April, but the federal judge in Brooklyn presiding over the case postponed the trial until September. It gives the prosecutors ample time to prepare their case against the most wanted drug dealer in the world, but they won't likely need it. They have access to over 300,000 pages of documents and thousands of secretly recorded conversations to help make their case.
The real question isn't whether "El Chapo" is guilty, but whether he actually has the $14 billion in cash from narcotic sales U.S. authorities want to seize. Most experts think this figure is too high, but the point is the man made billions of dollars selling opium around the world, and especially to Americans.
While "El Chapo" is charged with federal crimes that would subject him to the death penalty, the Mexican government wanted assurance the death penalty would not be sought when negotiating the terms of his extradition. So "El Chapo" won't be the first drug dealer Trump gets to put to death. International drug lords are already subject to capital punishment, though, because they'd be charged with federal crimes. Drug lords like "El Chapo" certainly deserve the death penalty, but Trump isn't just talking about killing drug lords. I'd hope he knows we can already do that.
Cartel "Security"
"El Chapo" had a 30-year career dealing illegal drugs because of his "security" detail. Not only did they keep him alive and out of jail all those years (and broke him out of jail twice), but they left no witnesses and eliminated troublemakers for the cartel.
These killers fulfill the "murder prerequisite" required by 30 of the 31 states still sentencing criminals to death, and are deserving of the death penalty. But murder charges would have to be brought in the country where the murder occurred. If no blood is shed on American soil, they are not subject to American law.
Drug Mules
Trump's death-penalty-for-drug-dealers plan seems to be targeted at the people who don't deserve it. Sessions did his best to implement Trump's plan by sending a memo to federal prosecutor's requesting they pursue the death penalty in cases "dealing with extremely large quantities of drugs." But the people found in possession of those "extremely large quantities of drugs" are the least deserving of the death penalty. Some aren't even aware they're trafficking drugs.
Most drug mules are only guilty of being desperate. They're just trying to find a better life for themselves and their family and might not have another means to do so or, frankly, a choice. I dare Jeff Sessions to refuse a drug lord's order to traffic heroin across the border. The thought that you could be sentenced to death if arrested isn't as bad as being killed where you stand. Plus, what if you get away with it?
Many of these people are looking to move to America just to do a job an American is unwilling to do. Drug lords "help" them realize that dream -- for a price. There are over 55 million poor people in Mexico and 15 millionaires who amass roughly 13 percent of the Mexican economy's total value. So 45 percent of Mexico's population is impoverished and for every millionaire in the country, there are roughly 3,660,000 poor people. Now you know why so many Mexicans are eager to move to America and work a shitty job you wouldn't do for double or triple what they're paid.
Put yourself in the shoes of a poor Mexican with a family to support. Even if you don't have kids, you still have mouths to feed in Mexico. Mexicans take care of their familial elders, and not just their parents. Aunts, uncles and other immediate family members living under one roof with their nieces, nephews, sons, daughters, grandsons and granddaughters is common in Mexico. So a working-aged couple could have no children but still be expected to support a family of five or more. And when it comes to feeding the family, the oldest and youngest are the first priorities. Those who provided the meal are most likely to eat the least.
Despite a 3.8-percent unemployment rate in 2017 and a 17-percent increase in the number of Mexican workers gaining access to social security in the first half of 2017, 57.2 percent of Mexican workers still have jobs in the "informal economy." This means more than half of the country's laborers aren't receiving health insurance or earning retirement benefits nor are they protected in the workplace. Their wages are not collectively bargained; they are dictated. The hours they work per day are not subject to Mexican law, and neither is the condition of their workplace nor the treatment they receive from their superiors.
Even worse, the informal economy accounts for roughly a quarter of Mexico's gross domestic product, so programs meant to help impoverished Mexicans are severely underfunded because the government is raising revenue from just 75 percent of its economy. It's something that's taken a long time to correct. Mexico's congress eased restrictions on hiring and firing back in 2012, and over the next five years, participation in the informal economy fell just 2.2 percent.
And in a country where drug lords earn more than CEOs and have not only assassins but cops on the payroll, you can bet that Mexico's informal economy will never disappear. Every country has an informal economy. It doesn't matter where you go, there will be jobs there that pay cash under the table. Governments can't monitor every dollar that changes hands, but countries where large amounts of illicit drugs are produced will always have larger informal economies. Since we mostly just consume drugs in America and not produce them, the informal economy created from drug trafficking in the United States is modest when compared to that of Mexico, Colombia or Afghanistan, the leading provider of opium to the world.
So when a Mexican laborer struggles to find work in the formal economy, the informal economy awaits to prey and profit on his or her desperation. At some point, any type of work for any amount of money will look a lot better than the starving, disappointed faces of your family at home. Scrape by long enough working 16-hour days for barely enough money to feed your family and trafficking a little heroin across the border to a dealer in the states sounds like an opportunity instead of a risk. And when your employer, the drug lord, a surprisingly amiable fellow, promises to send your family to join you upon your successful completion of this most simple task, you too would turn mule for a chance at the American Dream.
Just deliver a package across the border, and you'll be working an American farm and earning more money than you ever thought was possible, even though it's less than what most American, fast food employees earn. You'll send some of the money from your first paycheck back to your family with a letter telling them how long it will be until you can afford a foreclosed fixer-upper you can renovate together and turn into a home. But your family won't likely receive that letter or the enclosed American money because the cartel probably has a murderous goon holding your family captive in their own home who reviews and censors all incoming mail and pockets any money he discovers. Getting you out of Mexico allowed the cartel to "recruit" your family.
Members of your family would likely be forced to take your place working for the cartel, regardless of their health or ability. The cartel doesn't care if they die on the job, and neither do the police. That's the risk that comes with working in the informal economy: you are treated like slave labor. The cartel needs its laborers to be so uncomfortable that they welcome the work because it means they will eat. Threats aren't as effective a form of persuasion as a person's instinct to survive. Threaten your workforce with death, and they'll soon welcome it; provide just enough for your workforce to survive, and they'll do just that -- survive.
Those who do survive will ride off into "retirement" as a drug mule when the cartel has no use for them anymore. Everyone becomes a liability eventually, and processing heroin, from planting to harvesting the opium poppies to splitting and scraping the poppies to extract the opium, is not work suited for the arthritic. Your former employer, the drug lord, provided them with no knowledge of your whereabouts despite reviewing your mail. His only interest is in his product reaching its destination, and he doesn't want his drug mule thinking about his brother, the American mule. The drug lord wants his mule's mind on the job.
Unfortunately, your family member is probably better off being caught at the border and locked up in an American prison than they'd be having delivered their drugs successfully. Unlike you, they aren't fit for the type of work available to them in the states, or anywhere else for that matter, and will likely resort to working for the cartel's drug dealer in the states, hoping to put away enough money to try and find you and the rest of the family. That hope dissipates upon discovering the cost of living in America, eventually giving way to those survival instincts once again.
There's no room for hope in drug cartels. Families can't discover their escaped, American dreamer is actually living the American Dream and saving to buy a house for the family. Slave owners didn't want their slaves learning how to read for a reason. That reason is reason -- the ability to think, understand, and form judgements logically. Your family receiving a letter from America saying how well you're doing, how much money you're making and, most importantly, your return address, will have them escaping north the first chance they get, consequences be damned. Hope makes people risk their lives, not because of the potential payoff, but because of the realization that they aren't actually living. The hopeless are simply surviving, and hope makes people risk survival for the chance to truly live.
Drug mules don't deserve the death penalty because despite being responsible for trafficking the drugs into the country, they're usually doing so to preserve their own life or the lives of their family. To hold them responsible for deaths that result from the drugs they traffic is asinine, unless, of course, your goal all along was to limit immigration.
The people Trump and Sessions seem to be targeting are the cartel's lowest-level, nonviolent laborers. Putting these people to death is not going to solve anything. There are plenty of mules drug lords can recruit or force across the border. You don't think a drug lord would kidnap a man's wife or child to persuade him to traffic some drugs?
Drug mules are not drug dealers; they're drug movers, and when drug movers are caught, no harm has yet come to anyone in this country because the drugs haven't reached the drug dealer. And even the drug dealers aren't all bad.
Drug Dealers
Drug dealers provide a service in high demand, especially in America, where roughly a trillion dollars was spent on illegal drugs from 2000 to 2010. If there's one thing the Drug War has proved, it's that you can't stop people from using drugs. The opioid epidemic in this country is a perfect example of how drug users find a way to abuse drugs. Even in places where illegal drugs are hard to find like West Virginia and Indiana, Americans find a way.
Is cocaine too expensive and too stepped-on where you live? Is good heroin hard to find? No worries. Just make an appointment with your doctor and tell him or her you're suffering from intense pain that's keeping you up at night. You'll have a prescription for opioids the same day, and less than a month later, you can tell your doctor the dosage isn't working anymore and get something stronger. Within a few months, you'll have access to the strongest opium legally available.
Drug users use drugs, regardless of accessibility or legality. In fact, the illegality of drugs makes them more desirable because of the coolness that comes with being forbidden. Illegal drugs are also more dangerous than legal ones because the people in charge of regulating the purity and dosage are the drug dealers, who do not have their customers' interests or lives in mind.
Drug prohibition is also responsible for the violence associated with drug trafficking. Since drug dealers and traffickers risk imprisonment, the cost associated with that risk goes into the price of the drug. Every time a drug dealer is arrested, drug prices increase. Every time a drug mule is caught at the border and product is seized, drug prices increase. And every time an "El Chapo" is arrested, drug prices increase.
These inflated prices as a result of illegality make drugs less affordable, forcing drug users to come up with more money. Unlike most products, the demand for drugs doesn't drop considerably when supply is low and prices high. Casual drug users might be turned off by high prices, but addicts care little about cost and will do just about anything to acquire the extra cash they need except wait for their next paycheck. Unfortunately, methods for acquiring money quickly tend to be illegal.
The illegality of drugs causes more illegal activity in order to obtain those drugs. It's responsible for convenience stores, homes and cars being robbed and purses being snatched. It results in violence, death and increased costs to the judicial and prison systems. Oh, and then there's the costs of enforcing drug laws, which came to roughly $76 billion in 2015. That's almost half of what the federal government spends to fund public schools.
Legalizing drugs and making them available for purchase at pharmacies that ensure purity and safe dosage for human consumption would make drugs and access to those drugs safer, cheaper, and result in less violent crime and fewer overdose deaths. Daily purchases would be limited to a safe dosage determined by health professionals, and users would be getting a pure, uncut substance that won't kill them because the "dealer" would have their interests in mind instead of trying to maximize profit.
Drug dealers are looking to make a buck any way they can, which includes cutting up drugs with synthetic additives designed to offer a similar effect as the actual drug but at a cheaper price for the drug dealer. This is why methamphetamine ends up in Ecstasy and fentanyl ends up in cocaine and heroin: it's cheaper. Of all drug dealers, the dealers of bad drugs are the only ones who deserve the death penalty.
Hunter S. Thompson ran for sheriff of Aspen, Colo. on a platform that included the legalization of recreational drugs, but also a plan for punishing drug dealers who sold bad drugs. He thought such dealers should be put in stocks and displayed in public places so locals could mock them and even molest them. Thompson was concerned with buying ineffective drugs, though, not dying from heroin cut with fentanyl. I think drug dealers who sell bad drugs that result in an overdose death should be tried for murder and sentenced to death if so ruled by a jury of their peers in states where capital punishment is still enacted.
If Trump sees his death-penalty-for-drug-dealers plan as a way to further limit immigration of Mexicans he thinks are "bringing drugs, crime and rapists" to the U.S., he's going to be disappointed in its ineffectiveness. Sentencing every drug mule to death might send a message, but do you think "El Chapo" or any drug lord will have a sudden shortage of available mules because they're scared of receiving the death penalty if arrested in America? No, they'll be scared of the gun the drug lord is holding to their head.
But if Trump sees his death-penalty-for-drug-dealers plan as a way to hold drug dealers responsible for deaths that are a direct result of their greed and help ensure drug users get what they order and not a surprise overdose, his plan would sound less crazy.
If he sees his plan applying to doctors who blatantly overprescribe opioids resulting in the deaths of patients all while taking money from the manufacturers of those opioids, I'd have no objection. If those doctors are practicing in a state where the death penalty is still enacted, and their carelessness resulted in one of their patients becoming addicted to opioids and eventually dying from that addiction, a jury should consider the death penalty as a possible sentence for the doctor.
Hell, if by "drug dealers" Trump means the producers of prescription opioids, like Purdue Pharma, Teva, Cephalon, Johnson & Johnson, Janssen, Endo, Allergan and Watson, I wouldn't find his plan crazy at all. The executives who created this crisis are most responsible for the resulting deaths. Whether their drugs were specifically responsible for the deaths is irrelevant. You don't have to wield the knife to be guilty of murder.
These pharmaceutical companies not only downplayed the addictive effects of opioids in the late 1990s, but rewarded salespeople with luxury trips and $20,000 scratch tickets for getting doctors to switch patients to opioids and also paid doctors to prescribe them. The pharmaceutical CEOs and executives who made OxyContin into a billion-dollar revenue stream annually are just as guilty of murder as "El Chapo," and perhaps more so. "El Chapo" didn't get Americans hooked on opioids; big pharma did that by providing the "gateway" to heroin and fentanyl. Without $30 billion in OxyContin sales, "El Chapo" doesn't become "El Chapo" -- the drug dealer worth $14 billion.
Since Trump won't likely enact his death-penalty-for-drug-dealers plan for his rich, pharma friends who paid for his campaign, at least someone is doing something to hold big pharma accountable. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is suing the opioid manufacturers previously listed to recoup some of what the United States has lost to the opioid epidemic big pharma created. A recent report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers found that the opioid epidemic cost America more than $500 billion in 2015. That's in one year!
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US official urges 'de-escalation' as Turkey strikes Syria
A U.S. official in Syria on Friday called for an "immediate de-escalation" following days of deadly airstrikes and shelling along the Syria-Turkey border, saying the actions destabilize the region and undermine the fight against the Islamic State group.
Turkey this week launched a wave of airstrikes on suspected Kurdish rebels hiding in neighboring Syria and Iraq, in retaliation for a deadly Nov. 13 bombing in Istanbul that Ankara blames on the Kurdish groups.
The groups have denied involvement in the bombing and say the Turkish strikes have killed civilians and threatened the anti-IS fight.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said that 67 civilians, gunmen and soldiers, have been killed in Turkish attacks in northern Syria since the airstrikes began.
Nikolas Granger, who is with the U.S. Central Command — or CENTCOM — and is currently in Syria, said Washington "strongly opposes military action that further destabilizes the lives of communities and families in Syria and we want immediate de-escalation."
The developments are "unacceptably dangerous and we are deeply concerned," he said, and added that the strikes also endanger U.S. military personnel.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened a new land invasion of northern Syria targeting Kurdish groups. On Friday, he said Turkey would continue its "struggle against all kinds of terror inside and outside our borders."
Turkey and the United States both consider the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, a terror group for the decadeslong insurgency and attacks the group has staged within Turkey's borders.
But they disagree on the status of the main Kurdish militia in Syria, the People's Protection Units, or YPG. The Syrian Kurdish group has been a key U.S. ally in the fight against IS.
Turkey has carried out three major incursions into northern Syria since 2016 and its forces still control part of the country.
Kurdish officials in Syria have been warning that any new Turkish incursion would disrupt the fight against IS, which still has sleeper cells and has carried out deadly attacks in recent months against the Syrian Kurdish-led opposition forces as well as Syrian government forces.
"We take these threats seriously and prepare to confront any ground attacks," Siamand Ali, a spokesman for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces told The Associated Press.
Associated Press writers Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey, and Hogir Al Abdo in Qamishli, Syria, contributed to this report.
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Mr. Fix-It and I got away to water and sun this past week and cut the engine on life, with a much needed break in Punta Cana.
Almost every morning we did some yoga out at the end of a dock under an open-air thatched roof. It's been years since I've done much yoga and I was grateful to tap into it again, especially with him.
The story of our 32-year-union is of course a long one. In the mix of it all, there have times when we've each yearned to share a deeper place with one another. I think this is very common in a long marriage, especially one with a quest for new discovery, emotional connectedness and growth.
So when life's tread mill stopped this past week and all that there was to do was be together, it allowed me to celebrate, more than ever, how well we can let the walls down and melt into one another.
On our journey home I remember thinking that if the plane went down, I would be at peace, because I have experienced a deep, deep love with this man.
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Q: "The others" vs "The rest" I was wondering which choice below sounds idiomatic here.

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*He's in a different class from .......... at the school.

a. the rest
b. the others
I am quite sure we can say:

There are twenty students in our class. are from America, some from Japan, and the rest/others are from China.

Nevertheless, I ran into a similar thread in another forum which perhaps a native had said:

The rest of us includes you yourself with other people.
You can stay here while the rest of us leave.
The others are only other people and does not include you yourself.
Let's go the park. The others can stay at home.

Unfortunately, it has added to my a
I think they mean the same thing and both work here properly.

A: I believe that they would both technically be correct, the difference being in the context in which you are using it.
In your second example, about the international students, saying 'the others are from China' implies that they are part of a separate group or entity. But by saying 'the rest are from china' it implies that the remainder of the group, the same group are from China.
So I think that the main difference between the two is that 'the others' implies that it is a separate group, while 'the rest' implies that it is part of the same group.

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One year ago today a tragedy befell our nation. It has had far reaching implications and affected many in various different ways. St Luke Parish through the efforts of Father Andrew Harrison was granted a piece of the World Trade Center to be used as a memorial. (See July 2002 Events) On this anniversary of the terrorist attacks, a day long memorial was planned. After much preparation by parishioners and local authorities, the day began early with people gathering awaiting the arrival of the section of the World Trade center and the service to follow.
Below we can see preparations for the upcoming event. A table set up for the dedication and blessing of the bell tower, a stand for the placement of the monument, and various pictures depicting the events of 9-11.
More and more people began to gather at the building. His Grace, Bishop Job of the Diocese of the Midwest arrived and there was a service to bless the bell tower.
His Grace, blesses the bell tower with Holy Water.
During the service, an American Flag hanging on the side of the bell tower was raised revealing a plaque, permantly affixed to the side of the building. This plaque seen below dedicates the bell tower to the memory of those who perished in the 9-11 tragedy.
During the arrival, the bells are officially rung for the first time.
A memorial service was held in memory of all those who perished on 9-11. Numerous clergy were in attendance. Below we can see Bishop Job standing in front of the section of I beam from the World Trade Center and an Icon of St. Nicholas. This icon was in fact made by our own Father Harrison. It is significant of the fact that the only other building besides the World Trade Center that totally collasped was St Nicholas Church which was crushed when the World Trade Center fell on it. Relics of St. Nicholas were on the property in a safe that was never recovered. St. Nicholas Church will be rebuilt and new relics are being sent to replace those that were lost.
During the course of the day, the church was kept open for visitors with the memorial displayed in the church for all to touch, light candles, and pray. The tone was that of a modern day wake. The afternoon began with the pledge of alligence and passages from scripture chanted by our readers. Moraine Valley Community College participated as well as an organist played and sang for us. Also we were treated to a performance on the bagpipes.
Our ladies did a wonderful job serving breakfast, lunch and dinner during the day and many gathered together to express their thoughts and share their grief.
Deacon John from New Jersey came to share the day with us and lend us his expertise in the ringing of our new bells. Our heartfelt thanks go out to him. Several parishioners wished to participate including what very well may be the youngest bell ringer in history.
As evening approached a second memorial service has held. This was more informal than the one held earlier in the day.
Father Andrew took time to speak about the service and the tragedy.
A video was shown about the reactions of various people to the attacks.
One of our local fire fighters who went to New York to help with the rescue efforts was kind enough to relate his experiences.
Deacon John realted a story of someone he knew who gave his life to save others when the towers collapsed.
After the service people stopped one last time to pay their respects to those who perished.
It is our intention at St. Luke for this to be an annual event. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the State of New York for allowing us to have this memorial, to all those who attended to share this day with us, and to all those who worked so hard to make it possible. May God grant rest to those who perished in this terrible tragedy and may He make their memory to be eternal.
This month's children's sermon fell of the Birthday of the Virgin Mary. Father Andrew explained the feast day to the children and used a cupcake with candles as a birthday cake. He asked the children what they thought the Virgin Mary would want for Her birthday. Answers included a cake and a doll. Father Andrew said that he thought She would like to have them all at Church every week ready to learn about Jesus.
Things were really moving today as the landscaping project began early this morning. Fenn Landscaping arrived and got right to work. In addition the pole for the new electric was placed. Inside the building, the ceilings were being finished off with the placement of the ceiling tiles. Below are scenes from the days work.
As the day came to an end, 95 percent of the work was complete. A small section will be done after the electric is finished being hooked up. In quite a short time, St Luke has quite a different look. Below are pictures of the finished landscaping.
These last two pictures show the beauty of the sun setting on St. Lukes.


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Consecration of Bishop Rev. Dr. Emmanuel Fernando
February 6, 2012 tvaraj	1 Comment
I thank my nephew Tyron Devotta for sending me a copy of this article penned by Mr. Francis D' Almeida and published in Sri Lanka's premier Newspaper "The Island" on February 3, 2012.
by Francis D' Almeida
Viewed from any angle the feat is remarkable. Engineer Xavier Bastian Fernando and his beloved wife, with a flamboyant name, Gnanasorubi did beget eight children of whom four they gave to be consecrated to God's service.
Thus, Joe of the Diocese of Jaffna and Emmanuel of the Colombo Archdiocese became priests whilst the girls in between joined the Apostolic Carmalite Congregation. More was in store for the Fernando Family who made Kotahena their cherished abode. Years later on 11th of February 2012 Emmanuel will be called to reach the fullness of priesthood – Sacerdotal Plenitude. Henceforth, he will be known as His Lordship Most Rev. Dr. Emmanuel Fernando and will don the Royal Purple. One wonders how this humble servant of God will bear the weight of grave title undoubtedly, the new Bishop will dedicate himself to serve God's people with renewed vigour and a burning passion.
Bharatha Community
The Fernandos hailing from the parish of Vembar tucked in a corner of South East India, belonged to the Diocese of Tuticorin. Their community known as Bharathas were the converts of the Jesuits in the 16th century whose faith was enkindled by St. Francis Xavier. Through thick and thin, they cherished their faith even as they spread their wings to distant shores, to reach Mannar, Negombo, Colombo and beyond. They were astute business people who dominated petrol outlets, liquor business and textile trade in Ceylon, as our Country was then known.
Jesuit Trained
The Jesuits in South India with their incomparable educational institutions drew many Bharatha lads to pursue academic careers as well as excel in sports. Hockey and Soccer became the trade mark of the Bharatha Youth.
La Sallian Guidance
In our Country they chose St. Benedict's College as their prime educational institution as many Bharatha educationists had already become La Sallion Brothers. (then known as Christian Brothers) The Bharatha community helped the Catholic Church in various Dioceses in Sri Lanka with immeasurable generosity and at time facing nasty back lashes from anti-Catholic elements of the ruling regime who after the school take-over crisis-took over the lucratic dry fish trade then dominated by them. Amidst this background there were also members of the community who became professionals in diverse fields. The Senior Fernando was one of them though coming from a different educational background in Jaffna – St Patrick's College and Guindy Engineering College, Madras, India.
Boys of St. Benedicts' College
The Fernando *boys Joe, John and Emmanuel studied at St. Benedicts College and the girls Assumpta and Michelins at Good Shepherd Convent, Kotahena. The 'Cathedral parish was their spiritual nursery that helped them mature to consecrated life.
Young Emmanuel (born in Jaffna) was a Colombo boy through and through and a Benedictine to the core. Guided by the noble La Sallians of the caliber of Brother Francis and Paul he matured spiritually well enough to join St. John Berchman's Society of Altar Servers of the Cathedral Church. The Burmese friar simply known as "Brother James" a legend in his time was the moderator. He groomed the Altar Servers not only in Latin and the rubrics of the complex liturgical services but also drilled them in rigorous discipline. In many ways, Brother James' training surpassed even what was provided in a minor seminary, so much so, there was hardly any substantial difference between 'this and that.' As the teenage Emmanuel entered St. Aloysius Seminary post Ordinary Level, another, product of the La Sallian Brothers – Mallcolm Ranjith who recently became Sri Lanka's Second Cardinal, to joined the institution.6After a short stint in the Borella Seminary under the guidance of the great visionary Fr. Frank Marcus, who subsequently became the Bishop of Chilaw, Emmanuel joined the Ampitiya Major Seminary. In those tumultous days of 1966, the Seminary was in the hands of some brilliant OMI (Oblates) priests led by very Rev. Fr. Dalston Forbes who was a multi-talented formator.
Propaganda Fide – Rome
The late Cardinal Thomas Cooray had the keen sense of spotting seminarians just right to be sent to Propaganda Fide Seminary in Rome. Incidentally, Cardinal Cooray also had the knack of spotting water deep underground by a magnetic sensation he felt by the dangling metal clock on a chain.
Ordained by Pope Paul VI
Years swiftly passed by from the time Bro. Emmanuel became a priest ordained in Rome by Pope Paul VI. He soon gained experience in the parish apostolate and later taught at the National Seminary, Ampitiya. He continued his studies at the prestigious Catholic University of America for the Doctorate in Moral Theology. Few years after resuming his teaching post in the Ampitiya Seminary, he took charge the Institution as its Rector.
Rectors of Seminaries, it now seems are ear-marked to become Bishops. The list includes the late Bishop Frank Marcus, emeritus Archbishop Nicholas Marcus, Bishops Marius Peiris, Valence Mendis and now Mgr. Emmanuel Fernando.
What was special over and above all other high attributes, this hardworking priest Fr. Emmanuel who is currently holding the ecclesiastical office of Episcopal Vicar, was assigned to minister to the Spiritual needs of Tamil Catholic community in the Archdiocese.
Much Expectations
Although there was much expectations about the appointment of Auxiliary Bishops to, assist the heavily burdened Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, Fr. Emmanuel seemed to lead the list. The confirmation did come on the 28th November 2011 when the appointment came with the titular title "Bishop of Orta".
Seventh from the Community
Thus His Lordship Bishop Emmanuel Fernando became the seventh Bishop from the Bharatha Community who they consider themselves to be the children of St. Francis Xavier. Incidentally the first Latin rite Bishop of India was the Bharatha Bishop Tiburtious Roche who too was a Benedictine. Bishop Thomas Fernando succeeding him as the head of the Tuticorine Diocese was the second. His family also produced two priests and a Bishop. The other Bishops are His Grace Peter Fernando, Bishop Leon Dharmaraj, Bishop Thomas Aquinas, Bishop Anthony Devotta and Bishop Emmanuel is the first Bishop of the Bharatha Community in Sri Lanka.
La Sallian Brothers
The list of La Sallian Bishops in Sri Lanka includes the late Bishops Roche (Tuticorin) Beckmaeyer, Emelianus Pillai, Archbishop Emiratus Oswald Gomis, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, Bishops Marius Peiris, Winston Fernando and Valence Mendis. Indeed the vision of St. John Baptist De La Salle continues to become brighter at a time and place far from his own era and society.
So on the morning of 11th February 2012 as the chimes of the bells of St Lucia's Cathedral resound to announce that one of its sons has been elevated to the office of Sacerdos Magnus we shall pray together with the vastly expanded Fernando family with glowing hearts "Te Deum Laudamus"- "We Thank you O Lord". Indeed the Lord of history has his own strange ways to choose his leaders to the church forward, in an exceedingly complex world.
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Artificial Intelligence: Important Milestones in its Historical Evolution
Uncategorized / By HI4AI_admin / December 14, 2021 December 14, 2021
Artificial Intelligence is defined as the simulation by certain machines and computer systems of human intelligence processes. This concept includes process automation to advanced robotics. Here are several moments that have defined its development.
Alan Turing's numbers and the foundations of computing
It is estimated that the origin of artificial intelligence is directly related to computation. During the '30s and '40s of the 20th century, the first works were published that addressed in some way the principle of artificial intelligence, although at that time the term AI did not exist. The article "Calculable Numbers", published in 1936 by Alan Turing, establishes the theoretical basis of computer science and formalizes the concept of algorithms.
Z3, the first fully-functional digital electronic computer
In 1941, German engineer Konrad Zuse creates the Z3, which experts point to as the first fully functional digital electronic computer. Zuse is also the creator of the first high-level programming language. In 1943, Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts present the Artificial Neuron Model, which is considered to be the first specific work addressing the field of artificial intelligence in history.
The meeting that shaped the name and trends of AI
In the mid-1950s, a meeting was held at Dartmouth College between leading researchers in this incipient area, in which different researchers were present, such as John McCarthy, professor and famous mathematician, who created the LISP language and designated the new science with the name of Artificial Intelligence. From this important meeting, two trends in the study of artificial intelligence began to be distinguished: connectionism and knowledge engineering.
The 1970s: between programming languages and prototypes
Between the 60s and 70s of the 20th century, it was observed that many of the techniques proposed by the initiators of AI lacked the consideration of heuristic knowledge. In 1975 a very important step was taken with the appearance of the initial version of the logic programming language PROLOG. Around the same time, several disease diagnosis systems and important functional prototypes were designed, which were successful in the fields for which they were designed, thus attracting the attention of investors to this area.
The advent of the Database concept
The so-called industrial diffusion stage began in the 1980s, with the departure of prototypes from laboratories and universities to enter the world of production and the market. In this period of AI also appears the concept of Intelligent Database, which is considered a renewing concept that goes beyond the simple storage of information. Among the best-known, intelligent databases are Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, and NoSQL, which were conceived for big data management challenges and to increase the efficiency of the organization.
Robotic applications, blockchain, and the cloud
Robotics, neural networks, pattern recognition, natural language processing, and machine learning are domains that are starting to get special attention during the development that AI has had in the last decades. This generates an unlimited perspective on this topic. A world in which robotic applications, blockchain, and cloud services start to gain more and more prominence begins to be defined then.
The ethical responsibility debate
The almost limitless prospects raised by the development of artificial intelligence have eventually opened up a debate on ethical responsibility. This is due to the fact that a technology of such complexity and impact as AI must be managed under solid human values. In this regard, the debate has focused on issues such as prudence, reliability, and accountability. Human responsibility for AI and the necessary limitation of autonomy of these systems are also integrated into this debate.
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Update: Driver killed in crash on Browns Bridge Road identified as Gainesville man
Update: The driver killed in the Saturday wreck was identified as Patrick Aldrich, 76, of Gainesville.
Aldrich's passenger, Virginia Aldrich, 74, of Gainesville, was taken to Northeast Georgia Medical Center as well as the driver of the Ford F250, William Chavez Bonilla, 40, of Flowery Branch.
Virginia Aldrich and Chavez Bonilla did not suffer serious injuries, according to a Georgia State Patrol report obtained by The Times.
Patrick Aldrich was considered the driver at fault, according to the state patrol report.
Previous story: One driver was killed and two people were taken to the hospital after a head-on wreck Saturday, Dec. 3, on Browns Bridge Road, according to Georgia State Patrol.
Troopers were called out before 8 a.m. Saturday to a wreck on Browns Bridge Road near Cherokee Trail.
State patrol said a Chevrolet Tahoe was heading east around a curve on Browns Bridge Road, while a Ford F250 came around the same curve in the other lane.
Troopers said the Tahoe failed to maintain its lane and struck the F250 head-on.
The Ford F250 went off the road and overturned into a ditch, but the pickup truck came to rest on its wheels.
The Tahoe driver was dead at the scene, state patrol said. The Tahoe's passenger and the F250's driver were transported to the hospital, but state patrol did not have information on how serious their injuries were.
State patrol has not identified any of the people involved in the wreck.