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SENIOR EXECUTIVE TEAM
Raj Kannan
Raj Kannan has over 25 years of experience leading and developing companies. He has effectively led and grown organizations and supported multiple successful launches across therapeutic areas in the U.S. and globally. Prior to joining Aerie, Mr. Kannan was Chief Executive Officer and President of Chiasma, Inc., where he led the organization through the approval and the launch of the first oral therapy in over a decade for patients with acromegaly and subsequently through the acquisition by Amryt Pharma Plc. Before that, Mr. Kannan was Chief Commercial Officer at Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. ("Kiniksa"), where he built the commercial operations, including sales, marketing, and business analytics functions. Prior to Kiniksa, he served as the Global Head of the Neurology and Immunology business franchise at Merck KGaA, where he was responsible for transforming the largest franchise into a growth franchise with $2 billion in annual revenues through significant strategic shifts in investment to support new product introductions and through recalibration of pipeline investments. Before that, Mr. Kannan spent 10 years at Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH in the U.S., Canada, and Germany, including as Global Marketing Head of the Cardiovascular Franchise, where he was responsible for more than $3.5 billion in annual revenues. Mr. Kannan currently serves as a non-executive board member for Amryt Pharma Plc.
Gary Sternberg, MD, MBA
Gary Sternberg joined Aerie in March 2022. Dr. Sternberg has over 20 years of experience in biopharma drug development. This experience has ranged from leading emerging biotechnology companies to heading clinical development and medical affairs, and guiding corporate strategy in business development and new technology evaluation. He is a trained ophthalmologist and fellowship trained in cornea and external diseases. Prior to joining Aerie, Dr. Sternberg was Chief Executive Officer and President of Stargazer Pharmaceuticals, Inc., where he led the company through its founding and IND process and advanced the asset to a Phase 3 ready drug for development in Stargardt disease, a blinding orphan inherited retinal disease. Before that, he was Chief Executive Officer of a glaucoma start-up called Tisbury Pharmaceuticals that was developing a novel glaucoma compound for treatment of elevated intraocular pressure. Prior to Tisbury, Dr. Sternberg served as the Chief Business Officer at Eleven Biotherapeutics, Inc. and closed a $250 million bio-dollar outlicensing deal of an IL-6 inhibitor for diabetic macular edema with Roche. He was also integrally involved in a reverse merger process to reinvent the company as a specialty oncology company. Before that, Dr. Sternberg spent four years at Genentech, Inc. where he was Group Medical Director and headed Medical Affairs for the compound Lucentis (ranibizumab) in the U.S. In this role, he headed medical messaging for Lucentis in multiple retinal indications, conducted a very active investigator sponsored trial program with leading investigators, led a Medical Science Liaison group, and directed a Phase 4 post approval commitment study. He has also consulted for multiple biopharma companies in clinical and senior executive roles, including Chief Medical Officer, Chief Executive Officer, and as clinical consultant in a number of ophthalmic and non-ophthalmic indications.
Casey C. Kopczynski, PhD
Chief Innovation Officer, Head of Research and External Innovation
Casey C. Kopczynski, Ph.D. has served as our Chief Scientific Officer since co-founding our company in 2005. From 2002 to 2005, he was the Managing Partner at Biotech Initiative, LLC, a consulting practice dedicated to emerging biotech companies. He was also previously the Vice President of Research at Ercole Biotech, Inc. from 2003 to 2004, a company developing drugs for the treatment of cancer, inflammation, and orphan genetic diseases. Prior to Ercole Biotech, Inc., Dr. Kopczynski was Director of Research and a founding member of the scientific staff at Exelixis, Inc. from 1996 to 2002. Dr. Kopczynski received his Ph.D. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from Indiana University and was a Jane Coffin Childs Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley.
Peter Lang brings a breadth and depth of expertise in finance with a particular focus in the healthcare and biopharma sectors. He has served in various senior roles advising and working with life science companies throughout his career to help optimize their growth objectives, financing strategy, capital structure, and return on capital.
Mr. Lang has held leadership positions at well-recognized global and boutique investment banks. During his career, he has helped raise over $105 billion in financing and growth capital and advised on more than 40 M&A and business development transactions totaling more than $25 billion in deal value. Mr. Lang most recently served as Managing Director and Partner at Ridge Advisory, LLC.
He received an MBA from the University of Chicago and earned dual degrees from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business and School of Arts & Sciences.
Michelle Senchyna, PhD
Head of Clinical Development and Operations
Michelle Senchyna, Ph.D., currently serves as Vice President, Clinical Development and Medical Affairs, at Aerie. Prior to joining Aerie, Dr. Senchyna served as Executive Director of Ophthalmology at Allergan, where she oversaw the clinical development of pharmaceutical, consumer, and device products for anterior and posterior segment diseases. Dr. Senchyna has also held leadership roles in R&D and Medical Affairs at Alcon and Panoptica, with a focus on anterior segment and biomarker discovery. She began her career as an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo, School of Optometry with research focused on ocular surface diseases and contact lens biomaterial development. She is an author on more than 40 peer-reviewed publications, has given more than 60 presentations nationally and internationally, and holds multiple patents. Dr. Senchyna earned both a B.Sc. and Ph.D. from McMaster University.
Marvin Garrett
Head of Regulatory Affairs & Quality Assurance
Marvin J. Garrett has served as the Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and Quality since joining the company in February 2014. Mr. Garrett led the regulatory efforts to gain approval of Aerie's lead commercial products in the U.S. and EU. Mr. Garrett has over 40 years of experience successfully launching and commercializing biologic, medical device, and pharmaceuticals products in multiple therapeutic areas. Prior to joining Aerie, Mr. Garrett served in senior management roles for Bausch & Lomb, ISTA Pharmaceuticals, XOMA Corporation, CooperVision Pharmaceuticals/Cooper Companies, IOLAB Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, Allergan Pharmaceuticals, Ortho Diagnostics, and McGaw Laboratories of American Hospital Supply Corporation. During his career, Mr. Garrett has been responsible for gaining regulatory approval of multiple products in the U.S. and global markets. Mr. Garrett is past President and Chairman of the Regulatory Affairs Professional Society (RAPS) and past board member of SoCal Bio. He received his B.S. in Microbiology from California State University, Long Beach.
Craig Skenes
Craig Skenes is Head of Business Development and has been with Aerie since 2014. From 2009 through 2014, Mr. Skenes had responsibility for business development at Santen Pharmaceuticals, a global company focused on developing and commercializing ophthalmic products. Prior to joining Santen, he had responsibility for business development at ISTA Pharmaceuticals, which was also focused on ophthalmic pharmaceuticals and was eventually acquired by Bausch & Lomb. Earlier in his career, he held other roles in business development at Watson Pharmaceuticals and Gilead Sciences. Mr. Skenes received his B.S. in Biochemistry and MBA in Finance from California State University, Fullerton.
John W. LaRocca, Esq
John W. LaRocca, Esq. joined Aerie as our General Counsel in February of 2018. From March 2015 through January 2018, Mr. LaRocca served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel for Eagle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. From December 2005 through December 2012, Mr. LaRocca was Chief Legal Officer for the Americas for Actavis Inc. and from January 2013 through December 2014, he was Deputy General Counsel for Actavis plc. Prior to that, Mr. LaRocca served as Divisional Counsel-US Generics for both Purepac Pharmaceuticals and Alpharma Pharmaceuticals from September 2000 through December 2005. Previously Mr. LaRocca practiced corporate and commercial law in New York with Parker Duryee Rosoff & Haft; Christie & Viener; and Webster & Sheffield. Mr. LaRocca received his B.A. from Columbia College and his J.D. from Columbia Law School.
Ken Ruettimann, PhD
Head of Manufacturing
Ken Ruettimann, Ph.D., joined Aerie as Vice President, Manufacturing in 2015 and is responsible for late-stage development and manufacturing of Aerie's topical products. Prior to Aerie, he was Vice President, Pharmaceutical Development and Manufacturing for Ocera Therapeutics and held similar roles at Tranzyme Pharma and Inspire Pharmaceuticals. Prior to that, he led various development and clinical manufacturing departments for Searle, Pharmacia, and Pfizer. Dr. Ruettimann received his B.S from Virginia Tech and his M.S and Ph.D. from Purdue University.
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NYS Courts announce independent review of court policies and institutional racism
June 12, 2020 Rob Abruzzese
Jeh Johnson, the former secretary of homeland security and general counsel for the Department of Defense during the Obama administration, was named special adviser for Equal Justice in the Courts. He will review policies of the court system regarding systemic racism and will recommend changes. Photo: Rob Abruzzese/Brooklyn Eagle
In an effort to ensure equal justice for all New Yorkers, Chief Judge Janet DiFiore announced this week that the court system that it will undergo an independent review of its practices regarding institutional racism.
Led by Jeh Johnson, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, and former U.S. secretary of Homeland Security and general counsel for the Department of Defense during the Obama Administration, the review is expected to do an in-depth evaluation of the entire court system.
"The death of George Floyd, and the issues it has brought into harsh focus, are a painful reminder of the repeated injustices and institutional racism that have long undermined the values and unity of our nation," Chief Judge DiFiore said.
"The court system's commitment to these values is especially vital," DiFiore continued. "Their preservation is a cornerstone of the rule of law, the subject of sacred oaths taken by all judges and lawyers, and the daily endeavors of the thousands of court employees around the State who work tirelessly to advance the cause of justice."
Johnson will take on the role of special adviser on Equal Justice in the Courts.
Among many issues, Johnson is expected to review statewide policy and will make recommendations on revision or expansion of practices. He will also review the structure of the court system and the effectiveness of the organizations that operate within it and will make recommendations as necessary.
Particular attention will be paid to biased education and training practices of judges and non-judicial personnel so ensure the court employees understand the challenges of racial justice. Johnson will also be asked to review selection and appointment processes and will review all court policies and programs to ensure they are free of bias.
"I am immensely grateful to Jeh Johnson, for graciously volunteering to lead this independent review of the court system's policies, practices, rules and programs as they relate to issues of racial or other bias," Chief Judge DiFiore said. "He brings a wealth of talent and expertise to this comprehensive evaluation, which will serve as a valuable tool in furthering diversity and inclusion within the New York State court system and ensuring equal justice under the law."
Johnson, the chair of the judiciary committee at the NYC Bar Association, will be assisted by Hon. Troy Webber and Hon. Shirley Troutman, co-chairs of the Franklin H. Williams Judicial Commission on racial justice. Their recommendations are expected to be issued by October.
"Above all else, we depend upon the courts as the place where equal justice before the law is guaranteed," Johnson said. "This is an important assignment, and I will answer the call with energy and dedication."
https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2020/06/12/nys-courts-announce-independent-review-of-court-policies-and-institutional-racism/

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Q: Mongo Query to modify the existing field value with new value + array of objects I want to update many documents based on the condition in MongoDB.
MODEL is the collection which has the document with below information.
    "info": [
      {
        "field1": "String1",
        "field2": "String2"
      },
      {
        "field1": "String1",
        "field2": "String_2"
      }
    ],
    "var": "x"

I need to update all the "String1" value of field1 with "STRING_NEW". I used the below query to update but not working as expected.
 db.model.updateMany(
         { "info.field1": { $exists: true } },
        [
            { "$set": {
                "info": {
                    "$map": {
                        "input": "$info.field1",
                        "in": {
                            "$cond": [
                                { "$eq": ["$$this.field1", "String1"] },
                                 "STRING_NEW",
                                  $$this.field1
                            ]
                        }
                    }
                }
            } }
        ]
    )

Please have a look and suggest if anything is to be modified in the above query.

A: Solution 1
With the update with aggregation pipeline, you should iterate the object in info array and update the iterated object by merging the current object with new field1 field via $mergeObjects.
db.model.updateMany({
  "info.field1": "String1"
},
[
  {
    "$set": {
      "info": {
        "$map": {
          "input": "$info",
          "in": {
            "$cond": [
              {
                "$eq": [
                  "$$this.field1",
                  "String1"
                ]
              },
              {
                $mergeObjects: [
                  "$$this",
                  {
                    "field1": "STRING_NEW"
                  }
                ]
              },
              "$$this"
            ]
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
])

Demo Solution 1 @ Mongo Playground

Solution 2
Can also work with $[<identifier>] positional filtered operator and arrayFilters.
db.model.updateMany({
  "info.field1": "String1"
},
{
  "$set": {
    "info.$[info].field1": "STRING_NEW"
  }
},
{
  arrayFilters: [
    {
      "info.field1": "String1"
    }
  ]
})

Demo Solution 2 @ Mongo Playground

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Con la nazionale Under-19 spagnola ha partecipato al Mondiale di categoria del 2021, concluso al quinto posto finale. Nel 2022 ha vinto la medaglia d'oro all'Europeo Under-20, disputato in Montenegro.

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Kendall Rogers | D1Baseball.com | January 7, 2020
The Big 12's greatest college baseball players of the past decade
CWS: Timely hitting lifts TCU
As part of our series looking back on the last decade, we unveiled an All-Decade team for all of college baseball — but we've also assembled All-Decade Teams for each of the power conferences. For this exercise, we tried to balance peak value with career value and bonuses for postseason legacy, taking into account the very different offensive eras that divided the decade (offensive numbers were dramatically depressed when the BBCOR bat standard took effect in 2011, and offense didn't start to pick up again until the flat-seam ball was introduced in 2015).
ALL-DECADE SERIES: Best from the ACC | Best from the SEC | Best college baseball players from 2010-19
Without further ado, here's our list of All-Teens Team for the Big 12. TCU and Texas lead the way with four selections:
C: Shea Langeliers, Baylor (2017-2019)
Watch Shea Langeliers' NCAA tournament-record 11 RBIs in Baylor's 24-6 win
Langeliers had an outstanding career for the Bears. He was one of the nation's premier defensive catchers and had some impressive offensive production to go along with it. Langeliers made a statement as a freshman with a .313 average, 10 home runs and 38 RBIs, before slugging 11 home runs as a sophomore despite an injury. He finished his career with a bang by hitting .332 with 13 home runs and 53 RBIs. Langeliers was one of several BU players who got the program back on track.
1B: Max Muncy, Baylor (2010-2012)
Muncy has certainly asserted himself as a premier power hitter at the Big League level. He also had a wonderful career with the Bears, hitting .300 with 11 home runs and 53 RBIs as a freshman before hitting .322 with nine home runs and 44 RBIs as a sophomore. The hard-hitting first baseman finished his career with electricity by hitting .322 with seven home runs and 56 RBIs, along with 17 doubles.
2B: Kody Clemens, Texas (2016-2018)
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Clemens had one of the most impressive one-year improvements in college baseball history. He hit .242 and .241, respectively, his first two seasons before going insane and becoming a National Player of the Year finalist as a junior. That year, Clemens hit .351 with 15 doubles, three triples, 24 home runs and 72 RBIs, along with a strong 1.170 OPS. Clemens also was a strong defender up the middle. Finally, he helped lead the Longhorns to the College World Series as a junior.
3B: Josh Jung, Texas Tech (2017-2019)
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Texas Tech has developed into one of the nation's premier programs, and Jung's ascension is a big reason for that. He had three outstanding seasons with Tim Tadlock's Red Raiders. Jung hit .306 with six home runs and 43 RBIs as a freshman before hitting .392 with 12 home runs, 80 RBIs as a sophomore and sporting a 1.130 OPS. Finally, his junior season ended with yet another trip to Omaha, this time hitting .342 with 22 doubles, 14 home runs and 56 RBIs, along with a 1.112 OPS.
SS: Sheldon Neuse, Oklahoma (2014-2016)
Neuse had three strong seasons with the Sooners. He hit .304 with 17 doubles, a whopping seven triples, seven home runs and 47 RBIs as a freshman before hitting six home runs and 43 RBIs as a sophomore. He, like many others, made yet another statement as a junior, hitting .369 with 15 doubles, five triples, 10 home runs and 48 RBIs. Neuse also made contributions on the mound for the Sooners.
OF: Mark Payton, Texas (2011-2014)
One of the more consistent hitters in the Longhorns' modern era, Payton had a career to remember both from a production and leadership standpoint. He hit .263 with 11 doubles as a freshman before hitting .322, .393 and .315 his final three seasons with the program. He had 12 triples his final two seasons, while also ending the 2013 campaign with an impressive 1.028 OPS. Payton helped guide the Longhorns to a CWS berth in 2014.
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OF: Nick Martini, Kansas State (2009-2011)
Martini's legacy in Manhattan will live on for a long time. Before his arrival, Kansas State had never reached the NCAA tournament. However, they made the tourney in all three seasons he was on campus, with the only other NCAA berth coming a few years later. In 2010, Martini hit a whopping .416 with 17 doubles, four triples, four home runs and 59 RBIs, while hitting .326 with 15 doubles and four triples the next season. He also totaled 62 stolen bases in his KSU career and was a solid defender.
OF: Tyler Naquin, Texas A&M* (2010-2012)
Naquin, like some others on this list, didn't have a terrific freshman campaign, but his sophomore and junior seasons were mighty impressive. Naquin hit .381 as a sophomore with 23 doubles, seven triples and 44 RBIs, along with six stolen bases. Then, as a junior, the eventual Big Leaguer hit .380 with 18 doubles, six triples, three home runs and 49 RBIs. He also finished the season with a whopping 21 stolen bases. In addition to his offensive prowess, Naquin was one of the best defenders and had one of the strongest arms in college baseball.
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DH: Evan Skoug, TCU (2015-2017)
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Few players meant more to the TCU program during their tenures than Skoug. In addition to being a key hitter for the Frogs, he also was the heartbeat of the team. Skoug had a solid career offensively for TCU, hitting seven home runs and knocking in 46 runs as a freshman before hitting .301 with 21 doubles, nine home runs and 51 RBIs as a sophomore. Finally, as a junior, Skoug hit 20 home runs and knocked in 70 runs. Skoug helped TCU form into an Omaha mainstay.
UT: Luken Baker, TCU (2016-2018)
He was one of the nation's most feared hitters for three seasons and will go down as one of the best ever in TCU history. Baker pitched 47.2 innings in 2016, but his biggest contributions were at the plate. That season, Baker hit .379 with 16 doubles, 11 home runs and 62 RBIs. Then, as a sophomore, Baker hit .317 with eight doubles, eight home runs and 41 RBIs, before hitting .319 with two doubles, nine home runs and 26 RBIs as a junior. Baker battled injuries his final two seasons but still managed to produce at a high level. TCU reached the CWS in two of his three seasons.
SP: Preston Morrison, TCU (2012-2015)
Speaking of college baseball success stories, it doesn't get much better than the crafty TCU right-hander Preston Morrison. Morrison arrived in Fort Worth as a walk-on and left a TCU legend, perhaps the best starting pitcher in program history. Morrison had insane numbers his four seasons with the Horned Frogs, tallying ERAs of 2.08, 1.51, 1.32 and 2.51, while also showing immaculate command and helping guide the program to two College World Series appearances.
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SP: Taylor Jungmann, Texas (2009-2011)
Jungmann had one of the most impressive careers in the program's illustrious history. The talented right hander put together an impressive 2009 season in preparation for this decade. As a sophomore in 2010, he tallied a 2.03 ERA in 120 innings, along with 129 strikeouts and 41 walks. While as a junior, he tallied a 1.60 ERA in 141 innings, along with 126 strikeouts and 36 walks. Jungmann had an incredible career that included two CWS appearances.
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Just like Naquin, Wacha only played in the Big 12 and was never an SEC guy, so he's eligible for this team. The right hander had quite a career for Rob Childress' Aggies. As a freshman, he tallied a 2.90 ERA in 105.2 innings, along with 97 strikeouts and 22 walks before tallying a 2.29 ERA in 129.2 innings as a sophomore with 123 strikeouts and 30 walks. Wacha finished out his career with a 2.06 ERA in 113.1 innings, along with 116 strikeouts and 20 walks. In addition to his production on the mound, Wacha also guided the Aggies to one CWS appearance in his career.
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RP: Corey Knebel, Texas (2011-2013)
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RP: Riley Ferrell, TCU (2013-2015)
Ferrell had a big-time arm and put together a big-time career for the Horned Frogs. As a freshman, he tallied a 2.20 ERA in 32.2 innings, along with 39 strikeouts and 11 walks. His role increased as a sophomore, tallying a 0.79 ERA in 45.1 innings, with 15 saves, 70 strikeouts and 14 walks. Finally, as a junior, Ferrell had a 2.56 ERA in 31.2 innings, along with 53 strikeouts and 20 walks. He also recorded 14 saves. TCU reached the CWS in two of Ferrell's three seasons with the program.
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The Wind At Zwölfkinder: Technology and Personal Identity in Gravity's Rainbow
Author: Joseph Tabbi (Massey College, The University of Toronto)
In the section of Gravity's Rainbow devoted to the story of Franz and Ilse Pölkler (397-433), Pynchon contrasts two models of scientific thought and perception. Like many characters in the novel, Franz separates the world into subject and object, habitually cutting himself off from outside sources of experience, and grounding his sense of reality in deterministic causal explanations. He is "the cause-and-effect man" (159), thus cast from his earliest appearance in the novel, whose patterns of thought and valuation presume the rigid dualities of Newtonian physics. Against the Newtonian model of the perceiving subject stands the opposing view of modern physics, one which permits no absolute division between the world and its perceiver, and which describes a more elastic reality than previous physical theories, with their reliance on the idea of causality, have been able to allow.
Tabbi, J., (1987) "The Wind At Zwölfkinder: Technology and Personal Identity in Gravity's Rainbow", Pynchon Notes , p.69-90. doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/pn.335
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So, do you think you're different? Do you think you are better than any other being? So, do you think you're different? Do you think you are better than any other being? Not at all? But you are a unique part of creation and the…
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Is Our World the Creator's New Experience?
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The Illusionary Universe Model
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How to Use Our Creativity for Much More?
The creativity of the universe is an incessantly productive process. Even at this moment, in the one billionth of a second right now, the motion of a productive process continues. Right now, as billions of living beings die and are reborn, this process continues without…
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How to Connect to Your INNER-NET in the New Era
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God & I: Jacob Rees-Mogg
April 19 2019 | by
Jacob Rees-Mogg with our editorial director, Fr. Mario Conte
YOU ARE a practicing Roman Catholic and a political conservative. What formed your convictions?
I was brought up as a Catholic by my father, who was a devout Catholic. And my father derived his faith through his mother, who was Irish-American. As with many Catholic families we went to church every Sunday in a parish served by Downside Abbey. So I grew up with a familiarity with the Catholic Church, and I always found belief very easy, and my father's example was very important in my upbringing.
In terms of political Conservatism it was the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who made it clear to me that Conservatism actually works; what happened in the UK in the 1980s was a great testament to the success of Conservative policies.
Did your views evolve over time, and how?
My views have evolved greatly over time, both in terms of my faith and my political convictions. With faith, knowledge increases. As a child, when you go to church you don't understand all that is happening. As you get older you begin to understand the essentials of the faith, you understand more of what's in the Gospels and Scripture in general. The more I have got to know, the more I have felt comfortable with the authority of the Church.
In politics, likewise, one realizes that things function in different ways, and that there is no certainty that what you think will work is actually going to work out the way you think. You can pursue a course that you think will be best, but sometimes the best government policies don't work. A friend of mine once said that there should be a Ministry of Unintended Consequences. However, the basic principle that people should be allowed to get on with their lives is absolutely correct, as well as the principle that decisions made by individuals are better than those made for them by the state. This very clear principle plays through into how you run schools, hospitals, income tax procedures and so on.
Your late father, when he was editor of The Times 50 years ago, displayed a remarkable tenacity on the point of the Gold Standard. Your own tenacity as a Brexiteer shows that same intensity. Is this a like-father-like-son thing, or does that characteristic emerge from a Catholic foundation?
This is an interesting question. It is probably more a like-father-like-son principle. My father was very interested in ideas, in how they could be put into practice. He was also interested in learning from history and seeing what had worked in the past. His great point on the gold standard, a monetary system whereby a country's currency or paper money has a value directly linked to gold, was that in the UK between 1688 and 1914 there had been no inflation whilst the country was on the gold standard, and that since 1914 the value of money had disappeared. So he learned from history. Now with Brexit one learns from history that the nation state is the most successful form of government, and because of this the idea of taking back control is very powerful here in Britain. So in my case it's more of a like-father-like-son thing rather than the dogmatism of Holy Mother Church.
In February 2018 speaking on Radio 4's Today programme, Martin Donnelly, a civil servant, warned that Brexit would be "giving up a three course meal… for the promise of a packet of crisps in the future." Do you agree with this comment?
Absolutely not. It is a silly comment with no validity. I believe in democracy. I think that the way a people vote and the ability to change a government is fundamental to the success of a nation. That which is imposed by unelected bureaucrats can never rival the efficiency of an elected government, and the bureaucratic proposals from the European Union do not lead to good government. Indeed, this is a matter Italy is facing at the moment and that Greece has faced, and the whole European Continent is facing up to the fact that the bureaucratic direction of policy from the EU has failed, especially from the economic standpoint. The UK can do much better by being accountable to its own democratic system.
The Anglican vicar and Brexiteer Giles Fraser wrote in an article in The Telegraph ,"The English Reformation was the first Brexit. We survived our break from Europe then, and we'll do so again." Could there even be in Brexit a hint of rejection of Catholicism?
I don't think so. A lot of Brexiteers are Catholics. Bill Cash, a leading Brexiteer, is Catholic along with quite a number of others. Catholicism is not ill-disposed towards Brexit because Catholicism is a spiritual matter rather than a temporal matter.
One of the problems of the European Union is that it does not have any recognition of God within its constitution. When the EU constitution was being proposed St Pope John Paul II wanted it to mention God, but the architects of the constitution refused. The EU is a very secularist organization, whereas England at least still has an Established Church. England is still formally a Christian nation. As a Catholic I feel very comfortable in rejecting the EU, and I'm not sure the comparison with the Reformation holds. The Reformation was a spiritual decision taken for temporal reasons, whereas Brexit is a temporal decision taken for temporal reasons.
Don't you think, however, that it would be better to change the EU from the inside rather than by just going away from it?
No, because the European Union is fundamentally flawed. The fundamental error with the EU is that there is no democracy in it. In the Church I do not want democracy; we have our hierarchy, and the Holy Father is Christ's representative on earth, who has a unique authority because of that fact. The Pope's authority is not one that the faithful can possibly compete with, or want to compete with. This is not true of the State, of the temporal power, which does not have a unique connection to God. In the State democracy, the vote of each individual human being, is equally valid, and this is the best way to run a State, but the EU can never hope to achieve that.
Is British Catholicism liberal or conservative?
It's mixed. There are many liberal Catholics as well as many conservative Catholics in Britain. As with all things the alternation between liberals and conservatives goes in cycles. You now see many young people, many young priests, who are very keen on the Old Rite of the Mass; and the strange thing is that it tends to be the older priests who are getting out the guitars and the tambourines, so I think there is hope for a more conservative Church in the future.
What, in your opinion, are the most important values that the Church and society in general should promote?
The Church should be more visible in preaching the miracle of the Resurrection, from which everything else flows. The Resurrection is about life, and therefore the Church ought to concentrate on issues that have to do with life; it should avoid political controversy because, whether income tax should be 20p to the pound or 25p to the pound is not a matter of infallibility, it is a matter of organizations and structures, and there can be an argument for one level of taxation or for another level. The Church's authority is enhanced when it seeks the truth and tries to promote life, rather than the details of political and economic policy.
Last November Catherine Pepinster, author of The Keys and the Kingdom: the British and the Papacy from John Paul II to Francis, wrote an article titled, "Even today, Britain's Catholics still face prejudice." Do you agree?
No, not really. I don't think there is a prejudice against Catholicism as such, rather do I see a strong secularist bias against faith, whether it is the Anglican, Catholic, Methodist, Muslim or Jewish faith. There is a feeling that faith is slightly odd, and a belief that the idea of God is slightly odd, and that faith and belief in God should be cut out of public life altogether. This is very unfortunate because faith plays a tremendously important part in promoting a civilized society.
Have you ever had any doubts about your faith?
No, never, and this may sound very odd. I've always believed in God and the Church from childhood, and I never had any reason to doubt. I am too stupid to have doubts.
Who is God for you? How would you describe Him?
This is a very difficult question. On Sundays at lunchtime I go through the Catechism with my children to get them ready for their first communion. I know that God made me, but I don't know what God is. The Catechism says, "God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him forever in heaven."
God is the supreme being; he is the supreme expression of love, power, justice and mercy. But we do not know precisely what God is. He is a great mystery.
As a Roman Catholic what impression do you have of Pope Francis and his attempts to reform the institutional Church?
The Church has been very lucky in having had the recent popes that I have known about in my lifetime. With St Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI and now Pope Francis we have always had the right popes at the right time. Pope Francis' concentration on mercy and forgiveness in the Church is appropriate in this period of the Church's history. He is right in emphasizing that we are a Church of sinners. The Church can also sometimes appear to be authoritarian, and that is a risk, but it must also uphold the truth, and Pope Benedict was wonderfully effective in reasserting truth in a doubting age. Now Pope Francis has said nothing that is against truth, but he has emphasized mercy. Therefore both the papacies of Benedict and Francis have been tremendously important in upholding different components of the faith.
If you could have dinner with any person, living or dead, who would you choose, and why?
This is a very nice question. What you are really asking me here is whether I wish to have dinner with the current Pope Emeritus, Pope Benedict XVI, or with the Holy Father. I would choose to have dinner with the Pope Emeritus, but only because the Holy Father would be too busy!
You are one of a small group of people who is seriously discussed as a possible prime minister. When people spoke to Cardinal Hume about being pope, he said, "Unthinkable." When people asked Cardinal Winning the same question, he said, "They could do worse!" Which of these two positions is nearer to your own in respect to life in Downing Street?
My answer is much more in line with Cardinal Hume's. I don't think I am a candidate, and I have tried to make this clear. I wouldn't have any support with members of parliament, so it doesn't arise. I am very interested with what I am doing as a backbencher, and I am very happy about doing that.
Has St Anthony ever played any particular role in your life?
St Anthony is one of the most useful saints. Through his kind intercession one finds all sorts of lost items. I always feel slightly guilty about this though, because I feel one should generally pray for more serious things. Rather than praying to recover material objects one should pray to recover spiritual goods, like faith, morality, wisdom, etc. However, St Anthony's help in finding lost items is absolutely terrific.
Personally, though, I usually ask the intercession of Our Lady. As with many Catholics, the Blessed Virgin is the centre of my life of prayer.
I had a wonderful parish priest who died many years ago. He used to tell me that he often felt very guilty, but when he needed to get up early in the morning he would always ask Our Lady to wake him up. He said Our Lady always woke him up, so he never needed an alarm clock!
The thought that the saints and particularly Our Lady are also human is very helpful because the majesty of God is so great that direct, unmediated access to God requires great effort and courage, and is out of reach for most of us. Therefore the intermediation by saints and priests is extremely helpful to Catholics, and provides a root and a comfort to get to God that builds faith in other areas. It may seem trivial to use Our Lady as an alarm clock or St Anthony to find lost items, but if that brings you closer to God than the more serious things will follow.
BORN Jacob William Rees-Mogg on May 24, 1969, in Queen Charlotte's Hospital Hammersmith, London, to William Rees-Mogg and Gillian Shakespeare Morris, Jacob's father was an editor of The Times and his mother is the daughter of a Conservative Party politician who was the mayor of St. Pancras, London.
Jacob graduated from Trinity College, Oxford, where he was the president of the Oxford University Conservative Association and a frequent debater. His first job was with the Rothschild investment banking company. Jacob later co-founded Somerset Capital Management.
Jacob Rees-Mogg is a prominent member of the Conservative Party, and was elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) from the North East Somerset constituency in 2010.
Jacob entered politics at the age of 26, and served as the chairman of the Cities of London and Westminster Conservative Association. He gained the reputation of being one of the most rebellious MPs of the Conservative Party. He is vocal about his views against the European Union, same-sex marriage and abortion. He supports technology and believes that measures to check climate change should not retard development. He is a strong supporter of the monarchy and the Christian Church. He is against the routine involvement of Britain in overseas conflict zones and has opposed uncontrolled immigration into the UK.
Jacob is married to Helena de Chair, with whom he has six children. Although he has denied any ambition of becoming the prime minister of the UK, he is a strong contender for leadership of his party.
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PreCalculus B: Functions & Graphical Analysis
This course is the second in a two-course sequence that broadens student understanding of functions and mathematical models of real-world phenomena. Designed to prepare a student for Calculus, this course will build on student understanding of algebra, extending their knowledge to new mathematical topics, while deepening their knowledge in others. The course contains units on polynomial, rational, logarithmic and exponential functions, sequences, series, conics and limits, as well as systems and vectors. The majority of the course is asynchronous with a few synchronous elements.
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Perform algebraic operations (including compositions) on functions and apply transformations.
Write an expression for the composition of one given function with another and find the domain, range, and graph of the composite function. Recognize components when a function is composed of two or more elementary functions.
Identify and describe discontinuities of a function and how these relate to the graph.
Use the idea of limit to analyze a graph as it approaches an asymptote. Compute limits of simple functions informally.
Use the inverse relationship between exponential and logarithmic functions to solve equations and problems.
Graph logarithmic functions. Graph translations and reflections of these functions.
Compare the large-scale behavior of exponential and logarithmic functions with different bases and recognize that different growth rates are visible in the graphs of the functions.
Solve exponential and logarithmic equations when possible. For those that cannot be solved analytically, use graphical methods to find approximate solutions.
Explain how the parameters of an exponential or logarithmic model relate to the data set or situation being modeled. Find an exponential or logarithmic function to model a given data set or situation. Solve problems involving exponential growth and decay.
Solve quadratic-type equations by substitution.
Apply quadratic functions and their graphs in the context of motion under gravity and simple optimization problems.
Explain how the parameters of an exponential or logarithmic model relate to the data set or situation being modeled. Find a quadratic function to model a given data set or situation.
Solve polynomial equations and inequalities of degree greater than or equal to three. Graph polynomial functions given in factored form using zeros and their multiplicities, testing the sign-on intervals and analyzing the function's large-scale behavior.
Recognize and apply fundamental facts about polynomials: the Remainder Theorem, the Factor Theorem, and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra.
Solve equations and inequalities involving rational functions. Graph rational functions given in factored form using zeros, identifying asymptotes, analyzing their behavior for large x values, and testing intervals.
Given vertical and horizontal asymptotes, find an expression for a rational function with these features.
Recognize and apply the definition and geometric interpretation of difference quotient. Simplify difference quotients and interpret difference quotients as rates of change and slopes of secant lines.
Perform operations (addition, subtraction, and multiplication by scalars) on vectors in the plane.
Solve applied problems using vectors.
Recognize and apply the algebraic and geometric definitions of the dot product of vectors.
Define matrix addition and multiplication. Add, subtract, and multiply matrices.
Multiply a vector by a matrix.
Represent rotations of the plane as matrices and apply to find the equations of rotated conics.
Define the inverse of a matrix and compute the inverse of two-by-two and three-by-three matrices when they exist.
Explain the role of determinants in solving systems of linear equations using matrices and compute determinants of two-by-two and three-by-three matrices.
Write systems of two and three linear equations in matrix form. Solve such systems using Gaussian elimination or inverse matrices.
Represent and solve systems of inequalities in two variables and apply these methods in linear programming situations to solve problems.
Recognize, explain, and use sigma and factorial notation.
Given an arithmetic, geometric, or recursively defined sequence, write an expression for the nth term when possible. Write a particular term of a sequence when given the nth term.
Explain, and use the formulas for the sums of finite arithmetic and geometric sequences.
Compute the sums of infinite geometric series. Apply the convergence criterion for geometric series.
Convert between polar and rectangular coordinates. Graph functions given in polar coordinates.
Write complex numbers in polar form. Know and use De Moivre's Theorem.
Evaluate parametric equations for given values of the parameter.
Convert between parametric and rectangular forms of equations.
Graph curves described by parametric equations and find parametric equations for a given graph.
Explain and apply the locus definitions of parabolas, ellipses, and hyperbolas and recognize these conic sections in applied situations.
Identify parabolas, ellipses, and hyperbolas from equations, write the equations in standard form, and sketch an appropriate graph of the conic section.
Derive the equation for a conic section from given geometric information. Identify key characteristics of a conic section from its equation or graph.
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Unit 13: Conics
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Unit 16: Trigonometry & The Polar Plane


We have had an excellent day at the zoo. We saw lots of exciting animals and enjoyed meeting the 5 new tigers. We learnt about lions teeth and even got to hold a mould of Casper the white lions canine teeth 🦁.
FUN FACT: an adult lion is the same size as 11 children standing shoulder to shoulder. We measured it to see how big that is.
The weather was very warm so we chose to cool off in the shade with an ice lolly at the end of the day 😁 Thanks to Jan at the zoo for the fun, educational tour.
Today bikeability came in to teach us how to use balance bikes, it was so much fun!! We can't wait to try out our new skills in PE next week.
Yesterday we started our new topic by spending the day learning about Indian traditions. We learnt about Henna, Mandala patterns, the Taj Mahal and Bollywood dancing. It was great fun!!
We celebrated the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle with a tea party. In the morning we decorated bunting, made crowns and designed a wedding outfit and in the afternoon we had a picnic on the Astro. We ate cakes, fruit, jelly and ice cream and washed it all down with a delicious drink of squash (thanks Frogs).
Today we made 3D shapes with Mrs Bradford. We had to tell the class what we had made and one of its properties.
Today we went on a hunt for mini beasts around the school grounds. This term we are going to learn all about minibeasts and their homes.
We learnt about castle building, jousting and types of food eaten in the olden days.


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We will consider both experienced candidates and those with less experience & the right attitude, looking for the next step into a field-based role, with plenty of scope for personal and professional development.
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Well now
What humans need to flourish
By Jennie Dusheck
Illustration by Christopher Silas Neal
Plug "wellness" into a search engine and you'll get 405 million hits — and a lot of advice. Everyone, from genuine experts to click-bait writers, has an opinion about what's good for us.
Thinking big:
The Stanford Prevention Research Center
We are told to strengthen our willpower, but indulge ourselves; exercise, but not too much; go vegetarian, but eat more meat; develop our social network, but indulge in more "me time"; have great sex, but not too much; safeguard our financial health, but spend our money on travel that leaves memories; keep our minds active, but empty our minds and meditate; volunteer; forgive; and be grateful.
"There's been a lot of 'expert speak' on the concept of what it means to be well," says associate professor of psychology and of medicine Catherine Heaney, PhD, who is leading a team at Stanford that has been working to define and measure wellness. "What there has been less of," Heaney says, "is going to ordinary people and trying to get a sense of what being well means to them."
People long for a sense of well-being. For thousands of years, everyone — from philosophers such as Aristotle, Epictetus and Buddha to the smooth-talkingest snake-oil salesmen — have tugged at the problem of what makes for a good life.
Researchers at UC-Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center, for example, report six major underpinnings of happiness, one component of wellness: compassion, friendship, gratitude, forgiveness, exercise and mindfulness. Private foundations, including the Charles Koch Foundation, have taken an interest in funding well-being research. Even governments have gotten into the act. In 2008, a commission of economists assembled by Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France, called for the development of broader measures of national well-being. Two years later, the United Kingdom did the same.
But what does it mean to be well? If we want to promote wellness for everyone, we have to, first, be able to say exactly what it is and, second, devise rigorous ways of measuring whether it is increasing or decreasing. Once we can measure it, we can begin to discover which factors promote it or diminish it. In this way, an ambitious Stanford project aims to tackle anew an age-old question.
The path to wellness
In 2014, the Stanford Prevention Research Center launched the WELL program — its ultimate goal, to improve the health and wellness of whole populations. WELL, the Wellness Living Laboratory, emphasizes research on overall health rather than the absence of disease. Funded by an unrestricted $10 million gift from the Amway Nutrilite Health Institute Wellness Fund, WELL proposes to identify what factors help people maintain health and wellness and to develop techniques to help people to change their lifestyles.
The center's WELL for Life program is both an observational study and an interventional study. WELL will observe more than 30,000 people over many years and also test behavioral modification and other interventions to help people make health improvements such as quitting smoking, eating better or exercising more. The center's health promotion arm, the Health Improvement Program, will enable the techniques to reach the wider population.
"This is an effort to change the world of medicine and health," says John Ioannidis, MD, DSc, professor of medicine and of health research and policy, who directs the center. "It may sound very ambitious, but I see this as a way to refocus the key priorities of biomedical research.
"The vast majority of biomedical research has focused on treating diseases," he says. "A much smaller part has focused on maintaining health and maybe some prevention efforts. But there's very, very little research that has tried to look at the big picture — what makes people happy, resilient, creative, fully exploring their potential and living not only healthy, but more-than-healthy lives."
Among the things the WELL team wants to know: Is wellness the same for everyone, or do factors like gender or age influence how we perceive it? For example, among young adults, wellness might revolve around finances, career and athleticism. But as we age, social connectedness and resilience to stress may become more important drivers of our sense of how well we feel.
"We want to determine not only what makes people feel that they have a higher level of wellness, but also interventions that would help it," says Ioannidis. "So we want to ask not only what is the profile of someone who feels good about their life, but how can we make that profile better?
"And how can we intervene with simple means — things that we do in everyday life — not with drugs or devices or complex procedures in the hospital?"
"We know that a person's ability to move more, to sit less and to eat healthfully are influenced by their environment. This includes social relationships, neighborhoods and public policy," says Abby King, PhD, professor of medicine and of health research and policy, who studies what's needed for healthy behavior change.
"It's about helping people make connections between their own pursuit of well-being and their health," explains Heaney. Maybe for some people, making a better life for their children is more motivating than reducing their risk of a heart attack in the distant future, she says.
Once a doctor knows what motivates patients, it may be possible to harness that in the service of patients' well-being and physical health.
During the first five years, the 30,000 participants — 10,000 each in China, Taiwan and the United States — will supply mountains of personal health information, ranging from general health and lifestyle information to genetic and other biological markers, says Sandra Winter, PhD, director of WELL. And it's likely WELL will expand to other countries in the future.
Each of the thousands of participants will periodically answer scores of questions such as, "During the last two weeks, did your diet, physical activity and sleep habits influence your well-being?" or "How confident are you that you can bounce back quickly after hard times?"
Listening well
How do you ask people meaningful questions about a concept as fuzzy as wellness? To create an accurate vocabulary of wellness, trained interviewers sat down with more than 100 people from Santa Clara County and listened to their stories. Demographically representative of this diverse area, the 100 included men and women, young and old, and a variety of ethnic groups. Similar efforts took place in China and Taiwan.
Tia Rich, PhD, WELL senior research assistant, interviewed half of the Santa Clara County participants. She asked them to talk about a time of peak wellness, a time of low wellness and, finally, their current state. In each case, she also asked them to describe all aspects of their life that they wanted to share regarding each level of wellness.
And then Rich listened. The conversations lasted anywhere from 30 minutes to two hours. "The process of listening to 50 people share their life stories was extremely meaningful. It was really an honor to be trusted in that way," she says.
The domains of wellness
After transcribing the Santa Clara County interviews and sorting the responses almost line by line into categories, Heaney's team identified 10 domains of wellness that people most commonly mentioned:
• Social connectedness
• Lifestyle behaviors
• Stress and resilience
• Emotional health
• Physical health
• Meaning and purpose
• Sense of self
• Finances
• Spirituality or religiosity
• Exploration and creativity
For these interviewees, having a social network was the single largest driver of wellness. Being integrated into a social network, having opportunities to receive support and companionship, feeling loved and feeling a sense of belonging, and also having others in your social network doing well is what most enhances wellness, said the interviewees. As one put it, "If my family is doing well, I will be doing well."
But having a social network can be as much a burden as a comfort. "When people in your social networks are not doing well or when they act in ways that are socially undermining," says Heaney, "that detracts from our sense of well-being."
It's important to manage our social connections so they contribute more than they detract. "It's like the old saying," she laughs, "When you're a parent you can never be happier than your least-happy child." So, ultimately, we need to find ways to support those we love while remaining somewhat stoic about their problems, so our own well-being doesn't decline, too.
The second major domain was lifestyle behaviors such as eating well and getting plenty of sleep and exercise. People looked back on times when they were engaging in healthy behaviors as times of great well-being, says Heaney.
As one interviewee reported, "I'd been outside all summer long just doing labor. I mean, sometimes you dig ditches, and sometimes you're pruning Mrs. McGillicuddy's pansies, whatever it is, you're outside all day long, which really nourishes the animal, I'm here to say. And I remember my mother, for some reason we were driving along, and I said, 'I'm at the peak of my physical health.'"
The team also found that stress and resilience to stress were important factors in wellness. Major changes, such as a divorce or moving from another country, were especially likely to induce stress. But participants also spoke with pleasure about how well they had coped during a difficult time.
One interviewee said, "Even the worst of times, even the most difficult of times, there's always been light and strength, and that is because I have a very rich inner life. And in the end, I have hope."
Some people can adapt to the most dire of circumstances. In her book The Pursuit of Happiness, Carol Graham, PhD, an economist and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who studies happiness and well-being, reports that even though poor people around the world are less happy than the wealthy, some of the poorest often report high well-being.
Even those with serious illness may report a sense of well-being. "I was surprised by the extent to which people did not talk about illness," Heaney says. People who had cancer might not even mention it in the context of their well-being. "Having an illness or not having illness was not what was important. What was more important was the experience of it and the extent to which a person felt like they were managing or coping.
"People would actually say, 'Yeah, you know, a time of particularly high well-being for me was when I was diagnosed with heart disease,' " says Heaney. "And you're like, 'What?' " But they would then go on to say, 'Yeah, because I learned how resilient I am. I learned how strong I am. I have come out of that a better person and I learned what matters to me.' "
The last five domains, which came up less often, included having a sense of meaning and purpose, which could encompass accomplishments or, alternatively, a sense of why we are here; a sense of self (a measure of confidence and self-esteem); financial comfort; spirituality; and, finally, exploring (or pioneering) and creativity.
Building the questionnaire
Using the 10 domains, Heaney and her team wrote 72 questions designed to probe people's experiences of wellness. The questionnaire is already online for a small test group of WELL participants, and ultimately it will be available for all 10,000 U.S. participants.
Participants are asked, for example:During the last two weeks, how often did you feel…
…that you were very capable?
…that you were interested in your daily activities?
To get at resilience, Heaney and her team included questions such as:How confident are you that you can…
…bounce back quickly after hard times?
…adapt to change?
…deal with whatever comes your way?
…see the humorous side of problems?
The 72 questions have been translated for use in the China and Taiwan arms of the WELL study, field tested to make sure they have the same meaning in all three sites and modified to adjust for cultural or language differences. Additional modules may be added in each country to address determinants of wellness that are specific to that culture.
While the questions themselves might vary a little from site to site, it remains to be seen how different the answers will be.
More broadly, each of the three WELL for Life sites will look a bit different, says Winter. "In the Bay Area, we've really been focusing on an online registry. In China, we are using a more traditional study approach in which people are going to come in in person, and we'll gather physiological data such as BMI, height, weight, grip strength, plus blood samples and a battery of survey questions. And just as in Santa Clara, we'll be following these people over time." Meanwhile, the Taiwan arm of the study will add a biobank of tissue samples collected from all 10,000 participants.
Ioannidis says these tissues may reveal biological markers for wellness. "Just as we can monitor diabetes by looking at blood sugar levels," he says, "is there some wellness biomarker that can tell us something about how one feels about one's life? Are there biomarkers that indicate levels of wellness and that change as people's levels of wellness increase or decrease?
"Of course, this is exploratory," he says. "I cannot promise that we will have hundreds of biomarkers explaining everything about wellness, but it's possible that some of them will be of interest." That would be a huge step forward.
How confident are you that you can…
…overcome obstacles?
…stay focused under pressure?
…think of yourself as a strong and resilient person?
…manage any unpleasant feelings that you might have?
…not get disheartened by setbacks?
In a few years, the WELL project team may be able to help us answer questions like these with "very confident."
Jennie Dusheck
Jennie Dusheck is a science writer for the medical school's Office of Communication & Public Affairs. Email her at dusheck@stanford.edu.
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Archive: October, 2017
Distribution celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. — DLA Distribution Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, along with DLA Distribution's Multicultural Committee, celebrated the culture, traditions and history of Hispanic Heritage Month with a program held on Wednesday, Sept. 20. This year's theme, chosen by the National Council of Hispanic Employment Managers is: "Hispanic Americans: Energizing Our Nation's Diversity."
DLA looks to industry for innovative ideas that improve logistics support, boost readiness
The innovation of commercial industry and academia is a critical part of maintaining decades-old weapons systems like the B-52 bomber, the Defense Logistics Agency's director of logistics operations said during the agency's second annual Industry Day, Oct. 3 at the McNamara Headquarters Complex.
Hospital Ship Arrives in Puerto Rico, DoD Works on Commodity Distribution
WASHINGTON — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Department of Defense website — The hospital ship USNS Comfort arrived in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the Defense Department is working to build a comprehensive commodities distribution and medical support network, the governor of Puerto Rico said.
Florida National Guard Engineers clear Hurricane Irma debris from Monroe County homes
KEY WEST, Fla. — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the National Guard website — On Sept. 25, Gov. Rick Scott activated a 400-Soldier task force, led by the newly formed 753rd Brigade Engineer Battalion, to conduct debris clearance and residential de-mucking for the residents of Monroe County.
Local troops, supplies headed to Caribbean for hurricane relief
FT. BRAGG, N.C. — The same day more than 120 tractor-trailers filled with hurricane relief aid left Fort Bragg, officials announced that hundreds of local soldiers would be deployed to Puerto Rico to help rebuild the island.
Defense Federal Community celebrates the accomplishments of Hispanic Americans
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Central Ohio's Defense Federal Community celebrated its 2017 National Hispanic Heritage Month during a ceremony on Sept. 27 at the Defense Supply Center Columbus. Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime and Defense Finance and Accounting Service Columbus' Equal Employment Opportunity Offices and the Hispanic Employment Program sponsored the event.
DLA delivers produce for sailors aboard USS Oak Hill on hurricane relief mission
PHILADELPHIA — When acquisition professionals at the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support received an emergency order to restock the galley of a Navy ship performing hurricane-relief operations, they raced against the clock to ensure the sailors had fresh produce to fuel their efforts.
DLA Energy-contracted fuel trucks headed to Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — More than 100 Defense Logistics Agency Energy-contracted fuel trucks carrying 299,000 gallons of fuel arrived in San Juan, Puerto Rico via barge in support of Federal Emergency Management Agency Hurricane Maria relief operations, Oct. 3.
Cherry Point employee retires after more than 30 years with government
RICHMOND, Va — Denise Champine has dedicated her life to the military and her nation and now she's hanging up her hat, but not before imparting some valuable insight to those she leaves behind.
Dover Airmen lifeline to hurricane survivors
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. (AFNS) — Logistics In Action: Article originally appeared on the Air Mobility Command website — The 3rd Airlift Squadron from the 436th Airlift Wing supported relief efforts for Katrina and Haiti and the squadron continues this tradition with the C-17 Globemaster III by transporting essential recovery supplies to the survivors of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.


(CNN) - In an emotional rally Saturday in Fort Lauderdale, politicians and Marjory Stoneman Douglas students called for a ban on weapons like the one used to kill 17 people at the Florida high school, and urged voters to kick out lawmakers who oppose the move or who take money from the National Rifle Association.
• JetBlue Airways is offering free flights to family members of the shooting victims traveling to Parkland. The airline will also provide free ground transportation via ride-hailing platform Lyft.
• Three shooting victims remain in hospitals. Broward Health North in Pompano Beach has two patients in fair condition, and Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale has one patient in fair condition, according to a statement from hospital officials.


up the underground hip hop world! He's done shows with E-40, Kendrick Lamar, and Game. He even did a track called "Raindance" ft Too $hort , which can be found on HERE ON iTunes!
else? He talks to his fans on a regular basis. That's how you blow up!


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OPDC launches new career exploration program for 7th-12th graders
Thanks to generous funding from McAuley Ministries, OPDC recently launched Future Makers, a new enrichment program for 7th-12th grade students. Through Future Makers, our agency partners engage Oakland and Hill District youth in hands-on experiences in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), business, arts, health care, and college preparation. The program extends OPDC's School 2 Career mission through offering high school students - and now middle school students, too – interactive activities to explore college and career opportunities during specialized Saturday workshops.
At the January workshops, Gateway to the Arts and Citizen Science Lab introduced students to careers in film production and forensic science. In the Gateway to the Arts workshop, "Drop the Mic," 7th-9th graders learned about behind-the-scenes set management and used iMovie to practice film editing and sound production.
"This workshop was amazing," said Shenelle, a sophomore who attended the Drop the Mic workshop. "I was able to learn how to make short movie clips by myself. It was exciting and easy to follow."
The Citizen Science Lab workshop, "DNA Detectives", challenged 10th-12th graders to navigate a staged crime scene, collect evidence, and perform chemical, biological, and microscopic analyses.
Carrianne Floss, a Program Coordinator at Citizen Science Lab, says, "It was such a joy to work with the Future Makers team. We were happy to introduce the kids to the field of Forensic Science through such hands-on approaches."
Workshops take place the first two Saturdays of every month at the Thelma Lovette YMCA. At the March workshops, we'll explore careers in sports medicine and athletic training in the Sports Medicine workshop (9th-12th grade) and architectural design in the Drafting Dreams workshop (7th-9th grade). All Future Makers participants must complete an application and submit it to Karla Stallworth at kstallworth@s2c.opdc.org.
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Looks like Nokia's rumoured Android smartphone 'Normandy' isn't disappearing anytime soon. An image of the Normandy engineering prototype leaked on the Chinese social network Weibo over the weekend.
There are no new details but the prototype despite hidden in a protective casing bears resemblance to the previously leaked press renders.
According to previous reports, Nokia Normandy (codename) runs on a forked version of Android and will be a budget smartphone. Despite the impending finalisation of Microsoft acquisition, the phone hasn't been killed and is reportedly still in development.
Few rumours suggest that Nokia might announce Normandy as early as next month but we are yet to get any official word. The specifications of the phone are still a mystery but the leaked images indicate a screen-size around 4-inches.


March 1, 2008 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) has criticised its peace partner the national Congress Party (NCP)'s statements on the possible adoption of elections law without consensus to overcome current impasse on the percentage of proportional representation.
NCP member in the National Constitutional Review Commission, Ismail Al-Hajj Musa, said his party can resort to a vote in the commission to resolve the controversy over the electoral law reminding that his party has the majority.
Atem Garang, a SPLM leading member and deputy speaker of the National Assembly, criticized Musa's statements saying that such move constitute a breach to the Comprehensive peace Agreement. He further said the constitution provisions are binding upon all political forces.
He said only the consensus can bring a solution that satisfies all the parties, warning that other solution could lead to grave consequences in the case of failure of elections.
The National Constitutional Review Commission had to meet on February 23 to discuss the draft of the elections law, but the meeting was postponed to allow the NCP and the SPLM to agree on the disputed articles.
The disputed articles in the project of law deal with proportional representation, women representation and the number of constituencies. The SPLM, backed by the opposition forces, tries to convince the NCP to accept a common position that it shares with the other political forces.
In its last meeting on February 9, the NCRC discussed the electoral system without going in the disputed articles on the proportional representation, articles 29 to 40 of the draft law.
The SPLM position is to distribute the constituencies 50% elected by proportional representation system and 50% of the seats are elected by majority election system. Women are to be represented by 50% of the proportional representation lists.
The NCP wants 60% for the majority election system and 40% for the proportional representation system. Regarding women, it proposes to establish separate lists on the state level and the list that obtains the highest votes will have all the seats.
SPLA must be tight and confidential in such matter of NCRC discussed the electoral system without going in the disputed articles on the proportional representation.if SPLA has to accept the idea of NCP surely nothing will be achieved.
i support Atem,your right NCP is acting seriously aganist CPA rules its unfair that 60% for the majority election system and 40% for the proportional representation should be considered for the elections law.NCP are aginst woman to stand in de parliament,its a force if SPLA agree on this issue also SPLA are the loser if they convert themselves to NCP principles.