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Designing the Digital Government of the 21st Century: A Multidisciplinary Workshop
Project started on March 1, 1998 (Completed)
The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Digital Government Program supports experimentation and research to improve government's information-based services and operations. In late 1998, 67 researchers and government practitioners convened in a workshop, organized by CTG and funded by NSF, to discuss ways government practitioners and academic researchers can collaborate to produce innovative and effective information-based government services.
The workshop focused particularly on the environment in which government information services are developed. It recognized that government programs and service delivery mechanisms are developed in a complex multi-layered federal-state-local system in which many organizations play significant and different roles. It also emphasized that development efforts must deal with interactions among the political, organizational, technological, cultural, and human factors that shape the implementation environment.
The workshop report, Some Assembly Required: Designing a Digital Government for the 21st Century, emphasized how targeted research efforts could not only uncover new knowledge, but could also be of pragmatic use in government. The workshop recommended eight focus areas for applied research (including security, service delivery, networked organizational forms, and decision making). It further recommended ways to introduce these pressing government needs to the research agendas of both the social and information sciences.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) program on Digital Government supports experimentation and research to improve the information-based services that government provides to citizens or uses internally to carry out its mission. These services are often developed in the multi-layered federal-state-local system of program administration and service delivery. They involve complex interactions among the political, organizational, technological, cultural, and human factors that shape the implementation environment.
The objective of this workshop was to identify and develop research themes and projects that focus on these important factors affecting the use of advanced information technology in government. Workshop participants adopted a "program-centric" view of the information content and processing needs of major government functions, with special attention to the needs of program managers. The workshop was funded by NSF and organized by the Center for Technology in Government at the University at Albany, SUNY.
The invitation-only workshop was held October 5 - 6, 1998. During the two-day event, distinguished representatives from federal, state and local government agencies interacted with leading social, information, and computer scientists and representatives from private industry and nonprofit foundations. Activities and discussions focused on finding common interests and concerns as the basis for multidisciplinary research projects that could be proposed for funding under the Digital Government initiative.
Following the workshop, a report was presented to the National Science Foundation that:
proposed criteria for investing in research activities that will have the greatest positive impact on government programs, services, and customers;
identified issues, opportunities, and themes for cross-disciplinary research to foster the creation, adoption, and diffusion of innovative and effective government IT applications;
recommended criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of the research program; and
recommended ways to build mutually beneficial links between researchers and the information services and government management communities.
Information Technologies Promise to Make Government More Efficient and Responsive -- Enormous and Wide-Ranging Research Challenges Remain
The workshop recommended eight practical government needs that should be focus areas for future Digital Government research. These include:
Interoperable systems that are trusted and secure. Current development methodologies cannot deal well with the scope and diversity of users, customers, and stakeholders involved in large government information systems. Research is needed to understand the potential for and the limits of system integration in technological, organizational, and political terms.
Matching research resources to government needs. Applied research is not often rewarded by academic value systems. As a consequence, researchers often pursue theoretical research instead of field work. The best forms of research will involve a variety of activities that lead to ideas government can use directly.
Better methods of IT management. This includes such areas as management of software development and upgrades, leadership and management of outsourced development and operations, and ways to deal with a shortage of IT skills.
Citizen participation in democratic processes. Internet technologies can facilitate a more personal involvement of citizens in the institutions and processes of government. To what extent, and with what consequences, will this capacity enable greater involvement of the citizens in their own governance?
Electronic public service models and transactions. With the proliferation of the Internet among government agencies and citizens, it is possible to offer new services, integrated services and self-service in ways and places never before possible. New methods of authentication, record-keeping, security, and access are all needed.
New models for public-private partnerships and other networked organizational forms. Given the diversity of players involved in delivering government services, developing effective IT systems may require new coalitions of partners at all levels of government and between government and the private and nonprofit sectors.
Intuitive decision support tools for public officials. With the advent of technologies and data standards that encourage information search, selection, analysis and sharing, how will executive decision making processes be affected?
Archiving and electronic records management. With most information now residing in electronic rather than physical files, issues such as record definition and content, version control, public access, and ongoing preservation affect the ability of government to function efficiently and maintain history and accountability.
In addition, the workshop participants made several recommendations about actions the National Science Foundation could take to further the goals of the Digital Government program. These recommendations included:
support research at all levels of government and between the public and private sectors,
investigate issues of governance and democratic processes in the digital age,
develop methods that address service integration and environmental complexity,
seek innovative funding models for Digital Government initiatives,
link research and practice to unite academic and government innovations projects, and
include government program managers in the research selection process through a practitioner advisory group and roles on review panels.
National Science Foundation, Digital Government Program [archived]
Digital Government Society
Peter Bloniarz, Research Director
Sharon Dawes, Director
Kristine Kelly, Research Associate
Dr. Sharon Dawes, Chair
Director, Center for Technology in Government
University at Albany, SUNY
Dr. Tora Bikson, Senior Scientist
Behavioral Sciences Dept.
Dr. Peter Bloniarz, Research Director
Mr. Larry Brandt
Program Manager for Digital Government
Ms. Angela Coppola
Advanced Analytic Tools
Dr. Patricia D. Fletcher, Associate Professor
Dept. of Information Systems
Mr. Robert E. Greeves, Principal
The Council for Excellence in Government
Dr. John L. King, Professor
Information & Computer Science
University of California at Irvine
Mr. Timothy Loewenstein, Chair, Board of Supervisors
Buffalo County, Nebraska
Dr. Jerry Mechling, Program Director
Strategic Computing & Telecommunications
JFK School of Government
Mr. Alvin Pesachowitz, Chief Information Officer
US Environmental Protection Agency
Ms. Carolyn Purcell, Executive Director
Texas Dept. of Information Resources
Mr. James Ruda
Local Government Consultant
Mr. Jerry Sheehan, Education & Outreach Coordinator
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Mr. Greg Woods, Deputy Director
National Partnership for Reinventing Government
Kim Viborg Andersen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Yigal Arens, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute
Bennett Bertenthal, National Science Foundation
Tora Bikson, Rand Corporation
Peter Bloniarz, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, SUNY
Larry Brandt, National Science Foundation
James C. Collard, City of O'Fallon, Missouri
Eileen L. Collins, National Science Foundation
Noshir Contractor, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Angela Coppola, Central Intelligence Agency
Sharon Dawes, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, SUNY
Marshall DeBerry, U.S. Department of Justice
Ernie Dornfeld, City of Seattle
William Dutton, University of Southern California
Jon Eisenberg, National Research Council
Douglas Engelbart, Bootstrap Institute
Amy Finley, SDSC NPACI
Patricia D. Fletcher, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Michael Fraser, National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration
Robert E. Greeves, The Council for Excellence in Government
Gerard Glaser, National Science Foundation
Jane Griffith, National Academy of Science
Amarnath Gupta, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Stephen H. Holden, Internal Revenue Service
Ajit Kambil, New York University
John L. King, University of California at Irvine
Andrew Kline, State of Alaska, Telecommunications
Kenneth Kraemer, University of California at Irvine
Ramayya Krishnan, Carnegie Mellon University
David Landsbergen, Ohio State University
Klaus Lenk, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Timothy Loewenstein, Buffalo County, Nebraska
Winifred Lyday, National Association of Counties
Worthy N. Martin, University of Virginia
Terrence Maxwell, NYS Forum for Information Resource Management
Philip G. McGuire, NYC Police Department
Jerry Mechling, Strategic Computing & Telecommunications, Harvard University
John J. Moeller, Federal Geographic Data Committee
J.D. Nyhart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Barbara O'Keefe, University of Michigan
John O'Looney, Carl Vincent Institute of Government
James P. Peak, Intelink Management Office
Cindy Peck, Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Thomas Prudhomme, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois
Carolyn Purcell, Texas Department of Information Resources
Raghu Ramakrishnan, University of Wisconsin
Ann Redelfs, SDSC, NPACI
Priscilla Regan, George Mason University
Nicolau Reinhard, Universidade de Sao Paulo-Brasil
Mary Reynolds, Illinois Lieutenant Governor's Office
Daniel Robey, Georgia State University
James Ruda, Dudley, Massachusetts Local Government
Ronald Seymour, Washington State, Department of Health
Denise Shaw, US Environmental Protection Agency
Jerry Sheehan, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
J. Timothy Sprehe, Sprehe Information Management Associates
Eswaran Subrahmanian, Carnegie Mellon University
Gilles Trempe, CEFRIO, Quebec
Lisa Westerback, U.S. Department of Commerce
Jory Wolf, City of Santa Monica
Maria Zemankova, National Science Foundation
This project was supported in part by a $83,193 grant from the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 99-181.


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Q: MySQL condition on joined data I have two tables "customers" and "campaigns":
    customers
    -------------
    id   | int
    -------------
    name | varchar

    campaigns
    ----------------------
    id           | int
    ----------------------
    customers_id | int
    ----------------------
    name         | varchar

A customer can have multiple campaigns. The association between the two tables is via campaigns.customers_id = customers.id.
Now I want to get all customers that have gotten campaign with name "A" and name "B".
I tried a JOIN with an IN statement, but it returns all customers, that have received any of campaign "A" or "B":
    SELECT
      customers.name
    FROM
      customers
    JOIN
      campaigns
    ON
      customers.id=campaigns.customers_id
    WHERE
      campaigns.name IN('A','B')

Thanks a lot!

A: You have joined campaigns table with customers.id=campaigns.id instead of customers.id=campaigns.customers_id.
Correct Query is
SELECT
      customers.name
    FROM
      customers
    JOIN
      campaigns
    ON
      customers.id=campaigns.customers_id
    WHERE
      campaigns.name IN('A','B')

This should work :)

A: You'll need to join for each campaign
SELECT
  customers.name
FROM
  customers
INNER JOIN campaigns c1 ON customers.id=c1.id and c1.name = 'A'
INNER JOIN campaigns c2 ON customers.id=c2.id and c2.name = 'B'

This will now contain customers who have received both.

A: SELECT
  customers.name
FROM
  customers
LEFT JOIN campaigns c1 ON customers.id=c1.customers_id and c1.name = 'A'
LEFT JOIN campaigns c2 ON customers.id=c2.customers_id and c2.name = 'B'

With the first LEFT JOIN you will get the customers that have campaigns and the campaign names are 'A', and then the result will join with the campaigns whose have name 'B'.
Only the rows with campaign.name = A and campaign.name = B will be selected.

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The dark circles underneath the eyes may mean that you aren't sleeping enough or aren't getting quality of sleep. I know this because I have had chronic insomnia for over the last 10 years. When I get 8+ hours of sleep a few nights in a row, the circles go away for me personally. Even after doing the diet for 5 months, I still get slightly dark circles underneath the eyes; however I have noticed significant improvement over the time on the diet.
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Q: C# Want to remove elements from IEnumerable> based on condition using lambda expression? IEnumerable<Dictionary<string, object>> ListOfDic = new List<Dictionary<string, object>>()
        {
            new Dictionary<string, object> {{"Name", "Stud 1"}, {"Id", 111}},
            new Dictionary<string, object> {{"Result", "Pass"}, {"Id", 111}},
            new Dictionary<string, object> {{"Name", "Stud 2"}, {"Id", 222}},
            new Dictionary<string, object> {{"Result", "Pass"}, {"Id", 222}},
            new Dictionary<string, object> {{"Name", "Stud 3"}, {"Id", 333}},
            new Dictionary<string, object> {{"Result", "Pass"}, {"Id", 333}},
            new Dictionary<string, object> {{"Name", "Stud 4"}, {"Id", 444}},
            new Dictionary<string, object> {{"Result", "Fail"}, {"Id", 444}},
            new Dictionary<string, object> {{"Name", "Stud 5"}, {"Id", 555}},
            new Dictionary<string, object> {{"Result", "Pass"}, {"Id", 555}},
            new Dictionary<string, object> {{"Name", "Stud 6"}, {"Id", 666}},
            new Dictionary<string, object> {{"Result", "Fail"}, {"Id", 666}},
            new Dictionary<string, object> {{"Name", "Stud 7"}, {"Id", 777}},
            new Dictionary<string, object> {{"Result", "Fail"}, {"Id", 777}},
            new Dictionary<string, object> {{"Name", "Stud 8"}, {"Id", 888}},
            new Dictionary<string, object> {{"Result", "Fail"}, {"Id", 888}},
            new Dictionary<string, object> {{"Name", "Stud 9"}, {"Id", 999}},
            new Dictionary<string, object> {{"Result", "Pass"}, {"Id", 999}}

        };

        List<int> StudentsToRemove = new List<int>() {555, 777, 888};

I want to remove all elements from dictionary whose id's are 555, 777, 888. I have tried the below solution but it's not working, In my project, there are more than 7000 elements in ListOfDic. so I thought it was better to convert it to ToList() so that RemoveAll() would be available to remove elements in one shot. Let me know if any other better solution is possible.
//Tried Solution, Not Working !! :(
foreach (var stud in StudentsToRemove)
{
     ListOfDic.ToList().RemoveAll(a => a.ContainsValue(stud));
}

A: You say ToList isn't working, but it probably is; its just that ToList creates a new collection, and RemoveAll won't affect your original collection. Even worse, you are creating this list on every iteration of your loop.
So to fix your problem, you can store off the new list (and allow the old one to garbage collect):
    List<Dictionary<string, object>> correctList = ListOfDic.ToList();
    foreach (var stud in StudentsToRemove)
    {
        correctList.RemoveAll(a => a.ContainsValue(stud));
    }

Using correctList in place of ListOfDict from then on in your method.

A: You should try something like this:
ListOfDic = ListOfDic.Where(x => x.Any(y => y.Key == "Id" &&
                                            !StudentsToRemove.Contains((int)y.Value))).ToList();

Instead for removing items you can assign a filtered collection to the actual object using the above code. which will check any items in the dictionary having key as Id and which are not contains in StudentsToRemove

A: You have an answer to your question, but my solution below is to help you understand your coding and using best practices.
The Dictionary class is a collection unto itself and therefore sticking dictionary singletons into a list is bad coding. I would suggest making a class of <Student> that has at least the two properties Name and Result. Then using dictionary<int,Student> you can make a single entry for each person.
class Student
{
    public string Name {get; set;}
    public string Result {get; set;}

    public Person(string name, string result)
    {
        this.Name =name;
        this.Result = result;
    }
}

Dictionary<int,Student> students = new Dictionary<int,Student>() {};
students[111] = new Student(){ "Stud 1", "Pass"};
students[222] = new Student(){ "Stud 2", "Pass"};
students[333] = new Student(){ "Stud 3", "Pass"};
students[444] = new Student(){ "Stud 4", "Fail"};
students[555] = new Student(){ "Stud 5", "Pass"};
students[666] = new Student(){ "Stud 6", "Fail"};
students[777] = new Student(){ "Stud 7", "Fail"};
students[888] = new Student(){ "Stud 8", "Fail"};
students[999] = new Student(){ "Stud 9", "Pass"};

Then you can remove all the students you want from the list of StudentsToRemove. An example of making a dynamic (at runtime) list to remove all the failing students:
foreach(int x in students.Where(x => x.Value.Result == "Fail").Select(x => x.Key).ToList() )
{
     students.Remove(x);
}

Just to test your output, to see you have what you want you can use this:
foreach(var x in students)
{
    Console.WriteLine("key:{0} Student name:{1} result:{2}",x.Key, x.Value.Name, x.Value.Result);
}


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"Organised Crime and Drugs in Sport" – ACC, February 2013.
The Age 2006 – Are AFL Players a Protected species?
Worksafe Victoria statement – Charges laid against the Essendon Football Club.
1990. The AFL introduces ints Anto Doping Code for the first time. The Federal Government creats ASDA.
1997. Late in the 1997 AFL season, Justin Charles became the first AFL player to test positive to an anabolic steroid, boldenone. The AFL tribunal suspended him for 16 matches.
2004 – Stephen Dank employed at Manly Warringah in the NRL.
2005 – Dean Robinson begins consulting at Manly Warringah.
2005 – February 14th. The AFL introduces its Illicit Drugs Policy, allowing for year round (44 weeks) testing, and a three strike policy.
2005 – March 13. Brendon Gale confirms had had a conversation with a journalist who named a player and sought confirmation from Mr Gale that such player had tested positive to illicit drugs. At that time, Mr Gale did not know the names of any such persons.
out-of-competition testing for illicit drugs, whereas the AFL tested throughout the year, and WADA imposed different penalties for marijuana use, whereas the AFL emphasised education and rehabilitation before sanctions for marijuana use.
2005 – July 13. The AFL proposes a compromise on the WADA code issue.
2005 – July 19. The AFL finally agrees to sign on to the WADA code and avoiding the possibility of losing federal funding of between 1 and 3 million dollars.
2006 – Jan 1. The AFL amends and introduces the AFL Anti Doping Code 2006.
2006 – March 14. Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) replaced the Australian Sports Drug Agency. Besides education and testing, ASADA was given increased powers to conduct investigations, present cases at sporting tribunals, recommend sanctions, and approve and monitor sporting organisations' anti-doping policies.
2006 – March 14. Mr Gale was telephoned by the football manager of the "Kangaroos" football team who asserted that he knew the names of three players who had twice tested positive. That day Mr Gale sent an e-mail to Mr Anderson, the General Manager of Football Operations of the first defendant, expressing concern that a journalist had informed him, Mr Gale, that the names of the relevant players had been obtained easily.
2006 – March 16. The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper prepared an electronic version of an article "Reluctance to name is AFL's shame" which referred to the named players.
2006 – March 22. Three players are named as twice testing positive to illicit drugs on an internet forum.
2006 – August 30. The Victorian Supreme Court rules in favour of the AFLs Illicit Drugs Policy. Justice Kellam said AFL footballers had agreed to be tested out of competition in the interests of the code's illicit drugs policy, but on the proviso that the first two positive tests were confidential. "The public interest does not require, nor is it served by, the breach of such confidentiality," he said.
2007 – September 28. The Australian reports that Geelong High performance coach Dean Robinson is in daily contact with Manly sports scientist Steve Dank.
2007 – October 6. The Australian Government launched its Tough on Drugs illicit drugs in sport policy which provided a voluntary regime for out-of-competition testing for illicit drugs.
2008 – August. The AFL Commission adopted a series of improvements and enhancements to its out-of-competition Illicit Drugs Policy and AFL players volunteered to step up their campaign against illicit drug use.
2009 – March. The 2008 AFL Annual Report shows 14 failed tests from 1152, an incidence rate 1.2%. There were 3 failed second tests.
2009 – July 27. Ian Robson leaves Hawthorn for Essendon.
2010 – Stephen Dank sacked by Manly-Warringah, reportedly due to a disagreement over his methods – specifically as a result of a clash over attempts to administer an injection to former representative forward Josh Perry.
– the first time it has dropped below one per cent since the policy began in 2005. No AFL player has recorded a third failed test in the four years of the Illicit Drug Policy. More than 3330 tests have been conducted since the policy was introduced.
2010 – September 1. Travis Tuck becomes the first player suspended under the AFLs Illicit Drugs Policy, having attained a third strike. He is suspended for 12 months.
2010 – September 28. James Hird appointed senior coach at Essendon.
2010 – October 1. Dean Robinson begins working at Gold Coast AFL club. At about the same time Stephen Dank began consulting with Gold Coast.
2010 – October 8. Danny Corcoran hired as Essendon football manager.
since the policy was introduced.
2011 – July/August. Mr. Dank met Mager Sedrak, a compounding chemist in Kogarah, Sydney. Subsequent to their meeting, Mr. Sedrak began supplying peptides to Mr. Dank.
2011 – July 26. While a doping control officer is at Windy Hill testing players, he is approached by Essendon senior coach James Hird. Hird wants to know about peptides and which AFL clubs were using them. The drug tester couldn't answer the question but made a note of the conversation.
2011 – August. Mr. Dank — who had now left Gold Coast and was working with the Penrith Panthers—connected with Dr. Ijaz Khan and began treating a Penrith player named Sandor Earl. Earl alleged that Panthers' strength and conditioning staff Matt Ryan and Carl Jennings told the players in 2011 that Dank was "consulting with the club … and helping with our programs".
2011 – August.- Shane Charter, a biochemist, met Nima Alavi, a compounding chemist at the Como Compounding Pharmacy ("Como"), and discussed with Mr. Alavi the prospect of becoming the potential supplier of pharmacy products to Mr. Charter's `Dr. Ageless' business. It appears that Mr. Dank first came into contact with Mr. Charter around this same time (i.e. August 2011).
The AFL, Essendon and ASADA/WADA fun times.
2011 – August 5th. James Hird interviewed by ASADA and the AFL Integrity Unit regarding enquiries concerning other clubs and peptides. Hird advised of serious risk. Also present are Hamilton and Corcoran.
2011 – August 25. Dean Robinson arrives at Essendon as its High Performance Coach.
2011 – September 29. Mr. Dank was interviewed for the position of sports scientist at Essendon by Mr. Hird, Mr. Robinson, Mark Thompson (Essendon senior assistant coach) and Daniel Corcoran (then Essendon people and development manager). At the interview, Mr. Robinson recalled Mr. Dank saying that he would never cross the WADA Code by using illegal substances. After the meeting, Mr. Hird invited Mr. Robinson and Mr. Dank to his home to discuss what they were going to do to "turn this club around." It was agreed that Mr. Dank was to introduce and run a supplements program complying with the WADA Code and the AFI. Anti-Doping Code.
2011 – November 1. Dank formally begins employment at Essendon. His responsibilities included "the design of supplementation protocols and recovery procedures and their implementation.".
2011 – November. Mr. Dank introduced himself to Mr. Alavi and approached him about his business being the official pharmacy to supply Essendon. They developed a working relationship until about September 2013 when contact ceased.
2011 – November. Dank cordinates the private testing of players without the knowledge of the club.
2011 – December 2. Shane Charter returns to Melbourne with Raw material for GHRP-6, CJC-1295, Thymosin Beta-4 and IGF1-LR3. During December 2011, he also ordered from China, via email, on behalf of Dank: GHRP-2, GHRP-6, CJC-1295, Hexarelin, Thymosin beta-4 and Mechano growth factor.
2012 – President David Evans and coach James Hird received a presentation on the peptide AOD-9604, which is mentioned in the Australian Crime Commission report on drugs and organised crime in sport, by the product's Melbourne-based patent holder last year, it can be revealed.
2012 – January 13. Reid became aware that players had been administered Tribulus orally and had been injected with AOD-9604 without his approval. Reid expressed his concern to Hird and to Hamilton that players had been getting injections of a peptide that he knew nothing about while the players and he had been told that they were getting vitamins and amino acids.
2012 – January 15. Robinson developed a new supplementation protocol (the Protocol), which was sent by email to Hird, Dank and Reid which required Reid to be informed.
2012 – January 16. Concerns about supplements being offend were raised by players at a leadership meeting. Mr. McVeigh, one of the team leaden, raised concerns with the coach and others in early 2012 about the supplement program. The leadership group were Messrs. Watson, Hille and McVeigh.
2012 – January 17. Dr. Reid wrote to Mr. Hird and Mr. Hamilton about players being given subcutaneous injections including AOD-9604. He pointed out his concerns as club doctor. After referring to a substance he stated: "I think we are playing at the edge and this will read extremely badly in the press for our club and for the benefits and also for side effects that are not known in the long term. I have trouble with all these drugs".
26 vials of "peptide Thymosin" at a combined cost of $9,860.
2012 – January 30. Hird forwarded a text message to Corcoran stating, in part: No stress but need to organise a meeting with you me Reidy, Danksy and Weapon the day you get back. Reidy has stopped everything which is getting a little frustrating. Need to get your United Nations skills back into action.
2012 – February 12. the Essendon players attended a meeting at the club auditorium. The meeting was addressed by Mr. Hird, Mr. Robinson and Mr. Dank and related to the new supplement protocols. Either at the meeting or shortly thereafter, the vast majority of players signed 'patient information/informed consent' forms in which they consented to the administration of four substances including AOD-9604 and 'Thymosin' by way of injections. It was asserted in the form that the proposed treatment was WADA compliant. Dr. Reid was not present at that meeting.
2012 – February 29. Como issued an amended invoice to the Club which re-credited the Club for the costs of the Hexarelin and "peptide Thymosin".
2012 – March. The AFLs 2011 Annual Report says The AFL's most recent 12-month period of testing by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority (ASADA) for performance-enhancing drugs under the AFL's Anti-Doping Code recorded no positive test results. ASADA reported to the AFL it conducted almost 1000 tests for the 12-month period from November 1, 2009, to October 31, 2010, with no positive test results.
TA-65 was $1,450. This substance was later administered to REDACTED, a player at the Club. The use of TA-65 was not approved by Reid, in accordance with the Protocol, or otherwise.
2012 – March 12. Sometime prior to 12 March 2012, Mr. Charter introduced Mr. Dank to Sergio Del Vecchio, a businessman. They met and Mr. Dank spoke about peptides. Mr. Del Vecchio has stated that he questioned Mr. Dank about whether he was allowed to use peptides on professional athletes. Mr. Del Vecchio did his own investigations regarding whether peptides mentioned by Mr. Dank were banned and found that they were. He communicated this information to Mr. Dank.
2012 – March 13. Andrew Demetriou warns against the influence that sports scientists have over doctors at clubs.
2012 – April 15. Three players were treated at Beechmont Natural Clinic, 32C Jardine Road, Lower Beechmont, Queensland. The invoices indicate that those players received injections of Traumeel, Vitamin B12 and Actovegin.
2012 – Two officials from Carlton's high-performance unit were reportedly sent to spy on the chemist linked to Essendon's controversial supplements program.
2012 – May. Mr. Dank and Mr. Alavi exchanged messages about setting up a business venture in Qatar. This was pursued by Mr. Dank who visited the Middle East but the venture did not come to fruition. Before the AFL Tribunal, Dr. Peter Fricker gave evidence about his contact with Mr. Dank in relation to this venture. At the time he met Mr. Dank, Dr. Fricker was working at the Aspire Zone Foundation as Chief Sports Medicine Advisor.
Cerebrolysin and intravenous immune boosters.
2012 – September 4. Stephen Dank leaves the Essendon Football Club.
2012 – December 20. Caseys Wade lees receives an 18 month suspension for buying a banned substance that was intercepted by Customs. ASADA does not appeal.
2013 – January 31. ASADA and the AFL discussed certain matters arising from the ACC "Project Aperio". Mr Paul Jevtovic of the ACC was in attendance. A briefing document was prepared, naming, amongst others, Essendon. Ms Andruska attended the meeting and took notes (as was her practice). The AFL attendees were Mr Andrew Demetriou (CEO), Mr Gillon McLachlan (Deputy CEO), and Mr Brett Clothier (Manager – Integrity Services). Mr McLachlan asked: "Is it Essendon?" Mr Jevtovic replied: "say no more".
2013 – February 4 – [David Evans takes a call from Andrew Demetriou during a meeting, where Hird alleges the AFL tipped off the Bombers. This is denied by the CEO, Evans and the ACC]. Hird alleges that the AFL discussed the contents of an ucoming ACC report at this meeting, although no other participant recalls it. At the same meeting, Essendon are told that the ACC arent concerned with AOD 9604.
2013 – February 5. 9.00am – there was a second ACC briefing to the AFL and ASADA personnel. 11.50am- Mr Clothier attended a meeting with Mr McLachlan, Mr Evans (Chairman of Essendon), Mr Hird, and Mr Robson (then CEO of Essendon). Mr Clothier said that the AFL had received information from ASADA about Essendon. The information was about the high performance area of Essendon and the alleged dubious practices concerning supplements during 2012. At that meeting Mr Clothier said that "there will be a joint investigation". 1.30pm – Mr Robson telephoned Ms Andruska of ASADA. He said that he had briefed the players approximately two hours ago, and that he wanted a full and complete investigation. To that end, he told Ms Andruska that an Essendon press conference would take place later that day. LeGrand alleges that ASADA had already decided to investigate Essendon before this call.
2013 – February 8. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu was retained by the AFL to collect and analyse data obtained from Essendon.
2013 – February 8. ASADA wins an appeal to extend the AFL Victoria suspension on Frankston midfielder Matthew Clark to the full two years.
2013 – February 9.at a meeting in Canberra between Ms Andruska, Messrs Clothier, McLachlan, Evans and Robson, it was noted that the "PM wants it to end" and there was a reference to "criticism of gov".
2013 – February 10. Mr Nolan emailed Mr Clothier and requested that a template letter be produced by the AFL, so that persons could be directed to attend interviews as part of the investigation.
2013 – February 11. The concept of non-culpability was developed further in an email conversation between Mr Clothier and Mr Simonsson where the notion of "exoneration" for a player was discussed.
2013 – Febraury 13. Mr Simonsson emailed Mr Clothier and suggested that, where a player came forward and admitted anti-doping conduct in a sworn statement, "ASADA and the AFL will fully explore all avenues in an attempt to provide substantial assistance or a no fault or negligence defence".
2013 – February 15. ASADA prepared the interview plans to be used in the investigation. Mr Walker of ASADA deposed that there was no input from the AFL into those interview plans.
2013 – Februaury 20. Mr Simonsson and Mr Darren Mullaly of ASADA attended a meeting with Essendon and spoke to the players and other Essendon personnel en masse. Mr Simonsson read from a prepared statement and handed out a document. The document referred to "our agreement with the Australian Football League about how the investigation is going to proceed", and spoke of the assurance to be proffered to the Essendon players if they provide substantial assistance.
2013 – March 1. The AFL was placed on notice by lawyer Chris Pollard, acting for several Essendon personnel, that the power to conduct a "joint investigation" was challenged. Mr Pollard wrote to Mr Haddad and stated: "The Code neither contemplates a 'joint' investigation nor the use of information obtained by ASADA being used by the AFL for any other purpose, save the procedures authorised under the Code. This much is clear [upon] a consideration of the Code in its entirety and, in particular, the terms of clauses 4 and 12.".
2013 – March 5. Ms Sharon Kerrison of ASADA sent emails to Mr Haddad at the AFL, in effect agreeing to the terms of the draft AFL notice to Essendon players and officials to attend interviews.
2013 – March 7. ASADA issued a new statement The new wording was provided by Ms Perdikogiannis of ASADA to Mr McLachlan and Mr Clothier in a letter. This new wording spoke of "substantial consideration" being given to not opposing the defence of substantial assistance but affirmed that now the players carried the onus of establishing substantial assistance. Mr McLachlan wrote back to ASADA and took issue with the changed wording proposed by Ms Perdikogiannis. The AFL asserted that Essendon players and personnel had relied upon the original statement (from 20 February) and that the investigation had commenced and was ongoing on the basis of that reliance.
2013 – March 8. Ms Perdikogiannis replied to Mr McLachlan's letter and affirmed the revised ASADA position. She thanked him for the AFL co-operation to that date.
2013 – March 8. Mr Ragu Appudurai, lawyer from Russell Kennedy, acting for various Essendon personnel, emailed Mr Walker of ASADA questioning the legality of the "joint investigation". Mr Appudurai stated, inter alia: "While the Australian Government Investigations Standards contemplates joint investigations by (government) agencies … there appears to be no provision for collaboration with non-government bodies.".
2013 – March 14. There was a meeting between ASADA investigators and the AFL investigators to discuss an investigation strategy and division of workload between the AFL and ASADA. Later that day, ASADA provided to the AFL a "searchable PDF file of all relevant documents provided by Deloitte" to the AFL.
2013 – April 18. Mr Clothier asked Mr Mullaly to produce a report containing information arising out of the investigation which could be used by the AFL for its purposes.
2013 – May 6. It would appear that Mr Simonsson gave certain representations to the Essendon players that they would receive favourable treatment if they co-operated with the investigation. The Essendon players were encouraged by Mr Simonsson's comments to answer the questions put to them during the course of the investigation. Shortly after the presentation to players on 6 May 2013, player interviews commenced.
2013 – May 24. The AFL and the then Minister for Sport, the Honourable Senator Kate Lundy, and a government media advisor (Mr Chris Owens) met with ASADA and discussed the terms of the proposed Interim Report. Mr Demetriou was not happy with at least two things: he wanted the Interim Report to be provided openly; and he considered the timeline for the release of the Interim Report to be completely unacceptable.
2013 – June 14. Mr Nolan of ASADA told Mr Clothier of the AFL that he will be given access to the draft report.
2013 – June 19. Mclachlan on behalf of the AFL again asked for a report and disclosed that such report was required to "resolve matters" and preserve the integrity of the 2013 season. There was also the issue of governance failure issues as well.
2013 – June 28. Ms Andruska went on leave, with Mr Burgess becoming acting CEO of ASADA.
2013 – July 2. a further phone conference occurred between ASADA and the AFL concerning the contents of the Interim Report. ASADA recorded the outcomes of the conference as follows – (a) Conclusions on the environment at Essendon that goes to the behaviour of its support personnel. (b) ASADA's position on whether it intends to prosecute any cases on AOD9604 and (c) Conclusions on whether there is sufficient evidence for ASADA to further investigate individual players (as required by its statutory obligations) with respect to other prohibited substances (incl hexarlin and thymosin beta 4.
2013 – July 9. A teleconference took place between ASADA and the AFL. The AFL expressed concern about any limitation on the contents of the report ASADA was to provide. The AFL wanted the report for its own decision-making purposes.
2013 – July 13. Fremantles Ryan Crowley tests positive to a banned substance immediately following a game against GWS.
2013 – July 31. Ms Andruska records in her notes that Mr Clothier was concerned about confidentiality and privacy matters.
2013 – July 31. Mr Hargreaves, lawyer for Essendon, wrote to ASADA and expressed strong opposition to any communication of the Interim Report to the AFL. Minter Ellison Lawyers, on behalf of the AFL, wrote to Mr Hargreaves denying that the release of the Interim Report was illegal or improper. Significantly, Minter Ellison Lawyers confirmed the Interim Report was itself merely a step in the continuing process of investigation.
2013 – August 1. Its reported that Ahmed Saad (St Kilda) is under investigation for testing positive to a banned substance.
2013 – August 7. Ashurst Australia wrote to Minter Ellison Lawyers and sought information relating to the AFL's contribution to the Interim Report.
2013 – August 12. Mr Hargreaves wrote again to Minter Ellison Lawyers and stated that the Interim Report was unlawful.
2013 – August 16. Essendon receives a revised charge list from the AFL.
2013 – August 19. Hird, Corcoron, Thompson and Reid are granted extensions by the AFL to prepare their defence.
2013 – August 21. [The AFL publicly releases the charges against Essendon.] [Essendon declare the charges to be reprehensible.] [Hird complains the charges are a trial by media.] [ASADA again deny ever approving AOD9604 to any sporting body].
2013 – August 27. The AFL announces penalties of a $2 million fine, payable over 3 years, loss of draft picks in 2013 and 2014 (although they can trade back into the draft). Hird is suspended for 12 months, Corcoran for 6 months (2 suspended). Thompson is fined $30,000. Reid opts to contest the charges.
2013 – August 29. Reids lawyers defy the AFLs right to conduct the hearings and threaten supreme court action.
2013 – September 17. AFL drops charges against Doctor Reid.
2013 – December 5. ASADA announces it will appeal the Saad Ban, demanding the full two years.
2013 – December 14. The AFL accepts that Hird has been paid in advance and will not actually be paid in 2014.
2014 – February 24. The AFL Appeals Tribunal upholds the 18 months ban on Ahmed Saad.
2014 – February 26. ASADA advise the Senate Estimates Committee that Investigations are now complete.
2014 – May 15. Workcover Victoria receives a request to investigate the Essendon Football Club.
2014 – May 30. Ms Perdikogiannis provided to the CEO a recommendation in the form of a 97 page report. It addressed what was said to be an anti-doping rule violation — the use of a prohibited substance, namely Thymosin Beta 4. The alleged use is said to have occurred between about January 2012 and September 2012. The document was called a "Show Cause Pack".
2014 – June 13. ASADA issues Show Cause Notices to 34 past and present Essendon players.
2014 – June 17 – Worksafe Victoria recieves a request to investigate up to Nine AFL clubs.
2014 – June 20. Workcover begins investigating Essendon and none other victorian AFL clubs, as well as the AFL.
2014 – July 3. AFL chief medico Peter Harcourt says THREE AFL players have retired due to drug addiction and it has also been revealed other players were temporarily withdrawn from play while being treated for drug use.
2014 – August 12. Essendon, Hird v ASADA Trial enters second day.
2014 – August 13. Essendon, Hird v ASADA Trial enters third day.
2014 – September 1. Elizabeth Lukin and Essential Media ordered to hand over all documents relating to Robinsons employment to Robinsons lawyers.
2014 – September 19. Federal Court hands down its judgement on Hird, Essendon v ASADA . Justice Middleton says ASADA complied with the rule of law in establishing and conducting, in the manner and for the purposes it did, the investigation. In addition, ASADA lawfully provided the Interim Report to the AFL, which has subsequently been acted upon by the AFL in bringing disciplinary charges against Essendon and Mr Hird.
2014 – October 2. Robinson settles wrongful termination suit against Essendon.
2014 – October 23. The AFLPA confirms that Essendon players wont contest the show cause notices.
2014 – December 1. AFL Anti Doping Tribunal Directions hearing allows ASADA to seek Supreme Court assistance in getting Alavi and Charter to testify.
2014 – December 3. Victorian Supreme Court hears arguments over the ability of the AFL and ASADA to issue subpoenas.
2014 – December 8. AFL Anti Doping Tribunal Chairman announces that hearing will be private.
2014 – December 11. Victorian Supreme Court continues to hear arguments over the ability of the AFL and ASADA to issue subpoenas.
2014 – December 12. Victorian Supreme Court rules ASADA cant issue subpoenas to Alavi and Charter.
2014 – December 16. AFL Anti Doping Tribunal continues. ASADA opening submissions continue. Essendon lawyers request for club representation is denied.
2015 – January 13. AFL Anti Doping Tribunal continues. ASADA opening submissions continue.
2015 – January 14. AFL Anti Doping Tribunal continues. ASADA calls medical specialist.
2015 – January 20. AFL Anti Doping Tribunal continues. Opening submissions from player lawyers.
2015, January 30. Full bench of the Federal Court dismisses the Hird appeal. the appeal failed because the appellant failed to show that the investigation conducted by ASADA in cooperation with the AFL was not authorised by the ASADA Act and the NAD Scheme and that the primary judge should have so held.
2015, February 2. Hird reserves the right to go to apply for a High Court appeal.
2015, February 5. ASADA to submit written closing submissions to Tribunal.
2015, February 11. Essendon confirms players will not seek the AFLs permission to play in the NAB challenge.
2015, February 20. Port Adelaide confirms that Monfries and Ryder will sit out NAB challenge.
2015, February 23. Worksafe Victoria clears nine AFL clubs, but but the Victorian WorkCover Authority's probe into Essendon and the AFL continues.
2015, February 26. 2015 NAB Challenge begins.
2015, March 3. Essendon scheduled to play St Kilda in Morwell.
2015 – March 16. Fremantles Ryan Crowley is issued a show cause notice after testing positive to a banned substance on a match-day in 2014. He immediately begins a provisional suspension.
2015, March 31. AFL anti doping tribunal hands down its findings. Not comfortably satisfied that 34 Essendon players violated the Leagues anti doping code. Findings on Stephen Dank not released.
2015 – April 2. Former Essendon player Hal Hunter launches Supreme Court action to get any documents relating to the supplement program during 2012-2013 from the AFL and Essendon.
2015 – April 8. Collingwoods Lachie keefe and Josh Thomas charged by ASADA with taking banned substances.
2015, April 17. Tribunal finds comfortable satisfaction on 10 counts of Dank breaching the AFL anti doping Code. The Tribunal cleared him on another 24 counts.
2015, May 8. WADA files its statement of Appeal with CAS.
2015, May 11. WADA announces it will use its independent right of Appeal to the COurt for Arbitration for Sport.
2015, May 22. The AFL and ASADA both request to be included in the appeal.
2015, May 28. The players nominate James Spigelman QC as their chosen aribitrator.
2015, June 1. WADA confirms its agreement that the AFL and ASADA join the appeal. The 32 players agree to the AFL joining but object to ASADA's participation.
2015, June 9. CAS aprroves the AFL and ASADA involvement in the hearing.
2015 – June 11. Ryan Crowley receives a 12 month suspension for taking a banned substance on match day.
2015, July 8. WADA files its appeal brief.
2015 – July 28.The AFL files its response to WADA,.
2015, July 31. The 32 players object to parts of the WADA appeal including its scope and desire to include new evidence.
2015 – August 10. Lachie Keefe and Josh Thomas accept two year bans for taking banned substances in 2014.
2015 – August 26. Hearing date announced for CAS hearing.
2015, September 10. CAS confirms the hearings will be "de novo" in basis.
2014 – October 28. Former Essendon player Hal Hunter asks the Victorian Supreme Court to force the AFL and Essendon to hand over documents relating to Essendons supplements program.
2015 – November 9. Worksafe Victoria completes investigation into the AFL finds "it could not be established to the requisite standard" that the AFL breached the act". Essendon is formally charged with two breaches of the 2004 OHS Act and if found guilty are facing a fine of up to $305,000.
2015 – November 16. WADA appeal to the Court for Arbitration for Sport begins at its Oceania offices in Sydney.
2015 – November 21. Appeal before CAS is complete.
2015 – November 26. The AFL is ordered to hand over documents to Hal Hunter. Essendon is found by the justice to have already handed over all of its available documentation.
2015 – November 29. Essendon pleads guilty for failing to provide a safe workplace.
2016 – January 12. The Court for Arbitration for Sport finds all 34 Essendon players guilty and sentences them to a 2 year suspension, backdated to the beginning of their provisional suspension.
2016 – January 15. The AFl and Essendon announce they will chase Hal Hunter for costs incurred in the court case.
2016 – January 18. Essendon is fined $200,000 in the Victorian District Court for "for workplace safety breaches for what a court found was a reckless and secretive drug and supplements regime".
2016 – February 5. Essendons Insurers commits to funding the 34 players appeal to the Swiss courts.
2016 – February 10. Deadline for Appeals to CAS. At least some of the players involved are confirmed to lodge an appeal on the grounds that the 'de novo' nature of the hearings was unlawful.
2016 – February 10 – Essendon 34 lodge appeal with Swiss Tribunal. The players' legal team argue that the WADA appeal should not have been heard 'de novo' (essentially as a fresh case) and that the evidence of players should have been considered on an individual basis.
2016 – August 30. Lachie Whitfield revealed to have been investigated for deliberately hiding from drug testers with the help of two former Greater Western Sydney football officials.
2016 – October 11. Swiss Federal Tribunal dismisses the appeal without hearing.
2016 – November 13. Most player suspensions will end.
2017 – February 17. All player suspensions will have ended.


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This is a certified class action lawsuit filed by current and former New York Life Insurance Company ("NYL") employees and agents against NYL and the Board of Trustees of the Company's employee and agent pension and 401(k) plans ("the Plans"), involving the investment of assets in the Plans.
Final Settlement Approved
On March 5, 2008, the Court entered its approval of the final settlement in the amount of $14 million to be awarded to current and former participants in the 401(k) plans who had account balances during the class period. The settlement also calls for the plans' fiduciaries to utilize an independent adviser to provide advice regarding appropriate investments for each of the plans.
History of the Litigation
The case was originally filed in November 1999 as an individual whistleblower action by a former NYL employee who managed NYL mutual funds through a NYL affiliate and who was allegedly terminated in part because he complained about the alleged ERISA violations the plaintiffs raised in their original class complaint in June 2000.
In July 2000, Plaintiffs amended their complaint to assert ERISA and RICO claims on behalf of a class of participants and beneficiaries in the NYL Plans. In March 2001, Judge Kauffman of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) granted defendants' motion to dismiss the RICO claims against NYL and denied defendants' motion to dismiss certain ERISA claims.
In November 2001, Judge Kauffman certified the case as a class action. Plaintiffs filed an amended Complaint on February 20, 2003 to attempt to cure the inadequacies as plead in the dismissed RICO claims of the amended complaint. In July 2005, Judge Kauffman granted defendants' motion to dismiss the RICO claims from the revised third amended complaint.
On October 25, 2007, Judge Kaufman entered a Memorandum and Order (see link to right) granting Plaintiffs' Motion for Class Certification of Modified Settlement Class, preliminarily approved the proposed Settlement and ordered that notice of the Settlement be distributed to members of the Class. The Court set a hearing for consideration of final approval of the Settlement for Tuesday, January 22, 2008. Under the terms of the attached proposed Settlement, Defendants have agreed to pay $14 million to settle the claims asserted by the Plaintiffs with respect to all of the Plans of which amount $9.8 million will be allocated to the 401(k) Plans and $4.2 million will be allocated to the Pension Plans. The Settlement also provides for other injunctive relief.
Summary of the Allegations
Plaintiffs' central focus is the Defendants' alleged intentional and/or imprudent and disloyal failure to take advantage of the Plans' considerable bargaining clout to obtain low-cost, high-quality investment management services available through "direct" or "separately managed account" management (offered either by NYL's affiliates or managers unaffiliated with NYL) or other appropriately-priced investment vehicles, and instead to use the far more expensive NYL-proprietary mutual funds -- namely, the New York Life Institutional/MainStay Institutional/Eclipse Funds, priced to be marketed to smaller investors -- in an effort to build those product lines and boost Company profits.
The Complaint alleges that the unlawful scheme began in the early-to-mid 1980's with NYL's creation of a line of "Separate Accounts" -- pooled investment accounts offered by insurance companies to relatively modest-sized employee benefit plans -- largely with assets taken from the large Pension and 401(k) Plans. The alleged scheme continued throughout the 1990's, and at least until March of 2001. At that time, and as a direct result of the filing of the First Amended Complaint in June 2000, the Trustees finally withdrew $1.8 billion of Pension Plan assets, but not the assets of the 401(k) Plans, from the MainStay Institutional/Eclipse Funds -- another investment product that NYL sought to market to third-party investors and had seeded using Plan assets. The $1.8 billion in Pension Plan assets were then placed in newly created, Plan-specific Separate Accounts at a substantially reduced, although still allegedly excessive, cost.
The Complaint alleges that the Defendant Plan Trustees also separately breached their strict ERISA fiduciary duties to the Plans by: (1) failing to prudently inquire into the appropriateness of the Plans' investments in the Separate Accounts and the MainStay Institutional/Eclipse Funds, including the appropriateness of the fees and expenses associated with those investments for Plans the size of the NYL Plans and the appropriateness of NYL and its affiliates acting as managers (indeed, the exclusive managers) of the Plans' assets; (2) failing to bring to bear their own knowledge and expertise in making those investments; and (3) failing to take vigorous steps to overcome the influence of their own personal and financial interests in the success of the company's Separate Accounts and the MainStay Institutional/Eclipse Funds, as well as the interest of their advisor Livornese, who was President of the MainStay Institutional/Eclipse Funds, by seeking disinterested outside advice on the appropriateness of the Plan investments in those products and/or using NYL and its affiliates as manager of Plan assets. Plaintiffs seek damages and a variety of other relief to make the Plans and participants whole and prevent future violations.
The Complaint also asserts the individual claims of plaintiff James A. Mehling, alleging that NYL fired Mr. Mehling, a long-time, highly successful employee, when it realized he had discovered its wrongdoing and would likely disclose Defendants' scheme. Mr. Mehling thus asserts a variety of wrongful discharge claims and claims for various benefits which NYL has denied him.
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Maundy Thursday: At Table
At Table
On the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover meal?" He said, "Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, 'The Teacher says, 'My time is near; I will keep the Passover with my disciples at your house.'" So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover meal.
That evening he took his place at the table with the twelve; and while they were eating, he said, "Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me."
They became deeply distressed and began to say to him, one after another, "Surely you don't mean me, Lord?"
He answered, "One who has eaten from this bowl with me will betray me. The Son of Man will go just as it is written of him, but woe to the one who betrays the Son of Man! It would have been better for him if he had never been born."
Judas, who betrayed him, said, "Surely not I, Rabbi?" He replied, "You have said it."
While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, it he broke it, gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take, and eat; this is my body." Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks he gave it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you; for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you, I will never again drink of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom."
Important things happen around tables. Meals are places for celebrations – weddings and anniversaries and birthdays and graduations. Families come together for the holidays and share a feast. Even daily meals shared together create a space where so much more than bread is shared. Children learn manners; or at least their parents want them to. Grandfathers tell stories, spinning the tales out with more and more elaboration. It's a time to set the phones down and listen to each other. In the light chit-chat of the day, family is formed, and affection grows stronger. Sometimes there are deeper conversations, and meaning and understanding grow deeper, too. Even tension at the table changes us. We become who we are in the breaking of bread.
Sometimes it even happens among strangers – especially when strangers come together around a common need. Sometimes lives are changed around a table.
I don't know if you saw Don Haven's column in the Sentinel last week.[i] He wrote about a time of table fellowship that was life-changing for him and others. I had heard him talk about it in Bible study a couple weeks before, and to me, the story was extraordinary.
Now, you need to know that Don is an old Navy guy. But even more important to this story is that his wife Debbie is a Rear Admiral, which is how Don got to be at the table that he wrote about last week.
It was a Returning Warriors Workshop, which are held for sailors coming back after deployment in the Middle East. These people are in the Reserves, and even if they had been in relatively safe parts of the world, their sacrifice was huge – setting down everything they know and love – their work, their family, their friends – to join a group of people they don't know, to do a job they've never done, in a part of the world they've never been – and, quite possibly, see combat.
And then they return home again, returning to a life that no longer exists the way it was when they had left. Because of their experience, they weren't the same people anymore, and neither were the families they left. For some, there were no families. For some, their jobs had disappeared. For some, there was nothing normal to return to.
The way Don describes it, at the workshop there were speakers and breakout sessions and chances to connect with others sharing similar experiences. It was all designed to say thank you to the people who had served, and give them every edge at finding a new normal. Debbie was the keynote speaker, and Don says he learned more about her experience than he had ever known before.
All kinds of people came – Don was surprised by this – "lots of women sailors, all sorts of races and ethnic groups…, and many immigrants." A Brazilian woman who works as a state trooper, assigned to the medical corps. A guy who is a nurse, whose Navy job was to operate a bulldozer. Men and women, gay and straight, young and old, immigrants and native-born…
And at those tables, everyone was equal. There were no uniforms. There was no rank. Not even last names were used. Just first names, shared experiences - and vulnerability around those tables. "Each guest was assigned a specific table for the entire weekend," Don says, "so we got to know our table mates very well. It got pretty intense at times, which explained the tissue boxes on each table."
As Don kept describing it, I found myself thinking more and more of Jesus' table fellowship. I thought of the way Jesus described the kingdom of God, where people will come from East and West and North and South and sit at his Table together.
Sometimes meals are just meals, merely practical, but sometimes they are intense and tender, like the Passover meal Jesus shared with his disciples. There was truth told at that table, hard, life-changing truth. Something terrible was about to take place, and Jesus was trying to warn them of it. Something powerful was going to happen, and he wanted them to understand.
You see, he knew the day would come when they would gather back again, returning to a life that no longer existed the way it was before the resurrection. Because of their experience, they weren't the same people anymore - and neither were the other followers of Jesus. The world was not the same.
But there's something about table fellowship… where people come together and strangers become friends, where more than mere hunger is fed, where stories bind our lives together, and understanding grows deeper, too…
What a blessing that Jesus gave this meal to remind us. What a gift, a blessing., a remembrance.
What a sacrament of grace, this table fellowship – where in the broken body of Jesus, we are made into the body of Christ.
[i] Don Haven, "I want to go back to Returning Warriors Workshop," The Granville Sentinel, April 6, 2017, 4A.
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Houston, TX -- August 20, 2019 -- Data Gumbo Corp., a Houston-based technology company that has developed a Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform to streamline smart contracts management for industrial customers, today announced the hiring of Maria Onufrow as its new Vice President of Product Delivery.Onufrow holds more than 20 years experience in full cycle software development, largely for the energy industry in upstream and midstream sectors. She has led software teams of all sizes in the development of products for production, commodity trading, energy credit, and midstream transportation industries to solve critical business problems.
"Maria's background in software development and project management will turbocharge Data Gumbo's ability to deliver our blockchain solution to the oil and gas market and beyond. Her experience in using agile software development methods will enable broader alignment with our customers' business goals, further driving our adoption and company growth,"said Andrew Bruce, Chief Executive Officer of Data Gumbo.
Prior to Data Gumbo, Onufrow served as a director of at Atom Solutions; director of product development for P2 Energy Solutions / Merrick; product manager at Triple Point; and product manager and development director at SunGard Energy System (FIS). She is a longtime member of the Women's Energy Network (WEN), and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Houston with a concentration in Management Information Systems (MIS).
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Recent Advances in Thermoregulation
Etain A Tansey 1 , Christopher D Johnson 2
1 Centre for Biomedical Sciences Education, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2 Centre for Biomedical Sciences Education, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland c.johnson@qub.ac.uk.
DOI: 10.1152/advan.00126.2014
Etain A Tansey et al. Adv Physiol Educ. Sep 2015
Thermoregulation is the maintenance of a relatively constant core body temperature. Humans normally maintain a body temperature at 37°C, and maintenance of this relatively high temperature is critical to human survival. This concept is so important that control of thermoregulation is often the principal example cited when teaching physiological homeostasis. A basic understanding of the processes underpinning temperature regulation is necessary for all undergraduate students studying biology and biology-related disciplines, and a thorough understanding is necessary for those students in clinical training. Our aim in this review is to broadly present the thermoregulatory process taking into account current advances in this area. First, we summarize the basic concepts of thermoregulation and subsequently assess the physiological responses to heat and cold stress, including vasodilation and vasoconstriction, sweating, nonshivering thermogenesis, piloerection, shivering, and altered behavior. Current research is presented concerning the body's detection of thermal challenge, peripheral and central thermoregulatory control mechanisms, including brown adipose tissue in adult humans and temperature transduction by the relatively recently discovered transient receptor potential channels. Finally, we present an updated understanding of the neuroanatomic circuitry supporting thermoregulation.
Keywords: brown adipose tissue; cold; heat; preoptic area of the hypothalamus; set point; thermoregulation; transient receptor potential channel.
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Thermoregulation and Hyperthermia
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Despite minor daily and monthly cyclical variations, body temperature remains relatively constant. Core temperature is maintained by thermoregulatory responses such as sw …
Central Circuitries for Body Temperature Regulation and Fever
K Nakamura. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 301 (5), R1207-28. Nov 2011. PMID 21900642. - Review
Body temperature regulation is a fundamental homeostatic function that is governed by the central nervous system in homeothermic animals, including humans. The central th …
Central Nervous System Circuits That Control Body Temperature
CJ Madden et al. Neurosci Lett 696, 225-232. 2019. PMID 30586638. - Review
Maintenance of mammalian core body temperature within a narrow range is a fundamental homeostatic process to optimize cellular and tissue function, and to improve surviva …
Thermoregulatory Disorders and Illness Related to Heat and Cold Stress
WP Cheshire Jr. Auton Neurosci 196, 91-104. Apr 2016. PMID 26794588. - Review
Thermoregulation is a vital function of the autonomic nervous system in response to cold and heat stress. Thermoregulatory physiology sustains health by keeping body core …
Thermoregulation and Afterdrop During Hypothermia in Patients With Poikilothermia
MA MacKenzie et al. Q J Med 86 (3), 205-13. Mar 1993. PMID 8483993. - Case Reports
The pathophysiology of afterdrop of core temperature during rewarming in patients with induced or accidental hypothermia remains controversial. We studied the effect of c …
The Dynamic and Correlation of Skin Temperature and Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Male Endurance Runners
J Galan-Carracedo et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health 16 (16). 2019. PMID 31405204.
During endurance exercise, skin temperature (Tsk) plays a fundamental role in thermoregulatory processes. Environmental temperature is the biggest determinant of the Tsk. …
The Molecular Clock in the Skin, Its Functionality, and How It Is Disrupted in Cutaneous Melanoma: A New Pharmacological Target?
LVM de Assis et al. Cell Mol Life Sci 76 (19), 3801-3826. Oct 2019. PMID 31222374. - Review
The skin is the interface between the organism and the external environment, acting as its first barrier. Thus, this organ is constantly challenged by physical stimuli su …
Functional Vascular Anatomy of the Peritoneum in Health and Disease
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The peritoneum consists of a layer of mesothelial cells on a connective tissue base which is perfused with circulatory and lymphatic vessels. Total effective blood flow t …
Effects of Drugs and Excipients on Hydration Status
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Despite being the most essential nutrient, water is commonly forgotten in the fields of pharmacy and nutrition. Hydration status is determined by water balance (the diffe …
Working Against the Biological Clock: A Review for the Occupational Physician
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–President Weah Declares
President George Manneh Weah has dogged to be the first sitting President, in the country's decades of existence, to connect the entire country with paved roads.
President Weah insisted that no government has ever done well in its first five months in office than what his government has done with five months in office.
The Liberian leader indicated that no amount of criticisms and dissenting public opinions will impede his government's determination to advance its development agenda because there are associated economic and trade dividends when the roads are paved.
President Weah spoke Friday, July 20, 2018 at the Thanksgiving and Intercessory prayer held at the Lusinee Kamara Mosque in Morrison Farm, Paynesville as part of events marking the 171st Independence celebration of Liberia.
He said: "Let me say this for all us, especially the young people. No matter what, once you are there people, will have dissenting views; this is life. If you do good, another person will not appreciate it; you do bad, somebody will not appreciate it. So, no matter what you do in life, there will be critics; what is important is for us to remain focused on what we want to do," President Weah told the gathering of Muslims worshippers.
The statement explains his avows, as promised during the campaign period, of the overall national development drive the country has ever witnessed since it was founded.
The Liberian leader emphasized the urgent need for the people of Liberia to place unity at the front-burner of their undertakings during this period of celebration of the 171st Independence of the country because national achievement through development does not come amid division and negative criticisms.
"We are about to witness our 171st Anniversary, in the simple term, birthday; when we were designing our program to know what the order of the day will be, what we will be doing, the first thing that was on our agenda was to unite our brothers and sisters – Liberians," the President said to emphasize his quest for a united Liberia and people.
According to him, the situation Liberia faces did not start with his administration but stressed his commitment to change the situation; while at the same time enjoined Liberians to watch for an unprecedented pace of development between now and December.
"As we are about to celebrate our independence, what is happening today reflects things that will be on the books but we are criticized for doing the right thing than those that did the wrong thing," President Weah indicated.
Although fanaticism is considered part of human infrastructure, the President said it is good for people to be constructive in their criticisms. "Liberia will be 171 on July 26. When the problem started; it is in the five months of my administration?" he quipped, and again begged the indulgence of Liberians to exercise a bit of patience because he has taken the responsibility to fix the problem.
Earlier, Sheik Rashid A. Sheriff who delivered the sermon and called on Liberians to unite, give the government a chance, and also desist from negative criticisms.
He urged Liberians to be thankful to God all of the things happening because that is the essence of our creation. "Unity is always the instrument for the growth of any nation," he emphasized.
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Catelynn Lowell and Tyler Baltierra Talk Addiction: Are They OK?!
If you're familiar with Catelynn and Tyler from Teen Mom OG, then you probably know that they've had plenty of experience with addiction.
They've never gone through it themselves — though Catelynn has hinted at being dependent on marijuana in the past, and they were arrested in their teen years for possessing weed.
But unfortunately, they spent much of their childhoods watching their parents go down that dark, scary road.
Catelynn's mother, April, has struggled with alcoholism, and Tyler's father, Butch, once admitted on camera that he loved cocaine more than he loved his own son.
Thankfully, April is sober these days, and she's been able to play a much more positive role in Catelynn's life.
But Butch just hasn't been able to maintain his own sobriety for any real length of time.
As we saw in earlier seasons of the show, he was released from prison just before Catelynn and Tyler got married, and he was out for just over a year.
Then, in late 2016, he relapsed, violated his probation, and was sent back.
He was released after a few months, but, as always, it's hard for him to stay out of trouble.
Tyler really delves deep into that struggle in this heart-wrenching sneak peek for next week's episode of Teen Mom OG.
As the clip begins, the couple explains to a producer that they're still working on fixing up their new house, and that Butch is building a fence for them.
"Apparently he destroyed my childhood," Tyler jokes. "I need a fence. That's all I ask of you now."
He's joking, at least a little bit, but there's some sad truth behind it — we'll never forget his story of how he was so overwhelmed with everything that he attempted to hang himself when he was just 12 years old.
"Speaking of which," he adds now, "I need to talk to him about going to rehab."
Catelynn points out that he'd said before that he wanted to wait to have the rehab talk with Butch until he was less angry with him, and he says that he's realized that he's actually always going to be angry with him.
She agrees with him — she says that with her own mother, she feels angry a lot too, and she feels that it's that way with many children of addicts.
She even says that children of addicts have a right to feel angry with their parents, which is fair.
They they have this whole sweet talk about how they created a safe space together, so on and so forth, and that's adorable and precious, it really is.
But does Butch ever go to rehab?!
Watch the video below to hear Cate and Tyler's real talk on addiction:
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