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Each year, the Duke Global Health Institute honors outstanding students and faculty members with several awards. This year, we added a new award to the mix: the Michael Merson Undergraduate Student Leadership Award in Global Health, established to honor the legacy of founding DGHI director Michael Merson, who stepped down from his leadership role last year. Award recipients are listed below.
Mary Story, professor and associate director for academic programs, presented the undergraduate awards.
The Michael Merson Undergraduate Student Leadership Award in Global Health will be given each year—starting in 2018—to recognize a graduating global health undergraduate major student who has excelled in the classroom and in fieldwork and has demonstrated a strong commitment to global health and health equity through extracurricular activities and leadership.
The inaugural award was given to Amanda Jankowski, a global health and sociology major who graduated with honors in sociology. Her thesis explored the influence of doctor comfort and acceptance on health care utilization for LGBTQ+ individuals, using data from the Social Justice Sexuality Project Survey 2010.
While at Duke, Jankowski participated in the Penny Pilgram George Women's Leadership Initiative Project, where she conducted qualitative interviews with female-identified students about health access and utilization, and was part of a Data+ team that worked with community partners to create small-area health maps of mortality data in Durham and Orange Counties.
Jankowski also engaged in several service and leadership initiatives, including planning and leading an alternative Spring Break service experience focused on food security and homelessness.
Through the capstone, the culminating experience for the Duke global health major, students execute a team-based project. Consulting with their professor, experts in the field and community members, they apply what they learned in their coursework and fieldwork to design a feasible solution to a real-world global health problem.
This year's winning team, who researched and developed a culinary skills training program to reduce recidivism among Durham's formerly incarcerated population, included Emme Heneine, Anna Katz, Rachel Katz and Julia Kaufman. The students were part of a fall capstone class taught by Dennis Clements, professor of pediatrics, community and family medicine and global health.
their professor Dennis Clements (far right). Photo by Jim Wallace.
Gavin Yamey, professor of global health and public policy, was voted this year's outstanding undergraduate professor based on student nominations.
Professor Award from Mary Story. Photo by Jim Wallace.
Watch the undergraduate award presentations.
Nathan Thielman, professor and associate director of the Master of Science in Global Health program, presented the undergraduate awards.
Tessa Concepcion received the outstanding graduate student of the year award, also called the "Madeline Boccuzzi Award" in remembrance of an exceptional Master of Science in Global Health (MSc-GH) graduate who received the award in 2013 and passed away in 2014 after a battle with cancer. The award is presented annually to a student who excels in the classroom and the field and builds community at Duke.
For her thesis, investigated the burden of pediatric surgical disease in Somaliland. She was nominated for the award by one of her mentors, Emily Smith, assistant professor of epidemiology at Baylor University and adjunct DGHI faculty member—as well as three of her fieldwork partners from Somaliland.
One of her nominators was Edna Adan Ismail, founder and director of the Edna Adan University Hospital. She noted, "Tessa was an exceptional volunteer who immersed herself into the study that she came to do right from the very first day." Tessa's other nominators described her as brilliant, motivated, hard-working and organized.
Concepcion was also mentored by Henry Rice, professor of surgery and global Health.
DGHI adjunct faculty member Emily Smith. Photo by Jim Wallace.
Gregory Gray, professor of medicine, global health and environmental health, was voted this year's outstanding graduate professor based on student nominations.
Award from Nathan Thielman. Photo by Jim Wallace.
Watch the graduate award presentations.
Amanda Jankowski, left, won the Michael Merson Undergraduate Student Leadership Award in Global Health," established to honor the legacy of founding DGHI director Michael Merson (on right). Photo by Jim Wallace.
Global health and sociology major Amanda Jankowski received the inaugural Michael Merson Undergraduate Student Leadership Award in Global Health.


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Hugo Staél Ståhle, född 7 juni 1921 i Bräkne-Hoby församling, Blekinge län, död 29 januari 2015, var en svensk målare, tecknare och grafiker.

Han var son till sjömannen Gustav Hugo Ståhle och Anna Svensson och från 1944 gift med Britt Iva Alice Augustsson. Ståhle var som konstnär autodidakt och var redan från början inriktad i ett abstrakt måleri där han arbetade med förenklade kompositioner med vardagsnära föremål som båtar, magasinsbyggnader och bruksföremål. Han medverkade några gånger i utställningen Kulla konst på 1950-talet och samlingsutställningar arrangerade av Helsingborgs konstförening och Kristianstads konstförening samt i grupputställningen Grupp 58. Separat ställde han ut på Galerie Moderne i Malmö. Ståhle är representerad vid Regionmuseet Kristianstad.

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Here's What It Takes to Be as Strong as Captain America
Can *you* move a helicopter with your upper body?
By Jordyn Taylor
There's no question that Captain America is strong as hell. While we're over here busting out bicep curls, he's busy using his upper body strength to move a freakin' helicopter like it's no big deal.
In case you need a refresher, here's the deal with Captain America. After Steve Rogers — played in the MCU by Chris Evans — is rejected from the U.S. military during World War II due to his poor health, he's recruited for a special "super-soldier" experiment with the Strategic Scientific Reserve. The procedure boosts the frail Rogers into peak human condition, and thus, Captain America is born.
He moves helicopters! He lifts motorcycles! But just how strong is the Marvel superhero? Check out our video, where we do the math behind some of Captain America's most impressive feats. Plus, we break down exactly which muscle groups he uses — and show how you can activate them in your next workout.
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JAPANESE DISASTER: Don't Worry, It's Just a Little Radiation
Fukushima - Nuclear Disaster
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And of course, we have our "own" idiots pushing atomic power stations in these islands that sit atop the ring of fire and which are riven with fault lines.FYI/interest. Isabel
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CounterPunch. Weekend edition 11-13 March, 2011
First the Quake, Then the LiesDon't Worry, It's Just a Little Radiation
By KARL GROSSMAN
And with the major malfunction at the Fukushima nuclear power plant comes the lies…That's the way it's always been when it comes to nuclear technology: deception has always been a central element in the push for it.
As desperate efforts were made Friday to keep coolant flowing—to prevent a nuclear meltdown—"radioactive vapor" was being released from the plant, reported the Associated Press. It quoted Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano as saying the amount of radioactivity was "very small."
And it "would not affect the environment or human health," added AP.
The Nuclear Energy Institute, the U.S. nuclear industry trade group, presented a page on its website devoted to the post-earthquake situation involving nuclear plants in Japan which opened with pronouncement: "The Japanese prime minister and the industry's safety agency say all plants in the country are safe and that there has been no radiation release from any reactors. Utilities there are managing issues with cooling water systems at the Fukushima plant…"
To sweeten its tale further, the NEI page featured a quote from the chief PR man at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Eliot Brenner: "In fact, all nuclear power plants are built to withstand environmental hazards, including earthquakes. Even those plants that are located outside of areas with extensive seismic activity are designed for safety in the event of such a natural disaster."
And CNN Friday posed this question in a dispatch on its website: "Do nuclear plants have failsafe systems?" The answer: "Yes. They are designed with an inter-connected system of fail-safes that ensure there are multiple ways of counteracting a malfunction."In fact, like any machinery, nuclear plants can—and regularly do—undergo accidents.
The big difference with atomic energy: the malfunctions can end up killing large numbers of people and impact on other life as well.If the attempt now going on in Japan to keep the coolant flowing fails, a loss-of-coolant or meltdown accident could occur—a disaster that could have catastrophic impacts on Japan and much of the world.
Radioactive material is used in a nuclear plant as a heat source—to boil water and produce steam that turns a turbine that generates electricity. Huge amounts of radioactive material are made to go through a chain reaction, a process in which atomic particles bombard the nuclei of atoms, causing them to break up and generate heat.
But to keep the nuclear reaction in check—to prevent the material from overheating—vast amounts of coolant are required, up to a million gallons of water a minute in the most common nuclear plants that have been built ("light water" reactors). That is why nuclear plants are sited along rivers and bays, to use the water as coolant.
If the water which cools the reactor "core"—its 200,000 to 300,000 pounds of radioactive fuel load—stops flowing, the "emergency core cooling system" must send water in. If it fails, a loss-of-coolant or meltdown accident can occur.In such an accident, the core of nuclear fuel, which in less than a minute can reach 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit, burns through the cement bottom of the nuclear plant and bores into the earth. This is what U.S. nuclear scientists have dubbed the "China syndrome"—based on a nuclear plant on their side of the planet undergoing an accident seemingly sending its white-hot core in the direction of China.
In fact, the radioactive core doesn't—in any location—go to China but it descends to the water table underlying a plant. Then, in a violent reaction, molten core and cold water combine, creating steam explosions and releasing a plume of radioactive poisons.The problem at Fukushima Diachi nuclear facility is that one of its six reactors lost all its power as a result of the earthquake. Back-up diesel generators didn't work, so battery power became necessary to keep coolant water flowing. If the battery power is depleted and electric power is not otherwise restored, a loss-of-coolant accident or meltdown would ensue.
"The emergency shutdown has been conducted but the process of cooling down the reaction is currently not going as planned," explained Chief Cabinet Secretary.
Thus Japan declared a state of "atomic power emergency" and people living within three kilometers of the Fukushima facility were advised to evacuate.
But if the coolant flow is not maintained and a loss-of-coolant accident with a "breach of containment" occurs, people way beyond three kilometers around Fukushima would be impacted. The radioactive releases in the Chernobyl nuclear plant accident affected the entire northern hemisphere, as a book published last year by the New York Academy of Sciences documents. And Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment, authored by Dr. Alexey Yablokov, Dr. Vassily Nesterenko and Dr. Alexey Nesterenko, finds that medical records between 1986, the year of the accident, and 2004 reflect 985,000 deaths as a result of the radioactivity released. Most of the deaths were in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, but others were spread through the many other countries the radiation from Chernobyl struck.
Perhaps the biggest lie ever regarding nuclear power has been the claim by the International Atomic Energy Agency—created to boost and somehow at the same time regulate nuclear power—that perhaps 4,000 people will die as a result of Chernobyl.Where the radioactivity spreads after a nuclear plant meltdown is largely a function of where winds take the radioactivity and of the rain that causes it to fall out.
The Japanese nuclear crisis comes amid a global drive to "revive" nuclear power. After the Chernobyl disaster, good sense—and the survival instinct—caused people all over the world to say no to new nuclear power plants.
A leader in this is U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a nuclear scientist. He came to his DOE post after being director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, part of the U.S. government's chain of national nuclear laboratories. Some got their start during the Manhattan Project of World War II creating atomic weaponry. All have since pushed commercial nuclear power, too.In a speech last month to President Obama's "Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nature Future," Chu declared: "The Obama administration believes that nuclear energy has an important role to play as America moves to a clean energy future." He declared that nuclear power is "carbon free energy"—disregarding the reality that the "nuclear cycle," from mining and milling to fuel enrichment and so on, contributes to global warming. And he spoke, in his February 12th address, of "upgrades to our existing reactor fleet" and a move to "speed the development of next generation reactors."
Japan's jump into nuclear power is especially ironic considering it was on the receiving end of the bombs built by the Manhattan Project. Furthermore, it is situated on a string of volcanic islands vulnerable to earthquakes. Of course, Japan is not alone on this score: in the U.S., the Diablo Canyon nuclear facility in California was built less than three miles from the Hosgri earthquake fault. Nuclear power plants are, in fact, life-threatening wherever they are—they represent the most dangerous way to boil water ever devised.
Wind, solar and geothermal energy and other forms of safe, clean power would not cause massive deadly damage because of an earthquake. But don't tell that to the atomic Pinocchios pushing nuclear technology.
Karl Grossman, professor of journalism at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury, has focused on investigative reporting on energy and environmental issues for more than 40 years. He is the host of the nationally-aired TV program Enviro Close-Up (www.envirovideo.com) and the author of numerous books.
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What Your Doctor Won't Tell
Japan, Radiation Fallout and Iodine Recommendations
Mon Mar 14 , 2011
Source: drdavidbrownstein.blogspot.com With the terrible earthquake in Japan, let's send thoughts, prayers as well as assistance to the Japanese. I have had inquiries about the use of iodine to prevent problems secondary to the nuclear fallout that will occur. As the Japanese nuclear reactors release radiation into the air, the […]
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Expected Tournament Wins
3 Comments Posted by jalnichols on July 22, 2015
I first discussed the concept of expected wins in my March article on Rickie Fowler over at NoLayingUp. Basically, I wanted to look at how often a certain level of performance on the PGA Tour results in a win. This way, there's some sort of context neutral benchmark when we talk about why certain players are winning more or less than someone thinks they should. Rickie Fowler was the perfect introduction to this topic; he had been slammed for several years for only winning once on Tour, but when viewed through the lens of expected wins, Fowler had played some really good tournaments that would've normally resulted in wins, but others beat him. Of course, Fowler has gone on to win two high profile tournaments already this season
Calculation of Expected Wins
I gathered all PGA Tour tournaments (2010 to present) from the Official World Golf Rankings site, noting the winners and each player's performance in strokes versus the field (also adjusted for strength of field so the US Open credits players for a harder field and Mayakoba debits their performance). I did the same for all European Tour tournaments over the same time period. I discarded all tournaments that did not reach four rounds and all players who missed the cut or withdrew.
I then performed a logistic regression of performance in strokes per round on the binomial variable of whether the player won the tournament or not. This produced the curves below for the PGA Tour and European Tour. I should note, I included all tournaments in each Tour's data regardless of whether they were co-sponsored, alternate field, limited field, invitationals, or majors (majors and WGCs were included only in the PGA Tour dataset). However, this is supposed to measure how often a player should win in a typical event. Obviously the listed figure for win expectancy will be lower for majors and higher for alternate field or limited field events like the Tournament of Champions.
PGA Tour results
In a typical PGA Tour event, it's extremely rare to win with a performance less than 3.0 strokes per round better than the field. However, increase to 4.0 strokes and a player is expected to win just over half of the time, while victory is nearly guaranteed at 5.0 strokes per round better than the field. In fact, only Louis Oosthuizen at the 2012 Deutsche Bank has exceeded 5.0 strokes per round without winning.
The best performance in a tournament between 2010 and 2015 was Rory McIlroy's eight shot victory in the 2011 US Open where he beat the field by 5.7 strokes per round.
European Tour results
The curve for the European Tour is broadly similar, but the 50/50 point is reached earlier – around 3.5 strokes per round – indicating the average European Tour event is won with a slightly less impressive performance. In fact, at around 4.0 strokes per round a player would be expected to win a typical European Tour event about 80% of the time versus 50% in a typical PGA Tour event.
The best European Tour tournament between 2010 and 2015 was Sergio Garcia's eleven shot win at the 2011 Castello Masters.
Best Results from 2010 to 2015
Only PGA Tour or European Tour events from 2010 to present.
Applying to Rickie Fowler…again
What's interesting about Rickie Fowler's success this season is that both of his wins have come in big events with quality fields, but have required less impressive performances than normal. His Players Championship victory was actually slightly less impressive than his 2012 loss to Matt Kuchar, while his Scottish Open performance earlier this month rarely results in victory – even on the European Tour. In other words, after getting the short end of the results for the first few years of his career, Rickie's gotten some good luck and has taken advantage of both opportunities to win this season. Below are Rickie's ten best performances of 2010-15.
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Why Rickie Fowler Doesn't Win More
Leave a comment Posted by jalnichols on March 18, 2015
Amid Rickie Fowler's torrid summer last year – which included top five finishes in each major championship – the collective golf media was focused on Fowler's need to win tournaments to validate his status as one of the big stars on Tour. Bring up Rickie's name among golf fans now, and the question immediately turns to why he doesn't win more often. These sorts of questions are nothing new. Phil Mickelson was hounded about his inability to win a major for years before he broke through at the Masters. Up to a week before McIlroy's Open Championship win last summer there were questions about his ability to close out tournaments when he jumped into the lead. And just last week, Jordan Spieth captured his second PGA Tour win – hopefully distracting the critics who think he needs to win more often for a few months.
Read more at No Laying Up…
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Phoenix Open Preview – 2015
1 Comment Posted by jalnichols on January 28, 2015
This is the first tournament played on the newly renovated TPC Scottsdale Stadium course. Beyond the visual upgrades (new bunkers, re-seeded greens/fairways/rough, new cart paths, etc.), several green complexes were completely re-done and the 14th was lengthened into a 490 yard beast of a par 4. Most importantly, designer Tom Weiskopf completely altered the bunkering on many of the tee-shots, moving the bunkers into areas where Shot Link said the pros had been hitting their tee-shots. Bill Rand discusses some of the notable changes – including a resized bunker on 18 that will completely alter how the hole is played. Anytime a designer can make the course fresher, while also maintaining the signature stretches (15/16/17 here), it's a win for the fans. I'm most interested this week in who adapts their tee-shot strategy and executes those shots.
Beyond the changes, TPC Scottsdale is still a fairly easy course. It has played to around 69.8 on a par of 71 and is about average in length. However, it has definitely been a course where guys could step-up and hit driver on most shots. Bubba Watson in particular has played extremely well here recently because he could be aggressive and hit over the fairway bunkers. The renovated bunkering off the tee should at least force the pros to adapt their strategies. All par 5s are gettable in two shots, while the par 4 17th offers one of the best risk/reward par 4s in the game.
What I'm Watching:
Tiger is the story this week. Suffice to say if he's healthy for the whole season he should be one of the best on Tour. In 2012 and 2013 Tiger played about as well as anyone has in the past five seasons and won eight tournaments. He combined top ten putting ability with his always strong iron play; there's not really any reason to doubt that a healthy, focused Tiger can't recreate those seasons. If so, he'll be in line for multiple wins, Player of the Year, and dare I say possibly a major.
For this week, I'm interested in the short game after how disastrous he was around the green at his event in December. That performance was a sign that he just wasn't in tournament shape and hadn't put enough work in. Also, what kind of distance is he able to generate off the tee? Amid the injuries last year, he lost 3 mph of club head speed from 2013 and 5 mph from 2012. The basic rule of thumb is about 2 yards per mph, meaning his max distance with driver fell by around 10 yards in two seasons. That's worth around 2/3rds of a stroke per round; regaining some of that distance is critical for him to remain an elite player.
In the same vein, Tiger started laying-up a ton off the tee in 2013. He went from about Tour average in laying-up in 2012 to one of the most likely to lay-up in 2013. Whether it was not trusting his swing with driver or some sort of physical issue, he can't afford to lay-up on 1-2 extra holes each round – especially if he's not hitting driver 295 anymore.
Looking beyond Tiger, this week is the stateside debut for Rickie Fowler. Fowler's game was clearly the most improved last year after reworking his swing with Butch Harmon. Mark Broadie wrote on Golf.com in October that Rickie Fowler gained 7 yards off the tee in distance over 2013 – largest on Tour. He also became more aggressive off the tee and jumped from 60th to 13th in terms of how often he went for a par 5 in two. He won't putt like he did in the summer (over 1.0 strokes gained/round), but in his last six tournaments of the year he improved by a full stroke versus the field on tee-shots/approach shots/short game.
Best Past Results:
These are the guys who have played best here relative to their typical performances. In other words, for each year they've played I'm comparing their Phoenix performance to their average performance for the year (minimum 3 starts here since 2008).
1. Scott Piercy
2. Brendan Steele (and off a 2nd place last week)
3. Matt Every
4. William McGirt
5. Spencer Levin
Among the favorites, Bubba has typically killed it here – even without lucky putting – and Gary Woodland has been very strong as well.
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The Barclays Round 1 Recap
Leave a comment Posted by jalnichols on August 21, 2014
Bo Van Pelt (-6) leads eight others including former FedEx Champ Jim Furyk after the first round at The Barclays. The main story in golf the last month has been the dominance of Rory McIlroy (three straight wins) and Rickie Fowler (two 2nds in majors), and what their success at a young age means to the future of golf. Rory struggled across the board Thursday – breaking a streak of fourteen straight above-average rounds dating back to early July – while Rickie delivered another solid round to end up three off the lead. Most notable from Thursday was the continued great play of Jim Furyk; he's racked up three top tens and a T15 in the last month behind great iron play and a hot putter.
Ridgewood was set-up at an average length Thursday and yielded fairly normal course stats in terms of accuracy (64%), GIR (67%), and scoring (70.8 on a par of 71). Where it's really difficult is from the rough. It was in the upper tier of PGA Tour courses in terms of difficulty. The par 5s also play mostly as three shot holes; the pros only went for the green in two 17% of the time (average of 50%) and hit the green in two 2% of the time (average 14%).
Drivable Par 4 5th:
The 5th is a drivable par 4, playing 283 yards on Thursday, that is one of the best examples of a drivable par 4 all season. If you take a look below you'll see the elevated green is narrow and tiny, measuring 9 yards wide and only 2200 square feet (microscopic by PGA Tour standards). The green is surrounded by bunkers to dissuade some from attacking it off the tee; lay-ups are made to around 85 yards. Driving the green requires a carry of around 270 yards, 40 feet uphill, and is best done with a right-handed fade. Just over half the field went for the green off the tee, scoring about 0.1 stroke better than those who laid-up.
Because of the carry required, none of the shortest hitters who went for the green hit it or made birdie. Because there isn't a ton of difference between the expected values of each strategy, the shorter hitters and anyone who's really good with a wedge from 100 yards in should probably lay-up. Anyone with average or better distance should absolutely take-on the green though. Average or longer hitters who went for the green scored at 3.60, everyone else at 3.91. The real pay-off isn't really being close to the green – a 25 yard bunker shot isn't much easier than a 75 yarder from the fairway – it's instead in actually hitting the green. All five who hit the green made birdie, which is expected when the longest possible putt you can face is 50 feet. You can see the distribution by score below.
What's Ahead for Rory:
With Rory's run of success every poor round is apt to be magnified beyond proportions. Even great players play poorly some days. Rory's expected to have a round as bad as Thursday's only around once every 25 rounds, so this is likely as poor as we're apt to see him play for awhile. What's important isn't really this round, but how he's had success so far this year. Rory emerged as a star and won his first two majors in 2011 and 2012 while being wholly dependent on his driver/irons for success. He was the best in the world on those long shots in 2011-12, while his putting was average or a bit worse. Last year, his driving was wild and he lost a lot his long game that had made him great. This year, the driving is as good as ever and his irons are great, but what's really different is his success with the putter. He's jumped to 21st on Tour in putting, gaining about half a stroke from putting compared to the last few seasons. Over this latest run of wins his putter has been nuclear hot (+1.20 strokes vs. the field). That's been enough to take him from one of a group of 3-4 elite players to the best in the world.
The problem is putting is hugely random. Players putt well above their talent level for months and then regress. Up until July, McIlroy had putted at +0.16 strokes gained for the season and slightly below average for his career. Since then he's at +1.20 strokes gained. This post deals with the small sample randomness involved with putting; nothing McIlroy is doing on the greens indicates to me that he's going to sustain the level of putting that won him two majors in the last month. When his putting returns to his career norms, he'll still be the best player in the world, but as more of a 1A to Sergio, Adam Scott, and Justin Rose than the next Tiger/Jack that he's been made out as the last few weeks. His long game (driving/approach shots) is the best in the world largely because he's in another universe off the tee. When Tiger was dominant for a decade he combined the best long game in the world with top ten putting; nothing Rory has done shows that he's capable of putting that well for the long haul.
McIlroy's Strokes Gained per Shot Link tournament since 2011. His putting surge in the last few months is obvious.
Rickie Fowler's Putting:
Much of the previous section applies to Rickie Fowler as well. Fowler took on a highly publicized swing change with Butch Harmon at the beginning of the season which left his game a mess for months, but which looks great now. His tee to green game has been the best of his career the last two months – a testament to the work he put in with Butch earlier this season. However, what's really fueled him to four straight top tens in major tournaments has been a ridiculous run of putting. He's putting about a stroke better per round than he ever has since June. He's a solid putter in his career, but he'll look mortal when this hot streak ends.
Rickie Fowler's Performance in Strokes relative to the field (positive is better)
Today's round is a good example; his very good long game was erratic and his short game was awful. What saved him was gaining 4.5 putts on the field including two 13′ and two 11′ putts to save par after missing greens. You look real good when you hit all four of those, but most of the time you hit only 1-2. That's why Rickie's sitting on a -3 instead of a -1.
Shot of the Day:
The PGA Tour chose Bo Van Pelt's eagle chip-in on #17. You can see on the video that it was a long chip (48 feet), but from right off the green. It ranked 6th among non-putts in terms of strokes gained (+1.3 strokes).
My highest ranked shot was Chris Stroud's 20 yard hole-out from the bunker on the 7th (+1.5 strokes), for which there is no video available. Andrew Svoboda's drive onto the the green 30 feet away at the drivable 5th hole was the best tee or approach shot of the day (+1.2 strokes), setting up a two putt birdie.
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When she opened her shoe cupboard, Elisa-Rose was spoilt for choice. Vertiginous heels, colorful sandals, strappy bejewelled platforms, faux crocodile brogues, and heeled ankle boots. Elisa-Rose liked fashion and especially shoes, which were at the top of her list of pleasures being a rather compulsive shopper. This love of shoes, and particularly of high-heeled shoes, came from her mother, who, as far back as she could remember, always wore heels for every occasion and in every circumstance. We should add that our young Elisa-Rose stood 5 feet 1 inches tall, blow-dried hair included, a minimal height that made her keen to gain inches, by way of beautiful teetering heels.
In her life as a dynamic young manager, she was always impeccably dressed, working as she did with the select and demanding clients of a large business bank. Her rather regimented outfits consisted of immaculate suits, with skirts or pants, which deserved nothing other than elegant shoes with high heels, even very high heels. Elisa-Rose thought they made her look slimmer and placed her at an acceptable height, equal to her colleagues and assistants, all taller than she was.
But unfortunately, high heels and crazy arches are inversely proportionate to comfort when walking. Elisa-Rose had to use subterfuge to keep going for the eight hours of her working day, aloof and smiling, both feet caught in a vice. So, to face her long days on her pretty high perch, every morning and evening Elisa-Rose put on trainers to go to and from work, a pair of white canvas trainers, which she had adorned with fluorescent pink laces, to pep up a bit her very classic footwear. Thus attired, the beautiful girl could stride over paved streets and slippery pavements, across crowded metro platforms, and up and down the interminable corridors and staircases with light, lively steps.
It was only once she had arrived at the huge office building where she worked that she put on her prodigious heels, beautiful, magnificent, vertiginous, but so damaging to wear that you might have thought the suffering they inflicted was the price to be paid for one's social ascension. And although Elisa-Rose had achieved great success in her career and appeared to be flying high professionally, her love life was as empty as her heels were high. No time to spend on anyone, no time to take time, everything revolved around her work, and the speed of her step. The perfect embodiment of a woman of action, Elisa-Rose was used to being in complete control. But there you are, sometimes a pair of white canvas trainers, adorned with fluorescent pink laces, may change the whole course of a life.
As she did every morning, with her trainers on her feet, she took the same route from her apartment to the subway station. Standing in the packed train taking her to her place of work, a young man had noticed her and was waiting for her to look at him.
This was Leo. The first time he saw her get on the train, he had been entranced by the slim, elegant silhouette of Elisa-Rose and intrigued by her white trainers adorned with fluorescent pink laces which, besides searing his retina, were alluringly out of step with the beautiful woman's sober suits.
Each morning he got a little closer to her, hoping that their eyes would meet. He told himself that he would then try a smile or a little word that he had prepared in his head, in preparation for the day when he dared to speak to her. Fluorescent pink laces on white trainers! That had inspired him to write a song, as Leo was a musician and composer. A promising new artist, rather shy and a bit dreamy, who hoped this beautiful and very petite little woman would eventually notice him.
Then, one morning, one of those when heavy rain was falling despite the summer mildness, he saw her get onto the train with her white trainers soaked and one of her pink laces undone. Leo took this as a sign, as if fate was eyeing him up. Making up his mind to cut through the crowd of subway passengers and approach her, he saw her coming in his direction making her way towards the exit doors. Just as he was finally right next to her, getting ready to point out her undone lace, the train, which was entering the station, braked so sharply that Elisa-Rose tripped over her lace, fell forward and ended up in Leo's arms. When she looked up at him, Elisa-Rose felt her cheeks blushing, not with the fluorescent pink of the trainer laces, but with a powdery pink that made her look so good Leo could not take his eyes off her.
Of course, they liked each other immediately. You don't always need to be perched high up on heels to feel giddy... It was but a small step to conclude that a pair of white trainers adorned with fluorescent pink laces were more than a little implicated in this love story. It was just a light step in trainers, helped by a bit of stormy weather that maliciously untied the laces, and a good pull on the brakes that occurred by chance.
Ever since that day, in Elisa-Rose's shoe cupboard, her pair of white trainers adorned with fluorescent laces holds a place of honor, right next to another pair of white trainers, size 9 adorned with laces that are... black.


Full of road muck that I hadn't found the time to clean off.
I guess I avoided taking my bike in for a service as I was worried I'd be paying over the odds and that it just wasn't necessary. The problem was, I just didn't know what happened behind the scenes. Fortunately, Lunar Cycles allowed me to see my bike being serviced and I even added a full write up with lots of pictures on London Cyclist.
Since then, a number of London Cyclist readers have visited the shop and have been impressed with the service.
That's the sort of review all businesses dream of!
Lunar Cycles recently got in touch with me to see if there would be a good way to work together to bring this level of service to London Cyclist readers. We decided we'd try out a deal, where you guys get an exclusive discount on bike servicing.
Lunar Cycles will take apart your bike, thoroughly clean it and put it back together, indexing and adjusting everything so that it works smoothly. They'll even true your wheels, to make sure they are running as efficiently as possible.
If any parts need replacing, they'll get in touch with you to check that you are happy with the cost, before going ahead with the repair.
This really is one of the most comprehensive bike services you'll find in London. Normally bike shops charge around £70-£85 for a service like this and it isn't as comprehensive at the one at Lunar Cycles.
The normal fee is £65, however – until next Thursday the 30th, you can get it for £37.90.
All you need to do is buy the service on the London Cyclist website and then call up the shop to book. You do need to buy through London Cyclist before Thursday, but there isn't a restriction on when you have to take the bike in. If you've been meaning to give your bike some tender love and care, then it's a great opportunity. Most mechanics recommend this sort of service once every six months for a bike. I think that's a little extreme, but once per year is definitely a good number to aim for.
There are a couple of things that are not included. Obviously, if any components need replacing then these will need to be charged separately. However, Lunar Cycles will check with you first to see if you'd like to go ahead with it.
The service also doesn't include servicing the hub bearings and headset – however, both of these will be checked for issues and you'll be contacted to see if you'd like Lunar Cycles to deal with them.
Make sure you hit the "Complete your order" button!
Update: This needs to be redeemed within a year of purchase. Thanks to everyone in the comments who asked for clarification.
Any questions – ask them below. Otherwise, hit the buy button above!
P.S. This is the first time we've done this sort of deal on London Cyclist. I'm excited to be able to bring an exclusive discount for a service this comprehensive that I trust on my own bike, to my readers. If you've got any feedback on the deal then let me know below.
P.P.S. Lunar Cycles is in North London – you can see a Google Map on their website.
Amanda – really pleased you had a great service there! It's a real pleasure to discover a bike shop that treats customers so well.
Never used Lunar, but the service you posted looks extremely thorough, almost to the point of obsessive, which is not a bad thing.
I'd recommend Edwardes of Camberwell if you're south of the river, I've had excellent service and advice from them for 45 years. In fact I just picked up my new Mekk Primo from them earlier today with a 700 quid discount by way of apology for the 2 month delay due to problems with Customs.
I'd suggest you avoid Whites of Erith like the plague! Awful workmanship.
Thanks for the heads up on Edwardes – if this promotion is a big hit we'll definitely try to partner up with more well loved bike shops.
Really? Edwardes? I live very close by to this bike shop which is pretty much the only reason why I go there but I find the atmosphere in there, as a woman, really intimidating. The older gentleman (owner?) is really nice but the younger assistants can sometimes be quite dismissive and unhelpful – other times, they're just a bit creepy. Please bear in mind this isn't saying much about the service they provide on the bike itself – which is okay, even though they neglected to take out a piece of glass from my tyres meaning that I had to get my inner tubes replaced twice..
I just bought the offer for Lunar Cycles and I'm excited about getting a comprehensive bike service and, from reading all the reviews, friendly customer service as well.
Yes, I'm a man and I find the younger guys in Edwardes a bit unhelpful/not very friendly. The older guy is much nicer. I've never had any work done there or bought a new bike so I can't comment on that.
This is why independent bike shops are better than the chain-stores.
I absolutely love MiCycle too – especially their zen garden at the back!
Amazing promotion you've got going here. I'd really like to be able to take advantage of it as my Penny needs a good seeing to but alas, it's the end of the month and therefore am a bit skint so don't know that I'll be able to pay before Thursday. Although, I would be able to do so on Friday or possibly Thursday, when I get paid. Is this a possibility at all? Location-wise, it's perfect for me as we are temporarily staying in Islington at a friend's whilst waiting to move into our new place in SE. Normally, I would go to my regular guy at Paul's Custom Cycles (excellent shop and service if you live in or around SE15 by the way), but it's not really convenient at the moment.
This is a great offer, I will definitely be taking advantage of this as my bike is beginning to rattle a little and I will be attempting to 'service' the bike myself however if all goes pear shaped then I will have this back-up just in case!
So there is no time limit on when to have the bike serviced?
That's right – as long as you've purchased by Thursday (or probably now Friday for Kate!) then you can "redeem" it whenever.
Update: Whenever = within 12 months of purchase date.
…I'm really looking forward to the cleaning; in my experience shops don't include that in their general service.
Yep – many shops charge extra for that!
Andreas, could you please confirm the time limit of this "whenever" – I just called Lunar and they were not so sure about the idea of servicing a bike at some indefinite point in the future – fair enough. Problem is my bike won't need servicing for another while…..
Hey Maak – apologies, we should probably put some kind of more reasonable figure on this other than "whenever" – redeem within a year. Sorry for not being more clear, this is the first time we've ran this kind of deal so we are still learning.
Brilliant, can I buy more than one?
Yep – when you hit the buy button it says how many do you want.
I'd like to second the recommendation for Paul's Custom Cycles in Peckham. Really nice guy and excellent service.
Awesome. And have you seen his speed demon of a bike? I'm always jealous and inspired looking at that thing.
I certainly have, am always tempted to ask Paul for a test drive !!!
Great offer – would like to see more of this. I'm anti-commerical most of the time but offers/promotions that reward exceptional service should be encouraged. BIke's not ready for a service yet (touch wood) but when it is I'll be off to lunar after reading all the positive feedback.
I was already considering popping over to Lunar, so that was just the push I needed to finally try them.
I purchased one bike service, but how will they know I paid them when I book/show up? I wasn't given a reference number in the PayPal email or on the final page with their contact details.
Look forward to meeting you, just bring a copy of the paypal email down when you bring the bike in and we can mark you down against the list of people who have booked a service.
Thanks Hanry, will see you soon!
Went to have my bike serviced just the other week at Lunar Cycles.
Awesome service and great advise!
Shame the this offer wasn't offered last week LOL! Still worth the money though.
Anyone know of any decent local bike shops in west???
Not that it'll stop me going back up to Lunar again.
We service any bikes, so feel free to buy a service for both.
Just thought I would pop back to say I took my SS to them last Tuesday morning (2nd) for a service using the offer. As reported above I was talked through what would happen, I aired my concern about a problem I'd had with the rear wheel and that was reported on when I went to collect the bike that evening. Fortunately the only thing that needed attention was the chain which was replaced after discussion and I was happy to agree without hesitation.
I don't recall seeing my tyres that clean in ages!! I did feel a twinge of shame at that.
I live over in South London, so it was a bit of a trek to get to Lunar Cycles and, whilst I get very good service from my local, I was happy to make the journey and will probably take my roadbike to them for a full service during it's winter 'down time'.
Very pleased to read you were happy with the service! I definitely want to partner up with some more bike shops in future – it's a case of finding shops that offer a service as comprehensive as Lunar Cycles.


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House Republicans now officially on record denying science behind climate change
Sal Gentile
This graphic from NASA explains how the greenhouse effect works. House Republicans voted to reject this and other scientific facts Tuesday.
House Republicans rejected several measures Tuesday that called on Congress to adopt the scientific consensus that climate change is real, that it is caused by human activity and that it is a threat to human health.
We've known since before the 2010 election that most of the new House Republicans openly deny the science behind climate change. But now it's officially on the record.
So here, for that record, is a list of things Republicans now say they officially don't believe:
that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has skyrocketed by about 100 parts per million since 1950.
that carbon dioxide disrupts the transfer of thermal energy through the atmosphere, trapping it and redirecting it back to Earth (otherwise known as the "greenhouse effect").
that the absorption of this heat has caused the Earth's oceans to get warmer by about .302 degrees Fahrenheit since 1969. When water gets warmer, it expands, resulting in rising sea levels.
that the warming of the Earth has also has caused glaciers, ice caps and ice sheets to melt.
that the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are each losing mass at an accelerating rate. Together, they've lost a combined average of 475 gigatonnes a year. And that rate of loss is accelerating by about 36.3 gigatonnes every year. That water ends up in the Earth's oceans.
that glaciers are also retreating across Asia, threatening the water supply there and resulting in massive water runoffs and extreme flooding. In Bhutan, 66 glaciers have decreased by 8.1 percent over the last 30 years. The Himalayan glacier Chhota Shigri Glacier, in India, has lost 12 percent of its mass in just the last 13 years.
that the addition of this water to the oceans has caused the rate of global sea rise to double in the last decade, to about 3.4 millimeters per year (as opposed to about 1.8 millimeters for the last century).
that the warming of the planet increases the likelihood and frequency of extreme weather events — including hurricanes and intense rainfall — by raising ocean temperatures and adding energy to the Earth's atmosphere. Since 1975, the destructive power of tropical cyclones — their duration and maximum wind speed — has increased by 70 percent.
that the atmosphere is getting much, much warmer. 2010 is now tied with 2005 as the warmest year on record — ever. The 20 warmest years on record have occurred since 1981. The 10 warmest years on record have occurred in the past 12 years.
The denial of these and other facts supporting the scientific consensus that climate change is real is not merely ideological; it's political. Republicans are trying to block new regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency that would limit greenhouse gas emissions, on the grounds that those rules would hurt the GOP's corporate patrons.
The EPA can only regulate greenhouse gases under the federal Clean Air Act if it determines that climate change poses a threat to public health. Armed with the facts listed above, the EPA issued such a finding in December 2009, and then issued proposals for new greenhouse gas limits based on that finding.
Republicans, in an attempt to block those regulations, are trying to undermine the EPA's December 2009 public health finding by questioning the science it is based on — the science behind man-made climate change. When Democrats offered the measures mentioned above, for example, it was because Republicans were marking up a bill that would block the EPA's climate change rules.
Republican politicians are also suing the federal government to block the new emissions standards from taking effect, and trying to make it seem as though the science behind those standards is still in doubt. Ken Cuccinelli, the attorney general of Virginia, is leading the charge in that effort. He has subpoenaed the records of a leading climate scientist, Michael Mann, to prove — somehow — that Mann is a fraud.
It hasn't worked so far. The facts above remain unchallenged among the vast majority of climate scientists. Cuccinelli, meanwhile, is taking his case to the Virginia Supreme Court, after being rebuffed by a lower court last year.
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UAE closes Zayed research centre
The president of the United Arab Emirates has ordered the closure of an Abu Dhabi-based research centre accused in the West of promoting anti-semitism.
27 Aug 2003 17:24 GMT
Shaikh al-Nahayan (centre) has ordered research centre shut
The state WAM news agency issued an official statement on Wednesday bearing the name of the UAE leader, Shaikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, saying the centre had been closed for religious intolerance.
"Having learned that the centre took part in a dialogue that flouts the principles of religious tolerance, His Highness ordered its immediate closure," the statement said.
"Shaikh Zayed has always been an advocate of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence among peoples," sponsoring charity projects irrespective of the ethnic or religious affiliation of recipients, it added.
Prominent speakers
The Zayed Centre for Coordination and Follow-Up (ZCCF) is affiliated to the Arab League and has been operating here since 1999, hosting speakers from around the world and issuing dozens of publications.
Former US President Jimmy Carter and former Vice President Al Gore were the most prominent of many US figures who have spoken at the centre.
The UAE-funded ZCCF has repeatedly complained that US and other Western charges of anti-Semitism were part of an Israeli-inspired campaign against the centre.
"Jewish institutions" fuelled the campaign after the centre hosted figures they considered "anti-Semitic," a ZCCF official told AFP in April.
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SOURCE: AFP


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George Ebenezer Presbyterian Church Op. 6 II/20/19 1978
Dubuque Lord of Life Lutheran Church Op. 9 I/6/8 1979
Orange City First Reformed Church Op. 11 II/22/31 1980
Lake City Lake City Union Church Op. 13 II/23/29 1980
Des Moines Westminster Presbyterian Church Op. 14 II/27/38 1981
Ames Iowa State University Op. 16 II/3/3 1981
Indianola Trinity United Presbyterian Church Op. 17 II/22/30 1982
Dayton Emanuel Lutheran Church Op. 20 II/15/18 1982
Ames Iowa State University Op. 21 II/15/18 1982
Sioux City First Lutheran Church Op. 25 III/45/42 1984
Cedar Falls St. Luke's Episcopal Church Op. 31 II/11/14 1986
Postville St. Paul Lutheran Church Op. 34 II/23/28 1987
Pella Second Christian Reformed Church Op. 41 II/15/17 1988
Webster City Trinity Ev. Lutheran Church Op. 43 II/20/23 1988
Dubuque Wartburg Theological Seminary Op. 46 II/13/15 1989
Storm Lake St. John Lutheran Church Op. 55 II/21/32 1992
Clive (Des Moines) Faith Lutheran Church Op. 61 II/25/34 1993
Waverly Wartburg College Op. 67 II/22/31 1996
Dubuque University of Dubuque Op. 97 III/43/51 2020
Moundridge West Zion Mennonite Church Op. 12 II/18/19 1980
Manhattan First Presbyterian Church Op. 24 II/34/43 1983
North Newton Bethel College Op. 27 II/16/19 1985
St. Benedict St. Joseph Abbey Op. 73 III/35/38 2000
Auburn Pakachoag Church Op. 69 II/25/31 1997
Chatham St. Christopher's Episcopal Church Op. 98 II/27/32 2021
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Kalamazoo St. Luke's Episcopal Church Op. 57 II/30/42 1992
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St. Paul Olivet Congregational Church Op. 4 II/24/33 1976
Northfield St. Olaf College Op. 8 II/7/7 1978
Mankato Bethany Lutheran College Op. 10 II/20/24 1979
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My work is made from an experimental inlay process involving wood and polyurethane. I begin by making a mold around pieces of wood, and pour the dyed polyurethane into the mold. I then cut into the resulting block, and repeat the process, one color at a time.
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This concise and energetic survey introduces scholars without earlier wisdom to Chaucer, and especially to the 'Canterbury Tales'. Written in an invitingly inclusive but intellectually refined variety, it presents crucial evidence in regards to the poet, together with a biography and cartoon of his significant works, in addition to providing a framework for considering creatively approximately his writing.
All of us have the capacity to realize and create humour, yet how precisely can we do it? Salvatore Attardo and Victor Raskin have tried to give an explanation for the workings of humour with their normal conception of Verbal Humor (1991). The relevant target of Hamilton's examine is to check the usefulness of the overall idea of Verbal Humor on a particular corpus by way of selecting and reading the narrative constructions that create humour.
From the age of the triumvirate, there- Poetry in Augustan Rome 25 fore, epic poetry was a part of the program of the poets of Maecenas' circle. Most of them preferred to limit themselves to less demanding genres, but the need for Rome to have a modern epic poem was felt before Augustus started to govern Rome. Only a few years later, Rome had, thanks to that group of poets, its Roman Hesiod with the Georgics, its Roman Alcaeus with the Odes by Horace, and its Roman Callimachus with Propertius. And in his posthumous edition of the Aeneid, Varius consecrated his fraternal friend as the true new Roman Homer.
Poetry from Revolution to Empire One of the first acts of the triumvirate, in 43 BC, had been the compilation of lists of adversaries to be eliminated. Antony desired the death of Cicero, who had attacked him violently, as an enemy of the Senate and of the State. Octavian, who had maintained an ambiguous relationship with Cicero, and in reality had used him, endorsed the decision. Thus, the greatest Roman intellectual died at the age of 63. By that time, almost all the poets who had acquired prestige during the age of Caesar had already died, at a more or less young age: Lucretius and Catullus about ten years earlier, and Calvus at least six years before; others had fallen in the recent civil wars.
The 'professional' figure of the person who performed intellectual activities in order to make a living remained connected with teaching, with private intellectual training for representatives of the educated classes, and with various specialized scientific and cultural activities (including some that had previously been reserved to the senatorial class: cf. Wallace-Hadrill 2005), but this figure tended to disappear from the panorama of high-quality poetic production. Now, however, not only the wealthier knights but also members of the lower classes had access to this field, who had the opportunity, thanks to the new social mobility, to become rich and to emerge.


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Developer plans 206-key Holiday Inn Express for Jamaica
Manny Chadha's hotel would span 72K sf on Archer Avenue
Jun.June 15, 2017 05:10 PM
By Eddie Small
Hotel developer Manny Chadha plans to build a Holiday Inn Express with 206 rooms in Jamaica, according to Chadha and plans filed Thursday with the city's Department of Buildings.
The 10-story, 72,062-square-foot hotel would be located at 165-20 Archer Avenue and feature seven rooms on the cellar level, 14 rooms on the first floor and between 19 and 23 rooms on the second through 10th floors. It would also include a rooftop bar, according to Chadha.
A car wash currently occupies the site, but Chadha plans to demolish the structure and hopes to begin construction on the hotel in early 2018.
"You've got to make some money, you know?" he said. "The car wash is definitely not the right fit. The zoning allows a lot more buildable square feet than we have."
Chadha previously developed the Umbrella Hotel in the South Bronx at 681 Elton Street and said he plans to build another Holiday Inn Express in the Bronx as well at 4729 Third Avenue that would be nine stories tall and include 86 rooms.
Other major developments planned for Jamaica include George Xu's 109-unit Residential Building On 88th Avenue and the Chetrit Group's four-building complex at 150-13 89th Avenue.
(To view more new construction projects in the Bronx, click here)
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Former Lumber King Jim Montgomery gets another shot at NHL coaching
Jim Montgomery is on his way back to the National Hockey League. The St. Louis Blues recently hired the former Pembroke Lumber King to be an assistant coach, a reunion of sorts as Montgomery returns to the organization that gave him his first crack as an NHL player.
September 24, 2020 Local Sports
Dale Hawerchuk back fighting cancer
Just over three months after he rang the bell to signify his last treatment for stomach cancer, Winnipeg Jets legend Dale Hawerchuk is back fighting the disease once again.
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The night Gordie Howe and Terry Sawchuk played in Pembroke
As the National Hockey League season pauses as the world deals with the COVID-19 virus pandemic, television networks have been scrambling to fill hours of programming time normally consumed by Canada's national sport. The Saturday night time slot on the CBC, normally held by the iconic Hockey Night in Canada, has been replaced by Movie Night in Canada and on March 21 the network kicked off its movie lineup with a doubleheader of hockey films, airing Mr Hockey, the story of Gordie Howe's later years as a professional player, and Goalie, the tragic story of Howe's illustrious, but troubled Detroit teammate, Terry Sawchuk.
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The legacy of Frank Nighbor, Pembroke's greatest hockey player
It has been 90 years since Frank Nighbor laced up a pair of skates in a professional hockey game. It has been 67 years since he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame and it has been almost 55 years since he died.
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On Thursday night (Nov. 21), Sheldon Keefe worked his hockey magic as he's done many times before.
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Loveland man who shook 3-week-old son convicted
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A Loveland man grew frustrated with his "fussy" three-week-old son, so he bounced and threw him on the changing table, the Warren County prosecutor said after the father was convicted on related charges.
Christopher Evans, 25, was convicted by a Warren County jury Thursday of felonious assault and child endangering, Prosecutor David Fornshell said.
Fornshell said Evans was alone home with his son on Oct. 18, 2015 after his wife left to get medicine for the sick son's stomach.
It was the transition from breast milk to formula, which has made the baby "fussy," Fornshell said.
When the baby started crying, prosecutors said Evans could not get him to stop and admitted that "out of frustration and anger," he forcefully bounced the child to get him to stop.
After that wasn't enough to quell the crying, prosecutors said Evans, claiming to not known his own strength, threw the son on the changing table where he struck his head.
Fornshell said by that point, the mother had returned from store and discovered her baby with facial swelling, bruising and that he was limp and unresponsive.
Officials at the hospital determined the baby had multiple hemorrhages, contusions to the brain and various fractures to his legs, prosecutors said.
"All injuries were determined to be consistent with abusive head trauma and the result of an inflicted injury," prosecutors said in the release.
Evans is due to be sentenced at an unspecified time in front of Warren County Commons Pleas Court Judge Donald Oda.


I've been working with SAI students and their cell phone options abroad for over 14 years now and I can officially say it hasn't gotten any easier over the years! With Europe finally getting rid of some roaming charge issues, things are getting better, however, there still is the difficulty with connectivity and the different band frequencies that are used in the U.S. versus abroad. Not to mention the issue of Wi-Fi availability with the ancient stone buildings in so many European cities. When it comes to cell phones, things just aren't simple and there isn't one size fits all!
I know what you're thinking, your biggest fear is to travel abroad without your smartphone: "I need to stay connected" "How will I call my family once I arrive?" "How will I contact my roommates or friends?" "How will I get GPS on my phone to navigate while I'm traveling?" Don't worry, I completely understand – it's almost like having to leave part of yourself behind when your phone isn't traveling with you!
I'm sure you can agree that there is a strong sense of security when you have a cell phone that works abroad – it seems to just put you at ease (along with your parents, who are waiting for that call that you've arrived safely!). After all, SAI requires you to have a contact number while abroad for emergency purposes.
Will I need to use data?
Will I need GPS access for traveling?
Can I just get by with making calls and texts only, and not use data?
Do I want the cheapest means of communication?
Answering these questions will help you decide whether you will need a data bundle with a small amount, or a large amount of data allotment; or just a simple call and text plan with no data (basic handheld phone and SIM).
Cell phones go everywhere abroad!
This option means bringing your own smartphone with you and ordering an "international plan" through your own U.S. provider (i.e., Verizon, AT&T, etc.). This may be the easiest option since you are already familiar with your own smartphone, and it has all of your apps and contacts already installed. I can't say it's the cheapest option though, since the rates typically are higher than if you were to rent directly from a provider abroad.
This option means bringing your own unlocked smartphone with you abroad and registering for a host country SIM card through Cellhire or a local wireless shop upon your arrival (i.e. Vodafone, TIM, etc.). If you decide on this option, it may be more cost effective, however, you will need to make sure your phone is unlocked so the International SIM card will work. In addition, your APN settings will need to be setup upon inserting the SIM card (this is due to the different band frequencies that are used abroad). Sometimes the SIM will work without having to adjust your APN settings; if this happens, consider yourself lucky! Most of the time, this is not the case.
If you choose to rent from Cellhire, you can register while in the U.S. and receive your SIM card in the mail before you leave, along with your assigned host country number. You will be provided with APN setup information (if necessary) in your order shipment from Cellhire.
You will need to register with Cellhire at least 10 business days in advance of leaving the U.S for this option (14 days in advance preferred).
If you choose to rent/buy a SIM card from a local store such as Vodafone, TIM, etc., you will need to get this information directly from those providers. SAI on-site staff may be able to help you find the best options, but it will be your responsibility to compare offerings and make the final decision.
Just remember to get your phone unlocked, or the International SIM card won't work! If you think your phone may already be unlocked, you can test it by taking out your SIM card and inserting one of your family or friend's SIM cards with a different carrier than your's to see if it works. If it does, then your phone is unlocked.
If you just want calls and texts (no data), you can register for a basic phone and SIM from Cellhire. This is the cheapest way to go. Note: some students choose to pair a basic phone with their personal smartphone used only when connected to Wi-Fi. You will be required to return both the smartphone/SIM and all equipment provided within 7 days of returning to the U.S. You will need to register with Cellhire at least 10 business days in advance of leaving the U.S for this option (14 days in advance preferred).
You can also rent a smartphone and SIM (with data) from Cellhire. You will be required to return both the smartphone/SIM and all equipment provided within 7 days of returning to the U.S. You will need to register with Cellhire at least 10 business days in advance of leaving the U.S for this option (14 days in advance preferred).
Or, you can rent/buy from another provider abroad (Vodafone, TIM, etc.). You will need to wait until you arrive abroad, and visit one of the local carrier stores to rent or purchase a local phone and SIM and set up your plan. Please note that, while you will likely get better rates and plans by using a local provider, SAI will not be able to provide assistance.
Are you feeling overwhelmed yet?! This is a lot of information to take in, but it's important to decide what route you'll be taking ahead of time. That's because if you go with using Cellhire, the free shipping option included with the rental runs out 10 business days before you leave. I can't stress enough that this is business days, and does not include weekends or holidays, so it's typically 14 or more days in advance you should be registering. Don't wait until the last minute!
For security purposes, SAI requires that you have a functioning phone number abroad – we need to be able to reach you! If you make any changes to your cell phone plan, please don't forget to let your SAI Program Coordinator know, as we keep your phone number on file.
Do plenty of research ahead of time, and remember it's completely up to you what route you choose to take for your phone. Cellhire is simply one option.
Cellhire offers the convenience of receiving your items prior to departure, so when you touch down you'll already have a functioning phone.
However, using a local plan is usually the cheapest option. This option requires more effort, and potentially a few days of having to use your US number while you are working out your local plan options. In these cases, we recommend that you purchase a very minimal international plan from your US provider to hold you over until you are all set up abroad.
I hope this sheds some light on the subject and makes your decision making a bit easier. For more information on your cell phone options abroad, please see Cell Phones. If you have any questions or concerns, or just want to talk your cell phone issues out with someone, please reach out to me at sharon@saiprograms.com. My job is to make things as easy for you as possible, so you can focus on your studying and life abroad.
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Sharon Basilin is SAI's Student Resource and Faculty Led Programs Coordinator, and is based remotely in San Jose, California. She loves the beach, wine and shopping. Sharon has been with SAI for more than 13 years!


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