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By: Adina Genn November 7, 2016 Comments Off on Q&A with Lee Zeldin
U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin represents New York's 1st Congressional District in the House of Representatives. The Republican incumbent is running against Democrat Anna Throne-Holst, former supervisor of the Town of Southampton. LIBN is presenting both of their perspectives in interviews to give some insight into one of the region's most hard-fought races. An attorney who also served in the U.S. Army, Zeldin talked with us about Congress, foreign policy and his support for Donald Trump.
You're completing your freshman term as a U.S congressman. When you got to Congress, what was the biggest surprise? I would say the people who reach out to me, encouraging me to vote against a good bill for the wrong reasons or for a bad bill for the wrong reasons, because some anonymous blog on the internet told them this bill says something other than what it actually says. It's happened a bunch of times. I'm there to read the bills, ask the questions, study the issues, get my facts and make informed decisions.
Do you find it hard sometimes to deal with leadership, being a freshman? No. I make my decisions on how to vote on these different bills and inform them of my decision and realize that communications are important. You have an issue if you tell the (House majority) whip who is counting votes you'll vote for something and they need your vote. Then you come back to them at the last minute and say you'll vote against it. A lot of people get themselves into trouble by not communicating correctly. I'm not comfortable voting yes on a bill. I tell them I'm not comfortable and I'm undecided or leaning against it. My experience in the New York State Senate helped. That's a landmine others walk themselves into repeatedly.
What is your general take on where we need to be in the Middle East? First, a few principles that guide me with regard to foreign policy: I believe American foreign policy should pursue the strength of our relationships with friends, treating enemies as enemies. We can't be silent. We're being tested by different countries watching each other test us…. Our military should never be sent into harm's way unless they're sent to win. You send our troops with resources to win or you do not send them at all. When they return home, they're treated with the love and dignity of a grateful nation. These are guiding principles for me.
What are some important international issues? As we zero in on specific issues, there are several to focus on from border security to refugee policy, the debate over closing Guantanamo Bay, the Iran nuclear deal. Zeroing in more on the Middle East and defeating ISIS, we have to be willing to identify the threat of radical Islamic extremism, which is bigger than ISIS.
Can you tell me about returning to Iraq? When I visited Iraq at the end of last year, I didn't realize the 82nd (Airborne Division; Zeldin was a member) was going to be there. When I left Iraq, those were some of the last faces I saw. It was Christmas day, a special visit. We talked with (U.S. Air Force) Maj. Gen (Richard) Clarke about Iraq, Syria, Libya, but he says we should be talking about Libya, Syria and Iraq in that order. He said in Iraq we have a plan. The current prime minister is doing a better job than his predecessor, however there's a growing influence from Iran and a Shiite Iran backed militia. On the military side, the Iraqi counterterrorism service is growing in ranks. They have the will to fight, are getting training and experience and taking back territory. We have U.S. service members on the ground right now, but it's being led by Iraqis.
What is right and what is wrong with our Iraq strategy? I would say the strategy we're executing in Iraq is a strategy that should work. I have a different assessment in Syria. I have been a vocal critic of this administration in a lot of their foreign policy. But I also call it like it is. I'm not aware of a better strategy in Iraq. What absolutely was a mistake was announcing in advance we are coming toward the end of October. Very bizarre. It would only make sense if we actually didn't come at the end of October.
What's your background and knowledge related to foreign affairs? I have personally been in Iraq now twice, Kuwait, Israel, Jordan, Qatar. I've spent not just my entire adult life, but in high school, completely immersed in foreign policy: 100 percent. Everything I studied and experienced personally has been neck-deep in foreign policy.
What can create jobs on Long Island? Tax regulation and trade: Going back to the state Senate, I said I'd campaign as hard as I could to repeal the MTA tax. We were able to repeal it for 80 percent of employers. It's following through. I co-sponsored the nation's strongest property tax cap. Rising property taxes were hurting business. In D.C., last December, we passed an act with 20 different tax relief provisions that helped Long Island businesses.
It's hard for young people to stay on Long Island with rising costs. What policies could be passed on a federal level to keep talent and young people on Long Island? The two biggest challenges preventing a young man or young woman from starting their family here on Long Island are to find a job where they're getting paid enough to make ends meet and to be able to afford their first home so they can pursue the American dream. Anything that any level of government can do to help improve that balance is a step in the right direction. No single bill will solve this. But wherever you can reduce healthcare costs, energy costs, make it easier to pay off student debt. Every level of government can pursue ways to make it easier to create good-paying jobs.
You've endorsed Donald Trump. On what issues do you agree? I do agree with some that are very important to me. Supreme Court vacancies. I do not believe that Supreme Court justices should be legislating from the bench. I'm concerned about having the Supreme Court filled with activist judges in the future. I'm someone who believes that Hillary Clinton should be prosecuted for misconduct that's taken place. But beyond that, the inherent conflicts of interest that exist where there's a global network where you solicit multimillion-dollar donations from people all around the world who want access to the United States government and U.S. policies. And they get that access by donating millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation.
What's your position on Guantanamo Bay? There should be more people in Guantanamo Bay, not less. I don't believe we should increase the amount of Syrian refugees coming to the United States. I believe the program should be paused. We need to strengthen the border and stop illegal immigration. I believe we can do a better job to help the economy and the American worker. I don't believe the implementation of Common Core was the right move.
How would you view Trump as a leader of the military? He has great respect for the talent that's in the military. I would expect him to be surrounding himself with the best leaders of the military to be giving him recommendations on various courses of action. That is how you can be a Hollywood actor now known as one of the greatest presidents of all time in our country. You surround yourself with people who give you great ideas and solutions and recommendations.
What argument would you make for the voters to return you to Congress? It's been a privilege to represent the 1st Congressional District the past 21 months. There have been so many goals we got to the finish line. I know how to work the process. Serving as a member of the majority currently, as well as likely in January, I'll work to get victories for our district.
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Peoples Republic of Bangladesh, Taka 1975
Bangladesh was part of British-India, the British colonial empire on the Indian subcontinent, until 1947. That year the colony became independent and was divided into the predominantly Hindu state of India and the Islamic state of Pakistan. Bengal with its mostly Islamic population was allotted to Pakistan, even though geographically, India lay between them. Additionally there were cultural, linguistical and economical differences between Bengal and Pakistan. Hence Bengal got caught in a long lasting and bloody war of secession against Pakistan. In 1971 the region gained full independence and adopted the name of Bangladesh. As of January 1, 1972, Bangladesh got its own currency, the taka at 100 poisha. The name of taka harked back to the old Sanscrit word "tanka," a medieval Indian silver coin. The taka bears on its obverse the national emblem of Bangladesh, a shapla flower over sinuous lines between paddy ears, tealeaves and four stars. The reverse shows a stylized family.
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The area also houses the last remnants of the once great Gravel Hill – a one-of-a-kind natural phenomenon, unseen anywhere else in the world, which once reigned over the Israeli costal plane; only to be eroded by urban development.
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The developers' expectations, said the court, "had absolutely nothing to do with any right to proprietary".
The Society for Protection of Nature in Israel was pleased with the ruling, but added that despite the hill being registered as a national park for some 25 years, an officials decree to that effect has yet to be made, leaving it vulnerable to real estate threats.
The hill, added the SPNI, has a unique concentration of Iris atropurpurea plants, which seem unable to thrive in other areas of Israel.
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Alzheimer's disease: The forgetting gene
For decades, most researchers ignored the leading genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. That is set to change.
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Over time, Alzheimer's disease drastically shrinks the brain.
One day in 1991, neurologist Warren Strittmatter asked his boss to look at some bewildering data. Strittmatter was studying amyloid-β, the main component of the molecular clumps found in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease. He was hunting for amyloid-binding proteins in the fluid that buffers the brain and spinal cord, and had fished out one called apolipoprotein E (ApoE), which had no obvious connection with the disease.
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Strittmatter's boss, geneticist Allen Roses of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, immediately realized that his colleague had stumbled across something exciting. Two years earlier, the group had identified a genetic association between Alzheimer's and a region of chromosome 19. Roses knew that the gene encoding ApoE was also on chromosome 19. "It was like a lightning bolt," he says. "It changed my life."
In humans, there are three common variants, or alleles, of the APOEgene, numbered 2, 3 and 4. The obvious step, Roses realized, was to find out whether individual APOE alleles influence the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. The variants can be distinguished from one another using a technique called the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). But Roses had little experience with PCR, so he asked the postdocs in his team to test samples from people with the disease and healthy controls. The postdocs refused: they were busy hunting for genes underlying Alzheimer's, and APOE seemed an unlikely candidate. The feeling in the lab, recalls Roses, was that "the chief was off on one of his crazy ideas".
Roses then talked to his wife, Ann Saunders, a mouse geneticist who was skilled at PCR. She had just given birth to their daughter and was on maternity leave, so they struck a deal. "She did the experiments while I held the baby," he says. Within three weeks, they had collected the data that would fuel a series of landmark papers showing that the APOE4 allele is associated with a greatly increased risk of Alzheimer's disease1.
Twenty years on, APOE4 remains the leading genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's, the most common form of dementia (see 'Risky inheritance'). Inheriting one copy of APOE4 raises a person's risk of developing the disease fourfold. With two copies, the risk increases 12-fold. Yet Roses' data were largely criticized or ignored. Within a couple of years, interest in ApoE had dwindled as researchers flocked to study amyloid-β. The handful of labs that continued to pursue ApoE did so in the face of indifference from funding agencies and the neuroscience community, and without the resources needed to validate experimental findings with larger studies.
Today, the function of the ApoE protein in the brain remains mostly unknown. This neglect of such a strong lead has puzzled some outside the Alzheimer's field. At a forum on brain diseases in Frankfurt, Germany, Thomas Bourgeron, an autism researcher at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, voiced his confusion. "If I had a risk factor like that, I'd be hot on its trail."
Source: J. Raber et al. Neurobiol. Aging 25, 641–650 (2004)
But interest in the lipoprotein is picking up, in part because attempts to target amyloid-β have repeatedly disappointed in major clinical trials. Pharmaceutical companies are pulling back from amyloid-based approaches and some academics have begun to question the focus on the molecule. For the first time, researchers are developing drugs aimed at the ApoE4 protein and drawing attention from industry.
"The amyloid hypothesis became such a strong scientific orthodoxy that it began to be accepted on the basis of faith rather than evidence," says Zaven Khachaturian, president of the non-profit campaign Prevent Alzheimer's Disease 2020, and former coordinator of Alzheimer's-related activities at the US National Institutes of Health. Until recently, he says, "no one has stepped back to ask the fundamental question of whether our basic premise about the disease is the correct one".
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Opinions differ as to why Roses' finding was neglected, but many agree that bad timing played a part. In 1991, John Hardy and David Allsop had proposed the 'amyloid cascade hypothesis'. This posits that Alzheimer's disease results from the abnormal build-up of amyloid-β clusters, or plaques, in the brain2. Others rallied around the idea and it has won most of the funding available to the field ever since.
But Roses did not subscribe to that theory. "Amyloid is one of many substances that builds up in plaques as a result of dying cells and atrophy in the brain," he says. "I never did think it was the cause." In saying so, he may have deterred others from investigating a possible ApoE–amyloid link, and inadvertently set up a competition between the two hypotheses for funding. He never got another grant to work on ApoE.
But there were also technical obstacles to ApoE research. The protein is found throughout the body, making it difficult to target the molecule specifically in the brain. And ApoE is bound to fat, so it tends to stick to other molecules in biochemical assays, says Menelas Pangalos, who leads research on small-molecule discovery at AstraZeneca in Macclesfield, UK, and has long had an interest in ApoE.
Working with such proteins requires an intimate understanding of lipid biochemistry. "If you want to study ApoE biology, you really need to devote a laboratory to understanding the techniques," says neurologist David Holtzman of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Holtzman did just that, establishing a separate lab dedicated to developing techniques for handling lipoproteins in the central nervous system.
"No one has stepped back to ask whether our basic premise about the disease is the correct one."
Amyloid was the easier target. Two decades of intensive pursuit have yielded a range of drugs that alter the metabolism of amyloid-β, but these have yet to fulfil expectations. Of the six drugs that were in phase II or III clinical trials in 2012, half have since been dropped because of either safety concerns or lack of effectiveness. This comes against a backdrop of ageing populations, overstretched health-care systems and a dearth of medications for Alzheimer's disease. "The large number of major failed trials in Alzheimer's is quite frightening," says Lennart Mucke, director of the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease at the University of California, San Francisco. "It has really scared off big pharma."
The three remaining drug candidates that target amyloid-β are currently being tested in people with Alzheimer's, as well as in individuals who have a high risk of developing the disease but who have not yet developed symptoms. Imaging studies have shown that the brains of high-risk individuals look and behave differently from controls decades before the onset of Alzheimer's, and long before they start to accumulate amyloid-β or lose grey matter3. The trials will examine whether the drugs prevent or delay the onset of the disease; they are due to wrap up over the next six years. There is a growing sense in the field — among academics and industry representatives alike — that these efforts are the last chance for the amyloid hypothesis. Amid these concerns, the spotlight has swung back to ApoE.
If the prevention trials fail, it will be up to academics to persuade companies back to the table with solid preclinical and early clinical data, says Mucke. He is optimistic that ApoE researchers may soon have that leverage. Despite the obstacles in this area, there is an emerging understanding of how ApoE4 increases risk, which Holtzman's and Mucke's groups have explored through transgenic mice that they have developed to express human forms of ApoE.
The molecule seems to contribute to Alzheimer's through two distinct pathways, one of which is amyloid-dependent. In both animals and humans, ApoE4 strongly promotes amyloid-β deposition in the brain, compared with ApoE3, long considered the 'neutral' form when it comes to Alzheimer's risk. ApoE2, which is considered the protective form, decreases the build-up4. "These are compelling data," says Holtzman.
The other mechanism does not involve amyloid. When neurons are under stress, they make ApoE as part of a repair mechanism. The 'bad' ApoE4 form tends to be broken down into toxic fragments that damage the cell's energy factories — the mitochondria — and alter the cell skeleton.
The relative contribution of these two pathways to Alzheimer's risk is not known, says Holtzman, but he and others think that changing a harmful form of ApoE into a less damaging one might prove a promising therapeutic approach. At the Gladstone, cardiovascular scientist Robert Mahley, working with a team including neuroscientist Yadong Huang, has identified small 'corrector' molecules that modify the structure of ApoE4 protein to one more like that of ApoE3, thereby reducing abnormal fragmentation5.
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In cell culture, low concentrations of these corrector molecules can reduce mitochondrial impairment and neuronal dysfunction6. They are now being tested more rigorously in a range of animal models. If the molecules ultimately prove safe and effective in humans, Mucke foresees a day when doctors will prescribe them for people deemed at risk of Alzheimer's, just as statins are offered to those with high cholesterol and an elevated risk of cardiovascular disease.
Such drugs could also have implications beyond Alzheimer's. "The mitochondrial-impairment hypothesis provides a pretty logical and parsimonious explanation for why ApoE4 does bad things," says Mucke, "not only in the context of Alzheimer's, but maybe also in other diseases." There is evidence that it may be a risk factor in Parkinson's disease and epilepsy. It is also associated with an increased risk of a poor outcome after brain injury, and more rapid progression of untreated HIV infection. Fifteen biotechnology companies are already collaborating with the Gladstone to develop these and similar drugs.
Despite his inability to get grants, Roses never gave up on ApoE. But a few years after his group discovered the link between ApoE and Alzheimer's, he wearied of the constant battles for funding. He left academia and spent ten years in industry — where he continued to work on ApoE, among other things — before returning to Duke in 2008.
In 2009, his group described a stretch of non-coding DNA in a gene called TOMM40 that sits next toAPOE on chromosome 19. This stretch of DNA, known by the shorthand 523, varies in length. The length of 523 can determine the extent to which TOMM40 and APOE are expressed7.
The discovery was important, Roses says, because the protein encoded by TOMM40, called Tom40, is crucial to healthy mitochondria. Tom40 forms a channel in the outer mitochondrial membrane that is used to import proteins. Without these proteins, mitochondria cannot divide as they should throughout a cell's life. "It's a big effect that's been known about for a decade," says Roses, "But it's not well-known in the Alzheimer's field."
Roses went on to suggest that 523 could be exploited to develop therapies and improved tests for Alzheimer's risk. Most people will develop Alzheimer's if they live long enough, but only about 25% of people carry an APOE4 allele. As a result, a prognostic test for APOE4 will only ever be partially informative. But genotyping both APOE and TOMM40 could provide information about a wider swathe of the population, Roses says. His group has found, for example, that APOE3 — by far the most common APOE allele in humans — is usually inherited either with a short or a very long 523 tract. In those who inherit two APOE3 alleles, age of onset differs depending on which combination of the two 523 variants they also inherit.
Other labs have found evidence supporting Roses' hypotheses, but some attempts to replicate hisTOMM40 findings have failed. In 2012, Hardy, now at University College London, and a colleague, geneticist Rita Guerreiro, wrote an editorial8 in which they argued that TOMM40 did not independently affect Alzheimer's risk.
Roses' faith in his hypothesis has not wavered: he believes he has a sound mechanistic explanation for his findings. And he says that the genome-wide studies that failed to reproduce his results lacked sufficient power to reveal the association between TOMM40 and Alzheimer's disease. Khachaturian says a proper test of Roses' findings — using Roses' methods in a larger cohort of patients — has not yet been done.
Roses hopes to soon be able to back up his findings with more clinical data and has launched a company called Zinfandel Pharmaceuticals in Durham, fuelled in part by his own funds. Along with the Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda, based in Osaka, Zinfandel is currently funding a phase III trial, called TOMMORROW, that will put his ideas to the test. TOMMORROW is expected to run for about 5 years and will recruit close to 6,000 healthy, elderly individuals. It will evaluate a risk-assessment algorithm based on age, APOE and TOMM40.
The trial will also investigate whether a low dose of a drug called pioglitazone — already approved at much higher doses for certain patients with type 2 diabetes — can delay disease onset in those individuals deemed by the algorithm to be at high risk of Alzheimer's. Evidence from animal and small-scale human studies suggests that pioglitazone may prevent or reverse Alzheimer's-related pathology and symptoms9. Roses thinks it may do so by stimulating mitochondria to divide.
The ongoing trials could have major consequences even without yielding a cure: research has shown that an intervention that could delay the onset of Alzheimer's by just 2 years would result, 50 years later, in nearly 2 million fewer cases of the disease in the United States than projected otherwise10. And the results coming in over the next few years could force researchers to re-evaluate their understanding of dementia. It is time it was recognized for what it is, says Khachaturian: a failure of complex, interacting physiological systems. Looking at any one of these systems — even those involving ApoE4 — in isolation is unlikely to fully explain changes in behaviour. "The field is going to recognize the limitations of current approaches and step back," he says. "And if we're honest with ourselves, we'll start forging new directions."
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Once upon a time, a wide-eyed, enthusiastic student just like yourself – OK, it was you. You entered university, having put countless hours of thought, research, and consideration into just the right choice of both university and course of study. It was a whirlwind of new experiences.
Books were purchased, lecturers were met, friends were made. And after a very short period of time, as you settled into your new routine, one thing became crystal clear.
All of the aforementioned thought, research, and consideration had been completely and utterly… worthless.
You chose the wrong course!
Maybe it was the wrong university!!
The icy fist of panic tightens its grip on your formerly joyous little heart.
Sound familiar? If so, resist that icy fist. While it's not the most pleasant of situations to be in, it's certainly not unusual. Whether you underestimated the workload or misjudged the content of the course, you needn't look on the next three or more years of your life as an inescapable waste of time. There are things to be done to remedy the situation.
Here are a few tips for righting the ship.
The world is not ending. Your life is not at stake. The most severe consequence of this unpleasant realisation is that you may be required to take a break from school for a year while you re-group and change course.
I can feel you clenching at the mere mention of that.
Going to university is not a sprint to the finish line. Though you may feel pressured to complete your course of study in the "standard" amount of time, once you've completed that course, it makes no difference whether you did it in one, three, or 6 years. What's most important is that you're following the right course for you, and a gap year can be used in a variety of ways that could easily change it from a seeming detriment to an asset.
You can't solve a problem if you don't know what it is, and there are many possibilities to consider as to why you might feel you've taken a wrong turn.
Your parents went there. Your friends are going there. It looks good on a resume. People are impressed that you were accepted. There are many reasons to choose a University that have nothing to do with whether or not it's the right place for you. Perhaps you've chosen the perfect course of study, but the wrong place in which to complete it.
What are some reasons a university might be wrong for you? It could be anything from not getting on well with the other students to feeling like an outcast due to race or social status to an atmosphere that clashes with your sensibilities – it's conservative and you're liberal, or the other way around, for example. Or perhaps they're too focused on the outcome of education without paying adequate attention to the process of learning. Whatever the reason, if the university is the problem, it's important to know why so that you don't make the same mistake twice.
Moving on to University can be a major life change, and our psyches don't always play well with others in the midst of such events. If you've examined everything else, and still can't quite grasp what it is that's bothering you, you might take a look at your psychological well-being. It's not unexpected that such a big change might lead to some level of anxiety or depression. A visit to the doctor may be the first step you need to address these issues and realise you've been right where you belong after all.
Universities are not lion's dens into which you're unceremoniously tossed and expected to fend for yourself. It is expected that issues like yours and countless others will arise. Dropping out isn't a good result for anyone – the student loses out on higher education, and the university's statistics take a hit for each student lost. That's why there are invariably multiple avenues to follow for assistance, whatever the issue.
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Ninety-nine percent of the time, you'll encounter sympathetic, supportive people with just the answers you seek. And if they don't have the answers, chances are they know who does.
There's a good reason why it's important to determine exactly where your problem lies. Depending on the answer, the difficulty of your solution can vary greatly.
If you've simply chosen the wrong course of study, the simplest solution is to choose another that better suits you. While that may seem easier said than done, it's probably not as difficult as you might think. Ideally, a university would much rather that everyone make a choice and stick with it, they know that that's not a realistic expectation, and statistically speaking, they'd much rather help you change course than lose you altogether. The ease with which that can be accomplished can depend on a variety of factors, including timing and course competitiveness.
This one's simple. The sooner you recognise the problem, the better the likelihood of a relatively painless transfer. If you've been at it for over four weeks, it's much less likely that you'll be able to transfer directly without taking a year off. If it's only been one or two weeks, though, you're much more likely to be able to transfer without a break. While it's true that a gap year can end up being a quite positive experience, headaches and stress levels can be reduced greatly by avoiding that necessity.
This one's also straightforward. If you're transferring from Advanced Boredom Studies to Extreme Awesomeness Studies, you may have a harder time getting in on short notice than if you're going the other way around.
But suppose you transfer to a new course and then decide you're still not in the right place? This is another time when it's good to put that student support staff to work. They're not only there to help you identify problems, they're there to help you solve them. They can help counsel you as you settle on a new course of study, and often they'll even arrange for you to attend lectures from other courses to help determine what's right for you.
The point here is that changing courses, as opposed to changing Universities, is always going to be cheaper, easier, and much less of a bureaucratic nightmare.
If you're having trouble putting your finger on exactly what the problem is, your best course of action may be to just get away. Remove yourself from the environment of the university. This can mean leaving altogether, but unless you're sure that the university is the problem, that's probably not the best choice. What you might need to do instead is to separate your worlds. Think of the university as the place you go to learn, and find other places to plant your personal and social life.
You might find a new place to live farther away from the halls of academia where not all of the other residents are fellow students. This is something that's not uncommon among older students, but it can seem a novel concept their younger counterparts. The usual university experience includes a strong social component, and you certainly needn't give that up altogether unless you simply find yourself not at all getting on with your schoolmates. What can be helpful, though is to maintain a well-defined section of your life that is not defined by your identity as a student.
If you're not ready for a complete change of schools, however, and the partial separation mentioned above doesn't seem enough, there are also more formal ways to get some time away to reassess your situation. Options like a year spent abroad or in industry can often be just what's needed to give yourself some distance and time to regroup. It will generally lengthen your studies by an additional year, but it's certainly not time wasted, and most importantly it can help you clarify exactly how you wish to proceed with your education.
Just because you've chosen a particular course that you're no longer sure about doesn't mean you're physically shackled and confined to a single lecture hall. Often what's happened is that things were narrowed down to two paths, and now you wish you'd taken a left turn instead of a right.
Let's say for the sake of argument that your choices came down to either Biology or Chemistry. While they are different courses, it's important to note that there is a fair amount of overlap between the two when it comes to specific modules that can be taken. While it's true that your early studies may be restricted to a proscribed path specific to your course, in later years of your studies you'll have more freedom to choose modules, and there are many that are applicable to both Biology and Chemistry.
Focusing on the places where your two interests connect and choosing your modules accordingly can often give you the best of both worlds. You'll avoid the headache, expense, and inconvenience of changing course completely, and quite possibly widen your options for employment upon completion of your degree as well.
There are countless jobs waiting out there that can be landed with any degree.
Even so-called "unprofitable degrees" can open doors to a variety of great careers.
But if you're still despairing, take the advice of Walt Disney and "keep moving forward." It's important to realise that university education doesn't necessarily end with an undergraduate degree. A growing percentage of people are opting now to pursue an advanced degree upon completing their undergraduate studies, and conversion courses are also available to facilitate transition into another profession. Humans should really never stop learning, and more education can really only serve to broaden your employment options down the road.
So, if you've suddenly realised that your chosen degree is not the one for you, regardless of where you are in your studies, there are still a wide variety of paths you can follow. Take a breath. Assess your options. And remember that life is a journey, not a destination.


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The Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR): an Historical Analysis Between US and Europe
Resultados resumidos
CAT-CAM
Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 654994
Fecha de inicio 1 Septiembre 2016
Fecha de finalización 31 Agosto 2019
Financiado con arreglo a
H2020-EU.1.3.2.
Presupuesto general € 262 269
Aportación de la UE € 262 269
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REVISTA RESEARCH*EU
Una investigación pionera de la Unión Europea ahonda en el VIH
N.º 97, NOVIEMBRE 2020
Periodic Reporting for period 2 - CAT-CAM (The Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR): an Historical Analysis Between US and Europe)
Período documentado: 2018-09-01 hasta 2019-08-31
Resumen del contexto y de los objetivos generales del proyecto
Globalization, the interaction between different religious cultures through migratory flux and the formation of new global political and economic equilibria, have resulted in the blurring of traditional borders between Christian confessions and their relationship with societies. New spiritual and religious forms, like Pentecostalism and new charismatic movements, are profoundly transforming Christianity both in Europe and in the rest of the world. The Catholic Charismatic Renewal is one of the Catholic responses to all these changes, insomuch as today it counts more than 120 million followers worldwide. Studying the North American and European origins of the Catholic Charismatic movement is crucial to better understand what is going on in terms of religion, culture, and society according to a global perspective which shows how the Christian world is becoming more pentecostalist and charismatic. This study focusses on the analysis of primary sources concerning the origin of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR) in the United States and its first developments in Europe and other continents. The project aims at harmonizing archival material, "first-hand" historiographical, sociological and theological texts on the CCR, and oral sources. The expected results of the project were fully achieved. The first objective was to analyze the initial features and rapid growth of the CCR in the North American context and consequently the development of the movement in Europe. Early CCR leaders were North American and were therefore at home in molding the movement as a North American renewal. Over time this North American influence was apparent in the rest of the renewal as well but in some instances, it contrasted with other local visions of the movement. The second objective of the project was to investigate the reaction of the Catholic Church hierarchy to the CCR. While the Catholic hierarchy initially distanced itself, this approach was later superseded by the legitimization of the movement, thanks to the work of a number of theologians and the ecclesiastical hierarchy who located the movement's religious practices within the tradition of the church. Problematize the issue of gender within the CCR was the third objective. Although this topic wasn't at the center of the historical narrative of the movement, it played an important role in defining the Catholic charismatic identity since the beginning. In fact, the predominance of males among Charismatic lay leaders and certain charismatic literature which assigned only specific roles to women costed strong criticism among detractors.
The US-Italy mobility offered by the outgoing phase has been beneficial because enabled the fellow to move and interact seamlessly and to work with an excellent network built between the partner organization (University of Notre Dame) and the host institution (Ca' Foscari University of Venice).
Trabajo realizado desde el comienzo del proyecto hasta el final del período abarcado por el informe y los principales resultados hasta la fecha
"The first part of the project research concerned the gathering of the primary sources, their analysis, and the completion of the secondary literature consultation on the North American origins of the CCR. That was achieved through the consultation of the Notre Dame library, the Notre Dame Archives, together with other private and diocesan archives located in Indiana and Michigan as well. This research resulted in the finding that the CCR played a key role in shaping North American Catholicism and eventually the Catholic Church as a whole. Collected oral testimonies enriched the reconstruction of events and filled a few gaps in it. Moreover, during the outgoing phase inspiring training and workshops have been attended to acquire skills in teaching and writing. The second phase of the project focused on the analysis of the CCR's further developments in Europe, consulting and collecting material at European libraries and archives such the archdiocesan archives in Malines (Belgium) and the ICCRS (International Catholic Charismatic Renewal Service) archives in Rome. As a result of this archival research, CAT-CAM opens up a new interpretive perspective for the understanding of the Catholic charismatic movement as an important lens through which interpreting the developments of the Catholic Church as a whole. CAT-CAM results are in two gold open access publications: ""The Origins of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR) in the United States: Early Developments in Indiana and Michigan"" in "Studies in World Christianity" and ""The origins of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in the United States: the experience at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana"", chapter 7 within the book "Charismatic Renewal in Europe and the United States since 1950" (Brill). The main outcome of the action – a monograph entitled A new Pentecost: How the Catholic Charismatic Movement Made the Church Global – is currently in progress. Participation in international conferences and seminars were an important part of the dissemination activities. During the 2018-2019 academic year in a course entitled History of North American Christianity in Contemporary Era two classes were entirely dedicated to the Catholic charismatic movement, exploiting CAT-CAM research results. Academia.edu and Facebook's personal page has been used to publicize conferences and meetings."
Avances que van más allá del estado de la técnica e impacto potencial esperado (incluida la repercusión socioeconómica y las implicaciones sociales más amplias del proyecto hasta la fecha)
The academic historiography of Catholic Charismatic Renewal has not properly taken into account the development of the early organizational structures of the movement and the reaction of the ecclesiastical authorities toward it. Although popular 'insider' historical works offer insights, these can be considered as primary sources rather than historiographical material. Also, US historians have paid little attention to the origin of the Catholic charismatic movement, and their research has been focused chiefly on its impact on American Catholic laity. Certainly the development of lay spirituality and lay interaction with social structures in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s forms an essential background to the rise of a charismatic spirituality among Catholics, but a much wider range of factors was involved. The origins of the CCR can be traced to Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, PA), in 1967, when two Catholics were baptized in the Holy Spirit. The movement soon spread to the University of Notre Dame (South Bend, IN), Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI), and the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI). The early institutional forms of the CCR played a key role in defining the initial patterns of its leadership and organization, which eventually influenced the renewal in the rest of the world. The research indeed sheds light on the North American part of the story, recognizing how deep it was this impact in the initial development of the movement. Very soon the CCR spread to Europe. The relationships between North American, European charismatic leaders, and other international leaders showed the importance of the charismatic movement in understanding the transformation of Catholicism over the last few decades around the world. In fact, this phenomenon is part of a wider process of charismatization/pentecostalization of Christianity as a whole. CAT-CAM involved the study of an important Christian religious phenomenon such as the Catholic charismatic that is extremely valuable in better understanding present global changes in terms of religion and faith, and that could have a profound impact on the perception of the European identity.
Charismatic conference Mass at the Lourdes Grotto, University of Notre Dame (Spring 1968?)
Holy Cross Hall at University of Notre Dame, 1968 or 1969. Location of charismatics first meetings
"Seminar at Ca' Foscari University ""Cattolicesimo globale"""
Fall 1969, University of Notre Dame.Fr. O'Connor is saying Mass in the basement chapel of True House
Final conference at Ca' Foscari Univerisity of Venice
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Duquesne Weekend at The Ark and The Dove Retreat Center, Pittsburgh, 1967
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Lone Wolf Terrorists
Impulsive terrorism by a few is a counterterrorism challenge
Bruce Riedel	02 May 2013
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The terrible attack on the Boston Marathon is the most vivid and violent demonstration of terrorism confronting the United States and its allies today. Instead of large, complex plots hatched by organized jihadist terror gangs abroad, the new challenge is homegrown Muslim extremists who use the internet to self-radicalize and learn how to build bombs and create chaos by studying Al Qaeda texts online.
Much remains unknown about the two brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who allegedly built the bombs that exploded near the finish line of the marathon and killed three and wounded more than 200 on April 15. Experience shows that it's dangerous to draw too many conclusions about a terror plot until the investigation is finished, but a preliminary judgment or two can be made about the Boston case.
The surviving terrorist, Dzhokhar, has reportedly told investigators that he and his brother were not part of an organized terror group like Al Qaeda or a broader conspiracy in the United States and that they decided to attack the marathon only a week or so before the event. They then decided to drive to New York City and carry out another attack in Times Square as a follow-up. The police stopped them before they got out of Boston, killing Tamerlan and capturing Dzhokhar.
The two reportedly learned how to build their bombs from an internet magazine produced by Al Qaeda called Inspire, the brainchild of an American citizen of Yemeni origin, Anwar al Awlaki, killed in a 2011 drone strike in Yemen. They also listened to tapes of Awlaki's sermons on jihad, available on the internet. The older brother, Tamerlan, travelled to Russia last year, and his activities there remain largely a mystery. He may have had contact with the Chechen jihadist movement which has longstanding ties to Al Qaeda and especially its leader, Ayman al Zawahiri, who travelled there in the 1990s.
Enough is not known so far, but the plot appears to involve radicalized, angry, young Muslim men who found ideological and practical advice on the internet from Al Qaeda, but don't belong to the organization. Al Qaeda will likely adopt them as "heroes" of the global jihad. They and their evil deed fit perfectly with Al Qaeda's narrative— urging Muslims around the world to kill Americans, men, women and children since 1998 and glorifying any who do so as a "knight of the prophet," fighting holy war.
In the last several years Al Qaeda has publicly urged Muslims in America and other western countries to act spontaneously like the Tsarnaev brothers. The Palestinian American Army Major Nidal Malik Hassan who killed 13 of his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009 has since been lauded by Al Qaeda for his actions and has been listed in Inspire as a role model for others. A Pakistani American, Faisal Shahzad, who put a car bomb in Times Square in May 2010 has become an Al Qaeda knight. The French Algerian Mohammed Merah who killed seven in Toulouse, France, in 2012 has also been lauded since as a jihadist star. Hassan and Shahzad have said they were inspired by Awlaki's sermons and articles to carry out their attacks.
Other homegrown plots have been less successful, but also roughly fit the pattern. An Afghan American Najibullah Zazi and two other Muslim Americans plotted to attack the New York City subway system on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, but were arrested before they could strike. They wanted to replicate in New York what other jihadists with Al Qaeda sympathies had done in Madrid in 2003 and London in 2005.
Some of these other plots had more interaction with the Al Qaeda core leadership in Pakistan than what's been reported so far in the Boston case. Shahzad, Zazi and the European metro bombers all spent some time in Pakistan and received training in explosives.
Small plots like the Boston operation are extremely difficult to uncover and penetrate by the counterterrorism security and intelligence community. The number of plotters is small, and the gestation period from target selection to attack can be very short, probably only a week or so in Boston and maybe only a few hours at Fort Hood. The short window of opportunity makes such conspiracies near impossible to detect.
The radicalization process may take much longer, perhaps in the Boston case more than a year. Russian authorities asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to check on Tamerlan before he visited Russia in 2012, suggesting they had already detected his anger over the Russian occupation of his ancestral homeland.
But reading jihadist literature is not a crime nor is being angry at the brutal Russian wars against Chechnya. Moscow has a history of atrocious human rights violations in Chechnya under the tsars, commissars and Vladimir Putin. It's not abnormal for young Chechens studying their history to be radical.
So for the counterterrorist community, the issue is not whether an individual is "radical" or "extremist," but whether they are violent and breaking the law. It's likely that the prospective terrorist will hide the transition from radical to violent from all around him. The younger brother in Boston kept attending university classes after the marathon attacks precisely to avoid attracting attention.
Larger foreign-directed plots are much more susceptible to penetration and discovery. The 9/11 plot gestated over at least two years and involved 19 terrorists entering the United States from abroad and living in several locations for months, travelling inside the country and even outside to meet with other conspirators in Spain. The plot was supported by cells in Hamburg, Abu Dhabi, Karachi and the Al Qaeda core leadership in Kandahar. The attacks in 2001 should have been detected, and the failure to do so is rightly an intelligence failure greater than Pearl Harbor.
The largest Al Qaeda plot since 9/11, a plot to simultaneously blow up eight or more jumbo jets en route from London to cities in the United States and Canada to mark the fifth anniversary of 9/11 in 2006, was detected because of its complexity and size. Phil Mudd, then deputy director of the CIA's Counter Terrorism Center, has said that it was the most dangerous plot against the West ever, more dangerous than 9/11, but built around a simple explosive device that could be smuggled on airplanes in soft drinks. The CIA and MI6 got wind of the plot involving more than a dozen British citizens of Pakistani origin led by a Manchester-born man named Rashid Rauf, the plot's Al Qaeda mastermind. Like 9/11, there were many places to penetrate the plot and a gestation period of months. It was an intelligence success.
Homegrown terrorism is nothing new in the United States. It goes back to at least John Brown, a bitter opponent to slavery who died in a raid on a federal armoury in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, in 1859.Such insurrection is a challenge in a democracy that values civil liberty— and even harder in a country awash in guns. There is no reason for panic, but also no place for complacency. An alert community can be the first line of defense, as happened this spring in Canada when a Muslim cleric alerted the police about a plot to derail trains. The difficult job of counterterrorism has a long future.
Bruce Riedel is the Director of the Intelligence Project at the Brookings Institution His most recent books is Avoiding Armageddon: America, India and Pakistan to the Brink and Back. His Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America and the Future of the Global Jihad, was released in paperback this year. Rights:Copyright © 2013 Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. YaleGlobal Online
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by Alan Rapp on April 1, 2013
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Title: Zero Dark Thirty
Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Marc Boal's examination of one woman's 10 year odyssey to track down Osama bin Laden is an amazing piece of filmmaking that earned the top spot on my list of the Best Movies of 2012. Jessica Chastain stars as the increasingly obsessed CIA agent who isn't lacking in self-confidence or knowledge but could use better people skills. Plucked from high school after 9/11 the movie follows Maya's mission to find the illusive courier Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti (Tushaar Mehra) who she is certain will lead back to bin Laden.
Bigelow delivers a hard look at the successes and failures of the operation which finally bore fruit thanks to Maya's (Chastian) dogged determinism. The movie doesn't shy away from controversial issues such using torture to extract information, but it neither endorses or condemns the methods used over the decade long search for the man responsible for the attacks on 9/11.
by Alan Rapp on January 11, 2013
The Best Movie of 2012
Three years ago director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Marc Boal collaborated on The Hurt Locker which won them both individual Academy Awards as well as taking home the coveted Oscar for Best Picture. With Zero Dark Thirty the pair reunite to examine the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden.
The project was not with pitfalls or controversy. Bigelow and Boal were about to start filming an entirely different script when news hit that American forces had found and killed the man responsible for the attacks on 9/11. Scrapping their initial project, Bigelow and Boal refocused to examine the work that went in to finding America's most wanted.
The film's detractors (almost none of whom have seen the film) attack it for what some believe is a pro-torture stance, the filmmakers access to classified information surrounding the search for bin Laden, and some have even argued against what they (wrongfully) believe is a pro-Obama propaganda piece. None of these allegations are true. What is true, however, is Zero Dark Thirty is the best movie of 2012.
From A to Z – The Top Ten Movies of 2012
by Alan Rapp on December 28, 2012
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2012 turned out to be a pretty darn good year at the movies. There were two films which I gave perfect scores to this year, one of which the majority of the country won't be seeing until early next year. I'm breaking my own rule of including it on the list, but we'll get to that in a moment. Between these two films, which naturally open and close the list (as it's presented alphabetically), are eight other films rounding out the class of 2012.
Cutting down my list to ten means I need to speak for a moment on films that barely missed the cut. John Carter was the year's most under-appreciated film, The Cabin in the Woods turned the horror genre on its ear, Ang Lee delivered an amazing journey with Life of Pi, Wreck-It Ralph was this year's best animated feature, Safety Not Guaranteed was a terrific little sci-fi flick almost no one saw, and Moonrise Kingdom was director Wes Anderson's best film since The Royal Tenenbaums.
Enough with what didn't make the list, let's get down to discussing what did:
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#SCAMPAIGN
Is Donald Trump's presidential bid nothing more than a "scampaign"?
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Nonetheless, Trump continues to collect $75 to $1,000 donations from retirees, housewives, warehouse workers, and car dealership owners, through the Great America PAC and his own campaign.
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Trump making payments from his campaign's funds to his own companies is nothing new—as Quartz wrote last December, about 25% of his campaign payments went to Trump-owned companies. But the most recent filings seem to have hit a nerve, perhaps because the campaign is looking shambolic, including the recent loss of its manager.
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