Peter works for the Local Authority's People Directorate where he manages a service dealing with challenging school issues surrounding children, their parents and carers and works closely with head teachers and other governing bodies across the city. He is a very experienced governor, a Local Leader of Governance, and has of a breadth of experience of many governance issues. He is also Chair of Governors at a Sheffield Community Primary School. His particular areas of expertise are in child protection procedures, behaviour, inclusion, SEN, attendance and a wide range of difficult pupil issues. He is passionate about education and about developing the life chances and opportunities for all children and young people. Peter has a Doctorate in Education and away from work and school is keen to keep abreast of educational research and a wide range of educational issues.
Verity has an extensive background in the NHS. Currently she works in Health Emergency Planning with a particular expertise in leadership in a crisis and psychosocial care of people involved in emergencies and first response. She is active in Scouting where she has been both a Trustee and a leader. Verity has previously been an elected Parent Governor at a primary school and an LA appointed Governor at a secondary school – both in Reading, where she lived previously. She is married with three adult children and is keen to promote all that Sheffield has to offer including KES. She is leading the work of the Governor's Fundraising Group.
Having graduated from Manchester, Colin has had an extensive career in the management of the steel industry. This includes Manufacturing Director at Corus Engineering Steels, President and CEO of Plates in Tuscaloosa, US, Director at Scunthorpe Cast Products, and Managing Director at Teesside Cast Products, where he reached an agreement with an international customer consortium to secure the future of the site, and as Director of Specialised Products, covering Rotherham and Stocksbridge, and then Site Director for the Stocksbridge site.
Colin retired in 2009 and maintains his involvement in the voluntary sector. He was the Director of a local Nursery and formerly a Trustee at Weston Park Hospital Cancer Charity. Colin is Chair of Governors of Poolsbrook and Barrow Hill Primary Schools in Derbyshire. He and his wife volunteer at an Over 60s Lunches Club . He is married with two adult children, and interests include football, motorsports, cycling, walking and politics. His interest in grass roots football includes being an independent disciplinary panel member with the Sheffield FA as well as writing for an on-line Non-League football website.
Barbara was an NHS Chief Executive, running mental health, learning disabilities and community services, and latterly leading on workforce planning and development. Her core skill is in developing people, with many of her close colleagues going on to become Chief Executives themselves. Since her retirement she has become a foster parent and through this she works closely with Sheffield Council's Children's and psychology services; MAPS.
She currently chairs the Cavendish Learning Trust in Derbyshire. She loves spread sheets, is actively involved in mentoring and coaching and has a good understanding of the welfare system. She is available during the school day with a bit of notice. She is leading the working group on volunteering in School.
Heather started as a parent governor with King Edward's July 2017. All 3 of her children have attended the School. She has previously served for 13 years on the Governing Body of Westways Primary School, where she held a number of roles including that of Chair of Governors for 7 years. Her particular interests are in teaching and learning outcomes, governance, and engagement with the wider school community. She currently works full-time in project management for Sheffield City Council, where she has also held responsibility for issues around affordable warmth and the interface between housing and health. She enjoys working with our students, staff, parents and fellow Governors as we take on all the opportunities and challenges of the coming years.
Michael Williams is Head of English/ He has taught at King Edward's for over 18 years, was a year leader for six years, then the ITT mentor for English for four years, and then the School Training Manager. He has held the post of Head of English for two years. He finds teaching at this School very rewarding due to its great diversity and levels of achievement. He greatly values our treasured history which is unique in the region and only adds, in his view, to the flavour of the school, as well as underpinning our excellence in Post-16 provision within the City. He believes that the School is a truly remarkable environment in which to work and learn, and hopes to represent the staff's vision of this in fulfilling his role as Teacher Governor.
Clare joined the School in January 2017 and then the Governing Body in December of that year. She graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2002 having studied French and Economics and spent her year abroad at the renowned École Supérieure de Commerce, Business School in Bordeaux. Since University, she has also gained A Level Spanish and is currently studying for an MA in Education. She manages the Adult Evening Class Programme and oversee residential visits abroad. She also teaches French as part of the School's Adult Evening Class Programme. As Language College Project Manager, she leads on projects which support language learning across all key stages, including a city-wide project to support community language accreditation. Clare is a member of the working group on Fundraising in School.
Samantha is a graduate of the University of Sheffield having obtained an honours degree in Social Policy and Criminology, Samantha works at South Yorkshire Housing Association (SYHA). She has a background in Human Resources and has recently completed her MA in Human Resource Management.
Sarah is a solicitor having qualified in. She worked in criminal practice until 2016 and currently teaches Level 3 and 6 law modules at The Sheffield College.
Anna is a former pupil of the School. She went on to study Geography at the University of Bristol and then completed a MSc in Environmental Policy at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She currently works in public transport as a Project Manager responsible for delivering cycle infrastructure on behalf of Transport for Greater Manchester. Before joining Transport for Greater Manchester, Anna fulfilled a similar role for Transport for London where she had an active role in promoting the greater engagement of women in the transport and engineering sectors.
William moved to Sheffield initially in 1979. He was brought up opposite the Upper School but, sadly, did not actually attend it. Having left Liverpool University with a degree in archaeology, he converted to law and practised in criminal law in Leeds, running his own defence firm. Since 2009, he has worked in Guernsey dealing with corruption and money laundering prosecutions. With 2 daughters at school next door to each other (Tapton and the Lower School), he is keen to help out in any way he can, having returned to live in Sheffield during 2016 after a 28 year absence. Will is a member of the working group on Fundraising in School.
Mike is a Senior Lecturer in Information Systems within the Department of Computing at Sheffield Hallam University. He has designed and delivered a number of programmes aimed at developing employability in undergraduate students across all three years of the degree experience and recently secured accreditation for Sheffield Hallam University to recommend placement students to be entered on to the Register of IT Technicians maintained by the British Computer Society. He has maintained close links with the BCS as he values the effort it is making to professionalise the work of IT practitioners. His particular are of expertise employability and he has been contributing this to the working group on this topic within School.
Sarah has a child at the School. She is herself a teacher of French and English as an additional language and she specialises in the use of technology to support learning and teaching. She has worked across the public and private sectors both in the UK and the US and is now working as an independent consultant, advising and training schools to develop creative strategies for using IT, social media and digital tools.
An expert in E safety, she is also a STEM ambassador, particularly keen to encourage girls in technology courses and careers. Sarah is passionate about education and about developing the life chances and opportunities for all children and young people, whether that is through the curriculum, music, the arts, community projects or sport.
Tzameret moved to the UK 2 years ago, settling in Sheffield. She has a PhD in Economics. She has previously lived in Australia and also worked as a Senior Researcher at the Technion University in Israel, working on government policy for innovation. She is now a Senior Research and Enterprise Associate at Loughborough University, working in the School of Business & Economics. Her area of expertise is the economic impact of innovation, and in particular public-private collaboration to foster innovation. Tzameret wishes to contribute her knowledge and experience to enable and promote the continued success of the School in engaging with external stakeholders, in order to inspire students to make good choices for their future, with a particular focus on STEM subjects. Tzameret is a member of the working groups on Employability and Fundraising in School.
She has 3 children, one of whom is now studying A Levels at the School. She also acted as Treasurer for her local school's Parent Teacher Association.
She previously lived in Sydney, Australia for 5 years, where she participated in several Innovation Policy Round-tables, as well as consulting for the Department of Industry in New South Wales. She also acted as Treasurer for her local school's Parent Teacher Association.
Prior to moving to Sheffield, Tzameret was a Senior Researcher at the Technion University in Israel, working on government policy for innovation.
Tzameret wishes to contribute her knowledge and experience to enable and promote the continued success of KES in engaging with external stakeholders, in order to inspire students to make good choices for their future, with a particular focus on STEM subjects.
Honey Smith works part time as a GP in East Sheffield and also as a sexual health doctor and trainer in Chesterfield, alongside teaching medical students. She also has an interest in Climate Change and Sustainability and hopes to work with the school on projects to raise environmental awareness. She has 4 children, 2 of whom are still at the School. She is a member of the School's Fundraising Group.
Kate is a parent of a student at the School. She is very glad that her daughter attends, as she has seen her become an independent and engaged learner who enjoys what she does, most of the time, at School. Kate herself has taught for 25 years in a range of different secondary schools in various localities including inner city . outer London and Sheffield. Currently she is director of technology and computing at Tibshelf Community School where she is responsible for most of the Progress 8 Bucket 3 vocational focus subjects. She was a governor for eight years at a nursery and infant school where she was variously chair and a member of the finance, curriculum and safeguarding groups. She believes in comprehensive education and equal access for all students. Kate is a member of the working group on Fundraising in School.


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April 25, 2019 Sutton by J. R. Moehringer
Presented by Mary Ann
A "non-fiction novel" that takes us far beyond Willie Sutton's clever one-liners about banks and deeply into his life. Born in Irish Town in Brooklyn, Willie never quite fit into his own family. Willie was smart and sensitive but came of age during some parlous economic times and considered banks and bankers the symptom of life as a rigged game. Moehringer also depicts Willie as a hopeless romantic who falls deeply in love with Bess Endner, daughter of a rich shipyard owner. After...a robbery at the shipyard, abetted by Bess, Willie and his cronies are caught and sentenced to probation, and thus begins a life on the outside of social respectability. By the 1930s, Willie is the most famous bank robber in the country, known in part for his gentility…..he's incarcerated for many years, but he ironically becomes something of a folk hero for breaking out of several prisons. His final release, at Christmas in 1969, following a 17-year stretch in the slammer, has him retracing his past in the company of a reporter and photographer. Moehringer cleverly presents the antiphonal voices of Willie in the present (i.e., at the time of his release) and Willie in the past to give a rich accounting of his life,... A captivating and absorbing read. (From Kirkus Star Reviews Sept. 1st, 2012)
May 23, 2019 Women in Sunlight by Frances Mayes
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"Frances Mayes shines with new novel about Tuscany and friendship"
Frances Mayes is back under the Tuscan sun, and the forecast for readers is bright. The author of the best-selling 1996 mem-moir Under the Tuscan Sun brings THE MAGIC OF Tuscany to life once again in her new novel, intertwining the experiences of five American expats into one story of loss, courage, healing and renewal. Women in Sunlight (**** out of four) follows a trio of Southerners (ages 59, 64, and 69) from orientation at a retirement community to a leap-of-faith escape to Italy, through the eyes of their new neighbor, Kit Raines….Each visiting woman is moving on from personal tragedy...As each woman learns she's not too old for new dreams, the only question left is whether a fantasy in a foreign country can last forever. Italy isn't the only place where the sun shines, but here it illuminates what's truly important for these appealing characters, as they "va & torna," go and return. (From USA TODAY, April 9, 2018)
June 27, 2019 Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff
Presented by Kathy N.
There are some stories that are impossible to get out of your head once you've finished reading them. Pam Jenoff's The Lost Girls of Paris is one of those stories. Told from three different perspectives across a couple of different timelines, The Lost Girls of Paris shines a light on the little-known experiences of British SOE agents who operated in Nazi-occupied areas during World War II. … Regardless of the accuracy of the events described in The Lost Girls of Paris, there's no denying that this is a powerful novel of love, loss, and duty. The stories of these three fierce women are woven together beautifully and effortlessly. While some of the things they faced or uncovered were difficult to read, I had a hard time putting this book down…. If you're a fan of stories of underappreciated women doing the unthinkable, novels set around World War II, or historical fiction, you're bound to be enthralled by Pam Jenoff's The Lost Girls of Paris. (From Hypable Review by Danielle Zimmerman Feb. 4, 2019)
July 25, 2019 Evicted : Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmon
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In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as "wrenching and revelatory" (The Nation), "vivid and unsettling" (New York Review of Books)
Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of 21st-century America's most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible. (From Amazon description) "After reading Evicted, you'll realize you cannot have a serious conversation about poverty without talking about housing.... The book is that good, and it's that unignorable."—Jennifer Senior, New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2016
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August 22, 2019 There There by Tommy Orange
Presented by Dorothy C.
Here's the thing about There There, the debut novel by Native American author Tommy Orange: Even if the rest of its story were just so-so — and it's much more than that — the novel's prologue would make this book worth reading….….There There is pithy and pointed. With a literary authority rare in a debut novel, it places Native American voices front and center before readers' eyes. (From NPR Review by Maureen Corrigan)
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September 26, 2019 The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
Presented by Karen S.
She possessed a stunning beauty. She also possessed a stunning mind. Could the world handle both? Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she overheard the Third Reich's plans while at her husband's side, understanding more than anyone would guess. She devised a plan to flee in disguise from their castle, and the whirlwind escape landed her in Hollywood. She became Hedy Lamarr, screen star. But she kept a secret more shocking than her heritage or her marriage: she was a scientist. And she knew a few secrets about the enemy. She had an idea that might help the country fight the Nazis? if anyone would listen to her. A powerful novel based on the incredible true story of the glamour icon and scientist whose groundbreaking invention revolutionized modern communication. (From Google Books)
October 24, 2019 The Wife by Alafair Burke
Presented by: Carol S.
His Scandal, Her Secret
When Angela met Jason Powell while catering a dinner party in East Hampton, she assumed their romance would be a short-lived fling, like so many relationships between locals and summer vistors. To her surprise, Jason, a brilliant economics professor at NYU, had other plans, and they married the following summer. For Angela, the marriage turned out to be a chance to reboot her life. She and her son were finally able to move out of her mother's home to Manhattan, where no one knew about her tragic past. Six year later, thanks to a bestselling book and a growing media career, Jason has become a cultural lightning rod, placing Angela near the spotlight she worked so carefully to avoid. When a college intern accuses Jason of inappropriate behavior, and another woman, Kerry Lynch, comes forward with an even more troublin allegation, their perfect life begins to unravel. Jason insists he is innocent, and Angela believes him. But when Kerry disappears, Angela is force to take a closer look—at both the man she married and the woman she chose not to believe. (From the back cover)
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Posted By: Jeff Fisher March 24, 2018
Colerain and St. Xavier, two of the top teams in the Cincinnati area will continue their rivalry at least through the 2020 season. On Friday, the two schools announced a two-year extension to the series that is led by St. X 22-14.
The two schools will play this year at St. X on August 31st this season. The 2019 game will be played at Colerain with the 2020 game at St. Xavier. Both games will be played during Week 2.
Over the last four years, these two have faced each other during the regular season and again in the postseason. St. X won the regular season game 20-17 in overtime, but Colerain 21-14 in the Division I state quarterfinals.
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Manta Ray Bay Resort & Yap Divers is a small, family-owned, luxury hotel on the pristine island of Yap in the western Pacific Ocean – operating since 1986. Yap has a resident population of manta rays and several shallow cleaning stations where divers can see mantas year-round. In addition to manta ray diving, we love taking our guests to dive among reef sharks, Mandarin and brilliant coral reefs with macro fauna and caverns. We are proud to have recently been voted by the readers of Diver Magazine UK as one of the top 25 dive resorts worldwide and the Reader's Choice Award as #5 dive resort in the Pacific/Red Sea/Indian Ocean. Serving only 1,000 divers a year, we offer our guests crowd-free dive sites and VIP service, spa treatments, home brewed beer and a unique bar/dining experience onboard our 100+ year old Indonesian Schooner moored in front of the resort.
First, we enjoyed every minute while staying at your beautiful hotel. Everything is so perfectly thought through to give guests and divers the most convenient holiday. Having our own open air whirlpool with great bay view was almost too much. The Yap divers did a great job and were allways open to our wishes about what we would like to see or which spot we would like to dive. The Mnew and Detlef were amazing and the hole staff was allways very friendly and helpful. (thanx for the coockies on valentine's). We loved beeing with the Mantas and the blacktips. on our last dive, Wilie (male adult manta) spent 20 minutes with us circeling above our heads. for us, it couldn't have been better. (Now, if there is one thing... just to make diving more comfy... some kind of toilets on board would have been the sweetest cherry on the cupcake) We thank everyone for making our stay truely unique.
My wife Naomi and I are celebrating our 20th anniversary and I was in between jobs. We had talked about visiting Yap for years. I'm so pleased we could do it. I'm very impressed with what you have built there. Attention to detail was everywhere. We loved the Mnuw. Also, being a hobby woodworker myself I was more than impressed with the workmanship and the mahogany furnishings in our room. I want to say we fell in love with the people of Yap. Everyone we met were very gracious and polite. I hope we can return someday.
It was a pleasure staying at the Manta Ray Resort. I had a fantastic time. The best part was the people of Yap. They are very warm and friendly. Your dive crew was great. I do not dive, but snorkel. I had the opportunity to swim with Manta Ray, Eagle Ray, black tip sharks, turtle and star fish. They know the waters like the back of their hands. The food is wonderful at the hotel.
We had the absolute best time at your place. A+ in all aspects. Diving, the guides, boats, food, room....ALL of your help is fantastic...every person we met was wonderful!!! I know we should be able to find something to be critical of but I think we will be back again next year in search of it!!!!
I've been to several places in the world - especially for diving - and I'll see some more. But no place is more familiar to me than your adaptive home with the scent of tropics, wonderful people, excellent diving, fresh fish and a tasteful hammerhead - you've really done a good job, Bill!
Good morning Bill. I was a guest at your resort in August, I caught the first part of Manta Fest, and I have been meaning to e-mail to let you know how much I loved your resort and staff. You run a first class resort and dive operation. It was one of the best vacations I have ever had and that is saying a lot because I have been to a lot of different dive resorts/live aboards. I loved the Mandarin room with the stone shower and plan to stay in it again. Once again you have a great resort with a great staff. Looking forward to my next visit! Please give my best to the staff. Thanks.
Our group of 5 from Indian Valley Scuba stayed at Manta Ray Bay Resort for 3 days of diving last week. Every resort employee we encountered was very friendly and courteous. The wait staff in the restaurant were exceptional, learning our names and greeting us by name with every encounter. The dive staff were also superb. Tony and Brian were great dive leaders and gear handlers. Theo provided a very insightful island tour on our day before flying. Thanks to all and thanks to you for running such an enjoyable resort.
Thank you for such a thoughtful arrival process. It shows great consideration for your guests to allow them to retire to their rooms at that hour and finish with the paper work the next day. We were so thankful and impressed that you had such a seamless greeting/pick up process for your guests.
Dear Mr. Bill I stayed at Yap from June 20 to 24 this year. I was very impressed in your excellent foods, beers, and especially hospitality of you. Yap divers was excellent services too. I would really like to come back to Yap again. Thank you very much for your services.
Bill, We're back home now after our two week, fun filled vacation. I just wanted to let you and your staff know that we had a fantastic time at Manta Ray Bay. World class diving and accommodations were only topped by world class service. Thank you for making our vacation a memory of a lifetime. I only wish I had the chance to meet and dive with you Bill. Next time!
Heres a testimonial for you: Both Dee and I were so impressed with Manta Ray Bay Resort and Dive Operation. The diving was great, the guides were knowledgeable and fun, the dive operation was first class! The accommodations were very comfortable and enjoyable. Loved the pool in the afternoon after our 2 tank dive and the friendliness and accommodating attitudes of all the staff. Thanks for a fantastic vacation!
Hi Bill, We have just arrived back in Scotland after our stay with you at Manta Ray Bay. You, no doubt, receive many messages of appreciation from guests but Christine and I would like to add one more. We had a wonderful time. The accommodation was very comfortable; the facilities well thought out; the diving (and for Christine snorkelling trips) was very well organized, and the staff were superb. It really was like being one of the family. I'd like to thank you and Patricia for diving with me; Jan for the great job he does organizing the dive team; and the dive boys who were quite simply superb. Josie was really attentive to my special dietary needs and nothing was too much trouble for the restaurant staff. Also Sammir for the airport shuttles in the middle of the night. Christine also thought the massage she enjoyed was the best ever. All in all it was the friendliest place we've been to for some time - and we travel a fair bit. So, thanks again to the whole team!
Dear Bill, Just a quick note to thank you for the great time both Piet and I had at Manta Ray Bay Hotel. We enjoyed the hotel, the pool and off course the diving. Jan and his team went out of their way to show off the best dives Yap has to offer. I know we will talk about our near perfect dive at Yap Caverns for years to come. With the sunlight dancing through the caverns, great vis, powder white sand patches, lots of shells (dead and alive), fish, morays and more............ it was an awesome dive. I also highly recommend the Yellow Wall, I guess we were lucky that conditions was perfect on this dive! Just enough current for the corals to be feeding, loads of fish, perfect vis....... what more could we ask for.
Dear Bill, I received very well the e-mail from Mss. Pedrosa and I would like to thank you again for a marvelous holiday in your resort. Also I'd like to express my thanks to the complete staff from the Resort and diving center. We - Eddy and I - enjoyed our stay very much. Please bring my regards also to the guides who really know what it is about to serve there guests. Splendid organization !! I already recommended your resort to my friends and dive buddies. I hope you did not have to much problems with the earthquake in Japan or the tsunami and that everybody is OK.
Thank you so much for your email! We've stayed in several hotels across the FSM and we were very impressed with Manta Ray Bay Resort. You have top-notch facilities, friendly and exceptional service and a welcoming atmosphere that we only wish every hotel could have! With your "post-stay" email, we continue to be impressed by your outstanding service and we can't wait to be back in Yap and hope to stay there again.
Hi Bill, We would like to thank you again for the wonderful experience we had at your resort. As I wrote in my report to Undercurrent.org, it is one of the finest resort we have ever stayed at and we travel a lot. Your staff is awesome and really make you feel welcome. Jan runs a very efficient dive operation and all of the divemasters we encountered were very helpful and safety conscious. Joce is the best waitress in the world! I also have to thank you for setting up my blood test at the hospital and, again, everyone I encountered at the hospital was very friendly and competent. We love Yap for its diving, the relaxed atmosphere, the people, the culture, your resort and... the beer!! We are looking into coming back for MantaFest in Sept. 2012.
Thanks so much for a most memorable time. We treasure the memories we have of Manta Ray Bay and all of you!! The people we met diving have become lifelong friends, and we hope to return someday soon to your magical island!!
Dear Manta Ray Bay Team, Got back safe and sound to Switzerland - oh guys here it's quite a bit cooler although not yet really cold with about 2-5°C. First of all I wish to thank you all for making my stay in Yap such an outstanding event and making me "feel at home". I had a great time at your place and some awesome diving during my stay. As previously indicated all the team at Manta Ray Bay were great, helpful and my time therefore most enjoyable. Thanks to Jan, John, Chomed and Mike for the great diving. Thanks to you Bill and your team for the great, friendly and positive service and thanks to Josy and all the girls and guys at the restaurant/bar for looking after us so well. I will truly miss YAP and Manta Ray Bay but hope to see you again some fine day - in the meantime I wish you all the very best - take care.
Ridiculously great service and facility you have at Manta Ray Bay, Bill. It will be reflected as such in my article. Of the four places I stayed at in Palau, Chuuk and Yap, Manta Ray Bay Hotel was the best.
Hi Patrica & Bill Happy 25th Anniversary to the Yap diver! Yap is still our favorite place for diving. We always tell people about it and show our diving pictures. We have made short movies shot by Gerry and show it to our friends. And now with hydroponic farm starting in Yap, wow! Gerry has tried small hydroponic kits in our apartment. Not so good. Happy Anniversary! See you next time!
Hi Bill, Sometimes it takes a little bit longer things to handle – so it was with the great stay at the Manta Ray Bay hotel. Although we are traveling a lot – it was a very unique experience for us. We enjoyed the amazing dives – especially Vertigo, Alex Alleys and Yap Cavern - as well as the nice rooms, your great staff, the food in your ship restaurant – and of course the beer of the Stone Money brewing company. Special thanks to Patricia and her magic hands for best massage we ever had.
Hi Bill and the team at the Manta Ray Thanks so much for the wonderful time we had in Yap..still raving about it and have already passed your details on to a group of Aussies that we met on our flights home. Also have highly recommended you to our travel agent DiveFish and Snow here in NZ. We have DVDs to exasperate our friends and family with!!! It is between 13-16 degrees Celsius, Water about 16 degrees here so you can imagine where we would rather be!! Hope you are all well and you will always be in our fondest memories.
Dear Bill, Just a line or two to say thanks to you and Patricia for out stay between 16th and 27th March 2011. The diving was great and the people simply delightful.we took away happy memories and lots of photos which will serve as a reminder of happy days.Please pass on our thanks to all the staff especially Jan who showed great patience and gave great encouragement to Jane to complete her DSD on the manta station ( what a place to do your DSD !!).
Dear Bill & Patricia, Vikki and I want to congratulate you on the Taro Leaf Spa. The design and construction are wonderful and the garden, waterfalls and soothing music all provide the right setting for relaxation. We have had massages at various spas all over the world. Hundreds of them and none have been better than what we just received from your people. Patricia, you have trained the ladies very well. Their movements were in sync with each other almost to the second, ( couldn't help but look over at Vikki from time to time as we were having our double massage), and the pressure, the stretching movements, the locally made coconut oil all combined to make this a truly wonderful experience. No guest should ever leave Yap without at least one session at your facility. Thank you.
" The most relaxing place I have ever been to. Loved the themed rooms, such great staff. Thanks for a memorable Christmas".
We had a fantastic time at the Manta Ray Bay last month. We enjoyed all our dives, especially being able to dive with Bill and Patricia. It was great of Patricia to "hang out" with me around 30 feet while I conserved my air so I could stay with the group instead of sitting in the boat while the surface was so choppy. I had worried about my recent back surgery making diving difficult, but the willingness of the crew to help me with my gear in the water made it possible to dive with very little pain.
Andrew, Please pass my thanks to everyone for the stay and particularly Bill for his hospitality that last day and the fishing. I would recommend taking smaller kegs of beer on board though and still think 5% level is a little low. Thoroughly enjoyed the diving; I've already passed your details to two people who should be in contact and I'll certainly recommend you to my travel agent. I only wish we'd stayed longer.
Dear Bill: I want to say "thanks" on behalf of all our group for your hospitality in Yap. The tremendous effort you have put in to make MRB a world class resort shows. Congratulations. We had a wonderful time diving and visiting Yap.
The hotel deserves high marks for taking care of a wide range of guests needs.
But whether you do it for a few days or for a week, you've got to get yourself to Yap. It offers great hospitality, is definitely off the beaten path, great diving, and magnificent creatures to boot. What more could you ask for? We'll be going back and maybe you'll think of joining us the next time.
Hi Bill! I just wanted to drop you a line and say : "Thanks!" for a Great Time and Great Diving! I will definitely be back! And I will be referring friends your way as well. (if they are up to traveling that far!)lol. Boy the Jet lag is VERY rough! Its been a week since we've returned and we are all still up at 2 and 3 in the morning , wide awake! I am going diving tomorrow out of Clearwater Beach, although im sure it wont compare to what ive seen with your guys! We all cant wait to get back. Wishing you a prosperous summer. Till we meet again!
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I want to say a BIG THANK YOU for all the fun we had bringing the group to Yap. You certainly took great care of us and we soooo enjoyed the entire experience. The rooms were awesome, the hospitality as wonderful as always and the "fill in" Cabana Boy a big hit. I knew I could count on the Manta Ray Bay and Yap Divers for the best, but even the weather cooperated! Guess I'm a bit compulsive in logging my dives, but as you noticed it became easier over a Manta Shake while relaxing on the Mnuw. All will have fond memories to cherish. Actually seeing that Trident Trumpets DO eat crown of thorns was a high light for me. Guess it doesn't take much. J Anyway, again Thank You and I'm sure I'll see you in the future….don't change a thing!
Bill- I want to thank you and your staff for a wonderful experience during our stay in early December. My partner and I were there for business and did not have a chance to dive, but the Hotel and accomodations, not to mention the view from our room where incredible. I hope to come back one day and dive the manta rays first hand. The people of YAP are the kindest I've ever met! I hope to see you again soon!
Dear Bill, I want to send you and your entire staff a HUGE thank you for a fabulous stay. It was entirely too short, which just prompts me to want to return. Jan ran an amazing dive shop, and having Alex as my dive guide for the manta dive was very rewarding. Thank you for the extra special care you insured for my stay. The Taro Leaf Spa, as well as the restaurant and bar were all great experiences. Have a fabulous year in 2010. I hope to return to Yap within the year.
I don't know how to thank you enough. You treated Kathy and I better than any other place ever has. You better believe we will give the highest ratings we can to any and everyone.
A very impressive operation, one of the best dives I have ever had and a consistently pleasant and professional staff. Congratulations and thanks.
We had great dives, great beer and great people at the Manta Ray Bay Resort. I couldn't have asked for a better dive trip. Thank you.
Hello Bill, I just wanted to write a quick note to tell you how much I really appreciated your help in coordination and how much we enjoyed our trip to Yap and Palau. The Manta Ray Bay was a gorgeous resort and we had so much fun visiting! I really enjoyed the people that worked there, the visibility was fabulous, and the staff some of the friendliest. I am very thankful for your help in making one of our dive trips to the Micronesia area some of the best diving that weve ever had. Thanks again! P.S. Alex was fabulous!!!


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Hong Kong, China – Braving an unseasonal chill, protesters returned to Hong Kong's central park on Sunday in their hundreds of thousands as the anti-government movement hit the half-year mark.
A sea of demonstrators, mostly clad in signature black attire, plodded peacefully along the six-lane main road from Victoria Park to the downtown business district.
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Many chanted slogans and held posters denouncing the police. "Rotten cops are killers, rapists and gangsters!" they shouted.
Organisers estimated the turnout at 800,000, a sign that people power was still going strong after six months in this city of 7.4 million. However, police told local media that 183,000 people attended.
Two million-strong marches in June forced Chief Executive Carrie Lam to shelve a controversial extradition bill that had initially sparked the protests, which have since evolved into a wide-scale movement for greater democracy in the semi-autonomous territory.
"We must remind Carrie Lam these still are a lot of people. We urge her to look squarely at this and seriously consider our demand for an independent commission," said Jimmy Sham, one of the march organisers from the Civil Human Rights Front.
Although the extradition bill was formally withdrawn in October, public anger remains intense, driven by Lam's refusal to address protesters' demands – an independent inquiry into alleged police brutality; amnesty for the nearly 1,000 people charged with offences stemming from the protests; a retraction of the police assertion that protesters are guilty of rioting; and universal suffrage to elect the full legislature and chief executive.
Lately, Lam has promised to establish an independent review committee to examine the root causes of the unrest, but protesters insisted police tactics in suppressing the unrest ought to be the main focus.
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Sunday's march was the largest such event approved by the police in more than three months.
Even though the freedom of assembly is enshrined Hong Kong's own constitution, an ordinance inherited from the colonial era mandates a letter of no objection from the police for any march of more than 30 people.
But in recent months, the police have repeatedly rejected protester requests for such letters citing clashes at previous gatherings.
The march remained mostly peaceful as it wound down by nightfall, but both the High Court and the Court of Final Appeal along the route were charred by petrol bombs.
Two weeks ago saw the last mass mobilisation – for district council elections in which nearly 1.7 million voters handed a sweeping victory to the pro-democratic camp with an all-time record turnout of 71 percent.
"If the protesters didn't keep up the pressure, the government would likely think the movement has lost steam after the electoral landslide," political commentator Ching Cheong told Al Jazeera.
Taking a break from the march near the High Court, Water Cheng said he would keep going in order to bring pressure to bear, not least because there was no other choice.
"We're running out of options. We've got no hope for our government knowing it's Beijing that's propping it up," said Cheng, 57, a computer engineer. "But I know this is a long-term struggle."
'Defend our city'
The march organisers pegged the event to Human Rights Day, proclaimed by the United Nations as 10 December of every year to honour the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.
This weekend also coincided with the 40th anniversary of the "Kaohsiung Incident" in Taiwan, among the first countries where activists harnessed the significance of the Human Rights Day to press for democracy.
The 1979 event ended in a crackdown by military police in the then one-party state under martial law.
Four decades on, the fight is now across the strait. Organisers in Hong Kong are voicing their hope to garner worldwide support, declaring in a statement that "our rally today is to gather everyone in Hong Kong to defend our city as well as advancing international human rights movement with global civil society."
Buoyed by the passage last month in the United States of the Hong Kong Human Rights Democracy Act, which threatens to sanction officials that trample on rights and freedoms in the territory, protesters have since ratcheted up their outreach to other countries.
"The protesters have been internally focused, but now they're getting on Twitter to help people understand what's going on," said Lokman Tsui, who specialises in new media at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Legislators and student activists have formed delegations to fan out across the globe lobbying in such capitals as Brussels, London and Canberra.
They felt encouraged by the news last week that Australia began a new parliamentary inquiry which will examine if Canberra should adopt legal measures comparable to the US's Magnitsky Act to impose sanctions on all those who commit gross human rights abuses.
Observers said the US legislation is an initial success, but it is only the start.
"When facing off a monolithic regime, it's important to ask for help from the international community in order to apply pressure on China," said Ching. "This may well prove to be a workable strategy."
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The newly identified trades come as Sen. Richard Burr is under federal investigation for selling stocks ahead of the coronavirus stock market crash.
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Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on March 8, 2018. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
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The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, sold off almost $47,000 dollars worth of shares in a small Dutch fertilizer company in 2018, just weeks before its stock began a sharp 40% collapse.
Beginning on Sept. 5, 2018, Burr and his wife sold off their stake in the company, OCI, in three days when its shares were priced near their highest point in the last four years.
A month later, the company, which is not traded on a U.S. stock exchange, began to falter, completing its dramatic fall after news that the company failed to meet quarterly earnings expectations.
Investors may also have been disappointed by developments in the Trump administration's trade policy that hurt OCI. The company had been positioned to benefit from the expected sanctions on Iranian oil and petrochemical imports. But in November 2018, the Trump administration waived some of those restrictions. The waivers undercut the company's hopes.
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John Olson, a retired Gibson Dunn partner who helped draft insider trading legislation and who has represented individuals before the Securities and Exchange Commission, said the trades appeared unusual and warranted further scrutiny.
"It's certainly something that might prompt an investigation," he said. "If I were at the SEC, it would raise a question in my mind."
Olson said it's "reckless" for members of Congress to trade in individual stocks because of the appearance it creates. Burr, he said, would need to explain how he came to invest in the company and whether any information he learned as a senator informed his decision to sell his stake.
"Just on the face of it, it's unusual. How does he even know this Dutch company exists with all he has to do as chair of the Intelligence Committee and as a senior senator," Olson said. "How does he have time to research obscure companies in Holland?"
Burr, a Republican from North Carolina, has come under fire recently for trading individual stocks at opportune moments. Last month, ProPublica reported that Burr unloaded a significant portion of his total portfolio — between $628,000 and $1.72 million of stock — a week before the market crash triggered by the coronavirus outbreak. The sales came soon after he offered public assurances that the government was ready to battle the virus.
Federal authorities are now reportedly scrutinizing those trades, and the FBI has contacted him. Burr has denied allegations of insider trading, saying that he based his decisions solely on public information, including CNBC reports, and not on information he obtained as chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee or as a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
Burr's Senate office and a law firm advising him both declined to answer questions from ProPublica. A spokesman for OCI did not respond. In his role as chair of the intelligence committee and a member of the finance committee, Burr has oversight on some Iran matters and sanctions policy, but there is no evidence he knew in advance about the Trump administration's sanction waivers.
How Burr came to first invest in OCI is unclear.
The company produces nitrogen fertilizers and industrial chemicals such as methanol and urea from plants in North Africa, the Middle East, Texas and Iowa. The company was founded by the Sawiris family, one of Egypt's wealthiest, and they remain its largest shareholders.
OCI's chief executive is Nassef Sawiris, a billionaire who owns a significant stake in the English soccer team Aston Villa. His brother, Naguib Sawiris, got involved in American presidential politics in 2012, when he donated $78,000 to a joint fundraising committee for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, which was deemed by the Federal Election Commission as a potentially illegal contribution from a foreign national. (Romney's committee told the FEC that the potential foreign donors that regulators singled out, which included Sawiris, "are eligible donors and are not foreign nationals.") Burr has not received any donations from the Sawiris, according to FEC disclosures.
According to his financial disclosure forms, Burr and his wife first invested in OCI in June 2014, bought again in August 2014 and invested once more in April 2016. They accumulated 1,400 shares, which had a peak value of about $47,670.
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The investigation comes after ProPublica reported that the North Carolina lawmaker unloaded a significant portion of his total stock holdings before the coronavirus sell-off in the stock market.
A month after Burr and his wife sold their stake in September 2018, shares began to fall dramatically. The dip continued in November 2018, when OCI failed to meet earnings projections. According to a Citibank analysis at the time, the company's quarterly earnings were 6% below expectations and its fertilizer sales fell 10% below projections.
By selling when they did, the Burrs avoided a decline in share price that the company has yet to recover from. The stock traded at 29 euros a share on Sept. 5, near the high point for the last four years, and fell 42% by the end of that year. OCI's stock is now selling at about a third of its value compared with when Burr first invested.
In November, the Trump administration announced it was exempting eight countries, including Turkey, from restrictions it was imposing on importers of Iranian oil and petrochemicals. Before that announcement, OCI analysts had speculated that the sanctions could be a boon for the company, as they would force Turkey and other countries to buy industrial chemicals from North Africa where OCI has plants, instead of Iran.
Sawiris encouraged that expectation in a May 2018 call with investors, saying, "Iran supplied a lot of product competing with North African product in Turkey. Should that situation change, that would boost demand for North African products going into Turkey."
In an Aug. 31, 2018, earnings report filed by OCI, the company again pointed to the expectation that sanctions against Iranian imports could help OCI: "Exports from Iran, one of the largest urea exporters globally, are at risk of significant curtailments," the report stated. "Sanctions on Iran by the United States will likely reduce Iranian exports of urea."
In April 2019, Burr joined other senators in calling on the Trump administration to cease the temporary waivers on Iranian import sanctions, though at that point he no longer had a stake in OCI.
Doris Burke contributed reporting.
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Dr. Garrison is one of the best physicians I have ever been too. Not only is she knowledgable, she shows great concern for any issues that are presented.
I always have excellent communication with Dr. Garrison and her staff.
I have never experienced a Dr. like Dr. Garrison. She always, always goes beyond my expectations for care. Truly excellent service.
Dr. Garrison is very professional and personable. She discusses everything with me and listens well. She is up to date on the latest conditions and treatment. I find her very helpful.
Dr. Garrison is so personable and communicates well with her patients. I feel like I can't give her a review that accurately portrays how much I love her caring personality and bedside manner!! She took the time to talk to me about my health history and current fertility journey. She asked me questions about my children and shared things about her own life that were applicable to my situation. She wasn't just "clinical" but also related to me on a personal level and that is something I truly value. Thank you, Dr. Garrison!!
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EXPERIENCE WAS GREAT. DR. GARRISON IS AN WONDERFUL DOCTOR.
There are not enough employees manning the phones especially on Monday mornings at the Wooster Cleve Clinic family center. I refuse to be on hold for more than 5 minutes. I'm not talking about in the doctor's office area, I'm talking about getting thru to the office.
*Dr. Garrison is very good at active listening and _____ your history before she examine you. She is thoughtful and patient.
Dr Garrison is the best provider I could ask for. After having my children see Dr Burke, I knew I wanted a DO for my primary care. Dr Garrison is the perfect fit. She listens, she asks questions and guides my care to make my life better. Since seeing her, I have never been more confident in the consistency and the quality of care I receive. Just like when Dr Burke left Wooster, I will follow Dr Garrison should she ever transfer to a different location. We need more providers like Drs Garrison and Burke!
Dr.Garrison is very open and knows I have a medical background. Even though I know not to be alarmed before results are available, I've noticed that she makes a point not to worry me and has a way to reassure me that she'll discuss any potential follow-up after results are in and even if treatment is necessary, she shows confidence in a path forward, which is encouraging and appreciated.
*Dr. Garrison and her staff is always very pleasant to me. She is always interested in my questions and concerns.
Dr Garrison is a great physician. She talks to my daughter in a way that lets her know that she is listening. Jenna and Eva are always so sweet. Sue is a great nurse. The team combo is perfect.
Dr Garrison explained everything we needed to do and if my daughter wasn't at better to come back. She really listens and she is so knowledgeable.
Everyone at this facility is friendly & caring. We love how *Dr. Garrison explains things in detail. That's what our doctor did before he retired.
Dr Garrison is a wonderful Dr. she is always kind and very thoughtful. She understands my needs and knows my health history she has been taking very good care of me for years. She is the best Dr I have ever had.
Dr Garrison is an amazing provider I will not go to anyone else for my care.


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First These Kentuckians Couldn't Drink The Water. Now They Can't Afford It
By editor • Oct 31, 2019
Jasper Davis gets drinking water from a mountain stream in Martin County, Ky. He says he's one of many in the struggling coal region who have trouble affording their water bill.
Sydney Boles / Ohio Valley ReSource
Originally published on October 31, 2019 1:13 pm
Jasper Davis stoops to tilt a plastic bottle under a drip of water that's trickling from a crack in the mountainside.
"Tastes better than what the city water does," he says. "Way better."
The spring is innocuous, a mere dribble emerging from a cliff face that was cut out to make room for a four-lane highway. But there's evidence of frequent visitors. A small footbridge has been placed over the muddy ground, and some enterprising soul shoved a rubber tube into the mountain to make filling jugs easier.
"You just stick your jug under there and just catch the water as it comes out, one jug at a time," Davis says.
This has become routine for some in Martin County, a rural, mountainous community on Kentucky's border with West Virginia. The area has made news for decades for its notoriously dirty water supply. But now, efforts to fix that have led to another crisis: Many are unable to afford their water bills.
The water that comes out of Martin County taps can be cloudy at times. There are boil-water advisories and pipes so leaky that most of the water is lost before it reaches residents' taps. For years, residents received monthly advisories that some people exposed to the chemicals in their water "may experience problems with their liver, kidneys, or central nervous system, and may have an increased risk of getting cancer."
Local officials are trying to fix all that, and they say the water is now safe to drink, save for occasional problems. But this has taken a lot of money, and the cost of that has been passed on to customers. After a series of increases, water rates went up 41% last year alone.
Lingering distrust, higher rates
Davis has been wary of his tap water since he was 15. That's when, in 2000, a massive coal slurry impoundment broke in Martin County, sending 306 million gallons of toxic sludge oozing into the county's water source, leaching into groundwater and seeping into residents' wells.
"It was horrible," Davis says, pointing at a creek near his home where all the fish turned up dead amid the spill. The slurry has been cleaned up. But most people in Martin County remain deeply distrustful not only of the water that comes out of the pipes but of the authorities who are tasked with providing it.
A 2018 rate increase made Martin County's near-undrinkable water the eighth most expensive in the state, according to a recent affordability analysis. Since then, Mary Cromer, an attorney who represents Martin County residents in their battle with water regulators, says she sees more people struggling to pay their bills.
Last year, the county made news when it arrested a man accused of stealing water by illegally hooking his home to another family's meter. This past summer, authorities sent disconnect letters to 300 houses, about 10% of all homes served.
The Martin County water board is stockpiling bottled water for the neediest, but it faces significant challenges. Major coal companies have recently declared bankruptcy, leaving hundreds of miners in the region out of work. Once a coal-producing powerhouse, Martin County has seen total employment fall by 32% since July 2010.
Industry troubles also mean Martin County's annual revenue from the coal severance tax fell 81% from 2012 to 2018. Similar declines in neighboring coal-reliant communities have prompted some to cut back on services like trash collection.
A recent report from the Brookings Institution and Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy noted that the loss of coal revenue could send at least 26 U.S. counties into financial insolvency.
Billions needed for water infrastructure
But water problems here and elsewhere go beyond the decline of coal.
"We are dealing with systems that are old," says Colette Easter of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The group has found that America's drinking water infrastructure needs a $105 billion investment in repairs, including more than $8 billion in Kentucky.
And Easter says declining population can compound the challenges facing all rural systems, as fixed costs are spread among fewer ratepayers.
"The only way you can fix infrastructure without affecting rates is if someone gives you the money," says Andrew Melnykovych, a spokesperson for the Kentucky Public Service Commission. But federal and state grants for repairs are harder to come by. "Absent some dramatic change at both the state and the federal level, that grant money is just not out there in the kind of quantity needed to address water infrastructure needs," he says.
Local officials say they understand the hardship this means for residents.
"Affordability is the biggest thing we worry about," says Jimmy Don Kerr, treasurer of the Martin County water board. And he knows there's the risk of a vicious cycle. "We lose customers, so we have to raise rates again to cover expenses. More people can't pay, so we get more cutoffs."
A rain barrel and hard choices
Jasper Davis has not been cut off, but he works hard to keep his water bills as low as possible. In a good month, he says, collecting stream water could save as much as $100.
After he fills his bottles, he leads me to the comfortable double-wide trailer he shares with his girlfriend, three relatives and a friend who needed a place to stay. Davis supports them all on just $15,000 a year.
In the yard is a large plastic barrel where he collects rainwater for flushing the toilet. "If we got plenty enough rain, it'll rain over," he says. "But here lately, ain't had no rain." At the bottom on this day is just dirt and muck.
His girlfriend, Shelby Cornette, says that even if they use the tap only for showering, the household might have just $20 left for necessities like toilet paper and shampoo or to cover emergency expenses.
"You got to decide, 'Well, let's pay this water,' " she says, but maybe we're not going to eat.
There may be more hard choices to come. The regulators who approved the recent rate increase have also ordered Martin County to hire a professional outside manager. The hope is that more expertise can solve the system's woes, but paying for that will probably mean even higher water bills.
Sydney Boles is a reporter with WMMT and the Ohio Valley ReSource public media collaborative.
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Volume 30 (1994) Issue 12
Conditions for Zero Avoidance of Two-delay Input Control Systems and Design of an Inverse System
Yasuyuki FUNAHASHI, Satoko YAMAKAWA
Yasuyuki FUNAHASHI
Nagoya Institute of Technology
Satoko YAMAKAWA
Keywords: zero,	two-delay input control,	geometric multiplicity,	inverse system,	polynomial matrix descriptions
1994 Volume 30 Issue 12 Pages 1484-1491
DOI https://doi.org/10.9746/sicetr1965.30.1484
Published: December 31, 1994 received: February 14, 1994 Released: March 27, 2009 accepted: - [Advance Publication] Released: - corrected: -
The two-delay input control proposed by Mita et al is attractive since it makes it possible to solve problems connected with unstable zeros. It is a digital control system in which control inputs are changed twice in a sampling period. The two-delay input control was shown to have no zeros.
In this paper, the assumption on the zero of the basic discrete-time system is relaxed. That is, the condition for the two-delay input control system has no zero is obtained for the systems in which geometric multiplicity of zeros of basic discrete-time system is greater than one.
We investigate how to design an inverse system as an application of two-delay input control. It is shown that an asymptotic inverse system always exists, if two-delay input control system has no zeros. For a stable system, an inverse system is of finite inverse response. For an unstable system, the system is also designed using state feedback and observer. In particular, by choosing the feedback gain and observer gain suitably, we can obtain an inverse system in a finite time.
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Elder on English Weather, Conan The Barbarian and Mystery Pub Food
Somehow, Phil the audio king and I have got inside Elder's dressing room. And it's nice in there. It's maybe four hours before they headline HRH Doom Vs Stoner 2018 and we have the privilege of speaking to not one, but two members of a psychedelic prog band that reached the heady heights of Rolling Stone's end-of-year lists in 2017, with their most recent album Reflections Of A Floating World. When they hit the stage that evening, the group's blend of carefully-constructed melodies and titanic riffs demonstrate exactly why they've received such accolades. For now, bassist Jack Donovan and guitarist Michael Risberg recline on the couches in front of us, dressed in colourful ensembles that drop more than a hint towards the band's New England origins. With hardly a moment to lose, we dived straight into conversation…
So, how are you finding the UK?
JD: Lovely! Had a little car trouble on the way up, so we stopped at a lovely restaurant called The Hungry Horse in Rugby, kind of a T.G.I. Friday's vibe.
That's a chain pub, they do giant portions there.
MR: Great family value, family values…
JD: So we broke down in this parking lot and we woke up there.
MR: They do a Friday special which is a £15 'Diner's Delight'. Doesn't say what it is though.
That's the mystery, man.
JD: Then the van got fixed and we came up here to Sheffield; the weather is quite beautiful today, especially for England.
Best to reap the benefits before we get flooded. So, Reflections has been an enormous success. Do you think getting to this point was a cumulative process or was it more sudden?
JD: Of course it was a process, we've been doing this for like ten years now. It's been a linear progression for Elder (unlike the music), and we keep playing shows and having fun. We just want to keep the train rolling!
Could you tell us a little about the recording process of Reflections?
JD: It was the winter of 2016, snowy as hell in western Massachusetts in a town called Easthampton. Nick [DiSalvo, guitars/vocals/keys] is the primary songwriter, so he had most things figured out and we go in pretty prepared. We did most of the mix in like five days.
Is there a lot of practising before you hit the studio?
JD: A lot of gigging, we play a lot so we get pretty tight. Everything clicks pretty easily.
Do you guys write on the road, or do you take downtime to get the songs together?
JD: Oh, if we're not playing shows we get pretty lazy!
You guys have mentioned Colour Haze as a big influence, which is slightly left of field. Do you consider yourselves on the lighter end of doom?
JD: You know, we're here at the Doom Vs Stoner festival and we're representing stoner. You can listen to heavy metal forever but there's a lot of other music out there, and we listen to both. As we've progressed our influences have become lighter, closer to psychedelic rock.
MR: Like Jimmy Buffett.
JD: At the moment we've been listening to Baby Godzilla, that shit was really cool.
MR: Didn't they get sued when they changed their name to Heck?
Could we hear a little about the themes that run through Reflections?
JD: This is a tough question, because Nick [DiSalvo] does most of the writing…
MR: And the lyrics too.
JD: I don't really know what his headspace is when he's writing.
MR: Well, Reflections Of A Floating World refers to the Japanese art style [Ukiyo-e], a commentary on the gluttony of modernity and capitalism, and existential crises. That's my interpretation at least.
Do you feel like doom has a role in making social commentary?
Both: I think any art form can.
JD: But especially doom, baby.
MR: Especially commentary on industrialisation and so on.
Obviously you're still touring the album, but do you have any sketches for the next release, or will that be in a while?
JD: We're recording a really small-run EP in a few weeks. I don't really know too much about it yet though, but we're definitely hitting the studio. There's new stuff on the horizon.
MR: Jamming stuff, you know.
You guys have been at the forefront of the scene in a way, binding lots of genres together. Do you guys have any thoughts as to where the doom and psych genres are heading?
JD: I don't think the genre's going anywhere too quickly, it's kind of stable. There are variations on it but it's more solidifying itself into something people can identify with and becoming more generalised. Are there new things coming? Of course, there always is, whether it be death metal, nu-metal again, or something completely new. I'm excited! That's why festivals are fun, you get to see all this different metal.
So you're from Massachusetts…
JD: Mike's actually from New Jersey.
Ah, my mistake! The band has this psych aesthetic, did that come from your local scenes in New England?
MR: Absolutely, I've lived there for the past three years and there's definitely more of a crunchy, hippie vibe that crosses over to psychedelia around Boston.
JD: The town I'm originally from has more of a hardcore scene, and it was when we moved to Boston that we got to see more shows, better bands, you can develop more that way.
MR: It's also just a huge city.
JD: The northeast of the United States is pretty progressive, so that helps too. There's more of a counterculture around and lots of different scenes. Is there a particular psych-rock vibe? Not really.
MR: More of a hippie scene. Healing crystals and so on. I'm wearing one actually, fitting in with the stoner vibe…
I've got a final stupid question for you guys: Elder than what?
JD: Elder is actually derived from Conan The Barbarian, the tribe elders.
Do you think there's a link between you guys and Conan?
JD: I've met them before, so there's a physical link, we know each other.
Would you ever collaborate with them?
JD: They're definitely of the doomier, sludgy brand. Loud as fuck. But if somebody wanted to put us up in a sick studio and house us all, yeah go for it!
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U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, this week released the following statement in response to the Trump administration's sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act against Saudi Arabian officials who were responsible for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and columnist for The Washington Post.


Born in the States from Greek parents, since my childhood I was blessed to breathe the atmosphere of three inspiring cultures: American, Cretan and the spiritual one arriving from a picturesque village of Plomari on the island of Lesvos.
During different periods of my life, I had a chance to live in the places such as Fairfield, Connecticut, Plomari on Lesvos, Chania on Crete and San Luis Obispo in California. All those places and their people inspired me and left a significant mark on my vision of world. They helped me to precise what type of life style I would like to follow and how I could introduce it to the others.
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