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UFC's Devin Clark determined to get biggest career win on heels of family tragedy
November 26, 2020 [email protected]_84 biggest, career, Clark, determined, Devin, Family, Heels, tragedy, UFCs, win
UFC light heavyweight Devin Clark's training camp ahead of the biggest fight of his career hasn't been easy.
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Clark fights former title challenger Anthony Smith in the co-main event of UFC on ESPN 18 on Saturday night in Las Vegas. This is the fist time Clark (12-4 MMA, 6-4 UFC) will fight in the co-main event of a UFC card during his four-year career with the company.
And ahead of such a big moment, Clark has also had to mourn the death of his mother-in-law, who was in hospice care before she passed away last week.
"To finish camp was super tough," Clark told reporters Wednesday during UFC on ESPN 18 virtual media day. "To not just pack up my bags, go home, and hug my wife and my daughter and console them is one of the toughest things I've had to do as a husband, as a father, as a man.
"It's a super difficult time, but with that being said, my whole family, we're all in for this fight, including my mother-in-law. Before she passed, she gave me her blessing to pretty much go out there and beat up Anthony in the first round and finish him right away. She wanted me to stay and fight, and that's what I'm doing. I also had my wife's blessing, and my wife has been so tough through this whole thing and just handling it all on her own. It's super incredible, and I'm super proud of her. We're in this together."
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Woj: Celtics, Hornets have worked on sign-and-trade, looking for 3rd team
The Celtics and Hornets have worked out a sign-and-trade for Gordon Hayward that would create a traded-player exception for Hayward, according to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski. The ESPN insider also noted the Hornets are on the hunt for a third team to take Nic Batum's contract to avoid having to waive and stretch the veteran wing's $27 million deal. The two teams have been in a holding pattern since Hayward announced his $120 million deal with Charlotte and subsequent decampment from the Celtics last week. Negotiating terms for the deal in the hopes of making the situation more palatable for both sides
Dwight Howard says Ben Simmons-LeBron James comparisons 'very real'
76ers star Ben Simmons is one of the more talented players in the NBA right now. He can do so many different things on the basketball court such as play multiple positions, play great defense, he can finish, and he does it all at an elite level. At times, he gets compared to LeBron James who is one of the best players in NBA history. James has a similar skill set and he has a similar work ethic that makes the comparison viable. The team's newest addition, Dwight
Lundin Family giving gift to University of Arizona to create interdisciplinary school of mining and mineral resources
October 31, 2020 [email protected]_84 Arizona, create, Family, gift, giving, interdisciplinary, Lundin, mineral, mining, resources, School, university
VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 29, 2020 /CNW/ – The Lundin Family is pleased to announce their support for an ambitious new expansion program at the school of mining and mineral resources at the University of Arizona. The Lundin Family has made a US $2 million commitment and will provide up to an additional US $2.5 million through a grant challenge to match funds raised by December 2022.
The University of Arizona has long been recognized as having one of the top mining engineering programs in the world. The Lundin Family gift will help the university upgrade facilities, provide financial support to students and work toward an interdisciplinary school of mining and mineral resources.
The program aims to encourage and prepare a new generation of professionals to enter the mining industry from different educational disciplines and specialties including finance, law, computer science, environment and social sciences, etc.
"We are very excited to be supporting such an important initiative alongside the University of Arizona. The drive toward a safer, more sustainable and efficient mining operation requires the very best talent across all disciplines, not just mining engineering and geology," said Jack Lundin, President and CEO of Bluestone Resources Inc., one of the Lundin Group companies.
The Lundin Group comprises 14 publicly traded companies in the natural resource sector and operates in more than 25 countries around the world.
"While most universities' mineral resources programs are shrinking or not keeping pace with change, the University of Arizona has demonstrated a vision and commitment to enhancing natural resources education. This gift is intended to catalyze the resources necessary and to attract industry support from our peers to make this vision of creating the best mineral resource program in the world into a reality," Jack Lundin added. "We believe this partnership with the University of Arizona to create a new interdisciplinary school of mining and mineral resources will bring the kind of energy and excitement needed to attract the very best talent, and to prepare students to positively impact the future of mineral resources."
Supplying the Best Possible Workforce
At the core of the expansion initiatives is an unwavering commitment to keeping the industry pipeline filled with well-rounded, highly skilled professionals. Thus, the University of Arizona's College of Engineering, the College of Science, and the Lowell Institute are sharing the gift and working together to develop an interdisciplinary curriculum and update research and teaching facilities, such as the San Xavier Underground Mining Laboratory.
"We look forward to using this gift to become even better," said David W. Hahn, the Craig M. Berge Dean of the College of Engineering. "The generosity of the Lundin family will allow us to upgrade our facilities, build partnerships with industry and other universities, and strengthen the department's focus in areas such as data science and artificial intelligence."
The Lundins are based in Canada and Switzerland, but the family maintains strong ties in Arizona and at the university. Jack earned a master's degree in mining,
The Grantecan finds the farthest black hole that belongs to a rare family of galaxies
October 27, 2020 [email protected]_84 belongs, Black, Family, farthest, finds, galaxies, Grantecan, hole, Rare
Black-hole-powered galaxies called blazars are extremely rare. As matter falls toward the supermassive black hole at the galaxy's center, some of it is accelerated outward at nearly the speed of light along jets pointed in opposite directions. When one of the jets happens to be aimed in the direction of Earth, as illustrated here, the galaxy appears especially bright and is classified as a blazar. Credit: M. Weiss/CfA
An international team of astronomers has identified one of the rarest known classes of gamma-ray emitting galaxies, called BL Lacertae, within the first 2 billion years of the age of the Universe. The team, that has used one of the largest optical telescope in the world, Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), located at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (Garafía, La Palma), consists of researchers from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM, Spain), DESY (Germany), University of California Riverside and Clemson University (USA). Their finding is published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Only a small fraction of galaxies emits gamma rays, which are the most extreme form of light. Astronomers believe that these highly energetic photons originate from the vicinity of a supermassive black hole residing at the centers of these galaxies. When this happens, they are known as active galaxies. The black hole swallows matter from its surroundings and emits jets or, in other words, collimated streams of matter and radiation. Few of these active galaxies (less than 1%) have their jets pointing by chance toward Earth. Scientists call them blazars and are one of the most powerful sources of radiation in the universe.
Blazars come in two flavors: BL Lacertae (BL Lac) and flat-spectrum radio-quasars (FSRQs). Our current understanding about these mysterious astronomical objects is that FSRQs are relatively young active galaxies, rich in dust and gas that surround the central black hole. As time passes, the amount of matter available to feed the black hole is consumed and the FSRQ evolves to become a BL Lac object. "In other words, BL Lacs may represent the elderly and evolved phase of a blazar's life, while FSRQs resemble an adult," explains Vaidehi Paliya, a DESY researcher who participated in this program.
"Since the speed of light is limited, the farther we look, the earlier in the age of the Universe we investigate," says Alberto Domínguez of the Institute of Physics of Particles and the Cosmos (IPARCOS) at UCM and co-author of the study. Astronomers believe that the current age of the Universe is around 13.8 billion years. The most distant FSRQ was identified at a distance when the age of the universe was merely 1 billion years. For a comparison, the farthest BL Lac that is known was found when the age of the Universe was around 2.5 billion years. Therefore, the hypothesis of the evolution from FSRQ to BL Lacs appears to be valid.
Now, the team of international scientists has discovered a new BL Lac object, named 4FGL J1219.0+3653, much farther away than the previous record holder. "We
Colby College receives $2 million family gift for new arts, athletics centers
October 27, 2020 [email protected]_84 arts, athletics, centers, Colby, college, Family, gift, Million, receives
Colby College announced Tuesday that a multi-generational Waterville family with ties to the school is donating $2 million to support landmark arts and athletics initiatives.
Dana L. Schmaltz and Kate Enroth's donation will name the Colby College Museum of Art's gallery in the Paul J. Schupf Art Center in honor of Joan Dignam Schmaltz, Colby class of 1963. In addition, the welcome pavilion at the new Harold Alfond Athletics and Recreation Center will be named for Richard R. "Dick" Schmaltz, Colby class of 1962.
"Where we are in our stage with our relationship with Waterville is that this should be positive, mutually beneficial and eternal," Colby College President David A. Greene said in a phone interview Tuesday. "This should not be something that ends in the next couple years or has a timeline on it It should be an ongoing commitment for Colby to have a partnership with Waterville."
Joan Dignam was an artist. Dick Schmaltz was known as "Mr. Colby" to friends and family. In partnership with Waterville Creates!, Colby is developing the Paul J. Schupf Art Center on Main Street in downtown Waterville, which will break ground in 2021. The Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art will contain exhibitions from the museum's permanent collection as well as specially commissioned shows.
"The Schmaltz and Dignam families, much like our family, have a long and proud history in Waterville and at Colby. We all share a dedication to this community, and we can't think of a more fitting tribute to our dear friends Dick and Joan than the naming of these two spaces in their honor," said Paula Lunder, D.F.A. '98 and Peter Lunder '56, D.F.A. '98 in a release.
A rendering of an interior space in the future Arts Collaborative building on Main Street in Waterville. Construction on the project is starting this week, Colby College announced on Wednesday. Peter and Paula Lunder are financing almost half of the $6.5 million project, designed by architect Ryan Senatore. The building is expected to be complete by April 2021. Rendering by James Reben, Architectural Image Solutions
The art gallery is one of a handful of efforts by Colby to revitalize Waterville's downtown. The Bill & Joan Alfond Main Street Commons, which opened in the fall of 2018, houses more than 200 students in downtown Waterville. The Lockwood Mills Hotel, which is currently housing students, will eventually open to the public. The Colby Arts Collaborative on 14 and 20 Main St. is set to open in April of 2021. Waterville's BUILD grant also makes a difference.
"We're hitting an inflection point where a number of the major projects are either under construction or will be soon, and over the next few years we'll see these coming in a consistent fashion," Greene said. "What's also important is also all of the activity that is going on that is stimulated by these investments, but not directly related to them."
Greene alluded to the efforts by others outside of Colby as part of the overall
Family of slain Utah college student confronts her killer
October 23, 2020 [email protected]_84 college, confronts, Family, Killer, Slain, Student, Utah
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Family members of a Utah college student who was found strangled and burned last year following a search for her that captured the nation's attention called the man who pleaded guilty to her murder a "monster" Friday as they confronted him before he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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FILE – In this July 1, 2019, file photo, Ashley Fine speaks during a vigil for Mackenzie Lueck at the university in Salt Lake City. A tech worker pleaded guilty Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, in the death of Lueck, more than a year after her disappearance sparked a large-scale search that ended with the discovery of her charred remains in his backyard. Ayoola A. Ajayi is expected to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. (Jeremy Harmon/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, File)
Mackenzie Lueck's father, Gregory Lueck, told Ayoola A. Ajayi that he had no compassion for him because Ajayi had showed no compassion for his daughter, and said he hopes Ajayi spends the rest of his life in prison looking over his shoulder in fear.
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Ajayi has acknowledged he planned the death of the 23-year-old Lueck, whom he met on a dating app and arranged to meet in a park. After they returned to his home, he bound and strangled her, then burned and hid her body while police and loved ones searched for her, authorities say.
"I'm not sure you even have anything to look forward to in the afterlife, if you believe in that," Gregory Lueck said. "My daughter Mackenzie Lueck was a sweet, amazing young lady with the world ahead of her. She was a kindhearted person that cared about others. Now, I will not have the opportunity to see her blossom in life."
Her cousin, Carly Stevens, said through tears: "This is a nightmare you can't wake up from. I will never be able to forgive what happened to her. I will never forgive the monster who took her life. Never in my life have I felt anger the way I have the last 16 months. Never have I been so fearful for my life because I know how real evil is in this world."
FILE – In this Dec. 20, 2019, file photo, Ayoola A. Ajayi appears in 3rd District Court in Salt Lake City. Ajayi pleaded guilty in the death of a Utah college student Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, more than a year after her disappearance sparked a large-scale search that ended with the discovery of her charred remains in his backyard. Ajayi is expected to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the death of 23-year-old Mackenzie Lueck. (Jeffrey D. Allred/The Deseret News via AP, File)
The Lueck family had not said much publicly since their daughter's charred remains were found in the summer of 2019 in Ajayi's backyard in Salt
University of Utah settles with family
October 23, 2020 [email protected]_84 Family, settles, university, Utah
Lauren McCluskey, a senior majoring in communication, was shot and killed Monday night at the University of Utah. (Photo: Steve C. Wilson, University of Utah)
The University of Utah reached a $13.5 million settlement Thursday with the parents of Lauren McCluskey, a student who was killed by her ex-boyfriend on campus two years ago, and acknowledged that her death was preventable.
The university will pay the McCluskeys $10.5 million and make $3 million donation to the Lauren McCluskey Foundation that is designed to improve campus safety and help collegiate track athletes and animal shelters. The family has said all the money will go to the foundation.
"This settlement is important for many reasons," Jill McCluskey said at a press conference Thursday. "It addresses how Lauren died, but it also honors how she lived."
The university also acknowledged in the settlement that it didn't handle McCluskey's case properly and that her death was a "brutal, senseless and preventable tragedy."
"We failed Lauren and her family," University of Utah President Ruth Watkins said at a press conference Thursday. "If these employees had more complete training and protocols to guide their responses, the university believes they would have been better equipped to protect Lauren."
McCluskey, a 21-year-old member of the school's track team, had contacted campus police more than 20 times to report she was being harassed by 37-year-old Melvin Shawn Rowland. McCluskey had ended their relationship when she discovered he had lied about his name, age and status as a sex offender.
She was found shot dead in a car near on-campus student housing in October 2018. Rowland died by suicide after the attack as police tracked him down.
Watkins said in December 2018 that she hadn't found anything in an initial review of the case to indicate McCluskey's death could have been prevented. A report commissioned by the university later found officers made several missteps and failed to recognize warning signs, and it offered dozens of recommendations for improvement.
From May: Police chief orders investigation after officer allegedly shared explicit photos of woman later killed by ex-boyfriend
Jill and Matt McCluskey filed a $56 million lawsuit against the university in 2019 that claimed the college was negligent in failing to protect their daughter.
As part of the settlement, the university will also name the newly launched Center for Violence Prevention after McCluskey. The school will also raise money to build an indoor track facility that will bear her name.
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University of Utah settles with family of murdered student Lauren McCluskey and renames its violence prevention center in her honor
October 23, 2020 [email protected]_84 Center, Family, honor, Lauren, McCluskey, murdered, Prevention, renames, settles, Student, university, Utah, violence
The University of Utah has settled two lawsuits with the parents of Lauren McCluskey, a 21-year-old student who was killed by an ex-boyfriend she had complained about to police more than 20 times.
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McCluskey's body was found in the back seat of a car on campus two years ago. She had been shot and killed by 37-year-old Melvin Rowland, a convicted sex offender who had spent more than a decade in prison. He killed himself hours later after a police chase, university police had said.
Lauren McCluskey's parents, Jill and Matt McCluskey, filed a $56 million lawsuit last year alleging the University of Utah had failed to protect their daughter.
"The university acknowledges and deeply regrets that it did not handle Lauren's case as it should have and that, at the time, its employees failed to fully understand and respond appropriately to Lauren's situation," University of Utah President Ruth Watkins said in a statement on Thursday.
"As a result, we failed Lauren and her family."
The university will pay the McCluskeys $10.5 million and make a charitable donation of $3 million to the Lauren McCluskey Foundation.
The university also said it has also been making improvements to campus safety after the death, including implementing new policies and trainings and adding a new shuttle service.
University: McCluskey's murder was 'preventable tragedy'
McCluskey and Rowland had met at a bar and dated for about a month. When McCluskey learned Rowland had a criminal conviction, and had lied about his age and name, she ended the relationship.
Over the course of the next two weeks, she called campus police a number of times to report he was sending her harassing messages, as well as attempting to extort money from her. She told police she sent $1,000 to an account in the hopes of keeping compromising photos of her private, according to a review of the incident.
Audio from McCluskey's 911 calls to Salt Lake City Police show that she was increasingly frustrated by the pace of the university investigation.
The university said in the settlement "that the murder of Lauren McCluskey was a brutal, senseless, and preventable tragedy and acknowledges the unspeakable loss the McCluskey family has suffered and continues to suffer."
'Hope for the future'
As part of the settlement, the University of Utah said it will raise funds to construct an indoor track facility that will be named after Lauren McCluskey, who was a track athlete at the school.
The university will also rename the newly launched Center for Violence Prevention as the McCluskey Center for Violence Prevention.
"We share with the McCluskeys an interest in working to improve safety for all students, not only on our campus but on campuses across the country. With our commitment to learning from our mistakes, we honor Lauren and ensure her legacy will be improved campus safety for all students," Watkins said.
As part of the campus safety improvements, the university has also consolidated evening classes in
Slain Utah college student's family gets $13.5M settlement
October 23, 2020 [email protected]_84 135M, college, Family, settlement, Slain, students, Utah
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Salt Lake City – The parents of a University of Utah track athlete who was killed by her ex-boyfriend on campus two years ago reached a $13.5 million settlement Thursday with the university, which acknowledged that it didn't handle the woman's case properly.
University of Utah President Ruth Watkins and the parents of Lauren McCluskey announced the settlement at a joint news conference in Salt Lake City that came on the second anniversary of her death. The case brought new national attention to campus safety and dating-violence issues at universities, spurring several changes at the University of Utah.
University of Utah President Ruth Watkins, right, looks on as Jill McCluskey, the mother of slain University of Utah student-athlete Lauren McCluskey speaks during a press conference announcing they have reached a settlement in their lawsuit against the university Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, in Salt Lake City. (Photo: Rick Bowmer, AP)
McCluskey, 21 of Pullman, Washington, had contacted university police more than 20 times to report harassment by the man she had dated before she was found fatally shot in a car near on-campus student housing in October 2018
"We failed Lauren and her family," Watkins said. "If these employees had more complete training and protocols to guide their responses, the university believes they would have been better equipped to protect Lauren."
That marked a shift from what Watkins said back in December 2018 when she said that she hadn't found anything in an initial review of the case to indicate McCluskey's death could have been prevented.
Jill and Matt McCluskey bristled at those comments and sued the university in 2019, seeking $56 million while claiming the college was negligent in failing to protect their daughter.
An independent review commissioned by the university found multiple missed warning signs before Lauren McCluskey was killed by 37-year-old Melvin Shawn Rowland after she dumped him because she discovered he had been lying about his name, age and status as a sex offender. Rowland took his own life after the attack as police tracked him down.
The university will pay the McCluskeys $10.5 million and give another $3 million to a foundation founded in their daughter's name that is designed to improve campus safety, as well as help collegiate track athletes and animal shelters. An indoor track facility will also be built and named after Lauren McCluskey as part of the settlement.
The McCluskeys said all the money will go to the Lauren McCluskey foundation.
"This settlement is important for many reasons," Jill McCluskey said. "It addresses how Lauren died, but it also honors how she lived."
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Family of murdered college athlete Lauren McCluskey settles with University of Utah for $13.5 million
October 23, 2020 [email protected]_84 athlete, college, Family, Lauren, McCluskey, Million, murdered, settles, university, Utah
Lauren McCluskey was killed by her ex-boyfriend in October 2018.
Two years to the day after the brutal murder of University of Utah athlete Lauren McCluskey, her parents, Jill and Matt McCluskey, and the university announced a $10.5 million settlement in a lawsuit against the school. In addition, the school will donate $3 million to the Lauren McCluskey Foundation.
"The university acknowledges and deeply regrets that it did not handle Lauren's case as it should have and that, at the time, its employees failed to fully understand and respond appropriately to Lauren's situation," University of Utah President Ruth V. Watkins said during a press conference held Thursday. "As a result, we have failed Lauren and her family. If these employees had more complete training and protocols to guide their responses, the university believes they would have been better equipped to protect Lauren."
Lauren McCluskey was found dead in a parked car near a residential hall on campus in October 2018. Melvin Rowland, McCluskey's former boyfriend, allegedly shot and killed her before killing himself the same night.
McCluskey, 21, had reported to the university police that Rowland, 37, was harassing and stalking her. McCluskey ended their brief relationship after learning he was a registered sex offender who lied about his identity and criminal history, including a 2004 conviction of enticing a minor, police said.
The settlement comes after the McCluskeys filed a second lawsuit in June saying the university violated the state constitution. The complaint states in the weeks leading up to Lauren's murder, she was being "sexually and physically abused, stalked and threatened by her killer" and that the police "dismissed and avoided her requests for help."
Jill McCluskey, the mother of slain University of Utah student-athlete Lauren McCluskey, speaks during a press conference announcing they have reached a settlement in their lawsuit against the university Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020, in Salt Lake City.
Lauren and her friends reported incidents of abusive behavior to university officials in addition to their fears of violence, according to the complaint. The complaint also states the university officials dismissed her requests for help.
In an interview with ABC News in January 2019, her parents said the university did not take Lauren's complaints seriously.
"They seemed to show no curiosity about this person who had lied about his age, his name, his … he was a sex offender," Matt McCluskey told ABC News. "And then they found out that he's also a felon."
"They should've investigated," her father added. "They would've very quickly found his parole status in one call and it would … we wouldn't be sitting here today."
Lauren McCluskey is seen here in this Aug. 30, 2017 file photo in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Family of slain University of Utah athlete Lauren McCluskey reach $13.5M settlement with school
October 22, 2020 [email protected]_84 135M, athlete, Family, Lauren, McCluskey, Reach, School, settlement, Slain, university, Utah
The family of slain University of Utah track athlete Lauren McCluskey has reached a $13.5 million settlement with the school.
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The settlement was announced Thursday, which was the second anniversary of her death. University of Utah President Ruth Watkins said the school "acknowledges and deeply regrets that it did not handle Lauren's case as it should have."
Under the settlement, the state of Utah will pay the McCluskeys $10.5 million by March 31. The University will contribute $3 million to the Lauren McCluskey Foundation by the same date.
The school also pledged to build an indoor track facility that will have her name by Dec. 31, 2030. If the facility is not finished by that time, then the school will make an additional $3 million contribution to the foundation no later than June 30, 2031.
The university also will rename its Center for Violence Prevention as the McCluskey Center for Violence Prevention.
"We share with the McCluskeys an interest in working to improve safety for all students, not only on our campus but on campuses across the country," Watkins said Thursday. "With our commitment to learning from our mistakes, we honor Lauren and ensure her legacy will be improved campus safety for all students."
Melvin Rowland, the man McCluskey dated for just a few weeks, kidnapped and shot McCluskey seven times in October 2018 before taking his own life.
Two months after her death, Watkins said that an internal review hadn't found anything to suggest that her death could have been prevented.
McCluskey's family filed a suit in June, alleging that before her death, she turned over photographs Rowland used to blackmail her to officer Miguel Deras, who McCluskey's parents claim saved the images and shared them with other officers.
Deras's attorney told KSL NewsRadio in May that the allegations were "absolutely untrue."
The McCluskeys filed a separate lawsuit for civil rights allegations, claiming that their daughter's case was treated differently due to her gender. The family sought $56 million for both suits.
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Q: Calculate total values from select elements by looping through I want to loop through some elements extract there value and calculate the total value of all integers. See my code below:
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The code just returns the selected value twice, no calculation done.

A: You probably should move the total variable outside your loop:
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Also it's worth mentioning that val is not a pretty standard HTML attribute. Maybe you wanted to actually use the selected value in which case you could use:
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Also notice that jquery should probably be jQuery, don't forget that javascript is a case sensitive language.

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Oechssler, Jörg & Roomets, Alex, 2014. "A Test of Mechanical Ambiguity," Working Papers 0555, University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics.
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Bunker Diplomacy: An Arab-American in the U.S. Foreign Service
by Nabeel Khoury
Nabeel Khoury has written a remarkably cogent memoir. He not only details life in the Foreign Service in a highly entertaining and engaging style, but also provides provocative and telling insights into many of the crises in the Middle East…From Egypt, to 'The Magic Kingdom' to Iraq, Morocco and Yemen — Dr. Khoury undertook his duties with a flair that was both bold and unique. I only wish that American policy makers would read his chapters on Morocco and Yemen in particular, and benefit from his general policy recommendations – It might induce some humility and second thoughts on some important "lessons learned."
Mark G. Hambley
Former Ambassador to Qatar and Lebanon
This is a gripping narrative that fuses two stories in one. The first is the academic and political journey of a fascinating man standing between two worlds — Beirut and Washington, Arabness and Westerness, the State Department and the Middle East…The second narrative is a story of America itself as a great power casting a long shadow over the Arab world. The bureaucratic battles described as occurring inside different presidential administrations over four decades reveal a foreign policy often caught between conflicting personalities and demands. Major events like the Gulf War, Iraq War, and Arab Spring are trenchantly retold from the perspective of policymakers, diplomats, and intelligence officers. That these two stories come from the same book is reason enough to read it, but that they come from the career of the same individual will make readers never forget it.
Moulay Hicham el-Alaoui
President Hicham Alaoui Foundation
Nabeel Khoury – an accomplished Arab-American diplomat – offers readers a searing personal journey through America's trials and tribulations in the Middle East.
William J. Burns, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Former Deputy Secretary of State
After twenty-five years in the Foreign Service, Dr. Nabeel A. Khoury retired from the U.S. Department of State in 2013 with the rank of Minister Counselor. He taught Middle East and US strategy courses at the National Defense University and Northwestern University. In his last overseas posting, Khoury served as deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in Yemen (2004-2007). In 2003, during the Iraq war, he served as Department spokesperson at US Central Command in Doha and in Baghdad.
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A Strategy for Implementing the Reconciliation Process Between Israel and the Palestinians
by Alon Ben-Meir PhD
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The most puzzling aspect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that after 69 years of mutual violence, enmity and suffering, it remains unresolved even when coexistence is inevitable and a two-state solution remains the only viable option. Although there are many contentious issues that must be specifically addressed, it is the psychological dimension of the conflict which directly impacts every conflicting issue and makes it increasingly intractable. To mitigate the conflict, we must first look into the elements that inform the psychological dimension and how to alleviate them as prerequisites to finding a solution.
Dr. Alon Ben Meir is a professor and Senior Fellow at New York University's Center for Global Affairs and Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute. Dr. Ben- Meir is an expert on Middle East politics and affairs, specializing in international negotiations and conflict resolution. In the past two decades, Ben-Meir has been directly involved in Track II diplomacy related to various conflicts in the Middle East, including numerous negotiations between Israel and its neighboring countries and Turkey.
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Israel's Future Wars: Military and Political Aspects of Israel's Coming Wars
by Ehud Eilam
This book examines Israel's possible future wars in the upcoming years. It analyzes the strategic background and the nature of operations of those wars and concentrates on feasible future battlefields of Israel in Iran, Lebanon, Syria, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Sinai.
"Eilam's work provides valuable context to the political and military issues that may shape Israel's future wars. His analysis helps us understand the complexity of the conditions surrounding potential future confrontations in the Mideast. This well-informed study is a must read for those who wish to learn more about the challenges and risks facing Israel."
David A. Deptula, Lt Gen USAF (Ret.) Dean, The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies
"Israel's Future Wars is a remarkable work in the field, noteworthy for both its subject matter breadth, and its corollary command of very complex facts and materials. Each of the author's chapters deals with a particular military threat to Israel, but Eilam still correctly understands the possible intersections and prospective synergies between them…There is no doubt that Israel's Future Wars will quickly become essential reading for both academic strategists and Israel's military policy-planners and makers. This recognition will be well-deserved."
Louis René Beres, Emeritus Professor of International Law, Purdue University.
"Read this book if you are interested in the future of the Middle East as Dr. Ehud Eilam takes the reader through a fascinating tour of Israel's possible conflict scenarios… The insightful book will take you into the future of the most volcanic region in the world."
Dr. Thomas Parker worked for the U.S. government in the past thirty years. He currently teaches security studies at George Washington University.
"In "Israel's Future Wars," Ehud Eilam, a veteran analyst of Israel's security and defense policy, provides readers with a glimpse into the future with an expert analysis of Israel's possible military operations against Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Syrian front, and Egypt. It is a must read for those interested in a better understanding of how Israel survives and thrives in one of the world's most complicated threat environments."
Matthew Kroenig is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
"Israel's Future Wars by Dr. Ehud Eilem is a compelling and thought-provoking discussion on the shape of the most likely wars or armed conflict Israel will plausibly face in the near future. Based on his extensive and exhaustive research and analysis Dr. Eilem has written an authoritative, comprehensive and fascinating book on the challenges Israel would face if it should go to war against a range of potential adversaries from terrorist groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas to Iran, Syria or Egypt or combinations thereof.
He combines his thorough research and analysis on the defense capabilities of Israel and the capabilities of its adversaries to create a highly believable and authoritative vision of what future wars in the Middle East could look like. This is also a useful book for military planners, policy makers and the concerned public.
As a starting point for defense planning the assessment of the future security environment is essential and Dr. Eilem's assessments, worse case planning, and recommendations are important contributions to understanding and preparing for these threat scenarios."
Guy B. Roberts, Colonel USMC (Ret.) Former NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General
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Iran: Who Is Really In Charge?
by Camille Verleuw, Introduction by Alain Bauer
Born in a country with three official languages, and an acquaintance with Latin during high school, it was no surprise that author Camille Verleuw became interested in Indo-European linguistics, discovering the Persian language and its local Afghan or Tajik forms. Verleuw graduated from two schools of the Department of Letters, Translation & Communication of the Université Libre of Brussels (Belgium) before moving to the University of Teheran to specialize in iranistics while working as a writer for the French-language daily newspaper Le Journal de Téhéran. After the closure of the newspaper at the beginning of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Verleuw worked as a translator, a correspondent for European media, a media officer and an expert on Iranian affairs, including Shia Islam. Verleuw also spent long periods in Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
The present study is aimed at explaining the realities of a country which is only presented in the media for the sensational statements of some of its leaders or its deep involvement in the Middle East affairs. The image has been mostly negative for years, especially since the takeover of the American embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979, although the Iranian clerics' antagonism towards the United-States dates from the 1950s.
The recent signing of agreements between Iran and some Western countries carries many hopes for a restoration of better relations and a return to the international scene of a matured Iran. Many businessmen will head back to Tehran: the country is in fact extremely thirsty of procuring new technologies or materials to meet development capabilities in all areas. However, thirty-seven years of isolation has led Iran to become self-sufficient in many areas thanks to its young people who have never been forbidden to study in Western countries. The reader will be impressed by the intellectual level of the authorities as shown by the included biographies of the government members.
The land offers many opportunities, and this work highlights some of these areas. However, this study also cautions foreigners regarding their behavior and business opportunities while visiting Iran.
. The conference photography shows her as the lone woman. Secreted in the Semiramis Hotel, she and the other 'forty thieves' laid out policies whose failures (and Lawrence's disillusionment) are well known.
Therein lies the tragedy of her life, perhaps more of a tragedy that than of Lawrence. Almost none of the undertakings to the Arabs to which she was an enthusiastic participant were realized. There were a number of these promises, although they were less publicized than those made in the famous McMahon letters. For example, the assurances at the 1916 durbar at Kuwait were equally dishonored: the shaikh of Kuwait received a CSI and Ibn Saud got the KCIE along with pledges that with the defeat of the Turks: "The dream of Arab unity … has been brought nearer fulfillment than dreams are wont to come, but the role of presiding genius has been recast."
Instead of an Arabian viceregality that would justify the wonderful title of 'Viceroys of the Gulf,' or of a 'final' resolution of the region's conflicts, British Imperial administration be- tween the world wars became a long and unsatisfactory interlude in which little was accomplished. Hobson remarks in Imperialism about the use of 'masked worlds' and an Imperial Genius for inconsistency: "Most of the men who have misled … have first been obliged to mislead themselves." This was the case with Gertrude Bell, who committed suicide in 1926. After she and her friends departed the scene, the air went out if the balloon, and the 'countervailing disadvantages' of being misled became apparent to the Arabs. This little-known book is one key to heady days at Basra when the Middle East empire seemed likely.
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Invasions of the Gulf: Radicalism, Ritualism and the Shaikhs
by Paul Rich
The Gulf was ruled for a good part of the 19th and 20th centuries from India, and those who served there constituted a unique, small foreign service of their own. Their public (private boarding in American usage) school backgrounds taught them to believe in elitism and snobbery, which they passed on to their sheikhs who became obsessed with their own positions, their wealth, and rituals surrounding their majlis and the pompous titles of Highness and regal monarchy.
As Dr. Rich asks, if the British had come from ordinary schools would they have thought less about elitism and more about providing good education for their charges? Would the sheikhs have paid for education instead of thoroughbred racehorses? Would they still have treated Indians as houseboys?
The Resi dents did not see any incongruity between their own privileged education, and the lack of attention they paid to often appalling local conditions. If accused of neglect, the colonial rulers could reply that without them the Arabs of the Gulf would have been even worse off.
Dr. Rich's verdict on the years of British rule is far from favourable. His conclusion is that British achievements were decidedly modest, and that a legacy was left behind which combined the worst features of Indo-British and Arab tradition. The rulers of the Gulf need to take crash courses in history, pluralism and constitutionalism if they are to survive. If the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq had brought the Gulf to its senses, then some good might have come from it. Obviously not. Perhaps the world is reaping the results of British policy that left a system in the Gulf which could not adapt, burdened by frontiers which are now questioned. Stability accompanied by social inertia was what the century and a half of British rule provided.
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The Arab of Mesopotamia
by Gertrude Bell, Introduction by Paul Rich
One very determined woman incontestably held her own and more with the great figures of the Middle East in the early twentieth century. That was Gertrude Bell. Highly strung, petulant, aggressive, and gossipy, she occasionally provided tea but rarely sympathy to the extraordinary group of British imperial administrators whose adventures centered on Basra at the head of the Gulf in 1914–1916. Not enough has been made of the Barra cabal as a group rather than individuals. Nor have the machinations of the 'Basra gang' had the attention given to figures such as Lawrence of Arabia and General Allenby, individuals who when all is said and done were not deeply involved in Gulf and Iraqi affairs.
The Arab of Mesopotamia is a collection of once confidential briefing papers that Bell helped to produce for British army officers new to the Mesopotamian theater, published in Basra by a military printer. The tone confirms views that Gertrude Bell and her colleagues were interested in the possibility of playing on the world stage and wanted quiet in the shaikhdoms while they pursued notions of a Middle East empire that would rival the Indian empire. Heady plans were made for an Imperial service that would include Arabia, Iraq, the Trans-Jordan, and even the Sudan. While exiting, this 'mega outlook' was opposed to Arab concerns.
The apotheosis for Bell was reached in 1921 when Winston Churchill called a famous meet- ing of forty Middle East experts in Cairo. The conference photography shows her as the lone woman. Secreted in the Semiramis Hotel, she and the other 'forty thieves' laid out policies whose failures (and Lawrence's disillusionment) are well known.
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The War in the Cradle of the World
by Eleanor Franklin Egan, Introduction by Paul Rich
This book is an outstanding example of how the highly subjective and the autobiographical dominated writing about the Middle East in the first half of the twentieth century. Serious political analysis was thin on the ground. Egan was fortunate in the quality of her contacts in the area, including Lt. General Sir William Raine Marshall, who was General Maude's successor, Brig. General Robert Hughes and Admiral Sir Drury St. Aubyn Wake.
Wartime in Baghdad raises questions about the relationship between the British and the Americans in the Middle East. Early in the nineteenth century the British were apprehensive about American ships trading with the Arabs, and this suspicion of both the Arabs and the Americans continued through the years. After World War I British doubts grew. Unquestionably some of the American institutions in the Middle East were breeding grounds for Arab nationalists.
Eleanor Egan's book should not be read for what it tells about Baghdad during a war, but as a reminder that the United States in many ways has inherited the British position in the Gulf. The American military retains a considerable respect for British military traditions.
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The Ins and Outs of Mesopotamia
by Thomas Lyell, Introduction by Paul Rich
This highly opinionated book, written by a British officer in occupied Iraq, first appeared in 1923. Thomas Lyell was completely convinced of the necessity of the British presence in Iraq, and felt his book would help to enlighten Westerns as to the "true" nature of Iraqi life, complicated as it was by the various religious and political factions that existed within the country. Bigoted and prejudiced, though intensely pragmatic, this book is a truly startling expose of the attitude taken by British officers towards the indigenous peoples of the Gulf region, over whose day-to-day lives they were given charge.
Against a background of the British invasion of the First World War and the subsequent civil war, Lyell presents a portrait of life as he saw it. He explodes in detail the influence of religion on Arab life, both in its domination of everyday affairs and in the antipathy between orthodox Sunnis and unorthodox Shias, believing an appreciation of this to be crucial to any understanding of the area. Although his experiences as a criminal judge may have coloured his views towards the Arabs (whom he considered lawless and unfit for self-government), he is equally castigating of British, Jewish and Kurdish peoples in the region (bemoaning British folly in placing a Sunni of the throne of largely Shia Iraq, and referring to the Kurds as "untrained savages").
Commenting, in the final section of the book, on the possible future of Iraq, Lyell has grim warnings. He foresaw the influence of the Red Army in the area, the threat of a Kurdish revolution and, in the event of the British pulling out and leaving the Iraqis to govern themselves, a bleak future for the minority elements in the country: "… no conceivable guarantees in the world ensure their safety … All modern civilization and progress would be wiped out."
A Woman Tenderfoot in Egypt: 1920s Travel Recollections
by Grace Thompson Seton
The author, Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson (1872-1959) was a remarkable voyager to distant places. Her first work, A Woman Tenderfoot (1900), offered a detailed, illustrated guide for women to traverse, hunt and explore the Rocky Mountain area. She was an outspoken leader in the women's suffrage movement and other causes advancing women's rights both in the United States and around the world. She played a major part in directing aid to France during World War I, began the Biblioteca Femina, ser ved as president of the Connecticut Women Suffrage Association and Pen and Brush, among numerous other activities.
This work, A Woman Tenderfoot in Egypt, details her experiences in Egypt. She also explored China, India, Japan, parts of South America and numerous other places throughout her life, but particularly during the 1920s-30s. She wrote accounts of some her travels in works like Chinese Lanterns (1924) and Yes, Lady Saheb (1925).
This new edition is dedicated to Professor Marianne Marchand of the Universidad de las Américas Puebla, another traveler of note and a teacher of distinction.
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Two Years in Kurdistan: Experiences of a Political Officer, 1918-1920
by W. R. Hay, Introduction by Paul Rich
Kurdistan does not exist as a country, yet it certainly does exist as a nation. A people of great number and antiquity, united by a shared heritage, the Kurds are primarily scattered over five countries—Turley, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Russia. For a great many years they have played the unenviable role of pawns in the Middle East's turbulent power struggles, manipulated by governments using Kurdish troubles as a means of outmaneuvering their opponents.
William Rupert Hay was a British political officer who was in charge of the largely Kurdish district of Arbil in northern Iraq from 1918 to 1920. He was given the task of establishing and maintaining British rule in the area in the wake of the invasion of the First World War.
Two Years in Kurdistan is a detailed personal account of Hay's time in Arbil. It traces his progress from the initial warm welcome given by the Kurds (who were, in the wake of a war, living in terrible conditions and believed that British rule heralded the dawning of a new and better age) through disillusionment at stiffer taxes, tighter laws, and the failure of the British to significantly improve the quality of life to the eventual rebellion of 1920. Through all these events, Hay paints a vivid portrait of the people and places of northern Iraq and many extraordinary experiences, whether it be hunting the outlaw Nuri Bahil ("a patriot and a hero…a sort of Robin Hood"), conversing with the gregarious tribal chief Hama Agha (who claimed to be 130 and fathered a child when 90) or describing attempts on his own life.
The most important aspect of the book is that it explains the feelings held towards the region by a man who, many years later, was, as British Political Resident, to play a crucial role in shaping the modern Gulf. As Hay noted in 1921, with remarkable relevance to today, "Poor people, I am afraid they must have been bitterly disappointed of the high hopes for the future which they entertained."
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The Land of the Date
by C. M. Cursetjee
In December 1916 the SS Zaiyanni left Bombay bound for the port of Basra, at the head of the Persian Gulf. On board was C. M. Cursetjee, a 69-year-old Oxford-educated Indian Parsee, on his way to see his nephew who was serving in the Indian forces. The boat, carrying much commercial cargo, stopped at all the major ports on the voyage, and the author kept a diary of this remarkable journey upon which this book was based.
The Land of the Date is an exceptional study in that it provides important information in two areas. On the one hand, it furnishes a unique and highly entertaining record of life in the Gulf ports in the heady days of the First World War. Cursetjee brings the feel of the times vividly to life: from the pearl divers of Bahrain to the street traders of the bazaars of Basra, all are discussed and described, often with a dry humor.
The book also, however, serves to bring an Indian perspective to bear on the situation in the Gulf which, considering the large Indian involvement with the Empire's ventures in the region, has been greatly overlooked. Cursetjee emerges as a stanch imperialist, referring throughout to the greater potential for the future offering to the inhabitants by British rule and fully believing that the Gulf should be British after the war. He also encouraged Indian entrepreneurship in the region, seeing considerable commercial opportunities.
The author clearly foresaw strategic importance of Kuwait, due to its geographical relationship to the prime port of Basra, as well as the power that oil would have in the area's future. Whilst fully supporting the British in their Middle Eastern endeavors he was tellingly critical of their attitude in occupied areas, "if only British rule were impressed…with less of that overweening self-importance, haughty aloofness and mischief-brewing superciliousness with which the Britisher makes himself obnoxious in many lands."
Hadji in Syria, or, Three Years in Jerusalem
by Sarah Barclay Johnson
Sarah Barclay Johnson (1837-1885) traveled throughout the Middle East as a missionary in the Campbellite church. Her father, James Turner Barclay, was a minister in the
same church and wrote narratives about his missionary attempts in the region. Further solidifying her links to the area, Johnson married the US consul to Syria, Augustus Johnson.
Johnson's work, Hadji in Syria, is different from her father's writings because she focuses on the present day issues and her differing viewpoints from other travelers, notably J. Ross Browne. Still, the focus is largely Christianity in the area, as she examines the Church of the Holy Sepulcher controversies and battles ideas of Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox religious traditions. She also critiques the precarious role of women in the region from an American perspective.
This new edition is dedicated to Cheryl Walker, with hopes she travels far with distinction.
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The Middle East: New Order or Disorder?
Edited by Mohammed A. Aman, Ph.D. and Mary Jo Aman, MLIS
This book brings together edited papers contributed to this volume by presenters at the most recent Middle East Dialogue (MED Conference held annually in Washington, DC, and sponsored by the Policy Studies Organization (PSO), the Digest of Middle East Studies (DOMES), and supporting universities and organizations such as the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the American Public University System, the Next Century Foundation, Capital Communications Group, among others. Additional papers were invited from scholars and experts in Middle East and North African studies. Collectively, these contributions aim to enrich the literature and dialogue on issues affecting policy, diplomacy, and socioeconomic studies dealing with this volatile region of the world. Collectively, the authors of the book's 21 chapters bring to the reader a wealth of expertise and contributions to the broader scholarship on the Middle East, and the much hoped-for understanding and solutions to the region's conflicts.
Mohammed M. Aman, Ph.D. is Professor and former Dean of the School of Information Studies and Interim Dean of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed journal Digest of Middle East Studies (DOMES) and the online journal, Middle East Media & Book Reviews (MEMBR). Professor Aman is the author of more than 200 articles, book chapters and is author or editor of 15 books, among his latest are Post-Arab Spring: Review of the Literature; The Middle East Conflicts & Reforms; New Directions in the Middle East. Professor Aman consults for the USAID, USIS, UNESCO, UNIDO, and UNDP. Among the national and international honors he received: The P. N. Kaula Gold Medal Award, The American Library Association's OCLC—James A. Humphrey Award, the Wisconsin Library Association, and the Association of Library & Information Science Education, along with honors by governments and universities in Egypt, Libya, Kenya, Kuwait, among others.
Mary Jo Aman, MLIS is Associate Editor of the Digest of Middle East Studies (DOMES); Middle East Media & Book Reviews (MEMBR); Post-Arab Spring: Review of the Literature; The Middle East Conflicts & Reforms; and New Directions in the Middle East. Ms. Aman has also served on the boards of such organizations as the International Board of Books for Young People (IBBY); the Wisconsin Library Association, and has taught at St. John's University in New York, Cardinal Stritch
University, and UWM in Milwaukee, WI. She is the recipient of the Wisconsin State Senate Recognition Award; Citation of Merit from the Milwaukee Board of Supervisors; and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Ernest Spaights Award for Outstanding Contributions to UWM.
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Post Arab Spring: Middle East Reviews
Edited by Mohammed M. Aman PhD and Mary Jo Aman MLIS
The book brings together reviews of books published between 2012 and 2015 about the Middle East and North Africa. The subject coverage spans the humanities, arts, and social sciences but excludes books on science and technology. Reviews are written by experts in the respective subject area and offer detailed, informative and critical information designed to assist scholars, as well as librarians. These published reviews are supplemented by regularly published reviews that appear on the Middle East Media & Book Reviews web site, membr.uwm.edu. About the Editors Mohammed M. Aman, PhD is Professor and former Dean of the School of Information Studies and Interim Dean of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley-Blackwell/Policy Studies Organization (PSO) peer reviewed journal Digest of Middle East Studies (DOMES) and the online journal Middle East Media & Book Reviews (MEMBR).His academic experience includes teaching and senior administration at St. John's University and Long Island University in New York and since 1979 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Professor Aman is the author of more than 200 articles, book chapters and is author or editor of fourteen books. Mary Jo Aman, MLIS is Associate Editor of the Digest of Middle East Studies (DOMES) and the Middle East Media and Book Reviews (MEMBR) and former Editor of the Newsletter of the International Board of Books for Young People (IBBY). She is the co-editor of Middle East: Conflicts & Reforms; and New Directions in the Middle East. (PSO/Westphalia Press, 2014). Ms. Aman held a number of academic teaching and administrative positions. Ms. Aman has taught at St. John's University in New York; Cardinal Stritch College and UWM in Milwaukee, WI. She is the recipient of a number of awards among them: Wisconsin State Senate Recognition Award; Citation of Merit from the Milwaukee Board of Supervisors; and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Ernest Spaights Award for Outstanding Contributions to UWM.
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Egypt: The Death of Philae
by Pierre Loti, Translated by W. P. Baines
Louis Marie-Julien Viaud (1850-1923) adopted the pseudonym, Pierre Loti, while in Tahiti. He served in the French military, ultimately becoming a naval officer. His service led him to travels around the world, and his keen eye for observations was quickly recognized. He was encouraged by fellow officers to publicly share his travel accounts. He wrote detailed views of cities like Jerusalem, Istanbul and Algiers, and overall examinations of countries such as Senegal, Vietnam, Iceland, Japan, India and Egypt. His writings tied a deep appreciation for recounting vibrant details of life in regions around the world to stories of deep emotion, often blurring the line between fact and fiction.
The Death of Philae is a travelogue of Loti's visit to Egypt, in which he is quite aware of the imbalance of power in the region. He offers a sympathetic view of Egyptians and Islam, and notes the imposition of the British Empire on the region. The title comes from a description of the island of Philae, which was submerged after the development of the Aswan Dam by England across the Nile River.
Posted on April 27, 2015 February 16, 2016 Available for Purchase, Books
Syria the Land of Lebanon
by Lewis Gaston Leary, Preface by Paul Rich
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This emphatically is not a book about the territory now constituting Syria but about an era when the terms Lebanon and Syria were used in a politically incorrect inept way even by the foreign powers dominating the region. Leary's son, Lewis Gaston Leary Jr. (1877-1951) carried on the family literary tradition and was the William Rand Kenan Professor English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Extensive family papers are in the archives there.
Leary taught at what is now the American University in Beirut and during that time traveled extensively in the Middle East. He is a reminder that despite their troubles what are now Lebanon and Syria are full of visual joy.
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Toward the Abyss: Israel and the Palestinians
by Dr. Alon Ben-Meir
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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict does not appear to be any closer to a resolution, even after decades of continuous struggle. Since the signing of the historic Oslo Accords, the divide between the two sides has devolved to its lowest point yet, which has made the opportunity for peace ever more elusive. The disregard of the psychological dimension of the conflict, continuing occupation, rancorous public narratives, settlements enterprise, use of force, and failure of various peace negotiations over the past twenty years have glaringly demonstrated that the responsibility for the deadlock and the diminishing prospect of reaching a peace agreement any time soon falls squarely on both sides.
In this compelling series of essays, Dr. Alon Ben-Meir examines the various underlying issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and ultimately argues that the Israelis and Palestinians must take a hard, critical look at their current situation and decide what they want their future to be: a continuation of violent confrontations, or sustainable peace and security.
Dr. Alon Ben Meir is a professor and Senior Fellow at New York University's Center for Global Affairs and at the World Policy Institute. Ben-Meir is an expert on Middle East politics and affairs, specializing in international negotiations and conflict resolution.
Ben-Meir hosts "Global Leaders: Conversations with Alon Ben-Meir" with top policy-makers from around the world, held at NYU. He writes a weekly article that appears in scores of newspapers, magazines and websites, and has been featured on networks such as ABC, Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya, al Hurra, CNN, and NBC. Ben-Meir has authored eight books and is currently working on a new book about the psychological dimension of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Dr. Ben-Meir holds a master's degree in philosophy and a doctorate in international relations from Oxford University.
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Egypt and Its Betrayal: Personal Recollections by Elbert Farman
by Elbert E. Farman
Elbert E. Farman was a diplomat, jurist and author of two works, Along the Nile and Egypt and its Betrayal. The works were highlight influenced by Farman's perspective as the United States Ambassador to Egypt, where he served from 1876-81. During this time, he traveled with Ulysses S. Grant and his family after Grant had finished their time in the White House. Farman showed them around Egypt, visiting Cairo, Alexandria and the Nile. In Betrayal, Farman sharply criticizes the many labor, architectural and financial issues that the English occupation had caused in Egypt.
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Baghdad and Points East
by Robert J. Casey
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Robert Casey belonged to the generation of foreign correspondents who outdid Hollywood in their adventures. Cited for bravery in World War I, he then spent twenty-seven years as a columnist for the Chicago Daily News. His search for stories took him to Indochina and Cuba, the Pitcairn Islands and London during the Blitz, the D-Day invasion, and the liberation of Paris. Widely admired for his prose style and facility for anecdote, he had a particular fondness for this volume. His papers are at the Newberry Library in Chicago, waiting for what could be an exciting biography.
Posted on August 4, 2014 November 21, 2020 Available for Purchase, Books
Spring or Cruel Winter?: The Evolution of the Arab Revolutions
The Arab Spring, sparked by Tunisian university graduate turned street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi's act of self-immolation, is an ongoing, integral part of global transformation, ushering in a new era in which no ruler can deprive his citizens of their basic rights. However, this idealism was misjudged in certai n areas, specifically evidenced in the violent backlash against the peaceful protests in Syria, a tragedy which is still ongoing.
In this book, Dr. Ben-Meir evaluates the countries involved in the Arab Spring and their varying responses to the widespread calls for equality and social and political reforms across the Middle East. In particular, he examines the cultural, religious, political, and socioeconomic backgrounds of each of the affected countries and how these play a role in each country's interpretation of the Arab Spring.
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Posted on July 10, 2014 February 21, 2016 Available for Purchase, Available on Kindle, Books
A Trip to Palestine and Syria
by John P. Hackenbroch
In 1913, the same year that this nuanced and colorful account of the Middle East was published, a group of Arab students living in Paris proposed an international meeting about Syria and Lebanon to discuss the decay of the Ottoman Empire, the part the European powers were playing in the region, Zionist settlements in Palestine, and the signs of growing crisis in the region. The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs agreed to be the sponsor. The congress was held June 18-23 and there were delegates representing all the major faiths, as well as a spectrum of political positions, and a hopeful discussion that looked to the future. Of course World War I began in July 1914 and the Arab Congress of 1913 was not replicable. Nor of course were the travels of John Hackenbroch in this volume. A hundred years have passed and the problems remain.
Posted on June 16, 2014 May 17, 2019 Available for Purchase, Books
New Directions in the Middle East
Edited by Mohammed M. Aman and Mary Jo Aman
This book presents essays based on papers at the annual Middle East Dialogue held in Washington, D.C. sponsored by the Digest of Middle East Studies (DOMES) and the Policy Studies Organization ( PSO), and at the Conference of the Association for Middle Eastern Public Policy and Administration (AMEPPA) held in Ifrane, Morocco. The authors suggest much needed and even radical reforms amidst a series of conflicts that include the standoff between Israel and its Arab neighbors, the role and impact of social media as empowered by technology, and the citizens' shrill demands for political, economic, and social change. Those interested in crisis management and conflict resolution will find this a must read. The contributors represent an unusually wide variety of political and religious views and include a number who enjoy considerable standing in the Arab world.
"This exceptional work, composed of two volumes, 'Middle East: Conflicts & Reforms' and 'New Directions in the Middle East' is a magnum opus. In this book, edited by Mohammed M. Aman and Mary Jo Aman, the reader is introduced to a comprehensive and integrated erudite work addressed by a number of distinguished scholars from different disciplines dealing with the Middle East and North Africa, a most sensitive region of the world. The book identifies significant academic and public policy approaches as well as socio-economic, cultural, and political paradigms that bind together such timely topics as democracy, Islam, Islamism, sectarianism, secularism, globalism, modernity, Arab Spring, social justice, social media, leadership, women's rights, and peace. The book offers a unique and compelling assessment of the future of the Middle East. Objectively written and eloquently presented, this book will enhance the scholarship of the Middle East and assist in the understanding the ability of political systems, government or state and non-government or civil society, in handling and managing current challenges facing the region."
el-Sayed el-Aswad, Ph.D.
Prof. of Anthropology and Chair of Department of Sociology
United Arab Emirates University
"Many books have already been published about the complex nature of the Middle East region and North Africa in the wake of the Uprisings of 2011, however the uniqueness of "New Directions in the Middle East" is its in-depth analytical study of the new conceptual themes which the book argues in a detailed transdisciplinary manner to show-case the overbearing factors that are impacting the MENA region and taking it to new directions such as the 'public square dialogue' and the rise of 'digital democracy' which is becoming 'public democracy' as well as the social media which will all lead to accountability and transparency. The book articulates the new definition of leadership by exploring the many challenges facing the MENA region by addressing the need for adopting the 'complexity paradigm' based on realistic solutions to the economic and public policy challenges facing the countries and the people in the region. As a professor of Islamic and Middle East studies, I highly recommend the book as an important scholarly multi-disciplinary narrative for all those who are interested in de-codifying the realities emerging in the new Middle East."
Ambassador Sallama Shaker, Ph.D.
Full Clinical Professor of Middle East & Islamic Studies
Middle East Conflicts & Reforms
Edited by Mohammed M. Aman, PhD and Mary Jo Aman, MLIS
Since its inception, the annual Middle East Dialogue conference sponsored by the Digest of Middle East Studies (DOMES) journal and the Policy Studies Organization (PSO), has become a major international event that brings together leading scholars, diplomats, and policy makers, seeking possible solutions to persistent and often horrendous issues in the Middle East and North Africa. In this book, the events of the Arab Spring and its aftermath are very much on the writers' minds. Included are essays based on papers and debate at the Dialogue in Washington, D.C., and the Conference of the Association for Middle Eastern Public Policy and Administration held in Ifrane, Morocco. The authors were charged with presenting fair and balanced treatment of the controversies involving democratic aspirations, delayed reforms, strained governance and leadership, escalating economic challenges, bitter sectarian conflicts, and gross gender inequities. The fresh and sometimes startling approaches are a must read for anyone trying to make sense of the Middle East and North Africa.
"This volume is the most comprehensive and lucid collection to appear since the eruption of the so-called Arab Spring at the end of 2010. It provides "what everyone needs to know" about Middle East politics. Highly recommended to students, policymakers and academics. "
Khalil al-Anani, Ph.D.
Posted on January 22, 2014 April 9, 2016 Available for Purchase, Available on Kindle, Books
Eight Decades in Syria
by A.J. McFarland
The Reformed Presbyterian Church is a very small denomination of about six thousand members that at one time had a presence in the Middle East. This scarce record of its activities amongst the Arabs was compiled by Andrew James McFarland, 1869-1952, a missionary clergyman who spent most of his life in Syria despite all the upheavals in the region. In fact, during World War I when the Ottoman Empire was at war with the Allies and most non-Muslims fled, Reverend McFarland remained in Mersine, billeting a German officer and helping treat wounded Turkish soldiers.
Those interested in Syrian history will find the list of clergy valuable as their papers can be located in archives such as those at two of the sect's institutions, Geneva College and its theological seminary, for insights about the Syrian situation in their time. Of course the 1919 peace settlement meant the dismemberment of the Ottoman territories and the French suzerancy over present day Syria, but the missions stayed on for many years.
Eventually the churches and schools that McFarland established disappeared, but the diaries, correspondence, and reports of nearly a century of Reformed Presbyterian activity are an underused and important resource. This is one of a number of scarce Middle East titles that Westphalia has published to promote interest in neglected archives.
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Posted on September 5, 2013 April 9, 2016 Available for Purchase, Available on Kindle, Books
Gunboat and Gun-runner
by T.T. Jeans
Admiral T.T. Jeans was a decorated British Naval officer with considerable experience in the Middle East. He wrote this fast-moving novel based on his experiences and those of his com patriots. The plot turns on efforts of Iran to stir trouble by providing arms to Middle Eastern insurgents. While published in 1927, it could as well have been written about arms smuggling in the 21st century, which makes policing the waters of the Gulf a present priority.
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Posted on June 28, 2013 April 5, 2016 Available for Purchase, Available on Kindle, Books
War in Syria: R. M.P. Preston's The Desert Mounted Corps
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During World War I, some of the most daring military excursions were carried out in the Middle East by the Desert Mountain Corps during 1917 and 1918. The Corps included substantial numbers from Australia and other parts of the then British Empire. Much of their activity was in what is now Syria. Given the later problems of the region and the current civil war in Syria, albeit today a Syria with different boundaries than then, the battles fought by the DMC have considerable interest.
The original printed volume of The Desert Mounted Corps contained two fold-out map inserts, which have been reproduced in miniature in this new edition. The links below lead to full size, full color scans of those inserts.
MAP 1, between pgs 122 & 123
Posted on April 22, 2013 June 22, 2020 Available for Purchase, Available on Kindle, Books
Making Trouble for Muslims: A. Rawlinson's Adventures in the Near East
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Sir Alfred Rawlinson, the son of a famous Orientalist and envoy to Persia, was himself a pioneer aviator, celebrated sportsman, and important British intelligence officer. As a colonel in the British intelligence corps, he played a significant role in the Middle East. His capture, imprisonment, and unhappy deprivations at the hands of the Turks was in its time a celebrated incident.
Since the concept of Orientalism was popularized by Edward Said, the notion that views of the Muslim world were colored and slanted by Western prejudices has revised attitudes of the British imperial cadre that were such an influence on the region. Lawrence of Arabia and his contemporaries have been much more closely scrutinized than they were by earlier generations of scholars. So Sir Alfred's book can be read both as an eyewitness account of a highly formative era and for his attitudes so candidly expressed in this still exciting book.


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What do O. J. Simpson, Scott Peterson, Neil Entwistle and the timeless seducers of literature epitomized by the figures of Don Juan and Casanova have in common? They are charming, charismatic, glib and seductive men who also embody some of the most dangerous human qualities: a breathtaking callousness, shallowness of emotion and the fundamental incapacity to love. To such men, other people, including their own family members, friends and lovers, are mere objects or pawns to be used for their own gratification and sometimes quite literally discarded when no longer useful or exciting. In other words, these men are psychopaths.
If there's one thing helpful to learn from psychology it's the dangerous characteristics of these social predators, so that we can recognize them more easily and avoid them whenever possible. By definition, a predator is "one that preys, destroys or devours." Not exactly boyfriend or spouse material, yet psychopaths manage to lure numerous partners into their nets. Most of us are used to hearing the largely interchangeable terms "psychopath" and "sociopath" applied only to serial killers such as Ted Bundy or to murderers such as Scott Peterson. These men made national headlines for remorselessly killing strangers or family members. However, as Robert D. Hare documents in Without Conscience, only a very small percentage of psychopaths actually murder. Whether or not they do is not what makes them psychopathic or dangerous to others. Most psychopaths wreak havoc in our daily lives in more subtle yet sometimes equally destructive "sub-criminal" ways. They may engage in a pattern of deception and betrayal, an endless string of seductions, emotional and psychological abuse of their loved ones, domestic violence or the financial exploitation of others.
As lovefraud.com, the website started by Donna Andersen to help victims indicates, psychopaths are exceptionally selfish individuals who lack empathy. Consequently, they're incapable of forming real love bonds with others. They establish instead "dominance bonds," claiming possession of those closest to them rather than genuinely caring for family members, lovers and friends. Their top goal is control, their principal weapon is deceit and their main means is seduction: sometimes physical, but most often psychological in nature. Moreover, it's not just the naïve and the gullible that get taken in by them. Anybody can fall prey to the psychopathic charm. As Martha Stout illustrates in The Sociopath Next Door, psychopaths tend to be extremely charismatic. They say all the right things to reel you in. They're also supremely self-confident, highly sexual, have low impulse control and are amazingly good liars. Like real-life vampires, they feed upon people's dreams, vulnerabilities and emotions. They move from person to person, always for their personal advantage, no matter under what other-regarding pretext or guise. Only the most notorious cases make it into the news or get profiled by popular shows such as Forensic Files, Cold Case Files and Dateline. But there are millions of psychopaths in this country alone who poison, in one way or another, tens of millions of lives.
Unfortunately, their personality disorder often passes unnoticed until they commit a horrific crime. Some psychopaths, like Charles Manson, would appear crazy to a normal person even from miles away. In those cases, psychopathy is probably compounded by psychotic tendencies which render the disorder much more obvious to others. But most psychopaths move among us undetected. Scott Peterson, Mark Hacking and Neil Entwistle appeared to be normal young men even to those who thought they knew them best, such as their spouses, parents, in-laws and friends. In fact, in some respects, they seemed better than normal. According to their family members and friends, they could be exceptionally charming. Nothing in particular led them to kill their wives and babies. The media has ascribed traditional motives to their crimes, such as financial distress, girlfriends on the side and the desire for freedom or promiscuous sex. But these motives don't even begin to explain the viciousness, gratuitousness and callousness of their acts. Perhaps one can understand, even if not condone, lack of empathy towards strangers. As history has shown time and time again, it may be easier, in certain circumstances, to dehumanize those one doesn't know more intimately. But these men killed those who loved them most, trusted them fully and were closest to them. They murdered their innocent babies and wives who were either pregnant or had just given birth to their children. They didn't become "crazy" all of a sudden due to a crisis. In some cases, marital squabbles or financial distress may have functioned as a catalyst. But the underlying personality disorder that enabled these men to commit such vicious crimes was present before, during and after the gruesome murders that rendered it visible to the public eye.
What distinguishes a psychopath who commits murder from one who doesn't isn't his conscience, since all psychopaths lack it. What makes the difference may be nothing more than his desires, opportunities, whims and short-term objectives. Most psychopaths choose to dispose of an inconvenient wife or girlfriend in the traditional manner. They divorce or break up with her. A few, like Scott Peterson, Mark Hacking and Neil Entwistle, decide that murder is the better route for them. Such men believe that they're clever enough to fool the police and get away with their crimes. They commit murder to appear to be grieving spouses rather than risk being unmasked for what they really are even before the crimes: empty souls hiding behind a façade of lies. What a psychopath is capable of doing in order to protect his phony good image or to fulfill his deviant desires can't be predicted in advance.
For normal people, it's difficult to imagine such a disordered human being. To most of us, the psychopath represents a distant danger or an abstraction. It's a concept we can comprehend intellectually, but not on an emotional level. Yet this is precisely what Martha Stout asks us to envision: "Imagine—if you can—not having a conscience, none at all, no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what you do, no limiting sense of concern for the well-being of strangers, friends or even family members. Imagine no struggles with shame, not a single one in your whole life, no matter what kind of selfish, lazy, harmful, or immoral action you have taken…" (The Sociopath Next Door, 1) Her conclusion to this thought exercise is quite clear. Without a conscience, one can do anything at all. No evil act is beneath a psychopath. Once his crime is discovered, people tend to say that they never knew such evil existed. Unfortunately, it does. What's worse, it's common and well hidden enough to present a danger to us all.
Dr. Robert Hare, author of Without Conscience, Snakes in Suits and of the Psychopathy Checklist, which is administered in prisons and psychiatric institutions, estimates that about 1 percent of the population is psychopathic. Because this personality disorder ties into aggression and the need for dominance, the percentage tends to be higher in men than in women. What do psychopaths look like? They look, and superficially even behave, just like the rest of us. They come from every social class, every race, every ethnicity, every nationality, every kind of background and upbringing. They tend to be smarter than average. Some become successful businessmen, lawyers, doctors, psychiatrists, writers, teachers, artists and scholars. They can be exceptionally charming. They say all the right things to get what they want, without fumbling or sounding artificial. Lacking any real emotional ties to preoccupy them, they're easily bored and crave constant excitement. Having no conscience yet being glib, they're compelling pathological liars. They rationalize everything they do, including rape and murder. Consequently, they fail to accept responsibility for anything they do wrong. Since they know no loyalty to anything or anyone but themselves, they don't play by any rules. Like the Joker in the blockbuster movie, The Dark Knight, they don't even bond with other outlaws. Even that would require having some loyalty and abiding by some subversive principles. Psychopaths, however, are rebels without a cause. Once they reach adulthood, their character solidifies and their personality disorder becomes unfixable.
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Components makers find Apple orders less juicy
Apple has informed its upstream partners it will stop paying non-recurring engineering (NRE) fees for the development of new iPhones' chassis and metal frames, according to industry sources.
Earlier in 2019, Quanta Computer, which had been a key manufacturer of the Apple Watch, reportedly did not accept orders for the 2020 model, and the new models are expected to be assemble primarily by Foxconn Technology Group (Hon Hai Precision Industry) and Compal Electronics next year.
Quanta chairman Barry Lam has pointed out that profitability is the most important thing for the company and if a product constantly requires an intensive input of workforce, it is not sensible to go on.
Lam did not name Apple in his remarks, but the sources noted that it shows that Apple's products, despite their rising sales, may not always guarantee reasonable profits for the manufacturing partners
Apple has also revised its business strategy, giving more emphasis on services. In Apple's fiscal fourth-quarter ended September 28, 2019, US$12.51 billion came from its services, up from US$10.6 billion made in the same period a year ago. The business was also the second largest source of revenues for Apple behind only the iPhone.
After peaking at 231 million units in 2015, iPhones' annual sales have never returned to the same level. Although iPhone 11 has enjoyed better-than-expected demand, its sales are still unlikely to outdo the 2015 record.
As it has reached a bottleneck as far as profits from hardware are concerned, Apple is pushing services, cutting hardware costs, and tightening control of the supply chain, the sources said, adding Apple's orders are not as attractive as they used to be.


The F-1 visa holder international students are permitted to work only if the certain criteria and conditions are met. The F-1 visa holders have the benefit of changing to H1B visa if they meet the conditions required for it. Issues Faced By International Students Having F-1 Visa are in various forms. The change of status is permitted for international students to the category of part time and the full time working. An H-1B status is a category for temporary workers who are to be temporarily employed in specialized occupations. A specialty occupation is defined as one that requires the theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge and which requires the attainment of a bachelor's degree or higher in some specially recognized course in United States of America.
The issues with the change of status is to find the right employer who is willing to provide sponsorship and file the petition for the respective candidate. This has to be the first step which has to be carried out efficiently to avoid the repetition of process.
If the H1B petition is approved then only the candidate is granted to have the H1B status and take the advantage of its related benefits. On the approval of the H1B visa the individual candidate is permitted to stay in United States for maximum six years. The total time period is limited which cannot be further extended unless the candidate/employee files for the Green Card during the stay in USA after five years of living in USA.
Another problem out of various issues that hinders that H1B visa is the cap gap and limitation on the quota of the total number of H1B visa granted every year. H1B visa keeps renewing every year and takes into effect in the October month every year.
This is the date when the people who are granted the H1B visa can start their work. The H1b visa granters cannot work for their employers unless their visa gets into effect. If the person applying for the H1b visa is an international student holding the F1 visa status, then his work permit for OPT must have ended with the end of term. This is the gap where the respective student has no legal work authorization. The student must have almost the F1 status in this gap and will not be having the H1B work status. The duration between end of the legal OPT period and start of legal H1B visa work authorization is regarded as the gap. The kind of law which ensures regulation in the work period is known as "cap-gap" extension.
The advantage of OPT extension can only be taken if the student files for the H1B visa while the OPT work period has not expired. This process allows the student to work unless the legal procedure for the H1B visa has been completed. The rules for the extension are strict, if the petition for the H1B visa has been filed in the duration when OPT has expired then extension is not permitted. This period allow the person to stay in USA but does not give permission to work.
If at any case the visa application gets denied then the candidate gets the liberty to stay in the USA enjoying the grace period of 60 days completing the incomplete task and the remaining procedure.
Other kind of problem is the traveling issue faced while the student is on the F1 visa status and additionally going through the cap-gap extension. Travelling outside the USA is prohibited and the penalty can be rejection of visa.
Once after the H1B petition has been filed the person should report the DSO with the required proof of filed application from USCIS. The received receipt can act as a proof to show in the office. The DSO will issue a cap-gap I-20 indicating the continued extension of F-1 visa status. If person needs to travel abroad, he will need to apply for H1B visa and enter no more than 10 days before 1st October if H1B petition gets approved. Travelling requires to be completed in time and return back to USA as soon as possible.
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