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More than 50 members of Congress, led by Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), sent a letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Matthews Burwell and to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins on January 11, 2016, urging the agencies "to utilize your existing statutory authority to respond to the soaring cost of pharmaceuticals" to address "price gouging" by pharmaceutical manufacturers. In particular, the members of Congress requested that NIH reverse its longstanding interpretation of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 and to now exercise statutory "march-in" rights to effectuate price controls on patented drugs developed in whole or in part with federal funds.
Secretary Burwell, testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee on February 10, 2016, was asked whether the letter was being given "thorough consideration." In response, Secretary Burwell stated: "Your letter we have received, thank you, and we are continuing to try and pursue every administrative option. We've proposed legislative and statutory changes as a part of the budget, but are looking at a wide array, of which we welcome your letter and your suggestions."
Although this congressional request has been resolved favorably to the licensees of patented drugs developed in whole or in part with federal funds (as we describe below), the issue of price substantiation and of balancing a drug's price with its impact on patient outcomes is very much top of mind for payers, including the federal government. This is the first in a series of alerts focused on little-known retained rights and what pharmaceutical manufacturers should be doing to support the price being charged for drugs.
The goals and objectives of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 are: "to use the patent system to promote the utilization of inventions arising from federally supported research or development; to encourage maximum participation of small business firms in federally supported research and development efforts; to promote collaboration between commercial concerns and nonprofit organizations, including universities; to ensure that inventions made by nonprofit organizations and small business firms are used in a manner to promote free competition and enterprise without unduly encumbering future research and discovery; to promote the commercialization and public availability of inventions made in the United States by United States industry and labor; to ensure that the Government obtains sufficient rights in federally supported inventions to meet the needs of the Government and protect the public against nonuse or unreasonable use of inventions; and to minimize the costs of administering policies in this area." 35 U.S.C. §200.
To effectuate these goals and objectives, the act articulates rules governing the licensing of federal-government-owned inventions. In addition, in a significant change from the prior scheme of the government generally owning patentable inventions developed by contractors with the support of federal funds, the act grants rights to government contractors to elect title to inventions developed with federal funding. (These rights to retain ownership were expanded beyond small businesses and nonprofits by Executive Order 12591 in 1983.) The contractor then could advance and commercialize the inventions by licensing to third parties.
Safeguarding against the lack of use or misuse of retained ownership rights, the act also retains certain rights in the federal government. First, the federal funding agency retains "a nonexclusive, nontransferrable, irrevocable, paid-up license to practice or have practiced for or on behalf of the United States any subject invention throughout the world." 35 U.S.C. §202(c)(4). Second, the federal funding agency retains the right to request "the contractor, an assignee or exclusive licensee of a subject invention to grant a nonexclusive, partially exclusive, or exclusive license in any field of use to a responsible applicant or applicants, upon terms that are reasonable under the circumstances." 35 U.S.C. §203(a).
In the event the contractor, assignee or licensee refuses the request from the federal funding agency, under certain limited circumstances, the federal funding agency has the power to require the contractor, assignee or licensee to grant the license. This power, known as the "march-in" right, is available only in one of the following circumstances:
Thus, while the contractor obtains title to the invention, that title is not absolute. The federal funding agency may either: (a) exercise its royalty-free rights in the invention for or on behalf of the federal government, or (b) assert its march-in rights to require the grant of a license to a third party. These federally retained rights are what are at issue both in the requests of the members of Congress to Secretary Burwell and Director Collins, and in a petition relating to the federally funded patented drug enzalutamide discussed below.
Importantly to the bio-pharma industry—which often relies on the government for funding of novel technologies, or for collaborations to address emerging threats such as Zika and Ebola viruses—at no time since the enactment of the Bayh-Dole Act has NIH exercised its march-in rights. On five occasions, in response to requests that it exercise those rights, the NIH has issued determinations explaining its rationale for declining to exercise march-in rights. In three of those determinations, the requesters cited pricing as the basis for requesting the exercise of march-in rights.
The NIH has consistently determined that cost or pricing of inventions is not appropriately addressed through a march-in proceeding. In the first of the determinations, "In the Case of Novir® Manufactured by Abbott Laboratories, Inc. (2004)," the NIH stated:
Finally, the issue of the cost or pricing of drugs that include inventive technologies made using Federal Funds is one which has attracted the attention of Congress in several contexts that are much broader than the one at hand. In addition, because the market dynamics for all products developed pursuant to licensing rights under the Bayh-Dole Act could be altered if prices on such products were directed in any way by NIH, the NIH agrees with the public testimony that suggested that the extraordinary remedy of march-in is not an appropriate means of controlling prices. The issue of drug pricing has global implications and, thus, is appropriately left for Congress to address legislatively. [Italics added]
The second determination, "In the Case of Xalatan® Manufactured by Pfizer, Inc. (2004)," resulted in a very similar statement:
Finally, the issue of the cost or pricing of drugs that include inventive technologies made using Federal Funds is one which has attracted the attention of Congress in several contexts that are much broader than the one at hand. In addition, because the market dynamics for all products developed pursuant to licensing rights under the Bayh-Dole Act could be altered if prices on such products were directed in any way by NIH, the NIH agrees with the public testimony that suggested that the extraordinary remedy of march-in is not an appropriate means of controlling prices. The issue of whether drugs should be sold in the United States for the same price as they are sold in Canada and Europe has global implications and, thus, is appropriately left for Congress to address legislatively. [Italics added]
More recently, in 2013, Novir® again was at issue in the determination "In the Case of Novir® Manufactured by AbbVie (2013)." Several public interest groups requested the NIH exercise march-in rights with respect to Novir primarily because of the drug's pricing. The requestors proposed two rules relating to price: (1) establishing a rebuttable presumption that the price for a drug in the US is not reasonable if it is greater than the price in seven of the 10 largest countries; and (2) requiring the secretary of HHS to grant licenses to third parties to use NIH funded inventions subject to the payment of a reasonable royalty and appropriate field of use. The NIH, in a determination signed by Director Collins, reached the following conclusion:
We do not think that the AbbVie pricing policies and pricing disparities between the United States and other countries trigger any of the four Bayh-Dole march-in criteria...
The NIH is sensitive to the impact of the pricing of drugs and their availability to patients. As in 2004, when similar pricing and availability issues were raised and discussed at public hearings, the NIH's role in the present case is limited to compliance with the Bayh-Dole Act, including its march-in criteria...
Drug pricing and patient access are broad and challenging issues in the United States. The NIH continues to agree with the public testimony in 2004 that the extraordinary remedy of march-in is not an appropriate means of controlling prices of drugs broadly available to physicians and patients. [Italics added]
Secretary Burwell recognized these prior precedents in her March 2, 2016, response to Rep. Doggett. In her response letter, Secretary Burwell stated:
The NIH considered using its march-in authority to address drug pricing concerns in 2004 for Novir® (ritonavir) and Xalatan® (latanoprost), and in 2013 for the pricing of Novir® a second time... In each review, the NIH considered whether the marketed drug met the statutory requirements to justify use of the march-in authority and determined that it did not." [footnotes omitted]
As the conclusion to her response, Secretary Burwell did note the following:
NIH considers the application of the march-in statute on a case-by-case basis, and is prepared to use its authority if presented with a case where the statutory criteria are met regarding the commercialization and use of an NIH-funded, patented invention, and where march-in could in fact alleviate health or safety needs, or address a situation where effective steps are not being taken to achieve practical application of the inventions. After consulting with the NIH, we believe the statutory criteria are sufficiently clear and additional guidance is not needed.
In the meantime, the opportunity for NIH to change its long-held positon on the impropriety of exercising march-in rights to effectuate price controls on patented drugs developed with federal funds was put before the NIH. On January 14, 2016, Knowledge Ecology International and the Union for Affordable Cancer Treatment submitted a request to Secretary Burwell, Director Collins and Defense Secretary Ashton Carter. They requested that the federal government "use its rights in patents for the prostate cancer drug (enzalutamide), marketed under the brand name Xtandi by Japan-based Astellas Pharma... Specifically, we ask the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and/or the Department of Defense (DoD) to use its royalty-free rights in the relevant patents, or to grant this request for march-in rights." The basis for this request is that: "This is a product that has an average wholesale price (AWP) of $129,269 per year, and which is far more expensive in the United States than in other countries."
The requestors also make a broader request: "More generally, we ask the U.S. federal government to adopt the policy that the federal government will use its royalty free rights, or grant licenses under federal march-in rights, when prices in the United States are excessive, and/or higher than they are in high income foreign countries, and to apply that policy in this case for patents on enzalutamide."
With respect to this request relating to Xtandi, and in response to Secretary Burwell's March 2, 2016, letter, Rep. Doggett issued the following statement:
When Americans pay for research that results in a pharmaceutical, that drug should be available at a reasonable price. While establishing guidance to discourage widespread price gouging is clearly justified, I am pleased that the Administration is prepared to use existing authority on a case-by-case basis to address this problem.
It should do so immediately by responding favorably to the pending petition for Xtandi, a prostate cancer drug, which taxpayers funded through U.S. Army and NIH grants. A Japanese licensee, Astellas, is charging Americans $129,000 for this drug, which sells in Japan and Sweden for $39,000, and in Canada for $30,000. Nowhere in the world is it remotely as expensive in the United States. Licensing patents to competitors would mean lower drug prices through competition.
An unaffordable drug is 100% ineffective. Americans shouldn't have to choose between their lives and their livelihoods on this and many other outrageously priced pharmaceuticals.
Rep. Doggett's statement, however, fails to take into account the more than 10 years of consistent and repeated NIH determinations, as recited in Secretary Burwell's reply, that NIH does not have the authority to exercise its retained rights on the basis of pricing or cost. Secretary Burwell's reaffirmation of this position in her reply to Rep. Doggett should give some level of comfort to pharmaceutical manufacturers that are subject to federal retained rights.
However, the focus and attention on drug pricing is not likely to go away. In our next bulletin, we will address the key aspects of price substantiation that all pharmaceutical manufacturers should focus on, and for which they are developing their strategy and position.
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The alpha roll is a controversial dog training technique. The theory behind the training method is to teach the dog that the trainer is the pack leader (or alpha animal). Misbehaving dogs are pinned on their back and held in that position, sometimes by the throat.
The alpha roll was first popularized by the Monks of New Skete, in the 1978 book "How To Be Your Dog's Best Friend",[1] however, in the 2002 second edition of the book, the monks recanted and strongly discouraged the technique, describing it as "too risky and demanding for the average dog owner."[2] Although the 1978 book is widely regarded as a classic in dog training literature and highly recommended for people trying to better understand their dog, the alpha roll is now highly controversial among animal behaviorists because the theory of canine dominance has since been questioned. In the original context, the alpha roll was meant to be used only in the most serious cases.[3]
The theory behind the alpha roll is based on a research study of captive wolves kept in an area too small for their numbers and composed of members that wouldn't be found together in a wild pack. These conditions resulted in increased numbers of conflicts that scientists today know are not typical of wolves living in the wild.[4] Behaviors seen in wolves (specifically the alpha roll) living in atypical social groups and crowded conditions do not translate to domestic dog training, especially because using the technique can be harmful to both the handler and the dog.[5]
It has been argued by some that a dog will only forcibly flip another onto its back during a serious fight where the intent may be to kill the opponent.[6]
The name "alpha roll" is considered to be a misnomer by some wolf researchers because the practice when used as a behavioral correction bears little relation to the natural behavior shown by wild wolves. David Mech refers to this behavior as "pinning", a dominance behavior.[7] These dominance behaviors are shown significantly more often by the breeding pair of the pack, indicating they do not serve as a behavioral correction or punishment, nor as a reinforcement of the dominance of the breeding pair. On the other hand, dyadic play between wolves involves behavior like pinning. Wolf puppy play demonstrates that puppies prefer to assume the dominant role in play and avoid the submissive roles such as being pinned.[citation needed] This indicates that dogs do not instinctively panic if they are forced into this submissive position against their will. Although neither of these positions speaks directly to the issue of whether the alpha roll is an effective correction tool, it does call into question the behavioral validity of the technique.
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Position statements on dominance released by AVSAB[3] question the science behind training techniques that rely on dominance theory. They recommend the alpha roll should never be used by inexperienced trainers, and never to correct undesired behavior caused by the dog's failure to understand a command. Used in a controlled way and coupled with praise and rewards when the dog changes its behavior appropriately, it may have positive effect, but there is disagreement about its long-term effectiveness and safety. A 2009 study[citation needed] by the University of Bristol's Department of Clinical Veterinary Sciences showed that methods of handling that relied on dominance theory actually provoked aggressive behavior in dogs with no previous known history of aggression. The study also examined the development of hierarchy in domestic dogs and found that no definitive hierarchical structure developed within the group, leading study authors to question the alpha role in this group.[8]
- ^ The Monks of New Skete (1978). How To Be Your Dog's Best Friend. Little, Brown & Company. ISBN 0-316-60491-7.
- ^ The Monks of New Skete (2002). How To Be Your Dog's Best Friend (2 ed.). Little, Brown & Company. ISBN 0-316-61000-3.
In the original edition of this book, we recommended a technique we termed "the alpha-wolf rollover"...We no longer recommend this technique and strongly discourage its use to our clients.... The conditions in which it might be used effectively are simply too risky and demanding for the average dog owner; there are other ways of dealing with problem behavior that are much safer and, in the long run, just as effective.
- ^ a b American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior. "Position statement on the use of dominance theory in behavior modification of Animals" (PDF). American Veterinary Society of Animal Behavior. Archived from the original on 16 December 2011. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
- ^ Adam Miklosi (2007). Dog Behavior, Evolution and Cognition. Oxford University Press. pp. 83–93. ISBN 978-0-19-295852-5.
- ^ Yin, S. "New study finds popular "Alpha Dog" training techniques can cause more harm than good". Archived from the original on 15 August 2011. Retrieved 5 May 2011.
- ^ Wilde, N. (2001). "Leadership vs. Dominance". Retrieved 8 October 2007.
- ^ Mech, L.D. (1999). "Alpha status, dominance, and division of labor in wolf packs". Canadian Journal of Zoology. 77: 1196–1203. doi:10.1139/z99-099.
- ^ Bradshaw, John W.S.; Blackwell, Emily J.; Casey, Rachel A. "Dominance in domestic dogs—useful construct or bad habit?". Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research. 4 (3): 135–144. doi:10.1016/j.jveb.2008.08.004.


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ALTOONA, Iowa - Jockey Cindy Murphy, who was seriously injured in a spill leaving the starting gate at Prairie Meadows on May 11, has announced her retirement.
Murphy, who rode under her maiden name as Cindy Springman from 1987 to 1989 and as Cindy Noll during and after her first marriage from 1990 to 2005, suffered spinal cord injuries after her mount Ninnescah stumbled badly leaving the gate, sending Murphy head first to the ground. Ninnescah's hind hooves caught Murphy in the head area after she was unseated.
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Murphy is living in Oklahoma with her three children and her husband, Travis Murphy, and will not be able to attend Friday's fund-raiser.
"Before this happened, my kids were concerned about my health and that I would have another spill. They support my decision to retire," she said. "My family is my main concern."
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Not to be confused with Edge Guarder.
Death By Air, or known as "God's Move", is a cheap last-effort attack to critically damage or waste an enemy.
This involves the player (or any car) flying into the air to meet the victim. When they crash, the victim will fly VERY far away, sometimes wasting them on collision. This is seen most in The Gun Run and Ghosts and Magic.If the player would try to attempt this, make sure he is using a very good stunting car as so to Forward Loop into the enemy.
All the AI cars will do this, if not on purpose.
A good choice is Radical One because of his high stunting ability, and he will take minimal damage once he does this.
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According to IGN it's a very decent action RPG. And since I am coo coo for action RPGs I'm willing to try it.
I played the US release of this for a while and i found it pretty good, as there are more to it than just running and mashing buttons, even if they could have removed the way that you wake up the fossils (this game does not need a Wii-music-like portion ;p) but i didnt play it long enough to give it a fair review.
Yeah, At first I thought this might be... 'meh'
I've not played it! But yes, reviews have been pretty good for it. I'll definitely give it a try.
Nice game been playing it all day. Looks like it could be vast, really hope so. Kind of reminds me of Phantasy Star offline with Pokémon type elements.
Works with neogamma default settings... M
Great game, played the NTSC alot.
For the people that can´t start it with the cfg loader, here is how it can be done:
Other than the NTSC I can´t boot it with cfg and hermes ios 223 (36 and 37 merged) (one time i had luck. than no time else, don´t know why)
So i extracted the main.dol from partition one using Wiiscrubber.
Renamed it to RXXP.dol and put it into SD:/usb-loader/ folder.
started cfg , selecteted spectrobes and set under options alt. dol to "SD".
now it boots the dol from sd and starts the game.


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What You Need to Know About Nursing Care and Aging
So, what do nursing homes have to do with estate planning? When most people think about estate planning, they almost exclusively think of a Last Will & Testament, but a Will only works AFTER you pass away. A Will sets out what will happen, who's in charge, and where your assets will go AFTER your death. Around the office, we refer to this as "death planning" because the plan you make goes into effect after you're gone.
Because people are living longer, a new aspect of estate planning has emerged over the last decade. And this new type of planning is just as important as the traditional "death planning." We call this form of planning, "Life Care Planning," because it addresses the type of care you may need toward the end of your life.
It is difficult to face, but statistics tell us that 70% of people who reach the age of 70 will need some sort of long-term care (like a nursing home). The need for long-term care happens because of stroke, dementia or any number of health problems. When serious health issues crop up, you and your family will come face to face with the following questions:
- How do we pay for good care?
- How do we keep peace in the family during this extremely stressful time?
- How do we protect our loved one's life savings if the average cost of a nursing home in Central Illinois is $78,000/year?
- How can we take maximum advantage of the help available to pay for good care?
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When it comes to needing assistance as you age, there are basically three choices:
- Stay at home with help. Many prefer to stay in their own home and hire someone to help with light housekeeping, meal preparation, bathing assistance or the activities of daily living (ADLs). However, in-home medical help can quickly become too expensive for most families.
- Move to an assisted living facility. At an assisted living facility, you have your own living space, meals provided in a common dining area, and social activities. In addition, they can help with care needs such as bathing and medication. In order to be in assisted living, one generally needs to be mobile (able to get to the dining room, get in and out of bed, etc.).
- Enter nursing home care. Most of us would like to avoid this option, but it is often a reality as medical complications from aging begin to stack up. In addition to meals and social activities, nursing homes provide around-the-clock-care, administer medications, offer rehabilitation (in the form of Physical Therapy or Occupational Therapy), etc.
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MaxMini have produced a new bust on their 3D printer; the beautiful features of a Green Alliance goblin.
MaxMini have said that this bust will be available soon and that it was intended to bring a bit of Green Alliance goodness to those who were unfortunate enough to miss the Kickstarter, but still hanker for some WWII American style greenskins.
All things considered, this 3D print is very impressive in terms of quality and detail. It's a very clean sculpt, with every wart, wrinkle and ear nick clearly picked out. This makes this bust the perfect painting project for anyone looking to show off their skills with green paint.
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For more than 10 years the only way to access ZoBio technology was to start at the beginning with screening a fragment library. We are now happy to announce the availability of 4 head start projects: the kinases PIM1 and EphA4, Bromodomains and MDM4. With these programs, structural biology has already been fully enabled within ZoBio by either X-ray crystallography, NMR or both. In addition, orthogonally validated fragment-hit matter is also available, along with 3D structures of some ligand-target complexes. These turnkey projects can be swiftly initiated with full confidence of being able to obtain high resolution structures to elaborate novel fragment hits. We invite you to visit our website for more information on each of the Head Start Projects available.


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BOSTON Once again the Boston Celtics were short-handed, and once again it didn't really matter as Boston won its fourth straight with a 94-87 win over the Indiana Pacers. This was one of those games that C's coach Doc Rivers knew would be difficult to win after he saw it on the schedule. Playing a nationally televised game at Orlando on Thursday night, only to return home in the wee hours of the morning to host a young, athletic Indiana Pacers team.
"Oh, it was a trap game," Rivers said. "Make no mistake about it."
The thing is, somebody forgot to tell his players that the scheduling gods had lined this one up as one the C's were supposed to lose.
Come to think of it, Friday's win was just another night when the Celtics defied the odds stacked against them, to emerge victorious.
To win a game like this, a number of things have to break right.
With that said, we'll look at some of the factors identified prior to the game, that worked out in the Celtics' favor.
WHAT TO LOOK FOR - Dead legs have to be a huge concern for the Celtics tonight. The best indicator of this is usually in how a team shoots from the field. Jumpers don't have the same lift, and lay-ups tend to roll in and out more often. That becomes an even bigger deal tonight against an Indiana team that's ranked No. 1 in the NBA in field goal percentage defense (41.2 percent).
WHAT WE SAW: Shooting the ball was not an issue for the Celtics, which was unexpected. Older teams coming home on the back end of a back-to-back set of games, aren't supposed to shoot better than 45 percent from the field. But the C's continue to defy conventional thinking with their penchant for winning games despite being without key players. "It was one of those games that you know mentally you're drained," said Boston's Paul Pierce. "It was a big win, an emotional win last night (at Orlando)." But it would not have been as sweet if they couldn't come home and handle business. "I'm proud with the way we stepped u tonight and really got the job done," Pierce said.
MATCHUP TO WATCH - Paul Pierce vs Danny Granger. It's obvious that Pierce is feeling like his old self - and not just old - lately. During the C's three-game winning streak, Pierce has averaged 25.7 points, nine assists and 6.3 rebounds in addition to playing solid defense. "I am starting to get my legs back. I am playing better basketball," Pierce said. Granger has also picked his game up recently, averaging 19.3 points and 5.7 rebounds in Indiana's last three games.
WHAT WE SAW: You can add Granger to the growing list of talented players that are being outplayed by Pierce right now. While there are certainly a number of players who are having a better overall season than Pierce, he has been easily one of the league's top players during the Celtics' four-game winning streak. Why? Because he's hurting teams in so many ways. Scoring, rebounding, passing, defense you name it, and Pierce is bringing it to the floor. He led all scorers with 28 points, along with 10 rebounds and eight assists."Ya know that's my role on the team, to just continue to be aggressive, trying to get to the basket, mix it up with the outsideinside play, make plays and that's it," Pierce said. As for Granger, he had 21 points and six rebounds.
PLAYER TO WATCH: Roy Hibbert is arguably the second-best center in the East behind Dwight Howard, but poses a different - and in some ways, tougher - matchup problem. Unlike Howard who relies heavily on his strength and athleticism, Hibbert's length is what will give the Celtics problems. Don't be surprised that if Jermaine O'Neal (left knee) can't play, C's Doc Rivers goes with rookie Greg Stiemsma as the starting center instead of having Brandon Bass start at power forward and sliding Kevin Garnett over to defend Hibbert. To the C's credit, they made things tough for Hibbert offensively in both games this season. In each of the two games this season, the 7-foot-2 center shot 5-for-15 from the field.
WHAT WE SAW: Although a right ankle injury certainly slowed Hibbert down some, he really wasn't that effective even prior to the injury. He finished with 11 points and seven rebounds while shooting 5-for-13 from the field. Garnett started at center again, and once again turned in a defensive gem of a performance. Boston also got strong play from Chris Wilcox, who had a season-high 14 points off the Celtics bench along with grabbing six rebounds. Dealing with Hibbert was a major point of emphasis for Wilcox when he was on the floor. "We just had to control Hibbert on the block and contest all the shots and make it hard for them and them make other guys scorers," Wilcox said.
STAT TO TRACK: If the Celtics are to have a real shot at winning tonight, they have to keep the Pacers off the offensive boards. Indiana outscored the C's by 14 points in each of the two previous matchups. The C's may catch a break of sorts with Indiana's Jeff Foster (back) expected to not play. Also, Indiana comes into tonight's game having been outscored each of the last three games in second-chance points, something that had not occurred at any point prior.
WHAT WE SAW: This was the one area that Boston had to find a way to at least be competitive in to have any shot at success. They were more than that. Boston not only kept Indiana from dominating the offensive boards, but they actually won the offensive boards battle which led to 14 second-chance points compared to just six for the Pacers.


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Tapping the Experience of Your CAB Peers: A Conversation with Mike Gospe
Mike is the Customer Advisory Board (CAB) Practice leader at KickStart Alliance, author of Marketing Campaign Development a consultant to senior marketing executives, and an expert on meeting facilitation, having facilitated hundreds of CAB and other executive sessions over the last 20 years. Mike will be leading the Peer Exchange workshops at the upcoming CAB Exchange Summit in San Jose.
Q. Mike, the Peer Exchange Workshops are one of the primary tools we use at the CAB Exchange Summit to allow CAB practitioners to exchange ideas and best practices directly with each other. Can you give us an overview of how these sessions will work?
A. The Peer Exchange Workshop is an interactive session where CAB managers have a chance to share their experiences and best practices with their peers who may not be as experienced. The objective is to tap the vast expertise of these CAB managers and invite a structured dialog to explore and prioritize best practices, traps to avoid, and proven techniques to everyone's benefit.
Specifically, the Peer Exchange Workshop exercise has two parts. Part 1 will identify the topic areas that CAB managers would like most to discuss. For each topic area, we'll ask those CAB managers who have proven success and experience to group together to answer a few questions and then report their recommendations to the larger group.
Part 2 is an open discussion where all participants can ask questions and dialog further about these recommendations. The final output being a set of recommended tips and action items that can be immediately implemented.
Q. We'll identify specific issues to address at the workshops in a pre-event survey. In your experience working with CAB programs, what are some of the issues you expect that attendees will want to address?
A. Some of the most popular issues CAB managers wrestle with include:
How to best architect the CAB program so that it fits within the larger Voice-of-the-Customer initiative, and isn't viewed as an isolated stand-alone event, Examples of criteria used to select the proper customers to join the CAB, Tips for designing effective agendas that will engage customers properly and generate the insights you want, Knowing how to facilitate a CAB meeting yourself and when to engage a professional CAB manager/facilitator to ensure optimum results, and Best practices for sharing CAB insights with the rest of the organization.
Q. As an experienced facilitator, what's the key to keeping these sessions on track and productive?
A. The key is having a plan that will drive us to a specific outcome, in this case, the outcome is a set of actionable recommendations for each topic area we'll explore. Before we break the group into small teams, we'll agree upon the topic areas the CAB managers would like to explore. My colleagues and I will each facilitate a specific team, guiding the questions to be discussed per each topic. We'll also capture notes and feedback on a flip chart. By the end of the break out session, we'll ask one team representative to share the findings with the larger group for further discussion. We'll conclude by having an interactive discussion with the larger team.
Q. What were some of the more useful, surprising, or interesting results from the Peer Exchange Workshops at last year's Summit?
A. What impressed me most about last year's Peer Exchange Workshop was the breadth and depth of customer knowledge the CAB managers had. The cross pollinization of ideas, best practices, and knowledge was extensive. Real-time learning between customers, sponsors, and presenters was non-stop and the Peer Exchange Workshop continues to be a dynamic tool for aiding these discussions. There's no question that sessions like the Peer Exchange Workshop provide not only a platform for discussion, but a networking opportunity that will continue to benefit attendees long after the Summit concludes.


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I am Peter Eisentraut, and I seek election to the Board of Directors of SPI.
I have been a contributor in the PostgreSQL project since 1999 and a Debian Developer since 2005. I am currently a member of the core team of the PostgreSQL project. In 2006, I had a small role in helping the PostgreSQL project join SPI. I work for 2ndQuadrant, a PostgreSQL consulting firm. I live with my family on the East Coast of the United States. Previously, I have lived in Germany, Finland, and Sweden.
My immediate interest is that SPI continues to serve both the Debian project and associated projects effectively.
My vote is for continuity with a fresh face. SPI has a valuable role in offering free and open-source projects financial and property management services. I see my role as a director as working to maintain the trust that projects have placed in SPI, to ensure accurate and compliant record keeping, and to make the SPI services available to member projects and members in a reliable and efficient manner. I endorse the work of the existing board and want to help continue it.


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Suspended UEFA chief Michel Platini's dream of becoming FIFA President is finally over.
Platini announced to The Associated Press on Thursday that he is withdrawing his name from the Presidential race to concentrate more on overturning his eight year ban handed down by FIFA's ethics committee last month.
"I'm withdrawing from the race for FIFA presidency," Platini told the Associated Press in an interview.
"The timing is not good for me. I don't have the means to fight on equal terms with the other candidates. I have not been given the chance to play the game. Bye bye FIFA, bye bye FIFA presidency."
Though Sepp Blatter and Platini were cleared of corruption charges, they were both banned for eight years last month by FIFA's ethics committee for conflict of interest in the 2 million Swiss franc ($2 million) payment deal that is also the subject of a criminal investigation in Switzerland.
The now suspended UEFA chief was bidding to take football's top job from his mentor Blatter.
FOX Sports reports that Platini still hopes to clear his name at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Talking about the ban, the 60 year old Frenchman said: "I've spent more time in hearing rooms than on football pitches speaking about 4-3-3 or 4-4-2 or football news. I'm taking this philosophically, let's wait and see what happens. But injustice is revolting me and I'm trying to fight it."
Platini who worked at FIFA as Blatter's special adviser from 1998 to 2002 defended himself saying that he has done no wrong, reports FOX Sports: "I can't have any regret in that story because things fell upon my head while I haven't done anything wrong."
"I'm struggling to understand what happened, unless there was a will somewhere to prevent me from bidding."
"Many national federations wanted me as president. I had 150 associations thinking that I'm the right person to solve FIFA's problems. It won't happen. But there is no age limitation, so maybe I'll come back in 20 years. Who knows?," he added.
"I've done what I needed to do. I have nothing to reproach myself with. I think they are making me pay for being UEFA president, I think the Zurich administration does not wish someone from UEFA to head FIFA. Because we are beautiful, we are big, we are rich, and we are the strongest."


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Trouble is afoot on the dark streets of London. Evil is lurking around the corner so long as a serial killer remains on the loose, a killer who has murdered five innocent women. And he must be stopped. Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) is on the man's trail, and about to crack yet another case for the police. In the nick of time, Holmes, along with his rooming partner and friend, Dr. John Watson (Jude Law) burst onto the scene to find the evil Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong) prepared to kill again. Sentenced to death, the streets of London look quieter and there is no longer a sense of panic among its citizens. Until rumors spread that the man has come back from the dead.
Purists take issue with this recent feature film. Not being among those, I found no fault whatsoever with this in that context. In fact, it's ingenious. You've never seen Sherlock quite like this. Director Guy Ritchie gave his take a unique attitude all its own, which is desperately need when we see the same basic material over and over again. (Depending on who you talk with, filmmakers did so without downgrading the infamous detective we all know and love.) The only thing I did miss was the singularly popular phrase, "elementary, dear Watkins." At one end of the spectrum, you admire him for trying new things, and at the other, we want such faithful touches.
Each of the characters are well-written. They all retain an aura of mystery that sometimes can be a little unnerving albeit proper for the story's subject. People are finding fault with this characterization of Holmes because he is more of a brawler than a brainiac. And I can understand that to some extent, but I saw him as a brilliant genius. True, he's crazy, which is what makes him interesting, and in truth, I draw many comparisons between this Sherlock and the new BBC series. There are a couple of characters under-used, but once again Mark Strong steals scenes as the villain. There isn't a weak link to be found. Not being fond of Downey had me skeptical but he pulls off the iconic character marvelously while Rachel's Irene isn't explained as well as she should be. Costuming is lovely with a design befitting of the era, if not wholly accurate, it suits the production quite perfectly.


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"As the lesser Barsoomians of the outer world have been lured by you to the terrible Valley Dor, so may it be that the therns themselves have been lured by the First Born to an equally horrid fate," I suggested. "It would be a stern and awful retribution, Phaidor; but a just one."
"I cannot believe it," she said.
"We shall see," I answered, and then we fell silent again for we were rapidly approaching the black mountains, which in some indefinable way seemed linked with the answer to our problem.
As we neared the dark, truncated cone the vessel's speed was diminished until we barely moved. Then we topped the crest of the mountain and below us I saw yawning the mouth of a huge circular well, the bottom of which was lost in inky blackness.
The diameter of this enormous pit was fully a thousand feet. The walls were smooth and appeared to be composed of a black, basaltic rock.
For a moment the vessel hovered motionless directly above the centre of the gaping void, then slowly she began to settle into the black chasm. Lower and lower she sank until as darkness enveloped us her lights were thrown on and in the dim halo of her own radiance the monster battleship dropped on and on down into what seemed to me must be the very bowels of Barsoom.
For quite half an hour we descended and then the shaft terminated abruptly in the dome of a mighty subterranean world. Below us rose and fell the billows of a buried sea. A phosphorescent radiance illuminated the scene. Thousands of ships dotted the bosom of the ocean. Little islands rose here and there to support the strange and colourless vegetation of this strange world.
Slowly and with majestic grace the battleship dropped until she rested on the water. Her great propellers had been drawn and housed during our descent of the shaft and in their place had been run out the smaller but more powerful water propellers. As these commenced to revolve the ship took up its journey once more, riding the new element as buoyantly and as safely as she had the air.
Phaidor and I were dumbfounded. Neither had either heard or dreamed that such a world existed beneath the surface of Barsoom.
Nearly all the vessels we saw were war craft. There were a few lighters and barges, but none of the great merchantmen such as ply the upper air between the cities of the outer world.
"Here is the harbour of the navy of the First Born," said a voice behind us, and turning we saw Xodar watching us with an amused smile on his lips.
"This sea," he continued, "is larger than Korus. It receives the waters of the lesser sea above it. To keep it from filling above a certain level we have four great pumping stations that force the oversupply back into the reservoirs far north from which the red men draw the water which irrigates their farm lands."
A new light burst on me with this explanation. The red men had always considered it a miracle that caused great columns of water to spurt from the solid rock of their reservoir sides to increase the supply of the precious liquid which is so scarce in the outer world of Mars.
Never had their learned men been able to fathom the secret of the source of this enormous volume of water. As ages passed they had simply come to accept it as a matter of course and ceased to question its origin.
We passed several islands on which were strangely shaped circular buildings, apparently roofless, and pierced midway between the ground and their tops with small, heavily barred windows. They bore the earmarks of prisons, which were further accentuated by the armed guards who squatted on low benches without, or patrolled the short beach lines.
Few of these islets contained over an acre of ground, but presently we sighted a much larger one directly ahead. This proved to be our destination, and the great ship was soon made fast against the steep shore.
Xodar signalled us to follow him and with a half-dozen officers and men we left the battleship and approached a large oval structure a couple of hundred yards from the shore.
"You shall soon see Issus," said Xodar to Phaidor. "The few prisoners we take are presented to her. Occasionally she selects slaves from among them to replenish the ranks of her handmaidens. None serves Issus above a single year," and there was a grim smile on the black's lips that lent a cruel and sinister meaning to his simple statement.
Phaidor, though loath to believe that Issus was allied to such as these, had commenced to entertain doubts and fears. She clung very closely to me, no longer the proud daughter of the Master of Life and Death upon Barsoom, but a young and frightened girl in the power of relentless enemies.
The building which we now entered was entirely roofless. In its centre was a long tank of water, set below the level of the floor like the swimming pool of a natatorium. Near one side of the pool floated an odd-looking black object. Whether it were some strange monster of these buried waters, or a queer raft, I could not at once perceive.
We were soon to know, however, for as we reached the edge of the pool directly above the thing, Xodar cried out a few words in a strange tongue. Immediately a hatch cover was raised from the surface of the object, and a black seaman sprang from the bowels of the strange craft.
Xodar addressed the seaman.
"Transmit to your officer," he said, "the commands of Dator Xodar. Say to him that Dator Xodar, with officers and men, escorting two prisoners, would be transported to the gardens of Issus beside the Golden Temple."
"Blessed be the shell of thy first ancestor, most noble Dator," replied the man. "It shall be done even as thou sayest," and raising both hands, palms backward, above his head after the manner of salute which is common to all races of Barsoom, he disappeared once more into the entrails of his ship.
A moment later an officer resplendent in the gorgeous trappings of his rank appeared on deck and welcomed Xodar to the vessel, and in the latter's wake we filed aboard and below.
The cabin in which we found ourselves extended entirely across the ship, having port-holes on either side below the water line. No sooner were all below than a number of commands were given, in accordance with which the hatch was closed and secured, and the vessel commenced to vibrate to the rhythmic purr of its machinery.
"Where can we be going in such a tiny pool of water?" asked Phaidor.
"Not up," I replied, "for I noticed particularly that while the building is roofless it is covered with a strong metal grating."
"Then where?" she asked again.
"From the appearance of the craft I judge we are going down," I replied.
Phaidor shuddered. For such long ages have the waters of Barsoom's seas been a thing of tradition only that even this daughter of the therns, born as she had been within sight of Mars' only remaining sea, had the same terror of deep water as is a common attribute of all Martians.
Presently the sensation of sinking became very apparent. We were going down swiftly. Now we could hear the water rushing past the port-holes, and in the dim light that filtered through them to the water beyond the swirling eddies were plainly visible.
Phaidor grasped my arm.
"Save me!" she whispered. "Save me and your every wish shall be granted. Anything within the power of the Holy Therns to give will be yours. Phaidor—" she stumbled a little here, and then in a very low voice, "Phaidor already is yours."
I felt very sorry for the poor child, and placed my hand over hers where it rested on my arm. I presume my motive was misunderstood, for with a swift glance about the apartment to assure herself that we were alone, she threw both her arms about my neck and dragged my face down to hers.
The confession of love which the girl's fright had wrung from her touched me deeply; but it humiliated me as well, since I felt that in some thoughtless word or act I had given her reason to believe that I reciprocated her affection.
Never have I been much of a ladies' man, being more concerned with fighting and kindred arts which have ever seemed to me more befitting a man than mooning over a scented glove four sizes too small for him, or kissing a dead flower that has begun to smell like a cabbage. So I was quite at a loss as to what to do or say. A thousand times rather face the wild hordes of the dead sea bottoms than meet the eyes of this beautiful young girl and tell her the thing that I must tell her.
But there was nothing else to be done, and so I did it. Very clumsily too, I fear.
Gently I unclasped her hands from about my neck, and still holding them in mine I told her the story of my love for Dejah Thoris. That of all the women of two worlds that I had known and admired during my long life she alone had I loved.
The tale did not seem to please her. Like a tigress she sprang, panting, to her feet. Her beautiful face was distorted in an expression of horrible malevolence. Her eyes fairly blazed into mine.
"Dog," she hissed. "Dog of a blasphemer! Think you that Phaidor, daughter of Matai Shang, supplicates? She commands. What to her is your puny outer world passion for the vile creature you chose in your other life?
"Phaidor has glorified you with her love, and you have spurned her. Ten thousand unthinkably atrocious deaths could not atone for the affront that you have put upon me. The thing that you call Dejah Thoris shall die the most horrible of them all. You have sealed the warrant for her doom.
"And you! You shall be the meanest slave in the service of the goddess you have attempted to humiliate. Tortures and ignominies shall be heaped upon you until you grovel at my feet asking the boon of death.
"In my gracious generosity I shall at length grant your prayer, and from the high balcony of the Golden Cliffs I shall watch the great white apes tear you asunder."
She had it all fixed up. The whole lovely programme from start to finish. It amazed me to think that one so divinely beautiful could at the same time be so fiendishly vindictive. It occurred to me, however, that she had overlooked one little factor in her revenge, and so, without any intent to add to her discomfiture, but rather to permit her to rearrange her plans along more practical lines, I pointed to the nearest port-hole.
Evidently she had entirely forgotten her surroundings and her present circumstances, for a single glance at the dark, swirling waters without sent her crumpled upon a low bench, where with her face buried in her arms she sobbed more like a very unhappy little girl than a proud and all-powerful goddess.
Down, down we continued to sink until the heavy glass of the port-holes became noticeably warm from the heat of the water without. Evidently we were very far beneath the surface crust of Mars.
Presently our downward motion ceased, and I could hear the propellers swirling through the water at our stern and forcing us ahead at high speed. It was very dark down there, but the light from our port-holes, and the reflection from what must have been a powerful searchlight on the submarine's nose showed that we were forging through a narrow passage, rock-lined, and tube-like.
After a few minutes the propellers ceased their whirring. We came to a full stop, and then commenced to rise swiftly toward the surface. Soon the light from without increased and we came to a stop.
Xodar entered the cabin with his men.
"Come," he said, and we followed him through the hatchway which had been opened by one of the seamen.
We found ourselves in a small subterranean vault, in the centre of which was the pool in which lay our submarine, floating as we had first seen her with only her black back showing.
Around the edge of the pool was a level platform, and then the walls of the cave rose perpendicularly for a few feet to arch toward the centre of the low roof. The walls about the ledge were pierced with a number of entrances to dimly lighted passageways.
Toward one of these our captors led us, and after a short walk halted before a steel cage which lay at the bottom of a shaft rising above us as far as one could see.
The cage proved to be one of the common types of elevator cars that I had seen in other parts of Barsoom. They are operated by means of enormous magnets which are suspended at the top of the shaft. By an electrical device the volume of magnetism generated is regulated and the speed of the car varied.
In long stretches they move at a sickening speed, especially on the upward trip, since the small force of gravity inherent to Mars results in very little opposition to the powerful force above.
Scarcely had the door of the car closed behind us than we were slowing up to stop at the landing above, so rapid was our ascent of the long shaft.
When we emerged from the little building which houses the upper terminus of the elevator, we found ourselves in the midst of a veritable fairyland of beauty. The combined languages of Earth men hold no words to convey to the mind the gorgeous beauties of the scene.
One may speak of scarlet sward and ivory-stemmed trees decked with brilliant purple blooms; of winding walks paved with crushed rubies, with emerald, with turquoise, even with diamonds themselves; of a magnificent temple of burnished gold, hand-wrought with marvellous designs; but where are the words to describe the glorious colours that are unknown to earthly eyes? where the mind or the imagination that can grasp the gorgeous scintillations of unheard-of rays as they emanate from the thousand nameless jewels of Barsoom?
Even my eyes, for long years accustomed to the barbaric splendours of a Martian Jeddak's court, were amazed at the glory of the scene.
Phaidor's eyes were wide in amazement.
"The Temple of Issus," she whispered, half to herself.


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Sermon preached by Canon Andy Williams
Here it is (tumbler of water): the classic symbol that divides people into two. For those who can't see I'm holding up a glass of water which is? Half-full if you're an optimist or half-empty if you're a pessimist. For what it's worth I would describe myself as a pessimist saved by hope! Both the Cathedral and the Diocese of Bradford stand on the threshold of change. Tomorrow the General Synod will vote on the proposal to form a new diocese of West Yorkshire and next Sunday we will install our next Dean of Bradford. You will also be facing changes in your personal lives; it's inevitable – to live is to face change and much of it chosen for us not by us. How do we face change? Do we embrace it with hope or dread it with pessimism? Does change make us shrink back and put up our defences or open up new possibilities? The German theologian Jurgen Moltmann said this: 'Hope is lived, and it comes alive, when we go outside of ourselves and, in joy and pain take part in the lives of others.' St Paul agrees. Look again at his letter to the Galatians. 'Let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up. So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us work for the good of all, and especially for those of the family of faith.' Let us not grow weary in well doing. Once again, Paul shows that he understands human nature. Our goodwill is easily drained over time. We have done what is right; we have worked for the family of faith, i.e. the church. And what has happened? There can be a sense that the Church of England is in decline, clergy are over-stretched and fewer volunteers are running round keeping the show on the road. That's not the picture we get from a piece of recent research. The book, published this year, has the unexciting title 'Managing Clergy lives.' It's a deep analysis of the lives of 46 parish clergy today. It's a fascinating study. The general picture that emerges is that the clergy are fully stretched, yes, but fulfilled too. And those are linked. To be engaged with the challenges (and there are many) is to reap reward. What did Moltmann say? 'Hope is lived, and it comes alive, when we go outside of ourselves and, in joy and pain take part in the lives of others.' And St Paul? 'Let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up. So then...let us work for the good of all, and especially for those of the family of faith.' Last week eight new deacons were commissioned in this diocese, each with a story about how God has touched them and called them. Canon Sam will tell you that many continue to offer themselves for ordination. Yes, the church is changing, but maybe God is calling us to run things differently. (Though that's a debate to be had some other time).
It's not difficult to be gloomy about things in the climate we live in. There is no shortage of bad news. Today is the anniversary of the 7/7 bombings in London, reminding us of the terrorist threat which continues. We could list dozens of things... The British economy bumps along the bottom so meanwhile cuts are made in all areas of public life. Welfare reforms are hitting the poorest. In the past 10 years two billion more workers have come into the global market, most from China and India, so we wonder if Britain is in terminal decline. We are moving dangerously closer to the 2 degree rise in global temperature which scientists tell us could bring disaster. Arab countries are in turmoil and increasingly antagonistic to Israel and therefore America. At home, we have less faith in our politicians, bankers and public servants and don't know where to turn for good role models for our youngsters. And so on and so on. Constant exposure to this sort of bad news can erode our hope. Using St Paul's words, it can make us weary and give up. So this morning I want to encourage us not to be passive, not to absorb negativity and allow it to drain our hope. There are two things I believe we can do to prevent us from falling into the doom and gloom pit. Firstly, let me offer factual reasons for hope. If you like, reasons to be cheerful, 1, 2 , 3 and 4 more than Ian Drury!
Fact 1) The world powers are more at peace with each other now than they have been in previous centuries
Fact 2) Peace brings political stability and prosperity
Fact 3) World poverty has been reduced more in the past 50 years than in the past 500 years
Fact 4) We are getting healthier: every day we gain 5 hours of life expectancy. (So Sam should live to around 600 years)
Fact 5) In the past 10 years the number of graduates has risen 4 times for men and 7 times for women
Fact 6) There has never been a better opportunity for private individuals to do public good. 3 food banks are opening every week, many of them by churches. This time last year 70,000 volunteers were being trained for the London Olympics. 70,000 men and women giving their time freely and creating a great spirit of welcome and hospitality
Fact 7) For the first time in 77 years we are about to have a British men's Champion at Wimbledon. OK, so that's more hope than fact.
The world is not as doomed as it's sometimes portrayed to us. Let's remember that the media wants to maintain public anxiety so we keep tuning in or buying papers.
So there are 7 reasons to be optimistic. But something greater is on offer to us. The spiritual writer Carlo Carretto, writing in 'The Desert in the city' said this: 'Optimism means faith in people, in the human potentiality; hope means faith in God and his omnipotence.'
Our hope ultimately is not in human beings to save the world, it lies in the faith we have in the Creator of the world, to transform it. As Paul says in Vs 15 'a new creation' is everything. This is not blind faith which pretends that there is no struggle against evil and despair. It is faith in the God who has come among us – the incarnated God. Hans Kung said: "He is a God who does not make empty promises for the hereafter nor trivialise the present darkness, futility and meaninglessness, but who himself in the midst of darkness, futility and meaninglessness invites us to the venture of hope.' That's why Jesus sent out the 70 into towns and villages. As I have come among you, so you go and be amongst the people of this land; bring peace and wholeness to them. I admire those 70, whoever they were. They knew they had not been chosen to be part of Jesus' inner core, the twelve. But they trusted Jesus enough to obey him. What on earth did they expect when they set out? We don't know. But they had enough faith, enough hope that as they went so they would be given what they needed. And so it proved to be; they returned joyful and excited. They had discovered what Moltmann expressed, that ''hope comes alive when we go outside of ourselves and in joy and in pain, take part in the lives of others. Hope becomes concrete in open community with others.'
So can I finish with this...Whatever decision is taken about our diocese, let's embrace it positively and with hope. Whatever direction our new Dean takes us in, let's make ourselves available to journey together. Let's even be open to a new ways of working for the good of all, either by releasing our time, energy or financial resources. 'Let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap if we do not give up.' Amen.
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Following the huge success of The Big Walk in 2016, through which we raised £14,000, we wanted to challenge ourselves even further this year! So The Big Challenge was born. Taking place on Friday 13th October 2017.
Starting at 7:30pm, we plan to walk 5 miles from Bridgewater to Gateshead International Stadium, while carrying our overnight gear, before sleeping outside until 6am.
The Challenge is in partnership with the charity, Children Bringing Change, and will be replicated in Iraq at exactly the same time with us linking with a school, community and the Government over in Iraq.
Here in Newcastle we have the support of Newcastle and Northumbria Universities and a number of local and national businesses.
Our challenge intends to highlight the conditions experienced by children and families in Iraq, but also by some of the children and families within the communities in which we live and work.
Funds raised will be used to pay for:
- Essential counselling for our most vulnerable children and their families.
- Trips and activities to give these children the opportunity to experience places and activities they wouldn't otherwise experience. This in turn will broaden their horizons and raise their aspirations.
- To provide food and meals for our most vulnerable children, ensuring they are well nourished and able to learn.
We were overwhelmed by the number of people who took part last year and by the amount of money we raised. It would be great if we have even more people taking part this year and raise even more money for these vital and much needed projects.
You will need to be suitably dressed for sleeping outside overnight. We suggest the following:
- Warm clothing
- Hat, gloves & scarf
- Sensible footwear
Everyone will be provided with a cardboard box.
We suggest you bring the following items:
- Sleeping mat / ground sheet
- Warm sleeping bag
- Pillow
Feel free to bring travel games or other forms of entertainment.
There will be access to toilets throughout the night.
Sponsorship is to be raised and submitted through Just Giving please - www.justgiving.com/friends-of-bridgewater
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Principal Sharon Gonzalez and Media Specialist Roland Adames of West Hialeah Gardens Elementary School hosted Authors' Tea, an appreciation event for young writers in first- to fifth grades.
Students invited their parents, read their writings, received gifts bags, earned a certificate and met Author Shane Dalton.
Student-authors included Daniela Calex, Dyllan Leon, Bruce Marichal, Andrew Chiu-Hung, Chantelle De la Torre, Alejandro Fernandez, Camila Garcia, Aysha Aghr, Natalie Celdeiro, Brandon Espinosa, Leah Tatum, Gisselle Calzado, Mileny Diaz, Camila Vasquez, Isabella Diaz and Yeniffer Porven.
Students from The Power of One, a South Miami Middle School club, and South Miami police officers loaded up police cruisers on Jan. 29 at the school's media center with 50 new blankets to donate to the homeless population.
The Power of One was established in October by a group of students in Roberto Rabelo's yearbook and critical thinking class, and aims to spread kindness and positivity into the world.
In December, the club donated stuffed animals to the Miami-Dade school police as part of a domestic violence awareness campaign.
For information, contact Sergeant Henry Guzman at 305-663-6301.
Jaime Danies of TERRA Environmental Research Institute was named a Questbridge Scholar and earned a full scholarship to Columbia University in New York.
Also, Nikki DeQuesada, Angelique Archer and Gregory Bolet were awarded full scholarships for being POSSE Scholars. Nikki will attend Pomona College in California; Angelique will attend Hamilton College in New York; and Gregory will attend Frank and Marshall College in Pennsylvania.
Talia Lopez of the School for Advanced Studies received the 2016 Comcast Leaders and Achievers Scholarship and earned $1,000 towards her college education.
The scholarship program recognizes high school seniors for their commitment to community service, academic achievement and leadership skills.