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Volunteer in Berkshire
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Whether you have just an hour, a day or a week to give, and whatever your skills, there's an opportunity for you to volunteer with the Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) near where you live.
You will be joining hundreds of other people from all walks of life who volunteer with the Wildlife Trust.
As well as being great ways to meet people, learn new skills and gain valuable experience that could help you start a career in conservation, volunteering with the Wildlife Trust will give you the satisfaction of knowing that you're helping to protect and enhance your local environment to benefit wildlife and connect people with nature.
Would you like to see what BBOWT volunteers are doing? Sign up to Grapevine, an e-newsletter for volunteers in each county. Choose which Grapevine you'd like to receive and the next edition will be sent to you. Grapevine is published in February, May, August and November.
You don't need lots of experience! BBOWT has practical volunteering opportunities at all levels, usually outdoors on our nature reserves although some of them are office-based, and relevant training is given before you start.
Take your first steps in volunteering with the Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust now by looking at the different opportunities for Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. If you have a particular role in mind, please email firstname.lastname@example.com and tell us what you would like to do.
Benefits of being a volunteer
You will help your local wildlife, have fun and possibly get fit too, learn new skills and meet other volunteers at social events.
If you have an email address you will receive Grapevine, our e-newsletter full of information about volunteering with BBOWT, and information about free training courses and other events.
You could win an award! Volunteer of the Year and Lifetime Achievement Awards are presented every year at our AGM when we recognise and celebrate all the work BBOWT volunteers are doing for wildlife.
Examples of practical volunteering
You can help your local wildlife in a number of ways – these are just a few of them:
- As an occasional or regular 'work party' volunteer on a local reserve, you will carry out practical conservation tasks to help improve wildlife habitats on the reserve.
- If you join one of BBOWT's mid-week teams in Berks, Bucks or Oxon you will be doing practical work every week on several different nature reserves within the county.
- You can help at our events, 'meet and greet' at Visitor Centres, and enjoy a walk around a reserve to check on our livestock.
- Volunteers with ecological expertise carry out surveys of various species groups including birds, butterflies, plants and water voles; BBOWT provides training for this work.
- Experienced volunteers who want more responsibility, and who are trained to use specific equipment, can join the county Field Teams. These teams carry out more complex tasks where specialist skills are needed, and use general maintenance and DIY skills to benefit our reserves and wildlife.
- Some volunteers become reserve wardens, helping to manage, monitor and maintain specific nature reserves. Read Charlotte Karmali's blog from Finemere Wood.
- Occasionally we recruit Conservation Trainees who are able to make a commitment to work with us three days a week for six to twelve months. BBOWT provides full training to help Conservation Trainees develop their environmental careers. Check the Conservation Trainee page for the latest vacancies.
Regional groups in the Chilterns, East Berkshire and Mid-Berkshire play key roles in raising the profile of BBOWT in their area, helping to raise vital funds and increase membership by organising local events and work parties. Volunteers are needed to help run events such as guided walks and plant and produce sales, and serve on committees.Regional and 'Friends of' groups
'Friends of' groups are linked to specific nature reserves such as Letcombe Valley and Audrey's Meadow. Find out more about these groups by emailing the Community Wildlife Officer for each county.
- Berkshire: Daniel Akam
- Buckinghamshire: Kate Sheard
- Oxfordshire: Mark Bradfield
Corporate volunteering opportunities
Corporate team days are a rewarding and fun experience, improving staff morale, productivity and team-building skills, while helping to protect your local wildlife. Visit our Company Support page for more info about how you can get involved.
Information for Key Volunteers
BBOWT's Key Volunteers are responsible for making sure all our volunteers carry out their work safely and use best practices at all times. Key Volunteers have password-protected access to the Codes of Practice and Procedures.


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Published on March 07, 2012
In association with colorectal cancer month, the American College of Physicians released a new guidance statement emphasizing the importance of screenings for prevention of the disease.
"The American College of Physicians encourages adults to get screened for colorectal cancer starting at the age of 50," said Virginia L. Hood, president of ACP. "Only about 60 percent of American adults aged 50 and older get screened, even though the effectiveness of colorectal cancer screening in reducing deaths is supported by the available evidence."
The guidance statement says that physicians should assess each individual patient based on their risk of colorectal cancer. Average risk patients should get screenings beginning at age 50. High risk patients should start at age 40 or 10 years younger than when their youngest relative was diagnosed with the disease.
Colorectal cancer is the second leading cancer killer in the United States, occurring equally in men and women. Yet, it is largely preventable and easily detected through the use of colonoscopy, which is the gold standard for colorectal cancer screening. Through the use of colonoscopy, gastroenterologists can detect and remove pre-cancerous polyps lining the colon—significantly decreasing risk of developing colorectal cancer. Despite common belief, colonoscopies are painless procedures in which the patient is sedated.
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Family Support is a shift in human services delivery that encourages public and private agencies to work together and to become more preventive, responsive, flexible, family-focused, strengths-based, and holistic and thus more effective. It urges the overall community – policymakers, program providers, parents, employers – to takes responsibility for improving the lives of children and families, individuals and community's.
The family support movement transforms our society into caring communities of citizens putting each other first and that ensures that all children, families and adults get what they need to succeed.
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Okanagan Specialty Fruits Inc. spent more than a decade developing the 'Arctic' apple, according to its website, and first petitioned the U.S. Department of Agriculture to bring the variety to U.S. markets in 2010. That request, which is still pending, was the first the agency had ever received for a genetically modified apple.
Company president Neal Carter told industry newspaper The Packer that he expects a decision from the USDA to come within the year.
The company filed for approvals from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Health Canada in April to release the apple here for "commercial planting purposes, livestock feed and food use." The agencies will receive public comments on the petition for approval through mid-June.
Neal Carter of Okanagan Specialty Fruits is waiting for approval of the new apple from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, but he thinks it's a winner already. "All we've done is turn off one gene in the apple itself -- an enzyme that drives the browning reaction," he told CTV News. "It's the great product you've always wanted without the baggage of going brown."
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What a week for Cleveland!
On the second Tuesday of a sweltering July, the Republican National Committee announced it was bringing its 2016 presidential convention — and all the economic kick and image glories that go with it — to the city that for decades has gotten national attention mainly as a late-night TV punchline.
Then, just three days later, the national basketball conglomerate known as LeBron James announced that he was spurning the allure of Miami's South Beach to return to Lake Erie's shore.
Instantly and expertly, pundits and talking heads made the lateral transition from ho-humming about Republicans' political motives to head scratching about an NBA superstar's sudden yearning for home cookin'.
Today we are all about the former. And we will end up by exclusively focusing upon a central lesson of convention politicking other pundits apparently missed. A lesson taught to grateful politicians four decades ago by Cleveland's distinguished former mayor, Ralph Perk.
It isn't hard to deduce the true motives of Republican Party leaders' decision to hold their 2016 convention in Cleveland. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus laid out the strategy when he announced the RNC site committee's choice on Fox News July 8.
"As goes Ohio, so goes the presidential race," Priebus explained. Indeed, the history of the modern era is that when the Republican presidential candidate wins in Ohio, the Republicans win the White House. When Republicans lose Ohio, they lose the presidency.
Of course, holding a convention in a crucial swing state hardly guarantees a presidential victory. But GOP strategists agree it sure can help. It will bring jobs and money into the state.
Also, it will be a vehicle for spreading the GOP's political message through that swing state. And that can greatly help Republicans. But only if the party has developed a coherent message that is inclusive and not divisive in that state where independent-minded voters in suburbs often provide the margins of victory.
Inclusive message politics hasn't been something the Grand Old Party has been very grand at in recent years. But it has done a better job of it on the state level, in Ohio.
Two top Ohio Republicans, Sen. Rob Portman and Gov. John Kasich, are on many Republican lists as possible longshot candidates for president and more likely candidates for vice president in 2016.
Either one could help Republicans capture Ohio and the presidency. Yet Portman and Kasich represent two different concepts of what the GOP can be about. Portman is a traditional Washington-centric Republican candidate — and an impressive one.
Kasich is, well, something else. He can be a staunch economic conservative; as House budget committee chair he helped balance the last federal budget during the Clinton presidency. But back then he also supported a ban on assault weapons. And he still champions social safety net efforts. After a rough start as governor, Kasich is campaigning for re-election this year with polls well above 50 percent. He also complicates life for folks who like to pigeonhole politicians, having once proclaimed: "I think I was in the tea party before there was a tea party."
Cleveland hasn't hosted a presidential convention since 1936, when Republicans gave Alf Landon the honor of challenging President Franklin D. Roosevelt. But in 1972, Cleveland hosted another convention that might have been forgotten forever — except for the enlightening lesson Mayor Perk taught there for future politicos.
Hoping to enliven a mundane ribbon-cutting ceremony to open the American Society for Metals conference at the old Cleveland Convention Center, the mayor reached not for traditional scissors but a blow torch. He carefully aimed it at a commemorative ribbon made of titanium.
Sparks flew, and the ambitious Perk set his own hair on fire. Mercifully, onlookers rushed forward and extinguished Hizzoner's flaming locks (before any of the mayor's opponents could helpfully suggest: "Go soak your head!").
Today, in an era when ambitious politicians increasingly seem tempted to overreach, especially whenever cameras are around, both parties should be forever grateful to Perk for having bequeathed for the ages his enlightened lesson of conventional wisdom:
No matter how much you desire to leave a lasting impression with your fellow convention delegates, try not to set your own hair on fire.
Martin Schram, an op-ed columnist for McClatchy-Tribune, is a veteran Washington journalist, author and TV documentary executive.
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Auditor General Jack Wagner said about one-fifth of Pennsylvania's school districts have recently been involved with interest rate "swaps," a practice he said the Legislature should ban.
Wagner said that 107 school districts and 86 other local governmental bodies reported having entered into swap agreements over a recent six-year period.
Swaps theoretically provide a hedge against large increases in certain interest rates, but Wagner likened the complex financial deals to gambling and called them "toxic products" that should not involve public funds. He said local governments and school districts should terminate any such swaps currently in place and pursue other forms of financing.
"The risk outweighs the benefit," Wagner said Wednesday. "It's not a minor risk, it's a significant risk and public officials are no match for investment bankers."
The study of qualified interest rate management agreements _ or swaps _ was prompted by a $12.3 million payment to an investment bank by the Bethlehem Area School District earlier this year.
Wagner said that, in two deals, the district was hit with excessive fees and other payments and was subject to what he described as deceptive marketing tactics. In Bethlehem's case, the use of swaps cost taxpayers $15.5 million more than if the district had simply not used them at all, Wagner said.
Wagner said local governments should use a competitive process to pick financial advisers and then monitor their performance.
Dave Davare, director of research services for the Pennsylvania School Boards Association, agreed with Wagner that swaps carry substantial risk and that districts should get independent financial advice.
"By independent, I mean the person that they hire works for the district and is not making any other revenue on this transaction from anybody else involved in the transaction," Davare said.
But he said there are plenty of examples of swaps helping Pennsylvania school districts.
"For every district that you can point at like a Bethlehem ... you can turn around and point out a district that has been successful with it," Davare said. "This is not a situation where every district has lost money. Some districts have lost money primarily because they're trying to get out of them too early."


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'New Ukrainian President Poroshenko may enforce more violence in east'
Manuel Ochsenreiter, who's covered events in Ukraine extensively, believes the country could be in for a sugar rush - with half of the ballot now counted these are the latest partial results putting the country's chocolate king, oligarch Pyotr Poroshenko, in the lead with over 50 percent of the vote in the presidential election. His main rival, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, is trailing far behind.
RT:Poroshenko's claiming victory. Is this going to pass unchallenged by the other election runners?
Manuel Ochsenreiter: The big question is by who it should be challenged. The only opportunity would be that only Yulia Timoshenko would challenge that. But anyway, I think she would need to challenge the result for support of the West. But for the West it's completely OK when Poroshenko won the election, because if Poroshenko or Tymoshenko are ruling the country it is a little bit like a choice between McDonald's and Burger King - the agenda is not so far away.
So who else can challenge the result of the elections? Moscow will not do it, the People's Republic of Donetsk and Lugansk will not do that - they do not see themselves anymore as a part of Ukraine, the already said it is not their business. Crimea is a part of Russia, there will not be any vote. I think we can be pretty sure that Poroshenko will be acknowledged president.
RT:With half of the ballot now counted it looks like a clear win for Poroshenko. Can he bring stability to the country?
MO: I do not think so. I think even the presidential elections which took place on Sunday are not a measure to bring peace and to calm down the situation, more or less it is a contradiction. He is very clearly the man of the West, one of the favorite candidates of the West. So what he will do, he will push Ukraine or the rest of Ukraine - Ukraine is not anymore the state we see on the map, it is a failed entity – towards the West and will of course push towards contracts with the EU and towards NATO. Both he announced already in the past.
RT:Experts have been saying that it would be crucial for the new president to open dialogue with Russia. Can Poroshenko deliver here?
MO: We see contradictory messages of Poroshenko. We see on the one side that he announced that he wants to talk to the Russian government, especially to the Russian President Vladimir Putin. But at the same time we see that he announced that he will not recognize the change of Crimea from Ukraine to Russia, that he will go to the eastern regions, to the regions which declared independence and which are now looking towards Russia. He also announced that he is against the federalization of the country. So he is not even doing a small step towards those people who are not at all confident with what happened in Kiev in the last months.
We are seeing contradictory messages. He is saying he wants to talk to Putin and at the same time he seems to do everything that there will not be any agreement possible. Maybe it is expected from him to give moderate message but at the same time he is acting against what he says.
RT:What about the eastern regions? What do you expect from him when it comes to finding common ground with protesters there?
MO: This will be a very interesting mission because he will not just go there as he is right now so far. So to go there he has to secure the situation. He feels as the president, he is the president of Ukraine and so-called antiterrorist operations must be enforced to secure the area for him. When he announces visiting Donetsk or Lugansk it means clearly, the clear message is the so-called antiterrorist violence turned out by Ukrainian militants, by the Ukrainian army and by the West - we know today the Western mercenaries are also in service of the Ukrainian government - will be enforced. The violence will be [there] to secure the situation for his PR-event when he is speaking in Donetsk or in Lugansk.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.


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I hope all is well! It was good to hear an update on Grandma and Grandpa. They're in my prayers. You all are in my prayers. I'm so grateful for such a wonderful family and friends that support me and love me. I LOVE YOU ALL!
This week is transfer week. We found out today that Sister Angulo will be leaving Iguatu! I have loved every moment with her. She's been such a great companion and I've learned so much from her! My new companion will be a Brasilian, and so hopefully my accent will get better as I work along her side. I'm excited to see what is to come this week!
I will explain quickely what happened with my hair last week. I went and got my haircut and then went to email the family and realized that the woman cut my hair totally wrong. It was awful! There were pieces that weren't cut. It was bad! After emailing we went to another lady who said she could fix it, but it would be a little shorter. She cut it, and she fixed it, but she only cut off length she didn't thin it, so my hair was like a lion! I finally understand the word desperate. You all know that I take pride in my hair and that I like it to look good. I asked Sister Duca, another Sister here, if she would fix it (She doesnt cut hair). She said yes and started thinning my hair. As she was thinning it I felt like I was in Les Mis when the lady is cutting her hair and she's crying. I wasn't crying, but I was close! That is the story with my hair. When the members saw my hair they couldnt believe that I got it cut so short.
This past week was truly amazing! I learned so much! On Wednesday we traveled to Juazeiro for the Devotional with Elder Andersen. The first night the missionaries sat in a different room because they wanted the members to fill up the chapel with him, but we had the chance to listen to all that he said. He spoke in Portugues, which was really cool, but funny at the same time because he spoke really slow and didn't know all the words. I received a testimony of the Prophet and Apostles. They are the mouthpieces of God here on earth. They speak the words that God wants them to speak.
The second day was the best day! In the morning there was a meeting with Elder Andersen, President Fusco, President Costa (Of the 70) and all of the leaders (Zone Leaders, district leaders and sister Training Leaders). Sister Angulo is a Sister Training Leader for the 4 Sisters serving in Iguatu, so I had the chance to go to this meeting as well. There were like 30 people there with Elder Andersen! He talked about MANY things, but something I loved that he talked about for a long time was being an example. To be like Christ we need to be an example to all. Lead by example. DO the things that we believe. After the meeting with the leaders there was another meeting with the missionaries of this mission that are inland (All but Fortaleza area). I was able to see Sister Neilson and Sister Andrews! It was so wonderful! One question that Elder Andersen asked that I want to invite you all to think about, "Is Christ just a part of your life, or is he your whole life?" I learned many things, but I can't write about them all in such short time.
I'll be honest, I'm exhausted! My body and my mind are always working, but I'm here because I love the Lord and I know he will help me do this work. I remember missionaries saying that they were always tired, and I finally understand. This work is hard, but this work is worth it!
I love you all! Have a wonderful week!
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International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde blasted the United States for instituting "absolutely inappropriate" sequester-related reductions in the rate of budgetary growth that she says will retard economic improvement.
"The budgetary procedure that is in place in the United States, which leads to a budgetary adjustment, seems to us absolutely inappropriate…because it blindly affects certain expenditures that are essential to support medium and long term growth," Lagarde said to an audience in Southern France.
Lagarde said that the U.S. and Japan should devise new, better debt reduction plans.
"It is indispensable that these countries indicate for the long and medium term predictable, credible fiscal policies, anchored in legislation that will not be challenged, which will bring the deficit down in a way that will reverse the debt trajectory to a downward trend," said Lagarde.


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As a young Product Marketing Engineer at Intel, I found myself living by Moore's Law dutifully bringing out new microprocessors that doubled compute power every two years.
Some years later I found myself at 3Com living by its corollary - Metcalfe's Law - where we madly went about harnessing this raw compute power in client-server networks to increase the business value of collaborative work and communications.
Fast forward to 2016 and we see hyper scale giants like Amazon, Google and Facebook building out cloud scale data center networks that were only dreamed of in these early days of exponential compute and networking growth predictions. Here's Delphina Eberly, Facebook VP Infrastructure Operations, discussing their state-of-the-art Facebook data center in Altoona, Iowa and Alexey Andreyev, a Facebook network engineer sharing his now famous data center fabric blog explaining the simplified standards-based IP Fabric design and DevOps style automation used to build the Altoona facility. This blueprint has become the model for enterprises and clouds service providers alike as they strive to implement their own modern data centers leveraging these best practices.
As for me, I am now at Brocade working on the latest data center building blocks for our customers embracing this digital transformation connecting video, IoT and cloud networked services. One such customer, Servers.com, explains here why a simplified IP Fabric design, similar to the one used at Facebook, was exactly what they needed to address their own customer demands for cloud scale and agility.
Most recently we just added a new highly scalable SLX 9850 Router to our Brocade IP Fabric portfolio of platforms. This future-ready platform brings new levels of performance, scale, automation and investment protection to Brocade customer data center designs preparing them for the unpredictable but surely exciting road ahead.
So how is your network scale-ability factor? Are you ready for the next wave of data, devices and users? We will be talking more about agile and cost-effective scale with fabrics and foundational building blocks in the weeks to come.


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Counting is one of those trick math skills for preschoolers. They have to learn how to slow down and assign a value to each object and not simply count by rote. I have known that Caleb could count but I wanted to see how well he does this. Once this is done I will then have to decide what the next step would be. To do this, I created this Christmas preschool math worksheets to help.
I will be honest, whenever I create an activity for Caleb, I hope that he wants to actually do it. I ensured that his activity was:
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Since each time I need connect the serial cable to PUTTY and issue the TFTPBOOT command to boot my NAS, I'd like to save the boot command in the flash by command "saveenv", but it fails with error message "Start/End address not on the boundary". Google-ed a bit on web, but no more useful info about it. Actually this further verifies flash error.
I then tried to rewrite the flash following the intructions at http://tweaky.aribaud.net/?q=node/39, it can saveenv now, but unfortunately, it always stucks at booting the kernel, just like the following:
The next action missing should be as follows
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Starting kernel ...
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Linux version 126.96.36.199-arm1-lacie5a (root@lacie) (gcc version 3.4.4 (release) (CodeSourcery ARM 2005q3-2))
#1 Tue Oct 31 11:26:21 CET 2006
CPU: ARM926EJ-Sid(wb) [41069260] revision 0 (ARMv5TEJ)
CPU0: D VIVT write-back cache
CPU0: I cache: 32768 bytes, associativity 1, 32 byte lines, 1024 sets
CPU0: D cache: 32768 bytes, associativity 1, 32 byte lines, 1024 sets
Machine: MV-88fxx81
Since I use command "cp.b 500000 fff80000 78004" to copy the uboot-flash.bin from memory to flash, I suspect there're some bad blocks at offset fff80000 in the flash, so I issue command "FSformat fff80000". The bad thing happens!
Now the system cannot boot, nor anything displayed from serial cable. It looks that I erased everything from the flash. It's said I might be able to recover the system using JTAG. I've made the serial cable (DKU-5) at J2, and Rosbif mentioned that the J2 also includes JTAG of Lacie, while I failed to figure them out.
So I'm wondering whether someone(rosbif?) would help me out by providing some detailed information/sematics of the JTAG cable/tool for Lacie.
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A team of archeologists from the University of Tel Aviv have uncovered a collection of ancient scrolls in the West Bank region, near the Qumran Caves, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were originally uncovered in 1947, and which promise to shed a new light on the life and physical appearance of Jesus Christ.
The newly found documents which are believed to have been written by a small Jewish sectarian group, called the Essenes, retraces different elements of the Old Testament and New Testament similar to the Dead Sea Scrolls, but scholars have turned their attention to a peculiar fragment which describes the birth of the Christ figure in a new light.
The manuscripts that have been dated between 408 BCE to 318 CE describe the son of Mary as of a "darker color" of skin than her parents, a revealing information admits professor Hans Schummer.
"It is quite revealing that the unknown author of the document notes with a certain sense of surprise that the infant's skin tone is darker in color than his mother and father.
"The infant was the color of the night" reads a part of the fragment of the scripture, "In the dark of the night, nothing could be seen of the infant except the white of his eyes" reads another excerpt.
Hamshet, half-brother of Joseph
There is also the mention of a peculiar character named Hamshet, which is described as the half-brother of Joseph. Hamshet is described as "untrustworthy" and "ill-fated", denoted as suspicious and reviled by his brother Joseph who "despises his wicked manners" and "lack of morals", but most interestingly, accordingly to archeologist Natanya Jeborah of the University of Tel Aviv, Hamshet and the infant are described by a shepherd as sharing "the same color of skin", a remark Joseph does not take lightly.
"In this account of the nativity of Christ, this is the first known description of Hamshet, the alleged half-brother of Joseph, with whom Joseph seems to have much contempt for some unexplained reason" she explains. "Is it possible Hamshet was in fact the true father of Jesus? Although some elements may lead us to think so, without further proof we are left only with a plausible conjecture" she adds.
Why is Hamshet, half-brother of Joseph, dark skinned?
Some apocryphal texts insist the father of Joseph had two wives, but also a servant of African origin named Melcha. Although the names of Joseph's siblings are not mentioned, he allegedly had 4 sisters and 5 brothers. It is also said that a child was born of the union of Jacob and his servant after his second wife had died. "This could explain why Hamshet is described as of a darker tone of skin than his half-brother Joseph" believes Hebrew scholar Moshe Zuckenschtein. "The use of the Hebrew adjective "כושי" Cushite or Cushi, translated to Latin as Aethiops, to describe Hamshet also confirms that he is of darker skin than the average Israelite of the time" he acknowledges. "That his skin tone is said to be the same as that of the infant Jesus is very intriguing" he concedes.
Further research of the caves led by the University of Tel Aviv in the vicinity of the ancient settlement at Khirbet Qumran in the West Bank could reveal new promising discoveries believe scholars, although the two-year excavation of the caves, which are located about 2 kilometers inland from the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, are under constant threat by armed conflicts in the region.
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For the Laboratory of Clinical and Epidemiological Virology (Rega Institute) we are looking for a motivated PhD student to perform research in a multidisciplinary team.
The Evolutionary and Computational Virology Laboratory at the Division of Clinical and Epidemiological Virology (Rega Institute, KU Leuven) focuses on the evolutionary processes that shape viral genetic diversity. This encompasses large-scale epidemic processes, such as population growth and spatial dispersal (a popular topic in phylogeographic and phylodynamics research), as well as small-scale transmission histories and within-host evolutionary processes, including adaptation and recombination. It is our objective to gain better insights into these evolutionary and population genetic processes and to clarify how they relate to epidemic and disease dynamics. To this aim we plan to focus on statistical and computational developments to analyze the increasing amount of data brought about by massive sequencing studies, mainly in a framework of Bayesian phylogenetic inference, for which our research group holds a strong track record. We also aim to explore the applicability of novel models and statistical inference tools, developed as part of our research, in different fields of research.
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The candidate will be able to perform research in a dynamic and multidisciplinary team (computer scientists, data analysts and evolutionary biologists), housed in the brand new facilities of the Rega institute at the University hospital campus, and guided by prolific supervisors. The candidate will be able to contribute to the continued development of the BEAST code base, a software package used by many researchers in the fields of phylogenetics and molecular evolution, and collaborate with top researchers in the field. In particular, this project offers the opportunity to collaborate with Prof. Andrew Rambaut (University of Edinburgh), a world expert in statistical phylogenetics with a strong interest in viral evolution and epidemiology. Prof. Rambaut is the lead developer of many widely used and highly cited software packages in the field of pathogen phylodynamics, such as BEAST, FigTree, TempEst (http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/software/tempest/) and Tracer (http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/software/tracer /). The collaboration also includes Prof. Marc Suchard (UCLA), who is honored with the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) Presidents' Award, the highest possible achievement in the field for a person of under 40. Prof. Suchard will contribute invaluable expertise in MCMC integration and applied probability techniques. Additionally, at the Division of Clinical and Epidemiological Virology, the candidate will be able to interact with several top researchers in the field of epidemiology, virology and metagenomics, and work on important infectious disease problems from an evolutionary perspective.
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It is rare when rank-and-file citizens, in this case public school counselors and librarians, force a government body to do an about face.
However, that is just what happened last week when Louisiana's top school board suddenly dropped plans to change the rules that govern both groups.
The turnaround followed hours of polite, but impassioned, criticism plus weeks of organizing and letter writing by political novices.
And the complaints led state Superintendent of Education John White, who pushed the plan, to announce in midmeeting that, in the spirit of compromise, his own proposed rules change should be mostly shelved.
Just two months earlier, the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, at White's urging, approved the changes.
A bid to kill the change then failed when three voted to kill them, but seven voted to keep them.
Yet on Tuesday, all that changed.
The same board, without dissent, voted to drop the planned overhaul, which is exactly what counselors and librarians hoped for.
It even surprised Walter Lee, of Shreveport, who has been on BESE since 1991 but could not remember such a turnaround from the board that sets policies for more than 700,000 public school students.
"I was not really expecting to get it approved when I made the motion to reverse the policy," Lee said later.
White had touted the new rules as part of a broader effort to give local school districts more control, which he said is working.
The state has long required public high schools to provide one counselor for every 450 students.
It also spelled out ratios for the required number of librarians.
Under the superintendent's plan, school districts would have been allowed to get around those staffing requirements if they found other, qualified people or ways to do the job.
Counselors protested by arguing that such a change would hurt students, especially those who rely on one-on-one relationships with counselors for everything from personal problems to career plans.
They said it would be a mistake, and dangerous, to assume that others could handle the duties of a trained counselor, especially in dealing with students with emotional troubles.
After BESE's vote in January opponents launched a campaign to reverse the move.
Critics said removing the required staffing rules, which they say are already lax, would pave the way for school district leaders to fire counselors in favor of football coaches and others.
BESE members were suddenly on the receiving end of a massive lobbying effort.
"We weren't attacking them," said Cathy Smith, a seven-year counselor at Hathaway High School in Jennings and one of the leaders of the effort."We were trying to work with them."
That collegiality, even amid sharply differing views, was something else that made this debate different.
At a time when political arguments often turn toxic, this one was anything but that.
Smith repeatedly praised White and others for working with critics of the plan, and for trying to fashion a compromise.
White praised the passion and professionalism shown by counselors and librarians, and joked about how many women named Cathy were embroiled in the issue.
Once BESE approved the new rules in January, it had to solicit public comments.
One is enough to put the issue back on the agenda.
Instead, 1,456 public comments rolled in, mostly letters from students.
Even so the hearing looked like a pro forma gathering where BESE would hear the criticism, approve minor tweaks and move on.
White reiterated his support at the outset.
Yet as speaker after speaker pleaded with the panel to reconsider, things started to change.
White moved down a seat at the board table to confer with Lee, who made the motion to reverse the policy.
Other private conferences ensued, and suddenly BESE voted to reverse what it had overwhelmingly approved just two months earlier.
"I was always optimistic," Smith said afterwards.
Despite long odds, her message to colleagues was that, if counselors kept making their points, their side would prevail.
"The squeaky wheel gets the oil," Smith said.
Will Sentell covers education issues on a state level for The Advocate Capitol news bureau. His email address is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The performer died March 15 of complications from multiple strokes.
Snoop Dogg, Warren G. and The Game were among the mourners attending a memorial service for Nate Dogg Saturday in Long Beach, Calif.
Nate Dogg, born Nathanial Dwayne Hale, died March 15 of complications from multiple strokes. He was 41.
Besides Nate Dogg's rap collegues and an estimated 1,100 family members and friends, Saturday's service, held in a dome that once housed Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose airplane, was attended by 1,000 fans who acquired tickets through the performer's family and Long Beach City Councilman Dee Andrews.
PHOTO: Snoop Dogg Reveals Nate Dogg Tattoo
Snoop Dogg is expected to perform at a tribute ceremony scheduled for Saturday evening.
Nate Dogg began his musical journey in a church choir, and he formed a musical group with Snoop Dogg and Warren G. while in they were students at Long Beach Polytechnic High School, notes the Associated Press.


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Existing Funds
Named gifts provide a personal and unique connection between the donor and the student recipient and help us to reward excellence early in a young person's career, when that recognition is so valuable. The Department currently makes the following annual awards, thanks to the vision and philanthropy of our alumni and friends.
A.C. Anderson Undergraduate Research Scholar
This award supports summer research projects of outstanding undergraduate physics majors. The award is named for Ansel C. Anderson, an alumnus (PhD, 1961), faculty member (1962-1992), and department head (1986-1992). A condensed matter experimentalist, Professor Anderson made seminal contributions to low-temperature physics, particularly on the thermal properties of metals and glasses.
Arnold T. Nordsieck Award for Teaching Excellence in Physics
This fund supports an award for teaching excellence for faculty or lecturers in the Department of Physics and was endowed by family in memory of Arnold T. Nordsieck, a distinguished member of the faculty from 1947-1961.
Commonwealth Edison/Beryl Bristow Endowed Award
This award recognizes outstanding freshman or sophomore women physics majors. It was established by Commonwealth Edison in memory of alumna Beryl Bristow, the first woman to earn a both a bachelor's and master's degree in physics from the University of Illinois.
Doug and Judy Davis Award for Excellence in Teaching Undergraduate Physics
The Davis Award, which was endowed by Doug and Judy Davis, recognizes members of our faculty and academic staff for their excellent teaching in undergraduate physics.
Drickamer Research Fellowship
This graduate fellowship is awarded to a student who has demonstrated significant ability in research. The fund is named for Harry G. Drickamer, professor of physics, chemistry, and chemical engineering at Illinois and was established by his former students.
Ernest M. Lyman Prize
This award recognizes the outstanding graduating senior physics major and is named for Professor Ernest M. Lyman, a distinguished researcher and world expert in electron scattering who maintained great interest in undergraduate physics teaching. Professor Lyman was one of the early proponents of computer-assisted physics education.
Felix T. Adler Award
This fund recognizes outstanding work by a Physics graduate student in the area of nuclear physics or nuclear engineering. Professor Adler held a joint appointment in Physics and Nuclear Engineering from 1958 until his retirement.
Gerald M. Almy Memorial Fund
This fund provides unrestricted support of graduate education and graduate students, and was created in memory of Gerald Almy, Department Head from 1964-1970. While it can be given as an award or fellowship it typically has not been. Rather, the Associate Head for Graduate studies has used these discretionary funds to assist students with travel expenses and other one-time needs for the advancement of the graduate mission.
Giulio Ascoli Award
This fund supports outstanding work by a graduate student in experimental high energy physics. Giulio Ascoli served the department with distinction from 1950 until his retirement in 1986. The same student may receive the award for not more than three years.
Jeremiah D. Sullivan Undergraduate Research Scholar
The Jeremiah D. Sullivan Award for Undergraduate Research was established by family, friends, and colleagues of Jeremiah Sullivan, a Professor of Physics (1973-2006) and Department Head (2000-2006) at Illinois. Professor Sullivan's scientific career superbly integrated pioneering research in both theoretical high-energy physics and in arms control and international security.
John Bardeen Award
This fund supports outstanding work by a graduate student in condensed matter physics or the physics of electronic devices. John Bardeen served as faculty in Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1951 to 1975. Bardeen was the first person to ever receive two Nobel Prizes in the same field.
Jordan S. Asketh Fellowship
In recognition of an outstanding European graduate student. Upon his death, the late Jordan Asketh graciously bequeathed a generous portion of the proceeds from his estate to the University of Illinois to fund "graduate study grants" for students in the fields of physics, chemistry and medicine. To honor his Greek heritage, he specified that whenever possible, these fellowships should be awarded to graduate students of Greek heritage who are pursuing their advanced study at the University of Illinois. N.B. This account is not endowed; when the funds are exhausted, the award will no longer be given.
L.S. Edelheit Family Biological Physics Fellowship
This fund shall provide an annual graduate fellowship for an exceptional student in biological physics (experiment or theory). This Fellowship was established through a generous gift from Illinois alumni, Lonnie and Susan Edelheit.
LabEscape Fund
LabEscape is a fun and educational escape room experience for families and groups offering a set of challenging physics-based puzzles. It is an outreach program sponsored by the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois. Donations will be used to cover the costs of operating the room and to provide opportunities for groups in the community to participate in the experience.
Laura B. Eisenstein Award
This award recognizes the year's outstanding woman physics student. Established by the Department of Physics in conjunction with the American Physical Society to recognize exceptional women physics students, the award is named for Professor Laura B. Eisenstein, an distinguished biological physicist who made seminal discoveries of the mechanism of light-energy transduction in biological molecules.
Lewis C. Hack Scholarship
This award was established by a gift from Lois E. Hack in memory of her husband, Lewis C. Hack. Both the Hacks devoted their lives to teaching math and science in the public schools.
Lorella M. Jones Summer Research Award
This award supports summer research positions for outstanding undergraduate physics students and is named for Professor Lorella M. Jones, a theoretical high energy physicist who was the first woman to achieve tenure in the College of Engineering. In addition to being a superb researcher, Professor Jones was a dedicated and innovative teacher who was particularly interested in the early application of computers to physics education.
Physics Interaction Room
Gifts to this fund will be used to help renovate the space formerly known as the Physics Library including computer terminals, videoconferencing equipment, furniture and other renovation costs. Learn more about the Physics Interaction Room Project.
Physics Scholarship and Fellowship Fund
Provides support for scholarships and fellowships to students within the Department of Physics.
Physics Van Fund
Gifts to this fund will go to help the Physics Van with various expenses, including but not exclusively travel and advertising expenses.
R O Simmons Fund
This fund supports an annual lecture as part of the colloquium series and was established in honor of Ralph O. Simmons, Physics Department Head from 1970-1986. Expenses to be defrayed may include, but not limited to, travel, lodging, meals for the speaker as well as promotional materials for the lecture. The preferred subject matter of the lectures shall be principally, but not exclusively, condensed matter physics and the lecture shall be administered by the department. In the event the Fund becomes large enough to support a Visiting Position in the department, shall support the advanced postdoctoral or faculty level in condensed matter physics and the position shall be known as the "Simmons Fellow".
Renato Bobone Award
This award recognizes a Physics graduate student who has demonstrated academic excellence. In accordance with the donor's wishes, preference is given to Italian citizens. This award was was endowed by alumnus Renato Bobone.
Richard K. Cook Scholarship
This scholarship recognizes an undergraduate engineering physics student at the end of his or her sophomore year and was established by alumnus Richard Cook (PhD, 1935), a specialist in ultrasonics and acoustics, who spent his entire scientific career at the National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Science and Technology).
Robert A. Stein Award
This award was established in memory of alumnus Robert A. Stein (BS, 1955). Mr. Stein greatly valued the education in engineering physics he received at the University of Illinois, and his family and friends thought the best way to honor his memory was by providing similar opportunities to other students from the Chicago area.
Scott Anderson Award
This award recognizes the year's outstanding Physics teaching or research assistants, and is named after alumnus Dr. Scott Anderson who founded Anderson Physics Laboratories in Urbana in 1944. It was through his initiative as president of our Physics Alumni Association and his generous philanthropy that the Anderson Award was endowed. Historically this has been given to a TA for outstanding teaching but the award may also be used for an outstanding Research Assistant.
Vijay R. Pandharipande Prize in Nuclear Physics
This prize recognizes the year's outstanding nuclear physics graduate student. Professor Pandharipande served with great distinction on our faculty for 34 years.
William L. McMillan Award Fund
This fund supports an award presented annually to a condensed matter physicist for distinguished research performed within five years of receiving the PhD degree. The awardees give a lecture as part of the colloquium series. The fund was established in memory of Illinois alumnus and faculty member Bill McMillan.


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