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A passable ghost story with an excellent mood and assured direction by John Carpenter, The Fog is impressive in ways that horror movies had forgotten in 1980, while not quite making it by contemporary gore standards. An immediate followup to the smash success Halloween, it may have been an attempt by Carpenter to subtly suggest his horrors - an attempt revised in post production with standard zombie shock reshoots.
In 1979, Cinefantastique magazine posed the unnecessary question of which filmmaker readers preferred, John Carpenter or David Cronenberg. Cronenberg's films were (at the time) exploitative and unpleasant, but each had a fascinatingly sick intellectual idea at its core. Carpenter, on the other hand, was a stylist who built his movies shot by shot, and idolized the laconic surface of Howard Hawks while creating suspense with a building-block technique learned from studying Alfred Hitchcock. But if Carpenter ever had anything to say, it's been hidden among weak stories and derivative ideas: an excellent director, almost every one of his films brilliantly initiates a stock genre situation, sometimes (in a film like Assault on Precinct 13) by sheer directorial storytelling power. But then the ball gets dropped. His typical third act reveals that there's little happening besides gunfire or mayhem, with the stories resolving in action but not in theme or character. Of course there are the happy exceptions, like The Thing, and Starman. Curiously, Cronenberg and Carpenter are such instinctively good directors, that their journeyman efforts in picturizing scripts written by others (Starman and The Dead Zone) are both excellent movies.
This is perhaps the film where Carpenter decided he wasn't an all-purpose genius, the one that convinced him to retreat to more commercial shockers. Very humble in interviews, he scoffs at the idea that he was the new Hitchcock. The Fog was reportedly inspired by seeing a moving fogbank at Stonehenge in England, and Carpenter and producer/co-writer Debra Hill originally shot a picture with very little graphic horror. When the result was unsatisfactory, they then scrambled to retrofit the tale with grisly details. In the new DVD docu, Carpenter rattles off the material he added after the first mix, and names practically every scene of zombie-pirate attack.
Carpenter builds his stories with precisely observed details, and in The Fog keeps our interest at a high level - with material that in someone else's film might be considered 2nd-Unit work. His subtle earthquake-ish rumblings are very effective, and the uncanny moment when a driftwood sign trickles water and changes to read "6 will die", is socko stuff. The sense of spatial organization on display goes beyond the director's already celebrated talent for composition, making us fully aware of the relevant topography of the Bodega Bay-like 'Antonio Bay.' His characters are mostly fresh, unforced, and well-cast, and he when he fills a major role with a non-star like Tom Atkins, we accept his choice.
Savant's not automatically charmed by every ghost story he sees, but The Fog has a number of impressive spectral situations, in particular the early assault on the fishing boat. Unlike lesser directors, he doesn't try to create suspense by withholding information. The creepy attack on one fisherman begins with a door opening, a ghost pirate entering, and walking in clear view forward to his prey. There's none of this nonsense of holding on a choker closeup of the victim so long, that a bull elephant with a cannon could sneak up behind him. There are also no meaningless 'gliding monster' POV's: We identify with the victims, not the ghouls.
Jamie Lee Curtis is a relatively minor character, and it's disappointing when her specific presence is more or less arbitrary. Adrienne Barbeau is softer and more pleasant than usual, and has a velvety radio voice that serves as creepy counterpoint to the cleverly-managed phantom fogs.
There's nothing all that wrong with The Fog, except that by 1980 standards, skewed by Romero and Fulci films, its thrills are definitely on the tame side. Fans able to see American versions of the Spanish Amando de Ossorio 'Blind Dead' movies are going to see similarities as well. Carpenter's setup is so intelligent and superior, that it's disappointing when characters and themes do not develop beyond a revenge motif. The killing Fog has unusual talents, like the ability to cut telephone lines. But without more illuminating content, it doesn't become a 'character', as did Poe's House of Usher.
For a while we wonder if outsider Curtis' presence might have a meaning, or a hint at a deeper meaning, as Tippi Hedren's does in the birds. Nope. Hal Holbrook's priest character deduces the mystery and works out the solution basically on his own, in a visually impressive but emotionally shallow scene. Restricted to the surface story, our thoughts wander to practical defenses. When Adrienne Barbeau is cornered atop the lighthouse, we mentally urge her to simply kick out at the very physical pirate pests. The intention seems to be for us to tremble at the mere presence of the phantoms. But they're just too familiar, and there aren't any 2nd and 3rd-act developments to make them more compelling. Carpenter's graphic additions to the film aren't cheap hype, but neither do they take the picture in any interesting direction. I wonder how much less the phantom pirates were shown in his first cut. The inconsistent return of a ghost to attack Holbrook in a stinger shock cut ending, doesn't add to our appreciation of Carpenter's earlier heights of mood & suspense.
MGM's Special Edition of The Fog has a very thorough new docu with focused interviews from the principals, who all seem in good spirits 23 years later. Producer Jeffrey Schwarz adds some cute editorial touches, bouncing dialogue lines off his story points. An original featurette from 1980 is also included. There are galleries of advertising art, stills, and a commentary with Carpenter and Hill that includes a great many fascinating editorial confessions.
The transfer of The Fog is very good. Besides restoring the Panavision frame, the 16:9 enhancement and better-than-adequate bit rates during encoding reduce grain to a minimum, and keep the frequent misty mists and foggy fogs at peak clarity, even on a large screen. The colors are sharp and the audio punchy. Carpenter's sub-Morricone synth noodlings don't add much to the tale, but are nicely recorded. A standard flat transfer is on board as well, for those who want to see The F, or e Fog.
On a scale of Excellent, Good, Fair, and Poor,
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One in Christ: An Historical Look
This article originally appears in AGAIN Vol. 28 No. 2, Summer 2006.
That we are to become one, as Christ is one with His Father, is our Lord's
own prayer (John 17:11). This movement towards unity applies to many areas of
our lives as Christians: husband and wife are to become one flesh (Genesis 2:24;
Matthew 19:5), we are each to become one spirit with Christ (1 Corinthians 6:17),
and, in the petition of the Great Litany, we pray for the welfare and unity of
all the churches of God.
This unity, in a very real sense, is a gift and is already given: in the sacrament
of marriage, the bride and the groom become one; in baptism we put on the identity
of Christ, becoming His body; and in the Creed we confess our belief in "one
holy catholic and apostolic Church." Yet in the case of marriage and putting
on Christ, we also have to work on ourselves—or more specifically die to
ourselves—to receive the gift fully. Is this also the case with regard
to the unity of the Church?
It is clear that in our contemporary situation in North America, with our separate
yet overlapping jurisdictions, we do not manifest, at least administratively,
the unity for which we pray. Do we, then, in our jurisdictional plurality, embody
an ecclesiological heresy—that is, fail to live out in practice what we
proclaim with our lips about the unity of the Church? Or perhaps the claim should
be made the other way round: Given that we do indeed belong to the Church and
embody the Church, in all the messiness of our concrete existence, is our profession
of faith in "one holy catholic and apostolic Church" no more than
a daydream, wishful thinking, or even a lie? Clearly, once the situation has
been cast in such terms, neither alternative is satisfactory.
So perhaps we should think about the issue differently, recognizing that the
reality of the unity of the one Body does not lie with ourselves and our all-too-human
attempts to embody what is given, but with Christ Himself. This is the unity
we, as particular churches, pray to attain, and it requires our struggle (and
death to our own identity). Perhaps we should not think, as we are wont to do,
of the unity of the one Church that we desire as something we once had but have
since lost. Perhaps we should see it rather as a unity towards which we are always
moving as we sojourn in the changing circumstances of this world, seeking a citizenship
that ultimately lies in the heavens (Philippians 3:20)—just as Christ is
always "the Coming One," even when present and being asked a question
in the Gospels (see Matthew 11:3).
The particular concern, so evident and troubling today, regarding the unity of
the Church, in particular her jurisdictional unity, is undoubtedly due in great
part to our new situation in the New World—the experience of the "diaspora." Although
Orthodox Christianity had arrived on this continent many years before, it was
the sheer numbers of Orthodox Christians who arrived during the past century
that made it possible to think in terms of creating a local autocephalous church
rather than missionary outposts.
The Christianity these immigrants brought with them was that which they had inherited
in their Orthodox homelands—not only its piety, ethos, liturgy, and theology,
but equally important, and perhaps even more so for us now, its ecclesial structures
and organization. In whatever ways these had changed and developed in the preceding
centuries, the structure and organization of the Church the immigrants brought
with them was an expression of her existence in a country that identified itself
as Orthodox.
Finding themselves in this new situation, many great Orthodox theologians and
historians drew upon the experience of the Church as it had been in their homelands
to articulate the theological principles for the proper canonical existence of
the Church. And they treated it with the utmost seriousness; it is not by accident
that Fr. Alexander Schmemann's diagnosis of the "Problems of Orthodoxy
in America" began with an article entitled "The Canonical Problem" (Saint
Vladimir's Theological Quarterly 1964). Before addressing liturgical issues
or the spiritual crisis, it was necessary to tackle the canonical situation,
or rather the "canonical problem"—meaning the existence of
multiple jurisdictions in any given geographical area.
It was affirmed absolutely that jurisdictional unity is an abiding, universal
canonical principle; that the fullness of the Church—the people gathered
around one bishop in the celebration of one Eucharist at one altar—exists
only in specific local churches, such that the presence of other churches, or
other jurisdictions, in the same geographical area rends the Body of Christ apart;
and that continuity in faith, doctrine, and life lies in the apostolic succession
of the single episcopate in each area, by virtue of which each local church manifests
and maintains her unity with and identity as the one holy catholic and apostolic
The lack of correspondence between theology and reality forty or fifty years
ago provoked much discussion about "the canonical problem" and much
debate about the meaningfulness of the term "diaspora." This work
has continued to inspire and guide reflection since. Yet if there was a lack
of correspondence then, that has only increased in the intervening decades: the
number of canonical Orthodox bishops in many places has increased, and numerous
Orthodox Christians now find themselves driving past churches of other jurisdictions
to attend the Divine Liturgy in a church of their own jurisdiction. Not surprisingly,
this increasing discrepancy has produced an increasing sense of frustration.
The Church in History
In light of this, it is worth asking whether the canonical principles articulated
so clearly during the twentieth century (especially the identity of a local church
as the whole given geographical area gathered around a single bishop) are in
fact eternal principles always expressive of the being of the Church. Could they
rather be reflective of the being of the Church as she existed in a country that
identified itself as Orthodox? Or is there perhaps even a way of envisioning
Orthodox Church life based on other models altogether?
It is striking, for instance, that Byzantine cities were not divided up into
territorial parishes, each with its own church to which all were expected to
go (as they were, for example, in England). It is estimated that up to half the
churches in Constantinople were private churches, on private estates, monasteries,
and so on.
Nevertheless, it might be pointed out, there was only one bishop of Constantinople.
However, even this idea of "one city—one bishop" is not the
only way the Church has existed over the centuries. Despite the rosy and romantic
picture given by early Christian historians such as Eusebius, of the apostles
appointing single bishops in each geographical area (thereby enshrining a vision
of Church history articulated in terms of the succession of bishops), historical
reality is more complicated.
Already the Apostle Paul, writing to the Roman Christians, indicates the existence
of over half-a-dozen different Christian groups or house-churches, each with
its own leader (see Romans 16), and this before any apostle had visited Rome.
Several decades later, St. Ignatius of Antioch also knew of no single "bishop" of
Rome, although he was the earliest and most forceful advocate of monoepiscopacy
(the claim that the Christian community in each place must gather around a single
bishop). Likewise St. Justin in the mid-second century. And when St. Irenaeus
described the succession of the presbyters or bishops (he uses the term interchangeably)
of the Christian community in Rome, it was the succession of but one of the communities,
albeit the one that gradually assumed leadership over the others.
All this is to say, there was no single bishop of Rome until the end of the second
century, or perhaps even as late as the third decade of the third century. Instead,
there were a number of churches, each led by its own bishop/presbyter. Some of
these churches seem to have gathered along ethnic lines (especially the Christians
from Asia Minor who resided in Rome), others along perceived intellectual or
spiritual affinity. In other words, it looked a lot like the way New York, or
any other large metropolitan area, looks today!
What second-century Rome had that is lacking in modern metropolitan areas, however,
was a forum or council where the leaders of all the churches met to express their
unity and fellowship, and to work together. The reality of their unity as the
one Body of Christ in Rome was further expressed by the fermentum, the distribution
of the eucharistic gifts. This originally seems to have been a mutual exchange
amongst these churches; it subsequently became, with the establishment of a single
bishop in Rome, the distribution from the Papal Eucharist to the presbyters in
the parish churches.
Clearly, even in this early phase, the unity of diverse Christian assemblies,
manifest in this fraternal manner (and not yet under the headship of a single
bishop), was regarded as the necessary corollary to the ecclesial nature of each
assembly. This unity was understood primarily in terms of their sharing the same
faith. Eusebius preserves for us a statement of St. Irenaeus regarding the diverse
Paschal practices in Rome in his time: "our diversity in practice, confirms
our unity in faith" (Ecclesiastical History 5.24.13).
The Church (in the singular) of Rome was embodied in the ecclesial assemblies—each
gathered around their presbyter/bishop at one altar celebrating one Eucharist—in
communion with all the other assemblies, each gathered in the unity of the same
faith. The Christians in the second century had a very vivid sense of belonging
to one body—the Virgin Mother, the Church—a body which, in a sense,
was greater than any of their particular communities, even though the Church
is only embodied in these communities and does not exist separately from them
(in some chair or abstract office, for instance, or in an unembodied faith).
The particular assemblies were not churches apart from this communion, any more
than an individual believer is a Christian ("a single Christian is not
a Christian," as the old saying puts it).
There can only be one Church in each place. But, and this is the important point
(which, it has to be acknowledged, is at odds with much modern ecclesiology),
this did not mean that there had to be only one bishop in each place. Or perhaps
more precisely, the role of the bishop had not yet become what it subsequently
would—at least, in Rome and Alexandria (the two cities which approximate
to our modern urban experience). In small towns with only one Christian congregation
the question does not even arise.
It should also be acknowledged that, even into the fourth century and beyond,
the boundaries of the Church are not understood to be co-extensive with those
united to the bishop of any given place. In the third century, St. Cyprian of
Carthage had identified, explicitly and exclusively, the Church with the bishop
("you must understand that the Church is in the bishop and the bishop in
the Church," Epistle 66.8 [69.8]); only those gathered with and under the
proper bishop were in the Church. Those who belonged to schismatic groups, that
is, groups which had broken communion with the bishop (usually over disciplinary
matters rather than doctrinal belief), were not to be considered members of the
Church, according to St. Cyprian, and so had to be rebaptized before entering
the communion of the Church. The Council of Nicaea (AD 325, canon 8), on the
other hand, was prepared to readmit schismatics without rebaptism. According
to St. Basil the Great, this was because such people were "still of the
Church" (Epistle 188.1).
As Fr. Georges Florovsky commented (in his article "The Boundaries of the
Church"), St. Cyprian was right to affirm that salvation resides only within
the Church, but "he defined this in too hastily and too narrowly." The
designation of such people as "schismatics" clearly indicates that
this situation is not considered normal, and that their reunion with the bishop
is desired; but that St. Basil can affirm that they are "of the Church" is
an important reminder that the Church is broader than those united with the bishop,
and includes all those baptized in the right faith (even if schismatic).
The Church Today
We are not in second-century Rome, and there can be no attempt to relive the
past. Yet the situations are analogous: what were particular ecclesial assemblies,
each with their own culture or flavor, are now particular jurisdictions coexisting
within a given geographical area. It might be argued that the ecclesial structures
of the Church and the role of the episcopate in the early centuries were in a
transitory phase, on their way to the more perfect expression achieved in the
fourth century and beyond. But it might also be said that the ecclesial structures
of Byzantium and elsewhere were themselves also transitory phases in the continual
sojourn of the Church in this world, whose history, whether we like it or not,
has moved on.
However we interpret it, it remains a stubborn fact that the organization of
the Church was at one time structured differently, and that St. Irenaeus could
write all that he had to say about tradition, the apostolic succession of the
episcopate, and the catholicity of the Church in this different situation. What
he wrote did not depend on the principle of "one city—one bishop."
In light of this, is it necessary for us now to maintain the principle of "one
city—one bishop," with all the frustration that the disjunction between
our words and our actual existence must necessarily bring? Or is the territory
overseen by a bishop, and his corresponding role, now defined differently, having
changed through the ineluctable movement of history? Could it be no longer a
particular Christian assembly amongst others, as it was in the second century,
nor a territory coextensive with a geographical region, as it was in later centuries,
but rather a "territory" comprised of those particular Christian
assemblies under his pastoral oversight?
This new situation also reflects an undeniable change in our contemporary experience
of space—with the advent of mass private transport and greater communications,
our sense of space, the world in which we now live, is not so much geographically
defined as it is defined by culture, friendships, family. But if this is the
case, what has become of the Church in any given region, as described above?
Who, what, or where is the Church of New York, or any other metropolitan area?
Here one can only lament the continuing tendency which Schmemann decried as "canonical
subordinationism"—the tendency to describe Christians in North America
as being "diaspora" churches, who gain their canonical status by
their maintenance of (and subordination to) the canonically established patriarchates
abroad—which, it is held, alone express the unity of the Church.
If, as is suggested above, the Church in any given place is constituted by the
communion of the Christian assemblies in that place—not just a tacit acknowledgement
of the presence of others, but a concrete, visible, and tangible (even edible)
fellowship—then, SCOBA notwithstanding, the lack of this today is truly
scandalous. However, its resolution need not necessarily mean imposing the patterns
of ecclesial organization which developed during the years of imperial Christianity
and which might no longer fit.
Is it possible today to envision territorial unity without territorial primacy?
To accept that there may be—as there indeed are!—many bishops in
a given geographical area, yet without there being one bishop of that geographical
area? This could only be done by a mutual recognition of all the Orthodox Christians
of a given area. Each must acknowledge both that they are only the Church of
that area together—in their particular ecclesial assemblies, led by their
own pastors and overseen by their own bishops, each in communion with all others—and
that their canonical status resides in this, in manifesting together the Body
of Christ in their own place, rather than in ties to churches overseas.
For such ecclesial existence to become a reality, the administrative unity of
the bishops and priests of a given region, though ultimately desirable, is not
necessarily the most important element. Although determining priority is like
asking whether the chicken or the egg came first, such administrative unity should
reflect (as well as aid) the common and shared ecclesial life of the Orthodox
laity in each location. This means not simply participating in an annual Sunday
of Orthodoxy Vespers, but engaging in charitable, missionary, educative, and
social work—together.
That would provide a more effective witness of Orthodox Christianity in North
America than simply realigning episcopal territories in a top-down approach.
Only if we desire a life in Christ (that is, a life of dying to ourselves in
service of others) together will an administrative unity be meaningful.
Is it possible then that our increasing frustration with the "canonical
problem" might be misplaced? Should the reality of our situation in the
New World, and the fact that we do embody and manifest the Church here, direct
us to consider again in what lies the unity of the Church?
Christ promised that when two or three are gathered in His name, there He would
be, in the midst of them (Matthew 18:20). The experience, theology, and ecclesiology
of the early Christians should remind us that it is by gathering together in
the unity of the same faith in the service of the one Lord that we, in our various
ecclesial assemblies, are together the one Church, the Body of Christ, with Christ
Himself present as our Head. If we make our cause anything else, or gather in
the name of anything else, however praiseworthy we deem it, will Christ be there?
These are large and important questions, which can only be answered by much prayerful
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Junior • 2014
Rowed the seventh seat, helping the first varsity to an undefeated regular season and the EAWRC Sprints and IRA Championships titles … Named the IRA Crew of the Year … Helped set a new course record at EAWRC Sprints (6:26.536) … Part of the crew that defeated four of the top seven squads at the Lightweight Invitational to overtake the No. 1 spot in the country … Helped break the school record at the Head of the Charles (17:15.232) and finished first overall of collegiate squads.
Sophomore • 2013
Rowed the seventh seat for the first varsity all season, including five wins and a second-place finish at the IRA National Championship … Part of the boat that won the lightweight eights race at the Head of the Charles (16:58.83), a first for Harvard at the regatta (Oct. 20) ... Helped Radcliffe produce the largest margin of victory, 8.259 seconds, in the Eastern Sprints first varsity race since 1996.
Freshman • 2012
Rowed for the varsity eight all season … Helped the varsity eight take bronze at the IRA National Championships, the first medal the Radcliffe lightweight crew has captured since 2006 … Contributed to third-place finish at the EAWRC Sprint, the lightweight varsity's third straight bronze … Rowed in win over Princeton to reclaim the Class of 1999 Cup for the first time since 2009 … Topped MIT by over 30 seconds in a lightweight crew sweep to take the Muri Cup … Finished third against No. 2 Wisconsin and No. 1 Stanford in the grand final of a six-team regatta on the Charles River … Contributed to win over Georgetown.
Before Harvard
Member of both lightweight and heavyweight varsity squads for crew … Earned academic and athletic colours in all years attended at Brentwood College.
Father, Harold, was a member of the Canadian National Rowing Team and attended three consecutive Olympic Games in 1984, 1988 and 1992 … Mother, Brenda Colby, was a member of the Canadian National Team for crew.


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Shikkaku Mon no ...Chapter: 26.2
I Am Troubled That ...Chapter: 2
Mom, Please ...Chapter: 5.5
Isekai de Saikyou ...Chapter: 11
Beautiful like every chapter!
Beautiful like every chapter!
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Glorious Read!
wrong manga chapter this one belongs to another please get the correct one for vengeance of the heavenly demon
I'm waiting for nest chapter....
I like the manga but hell, there is way too much sex in it. There I virtually no story. One after the next is couple A doing it, and when they're done, couple B, then back to A.
this guy is again such a retard.. that Susan Girl is loving him and he is loving her but still fucks other girls when they are all "bad" and he isnt satisfied with them so why is he doing it ?!?! he could just get together with Susan jesus christ i see henry fcking her when he doesnt get his freaking brain together
thanks for translation will wait for next chapters
Some more episode when is the next release
so what happens to anida??
hahaha wtf
retard he could have her as a girlfriend if he had said that wtf
fcking retard .....
retard jesus christ ... that he is even thinking about "swapping" when he could have denise wtf
i hope that motherfucker gets beaten too holy shit
Please upload the rest this is too good!
@Zack Hogue no if you look closer you can notice his arm is just behind his back. focus on the sword coming into vision.
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Release Date: November 22, 2013
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Michelle A. Van Gheem, research compliance and compliance manager of GE Healthcare, General Electric Co. in Wauwatosa, Wis., has been named director of research compliance at the University at Buffalo.
The announcement was made by Alexander Cartwright, UB vice president for research and economic development.
Cartwright said that Van Gheem's expertise and experience stood out amid an exceptionally talented group of candidates during a national search.
"Michelle Van Gheem distinguished herself as knowledgeable across a wide spectrum of compliance regulations, including having familiarity with externally-sponsored research activities that involved a range of federal, state and private grant-making programs," said Cartwright. "I feel confident that she will guide UB through the regulations related to the university's research, which will also include the responsibility for education and training programs as they relate to sponsored research activities."
The director of research compliance — a new position at UB — will provide university-wide management and administration of all aspects of compliance policies as they relate to UB's research activities. In order to best serve the research community, and to ensure that best practices in research compliance are followed, the Office of Research Compliance was formed for dedicated leadership of these functions.
The office will have oversight of the following policies and programs: responsible conduct of research, intellectual and creative activity; export controls; financial conflicts of interest; and research subjects' protection (human subjects and animal subjects).
In addition, the seven current full-time staff — supporting all of the research compliance functions — will collocate in one office area at the Clinical and Translational Research Center on UB's downtown campus. This will better leverage existing staff and resources to increase efficiencies and improve customer service to the UB research community.
Van Gheem will be directly responsible for day-to-day operations and work collaboratively with the Department of Environmental Health and Safety in the management of a number of laboratory safety programs.
The university currently has more than 1,100 active research projects. Van Gheem will ensure research compliance committee transparency for all projects with an emphasis on inter-committee communication. She will also serve as the primary liaison with federal and other regulatory agencies.
Van Gheem comes to UB with more than 15 years of progressive research compliance experience in higher education and the private sector.
In her most recent position at GE Healthcare, Van Gheem has been responsible for global research and commercial compliance oversight for GE Healthcare Systems and its $12 billion medical device business. In her role as chief research compliance officer, she developed expertise in privacy, anti-kickback, investigations and training. She also developed a keen understanding of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Technology for Economical Clinical Health Act (HITECH), and international privacy auditing and monitoring.
Van Gheem spoke enthusiastically about her appointment and about coming to UB.
"I am excited to join the UB community and have the opportunity to work with a talented team in building on the existing comprehensive and efficient research compliance services for UB faculty, students and administrators."
Prior to GE, Van Gheem held appointments at Covenant Healthcare System Inc. in Milwaukee, Wis. as regional director of research management, and at Marquette University, also in Milwaukee, as director of the Office of Research Compliance.
Van Gheem received her bachelor of arts in international relations, Eastern European studies and Russian language from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.


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Tottenham visit fills another break in Sounders' schedule
Major League Soccer's World Cup break is over, but Seattle Sounders FC is heading into another lull in league play.
After the Sounders' 2-0 victory over Portland on Sunday, they headed into a 14-day break in their MLS schedule before the Los Angeles Galaxy visits on July 28.
The only match before then is a friendly against Tottenham Hotspur of the English Premier League at 1 p.m. Saturday at CenturyLink Field. The club reported Monday that ticket sales have topped 52,000.
The break comes at a time when Seattle remains at the top of the MLS standings, seven points clear of D.C. United, and 10 points ahead of Real Salt Lake in the Western Conference.
"I don't even look," coach Sigi Schmid said of his team's league standing. "I just look at our own points, and I'm happy to see us continue to get points. … Hopefully one day we will look at the standings and say, 'Hey, we have qualified for the playoffs.' For now, it's about continuing to play well."
The Sounders were off Monday, return to training Tuesday, and then will be off again Wednesday before resuming work for the friendly.
Schmid said his team's top priorities will be staying in rhythm and returning to health. Players such as Brad Evans (knee), Leo Gonzalez (hamstring), Djimi Traore (adductor), Dylan Remick (adductor) and Andy Rose (knee) are all reported making progress. Schmid said some are possible for this weekend and most are likely for the return to league play at the end of the month.
That would continue an upward trend for the Sounders, who on Sunday welcomed back Clint Dempsey and DeAndre Yedlin from World Cup duty, and forward Obafemi Martins from a hamstring injury.
Yedlin went the full 90 minutes, while Dempsey scored his team-high ninth goal of the season.
"I think we did the right thing by giving Clint the week off," Schmid said. "It gave him time to spend with his family. … DeAndre had some time off, and he will have a few more days off after the Tottenham game because I think you need to do that. Clint felt fresh when he came back … and DeAndre is a young kid and doesn't know how to feel yet."
Meanwhile, Martins' second-half appearance was cited by both sides as a turning point in the match.
"You could see that that Martins, Dempsey — these guys were fresh," Timbers coach Caleb Porter said. "When Martins came on and paired with Dempsey, they gave us a lot of problems. I think our back line just looked like they were tired, and you can't be tired running against Dempsey and Martins. And Dempsey proved why he's one of the best players in our country and scored a couple of goals in the World Cup."
The drumbeat for Tottenham's visit begins at midweek with regional charity and publicity events. The promotions gain steam Friday, when the English club is tentatively scheduled to hold a 4:30 p.m. free public practice at CenturyLink Field between a 2:45 p.m. fish throwing at Pike Place Market and a 7 p.m. question-and-answer session at the George & Dragon Pub in Seattle. That event features former Tottenham stars Ledley King and Steffen Freund and former Sounder and U.S. national team goalkeeper Kasey Keller.


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245. The neophytes are, as the term "mystagogy" suggests, introduced into a fuller and more effective understanding of the mysteries through the Gospel message they have learned and above all through their experience of the sacraments they have received. For they have truly been renewed in mind, tasted more deeply the sweetness of God's word, received the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, and grown to know the goodness of the Lord. Out of this experience, which belongs to Christians and increases as it is lived, they derive a new perception of the faith, of the Church, and of the world.
Reception of the sacraments may be a gateway to a "full" understanding of the life of faith. How does one assess or judge "effectiveness?" I would think through the lived example of the Christian life in the neophyte. After all, the next group of inquirers/catechumens/elect must be inspired.
Instead of a process of active and directive formation, the sacraments now provide the direction and inspiration for the neophytes, as they do for the faithful. The reference to faith, Church, and world implies there is no corner of life divorced from the considerations of a person adopted into the grace of Christ.


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Silly me. How could I have forgotten — and not just recently, but months after I spent a full week at 100Mhz, and more than a month after relinquishing X on another machine — that there's a site practically devoted to console applications, in various states of development: cli-apps.org.
Ordinarily, when scraping for unusual console apps, I cruise a few screenshot threads, or dredge up another text-based distro and check out their list of included applications. INX, for example.
cli-apps.org, as you might expect, has a good collection of nifty things you hadn't ever thought of, and they're arranged in convenient ways (popularity, etc.). So I don't necessarily have to sift through armloads of Crux ports, compile for an hour, only to find that a program sucks.
Which does happen occasionally. Not everything on the terminal smells like roses. 🙄
And if you want something a little more in the way of direct analogues, make sure you check out the lengthy list jared mentioned in a comment a few days ago. Where cli-apps.org is arranged in terms of name, popularity and frequency of download, jared's list is helpful when moving from one application — like OpenOffice.org Presentation — to its counterpart at the terminal — like tpp.
Between those two sites I have a near-infinite array of software to test and hours of compilation ahead of me. Hmm … joy. … 😐


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It's a popular meme on the left, well summed up in this quotation from the website Down With Tyranny: "Chief Justice John Roberts does everything he can to see that the FISA court remains a trusty tool of the national security state."
The charge is that Roberts, himself a Republican appointee and a conservative, has packed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court with Republicans and pro-government types, which is why the secret court is such a rubber stamp.
But is it really that simple?
Most of the indictments of Roberts take their cue from the reporting of Charlie Savage of the New York Times. Last month, Savage noted that 10 of the 11 district court judges currently temporarily assigned to the FISA court by Roberts "were appointed to the bench by Republican presidents; six once worked for the federal government."
Yet there may be less to this indictment than meets the eye. Yes, the Republican tilt of the FISA court membership is striking, and, as a general proposition, Republican-appointed judges tend to be more conservative than Democratic-appointed ones. But for judges, as for politicians such as President Obama and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Democratic lineage doesn't guarantee a pro-civil-liberties stance on electronic surveillance issues.
Nor are Republican-appointed judges necessarily pushovers for the government. We now know that the former chief judge of the FISA court -- John D. Bates, a George W. Bush appointee who once served as deputy to Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr -- took the government to task in a blistering 2011 opinion for "repeated inaccurate submissions." (Maybe the FISA court isn't a rubber stamp after all.)
As for Roberts' supposed propensity for assigning pro-government patsies to the FISA court, Savage noted that 50% of his appointees were former executive branch officials, compared to 39% of the judges named by previous chief justices Warren Burger and Wiliam Rehnquist. Even assuming that past service in the executive branch makes a judge more sympathetic to the government, is the difference between 50% and 39% statistically significant?
Recently, Roberts named Judge Jose Cabranes, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, as a member of the three-judge Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review, which hears rare appeals from orders of the FISA court. Before serving on the 2nd Circuit, Cabranes served on a U.S. district court by appointment of another Democratic president, Jimmy Carter. So does Roberts deserve credit for introducing some diversity to the FISA judiciary?
Not according to the New York Times. The headline on Savage's Cabranes story was "Newest Spy Court Pick Is a Democrat but Not a Liberal." The article, fairly, noted that Cabranes had ruled for the government in two prominent cases involving terrorism and civil liberties. But it also included this arguable assertion by Harvard professor and former Democratic Justice Department official Philip Heymann: "The chief justice may not know it but his responsibility is to start to build up legitimate institutions in the area of intelligence gathering, and he can be credibly accused of having gone just the opposite direction over the years."
Actually, Roberts shouldn't be appointing judges to the FISA courts in the first place. Originally a glorified magistrate's office, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has taken on much greater significance with the post-9/11 expansion in electronic surveillance. Not only does it rule on individual requests for court orders, it also passes on the constitutionality of broad programs such as the bulk collection of telephone records revealed by Edward Snowden.
The Los Angeles Times argued in an editorial last month that the law should be changed so that FISA judges would be chosen specifically for that assignment by the president and confirmed by the Senate. That way senators would be able to question nominees about their views about privacy and the 4th Amendment, subjects that wouldn't have gotten adequate attention in their confirmation for their day jobs as ordinary federal judges.
As for the chief justice, he probably would be happy to let someone else pull the strings of the "national security state."


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County of Inyo
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The Board of Supervisors of the County of Inyo, State of California, met in special session at the hour of 9:00 a.m., on Thursday, January 12, 2006, in the Board of Supervisors Room, County Administrative Center, Independence, with the following Supervisors present: Chairperson Susan Cash presiding, Linda Arcularius, Ted Williams, Jim Bilyeu, and Richard Cervantes. Supervisor Bilyeu provided the Invocation, and Supervisor Cervantes led the Pledge of Allegiance.
Public Comment
The Chairperson announced the public comment period and there was no one from the public wishing to address the Board.
Closed Session
The Chairperson recessed open session at 9:01 a.m., to convene in closed session with all Board Members present to discuss the Agenda Items No. 2. PERSONNEL (Pursuant to Government Code § 54957) – Public Employee Appointment - Title – Director of Public Works; and No. 3. CONFERENCE WITH LABOR NEGOTIATOR [Pursuant to Government Code §54957.6] - Instructions to Negotiators re: wages, salaries and benefits – Title – Director of Public Works - Negotiator: Members of the Board of Supervisors as designated. The Chairperson recessed closed session at 12:10 p.m., to reconvene at 1:00 p.m., with all Board Members present.
Report on Closed Session
The Chairperson recessed closed session at 3:35 p.m., to reconvene in open session to receive a report on closed session. County Counsel reported that with regard to closed session items the Board of Supervisors, on a three-to-two vote, with Supervisors Arcularius, Williams and Cervantes voting yes, and with Supervisors Cash and Bilyeu voting no, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Ron Chegwidden as the Director of Public Works at a salary of $7,500 per month contingent upon the completion of the necessary process and procedures for appointment, with a contract to be brought back for Board approval at the conclusion of the process.
The Chairperson adjourned the special meeting at 3:35 p.m.
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The MSYS build environment is one whose GNU canonical system name (like returned by "uname -s") will have MSYS_ as the beginning portion of the string. The MSYS build environment is used to build the tools distributed by MSYS. The binaries it creates are dependent on the msys-1.0.dll runtime, which provides thin POSIX layer.
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mingw-get install msys-dvlpr
By default, MSYS gets installed into <MinGW_root>\msys\1.0 and can be entered executing "msys.bat MSYS" from there. That will open new window with MSYS in its title and different color scheme if rxvt is used. In MSYS environment $PATH is set so /bin preceedes /mingw/bin, therefore msys-gcc becomes default compiler (gcc -v should state "msys special").
On the contrary in MinGW environment (entered executing "msys.bat" without parameter) /mingw/bin path preceedes /bin, therefore mingw32-gcc is found first, thus gcc -v states "GCC").
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# Determine windows path W=`pwd -W` # Determine identifying version info V=`echo -n \`uname -r | cut -d \( -f 1\`-\`uname -v | sed -e 's/ /@/'\`` # Reset bash prompt export PS1='\[\033]0;$MSYSTEM-$V($W):\w\007 \033[47m\033[30m\]\u@\h \[\033[47m\033[35m\w\033[0m\] $ '
Similar profile commands can be established on remote systems to help identify the remote window in the task bar.
See also the following for more hints and suggestions:
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"The focus of the event was to bring together many different remanufacturing industry segments so that we could pool our resources to communicate to Congress the many benefits of remanufacturing," says Schofield. "In addition to the skilled American jobs that remanufacturing and reconditioning creates, the environmental benefits of resource conservation and landfill management are too significant to ignore. And if you do the total cost-of-ownership calculations on top of these things, there is nothing but positive benefits for society from the promotion and consumption of re-certified goods. But presently, many governments preclude the purchase of any reconditioned or remanufactured goods. And that is what we aim to change."
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