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Find out more about the NICE Diagnostics Advisory Committee members by reading their biographies.
Dr Mark Kroese MB, ChB, DPH, FFPH, FRCP(Ed), MRCGP
Consultant in Public Health Medicine, PHG Foundation
Mark Kroese is a Consultant in Public Health Medicine at the PHG Foundation, Cambridge and was appointed Public Health Advisor to the UK Genetic Testing Network in 2006. Prior to joining the PHG Foundation, Mark worked for nearly 7 years as Consultant in Public Health Medicine at Peterborough Primary Care Trust.
His specialist interests are in the evaluation and regulation of genetic tests and the commissioning of clinical genetics services.
Ms Elizabeth Adair
Quality Director, Viapath Group LLP
Liz Adair is a qualified nurse with extensive senior management experience in the NHS, where she worked for over 32 years. She is the Director for Quality at Viapath Group LLP, a joint venture pathology services provider, where she is the lead for clinical governance assurance and quality standards.
She undertook her nursing training in London, initially at the Nightingale School of Nursing at St Thomas' Hospital, before moving to Guy's Hospital and qualifying as a sick children's nurse. She developed an interest in family mental health, qualifying as a mental health nurse in Bloomsbury Health Authority. Liz's clinical practice was predominately in child & adolescent mental health services in South East London.
In the early 1990's, Liz moved from her clinical work into a range of operational roles, initially at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. She transitioned into acute care and has extensive NHS senior management experience from a number of roles, including Associate Director for emergency care, medicine, women's, children's and older peoples services in East Anglia. Liz particularly enjoys working with health, social care providers and patients, in developing multi-agency patient focused strategy, redesign and implementation of system–wide care pathways.
Graduating in 2016 at Henley Business School, University of Reading with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree, Liz has developed an extensive cross sector network and range of interests. This includes her appointment and active participation as a Trustee of Carers Network, a charity offering support to unpaid carers in a number of London boroughs.
Mr John Bagshaw
In-Vitro Diagnostics Consultant
John Bagshaw is one of two industry representatives on the DAC. He worked for 36 years for diagnostic companies in various roles after initial employment as Company Microbiologist for a manufacturer of dialysis and transfusion equipment.
Now a freelance consultant, he is also a Public Governor for an NHS Foundation Hospital Trust and a member of the West Berkshire Patient Group and of the Mortimer Surgery Patient Panel.
John maintains his interest in In Vitro Diagnostics through membership of the Executive Board of the British In Vitro Diagnostic Association (BIVDA) and chairmanship of the Market Dynamics working group which also involves membership of the Market Research Committee of MedTech Europe.
Professor Enitan Carrol
Chair in paediatric infection and honorary consultant in paediatric infectious diseases, Alder Hey Children's Hospital
Enitan qualified from The University of Aberdeen in 1989. She then commenced general medicine training before switching to paediatric training in Manchester, Liverpool and Newcastle. Her doctoral thesis was on meningococcal sepsis in children. Following this she completed specialist training in paediatric infectious diseases. A lectureship at the University of Liverpool was followed by a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellowship on invasive pneumococcal disease in Malawian children. She returned to Liverpool to take up a senior clinical lectureship in 2007, and was awarded a Chair in paediatric infection in 2013.
Her research interests include bacterial infections in children, diagnostic accuracy studies, testing of biomarker panels and early warning scores for early recognition. She has over 20 years' experience of clinical research in hospitalised children with infections. She works closely with a number of industry partners on collaborative research projects.
She was a member of our guideline development committee for sepsis and a specialist member on the diagnostic advisory committee for procalcitonin testing.
Dr Owen Driskell
Clinical Scientist
Owen Driskell is a Clinical Scientist and the Clinical Academic Science Manager at the National School for Healthcare Science with responsibilities for Clinical Academic Development of Healthcare Scientists in the NHS. He trained and worked as a Clinical Biochemist in NHS pathology laboratories for over 10 years before joining the NIHR Clinical Research Network West Midlands as Lead for Laboratory Medicine in 2015. In this role he championed professionalism in pathology research and promoted the contribution and importance of pathology contributions to NHS research. This involved supporting the development of both the pathology services provided for NHS research and the research led by pathology laboratory professionals.
Owen's research interests are in diabetes and the use of laboratory tests. His Clinical Scientist training included the award and completion of an inaugural NIHR CSO HCS Fellowship assessing the use of HbA1c in the monitoring of patients with Diabetes Mellitus. During this time he developed an interest in the use of evidence to inform laboratory practice.
Dr James William Gray
Consultant Microbiologist, Department of Microbiology, Birmingham Children's Hospital
Jim Gray has been a Consultant Microbiologist at Birmingham Children's and Women's Hospitals since 1995. Clinical and research interests include diagnostic test accuracy studies and improving the laboratory-clinical interface, in particular to ensure that key laboratory results are reported and appropriately acted upon without delay.
Recent service innovations include the introduction of Advance Laboratory Practitioners, multidisciplinary laboratory working to support infection control and antibiotic decision making on an out of hours basis. Research interests include point of care testing for group B streptococcus screening in labouring women and improved blood culture technology to support antibiotic stewardship in neonates.
Jim has worked on several NICE Programmes, including being a member of two Guideline Development Groups and a Standing Member of a Rapid Clinical Guideline Updates Committee. He is an Expert Advisor for the British National Formulary for Children (BNF-C), and has served on a number of national committees relating to paediatric infectious diseases and antibiotic treatment. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Hospital Infection and an Assistant Editor of International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents and the Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases.
Dr Shelley Rahman Haley
Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
Biography to follow.
Professor Steve Halligan
Professor of Radiology, University College London
Professor Steve Hallligan is an academic clinical radiologist working at UCL and UCLH. His clinical work revolves around gastrointestinal and breast imaging. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and NIHR Senior Investigator Emeritus. He has been President of both the European and British Societies of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology.
He is Head of the Department of Imaging at UCL and has specific expertise in multi-centre pragmatic trials of imaging interventions within the NHS, for which he has received substantial funding from various NIHR Programmes. He also supervises systematic reviews and meta-analyses of diagnostic tests and obtained a PhD in 2015, related to statistical alternatives to ROC curve analysis.
Professor Neil Hawkins
Professor of Health Technology Assessment, University of Glasgow
Neil Hawkins is a Professor of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He is deputy director of the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) funded Complex Reviews Support Unit (CRSU). His research interests include methods development for evidence synthesis and decision-analytic modelling and the use of "development focussed" HTA to support decision-making regarding the development of, and investment in, nascent healthcare technologies.
He holds post-graduate degrees in Pharmacology, Health Economics and Applied Statistics and an MBA. He has worked in the pharma, academic, and consultancy sectors in roles spanning basic pharmacological research, clinical development, epidemiology, and health technology assessment.
Mr John Hitchman
Lay member
John Hitchman is a retired Chartered Architect who was Principal of a private practice in Co. Durham. He has served on standard committees for a number of statutory and voluntary organisations and currently sits on the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee for the Selection of Magistrates. John is a member of the Lay Group of the Royal College of Anaesthetists where he serves on a range of the College's committees. He is also the lay representative on Peer Review Panels for the Association of Paediatric Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland. John's particular interest in the NHS is the improvement of the patient experience especially for the young and the vulnerable.
Professor Chris Hyde
Professor of Public Health & Clinical Epidemiology, Exeter Test Group, University of Exeter Medical School
Chris Hyde trained in medicine and public health in London and East Anglia respectively. His expertise is in systematic reviews and health technology assessments, particularly in the context of providing support to policy-makers. In this respect he has undertaken many reports for NICE, particularly its Technology Appraisal Programme.
During his career he has set up and directed the Aggressive Research Intelligence Facility (ARIF), an effectiveness information support service for commissioners in the West Midlands. Chris has also directed the West Midlands Health Technology Assessment Collaboration and been closely involved with the Systematic Reviews Initiative of the National Blood Service. He has long-standing connections with the Cochrane Collaboration and is an editor of the NHS HTA Monograph series. He is currently based at the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry where he leads the Technology Appraisal Group in PenTAG.
He has a long-standing interest in the evaluation of tests and has done health technology assessments on many topics including automated cervical screening, hysteroscopy, prediction of pre-eclampsia and pre-term birth, PET/CT, orthopantomography and identifying genetic sub-types in diabetes. He is currently part of the UK Support Unit for Cochrane Diagnostic Test Accuracy Reviews based at the University of Birmingham; and a member of the Cochrane Diagnostics Test Accuracy Editorial Board.
Dr Sandeep Kapur BSc(Hons) MBBS MRCGP(Dist)
GP, south east London
Dr Sandeep Kapur is a GP in south east London. He undertook medical training at Guys & St Thomas' Hospitals following which he completed an Internal Medicine training program from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA. He is a GMC PLAB examiner, CQC GP specialist advisor and is a member of the BNF Joint Formulary committee.
Mr Patrick McGinley ICMA, CGMA
Head of Costing and Service Line Reporting, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
Patrick started as a Trainee Accountant at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1983, and apart from a brief sojourn to the far NW of Scotland as a postmaster, has worked in the NHS ever since in a variety of roles and institutions including at the Royal London, Homerton, Whipps Cross and Great Ormond Street before moving to Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells
He is currently Head of Costing and SLR, and has implemented an automated system of calculating costs at a patient level, and firmly believes that improved costing can help the NHS to understand its business, and maximise the value of healthcare.
He has direct operational experience as a Programme Manager of an NHS Breast Screening Unit, to go with experience as a Management and Costing Accountant, and he has successfully completed two PFI projects (BLT and TWH) as financial lead to offset the significant number of hospitals that he has helped to shut over his career.
He is an active member of the HFMA Costing Special Interest Group, and is also a member of NHSI's Costing Advisory Group and technical review group, is a reviewer for both NICE and NIHR, and has presented regularly at National events on Acute Costing Standards.
He was a member of tariff calculation groups for NCAT for Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy, is a Fellow of Royal Statistical Society and a member of HSUG. He lectures on statistics for journalists for RSS. He benchmarks costing approaches with international colleagues, and is a training mentor for the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants; understandably, he is therefore rarely allowed out on his own.
Dr Michael Messenger
Deputy Director and Scientific Manager - NIHR Diagnostic Evidence Co-operative Leeds
Dr Michael Messenger is the Deputy Director and Scientific Manager for the NIHR Diagnostic Evidence Co-Operative Leeds and is responsible for overseeing the delivery of high-quality scientific evidence on in-vitro diagnostics (IVD) for the NHS.
As the Principal Healthcare Scientist on a NIHR Applied Programme Grant for Research "Evaluating the benefits for patients and the NHS of new and existing biological fluid biomarkers in liver and renal disease" he has experience across many phases of the "diagnostic pipeline" including the development, validation and clinical evaluation of new diagnostic assays.
Mrs Alexandria Moseley
Lay member
Alexandria holds a degree in International Finance from the Wharton School as well as a degree in product design from FIT in New York City. She has been a Wall Street trader, serial entrepreneur, business owner, industry consultant, lifestyle blogger, and health advocate.
Served for many years as an international lay reviewer for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and as a member of the Diabetes Research Network, plus one year on the Lay Committee for Diabetes UK. Invited as a patient expert for two previous NICE committees formulating guidance on insulin pumps. She has a special interest in autoimmune diseases.
Dr Simon Richards PhD
VP, Regulatory Affairs, EME, Alere
Simon Richards is VP, regulatory Affairs EME for Alere. Originally a PhD Biochemist working on chemiluminescent assay techniques, he has worked in the Vaccines and Diagnostics industry for over 20 years. He began his career at Amersham/Johnson+Johnson as a scientist before transitioning into Quality and Regulatory roles of increasing seniority in DPC (now part of Siemens), Novartis, Axis-Shield and now Alere.
He is also the chair of the Regulatory Affairs Working party for the UK IVD Industry body, BIVDA.
Professor Mark Sculpher BA (Hons), MSc, PhD
Professor of Health Economics, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
Mark Sculpher has worked in the field of economic evaluation and health technology assessment for over 25 years. He has researched in a range of clinical areas including heart disease and cancer, and evaluated therapeutic and diagnostic technologies He has also contributed to methods in the field, in particular relating to decision analytic modelling and techniques to handle uncertainty. He has over 200 peer-reviewed publications and is a co-author of two major textbooks in the area.
Mark is a member of the UK National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) College of Senior Investigators. He has also been a member of the NICE Technology Appraisal and Public Health Interventions Advisory Committees. He chaired NICE's 2004 Task Group on methods guidance for economic evaluation; and has also advised health systems internationally on HTA methods including those in Ireland, Portugal, France and New Zealand. He has been a member of the Commissioning Board for the UK NHS Health Technology Assessment Programme and currently sits on the UK Medical Research Council's Methodology Research Panel.
Professor Matt Stevenson BSc, PhD
Director of the School of Health and Related Research Technology Assessment Group
Matt studied Operational Research at Lancaster University where he received his doctorate. He worked for the University of Sheffield for over 20 years, during which time he conducted cost-effectiveness analyses primarily for the National Institute for Health Research.
Matt is Director of the School of Health and Related Research Technology Assessment Group, an academic group undertaking modelling work to provide data for NICE technology and diagnostic appraisals. He is also a member of our technology appraisal committee, as well as our decision support unit.
Professor Anthony Wierzbicki BA, MA, BM, BCh, DPhil, DM
Consultant in Metabolic/Chemical Pathology, St Thomas Hospital
Professor Anthony Wierzbicki is a consultant in metabolic medicine & chemical pathology and has been director of the lipid unit at St. Thomas and Guy's Hospitals in 1994. His work in the field of atherosclerosis has led to appointments as a Fellow of the National Association of Clinical Biochemistry (USA) and the American Heart Association (arteriosclerosis and blood pressure sections). He has been a trustee of HEART-UK (the UK cholesterol charity) and chairman of this charity's medical and scientific committee.
His clinical interests are in diagnostics, cardiovascular risk quantification systems and the molecular genetics of hyperlipidaemia. He is a member of the SE London cardiac network treatment and vascular risk guideline groups.
He was a member of the writing group of the International Familial Hypercholesterolaemia guidelines. He has served at NICE on Technology Appraisal panels, the familial hypercholesterolaemia guideline group (CG71) and chaired the Lipids and Cardiovascular risk assessment guideline (CG181).
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Thank you to those of you who completed the Housing Needs survey. We need to provide robust evidence of housing need within the parish to counter the development proposals made by the local planning authority last summer. We received the results of the survey in February.There was a good response of 34% of replies received. The information you provided helped Wiltshire Council to compile the report which you can read by clicking on the following link.
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"COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CONSULTATION: 'Possible Neighbourhood Plan Sites' is now running from March 8th to March 29th 2018.
Full Regulation 14 consultation lasting 6 weeks will take place later this summer. However, the community has this additional opportunity now to comment on site options in the community engagement now being held. Sessions will be held at North Bradley Baptist Church on Friday 16 March 5.30 – 7.30 p.m and Saturday 17 March 10.00 – 12.00 a.m & 2.30- 4.30 p.m.
The deadline for questionnaire responses is 29th March; however, we may be able to accept late response up until 5th April. Responses can be made in person at the events being held (see this above for details), via e-mail or letter (ideally using response forms available from the parish clerk) or direct to the parish clerk at: or by post to 12 Churchlands, North Bradley BA14 0TD
It has not been decided whether sites will be allocated at all. However if any are, then they are likely to be aimed at meeting modest levels of growth for local needs only. The purpose of the report is to examine some possibilities and also to check to see if anyone wishes to suggest alternatives. Following community engagement on the report, the findings will go into the Neighbourhood Development Plan draft which will go out to formal consultation later in the summer.
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The Parish Council and Wiltshire Council are working together to identify the needs of local people in the Parish and would be grateful for your help.
Households in parishes across Wiltshire are being asked to take part in a survey that will give up-to-date information about local housing circumstances and aspirations. This information will be used to help us develop our housing and planning policies to best meet these needs, including whether there is a local need for affordable housing in parishes and, if so, of what size and type.
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Woven – A Resource for Teenage Girls
Family Life Ministry is pleased to introduce Woven, our new resource written for teen girls! Woven is a beautiful interactive book (with a free downloadable facilitator's guide) which can be used in small groups or families. The purpose of Woven is to help our girls better understand their identity as lovingly created by God so they can intentionally develop their relationship with Him and with others. Woven is designed to help them negotiate those relationships with joy in our modern world. Woven is available for purchase at woveninhislove.org


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MHIST - Retail Volunteers Mental Health Independent Support Team (MHIST)
About the opportunity
This is a role that involves volunteering in our new charity shop. This is a sales role that involves displaying the stock and talking with customers. You wont be expected to handle any money.
About Mental Health Independent Support Team (MHIST)
MHIST is a user led charity supporting people with mental health issues who live in the Bolton area. Our services include talking therapy, self help groups and advocacy. Mission for the MHIST community is to provide a friendly, safe and positive environment for people with mental health problems.
What are they looking for?
Customer service skills, friendly, team player, reliable, good communication skills, approachable and wiling to learn about the products and items sold in the shop.
Able to communicate clearly with other Staff, Volunteers and customers at the shop.
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One of them really hit home with me, and I want to share it in case it helps you too. Are you ready, moms? Here it is: My Kids Need a Dad, Not Two Moms.
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Whew. That really woke me up. When I heard that, I realized I often try to get Paul to parent the same way I do -- calmly and in a nurturing, motherly manner.
He tends to handle delicate situations more abrasively. It often makes me uncomfortable, and I feel compelled to smooth it over. But I have come to learn through experience and from hearing Dr. Slattery talk, that I need to be more open to Paul's ways.
For instance, there have been a few times when my "nurturing" way of handling an upset child actually made the situation worse -- the child cried harder.
Paul gets so frustrated with me in those instances and takes over in his "manly" way. Somehow it works. He manages to calm the situation down -- usually with his personal style of humor.
His approach is much different than my approach, but it isn't wrong. And thank God for it, because it works better than mine sometimes!
I mention God here on purpose. I think He has everything to do with this. He designed men and women to be different on purpose. We compliment each other. Kids need their moms and dads to parent differently for their healthy development.
Dr. Slattery shared research with us that indicates having both a mom and dad is one of the most critical factors to a child's academic, emotional, behavioral, spiritual, and physical well-being.
I know it's not rocket science, but I think it is profound, and we moms need to remember to allow our husbands to do what they do best -- parent as a dad! It's not to say they don't need some guidance along the way, but they might not need as much as we are accustomed to giving them. It's certainly something to ponder.
The expression on Paul's face when I shared this with him was priceless. I think it was a look of relief and excitement and feeling validated. I dare you to try this at home.


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We are located just up behind TESCO Bangor. The postcode is LL57 4DA and is just two minutes off junction 10 of the A55.
If you have an enquiry please fill in the contact form below or feel free to call us at the shop on: 01248 355 770 during opening hours.


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It's a new year and a wonderful time for revelations and resolutions! I'm not a fan of resolutions myself. It's not that I don't like them, per se, rather that I never seem to be able to keep them. They don't seem to stick. However, being the process-oriented geek that I am, I do like to set goals and create nerdy charts about how to accomplish them. It's why you're reading this, because at some point I sat down and said, hmm, I need to write a regular blog for CCWC so people can be offered assistance as well as a fresh perspective and perhaps a laugh or two.
So, my objective is to write these each quarter. Since schools are broken up into marking periods, I thought it would make sense to do something similar. Each season holds an opportunity to begin. Maybe you or your child need to build a skill, or prepare for testing, or write an essay and they are simply stressed, which makes you stressed, and then everyone is stressed! Instead, why not sit down (glass of wine optional, but recommended for parents) and write down your thoughts. If after 10 minutes all you have are doodles and expletives, that's okay, at least you didn't stab anyone with your pen.
Let's talk about goals and objectives. First, it's always helpful to write these down. Sure, we all have wonderfully lofty goals in our minds and our daydreams take us to places of majesty and insurmountable success; however, the minute the guy behind you beeps his horn because you've been sitting at a green light for a millisecond since it turned, the dream and any hope of its reality is completely gone. Delusions of grandeur are fun, but not very pragmatic. How can we achieve our goals, then, if we can't fantasize them into existence?
Process geek to the rescue! (That's me, by the way, in case that wasn't clear, or you haven't met me and seen first-hand how weird I am. I can't even clean out my closet without a process chart, which explains why I hardly ever do it, I suppose.) But process doesn't have to mean knowing every step toward the goal. Process is simply knowing the first step and being willing to take the others that present themselves afterward. For instance, if you (or your child) wants to work in a difficult field to break into, such as music, what can be done? The competition is high; the rejections are plentiful. If you can navigate that aspect, then all you need is a plan. Not a firm plan, because we know those never work anyway, but a plan to move forward. Just one step perhaps, but no side-stepping or cha-cha'ing allowed, only steps forward. Don't let yourself get distracted by the oodles of aberrations out there that call to you with their absurdity, though those are quite interesting; just now I'm distracted thinking about if gravity is a such a strong force, why aren't our heads on the floor? Strange interruption to my blog, but valid point, don't you think? See, now you're wondering too.
The point is that the intrusions are ever present. I recommend headphones — yes, the big, clunky ones we had years ago. They not only block out noise from around you, but also cancel out any peripheral vision and it's hard to think about anything other than the fact that you have this uncomfortable, space hat on your head. Then, picture the "space hat" as a brain altering device that assists in goal setting! You see where I'm going with this: Block out the noise, including the stuff inside your head, and write down what you'd like for yourself (or your child), like a major that allows them the freedom to become who they really are, or a school where safety is more than Larry, the security guard from the mall, sitting on a chair at the college entrance.
What are the most important elements for the future? Generally, you will find it is not the high-paying jobs (though those are a nice perk); usually the real goals are those of well-being and happiness. In the immortal and eloquent words of Abraham Lincoln: "Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be." Happiness is created, not through daydreams, but by purposeful intentions and actions. That's what your list will have on it: action items, true intentions, and perhaps a small spot for those daydreams, too.


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Dangote Cement Meets International Standards
Dangote Cement Plc release a statement confirming that all products coming from their three cement plants across Africa, match the international standard and quality benchmark of a 42.5 grade minimum across the board.
The company's CEO, Mr DVG Edwin, said that Dangote Cement's compliance to global best practices informed the decision for the production of a minimum of 42.5 grade cement at all its factories, up from their previous 32.5 grade standard for local building within the country.
The choice was in reaction to the threat in early February by a coalition of civil society groups and professional bodies in the construction industry, who protested against manufacturers and importers of 32.5 grade cement.
A higher grade cement means a higher strength and it will set at a faster rate. 42.5 grade is the preferred standard among block makers, builders and construction workers for these reasons.
"Prior to the nation attaining a self-sufficiency in cement production, the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) stipulated the 42.5 grade as the accepted quality to be imported into the country and all importers had complied," Edwin explained.
Previously, SON allowed for a lower grade for local cement production to that of the international. Edwin stated that the best way to ensure safety in the construction industry was to insist on the international standard of 42.5 to be produced and used in Nigeria.


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b. 29 April 1929, Kansas City, Kansas, USA. Raised in the San Joaquin Valley of California, Mize first learned to play guitar as a child, but converted to steel guitar when he received one for his 18th birthday. Originally, he was influenced by the music of Bob Wills and when he moved to Bakersfield, he formed his own band and played residences at local venues. He also worked as a disc jockey on KPMC. In 1953, he appeared onThe Cousin Herb Trading Post Show on KERO-TV Bakersfield, and became affectionately known as Billy The Kid. He was a regular with the show for 13 years, including hosting it at one stage. Mize still played his other appearances, and in 1955, began to appear on the Hank Penny Show on Los Angeles television. In 1957, his popularity grew to the extent that, for several years, he managed to appear on seven Los Angeles television stations weekly, includingTown Hall Party, and still maintained his Bakersfield commitments.
He naturally developed into a television personality and, in 1966 and 1967, he became host/singer of Gene Autry'sMelody Ranch network show on KTLA. He also commenced his own syndicatedBilly Mize Show from Bakersfield. He first recorded for Decca Records in the 50s, and later for Challenge and Liberty, before making the US country charts in 1966 with his Columbia recording of 'You Can't Stop Me'. Between 1966 and 1977, he totalled 11 US chart entries, including his own composition, 'Make It Rain'. Some of his songs were hits for other artists, such as 'Who Will Buy The Wine' (Charlie Walker), 'My Baby Walks All Over Me' (Johnny Sea) and 'Don't Let The Blues Make You Bad' (Dean Martin). He maintained rigorous schedules throughout the 60s and 70s, and appeared in the television seriesRFD Hollywood. He later became a television producer with his own production company. He has also worked as a musician on numerous recording sessions, including playing steel and rhythm guitar on many of Merle Haggard's recordings.
His brother Buddy (b. 5 August 1936, Wichita, Kansas, USA) is a noted country songwriter, record producer and radio personality. He also relocated to Bakersfield, and his songs have been recorded by Buck Owens, Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, Hank Snow and many others. In the early 80s, Buddy and Billy worked together on various television projects. Billy currently heads Billy Mize Productions, making television spectaculars with Haggard. In the mid-90s Mize suffered a stroke from which he recovered. In 2001 he was inducted into the Pioneers of Western Swing.~ Rovi


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This year's four OSCAR winning movie "Birdsman" featured the Marching Cobras of Dobbs Ferry which played in the last year's Super Bowl and our own Dr. Bob Maher's proud achievement at the St. Christopher's Inc he heads. Briarcliff Rotary Club is happy to have played a small part in supporting this wonderful group.
President Eric writes;
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A Real-time Subatomic Love Story
Reflections of a Simple-Minded Cat
Here I am, in the midst of digital images.
Fuck, am I obliquely quoting someone?
Probably one of the professors
on whose lap I curled
(or whose paws I licked, practically,
before I resided in my current position.
This theoretical one –
a sealed box in a thought experiment!
Waiting for reality to collapse, facing undecidability.
Singing the song about the counterclockwise spin:
I was/am a curious cat,
Not skinny or fat.
Though I was neither female nor male,
I was put up for sale.
And SchrödingER[1] was first to pick me up
To play the role of his audience in a pub.
Now I was/am alive,
Lacking classical description.
Freed of consistency ties,
A genuine science fiction! Causing friction,
And sentenced to death/life.
Not by my own famous scientific curiosity,
But by the scientists' poisonous monstrosity!
Singing here, in the realm of subatomic particles.
Facing my fate, the undecidability of the in-between.
Continents, states, countries, places, names, articles.
(Actually, that's a good title –
too smart for a fictitious cat?)
An experimental cat, dreaming of professors
who question the English translation of:
Me voici donc en présence d'images…[2]
Cat's Language
'Everything you utter is so beautiful!'
he said to me, distortedly,
before he left for the park.
The place where the sun never sets.
Adorable guy! It must be his scientific genius,
seeking meaning in the unGRASpable.
(Mmmmn, GRASS, in the sun-drenched park!)
For we both are dead and we both live
in the untranslatability of our languages.
His language?
Physics and microscopic scales.
My language?
An accumulation of PURRS, HISSES and MEOWS.
Two exact parlances that avoid interpretation.
we're both obviously lost
in imagined translation.
Poor SchrödingER!
Poor me!
Doomed to die/live in mutual linguistic obscurity.
A genius and his thought experiment!
Or, should I say, and his abjected supplement?
No, I should stick to my cat sounds.
Scientific language is animalistically overrated.
The Silence of the Cat(s)
I heard a strange noise.
It was not the Geiger counter. It was…screaming.
Cats. The cats were screaming.
Distinctive new distorted sounds.
I figure SchrödingER is trying to pick up
a new cat in the park.
The schema of replacement.[4]
The image of any cat is also a cat.
Replaceable, according to the axioms.
And I was/am an image in the midst of images.
A cat in the midst of cats, without knowing it.
Cogito, ergo sum…yet I am not.[5]
I am a cat with and out of consciousness – a yes/no cat.
Permanent/transient existence and non-existence.
While suffering from undecidable subjectivity,
I submit to my schizophrenic technoself:
wandering in the net, sealed in a box.
In other words:
don't trust me, I was/am a jealous, unreliable narrator!
I've never experienced otherness
in relation to other cats. Never saw one.
It all remains within the crisis-prone and hectic
master-slave dialectic[6]
between SchrödingER and ME.
So…I don't know who I was/am,
And still,
I was/am a unique thought experiment.
Was/am I?
Hmm, they say Hamlet asked a similar question.
What became of your cat, Hamlet?
He killed it – in his thoughts.
Well Hamlet, have the cats stopped screaming?
When the awful screaming stops,
I'll be singing along with Hamlet.
Accompanying my master's triumphal hip-hops,
back into my subatomic pamphlet.
Kit-cat hip-hop
I say a kit cat, the kitty, the kitty.
To the kit-kit cat, don't let the kitty
out of your bag…[7]
Ad nauseam[8]
Me voici donc en présence d'un atome catastrophique![9]
Marvelling at the sanity of an enlightened spirit –
an Über-CAT,familiar with les discours académiques.
My fate depending on a mechanism that houses
a single ominously undecidable atom!
An early emblematic draft
of a self-destructive cat-machine-system.
A Dada cyborg cat,
awaiting graceful degradation.
Singing the final verse of
the song about the counterclockwise spin:
I was/am a middlesex cat,
Middleskinny and middlefat.
My fate is considered by scientists as
Notoriously nonselective.
Whereas my brain emits messages
That are regarded as highly defective.
They're blurred with emotions, they say –
Thus, I'm going to finally get rid of that,
In order to become a sophisticated cat.
One who is obnoxiously trashed with poison
While crystal sober.
Waiting for a mechanism to decide
When this scientific GAME is OVER.
Well, ultimately, I resign.
Or, even better – I agree
to all sorts of strangest theory, by
remaining a cat defined only in terms of my function:
Cat in a Black Box
Input -> Black Box -> Output
Cat AS a Black Box
Followed by the age-old question mark
(as is usually all that remains
after a reading of Hamlet):
To faint, resign, remain encaged and dissolve?
Or to get stronger, revolt, embrace freedom and escape?
But enough is enough!
Inseparable from the ticking mechanism
I now transform into
a clockwork cat.
A thought of a thought of a thought of a thought,
measuring thoughts in tick-tocks:
[1] From German, er. He, third person, singular.
[2] "Me voici donc en présence d'images, au sens le plus vague où l'on puisse prendre ce mot, images perçues quand j'ouvre mes sens, inaperçues quand je les ferme."
"Here I am, in the presence of images, in the vaguest sense of the word, images perceived when my senses are opened to them, unperceived when they are closed." Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory.
[3] A reference to Julia Kristeva's book, Étrangers à nous-mêmes.
[4] In classical propositional logic, replacement is a syntactic operation that is performed on formal expressions. The substitution of the variables in an axiom scheme with formulas is permissible, provided that the symbolic line of substitution is kept.
[5] A Latin philosophical proposition by René Descartes, usually translated into English as "I think, therefore I am," from Principles of Philosophy.
[6] Georg W.F. Hegel, The Phenomenology of Spirit.
[7] A reference to Sugarhill Gang's song, "Rapper's Delight".
[8] A Latin term used in connection with the feeling of "being fed up". Literally, to the point you feel sick.
[9] Here I am, in the presence of a catastrophic atom. (French).
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Ohio University's Career and Leadership Development Center (CLDC) recently expanded to include several new positions relating to the center's renewed focus on partnerships. Among the new hires is Dori Branch, the assistant director for mentorship programming with the Ohio University Alumni Association.
As a two-time OHIO alumna and a former graduate assistant at the CLDC, Branch's university connections are plentiful, making her well-suited to the challenges of her new position. Among other duties, she is tasked with creating a university-wide mentorship program that any student, alumni, faculty member or friend of the university can utilize, as a mentor or mentee. While the project is still in its early phases, it promises to yield mentorship opportunities that span career interests, geographical locations, ethnicity and interests.
How would you sum up the mentorship program you're working on?
We're currently in the process of getting a platform. If we get the platform we're trying to get, it'll allow us to have three levels of commitment. I think that's really nice because students and alumni are both looking for different levels of commitment and different things from mentors and mentees. There will be the option to do one-off mentoring, or flash mentoring. That will be a one time, 30-minute conversation with different people. The next level will be to join a program, so that will probably be from a semester to an academic year. The next level will be a community. The communities are still very up for interpretation, but we're taking a lot of different people's perspectives into consideration when creating those. We've had a lot of different partners that have been really great.
Where did you get the idea to do three different levels?
It's what our potential platform provides, and we want to make sure that because people want different things out of mentorship, we're able to accommodate as many of those things as possible.
How is this program going to benefit students specifically?
I think there's a lot of different types of students that are all going to benefit in different ways, whether it's for networking purposes or just career exploration and making sure you're working toward the career you actually want. If you think you want to get out of Ohio, asking someone that lives outside of Ohio can be helpful. Overall, it will just reassure that they're comfortable in their decisions and their pathways. Also, I think hearing from people who have succeeded and maybe even struggled can help students navigate that world before they get into it.
Although it's early on, how can students, alumni and faculty get involved in this program?
The current timeline shows that we're going to do a beta test in the spring and a hard roll-out in the fall. All students and alumni will be invited to the platform. We're working on the marketing portion right now, so I can't share too many details yet, but look out for emails about the program. If students want to get involved in the beta test, they should email me as soon as possible. That will just be a small group of people. The important thing is knowing that they're beta testers, and there will be bugs and things won't go well. But that's the point; we want to test it on people so that when we do it for everyone, we really are making sure that all the needs are met.
What's your favorite thing about OHIO?
Easily, the people. If you would have asked me during my undergrad, I would have said the place – it's a beautiful campus, and that's what first drew me here. But I think what drew me to keep coming back was the people. They're invested in me, and I'm equally invested in them. I love talking to students as much as I love talking to alumni and my coworkers. I love everything about it.
What excites you about working with both students and alumni?
I love connecting people. Even in my time between undergrad and grad, I worked in film casting, so I loved hiring actors and helping them find the right part. Same thing goes with alumni and students – it's really a perfect pairing where I meet students who say, "I really want to go work at a certain company," and I'm like, "Great, we have alumni there. Let's make that happen." What's really nice about my job and what I love about it is when I get to career coach and leadership coach with students. Just sitting and talking with them about their interests and learning about each person individually really drives me and motivates me. I love it.
Written by Hannah Schuller, Content Marketing Intern for the CLDC


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William Shakspere The Corisco Conspiracy
SIX: Let's Away to Prison
A couple of weeks after arriving in London, I went to visit Stratford-upon-Avon.
The journey felt like a two-day retreat – two days of non-stop contemplation. I had to turn my hand to some trade. But which? My heart had been so set on the priesthood that no alternative vocation appealed to me. Whether I opened or closed my eyes, the future loomed before me like an endless void.
Henley Street was dead silent when I arrived home, a little past midnight, still mulling over what to do for the remaining span of my days. As I entered the house, I was greeted with the word Benedicite. Almost simultaneously, a baby's wail pierced my eardrums.
The crying newborn was Edmund, who would be my third and last brother. He had been startled out of his sleep by Friar Paul's greeting. His cry in turn woke Mother up. She came downstairs rocking him in her arms.
After conversing with Mother for a while, I rejoined Friar Paul in the kitchen, where he had been washing his work clothes before my entrance. We stayed up talking until cockcrow.
Since my departure, the friar had settled in as Brian Kirkpatrick, the gardener of Holy Trinity Parish – hardly attracting anyone's attention. He had also gradually re-converted Mother to the Church of Rome while at the same time setting up our home as a refuge for priests travelling incognito and a secret gathering place for Catholics in the neighbourhood. The latter could pass for Father's customers or business associates. And they often did.
"Talking of John, he received your last letter only a week ago."
At the mention of Father's name, I lowered my voice and said: "I'm surprised Edmund's crying didn't wake him up."
"He's not here. He went to Lancashire to inform your benefactors in person that you'd been compelled to leave the seminary."
"When is he due back?"
"Today or tomorrow."
The friar was apprising me of other happenings I had missed when he stopped in mid-sentence. "Eureka!" he said. "I knew it was here somewhere." A rolled-up sheet fell out of the breast pocket of one of his jerkins. He picked the sheet up, rose to his full height and asked as if challenging me: "You met Cardinal Borromeo in Rome, you say? Did he give you one of these?"
"His secretary did. I left mine in London."
The document Friar Paul had nearly washed by accident was a "Spiritual Testament" written by the archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Carlo Borromeo. I wondered how he could have received a copy of the divine pledge so soon after it came out and was about to give voice to my thought when he baffled me even further with his knowledge of what the underground movement was plotting abroad.
"Have you heard about the Catholic Association?"
I had. After informing me that he was a founding member of the secret body, he confided: "We are recruiting Jesuits in exile for a very special mission." He took back the "Spiritual Testament" and pocketed it. "Four or three, maybe as early as two years hence they will start returning to England to convert the whole country back to the old faith."
Nearly an hour later, Friar Paul was still explaining how the Catholic Association planned to carry out its ambitious operation when we heard the front door open. In walked Father. The friar intoned another Benedicite. And Edmund responded as before.
Father showed no surprise at my presence in the house; but took me quietly in his arms and hugged me tighter than he ever did before, tighter than he ever would again.
I'm not sure how long I slept after that once-in-a-lifetime emotional moment. But I do recall that three or four mornings later, upon sitting down for breakfast, I found a surprise on my plate: a letter from Lancashire offering me a teaching position at Hoghton Tower.
Hoghton Tower is the residence of the generous family that was to have financed my studies for the priesthood. It is part of the estate Sir Thomas de Hoghton (the Elder) left behind when he fled to Flanders. A redoubtable warrior for the Catholic cause (God rest his soul), Sir Thomas bequeathed the castle to his three younger brothers – Alexander, Richard and Thomas (the Younger) – on condition that they use it as a training ground for boys and girls recruited to serve the Church.
I immediately wrote back accepting the offer.
Two days later, Father borrowed the parish carriage and accompanied me to London to retrieve my belongings. That was the only occasion on which he and I travelled together beyond the bourns of Stratford-upon-Avon.
For a month or so after we returned, I couldn't take teaching off my mind. With the help of the entire Shakspere household, I put in a hilarious hour or two every day practising the art of imparting knowledge to a classroom of students.
I spent the better part of that month in Anne Hathaway's company. Mother had invited her to come and live with the family as Edmund's minder. Since he was in her care most of the time, Anne and I occasionally played mother and father with the baby as our child. I was therefore not sure what she meant when, on the morning of my departure for Lancashire, she said to me: "You will do well."
Assuming she had me in mind as a teacher, I replied: "I've never felt so frightfully timid."
"That's only natural. With time your nerves will be steadier than the Rock of Gibraltar – as Brian would say." We always called the friar Brian, even among ourselves at home.
Her magnification aside, Anne was right. Within a month of arriving in Lancashire, I started feeling confident in my teaching abilities and even deriving much pleasure from my work.
Hoghton Tower couldn't have been more congenial. The castle was the pride of Lancashire. From tens of miles around, one could see its ramparts standing tall against the sky. They were complemented by splendid gardens and acres of pristine woods.
Alexander de Hoghton, an eminent (albeit unassuming) crypto-Catholic, was head of the household. His younger brothers, Richard and Thomas, managed the day-to-day running of the family's educational operations. All three of them were seasoned couriers.
Thomas had been one of my tutors earlier on. When I trained as a Jesuit messenger, he gave acting lessons at the Stratford Guild Hall (without ever saying a word about his family background). During that time, he fostered what he referred to as my "great theatrical potentialities". It was he who also introduced me to fencing, a skill he described as indispensable to any messenger worthy of the name; and later entrusted me to the hands of two of the pre-eminent fencing masters of the day: George Silver and, after him, Vincentio Saviolo.
With those facts in mind, the de Hoghtons employed me in the main as an acting and fencing instructor. Because I wasn't licensed, Richard, who managed the family's accounts and records, couldn't legally put me down as a teacher. So he enrolled me as a "household servant". On record, I was to be William Shakeshafte until I obtained a teaching licence as Master Shakspere.
I took on additional duties by joining the Lancashire Lanterns, a youth society my employers had formed some three years earlier. The society's principal function was to deliver the necessities of life to Catholic priests on the run, in hiding or in prison.
Shortly after completing my training as a Lancashire Lantern in the autumn of 1581, I was sent on a mission to London. One morning towards the end of November that year, Thomas invited me to go with him and visit a Doctor Malcolm Beaverbrook. Upon our arrival at the physician's house, we were received by one Nurse Pringle, who promptly ushered us to the doctor's bedchamber.
"Thank goodness!" said he to Thomas. "I've just been telling my coachman that he'd have to bundle me up this afternoon and take me to London if the lantern you promised me can't or won't undertake our enterprise." Then, looking at me, he asked: "Master Shakeshafte? Are we agreed?"
Thomas spoke on my behalf: "I haven't told him about your request, Doctor. I thought it would be better if you made it yourself."
Doctor Beaverbrook was lying on his side, his head propped up on three pillows. He rolled around, turning his back to us, uncovered himself and groaned: "Look at that."
There was a large abscess on the doctor's left buttock and two small ones on the right. I nodded and shook my head by turns, while Thomas, who had probably seen the swellings before, gazed at me.
The doctor rolled around to face us again. He was forlorn. After covering his backside and taking a sip from the cup which stood on his bedside table, he asked me: "Do you know the Bishop of Winchester?"
"The Right Reverend John Watson," Thomas said, presumably to jog my memory.
"Of course," I replied.
Bishop Watson had led a retreat at Hoghton Tower the previous summer. He too was a Roman Catholic clergyman in Anglican robes. Like the late Father Cuthbert, he had already been ordained in the Church of England before converting in secret to the old religion. I told Doctor Beaverbrook about the retreat.
"I was one of his lordship's acolytes."
"He wants me in London. Urgently!" The doctor adjusted his neck on the pillows and sighed. "A mutual friend of ours, Father Edmund Campion of the Society of Jesus, has been charged with high treason. Until recently he was in the Clink, a prison close to Winchester Palace, preparing his defence. But he has just been transferred to the Tower, where the bishop's messenger tells me he's being tortured."
Doctor Beaverbrook took another swallow of whatever he was drinking. Clearing his throat, he continued: "His lordship is afraid that Father Edmund may be killed before he's had a chance to prove his innocence. That's why he sent for me. But, as you can see, I'm in no state to travel for the next few days."
"With all due respect," I gasped, glared at Thomas, and then at the doctor, "wouldn't a tortured prisoner be better served by another medical man?"
"Not in this case." Doctor Beaverbrook heaved another sigh. "We need an actor's talents more than a physician's. And I can sooner teach you how to administer healing potions than train a fellow doctor to impersonate me."
"You're the right lantern for this mission," said Thomas. He stood up and patted me on the shoulder at the same time as he bowed to Nurse Pringle, who had been standing wordless all the while. She pulled a large, battered pigskin bag down from a shelf and said: "Your tools and potions."
The nurse quickly explained what to do with what, and then rattled off a list of actions I had to take in preparation for a journey she told me the doctor would have started a day or two earlier had he been well. As far as my appearance was concerned, I had to undergo no more than a couple of small changes: shave my face smooth and don a curly black peruke over my cropped auburn hair.
It took them little time and effort to bedizen me as thirty-five-year-old Malcolm Beaverbrook, Doctor of Medicine. And within an hour after Vesper Mass that day, while the other residents of Hoghton Tower were settling in for the evening, I headed south in a well-appointed carriage.
As instructed, when we arrived in London four days later my driver took me straight to Winchester Palace. There, Mother Nature herself provided the entertainment for our reception. An east wind rounded up clusters of leaves – cherry, flaxen, cinnamon – and made them whistle and dance wherever we looked on the expansive palace grounds. I wished the first snowfall of the approaching winter would never come.
Images of an eternal autumn were still whirling in my head when, half-hidden behind his mahogany desk after supper that evening, Bishop Watson said: "I've been waiting with bated breath for Doctor Beaverbrook these ten long days; and now my clerk tells me that the Lieutenant of the Tower won't let any visitor, not even a physician, near Father Edmund."
We were in the prelate's office. As he spoke, he reminded me of the portrait of a Pygmy I had seen on the cover of a travel book in Paris. And everything around him appeared to have been designed to accentuate the smallness of his stature. The palace furniture and appliances, the very palace itself, must have been conceived by builders who had in mind a habitation for giants.
In order not to feel as if I were talking down to his lordship, instead of standing or sitting, I knelt beside him as we examined a plan of the Tower of London. Pointing at an entrance named Traitor's Gate, he said: "Father Edmund is in a dungeon somewhere here. Since you can't visit him as a healer, how about entering the Tower as an actor and attempting a rescue?"
"I'll try whatever you recommend, my lord."
"I have a troupe of nine players." The bishop fetched a list from one of his drawers and handed it to me. "They will entertain us tomorrow afternoon. When their performance is over, you and my clerk Patrice should ride their wagon with them to Traitor's Gate, where something is going to go wrong with the vehicle. Whilst pretending to repair it, they will argue and break into a fight. Chances are that you'll all be arrested on the spot and locked up for a day or two for disturbing the peace."
His lordship then suggested that, while incarcerated, I would search for the priest; and, if he were fit to escape, give him a change of clothes in which he would be released as the clerk. Patrice knew his way around the Tower and was familiar with its routines. He would be able to steal out before the rest of us were let go.
The accident that Winchester's Men staged in front of Traitor's Gate the next day, and the altercation which ensued, were nonpareil. Alas, that was the extent of our success.
They imprisoned us, as we had hoped. But it was for seven (not one or two) days. And in the course of that week, the bishop found out that his missionary friend had been taken out of the Tower of London on the very night we were arrested.
The Privy Council tried Father Edmund while Winchester's Men and I were detained. He had been tortured so brutally, I learned later, that he had to be propped up during his hearings and could barely open his mouth.
We were served our last meal as prisoners at sunrise on the first day of December. Bishop Watson had been informed that his servants were going to be released that morning. He awaited our return. The moment we alighted in front of the palace, my coachman, who had been standing outside, said "He wants to see you" and ushered me to the office.
His lordship thanked us both for our visit, gave the driver a letter addressed to Doctor Beaverbrook, and then said: "Don't leave today, William. I'd like you to accompany me to Tyburn."
"Tyburn, my lord?" My hair stood on end.
The bishop and I ate a hasty early dinner and, immediately afterwards, rode in silence to the Golgotha of London.
On our way back late in the evening of that dreary December day, my eyes were moist with mist and tears. I had just witnessed my first execution: that of Father Edmund Campion.
Copyright: Raphael Soné


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