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|Younger members of the team celebrating the club's 50th birthday.
Five women from the founding team and club were in attendance and enjoyed mixing and reminiscing with the current team. Club stalwart Brian Eccles was unable to attend due to ill health but sent his congratulations and a few memories via club patron Carol Collins. A moment was taken during the evening to remember those players and supporters who have passed away.
|700-gamer Lee Smith
During the evening it was announced that Lee Smith was about to make club history by being the first player to reach the grand milestone of 700 games in the final roster game of the 2017 season. Lee has been an inspirational leader and player for nearly 40 years. Her enthusiasm and commitment has been immeasurable. Lee has taken on numerous roles throughout the club including coaching and serving as president. A special highlight of Lee's hockey career has been that she has played half of that time with her daughter, Sally. Finishing her final season with the best and fairest award for 2017 capped off Lee's wonderful career prior to her retirement.
Although the club's future is in limbo at present, there were positive signs that the evening had sparked some interest from past players to rejoin for the 2018 season. As a result of the organisational effort given by Amy and Helen Bannister, everyone had a fantastic night with lots of hugs and laughter.
|Five original members, left, with the current team.


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From Tibetan
Tibetan to Chinese
Khenpo Sodargye trained closely with Khenchen Jigme Phuntsok Rinpoche (1933–2004) at the great monastic encampment of Larung Gar. He is now one of the foremost teachers of Tibetan Buddhism active today and teaches regularly throughout Asia and the rest of the world.
Dondrub Pema Namgyal has a PhD in Ethnology. He lives in Taiwan, where he translates mainly for teachers of the Nyingma Tradition.
Po-yu Sung has a PhD in Biology. He lives in London, UK and is a self-taught translator of Tibetan texts.
Tibetan to English
Gyurme Avertin began his study of the Tibetan language in 1997. He spent two years following the Tibetan program at Langues'O University in Paris, then studied at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Nepal and the Dzongsar shedra in India. He is the translator of The Gathering of Vidyadharas: Text and Commentaries on the Rigdzin Düpa (Snow Lion, 2017).
Bhakha Tulku (b.1944) is the tenth in the line of Bhakha Tulkus from Bhakha Gompa (in the Powo region of south-eastern Tibet, at the entrance of Pemakö) and as such is an incarnation of Pema Lingpa. He is a senior student of Garwang Sangye Dorje, Dudjom Rinpoche and of Chatral Rinpoche.
Josh Capitanio received a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania. He taught Buddhist Studies for several years as a professor at the University of the West, and currently serves as the Public Services Librarian at the Stanford East Asia Library.
Adriano Clemente graduated from the University of Oriental Studies in Naples in 1983. He translated, annotated, and compiled dozens of books, including Drung, Deu, and Bon, Yantra Yoga: The Tibetan Yoga of Movement, Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State, The Supreme Source, and recently Visionary Encounters: The Dzogchen Teachings of Bönpo Treasure-Revealer Shense Lhaje. He is mainly responsible for translation of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu's texts, especially the Longsal cycle of teachings (of which nine volumes have been published to date) and of the Santi Maha Sangha training (of which five volumes have been translated).
Lowell Cook holds a MA in Translation, Textual Interpretation, and Philology from the Rangjung Yeshe Institute. He translates Buddhist scripture and contemporary Tibetan literature and writes poetry in both English and Tibetan. He is a big fan of Padmasambhava and has been occasionally known to disappear to Amdo.
Aaron Coote has been studying Buddhist philosophy and literary Tibetan since 2011. In 2012 he began studying colloquial Tibetan in Dharamsala in northern India, where he now lives and trains as a Tibetan translator.
Cortland Dahl received a Master's Degree in Buddhist Studies from Naropa University in 2000. He worked as an instructor at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Kathmandu, an interpreter at the Nitartha Institute, and is currently Chairman of Tergar International and a Senior Instructor for the Tergar community. He lives with his wife and son in Madison, Wisconsin, where he completed a PhD under the guidance of renowned neuroscientist Dr. Richard Davidson at the University of Wisconsin's Center for Investigating Healthy Minds.
Drupchen Dorje studied in Shechen Monastery and currently lives in France, where he occasionally translates for visiting Tibetan teachers.
Stefan Eckel was born in East Berlin. He spent four years studying Tibetology and Indian history at Humboldt University and also studied for a year at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Kathmandu, and then in Bir and Dharamsala, northern India. He has travelled three times to Tibet, and spent nine months in Meshö near Dzongsar monastery learning the local dialect. He currently teaches Tibetan language at the Rigpa Shedra East in Nepal.
Roger Espel Llima was born in Barcelona, and studied mathematics and linguistics in Paris and Clermont-Ferrand in France. He has been studying Tibetan language and Buddhist philosophy at the Rigpa Shedra East in Pharping, Nepal since 2007. He is also the Spanish translator for a number of Dharma books, and Catalan translator for The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.
Joseph Faria has been studying Buddhist philosophy and Tibetan language at Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Kathmandu, Nepal since 2012 and is currently completing his Master's degree in Buddhist Studies there. He is a student of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche.
Patrick Gaffney was a co-editor of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying and has edited two books by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection, and Mind in Comfort and Ease: The Vision of Enlightenment in the Great Perfection. As a translator, he worked on the bodhicitta chapter of Khenpo Ngawang Pelzang's A Guide to the Words of My Perfect Teacher (Shambhala, 2004).
Daniela Hartmann studied the Tibetan language in India and Nepal and spent eight years at Namdroling Monastery in South India. She regularly translates for Dolpo Tulku Rinpoche.
Timothy Hinkle spent three years studying at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute and has traveled twice to the eastern Tibetan region of Golok. He has served as an oral interpreter for Katog Choling USA, and is now studying somatic psychology in Oakland, California. He works with Light of Berotsana and 84000 under the auspices of the Dharmachakra Translation Committee.
Libby Hogg was educated at Oxford University and the Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Nepal and has been a student of Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche since 2010. She currently lives in Scotland, where she works as an editor for Lhasey Lotsawa Translations and Publications.
Ryan Jacobson grew up in a small town in Nebraska but now lives in a quaint mountain village in northern Armenia serving as a Peace Corps volunteer. He holds graduate degrees from Naropa University and the University of Oxford. His curiosities continue to inspire his studies and translations in the hope to open a Tibetan Studies programme in a foreign land.
Han Kop began studying Tibetan in 2009 at the Rigpa Shedra in Nepal. Since then he has also lived in a Tibetan monastery in Bir, India, and studied at Dzongsar Shedra. He is a member of Rigpa Translations.
Lhasey Lotsawa Translations & Publications is a growing team of translators working under the guidance of Kyabjé Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche and Kyabgön Phakchok Rinpoche.
Karen Liljenberg began learning Tibetan in 1992. After picking up Kham dialect at Dzogchen Monastery in India, she acted as interpreter for Ranyak Patrul Rinpoche and other lamas in Europe. On her return to the UK, she set up www.zangthal.co.uk. She holds a Master's degree in Buddhist Studies, and a PhD (on a group of early Dzogchen texts) from SOAS. She currently lives in London, and works translating sutras for 84000.
Stefan Mang, a student of Tibetan Buddhism since 2004, has been studying Buddhist philosophy and literary Tibetan since 2010 at Rigpa Shedra East in Nepal. From 2011 until 2018 he studied at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Kathmandu, where he completed his BA and MA degrees. He is continuing his training as a Tibetan translator and is a member of Rigpa Translations and Lhasey Lotsawa Translations and Publications.
Christina Monson is a Tibetan language translator and interpreter who has been studying and practicing under the guidance of her root master Chatral Rinpoche since 1990. She holds a BA in religious studies from Brown University and a Masters degree in South Asian Studies with a focus on Himalayan and Tibetan Buddhist traditions from The University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2009 she continued her studies of Tibetan language and Buddhist philosophy at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute of Kathmandu University, where she is currently a PhD candidate. She has published a translation of the short life story of the great dakini Sera Khandro entitled The Excellent Path of Devotion. A member of the Light of Berotsana Translation group, Christina has been interpreting for classes at the Rigpa Shedra East in Pharping Nepal in the winter.
Heidi Nevin studied Tibetan language in Darjeeling, India from 1996-8 and remained in India and Nepal following her lama Chatral Rinpoche until 2003. She taught Tibetan in the San Francisco Bay Area for two years and currently works as a translator for the Jnanasukha Foundation. She and her husband divide their time between Dartsedo, Tibet and Corvallis, Oregon.
Adam Pearcey is the founder-director of Lotsawa House. He holds a Master's degree from the University of Oxford and a PhD from SOAS, University of London. His publications include (as translator) His Holiness the Dalai Lama's Mind in Comfort and Ease (Wisdom Publications, 2007), Ga Rabjampa's To Dispel the Misery of the World (Wisdom Publications, 2012), and Beyond the Ordinary Mind: Dzogchen, Rimé, and the Path of Perfect Wisdom (Snow Lion Publications, 2018).
Sophie Pickens started practicing Tibetan Buddhism in 2004. She lived in Kathmandu, Nepal from 2006-2012 where she received her BA and Master's degree from Rangjung Yeshe Institute. In 2009 and 2011 she interpreted for the khenpos at Rangjung Yeshe. She currently lives in the U.S. where she spends her time raising her two daughters.
Sean Price (Gelong Tenzin Jamchen) is the Tibetan Publications Manager for the Tsadra Foundation. As a translator, he has published The Supreme Siddhi of Mahamudra: Teachings, Poems, and Songs of the Drukpa Kagyu Lineage (Snow Lion Publications, 2017) and The Emanated Scripture of Manjushri: Shabkar's Essential Meditation Instructions (Snow Lion Publications, 2019).
Philip Richman has translated several texts with Tulku Thondup Rinpoche.
Nicholas Schmidt is a student of Tibskrit transmogrification. He studied Tibetan and Sanskrit from 2012–2018 at Kathmandu University's Centre for Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Boudha, Nepal. He is an editor and translator for Lhasey Lotsawa Translations & Publications, and translator for the 84000 Project with the Dharmachakra Translation Committee.
Jurek Schreiner studied Tibetology and Indology at the Asien-Afrika-Institut (Institute of Asian and African Studies) of the University of Hamburg in Germany from 2001-2006. He studied at Rigpa Shedra East between 2006 and 2012.
Michael Sheehy, Ph.D, is a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism, contemplative sciences and literature. He is the Director of Scholarship at the Contemplative Sciences Center and Research Assistant Professor in Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia.
Abraham Ta-Quan is a student of Tsikey Chokling Rinpoche and lives in Vietnam. He has served as Phakchok Rinpoche's Vietnamese translator since 2013.
David Teasdale has practised Tibetan Buddhism since the early 1990s, when he also began to learn the Tibetan language. He is currently studying for a Master's degree in Textual interpretation, translation, and philology at Kathmandu University's Centre for Buddhist Studies at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute, Nepal.
Tulku Thondup Rinpoche was born in Golok, Eastern Tibet. In 1980, he travelled to the United States as a visiting scholar at Harvard University. He has lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts ever since, writing, translating and teaching on Tibetan Buddhism, particularly the Nyingma teachings.
Ane Ngawang Tsöndrü is a nun in the monastic community at Lerab Ling. In the early sixties, she studied Russian Language and Literature at University College, London, and worked as a bilingual personal assistant for several years. She became a student of Tibetan Buddhism in 1986, was ordained in 1999 and began to study Tibetan in 2001.
Lopon Damchoe Wangmo is a graduate of Ngagyur Nyingma Nunnery Institute at Namdroling Monastery in India. Since completing her studies in 2012, she has been teaching and translating for the Palyul Lineage and Rigpa Shedra East.
Jeff Watt is a leading scholar of Himalayan art and a well-known translator of Tibetan texts. He is the Director and Chief Curator of Himalayan Art Resources (HAR), a website and 'virtual museum' featuring upwards of 100,000 images with detailed descriptions, making it the most comprehensive resource for Himalayan 'style' art and iconography in the world.
Constance Wilkinson is the editor of Enlightened Vagabond: The Life and Teachings of Patrul Rinpoche (Shambhala Publications, 2017).
Peter Woods lives in Kathmandu, Nepal. He works with Lhasey Lotsawa Translations & Publications and studies Buddhist philosophy at Rangjung Yeshe Institute.
Kaleb Yaniger has had the opportunity to study at Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Nepal since 2013. He is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Buddhist philosophy and continuing his training as a Tibetan translator.
Maitri Yarnell has been studying Tibetan language and philosophy at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Kathmandu since 2013. He is a student of Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche and is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Textual interpretation, translation, and philology.
Tibetan to French
Gyurme Avertin began his study of the Tibetan language in 1997. He spent two years following the Tibetan program at Langues'O University in Paris, then studied at the Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Nepal and the Dzongsar shedra in India. He is the translator of The Gathering of Vidyadharas: Text and Commentaries on the Rigdzin Düpa (Snow Lion, 2017).
Christian Magis is a student of Tibetan Buddhism since 1998. He has studied Tibetan language and Buddhist philosophy at the Rigpa Shedra East in Nepal since 2005 and has followed training sessions in Namdroling and Dharamsala. He is a member of Rigpa Translations, translating from Tibetan into French.
Mélanie Slomka graduated from the translator training program at Rangjung Yeshe Institute in Nepal. She has taught the Tibetan language and served as an interpreter at Rigpa Shedra East.
Tibetan to Spanish
Roger Espel Llima was born in Barcelona, and studied mathematics and linguistics in Paris and Clermont-Ferrand in France. He has been studying Tibetan language and Buddhist philosophy at the Rigpa Shedra East in Pharping, Nepal since 2007. He is also the Spanish translator for a number of Dharma books, and Catalan translator for The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.
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English to Chinese
Eric Gu began studying Buddhism in the Chinese tradition in 1995. Ten years later, he encountered the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism with several teachers from Larung Gar, including Khenpo Yeshe Phuntsok, Khenpo Sodargye and Khenpo Tsultrim Lodrö. Since 2009 he has focused on the study and practice of Dzogchen as a student of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche and Tsoknyi Rinpoche.
Yang Serena is a founder of the Samantabhadra Society of Translation and Compassion (Samantabhadra Translation Group). For the list of main translators, please visit their official website: http://www.decode.org.tw/.
English to French
France Manghardt was born in Geneva, Switzerland. She became a student of Tibetan Buddhism in 1997, and a written and oral translator within the Rigpa French Translations Committee in the early 2000s. She recently translated the book In the Shadow of the Buddha into French.
Ane Samten Palmo is part of the Lerab Ling monastic community. She has a background in natural therapies, and English and American literature. A student of Tibetan Buddhism since 1979, she has been active in the Rigpa French Translations Committee for more than 30 years and joined the Rigpa Shedra at its inception in the West in 2001. She was ordained in 2003.
Michèle Phamtan has been a student of Tibetan Buddhism since 1991. She graduated from the leading French business school, H.E.C., and worked as a finance consultant for various international organisations, including the World Bank and the European Commission. She is a member of Rigpa Translations, helping with translation into French.
Sebastien Reggiany has been a student of Tibetan Buddhism since 1994 and is a member of Rigpa Translations who mainly focuses on translations from English to French. He has completed a three-year retreat and studied at the Shedra East in Pharping.
Moritz Regnier is originally from the Cologne area of Germany, but has lived in Montpellier, France since 2005. There he works as a manager in the technology and insurance sector and oversees study and practice at the local Rigpa centre.
Pascale Tanant has been a student of Tibetan Buddhism since 1981. She works as a school teacher for children with learning difficulties in Nice, France. She has been translating oral and written teachings from English to French since 2000, as part of Rigpa Translations.
Vincent Thibault is a writer, screenwriter, publisher and translator based in Quebec City, Canada. In French, he has authored over a dozen books, including both fiction and nonfiction.
English to German
Karin Behrendt became a student of Tibetan Buddhism in 1986. She is a member of Rigpa Translations.
Verena Pfeiffer was born in Rosenheim, Germany. She studied translation and interpreting in Munich, and worked for two years in public relations at the Science and Technology Park Adlershof, Berlin, before joining the Rigpa Shedra in 2007.
English to Italian
Giulia Castello is a vice-president of Vidyā – Arti e Culture dell'Asia. She holds a master's degree in the Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa from the University of Naples and has worked as an interpreter and translator from Italian into Tibetan.
Daniela Muggia works for Rigpa Translations.
English to Portuguese
Maria Conceição Gomes studied psychology, but now works as a translator of Dharma. She is a follower of Buddha Shakyamuni, studying mostly with the disciples of Kangyur Rinpoche, and is a practitioner of the Rime tradition and a simple lotsawa.
Kadag Lundrub is a student and practitioner of Dharma linked to the tradition of Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche.
Ormando MN lives in Brazil and is a volunteer at www.bodisatva.com.br.
André Pais was born in Lisbon, Portugal, and has been interested in Buddhism since 2000. He has spent time in Thich Nhat Hanh's Plum Village center in France and in a Rinzai Temple in Japan, and now practises Tibetan Buddhism in the Nyingma tradition under the guidance of a lama in Portugal.
Jeanne Pilli lives in Brazil. She has studied Tibetan Buddhism under Alan Wallace's guidance since 2005, and translated many of his books into Brazilian Portuguese. She also serves as an interpreter for Buddhist teachers in Brazil.
Gustavo Santhiago was born in São Paulo, Brazil, and is a devoted practitioner in the Nyingma lineage, studying with lamas from Chagdud Gonpa. He is currently studying Tibetan and translates texts from English into Brazillian Portuguese for Lotsawa House.
English to Spanish
Diego Cadavid was born in Colombia and has been studying and practicing Buddhism under the guidance of Adzom Gyalse Tulku Rinpoche for about a decade. He coordinates dharma groups in Colombia (Medellin and Bogotá) under the spiritual care of Adzom Gyalse Rinpoche and serves as interpreter whenever Rinpoche visits.
María José Brüns was born in Argentina and is a certified literary and technical-scientific translator in English/Spanish. She has been studying Buddhist philosophy for ten years, and her interest in Buddhism has lead her to translate Dharma. She is also a yoga teacher and currently proofreads Dharma writings for Khenpo Sangay Tsueltrim from Bhutan.
Jorge Tafich was born in Mexico, and has been studying and practicing Buddhism under the guidance of Adzom Gyalse Tulku Rinpoche for about five years. Recently Adzom Rinpoche entrusted him to coordinate dharma activities in Monterrey, Mexico.
Gustavo Villalobos holds a degree in sociology and is currently a self-employed translator. He is working on the translation of Rigpa's study and practice materials into Spanish, including the latest edition of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.


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Nothing much to post today. We found a rug for the kitchen. Probably too nice for a kitchen, but I love it anyway. I've got to get around to painting the last wall and testing some colors on the cabinets. I'm leaning towards a white or a grey-ish tone, but I'm not sure yet. Appliances are white as well- thoughts?
I started scultping a new face. I'm trying to model her after an illustration I found and it's a lot more difficult than the generic, emotionless face I did before. Tonight's Snackluck might bring some progress.
Qwerty seems to like it. He made himself comfortable before it got anywhere near the kitchen.
And here's a song:M'Black - Heartbreak
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Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in New Orleans.
The referral community
Invitation App is a social network where people post their referral codes and collect rewards on autopilot.
working on programmatic deployments of mobile technology in international development
Share Browser Details & Capabilities
Share your browser details and capabilities for easy troubleshooting of web designs and code. Web developers are able to white-label this product to help support their clients.
Rejuvenation Funk Festival
Rejuvenation Funk Festival is going to be held March 29, 2014. The goal for Rejuvenation is to revive the funk scene in New Orleans. This past year legendary New Orleans funk band Papa Grows Funk broke up. This festival is our attempt to show appreciation to local ...


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The Lunch Club meets on the first Wednesday of each month at 1.00pm in the Church Lounge.
We welcome people from about 12.50pm and lunch is served at one o'clock. It is a two course meal and costs £4.
Lunch Club is open to adults, both single and couples, who would otherwise be on their own at lunchtime and who would enjoy a meal in the company of others. During their time together members enjoy a quiz and a 'Word for Today.'
The contact for this group is Chris Slater


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It was a pretty game. Saturday a week ago pitcher Cole Hamels no-hit the Chicago Cubs in his last game as a Phillie. It was great. Embarrassing, perhaps, for the Cubs, especially when, in the top of the eighth, two runs scored on a throwing error following a deflected pop-up. But that didn't matter. The Phillies won the game with Ryan Howard's 3-run home run in the third inning.
Many see the Supreme Court's ruling on same-sex marriage as a home run, winning the game for gay rights in America. In truth, it's just the double that adds on a few more runs to a game already won. The victory for same-sex marriage was won a long time ago, 200 years or so, when the real revolution, the idea that marriage should be based on love, gained a foothold and made the legalization and embrace of same-sex marriage inevitable.
I recently finished reading Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage, by Stephanie Coontz. Her main idea is that marriage has undergone a profound shift, not so much in these last several years, but in the last two centuries. (Coontz' wrote the book in 2005, when only Massachusetts permitted same-sex marriage, but she is responding to much of the debate going on at that time about the importance of marriage and the government's role in upholding the institution.) The shift has been from marriage based on practical and economic factors to marriage based on love.
For most of human history you married because you needed to. There was simply no way to survive as a single person. You needed the help of another person and the work of the children the marriage produced. Marriage was also an important way of strengthening and protecting communities. Families were allied through marriage, gaining each other's support and assistance for living. Whole communities were united, even nations when royal families intermarried to establish bonds of peace. Marriage was especially crucial for women, who had no means of self-support or even safety without it. It was far too important a business to leave to the vagaries of love so marriages were usually arranged. If the couple did love one another that was an added bonus to be envied. But if not, perhaps they would learn to love one another.
All this began to change in the 18th and 19th centuries, as economic conditions shifted to allow couples to live more on their own, without the need of extended kin. With industrialization, and with new opportunities for women to earn money on their own, without a husband, marriage became much less necessary for survival. Legal rights of women and of children also altered the landscape of marriage and family. And so the idea of marrying for love became a much more achievable goal, and eventually was seen as really the only good reason to marry.
Today, when many delay marriage, or simply don't marry, is a new and unique moment in human history. We have an unprecedented ability to live alone. We can control the size and timing of our families as never before. A single man does not need to cook to survive. A father does not need to know how to build a house. Sexuality can more safely be expressed outside of a marriage commitment because of birth control. And even if a child is born out-of-wedlock, that child no longer lacks the full legal rights of any other citizen; the different legal status of children once called "bastards" is a thing of the (not so remote) past.
In this brave new world of marriage, I did not need to get married because I had to. I got married because I fell in love.
Coontz says that this new love-based marriage explains the divorce "epidemic". It is easy to equate being in love with the feeling of being of love, and if the feeling passes I may conclude that I should not stay married. In fact, it could seem almost wrong to do so. At the same time, although love-based marriages are inherently weak, being based on what we often regard as no more than a feeling, we also derive more pleasure and joy from our modern, love-based marriages than our ancestors could have imagined possible.
Finally, if marriage is now about love, and not about economics, or family connection, or even all about having biological children, then how can we deny the right to marry to two people who romantically love each other? On the logic that we have adopted over the last two centuries, we really can't.
Those of us who do not support same-sex marriage and believe instead that marriage is for one man and one woman have entered the debate too late, and on the wrong basis. If we want to stand for truly "traditional" marriage, which is not marriage as practiced in the 1950's but that which the world knew before the 1700's, then we need to oppose the love-based marriage. It is that shift to love being the main thing in marriage that has led to the prevalence of divorce, and to the acceptance of same-sex marriage. If we want to "save" marriage we need to turn away from the ideal of romantic love.
And yet, who really wants to do that? We have fully adjusted to the real revolution in marriage and expect people who marry to love each other. Love has indeed won.
The 1997 movie Titanic exposes the shift in marriage quite well. The dilemma that threads through the movie is whether Rose, the scion of an upper-crust family down on its luck, should go ahead and marry her fiancé, the much richer and classy Caledon Hockley, so her family might regain its stature, or whether she should follow her heart and marry young peasant, Jack Dawson, with whom she has fallen in love. It's a no-brainer at any time. Prior to the 20th century, the majority of people would say she needs to marry the better man, Cal. How can she put her own ephemeral happiness above the well-being of her family and future? But today, we root for Jack, the poor urchin, telling Rose to follow her heart, family be damned. Love must win.
The Supreme Court did not redefine marriage with their ruling. Marriage was redefined many years ago, as a relationship based on love. That's the real revolution.


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Video-calls using new technological devices are being used with older people in care environments across Devon and Cornwall to reduce loneliness and isolation, thanks to a PenCLAHRC-funded PhD project.
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Thousands of people have flipped over Mattel's newest Barbie — including its subject.
Yesterday, Gabby Douglas, the two-time US Olympic gold medalist, debuted her "Shero" Barbie on Twitter.
"Let's continue to break barriers [and] dream big, girls!" Douglas wrote. The world went about as wild as they did when she won both the team and all-around gold medals at the London Olympics in 2012 — the first American gymnast to ever do so.
Now, with the 2016 Rio Olympics right around the balance beam, Barbie has immortalized Douglas in their "Sheroes" collection, their initiative to celebrate powerful female figures and encourage young women — particularly of color — to go after their high-flying aspirations.
Besides Douglas, the current U.S. Olympic gymnastic team has two other members of color: Simone Biles, a three-time, all-around world champion often referred to as the "greatest female gymnast ever," and Laurie Hernandez, who finished second to Biles at this year's qualifications, making her the first Puerto Rican woman to join a U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Team.
Earlier this year, Mattel debuted a Barbie version of prima ballerina Misty Copeland to widespread acclaim. Over the past few years, the Barbie brand has rebuilt itself with the mission to provide young girls of all shapes, sizes, and colors with positive representations of powerful female role models.
Athleticism — especially at the Olympic level — is an integral part of this effort. Despite sports' proven ability to instill confidence in girls, many stop playing when they reach puberty — but some typically "feminine" companies and organizations, like Mattel and Miss Teen USA, have started initiatives to change all that.


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Home to around 40,000 students, Manipal has carved a world with itself. From unforgettable memories to first experiences, this place has souvenirs to cherish for a lifetime. Leaving an indelible mark in the hearts of each and every student that has come and gone, this place witnessed kids metamorphose into adults. Here are the 26... Continue Reading →
The Manipal Conclave '18 – an Assemblage of Great Minds
The 12th edition of TechTatva brought with it the promise of a fantastic line-up for Conclave, one comparable to no other. On Day 3, as is customary, the event unfolded. The crowd was bustling with energy when the hosts decided to add upon the zeal, explaining the event as a forum for ideas and inspirations... Continue Reading →
Freshers' Orientation 2018
Remember your first few weeks at Manipal? When you thought clubs were just for drama and sports or nerds who think robots are cool? Or when you thought nothing exciting can really happen at an engineering college? And then the Fresher's Orientation happened. The Student Council, MIT in association with the Student Welfare department sought to... Continue Reading →
An Open Letter to Freshmen
Dear Freshers, You've probably been dreaming of college all your life, and it's finally here! You must be insanely excited, maybe a little scared, even apprehensive? I know it must feel so strange, to be leaving home and having to call your own shots now. You'll miss your old school, your friends, all the memories... Continue Reading →
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With 1.5 million engineering graduates from India every year, where you pursue your B.Tech degree really matters. Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal (MIT) is currently ranked in the top 5 private colleges in India, being 39th among all engineering institutions in India. Given that a majority of students get into engineering rather reluctantly and the interested... Continue Reading →
India Rides : Time for a Monsoon Adventure
Looking for adventure in the first weekend of this semester? This monsoon, India Rides assures us that it's raining exciting offers. On Sunday, the 30th of July, IndiaRides is organizing an exclusive ride for the Freshers' batch of 2021 from 2-7:30pm. Charges for a single seater : ₹150 Charges for a double seater : ₹200 This... Continue Reading →
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A CH-47 Chinook Helicopter from Hotel Company, 1st Battalion, 214th Aviation Regiment, 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, "Big Windy," hauls a HWMMV to its destination after being sling loaded by Soldiers from the 44th Expeditionary Signal Battalion, 2nd Signal Brigade, as part of sling load and air operations training, March 23, 2016, at the Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany. Sgt. Thomas Mort/Army | Military Times >>
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Pentagon Plans More Prisoner Transfers From Guantánamo
The Defense Department has informed Congress that it intends to transfer up to a dozen more prisoners from the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a United States government official said late Wednesday. | The New York Times >>
UCMJ change emphasizes suicide attempts aren't crimes
Tucked into recent massive changes to the Uniform Code of Military Justice is a reminder for military officials that suicide attempts are not a crime. | Military Times >>
After Benghazi, Corps Marks New Approach to Embassy Security in Africa
Close to the third anniversary of the infamous Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, a small detachment of Marines descended on the U.S. Embassy in Bamako, Mali, on the other side of the African continent. | Military.com >>
Pakistan has rejected Afghan allegations its intelligence agency is behind the Taliban's resurgence and that Islamabad is not helping in efforts to end the war in Afghanistan. | Voice of America >>
Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani has taken a tough and somewhat unexpectedly blunt stance on the tens of thousands of his citizens who are fleeing the country to make the dangerous journey to Europe. | BBC >>
Senior members of the Afghan Taliban said on Thursday that a prominent figure within the militant group who had opposed its new leadership has now pledged his allegiance, helping to close divisions within the Taliban ahead of possible peace talks with the government. | The Washington Post >>
When Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Louis Cardin of Temecula, California, was killed in an ISIS rocket attack in Iraq on March 19, the Pentagon announced the attack happened at a location called "Fire Base Bell." | CNN >>
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi named Nizar Salem al-Numan as a candidate for the key post of oil minister on Thursday as part of a cabinet reshuffle aimed at fighting corruption, state television said citing its correspondent. | Reuters >>
At U.S. headquarters inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, even majors and colonels frequently find themselves saluting superiors at a pace that outranks the Pentagon and certainly any normal military installation. | The Daily Beast >>
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The Pentagon is finalizing plans to deploy more American ground forces to support the Iraqi army's offensive to seal off and retake the Islamic State stronghold in Mosul, top defense officials said. | Marine Corps Times >>
As the Army moves toward full implementation of a new NCO promotion system, it has issued guidance to units for scheduling soldiers to attend the schools they need. | Army Times >>
The Navy is easing its tattoo policy in a bid to recruit and retain more sailors from the millennial generation, of whom more than 1 in 3 sport body art. | Navy Times >>
A group of 14 veterans, running from Boston to Atlanta, ran through Knoxville Wednesday afternoon and through the gates of Neyland Stadium. The group, known as the Shepherd's Men, is running to raise money for treatment of PTSD and traumatic brain injuries (TBI). | WATE >>>
A wounded former Marine said he turned to Crossfit to turn his life around. Greg Caron, 30, said he was nearly killed in Afghanistan. Now, he uses Crossfit as a means to stay fit and active. | FOX 10 >>
The first time Clinton Williams stepped inside a cage, he walked away seven seconds later after knocking his opponent out with a kick to the head. The 32-year-old has built an impressive résumé fighting inside the cage, while fighting for the U.S. Air Force outside of it. | Las Vegas Sun >>
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Marine aviation squadrons are salvaging aircraft parts from museums in order to keep planes flying, according to anecdotes from a key congressional leader. | Military Times >>
The Pentagon is ready to be hacked, and it can't wait to give hackers its money in return. Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook announced that the department is now accepting registrations for those interested in participating in its "Hack the Pentagon" initiative, announced earlier this month by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter. | Navy Times >>
Seven of 15 outside health advisors appointed to recommend ways to improve veterans' health services over the next two decades have proposed shutting down all VA medical centers and outpatient services, and having its nine million enrollees get their medical care in the private sector. | Military.com >>


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The U.S. Green Building Council's LEED rating systems are the ultimate in green building standards. In 2007, a new rating system was released specifically for K-12 schools. The LEED for Schools checklist can be used for both newly constructed buildings as well as the renovation of existing buildings.
"Green schools are healthy for students, teachers and the environment. Built right, green schools are productive learning environments with ample natural light, high-quality acoustics and air that is safe to breathe. Schools everywhere are going green, nurturing children while saving money." Source: USGBC
The LEED for Schools checklist has a maximum of 79 points available. A school receiving 29-36 points will be LEED certified, 37-43 points will qualify the school for LEED silver certification and schools that score 44-57 points will receive LEED gold certification. LEED platinum certification is reserved for schools that score between 58 and 79 points.
The ratings checklist is similar to other LEED certification programs, but there are a few key differences. In the Indoor Environmental Quality section, there are separate categories for daylight and views in classrooms and other spaces within the building. An emphasis is placed on natural lighting in the classrooms with two additional points available for schools that have daylight in 90 percent of the classrooms.
The LEED for Schools Indoor Environmental Quality section also includes credits for enhanced acoustical performance and mold prevention. These two categories are not found in the LEED for New Construction checklist.
As a parent, I would love to see more schools strive for LEED certification. Although the economy may prevent many schools from doing so at this time, the provision for funding energy efficiency upgrades in K-12 schools that is in the recovery package will certainly help get the process started.
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Maryam Rajavi releases statement urging movement to obtain justice for 1988 massacre
Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), is urging the creation of a movement to obtain justice for the victims of a 1988 prison massacre in which 30,000 members and supporters of the Iranian resistance were killed.
This week marked the twenty-eighth anniversary of the massacre. It also coincided with the release of an audio tape revealing the extent to which the Iranian state was complicit in the killings.
"This is an important document attesting to several basic realities," she said of the audio tape.
"First, the audio clip contains explicit admissions by those responsible for the massacre about their participation in an ongoing genocide. It shows that Khomeini and his entourage contravened their own procedures and routines and were directly involved in the massacre. It also indicates that the religious tyranny solidified the foundations of the next round of its repugnant Velayat-e Faqih rule in the course of this genocide."
In the tape, Hossein-Ali Montazeri confronts a "death commission" comprised of Iranian cabinet members about the massacres.
"The greatest crime committed during the reign of the Islamic Republic, for which history will condemn us, has been committed by you," he says. "Your (names) will in the future be etched in the annals of history as criminals. Executing these people while there have been no new activities (by the prisoners) means that … the entire judicial system has been at fault."
On the grounds of Iran's complicity and awareness of the killings, Mrs. Rajavi is seeking an international movement to obtain justice for the victims and families of the deceased.
"The litigation movement must, in the first step, seek to indict the mullahs' supreme leader Ali Khamenei," she said.
"Khamenei and his accomplices are criminals because they are the highest officials directly responsible for the 1988 massacre of political prisoners. They are criminals because they concealed the information and documents on this carnage. Khamenei and his accomplices are criminals because they have repressed the families of the victims of the massacre for the past 28 years."
"The movement to obtain justice for victims of 1988 massacre must hold the Velayat-e Faqih regime accountable for the secrets it has concealed on this horrendous crime."
The regime's leaders must release the complete list of those massacred.
They must declare how many they executed in every city and every province.
They must announce where the victims are buried and where are their mass graves?
It is the most basic right of every bereaved mother to know where her child is buried.
Yes, it must be clarified what was the story of those who were arrested simultaneous with the massacre and executed at once?
She implored the United Nations and U.N. Security Council to make the "political and legal arrangements" for the international prosecution of Iran's leaders for crimes against humanity.
"We call on all advocates of human rights the world over," she said, "and everyone who respects human rights to join the people of Iran in their demand for prosecution of the Iranian regime's leaders."


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January 2015 – Bette and Joan transferred to the St James Theatre studio to open their Icons season. The studio made a perfect space to bring the piece to, luxurious and intimate, so that the two Sarah's had great opportunities to include the audience in the wild ride that is Bette and Joan. Hugely successful, we were very warmly received and had a great time at the St James.
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In 2011 I became co-director of Bette & Joan, the Final Curtain, which was a devised piece for Foursight Theatre which involved a quirky and playful working of the rivalry of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Along the way it examined celebrity, the Hollywood of the 30s, 40s and 50s and the role played in this world by these two complex women. The piece centred around the visual world of the the now cult B-movie classic in which they both starred, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, in which both actresses sent up their former iconic status in a bid for ongoing fame. This was a dark, funny and sometime savage piece and I was delighted to work on it with Sarah Thom, who I've collaborated with many times in our angels in the architecture partnership, and also with James Greaves, Sarah Toogood and Elena Pena.
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BUNDING is a containment method to prevent hazardous substances from causing environmental harm. It is therefore essential that bunds are correctly managed.
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'Hypnosis refers to a set of procedures involving an induction — which could be fixating on an object, relaxing or actively imagining something — followed by one or more suggestions, such as "You will be completely unable to feel your left arm." The purpose of the induction is to induce a mental state in which participants are focused on instructions from the experimenter or therapist, and are not distracted by everyday concerns. One reason why hypnosis is of interest to scientists is that participants often report that their responses feel automatic or outside their control.
Most inductions produce equivalent effects. But inductions aren't actually that important. Surprisingly, the success of hypnosis doesn't rely on special abilities of the hypnotist either — although building rapport with them will certainly be valuable in a therapeutic context.
Rather, the main driver for successful hypnosis is one's level of "hypnotic suggestibility." This is a term which describes how responsive we are to suggestions. We know that hypnotic suggestibility doesn't change over time and is heritable. Scientists have even found that people with certain gene variants are more suggestible.
Most people are moderately responsive to hypnosis. This means they can have vivid changes in behavior and experience in response to hypnotic suggestions. By contrast, a small percentage (around 10-15 percent) of people are mostly non-responsive. But most research on hypnosis is focused on another small group (10-15 percent) who are highly responsive.
In this group, suggestions can be used to disrupt pain, or to produce hallucinations and amnesia. Considerable evidence from brain imaging reveals that these individuals are not just faking or imagining these responses. Indeed, the brain acts differently when people respond to hypnotic suggestions than when they imagine or voluntarily produce the same responses.
Preliminary research has shown that highly suggestible individuals may have unusual functioning and connectivity in the prefrontal cortex. This is a brain region that plays a critical role in a range of psychological functions including planning and the monitoring of one's mental states.
There is also some evidence that highly suggestible individuals perform more poorly on cognitive tasks known to depend on the prefrontal cortex, such as working memory. However, these results are complicated by the possibility that there might be different subtypes of highly suggestible individuals. These neurocognitive differences may lend insights into how highly suggestible individuals respond to suggestions: they may be more responsive because they're less aware of the intentions underlying their responses.
For example, when given a suggestion to not experience pain, they may suppress the pain but not be aware of their intention to do so. This may also explain why they often report that their experience occurred outside their control. Neuroimaging studies have not as yet verified this hypothesis but hypnosis does seem to involve changes in brain regions involved in monitoring of mental states, self-awareness and related functions.
Although the effects of hypnosis may seem unbelievable, it's now well accepted that beliefs and expectations can dramatically impact human perception. It's actually quite similar to the placebo response, in which an ineffective drug or therapeutic treatment is beneficial purely because we believe it will work. In this light, perhaps hypnosis isn't so bizarre after all. Seemingly sensational responses to hypnosis may just be striking instances of the powers of suggestion and beliefs to shape our perception and behaviour. What we think will happen morphs seamlessly into what we ultimately experience.
Hypnosis requires the consent of the participant or patient. You cannot be hypnotized against your will and, despite popular misconceptions, there is no evidence that hypnosis could be used to make you commit immoral acts against your will…'
Source: Inverse


text: Many worry that new digital tools, robots and artificial intelligence are going to replace entry-level and middle class jobs. I appreciate the concern, but I disagree. Just as electricity created vastly more jobs than it destroyed in the 20th century, the mobile internet will do the same in the 21st. More


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King, S. (1974). Carrie; a novel of a girl with a frightening power. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. 9780385086950
Stephen King's Carrie; a novel of a girl with a frightening power relates the story of Carrie White, a telekinetic (the ability to move things remotely with only the mind) teenage girl, who has been pushed too far by her peers and her mother's cruel treatment of her. The story is related through third person narrative as well as multiple reports and testimonies.
Opening with a news report of how rocks fell from the sky onto the house where three year old Carrie and her beyond fundamentalist mother, Margaret White, lived, the reader sees Carrie's first telekinetic act. Later on in the novel, the reader is told of how Margaret would punish Carrie by shoving her in a closet for long periods of time and subject her to praying for forgiveness.
Then, the story slips into third person narrative and brings the reader to a teenaged Carrie showering after gym class with the other girls. Carrie has long been made to endure the harassment of the other students for the odd way her fanatical mother has reared her and for being beyond awkward. Ringleader and mean girl Chris Hargensen instigates group terrorization of Carrie in the locker room. Even the nice, pretty Sue Snell gets in on the act. Carrie becomes so upset she breaks the locker room light bulb, showing another instance of her telekinetic ability.
Being caught by their coach, Miss Desjardines, these girls are punished for their mistreatment. Chris balks and is further punished by not being able to attend the Spring Ball/ Prom. Sue feels guilty for her part and convinces her popular boyfriend, Tommy Ross, to take Carrie to the prom. When Carrie accepts Tommy's invitation, she still wonders what joke her peers will pull on her. Defying her mother, she attends the prom. All is well for Carrie until the inevitable proves to be the last straw and the somewhat dormant power within Carrie takes over the rest of the night and the town.
Carrie; a novel of a girl with a frightening power is a story that produces fear in the reader. The reader asks, "How many people have hurt Carrie?" and "What is Carrie going to do to them?" In this case, Carrie and her telekinetic ability are the monster of the story. She is very human and has been hurt too many times. She has a paranormal ability of telekinesis and she is tired of taking people's garbage. In essence, she is a woman scorned by her peers. Yet, Carrie is absolutely sympathetic. She has been pushed over the edge not only by her mean peers but by her insane mother. Perhaps this is fantastical for readers who have been at the wrong end of a cruel joke.
Also, with the reports and testimonies and the narrative entwined, the reader knows some sort big action will take place and it will be very bad. Early in the novel, it is mentioned that only a few people survived and that serious investigations were taking place after the climatic event.
The Devil is referred to often by Carrie's mother, Margaret, as The Black Man. According to Margaret, Carrie's frightening power comes from The Black Man. While Margaret won the battle with The Black Man, Carrie lost because she was telekinetic and attending the Prom in a dress showing off too much of her body. This novel definitely contains violence, gore, sex, and foul language. Ultimately, it presents the dark underbelly of human behavior. The reader not only sees this in Carrie but all of those around her.
I chose Carrie; a novel of a girl with a frightening power for a number of reasons. Stephen King is referred to as the King of Horror and I thought I should read something by him other than The Green Mile. Additionally, I had tried to read this book as a high school senior but I did not manage to finish it at the time. Another reason was that I remembered seeing the movie and feeling as though Carrie was justified in what she did. I even saw this as a morality play or a cautionary tale (as many horror stories and urban myths are) as to why one should not mistreat peers in high school.
While I enjoyed the narrative parts of the book and I especially appreciated Sue Snell's first person narration in other sections, I did not like research and investigative reports. In this respect, I prefer the movie. I felt like I was watching a soap opera when it had been interrupted by a breaking news bulletin on one of the soap opera character's reasons for being an alcoholic. I had to keep myself from skipping these parts in favor of the narrative. In addition, I was distracted by what I found to be King's sarcastic tone throughout the book. A recurring thought for me was that "While I am reading this book, Stephen King is laughing all the way to the bank." Nonetheless, I do see that King is a great writer in that he evokes fear and loathing so well. I now question whether Carrie was justified in what she did.
After warning patrons about the research reports (only because they irritated me) and the sex and violence, I would recommend Carrie; a novel of a girl with a frightening power to fans of horror and perhaps fantasy. To me, it seemed like a fantasy for anyone who has been slightly mistreated at school or felt that his/her parents were unfair to him/her. That could be a whole lot of people.
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1. What is your earliest sporting memory? My dad's Cricket Team signing world's No.3 Batsman Ijaz Ahmed.
2. What is the favourite club in your bag? 58 Degree Wedge
3. With whom would you like to play a fourball? Annika Sorenstam, Will Smith, Tiger Woods
4. What was your proudest moment? Winning the English Amateur.
5. What can't you live without? iPhone
6. What is your favourite golf course? Pumpkin Ridge, Portland USA
7. Any superstitions? None
8. Who do you most admire? Jiyai Shin
9. What is your favourite meal? Mum's home cooking (Indian)
10. How would you spend a perfect day? Gym & Golf in the morning, late lunch with my friends/cousins then movies & chilling in the evening!
11. What's your motto for life? Live and let live.
12. Describe yourself in a word. Chilled
13. Neat or messy? Messy
14. What's your favourite song at the moment? I don't have one favourite song. I love loads, i just love music.
15. What's your passion outside golf? Music
16. Motto for golf? It's all about the process.
17. What's in your golf bag other than clubs? The usual .......Tee's, Balls, Food, Waterproofs, Umbrella, Pencils, Markers.
18. What is your best golfing tip? Practice what your not good a


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Chemical studies of some life processes (1984)
Type of ContentTheses / Dissertations
UC Permalinkhttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/7320
Thesis DisciplineChemistry
Degree NameDoctor of Philosophy
PublisherUniversity of Canterbury. Chemistry
AuthorsOng, Chin Choonshow all
This thesis is primarily concerned with model complexes of some living systems. The two areas of biological interest are photosynthetic systems and chemical interaction between living cells. In both cases the chemical properties are very complex and generally not well understood. Mg porphyrin was used as a model for chlorophyll. The chemical properties of Mg porphyrin were determined by physical techniques using (1) different axial ligands and (2) protein environment models. Equilibrium studies indicate that the Mg centre is preferentially five-coordinated but under high ligand concentration and low temperature, six-coordination is observed. The spectrum of the six-coordinate Mg porphyrin species is red-shifted in the same manner as also observed for chlorophyll molecules in vivo. X-ray studies show that the six-coordinate Mg porphyrin species have long axial bonds with the Mg atom situated in the plane of the porphyrin ring. The shorter the axial bond lengths, the larger the red-shifts. The interactions of Mg porphyrin with protein environments have been studied by electronic circular dichroism and optical rotatory dispersion spectroscopy. In all cases, the spectra of Mg porphyrin-apomyoglobin are more complex and more red-shifted than those of Mg porphyrin-apohemoglobin analogues. These effects may arise directly from differences in protein interactions with porphyrin side chains or indirectly through water coordination to the Mg atom. The latter appears to be facilitated by features of the apomyoglobin heme pocket but inhibited in apohemoglobin. X-ray studies suggest that the key feature may be hydrogen bonding of the water molecule to the distal histidine group of apomyoglobin. This hydrogen bonding also enhances the displacement of the Mg atom out of the plane of the porphyrin ring. This could be crucial for the charge separation required for the first step in photosynthesis. The induced Cotton effects for the Mg porphyrin-protein complexes are different from those observed for Mg porphyrin in chiral amino acid solutions. For Mg porphyrin-protein complexes, these effects are interpreted in terms of the coupled oscillator mechanism between the transitions of Mg porphyrin and protein, while for Mg porphyrin in chiralamino acids, these effects are explained in terms of the formation of six-coordinate (Mg porphyrin) (amino acid)₂ complexes. Mg porphyrin-protein complexes are more stable to light than Mg porphyrin in amino acid solutions. This stability is explained in terms of the smaller accessibility of the heme pocket and the effects of the coordinated imidazole group, which protects the porphyrin ring from decomposition. The observations of different photodecomposition patterns for Mg porphyrin-apomyoglobin and Mg porphyrin-apohemoglobin are then correlated with the different protein conformations. The coupling of oscillating chemical reactions in a two reactor cell system was used as a model for the interaction between living cells. The degree of interaction was measured by a coupling constant. Generally, two coupling constants were observed depending upon the time of coupling. The coupling constant for starting oscillating reactor cells is smaller than that for organised oscillating reactor cells. This shows that starting oscillating reactor cells are more likely to be entrained or influenced by external factors. The small differences in the coupling constants for different kinds of apparatus are interpreted in terms of the effect of apparatus design. Finally, the medical and technological significance of all these results are highlighted.


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Going Viral: Modeling Ebola
In the midst of the Ebola epidemic, modelers tried to predict its spread, with some success. Now they're reflecting on the lessons learned.
The worst case scenarios were frightening: At the peak of the West African Ebola epidemic of 2014, estimates of the potential death toll ranged from several hundred thousand to more than a million. Experts believe that those dire predictions spurred the international response that helped limit the death toll to fewer than 12,000 to date.
In fact, the estimates themselves were the result of an international response by computational epidemiologists who swung into action as Ebola surged across Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Even their simpler models showed that the initial Ebola outbreak wasn't winding down as expected. Other increasingly complex models predicted how the disease might spread, forecast the number of cases that could arise, and simulated possible interventions to help policy makers and public health officials respond effectively to the crisis.
In the end, the models tended to be most reliable when they were used to look two to three weeks ahead. Over longer time spans (e.g., two to three months), the accuracy of the models (with a few exceptions) declined precipitously. This was a good thing for humanity, as the huge death tolls the models foretold were thankfully averted—partly because of policymakers' responses to the modelers' nightmare scenarios, and partly because of gradual changes in the behavior of people on the ground in Africa.
Today, the same modelers are still sorting out exactly what brought the epidemic to a halt, in hopes of developing strategies for the future. In that sense, says Martial Ndeffo, PhD, a research scientist at Yale University, their initial predictive work was just a prelude. "Now we're trying to do retrospective analysis," he says. "Can we disentangle the contributions of the different interventions in reducing or averting cases? What kinds of behavior change were there, and can we quantify their contributions to curtailing the spread of the disease?"
They are also reflecting on the lessons they learned from the epidemic—most notably, that it is difficult to build accurate, well-fed models when human behavior is a key parameter, the situation on the ground is messy, and information is hard to come by. "It's a challenge to model behavior," says Madhav Marathe, PhD, director of the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory in the Biocomplexity Institute at Virginia Tech. "It's an even bigger challenge to model it in a place where it is very hard to get data."
Ebola's Surprising Virulence
Epidemiologist David Fisman, MD, MPH, at the University of Toronto, initially assumed that the first outbreak in Guinea would swiftly peter out, as Ebola incidents have in the past. When it didn't, he employed a mathematical model that he first developed for SARS to illustrate just how quickly the disease appeared to be spreading.
Fisman's model, called IDEA (for Incidence Decay and Exponential Adjustment), was inspired by financial models that use a so-called discount factor to compensate for the decline in value of money over time. A similar discount factor can be used to predict the course of epidemics, which typically show rapid initial growth followed by similarly rapid decline. When Fisman fit IDEA to the case counts coming out of West Africa, however, he saw what looked like exponential growth tempered by a disturbingly tiny discount factor.
The good news was that Fisman's analysis, which appeared in PLoS Current Outbreaks in September 2014, indicated that even a small increase in the discount factor could save tens of thousands of lives. The bad news was that because the model was so simple, it couldn't reveal much about what was driving the epidemic—or what steps might stop it.
Other researchers, however, were using more complex models to generate those kinds of insights.
Gauging Interventions
At Yale University, a group led by Alison Galvani, PhD, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis (CIDMA), focused on producing forecasts that could provide timely guidance to international policy makers and local authorities. But they did not have much data to work with, says Ndeffo, who co-authored several papers describing the team's efforts. So they began with a model based on differential equations that could be run relatively quickly with limited parameters.
The model allowed individuals to move from one epidemiological category (e.g., susceptible, exposed, infectious, recovered) to another as they interacted in various settings, including hospitals and funerals—both hotspots for Ebola transmission. According to Abhishek Pandey, PhD, postdoctoral associate in epidemiology at Yale University, the model also used probabilistic methods to mimic the uncertainty in the numbers of people who might move from one category or setting to another.
The team used this stochastic model to gauge the potential impact of various interventions, from building more treatment units to distributing personal protective kits and performing sanitary burials. The takeaway was clear: combining more than one response would be far more helpful than just focusing on any single one, no matter how effective it was. (Using a different model that drew on previous efforts to simulate HIV and influenza transmission, Ndeffo and Dan Yamin, PhD, also predicted that treating the most severely ill patients within five days of showing symptoms would do the most to halt the spread of the disease—a result that jibed well with what health workers were finding on the ground.) But individual findings were sometimes counterintuitive, like the prediction that distributing protective gear would only have a significant effect once treatment centers were already at capacity. "That was a bit surprising," says Ndeffo, adding that it was "the kind of insight you could only get from a model."
Networked Epidemiology
Marathe and his colleagues also began modeling the initial outbreak using differential equations. By October 2014, however, they had shifted gears and developed a multiscale agent-based model to predict the course of what had become a full-blown epidemic.
Building such a model involved what Marathe calls "networked epidemiology." First, Marathe and his team used census data to create synthetic populations that were statistically equivalent to the actual populations of the affected West African countries. They then linked the individuals in those populations through virtual social networks, allowing them to interact through work, school, and household activities, and to mingle at home, in hospitals, and at funerals. And they used probabilistic methods to inject a realistic element of chance into nearly every aspect of their simulations, from how individuals moved about to how the disease itself progressed (incubation period, time to death, etc.).
The researchers used this stochastic agent-based model to create risk-profiles for other countries in West Africa that might be hit next; to determine which interventions (better contact tracing, new drug therapies) might have the greatest effect; and even to gauge what might happen if Ebola spread to the United States. Like the Yale group, the Virginia Tech team found that a combination of responses worked best. But they also found that even a successful drug intervention wouldn't do much to curb the epidemic.
Global Predictions
Marathe's friend Alessandro Vespignani, PhD, director of the Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-Technical Systems (MOBS-Lab) at Northeastern University, also took a network-based approach to modeling the epidemic. But in his case, Vespignani used a multiscale modeling platform called GLEaM (Global Epidemic and Mobility Model) to predict how Ebola might spread across the globe.
Together with an international team of collaborators, Vespignani integrated an agent-based model of Ebola transmission with two other models: a global population model spanning 220 countries and thousands of subpopulations distributed around the world, and a so-called mobility model that allowed those populations to mix through short-range commuting patterns and long-range air travel. "We talk about individuals and geography," Vespignani says. "But underlying all of that are large network models with people traveling from one point to another."
By simulating the number of passengers traveling daily on each airline connection in the world, Vespignani and his colleagues were able to rank which countries were most at risk of importing Ebola. Their findings were eerily accurate: two of the top three at-risk countries—the United Kingdom and Nigeria—saw cases in 2014.
Tracking Behavior Change
Vespignani's predictions worked best over the short term. Beyond two or three weeks, howver, they began to break down. This was true for the other teams, as well: Their long-range nightmare scenarios far exceeded the actual case counts and death tolls. Many believe this was partly due to the massive international effort that those scenarios prompted—and also to the fact that individual behavior in the affected countries changed markedly as the epidemic progressed, but in ways that modelers couldn't necessarily track. "Behavior change had a major impact on the curtailment of the epidemic," Ndeffo says. "But we were very much ignorant of how behavior was changing on the ground."
In addition to sharing data and methods amongst themselves, a number of modeling teams are now also working together to develop better tools for gathering such behavioral information—all in hopes of being ready for action when the next outbreak occurs. "As we learn from each other," Marathe says, "the models will become even more useful."