text: Professor Ann Logan BSc, PGCE, PhD Institute of Inflammation and AgeingProfessor of Molecular NeuroscienceHead of Neuroscience and Ophthalmology Contact details Telephone+44(0)121 414 firstname.lastname@example.com View my research portal AddressNeuroscience and OphthalmologyInstitute of Inflammation and AgeingCollege of Medical and Dental Sciences2nd floor IBR West ExtensionUniversity of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT UK Professor Logan is the Regenerative and Reconstructive Medicine Theme Lead for the NIHR Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre; the Regenerative Medicine Theme Lead for the NIHR Healthcare Technology Co-operative in Trauma Management and also leads the Neuroscience and Ophthalmology Research Group based in the College of Medical and Dental Sciences. Staff detailsMedia informationPolicy information Qualifications PhD Neuroendocrinology, University of Birmingham - 1979 PGCE, University of Birmingham - 1975 BSc 1st Class (Hons) Botany/Zoology, University of London - 1974 Biography Professor Ann Logan received her BSc from the University of London in 1974 and PhD training in neuroendocrinology at the University of Birmingham between 1975 and 1978. After post-doctoral training at the University of Leeds and in the laboratories of Professor Roger Guillemin and Professor Andrew Baird at Scripps Hospital, La Jolla, CA, she established the Neurotrauma Group at the University of Birmingham in 1990, where she is currently Professor of Molecular Neuroscience and Head of the Neurotrauma Research Group within the College of Medicine and Dentistry. Her research interests centre upon the trophic regulation of injury responses. Her work has generated more than 185 research publications on the roles, mechanisms and exploitation of growth factors in the injured tissues, with particular interests in neurotrauma of the eye. Professor Logan strives to translate scientific advancements into the clinical arena for patient benefit. For her own research she works closely with both clinicians and companies to initiate clinical trials of novel anti-scarring and reparative drugs. In 2011 a £20M NIHR Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre was opened in Birmingham that incorporates the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine. Within this Centre Ann leads the Regenerative and Reconstructive Medicine research team and is PI for a number of major £multi-million translational projects related to the clinical development of anti-scarring technologies. This unique multidisciplinary grouping of academics with civilian and military clinician researchers provides an unrivalled opportunity to promote trauma research for patient benefit in the UK. In addition, she is also founder, director and CSO for a University of Birmingham spin-out company called Neuregenix Ltd, that offers neural drug screening services to large and small pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Teaching BMedSc - Molecular Medicine and Molecular Neuroscience options MBChB 2nd and 3rd year SSM – Lectures and extended essays in Neurodegeneration 3rd year Neuroscience lectures PgR Professional Training Programme MSc Neurotrauma EPSRC ScyPhy CBT Teaching Programme Postgraduate supervision Ann has successfully supervised 23 PhD students to completion as first supervisor with a further 8 PhD students currently working in her laboratory. If you are interested in studying within the Neurotrauma research group please contact Ann on the contact details above, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email: firstname.lastname@example.com or call +44 (0)121 414 5005. For a full list of available Doctoral Research opportunities, please visit our Doctoral Research programme listings. Research Ann Logan currently heads the UoB Neuroscience and Ophthalmology Research Group and also leads the NIHR SRMRC Regenerative Medicine Theme at the QEHB. She trained as a neuroendocrinologist and, since 1981, focused research on neurotrauma, and specifically the role of growth factors in the scarring and regeneration responses of the injured CNS. Her background led to co-founding the British Growth Factor Group in 1991 and numerous productive collaborations generating publications on the roles of growth factors in neurotrauma, diabetes, thyroid and cartilage physiology/pathophysiology. Her primary work in the injured CNS has demonstrated that combinatorial therapeutic strategies that enhance neuron survival, prime neurons and drive disinhibited axon growth are required for successful nerve regeneration. The realisation that efforts to elicit CNS nerve regeneration were fundamentally hampered by the limitations of techniques of therapeutic protein delivery led to her developing technology for CNS gene/shRNA transfer. This led to her co-founding the British Society for Gene Therapy in 2005. She pioneered the optic nerve injury model for studying post-trauma CNS regeneration and showed that regeneration is limited by glia-derived axon growth inhibitory ligands and the limited supplies of survival and growth molecules available to injured neurons. The latter hypothesis is supported by a number of novel observations: (1) acute application of anti-apoptotic factors significantly enhances survival of some neuronal populations; (2) sustained application of neurotrophic factors (NTF) perisomally, circumvents entrapment of growing axons within a NTF 'sink' formed after local administration, allowing regeneration to proceed through the lesion and beyond; (3) axons regenerate through putative growth-inhibitory CNS myelinated tracts after delivery of specific combinations of NTF to the perikarya of injured axons, without a prerequisite for neutralisation of the inhibitory substrate; (4) regenerating axons accurately negotiate pathway choices in their trajectory; (5) regenerative success after perisomal NTF administration is correlated with suppression of glial/collagen scarring in acute and chronic lesions. Activation of NTF signalling pathways is required to protect neurons from apoptosis, to mobilise axon growth, to down regulate the production of receptors for growth inhibitors and up-regulate metalloproteinase release from growing axons to modulate scarring and the activity of receptors for inhibitory molecules. Most recently she has translated an anti-apoptotic siRNA into a Phase 1 Clinical Trial, discovered a novel NTF-related mechanism for axon growth disinhibition, developed novel si/shRNA techniques to block axon growth inhibitory signalling, identified a completely new receptor involved in inhibitory ligand signalling and revealed an unanticipated mechanism of neurotrophic action for small molecule EGFR inhibitors. Of direct relevance to this application is Prof Logan's longstanding research focus on scarring with a view to devising a pharmacological strategy for prevention and thereby disinhibiting tissue regeneration. Specifically, in the CNS she has established the: (a) natural history and ontogeny of glial-collagen scarring in the CNS; (b) modification of scarring by grafts implanted into the adult optic nerve and cord; (c) chronological changes in the profile of growth factor/cytokines after CNS injury; (d) suppression of inflammation and inhibition of scarring in the adult CNS by administering cytokine antagonists; and (e) inverse relationship between axon regeneration and scarring. She is now using anti-fibrotic agents to inhibit scar formation at various sites of damage/disease to preserve function. Other activities 2014: Co-founder and Director of a spin-out company called "Alpha-Cicatrix Ltd", a biomaterials consultancy company 2011-Present: Assessor of research proposals submitted to the Technology Strategy Board (Biomedical Catalyst UK) 2005: Co-founder and Director of a University of Birmingham spin-out company "Neuregenix Ltd", a successful CRO 1995 – Present: Regular reviewer of research papers for numerous peer-reviewed journals and grant assessor for MRC, BBSRC and numerous charities International Spinal Research Committee – Member Scientific Advisory Board International Spinal Research Committee – Member Programme Organising Committee Society for Endocrinology – Member Awards Committee Society for Endocrinology – Member Finance Committee British Society for Gene Therapy – Founder member and Steering Group British Society for Gene Therapy – Executive Board Endocrinology – Editorial Board Current Opinion in Pharmacology – Section Editor (Endocrinology and Metabolism) Publications Most recent papers from over 170: Anuriti A, Botfield H, McAllister JP 2nd, Gonzalez AM, Abdullah O, Logan A and Sinclair A (2016) Diffusion tensor imaging with direct cytopathological validation: characterisation of decorin treatment in experimental juvenile communicating hydrocephalus. Fluids Barriers CNS 13(1):9 Mead B, Hill LJ, Blanch RJ, Ward K, Logan A, Berry M, Leadbeater W and Scheven BA (2016) Mesenchymal stromal cell-mediated neuroprotection and functional preservation of retinal ganglion cells in a rodent model of glaucoma. Cytotherapy 18(4):487-96 Morgan-Warren PJ, O'Neill J, de Cogan F, Spivak I, Ashush H, Kalinski H, Ahmed Z, Berry M, Feinstein E, Scott RA and Logan A (2016) siRNA-Mediated Knockdown of the mTOR Inhibitor RTP801 Promotes Retinal Ganglion Cell Survival and Axon Elongation by Direct and Indirect Mechanisms. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 57(2):429-43 Berry M, Ahmed Z, Morgan-Warren P, Fulton D and Logan A (2016) Prospects for mTOR-mediated functional repair after central nervous system trauma. Neurobiol Dis 85:99-110 [Review] Vigneswara V, Esmaeili M, Deer L, Berry M, Logan A and Ahmed Z (2015) Eye drop delivery of pigment epithelium-derived factor-34 promotes retinal ganglion cell neuroprotection and axon regeneration. Mol Cell Neurosci 68:212-21 Hill LJ, Mead B, Blanch RJ, Ahmed Z, De Cogan F, Morgan-Warren PJ, Mohamed S, Leadbeater W, Scott RA, Berry M and Logan A (2015) Decorin Reduces Intraocular Pressure and Retinal Ganglion Cell Loss in Rodents Through Fibrolysis of the Scarred Trabecular Meshwork. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 56(6):3743-57 Kelly M, Williams R, Aojula A, O'Neill J, Trzińscka Z, Grover L, Scott RA, Peacock AF, Logan A, Stamboulis A and de Cogan F (2015) Peptide aptamers: Novel coatings for orthopaedic implants. Mater Sci Eng C Mater Biol Appl 54:84-93 Mead B, Berry M, Logan A, Scott RA, Leadbeater W and Scheven BA (2015) Stem cell treatment of degenerative eye disease. Stem Cell Res 14(3):243-57 Davies DJ, Su Z, Clancy MT, Lucas SJ, Dehghani H, Logan A and Belli A (2015) Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in the Monitoring of Adult Traumatic Brain Injury: A Review. J Neurotrauma 32(13):933-41 Esmaeili M, Berry M, Logan A and Ahmed Z (2014) Decorin treatment of spinal cord injury. Neural Regen Res 9(18):1653-6 Mead B, Thompson A, Scheven BA, Logan A, Berry M and Leadbeater W (2014) Comparative evaluation of methods for estimating retinal ganglion cell loss in retinal sections and wholemounts. PLoS One 9(10):e110612 Mead B, Logan A, Berry M, Leadbeater W and Scheven BA (2014) Paracrine-mediated neuroprotection and neuritogenesis of axotomised retinal ganglion cells by human dental pulp stem cells: comparison with human bone marrow and adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells. PLoS One 9(10):e109305 Mead B, Logan A, Berry M, Leadbeater W and Scheven BA (2014) Dental pulp stem cells, a paracrine-mediated therapy for the retina. Neural Regen Res 9(6):577-8 Blanch RJ, Ahmed Z, Thompson AR, Akpan N, Snead DR, Berry M, Troy CM, Scott RA and Logan A (2014) Caspase-9 mediates photoreceptor death after blunt ocular trauma. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 55(10):6350-7 Surey S, Berry M, Logan A, Bicknell R and Ahmed Z (2014) Differential cavitation, angiogenesis and wound-healing responses in injured mouse and rat spinal cords. Neuroscience 275:62-80 Vigneswara V, Akpan N, Berry M, Logan A, Troy CM and Ahmed Z (2014) Combined suppression of CASP2 and CASP6 protects retinal ganglion cells from apoptosis and promotes axon regeneration through CNTF-mediated JAK/STAT signalling. Brain 137(Pt 6):1656-75 Di Pietro V, Amorini AM, Tavazzi B, Vagnozzi R, Logan A, Lazzarino G, Signoretti S, Lazzarino G and Belli A (2014) The molecular mechanisms affecting N-acetylaspartate homeostasis following experimental graded traumatic brain injury. Mol Med 20:147-57 Ahmed Z, Bansal D, Tizzard K, Surey S, Esmaeili M, Gonzalez AM, Berry M and Logan A (2014) Decorin blocks scarring and cystic cavitation in acute and induces scar dissolution in chronic spinal cord wounds. Neurobiol Dis 64:163-76 Chan SY, Hancox LA, Martín-Santos A, Loubière LS, Walter MN, González AM, Cox PM, Logan A, McCabe CJ, Franklyn JA and Kilby MD (2014) MCT8 expression in human fetal cerebral cortex is reduced in severe intrauterine growth restriction. J Endocrinol 220(2):85-95View all publications in research portal Expertise Role of growth factors in scarring and neuron regeneration responses of injured mammalian brain and spinal cord; gene therapy to promote functional reconstruction of damaged neural pathways Expertise Molecular Neuroscience


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Collaborative Divorce
Collaborative divorce is a voluntary dispute resolution process in which parties settle without resorting to litigation. The collaborative process encourages creative problem solving, and engages the strengths of a collaborative team of professionals (Collaborative attorneys, coaches, a child specialist, and a financial specialist) to achieve a resolution that is most workable for each client and for the family as a whole. All professionals share a mutual commitment and responsibility to collaborate with each other and each client to ensure that the process is positive and productive.
What is a Divorce Coach?
Divorce is often a very emotional process for people. And, sometimes those emotions make it difficult for people to work together to make decisions that ultimately will be best for everyone in the family. As a divorce coach, Katelyn Alcamo works to help both parents strengthen communication skills, reduce stress, and manage their emotions during the collaborative process. Katelyn also works with the parents to create a parenting plan that takes into account each parent's goals and interests as well as the children's best interest.
What is a Child Specialist?
Separation and divorce can be extremely difficult and emotionally challenging, especially for children. After working nearly a decade with children, many of whom have struggled with the separation and/or divorce of their parents, Katelyn feels the role of child specialist is invaluable in the collaborative process. As a child specialist, her role is to advocate for the child(ren) and give them a voice during the collaborative process. After meeting with the child(ren) and assessing their needs, she then communicate those needs to the coach and both parents in order to assist them in creating a parenting plan that is best suited for the family. It is Katelyn's hope, as a child specialist, that she can help families come up with an agreement that ensures the well-being of their children now and long into the future.

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There's nothing like the train to travel around Europe in comfort, while actually getting to visit up-close and personal with the country you're exploring.
But traveling in comfort includes packing the right stuff. So, like we always do, we want you to be prepared with some tips for packing, since correctly packing for train travel will enhance an already great experience.
What does traveling light on a train mean?
You know you should always pack light, even though most trains have no luggage restrictions. But when you consider that you'll be arriving and leaving from the center of town, perhaps even walking distance from your hotel, and not "checking your bag in" like at an airport, you'll want to be even smarter about packing for train travel.
So let's start with wheels. Traveling light doesn't just mean what's in the bag, but the bag itself. A four-wheel carry-on with a lightweight frame is just the thing. That's right—make sure it's light when it's empty too! It's that kind of detail that will make enjoying the fantastic European stations and using the luggage racks overhead or at train car entrances easy.
Top 10 list: Packing for European Train Travel
What you bring is as important as the memories you take back. How many of these train travel must haves would you think of?
#10: A collapsed, plastic rain poncho to make sure it doesn't rain. It's like an umbrella. If you take it, you won't need it 🙂
#9: Lightweight, wrinkle-free black clothes you can accessorize differently day after day
#8: An expandable tote bag for daily shopping excursions
#7: A wrap or travel blanket to make your own climate control and optimum comfort zone
#6: A European cellphone, calling card, or internet modem. You'll find all of these from Rail Europe's ekit partner including a GSM phone package that works all over Europe. Hey, you need some way to rub in how much fun you're having to the folks at home!
#5: A converter to make sure you can recharge your electronics when outlets are available on board
#4: A smaller bag or pouch that stays with you and holds your valuables like wallet, passport, your train tickets, rail pass, electronics and jewelry
#3: A cable lock you can run through your bag handles to secure to the luggage racks
#2: Your sense of adventure! Because you're on a train you're free to get up, walk around, eat when you like and watch scenery every single minute of your trip.
#1: You tell us! What's your favorite train travel must have? Leave a comment below to share your travel expertise with the whole world.
Freestyling in Switzerland.
Sometimes, traveling light can mean traveling without your luggage. Especially for ski trips and outdoor adventures with lots of gear in Switzerland. That's why there's Swiss Fast Baggage. It transports your luggage from one station to another within Switzerland. And Swiss Fly Rail Baggage lets you check in your luggage at any airport in the US and pick it up at any train station in Switzerland.
You're not done yet. There's more to know.
I've just scratched the surface. There's a lot more practical stuff you're going to want to know, like TGV trains require luggage tags on each bag. Or that Eurostar has a generous but definitive luggage allowance of two medium-sized suitcases and one piece of hand luggage per person. It sounds like a lot, but since there's usually no luggage restrictions on trains, it's important to be aware of.
So don't stop now. For even more information to keep your trip on track, I'd recommend Frommer's Europe by Rail. And since the best tips are always born from experience, make sure you stay in touch with what you learn traveling. We'll be waiting to hear from you.


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India gets about 300 days of bright sunshine every year which means using solar power to generate electricity has a lot of potential here. For this purpose, BRIDGE TO INDA created IndiaSolarHomes.com. It is a website that brings together people interested in making the switch to solar from all over the nation. It acts as a space where current and aspiring solar homeowners can interact with each other and discuss the trend for solar energy in India. The website will provide all the latest updates and queries one needs to know before going solar.
My responsibility was to design and develop illustrations for the website. The vision of the website was simple and straight. The web site had to be conducive to interactions and for that it needed the viewers to stay.
The Idea was to create a set of characters – a family of four along the following guidelines:
- The characters needed to be urban, aspirational. The characters and situations had to be developed in a way to which people could relate.
- A solar house had to be designed for our characters.
- Situations based on the character outlines of the families needed to be developed.
- The motive to keep it light humorous while clearly getting the message across: 'Maybe it's time to go solar'.
The process I follow for making illustrations always starts with a lot of rough sketches, keeping in mind the overall composition:
- Rough concept development
- Fair sketches
- Inking (digitally or traditionally)
- Colouring (digital)
The pre-production phase required a lot of sketch work. I had to create a variation of three different families. This part was a lot of fun. The three families I had designed were uniquely different from each other. They were made along linguistic lines; a Bengali, Punjabi and a south Indian family. Two families were chosen: one as the main and the other as the neighbour.
With the main characters ready, the next step was to design a solar home for them. Drawing a house seems easy but one needs to be careful. The characters and their home had to blend, the styles had to reflect the family's characteristics. For this I went through a lot of references for designing a solar home.
With the first two stages complete, I began on the inking process. There are many ways of inking illustrations. I normally use a uniball pen but for this project I decided to go digital. The advantages of inking an illustration digitally is that the work is clean and is extremely helpful during last minute changes. The colouring process is not as time consuming as inking. I use a Wacom bamboo tablet, which saves a lot of time when colouring.
The social media campaign for the website was another interesting project. For this I came up with certain situations. I took up the issue of day to day problems like shortage of electricity and made light hearted, humorous yet clear-cut illustrations out of them. The idea was to show the two families; the one which had gone solar and the other which had not in order to highlight the advantages. The tag to all the illustrations was 'maybe it's time to go solar'. This was a lot of fun for I tried to look at tiny details like appliances used within the home, furniture, etc.
I hit a few snags while working on the illustrations, like the apt design for the house, and small yet significant details about the characters. All in all, the final illustrations came out wonderfully. The style was neat and conveyed the message succinctly.
Overall, the experience was very creative. I had the opportunity to do what I do best and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Find my illustrations on the new version of India Solar Homes website here.


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The "make it or break it" points for major indicies can provide vital information for investors looking to get buy, sell or short a market. More importantly, it can help to see what the trend is showing and this often will be the direction for many stocks.
It has been said that something like 80% of individual issues follow the trend of the overall markets. More recently, that percentage will probably be higher as the use of ETFs and futures contracts have become more popular.
Take a look at the latest update of these trends. HERE is the same chart of the S&P 500 from 3/14/2011.
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GU SigEp was proud to welcome back over 30 alumni brothers for homecoming on October 26. We started the weekend with a chapter at which several alumni were present and we enjoyed an Epsilon presentation by current brother Andrew Arbeeny (MSB '15). We then had a gathering at 3338 Prospect, at which, expectedly, far more alumni were present. The next morning started with the tailgate at 11 am where both current and alumni brothers were found in plenty.
Properly adhering to Georgetown tradition, no attention was paid to the actual football game, as Pink House's classic barbeque held much more sway. Serving as perhaps the largest party Pink House has had to date, alumni and brothers alike had a fantastic afternoon in weather that was far too comfortable for late October. Starting with the roast of a pig that seemed too large to actually have lived, the party went on into the late afternoon, and we hardly had any trouble with our friendly local SNAPS officer. From Jeremy Cairl's lederhosen providing a hint of Octoberfest to Marc Byrnes' (MSB '16) dogged commitment to those classic rock songs that everyone miraculously knows the words to, the vibe at this year's party was perhaps the best we've had, and it did Pink House proud for its last homecoming.
In all, it was a great weekend, and seeing so many alumni back made us undergrads proud of where our fraternity has come thus far, and, more importantly, it helped us connect with brothers that can't ever come back enough to the Hilltop.
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There's enough said already about Copenhagen, so I'm not going to bore you with more travel tips. The city is a global favorite in terms of food, fashion, general style and pretty people. For someone who hadn't visited a Scandinavian country yet, Denmark was long a front runner on my trip-list. I was eager to see this diamond on the coast. Copenhagen, in my mind, was always extraordinary design, gorgeous humans and rare art.
But let me keep this short: I visited Copenhagen and it was one of the best short trips I'd done in a while. I went with my old school friends and there was nothing quite like exploring the city together while taking long walks and roaming from snack to snack. We stopped every now and then to stare rudely at attractive people passing us, or to quickly spend a lot of money shopping (hello, Wood Wood and Ganni), had extensive dinners and fell happily into bed at night. So why did I love Copenhagen? Here's my list.
No cash necessary
It's ridiculous. Like an old fashioned traveler, I was in panic about urgently needing cash – in a different currency no less – so I exchanged my precious Euro into Danish Kronen at my bank. And since being used to being technologically challenged in Berlin, where even in 5 star restaurants you won't survive without cash, I was really intent on having enough on me. This is something that has really traumatized me in Berlin. It's 2015, people, even in the Congo they pay for beer with Bitcoins, get on it already. But bless Copenhagen, where you do not have to pay anything at all with cash! I was in credit card heaven. The hot dog stand? Credit card! Each and every drink at the bar? Credit card! And nobody was annoyed. Unfortunately I was also able to see how much I actually spent on alcohol.
Wi-Fi everywhere
I know, there should probably be more culturally involved things at the beginning of this list, but fuck it: there's free Wi-Fi EVERYWHERE in Copenhagen! In every kind of train or public transport in the system you can easily log-in and check where you are, what you're going to do, or simply stream a movie. Why? I say: WHY NOT!
Just The Right Amount
Like most of you, I am also addicted to salt. But not only because of the taste, but because of my hypothyroidism. Wherever I am eating out, I have to season on top of my meal. But for the first time in my life, everything I ate was perfect. New tastes, aromas and preparation methods were combined to exclusive tastes that I have yet to find again anywhere else.
Free Water
Americans may not find this necessarily surprising, but for Germans and especially Berliners, free water isn't a common good in restaurants. But even when we ordered bottled water instead of tap water, the bottles were re-filled without asking and without charging us more than once.
The people
They are gorgeous, women and men alike. I wanted to marry every second Danish I found (hello – if someone, particularly someone Danish, is reading this – I am still available). Not just because of their hotness, but also because they were incredibly sweet, open and polite. You were continuously smiled at, talked to and made conversation with, or simply just asked how you were doing. Also not very German traits. Even the ticket checkers on public transport were calm, happy and relaxed – as opposed to our fucked up and unkempt Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahmen-Kontrolleure in Berlin. Hey BVG – can you PLEASE do something about that?
The Lousiana Museum
A little bit outside of Humblebaek (a suburb of Copenhagen and about 35 minutes with the train), is directly on the sea and a great place to visit on a daytrip. You will find here one of the most important contemporary collections in the world, as well as a fantastic interplay of architecture and nature. This extraordinary synergy will have you drown into the rapids of the ocean, the mesmerizing interior design of the museum, into the world of art (of course) and I can promise that you will be taken out of the time-space continuum of our world for a few hours. Even those who aren't particularly enthusiastic about art will find a place to linger here; to watch the sea, walk through the park of sculptures, lie down in the grass and to gauge on cakes and simply pass the time in peace.
Public Spaces
When comparing different cities, you will quickly realize that not every place has focused on cultivating public places and spaces that invite inhabitants or visitors to remain. In Vienna, for instance, I really thought it was nearly impossible to dawdle in public spaces, and even worse is my hometown Wuppertal. Copenhagen is much, much different: there are endless possibilities to hang around outside, in public parks, on benches, anywhere in the inner city center.
I know you're all still waiting for specific tips and locations, so here are the most important addresses in case you're visiting soon.
Eating out in Copenhagen
Flæsketorvet 100, Meatpacking District
Dinner, Fish
Atelier September
Gothersgade 30
Breakfast, Lunch, Coffee
Foodmarket – Frederiksborgadde 21
Museums in Copenhagen
Gl Strandvej 13, 3050 Humlebæk
Dantes Plads 7, 1556 København
Walking and lingering in Copenhagen
Botanical Garden
Øster Farimagsgade 2B, 1353 København
Søerne – The Lakes of Copenhagen.
The Lakes consist of five basins, but in fact only three lakes
Sct. Jørgens Sø (the two Southern basins)
Peblinge Sø (the middle basin) and
Sortedams Sø (the two Northern basins).
Beside all the woderful disricts in Copenhagen, in Nørrebro you'll find the coolest streets of Copenhagen. It's close to the lakes and just a short walk from Nørreport S and underground station. In the cobblestone street Jægersborggade you will find Michelin star restaurants, funky cafes, vintage shops and wine bars. Elmegade is both for culinary visits as well for nightlife options a great choice.
Drinks & Bars in Copenhagen
Jolene bar
Flæsketorvet 81-85
1711 København V
To Stay in Copenhagen
Urban Hostel
Colbjørnsensgade 5-11
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Other names for Satan include Abaddon, Beelzebub, Evil One, Lucifer and King of Babylon. These names originate from the Bible. For example, Abaddon is cited in Revelation chapter 9, verse 11 and is Hebrew for Satan, it's meaning translates to "destruction."
Other names for Satan have been derived from mythological and cultural references. Names such as Leviathan, Tchort, O-Yama and Yen-lo-Wang are contained on a list of The Infernal Names in "The Satanic Bible." Tchort is the Russian equivalent of devil and it's literal translation is "black god"; O-Yama is Japanese for the lord of death; and Yen-lo-Wang translates from Chinese as the ruler of Hell.


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text: A spectacular sky this morning, with a street of cumulus broken into cubes of grey and white against a bright silver sun. As I walked down the lane towards the west, the sky was a deep and brilliant blue. All the birds were singing in the woodland and it really felt like spring. Today I fancied a bit of needleweaving, as it's Sunday and I have some time. The threads are grey cotton perlé, blue coton à broder, blue rayon floss, hand-dyed coton à broder in shades of grey, white cotton embroidery thread and silver embroidery thread. The stitches are a double row of chain stitch for the outline and needleweaving infill.


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GALLERY: READY to Decide
Our 'READY to Decide' campaign highlights the impact of gender inequality and gender-based violence on the rising rate of HIV in young women and girls in sub-Saharan Africa.
READY, (Resilient and Empowered Adolescents Young People) is a youth-led movement that mobilises young people globally to demand their right to a healthy life – whatever their circumstances, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.
Here are some of the many young people we've worked with in sub-Saharan Africa who are READY to make healthy and empowered choices.


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Great quote on the what it meas to be a Christian – at least one aspect of it – from The Doctor:
"The true Christian cannot be hid, he cannot escape notice. A man truly living and functioning as a Christian will stand out. He will be like salt; he will be like a city set on a hill, a candle set upon a candlestick. But we can also add this further word. The true Christian does not even desire to hide his light. He sees how ridiculous it is to claim to be a Christian and yet deliberately to try to hide the fact. A man who truly realizes what it means to be a Christian, who realizes all that the grace of God has meant to him and done for him, and understands that, ultimately, God has done this in order that he may influence others, is a man who cannot conceal it. Not only that; he does not desire to conceal it, because he argues thus, 'Ultimately the object and purpose of it all is that I might be functioning in this way'."
– Martin Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount.


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How Fujifilm uses gamification to communicate benefits
Carolyn Gordon, 46, has leveraged gaming strategies to help her 5,000 employees learn what's in their benefits package. Fujifilm's director of benefits says she's seen the company transform over the last two decades, which brought in a younger workforce and new challenges. Gordon — who was named a 2017 recipient of an EBN Benefits Technology Innovator Award — spoke to Employee Benefit News about how the film company has utilized different technologies to keep her employees up-to-date on the latest benefit offerings. This interview has been edited and condensed.
EBN: You've been with Fujifilm for nearly 20 years and saw your industry decline rapidly. How have industry changes affected your job?
Carolyn Gordon: We've had a lot of acquisitions and diversification of our company, and that directly impacted the type of employee [we have]. When we kind of started all of this, our [lack of] experience was really getting out of control. We have an aging population but then we had a newer population. We were really trying to find ways to communicate with people and make it simple.
EBN: For the past five years, Fujifilm has leveraged HR technology company Airbo's employee communication platform to help with engagement. In what ways do you use that platform to communicate with employees?
Gordon: Basically, we create content with a picture and a small question — a tile. If you do all the titles, you get a prize for it at the end of the quarter. We kind of joke about it; they're never extravagant. It could be a cup or a towel, but it creates a demand. The technology behind it: It's basically a game but it takes about two minutes. We usually do about five tiles so we try to make them simple. Usually we have whatever we're trying to communicate.
Say we're trying to get you to go for your preventative care visit. The first one might just be, "When was the last time you went?" The next one would be, "Did you know we have $100 of incentives that's free and goes toward your health savings account?" The third one might link to an article about it. We try to use Airbo to link back to whatever kind of communication we're doing so people can engage that way as well. Last month was nutrition month, so we had nutrition webinars. We try to use the tiles to push people to what we're trying to do.
The rudimentary of the tiles, which Willis Towers Watson helps create, is to get that basic information to them so they know, "Oh we have a nutrition app now." We really use it as an easy tool and people kind of expect it now; every other Monday people get tiles. They know it only takes them five minutes, they know they need to do it, and they know if they miss it they got to do them all to get the prize. Even if it's after the fact and we record everything we do, it's still accessible. It's been a great tool because it also embeds all the other broader communications or things that we're trying to do. Everything we do we try to make sure has an app or you could do it on your iPad because if you can't do that you lose half your population; it doesn't matter how old they are.
EBN: What was communication like before?
Gordon: Before, traditionally, we just had some print communications from the vendors and we would hold some lunch-and-learns. Open enrollment was like, anything that happened and no one talked to us in between. It was very transactional – very cookie-cutter to what needed to be provided. We did a newsletter once a month; it was standard communications. As we started to look at our experience and what was happening with our claims and the fact that people weren't engaged, we really realized that we needed to do something more holistic and year-round. We have our own microsite that we also feed to. We really tried to make this a way where everyone can access it. You don't need to log in to it to look at the microsite – it's public. We really tried to evolve in that sense where we were just doing what was convenient for us, once a year and getting what they need to have but not a lot of communication or giving people a way to understand what we were doing or why we were doing it.
We still do print and we still do email communication, but our biggest participation is with Airbo and that's the most effective. Eighty-eight percent of Fujifilm employees have participated in Airbo, with 80% on average participating each quarter.
EBN: Are you targeting which communications you send to employees based on age or another demographic?
Gordon: We really look at segmenting. Middle-aged women in their late forties early fifties actually play the game more than some of the younger people. We're still trying to figure out the segmenting and what works. We still do broad base communications in different ways to everyone. Some of the characteristics we see are similar even though the age gap is there. We try to offer different kinds of mediums.
We do see with the millennials that we have to have more conversations with them because they're not as familiar with the workforce and the way some of these programs work and what they do. Sometimes having that conversation and then having the media, like the app or the game, they get it much easier. They pick it up much quicker. They also need to understand a little bit more because they don't understand about retirement; they're more transient. My generation, you work somewhere forever. That's not in their scope. They think they'll stay somewhere for five years at the most. We try to gear the communications in that way so it's something that appeals to them. With our company, we kind of get that you probably won't be here forever, but these are good lessons for you to carry with you about saving for when you are older or building up your HSA.
We target it a little bit different in that way, but the media sometimes transcends it because they're all a little different. We're trying to do a lot more with social responsibility, community and some of those things that are probably not as important to the older generation. Not that they don't do them, but not as a focus. We try to build that into our benefits program that we offer different incentives and things like that for volunteering and aligning with some organizations.
EBN: What is the biggest challenge with benefits communication?
Gordon: The biggest thing that we're struggling with right now is how do we get you as the employee to remember what you have or know where to call to access those things, whether you're sick or you need the EAP or you need something for financial planning. It's getting people to remember or to have a sense to know what's accessible when they really need it.
EBN: Do you have any tips for other companies looking to improve their benefit communications?
Gordon: I think we've been really successful with trying to really look at our population and see where segmenting works and try to understand the psychology behind it — knowing what kind of people they are because we have a bunch of different professions, ranging from manufacturing to sales people to scientists, engineers; people learn and access information differently. I think you have to know what your employees look like and how they access information, and then make sure that your communications are geared toward that or have that broad based enough to know that you're reaching different people in different ways. Nobody learns the same way, and nobody does things the same way. If you want them to participate, you have to make it easy for them because to them they're focused on their job and this is an extra thing. We try to make it fun and we try to make it interesting and relevant to them. You have to know your audience, just like anything else.
It's not just about open enrollment. It's about all the things that lead up to it. We have a pretty comprehensive communication plan. I try to hit all mediums. Different people learn in different ways, and we try to adapt to that. We're trying to meet people where they are.


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PCLinuxOS 2020.01 and XFCE
My favourite Linux distribution is PCLinuxOS, and I have been using it for years. My favourite Desktop is XFCE. More recently, I discovered another Linux Distro, MX Linux, which specialises in the XFCE desktop. So, the aim of this article is to get XFCE working in PCLinuxOS, as well as, or better, than it does in MX Linux, so I can return home. I shall be listing, in this article, a number of tips to do this. Some will be straightforward and others might need some digging into the system. I hope you can make use of them!
Linux: Linking Orage (XFCE4 desktop) to your Google Calendar.
What I am about to describe is a method that has worked for me on both PCLinuxOS (XFCE4 Community Edition) and MX-Linux (which uses XFCE4 by default). It ought to work on any version of Linux using the XFCE4 desktop (provided the necessary python dependencies are available — always the case as far as I know). Bear in mind, though, that there are no guarantees that it will work for you, or the sky will not fall on your head, or your computer won't explode. You do this at your own risk.
You need to ensure that the Orage calendar is applet is on your XFCE panel. If you are using a desktop other than XFCE4, you can set Orage to appear as an icon in your system tray instead (Edit>Preferences>Extra Settings). Continue reading →
USB 3.0 7-way Hub — Beware!
I get a lot of stuff on line, and much of it is really cheap. This particular USB Hub seemed to be just what the doctor ordered. So I ordered it. £8? You can't go wrong.
HUION 610 Graphics Tablet and Linux
EDIT 27th August 2019: I have found out what caused the problem with the v5 kernels in PCLinuxOS. Having discovered the problem the solution is simple, so on we go!
EDIT: 5th September 2019: This article got unpublished in error. I do intend to rewrite it, but it's best to have something there in the meantime!
Just over a year ago, I did a piece about using the HUION 610 Graphics Tablet with Linux. It's time to update what I did last year. But one thing is for certain. The Huion 610 and 610Pro are much cheaper than Wacom tablets, and are said to work on Linux. And it's not too hard to get them working.
So here's how to get it set up in two different Linux Operating Systems (you may jump ahead to find out about MX-Linux): Continue reading →
British English on a US Keyboard
I keep reading "reviews" on Ebay and Amazon UK that British people are buying keyboards on line, only to find that they are American. The main problem they have is that the keyboard does not have a Sterling sign (£) on it, the quotedbl (") and at sign (@) are swapped over. The key that produces hash and tilde has backslash and pipe on it, backslash and pipe are no longer available, as there is one key less on the US keyboard! Everything will appear in the same place on the keyboard as they did before, but the legends on the keys are wrong. Continue reading →
MX Linux — Suitable for Everyone!
First I have to say that I am a PCLinuxOS user, and that has always been great. Every so often, I try out another Linux on a spare partition, and sometimes I can't even work out how to install it! Other times, I can install it, but something about it turns me off, almost instantly. There are others, where I can play with it, in parallel with my PCLinuxOS partition, and think, I could get used to this, then a month or so down the line, something happens, reality hits home, and it has to go. The last time that happened, was several months back when I tried Debian. Continue reading →
The more I find out, the less I know!
You need to have read the previous two parts of this saga before proceeding.
How (not) to install Windows 7 on a USB3 computer
So, there I was, having resolved all the problems, including the one caused by an assumption that, despite an Ethernet cable having worked correctly for a long time, that it still worked! The problem was, that after a day or so, the cable I replaced it with, began to develop the same problems. Too much of a co-incidence? Continue reading →
What could possibly go wrong?
I had just installed Windows 7, and didn't I do it the hard way!
So there I was, sitting with a computer running Windows 7. It's all in 100Gb of a 2Tb drive. I've got four other operating systems on an external drive which need putting back, along with a large data partition. So I ran a live USB (acutally PCLinuxOS KDE-Darkstar) which has GParted on it, so I can do the rest of the partitioning and get my Linux back. Continue reading →
How (not) to install Windows 7 on a USB3 computer
Yesterday, I finally managed to put Windows 7 on a totally USB3 computer. It's only occupying a small part of my hard drive and exists for when something just isn't possible on Linux, like setting the BIOS splash screen.
At least that's Windows 10 gone. Even if you need to pop into Windows for 15 minutes to do a little task, it finds ways of bothering you, (That's even after you've switched off whatever-her-name-is!) with little jingles, telling you that it's downloaded something for you (not that you asked it to), and telling you to send all kinds of personal info to Microsoft. Continue reading →
Rebuilding an old bass guitar
Guitars and bass guitars have two parts that are very difficult to make in the home. The neck and the body. With some decent tools, you can work on a body. But once you've got them, adding the other bits is relatively simple, although if there's a hard way to do something, I'll inevitably find it! Continue reading →


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Here's the key part of the story, from a Facebook post, via Consumerist:
That's right - you hugged your grandmother, little girl? You must be a terrorist. That's obviously the most likely explanation, TSA agents.My two young children, aged four and six, were particularly excited their Grandmother was catching the same flight out of Wichita. Since she lives in California, and we live in Montana, they've never had a chance to fly with her. Tired and eager to return home, we began passing through security. My children and I went through without an incident. My Mother, however, had triggered the alarm. She was asked to go through the scanners again, and when the source of the alarm could not be identified she was told to sit aside and await a pat-down. All of this was perfectly routine.
When my Four-year-old daughter noticed her Grandmother, she excitedly ran over to give her a hug, as children often do. They made very brief contact, no longer than a few seconds. The Transportation Security Officers(TSO) who were present responded to this very simple action in the worst way imaginable.
First, a TSO began yelling at my child, and demanded she too must sit down and await a full body pat-down. I was prevented from coming any closer, explaining the situation to her, or consoling her in any way. My daughter, who was dressed in tight leggings, a short sleeve shirt and mary jane shoes, had no pockets, no jacket and nothing in her hands. The TSO refused to let my daughter pass through the scanners once more, to see if she too would set off the alarm. It was implied, several times, that my Mother, in their brief two-second embrace, had passed a handgun to my daughter.
My child, who was obviously terrified, had no idea what was going on, and the TSOs involved still made no attempt to explain it to her. When they spoke to her, it was devoid of any sort of compassion, kindness or respect. They told her she had to come to them, alone, and spread her arms and legs. She screamed, "No! I don't want to!" then did what any frightened young child might, she ran the opposite direction.
That is when a TSO told me they would shut down the entire airport, cancel all flights, if my daughter was not restrained. It was then they declared my daughter a "high-security-threat".
Amazingly enough, they eventually managed to make their flight, though they had to endure even more harassment from the TSA.
But all of the above isn't even the most ridiculous part of the story - after all, there are tens of thousands of TSA agents, and with so many employees, some of them are bound to do stupid things from time to time. No, the most ridiculous part of the story is that the TSA said, in response to this incident, that the agents did everything according to "proper current screening procedures":
TSA has recently implemented modified screening procedures of children 12 and under that further reduce — though not eliminate — the need for a physical pat-down for children. In this case, however, the child had completed screening but had contact with another member of her family who had not completed the screening process. TSA has reviewed the incident and determined that our officers followed proper current screening procedures in conducting a modified pat-down on the child.Dear TSA:
We hate you.
The American public hates you.
This story is one reason why. I've also posted previous posts - one infographic and one personal story - explaining in greater detail why we hate you. You are so ludicrously disconnected from the actual security threats facing the flying public and from the desires of the public you purport to protect that I fear your idiotic procedures, inhuman "agents," and radiation nude-o-scopes far more than I fear an actual attack on a plane I'm flying in - because there is an absolutely miniscule probability that I will fall victim to a terrorist attack, but there is a 100% chance that I will fall victim to the TSA every time I fly.
You can't protect the public when the public hates you. I don't view the TSA as an agency trying to protect me that I want to cooperate with; I view it as a threat to my person and property. I'm not going to cooperate more with you than the absolute minimum required by law, and I'm guessing most people agree with me - and this decreases our collective safety. You've made us hate you, and this decreases our collective safety.
The TSA is so obviously and completely broken that it should simply be scrapped. I don't know whether the solution is a new government agency or to re-privatize airport security, but the current system as implemented by the TSA is beyond ridiculous - a system in which 100% of flyers, 99.999999999% of which are utterly innocent, are harassed, abused, and/or irradiated by an unaccountable government entity in the name of useless security theater. Furthermore, when thinking about how to spend government dollars, is it a better idea to spend an extra dollar on childhood education, research, or bridges, or on paying the TSA to troll Tennessee highways for non-existent threats?
End the TSA. If you work for the TSA, quit. Don't apply for TSA jobs. Don't fly, if you can avoid it. Enough is enough.


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EWGAE 2018French Industrial and Mechanical Technical Centre (CETIM)92, Senlis, France
Following on from the success of the European Conference on Acoustic Emission Testing 2016, a new edition is planned, mainly organised by Cetim, Cofrend and European Working Group on Acoustic Emission.
For 46 years now, acoustic emission will be the major subject of the conference.
This complete and fast non-destructive testing method is perfectly suited to perform integrity tests on large structures.
This is a passive technique which makes it possible to keep working times and costly shutdown periods to a minimum and allows, in particular, real-time damage monitoring of components in operation.
Acoustic emission has seen constant technological progress, and the ambitious objective of EWGAE 2018 is to share these latest changes.
Simultaneously with the conferences, a scientific and technical exhibition will bring together the main stakeholders of this field.
To find more information on this event: www.ewgae2018.com
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Losing a loved one knocks you down,and then you get back up and the memories knock you over again. It is a never-ending cycle, this grief stuff. I guess I just need to navigate my way around the emotional grenades and go on, and we must go on.
Losing weight after losing a loved one, this is what is on my mind at the moment. Nothing knocked me down, nothing until I lost my Mother. I made it to my lowest weight on this journey, 159 lbs and I did it through a move from LA to San Francisco, my husband's job loss and a move back to LA. I kept going through all of those life changes, and life did not break me and I never gained a pound. I kept losing and I am proud to say I did it, until the last month.
Now life after losing my Mother left me with a few pounds of extra weight. I admit I fell of the wagon. That's the thing about wagons, they keep going, you just have to catch up and jump back on. I am committing to my healthy lifestyle and workouts and goals, it is not easy now. Our new kitchen is barely set up but I can do this. It starts today, I know how to do this and I know how to get to where I am going. I am back on the wagon and on the road to all of my goals. I will lose the 10 lbs I gained and get to my goals.
I am about to run to the grocery store, my hubby James is working and we need something healthy to eat. I am going to wear my runners belt and run there even with this heat and humidity. I plan on making a schedule soon, and tomorrow I have an interview to work in a local restaurant for some extra cash for my goals and our new life. I will post my workout/running/yoga schedule once I begin my job and new routine. No more slacking off.
I would love to know how you kept working towards your goals through a life crisis. What tips do you follow to keep at it? We are all here to inspire each other.
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Chesapeake Politics, 1781-1800
Chesapeake Politics, 1781-1800
This is the story of political developments after the American Revolution in three state's -- Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. Similar in economic and social structure, tied together by the Chesapeake Bay, these states formed a regional unit. And they were important enough to have a decisive impact on the national politics of the period. By examining three states I hoped to avoid the provincialism that characterizes most studies of individual states. At the same time, the focus on one region of the country permitted a close, detailed examination of the way in which government functioned in the formative years of the republic.
Because the three states were similar in agricultural development, trade patterns, and social structure, they easily lent themselves to comparative treatment. Each faced similar problems in the post-Revolutionary era -- debt, depression, and western uprisings. Each wrestled with church disestablishment, public education, and demands for the amelioration of slavery. A comparison of the way each reacted to these questions offers a new dimension to the story of early American politics.
The basic theme is the evolution of political parties after the Revolution. I am not concerned with the subtle distinction between . . .


text: Beijing, Jun 23 (PTI) China have shut down nine factories making race tracks using recycled toxic materials and detained few people after a number of children fell sick in several schools.Officials in Cangzhou, North Hebei Province, shut down nine factories and detained "related personnel" yesterday after China Central Television (CCTV) reported that a number of workshops had been using recycled industrial waste to produce materials for the track ovals widely used in schools.Hebei provincial authorities also vowed to investigate its rubber track producers following the CCTV investigative report that said dozens of companies in Hebeis Baoding and Cangzhou had been using used automobile tires, electrical wires and other plastic or rubber items to produce track oval materials.These recycled materials are believed to contain toxic chemical substances and heavy metals harmful to human health, the report said.Following the report, the Cangzhou government set up a special task force composed of industry supervisors and police to inspect all related factories, sealing the equipment, materials and semi-finished products in these workshops, news portal reported.The CCTV report has added fuel to the ongoing uproar from parents of school children in more than a dozen provinces across the country.They have been complaining that the pungent smell of newly-built rubber sports fields and tracks are causing the students nosebleeds, headaches and allergies.Nearly 100 parents of students at Beijing No 2 Experimental School in the capitals Xicheng district gathered outside the school, claiming that the school cheated them in a school-hosted test report that claimed its newly-built track oval met national emission standards, state-run Global Time reported.advertisementThe latest test results of an independent institution invited by the parents showed that the content of toxic formaldehyde in the classrooms have all failed national standards, the parents told the Global Times.The schools principal and parents failed to reach an agreement as of press time, the report said.Dozens of students at the school suffered from nosebleeds, dizzy spells and coughs after running on the synthetic track oval in Baiyunlu School, the parents said.Similar incidents have been reported in the past two years in cities that include Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu and Shenyang."We can only call it a questionable track for now, because we havent received the test results to prove that the track caused all of these problems," Shi Jianhua, who helped draft rules for synthetic materials for track surfaces, told the Global Times on Wednesday."But the questionable tracks do contain certain toxic substances, such as methylbenzene which emits a foul smell, and the smell surfaces in high temperatures," Shi said. Some samples contain methylbenzene and xylene, Shi said many questionable tracks were produced by small uncertified workshops, and they won the contract by offering lower prices. PTI KJV UZM


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Hey, thanks for taking the time to get up to speed on current events.
This is CNN STUDENT NEWS. I'm Carl Azuz.
First up this Thursday, we're headed to northwest Pakistan. A group of four terrorists targeted a university there yesterday. They killed at least 19 people according to Pakistani officials before soldiers killed the four gunmen. Officials don't know for sure what organization the terrorists were with.
A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, a Muslim militant group in the country, said the attacks were revenged for military operations against the Pakistani Taliban.
But another spokesman for the same group denounced the attack, saying it went against Sharia or Islamic law. International analysts say it does look like the tactics of the Pakistani Taliban.
JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT: So, who are the Pakistani Taliban or the Tehrik-I-Taliban, TTP as they're known in Pakistan?
For one, they're not the Afghan Taliban. They're separate. Afghan Taliban focused principally on attacking international security forces there, including U.S. forces and driving them out of the country. The Pakistani Taliban focused on attacking the Pakistani government, bringing it down and establishing Sharia law in the country.
To that end, they've been responsible for some of the most horrific terror attacks in Pakistan: attack on a market in 2009 that killed more than 100 people, an attack on a Protestant church in 2013 that killed more than 80 people, the assassination of the former Prime Minister Benazhir Bhutto, as well as the shooting of the recent Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai.
The Pakistani Taliban has also attacked Americans and American interests. In 2009, a suicide bombing that killed seven CIA officers in eastern Afghanistan. In 2010, the failed bombing inside Times Square in New York City traced back to the Pakistani Taliban. And following the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces in Pakistan, the TPP leader, the Pakistani Taliban leader, called for attacks on Americans inside America.
And the U.S. has attacked back. Drone strikes inside Pakistan's tribal areas in 2009 and 2013 killed the leaders of the Pakistani Taliban.
AZUZ: We mentioned yesterday that Iran with many international sanctions now lifted plans to increase its oil production, at a time when experts say the world is drowning in oil. There's a huge surplus of it worldwide, and that's taking a massive tool on the U.S. stock market.
The average of 30 U.S. stocks known as the Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped more than 1,600 points this year. That includes a loss of 249 points yesterday.
Investors are worried that the continuing drop in oil prices could signal bad news for the global economy. It's hurting corporate profits. Dozens of oil companies are filing for bankruptcy. The silver lining for drivers is that gas prices also continued to drop.
All right. Let's see who's watching and requesting a "Roll Call" mention at CNNStudentNews.com.
Wartburg College. The Revius' location is in Rotterdam. Hello to our viewers in Netherlands.
Aztec High School is in the land of enchantment. That's New Mexico, and the Tigers are prowling in Aztec.
And in Brooklyn, New York, check out the Cosmos. Bedford Stuyvesant Collegiate Charter School rounds out our roll.
Last January, we reported that NASA said 2014 was Earth's warmest year since 1880, when scientist begun keeping records on global temperatures. This January, NASA is saying the same thing about 2015, specifically that it was 2,300th of 1 degree than the 2014 record.
Scientists say carbon dioxide emissions factor in as one reason why, but that most of the blame this time is on El Nino. It's that natural warming of Pacific Ocean waters we've told you about that can affect temperatures worldwide.
NASA says 2015 was the warmest year with 94 percent certainty. There was more doubt about the 2014 record. NASA was 38 percent certain on that one. Part of the reason being that the temperature increase over the previous record was within its margin of error.
There's also a margin of error in forecasters' predictions for the U.S. Northeast this weekend. But no matter how it turns out, warm is not how folks are going to describe it.
Meteorologists say there is a storm brewing, a big one, that could bring two feet or more of snow to Washington, D.C., a foot in New York, a foot in Boston, or nothing at all. Scientists say it's just too early to know for sure if this thing will materialize and affect as many 50 million people by the weekend. Because they think it's possible, though, folks in the region are stocking up on groceries, gas, shovels and sleds. They're bracing for a nor'easter.
JENNIFER GRAY, AMS METEOROLOGIST: A nor'easter occurs within the most crowded coast line of the United States, the Northeast, and they can occur any time of year but are most common between the months of September and April. That's when weather conditions are primed for a nor'easter.
You start with a low. It's going to travel from the Southeast to the Northeast and intensify. Nor'easters are strongest around New England as well as the Canadian Maritime Provinces.
Now, we have very warm water in the Gulf of Mexico and all around the coast of Florida, it's going to warm the air above it and that warm air is going to clash with very cold air coming from the north. Now, nor'easters carry winds out of the Northeast at about 58 miles per hour or more. And keep in mind, the win direction out of the Northeast is what defines a nor'easter.
It's also going to cause beach erosion, as well as coastal flooding and very, very rough ocean conditions.
Now, not all nor'easter have snow, but some of the most memorable ones have dumped lots of it.
AZUZ: The city of Missoula in western Montana is more than 400 miles from the nearest ocean, that's the Pacific. But hey, surfs up. The Clark Fork River runs right through Missoula and a new sport is taking advantage of the rapids that create permanent. With the new sport comes the need for new equipment.
So, let's take a ride with the athlete who's designing it.
KEVIN BENHART BROWN, OWNER, STRONGWATER MOUNTAIN SURF CO.: You know standing on the river with the power of these rapids, rushing down a canyon, somehow you're able to harness that energy and all this water just kind of flowing under you just gives you a sense of empowerment.
River surfing is simply surfing waves that are formed in the river. They're standing waves similar to what you'd find in a wave pool, but they are found out in Mother Nature.
The sport of river surfing is so new. We're part of a global explosion right now. The way I like to say it is we're pioneers of a new sport.
My name is Kevin Benhart Brown. Most people call me "KB", and one of the first people here in America, if not the first, who build surf boards specifically for the river.
When I got into the sport, the white water kayaking, I discovered there was a standing waves in the river and they're not kind of opened up my mind to the possibility of riding actual surfboards on these waves.
When we first riding surfboards that were made for ocean waves. We were like, we need some boards that are made for the waves that we're surfing. So, we just built a shaping room and glassing room and a sanding room down in the basement of our shop, and it became the first Rocky Mountain surf shop.
Surfing in the river is amazing because the wave is always there. It's an endless ride. You can literally surf it until you can stand up anymore. You're swimming through the rapids or through the currents and then you fall in and you got to swim the rapid back to shore.
Snow, things like that, they don't slow at all. We get out there year round. I mean, wherever there is a wave. Really, the future for the sport is when we start designing and building waves in the river, specifically for riding surfboards on. That's the like the real future for the sport of river surfing.
But the whole point is to get surfing every day.
AZUZ: You know you own a big cat when people see your pet sitting at the window inside your house and they still call animal control. That's because Spock, his name is Spock, he weighs 27 pounds and he's almost four feet long.
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Man asks 20-yr-old woman to be 'mistress', gets arrested
Accused had been stalking the woman for two months, and would often send text messages and make phone calls requesting her to meet him in private
The LT Marg police arrested a man on Friday for harassing and forcing a 20-year-old woman to be his 'mistress'. The accused, Ismail Halai Memon (32) is married and runs a cosmetic business near Crawford market. On Saturday, Ismail alias Sohail was produced in court, after which he was granted bail.
According to the police, the girl, Nasreen Qureishi (name changed) lives near JJ Hospital and is a salesgirl in Selection Centre, a shopping mall near Jama Masjid. One morning two months ago, she received a text message from an unknown number saying, "kisi se na kahna (don't tell anyone)" on her mobile phone. The same evening, she received another message from the same number saying, "tum Selection me job karti ho (you work at Selection)."
Text messages and calls came frequently after that. The caller identified himself as Sohail and offered to meet her in private, to which Qureishi refused.
Surprisingly, on November 19 she was unwell and was to visit a clinic and Sohail called and told her he knew she was going to the doctor because she was unwell. "I was surprised to hear that he had all information about me, including my personal matters. I was also wondering how he got my mobile number. I got fed-up with his constant calls and I told my parents," Qureishi said.
On November 22, when Qureishi was leaving for work Sohail arrived on the spot and identified himself as "that caller and messenger." He said his real name was Ismail, and that he was married, but wanted to keep her as his mistress. He said he would make her very happy. Qureishi informed her parents about the incident.
Qureishi's father was allegedly sent from pillar to post by the police — first at JJ Marg, then at MRA Marg, Pydhonie and LT Marg police stations — to lodge a complaint. He claims that the police officials refused, saying that the matter was out of their jurisdiction. Finally, he met Deputy Commissioner of Police Nisar Tamboli, on whose instruction, an FIR was registered (copy available with MiD DAY) and Ismail was arrested. "We are very thankful to Tamboli saheb for intervening in the matter," said Qureishi's father.
"We have arrested Ismail under Sections 509 (Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman), 504 (Intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 507 (Criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication) of IPC," said Avinash Sonavane, senior inspector, LT Marg police station.
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Camilla Luddington Named New Voice of Lara Croft
The new voice and performance actress for the Crystal Dynamics Tomb Raider reboot has been named, with Camilla Luddington chosen for the honour of bringing Lara Croft back, or is that to the past given its a prequel reboot of sorts?
International talent agents scoured Europe and the United States for a suitable talent. Luddington was chosen for both her depth of emotion and the youthfulness in her tone which she brings when taking on the persona of Lara Croft in the re-imagining title.
Some fans may know Luddington from her work on the series Californication, along with the current season of True Blood.
"This has been one of the most important jobs for us to get right," said Darrell Gallagher, head of studio at Crystal Dynamics "'This Tomb Raider game is very different to any other and we are demanding far more from the voice and performance acting than ever before as we take the franchise in a new direction."
If you want to get up close and personal with Camilla Luddington, you'll be able to see her in Nerd HQ and the Comic-Con panels in San Diego. She'll be joining the development team as they talk about Tomb Raider and the story behind bringing the franchise back to life.
Tomb Raider is scheduled for release on March 5th, 2013.


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Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America
by Barry Werth
The world is a dynamic and unstable place; violent conflicts erupt,
political differences divide our nation, a fantastic expansion of wealth gives
way to recession, perhaps depression. Though it may sound like a summary of the
week's headlines, this is the world as it appeared more than a century ago on
the cusp of The Gilded Age, the unalloyed era of American progress that serves
as backdrop for Barry Werth's new work of popular history. Offering a
fascinating window onto the battle of ideas that raged as United States was
catapulted to the status of a global power by its industrial might, Banquet
at Delmonico's will make an enjoyable read for anyone wanting to learn
about an eminently relevant era of U.S. history and have some fun in the
The book's subtitle is Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America, but it has very little to do with the controversy over whether or not the world today is just as God created it a few thousand years ago. In fact, the protagonist of the story is not Charles Darwin as one might expect, but the English philosopher Herbert Spencer, the most famous and influential proponent of what came to be called Social Darwinism. Spencer's notion of social progress easily melded with Darwin's central insight that species evolve through a process of adaptive selection and the resulting theory saw a competition within and among human societies based on the "survival of the fittest."
Banquet at Delmonico's tells a decade-long story of how Spencer's vision survived its own mortal struggle, how that vision came to be adopted by many of the most powerful figures of the day, and how those men molded it to fit their aims and ideals in the fields of politics, finance and social morality. The climactic triumph comes in the form of a banquet held in Spencer's honor at New York's most elegant restaurant attended by a storied cast of characters who had effectively shaped his ideas into the dominant social ideology of ascendant industrial capitalism.
Werth succeeds in rendering this grand historical panorama personal almost to the point of intimacy. For each of the featured characters a biographical statement and photograph appears in the front matter as a sort of dramatis personae. Indeed there is something theatrical about the pitched battles fought across continents and decades between those on opposite sides of a grand ideological divide, each with a great deal at stake beyond the ideas themselves. The figures who loom largest in the story Spencer himself, the American preacher Henry Ward Beecher and the titan of American industry Andrew Carnegie are depicted in great detail down to their physical ailments and petty self-obsessions. Heated conflicts over science, religion and philosophy emerge from these close-range depictions, making Banquet read less like a historical tract and more like a detective story.
Ultimately, though, Banquet at Delmonico's is worth reading because it narrates in a compelling way a struggle so eerily similar to the one unfolding before our eyes at this very moment. Behind each successive debate over bailing out financial institutions or sealing our national borders there is a social philosophy a set of ideas that dictates what society is "really like" and how it should be governed. What better way to get a fresh take on the current competition of social ideologies than by reading about how it played out a hundred years ago?
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