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The Westpac Asian Exchange Scholarship program opens to UOW students
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Scholarship opportunity comes full circle
A dedicated scholar, turned academic leader – UOW alumnus, Dr George Wang, is a living example of how supporting an educational dream, can be the springboard to a prosperous and rewarding career.
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It was the late former UOW Shoalhaven Campus manager, Dr Ray Cleary, who facilitated vital insights for the local community into the importance of supporting education.
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Amanda Handcock and Brianna Throsby are UOW Master of Education students who had never met until a life-changing 14 days in Tanzania brought them together.
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If you slow down and take a walk across UOW's campus you'll notice art by some of the most defining artists of the region. It's hard to work out who's the star of the UOW Art Collection – from Indigenous abstracts, traditional landscapes and photographic works to large site-specific sculptures.
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With the state of healthcare delivery in Australia primed for reform, the support of generous philanthropy has helped the University of Wollongong to initiate a conversation around patient-focused care.
Generous donation broadens research horizons
A significant gift from two passionate and generous philanthropists will help University of Wollongong researchers unlock the potential for ground-breaking research at a molecular level.
A teacher's passion for education lives on in her bequest
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A couple's passion to see some of the most pressing issues facing our global communities addressed, has prompted them to make a generous and significant financial gift to the University of Wollongong's (UOW) research capabilities.
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The inaugural sustainability keystone initiative for the University, the Sustainable Homes Challenge (SHC) was born from the generosity of former UOW Vice-Chancellor, Emeritus Professor Ken McKinnon AO and UOW alumna Suzanne Walker who made a $1.3 million endowment to UOW in 2016.
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Pursuing a better tomorrow
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Helping hand reaches out across the century
The formative experiences of a boy born into poverty in London in the early 20th Century has changed the lives of students from rural and regional areas of Australia studying at UOW in the 21st Century.
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The legacy of opportunity
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From the very beginning, philanthropy has played a crucial role at the University of Wollongong.
UOW Art Collection: The gift that keeps on giving
The University of Wollongong Art Collection (UOWAC) was founded with a vision of creating a widely accessible and lasting cultural legacy.
Scholarship provided the code for success
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Fighting MND on two fronts
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Edward Charles Foley Jr. (born September 26, 1967) is an American football coach and former player.  He was the assistant special teams coach for the Carolina Panthers from  until mid-2022, working under head coach Matt Rhule, who he had previously worked with at Temple University. Prior to coaching the Panthers, Foley primarily coached college football, including head coach positions at Fordham University and Temple University.

Early years
Raised in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Foley graduated from Cherry Hill High School East.

Foley was a three-year starter at Bucknell University, playing one season as a guard and two as a center. During his junior year, he was named the Bison's top lineman. As a senior, he served as the team's captain.

Coaching career

Early coaching career
Foley coached the offensive line at University at Albany, SUNY from 1989 to 1990.  He served as an assistant coach at the University of Pennsylvania from 1991 to 1993, and again from 1995 to 1997. At Penn, Foley coached tight ends and tackles for five years and helped the Quakers to a perfect 10–0 record and an Ivy League championship in 1993.  Foley was the offensive line coach for Williams College in 1994.  Foley spent the 1998 season as the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach at Jacksonville University, the first time the university sponsored a football. His Dolphin offense averaged 380 passing yards (190 passing, 190 rushing) and 30.1 points per game.

Fordham
Foley coached the Fordham Rams for seven seasons, including two seasons as head coach. As Fordham's offensive coordinator and offensive line coach, Foley helped rejuvenate a program that won the Patriot League championship in 2002 with a 10–3 record.

In 2000, Foley's offense established a running game that set a team record for most rushing yards in a single (1,635 yards, an average of 149 per game). In 2001, the Fordham offense had its first 1,000-yard rusher and first-ever 1,000-yard receiver on the NCAA Division I-AA level. That year Rams had the second-ranked passing offense in the Patriot League and the second-best scoring offense as well.

In 2002, Fordham led the Patriot League in passing and scoring offense, while finishing second in total offense, and setting a team record for most points in a season. In addition to winning the Patriot League title, the Rams advanced to the NCAA I-AA Playoffs, where they defeated the Northeastern Huskies in the first round.

In 2003, six members of the Rams offense were named to the All-Patriot League Team, including four whom were named to the first team. The Rams broke the team record for most rushing yards in a season for the second time in Foley's tenure (1,657 yards), while also setting a school record for most pass completions in a season (255).

As head coach, Foley had a 7–15 record over two seasons with a 4–8 conference record. Foley's short tenure as head coach was due to his poor record and not endearing himself to his players.

Hofstra
Foley spent three seasons at Hofstra University as the assistant head coach, offensive coordinator, and offensive line coach. In his first year as coordinator, the team's total yardage increased from 269 to 388 yards per game and from 16.8 to 26.9 points per game. Foley also brought balance to the Pride attack as Hofstra's rushing total was its highest since 2000 (145 yards/game) and its passing attack netted 243 yards per contest.

Temple
In 2008, Foley joined the Temple coaching staff as the recruiting coordinator, tight ends coach, and assistant offensive line coach. On December 6, 2016, it was announced that Foley will act as interim head coach for Temple at the Military Bowl on December 27, after Matt Rhule was announced to be the new head coach for Baylor. Foley coached Temple in the 2016 Military Bowl. Following the Military Bowl, Foley was retained by Geoff Collins as Temple's tight ends coach. In 2018, Foley was promoted to assistant head coach of offense. On December 7, 2018, Foley was once again named interim head coach of Temple for the 2018 Independence Bowl on December 27, after Collins left for the head coaching job at Georgia Tech.

Carolina Panthers
In 2020 Foley was hired as the assistant special teams coach for the Carolina Panthers under head coach Matt Rhule. The Panthers dismissed Foley from the team on October 10, 2022, following the dismissal of Rhule after the 5th game of their 2022 season.

Nebraska
In 2022, Foley joined the Nebraska Cornhuskers coaching staff as the special teams coordinator and assistant offensive line coach.

Personal
Foley is married and has three children. His brother, Glenn Foley, played as a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) from 1994 to 1999. His father, Ed Sr., was a quarterback at Boston College from 1963 to 1965.

Head coaching record

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External links
 Temple profile

1967 births
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My name is Veronika River and I am a singer/songwriter living and working in Los Angeles, CA. I tend to write songs in the Dance/EDM genre with a pop twist. There are many singers I am influenced by, including Sia, Lady Gaga, Adele, Bebe Rexha, and Tove Lo. I am originally from Birmingham, AL, and studied music at Interlochen Arts Academy and The Juilliard School. I have three self produced tracks out, and several collaborations with DJs/Producers from around the globe. You can follow me on SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/veronikariver) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/veronika.river/) to keep in touch for the latest updates on me, my music, and daily life.
Also, here are all the genres I listen to and have been a fan of forever: blues, rock, indie, folk, dance, EDM, hip-hop, pop, electronic, house, country, classical, and R&B. There is very little I will be adverse to listening to, as long as the message in the lyrics has a deep meaning and the production is well done - I am interested to hear it.
Singers that get me inspired include Sia, Adele, Tove Lo, Zara Larsson, Gwen Stefani, Demi Lovato, Rihanna, Miley Cyrus, Bebe Rexha, Lorde, Selena Gomez, Dua Lipa, Lana Del Rey, Kesha, Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, Halsey, Ed Sheeran, Bruno Mars, Sam Smith, P!nk, Alessia Cara (how many more can I list)?! LOL! Seriously - there are so many talented artists out there to get excited about.
Long story short (not really, this is very long) - my style has evolved and focused more towards Dance music with a Pop sensibility. I strive to write ear warms as much as possible. However, my tone has been compared to many folk/R&B/Blues singers and even has a little Rock edge in the higher range. I think this is due to growing up in Alabama and all the Areosmith and AC/DC my Dad jammed out to when I was a young child.
Lots of cool music is out right now and more is about to drop by moi in collaboration with some incredibly talented DJs/Producers!
This literally dropped out on Monday of this week!!!
I am a superfan of Sia for sure. I think she is the best singer/songwriter in the world right now. Her song "Chandelier" just cracked me in half when I heard it the first time. Her high range is powerful and yet vulnerable all at the same time. It is very emotional to listen to her music. It literally can bring me to tears. I would die to meet her or work with her one day. It would probably be awkward, but I would try to pull myself together enough to speak to her. I have also seen some rare interviews of her on TV, and respect her as a person so much. She doesn't seem like a diva singer at all. The fact that she wears a wig and covers her face is just amazing. She is also not in her music videos - and I like that a lot. I am also not in my three recent music videos, probably because of her.
I think I over produced a lot of my early work. I would encourage producers to have simple tracks. Do not go crazy with 40 different instruments in a song. It won't come through in the mix anyway - so do not waste too much time on that.
I have been contacted from my ReverbNation page for many gigs. I highly recommend creating an account there and adding all your music.
I am very active on Instagram and it has been the number one way for me to promote. Plus, I have met amazing DJs/Producers on that platform. It has literally changed my life for the better.
My biggest challenge is balancing life right now, so I can spend enough time on all my music. I have so many songs lined up to write at the moment, and I tend to take a few weeks to write just one song. Hopefully in the future I can increase my speed because I hate to leave people waiting on me.
Spotify and AppleMusic playlists and radio stations are the main way. I also have a Dot, so Amazon Music will recommend new music to me in different genres I am interested in.
"I usually add the songs I like in my AppleMusic and Spotify playlists. Plus, I have been reaching out to the Artists on Instagram and Twitter to tell them I like their music.
In terms of songwriting - you need to have a clear idea of what your song is about. Then use this as the inspiration for the entire song all the way through from verse, pre-chorus to chorus.
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Dylan Pereira Takes the Lead in 2020 Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup
Published on Monday, 13 Jul 2020 11:57 by JCA
Dylan Pereira; Credit: © Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup, Spielberg 2020
Luxembourg racing driver Dylan Pereira had taken the lead in the 2020 Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup after winning the second race of the season in Spielberg in Austria over the weekend.
Dylan Pereira was the fastest in free practice, stood out in timed practice and won the second race of the season during the second weekend on the Red Bull Ring circuit. Despite bad weather all day on Saturday, which forced the postponement of the qualifying session to Sunday morning, just a few hours before the race, the Luxembourger was confident from the start.
The week before the race, Dylan Pereira and his team had analysed the first race and adjusted the parameters of the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup.
In the second part of the free practice tests over the weekend, the Luxembourger had a perfect lap and set the fastest time. The timed practice sessions, which were rescheduled from Saturday afternoon to Sunday morning due to heavy rain, Dylan Pereira warmed up his tyres, tested the limits and set the fastest time before returning to the pit for the final adjustments and the tyre change. Back on the track, the last few minutes of qualification were hotly contested; the Luxembourger had some grip difficulties, but, despite this, he obtained 3rd place for the starting grid.
In the race itself, Dylan Pereira got off to an excellent start, immediately moving to 2nd place and, on the second lap, he made a spectacular overtaking, with two wheels on the grass, and took the lead. Round after round, he took advantage of his opponents, winning the race almost four seconds ahead of the 2nd place winner.
Following this successful second round of the championship, Luxembourg's Minister of Sports Dan Kersch congratulated Dylan Pereira on his "superb victory" and wished him continued success for the remainder of the season.
The Luxembourg racing driver will return to competition next week, from 17 to 19 July 2020, for the third race of the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup in Budapest, which opens the Hungarian Grand Prix of Formula 1.
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Emily Lupton graduated from the University of Lincoln in 2014 with a degree in Journalism. She worked for Wonkhe as Graduate Editor for a year before moving onto other journalistic pursuits.
With the last session over the HESPA Annual Conference 2015 draws to a close. Thank you to HESPA for a brilliant two days of sessions, panels and workshops.
Dr Christine Couper wraps up our last session explain that Dr Jan-Martin Lowendahl, Gartner Research, has offered to come back and do a three hour worksop for a small group of planners.
"it's really important for institutions to understand that there is no 'one size fits all'" Dr Jan-Martin Lowendahl, Gartner Research.
Dr Jan-Martin Lowendahl, Gartner Research, lists the top 10 business trends – what is the job to get done?
Student success: even before research. Student success trumps student experience.
Competency-based education: connected to reinventing credits, we need to be able to educate quickly at lower cost.
Dr Jan-Martin Lowendahl, Gartner Research, tells the story of LiveMocha the free online language learning tool, which successfully brought together native speakers and language learners across the world.
Dr Jan-Martin Lowendahl, Gartner Research, is explaining the education digitisation-digitalisation dimension, mentioning that CD's created Napster from this we have iTunes, but the really new ways of doing this are Spotify or Pandora. 'Subscribing' to music is the new thing.
Dr Jan-Martin Lowendahl, Gartner Research, opens by mentioning Gartner's 2014 Hype Cycle for education, "Its a toolbox for me for the next five to ten years." We need to manage the situation of risk and cost.
You can't possibly put everything on there that young so I tend to use trends.
Using alternate future scenarios to visualize and concretize future options is a proven method for informing institutional strategy. Gartner has developed four business model scenarios, and predicts winning and losing higher education models through 2025 and beyond, compared with 2014.
The next question asks panelists to address the Scottish question, highlighting the upcoming Scottish election.
Our panelists now answer questions from the audience, the first of which asks if some important things are overshadowed in the excited ru up to the election.
Graeme Wise, NUS, begins explaining that he will be mainly talking about young people and their approach to higher education.
Students are changing, explains Wise, stating that students now were around under Tony Blair, saw 9/11 as five year olds and have grown along with technology.
"Consumer rights are for grown ups – they are so uncool", Wise says, but that does not mean that you can get away with treating them unfairly, or worse not listening to them.
Wise suggests that there will be no legislation on higher education in the next parliament, the next government Wise believes will be a minority not a coalition.
Wise warns that the students coming in will be bound to be uncertain about what they can say and who they may offend.
Goddard suggests that she things a coalition may be in place following May's election. She asks, "What if the conservatives were the biggest single party and if they went into coalition with UKIP?" This would lead to an EU referendum. Although the chances of this happening might be small they would be profound.
One answer is international students, but there is competition from other overseas providers and between alternative providers and providers of online learning.
Goddard states that as the world gets higher, demand for higher education is likely to grow.
Mark Leach, Wonkhe, gives a short history of the Labour party and their position on higher education funding, beginning in 2010 with the tense mood around university fees. It was critical that Labour took home the voters that fled the Liberal Democrats after their fee promise debacle so they promised £6k fees.
The policy was put in the freezer once it was realised that the coalition would last their term.
If fees were reduced to £6k, it was never the intention not to replace the missing 30 per cent, it would be made up in some way.
Along this journey, options narrowed for labours routes to announcing a new policy. Promising a graduate tax sounds quite good and could actually mean anything.
It's now pretty clear what Labour is going to do, depending on your perspective it's good and bad. there won't be an announcement until the GE campaign. I suspect that the position of Labour has hardened and they are going to announce the retail offer that they will introduce £6k fees and they will introduce a graduate tax by the end of the next parliament. There will be a review directed at implementing a graduate tax. About £5bn needs to be found from the BIS budget.
Nick Hillman, HEPI, mentions the upcoming election and discusses the unknowns for post May higher education.
Hillman also talks about HEPI's new book, "What do I get?" a collection of 10 essays on student fees, student engagement and student choice.
Hillman gives lessons learnt from the book, saying that, "students and policy makers would all benefit from knowing where fees are going." Students would feel more value for money.
Those working in higher education in the UK over the next few years will face challenges which are perhaps unprecedented in their lifetime. For example: government spending cuts will continue for years to come, bringing a real threat to university funding streams; the system of student loans is not sustainable and needs significant reform; the whole legislative framework is out of date and needs a major overhaul; and dynamic market forces are threatening the traditional business models, and perhaps even the very existence, of some universities.
How are institutions to weather such a storm? What should they do to ensure they emerge from the turmoil with an even clearer sense of direction?
Ministering Theresa Bauer, Baden Wurttemberg, responds to the question saying that competition gives students the opportunity to differentiate between institutions but this shouldn't be the only mechanism.
Why a mass system? "quality, equity, economic benefits. Graduates are more likely to be engaged in society, more likely to vote." Gordon McKenzie, BIS.
Lucy Hodson opens our first session today which looks at: What constitutes a world-class education system? How do we create world-class Higher Education systems in a globally competitive environment?
"A truly world-class system of higher education is not about producing a handful of world- leading, research-intensive universities; rather, it should produce graduates able to succeed in the labour market, fuel personal, social and economic development and contribute positively to civil society." Discuss.
Welcome to day two of the HESPA Annual Conference 2015. Following this morning's workshops we will be live blogging today's sessions which are as follows.
10.30 – 11.30: What constitutes a world-class education system? How do we create world-class Higher Education systems in a globally competitive environment?
It's time for drinks and dinner to round up day one of the HESPA Annual Conference 2015. Join us tomorrow for coverage of day two.
Come and find us at drinks or dinner of your very own Wonkhe badge!
Dr Christine Couper, University of Greenwich wraps up our last session mentioning that HESA are hoping to have a webinar toward the end of March.
That concludes the sessions for today. Join us tomorrow for sessions on world-class education, higher education policy and digitalisation.
There are two big things emerging. There is a conversation going on around governance – how do you oversee such a huge range of organisations collecting data, how might it work, how will it achieve buy-in and mandate? What will it involve, inventory of collections? Inventory of standard definitions? Universal challenge process?
Andy Youell, HEDIIP, asks Alison Allden, HESA CEO, to give a few words on the HESA CACHED programme.
"This technology has given us incredible power, as human beings and organisations, we can't keep up with it." Andy Youell, HEDIIP.
An audience member states her worry of humans allocating these codes without error.
The proposed new frame work is six numeric digits and the structure itself does not have a hierarchy. There has been working populating a framework, governance and maintenance processes and the consultation launches this month in about two weeks time.
We are putting JACS to one side and starting with a clean sheet of paper – the Subject coding project. The requirements are that it looks at lexicon issues, "we need to bring some clarity to what it is we're trying to code here". There must be a very broad conversation; diverse views and requirements.
Now we take a look at the New Subject Coding System. 'JACS' which was developed in 1996 by four people, two from HESA and two from UCAS. The system was created as a compromise, within the structure there are all sorts of inconsistencies. Since implementation there have been two major revisions. It does not meet the requirements of many stakeholders.
Andy Youell, HEDIIP, talks about the adoption plans for the ULN, mentioning the relationship with the Scottish Candidate Number, "There is a lot of work going on with colleagues in Scotland about how we can bridge the systems".
Moving on to unique learning numbers, Andy Youell, HEDIPP, states one of the problems HEDIIP has at the moment is that every system uses its own student identifier, "The bottom line is it's a lot, and it's a mess" and they all come together in HEI systems. It's a barrier to data sharing and linking systems.
In the next break, why not go and visit our very wonky friends at Economic Modelling Specialists (EMSI) in the exhibition area – they provide labour market data, workforce intelligence and other important tools for wonks.
HEDIPP conducted a review of student data collection, looking at a third of the 93 organisations they had identified, "There were some horror stories".
Andy Youell, HEDIIP gives a few words on HEDIPP. One of the big problems we came upon when we were established was that there was no place we could go to ask "who does all the data collections?" The first thing we did was create an inventory of data collections, there are now 523 separate he data collections and 93 organisations collecting student data every year.
Andy Youell, HEDIIP, lists the challenges of data collection, first the, "absolute lack of coordination amongst those organisations who collect data". We also find all sorts of data capability issues, "there is a lot of work we think we need to do to improve our relationship and help drive the value of data". There is also the senior view, "it's all about the 'burden'". There are big issues out there and there are two things that everybody agrees on – "it is not how we would want it to be, and it is somebody else's fault".
Adoption of the ULN in Higher Education will be a key step in creating a more coherent and coordinated HE information landscape.
There is a break now before the final session of the day which will be Question Time: Looking at the Changing Information Landscape at 16.30.
Need to flexible and opportunistic: The overton window is the opportunity you have to deliver a policy, what the electoral will tolorate.
Rational argument is necessary but not sufficient: It will give you a ticket in but only that.
Paul Clark, UUK, choses the UK Cyber security Strategy as his second case study for open policy making. HMG aims: "make the uK the safest place in the world to do business in cyber-space".
There were some genuine challenges, on one hand a department would want to protect IP while another would want open access to research findings. In an open and collaborative spirit of policy making we tried to work through these and come up with a sensible policy.
Paul Clark, UUK, moves on to the first of two case studies in policy making, Academic Health Science network (AHSNs), part of government's Innovation, Health and Wealth agenda (IHW).
There were 15 AHSNs developed through a competitive process and there was an initial process of collaboration between DH, UUK, NHS confederation and TSB industry partners with a promise of £5m per AHSM per annum.
There were competing agendas: the treasury weren't interested as it wouldn't create jobs.
Cultural issues and decision making: Between the university sector and the health sector there was a very different way of resolving conflict, where the health sector was very aggressive and confrontational and the university sector was more backhanded.
Personal relationships were incredibly important: having a personal relationship is the most important thing, picking up the phone and being able to talk to somebody, it always gets stuff done.
Clark uses George Bush as an example for Ethos and Al Gore for Logos in Gore vs. Bush 2000.
Moving on to persuasion, Paul Clark, UUK, "The skills of persuasion and negotiation are critical in policy making". Analysis, evidence and rational argument will be your ticket in, but it will only give you the entry ticket to have a discussion. Communication skills, audience, politics and opportunity are almost more important.
Improvements in digital technology: Information is much more freely available, more transparency about what the government does and what their policies are.
Increased transparency: giving information almost in real time.
More pluralistic society: More voices to be heard, very difficult to define as a one size fits all.
Paul Clark, UUK, talks about open policy making which there has been a shift towards in recent years. While there is no agreed definition, Clark would characterise open policy making by the following.
Paul Clark, UUK, begins by listing his his policy making tools.
That concludes this mornings sessions, we will be back after lunch at 14.30 when today's workshops begin.
Sir Eric Thomas, University of Bristol gives actions that university leaders can take.
Leadership: It's about global becoming the daily discourse in university, forming the basis of all decisions. Leaders should also ensure that they are connected to the global education agenda.
Faculty engagement and champions: Clearly they have to see the added value. Key opinion formers among your faculty are crucial here.
Internationalise the student body: If there is not a diverse student body they cannot consider themselves to be global. Make decisions on the number of international students.The language you teach your courses in is an important issue.
Extending the reach: Student and staff mobility arrangements, joint ventures with overseas partners and new campuses overseas. Both national and sub-global networks will assist with globalisation. There are also four global networks; if you can demonstrate that that network is giving you real added value, then join it. If you want to keep the identity of your parent university very strong, it is probably best to not open an overseas campus. Opening an overseas campus has many benefits as well as risks.
A clear brand with internatinoal recognition: There are very few universities whose brand would be known across the world by everyday people. Your brand should be easily recognised, there should be a number of disciplines in your university with global recognition among peers.
Comprehensive excellence: A global university must provide state of the art facilities and should be independent and have excellent leadership and governance.
Innovative global research: Without it a university cannot claim to be global. Global research is not just more connectivity, it is the size of the endeavour, the partners, the questions which will differentiate it from other research.
An international curriculum with global dissemination: A global university will have global distribution of it's material. The arrival of MOOCS has to some extent changed all that with many online courses receiving tens of thousands of registration, outnumbering the students studying at the university.
Impacting on global policy formulation: Academic staff will be advising global institutions.
Universities across the globe will have to think about using English in their teaching and research. "English is now the global language of communication, I regard that as simply factual." – Sir Eric Thomas, University of Bristol.
Students are already thinking global when exploring university courses. There is an unmet demand for higher education globally, "I have no doubt that students will travel for their postgraduate education, particularly doctoral." says Sir Eric Thomas, University of Bristol.
Moving onto the implications of globalisation, Sir Eric Thomas, University of Bristol, makes the point that all universities face increased competition; competition for students, competition for staff and now increased competition for research and for new sources of income. Thomas mentions the new global league tables stating that they do have the power to sway student opinions. These tables are relatively consistent with American universities leading the board and UK universities coming in second.
Sir Eric Thomas, University of Bristol, begins by talking about the 2014 REF and the following reaction where almost every university described themselves as 'world class' – "It has become meaningless". The surge of self proclaiming 'world class' universities begs the question – what defines a global university on 2015?
Our next session is What defines a global university? Sir Eric Thomas, Vice-Chancellor, University of Bristol. Chaired by Dr Craig Hutchinson-Howorth, Director of Strategic Planning, Edge Hill University.
Sir Ian Diamond, University of Aberdeen, moves on to open data mentioning the University of southampton as a university doing it right. "There is a huge amount that we can do with open data".
"We need to be able to be effective at sharing equipment" says Sir Ian Diamond, University of Aberdeen, and suggests that sharing enhances research: the phd students work together. But Diamond warns that sharing one piece of equipment rather than two does not half the cost.
Sir Ian Diamond, University of Aberdeen, talks about shared services mentioning that Jisc is the biggest cost sharing group in the UK. "I think what they're doing is just fantastic".
Sir Ian Diamond, University of Aberdeen lists; Procurement, IT, Shared Services and Streamlining as main areas to help save money.
Sir Ian Diamond, University of Aberdeen, discusses his annoyance at the term 'Universities are awash with cash' and the thought that universities have got away and avoided the spending cuts. – This is not profit, this is serious money that is being reinvested in the business in order to be able to drive the student experience but that message hasn't got out.
Sir Ian Diamond, University of Aberdeen, mentions the impending 2016 elections in both Scotland and Wales.
Sir Ian Diamond, University of Aberdeen asks "is the future rosy?" – No. No good news for public finance, post election, both Labour and conservatives are committed to reducing spending it will become ever more difficult to maintain the research budget that we have.
Diamond does suggest there is good news for students coming from abroad and that Labour may remove international students from immigration numbers.
Sir Ian Diamond, University of Aberdeen, discusses pressures on teaching costs stating that teaching costs have actually remained relatively low over the last few years during the recession, but they will rise.
Our first session begins: Higher Education: some challenges for planning and planners Professor Sir Ian Diamond, Vice-Chancellor, University of Aberdeen, Chaired by Rona Smith, Deputy Director of Strategy & Policy, University of Strathclyde.
Over the next few years it is likely that higher education policy will continue to be highly fluid. This talk will look at some of the challenges and argue that the need for good planning has never been greater.
John Forshaw, Director of Planning, University of Salford welcomes the delegates and introduces the conference.
The delegates are arriving as the day begins. Highlights for the day are below, or download HESPA 2015 Conference Brochure.
12.00-13.00 What defines a global university?
The conference will be followed by drinks and dinner in the evening.


2. Open the FileList.xml which contains definitions and descriptions of vendor specific functions. Notice that the first part of the file name is the database name and the second part is Tree.xml and Strings_<lang>.xml.
For example, for SQL Server there is a SQLServerTree.xml definition file and SQLServerStrings_en.xml description file. The *Tree.xml files contains the definition of the functions and the *String_<lang>.xml contains the description, tips, and help used in C10's UI.
Notice that for each *Tree.xml there are usually four *String_<lang>.xml files for each of the supported languages (SQLServerStrings_en.xml, SQLServerStrings_fr.xml, etc.). FileList.xml is where you define which language description file you would like to use.
3. To add a new function to Framework Manager open SQLServerTree.xml (If a SQL Server function is required) in an XML editor.
a. Find the </datasourceQueryType> tag.
If the function does not require parameters, the <parameter> tags can be omitted. If the function requires more than one parameter each parameter is defined in a separate <parameter><type>…</type></parameter> tag.
4. After defining the function, you can add the description, if required. Open SQLStrings_en.xml file in an XML editor.
Notice that the function is referenced by an id and therefore the id should match the id in SQLServerTree.xml file. The id in our sample is sql_avg.
5. Now restart the Cognos services.
7. Click the blue arrow in the right hand corner to test the function. Et voilà!


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Spider Sports Recap | Week of November 15-21
By Kayla O'Connell | November 26, 2021
The women's basketball team beat University of Maryland, Baltimore County with a score of 76-64, improving this year's record to 2-2.
Spider Sports Recap: 2021 women's lacrosse spring season
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After 11 months of no competition, the Spiders opened up their season with a 19-10 win over Radford.
Spider Sports Recap: Week of Feb. 22-28
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Senior Brooke Fazio finished first in the 800m, turning in a flat track time of 2:05.70.
Women's tennis gains four new players
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The first years on the team are Carly Cohen, Annika Juergens, Sara Salemyr and Polina Shitikova. These players have a variety of skills to bring to the team.
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\section{Introduction}

Given a closed, connected, orientable surface $S$, the associated \emph{curve graph}, $\C(S)$, has as vertex set the set of isotopy classes of essential
simple closed curves in $S$, with an edge between two distinct vertices if the corresponding isotopy classes have representatives that are disjoint.
The definition is due to Harvey \cite{harvey}.
The curve graph has been a significant tool in the study of mapping class groups, Teichm\"uller spaces and hyperbolic 3\hyp{}manifolds.
If $S$ has genus at least 2, $\C(S)$ is connected, and Masur and Minsky showed in \cite{mm1} that it has infinite diameter and is hyperbolic in the sense of Gromov.
More recently, it was shown in independent proofs by Aougab \cite{aouhyp}, Bowditch \cite{bowhyp}, Clay, Rafi and Schleimer \cite{crs} and Hensel, Przytycki and Webb \cite{hpw} that the constant of hyperbolicity can be chosen to be independent of the surface $S$.

When $S$ is a boundary component of a compact, orientable 3-manifold $M$, we can consider the subset of the vertex set of $\C(S)$ which consists of those curves which bound embedded discs in $M$.
Equivalently, by Dehn's lemma, these are the essential simple closed curves in $S$ which are homotopically trivial in $M$.
The \emph{disc graph}, $\D(M, S)$, is the full subgraph spanned by these vertices.
This has applications to the study of handlebody groups and Heegaard splittings.
In a further paper of Masur and Minsky \cite{mm3}, it was proved that $\D(M, S)$ is $K$\hyp{}quasiconvex in $\C(S)$ (see Section 2 for a definition), for some $K$ depending only on the genus of $S$.
The proof relies on a study of nested train track sequences.
More specifically, to any pair of vertices of $\D(M, S)$, Masur and Minsky associate a sequence of curves in $\D(M, S)$, and a nested train track sequence whose vertex cycles are close in $\C(S)$ to the curves of this sequence.
They prove that the sets of vertex cycles of nested train track sequences are quasiconvex in $\C(S)$, and the result follows.

This result was improved by Aougab, who showed in \cite{aou} that the constants of quasiconvexity for nested train track sequences can be taken to be quadratic in the complexity of the surface, obtaining as a corollary that there exists a function $K(g)=O(g^2)$ such that $\D(M, S)$ is $K(g)$\hyp{}quasiconvex in $\C(S)$, where $g$ is the genus of $S$.
That this bound can be taken to be uniform in the genus of $S$ follows from work of Hamenst\"adt \cite{hamdiscs}.
In Section 3 of \cite{hamdiscs}, it is shown that the sets of vertex cycles of train track splitting sequences give unparametrised quasigeodesics in $\C(S)$ with constants independent of the surface $S$.
Along with the uniform hyperbolicity of the curve graphs, this implies that such subsets are uniformly quasiconvex in $\C(S)$.
In this note, we give a direct proof of the uniform quasiconvexity of $\D(M, S)$ in $\C(S)$, without using train tracks.

\begin{theorem} \label{uniform}
There exists $K$ such that, for any compact, orientable 3-manifold $M$ and boundary component $S$ of $M$, the disc graph, $\D(M, S)$, is $K$-quasiconvex in $\C(S)$.
\end{theorem}

For the main case, where the genus of $S$ is at least 2, this uses an observation that the disc surgeries of \cite{mm3} give a path of ``bicorn curves'', as described by Przytycki and Sisto in \cite{przs}.
These were introduced by analogy with the ``unicorn arcs'' of \cite{hpw} in order to give a short surgery proof of the uniform hyperbolicity of the curve graphs.
The lower genus case is straight-forward, and is discussed in Section \ref{low genus}.

\subsubsection*{Acknowledgements.} I am grateful to my supervisor, Brian Bowditch, for many helpful discussions and suggestions.
I would also like to thank Francesca Iezzi and Saul Schleimer for interesting conversations.
This work was supported by an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Doctoral Award.

\section{Preliminaries} \label{prelim}

A simple closed curve in a surface $S$ is said to be \emph{essential} if it does not bound a disc in $S$.
We will assume from now on that all curves are essential simple closed curves.
Two curves, $\alpha$ and $\beta$, intersecting transversely, are in \emph{minimal position} if the number of their intersection points is minimal over all pairs $\alpha'$, $\beta'$ isotopic to $\alpha$, $\beta$ respectively.
This is equivalent to the condition that $\alpha$ and $\beta$ do not form a bigon, that is, an embedded disc in $S$ whose boundary is a union of one arc of each of $\alpha$ and $\beta$.
Abusing notation, we shall also denote the isotopy class of a curve $\alpha$ by $\alpha$.
The intersection number, $i(\alpha, \beta)$, is the number of intersections between representatives of the isotopy classes of $\alpha$ and $\beta$ which are in minimal position.

If $Y$ is a subset of a geodesic metric space $X$, we denote the closed $K$\hyp{}neighbourhood of $Y$ in $X$ by $N_X(Y, K)$.
We say that $Y$ is \emph{$K$-quasiconvex} in $X$ if, for any two points $y$ and $y'$ in $Y$, any geodesic in $X$ joining $y$ and $y'$ is contained within $N_X(Y, K)$.
The metric on the curve graph, $\C(S)$, is given by setting each edge to have length 1, and we denote the distance between vertices $\alpha$ and $\beta$ by $d_S(\alpha, \beta)$.
This makes $\C(S)$ into a geodesic metric space.

Given two curves $\alpha$ and $\beta$ in minimal position, a \emph{bicorn curve} between $\alpha$ and $\beta$ is a curve constructed from one arc $a$ of $\alpha$ and one arc $b$ of $\beta$ such that $a$ and $b$ meet precisely at their endpoints (see Figure \ref{bicorns} and \cite{przs}).
Since $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are in minimal position, all bicorn curves between them will be essential, as otherwise $\alpha$ and $\beta$ would form a bigon.

\begin{figure}[h!]
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.35\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{llcurve3}
\end{subfigure}
\qquad
\begin{subfigure}[b]{0.35\textwidth}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{lrcurve3}
\end{subfigure}
\caption{Examples of bicorn curves.}
\label{bicorns}
\end{figure}

\section{Exceptional cases} \label{low genus}

Let $M$ be a compact, orientable 3\hyp{}manifold.
If a boundary component $S$ has genus at most one then the associated disc graph, $\D(M, S)$, is very simple.
Firstly, since there are no essential simple closed curves on the sphere, the curve graph of the sphere is empty, so we can ignore any sphere boundary components.
We shall see that for a torus boundary component $S$, $\D(M, S)$ contains at most one vertex.

The curve graph of the torus contains infinitely many vertices, but, with the definition given above, is not connected, since any non-isotopic curves must intersect.
We instead use a standard modification and define two vertices to be adjacent if they have representative curves which intersect exactly once.
The resulting graph is the \emph{Farey graph}, which is connected.

Suppose $S$ is a torus boundary component of the 3\hyp{}manifold $M$.
Suppose an essential curve $\delta$ in $S$ bounds an embedded disc $D$ in $M$.
Take a closed regular neighbourhood $N$ of $S \cup D$ in $M$.
This is homeomorphic to a solid torus with an open ball removed.
Suppose some other curve $\delta'$ in $S$ bounds an embedded disc $D'$ in $M$.
We can assume that $D'$ intersects the sphere boundary component of $N$ transversely in simple closed curves.
Repeatly performing surgeries along innermost discs to reduce the number of such curves eventually gives a disc with boundary $\delta'$ which is completely contained in $N$.
Therefore, an essential curve in $S$ bounds an embedded disc in $M$ if and only if it bounds an embedded disc in $N$.
In $S$, there is, up to isotopy, no curve other than $\delta$ which bounds an embedded disc in $N$, since such a curve must be trivial in the first homology group of $N$.
We hence find that for any torus boundary component $S$, $\D(M, S)$ is at most a single point.
In this case, $\D(M, S)$ is convex in the curve graph of $S$.

\section{Proof of the main result}

Now let $S$ be a boundary component of genus at least 2 of a compact, orientable $3$\hyp{}manifold $M$, and $\mathcal{D}(M, S)$ the associated disc graph.

The following criterion for hyperbolicity appears in several places in slightly different forms, for example as Theorem 3.15 of \cite{ms}.
For our purposes, the important result is the final clause on Hausdorff distances, which appears in the statement of Proposition 3.1 of \cite{bowhyp}.

This criterion is used in \cite{przs} to show that the curve graphs of closed surfaces of genus at least 2 are uniformly hyperbolic.

\begin{proposition} \label{criterion}
For all $h \ge 0$, there exist $k$ and $R$ such that the following holds.
Let $G$ be a connected graph with vertex set $V(G)$.
Suppose that for every \mbox{$x, y \in V(G)$} there is a connected subgraph \mbox{$\mathcal{L}(x, y) \subseteq G$,} containing $x$ and $y$, with the following properties:
\begin{enumerate}
\item for any $x, y \in V(G)$ with $d_G(x, y) \le 1$, the diameter of $\mathcal{L}(x, y)$ in $G$ is at most $h$,
\item for all $x, y, z \in V(G)$, $\mathcal{L}(x, y) \subseteq N_G(\mathcal{L}(x, z) \cup \mathcal{L}(y, z), h)$.
\end{enumerate}
Then $G$ is $k$-hyperbolic.
Furthermore, for all $x, y \in V(G)$, the Hausdorff distance between $\mathcal{L}(x, y)$ and any geodesic from $x$ to $y$ is at most $R$.
\end{proposition}

We first note that a slightly more general statement is true.

\begin{claim} \label{coarsely connected}
The requirement that each $\mathcal{L}(x, y)$ be connected can be replaced by the weaker condition that there exist $h'$ such that, for all $x, y \in V(G)$, $N_G(\mathcal{L}(x, y), h')$ is connected.
\end{claim}

To see this, suppose subgraphs $\mathcal{L}(x, y)$ satisfy all the hypotheses of Proposition \ref{criterion}, except that the connectedness assumption is replaced as described in the claim.
Define $\mathcal{L}'(x, y) = N_G(\mathcal{L}(x, y), h')$.
This is a connected subgraph of $G$ containing $x$ and $y$.
For any $x, y \in V(G)$ with $d_G(x, y) \le 1$, the diameter of $\mathcal{L}'(x, y)$ in $G$ is at most $h+2h'$, and for any $x, y, z \in V(G)$, $\mathcal{L}'(x, y) \subseteq N_G(\mathcal{L}'(x, z) \nolinebreak \cup \nolinebreak \mathcal{L}'(y, z), \nolinebreak h)$.
Hence, the conclusion of Proposition \ref{criterion} holds, except with constants now depending on $h$ and $h'$, proving Claim \ref{coarsely connected}.

Given two curves $\alpha$ and $\beta$ in $S$, we shall define $\Theta(\alpha, \beta)$ to be the set containing the isotopy classes of $\alpha$, $\beta$ and all bicorn curves between $\alpha$ and $\beta$.

Przytycki and Sisto define in \cite{przs} an ``augmented curve graph'', $\C_{aug}(S)$, where two curves are adjacent if they intersect at most twice.
Such curves cannot fill $S$ (which has genus at least 2) so are at distance at most 2 in $\C(S)$.
Given two curves $\alpha$ and $\beta$ in minimal position, $\eta(\alpha, \beta)$ is defined in \cite{przs} to be the full subgraph of $\mathcal{C}_{aug}(S)$ spanned by $\Theta(\alpha, \beta)$.
This is shown to be connected for all $\alpha$ and $\beta$.
It is further verified that the hypotheses of Proposition \ref{criterion} are satisfied when $G$ is $\C_{aug}(S)$, $\mathcal{L}(\alpha, \beta)$ is $\eta(\alpha, \beta)$ for each $\alpha$, $\beta$, and $h$ is 1, independently of the surface \nolinebreak $S$.

Since $\eta(\alpha, \beta)$ is connected, for any $\gamma, \gamma' \in \Theta(\alpha, \beta)$, there is a sequence $\gamma=\gamma_0, \gamma_1, \dots, \gamma_n=\gamma'$ of curves in $\Theta(\alpha, \beta)$, where $d_S(\gamma_{i-1}, \gamma_i) \le 2$ for each $1 \nolinebreak \le \nolinebreak i \le \nolinebreak n$.
Hence, $N_{\C(S)}(\Theta(\alpha, \beta), 1)$ is a connected subgraph of $\C(S)$.
Moreover, if $d_S(\alpha, \beta) \le 1$, then $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are disjoint, so $\Theta(\alpha, \beta)$ contains no other curves and its diameter in $\C(S)$ is at most 1.
Finally, since $\eta(\alpha, \beta) \subset N_{\C_{aug}(S)}(\eta(\alpha, \delta) \cup \eta(\beta, \delta), 1)$ for any curves $\alpha$, $\beta$, $\delta$, we have $\Theta(\alpha, \beta) \subset N_{\C(S)}(\Theta(\alpha, \delta) \cup \Theta(\beta, \delta), 2)$.

Using Proposition \ref{criterion} with the modification of Claim \ref{coarsely connected}, this proves the following lemma.

\begin{lemma} \label{hausdorff distance}
There exists $R$ such that, for any closed surface $S$ of genus at least 2, and any curves $\alpha$, $\beta$ in $S$, the Hausdorff distance in $\C(S)$ between $\Theta(\alpha, \beta)$ and any geodesic in $\C(S)$ joining $\alpha$ and $\beta$ is at most $R$.
\end{lemma}

We now show that, moreover, any geodesic between $\alpha$ and $\beta$ in $\C(S)$ lies in a uniform neighbourhood of any path within $\Theta(\alpha, \beta)$ connecting $\alpha$ and $\beta$.

\begin{lemma} \label{claim3}
Let $\alpha$, $\beta$ be two curves in $S$, $P(\alpha, \beta)$ a path from $\alpha$ to $\beta$ in $\mathcal{C}(S)$ with all vertices in $\Theta(\alpha, \beta)$, and $g$ a geodesic in $\C(S)$ joining $\alpha$ and $\beta$.
Then $g$ is contained in the $(2R+2)$\hyp{}neighbourhood of $P(\alpha, \beta)$.
\end{lemma}

\begin{proof}
This uses a well known connectedness argument.
From Lemma \ref{hausdorff distance}, $P(\alpha, \beta)$ is contained in $N_{\C(S)}(g, R)$.
Take any vertex $\gamma$ in $g$.
Let $g_0$ be the subpath of $g$ from $\alpha$ to $\gamma$ and $g_1$ the subpath from $\gamma$ to $\beta$.
Then the three sets $N_{\C(S)}(g_0, R+1)$, $N_{\C(S)}(g_1, R+1)$ and $P(\alpha, \beta)$ intersect in at least one vertex, say $\delta$.
Let $\gamma_0$ in $g_0$ and $\gamma_1$ in $g_1$ be such that $d_S(\gamma_0, \delta) \le R+1$ and $d_S(\gamma_1, \delta) \le R+1$.
Now $d_S(\gamma_0, \gamma_1) \le 2R+2$ and $\gamma$ is in the (geodesic) subpath of $g$ from $\gamma_0$ to $\gamma_1$, so $d_S(\gamma, \gamma_i) \le R+1$ for either $i=0$ or $i=1$.
Hence, $d_S(\gamma, \delta) \le 2R+2$.
Since $\gamma$ was an arbitrary vertex in $g$ and $\delta$ is in $P(\alpha, \beta)$, we have $g \subset N_{\C(S)}(P(\alpha, \beta), 2R+2)$.
\end{proof}

Given that $\alpha$ and $\beta$ bound embedded discs in $M$, we now describe how to choose $P(\alpha, \beta)$ so that all curves in the path are also vertices of $\mathcal{D}(M, S)$, following Section 2 of \cite{mm3}.

Assume curves $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are fixed in minimal position and choose a subarc $J \subset \alpha$ containing all points of $\alpha \cap \beta$ in its interior.
Masur and Minsky define several curve replacements, of which we shall need only the following.
A \emph{wave curve replacement} with respect to $(\alpha, \beta, J)$ is the replacement of $\alpha$ and $J$ by $\alpha_1$ and $J_1$ as follows (see Figure \ref{wave}).
Let $w$ be a subarc of $\beta$ with interior disjoint from $\alpha$, and endpoints $p$, $q$ in $J$.
Suppose that $w$ meets the same side of $J$ at both $p$ and $q$; then $w$ is called a \emph{wave}.
Let $J_1$ be the subarc of $J$ with endpoints $p$, $q$.
Define $\alpha_1$ to be the curve $w \cup J_1$.
This is an essential curve since $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are in minimal position, so, in particular, no subarc of $J$ and subarc of $\beta$ can form a bigon.
Where $\text{int}(J) \cap \beta = \emptyset$, we define a curve replacement with respect to $(\alpha, \beta, J)$  by $\alpha_1=\beta$, $J_1=J$.

\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.55\textwidth]{wave3}
\caption{A wave curve replacement. The dashed curve is $\alpha_1$.}
\label{wave}
\end{figure}

\begin{remark}
In \cite{mm3}, it is arranged that $\alpha_1$ and $\beta$ must intersect transversely and be in minimal position by requiring an additional condition on the wave $w$ and by slightly isotoping $w \cup J_1$ to be disjoint from $w$.
However, this will not be necessary here, so we choose to simplify the exposition by removing this condition.
\end{remark}

Notice that since $\alpha$ does not intersect $\text{int}(w)$, $i(\alpha, \alpha_1)=0$.
Moreover, $\alpha_1 \cap \beta$ consists of the arc $w$ and a set of points which are all contained in the interior of $J_1$, and $\lvert \beta \cap \text{int}(J_1) \rvert < \lvert \beta \cap \text{int}(J) \rvert$.

As $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are in minimal position, no subarc of $J_1$ can form a bigon with a subarc of $\beta$, so this process can be iterated.
A \emph{nested curve replacement sequence} is a sequence $\lbrace (\alpha_i, J_i) \rbrace$ of curves $\alpha=\alpha_0, \alpha_1, \dots, \alpha_n$ and subarcs $\alpha \supset J_0 \supset J_1 \supset \dots \supset \nolinebreak J_n$, such that $J_0$ contains all points of $\alpha \cap \beta$, and such that $\alpha_{i+1}$ and $J_{i+1}$ are obtained by a curve replacement with respect to $(\alpha_i, \beta, J_i)$.
We always have $i(\alpha_i, \alpha_{i+1})=0$, as for $\alpha$ and $\alpha_1$.
Observe that all curves $\alpha_i$ in this sequence are bicorn curves between $\alpha$ and $\beta$, since the nested intervals ensure that they are formed from exactly one arc of $\alpha$ and one of $\beta$.

The following is a case of Proposition 2.1 of \cite{mm3}.
We include a proof for completeness, with the minor modification of the slightly different curve replacements.

\begin{proposition} \label{discprop}
Let $S$ be a boundary component of a compact, orientable 3-manifold $M$, and let $\alpha$ and $\beta$ be two curves in $S$ in minimal position, each of which bounds an embedded disc in $M$.
Let $J_0 \subset \alpha$ be a subarc containing all points of $\alpha \cap \beta$.
Then there exists a nested curve replacement sequence $\lbrace (\alpha_i, J_i) \rbrace$, with $\alpha_0=\alpha$, such that:
\begin{itemize}
\item each $\alpha_i$ bounds an embedded disc in $M$,
\item the sequence terminates with $\alpha_n=\beta$.
\end{itemize}
\end{proposition}

\begin{proof}
Suppose that $\alpha$ and $\beta$ bound properly embedded discs $A$ and $B$ respectively.
We can assume that $A$ and $B$ intersect transversely, so their intersection locus is a collection of properly embedded arcs and simple closed curves.
Furthermore, we can remove any simple closed curve components by repeatedly performing surgeries along innermost discs, so that $A$ and $B$ intersect only in properly embedded arcs.
We will perform surgeries on these discs to get a sequence of discs $A_i$ with $\partial A_i = \alpha_i$.
Throughout the surgeries, we will keep $A$ and $B$ fixed, and each $A_i$, except $A_0=A$ and $A_n=B$, will be a union of exactly one subdisc of each of $A$ and $B$.

Suppose the sequence is constructed up to $\alpha_i = \partial A_i$.
If $\beta \cap \alpha_i$ is empty, then $\alpha_{i+1}=\beta = \partial B$ by definition, so the sequence is finished.

\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{discsurgery2}
\caption{The disc surgeries of Proposition \ref{discprop}. The horizontal disc is $A_i$, shown with arcs of intersection with $B$.}
\label{discsurgery}
\end{figure}

Suppose $\beta$ intersects $\alpha_i$ (as illustrated in the example of Figure \ref{discsurgery}).
Let $A_i = D_i \cup E_i$, where $D_i$ is a subdisc of $A$ and $E_i$ is a subdisc of $B$.
If $i=0$, then $E_i$ is empty.
If $i>0$, let $J_i$ be the arc of $\partial D_i$ which is contained in $\partial A_i$.
Any point of intersection of $\beta$ and $J_i$ is an endpoint of an arc of intersection of $B$ and $D_i$.
Let $E_{i+1}$ be a disc in $B$ such that the boundary of $E_{i+1}$ is made up of an arc $e$ in $\text{int}(D_i) \cap B$ and a subarc $w$ of $\beta$, and such that the interior of $E_{i+1}$ is disjoint from $A_i$ (that is, $E_{i+1}$ is an outermost component of $B \setminus (A_i \cap B)$).
This in particular means that the interior of $w$ is disjoint from $\alpha_i$, that the endpoints $p$, $q$ of $w$ lie in the interior of $J_i$, and that $w$ meets the same side of $J_i$ at both of these endpoints, so $w$ is a wave.
Let $J_{i+1}$ be the subarc of $J_i$ with endpoints $p$, $q$.
Let $D_{i+1}$ be the disc in $A_i$ bounded by $e \cup J_{i+1}$.
This disc is contained in $D_i$ and hence in $A$.
The curve $w \cup J_{i+1}$, with interval $J_{i+1}$, is the wave curve replacement $\alpha_{i+1}$ obtained from $(\alpha_i, \beta, J_i)$, and it is also the boundary of the embedded disc $A_{i+1}=D_{i+1} \cup E_{i+1}$.

Since at each stage $\lvert \beta \cap \text{int}(J_i) \rvert$ decreases, this terminates with $\lvert \beta \cap \text{int}(J_{n-1}) \rvert=0$ and \mbox{$\alpha_n=\beta$.}
\end{proof}

This sequence defines the vertices of a path $P(\alpha, \beta)$ in $\C(S)$, with these vertices contained in both $\mathcal{D}(M, S)$ and $\Theta(\alpha, \beta)$.
By Lemma \ref{claim3}, there exists $K$, independent of $S$, $\alpha$ and $\beta$, such that any geodesic $g$ joining $\alpha$ and $\beta$ in $\C(S)$ is contained in the closed $K$\hyp{}neighbourhood of $P(\alpha, \beta)$.
Hence, $g$ is contained in the closed $K$\hyp{}neighbourhood of $\D(M, S)$, completing the proof of Theorem \ref{uniform}.

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White House "will not support" SOPA as it stands
By Stephany Nunneley, Saturday, 14 January 2012 16:15 GMT
The Obama administration has responded to a petition against the SOPA and PIPA bills stating: "any effort to combat online piracy must guard against the risk of online censorship of lawful activity and must not inhibit innovation by our dynamic businesses large and small."
The White House issued its repose due to the We the People petition regarding SOPA and online piracy.
The official statement from the White House said it was important to "avoid creating new cybersecurity risks or disrupting the underlying architecture of the Internet," while at the same time providing prosecutors and rights holders "new legal tools to combat online piracy" originating outside the US.
However, the Oval Office said it will not support any legislation which when implemented , reduced "freedom of expression, increase cybersecurity risk, or undermine the dynamic, innovative global Internet."
The statement says the current administration will continue to work with "all sides" in order to "pass sound legislation" on the matter. It also asked for the public to suggest ideas on "how to clamp down on rogue websites" and other criminals "who make money off the creative efforts of American artists and rights holders."
"We should all be committed to working with all interested constituencies to develop new legal tools to protect global intellectual property rights without jeopardizing the openness of the Internet. Our hope is that you will bring enthusiasm and know-how to this important challenge," the statement continued.
You can read the full statement below, culled from the official White House blog.
Earlier today, it was announced the DNS portion of the SOPA bill had been pulled, and the author of PIPA declared his bill needed more "study" before being put to a vote.
COMBATING ONLINE PIRACY WHILE PROTECTING AN OPEN AND INNOVATIVE INTERNET
By Victoria Espinel, Aneesh Chopra, and Howard Schmidt
The White House has responded to two petitions about legislative approaches to combat online piracy. In their response, Victoria Espinel, Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator at Office of Management and Budget, Aneesh Chopra, U.S. Chief Technology Officer, and Howard Schmidt, Special Assistant to the President and Cybersecurity Coordinator for National Security Staff stress that the important task of protecting intellectual property online must not threaten an open and innovative internet.
Right now, Congress is debating a few pieces of legislation concerning the very real issue of online piracy, including the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), the PROTECT IP Act, and the Online Protection and Digital ENforcement Act (OPEN). We want to take this opportunity to tell you what the Administration will support—and what we will not support. Any effective legislation should reflect a wide range of stakeholders, including everyone from content creators to the engineers that build and maintain the infrastructure of the Internet.
While we believe that online piracy by foreign websites is a serious problem that requires a serious legislative response, we will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet.
Any effort to combat online piracy must guard against the risk of online censorship of lawful activity and must not inhibit innovation by our dynamic businesses large and small. Across the globe, the openness of the Internet is increasingly central to innovation in business, government, and society and it must be protected. To minimize this risk, new legislation must be narrowly targeted only at sites beyond the reach of current U.S. law, cover activity clearly prohibited under existing U.S. laws, and be effectively tailored, with strong due process and focused on criminal activity. Any provision covering Internet intermediaries such as online advertising networks, payment processors, or search engines must be transparent and designed to prevent overly broad private rights of action that could encourage unjustified litigation that could discourage startup businesses and innovative firms from growing.
We must avoid creating new cybersecurity risks or disrupting the underlying architecture of the Internet. Proposed laws must not tamper with the technical architecture of the Internet through manipulation of the Domain Name System (DNS), a foundation of Internet security. Our analysis of the DNS filtering provisions in some proposed legislation suggests that they pose a real risk to cybersecurity and yet leave contraband goods and services accessible online. We must avoid legislation that drives users to dangerous, unreliable DNS servers and puts next-generation security policies, such as the deployment of DNSSEC, at risk.
Let us be clear—online piracy is a real problem that harms the American economy, threatens jobs for significant numbers of middle class workers and hurts some of our nation's most creative and innovative companies and entrepreneurs. It harms everyone from struggling artists to production crews, and from startup social media companies to large movie studios. While we are strongly committed to the vigorous enforcement of intellectual property rights, existing tools are not strong enough to root out the worst online pirates beyond our borders. That is why the Administration calls on all sides to work together to pass sound legislation this year that provides prosecutors and rights holders new legal tools to combat online piracy originating beyond U.S. borders while staying true to the principles outlined above in this response. We should never let criminals hide behind a hollow embrace of legitimate American values.
This is not just a matter for legislation. We expect and encourage all private parties, including both content creators and Internet platform providers working together, to adopt voluntary measures and best practices to reduce online piracy.
So, rather than just look at how legislation can be stopped, ask yourself: Where do we go from here? Don't limit your opinion to what's the wrong thing to do, ask yourself what's right. Already, many members of Congress are asking for public input around the issue. We are paying close attention to those opportunities, as well as to public input to the Administration. The organizer of this petition and a random sample of the signers will be invited to a conference call to discuss this issue further with Administration officials and soon after that, we will host an online event to get more input and answer your questions. Details on that will follow in the coming days.
Washington needs to hear your best ideas about how to clamp down on rogue websites and other criminals who make money off the creative efforts of American artists and rights holders. We should all be committed to working with all interested constituencies to develop new legal tools to protect global intellectual property rights without jeopardizing the openness of the Internet. Our hope is that you will bring enthusiasm and know-how to this important challenge.
Moving forward, we will continue to work with Congress on a bipartisan basis on legislation that provides new tools needed in the global fight against piracy and counterfeiting, while vigorously defending an open Internet based on the values of free expression, privacy, security and innovation. Again, thank you for taking the time to participate in this important process. We hope you'll continue to be part of it.
Victoria Espinel is Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator at Office of Management and Budget
Aneesh Chopra is the U.S. Chief Technology Officer and Assistant to the President and Associate Director for Technology at the Office of Science and Technology Policy
Howard Schmidt is Special Assistant to the President and Cybersecurity Coordinator for National Security Staff


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Woman Sues Rivers Casino Schenectady for $25,000 Denied Prize Due to Missing Asterisk
Posted on: September 25, 2018, 10:00h.
Last updated on: September 25, 2018, 05:52h.
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Rivers Casino & Resort in Schenectady, Upstate New York, faces a legal suit from a disgruntled gambler who believes she was robbed of her rightful claim to a brand new Jaguar XE, The Daily Gazette reports.
Should the Rivers Casino & Hotel in Schenectady have added an asterisk to the description of its main prize draw to point customers towards terms and conditions? One woman believes it should and that the casino owes her a brand-new Jaguar XE. (Image: Rush Street Gaming)
Deana Dipfoli's name was the first out of the hat in a promotional prize draw to win the luxury car, or $25,000 in cash, but the Albany County resident was not present when the draw was made and so the prize went to someone else.
Dipfoli's case hinges on an absent asterisk. Her lawsuit claims that promotional material for the "Jaguar XE Giveaway" stated that winners who were not present to claim prizes in the draws leading up to the main prize draw would receive lesser prizes, while a redraw would determine an alternative winner.
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In fact, Rikpa believes there can be no alternative legal interpretation: not only did the casino fail to put a condition on claiming the prize, it "demonstrated it knew such a condition needed to be clearly stated," he told the The Daily Gazette.
"That's the bottom line for the case," he said. "To me, this is summary judgement."
The lawsuit names as defendants the Rivers Casino and its parent corporation Rush Street Gaming and Rush Street Gaming Partners. It seeks payment of the prize, plus legal fees.
Rivers refused to comment on the situation when contacted by The Daily Gazette because the litigation was ongoing.
Slot Malfunction Led to $40 Million 'Jackpot'
Rikpa has previous experience in fighting the corner of players who have been denied prizes by casinos. He is also representing Katrina Bookman, who momentarily believed that she'd won $42,949,672 on a slot machine at the Resorts World Casino in Queens.
It would have been the largest slot machine payout in history had the slot machine in question not been malfunctioning horribly at the time. Resorts World informed Bookman the next day that it did not pay out on malfunctions and downgraded her $40 million prize to a free steak dinner.
Bookman sued operator Genting and slots manufacturer IGT for negligence and breach of contract. The case is ongoing.
In similar past cases, the courts have ruled with the casinos but Rikpa believes it's time that changed.
"There is a lot of this all over the country," he said. "They think these people have no recourse."
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