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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday replied the All Progressives Congress (APC) over claim that PDP Presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar, is a Cameroonian.
Recall that the APC, in its defence at the presidential election tribunal had said that Atiku was not a Nigerian but from Cameroon.
Ologbondiyan said: "Whereas Atiku Abubakar's citizenship by birth, even under our constitution, cannot be contested, it is indeed the biggest irony of the year, that Atiku's citizenship is being disputed by individuals whose ancestry has always been a subject of debate.


Eurobank EFG won the national award EMAS 2009 (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) for Greece, in the European EMAS Awards, organized each year by the European Commission. The aim of this institution is to highlight and reward European companies that follow advanced environmental policies.
The competition theme for 2009 was the Supply Chain including Green Procurement. Specifically, it examined the practices applied by businesses on the management of the policy and "green" profile of their procurement and their overall relationships with their suppliers, to meet international standards on green policies.
The award ceremony took place on Thursday, November 19, in Stockholm.
32 companies from 12 European Union countries participated in the competition. These companies had been qualified by the relevant official bodies of the countries in the national competitions that preceded the European. The choice of Eurobank to represent Greece was made by the Ministry of Environment.
Eurobank won the National Award in the category of large organizations.
We note that the EMAS is currently the highest distinction in environmental management a European organization can obtain. Eurobank is the only Greek bank registered in the European Register of Businesses applying the EMAS Regulation, while it is worth noting that, in our country, 69 enterprises EMAS certified in all sectors.


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Ole Miss tops Memphis 85-79 for sixth win in a row
Daniel Paulling
MEMPHIS - Ole Miss forward Sebastian Saiz suffered a hit to the face late in Friday night's game against Memphis, causing one of his eyes to swell and leaving coach Andy Kennedy to compare the senior to a boxer who had just finished a match.
The Rebels survived a late flurry of punches by Memphis, holding on for an 85-79 win at the FedExForum in front of 14,529 fans. It was their sixth consecutive win this season and first in Memphis since 2004. The victory also broke a five-game win streak for the Tigers.
The game was delayed more than an hour because of an electrical outage around 6:30 p.m. that impacted downtown Memphis. Power returned to the arena a little before 7:15.
Friday's game was the first in the 92-year-old series since the Rebels beat Memphis 90-81 in the second round of the NIT in March 2010. The two teams played each other in eight consecutive seasons before stopping the series in December 2006.
"There's been a lot of talk about this series and should we play, should we not play," Kennedy said. "I've been pretty open on my feelings on it. Logistically, I think it makes a lot of sense. When you draw 14,529 in bowl season, that's good for college basketball."
The Rebels (9-2) held Memphis (7-3) to 7-of-27 shooting (25.9 percent) from the field in the first half to take a 43-31 lead into halftime. The Tigers entered the game shooting 42.9 percent for the season.
Memphis, however, outshot the Rebels 41.7 percent to 40.7 percent in the second half and outscored them Rebels 48-42.
"We needed to make some plays," Kennedy said. "We made enough to earn a quality road win."
But it wasn't pretty.
The Rebels held a 14-point lead with 5:12 left in the game, a seemingly comfortable margin. However, a 3-pointer by Ricky Tarrant Jr. trimmed the Tigers' deficit to 72-62 just 50 seconds later.
A Dedric Lawson layup cut the lead to eight with 3:44 remaining, but the Rebels answered.
They rebuilt their lead to 76-68 with just over two minutes remaining, but a Tarrant 3-pointer trimmed the deficit to five. An Avery Woodson 3-pointer made it 81-75 with 47 seconds left, but the Tigers couldn't draw closer.
The Rebels took control of the game early.
With the score tied at 5-5, they went on a 21-4 run that lasted more than nine minutes to give the Rebels a 26-9 lead with 9:23 left in the first half. Memphis shot 0-for-11 during that stretch, only managing points on a perfect stretch from the free-throw line.
"I know me and the Memphis guys were excited to play this game," guard Martavious Newby said. "Probably like too excited. We had to compose ourselves, settle down and pull out a great road win. It is special to be able to win in front of your friends and family."
Contact Daniel Paulling at dpaulling@jackson.gannett.com. Follow @DanielPaulling on Twitter.
STEFAN MOODY, OLE MISS
Moody led the Rebels with 21 points on 6-of-20 shooting and shot 3 of 6 from 3-point range.
KEY FIGURE
The Rebels outscored Memphis by eight points in the paint.

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Portland is 16-15 on the road. The Suns are 9-21 at home.
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Does Golden State want to keep him?
So far, the United States has managed a bronze medal in the figure skating team event, but fell short of the podium in the men's events after Nathan Chen's struggles in the short program. The sport now moves on to ice dancing, which begins on Sunday evening with the short program and will conclude on […]
Manager Mike Scioscia declined to put a number on how many games he envisions Pujols playing at first.
Patriots DT Alan Branch said I didn't know anything, honestly, when asked Tuesday on WEEI's Dale and Holley Show with Rich Keefe if he knew prior to the game that Butler wouldn't play. On our team, gossip doesn't travel, let's just say that. I noticed he wasn't in the game, Branch said, but then again, […]
Tennessee has no business being in the postseason.
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They could be the worst team in the bracket and just don't have the upside you need from a team to make a run through a thick group of playoff teams. Marcus Mariota can be a future star, but it's hard to imagine it under the current regime. I love Derrick Henry — drafted him […]
Matt Nagy, Chicago Bears: The Bears named the Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator their next coach.
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Embiid entered this season as a hyper-talented but risky proposition, having played only 31 games over the first three seasons of his career.
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Two face charges in Wolcott Robbery and Assault
The Wayne CountySherif s Office reported the arrest on Tuesday (10/11) at 1:09 p.m. of Dominick Mason, age 20, from the Town of Rose following an investigation into an incident that occurred on August 16, at the 104 Store located at 13824 Route 370, in the Town of Wolcott. Mason was chargedwith Robbery in the Second Degree, Assault in the Second Degree, anc Petit Larceny.
It is alleged that Mason, along with Kevin Huntington Jr age 18, assaulted a male and female couple who were parkec in the parking lot of the 104 Store. During the assault it is alleged that Mason and Huntington forcibly stole a smoking bong and U.S. Currency from inside the vehicle.
Mason was arrested and transported to the Wayne County Jail where he was arraigned at centralized arraignment and released to appear in Wolcott Town Court.
Kevin Huntington Jr, has not yet been located.
The Wayne County Sheriff's Office has the same pending charges.
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They also accused the school administration at the time of failing to document or investigate boys' complaints against Hawkins, which the district and former superintendents have denied. District 70 also denied any liability in the settlement agreements.
To date, the settlements total $11.5 million.
One of the questions that consultants answered in their consolidation study for Freeburg, Smithton and St. Libory schools was whether all taxpayers would be responsible for the costs of litigation filed against leaders of the previously divided districts.
The St. Libory District 30 School Board opted out of talks with Freeburg and Smithton even before the study because it had "no intention" of consolidating, Superintendent Thomas Rude said in 2017.
"We believe we're serving our students well. We're in good financial shape. So there's no real driving force to make us want to consolidate right now," he said at the time.
Beyond the potential for litigation, Smithton District 130 school board members didn't think consolidation would save a significant amount of money to make it worth giving up local control, according to the resolution.
There could be savings for taxpayers in consolidation if it resulted in a lower tax rate, fewer personnel or fewer buildings. There could also be costs.
Teachers would move to the highest pay scale that had been used in the original districts. The districts would cut their superintendents down to one but might have several new administrative positions.
Mike Weilmuenster, the attorney for four of the five men who filed federal lawsuits against Freeburg District 70, said he isn't currently representing another John Doe with accusations against Hawkins.
Daniel Bradley, who represented John Doe 4, couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
Almost all of the settlement payments have been covered by District 70's insurers. The settlements include:
▪ $2.1 million to John Doe 1.
▪ $124,000 to John Doe 2.
▪ $6 million to John Doe 5.
District 70 agreed to pay $1 million of John Doe 5's settlement, which is the subject of a civil lawsuit the district filed against its insurer. The insurance company has been ordered to reimburse District 70 for the lawsuit, court documents show.
Hawkins had been a teacher in Freeburg District 70 before becoming an administrator. He worked as the district's superintendent until his death in 2009, which was ruled a suicide.
His successor, Superintendent Tomi Diefenbach, declined to respond to Smithton's concerns about the potential for future litigation.
Freeburg District 77 Superintendent Greg Frerking said the two Freeburg districts would continue talking about consolidation.
All four districts still plan to work together to make sure their curriculum is consistent from St. Libory to Freeburg and Smithton, because most of those students go on to attend Freeburg High School together.
Meanwhile, Smithton is also trying to address a growing student population.
It is planning to ask taxpayers in the April election for permission to spend $5 million on a building expansion. The ballot measure failed in November by just 21 votes, according to the St. Clair County clerk's office.
Read Smithton's board resolution summary
"The Smithton Community Consolidated School District #130 board of education does not believe significant operational efficiencies and cost savings will result from consolidation, does not believe incentive payments (if appropriated) would compensate for the loss/sharing of existing funds held in certificate of deposit and savings accounts, does not believe Smithton residents should share the burden of future litigation liability resulting from future allegations due to past misconduct and does not believe ceding local control of elementary education is in the best interest of Smithton taxpayers, staff and, most importantly, students."
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The metro-east is home for investigative reporter Lexi Cortes. She was raised in Granite City, went to school in Edwardsville and now lives in Collinsville. Lexi has worked at the Belleville News-Democrat since 2014, winning multiple state awards for her investigative and community service reporting.
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Liberty's men's tennis match with the Lynchburg Hornets has been postponed due to inclement weather in the Lynchburg area.
The Liberty Men's Tennis team has added a match to its schedule.
With its second match in two days, the Liberty men's tennis team fell to the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, 6-1, Sunday afternoon.
Looking to begin conference action with a victory, the Flames tennis team traveled to Charleston, S.C. , to take on the Buccaneers of Charleston Southern University on Saturday.
After beginning the season with a win over Richmond, the Liberty men's tennis team fell to East Carolina, 7-0, Thursday in Greenville, N.C.


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Wisconsin Natural Resources magazine »
The nature of healing
IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN, A YOUTH TREATMENT CENTER FINDS THE OUTDOORS TO BE POWERFUL MEDICINE
Ben Thwaits
Nature is a "fundamental source of healing" at Northwest Passage, nestled in the northwest corner of the state, near Webster and Frederic.
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"Shh, don't move. Stay right here," Alice instructed me with a tense whisper. She crept ahead toward a cluster of trees on the banks of the Namekagon River, her zoom lens trained on something I couldn't yet see. She stopped, took a steadying breath and fired her shutter.
That's when I finally glimpsed the small butterfly's orange wings a couple of feet in front of her lens. Alice snapped a few more photos with the calm intensity of an experienced pro before her subject fluttered away to a nearby limb. She peered at her camera's LCD screen and a smile came across her face.
"I think I got a good one! Come check it out," she exclaimed, the sparkle in her eyes releasing the tension of the moment.
She handed me her camera. "Wow, that is incredible," I said, nearly speechless. Alice beamed.
The photo was perfectly composed, sharp, in great light. It would appear at home alongside the art of professionals in any gallery.
But Alice isn't a professional photographer. She's not even out of high school. In fact, Alice is in a fight for her life.
She is a resident at Northwest Passage, a nonprofit residential mental health treatment center for children ages 12-17 based in Webster and Frederic, nestled in the rural northwestern corner of the state. Severe and often life-threatening mental health crises result in placement here for durations of several months to up to a year.
A journey of hope
The stakes couldn't be higher for the more than 300 kids per year who come to Northwest Passage from around Wisconsin and beyond. They make the journey because the mental health resources in their home communities cannot meet their level of medical need.
Many have multiple complex and overlapping diagnoses, often a result of past trauma, and most have undergone numerous unsuccessful past treatment attempts. For many, Northwest Passage is a last hope.
At first glance, Northwest Passage might seem like any typical large treatment center. It employs teams of highly skilled neuropsychologists, therapists, case managers, counselors and special education teachers. Psychiatric staff monitor and adjust medications. Regular schedules and routines are tightly followed.
However, the day-to-day experience of every resident is anything but typical. Instead of the sterile, white-walled hospital experience one might expect, kids experience a treatment setting designed around the natural world. These young people are immersed in the region's rivers, lakes, forests and prairies. Nature is infused into nearly every aspect of their daily life.
Such a deep role of nature in the treatment model is unique among organizations like it, but for Northwest Passage, nature has always just made sense.
"At Northwest Passage, we have always believed that nature is a fundamental source of healing," Executive Director Mark Elliott said. "Our kids often come to us disengaged with the world around them and nature provides an important building block to help kids reengage with the world in a positive way. Nature's therapeutic values are endless."
Natural forces at work
Northwest Passage's roots in nature go back to its beginnings in 1978, when it was founded by several former employees of a large Twin Cities mental health hospital who knew there had to be a better approach than a cold, impersonal, institutional setting. Motivated by the intuition that struggling youth could heal best in a serene natural environment, they purchased a small house on the Clam River in Webster and began their test run.
Early treatment programming centered on the region's endless camping, canoeing, fishing and hiking opportunities. The founders' intuition was quickly proven correct. Their innovative nature-based treatment model worked, and word got out.
Northwest Passage steadily grew and gained a reputation as one of the leading mental health providers in the state. Fast-forward 40 years, and the organization now employs more than 190 staff in state-of-the art facilities.
As Northwest Passage expanded, it never lost sight of why it was created in the first place. The two large modern campuses were built with nature in mind.
"Our campuses are designed so nature is a dominant force in our kids' lives," said Ian Karl, the center's experiential programming coordinator. "For example, in transition times, the kids aren't walking down hallways. They're walking through green space. That gives the kids a chance for an emotional reset numerous times throughout the day.
"In addition, if kids are having a bad day, staff can take them for a walk on our trails. It always helps."
Plenty more to explore
Nestled among towering white pines, Northwest Passage's Webster campus, called "Riverside," is situated on the original Clam River site. Great fishing waits just out the back door and deer wander through the grounds. The Frederic campus, named "Prairieview," is near an ongoing prairie restoration criss-crossed by more than a mile of trails through prime pollinator habitat.
The experiences in nature also extend far beyond the borders of Northwest Passage's campuses. The region's vast tracts of public land serve as an extension of the treatment center itself and field trips are an almost daily routine.
Nature photography is a centerpiece of these off-grounds excursions, with the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway, Interstate State Park, Apostle Islands National Lakeshore and Crex Meadows State Wildlife Area serving as some of the kids' favorite photography hotspots.
Nature photography plays a vital role in therapy, with lesson sites including Pattison State Park.
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Guided by skilled staff mentors, kids learn advanced photography techniques they use to create stunning photos that have been featured in exhibitions around the nation. For many, it's the first time they've been publicly recognized for positive accomplishments.
Even more importantly, the kids' own photos provide a new window through which they can interpret their experiences, their pain and their hopes.
Thirteen-year-old Bobby wrote about his photo of an eagle perched on a branch with wings spread, ready to fly: "Taking flight is a jump of hope, flying to do other things. Flying is part of life, but it's the easy part. Taking off is hard."
Over the past few years, the nature photography program evolved to new depths, quite literally. Armed with partnerships and funding through the National Park Service and Wisconsin Sea Grant, Northwest Passage's kids began submerging their cameras — and themselves — underwater.
With this new element of the photography program, a new and unprecedented view of northern Wisconsin's rivers and lakes emerged alongside a novel understanding of the therapeutic power of water.
"When I'm underwater taking photos, I feel complete," said Lexi. "I am able to leave behind the part of myself that wants to control everything and just go with it."
Learning to reconnect
When not searching for sandhill crane photos in Crex Meadows or shots of smallmouth bass in the St. Croix River, Northwest Passage's young artists tap into other creative outlets at the Schaefer Cabin on the banks of the Namekagon River near Webb Lake. This 100-year-old restored National Park Service log cabin serves as a secluded retreat where artists-in-residence come for month-long stays and share their skills and passion with the kids.
Painters, musicians, sculptors and potters have left their mark on the lives of students. But the inspiration goes both ways.
"I'm not sure words can even capture the inspiring and transformative nature of my experience in this residency," said Cait Irwin, a painter from Iowa. "Each kid I met renewed my belief that art and nature heal."
Amid the countless hours the kids spend exploring wild areas, they also must keep up with schoolwork. Northwest Passage is an accredited academic institution and ensures kids don't fall behind academically during their treatment. However, school time at Northwest Passage is anything but traditional.
"So many of our kids have failed in past traditional academic environments," Karl said. "We need to create an environment where they can learn how to learn again, to engage them and trigger their curiosity. And that's going to happen in nature."
Rather than desks and textbooks, academics are designed around the rhythms of the seasons. In spring, for example, the kids run a maple syrup operation and learn tree physiology along the way. Summer is filled with ecology curricula brought to life through habitat restoration, beekeeping and gardening. Birding lessons run throughout the year.
"We try to make learning multisensory, kinesthetic, tactile," Karl added. "You're not just doing, but feeling it."
More outdoors, less stress
For Northwest Passage, it's clear that outcomes rely heavily on a multidimensional nature-based approach to healing. But why invest so heavily in these seemingly unconventional treatment methods? The short answer: because these methods work.
After we returned to the classroom from our day out photographing along Namekagon River, I asked Alice and her peers what they liked about being out in nature.
Kimi, a bright-eyed 16-year-old, chimed in first. "When I'm out in nature or doing photography, I feel more part of this Earth. It's almost spiritual," she said. "I just feel more relaxed and more myself. It's hard to explain."
But the tools to explain Kimi's reaction are rapidly emerging. Science is beginning to discover the underpinning of nature's feel-good effects, something Northwest Passage seems to have known all along.
As center director Elliott noted, "More and more research shows how nature has an impact on our mental health. Psychiatrists are now prescribing time in nature as part of an individual's treatment regimen. More and more mental health programs in the country are incorporating nature at a level never seen before."
Some studies have shown time in nature lowers levels of stress hormones as well as blood pressure. Other research indicates being near green space sharpens cognitive performance, especially related to the ability to focus. Yet another study shows time in nature quiets the part of the brain responsible for "depressive rumination," and even seeing pictures of nature is shown to lower stress and improve cognition.
For the field of mental health, a provider's capacity to minimize stress is a big deal. "Reducing stress and anxiety is a key that opens up many other doors on the path to healing," Elliott said.
Benefits beyond what the eye can see
While key in understanding and refining approaches to mental health treatment, the science doesn't quite capture what I observed the day I spent photographing along the Namekagon River with Alice and her peers. It doesn't see the sparkle in kids' eyes, the moments of deep wonder and fascination at the smallest of critters, or the beaming pride and excitement accompanying a successful photo.
I watched kids — many who had lost their childhoods to pain — playing and exploring the way kids are meant to. These were kids fully alive, the best versions of themselves, with so much to offer the world.
It was then that I realized Wisconsin's vast natural resources have benefits far beyond their ecological or recreational value. Every mile of shoreline and every acre of forest holds within it the potential to be a stage for healing, and not just for organizations like Northwest Passage that intentionally harness this therapeutic power.
Wild places can be the best kind of medicine for all of us.
Ben Thwaits is the former program development coordinator for Northwest Passage. He currently is a writer, photographer and consultant.
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Home Sections Real Estate How to Make a Biblical-based Real-estate Redevelopment the Answer to Global Warming, Starting in Sorsogon
How to Make a Biblical-based Real-estate Redevelopment the Answer to Global Warming, Starting in Sorsogon
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Written by Bobby M. Reyes
Part IV of the Series on "The ReVOTElution of Hope for Sorsogon"
In the 1980s, I wrote these lines: "In the 1950s when I was an elementary-school student, Sorsogon Province was one of the greenest places on earth. The place had a lot of trees and wildlife. Thousands of magnificent hornbills, owls, monkeys, deer, monitor lizards and other animals and birds thrived in Sorsogon. The prized asset of the province, Sorsogon Bay, teemed with marine life from crustaceans to whale sharks."
Then I continued my article, The Filipino (and Sorsoganon) "Silent Springs" (With Apologies to Rachel Carson), "In just 30 years or so Sorsogon Province became virtually dead from the ecological viewpoint." But the way to the rebirth, if not the ecological renaissance, of Sorsogon Province – as the pilot site of the ReVOTElution – can be modeled after Biblical words.
As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, 'The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth . . .' ---Luke 3:4-5
T he answer, therefore, to the problem of combating the effects of Global Warming may lie in simply following the Bible: "Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low . . ."
Yes, "every valley shall be filled" with fruit orchards and tree farms, along with irrigation canals, dikes and artificial bodies of water such as man-made lakes and reservoirs. For turning the valleys greener and doing the Green Revolution is the easiest way to combat Global Warming.
And if indeed the sea level is going to go up by 20 or more feet by the end of this century, then "every mountain and hill shall (should) be brought low" and brimming to the top with new ecologically-friendly housing (AKA "Vertical Housing"), more tree farms, plantations and Banaue-style rice terraces (AKA "Vertical Farming"), so that people can be fed. The mountain tops can be leveled, so that they can be planted to more crops with the use of catch-basins for the abundant rainfall and water-distribution systems that can take care of irrigation and drinking needs.
All the houses at the elevated areas of the countryside can have solar-powered generating units that can be complemented with power derived from windmill farms, so as to have electricity even during the night.
Leveling the mountaintops and converting them into agricultural sites and tree farms has been successfully done in West Virginia and other mountainous regions of the United States. All of these were done after mining has been done in the said mountains. So, if it could be done in North America, why can't it be duplicated in a Southeast Asian country?
H ow to do the tree-farming cooperatives (TFC) and generate funding for the massive reforestation had been explained before in this article, which would also produce energy independence by doing mini-hydro (using mini-dams) and micro-hydro (using paddle wheels to generate power), among other Green sources of energy:
Funding Reforestation as a Solution to Global Warming (Part6)
In fact, the suggested reforestation is part of the offered prescription for combating economic depression in the homeland, as argued in this article,
An Overseas-Filipino Political Party's Rx for the "Great Economic Depression" in the Philippines
And this writer is no longer the "solitary voice crying out in the wilderness." He has been joined by hundreds of Overseas Sorsoganons and thousands of Overseas-Filipino workers and Overseas Filipinos.
It is only a question of generating the right political will on the part of the people (read, stakeholders), especially the voters, of Sorsogon Province and the country in general. # # #
E ditor's Note: To read the other articles of this series, please go to:
How the ReVOTElution Will "Reinvent" Education and Life in Sorsogon
A Sorsoganon OFW Appears to Be a Bigger Hero than Manny Pacquiao: How the ReVOTElution Will Protect OFWs and their History (Part II)
A Bigger Danger than an Eruption Lurks in Bulusan Volcano
(Part III)
How to Make a Biblical-based Real-estate Redevelopment the Answer to Global Warming, Starting in Sorsogon (Part IV)
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Acacia Pharma, a hospital pharmaceutical company focused on the development of new nausea and vomiting treatments for surgical and cancer patients, will use the $30 million credit facility to support the planned US launch of drug BARHEMSYS TM, also known as amisulpride. The loan from Hercules Technology Growth Capital, a California-based specialty finance company, will enable Acacia Pharma to continue the commercialisation of its product and establish strategic relationships in the US pharmaceutical market.
The Stephenson Harwood team was led by London-based corporate partner Anthony Clare along with finance partner James Linforth, and included associate Gabriella McCoy and tax associate Hilary Barclay.
This is the second matter on which Stephenson Harwood has recently advised Acacia Pharma, having supported the company on its €190 million Euronext Brussels IPO earlier this year; the listing was the largest on Euronext since 2015 and was the first IPO of a British-based biotech company in 2018.


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Q: how memory allocation works at extremes? I am quite confused how memory allocation (malloc/calloc) works in linux/c. Suppose, I have a machine with 16GB RAM and I run a program as root. It is 64-bit machine, so all 16GB can be addressed as a single segment. Can I allocate all of that (less the amount for OS of course) with a single malloc call? with many malloc calls?
How it all relates to "heap memory" and "virtual memory"? If i allocate a small memory chunk, and it happens be in heap memory, then I resize (enlarge) this chunk, what happens when I approach stack area?
Do I have to fiddle with setrlimit RLIMIT_AS if I want (almost) all RAM to be assigned to my single process, even thought it's running as root?

A: On a virtual memory OS (such as Linux) malloc() does not allocate memory. It allocates address space For instance, compile and run the following fragment, and (in another terminal) run top:
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main(void) {
  char *cp;
  cp = malloc( 16ULL * 1024 *1024 *1024);
  if (cp) pause();
  return 0;
}

At my computer, TOP displays:
PID    USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
29026 plasser    20   0 16.0g  324  248 S    0  0.0   0:00.00 a.out

Which means: a.out has 16GB Virtual size, and uses only 324 (bytes? KB?) resident memory (probably just the binary)
What happenened?

*

*the malloc() call has asked the OS to extend the address space, adding 16 GB

*The OS has fulfilled this request, and set up pagetables for it et cetera.

*these page tables have no physical memory attached to them (yet), maybe except for the tables themselves

*once the program starts referencing this address space, pages will be attached (The OS wil fault them in)

*(the pages will probably be COW'ed from /dev/zero, but that is only a detail)

*but, at the moment the program does reference the addresses, memory will have to be be allocated by the OS and become attached to the process. (and it will show up in the RES field, Trust me )

*at some moment, the attached memory could be detached too, once the OS thinks it has not been used for a long time. It will be added to a pool of free memory or/and used for other purposes. Its contents may be pushed to backing store (disk) in this case

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A: malloc() can allocate memory either by extending the heap or by mmap()ing a sufficiently large memory block. Which of them it uses depends on the size you request and on several mallopt() options.
If it uses the "real" heap section, which usually lies quite at the start of the virtual memory area, it can grow up to the point where it hits the next allocated memory block which lies quite away from the start.
If it uses mmap(), it depends on if there is contiguous address space available.
/proc/<PID>/maps is a good query point for finding out the address space situation of a process.
I just tested with my 64 bit server with Python and ctypes:
import ctypes
import ctypes.util
m=ctypes.CDLL(ctypes.util.find_library("c")).malloc
m.argtypes=(ctypes.c_uint64,)
m.restype = ctypes.c_uint64

Now I have m, which serves as a call to the libc's malloc() function.
Now I can do
>>> hex(m(2700000000))
'0x7f1345e3b010L'
>>> hex(m(2700000000))
'0x7f12a4f4f010L'
>>> hex(m(2700000000))
'0x7f1204063010L'
>>> hex(m(2700000000))
'0x7f1163177010L'
>>> hex(m(2700000000))
'0x7f10c228b010L'
>>> hex(m(2700000000))
'0x7f102139f010L'
>>> hex(m(2700000000))
'0x7f0f804b3010L'

but due to whatever reasons I can't do
>>> hex(m(2900000000))
'0x0L'

as it returns 0 resp. a NULL pointer.
Doing now
print open("/proc/self/maps").read()

shows me the lines of said file; somewhere in
7f0ed8000000-7f0ed8021000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
7f0ed8021000-7f0edc000000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
7f0edf5c7000-7f13e6d27000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0

I got my allocations.
However, if I do instead
>>> hex(m(1))
'0x1f07320L'
>>> hex(m(1))
'0x1f0c0e0L'
>>> hex(m(1))
'0x1f02d50L'
>>> hex(m(1))
'0x1f02d70L'
>>> hex(m(1))
'0x1ef94f0L'
>>> hex(m(1))
'0x1eb7b20L'
>>> hex(m(1))
'0x1efb700L'
>>> hex(m(270))
'0x1f162a0L'
>>> hex(m(270))
'0x1f163c0L'
>>> hex(m(270))
'0x1f164e0L'
>>> hex(m(270))
'0x1f16600L'

the memory addresses come from
>>> print open("/proc/self/maps").read()
[...]
01d2e000-01f2b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                                  [heap]
[...]

the designated heap.
Note that while I can get this memory assigned, using it all causes harm because my process might get killed by the famous OOM killer.

A: A 64-bit process can allocate all of the memory. It doesn't even need to be root, unless the system has defined a ulimit setting for non-root users. Try ulimit -v to see if a limit is set.
Under Linux default settings a process can ask for nearly any amount of memory and it will be granted. The memory will be actually assigned as it is used, and it will come from physical RAM or from disk swap as needed.
A memory allocation resize is normally done in the C library by allocating the new, larger size and copying the old data into the new allocation. It is not usually done by expanding the existing allocation. Memory allocations are chosen to not conflict with other allocations such as program stack.

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2016 Young Adult Volunteer Poll Gives Insight, Prompts Research
Julianna Shults
At the 2016 LCMS Youth Gathering, Young Adult Volunteers traveled from across the country to New Orleans to serve the nearl y 25,000 Gathering participants. Young Adult Volunteers worked behind the scenes directing participants to Interest Centers, engaging youth on the Experiential Floor, directing traffic flow in and out of the Mass Events and so much more. Lead by DCE Brandon Heath and a phenomenal team of leaders, the Young Adult Volunteers were critical to making the 2016 Gathering a success.
For the first time, we asked Young Adult Volunteers to take a short poll based partially on the LYF Youth Poll that has been conducted at most previous Gatherings. Of the 582 Young Adult Volunteers, 512 took the poll, giving us a glimpse into the lives of our congregation's most active young adults. 91% report attending worship at least a few times a month. More than half report attending a Bible Study at least once a month.
One section of the poll attempt to gauge the level of support these young people felt in their faith lives. We were delighted to see that
87.8% said their congregation was supportive.
94.4% said their parents were supportive.
81.3% said their friends were supportive.
It is not a coincidence that the young adults who are highly active in congregations beyond high school have a support system encouraging their faith life. In fact, this level of support is vital for keeping young people in the church as they grow and transition into adulthood. We pray every young person has a local congregation who loves them, parents dedicated to faith engagement at home, and friends who encourage their personal faith.
We asked if Young Adult Volunteers felt their pastor cares about them personally, and
55.4% strongly agreed.
34.4% agreed.
Only 10.2% said they weren't sure or disagreed.
It is to be commended that so many young people feel connected and cared for by their pastor. There is clearly a correlation between these highly active young adults and the connection they feel to the shepherd of their local church.
In this data, we did find areas of concern when it comes to supportive environments for faith development.
Overall, young men are less likely to have friends who were supportive of their faith than young women. (75.9% vs 83.1%)
Only 77% of full-time working women strongly agreed or agreed that their pastor cared about them, in contrast to 94% of working men.
As young adults move rapidly through new stages in life, this data points us to individuals in our congregations who may need a special and concerted effort to build connection. Creating a supportive faith environment is an ongoing task.
This first Young Adult Volunteer poll gave us valuable information. The full data will be explored in April's LCMS Reporter, and we certainly hope to expand it in future Gatherings.
Additionally, this poll lit a desire to get an even clearer picture of young adults in the LCMS and those who have left our church body. LCMS Youth Ministry is currently working towards a larger research study for this spring and summer. Congregations will be asked to give us insight into past Confirmation classes who are now young adults and what they know about the young people's faith lives now. In late spring, we will ask young adults previously and currently connected to the church to respond to a longer, more detailed survey. In doing so, we hope that LCMS congregations can take a hold of pieces that may help them in retaining young people as they transition into adulthood. These young people are critical to the future of the church, and listening to them can help us as they grow in their baptismal faith.
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Julianna Shults is program manager of the Lutheran Young Adult Corps, which provides long-term service opportunities for young adults in The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Shults graduated from Concordia University, Nebraska, Seward, Neb., in 2005 with a B.A. in Psychology and a director of Christian education (DCE) certification. As a DCE, she has served Hope Lutheran Church in Plant City, Fla., and St. Paul Lutheran Church in Chicago, Ill.
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Packers' Winn makes remarkable return with help from wife
FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2020, file photo, Green Bay Packers defensive lineman Billy Winn warms up before an NFL football game against the New Orleans Saints in New Orleans. Winn encountered all kinds of adversity before making one of the NFL's most improbable comebacks this season. Yet he could always look inside his own home for inspiration. Whenever he wanted to feel sorry for himself over his misfortune with injuries, Winn only needed to witness his wife's battle with lupus to understand he had it comparably easy. Associated Press
By STEVE MEGARGEE
Posted10/30/2020 7:00 AM
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Green Bay Packers reserve defensive lineman Billy Winn encountered all kinds of adversity before making one of this season's most improbable comebacks.
He found inspiration inside his own home.
Whenever he wanted to feel sorry for himself over his misfortune with injuries, Winn only needed to witness his wife's battle with lupus to understand he had it comparatively easy.
'œAnytime I come home and am like, '˜Oh this hurts,' I try to keep it to myself,'� Winn said, 'œbecause at the end of the day I know what she's going through, and it's 100 times worse than what I'm going through.'�
Winn's return to the NFL is a testament to the power of perseverance. He has appeared in three games for Green Bay, which marks his first regular-season NFL action since Jan. 1, 2017.
He overcame back issues to play all 16 games with the Denver Broncos in 2016, which marked his fifth season in the NFL after stints with the Indianapolis Colts and Cleveland Browns. Then the 2012 sixth-round draft pick from Boise State ran into all sorts of bad luck.
Winn suffered a brutal injury to his right knee when he got caught under the pile while defending a run in an exhibition game. That injury knocked him out for the entire 2017 season, and he couldn't catch on with any team as he tried making a comeback.
He returned to the Broncos in 2019, but a preseason triceps injury knocked him out for the year once again.
'œIt's just always been a constant battle, always battling demons and stuff like that,'� Winn said. 'œBut I always reflect back on just my perseverance and my dealing with adversity. Everyone's going to deal with it. It's how you go about it and how you overcome those things that really define who you are as a character.'�
Winn started thinking about life after football and was keeping tabs on job opportunities in various college athletic administrations.
A pep talk from his wife, Brooke, caused him to give it one more shot. She asked him if he really wanted to have his career end because of an injury.
'œJust having her by my side every single day, driving me and pushing me to keep going, making sure I'm on top of my diet, making sure I'm on top of my cardio, that was just a real deciding factor,'� said Winn, who has been married for three years. 'œShe was like, '˜You know what? I don't think you're done. You need to keep going.' I said, '˜You know what? You're right. I can do this.' So I just kept going.'�
Winn's opportunity came after Green Bay signed him to its practice squad on Sept. 16. Eleven days later, he tipped a pass by Drew Brees to help the Packers beat New Orleans in his first regular-season appearance since the 2016 season.
He was elevated from the practice squad for games with New Orleans and Atlanta before getting signed to the 53-man roster Saturday, one day before the Packers' 35-20 victory at Houston. Winn has played a total of 23 defensive snaps and nine more on special teams heading into Sunday's game with the Minnesota Vikings.
The move reunites him with Packers defensive coordinator Mike Pettine, who was Cleveland's head coach in 2014 during Winn's final season with the Browns.
'œI saw the list that he was coming in for the workout, and I was like, '˜Is that, is that the Billy Winn? The same Billy Winn that I know?'" Pettine said. 'œAnd I knew he had been out for a stretch. It's just a credit to him, somebody that just goes through what he went through from an injury standpoint, just being able to work themselves back into shape and essentially will themselves onto an NFL team.'�
Winn credits his wife for giving him that will power, drawing motivation from her struggles with lupus, an autoimmune disease that causes inflammation and pain throughout the body. Those with lupus are also more susceptible to the novel coronavirus.
'œThe constant battle that she deals with every day, it's really hard to see just because, especially with COVID going around,'� Winn said. 'œWe're cleaning the house daily. We're making sure that we're keeping her fevers under control where she's spiking, 100, 101 every day. And then just the overall body pain for her is just a maintenance thing every single day. My worst days are normal days for her."
Winn says his wife's health issues helped him put his own injuries in perspective. Now they're both celebrating his return to the game.
'œI can never complain or will never complain about anything,'� Winn said, 'œbecause it'll never compare to what she's going through on a regular basis and the fight that she's got to deal with on a regular basis.'�
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Welcome to Horusscenario.com. This website was created to inform the public of the "Horus" cyber attack scenario that could impact everyone's lives.
The existence of this scenario was discovered and proven to exist by Willem Westerhof during his internship at ITsec in late 2016. Following the responsible disclosure period, details are now made available to the public. As an addition to reading this website, you could also check out the presentation at SHA2017.
The power grid needs to maintain a constant balance, between supply of power, and demand of power. If supply exceeds demand, or demand exceeds supply, outages can occur. In order to maintain stability all sorts of countermeasures exist to prevent outages due to peaks or dips in demand or supply. Under normal circumstances, these countermeasures ensure grid stability. There is however a limit to these countermeasures. A maximum peak or dip value in a specific period of time. If an attacker is capable to go beyond this maximum peak or dip value, outages will occur.
The thing with power grids, at least in Europe, is that they are very intertwined. Nations are constantly exporting and importing power to each other, and power grid regulators have made agreements to help each other during crisis times. Because of this intertwinedness an attack or failure of any part of the power grid, automatically has effects in other intertwined power grids as well.
PV installations influence the balance of the power grid in two ways. They supply power directly to local appliances (lessening the demand) and any excess power is supplied to the grid (increasing the supply). An attacker capable of controlling the flow of power from these devices can therefore have a direct effect on the balance of the Power grid.
A hacker controlling a single device of course isn't much of a problem. The available countermeasures for grid stability will easily protect us from such an attack. Hacking these devices becomes a problem when done at a large scale. Since more and more of these PV installations are being connected to the internet or the local network, to provide the user with certain functionalities, they can be targeted easily, and remotely, by hackers.
In Europe there is over 90 GW of PV power installed, an attacker capable of controlling the flow of power from a large number of these devices could therefore cause peaks or dips of several GigaWatts causing massive balancing issues which may lead to large scale power outages.
In order to proof that this scenario is possible, two methods were used. A statistical method, and a comparison to the 2015 solar eclipse.
Using a mathematical model it is possible to estimate the amount of PV energy in a power grid at a given time. Based on this model as well as official sources it was determined that an attack like this is statistically possible. For example, the German power grid can (at peak sunshine times) cover 35% up to 50% of its power demand using only PV installations. A cyberattack in this grid at the right time could take out up to 50% of the nation's power supply. Almost instantly causing a very large (nation-wide, up to continental due to the intertwined power grids) power outage.
Sadly, it is impossible to determine exact numbers on the threshold values (though hearsay shows a range of 3-5 GW). That said, it cannot realistically be expected of a nation like Germany to lose 35 up to 50% (+/- 20-30GW) of its power supply instantly and not see a power outage. It is simply too costly for power regulators to have that amount of power balancing on standby at all times. It may even be impossible, to have that kind of reserves trigger instantly as power plants take quite some time to increase and decrease their overall power output.
Another way of estimating the impact of such a cyber attack, is by comparing it to the 2015 solar eclipse. This solar eclipse happened in the morning when the sun was shining and affected almost all PV-installations in Europe (some more than others). Effectively, the solar eclipse controlled the flow of power from these devices (less sun equals less power from those devices, more sun equals more power from those devices).
The Solar eclipse event was a 2-3 hour long event the power grid regulators were well prepared for. Large solar fields had been temporarily shut off, additional reserves and regulation materials were available, an exact plan of when to regulate in what amounts was calculated based on the expected solar eclipse pattern, extra manpower was available, etc. The power grid stayed balanced that day, due to the effort of all these regulation parties. Had they done nothing, the power grid would have failed without a doubt.
When we compare this to the potential cyber attack it looks very grim. This cyber attack will not take 2-3 hours but +/- a minute. The speed of the peaks and dips will be very hard, if not impossible, to deal with. Besides that, the cyber attack is not something they are prepared for, the additional reserves and regulations are not in place, no extra manpower is present, and no exact plan exists. Another critical point, is that the solar eclipse happened in the morning as the sun was rising. The cyber attack will likely take place in the middle of the day when the sun shines brightest, increasing the impact of controlling the flow of these devices. Then finally, the solar eclipse follows a perfect logical pattern. A cyber attack can follow any pattern the attacker creates. This may in fact be random, or shifting between on and off very fast. For example causing several GW swings per minute. It becomes nearly impossible for power grid regulators to deal with this as it follows no expected pattern and the attacker is capable of controlling the flow faster than the grid regulators. The below shown graph is an example, but the pattern may very well be much more random, with far more peaks and dips than shown below.
Based on this comparison it can be concluded that the cyber attack is far worse. Any power grid with a lot of PV power in it will be affected heavily. Due to the intertwinedness of power grids, large scale power failures can, and should, be expected.
Based on both the statistical information and the comparison to a real life scenario it can be concluded that this type of attack is indeed theoretically possible.
Proving that the Horus scenario is theoretically possible is one thing, but if no security vulnerabilities exist in PV-installations it is still practically impossible. A live test setup was used to discover vulnerabilities in the market leading ,and likely the most secure, brand: SMA. Devices of this brand are generally considered to be the Mercedes among PV inverters, have won several awards for outstanding solar energy products and have been the market leader for several years.
Several laws and guidelines exists for power supply equipment and its cyber security. For example IEC62443, IEC 62351 & ISO/IEC 27000. That said, the PV installation businesses and PV inverter suppliers are in no way obliged to actually follow these laws and guidelines. Since they are not obliged to follow these laws and guidelines it can be expected that very little cyber security measures are in fact in place. Not only for this vendor, but for all PV inverter vendors.
In the Thesis of Willem Westerhof a hands on black box study was done to find vulnerabilities in the test setup. Full technical details will not be provided here for ethical and security reasons. Findings ranging from a 0.0 CVSS3.0 (Informational) score up to a 9.0 CVSS3.0(Critical) score were discovered. These findings resulted in an attacker being able to remotely compromise the device completely. Not only was it possible to hack the device and control its flow of power, there were actually several different ways of doing this.
In total seventeen (later spliced to twenty-one findings as requested by the vendor) vulnerabilities were discovered. Fourteen of which have been awarded a CVE-ID. Using several of these vulnerabilities it is possible to create a complete kill chain from start to finish executing the Horus scenario.
All these vulnerabilities were responsibly disclosed to the vendor, in December 2016. Early 2017 the theoretical concept as well as the vulnerabilities in this scenario were disclosed to specific governmental institutes and power grid regulators since they have a direct impact on the vital infrastructure.


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Barack Obama's lead over Mitt Romney is shrinking in Pennsylvania, poll shows
Updated: Sep. 26, 2012, 10:00 a.m. |
Published: Sep. 26, 2012, 9:00 a.m.
Robert J. Vickers | rvickers@pennlive.com
Despite a tempestuous fortnight for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and a mixed bag of recent poll results, most Pennsylvania party leaders remain confident he can still beat President Barack Obama in November.
View full sizeRepublican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012, in New York. Romney is gaining ground on President Barack Obama in Pennsylvania, according to the latest F&M poll. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
State GOP county chairs, fundraisers and activists acknowledge that Romney's campaign endured a tortuous two weeks following August's Republican National Convention, but maintain that he's well-positioned to finish in the winners circle.
"The level of enthusiasm has not dropped off in recent days or weeks," said Dauphin County GOP Chairman Josh Wilson. "In fact it's the opposite. Every time the news media kicks Mitt Romney, or criticizes Mitt Romney, our folks get more energized."
That runs contrary to recent independent polling which indicates the former Massachusetts governor trails the president by an average of 8 points. A Franklin & Marshall College poll released today has Obama leading Romney by 9 points among likely voters and 11 points among registered voters.
But last week state Republicans pointed to an internal party poll that showed Romney within a point of Obama. The poll, conducted by Susquehanna Polling and Research, calculated Obama's Pennsylvania margin over Romney had shriveled to 48-47.
Many in the state GOP were lifted by the results and began pinning their hopes of a revived Romney campaign on a strong performance Tuesday at the first presidential debate.
"The debates will be the defining events of this campaign," said Charlie Gerow, a prominent Harrisburg Republican consultant. "If Romney performs exceptionally well in the debates the whole field will shift."
Former Gov. and Democratic National Committee Chairman Ed Rendell shared a more partisan view of that same sentiment Monday, calling the first debate Romney's "last best chance" to remain viable to establishments Republicans eager to usher Obama out of office.
"It will snowball rapidly because the Republican powers-that-be will give up the ship," Rendell said during a Pennsylvania Press Club luncheon in Harrisburg.
If that happens, many conservatives will blame the way Romney's routine campaign missteps have been portrayed in the left-of-center mainstream media.
"I feel good about where we are in Pennsylvania," said state GOP Central Caucus Chairman Richard Stewart. "That would lead me to disregard what we're reading in the media."
Media reports have battered Romney for a nominating convention speech that neglected to reference U.S. troops serving in Afghanistan, and for claiming Obama sympathized with the militants who killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya earlier this month on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
The media backlash directed at Romney for panning a sitting president during a perceived national emergency prompted him to roll back his critique. But many Pennsylvania Republicans said he had the right idea.
"I don't think Gov. Romney needed to apologize for anything," said Cumberland County party Chairman John Gross. "I think what he said is exciting people. I wish Gov. Romney had said more."
Romney withstood his most intense media thrashing last week for dismissing half of the nation's voters as "victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them" during remarks secretly recorded at a private fundraiser.
But rather than spur supporters to throw in the towel because of campaign blunders and frustrating poll results, Pennsylvania party leaders say the series of gaffes has emboldened the party faithful and hasn't even hurt campaign contributions.
"Oddly enough it hasn't," said Christine Toretti, the Indiana County-based Republican National Committee finance committee co-chair. "People are more energized to step up."
Still, seeing Romney stumble against a president considered abundantly beatable is causing some nervousness among many commonwealth conservatives.
"The conventional wisdom is that Obama is one of the most vulnerable presidents in modern history, and it's frustrating because it seems like we can't close the deal," said Ryan Shafik, an area campaign consultant for conservative candidates. "But the grassroots conservative groups and activists are still motivated and working hard for Romney."
And while steadfast support for Romney persists despite Romney not airing a single television ad in the state since April, party leaders maintain that the campaign has not forsaken Pennsylvania.
Influential Allegheny County GOP chairman Jim Roddey said recent poll trends may cause Romney to rely on carrying the commonwealth or a state no Republican has become president without winning.
"It's beginning to look like he'll have to win either Ohio or Pennsylvania, and I'm hopeful we can make that Pennsylvania," Roddey said.
But not all state party leaders retain belief in Romney.
A prominent Pennsylvania GOP fundraiser, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said last week — before the widespread distribution of the clandestine Romney recording — that the GOP nominee will lose Pennsylvania and the general election.
"Pennsylvania only goes Republican when it's a national landslide, not when it's a close race," the party powerbroker said. "The Obama team is first class. They ran a brilliant campaign. That's why they're going to win. The Romney team is just not up to it. That's why I do not think they will turn it around in the last six to eight weeks."
Others prominent state Republicans remain hopeful of winning the White House, but were skeptical Romney could win Pennsylvania.
"What I've been saying to people is I don't think Romney's going to win Pennsylvania," said former Cumberland County Republican Chairwoman Karen Best.
Roddey acknowledged the doubt within state party ranks, but said the Pennsylvania effort is far from over.
"Obviously I've got concerns because it's close," he said. "I think we can do it, but we can't make anymore mistakes from here on out."
Bob Asher, considered the most powerful behind-the-scenes Republican in Pennsylvania, also admitted hearing skepticism of Romney's chances, but argued that the campaign is poised to make a strong play for Pennsylvania in the coming weeks.
Romney will fundraise in Philadelphia Friday, wife Ann may campaign in York and Altoona in early October, and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal will keynote Friday's fall Republican State Committee dinner.
"If we were down in the dirt and done, he wouldn't be coming," Asher said of Jindal, a rising national GOP figure.
"Do I think [Romney] should change some things in the campaign? You're damn right," he said. "But everybody thinks that in every campaign."
The following are highlights of the poll, which is produced in conjunction with The Patriot-News and other media organizations. Complete results can be found at
politics.fandm.edu
Obama leads Romney, 50 percent to 39 percent, with 6 percent undecided among registered voters and a slightly smaller lead among likely voters, 52 percent to 43 percent, with 3 percent undecided.
Bob Casey leads Tom Smith, 46 percent to 34 percent, with 14 percent undecided in the US Senate race. Among likely voters, Casey's lead is smaller, 48 percent to 38 percent, with 8 percent undecided.
Obama is seen as better able to handle foreign policy issues, 56 percent to 33 percent; better able to understand the concerns of ordinary Americans, 59 percent to 32 percent; better able to handle the job as military chief, 53 percent to 38 percent; closest to voters' views on abortion and gay marriage, 48 percent to 39 percent; and more prepared to fix our economic problems, 47 percent to 43 percent.
Obama is viewed favorably by 50 percent of respondents to Romney's 34 percent, but Obama's job performance rating is more negative, 47 percent, than positive, 52 percent).
More voters still support the state's voter ID law than oppose it, 59 percent to 39 percent.
Almost half (49 percent) of voters think the next state attorney general should further review the way then Attorney General Tom Corbett investigated the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse case.