So – I haven't posted a while to give an update on how Phil is doing. I guess you can go with the old adage about no news is good news!
He had an appointment yesterday with Dr Casper (the Castlemans DR) and talked about the results of his CT from Thursday. All of his lymph nodes and spleen are just about a normal size except for 1 lymph node. So this is proof the experimental treatment is working! We asked about remission and Casper said that really there isn't "remission" but just evidence the body is reacting favorably to the drugs. As far as the future and Castlemans, we really don't know what that is. Since Phil is a one of a kind case, it's unknown to us and to the experts. We expect that he will continue treatment monthly for now, and then at some point start to push that out and see where his body decides his threshold will be. We tried 5 weeks and it proved he wasn't ready for that yet. Last week he was extremely run down and didn't have any energy.
Phil has been off of dialysis since April and his kidneys are working at about 50%. This improves a few percents each visit and we hope it will continue. Dr Anderson doesn't think there is any reason to think this won't happen, but again, Phil has proved to be an anomaly and they just are not sure.
Phil has a goal of going back to work in April 2013… he works hard every day to regain his strength and stamina he used to have.
For now our plan is to enjoy what we have every day! We have no idea how long this will last, so we are not wasting any minute!
Thanks as always for all of your continued prayers!
Great email from the Hemotologist!!!
Loved seeing this on my email today!!!! Hoping this is a start of a trend!
Seems like the platelets are continuing to increase – 73,000 today and the highest since August of 2011.
As I had hoped – the marrow exam and the associated genetic studies did not show any evidence of a blood disease or Castleman's.
The megakaryocytes which are the "mother cells" so to speak that utlimately give rise to platelets – are slightly low.
Overall, it could still be a prolonged drug effect from allopurinol as the platelets have increased off the drug.
I think knowing we see nothing worrisome – we should just continue treatment and watch the counts. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
Phil had an appt with the Hemotologist this last Thursday. Good news is the platelet count came up a bit more. They are going to go ahead & schedule his infusion of his chemo drug next week (Actemra). This will be the third one. We are really really hoping his labs start to show marked improvement soon. I don't know how much more his kidneys can take of this.
Next weeks appts are normal dialysis M,W,F. Harborview on Tuesday to have an ultrasound on his arm so they can map all his veins and make a plan to install the fistula. Im sure that surgery will be coming up in the next couple of weeks. Wednesday is a date with the kidney dr. Lets see what words of wisdom he has to say. Its been a month since Phil has seen him. Thursday is the infusion.
Still planning on doing the bone marrow biopsy, and I think that will be done the week after next.. but it's not on the schedule yet.
Thats the most recent update on the Castlemans.
Jordains truck is all fixed, needed a new starter relay, battery and some cables. Hoping thats it for now. Devin is going back to the Dr this week to hopefully get the OK to return to normal activity. Her headaches are gone so they should let her get back to sports again. That kid is lost without her sports!
There are only a few changes in the last month with Phil and the Castlemans.
He has had two infusions of Actemra (tocilzumab) and he has not noticed too much of a change on how he feels. Some of the labs have improved a bit and some of the meds have been reduced or removed completely. So that is good I suppose. We are both a bit discouraged that he has not seen more visible or obvious improvement.
One thing that has come up is his platelet count has gone way down. So far in fact they refused to do the 3rd infusion yesterday. they don't think that the infusion drug is the cause of such a drastic drop. The Hemotologist that is covering for Dr Casper while he is at his clinic in Uganda, has suggested that they do a Bone Marrow Biopsy. That is in the process of being scheduled so we should know in the next week or so when that will happen.
The other thing they will be doing is removing the direct line into his chest. They have been using that for his dialysis, but don't like leaving it there as long as they have. So he will be going to Harborview in the next few weeks to have that removed and a permanent fistula put in his arm. That is an out patient surgery and they combine a vein and artery somehow (yuk!).
Other than that, we all are doing OK. Trying to take things a day at a time and find as much to be thankful for as we can. Phils mobility is limited due to the swelling from the edema that still has not gone down and probably wont until there is more recovery and less drugs. He tires easily so we try to keep things pretty low key at home, however he is bored stiff!!!! I have found a great website for his kidney diet and that has made meals a bit more enjoyable for him.
Jordain got her first truck! She is pretty excited! Now she is focusing on the big job search! Devin is working hard at school and trying to recover from a concussion she got during soccer.
All in all things are plugging along! Thanks to everybody as always for your thoughts, prayers and happy wishes! Love you all!!
Phil had his infusion of Actemra today. It is considered a type of Chemo, but does not carry the same side affects we all associate with Chemo. There are side affects and we will monitor for them as we go along. He will have infusions every 2 weeks for 3 months and then once a month for life. We wont know if it is going to work for at least a month. Until then, we continue with dialysis and hope that one day his kidneys can recover. If not, we will deal with that when it happens. Thanks so much for your prayers and good wishes! They all have been working and God has heard them all. There is proof in that! Love you all!
possible, depending on your availability and that of the infusion suite.
This is the drug we have wanted – the drug the insurance company has denied 4 times! The drug company (Genentech) has approved the compationate benefits! WE GET IT FOR FREE!!!!!!!
It will take at least a month to know if it will work in treating the Castlemans and maybe longer to know if his kidneys will ever recover, but it is a HUGE first step!!!!!!
Thanks for all your prayers – they are working!!! Keep them coming!!!
Oh – and how cool is this – the Dr emailed us on Labor Day to tell us the good news!!!
Phil has been home for a week and going to Dialysis 3 times a week. Today was an appt with Seattle Cancer Care/Fred Hutch as part of the approval process for the drug trial.
The further we get into this, the more frustrated we become. Today they let us know that his eligibility may be in question because of his poor kidney function. They said the drug sponsor feels confident that he can do the treatment while on dialysis, but that his labs are not good enough…. my question – is if his labs were good, why would he be on dialysis??? It seems like Phils case is such a mystery. For one he is HIV negative and two he is the only one they know of that has had kidney failure to this extent.
I asked one of the assistants today – at what point do you stop saying that and he gets treatment? When he is dead??? She didn't have too much to say, unfortunately I was venting my anger on somebody who not in a position to help.. but it felt good to vent either way.
I have requested a face to face appointment with Dr Casper and also emailed to an advocate to give me some insight. Hopefully once he is back in town we can meet with him and sit on him until we get some answers and a plan.
Keep up the prayers since it seems our battle has just started!


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The College of Engineering opens centre that offers support to Indigenous students
Thanks to generous donations made to the College of Engineering, the brand new Indigenous Resource Centre can now offer support to aspiring Indigenous engineers.
Carlee Snow
Dannielle Brewster
Dannielle Brewster is a third-year chemical engineering student at the University of Saskatchewan who is highly involved in her communities, both on campus and in La Ronge where she grew up. Brewster is a member of the Cross Lake Band, a Swampy Cree band in Northern Manitoba. Brewster knows all too well that making the transition to university can be difficult for students who come from northern Saskatchewan.
It can be isolating for some students who have never lived in a big city. They may experience a cultural shock when first arriving and seek support to make the transition. This is the reason the Indigenous Resource Centre opened in the College of Engineering.
The centre provides a dedicated space for students to connect and support each other, helping them build relationships and work towards achieving academic success. Brewster is one of the many students who has benefited from the Indigenous Resource Centre.
"This is what first-year Indigenous students need; it's hard coming from a small town. It is a little isolating, but here you can meet students similar to you, who can support you. Seeing other people makes you believe that you can do it and that there is support," she explained.
Brewster explained that in her first year, she was not involved with extra-curricular activities but because of the Indigenous Resource Centre, she was motivated to participate and develop a stronger sense of community. The centre aims to help students build relationships while working towards academic success. "I met a lot more people, and I felt like I was part of a group. I also did a lot better in my classes, and I started volunteering much more. I became much more involved through this and attended more events on campus and within the college," she stated.
Brewster believes facilities like the Indigenous Resource Centre impacts students in ways that you wouldn't expect—like increasing the number of visitors to the college and developing a strong community within the college. "The program personally made a huge impact on my life, and I have heard from fellow students in my program that they are really happy with it," she stated.
The centre would not have been possible without donations from alumni and friends of the university to the ALL IN FOR STUDENTS campaign—an annual university-wide fundraising drive for student scholarships, bursaries and support systems.
Brewster was inspired by the people who helped make this centre a reality and is truly inspired by their generosity. "The university offers so many resources to students that when I graduate, I will have to give back."
Over $1.19M was raised during the ALL IN FOR STUDENTS campaign to support student scholarships, awards, and bursaries in the 2018-2019 school year. Read more about how the campaign made a major difference for students this past year in our student spotlight series:
Brooke's story
Kaishan's story
Thanks to donors, USask student realizes dream of studying medicine
'Flabbergasted': CTV Saskatoon Citizen of the Year humbled by award
Saskatoon dietitians aren't eating up the keto diet fad
Say it Ain't So: Territorial premier fought for Sask. rights, but no separatist

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Pfizer totted up a list of accomplishments and milestones in 2018, besides the fact that it managed to eke out growth of about 2% for the year. It reorganized into three business units, for instance, reviving talk of an eventual generics spinoff and setting up its consumer health business for easier disposal.
Once the Senate finance committee's drug pricing hearing started on Tuesday, it didn't take long for sparks to fly.
Roche has the pipeline it needs for growth, its chairman said, but the company could add on with small- or medium-sized M&A.
Wondering how much incoming Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla is going to shake things up at the drugmaker? Not much, apparently.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin blasted Pfizer's plan to increase prices in January and called on the company to release details about its costs, plus more.
Integration following a large-scale M&A is too much a distraction from Pfizer's "best pipeline in our history," said Bourla.
A week after Pfizer unveiled a reshuffled team that'll report to incoming CEO Albert Bourla, the drug giant says it plans to trim its workforce.


lack of natural resources, and poor infrastructure. China, India, Japan, the United States, and several European nations have made large investments in Nepal's economy through foreign aid since 1952. Still, the country's economic growth has been slow. Nepal's economy is characterized by heavy dependence on foreign aid, a narrow range of exports, increasing economic disparity between the mountain areas and the more developed Tarāi region, excessive governmental control and regulation, and inefficient public enterprises and administration. In addition, the economy has not kept pace with the country's high population growth. In particular, the slow growth of agriculture has resulted in food shortages and malnutrition for some of Nepal's people.
Agriculture dominates Nepal's economy. It provides a livelihood for 79 percent of the population and contributes 39 percent of GDP. The Tarāi is the main farming region of the country. Rice and corn are major food crops; potato, oilseed, sugarcane, jute, and tobacco are major cash crops. Nepal's industrial base is limited. Most industries are based on agricultural raw materials or dependent on various imported materials, mostly from India. Large manufacturing plants are owned and operated by the government. Major manufactured products include jute, sugar, cigarettes, beer, matches, shoes, cement, and bricks. Traditional cottage industries such as basket and carpet weaving are also important to Nepal's economy.
a. Village development program focused on community development.
b. The First Five Year Plan (1956-60) focused on comprehensive national development.
c. The Second Plan (1962-65) focused on agricultural development.
d. The Third Plan (1965-70) focused on agricultural sector and increment on agricultural productivity through the diffusion of improved technology.
e. The Fourth Plan (1970-75) focused on balancing between natural and regional development by the proper utilization of resources and extension of benefits of development work.
g. The Sixth Five-Year Plan (1980-85) focused on local development by promoting people's participation.
h. The Seventh Plan (1985-90) focused on local development on the basis of local felt needs and priority included training, remote area development, integrated rural development and other local welfare programs.
i. The Eighth Plan (1990-95) focused on improving the socio-economic conditions of the rural people.
J. The Ninth Plan (1995-2000) focused on mobilizing resources and technology available at the local level through local development approach.
K.The Tenth Plan (2000-05) focused on local development through people's participation.
Nepal has so far passed the tenth plan and through different plans different local as well as rural development programs are implemented. Most of the policies' plans have talked about rural development, local development, agricultural development, development through people's participation but substantial development has not been achieved.
The policies, plans and programs of Nepal always seem very good in written term as it talks about rural development through active participation of local bodies, rural irrigation, transportation, rural infrastructure, water supply, school buildings, health post, small hydroelectricity, employment opportunity, resources mobilization, socio- economic development programs for ethnic tribes, women and marginalized groups consideration, environmental consciousness, job security, career development trainings, local level development activities etc., but we always become failure when it comes to its effective implementation.
We can see somewhat usefulness of policies but the propounded policies and plans should be implemented effectively. We have the experiences form the past that substantial development cannot take place without effective implementation of policies and programs right from the initial stage. What we lack is that we always talk about people's participation but we always ignore the participation of people when implementing the plans and policies in local level so our overall implementation in real sense lags us behind. Thus, the participation of local people would be encouraged in project planning and implementation and sharing of benefits.
Despites the planned efforts made during the past decades to speed up the process of development and reduce the extent of poverty in the country, the actual outcome has been very disappointing.
The rural development policies were prepared with the objective of achieving target growth in overall production. As the rural development policies were implemented without the participation of local people, the benefits did not percolate down to the intended section of the people. We have the policy of decentralization but the control of almost all the local development programs by the central made the local bodies virtually powerless. This centralized nature of administrative system together with its highly bureaucratic practice has alienated the general public to a status of rural- ruled relationship instead of civil servants-citizens relationship. So, there the usefulness of policy seems failure in its practicality. Besides, the lack of clear-cut policy guidelines, contradictory policies and the absence of public participation in financial management and program implementation not only raised the cost of implementation but also reduced the quality of its services. The lack of integration of local bodies, the integrated Rural Development programs and other projects with the local training centers resulted in the uncoordinated training activities. So, there is failure term of policy usefulness. Besides, one of the main factors for the failure of the previous rural development efforts was faulty programming. When preparing a policy, it seems that little attention was given to balanced investment on a regional basis. Further there were no attempts to mobilize local resources and manpower and that the program entirely depended on external aid. As, a consequence, the policy failed to create the required base for self- reliant and sustainable development.
1. The authority and responsibility for planning and implementation of rural development should be entrusted to the local institutions. With the decentralization of authority and functions to local institutions, people's participation in planning, implementation, and evaluation will be quite effective.
2. Such policy should be adopted so that the investment in rural development will be directed towards productive activities. Extravagance in staff facility should be curtailed. There is an urgent need for administrative reform. Staff turnover and decentralization of authority should be given proper attention.
3. As rural development is indispensable to alleviate poverty, it is important that it should be part of the overall development strategy and policy, and it should constitute the main thrust of such efforts. In the mean time, evaluation of development projects must not concentrate on assessing the targets and listing the aggregate data, nor should it be done just to fulfill the formal requirements of the donor- agencies. Rather any meaningful evaluation will have to provide an answer to such basic questions as what impact the programs have had on the living conditions of the intended beneficiaries and whether that impact is sustainable.
4. The government should be more explicit in defining its rural development policy including operational goals. For this, the integrated approach to rural development should get priority in development plans, programs and actions.
5. The government should be committed to IRD strategy and then prepare appropriate conditions for ensuring coordination among the participating agencies.
6. The rural development projects, instead or being overly biased towards infrastructure development, must incorporate directly productive and employment generating programs. Poverty focused projects identified by the rural poor themselves should be formulated and executed.
7. People's participation must not be taken solely to mean contribution of voluntary labor. Instead, it should be convinced as the disciplined and organized involvement of local people. This demands effective decentralization of power to the village and district political institutions for planning, programming and implementation of rural development.
8. Efforts should be made to prepare experienced rural development cadres based on the fieldwork.
9. Realistic methods of continuous monitoring and evaluation should be adopted.
10. Most prominently, state as being central economic and social development should not act as a direct and sole provider of growth but as a partner, catalyst, facilitator, and regulator for rural development. Good governance mechanism should be there so that people's participation can be guaranteed in the process of development right from the very beginning of plan formulation and execution.
These are the true spirits of rural development that combats rural poverty paving way for elevated esteem of the rural mass and remarkable usefulness of the policies.


The new Kromann Reumert headquarters is a highly distinctive and thoroughly resolved office building whose furnishings and fixtures, as regards both design and materials, maintain a continuity with the elegant idiom and character of the building itself. The interior design project encompasses both design and the selection of furnishings and fittings for the building's various functional areas. The fixed furnishings include the design of countertops, furniture for sitting and waiting areas, canteen and café furniture, library shelving, cloakrooms, storage furniture for meeting rooms, outdoor lighting fixtures and outdoor seating. Loose furnishings include the design of furniture for sitting areas, meeting tables along with specialized furniture for the canteen and café. Other items to be selected include rest furniture, chairs, tables, lamps and carpets. Following on naturally with the same fine materials as those incorporated into the building the palette is limited to natural stone, glass, wenge and oak, leather, linoleum and stainless steel. The Kromann Reumert building thus represents an elegantly integrated design concept in which architecture and interior are fused into a unified whole.


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\section{Introduction}
Parametric down conversion is a process that is used to produce
light possessing strong quantum features. Photon pairs generated
by this process show entanglement with respect to different
physical attributes such as time of arrival \cite{Friberg 1985}
and states of polarization \cite{Kwiat 1995}. They are
increasingly being utilized for very basic experiments to test the
foundation of quantum mechanics and to do quantum information
processing \cite{Mandel 1995, Zeilinger 1999,Kwiat 1995}. It is
also recognized that entangled photon pairs could be useful in
many practical applications in precision metrology involving e.g.
interferometry \cite{Caves 1981,Yurke 1986,Dowling 1998,Holland
1993}, imaging \cite{Abouraddy 2001,Pittman 1995}, lithography
\cite{Boto 2000,Agarwal 2001,Bjork 2001,Dangelo 2001} and
spectroscopy \cite{Agarwal 2003}. There is a proposal \cite{Lee
2002} to use electromagnetic fields in $NOON$ states to improve
the sensitivity of measurements by a factor of $N$. Some
implementations of this proposal exist \cite{Walther 2004}. In
particular, the use of photon pairs in interferometers allows
phases to be measured to the precision in the Heisenberg limit
where uncertainty scales as $1/N$ \cite{Giovannetti 2004} as
compared to the shot noise limit where it scales as $1/\sqrt{N}$.
This means that for large number of particles, a dramatic
improvement in measurement resolution should be possible.

In this paper we present an analysis of how parametric down
converted photons could be very useful in getting better
spectroscopic information about the medium. We demonstrate how the
improvement in magneto-optical rotation (MOR) of light could be
realized by employing two different schemes with collinear and
non-collinear down conversion geometry in compared to use of
coherent light. We calculate the resolution that can be achieved
in the MOR's both by use of coherent light and down converted
light. We discuss that the Heisenberg limit \cite{Ou 1997} could
be reached in magnetometry by the use down converted light.

\section{MOR using coherent light source} Consider a single mode
coherent light travelling in the z-direction and a linear isotropic
medium made anisotropic by the application of the magnetic field
$\mathbf{B}$ in the z-direction. The incident field can be written
in the form
\begin{equation}
{\mathbf E}(z,t)=\exp(-i\omega
t+ikz)(\hat{x}\varepsilon_x+\hat{y}\varepsilon_y)+c.c.
\end{equation}
The medium is described by the frequency and magnetic field
dependent susceptibilities $\chi_{\!\pm}(\omega)$. That means
horizontally and  vertically polarized components of the incident
light will rotate on travelling the medium of length $l$ and the
field at the exit can be written as
\begin{equation}
{\bf E}(l,t)=\exp(-i\omega
t+ikl)(\hat{x}\varepsilon_{xl}+\hat{y}\varepsilon_{yl})+c.c.
\end{equation}
The rotation of the horizontal and vertical components can be
expressed by the relations
\begin{equation}
\left(\begin{array}{c}\varepsilon_{xl}\\\varepsilon_{yl}\end{array}\right)=R
\left(\begin{array}{cc}\varepsilon_{x}\\\varepsilon_{y}\end{array}\right)
\end{equation}
where
\begin{eqnarray}\label{rotation}
R &=& e^{i\theta_{\!+}}
e^{i\frac{\theta}{2}}\left(\begin{array}{cc}\cos\frac{\theta}{2} &
-\sin\frac{\theta}{2} \\ \sin\frac{\theta}{2} &
\cos\frac{\theta}{2} \end{array}\right), \\
\theta &=& kl(\chi_{\!+} - \chi_{\!-}),\label{mor}\\
\theta_+\!\!\!&=& kl\chi_{\!+}.
\end{eqnarray}

The corresponding quantum mechanical description can be obtained
 by replacing the classical amplitudes $\varepsilon_x$ and
$\varepsilon_y$ by the annihilation operators $a_x$ and $a_y$
respectively. For measurements with coherent sources one can look at
the intensities of the $x$ and $y$ components of the output when the
input is $x$ polarized with coherent state amplitude $\alpha_x$ (See
Fig. \ref{setup}(a). Then the measured quantities will be
\begin{eqnarray}
I_{xl}&=&\langle {a_{xl}}^{\dag}a_{xl}\rangle=|\alpha_x|^2
\cos^2\frac{\theta}{2},\label{coherent1}\\
I_{yl}&=&\langle {a_{yl}}^{\dag}a_{yl}\rangle=|\alpha_x|^2
\sin^2\frac{\theta}{2}.\label{coherent2}
\end{eqnarray}
One can estimate the minimum detectable rotation angle $\theta_m$
by looking at the fluctuations $\Delta N_d$ in the photon number
difference between horizontal and vertical photons, where the
number difference operator is given as
$N_d={a_{yl}}^{\dag}a_{yl}-{a_{xl}}^{\dag}a_{xl}$. This expression
is calculated to be $(\Delta N_d)^2=|\alpha_x|^2\sin^2\theta$ and
since the fluctuation noise is 1 we obtain $\theta_m\approx
1/\sqrt{\langle N\rangle}$ where $\langle N\rangle$ is the mean
number of input photons which is equal to $|\alpha_x|^2$.
\begin{figure}
 \scalebox{0.95}{\includegraphics{Fig1}
 \caption{\label{setup}The setup for the Magneto-optical rotation of light by using (a) coherent source, type-II PDC photons with (b) collinear and
 (c) non-collinear geometry.}
 \end{figure}
\section{MOR using collinear type-II PDC and two-photon coincidence}
We now discuss how the results (\ref{coherent1}) and
(\ref{coherent2}) are modified if we work with down-converted
photons. We first consider the collinear case shown in Fig.
\ref{setup}(b). The state produced in collinear PDC can be written
by
\begin{equation}
|\psi_{col}\rangle=\frac{1}{\cosh
r}\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}(-e^{i\phi}\tanh r)^n |n\rangle_H
|n\rangle_V.
\end{equation}

The value of the parameter $r$ and the phase $\phi$ are related to
the pump amplitude of the nonlinear crystal that is used in the
down conversion process and the coupling constant between the
electromagnetic field and the crystal. Note that the state
$|\psi_{col}\rangle$ is a superposition of $n$ photon pairs of
horizontally and vertically polarized modes. Inside the medium,
these modes rotate with the same rotation matrix $R$ given in Eq.
(\ref{rotation}):
\begin{equation}
\left(\begin{array}{c}a_{Hl}\\a_{Vl}\end{array}\right)=R
\left(\begin{array}{cc}a_H\\a_V\end{array}\right).
\end{equation}
One can measure the intensity of each mode:
\begin{eqnarray}
I_H&\equiv&\langle {a_{Hl}}^{\dag}a_{Hl}\rangle=\sinh^2r\nonumber\\
&=&\langle {a_{Vl}}^{\dag}a_{Vl}\rangle\equiv I_V.
\end{eqnarray}
And the two-photon coincidence count is:
\begin{eqnarray}\label{co-PDC}
I_{HV}&\equiv &\langle
{a_{Hl}}^{\dag}{a_{Vl}}^{\dag}a_{Hl}a_{Vl}\rangle\nonumber\\
&=&\cos^2\theta\sinh^2r\cosh^2r+\sinh^4r
\end{eqnarray}

Note the difference between Eqs. (\ref{coherent1}) and
(\ref{co-PDC}). With collinearly down-converted photons we measure
a rotation angle that is twice as large compared with the angle
for a coherent input. For $r\ll 1$ we obtain the same result as
given in \cite{Agarwal 2003}. The fringe pattern and the
visibility is given in Figs. \ref{collinear-twophoton} and
\ref{visibility}. One can calculate the minimum detectable
rotation angle again by looking at the fluctuations in the photon
number difference $N_d$. This is given by $(\Delta
N_d)^2=4\sinh^2r\cosh^2\sin^2\theta=(1+\langle N\rangle)\langle
N\rangle\sin^2\theta\approx{\langle N\rangle}^2\sin^2\theta$ for
large $\langle N\rangle$ where $\langle N\rangle=2\sinh^2r$.
Making $(\Delta N_d)\sim 1$ \cite{Ou 1997} we get $\theta_m\approx
1/\langle N\rangle$. Note that the sensitivity of this quantity is
also improved by a factor of $1/\sqrt{N}$.
\begin{figure}
 \scalebox{0.70}{\includegraphics{Fig2}
 \caption{\label{collinear-twophoton}The MOR plot of two-photon coincidence counts defined by the Eq. (\ref{co-PDC}) in collinear type-II PDC.
 $r$ is the interaction parameter that defines the pumping strength
 used in the production of down converted photons and $\theta=kl(\chi_+-\chi_-)$. }
 \end{figure}
\begin{figure}
 \scalebox{0.70}{\includegraphics{Fig3}
 \caption{\label{visibility}The visibility of two-photon and four-photon counts defined by the Eqs.
 (\ref{co-PDC}) and (\ref{4photon in detector}) respectively.}
 \end{figure}
\section{MOR using non-collinear type-II PDC and four-photon coincidence} Next, we discuss the
non-collinear PDC case. We have found an arrangement shown in Fig.
\ref{setup}(c) which is especially attractive for improving
sensitivity. The entangled photons are coming in two different
spatial modes, $a$ and $b$. While one mode (say $a$) is going
parallel to $\mathbf{B}$ inside the medium, the other is going
anti-parallel to it. At the exit we separate the $H$ and $V$ modes
by polarizing beam splitters. The state of the input photons can
be written in the form \cite{Kok 2000}
\begin{equation}
|\psi_{non}\rangle=\frac{1}{\cosh^2r}\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\sqrt{n+1}(\tanh
r)^n|\psi_n\rangle,
\end{equation}
where
\begin{equation}\label{state2b}
|\psi_n\rangle=\frac{1}{\sqrt{n+1}} \sum_{m=0}^n (-1)^m
|n-m\rangle_{a_H}|m\rangle_{a_V}|m\rangle_{b_H}|n-m\rangle_{b_V}.
\end{equation}
Here $|m\rangle_{a_V}$ represents $m$ vertically polarized photons
in mode $a$. Inside the medium, $``+"$ and $``-"$ polarization
components of the modes $a$ and $b$ gain phases $kl\chi_{\!+}$ and
$kl\chi_{\!-}$ respectively. Thus we can write an effective
Hamiltonian for the evolution of the state $|\psi_{non}\rangle$
inside the medium as follows:
\begin{equation}\label{medium}
H_{med}=\chi_{\!+}{a_{+}}^{\dag}a_{+}+
\chi_{\!-}{a_{-}}^{\dag}a_{-}- \chi_{\!+}{b_{+}}^{\dag}b_{+}-
\chi_{\!-}{b_{-}}^{\dag}b_{-},
\end{equation}
where
\begin{equation}
a_{\pm}=\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}(a_H\pm ia_V),\quad
b_{\pm}=\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}(b_H\pm ib_V).
\end{equation}
\begin{figure}
 \scalebox{0.50}[0.50]{\includegraphics{Fig4}
 \caption{\label{noncollinear-4photon}(a) The normalized four-photon probability defined in Eq. (\ref{4photon1}) , and (b) its envelope {\it
 wrt} the interaction parameter $r$ in the non-collinear geometry.}
 \end{figure}
\begin{figure}
 \scalebox{0.50}[0.50]{\includegraphics{Fig5}}
\caption{\label{collinear-4photon_a}(a) The normalized four-photon
probability defined in Eq. (\ref{4photon2}), and (b) its envelope
{\it wrt} the interaction parameter $r$ at the exit ports of PBS
in the collinear geometry.}
 \end{figure}
The minus sign in front of the $b_{\pm}$ modes comes from the fact
that they are travelling anti-parallel to the $\mathbf B$ field
inside the medium. Then one can calculate the probability of
detecting four photons in each mode as:
\begin{eqnarray}\label{4photon1}
P_{non}&=&|\langle
1_{a_H}1_{a_V}1_{b_H}1_{b_V}|\exp(-itH_{med})|\psi_{non}\rangle|^2\nonumber\\
&=&\frac{\tanh^4r}{\cosh^4r}\cos^2(2\theta),
\end{eqnarray}
where $t$ is the duration for the state to evolve inside the
medium. Note that this four-photon probability has the rotation
angle that is four-times as large compared with the angle for a
coherent input. The fringe pattern with respect to $\theta$ and
the probability distribution with respect to $r$ are shown in Fig.
\ref{noncollinear-4photon} (a) and (b).

Next we also examine the four-photon  probability in the collinear
case. The probability of finding two $H$-photons and two
$V$-photons at the exit ports of the polarizing beam splitter is
given by:
\begin{eqnarray}\label{4photon2}
P_{col}&=&|\langle2_{a_H}2_{a_V}|\exp(-itH_{med})|\psi_{col}\rangle|^2\nonumber\\
&=&\frac{\tanh^4r}{\cosh^2r}\frac{1}{16}[1+3\cos(2\theta)]^2,
\end{eqnarray}
where we take $H_{med}=\chi_{\!+}{a_{+}}^{\dag}a_{+}+
\chi_{\!-}{a_{-}}^{\dag}a_{-}$ because of the collinear geometry.
The normalized plot of this quantity with respect to the
magneto-optical rotation angle $\theta$ and the envelope of the
probability with respect to $r$ are shown in Fig.
\ref{collinear-4photon_a} (a) and (b).

On the other hand one can also calculate the coincidence counts of
four photons two-by-two at each detector as given by Glauber's
higher order correlation functions:
\begin{widetext}
\begin{eqnarray}
I_{HHVV}&=&\langle
{a_{Hl}}^{\dag 2}{a_{Vl}}^{\dag 2}{a_{Hl}}^2{a_{Vl}}^2\rangle\nonumber\\
&=&(3\cos^2\theta-1)^2\sinh^4r\cosh^4r
+4(3\cos^2\theta+1)\sinh^6r\cosh^2r+4\sinh^8r.\label{4photon in
detector}
\end{eqnarray}
\end{widetext}
The plot of this quantity for different values of the interaction
parameter $r$ and the visibility are shown in Figs.
\ref{collinear-4photon} and \ref{visibility}.
\begin{figure}
 \scalebox{0.70}{\includegraphics{Fig6}
 \caption{\label{collinear-4photon}Four-photon coincidence counts defined in Eq. (\ref{4photon in detector})
 with different interaction parameter values in the collinear geometry.}
 \end{figure}
Note the distinction between Eqs. (\ref{4photon2}) and
(\ref{4photon in detector}) which is a reflection of what the
detector is set to measure as we explain now. The former is the
probability of the state $|\psi_{col}(t)\rangle$ to be projected
onto the particular four-photon subspace $|22\rangle$ i.e.
$Tr[|22\rangle\langle22|\rho_{col}(t)]$ where
$\rho_{col}(t)=U|\psi_{col}\rangle\langle\psi_{col}|U^{\dag}$ and
$U$ is the unitary operator that represents the evolution of the
state by the Hamiltonian $H_{med}$ in the collinear geometry. On
the other hand, coincidence counting of four-photons at the
detectors $D_H$ and $D_V$ (see Fig. \ref{setup}(b)) is represented
by the expectation value
 $\langle{a_{H}}^{\dag 2}{a_{V}}^{\dag 2}{a_{H}}^2{a_{V}}^2\rangle=
 Tr[{a_{H}}^{\dag 2}{a_{V}}^{\dag
 2}{a_{H}}^2{a_{V}}^2\rho_{col}(t)]$. Note here that the operator  ${a_{H}}^{\dag 2}{a_{V}}^{\dag
 2}{a_{H}}^2{a_{V}}^2$ has the spectral decomposition $\sum_{nm}^{\infty}C_{nm}|nm\rangle\langle
 nm|$ and obviously it contains the projectors of all $(n+m)$-photon
 subspaces with nonzero coefficients $C_{nm}$. Therefore four-photon
 counting process at detectors includes not only $|22\rangle$ but all other states $|nm\rangle$ in $|\psi_{col}(t)\rangle$.
 Here the state $|nm\rangle$ represents $n$ and $m$ photons in the
 $a_H$ and $a_V$ modes respectively.

\section{Conclusion} We showed that the use of
non-collinear type-II PDC light in MOR's increases the sensitivity
by a factor of four in comparison to coherent light. We also give
an argument that minimum rotation uncertainty scales to Heisenberg
limit by the use of down converted photons. It should be noted
that Heisenberg limit should be understood as an approximate limit
at a large mean photon number, that is, the rotation uncertainty
approaches the order of $1/\langle N\rangle$ for large $\langle
N\rangle$ \cite{Holland 1993}. The regime with an interaction
parameter value of $r=1.3$ has already been reached in the
experiment \cite{Eisenberg 2004} giving entanglement of $12$
photons and an evidence also was given for entanglement up to 100
photons.

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Ubon Ratchathani revs up its motor this month with a host of activities organised by the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) that showcase this Northeastern town's traditions and rituals under the Thailand Grand Festival theme of "timeless elegance". July is the month of Khao Phansa or Buddhist Lent and the Ubon Ratchathani celebrations are popular with tourists and locals alike. Week two is devoted to Buddhist ceremonies and the third to the time-honoured beeswax carving contest (dates unconfirmed but set for July 20-24). The months wraps up with a succession of candle processions on July 25. And to make sure that visitors don't miss out on the scenery in the area, the TAT and the provincial authorities are offering a special "Around Ubon" tour programme. For more information and to check the dates, call 045-254-827/255-552.
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In Americans for Prosperity Foundation et al. v. Xavier Becerra; No. 16-55727; No. 16-55787; No. 16-56855; No. 16-56902 (11 Sep 2018), the Ninth Circuit held California could require nonprofits to file IRS Form 990 Schedule B with their state returns. Schedule B discloses the names and gifts of major donors. The disclosure met the substantial relation test because it served an important state interest in preventing charitable fraud.
The Attorney General of California is required to maintain a registry of charitable corporations. Qualified exempt California nonprofits must submit IRS Form 990 with Schedule B to the Attorney General. Depending upon the organization's total receipts, major donors with substantial gifts above a specific level must be reported.
Between 2010 and 2015, the Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFPF) and the Thomas Moore Law Center (TMLC) were required to report their major donors. Both organizations filed returns and were not willing to disclose their donors. The Attorney General of California brought an action to require the disclosure of their major donors on Schedule B.
After the case was initiated, the California Attorney General published a 2016 regulation to make Schedule B reports confidential. Cal. Code Regs Title 11, Sec. 310. Disclosure is permitted only as part of a judicial or administrative enforcement proceeding or through a search warrant.
AFPF and TMLC claim that filing Schedule B unconstitutionally hinders the First Amendment rights of their donors. Donors may fear disclosure and harassment. As a result, donors may be reluctant to make gifts. The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ruled that AFPF and TMLC were protected under the First Amendment and did not have to disclose their Schedule B donors. Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Harris, No. 2:14-CV-09448-R-FFM, 2015 WL 769778 (C.D. Cal. Feb 23, 2015).
The Ninth Circuit rejected the AFPF and TMLC request to not disclose their donors. They had asked the Court "to apply strict scrutiny and to hold that any mandatory disclosure of a member or donor list is unconstitutional absent a compelling government interest and narrowly drawn regulations furthering that interest." Instead, the Ninth Circuit held that the proper standard is a "substantial relation" as defined under prior court decisions. The Ninth Circuit stated, "To withstand this scrutiny, the strength of the governmental interest must reflect the seriousness of the actual burden on First Amendment rights."
AFPF and TMLC claimed that the Attorney General did not need Schedule B information for three reasons. They stated the Attorney General did "not use the information frequently enough to justify collecting it en masse, he is able to investigate charities without Schedule B information and he does not review individual Schedule B Forms until he receives a complaint, at which point he has at his disposal tools of subpoena and audit to obtain the Schedule B information he needs."
The Attorney General demonstrated that Schedule B information was sufficient to make its enforcement efforts more efficient and effective. Because the strict necessity test is not mandated, the Court determined the Attorney General may rely on the improved efficiency standard.
The Ninth Circuit noted that "the evidence, however, shows at most a modest impact on contributions." While some donors may fear disclosure, the mere possibility of a fearful donor is not a substantial burden on First Amendment rights.
AFPF showed that donors "have been subjected to threats, harassment or economic reappraisals." However, the Ninth Circuit held that the new Attorney General procedures and improved data security guidelines were sufficient to reduce the risk to "slight." Therefore, the Attorney General may require the Schedule B information with disclosure of major donors.
Editor's Note: Both the Ninth Circuit and the Second Circuit in New York have permitted states to require nonprofits to file Schedule B with their returns. Nonprofits are likely to appeal this First Amendment issue to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In Champions Retreat Golf Founders LLC et al. v. Commissioner; No. 4868-15; T.C. Memo. 2018-146 (10 Sep 2018), the Tax Court denied a $10,427,435 conservation easement charitable deduction because it failed to satisfy the conservation purpose test under Sec. 170(h).
Champions Retreat (CR) is a Georgia LLC that owns a 463-acre tract with three nine-hole golf courses. The courses were designed by Gary Player, Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus. On December 29, 2010, CR deeded a conservation easement on 348.51 acres to the North American Land Trust (NALT).
NALT biologist Lee Echols surveyed the property and determined it qualified for a conservation easement. CR obtained an appraisal and reported a 2010 charitable conservation easement deduction of $10,427,435. The IRS denied the deduction on two grounds. It determined the conservation easement was not qualified under Sec. 170(h) and also had a value of zero.
The CR easement deed claimed there were three conservation purposes. These were, "Preservation of the area as a relatively natural habitat of fish, wildlife or plants or similar ecosystem; preservation of the area as open space which provides scenic enjoyment to the general public and yields a significant public benefit; and preservation of the area as open space which, if preserved, will advance a clearly delineated Federal, state or local governmental conservation policy and will yield a significant public benefit."
The easement includes most of the golf course fairways and greens. It excludes the club house, residential buildings and utility buildings.
A conservation easement must meet the purposes of "(1) the protection of a relatively natural habitat of fish, wildlife, or plants or similar ecosystem or (2) the preservation of open space where such preservation is for the scenic enjoyment of the general public." Sec. 170(h)(4)(A).
The evidence did not show sufficient presence of rare, endangered or threatened bird species. The endangered denseflower knotweed was present, but only 17% of its habitat was covered by the easement. Finally, because the private course is not open to the public, there is no Sec. 170(h) preservation of open space with a significant public benefit.
Because there was insubstantial protection of endangered birds or plants and the golf course was not open to the public, the easement deduction was denied for failure to meet Sec. 170(h) conservation purposes.
The IRS has announced the Applicable Federal Rate (AFR) for September of 2018. The AFR under Section 7520 for the month of September is 3.4%. The rates for August of 3.4% or July of 3.4% also may be used. The highest AFR is beneficial for charitable deductions of remainder interests. The lowest AFR is best for lead trusts and life estate reserved agreements. With a gift annuity, if the annuitant desires greater tax-free payments the lowest AFR is preferable. During 2018, pooled income funds in existence less than three tax years must use a 1.4% deemed rate of return.


Ryan Preece continues to cash in on betting on himself. The former Whelen Modified Tour champion won the Fitzgerald Glider Kits 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway on Saturday afternoon (April 14). It was Preece's second victory since joining Joe Gibbs Racing for a part-time schedule last year.
Preece also won the NASCAR XFINITY Series' Dash 4 Cash prize of $100,000 by beating out Daniel Hemric, Cole Custer and Christopher Bell. Preece said that the win will allow for him to pay off his debt to a friend who let him borrow money to race in NXS last season.
Brandon Jones lost the race lead to Preece on the final restart when Preece's four fresh tires proved superior to Jones' two. Justin Allgaier recovered from multiple incidents to finish runner-up, while Hemric finished in third. Elliott Sadler and Spencer Gallagher rounded out the top five.
The old Bristol was back. NASCAR applied a bite to the lower groove and the warm day prevented rubber from ever sticking to the upper groove. The race turned out to be a battle to get to the bottom, just like the old days of Bristol and just like your weekly short track racing.
The race had it all: passing throughout the field, beating and banging and tempers flaring. Matt Tifft referred to Allgaier's driving as too aggressive and stupid after the No. 7 spun him out early in the race. Sadler and John Hunter Nemechek had a quarrel with their cars during a caution period after Sadler didn't like the way he was raced.
One could argue that the race had too many wrecks, and given that 93 laps of the 300 were under the yellow flag because of the 12 cautions, that is probably a fair assessment. But it was likely the most entertaining NXS race at Bristol in over a decade.
Hemric's third-place effort initially qualified him for the opportunity to race for $100,000 in next weekend's Dash 4 Cash at Richmond Raceway, in addition to Allgaier, Sadler and Gallagher. However, the No. 21 Chevrolet failed the postrace inspection for improper mechanical measurements, and NASCAR announced after the race that he is disqualified from next week's Dash 4 Cash. Jones, who finished the race in sixth, will replace Hemric as one of the four competitors. Expect an announcement this upcoming week regarding monetary and points fines for the team.
Christopher Bell came into the afternoon with high hopes, including pocketing $100,000, as he was one of the Dash 4 Cash participants. But his day was almost over before it even started.
Bell triggered a multi-car accident after hitting the wall to bring out the first caution of the afternoon.
But that was only the beginning of what would turn out to be a day to forget for the reigning Camping World Truck Series champion. Bell's day ended prematurely while running third when his No. 20 came sliding into the side of Vinnie Miller's No. 01 in Turns 3 and 4.
Bell has four top-five results, but also three finishes of 20th or worse this season. Being in premier equipment, his next win is bound to come sooner rather than later. But the inconsistency, if not improved upon soon, may come back to bite him down the road.
Ross Chastain's season high for top-10 finishes is four, back in 2014. Only seven races into 2018, he's one race away from tying that mark.
The Watermelon Man and driver of the No. 4 for JD Motorsports earned his 10th top 10 in his 113rd XFINITY start on Saturday afternoon, keeping his Chevrolet out of harm's way when it mattered.
There were zero Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series regulars in the field (I repeat, zero) due to this being a Dash 4 Cash event. Next weekend at Richmond Raceway, we'll have the same situation, as Cup regulars are permitted from participating in D4C events.
Saturday's race had the makings of a perfect day for a NASCAR fan. Short track, beautiful weather, no Cup regulars in the field. But it seemed like one thing was lacking: fan support.
But there's probably only a couple or few thousand people in the stands.
I get it, people have lives. But isn't this what we want? NXS only?
The XFINITY Series heads to Richmond Raceway next weekend for the ToyotaCare 250, the second Dash 4 Cash race. Kyle Larson is the defending winner of the event, and Brad Keselowski won there this past fall. But with the new Dash 4 Cash rules, neither driver is allowed to compete, opening the door for a different winner. The race is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET on FOX Sports 1.
Michael Massie and Davey Segal contributed to this report.
Amazing how much more compelling the Xfinity race is without the Cup drivers! The series regulars actually could compete for the win!


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Sony has designed the BRAVIA® Televisions software update process to be customer friendly. This software update (version v1.012) improves the quality of the audio optical output.
On the TV remote control, press the "HOME" button to display the Menu screen.
On the remote control, use the arrows to select the Settings icon, and then press the OK button.
Use the arrows to highlight the Setup icon, and then press the OK button.
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Disconnect the TV power cord.
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Verify your USB device is in good working order and perform the download and update process again.
Power off the TV by pressing the POWER button on the TV set, and the press the POWER button again to power on the TV.
Proceed with the installation process again.
If the message "No newer version of the TV software was found" is displayed on the TV, your TV already has the newer firmware installed.


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For assigned compound/indications, work collaboratively across functions, within GPT to execute an integrated Medical Affairs plan including clinical trials, publication, medical education and medical information. Lead or co-leads GMA Strategic Sub teams within GPT, to gain strategic and planning alignment across regions and functions Manages all operational aspects and drives execution for assigned projects of Global Medical Affairs clinical trials in partnership with global line functions, assigned Clinical Trial Heads (CTHs), and regional/country medical associates. Participates and contributes to the joint ICT s. Provides Medical leadership to CTT s for Novartis sponsored GMA trials Leads review of investigator-sponsored trials and Local/Regional Medical Affairs trials concept sheets, within MRC, for assigned projects(s). Supports medical training, medical education and commercial activities in alignment with the Global Brand Team. Provides medical support for educational events (e.g. stand-alone meetings, scientific symposia) and scientific congresses within legal and compliance regulations. Collaborates across functions to achieve approval of key scientific communications, medical information documents and commercial documents within NP4 legal and compliance regulations. Provides medical input on overall publication strategy and is a key member of publication planning team providing GMA medical input on individual publication plans. Provides medical leadership in interactions with key external stakeholders e.g., leads advisory boards, under supervision of GMA Franchise Head or Sr. GBMD. Responsible to efficiently manage budgets and resources for Novartis Sponsored and GMA supported activities, in collaboration with GMA Franchise Head or Sr. GBMD.
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MIDLAND, MI — The CEO of Toyota's North America region said hydrogen-powered vehicles are one way the automotive industry can reduce carbon emissions in the future.
Lentz said he test drove one of Toyota's hydrogen-fueled vehicles for several months.
"The vehicle would go about 300 to 330 miles a tank. The tank was about $18 to $20 to refuel, as opposed to about $50 for gasoline. And it took about four to six minutes to refuel," he said.
Lentz was the keynote speaker for the Northwood Auto Show, that runs through Sunday, Sept. 29 at Northwood's campus, located at 4000 Whiting Drive.
In addition to discussing hydrogen vehicles, Lentz spoke about the future he sees for the auto industry.
Toyota operates 14 plants in North America, and 70 percent of the vehicles it sells in North America are produced in North America, Lentz said. In October, the company celebrated the milestone of having built 25 million vehicles in North America.
Lentz said the U.S. economy is on an upward curve and the consensus among industry analysts is that sales will increase by nearly 1 million units from last year to about 15.5 million vehicles. Some predict that number will climb to the 17 million mark, among the highest ever recorded, probably by around 2018, he told the crowd.
Lentz said there is pent up demand among consumers for new vehicles. The average age of vehicles on the road is 11.4 years.
"As the economy continues to improve, we'll see more replacement … that's going to continue to boost this industry well into the future," he said.
Lentz said Toyota earned its reputation by building dependable, reliable vehicles with good fuel economy. Today, those things are "simply the price of entry if you want to be successful in this industry," he said, so, companies such as Toyota are being challenged to do more.
Lentz said he sees enhanced connectivity between vehicles and users' personal devices in the future.
Many in the crowd were Northwood students, who Lentz encouraged to pursue careers in the auto industry.
Lentz is CEO of Toyota's North America Region, president and chief operating officer of Toyota Motor North America, Inc., and a senior managing officer of parent company Toyota Motor Corp. located in Japan.


@cwebber I'm sorry to hear about their lack of interest. I think ActivityPub is where all the value being worked on was.
They keep trying to make the clientside more "capable", whilst neglecting making the serverside more interoperable. But then that's where the industry is at, and maybe you liked the lack of attention.
@alcinnz The lack of management and corporate interest in AP while it was being standardized was a blessing and a curse. Early on Tim Berners-Lee was interested, but lost interest when we weren't quite as devoted to RDF as he'd like in some ways (or maybe he was just busy). But we never got corporate interest, which actually threatened our ability to get specs to Recommendation status.
OTOH it also stopped Google & Facebook for stepping in and bulldozing it as "their standard" and ignoring the community, or alternately perceiving us as serious enough of a threat to try to shut us down. My experience in standards says that sadly that happens *a lot* in the W3C and even most standards groups, sadly. So maybe in that sense it's a good thing that the big players barely paid us any mind.


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The river Brenta, the waterway connecting Venice to Padua, was the ideal extension of Venice onto the mainland, almost a continuation of the Grand Canal, lined with dozens of palatial villas dotting the banks of this ancient river.
The Serenissima Repubblica began its expansion on the mainland in the 15th century, after it had settled its disputes with Padua. At the time, Venice was at the apex of its maritime power, and the Venetian patricians were able to invest considerable capital in their mainland agricultural estates. The best architects were called in to design the stately country homes, a far cry from the traditional farmhouse, so splendid that a new name was coined for them – villa.
Between the 17th and 18th century it experienced a golden age which turned it into a privileged holiday resort for rich Venetian nobles.
Owning a country estate with a villa where to entertain family and friends became a must, and when the summer heat became oppressive in Venice, the nobles would have themselves rowed across the lagoon and up the Brenta, on whose cooler shores they organized parties and revelries and engaged in amorous dalliances.
Navigation began at St. Mark's Square, with the famous burchielli, a sort of venetian boat, and after crossing the Venetian lagoon, the boats gained the river Brenta and touched the various towns and villages along the Riviera, landing stage in Padua.
In the course of time, navigation along the Brenta was abandoned in favour of road transport, and the river lost all the once- booming activities that had been connected with it.
Only in mid-20th century did the old magic of the villas experience a revival, and with them life was brought back to the river.


Last time I wrote a post here, I was seven months pregnant, on bed rest, and stuffing my face with tiramisu ice cream.
A lot has happened since then; I didn't have any idea what life had in store for me.
I lost my fiancé a year after our baby was born. And that completely changed my life forever.
Just a month after my fiancé passed away I sold all of my belongings in a garage sale, got my kids in my car, and moved back to Orlando. I knew I needed to be in a place I love, and Orlando has always been my happy place.
I decided to not only get back into photography, but to do it full time. Yes, I know, it sounds like a dumb idea because we all know this is not the easiest industry to make money from, but I needed to do something creative, something I love. Also, I needed to do something that allowed me to be present in my kids' lives, especially after everything we went through.
So, I gave myself a year to make it happen and this is what've learned so far.
I started redesigning every element of my life to keep myself on track.
There were a few seconds every morning when I woke up, and everything was fine until the realization of him being gone hit me. It felt like he died every single morning for at least the first six months. But, still, I had to get up, take care of my kids, and make their life beautiful. I didn't want them to look back at their childhood with sadness. So, instead of staying in bed and crying as many times I wanted to, I made the best out of my day.
It's all about how you use the time you have.
Sorry, Adele, it's not you, it's me. In order to have the right mindset, I needed to invest my time wisely. I needed to keep myself inspired. And, as much as I love Adele, I had to ditch her. I started listening to self development, business, photography and inspirational podcasts and audiobooks. That made a massive change in my life. I still listen to them in my car, when I'm editing and even when I'm getting ready to go out.
This not only allows me to get everything out of my head, but it also gives me perspective. And it's a way to track my progress.
As the first year of my fiancé's death approached, I felt emotionally burnt out. That night, I sat alone in my bed and started writing the names of people and the things I was thankful for, and, to my surprise, the list was huge. 2016 was a rough year, but I will never forget the support and the kind gestures I received from mostly everybody I know. I wouldn't have made it through that year if it wasn't for them. The photography community is full of people with HUGE hearts.
Since then, I give thanks every night before I go to sleep.
I try to surround myself with creative, positive, inspiring, hardworking, and badass people. People with big ideas and talents.
This is why I love going to Photoshop World so much. I've been going to PSW since 2013. It's the perfect environment for creatives. I've met many of my best friends there, and we keep in touch throughout the year to talk about our projects and support each other.
Everything starts with a thought, comes out of your mouth and, it's turned into action. So, be aware of what's happening in the roof.
This one became a habit to me. I've been in the dark so much; I know how a kind gesture can bring light to someone's life. I try to spread a little bit of joy every day. This is not hard at all. Check on your friends, answer questions, be a cheerleader, help someone out, give compliments, hug somebody, share their work.
But do not give yourself away (I tend to get too invested sometimes when helping people) so, know your limits and establish boundaries.
There are many things that make us different from each other. I've learned a lot about myself in the last two years. I made peace with my flaws, I accepted my misfortunes, and I keep trying to learn from my mistakes. I know who I am, what I'm willing to do, and what I'm not willing to sacrifice in my life for my business. Sometimes, I'm too much for some people. Maybe I talk too much; I'm too passionate, I'm too happy, or too opinionated. Those comments used to bother me and put me into negative self-critique mode. But now, I embrace them instead and see them as qualities.
There's nothing more refreshing and exciting than doing something for the first time. A few months ago I was asked to cast for a TV commercial. I have no experience with acting. But, I said yes, and I went to the audition. I didn't get the part but I had a lot of fun!
Go ahead and do something exciting! Go on a doors off helicopter ride! I did that recently with my friend Dave Williams, and it was a blast.
I'm a single mom of two, and I run a business. Sounds simple right? Well, it is not, especially when you want to do everything so perfectly. I usually find myself in front of my computer making things happen, either writing content or editing pictures, with my three year old girl sitting on my lap. My kids are very involved in my photography. They love to model and to come up with concepts for Photoshoots. It's essential for me that they can enjoy and understand what I do for a living.
You can see a lot of the projects we do together in my portfolio.
My desk is covered by sticky notes. I have written on a blackboard all of the important due dates and projects I'm working on. I have all kind of reminders on my phone, and the Evernote app is my best friend. Without all those, I'm not able to function. I get distracted too easily, especially with a little girl pulling my arm asking for ice cream and cookies about ten times a day.
I still shoot with the first and only camera I've ever had. My trusty Canon 5D Mark II. I bought my Elinchrom strobes at around the same time I bought my camera. It was probably September of 2011, and those are still the only ones I have. My computer is about that old too. It even died on me a couple of months ago, and I got a new hard drive, a new battery, turned to YouTube, and fixed it myself. This is proof that when you want something you go for it. I can't make excuses. I do drool over gear, but I'm supporting two kids on my own and building my empire brick by brick. So, I make the best with what I have.
It goes back to what makes you unique. I get a lot of messages from people asking me how can they jump into the photography business to make a living. And, to be honest, those questions were the inspiration to write this blog post.
I don't have all the answers. My process hasn't been easy. I've gotten a lot of doors shut on my face, and I've had to dust myself off, get up and try again. But I've been fully committed all the time.
First, find your niche, then, make your work stand out from the rest. You can only do that by investing long hours on your craft. Try different techniques. There's no shortcut. Put the hours in and be creative.
This is a big one. Relationships are the mother of every business. I'm genuinely a people person. I love human connection, deep conversations, I love making friends and keeping in touch. I'm not afraid to approach people.
I also don't believe in competition. On the contrary, I'm the first one to support other photographers and celebrate their successes. I think there's room for each one of us in the industry and we all have a different thing to bring to the table.
Are you a giver or a taker? I always do my best to bring something positive to every relationship I'm in, whether it's a personal or a business relationship. Yes, you can expect people to shower you with love and goodies, but if you don't give anything in return, chances are that relationship won't last long.
Ask people what you can bring to the table, what kind of help they need, how you can benefit each other.
I'm approaching my third-year mark of doing photography full time, and I'm not yet where I want to be. But the last couple of months have been incredible, and my hard work is finally paying off.
I want to give a big thanks to everybody who has put their trust in me in these last three years. My friends, my wonderful clients, everybody at KelbyOne, Platypod, Spectacular Themes and the amazing people at 3 Legged Thing for making me part of their Pro Team. I finally can say I'm starting to live my dream!
So, go ahead, take the leap, be brave, be constant and live the dream!
You can see more of Gilmar's work at GilmarPhotography.com, and keep up with her on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
Challenging circumstances – you're up to it ! best wishes….
Certainly one of the most inspiring posts here! Gilmar is an amazing professional and a great person. No one would imagine Gilmar had to go through all of these when meeting her. She is always so funny and so positive. I guess that's part of the secret: be determined, when life hands you lemons, you make a great lemonade out of them. Way to go Gilmar!!! You rock!
You are a warrior! Thanks for the inspiring article.
Very inspiring post and images. You have top-tier talent!


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John Garrett
John Robert Garrett
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Solari lieutenant
John Garrett (4 July 1953 – 8 July 2016; age 63) is an actor and dancer who appeared as a Solari lieutenant in the Star Trek: The Next Generation second season episode "Loud As A Whisper" in 1988. Footage from this episode was later reused in the episode "Shades of Gray".
Garrett had previously appeared as a dancer on the two Grease films as well as in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. He also had a supporting role in Peter Hyams' 1983 action-thriller The Star Chamber, co-starring Robert Costanzo, Michael Ensign, Robin Gammell, Larry Hankin, James B. Sikking. In addition, he has made guest appearances on such television shows as Police Woman (in an episode with Lance LeGault and Kenneth Mars) and Quincy, M.E. (starring Robert Ito and Garry Walberg), on which he appeared in two episodes (one with Jane Wyatt, another with Darleen Carr), both written by Jeri Taylor. He also worked with Byron Morrow twice: first in an episode of Men into Space and then in an episode of Highway to Heaven.
Garrett died on the 8th of July, 2016, only four days after his 63rd birthday.
John Garrett at the Internet Movie Database
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They Fly Right Off the Ground!
Welcome to the house of Frog, a web site devoted to the free flight model aircraft kits produced by International Model Aircraft Ltd.
I have become something of a fan of the splendid free flight flying models produced as kits by Frog in the 1940's and 50's, and feel they are often overlooked in favour of the better known Keil Kraft and Veron designs of the same period. So, in an effort to make them more widely known, and hopefully encourage more to be built, I thought I would have a go at scanning some of the plans and placing them here for download. In many cases the original kits were die cut, so I have tried to draw items such as fuselage formers that may not have been on the original plan. Some bits of the plans have also been redrawn in places for clarity.
I am hoping these plans are out of copyright. They are all 50 years old or more, and the Frog company has not existed for many years. The kits have never to my knowledge been re-issued. So, I hope I am not treading on anyone's toes. If anyone knows differently, please let me know!!! I think they are just too nice to never see the light of day again.
Please send me photos of any models you have built, and let's see if we can build up a comprehensive photo gallery of Frog flying models.
Also, if anyone would like to submit any information or personal recollections of International Model Aircraft Ltd. and their flying model kits, I would be delighted to hear from you.


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mattgburgess / October 17, 2015
As those close to me know, I'm a huge news junkie – especially Canadian news. In recent years, The Globe and Mail has been my primary source. Reading it on my phone while waking up has been part of my daily routine I rarely miss. Even though I could catch up on all of the headlines through free outlets like the CBC (and I do), I chose to pay $20 a month to subscribe to the Globe for its commentary and analysis.
Where other papers – like the Sun chain, the National Post and the Toronto Star – have clear partisan leans that make them sometimes dully predictable, the Globe has a rare diversity of columnists – ranging from the quite liberal Elizabeth Renzetti and Denise Balkissoon, to the centrist Jeffrey Simpson, to the quite conservative John Ibbitson, Konrad Yakabuski and Margaret Wente (though she has come noticeably to the centre in recent months). Its Editorials also swing across party lines (on average slightly right of centre) – again not always predictably. Most Globe Editorials have an air of consensus to them – one I have always assumed comes as a result of discussion amongst these diverse contributors.
In a Canadian newspaper culture that is still quite partisan, The Globe and Mail's brand has been as the middle-of-the-road honest broker. This is why I have subscribed to The Globe and Mail and not other newspapers. It's also why I hold them to a higher standard.
But ever since the editorial shakeup that saw the arrival of David Walmsley as Editor-in-Chief in March 2014, there have been occasional hints of weirdness in the newsroom.
In the June 2014 Ontario election there were reports – which the Globe has yet to deny – that the Editorial board had unanimously decided to endorse a minority Liberal government, but was subsequently overruled by Walmsley – allegedly on orders from the publisher, Phillip Crawley – to instead endorse Tim Hudak's Progressive Conservatives. Whether you believe the allegation or not (I do), there's no question that the endorsement was published later than promised and read a lot like it was written from between clenched teeth.
Just days later, it was leaked that the Globe had begun commissioning 'advertorials' – articles that are written by Globe reporters and look like news, but are actually scoped, paid for, and vetted by sponsors.
And finally, yesterday the Globe published one of the strangest election endorsements I have ever read – one that was widely and rightly ridiculed. The endorsement opened predictably enough with the line, "All elections are choices among imperfect alternatives, and this one more than most. Each of the parties has gaps, deficiencies and failings. But choose, voters must." I'm with them so far. But then they went on to endorse the Conservative party, but not Stephen Harper – telling us that we should all vote for the Conservatives and then hope that Harper's first act once returned to power is to resign. Why should we hope for this? Because, they say, of Harper's hyper-partisanship, meanness, divisiveness, dictatorial control over his own party, contempt for Parliament, etc. All of which, of course, are reasons Harper would never give up power willingly once elected. Alas, amongst the "imperfect alternatives" that we must choose from and suffer through after the election, the Globe managed to find the single most implausible scenario – a "unicorn" as BJ Siekierski of iPolitics described it.
The Globe Editorial board is made up of very smart people, all of whom must have realized how nonsensical this endorsement was. They can't have forgotten that parties and leaders – especially intentionally divisive ones – are unlikely to clean up their act unless and until voters hold them to account. This is a basic principle of democracy. Besides, anyone who has been following Canadian politics for the last ten years knows that the hyper-partisanship that has come to define Harper's Conservative government is not limited to just Harper himself (e.g. think Pierre Poilievre or Paul Calandra). Even if it truly was the case that Harper had concentrated power so intensely that he was solely responsible for the rot inside his party, it would then necessarily also be the case that Harper was solely responsible for the Conservative economic policy – the economic policy the Globe argued was deserving of another mandate. They can't have it both ways.
Or can they? Earlier in their endorsement, they argue that, "the other two major parties have so much respect for the Conservatives' record on economic, fiscal and tax policy that they propose to change almost none of it." So the message of their endorsement is that we need a party that follows the Harper Conservatives' economic fundamentals – like the other two parties do, as they argue – but one that jettisons the Harper Conservatives' divisive political tactics…like, say one of the other two parties? Nope. Apparently the Harper-less Conservatives (with help from the Pope-less Catholics?) are the more realistic among the "imperfect choices".
Obviously, this smells funny – kind of like the Hudak endorsement did. In fact, I wouldn't be at all surprised – given how many Globe Editorials over the last four years have been highly critical of the Harper government (and not just on its politics) – if the story here is the same as with the Hudak endorsement: that it was a unilateral decision by Walmsley and/or Crawley. With the Hudak endorsement, the allegation was that Crawley was trying to protect the interests of the wealthy Thomson family – the Globe's majority owners. If that were the case this time, too, the sticking points would likely have been the Liberals' promise to raise personal income taxes on incomes over $200K and the NDP's promise to raise corporate taxes. Both of these would hurt the pocketbook of a wealthy family controlling a major newspaper. Indeed, these were the two issues that seemed to be flagged most negatively in the endorsement.
Ok, so I obviously disagree with the Globe's endorsement of the Conservatives. But why cancel my subscription? I, after all, especially like engaging with people with whom I disagree.
I canceled my subscription because I had been subscribing to what I thought was the Globe's brand – a tri-partisan centrist newspaper, guided by consensus among diverse viewpoints, which aimed to serve as a hard-hitting but honest broker in an otherwise partisan news landscape. I didn't sign up for an honest brokership that could be secretly shelved any time it suited senior management's personal financial interest. Whether that occurred in this particular endorsement or not, it clearly seems to have occurred with the Hudak endorsement and introduction of advertorials. And the fact that I even have to ask this time implies that the Globe has lost my trust.
That said, I will miss reading The Globe and Mail. It will be hard for me to find a new source (or sources) that gives voice to as many diverse viewpoints in one forum. The Globe claims to long for the kind of socially cohesive Canada in which a big-tent, fiscally responsible party can flourish. I long for this too.
But in a united, democratic society, you sometimes have to be willing to inconvenience yourself for the common good. This, in fact, is the essence of social cohesion. Canada's infrastructure and social safety net are buckling under the weight of chronic under-funding. Fixing these problems will require spending money. Doing so in a fiscally responsible way will require additional revenues. Canada has high income inequality (which erodes social cohesion) and our corporate taxes are some of the lowest in the developed world (by considerable margins). There is logic, then, to asking the wealthy and/or corporations to pay a little more. Even if you aren't sold on small income and corporate tax increases (and they are small, and not without precedent in recent history), stopping them can't be as important to social cohesion as ending the unprecedented, Nixon-esque reign of ugliness in our political discourse.
If the Globe's owners don't think it's worth taking a small hit to their already large bottom line to protect Canada's social cohesion and send a message to those working to erode it – and if they're potentially willing to be dishonest in doing so – then I think it's worth putting myself through the small inconvenience of finding another news source – to stand up for my own principles and send the Globe's owners my own message.
October 17, 2015 in Personal Essays. Tags: #GlobeEndorsement, #OtherGlobeEndorsements, 2015, Canada, Conservative, Editorial, Elizabeth May, endorsement, Featured, Globe and Mail, Harper, Liberal, Mulclair, NDP, Stephen Harper, Trudeau
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16 thoughts on "Why I canceled my Globe and Mail subscription"
mattgburgess says:
Looks like a similar strong-arming of the editorial boards of all Postmedia outlets is happening: http://canadalandshow.com/article/andrew-coyne-v-national-post
Postmedia's Montreal Gazette even borrowed Mitt Romney's 'penalizing success' line to denounce NDP's corporate tax plan: http://montrealgazette.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-conservatives-are-the-most-prudent-choice
And Canada's print media oligarchy just got a little more concentrated: http://business.financialpost.com/news/postmedia-network-closes-deal-to-buy-173-sun-media-publications
Couldn't agree more. I too am cancelling my globe subscription. I sense too much intellectual dishonesty in that endorsement. It will leave a void in my daily routine but well worth it to make a principled point
More and more reports are coming out that the endorsements of Postmedia and the Globe were decisions from on high, in some cases forced on the Ed. boards: https://ricochet.media/en/671/did-the-owners-of-canadas-national-newspapers-order-them-to-endorse-harper
marklalonde2015 says:
I completely disagree with your argument and believe this is a 'perfect' example of an anti-Tory rant and pro-Liberal slogan. In my view, you used to enjoy reading the Globe and Mail because of their centrist views on Canadian politics. But once they decided to endorse a right-wing Conservative government on two separate occasions, in 2014 in Ontario and 2015 in Canada, you got upset and decided to cancel your online subscription.
It seems like every time someone writes something positive about right-wing Conservative governments and tells citizens to vote for them, you are quick to disapprove. And then you use unreliable sources (i.e. Canadalandshow.com, Ricochet) to demonstrate that yes, the management board influenced the editorial board to write a pro-Conservative article. I personally don't believe this argument has merit. Would you have said the same thing if the opposite happened, that is, the Globe and Mail wrote pro-Liberal endorsements for the 2014 Ontario election and 2015 Canada election?
I personally believe every media outlet and blog is biased to some extent. Including this one (which is mostly pro-Liberal). But it is up to you to respect that there are Canadians who like the Conservative party. And that there are people who like the Conservatives but not Harper.
Just to make sure we're all clear on what's being discussed, my issue isn't that they endorsed Harper (or Hudak in the other case); it's that the owner forced the Editorial board to endorse Harper, but they represent it as a decision of the Editorial board. That's dishonest. If the Ed. board had written a well-argued piece on why we should vote Conservative, that would be fine. But the idea that we should vote Conservative and hope Harper resigns makes no sense. In the Hudak case, the Ed. board voted unanimously to endorse Wynne, were overruled, and then forced to represent it as if they had agreed to endorse Hudak. In that case, Walmsley even lied in the Q&A about there being a consensus on Hudak.
So again, it's not that they endorsed Harper; it's the dishonesty of forcing the Editorial board to misrepresent their position.
Also, how is Canadaland's Jesse Brown an unreliable source? As far as I know, he's never inaccurately reported anything. He's one of Canada's best investigative journalists.
Same goes for Postmedia. I have no problem with Sun and NP endorsing Harper (their Ed. boards probably would have even if their owners hadn't forced them to, which they admitted to), but when they censor Andrew Coyne because he wants to endorse someone else with his personal column, that's no longer a reasoned, civil, open debate in a free press. If you can't see the difference between my objection to owners stifling press freedom and my personal views about the election, then we'll have to agree to disagree.
Also, though I agree that it's impossible to have an outlet that is completely free of an ideological tilt, I would dispute the claim that we (the TaT) are editorially biased. We welcomed endorsement posts from any and everyone (we explicitly said so) and we posted all of the ones we got. I would have loved to have ones endorsing each of the parties, but no one submitted any aside from the Liberal ones we put up. Similarly we welcome posts on other topics from any and all view points (our gender equity discussion was a great example of this), including those we disagree with – provided they are civil and reasoned.
That said, if you read our three endorsement posts carefully, there are three distinct ideologies and you can tell that there have probably been other elections in which none of us supported the Liberals. There is a difference between a debate in which only one viewpoint is supported and one in which diverse viewpoints happen to agree. I think our debate on the election is an example of the latter (and if you want to send us a post endorsing Harper before then, go for it:)).
One last thing: you really shouldn't throw the word 'rant' around so lightly. A rant is when you "speak or shout in a wild, impassioned way". My article certainly has an opinion, but is very matter of fact and carefully argued. It is hardly wild or rambly. Same goes for the word 'slogan'. A 1000+ word reasoned essay is hardly a partisan slogan. I don't mind it when we disagree, and I like it when you (and anyone else) challenge me, but starting a debate with loose accusations of ranting or sloganeering demeans the discourse. Moreover, if we start calling everything we disagree with a 'rant' or a 'slogan', those words lose their power when someone actually starts ranting or sloganeering and we need to call them on it.
Vancouver Sun, owned by Post Media, has a full page paid conservative ad on the front page. I find it very distasteful at best
To be fair, Toronto Star and Globe and Mail both have Liberal ads featuring prominently on the home page of their websites. There's a fine line, but I think if the competition for the ad space is fair and first-come-first-serve, it's not necessarily bias. That said, I don't think newspapers should allow full page front page partisan ads at all during elections.
Ok just saw pics of the ads. No CPC logo; looks like it could have been an editorial post. Very misleading, and not good journalistic ethics.
Matt & N, I'll have to agree to disagree with you on this issue.
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Study claims atheists are nicer to christians compared to the other way around.
Atheists are more generous toward Christians than Christians are toward them, a new study has claimed.
Researchers at Ohio University asked participants to share monetary rewards with partners in a version of the dictator game, in which one person had no power to affect the division of the bounty.
When atheists were told of their partners religious beliefs, they behaved impartially toward ingroup and outgroup partners, the study's authors wrote in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
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Nones now as big as evangelicals, Catholics in the US
From RNS:
According to newly released General Social Survey data analyzed by Ryan P. Burge of Eastern Illinois University, Americans claiming no religion sometimes referred to as nones because of how they answer the question what is your religious tradition, now represent about 23.1 percent of the population, up from 21.6 percent in 2016. People claiming evangelicalism, by contrast, now represent 22.5 percent of Americans, a slight dip from 23.9 percent in 2016.
That makes the two groups statistically tied with Catholics (23 percent) as the largest religious or nonreligious groupings in the country.
Full article at Religion News Service.
Atheist Groups Urge Senate to Reject Discriminatory Adoption Provision in Appropriations Bill
Washington, DC. In a letter to the chairman and vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, a coalition of six national atheist, humanist, and secular groups urged the Senate to oppose a discriminatory amendment to the House Labor, Health, and Human Services Appropriations bill that would put the health and welfare of children in our nations adoption and foster care system at risk.
This amendment, introduced by Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Alabama) and passed over bipartisan opposition in committee, would require states to allow taxpayer-funded child welfare agencies to discriminate and refuse to provide services based on their religious beliefs in order to avoid crushing financial penalties to their child welfare systems. Currently 46 states have protections against religious discrimination in place which would trigger such penalties, potentially resulting in over $1 billion in federal funds withheld from child welfare agencies.
Read more at American Atheists.
Retirement Of Justice Kennedy Could Shift Supreme Court Balance On Church-State Separation, Says Americans United
We're at a pivotal moment,said Rachel Laser, president and CEO of Americans United. "The separation of church and state is the only way to ensure religious freedom for all Americans. This principle could not be more vital, given that Americans belong to hundreds of different faiths, and many are non-religious. Yet all signs indicate that President Donald Trump will appoint a justice who will undermine this foundational and vital American value.
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