Greely senior Julia Martel and Brunswick freshman Logan Brown reach for a loose ball during the Rangers' 67-46 victory Friday afternoon at the Portland Exposition Building.
PORTLAND—In a battle of heavyweights, an early knockout punch is the goal.
And Greely's defending Class A state champion girls' basketball team delivered that very thing Friday afternoon against Brunswick in a battle of unbeatens in a countable game as part of the Red Claws Christmas Showcase at the Portland Exposition Building.
Before the game, a rematch of last year's Class A South Final, was a minute old, the Rangers led, 7-0.
When senior standout Anna DeWolfe hit a shot in the lane with 4:48 to go in the opening quarter, the score was 12-0.
Greely was up, 19-5, after one period and thanks to a series of defense-leading-to-offense layups in the second period, took a commanding 42-15 advantage to the half.
The Rangers would lead by as many as 36 points in the third quarter and took a 59-36 lead to the final stanza where the Dragons, to their credit, played hard throughout, but Brunswick could draw no closer than 21 and Greely prevailed, 67-46.
DeWolfe had a game-high 25 points, sophomore sharpshooter Camille Clement added 24 and the Rangers improved to 6-0 on the season, extended their two-year win streak to 20 games and in the process, handed the Dragons their first setback in six outings this winter.
Greely is the favorite to repeat as champion and started by rolling at Cape Elizabeth, 64-27. After beating Wells, 58-45, in their home opener, the Rangers beat visiting South Portland (66-50), host Poland (77-14) and host Falmouth (75-41).
Brunswick has also been impressive in the early going, defeating visiting Morse (72-28), visiting Mt. Ararat (56-31), visiting Falmouth (50-35), host Lewiston (61-47) and visiting Biddeford (60-37).
Prior to the 2016-17 season, the teams had never played a countable game, but they've produced some memories since (see sidebar, below).
Greely won the regular season meeting two years ago, 65-46, but the Dragons sprung a 54-51 upset in the regional final.
Last winter, Brunswick shocked the visiting Rangers, 65-63, on Marley Groat's buzzer-beater in the regular season, but Greely, which hasn't lost since, was too strong in the regional final, prevailing, 66-49, en route to a state championship.
Thursday, in practice, Greely suffered a blow when junior standout Brooke Obar suffered an ankle injury.
Friday, Obar had to cheer on her teammates from the bench and they came up big for her.
Greely wasn't fazed a bit by the big court setting, grabbing a 7-0 lead in less than a minute, as Clement buried an NBA-range 3-pointer, DeWolfe sank two foul shots and DeWolfe made a fadeaway jumper, forcing Brunswick coach Sam Farrell to call timeout.
It didn't help, as Clement sank another 3 and DeWolfe made a jump shot in the lane for a 12-0 advantage.
With 4:32 left in the frame, junior Alexis Guptill made a layup to get Brunswick on the board. Guptill added a foul shot, but DeWolfe countered with a jumper in the lane.
After Guptill made a layup, DeWolfe hit a jumper in the lane and senior Julia Martel buried a 3-pointer for a commanding 19-5 advantage after the first period.
DeWolfe had 10 points and Clement added six to help the Rangers take control.
Little changed in the second period, other than Greely getting several easy baskets after turnovers.
A DeWolfe 3 got things started. After senior Rosalie White scored on a putback and senior Charlotte MacMillan made two free throws to cut the deficit to 22-9, DeWolfe made a layup after a steal, Clement hit a leaner in the lane, Martel made a layup after a steal, DeWolfe made a layup after a steal, junior Katie Fitzpatrick made a layup after a Martel steal and with 3:45 left in the half, Martel stole the ball again and made a layup, extending the lead to 34-9 and forcing Farrell to take another timeout.
Thirty-five seconds later, sophomore Mollie Obar scored on a putback to complete the Rangers' 14-0 run.
After Guptill drove for a layup to end Brunswick's four-minute drought, DeWolfe set up Obar for a layup on the fastbreak and after senior Rosalie White made a foul shot for the Dragons, Clement sank a pair to make it 40-12.
In the final minute, freshman Logan Brown drained a 3 for Brunswick before DeWolfe made a floater in the lane to give Greely a comfortable 42-15 advantage at the half.
In the first 16 minutes, the Rangers got 19 points from DeWolfe and 10 from Clement to effectively end the competitive phase of the contest.
Brunswick, playing without Groat, who is injured, compounded matters by turning the ball over 16 times.
Clement started the third period with a pair of free throws, but Brown countered with a 3-pointer.
After DeWolfe drove for a layup, MacMillan made a 3 for Brunswick.
Greely then returned to its running and gunning ways, as a steal from senior Madison Scott led to a DeWolfe layup and Clement followed with a pair of rainbow 3-pointers for a 54-21 lead.
Guptill countered with a layup, but Obar made a runner, then Obar hit a 3 to give the Rangers their biggest lead of the day, 59-23.
A late 3 from senior Emily Larochelle pulled the Dragons within 33 heading for the fourth quarter.
Down the stretch, Brunswick played its best basketball, but it was far too little, too late.
Two Clement free throws started the final stanza. MacMillan then made a free throw, Guptill made a layup and MacMillan sank a 3 to make it 61-32.
After DeWolfe went coast-to-coast for a layup and her final points, Brown made a 3, MacMillan set up Larochelle for a layup, MacMillan made a turnaround jumper, then MacMillan sank a 3 with 3:04 to go to cut the deficit to 63-42.
Clement answered with a layup after a steal, then with 2:21 on the clock, Clement sank two free throws for Greely's final points.
A late free throw from Guptill and a 3 from Larochelle accounted for the 67-46 final score.
DeWolfe had another stellar outing, scoring 25 points, while adding five assists, five rebounds and four steals.
Clement sank four 3s and wound up with 24 points, to go with four steals and three rebounds.
Obar added nine points off the bench, Martel had seven (to go with six boards) and Fitzpatrick contributed two (to go with seven rebounds).
Scott didn't score, but had four rebounds, three assists and three steals.
Sophomore Madison Storey also didn't score, but contributed five rebounds and two steals.
The Rangers had a 35-32 edge on the glass, made 10 of 11 free throws and overcame 14 turnovers.
Brunswick got a team-high 14 points from MacMillan, 12 of which came after halftime. Guptill added 12 points (and six rebounds), Brown had nine, Larochelle eight (to go with seven boards) and White three.
The Dragons turned the ball over 21 times and made just 6 of 14 foul shots.
The teams could play again, but it wouldn't be until the Class A South tournament in February.
Brunswick looks to return to the win column when it resumes Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference play Wednesday at home versus Camden Hills.
Greely, meanwhile, has two big road tests upcoming, at Gray-New Gloucester Thursday and at defending Class AA South champion Gorham next Saturday.
Greely senior Anna DeWolfe shoots over the Brunswick defense for two of her game-high 25 points.
Greely junior Katie Fitzpatrick is sandwiched by Brunswick senior Emily Larochelle and junior Alexis Guptill.
Greely sophomore Camille Clement goes up for a shot. Clement had 24 points.


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I had a great time at Wild Prospect Camp this summer. I've been in the building for select-a-seat when prospect camp was going on, but I've never gone to the open to the public scrimmage event before, so I didn't really know what to expect.
It was a great time. I won't pretend I have any scouting insights. Russo wrote a decent summary of the game events. Also, there were interviews (including Fletcher and Russo, also honorary coaches Burns and Clutterbuck).
But I would estimate about 3,000 fans showed up on a nice Sunday in July to get a little taste of winter. It was fun.
The NHL will release their schedule probably tomorrow, in conjunction with an announcment at Fenway park, where all will expect confirmation of the worst kept secret in the NHL that the Bruins will be hosting the Winter Classic this season on New Years day at Fenway. Also keep in mind that this is an Olympic year, so there will be a break in the schedule so players can represent their countries at the Vancouver Games.
This has been speculated on for a while, but former Wild and Devils head Coach Jacques Lemaire is again the head coach of the Devils. I didn't really think Lemaire would stay retired. I think he'll be around the game until he dies, and I can't help but wish him well in New Jersey. I'm glad he quit to avoid being fired by Riseborough, but I don't think Lamarillo is the easiest GM to work for either. Still I think he did a good job here, given he didn't have a great boss to work for.


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Drug Approvals and Deadly Delays
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Sam Kazman • November 1, 2010
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Truth can be stranger than fiction, and bureaucracy can be stranger than metaphor.
In 1984 a man named John Nestor became notorious in Washington DC for his unusual driving habits on the Beltway. Mr. Nestor had the unique habit of getting into the leftmost lane with his cruise control set at 55 mph, the posted speed limit. He would drive at this speed regardless of what came up behind him. Cars would zoom up close to his rear bumper; drivers would flash their lights and blast their horns, some swerving around him on the right while giving him the finger—none of this fazed Mr. Nestor in the least. As he explained it, 55 mph was the law, and he had a right to drive in whichever lane he chose: "Why should I inconvenience myself for someone who wants to speed?"
John Nestor's story stirred a huge amount of public reaction, some supportive, most of it as outraged as the drivers who encountered him on the road. The term "nestoring" was coined to mean adhering to the precise details of the rules. To me, John Nestor was a good metaphor for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and its painstakingly slow approval process for drugs and devices.
But then it turned out that John Nestor wasn't just a metaphor for FDA; he actually worked there. In fact, in 1972 he had been transferred out of FDA's cardio-renal-pulmonary unit because that division "had approved no new chemical entities … from 1968 to 1972, an experience that contrasted with the experience of every other medical modern nation and with the experience of other divisions of the FDA."
But while John Nestor's inactivity at FDA made him a villain to some, it made him a hero to others. Ralph Nader's Health Research Group argued that Nestor "had an unassailable record of protecting the public from harmful drugs" and helped Nestor eventually overturn his transfer. When Nestor passed away in 1999, his Washington Post obituary fittingly read: "FDA Official Renowned for Strict Driving Habits."
FDA is one of the most powerful federal agencies, regulating products that account for approximately one out of every four consumer dollars. No new medical drug or device can be marketed until the agency has passed on its safety and effectiveness.
FDA's approval process took its current form in the wake of the thalidomide tragedy. In 1957, thalidomide was introduced in Germany as a sedative with remarkably few side effects. It quickly became available in over 40 countries, and was especially popular among pregnant women for controlling morning sickness. Its U.S. licensee filed for FDA approval here in 1960. The application was handled by a Dr. Frances Kelsey, who withheld approval while she investigated possible peripheral nerve damage from the drug. But during the course of her investigation, the drug became linked to severe fetal deformities, a discovery which soon resulted in its worldwide withdrawal. Dr. Kelsey was hailed as a hero for preventing thalidomide's widespread use in the U.S. and received the Presidential Gold Medal for Distinguished Service. In September, 2010, she became the first recipient of a new FDA award named in her honor.
In retrospect, it's unclear whether it was investigative skill or luck that led Dr. Kelsey to hold up the thalidomide application. For one thing, she was investigating peripheral neuritis, not fetal deformities; her subsequent claim that the two were related is dubious. Moreover, other countries with regulatory approval regimes, such as Sweden and Canada, had approved the drug.
The thalidomide episode spurred the congressional transformation of FDA into the agency it is today. Before then, FDA's basic responsibility was to certify the safety of new drugs prior to marketing. But the 1962 Kefauver amendments added drug efficacy to FDA's responsibilities, even though, ironically, the problem with thalidomide involved safety, not efficacy.
But whether the issue is safety or efficacy, the thalidomide episode illustrated a basic precept—when it comes to approving new drugs, waiting may well be the best course of action. As one commentary noted, the honors bestowed on Dr. Kelsey demonstrated to many others at FDA that "there is no credit to be gained for lives saved due to speed regulatory action …"
The power of that precept stems from the fact that, as a government agency, FDA is a political entity, subject to intense pressure from Congress and the media. That precept, moreover, is strengthened by the huge difference between the two alternatives that face FDA when it comes to approving new therapies.
If FDA approves a drug that later turns out to be disastrous, then people will clearly suffer. On the other hand, if FDA delays or denies a truly needed drug, people will also suffer. Medically, these two types of mistakes are both harmful.
But from a political standpoint, there is a huge difference between them. Those injured by an incorrectly approved drug will often know that they are victims of FDA mistakes. Their stories make riveting news, and their testimony, or that of their surviving families, is dynamite. But for victims of incorrect FDA delays or denials, who are prevented from using drugs that could have helped them, the situation is far different. All they know is that their doctors told them that nothing more could be done to help them. Only a fraction of these people will understand the reason for this—namely, that a useful drug was bottled up at FDA.
And so, unlike in the first scenario, these people do not realize that they too are victims of FDA mistakes. Their suffering or death is simply viewed, by them and by others, as reflecting the state of medicine rather than the status of an FDA drug application.
In short, victims of incorrect FDA approvals are highly visible, while victims of incorrect FDA delays or denials are practically invisible.
For example, consider FDA's incredibly long delay in approving beta-blockers to reduce the risk of second heart attacks. By the mid-1970s this had been documented in clinical trials and a number of beta-blockers were approved for this use in Europe. But in the U.S., FDA imposed a moratorium on beta-blocker approvals due to their possible carcinogenicity in animals. (Among the staffers involved in this delay was that fastidious driver, John Nestor. ) In effect, FDA was denying needed cardiac drugs to people at high risk of heart attacks because of the unproven possibility that those drugs might cause cancer years in the future.
Finally, in 1981 FDA approved the first such drug, boasting that it might save up to 17,000 lives per year. That meant, of course, that as many as 100,000 people may have died waiting for FDA to act —an explosive point, but one that very few journalists pursued. For all practical purposes, these people were invisible in a very literal sense-- we've all seen photos of thalidomide victims, but I suspect that not one of us has ever seen a photo of someone who suffered or died due to FDA's beta-blocker moratorium.
Similarly, in the early 1990s it took FDA over three years to approve interleukin-2 as the first therapy for advanced kidney cancer. By the time FDA acted, the drug was available in nine European countries. In clinical trials, the drug had produced remissions of six months or longer in 15-20% of patients. Then why did FDA delay so long? Because the drug was relatively toxic and resulted in the deaths of approximately five percent of those who took it. It was this latter issue that occupied FDA's attention, obscuring the fact that metastatic kidney cancer has the even worse side effect of killing 100% of its victims. If we roughly estimate that the drug might have helped 10% of those who otherwise die of kidney cancer, then FDA's delay might have contributed to the deaths of over 3,000 people. Have we seen any photos of them?
These episodes clearly illustrate the political and journalistic differences between the opposing goals of avoiding both incorrect approvals and incorrect delays and denials. Medically, both types of agency action are harmful, but politically there is no comparison between them. One has impact, the other doesn't. In the words of FDA Commissioner Alexander M. Schmidt,
"In all of FDA's history, I am unable to find a single instance where a Congressional committee investigated the failure of FDA to approve a new drug. But, the times when hearings have been held to criticize our approval of nf new drugs have been so frequent that we aren't able to count them …. The message to FDA staff could not be clearer."
He went on to note that
"Congressional pressure for our negative action on new drug applications is, therefore, intense. And it seems to be increasing, as everyone is become as self-acclaimed expert on carcinogenesis and drug testing."
Dr. Schmidt made that statement in 1974. Fifteen years ago it seemed that the tide had turned, as FDA's handling of drug and device applications improved somewhat with staff increases and with a growing recognition of the need to streamline approvals, reflected in the 1997 FDA Modernization Act. But in recent years that trend has been reversed. FDA has come under increasing assault by outside groups, from the press, and from the Democrat-controlled Congress. Those same groups have enabled dissenters within FDA to gain more clout as well, resulting in
"a culture … at FDA … in which agency employees who dislike a regulatory decision are able to keep raising the issue and, if they don't like the results, to go outside established agency procedures …to enlist support from members of Congress and their enabling lapdogs in the media."
In the view of these critics, every unanticipated side effect from a new drug demonstrates that FDA has become too cozy with industry and too sloppy in reviewing new applications. As Dr. Sidney M. Wolfe, longtime head of the Health Research Group, puts it, FDA is controlled by "spineless and gutless" officials infected with a "please the industry" attitude and interested only in getting drug applications out the door. Dr. Wolfe is highly dubious about most new pharmaceuticals; most of the drugs recommended in his book, Worst Pills, Best Pills , are older drugs.
If Dr. Wolfe were practicing medicine, he would be free to apply these views in treating his patients; advocating them as national policy, however, is an entirely different matter. This is the same distinction that exists between FDA approvals and FDA denials. When the agency approves a drug, no one is forced to use it; when it disapproves a drug, no one is able to use it. These are not two sides of the same coin; to the contrary, there is a huge ethical difference between them.
What critics such as Dr. Wolfe are demanding is pharmaceutical omniscience in advance of widespread use. But testing new drugs on hundreds or thousands of people will only rarely reveal all the side effects that might occur when those drugs are subsequently used by millions of people. The only way to guarantee zero unexpected side effects is to have zero new drugs, period. That, however, would result in a public health disaster dwarfing all side effects combined.
In response to these critics, FDA itself has imposed new regulatory burdens, ranging from Risk Evaluation and Management Strategies (REMS), which severely restrict the use of certain drugs after they are approved, to a severe tightening of its medical device approval procedures, to high-profile reconsiderations of certain previous approvals. And in one sign of the times, last year Dr. Wolfe joined FDA's Drug Safety and Risk Management Committee.
Most physicians' views of FDA are significantly different from those of Dr. Wolfe. Over the last 15 years, the Competitive Enterprise Institute has conducted six surveys of physicians on their views of FDA. In each survey, an overwhelming majority of respondents viewed FDA as being too slow in approving new drugs and devices.
Each survey involved a different medical specialty, ranging from oncologists to cardiologists to emergency room physicians and, most recently, orthopedic surgeons. On the basic question of FDA approval speed, those viewing FDA as too slow ranged from 61% to 77%. In our most recent survey, of orthopedic surgeons in 2007, 76% took this view, and 78% believed that FDA has hurt their ability to give patients the best possible care. (Eighty percent, by the way, would like to Vioxx available again.)
But when it comes to influencing FDA, the views of practicing physicians carry far less weight than those of "public interest" advocates and politicians. Given the skewed incentives to which it is subject, is there any hope of FDA reform?
The short answer is yes. For one thing, with the rise of the internet information about new pharmaceutical developments is becoming far more widespread; the same is true about information concerning where such new drugs can be obtained. When it comes to important but unapproved therapies, it may be much harder in the future for people to be kept complacently in the dark.
One simple but seemingly radical approach would be to leave the agency's safety and effectiveness standards in place, while simply removing its veto power. In effect, FDA would become a certifying agency. Rather than being banned outright, as they are now, uncertified therapies would be available under medical supervision, with informed consent documentation of their uncertified status.
For those doctors and patients who trust FDA, nothing would change; they would simply continue to use FDA-approved therapies. But patients who, in consultation with their doctors, have to go beyond such therapies would now have new options.
As for FDA itself, it would no longer be the only game in town. Instead of enjoying its monopoly status, it would now come under competitive pressure to issue timely and credible evaluations, knowing that failure to do so would make it irrelevant to many physicians.
And while this approach may sound radical, it isn't. Most of the physicians in each of our surveys indicated that they would favor it. As for where they would go for information about such unapproved therapies, their answers were to be expected: medical journals, approval status in other medically advanced countries, and the views of their colleagues.
But if doctors have this view of FDA, why don't their patients?
Whenever FDA announces its approval of a major new drug or device, there is a basic question that needs to be asked: If this drug will start saving lives tomorrow, then how many people died yesterday waiting for the agency to act? As our surveys indicate, many doctors already have this question on their minds. Getting the word out to patients, and to the public at large, may well be the key to truly reforming FDA.
John Nestor: Strife in the Fast Lane, Washington Post, Nov. 21, 1984.
Ross W.S., The Life/Death Ratio 1977, 195.
Kazman S., Saying Yes to Drugs, J. Regulation and Social Costs, 2: June 1992, 33, 34.
John Kelly's Washington, Washington Post, Oct. 24, 2008, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/10/21/DI2008102100590.html, accessed Nov. 8, 2010.
Ross, supra at 38-39.
Urquhart J. and Heilmann K., Risk Watch—The Odds of Life 1984, 118.
The analysis which follows is based on Grabowski H.G. and Vernon J.M., The Regulation of Pharmaceuticals 1983, 9-13.
Ross W.S., supra at 195.
Urquhart and Heilmann, supra at 118.
Kazman S., supra at 39.
As quoted in Grabowski and Vernon, supra at 5.
Commentary--End the War, BioCentury, Mar. 8, 2010: 1.
PBS Frontline, Interview with Sidney Wolfe, Nov. 13, 2003, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/prescription/interviews/wolfe.html, accessed Nov. 8, 2010.
Pocket, 2005.
Sidney Wolfe: Outsider Becomes FDA Insider, WSJ Health Blog, Jan. 9, 2009
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/01/09/sidney-wolfe-outsider-becomes-fda-insider/, accessed Nov. 8, 2010.
Competitive Enterprise Institute, A National Survey of Orthopedic Surgeons Regarding FDA and the Availability of New Therapies, 2007, http://cei.org/studies-issue-analysis/national-survey-orthopedic-surgeons-regarding-food-and-drug-administration-an, accessed Nov. 8, 2010. (This document summarizes the previous CEI survey results as well.)
Krauss M., Loosening the FDA's Drug Certification Monopoly—Implications for Tort, George Mason Law Rev. 1996: 458-483.
CEI Survey, supra, at 17.
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The studio's latest addition to the category is the well known Kaufhaus des Westerns department store in Berlin, AKA KaDeWe. The much loved historic establishment – which first opened in 1907 – has been in need of 'redefining its current model', explain the architects, and renovation plans by OMA have just been unveiled.
Pioneering the early modern shopping experience and helping to define retail as we know it today, department stores all over Europe have been acting as incubators for sophisticated crafts, social exchange and challenging experimentation in services, say OMA. The new design will be able to cater for the fast-paced, latest changes in the industry and the contemporary shopper's needs.
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Direct-acting antivirals in hepatitis C do not reduce hepatocellular carcinoma occurrence
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Patients previously treated for HCC have a high risk of tumor recurrence in the long term.
Patients with HCV-related cirrhosis treated with direct-acting antivirals (DAA) do not have reduced rates of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), according to research published in the Journal of Hepatology.
Fabio Conti, MD, PhD student, Research Center for the Study of Hepatitis, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Italy, and colleagues analyzed 344 cirrhotic patients without HCC who had been treated with DAA; of these patients, 59 had previous HCC. Patients were followed for 24 weeks.
During the 24-week follow-up, 26 patients had HCC; 17 of 59 patients had previous HCC, and 9 of 285 patients did not. Among the 59 patients with previous HCC, younger age and severe liver fibrosis were significantly associated with HCC recurrence.
"Child-Pugh Class B, more severe liver fibrosis, lower platelet count, and previous HCC were significantly associated with HCC development," said Dr Conti. "In patients with HCV-related cirrhosis, DAA-induced resolution of HCV infection does not seem to reduce the occurrence of HCC, and patients previously treated for HCC still have a high risk of tumor recurrence in the short term."
Conti F, Buonfiglioli F, Scuteri A, et al. Early occurrence and recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma in HCV-related cirrhosis treated with direct acting antivirals. J Hepatol. 2016; pii:S0168-8278(16)30303-8; doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2016.06.015. Epub ahead of print.
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Yes he's "an all-around smart guy" but that doesn't mean he isn't "being sloppy in the numbers I report here"; it doesn't mean he isn't being sloppy in his comments about the benchmarks game.
Without having dived into this too much, I do know that Cliff understands statistics pretty well. My guess is that examples he gave are more to prove a point than to demonstrate something conclusively.
My own opinion about the benchmark game is that it is (frankly) rather a waste of time. When I am deploying a server, I'm very interested in whether the code I have written can meet latency and throughput targets on the JVM in question, and not terribly interested in what SPECjbb2005 says. My experience is that the folks in charge of determining performance priorities for the JDK are more interested benchmarks than the average user's requirements.
> My guess is that examples he gave are more to prove a point than to demonstrate something conclusively.
The trouble is he's trying to make several different points and his arguments conflict with each other.
His Java can be just as fast as C point conflicts with his too short to show something interesting point.
His different code ... so all the results have to be carefully inspected point is just as true for any Java vs C comparison that he makes.
Is it possible you are over-generalizing from your current level of experience and workaday tasks, rather than considering a broader range of inexperience and mistaken notions and ordinary ignorance?
As in your application is the ultimate benchmark.
The fact is that Java *can* be just as fast as C in practical applications (depending, of course, on the practical application in question). I've seen this in practice (much to the surprise of some of my C++-developing colleagues).
My opinion is that benchmarks are far too replied upon for JDK and JVM development. I know for a fact that there are optimizations in a variety of JVMs and JDKs that are targeted to improving benchmark numbers, from which few people will see an improvement in practice. Honestly, at this point, I think Sun's Java implementation's performance is good enough that in the short term, I would rather see JVM implementors focus on correctness and stability.
You are over-generalizing from your current level of experience and workaday tasks, rather than considering a broader range of inexperience and mistaken notions and ordinary ignorance.
The comments I see show people looking at the benchmarks game are surprised how fast Java is compared to C.
The comments I see show people have little or no basis for their notions about how relatively fast or slow programs written in different languages might be - it's outside their experience.
I don't have a problem with that as a claim - the problem is that the claim isn't demonstrated, instead we have Cliff Click showing "a simple Sieve of Eratosthenes".
There is of course a tradition of compiler writers doing that - JVM implementors no doubt focus on what they find interesting and amusing as much as they can.
It doesn't sound as if we are disagreeing about anything, so I'll let your comments stand as written.
It is rather interesting for me to read the post. Thanks for it. I like such themes and everything that is connected to them. I would like to read more soon.


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Apple fans reach for Jobs' devices to mourn him
By: Associated Press	October 7, 2011
He was a conjurer, a modern magician who reached into tomorrow and came up with things that changed millions of lives. And as people gathered at Apple Stores from Sydney to San Francisco to mourn Steve Jobs, the feeling was more than grief for an executive or even an inventor. It was something closer to awe for a wizard.
On Thursday, the admirers who turned his technological marvels into everyday tools used them as instruments of grief. People held up pictures of candles on their iPads, booted up their MacBook Pros to watch old Jobs presentations on YouTube, used their iPhones to sift through remembrances on Twitter.
Fans leave condolent notes to pay tribute to Apple founder and former CEO Steve Jobs at an Apple retail store in Hong Kong on Thursday. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
They grieved his loss through devices that before his time, or without his vision, would have been considered beyond humanity's reach.
Ten years ago, the only people who carried their music around were tech geeks, music obsessives and those willing to tote a clunky CD player. Presto — the iPod, and everyone wanted one. And then another and another.
Five years ago, cellphones had hinges, and the displays looked more like the age of Atari than the age of the Internet. Texting, for the most part, was a matter of cryptography, tapping out strings of numbers to make words. Presto — the iPhone, and everyone wanted one of those, too.
Two years ago, the economy had just tanked, and it was hard enough for companies to persuade people to buy the things they needed. Getting people to buy a product they didn't need was out of the question. Most people already had a desktop computer, or a laptop, or a smartphone. And yet, presto — the iPad.
Nothing up his sleeve. Though Jobs, ever the showman, once reached into the tiny fifth pocket of his trademark blue jeans at an Apple event and fished out an iPod Nano, just to emphasize how small the gadget was. They always were. Ever smaller, ever sleeker, ever cooler.
Anne Sweeney, the president of Disney and ABC, remembered when Jobs flew from Cupertino, Calif., to Burbank to persuade her to license ABC shows to be shown on the tiny screen of his newest invention, the video iPod. He wowed them by playing an episode of ABC's own hit show, "Lost."
Sweeney was so bowled over she forgot to ask where he got a copy of the program.
"I thought, 'He's Steve Jobs. He can do anything,'" she remembered.
'A genius'
One day after his death, two days after Apple introduced the latest incarnation of a touch-screen phone that touched pop culture, sadness and admiration poured out — not for a rock star, not for a religious figure, but for an American corporate executive.
"He was a genius," Rosario Hidalgo said outside an Apple Store on the Upper West Side of Manhattan while her daughter, 21-month-old Carlotta, used an iPhone to play an app that teaches children to match animal sounds to animal pictures.
For people who have grown up in a world where iPod headphones are as ubiquitous as wristwatches were to a previous generation, Jobs was remembered as their Elvis Presley or John Lennon. Perhaps even their Thomas Edison.
"It's like the end of the innovators," said Scott Robbins, 34, who described himself as an Apple fan of 20 years and who rushed to an Apple Store in San Francisco when he heard the news.
Apple announced Jobs' death Wednesday night and remembered him as a "visionary and creative genius." The company announced no cause of death, but Jobs had been diagnosed with a rare pancreatic cancer seven years ago and had a liver transplant in 2009. He was 56. The company did not release any details about Jobs' funeral; a spokesman said there would be no public services.
On Thursday, the Apple website, which usually features slick presentations of multicolored iPods and ever-thinner MacBook laptop computers, simply displayed a black-and-white photo of Jobs, thumb and finger to his beard as if in contemplation.
Around the world, tributes sprang up of the highest and lowest technology.
In the Ginza shopping district of Tokyo, people held up iPhones and iPads, their screens facing outward and displaying sharply defined, touchable graphics of flickering candles.
At an Apple Store in Hong Kong, old and new means of grief came together: People scribbled "RIP" and "We miss Steve" and longer notes of condolence on Post-It notes, and stuck them to an iPad display.
And at the 24-hour Apple Store in midtown Manhattan, the remembrances were more traditional. Passersby left flowers and candles, actual ones. Even there, people snapped pictures of the memorial with their iPhones.
"I was so saddened. For me it was like Michael Jackson or Princess Diana — that magnitude," Stephen Jarjoura said at the Apple Store in Sydney. His said Jobs left a legacy to rival Edison and Albert Einstein.
Philippe Meunier, a senior partner of a Canadian ad agency who was visiting New York from Montreal, reflected on how weird it was to receive the news of Jobs' death on the phone he invented.
Even in Syria, seven months into an uprising, people paused to take pride in Jobs, whose father was born in Homs, the third-largest city.
"This shows that this country can produce geniuses, if only we had freedoms instead of a suffocating dictatorship," said Sara, a 23-year-old Syrian student who refused to give her full name for fear of Syrian government reprisal.
'I'm Apple everything'
Apple has sold 129 million iPhones and 29 million iPads. And in the decade since it revolutionized the music industry by offering "1,000 songs in your pocket," it has sold 300 million iPods, or roughly enough to outfit every person in the United States.
Famously devoted to Apple products — and often mocked, it must be said, by people who are not — even the acolytes of Jobs paused to reflect on how deeply his creations were enmeshed in their lives. Seamlessly, of course.
"I'm Apple everything," said Alison Brie, who plays Annie Edison on the NBC comedy show "Community." "It's changed the way we listen to music and watch TV, connect to fans. Twitter on my phone is — it's huge."
In New York, a family visiting from Norway waited for the 9 a.m. opening of an Apple Store. Jorund Skurdal said his family owned about 15 Apple gadgets, including "a couple iPads, iPods, an iMac, an iBook, and some other things."
Five-year-old son Carsten already had his own MacBook, and 3-year-old Sanna was an iPod fan. Carsten had just bought a new app yesterday — Life of George, an interactive Lego game.
"He was one of a kind," Skurdal, who lives in Oslo, said of Jobs. "He was able to take these boring computer items and make them accessible, usable and very sexy." His main interest now, he said, "is that the company survives, and thrives. I think it will."
Jobs' death came a day after Tim Cook, who took over as Apple CEO when Jobs stepped down in August, presided over the launch of the iPhone 4S. It was the first time in years Apple had launched a major product without Jobs to advertise it in his trademark jeans and black mock turtleneck.
Apple stock, which traded at about $5 a share when Jobs assumed the CEO job for the second time in 1997, passed $400 earlier this year. Investors have worried for years about what would happen to the company without him.
'iSad,' 'ThankYouSteve' trending on Twitter
Because so many products that were graced by the Jobs touch are still in the sales pipeline, it will take years to measure the impact of his death. On Thursday, the stock fluctuated, but only by a couple of percentage points. It closed down 88 cents at $377.37.
In a measure of his impact on personal technology, Jobs was venerated by his fiercest competitors in the hours after his death.
Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, a company that Apple once treated as Goliath to its David and then blew past in market value, said it was "an insanely great honor" to have known Jobs. A statement of grief came from Sony, whose Walkman and Discman were buried by the iPod.
Google added a link to the Apple site on its famously minimalist search page. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, thanked him for changing the world.
To the extent that there is an online version of the old-time public square, it was overrun Thursday by remembrances of Jobs.
On Twitter, where the most popular "trending" topics change by the hour, "ThankYouSteve" and "iSad" were still high on the list a day after his death.
On Facebook, people posted revisions of the Apple logo, a stylized apple with a detached leaf and a half-moon bite taken out. One added a frown and tears to the apple. Another replaced the bite with a silhouette of Jobs himself.
Heads of state around the world added their thoughts. President Barack Obama said Jobs exemplified American ingenuity. Mexico's President Felipe Calderon bemoaned the loss of "one of the most visionary minds of our times." India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said he was "deeply saddened."
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Editors: P.B. Pitts, Dec. 9, 1904-Jan. 13, 1905; P.O. Winther, Jan. 20-Sept. 1, 1905.


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Lesley University College of Art and Design
Sociology/Anthropology and Art History
The College of the Holy Cross
2019 Mic Check, Central Reading Room, Melville Library, Stony Brook
University, Stony Brook, NY
2017 Muslim/American, American/Muslim, The Mercer Gallery,
Garden City Community College, Garden City, KS
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, The Durbin Gallery,
Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, AL
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Liberal Public Library,
Liberal, KS
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Dodge City Public Library
2016 Muslim/American, American/Muslim, The Gallery at Penn
College, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Pool Art Center Gallery,
Drury University, Springfield, MO
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, The Brent and Jean
Wadsworth Gallery, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
2015 Muslim/American, American/Muslim, John B. Davis Gallery,
Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID
Seven Photographs, The Photovillage, New York, NY
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Nona Jean Hulsey Gallery,
Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, OK
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Sidney Larson Gallery,
Columbia College, Columbia, MO
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Visual Arts Gallery,
Carroll College, Helena, MT
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Wright Art Gallery, Delta
State University, Cleveland, MS
2014 Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Joan Derryberry Art
Gallery, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Annex Gallery, Indiana
University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
2013 Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Moraine Valley
Community College, Palos Hills, IL
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Clayton Staples Gallery,
Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Schuster Art Gallery,
Gannon University, Erie, PA
Drive Safely, The Photography Gallery, Virginia Intermont
College, Bristol, VA
2012 Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma, Northern Illinois
University Art Museum, DeKalb, IL
Drive Safely, Graphic Arts/Fine Arts Gallery, Moberly Area
Community College, Moberly, MO
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Human Thread,
Muslim/American, American/Muslim, Muslim American
Society - Islamic Circle of North America 11th Annual
Convention, Chicago, IL
2011 Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma, The Wilson
Gallery, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY
Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma, The Paper
Gallery, Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH
Muslim/American, American/Muslim: Portrait of a Brooklyn
Masjid, The Elise B. Rosefsky Memorial Gallery, Binghamton
University, Binghamton, NY
Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma, Coburn Gallery,
Ashland University, Ashland, OH
Masjid, Mezzanine Gallery, St. John's University, Manhattan
Campus, New York, NY
Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma, Lupke Gallery,
University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, IN
2010 Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma, The Christensen Center Art Gallery, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN
Drive Safely, Meeting Room Gallery, Acton Memorial Library,
Acton, MA
Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma, Center for the
Arts, Johnson State College, Johnson, VT
Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma, Thompson
Gallery, Furman University, Greenville, SC
2009 Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma, The Grace
Institute, New York, NY
2008 Drive Safely, Eye Studio Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Above/Below, Marran Gallery, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
2004 The Straphangers, The Pour House Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Straphangers, Grand Cental Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Abandoned, The Guild Room Gallery, Brookline, MA
2018 SILENCE=BETRAYAL: Dale Rich and Robert Gerhardt,
LookOut! Gallery, Residential College in the Arts and
Humanities, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
2017 Muslim In New York, The Museum of the City of New York
Muslim In New York, The Jewish Community Center of
Manhattan, New York, NY
Building Bridges Not Walls, Williamsburg Art and Historical
Society, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Photographing Culture, UC Blue Ash College Art Gallery,
University of Cincinnati, Cincinatti, OH
2015 Can You Move it All Up One Inch?, ArtHelix, Brooklyn, NY
2014 American Photography Today, Center for the Arts Gallery,
Towson University, Towson, MD
After Rabat, Revival Gallery, Fitchburg, MA
Celebrate Diversity: Steve Mathews and Robert Gerhardt,
Murfreesboro Peace and Justice Art Projects, Rotunda Gallery,
City Hall, Murfreesboro, TN
Other Lives: Daniel Farum and Robert Gerhardt, The Art Gallery
at the Sam Hill Warehouse, Prescott College, Prescott, AZ
2013 See You in September: A Culture Transformed, Skylight Gallery,
2012 Art and Struggle, Graduate Gallery, Ontario College of Art
and Design, Toronto, Canada
Triangulating Urbanism: History, Culture and Decay,
Good Question Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Holy Lives, Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery, College of Saint
Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ
2011 9/11 Memorial Exhibition, Jewish Cultural Center of Reading,
Wyomissing, PA
Response and Healing, Freyberger Gallery, Penn State Berks,
2010 Human Rights Arts Festival, Amnesty International
The Mythical State of Jefferson, Schneider Museum of Art,
Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
Sleeping with Strangers, Salon Ciel, New York, NY
2009 American Race, Truman State University Art Gallery, Truman
State University, Kirksville, MO
2008 Never Routine: Women in the Course of Their Daily Lives, Grace
On the Street, Kingston Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, MA
2007 MFA Graduate Exhibition, University Hall Gallery, The Art
Institute of Boston, Cambridge, MA
2005 Identity, The Diesel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Seven Conteporary Photographers, The New York Law School,
The Photo Show, Gallery 402, Organization of Independent
Artists, New York, NY
Chania 2004, The Omma Center for Contemporary Art, Chania,
2003 Small Works, Insight Gallery, Norwich, United Kingdom
2002 Woman Image, Image of Woman, The University of New Haven,
East Haven, CT.
Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI
The Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
New York Historical Society, New York, NY
Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN
Furman University, Greenville, SC
The Grace Institute, New York, NY
Idaho State University Department of Art, Pocatello, ID
Johnson State College, Johnson, VT
Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY
Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH
School of Creative Arts, University of St. Francis, Fort Wanyve, IN
Various Private Collections
2018 The Puffin Foundation, Ltd. Artist's Grant
2005 The Puffin Foundation, Ltd. Artist's Grant
Publications as Author
"Social Documentary On Ilford HP5 Plus," Ilford Photo Magazine,
"Myrtle Avenue," Street Photography Magazine, May 18, 2018
"Pakistan: Chai at Midnight," The Diplomat, January 26, 2018
"Photographing Muslims in New York," Stories: Behind-the-Scenes,
The Museum of the City of New York, July 31, 2017
Penny Lutz, 2015-2016 Exhibitions
The Gallery at Penn College, 2015
Richard Cutrona, Muslim/American, American/Muslim
Good Question Gallery, 2012
Marilyn Fox, 9/11 Memorial Exhibition
Penn State Berks, 2011
Aaron and Peter Fine, American Race: Contemporary Art Reflecting on
Race in the Year of Lincoln's Bicentennial, Truman State
University, 2010
Claudia DeMonte, Woman Image, Image of Woman
University of New Haven, 2002
Vincent Marshall, "Library Hosts Photo Exhibit"
Dodge City Daily Globe, November 7, 2017, p. 1
John Leland, "Muslim Lives in the City"
The New York Times, February 26, 2017, p. MB7
Camille Dautrich, "Muslim Americans Focus of Exhibition"
Springfield News Leader, Weekend, February 4, 2016, P. 8-9
Olivia Rowe, "A Timely Topic and the Power of Photography"
Williamsport Sun-Gazette, January 7, 2016, p 8-9
James Langton, "'
Muslims in America' photography project takes on
deeper signifigance
The National, December 27, 2015 p. 8-9
Louise Siddons and Pouya Jahanshahi, "Venturing Beyond the Frame"
Art Focus Oklahoma, September/October 2015, p. 16-17
Jenny Hopkins, "Photo gallery at ISU illustrates Muslim-American life"
Idaho State Journal, January 11, 2015, p. D3 - D4
Muhammad Yusuf, "Clicking to Connect"
Time Out, The Gulf Today, December 18, 2014, p. 22-23
Sarah Glenn, "New Pocatello Mosque spurs photographer to exhibit work"
Idaho State Journal, December 11, 2014, p. A2
Chaya Babu, "The Other Casualty of 9/11"
India Abroad, January 17, 2014, p. M11 - M12
Yashwant Raj and ANI, "Racists Vandalize ad, GAP makes Sikh poster
boy," Hindustan Times, November 28, 2013, p. 1
Amy Rahn, "Robert Gerhardt at Dibden Center at Johnson State College"
Art New England, Vol. 31, Issue 6, November/December 2010, p. 67
Damaso Reyes, "Life on the Border: A window on another world,"
New York Amsterdam News, Vol. 100, No. 29,
July 16-July 22, 2009, p. 20
James Spina, "Parting Glance," 20/20 Magazine
Jobson Publishing, July 2007
Jennifer Creery, "
Photographer Robert Gerhardt explores the days and
nights of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Free Press, December 15, 2018
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2018/12/15/hkfp-lens-photographer
Julie Zauzmer, "Museum displays images of Muhammad: Muslims who
have the world's most common name"
The Washington Post, May 2, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith
Ibriz Sheikh, "An American tourist makes a tough call: Karachi or Lahore"
The Express Tribune, March 28, 2017
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1357002
Daniel Tchetchik, "Being a Muslim in the United States"
Haaretz, March 19, 2017
http://www.haaretz.co.il/blogs/photoblog/1.3887733
Sarah Gilbert, "Life as a Muslim in New York"
The Guardian, March 5, 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2017/mar/05/
Tanvi Misra, "Muslims of New York"
CityLab, March 1, 2017
https://www.citylab.com/navigator/2017/03/new-york-city-
Julius Motal, "Muslim Life in New York City"
American Photo, February 27, 2017
http://www.americanphotomag.com/muslim-life-in-new-york-city
Alexander Nazaryan, "'Muslim in New York' Exhibit Shows How Muslims
Have Contributes to New York Culture for Centeries"
Newsweek, February 22, 2017
http://www.newsweek.com/muslims-contributed-new-york-culture
Priscilla Frank, "Photographers Depict The Range and Beauty of Muslim
Life in New York"
The Huffington Post, February 15, 2017
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/muslim-new-york
Sarah Cascone, "Muslim Culture Comes to the Fore at the Museum of the
City of New York"
ArtNet News, February 13, 2007
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/muslim-museum-city
Raphel Pope-Sussman, "Photos: New Show at Museum of the City of New
York Will Celebrate Muslim Community"
Gothamist, February 12, 2017
http://gothamist.com/2017/02/12
Joelcy Kay, "A Place to Worship in America - Muslims & The Freedom of
Religion"
Edge of Humanity Magazine, February 5, 2017
https://edgeofhumanity.com/2017/02/05/religion/
Katherine Brooks, "These Are The Real Faces of Muslim Americans who
Worship at Mosques"
The Huffington Post, December 21, 2015
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/robert-gerhardt
Matthias Kolb, "Hass, von dem wir alle nicht wussten, dass er existiert"
Suddeutsche Zeitung, December 10, 2015
http://www.sz.de/1.2774439
Sarah Gilbert, "Everyday life for Muslims in the USA"
The Guardian, November 21, 2015
http://www.theguardian.com/usnews/gallery/2015/nov/21/
Christine Hauser, "A Defaced Gap Ad Goes from the Subway to the Web
to its Demise"
New York Times, The Lede Blog, November 27, 2013
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/27
Misty Sidell, "GAP Slams racist graffiti after ad featuring Sikh jewelry
designer Waris Ahluwalia is vandalized with anti-Muslim slurs"
Mail Online, November 26, 2013
www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2513525
Amy Wolf, "Muslim/American, American/Muslim"
PDN Photo of the Day Blog, March 19, 2013
www.pdnphotooftheday.com/2013/03/19620
Samantha Olivieri, "A Discussion with Robert Gerhardt"
Salon Ciel Blog, April 25, 2011
www.saloncielny.org/2011/04/25/
Ron Egatz, "Robert Gerhardt, Visual Sociologist"
Sekonic Blog, October 11, 2010
http://sekonic.wordpress.com/2010/10/11
Radio/Television
Jenny Inzerillo, High Plains Mornings, High Plains Public Radio,
Garden City, KS, September 20, 2017
Felicitas Hammerstein and Mariana Schneider, "New York, New York - A
City For All"
Metropolis, ARTE, Germany and France, April 23, 2017
Fiona Powell, Interview, ArtScene, WVIA-FM
Williamsport, PA, January 18, 2016
Josh Rindlfeisch, "Eye on the Valley"
Pocatello Access Television, Pocatello, ID, January 26, 2015
Shaela Litzu, Interview, NPR Morning Edition, KISU-FM
Pocatello, ID January 20, 2015
Karole Honas, "Muslim Exhibiton Opens"
ABC 8 News, Pocatello, ID, January 20, 2015
Rick Cartwright, Broadstrokes: A Closer Look at the Arts
CATV, Fort Wayne, IN, October 2011
Conferences/Symposia/ Panels
2019 Black Lives Matter Under the Lens, Panelist, Stony Brook
University, Stony Brook, New York
2012 "Muslim/American, American/Muslim," Muslim American
"Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma," Art and
Injustice in a Global World, Panelist, Agents of Change: Art
as Activism, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2011 "Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma," Against Global
Indifference: Awaking to Action, CAS Undergraduate
Research and Creative Activity Symposium, Ashland
University, Ashland, OH
"Muslim/American, American/Muslim," Making Meaning of
9/11: Local Impacts, Global Implications, St. John's
University, Manhattan Campus, New York, NY
"Muslim/American, American/Muslim," Crossing the Boundaries
XIX: CONFLICT, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
2010 "Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma," The Karen:
Varied Perspectives, Panelist, 22nd Annual Noble Peace Prize
Forum, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN
"Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma," Amnesty
International Human Rights Arts Festival, Silver Spring, MD
Lectures/Presentations/Critiques/Workshops
2019 Lecture, Oxbridge New York College Experience, Barnard College,
2018 Lecture and Workshop, Residential College in the Arts and
Presentation, Brooklyn Jesuit Prep, Brooklyn, New York
Lecture and Critique, Taipei American School, Taipei, Taiwan
Lecture, Oxbridge New York College Experience, Barnard College,
2017 Lecture and Critique, George Fox University, Newberg, OR
Workshop, The Musuem of the City of New York, New York, NY
Lecture, Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, AL
Lecture, Garden City Community College, Garden City, KS
Lecture, Garden City High School, Garden City, KS
2016 Lecture, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA
Lecture, Drury University, Springfield, MO
Lecture, St. Joseph's Preparatory School, Philadelphia, PA
Lecture, Pakistan American Cultural Center, Karachi, Pakistan
Lecture, Al Hamra Arts Council, Lahore, Pakistan
2015 Lecture, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID
Lecture, Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, OK
Lecture, Delta State University, Cleveland, MS
2014 Lecture, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN
2013 Lecture and Critique, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
Lecture and Critique, Virginia Intermont College, Bristol, VA
2012 Lecture, St. Joseph's Preparatory School, Philadelphia, PA
Presentation, Human Thread, Chicago, IL
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The internal report, obtained through an access-to-information request, also shows that payment of the out-of-court settlement to Khadr was delayed by a day after public servants made a coding error that caused the transfer to be rejected by the Bank of Canada, through which the payment flowed to a bank account held by an unnamed third party. Public servants scrambled to fix the error and spent the next day monitoring the payment step-by-step until it properly transferred through the banks.
News of the settlement was reported on the evening of July 3, 2017, by The Globe and Mail, which identified its source only as a "federal insider." As of September 2017 — two months after the news story — the Privy Council Office was still searching for who leaked to the media, the report says.
The Post asked the Privy Council Office if the internal investigation ever uncovered the source of the leak, if the matter was ever referred to the RCMP, and if anyone was ever disciplined or terminated over the leak. Stephane Shank, manager of media relations for the Privy Council Office, sent a statement that did not answer any of the questions.
The Post asked the Prime Minister's Office if it was ever consulted on whether to refer the Khadr leak investigation to the RCMP. "No," said the one-word response from spokeswoman Eleanore Catenaro.
The RCMP did not immediately respond to a question on whether it investigated the leak, though it generally does not comment on investigations unless they result in charges.
A core issue in the Norman case is how the government responds to leaks — and in particular, whether Norman's case received unusual treatment. Norman is criminally charged with breach of trust for allegedly leaking cabinet information about a $700-million navy supply ship contract. The Privy Council Office investigated the leaks in November 2015, in the early days of the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. It did not find the culprit, but its internal report — disclosed to Norman's lawyers, and now filed in court — recommended referring the investigation to the RCMP.
Norman was suspended from duty as vice-chief of the defence staff in January 2017, and criminally charged in March 2018.
In court documents filed to support their application for third-party records, Norman's lawyers, Marie Henein and Christine Mainville, have said they need documents related to how the government investigated other leaks to determine whether Norman was unfairly prosecuted.
"Norman appears to be the first person in Canadian history to be criminally prosecuted for a purported violation of Cabinet confidences," says their notice of application, filed in October 2018.
In a factum filed a few weeks later, Norman's lawyers say secret government information appears to be "currency" in Ottawa.
A man protests the $10 million payout to Omar Khadr on Parliament Hill on July 30, 2017.
When the Khadr settlement was leaked, the Privy Council Office identified six departments and agencies the leak could have originated from, and asked each one to investigate whether the leak came from its employees.
The report obtained by the Post was prepared by one of those departments: Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), which was responsible for processing the payment. It concluded the leak appears have come from elsewhere in government.
None of those other departments answered inquiries from the Post on whether they found the leak, saying the answer would have to come from the Privy Council Office.
According to the report, government officials ratified a settlement with Khadr on June 22, 2017. The next week, staff from the departments of Global Affairs, Justice, Public Safety, and the Privy Council, as well as the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, began putting together a communication strategy for the settlement.
"This information was confidential, tightly controlled and was not to be announced until later in July 2017," the report says.
The only information PSPC staff had about the settlement was through processing the actual payment, the report says. The payment was supposed to go through on July 4 — the day after the initial leak had already taken place — but it was delayed to July 5 after a Global Affairs official entered a coding error into the government's payment system and the bank transfer was rejected.
The report shows a comedy of errors as public servants attempted to get Khadr's payment through. At 2 p.m. on July 4, the Bank of Canada sent a notification to a generic PSPC inbox saying a Large Value Transfer Payment had been rejected — a notification seen by numerous PSPC employees.
The transfer did not have Khadr's name on it, as it was going through the Bank of Canada to a bank account held in the name of an "unknown and unrelated third party." It is possible the transfer was sent to a third party to protect it against legal manoeuvring from the families of American soldiers killed by Khadr's alleged actions in Afghanistan, but the report does not address that.
However, the report says PSPC employees nonetheless "came to the conclusion that the payment was probably for Mr. Khadr," largely because of the media stories, and realized its importance.
Public servants spent much of the next day troubleshooting the problem, holding special meetings to figure out how to cancel the first transfer of funds and get a new one through. When they finally did, just after 11 a.m. on July 5, they realized that the name Global Affairs had entered on the transfer was not an identical match to the name on the recipient bank account — creating a new fear the transfer would be rejected.
"PSPC's staff monitored the (payment) throughout the day and evening to make sure it would be redeemed by the recipient's bank," the report says. The following morning, they finally received confirmation it had gone through.


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The Teachings of Islam for the Prevention of Terrorism -Abdur Rahman
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Islam as a religion is totally committed to establish peace and security in the society. It views with great contempt the breach of peace, anarchy, rioting and terrorism. Muslims as an Ummah are a peace-loving community. So, a person following Islam will find that he or she is surrounded by noble teachings, the aim of which is to establish peace between man and Allah, between man and man and between man and the rest of Allah's creation. Islam is a religion which fosters freedom of life, ideas and thought.
Each and every human being in this world is not in favor of maintaining peace and harmony. There are many, who would disrupt it for their own vested interests. It is precisely for this reason that we have the police who use force against criminals and anti-social elements to maintain peace in the country. In this regard, the detailed prescription was entailed in the Quran and Sunnah as when and how to face terrorism, strategies to face terrorism etc.
Islam prohibits targeting innocent & unrelated Persons
According to Islamic Shariah, whether it is the matter of an individual group or ideological difference, persons who are not concerned or related to a particular action, cannot be held responsible for the action of others.
Islamic jurisprudence allows punishment of the culprit according to the gravity of the crime, permitting revenge equal to the injury caused. Pardon is preferred to punishment.
"And so for all things prohibited, there is the law of equality. If then anyone transgresses the prohibition against you, transgress ye likewise against him. But fear Allah, and know that Allah is with those who restrain themselves." (2:194)
The orbit of suppression should not grow wider. Vindictive action against persons belonging to the tribe or the community of the assassin, but who have nothing to do with an atrocity, leads to further enlargement of the area of hostility. According to Islamic Shariah permits action directly only against the culprit.
Teachings of Islam in Eradication of Anarchy
According to Islamic Shariah, peace should be a priority. Even in the course of battle, the opponent proposes peace, that offer should be immediately accepted. It recommends strict punishment for murderers and aggressors, because they disturb peace. The aim is to ensure respect for human life. The books of Sunnah and Islamic jurisprudence contain elaborate instructions for curbing terror and fear in social life.
"……..The free for the free, the slave for the slave, the woman for the woman. But if any remission is made by the brother of the slain, then grant any reasonable demand, and compensate him with handsome gratitude. This is a concession and a Mercy from your Lord. After this whoever exceeds the limits shall be in grave chastisement. (2: 178)
Organizational Effort against Terrorism
We can see that, in the age of twenty, Muhammad (sm) founded the 'Hilful Fuzul' organization that was like an army formed to put a stop to terror by a group of brave and courageous justice-loving youths. 'Hilful Fuzul' used to help every oppressed person against terrorism. To mention that, first condition of this organization was prevent terrorism. That was – "By the oath of God! We would never forget our responsibility of assisting every oppressed person and would assure that the oppressed one got his rightful dues, even if the oppressor was the richest or the most influential person. That is why these volunteers used to rush to help even if the oppressed one did not belong to Macca , even if he come from another part of the country."
Collective Effort by Bickering Parties to Prevent Terrorism
Muhammad (sm) was exiled from Macca as being stifled by torture of Kafir (religious disbelievers in Macca) and migrated to Madina. God's Messenger was requested by the tribes in Yathrib (present in Madina) to act as a third-party mediator to try and help resolve the on-going terrorist and despotic activity between the residence of Madina. It was also common practice of Arabs at that time to refer their conflict to outsiders. Finally, drafted a charter known as Charter of Madina.
Some section of the charter was about preventing the terror that was concluded on behalf of Muhammad (sm) between the residence of Madina and their sub-ordinate and Muslim. Most important that-
The Believers, who fear Allah, will oppose the rebellious elements and those that encourage injustice or sin, or enmity or corruption among Believers.
If any un-believer kills a Believer, without good cause, he shall be killed in return, unless the next of kin are satisfied (as it creates law and order problems and weakens the defense of the State). All Believers shall be against such a wrong-doer. No Believer will be allowed to shelter such a man.
So, if a similar demand (of making and maintaining peace) is made on the Muslims, it must be carried out, except when the Muslims are already engaged in a war in the Path of Allah.
Examples Set by Prophet (sm) in Preventing Terrorism
As the current world taking steps preventing terrorist activities, Muhammad (sm) had taken various steps against terrorism before one thousand and four hundred years ago. Because he had known that, if the terrorism could not be nipped in the bud, it will spread out in the society before world. Without these steps terrorism could not be put down at all.
Narrated Abu Qilaba: Anas (R) said, "Some people of Ukl or Uraina tribe came to Madina and its climate did not suit them. So the Prophet ordered them to go to the herd of (Milch) camels and to drink their milk and urine (as a medicine). So they went as directed and after they became healthy, they killed the shepherd of the Prophet and drove away all the camels. The news reached the Prophet early in the morning and he sent (men) in their pursuit and they were captured and brought at noon. He then ordered to cut their hands and feet (and it was done), and their eyes were branded with heated pieces of iron, they were put in 'Al-Harra' and when they asked for water, no water was given to them." Abu Qilaba said, "Those people committed theft and murder, became infidels after embracing Islam and fought against Allah and his Apostle."
Once the Prophet (sm) with some of his companions set out to see Banu Nadir and seek their help in raising the blood-money he had to pay to Bani Kalb for the two men that 'Amr bin Umaiyah Ad-Damri had killed by mistake. All of that was in accordance with the clauses of the treaty that both parties had already signed. They said, they would share in paying the blood-money. His Companions Abu Bakar, Umar, Ali and others to sit under a wall of their houses and wait. The Jews held a short private meeting and conspired to kill the Prophet (sm). The most wicked among them, 'Amr bin Jahash, volunteered to climb up the wall and drop a large millstone on his head. One of them, Salam bin Mushkam, cautioned them against perpetrating such a crime, predicting that Allah would divulge their plot to him.
Now there was no question of showing them any further concession. The Holy Prophet at once sent to them the ultimatum that the treachery they had meditated against him had come to his knowledge. Therefore, they were to leave Madina within ten days; if anyone of them was found staying behind in their quarters, he would be put to the sword.
Therefore, they should stand firm and should not go. On this false assurance they responded to the Prophet's ultimatum. Saying that, they would not leave Madina and he could do whatever was in his power. Consequently, Muhammad (sm) laid siege to them. After a few days of the siege (which according to some traditions were 6 and according to others 15 days) they agreed to leave Madina on the condition that they could retain all their property which they could carry on their camels, except the armour. Thus, Madina was rid of this second mischievous tribe of Jews. Only two of the Banu Nadir became Muslims and stayed behind. Others went to Syria and Khaiber.
Finally, Allah spread out fear among the heart of Banu Nadir. They themselves chose to migrate other place. Muhammad (sm) restricted to carry weapon with them. So that, they can't commit further terrorism in new places.
Top Ten Ways Islam Forbids Terrorism
Here are the top ten ways that Islam, Islamic law and tradition forbid terrorism:
1. Terrorism is above all murder. Murder is strictly forbidden in the Qur'an.
See on (6:151). (i.e. murder is forbidden but the death penalty imposed by the state for a crime is permitted by the good justice).
2. If the motive for terrorism is religious, it is impermissible in Islamic law. It is forbidden to attempt to impose Islam on other people. See on (2:256)
3. Islamic law forbids aggressive warfare. See on (8:61)
4. In the Islamic law of war, not just any civil engineer can declare or launch a war. It is the prerogative of the duly constituted leader of the Muslim community that engages in the war.
5. The killing of innocent non-combatants is forbidden.
6. Terrorism or hirabah is forbidden in Islamic law, which groups it with brigandage, highway robbery and extortion rackets– any illicit use of fear and coercion in public spaces for money or power. The principle of forbidding the spreading of terror in the land is based on the Qur'an. (5:33–34).
7. Sneak attacks are forbidden. Muslim commanders must give the enemy fair warning that war is imminent. The Prophet Muhammad at one point gave 4 months notice.
8. The Prophet Muhammad counseled doing good to those who harm you and is said to have commanded, "Do not be people without minds of your own, saying that if others treat you well and you will treat them well, and that if they do wrong, you will do wrong to them. Instead, accustom yourselves to do good if people do good and not to do wrong (even) if they do evil."
9. The Qur'an demands of believers that they exercise justice toward people even where they have reason to be angry with them. See on (5:8)
10. The Quran assures Christians and Jews of paradise if they believe and do good works, and commends Christians as the best friends of Muslims.
So, the Quran not only does not urge Muslims to commit violence against Christians, it calls them "nearest in love" to the Muslims! The reason given is their piety, their ability to produce holy persons dedicated to God and their lack of overweening pride.
Command on a war against Terrorism
Abu Bakr, the first Calipha of the Muslims reflected these prophetic teachings when he advised his general Yazid, who was confronting Roman armies.
"I advise you ten things, Do not kill women or children or an aged, infirm person. Do not cut down fruit-bearing trees. Do not destroy an inhabited place. Do not slaughter sheep or camels except for food. Do not burn bees and do not scatter them. Do not steal from the booty and do not be cowardly."
Muhammad (sm) said, saw the corpse of a woman who had been slain in one of the raids, and he disapproved of it and forbade the killing of women and children.
Of course if any woman or child is shooting directly at you, it is permissible to act in self-defense to an immediate situation, but (unarmed) women and children cannot be an intentional target during war or any such attacks. And of course, Islam does not support women in military, but it does permit an individual woman to pick up a weapon to use in self-defense if a specific situation dictates that.
To sum up, Islam advocates three steps against Terrorism
To give an excellent moral upbringing to all Muslims, so that they become upright, just, moral, kind and loving people, thereby ensuring that they never disrupt the peace of others.
Whenever the peace is disrupted, to reason and argue with the evildoers, and sincerely pray for them, to make them change their ways.
If all reasoning fails, then to join forces with all good people to combat the mischief-mongers until peace has been restored, but always keeping the dictates of justice in view.
It is our belief that not only Islam, but no true religion, whatever its name, can sanction violence and bloodshed of innocent men, women and children in the name of Allah Almighty. Terrorists may use religious or political labels, but no one should be deceived by their wily ways and treacherous guiles. They have nothing to do with religion. They are the enemies of peace. They must be combated at every level as advocated by Islam, the religion of peace.
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A health care database management system has made its way onto tablet PCs for hospital employees.
'We're seeing increasing adoption of wireless applications in health care,' said Paul Grabscheid, vice president of strategic planning for InterSystems Corp. of Cambridge, Mass.
Grabscheid said wireless eases, for example, the distribution of various medications to a series of hospital rooms, so his company's health database, Cach', had to conform to wireless connectivity.
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Royal Thai Air Force officers have assisted in the rescue and transportation of a sick tourist on Doi Inthanon today, Nov. 22.
The officers, visiting Doi Inthanon, were called to provide assistance when a 65-year-old woman fell ill with a suspected heart attack.
Officers assisted in providing first aid and support for the woman until such time an ambulance was able to attend the scene.
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URBAN MODEL
Main sources
Alternative mobility
Walking does it
The city of children
City commerce
City Award
A few results of the transformation
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Disseminating the experience
Euro-China Smart Mobility City Award
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UN-Habitat 2014
Participation in conferences and events
Over the last few years, after the Pontevedra model gained popularity worldwide, invitations to participate in conferences, seminars, workshops and congresses have increased exponentially, both at the national and international level.
Universal accessibility
Child mobility
In the light of its remarkable media impact, it would be remiss not to highlight the city's participation in the 2015 Paris Climate Summit. The mayor of Paris and the president of the Bloomberg Foundation invited the mayor of Pontevedra to take part in this global event that brought together local leaders from all over the world, who expressed their unwavering commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. With the implementation of an alternative city model characterized by pedestrian based intermodality, Pontevedra has brought pollution down by 60% in 15 years through gradual restrictions placed on the indiscriminate use of private motorized vehicles and an environmentally friendly approach to urban mobility. Therefore, even prior to the summit, Pontevedra was already meeting the strictest international standards to tackle climate change.
France and Belgium are the epicenter of Intermodes, a European agency focused on the study of transport intermodality in all its dimensions. The 2013 Intermodes Award with which Pontevedra was presented boosted the international impact of the city's proposals, particularly in France, where We Demain magazine as well as other statewide media outlets published reports about what they decided to call the "City without cars", thus providing Pontevedra's transformative model with additional visibility.
The 2012 Walk21 international conference held in Munich helped to establish a network of European cities with a shared interest in developing new town models to improve urban quality. At the conference, city representatives signed the Walk21 International Charter for Walking, where they undertook to give maximum priority to natural forms of mobility and promote healthier lifestyles through the rationalization of city displacements.
The 2014 European Conference on Mobility Management (ECOMM) held in Florence and the 2015 FitCity 10 event organized by the New York Academy of Medicine in New York City, both extended Pontevedra an invitation to share experiences related to sustainable urban design and transformative town planning. Taking advantage of the occasion, the mayor and his team collected the 2015 Active Design Award, also in New York City.
Another transcendent international partnership that the city of Pontevedra has established relates to Rome and the work of Francesco Tonucci, an Italian educational psychologist whose work La città dei bambini (The City of Children) was taken as one of the main sources of inspiration to design the alternative city model Pontevedra has been implementing for over a decade now. In this monograph, Tonucci posits that designing a city by putting the youngest residents first will make it more equitable and fair for everyone else. As principal researcher at the Roman Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Tonucci has hosted various seminars and conferences where the city of Pontevedra has been featured as a case study and an example to be followed both nationally and internationally.
Dubai and Hong Kong have also organized international gatherings about smart mobility and intelligent urban planning to improve people's quality of life, and the city of Pontevedra has been presented with two prestigious awards in recognition of its long-term endeavor. In Dubai, Pontevedra collected the UN-Habitat Award, a global prize that celebrates projects devised to improve living conditions in different environments and contexts.
Many cities in Portugal have taken an interest in the Pontevedra experience, whose principles and measures they have started to follow with the objective of shifting urban mobility priorities, promoting universal accessibility both in the center and the outskirts, organizing traffic flows efficiently and giving pedestrians top priority citywide.
Numerous universities and local authorities throughout Spain have analyzed the Pontevedra model, focusing on town planning, responsible mobility and sustainable city management. Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Pamplona, Gijón, Alicante, Bilbao, San Sebastián, Torrelodones and many others have paid heed to at least a few fundamental dimensions at the time of presenting transformative proposals to their residents.
Also noteworthy are initiatives like those envisioned by the National Environmental Education Center in Valsaín (Segovia), particularly in the case of the Child Mobility Group, with which the mayor of Pontevedra and his team have collaborated to disseminate the School Path program. The 2013 edition of the ongoing seminar organized by the National Environmental Education Center was held in Pontevedra to strengthen the bonds between these two institutions.
The Network of Cities that Walk, an organization of more than 50 Spanish and Portuguese local authorities dedicated to the promotion of natural mobility, offered the mayor of Pontevedra its honorary presidency in consideration of the city's advocacy of pedestrianization policies and the constant promotion of healthy living in urban environments.


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Visa extension in China is a really delicate issue. This is because the bureau that is responsible for the extension of the visa will only do that if the student has fully paind their fees. Your visa is your most important document, and will always be your most important document during your stay in China. For this reason youmust do everything in your power to always ensure that it has been extended.
The visa has an expiry date and when that daye is due your are no longer a legal resident in China and when you are caught you will be imprisoned. You will have to always take note of your visa expiry dates and always make sure that you submit it for extension two weeks before the due date. Before you submit you visa you will also have to ensure that your fees have been paid in full. In your first year when you arrive in China ACASC will take care of all of this for you after you have paid the fees.
Once you have paid your fees and yoou have been directed to the vis office, you must take scertyain precautions.
Make sure that your visa has at least 14 days before it expires.
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The UN condemned the persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and concluded that there is a "religious conflict" in Ukraine.
The publication refers to the words of the Coordinator of the "Information Group on Crimes Against Personality", of the co-organizer of the event, Maxim Vilkov and of some expert Daniil Glumov. They advanced the thesis that "nationalist forces use [...] historical confrontation of religious confessions" or that the UOC-KP and the Greek-Catholic Church "made every effort to kindle [...] a religious conflict."
In fact, officially, at the UN level, including representatives and members of the Human Rights Council, there were no such statements. There were also no official statements or discussions on this matter.
The event, which proves the basis for the material published by Ukraina.ru, is not on the list of official meetings of the 38th session of the HRC. It did take place, but already in the informal part (which follows from the bulletin of informal meetings) under the auspices of the Russian Federation Representation to the United Nations and the Russian Peace Foundation.


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Michigan native set to enter second season with Tri-City.
Tri-City Storm forward Chase McLane has announced a commitment to play college hockey at Penn State University. McLane was drafted 27th overall in the second round of the 2016 USHL Phase I draft, and skated in 48 games with the Storm during the 2017-18 season.
McLane, 18, of Trenton, MI, spent last season with the Storm after being acquired in a trade with the Lincoln Stars on Oct. 4. McLane provided the Tri-City offense with nine assists and scored his lone goal of the season in the Storm's 6-3 loss to Fargo on Feb. 10. Prior to his time in the USHL, McLane played for both the Compuware and Little Caesars programs of the HPHL. He has also skated for USA Hockey's Selects teams at the U15, U16, and U17 levels.
"After visiting Penn State in August, I absolutely fell in love with the place, and knew immediately that it was right for me," McLane said. "Coach (Guy) Gadowsky and his staff are unbelievable, and the facilities at Penn State are top notch. Knowing that my teammate Connor McMenamin was going there too was an added plus. I'd like to thank my parents, grandparents, teammates, friends and family, for their sacrifices to help me get to where I am."
"Chase embodies everything we want from someone in our organization. He's a talented hockey player, and a kid who does things right every day," said Storm head coach and general manager Anthony Noreen.