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Imam Omar Suleiman, with his charismatic sermons and message of inclusiveness, has gained a national following. That's why ISIS wants to shut him up.
By Zac Crain Published in D Magazine July 2017 Photography by Elizabeth Lavin
On July 8 of last year, the day after five police officers were shot and killed in downtown Dallas following a protest march, an interfaith prayer vigil was scheduled for noon at Thanks-Giving Square, just a few blocks from where the shooting had occurred. Downtown remained largely locked down, a fresh crime scene. The gunman, Micah Xavier Johnson, had been killed by police less than 10 hours earlier. As noon approached, Thanks-Giving Square was quiet, still, and hot, summer already at full boil. People filed in silently, dazed, until the sunken plaza was filled, some lining the bridge leading to the iconic corkscrew chapel on its northeast corner.
They were there—I was there—to try to make some sense of it all. Not just the previous night's shootings, but the reason there was a protest march in the first place: the police killings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota, specifically, but also the waves of violence that kept crashing against our shore.
Near the bridge, an all-hands lineup of city and state leaders, both religious and secular, semicircled behind a scarred wooden podium. Pastor Bryan Carter of Concord Church spoke first, followed by Dr. Jeff Warren of Park Cities Baptist. Dallas Police Chief David Brown was next, welcomed as a hero, then Bishop Kevin Farrell, State Sen. Royce West, and Rabbi David Stern of Temple Emanu-El. They were all greeted warmly and politely. The next speaker got a different reception.
Closing his remarks, Stern introduced a man who had stood out among the group from the start, towering at 6-foot-5, his black kufi cap making him appear even taller: his "teacher and friend, the Imam Omar Suleiman."
There was a stirring among the assembled as Suleiman—the resident scholar of the Valley Ranch Islamic Center in Irving, founder and president of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research in Las Colinas, and professor of Islamic studies at SMU—began rhythmically lobbing rhetorical questions, a murmured call and response usually found in the pews at a Pentecostal church. Perhaps it's a stereotype, the solemn holy man, but it's not what one generally expects from a Muslim imam.
"Mmm, he's preaching," said a woman near the front, closing her eyes, rocking gently. And Suleiman was, speaking without the aid of a prepared speech. No scripture. No parables.
"Is this what it takes for us to have to come together?"
Mm-hmm.
"Does it always have to be a tragedy?"
Mmm-hmmm.
"Does it always have to be murder?"
Preach.
"Does it always have to be terrorism?"
Aaaa-men.
"Does it always have to be"—a beat, mmm, so he could really lean into it—"that hatred forces us to love?"
He didn't show it, but the 30-year-old Suleiman was running on empty then. Ramadan had ended the day before the downtown ambush, a month of sunup-to-sundown fasting for Muslims. In the days prior, he'd been busy, helping with plans for the downtown march. And he'd been up all night. He was near the Old Red Courthouse, on his way to his car, when Johnson started firing. He saw the shots, saw officers fall. Amid the chaos, he found his friend the Rev. Dr. Michael W. Waters of Joy Tabernacle A.M.E. Church, and Waters' wife, Yulise. They ran, ending up at Joy Tabernacle's South Dallas sanctuary. There, they stayed up, watching the news and making plans for the vigil.
And so it went for the next several days. The enormity of it all wouldn't hit Suleiman until later, when he was with his wife, Esraa, and their two kids on their usual post-Ramadan vacation, which had to be cut short. Sitting on a couch in a rented cabin in Austin, he started crying. "Holy crap," he said to Esraa. "What just happened?"
At Thanks-Giving Square, Suleiman wasn't thinking about himself. Couldn't yet. "We don't want an America of racism," he said, finding his rhythm again. "We don't want an America of brutality. We don't want an America of terrorism. We don't want an America of fear-mongering. We don't want an America of division. We don't want our hearts to be forced to come together—in a superficial way, at times—in the face of tragedy."
Other speakers followed, bigger names, including Mayor Mike Rawlings and Bishop T.D. Jakes, who closed out the vigil. But Suleiman's four minutes are what I left with, a life preserver when I didn't realize how deep the water was. In that brief turn at Thanks-Giving Square—and again and again over the weeks and months since, in the middle of the night at DFW Airport and amid a community's shared pain in a park in Balch Springs, in mosques and churches, in YouTube sermons and at protest marches—Suleiman showed that he is able to appeal to people of all religious beliefs, even those, like me, who don't claim one. It has put him at the forefront of Dallas' social justice movement and on the end of death threats from ISIS.
"I mean, look, he's an ISIS target for a reason, because he really exemplifies the fault in that ISIS way of thinking, and knows that it's not what Islam is about, and knows that there is a role for Islam in American culture and in Western society, and the best of what that can be," says Chris Hamilton, a lawyer who worked alongside Suleiman over a long weekend at DFW Airport, at the protest against the Trump administration's travel ban in January.
He is, to put it plainly, the religious leader Dallas needs right now.
Suleiman speaks often about how Muslims are only discussed in terms of national security, that it is part of how they are dehumanized, to be thought of as terrorists or potential terrorists and nothing more. Changing that discourse, pushing back against Islamophobia, is part of the Yaqeen Institute's mission. So let me say, before we go any further, that Suleiman is basically a suburban dad with a very interesting and important job.
He takes his wife and their kids, 7-year-old May and 4-year-old Abdullah, to the Magic Kingdom in Orlando. He loves eating at Pei Wei and goes there whenever he's near one. And he is a massive fan of the New Orleans Saints—like shrine-in-his-home huge. It was no accident that, when I saw him at Thanks-Giving Square, he was in Saints black and gold.
Though he has become a steady spiritual presence in Dallas, he is a fairly recent transplant. He move to North Texas five years ago, first to Richardson before settling in Irving, where the Valley Ranch masjid has a congregation of more than 3,000. Suleiman was raised in and around New Orleans, the son of a college chemistry professor (his father) and a poet (his mother), both born and raised in Palestine, before immigrating in the 1960s.
You can clearly see their influence on him. His father wasn't clergy, but he did deliver sermons at the mosque on occasion. Both his parents instilled in him a deep need to be involved, with his community and the world beyond it. They took in Bosnians running from war and gave their car to Somali refugees. His mother wrote poems about the oppressed around the world, and his father helped with local political campaigns. They brought him to protests. His father had him swinging a hammer for Habitat for Humanity when he was 8 years old.
In this environment, Suleiman was expected to grow up quickly, and he did, quite literally. He was 6-foot-2 when he was in the seventh grade, not needing the lift from the Timberlands he wore everywhere. He looked like a man. Maybe the group of Ku Klux Klan members that jumped him as he was walking through a parking complex, beating him with brass knuckles, thought he already was.
His ethnicity separated him from his classmates at the all-black school he attended almost as much as his early growth spurt did. But it was mostly fine because, as he says, "people are racially ambiguous enough in Louisiana" that a Palestinian kid could pass for something else. "I was Creole for most of my life," Suleiman says.
He grew early in his faith as well. He began delivering sermons at his mosque when he was 17, and he also embarked on a deeper study of Islam, earning his ijazahs, certifications to allow him to serve a congregation as an imam.
He needed to be ready. On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Louisiana coast. He was in Baton Rouge when Katrina arrived, having left his New Orleans apartment behind as the storm neared—forever, as it turned out. He lost everything he had, which wasn't much. He came home anyway, as soon as he could, when the stench of dead bodies could still be smelled from as far away as LaPlace, 20 minutes out. Before long, Suleiman was at the heart of the recovery effort, physically—he got a FEMA badge from ICNA Relief USA's Muslims for Humanity project—and spiritually. His parents molded him for this kind of life of involvement, both in mind and body, but Katrina was the forge that cast him into iron.
He saw it wasn't enough, or sometimes even right, to talk to people about God. He needed to show them what God's work looks like.
When he returned to New Orleans, there were no imams left. He filled the void, at 19 years old, taking over at the city's largest mosque—Masjid Abu Bakr Al Siddiq—and leading prayers at as many as seven others, presiding over marriages, divorces, funerals. Sometimes, during Ramadan, he'd rush from one to another, delivering sermons back to back to back. It was a volunteer assignment that turned permanent. Another growth spurt.
Along with everything else that was going on, the water swept away long-standing divisions in New Orleans' faith community. Churches shared spaces with other churches out of necessity. A Reform temple took in a congregation of Orthodox Jews after their synagogue was destroyed. Suleiman found himself mediating disputes between older rabbis over kosher burgers. Navigating those often tricky relationships, he learned how different faiths could work together. He also learned they could only do so much.
"I will never forget these words," he says. "There was an evacuee that came from the Superdome that said, 'I feel like I've been spiritually molested.' And she said that because of all the preachers that were going in there and telling her about God at the time, instead of helping her out. Kind of trying to take advantage of her vulnerability. And that was a common complaint that we had. Hearing those words—spiritual molestation—it was like, Wow, is this what we do?"
He saw it wasn't enough, or sometimes even right, to talk to people about God. He needed to show them what God's work looks like. As a director for the Muslims for Humanity project, he arranged to rent every apartment he could find in Baton Rouge, found the people in the most desperate living situations, and gave them a new home, four months' rent fully paid. He kept gutting houses, working alongside members from Catholic Charities, seeing a level of neglect he can still barely talk about. They did this for years.
In 2008, when the Klan burned crosses on the lawns of black families in white neighborhoods, he didn't just offer thoughts and prayers. He joined Rabbi Bob Loewy from Congregation Gates of Prayer and other clergy and went out and pulled those crosses from the ground.
The East Jefferson Interfaith Clergy Association grew out of that effort. It was big on dialogue, bigger on action. On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, they took their congregations to Kenner, a suburb of New Orleans, and spent the day doing a full cleanup of the Rivertown area, which had never recovered from Katrina, re-striping roads, painting buildings, planting bushes, hauling away trash. Then, because it was New Orleans, they all went back to Suleiman's mosque for kosher and halal gumbo.
During the six years he spent as imam at Masjid Abu Bakr Al Siddiq, Suleiman also fulfilled chaplain services for his beloved New Orleans Saints, including during their 2010 Super Bowl season. He married Esraa in 2007; his daughter May was born a few years later. His work did not go unnoticed—the New Orleans City Council gave him its Outstanding Civic Achievement award in 2010—and his profile grew within the national Muslim community, calling for him to speak at events around the country. It wasn't all heartbreak.
In 2012, with New Orleans and his congregation stabilized, and the East Jefferson Interfaith Clergy Association moving ahead, Suleiman was ready for a new challenge. He wanted to stay in the South—"I'm a Southern boy," he says—and his travel schedule meant he needed easy access to an airport. So he came to Dallas.
On the afternoon of January 28, when news broke that travelers were being detained at DFW Airport, after President Donald Trump signed an executive order that essentially closed the U.S. border to seven Muslim-majority countries, Suleiman was playing football in a park. It was the same park he was playing football in when he learned of the shootings at an exhibition in Garland featuring cartoon images of the Prophet Muhammad.
"I was like, I'm not playing football in this park anymore," Suleiman says. "Bad stuff happens."
He pulled out his phone and sent word to his 1.2 million Facebook friends and 186,000 followers on Twitter: everyone head to the airport now.
By that evening, there were well over 1,000 people standing shoulder to shoulder in Terminal D, home to DFW's international gates, all ages, races, and religions represented. More than 100 lawyers showed up to offer their services, pro bono. And there they stayed, all night Saturday, all day Sunday, chanting, never letting up.
"It became like a party at some point," Suleiman says. "They started singing Ludacris songs and stuff like that. People were determined and people were optimistic. So there wasn't despair there."
Despite the high spirits of the crowd—the impromptu "Move Trump! Get out the way!" remix of Ludacris, especially—it was still a fraught time, with lives hanging in the balance. Suleiman was there for justice, helping negotiate with airport personnel, relaying updates when he could, and he was there for his people.
Eric Folkerth, the pastor at Northaven United Methodist, remembers a moment from late Saturday night, around midnight. Suleiman decided it was time for the late night prayer, Salatul Layl, and led a group of Muslims down a hall, away from the other protesters. "And I was just so moved by that," Folkerth says, "that in the midst of this very, very stressful, tense time of protest, he still managed to lead people in a moment of calm and prayer."
Monday evening, after most of the detainees had been released, Suleiman spoke at a candlelight vigil at Thanks-Giving Square. Again, the plaza had filled to the stone walls around the perimeter, the bridge to the chapel teeming with supporters. And once more, the stress and sleeplessness of the previous hours and days did not seem to weigh on him.
"You might tell me to go back home," he said early on, before breaking into a big smile, "and I would tell you I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I love it very much."
There was more force from him that night than there had been back in July, but no anger. He was powerful but composed, a boxer on his toes flicking out jabs as he found the thread that connected it all: Japanese internment during World War II and the United States' rejection of Jewish refugees, how dehumanization allows for Mexicans to be spoken of as rapists and black people as thugs, the need to see each other as human beings. He may have been confronted with fear and suspicion, but he would not give into it.
Stand and deliver:Suleiman with his Faith Forward co-chairs, the Rev. Dr. Michael Waters and Rabbi Nancy Kasten, at a vigil at Thanks-Giving Square in January.
"Let me say to you that Donald Trump will never make me hate you," he said. "And I hope that no politician will ever make you hate me."
As he spoke, he was flanked by his Faith Forward Dallas co-chairs, the Rev. Dr. Michael Waters and Rabbi Nancy Kasten, which wasn't unusual. They had been together often over the past two years, since the interfaith group of clergy (similar in spirit to the organization Suleiman had helped build in New Orleans) was founded, and even before that. They tended to show up at the same places for the same reasons, eager to reclaim what Waters calls "their birthright": America's "very long tradition of clerical resistance."
Faith Forward Dallas coalesced after the shootings at Charleston's Emanuel A.M.E. Church, in June 2015, when they came together to support Waters, who lost friends that day. Since then, they have stood together in Irving when armed protesters showed up in front of Suleiman's mosque, in Oak Lawn in solidarity with the LGBTQ community after the Pulse nightclub attack, in South Dallas to offer aid and comfort to victims of gun violence.
But it's not just that. They visit each other's congregations, for sermons or special discussions, focusing on the part of the Venn diagram where their faiths overlap.
"In many ways, I think that the Texas community has come to anticipate our presence, our voice, and our leadership," Waters says, "not just in the midst of tragedy or turmoil, but also to serve as a vision of what is possible in terms of peaceable community and intersectionality."
They knew each other before Faith Forward, or at least knew of each other—Kasten remembers talking about Suleiman with his former colleague Rabbi Loewy on a bus in Jerusalem—but now they have grown close. When Suleiman sees Dr. Andy Stoker, senior minister at First United Methodist and another member, they always say "I love you" to each other.
"This is not some superficial clergy-level dialogue that is kumbaya, that ignores the great divisions in society," Suleiman says. "This is a group of people that deeply love each other, see each other daily, whose families know each other, who speak to the issues that are important to the millennials and pre-millennials."
In a meeting not long ago, Suleiman noticed just how much Faith Forward had transcended its origins, its purpose, even. It felt like a true family to him, like New Orleans again. It felt like home.
Growing up in New Orleans, Suleiman was never singled out for his religion, if only because he didn't make it a point to let his friends or his teammates on the basketball team know he was Muslim. To be honest, he admits, he was struggling with the idea that he actually was.
Suleiman's mother was sick a lot, spending his first two decades in and out of hospitals. She had cancer, undergoing chemotherapy twice, and four strokes. The first three left her partially deaf and unable to speak properly. The fourth took her life in September 2007. Suleiman says his mother's condition left him searching. "I could not reconcile God with that," he says.
He considered himself agnostic for a time. He went to synagogues, churches, mosques, investigating all possibilities. He read the Bible cover to cover when he was in middle school. Finally, he found his way back: "I just felt comfortable with Islam," he says.
But that time spent away still serves him.
"My experience with religions allowed me to always sort of have a love and appreciation for people of other faiths and how they developed, how they came to their conclusions," Suleiman says. "Because I could see myself coming to that conclusion as well, right?"
Because of that, he is able to get to the humanity at the core of all religions.
"He expresses himself and he lives his life and his faith in a way that creates opportunities for connection in every moment," Rabbi Nancy Kasten says, "and I'm so in awe of his ability to do that."
One of those opportunities for connection was a four-week series of discussions between him and Dr. Andy Stoker at First United Methodist about the role of Jesus in Islam and Christianity. Stoker remembers they were expecting maybe 40 people, 20 from each congregation, if they were lucky. But 150 showed up that first night and every week after there were more, until they were speaking in front of an audience of 300 when the series concluded. It created connections they couldn't have predicted, like the 9-year-old Methodist girl who received a hijab from a new friend and asked if she could study the Quran.
"This is what's going to make Dallas more compassionate, more engaging, and seek the kind of justice we would want for ourselves as we do reach out to our neighbors," Stoker says.
That reaching out has not come without a price for Suleiman. In early March, just before his series with Stoker started, it was revealed that ISIS had threatened him in one of its videos, calling for followers to "kill the apostate imams" as it showed clips of him with Stoker and some of his other interfaith friends. He found out through a counterterrorism organization in Chicago that studies ISIS propaganda. The FBI later got in touch with him, as well. It wasn't the first time his name had popped up on an ISIS list—certainly not the first time his faith or his interpretation of it had led to threats—but seeing it on video, he says, was different.
"It's hard to vocalize," he says. "I almost resigned myself to this idea that someone was going to harm me."
His father couldn't bring it up for weeks. Esraa fretted whenever he left the house. She still does.
"When I finish a protest, demonstration, any activity, any vigil, I call her right away and I can just hear the relief in her voice: We dodged another one," he says.
But Suleiman is undeterred. ISIS is not going to stop him from spreading his message. It's not going to stop him from continuing to search for the common ground that unites us. It's not going to end his friendship with Stoker.
"If I don't see the guy for a week, I fall apart," he says, laughing.
On May 4, Suleiman is having a late lunch of shrimp and noodles at a Pei Wei in Richardson. It's midafternoon on a typical day of what has become a typical week for him. He taught a class at a downtown seminary before meeting me and will head to another one nearby when he leaves.
Tonight, he will speak at a candlelight vigil at Balch Springs' Virgil T. Irwin Park, not far from where Jordan Edwards, an unarmed 15-year-old, was shot in the head by officer Roy Oliver over the weekend. He was at another service for Edwards last night, with Rev. Dr. Waters and Rabbi Kasten from Faith Forward Dallas, NAACP president Cornell William Brooks, and the activist and journalist Shaun King.
It never stops. Yesterday afternoon, there was a shooting at North Lake College, in Irving, which is next door to his kids' school. He was "an absolute mess," he says, as May and Abdullah and their classmates were locked down for a couple of hours, helicopters circling overhead and information scarce as to what exactly was happening. (It turned out to be a stalker who killed a young woman before turning the gun on himself.) When May got home, she had a question for her father: "Baba, do you think Trump sent the shooter?"
"A 7-year-old is having that conversation," Suleiman says. "She's connecting the dots. That there are people that hate us enough that they want to kill us. So my 7-year-old making those connections horrifies me. What is she internalizing here? She's seeing armed protesters at 5 and 6 years old. She's hearing people call her mom names in public. She knows, and I'm like, This is what our kids are growing up with. They're going to be messed up if we don't show them a way, how to respond to this in a productive fashion. They can grow up filled with hatred. She already feels otherized, right? She already feels that way. She's 7.
"So you think about the community, what Latino kids feel," he continues. "They're going to school and some of them are peeing their pants in school—these are middle school kids—because they're afraid that their parents aren't going to be home when they get home. The apprehension that black kids feel around cops."
And so he can't stop. He's going to Mali this month to visit with those suffering through famine, and to Jordan at the Syrian border in August, Esraa worrying all the while. He says different clergies have inquired about exporting the Faith Forward model. He knows making those connections, the opportunities for understanding, are more important than ever—for his generation, sure, but for the next one, for May and Abdullah, for Jordan Edwards. In the future, there is hope. But there is a long slog through the present to get there.
That night, as Suleiman stands in a field at Irwin Park in Balch Springs, Kasten and Waters a few feet away, Waters with his hands wrapped around his son Jeremiah's shoulders, it is the first time I see the moment affect him. There is a hairline crack in his voice, a sheen in his eyes as he begins to speak. But midway through, Suleiman finds his strength and his rhythm.
"This isn't the first time this has happened," he says. "It's not going to be the last. The question is, will it still matter to us when it continues to happen? And will we be just as committed to making sure that no one else has the same fate as Jordan did? You know, a lot of people think that, and I've heard this comment, you guys gather too much. You protest too much. You demonstrate too much. You shout too much. You tweet too much. You're always yelling."
He's preaching again, and that murmured call and response from the crowd returns, something even Waters wasn't able to elicit.
"If you stop killing our kids, we'll stop yelling."
"If the people that have been entrusted with authority over us start acting like it, we'll stop screaming."
"If the videos stop shamelessly showing up on the internet, we'll stop tweeting."
He tells the hundreds of people that have gathered that we can't get Jordan back with this, that if we continue to ask God to do his part, then we have to make sure we still do ours, too. "This is on our watch."
"That's why we're here," he says. "Not just to commemorate, or celebrate the life of Jordan—to show his family that we stand with him. Not just to pray, but to reaffirm that we're going to do our part, until we don't have to gather anymore for these types of occasions. I don't know about you, but I'm sick of it. I'm sick of it. I'm tired."
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Stethophyma celatum Otte, 1979
Stethophyma gracile Scudder, 1862
Stethophyma grossum Linnaeus, 1758
Stethophyma kevani Storozhenko & Otte, 1994
Stethophyma lineatum Scudder, 1862
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Watch Ellen Scare The Crap Out Of The Walking Dead's Lauren Cohan
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Published: Jan. 20. 2016 2:27 PM
After five seasons on The Walking Dead as Maggie Greene, actress Lauren Cohan has mastered the art of appearing more or less stoic in the face of the scary. It's a talent that no doubt served her well in her new horror movie The Boy. All in all, Cohan seems to have conquered fear in the fictional spheres of showbiz. As she learned on a recent trip to The Ellen DeGeneres Show, however, she's not quite so fearless when it comes to real life. Check out this clip of Ellen scaring the crap out of Lauren Cohan.
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In fact, Lauren Cohan was downright graceful in her response to the scare. There aren't many of us who could turn a scream of terror into a gale of laughter in approximately two seconds, but she managed it.
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Draft legislation would allow discrimination based on gender identity
New Hampshire Public Radio | By Peter Biello
Published January 1, 2022 at 12:25 PM EST
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State lawmakers are again attempting to pass a law that would allow schools to discriminate against transgender athletes.
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Draft legislation in Concord, HB 1180, would add new language related to gender to the law covering birth records.
It would insert a paragraph saying public entities — like schools or jails — can differentiate between people assigned male or female at birth.
Similar proposed legislation targeting trans athletes failed last session. Laws discriminating against transgender athletes violate Title IX, which protects trans students at school.
Republican Representative Linda Gould of Bedford is one of the bill's sponsors. She says the Manchester School District's decision in early 2021 to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity inspired this legislation.
"I remember reading about that and that got me going in that direction," she said.
She says the bill will ensure local entities can retain control of their policies.
But Representative Gerri Cannon, a Democrat from Somersworth, called it a "bully bill."
"This is the second or third time they've tried to put together legislation to block transgender girls from participating in girls' sports. That's the bottom line," Cannon said.
This law is broader than previous versions and includes the regulation of jails, prisons, and bathrooms.
Cannon says she expects trans people and their families will show up at the coming legislative sessions to voice their concerns over this legislation.
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Ensuring work is planned and differentiated so that your child can access the curriculum and progress at their own rate.
The Head Teacher will give responsibility to the SENCO and the class teachers, but is still responsible for ensuring that your child's needs are met.
4. How are parents and carers supported if they think that their child has SEN?
We have an open door policy. Parents have a good relationship with staff and they are always encouraged to speak to their child's class teacher if there are any concerns.
At St Michael's we invite parents in to speak to the class teacher in the first instance and if there are further concerns parents and carers are referred to the SENCo , Miss Payne.
· Make an appointment to meet the SENCo when your child's needs will be discussed and recorded.
· Additional support will be given to your child if necessary. This may be additional support from the Class Teacher, Teaching Assistant, or SENCo.
· If there are still concerns about progress a meeting will be set up to discuss an assessment for an Education Health Care Plan.
4. What are the different types of support available for children with SEN at St Michael's?
All pupils have access to excellent targeted classroom teaching known as Quality First Teaching.
Each child's education will be planned by the class teacher. It will be differentiated accordingly to suit the pupil's individual needs. This may include additional general support by the teacher or teaching assistant in class.
If a pupil has needs related to more specific areas of their education, such as reading, spelling, handwriting, numeracy & literacy skills etc. then the pupil will be placed in a small focus group. This will be run by the teacher, teaching assistant, or SENCo. The length of time of the intervention will vary according to need, but will generally be for a term. The interventions will be regularly reviewed by all involved to ascertain the effectiveness of the provision and to inform future planning.
These interventions will be recorded on the provision map (this is a record of the interventions, timings, and impact of the intervention) Parents are notified about interventions by the class teacher and /or SENCo.
Pupil Progress Meetings are held each term. This is a meeting where the class teacher meets with the Senior Leadership Team to discuss the progress of the pupils in their class. This shared discussion may highlight any potential problems in order for further support to be planned which will be discussed and implemented by the SENCo.
Occasionally a child may need more expert support from an outside agency such as the Educational Psychologist, Pediatrician etc. Referral forms are then completed in conjunction with parents/carers and forwarded to the most appropriate agency. After a series of assessments, a programme of support is usually provided to the school and parents/carers.
The SENCo has a termly meeting with Rev Organ, the SEND governor, who monitors SEN, ensuring that policies and procedures are followed. He reports this information to the full governing body.
5. How is the curriculum differentiated and matched to a children's needs?
When a child has been identified with special educational needs their work will be differentiated by the class teacher to enable them to access the curriculum more easily, taking into account advice from other professionals.
Teaching Assistants may be allocated to work with the child in a 1-1 or small focus group to target more specific needs.
If appropriate specialist equipment may be given to the pupil e.g. writing slopes, concentration cushions, pen/pencils grips, easy to use scissors or coloured overlays for reading.
The class teacher works with all children in his/her class. The class teacher and / or the SENCo will plan and oversee the work of the Teaching Assistants. All support staff receive internal or external training for the areas of SEN support that they carryout.
6. How is progress measured?
We communicate regularly with parents. You are welcome at any time to make an appointment to meet with either the class teacher or SENCo and discuss how your child is getting on. We can offer advice and practical ways that you can help your child at home.
All children in intervention groups have either group or individual targets.
The targets set are SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time scaled) targets with the expectation that the child will achieve the target by the time it is reviewed.
If your child has complex SEND they may have a EHC Plan, formerly known as a Statement of SEN, which means that a formal meeting will take place with you and all agencies involved to discuss your child's progress and a report will be written.
7. How are parents/carers kept informed about their child's progress?
The class teacher continually assesses each child and notes areas where they are improving and where further support is needed. As a school, we track children's progress from entry into Early Years (Class R) through to Year 6, using a variety of different methods.
Children who are not making expected progress are picked up through Progress meetings with the class teacher and Senior Leadership Team.
In this meeting a discussion takes place concerning why individual children are experiencing difficulty and what further support can be given to aid their progression. If your child is discussed at one of these meetings and additional support is recommended you will be informed. .
8. How are parents/carers helped to support their child's learning?
9. How is wellbeing, personal and medical needs supported in school?
We offer a wide variety of pastoral support for children who are encountering emotional difficulties. We have a caring understanding team who look after our children and parents.
Your child's class teacher is the first person to contact with concerns about your child's overall wellbeing.
If further support is needed the class teacher will liaise with the SENCo who will give advice and support and put a plan of action into place. This may involve having a key adult in school, a chill out room or therapeutic play.
If a child has a medical need then a detailed Health Care Plan is compiled by the SENCo/Office Manager (First Aider) in consultation with parents/carers and the school nurse. This is discussed with all staff who are involved with the child.
We have fully trained first aiders in school and all staff members have a basic training / knowledge of first aid.
If your child has a medical condition that requires medication, a meeting will be held with parents/carers, SENCo, designated staff members and first aider to explain our Health and Safety Policy and procedures. Parents and all staff members who agree to administer medicines will sign a medication agreement form to ensure the safety of both child and staff member.
At St Michael's we have a very positive approach to all types of behaviour with a clear rewards and sanctions that is followed by all staff and pupils.
If a child has behavioural difficulties, there would be a discussion with parents and the child to identify the specific issues and relevant support in put place with outcomes.
As a result of the support we give, we have never had occasion to exclude children to date. However, we have zero tolerance on physical violence towards staff.
After any behaviour incident we expect children to reflect on their behaviour. This may include meeting with a member of the Senior Leadership Team and /or completing a reflection sheet. This helps to identify why the incident happened and what the child needs to do differently next time to change and improve their behaviour.
Attendance of every child is monitored on a daily basis by the Admin Officer. Lateness and absence are recorded and reported to the Head teacher. The Education Welfare Officer (EWO) visits regularly.
Where families are struggling with attendance and punctuality we would endeavour to meet with them to offer advice and strategies to get their children into school on time.
10. How do children contribute to the everyday life of the school? How are their views gathered?
· In class daily children are encouraged to contribute to lessons and comment on assemblies.
· There is a School Council meeting every half term where issues or viewpoints are discussed.
· Children with social, emotional and behavioural needs set their behaviour targets with their class teacher and the SENCo.
· Children with a Statement of SEN have their views sought before review meetings.
11. What expertise and specialist services are available through the school?
An Educational Psychologist is allocated to each school. He/she would normally only work directly with children whose needs are felt to be quite considerable and have not responded well to the interventions previously put in place for them.
This involvement is discussed at Progress Meetings with the Senior Leadership Team and class teachers.
In order to help understand the pupil's educational needs better, the psychologist will generally meet with the parent and give feedback after the assessment has been completed. He/she will offer advice to the school and parent/carers on how to best support the child to move their learning forward.
12. What training do staff receive?
All staff receive appropriate training related to SEND.
Our Teaching Assistants are well trained and also receive relevant training directly linked to the individual or groups of children who they are supporting.
13. How are school trips and activities outside the classroom organised? How does the school ensure that pupils with SEND included?
Activities and school trips are a very important part of every child's learning experience at St Michael's.
However, if a higher level of 1:1 support is required, a parent or carer may be asked to accompany their child during the activity.
14. How are children supported when changing schools or transferring to other education, employment or training?
A visit to pre-school settings is carried out for our reception children where SEN has already been identified.
All new children to St Michael's are invited to visit the school prior to starting when they will meet the Head teacher, class teacher and their new class. They are welcome to stay for the afternoon if they wish.
At the end of each academic year, we set aside an afternoon for each teacher to meet their new class and spend some time with them. Teachers also meet to pass on information. This includes academic achievement and any other information that is relevant to the child.
For transition at the end of Key Stage 2, we run transition units / programmes to familiarise the children with using a timetable etc and to give them the opportunity to discuss any worries that they may have.
Year 6 pupils visit their secondary school on set days and most secondary schools also send a teacher in to meet the children and meet with the class teacher. This gives the opportunity for valuable information to be shared.
For children with SEND we would encourage further visits to assist with the acclimatisation of the new surroundings. We would also visit them in their current school or setting.
· When children are preparing to leave us for a new school, typically to go to Secondary education, we arrange additional visits.
· Our 'feeder' secondary schools, run a programme specifically tailored to aid transition for the more vulnerable pupils.
15. How are resources matched to a child's needs?
· We ensure that all children who have Special Educational needs are met to the best of the school's ability with the funds available.
· We consider the expertise of our staff and deploy staff accordingly.
· All support, programmes and resources are costed.
16. How do the school decide how much support is provided?
· The child is making progress academically against national/age expected levels and the gap is narrowing – they are catching up to their peers or expected age levels.
· Children may move off of the SEN register when they have 'caught up' or made sufficient progress.
17. How are parents and carers involved in discussions and planning?
· Parents are invited to parent meetings, and open evenings.
· Where a child has an EHC plan or Statement of SEN, regular meetings are held with parents and other professionals to discuss targets, needs and ways forward.
18. How can parents and carers get involved in the school more generally?
We encourage parents to support their child and get involved in school life.
· Parent volunteers to help with reading, maths games and school trips.
19. Who can parents/carers contact for further information?
The first point of contact would be your child's class teacher to share your concerns. You could also arrange to meet Miss Payne our SENCo/Head teacher. Please call the School Office on 0208 303 3287 to make an appointment.
20. How are parents and carers supported to decide whether this is the right school for their child?
If you wish to discuss your child's educational needs, or are unhappy about something regarding your child's schooling, please follow the school's Complaints policy, a copy of which is available at the school office.


As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton routinely asked her maid to print out sensitive government emails and documents — including ones containing classified information — from her house in Washington, DC, emails and FBI memos show. But the housekeeper lacked the security clearance to handle such material.
"Pls ask Marina to print for me in am," Clinton emailed top aide Huma Abedin regarding a redacted 2011 message marked sensitive but unclassified.
Yet it appears Clinton was never asked by the FBI in its yearlong investigation to turn over the iMac that Santos used to receive the emails, or the printer she used to print out the documents, or the printouts themselves.
As The Post first reported, copies of Clinton's 33,000 allegedly destroyed emails still exist in other locations and could be recovered if investigators were turned loose to seize them. Higher-ups at the Justice Department reportedly have blocked them from obtaining search warrants to obtain the evidence.
This is a major oversight: Santos may know the whereabouts of a missing Apple MacBook laptop and USB flash drive that contain all of Clinton's emails archived over her four years in office.
In 2013, Hanley downloaded Clinton's emails from her private server to the MacBook and flash drive.
"The two copies of the Clinton email archive (one on the archive laptop and one on the thumb drive) were intended to be stored in Clinton's Chappaqua and Whitehaven residences," the FBI said in its case summary.
Santos could turn out to be the Betty Currie of the Clinton email scandal. Currie was the secretary for President Clinton. She also came recommended by Jordan, and became famous as a central witness in the Monica Lewinsky scandal for her handling of gifts given to Clinton's mistress.


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Paula und die wilden Tiere ist eine deutsche Kinderserie über das Leben wilder Tiere mit der Schauspielerin Grit Paulussen in der Rolle der Wildlife-Reporterin Paula Paulussen. Die Serie wurde vom BR im Auftrag der ARD produziert. Ausführende Produktionsfirma war Text und Bild Medienproduktion.

Im Jahr 2013 wurde die Sondersendung Paula und die wilden Bären produziert. In dem Spinoff Paula und die wilden Lieder singt Paula kindgerechte Songs zum Mitmachen und Tanzen  über ihre Erlebnisse. Die Folge Ein Kamel zum Kuscheln wurde 2014 mit dem Kinderfernsehpreis Emil ausgezeichnet.

Der Vorgänger der Serie hieß Felix und die wilden Tiere und wurde von 2002 bis 2009 produziert. Die Nachfolgeserie heißt Anna und die wilden Tiere, von der es zwei Ableger gibt: Anna und die Haustiere sowie Anna und die wilden Lieder.

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HKU dental professionals invent the "NJ Toothbrush" – A revolutionary new concept in toothbrushing
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Dr T.C. Ng (left) and Professor L.J. Jin with NJ Toothbrush
Dr T.C. Ng, a local dentist and a designer of precision tools for space exploration, and Professor L.J. Jin, Professor of Periodontology at the Faculty of Dentistry, the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have jointly designed a toothbrush which will bring revolutionary changes to the concept of toothbrushing.
NJ Toothbrush is the only toothbrush in the world targeting all dental surfaces including those niches often unreachable. As opposed to the current mode of brushing which is random and requires 3D hand motion dexterity, the NJ tootchbrush is developed using a precise computer-mapping of six types of purpose-built bristle-bundles that target all dental surfaces and niches.
The concept is based on user coupling the toothbrush along the dental arch rail track. It is designed to going from one end of the mouth to the other end without stopping. In a short two minutes' brushing using NJ Toothbrush, users would enable to approach major anatomical features and niches. It can therefore maximise the control of plaque biofilms and resultant oral/periodontal inflammation along with regular professional oral healthcare.
Dr Ng is an honorary associate professor of the Faculty of Dentistry, HKU. He is a local dentist and also a notable designer of precision tools for space exploration. He designed the sampling tool carried by 2003 European Space Agency Beagle 2 Mars Spacecraft landed on the red planet in 2003.
Professor Jin is Modern Dental Laboratory Professor in Clinical Dental Science (Endowed Professor) and Professor of Periodontology at the Faculty of Dentistry, HKU. Over the years, his research projects on periodontal etiopathogenesis, novel care strategy and approaches have been well funded by Hong Kong Research Grants Council.
The project is supported by HKU Technology Transfer Seed Fund and a PCT patent application has been filed for the innovation.
An introduction of the NJ Toothbrush.
Presentation slides by Professor Jin.
CVs of Dr T.C.Ng and Professor L.J.Jin.
https://www.hku.hk/press/news_detail_18698.html
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Represented by Oxford's Sarah Wiseman Gallery for over a decade, Karólína Lárusdóttir has become recognised internationally for her printmaking and paintings influenced by her eccentric upbringing in Iceland. In her first solo exhibition in nine years, 'Wondrous Happenings' will be a celebration of the artist's 75th birthday, and a rare opportunity to see a number of works by this renowned artist.
Born in Reykjavik in 1944, Karólína overcame considerable opposition to family in order to apply to art school. Her parents felt that it was an unsuitable career for a well-to-do young woman, and even doubted her artistic ability. However, Karólína was undeterred, signing up for a drawing course in her second year of college in Reykjavik. This course brought her to London, and it was here she established firm roots in the UK – and where she would call home for a period of around 50 years. She has a strong connection to Oxford, initially through her training at the Ruskin school, and latterly through gallery representation.
At the recommendation of one of her drawing tutors in London, she applied to the Ruskin school in Oxford, where she was immediately accepted. She graduated in 1967. The Ruskin School at that time was housed in the Ashmolean museum, where Karólína would have been free to wander among the collections, draw in the cast gallery and have access to a world-class art library.
Gallery director Sarah Wiseman first came across her work over twenty years ago, before her own gallery opened in north Oxford's Summertown.
When the CCA Galleries closed in Oxford, Sarah Wiseman decided to open her own gallery. However, even in the tumult of opening her own new business, Karólína's etchings remained on Sarah's mind.
"After that gallery closed, I opened my own gallery in 1998. I knew there was nobody representing Karólína's work in Oxford and so I wrote to her – a good old-fashioned letter!
Karólína agreed to send a few prints for Sarah to try and sell, which of course, they did. Sarah soon discovered there was a big audience for her work. Sarah says, "At the time, Gee's restaurant had a stunning painting by Karolina on display. Jeremy Mogford is a known collector of her work. In fact, you can still see her work displayed in his restaurants – Quod and The Old Parsonage to this day.
But what makes her work so special? "I think people are drawn to it because there's a strange sense of familiarity in the visual language she uses, which really strikes a chord," says Sarah Wiseman. "There are numerous threads running through her work, from her own family history, to the myths that are part of Icelandic culture, which captures people's imaginations.
Iceland is a nation that prides itself on retaining customs and keeping mythology and folklore alive, and Karólína's work certainly reflects this. Her favourite subject is people, in particular the eccentric characters that featured in her early life.
Perhaps most compelling of all is Karólína's grandfather, who was a circus strongman in Barnum and Bailey's Circus in the USA. After his circus career finished, he came back to Iceland and founded Reykjavik's first grand hotel: Hotel Borg. As it was a family business, Karólína spent many afternoons after school here, becoming an observer of many social occasions, as the hotel became central to society life in Reykjavik. Teas, dances and children's parties were hosted, with chefs and chambermaids scurrying here and there.
Her work centres around this time of her childhood; a time before television, when social events, visits and gatherings were much more at the forefront of people's lives. Post-war Iceland was rather more insular and seldom visited by tourists as it is today.
Karólína was offered a membership of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers in 1986. The Royal Water colour society membership was offered in 1996. She is also the recipient of numerous prizes such as the The Dicks and Greenbury in 1989, and the 4thTriennale Mondiale D'Estampes Petit Format, France. In 1990, Karolina received a special award at the Premio Biella Internazionale per L'Incisione in Italy, and she was nominated graphic artist of the Year 2005, Islensk Grafik (Icelandic Printmaker's Association) and was the recipient of the Aberystwyth University School of Art Collection Prize 2012. She has exhibited in numerous galleries all around the UK and in Iceland, including at The Royal Academy Summer show. Her biography was published in Iceland in 1993, and the book Karólína Lárusdóttir by Aðalsteinn Ingólfsson was published in 2013.
References: 'Karólína Lárusdóttir', by Aðalsteinn Ingólfsson (Published 2013, JPV).
Since the time of writing Karólína Lárusdóttir sadly passed away on February 7, 2019.


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The Langley School District welcomes a limited number of international students to study in 15 of Langley's 27 elementary schools (Kindergarten – Grade 7). Please note that the Langley School District requires children under the age of 13 years to reside with a parent.
Students are integrated into regular classes with Canadian students from the first day of school. Supportive and caring teachers provide instruction and guidance for students as they adjust to life in Canada. All 15 elementary schools hosting International Students provide English-Language Training. Students are tested upon arrival and given instruction appropriate to their needs.
The school year starts at the beginning of September and finishes at the end of June. The best time for students to begin their studies is in September, which is the start of the school year. Students may also join in January, however spaces are limited.
Students applying to the Elementary Program undergo the same application process and pay the same fees as secondary school students.
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Q: llamar datos javascript, react buen dia, soy nuevo en javascript y en react, en mi trabajo me han pedido hacer graficas, yo ocupo rechart y me mandaron un json de amazon:

eso lo tengo que mandar a llamar y ponerlo en la grafica, intente hacerlo como las demas graficas que tenia
componentDidMount() {
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pero me da este error

esta seria la grafica aunque en la grafica si tengo bien como mandarlos a llamar
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necesito ayuda, casi no se javascript o mejor dicho no se

A: La razón por la que no puedes usar el map en datos, es porque asumo no estás recibiendo un objeto tipo Array, en la cual esta incluida la función map
Te recomiendo que hagas lo siguiente, antes de usar el setState verifica que estas obteniendo en datos ya sea haciendo un console.log() o usando alguna herramienta cómo Postman
Al tratarse de un Object la manera de obtener los valores sería la siguiente
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If you visit our Triathlon Reader Forum, you'll find folks just like you agonizing over whether to buy the new Cervelo tri bike or the Orbea; or whether to buy the new Specialized or have a custom Elite built; and so on. But for you — as for those posing these queries — this might be jumping the gun. Ought you to be considering a tri bike at all?
Just about everything written on Slowtwitch on the subject of bike fit, applies to tri bike fit. But not every bike that is ridden, or ought to be ridden, in a triathlon is a "tri bike."
But wait! Certainly a mountain bike is the best bike for a mountain bike race; a cross bike is best for a cyclocross race; you wouldn't enter a road race on anything but a road race bike; if it's a triathlon, shouldn't you be on a tri bike? Maybe, maybe not.
There are two questions we'll seek to answer here: How do you know whether you'll be better outfitted for racing triathlons on a tri bike versus a road bike? And what about that position that's been called the "multisport" position, or the "tweener" position — that is to say, a morphing of road and tri?
A "tri bike," according to Slowtwitchers, is a bike built around the idea of aerobars, that is, it's a frameset and eventual complete bike designed with aerobars in mind. By "aerobars" I'm referring to that construct containing armrests and extensions. Our bedrock concept relies on the view that this is more than just an accessory or component: rather, that it turns a bike into a sort of "front recumbent," because you rest the top half of your body skeletally on the front of the bike.
Imagine laying face down on a massage table, versus maintaining yourself in the push-up position, up, with arms locked. Yes, that's a stark analogy, and certainly overstates the "rest" afforded by a tri bike versus the upper body muscular "stress" of riding a road bike. Nevertheless, we believe this ability to "rest" your upper body on the front of the bike — displacing your weight skeletally on the front and rear of the bike, versus only on the rear of a typical road race bike — affects just about all aspects of how a bike built for this position ought to be designed.
Riding your bike in comfort, like laying on a massage table, sounds pretty appealing, doesn't it? But think about what riding with a flatter bike for a long time "comfortably" means: you also may be riding with your weight not on the fat of your rear for a long time, rather on a part of your anatomy less well suited for weight displacement; and you may be riding with your head craned forward for a long time (you look down when getting a massage; imagine the stress on your neck if looking straight ahead while getting your hour-long massage). For these reasons, riding a tri bike might not be optimal for you — you may (perish the thought) be better off riding triathlons on a road race bike.
The first decision you must make, even with the full knowledge that triathlon is the intended use, is whether a tri bike is the best bike for you. This isn't straightforward. The simplest determiner is this: Can you, and will you, ride in the "aero" position for virtually the entire bike leg of the race?
But it's not necessarily easy to answer this question. Even if you'd like to ride in this fashion, and intend to, perhaps you don't know if you can until you're fitted properly, and atop the equipment that suits you best.
I realize it's a little like asking you if you can ride 6 hours comfortably on a horse. It's hard to know this without first being fitted to a saddle; and on a saddle that suits your anatomy; riding a horse that suits you; and having enough hours in the saddle to make a judgment. How will you know whether you can ride 6 hours in the saddle comfortably without first making a mountain of investment in horses, saddles, and training?
These hurdles notwithstanding, there are clues upon which you may rely.
A tri bike is the inferior style whenever you're out of the aero position. Whenever you brake, corner, descend, sprint, or do anything with your hands in the pursuit bars, you'd be better off if you were on a road race bike in that moment. The reason tri bikes are used by the best athletes is that those moments are relatively brief as a percentage of the entire ride.
- So, the first, truest thing you can say about this decision between road and tri is this: If you know, irrespective of anything you might learn here or elsewhere, that you're destined to spend a third, or half, or two-thirds of your racing miles out of the aero position and on the pursuit bars, you'll probably be both faster and more comfortable on a road race bike set up as a road race bike, even though it's a triathlon you're racing in.
- At the risk of putting too fine a point on it, are you slow? And is that just relatively slow, or absolutely, dog, slow? The slower you are, the less weight is on your pedals, the more weight is on your saddle, and the more pain you're likely to endure while in the aero position. There is no sin in riding a road race bike, set up as a road race bike, in a triathlon. Road race bikes are fast, even those with no aero bars. They're almost as fast as tri bikes. So, riding a road bike, road geometry, in a road position, with road shift/braker levers on a road handlebar, is not a bad option. It is certainly better than riding a tri bike, with a mountain of spacers on a tiny stem, uncomfortably.
- Are you carrying 40 more pounds than your ideal weight? A tri bike might be in your future, but it's questionable whether it's in your present. The extra weight coming down on your tender regions, and the lack of flexibility and "room" at the top of the pedal stroke, means the tri bike you'd buy now would be slower than the road bike you'd choose (even in a no-draft triathlon). Furthermore, the tri bike you'd buy now would probably be different than the tri bike you'd choose were you to wait until you were closer to your ideal weight.
- Are you a congenitally bad bike handler? If you're not going to get much better at handling, and you're constantly in and out of the aero position, and you're swervy and slow, you're probably slower on a tri bike than you would be on a road race bike, and you're more of a danger to yourself and others.
There is no sin if you find yourself in one or more of the above categories. In fact, if a road race bike is your best bike, you'll no doubt find yourself riding past lots of tri bike riders in races. This, because you're on "your" best bike; and because you're riding against a lot of riders who're not on "their" best bikes.
What about putting an aerobar onto a road race bike? If you're in the three categories listed above, I'd say don't do it. If you won't ride a tri bike comfortably and confidently in the aero position, you probably aren't going to ride any bike that way. Those who do ride with aerobars on road bikes are usually best off with the sorts of "shorty" bars ITU racers prefer. But I have "rules" that govern their best use, and they generally revolve around not messing up the good available riding positions on your road race bike.
When I first started riding with aero bars, immediately after they came out more than 20 years ago, I just slapped them on my road bike. That's what we all did. There were no tri bikes. But two things were obvious to most of us: the position we found ourselves in was too stretched out; and we were uncomfortably low in front, constricting our hips, that is, it was hard to generate power at the top of the pedal stroke.
So, I shortened the stem and raised the bars. At that point in the evolution of my riding position, I was sitting back in my "road" seat angle, and the saddle and the aero bar armrests were at about the same elevation. I looked like a sail, but I could ride the bike reasonably comfortably.
In my personal bio-chronology, this narrative has so far advanced you about 6 months, taking you from Spring of 1987 to Fall of 1987. At this point I've got a road bike, set up at a road seat angle, but with full aero bars. I'm halfway between road and tri. I'm Missing Link Man.
Plenty of those who're fitting triathletes today stopped their learning and evolving right there, at that point. This is still how they fit their charges. Is this a viable position? Let's assume for a moment that it is and, assuming it is, what bike geometry best fits this tweener position? There are two sorts of geometries that represent a bit of a convergence, and that is the road race bike as I described it in the paragraph above, and the "tri" bike built with a shallow seat angle and a tall head tube. If you're a bike designer and you craft your tri bike's geometry this way, you're making something very much like a road bike. When looking at our stack and reach tables, tri bikes that have short reaches and tall stacks are built in this fashion, that is, they are "narrow and tall" (described on the graphic above) instead of "long and low." (shown on the graphic below).
Would I ride faster on a bike outfitted like this — the way my aerobars were outfitted on my road bike in 1987 — or on a road race bike, set up like a road bike, with no aerobars at all (or perhaps with shorty bars)? Were it a flat, featureless course, I suspect it would be a wash. The body positions are similar, featuring the same angle of my torso into the wind, and the same biomechanics. The value in a pure road race bike is in the various positions available to you (hoods with straight arms, hoods with forearms parallel to the ground; hoods out of the saddle; tops; drops). Offsetting this is some potential aerodynamic value to you in the tweener position if you are set up narrow.
Back to 1987: As I rode this bike month after month I found that I instinctively wanted two things: a lower position with a flatter bike; combined with the ability to ride with my trunk further forward. This is the evolution in which many triathletes of the time found themselves engaged.
After another six months of moving the stem and saddle and aerobars, it became apparent to me that a new frame design was indicated. This 12 months — mid 87 to mid 88 — this was the period during which the R&D (you might say) for the "tri bike" occurred.
- You're a candidate for the "tri bike" if you find yourself going through the same sort of evolution I went through two decades ago. You continually find yourself wanting a shorter cockpit; you're moving forward to the nose of the saddle and wishing you could move further forward still; and you find yourself wishing your bars were lower (commensurate with moving your saddle forward). This is your body telling you what my body was telling me — and what the bodies of dozens of pro athletes back in the 80s were telling them.
- If you're fit and trim and reasonably coordinated you're part of the two-thirds of the triathlon world who will find themselves faster on a tri bike (properly designed, built and set up) than on a road race bike.
- Speed is king to you, and you're willing to go through the process of investigating how it is to generate more speed. For a lot of people, speed is not the priority. Just know that if it is a priority, speed through tri bike riding is not easily won. As you ride with your seat angle steeper and and your back flatter, your choice of saddle, aerobars, bike frame, your training and racing bike apparel, your technique, your cadence, all narrow in their utility — your available choice in what you use and how you ride tightens. While 50 different saddles might be acceptable on your road bike, only 1 or 2 might work for your steep-angled tri position. You'll have to ferret them out. You have to be willing to engage in this process.
I've been deliberately opaque on the utility of the tweener position. Of course you can tell that I have a personal dislike for it, because it was an early stage in my evolution to what ended up being a position with which I ride with much greater satisfaction. I might chalk this up to my idiosyncratic self, were it not for the parallels between my self-discovered position and that discovered by most of the world's best pros from that time until this.
Accordingly, my view of the tweener position is that it's underpowered and slow. Bringing a tweener position to a triathlon is like bringing a knife to a gunfight.
There is no aero bar made today that mounts on a road bike, with the saddle, road bar, and shifters all in their proper road configs, that places the road bar in its proper spatial relationship fore/aft while granting the rider an appropriately short cockpit distance. In other words, if you just mount the aero bar on your properly set up road bike, you'll be too stretched out. If you shorten the cockpit, you'll have ruined your road bike contact points.
The alternative is to do a full tri front end to your tweener outfitted bike. It sort of works. But I remain unimpressed. I'd rather just have a proper road bike underneath me.
Second, as stated three paragraphs up, a full tri bar on a properly positioned road bike with STI shifters guarantees either your tri position will be bad; or your hoods position will be bad. Full tri bars go together with pursuit bars, bar-end shifters, plug in brake levers. If you must put an aero bar on a road front end (road bars, STI, et al), the shorty bar best complements it. I would take more comfort stating this, and leaving it lie, were there a really good shorty bar currently made. Regrettably, there is not. When there is, I'll write about it, and until then we'll all have to make due mounting less-than-perfect shorties on our road bikes, or mounting no aerobars at all on them.
As you might by now divine, I'm an agnostic about the tweener position. It's not right for me; and it's not right for most tri bikes; but it might be right under certain conditions, on certain bikes, for certain people, with all the qualifiers and mitigators contained above. The truest thing I can say is that there is a "tri position" that generates and delivers all the blessings and benefits of the aerobar, and when you read about "tri bike fit" on the pages of Slowtwitch it is this position about which we write. True, this tri position lives inside of a range of shallow seat angles to steep, but in the context of true tri positions when we say shallow we mean 77° and when we say steep we mean 81°, with 79° dead nuts center.
Best, then, for you the user to ask yourself whether you're a candidate for the sort of "tri position" that conforms to our idea of best practices. If you are such a candidate, then you can pass through the door of Cervelo tri, Felt tri, and so forth. If you're not a candidate, there's no shame in that. It's just that you'll be unhappy with most of the better selling "tri" bikes, and if you're dead set on a tri bike anyway you're better off choosing one that matches your riding style. (narrow and tall, ridden with a shallower seat angle and taller front end, and with a full tri set up, in something closer to our Slowtwitch-described tweener position). Or (and maybe better yet) simply choose a standard road race bike. Heck, my favorite style of bike to ride on a day to day basis is a road race bike. These bikes are fine, and it may be the bike on which you'll most happily, powerfully, and comfortably race your triathlons.


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Doc Rivers: Donald Sterling Interview 'Doesn't Sound Like Much Of An Apology'
by Zack Cox on Tue, May 13, 2014 at 9:43AM
With the Los Angeles Clippers still very much alive in the NBA playoffs, Doc Rivers told reporters Monday that he hasn't paid much attention to the news surrounding Clippers owner Donald Sterling's disastrous interview with CNN.
But when told of perhaps Sterling's most controversial remark in the sit-down with Anderson Cooper — that Magic Johnson is a poor role model for the children of L.A. because he contracted HIV — the Clippers coach was far from supportive of the man who — for now, at least — writes his paychecks.
"I know who Magic is. I'll stand by Magic every day of the year because I've known him for a long time," Rivers said, via USA Today. "Having said that, I don't know what's going on out there. I tried not to get involved in that part of it right now. Whatever it is, that doesn't sound like much of an apology to me."
The Clippers and Oklahoma City Thunder are tied 2-2 in their Western Conference semifinal series entering Game 5 on Tuesday, and Rivers said he's trying to tune out the whirlwind of off-the-court issues surrounding his team until the playoffs are over.
"I just don't need the clutter right now," he said. "I've got the basketball operations, I've got the team, we're in the middle of the playoffs. So for right now, what I've decided to do is to tune out, if you want to say. … I'm sure at some point I will sit down and listen and hear (Sterling's comments)."
Rivers added that he is "aware" and "glad" that Sterling offered some sort of an apology, but that the owner "probably should have done it right away."
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Everyone who heard Tom Mortier speak at the recent #HOPE2015 Adelaide Symposium or at the more recent HOPE inaugural conference in Dublin, Ireland, was certainly moved emotionally by the story of the euthanasia death of his mother. She was physically well but suffered from clinical depression.The story itself is well known now across the globe. It is a clear example of the category shift in Belgium that allows now for euthanasia for a much broader range of circumstances than was ever envisaged when the law was debated and passed in 2001 and 2002. It is also a very clear example of what happens when the pursuit of autonomy moves past the natural boundaries of application to a point where even familial relationships count for little.
"You've just taken away the suffering of one person and transposed it to another!' " Tom to Dr Distelmans.
Tom is a dear friend. We spent a few days sightseeing and talking after the Adelaide event. As he has said repeatedly that he never asked for this. His life and that of his family have been radically altered by events beyond his control. He declares quite openly that he is not an activist. But he is someone who is grappling with the pursuit of justice; and that in a country where he finds that the cultural shift towards accepting euthanasia as a right sees him as one of only a few voices of opposition.
No-one should ever experience such life-shattering events. But as Tom says, he knows that he is not the only one. There are others.
The pursuit of justice needs a voice. Tom is such a voice. And while it is difficult and deeply frustrating to seek for justice to be done in an environment where many, if not most, cannot see the problem; justice will be done. Justice may be portrayed as a blindfolded woman, but she will have her way.
During the Adelaide symposium and also since returning to Belgium, Tom has been co-operating with the Australian SBS television network in the production of a documentary. He also co-operated with Rachel Aviv from The New Yorker in a recently published expose on Belgium's love affair with euthanasia.
I urge readers to consider how difficult it must be to retell these events time and time again. Tom is not seeking the limelight nor to bring attention to himself but, rather to an issue that cries out for justice; not just for himself, his mother and his family, but for his entire beloved homeland of Belgium.
I encourage anyone who genuinely wishes to gain an understanding about Belgium's experiment with euthanasia to read the New Yorker article (linked here).
We should all keep Tom and his family in our thoughts with gratitude for his incredible courage.


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[N]o single action . . . will provide complete protection in areas with confirmed swine flu cases, health officials said. It isn't practical to wear a mask all the time, even a quality mask, and the devices aren't foolproof.
So at least wash your hands frequently throughout the day.
Masks may give people a false sense of security, said Dr. Laurene Mascola, director of acute communicable disease control for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health.
"You would have to wear it 100% of the time that you are outside," she said of masks and respirators.
Further, face masks and respirators shouldn't replace other precautions.
"Somewhat lost in all the excitement is that we continue to need to take standard control measures," said Dr. Paul Holtom, associate professor of medicine at USC's Keck School of Medicine and a hospital epidemiologist at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center and the USC University Hospital.
To avoid infecting others, ill people should stay home, avoid crowds, cover their mouth when they cough or sneeze, and wash their hands before touching eyes, nose or mucus membranes.
Sometimes the simplest remedies are, in fact, the best.
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You've gotta think they just might be two of the most chilling words that could be spoken to someone or about someone . . . "No remedy." No more healing . . . Incurable . . . Game, set, match!
I came across this simple two-word phrase as I wrapped up my readings in 2Chronicles. They are the final word as God closes the chapter on Judah and its kings. The nation is decimated by the Chaldeans. The murderous horde from Babylon descend upon Jerusalem without compassion for anyone. Young or old, male or female, they put the city to the sword and then desecrate and burn the temple. To add insult to injury they tear down the mighty walls of Jerusalem. The glory of God had departed . . . the enemy had advanced and conquered . . . the nation, as pictured by Zion, lay in ruin. And all because, writes the chronicler, there was no remedy.
[King Zedekiah] stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the LORD, the God of Israel. All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the LORD that He had made holy in Jerusalem. The LORD, the God of their fathers, sent persistently to them by His messengers, because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place. But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD rose against His people, until there was no remedy.
The hand of the LORD is not too short that it cannot save (Isa. 59:1). In fact, our God is mighty to save (Isa. 63:1). So it's not like God was not able to fashion the right cure for His people. He had sent prophets to warn the people and to call them to repentance. Beyond that, less than 20 years earlier, he had raised up one last kid king, Josiah, to show the priests and people what revival could look like (2Chron. 34 & 35). Josiah again cleaned house in Judah of idolatry. He rediscovered and read aloud for all to hear the Word of God given through Moses. He modeled humility, contrition, and repentance. And, he lead the nation in observing again the Passover — a remembrance of God's ability to deliver and the power of substitutionary blood to save — such that "no Passover like it had been kept in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet" (2Chron. 35:18).
Healing had been offered. Health had been modeled. But for those who scoffed . . . for those who refused the message . . . for those who stiffened their necks and hardened their hearts . . . no remedy.
There's coming a day when again there will be no remedy. When everyone who will respond has responded to God's grace-infused offer of salvation through the perfect person of His Son and the finished work of the cross. When all that is left are those who mock the gospel message and blaspheme the holy God. And in that day, there too will be no remedy.
But today is not that day. For our God is exceedingly patient, "not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance" (2Peter 3:9). Now is not the time to give up, retreat to a mountaintop and await the Lord's return. But today, for many, is the day of salvation. That remnant still being gathered who, like Josiah, through the Spirit's mysterious working, are drawn to seek the Lord . . . whose hearts, by grace, are made tender through faith . . . who, because of God's word, humble themselves before heaven . . . who, by His power, seek to walk in obedience.
Today is not the day of no remedy. It is the day to lift high the name of Jesus and His power to save.
All because of God's exceeding grace . . . all for God's eternal glory.
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