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Plymouth Staff
Pastoral Leaders: 1853-2017
About Plymouth Church
Welcoming All, Growing in Faith, Working for Justice and Peace
Plymouth was founded in 1853 by a group of Syracusans who wanted to create a Christian abolitionist bulwark in the city. Since then, we have fought against slavery, poverty, and war; for immigrants', natives', workers', LGBT, and women's rights; and sought to be agents of mercy in a hurting world. We believe in beauty, laughter, the struggle for peace with justice, taking risks for God, and the Way of Jesus Christ.
Our faith is over 2,000 years old; our thinking is not!
We are Open and Affirming
We believe God calls us to welcome all people and their gifts regardless of gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, physical ability, socioeconomic status, or religious background.
We are Just Peace
We covenant to live actively within the holy longing that weds justice with the quest for peace – within us, between us, in community, and across the globe. We covenant to affirm the sacredness of all life and to honor and preserve creation.
We are Sanctuary
We provide a space of physical, emotional, and spiritual safety for immigrants without documents, and specifically pledge to the principles of the national New Sanctuary Movement.
We are Progressive Christians
We try to walk in the way of Jesus Christ, our brother and savior. We believe God speaks new meanings for new days, and that She does so not only in the church and the ancient words of the Bible, but through the insights of science, the arts, the revelations of other religions, and the best strivings of the human spirit. We believe God has granted us a purpose, and that life is too short for long-faced religion. Join us!
history of Plymouth Church
Plymouth Church is a member congregation of the United Church of Christ. Our denomination marks as its beginning the year 1957, when it completed a process of conversation resulting in the union of two denominations: the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church. Both denominations were animated by an urgent desire for freedom of worship, a respect for diversity while remaining committed to a covenant, and an eagerness for spiritual guidance that would foster individual engagement in the wider community. Our own congregation's roots are in the Congregational tradition, which can be traced back to the Pilgrims and Puritans who settled New England.
UCC churches have a profound respect for each other, but they are not bound by hierarchical control. The covenant we share allows individual churches to be "informed but not instructed," able to care and respond in unity in the world, but with a regard for divergent voices. Each local church is autonomous in matters of its leadership. Each calls and supports its own pastors, manages its own resources, and creates and sustains its own liturgical practices. Yet we draw strength from our covenantal connections with other congregations and with the wider church. Indeed, the UCC takes as its motto Jesus' prayer, "that they may all be one" (John 17:21).
In the UCC, we emphasize personal faith, guided by the Holy Spirit and scripture, as well as the social responsibility that derives from Jesus' teaching that we are to minister to others. The UCC is a pioneering denomination in many ways—in the quest for religious freedom, in the struggle against slavery, in the furthering of access to higher education, in the ordination of African-Americans, women, and gay and lesbian people, and more.
Plymouth Church is a member of the Oneida Association of the New York Conference of the United Church of Christ. For more information about the United Church of Christ, visit ucc.org
Meet Some of Our Members
Nellie Fisher
Hello my name is Nellie Fisher. For the past 51 years I've taught at Danforth Middle School — and it has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life! The first 34 years I taught sixth grade, and also created and taught an after-school traveling contemporary dance troupe. And for the past 16 years I've taught an alternative to suspension program. My days are spent teaching, reading, planning, searching the web and downloading information for the program.
I describe myself as a very straightforward person who likes to take things in stride in a very level headed manner. Every day I am greeted by students that touch my heart, make me smile, provide opportunities for me to redirect, and impart knowledge and wisdom. It is such a privilege for me to listen to students' stories (everyone has one) and interact with students, their families and so many cultures and background far beyond academics.
If there is still time left in the day I may spend it walking, listening to music of all types, exercising, listening to audio books, debriefing with colleagues, watching my favorite TV shows: soap opera (Y&R), Dancing with Stars, and The Voice.
From the very beginning, Plymouth Congregational Church's sermons, music ministry, and the people always gave me a feeling of inner peace — which prompted me to join the church. I drifted away for awhile, and then reconnected to the church — adding richness to my life, lifting me up, and giving me inner peace to live more positively with Christ in my life. Since rejoining in 2012, I have been involved in Bible study, greeting, ushering, working in the kitchen, washing furniture, and helping with the "downtown festival" in the summertime.
There are many great experiences at Plymouth that enhance feelings of inner peace. The leadership, without a doubt, is at the top of my list. The service and messages give a framework that nourishes the spiritual welfare to challenge our complicated world. The leadership delivers great Biblical teachings with dignity and grace that encourages thinking and reflecting on what is happening or has happened in the world past and present. The message gives you an opportunity to pause, reflect, and plan to go forward with hope and positive intent in your heart. Sometimes I get the feeling the message is speaking directly to me, personally.
Our magnificent music ministry is excellent. I think my favorite part of the service is how the music program pulls the service all together. The choir is a sermon in itself.
Our congregation is a blend of traditional and contemporary people that are committed to nurturing our diverse and multigenerational community. The congregation is also committed to not just talking about reaching out and serving the community but actually acting on restoring faith and addressing many social justice issues, in the community and world. All are invited and encouraged to participate in a wide range of programs to connect with the group as well as our surrounding community.
I am incredibly impressed with how all this is accomplished with a level of compassion, love, and joy expressed by the blending of the congregation. But, don't take my word for it! Please come and see — and maybe you will also become a welcomed member of Plymouth Congregational Church!
Marcus & Madeline Smith
Marcus and I live on an 86-acre farm in Pennellville, NY. We spend our extra time enjoying the land and striving to build a healthy and sustainable life.
Marcus enjoys working as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor at Syracuse Behavioral Healthcare. He feels lucky to be fulfilling his passion of helping people in a outpatient mental health clinic. He loves working in the area of health and wellness that makes it easy for him to support my dream to be a farmer! I am a work-from-home Mom; balancing our organic farm, Hungry Soul Farm, with an emerging health coaching practice, an estimating consulting business, along with caring for our son Marley.
Marley was God given to us, through birth parents. We are very proud of our open adoption and growing relationship with Marley's birth parents. Marley is simply the light of our life and represents God's promise. He is nothing short of a miracle.
Plymouth drew Marcus and me in with its clear message of love, acceptance, and by speaking God's true message. The ongoing conversation of justice, both worldwide and local, kept us coming back.
We have been coming to Plymouth since 2012. We attend with my brother and his family, as well as several friends we realized came after we became regular attenders. Marcus serves on the Pastoral Relations Committee and I served on the Christian Education Board for about a year.
Our world is broken in so many ways, with fear leading the pack with the darkness it spreads. But Marcus and I see the light Plymouth spreads. We see it in each member, every smile, every handshake. We often close our eyes in service and feel the light pour out of Quinn as he speaks the truth of God's heart.
There is injustice in this world that often stems from fear, but it's our job to stand up together and fight it with light. Plymouth repairs the world by bringing courage to each of us to stand up and promote love and make a path for justice. We do it in small ways and in big ways, each in our own way.
Frank Leonard
I have been coming to Plymouth Church for 40 years. I come by myself. I usher on Sunday mornings and have served on the Boards of Christian Education and Deacons. I also post the numbers for hymns at the front of the sanctuary, unlock the door of the closet where Food Bank food is stored, return hearing devices to where they belong, visit shut-ins, and unload food from the Food Bank truck.
I think the most beautiful thing about church is the children. When school is in session the acolytes light and put out the candles at the altar. Every summer the youth go on a mission trip and tell about it during a service in the fall.
I'm an avid Syracuse University sports fan, and in the summer I closely follow the Syracuse Chiefs baseball team.
Abby & Brendan Hind
Abby was raised in Syracuse. She is an attorney and has a small law practice focusing on civil and criminal matters. She is also an adjunct professor and teaches courses on criminal justice. She is very active and played lacrosse in high school and college. Now she enjoys snowboarding, skiing, snowshoeing, running, swimming, riding her bike, hiking, and recently started karate.
Brendan was raised in North Syracuse where most of his family still resides. He became involved in the fire department and ambulance service at 14 years old and has been involved ever since! Brendan has been a Paramedic for the last 10 years and recently transitioned from working on the ambulance, to inside the Emergency Department at Crouse Hospital. He still volunteers as a firefighter in the Solvay Fire Dept. During his free time, Brendan enjoys spending time outside and taking his dog for long walks in the park. He also enjoys traveling and live performances, both music and theater.
Abby began attending Plymouth at two years old with her family. After moving away for college, though, she was not great about attending church.
We started dating in 2009. We moved to Syracuse and spent some time looking for a church that would be ours. We were initially hesitant to come to Plymouth as a couple. Brendan was raised Roman Catholic, and Abby didn't want Brendan to feel like she was pushing her faith and church on him. Despite our research and attendance at several local churches, we were unable to find a place that they could comfortably call home.
In late 2012 we were searching for a place to be married. Plymouth had recently hired Quinn as the minister. Abby watched one of Quinn's sermons on YouTube and decided that they should go see Quinn preach in person. Quinn married them in August 2013 and Brendan officially joined the church in 2015.
One of the most important things to us in choosing a church was to find somewhere that welcomes all people regardless of race, sexual orientation, marital status, gender, sex, or life story. Plymouth recognizes that Jesus walked with the outcasts and every person who walks through Plymouth's doors is considered a child of God.
Abby is drawn to the yearly Lenten series. She loves the thought-provoking questions and the opportunity to engage in challenging conversations with other parishioners. She also loves the young adults group, which gathers intermittently for social gatherings and mission projects. In December 2015 this group went to the Rescue Mission to help prepare and serve lunch. In February 2016, it went to the Blue Tusk for fellowship.
Brendan loves the community aspect of the church and how welcoming everyone has been to him. He was used to the very structured Catholic service, but has come to love the ever-changing ways of supporting our prayer and mission at Plymouth. He loves how everyone becomes involved in their own comfort zone, and how much everyone shows their love to one another. He is glad to call Plymouth his new home, with Christ and family.
We volunteer packing bags for the food pantry many Sundays. Abby is also the vice moderator of the church and involved in the Mission Giving Task Force. She went on numerous mission trips with Plymouth as a youth and hopes to go on future mission trips.
Ann Badger, Nancy Johnson, Emily Phillips
There are many things to appreciate about Plymouth Congregational Church…positive attitudes, an array of people, laity involvement, musical variety, children's time, [2015 ministerial intern] Anneke Peereboom, and acceptance of different lifestyles, to name a few.
Perhaps the words of our ten-year-old granddaughter, Emily Phillips says it best. "I've been going to Plymouth for seven years. I was scared of going upstairs by myself at first. I discovered friendship and love. I almost cried when a little girl was baptized. The most beautiful thing about church is that everyone is welcome. I really like the building. I like the people too. I also love the routines. Well, I pretty much love everything."
John, Rebecca, Abigail, and Elias Mannion
We have lived in Syracuse since 1998 when we moved here for graduate school. Before joining Plymouth we attended other local churches for about six years. Rebecca is a part of Wood Hath Hope, a local Christian community and she heard that a few fellow members attended Plymouth. We felt that Plymouth is a place that truly welcomed everyone, regardless of socio-economic status, gender identification, or ethnicity. Also, there is a wonderful diversity of religious backgrounds. We knew they wanted our children to be surrounded by a loving community that would reinforce our family's values. The children want to come to church, to see friends and be a part of Learning Community and Chapel time.
The sermons challenge and resonate with us to reflect and act on how our Christian faith weaves into our daily lives. The adult forums are informative, but it's the Bible study or book discussions that draw Rebecca to church on a regular basis. Knowing that the kids are being cared for makes for a less stressful Sunday where we are all being nurtured. The traditions that the church celebrates go beyond a family Christmas Eve service or a joyous Easter Sunday. The congregation walks around downtown following a Dixieland band each Palm Sunday after the kids decorate the sidewalks with flowers to create an Alfrombra! Those memories and sense of community are what we want for our family.


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21 Years Ago: Rascal Flatts Debut on the Grand Ole Opry
Gayle Thompson
Gayle Thompson Updated: April 28, 2021
Twenty-one years ago today (April 28, 2000) is a day that Rascal Flatts will likely never forget. It was on that date that the trio, made up of Gary LeVox, Joe Don Rooney and Jay DeMarcus, made their debut on the Grand Ole Opry.
At the time of their Opry debut, Rascal Flatts' debut single, "Prayin' for Daylight," from their eponymous freshman album, was climbing the charts, and the record itself was still two months away from its release date. The three guys made sure to soak in their first performance on the revered stage.
"What was weird about it was the kids were lining the aisles and standing up front, which I had never seen before," DeMarcus recalls. "I think that was a time for me that I stopped and went, 'Wow! We're doing something special here.'"
Rascal Flatts remained regular performers at the Opry for the next 11 years, then finally received an invitation to officially join the revered organization in 2011.
"All I could think about was being a little kid, sitting in the nosebleed section of the Grand Ole Opry," DeMarcus says. "The first thought that came into my head was, 'I cannot believe I used to come here on family vacations and watch the Opry with my mom at the very top.' Then to be on the stage, and then asked to be a member of the Opry — it had all come full circle. It all hit me, a flood of emotions all at once, and it was tough to keep it together."
LeVox, Rooney and DeMarcus were inducted into the Grand Ole Opry on Oct. 8, 2011, earning high praise from former president George W. Bush.
"We are big fans of Gary, Jay and Joe Don," Bush said in a video tribute that was shown during the trio's Opry induction. "We love their music, and we also love their compassion and generosity. Throughout their success, Rascal Flatts have given back to their community and to our country by supporting the Make-a-Wish Foundation, Vanderbilt Children's Hospital and the American Red Cross. I am especially proud of their efforts to honor the men and women of our armed forces and the heroes who are wounded on the front lines.
"So thanks for your example of excellence and patriotism," he added. "And congratulations, as well as a hardy welcome to the Opry."
"Blessed, honored, humbled, grateful," Rooney says. "Those are words that come to mind when I stand right here with my two compadres in this famous circle."
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The land was left to John's father George, who died intestate, and thus it was that young John inherited the entire estate. However, he was in poor health and made a will a few weeks before his death in 1723, leaving the bulk of his property to three Trustees, John Mackereth, George Cumpstone and Thomas Knott, with the wish that they obtain land close to the Chapel (St Anne's) on which should be built a free school. They were also to provide for the payment of a school master's salary.
in 1808, today a charity shop.
In 1725 a piece of land known as 'The Parracke', opposite St Anne's was acquired from Gawen Braithwaite and it was there that the free school was subsequently built.
It appears that the ongoing rental income produced from the land left by John Kelsick was sufficient to fund the running of the school for the next 150 years or so, although some early 99-year leases were granted on several parcels of land for the erection of buildings, as the village of Ambleside expanded after 1850.
The demand for education grew in the second half of the nineteenth century and there was pressure for a larger school to be built. This seems to have been funded by the further granting of long leases for development on much of the original Kelsick lands, which lay mainly to the south and west of Church Street and also on The Gale.
A new free school was built close to the new St Mary's Church and the original school was converted into cottages. This was followed by the building of a girls' school just across the road, known latterly as the Old Junior School, and now converted into a cinema. By the beginning of the 20th century the Kelsick's School Foundation had disposed of much of the original 'Richmond fee' lands on 99-year leases, producing as a result a considerable income from ground rents.
This enabled the Foundation to fund the building of the Kelsick Co-educational Grammar School at Stock Ghyll, which was opened in 1907. The rising costs of education led the Governors to decide that it should be free only to those children who could pass a selection examination.
The Kelsick School Foundation Governors were effectively the Governors of the Grammar School since there was little other business in relation to the Foundation, the bulk of its assets being held on long leases and all income devoted to the local schools. Some freehold reversions were taking place however, the first being in 1959. This, ironically, was the building in Church Street from which John Kelsick's family had operated their provision merchants business some 250 years before.
The most significant sale was that of the Grammar School building to Charlotte Mason College in 1966. The proceeds of this disposal of property, which continued throughout the 1960s, began to create investment income which the Foundation had never before had available to it.
As a result of the above changes, a new scheme under the name of Kelsick's Educational Foundation, was approved by the Charity Commissioners in 1967. In addition to continuing to support the local schools, this new scheme enabled the Trustees, for the first time, to give grant aid to support a much broader range of educational pursuits for young people in Ambleside and its surrounding area. The Foundation still retains significant property holdings in Ambleside amounting to about 50 buildings including the Kelsick Centre, the Conservative Club, and the cinema building known formerly as the old Junior School, together with shops, other business buildings and residential properties. The income from these, combined with its financial investments, allows the Trustees to continue their work in carrying out John Kelsick's wishes as set out in his will so many years ago.


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Tobacco giant PMI names ex-pharma comms man Liam English as global PR chief
Global tobacco giant Philip Morris International (PMI) has hired former senior pharma industry, Department of Health and Cabinet Office comms figure Liam English as director corporate communications.
by John Harrington / September 05, 2016
English (pictured) will report to Laure Thibaud, vice-president, comms, who joined PMI in March. His appointment is part of a communications restructure under Thibaud that followed the death earlier this year of Julie Soderlund, who was director of regulatory comms.
English's previous roles include comms director at trade body The European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations, and associate comms director for Australia, Canada and Europe at pharma company Eli Lilly and Company.
Prior to that English worked in the public sector as deputy director of comms and head of media relations at the Office of Government Commerce (part of the Cabinet Office) and communications and press officer at the Department of Health. He was also a comms manager at the BBC and comms consultant at the European Commission.
Explaining his decision to move to the tobacco industry, English cited PMI's focus on promoting "reduce-risk products", in particular moving away from combustible nicotine items.
English, whose new role is global, said: "Communications and corporate affairs will play a key role in PMI's mission... and it is a very exciting professional challenge that I have taken on."
His most recent role was at his eponymous agency Liam English Communications.
US-listed PMI owns Marlboro among other international brands, and is often cited as the second-largest firm in its industry.
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El Pathet Lao (en laosià: ປະ ເທດ ລາວ, "Terra de Laos") va ser un moviment polític i una organització nacionalista i comunista de Laos, format a mitjans del . El grup va tenir èxit a prendre el control polític després d'una guerra civil, després de la qual va succeir una revolució insurgent que es va estendre des de la dècada de 1950 fins a 1975. El Pathet Lao sempre va tenir molta afinitat amb els comunistes del veí país del Vietnam. Durant la guerra civil, va estar organitzat, proveït i fins dirigit per l'exèrcit del Vietnam del Nord.
El Pathet Lao va ser l'equivalent laosià del Viet Minh i el Viet Cong. Eventualment, el terme va esdevenir el nom genèric dels comunistes de Laos. El moviment polític de Pathet Lao inicialment va ser anomenat Partit del Poble de Laos (entre 1955 i 1972), per posteriorment ser batejat com el Partit Popular Revolucionari de Laos.

Després que el Pathet Lao prengués el poder després del triomf de la revolució, van deixar de ser un moviment d'insurrecció nacionalista, caient la reivindicació nacional en l'oblit. A diferència dels Khmers rojos, el Pathet Lao rebia una forta influència vietnamita. Dins dels dirigents més importants del Pathet Lao hi ha al príncep Souphanouvong, Kaysone Phomvihane, Phoumi Vongvichit, Nouhak Phoumsavanh i Khamtay Siphandone.

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New infrared sensors could revolutionize phone cameras, AR glasses, and driverless cars
by Jason Hiner in Innovation on March 8, 2018, 8:03 PM PST
Seeing through fog and smoke, creating night goggles for augmented reality, and making autonomous vehicles cheaper is just the beginning of what infrared sensors could offer.
Breakthrough in infrared sensors could transform low-cost cameras in many devices New infrared sensors that could be built into future cameras could see through fog and smoke, improve augmented reality, and make autonomous vehicles cheaper.
Smartphone cameras get better every year, and phone makers are always looking for the next innovation to give these cameras a boost. Professor Gabby Sarusi of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has what may be one of the next breakthroughs--an infrared sensor that could be added to the second camera of a smartphone for under $10 and allow these devices to see at night and see through smoke and fog.
Sarusi said, "We developed a device, that basically captures infrared images, in the 1500 nanometer wavelength, and convert it to visible image. The overall thickness of this device is about half a micron. We found three primary applications for this technology.
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"The first is touching the layer to a visible sensor, like a CMOS silicon sensor, and converting this sensor into infrared sensor, because once you attach such up-conversion to device, to a silicon-visible sensor, you convert the sensor to infrared sensor."
Sarusi explained, "It's good because we can have a very low-cost infrared sensor in the 1500 nanometer and the cost is in the silicon sensor, which is [a] few dollars. The up-conversion layer also few dollars. When you touch these low-cost devices together, you have a cost-effective and low-cost sensor. This dramatically helps the autonomous vehicle sensor and is a breakthrough.
"The cost to attach the up-conversion device will be, from $10 to $20, at the most. Today's sensor in the infrared in the 1500 nanometer can cost $!,000 to $3,000, a big different between costs.
"Smartphone are moving to dual cameras, and one can function with our up-conversion coating. All the mechanics in the smartphone remain the same with the exception of an up-conversion layer attached to one of the two cameras. That's a smartphone with a dual camera, one of them will be for the infrared, and the second one will be for the visible. Then you can play around with it to make a fusion of the cameras and consider tricks."
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Sarusi continued, "For example, if there's fire in the house, and smoke is preventing you from seeing the baby's crib, but with an infrared camera, through the smoke, because smoke is transparent to this infrared wavelength. If you want to look through fog or another element, but as night, this camera will work. Once technological capabilities are revealed, there will be a lot of room for experimentation.
"We also have a short-wavelength infrared night vision, which is very, unique. We attach such a up-conversion layer to the camera of augmented-reality glasses. Any augmented-reality glasses will have a camera embedded. So if you are attaching a small up-conversion device into the camera of the augmented-reality glasses, then you can merge two nice technologies. There are night-vision capability smart glasses, and an embedded augmented-reality capability.
"Our timeline designates availability in the market within two or three years. We're looking for potential investors. We want to woo PhD and masters-degree students to our startup. Additionally, a big firm has expressed interested in this technology."
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Filling in the blanks in BBC reports on Hamas, Qatar and Iran
As readers may recall, while early BBC News website coverage of the rift between Qatar and several other Arab states did clarify that one of Saudi Arabia's demands was for Qatar to cut ties with Hamas, it did not inform BBC audiences of Qatar's reported demand that a number of Hamas officials leave that country.
Yolande Knell later produced two reports on the topic of Qatari funding of Hamas which made vague, brief references to that subject.
"Meanwhile, some top Hamas figures living in exile in Doha have moved away to ease pressure on their patron." BBC Radio 4, 15/6/17
"Many leaders of the group [Hamas] – including its former head, Khaled Meshaal, have been living in luxurious exile in Doha.
Now as Hamas seeks to ease pressure on its patron, several have reportedly left at Qatar's request." BBC News website, 20/6/17
As was noted here when the story broke:
"Among those reportedly asked to leave [Qatar] was Saleh al Arouri – the organiser of Hamas operations in Judea & Samaria who was previously based in Turkey and was designated by the US Treasury in 2015. Arouri is said to have relocated to Malaysia or Lebanon."
At the beginning of this month al Arouri made an appearance in Beirut.
"A senior Hamas terrorist believed by Israel to have planned the 2014 kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens in the West Bank was spotted publicly in Lebanon's capital Beirut for the first time since he was expelled from Qatar in June.
In photos published Wednesday, Saleh al-Arouri can be seen meeting with senior Iranian official Hossein Amir Abdollahian — a former deputy foreign minister — and a number of other members of Hamas, among them senior spokesman Osama Hamdan and the terror group's representative in Lebanon, Ali Barka. […]
After his expulsion from Qatar in June, al-Arouri moved to Lebanon, where he is being hosted by the Hezbollah terror group in its Dahieh stronghold in southern Beirut, Channel 2 reported last month.
Citing Palestinian sources, the report said that Arouri and two other senior Hamas figures have relocated to the Hezbollah-dominated neighborhood in the Lebanese capital, an area heavily protected with checkpoints on every access road."
Meanwhile, on August 5th the BBC News website published a report about the Iranian president's inauguration:
"Dozens of world dignitaries attended Mr Rouhani's inauguration at Iran's parliament, reflecting an easing in Iran's isolation since the nuclear deal.
Guests included EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and the chairman of the North Korean parliament, Kim Yong-nam, signalling a growing closeness between Tehran and Pyongyang particularly over defence matters."
The BBC did not however report that the inauguration's guest list also included Hamas officials.
"A senior Hamas delegation arrived in Tehran on Friday in a bid to bolster the relationship with the Islamic Republic.
The visit included senior Hamas figure Izzat al-Rishq, currently based in Qatar, and head of the Hamas administration Saleh al-Arouri. They were formally invited to the swearing-in ceremony of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who is beginning his second term in office."
That Hamas delegation apparently also met with IRGC representatives.
"Senior members of the Hamas terror group met on Monday in Iran with representatives of the powerful Iranian Revolutionary Guard, according to Arabic media reports.
A high-level Hamas delegation arrived in Tehran on Friday in order to attend the inauguration of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, and to "turn a new page in bilateral relations" between the two sides, according to a statement by Hamas.
This is the first Hamas visit to Iran since the group elected new leadership earlier in 2017. The rapprochement between Hamas and Iran is reportedly being facilitated by the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, which is supported by Tehran.
The delegation consisted of Hamas political bureau members Ezzat al-Resheq, Saleh Arouri, Zaher Jabarin, and Osama Hamdan.
During its stay in Iran, the group met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday, as well as a number of other senior Iranian officials. […]
Hamas also needs to re-establish ties with Iran, as its current top backer Qatar is under fire from Gulf allies for supporting the Palestinian terror group."
At the end of that August 5th BBC report on Rouhani's inauguration audiences were told that:
"Last month, the US state department accused Iran of undermining stability, security and prosperity in the Middle East.
It criticised Iran's support for the Syrian government and groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas and accused it of prolonging the conflict in Yemen by providing support for Houthi rebels."
Had BBC audiences seen any coverage of Salah al Arouri's relocation from Qatar to the Hizballah ruled suburb of Beirut and of the Hamas delegation's visit to Tehran, they would of course be much better placed to understand what lies behind those US State Department statements.
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As we prepare for our upcoming trip in Voyageurs National Park, we are making sure that all villagers have the skills needed to succeed on the voyage. Yesterday everyone participated in one of the most anticipated events of the summer: l'examen de chavirement, or flip test! To successfully pass this test, villagers practice rescuing a capsized canoe. First, villagers deliberately overturn their canoe into the lake and yell for help. Another pair of villagers arrive in a canoe and grab onto the overturned canoe, forming a "T." Villagers then work together to lift the sunken canoe onto the upright canoe, where it can be turned and then pushed back into the lake. Finally, the villagers crawl back into the canoe and paddle away safely. It's a fun and exciting time for all!


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The hiring committee held two illegal meetings, in contravention of the Municipal Act, on February 9 and February 23rd to decide their pick.
The full of Council must ratify the pick, and it's not clear how many of the four Councillors who are consistently voting for transparency, accountability, and reform will support the pick.
The name may also leak in advance of the meeting.
I thought Matthew Van Dongen was joking when he used the term "speed cushions" to refer to speed bumps. There was no way bureaucrat-speak had decided to spin speed bumps as speed cushions.
Smith, who lead the fight to expose and end questionable practices among the Old Guard of Niagara Regional Council – which was swept out of office in the October 2018 municipal election – was infamously sued by the NPCA for his 2016 report on the rampant problems and questionable practices under the rein of Carmen D'Angelo as Chief Administrative Officer of the NPCA.
Norton's comments came in response to questions about why the City's Economic Development Division is requesting that Downtown Hamilton development charge exceptions should remain in place.
The Public Record is reviewing an appeal of the City's security claim, which raises serious questions about privacy and security of information. If these videos are of such sensitivity, what are they doing on YouTube in the first place?
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The reporter who broke the Theranos saga wide open pinpoints the moment he knew he had a big story on his hands
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The Wall Street Journal investigative reporter John Carreyrou knew from his first phone call with a Theranos insider that he had a great story.
Comparing interview accounts and past coverage of Theranos' founder, Elizabeth Holmes, Carreyrou discovered major discrepancies.
Carreyrou said Holmes had been lying not only to the public but to her own board.
In September, Theranos shut down . Carreyrou walks through his reporting in " The Inventor: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley, " a documentary by director Alex Gibney that debuts on Monday at 9 p.m. ET on HBO.
John Carreyrou knew he had a story on his hands the moment his first phone call ended with Alan Beam, a former laboratory director at Theranos.
Carreyrou in early 2015 had just finished the story "Medicare Unmasked" for The Wall Street Journal and was looking for a new project to work on. Theranos was a healthcare tech company that had become a startup sweetheart in both the media and Silicon Valley.
"In terms of both the battle we had to wage and how multifaceted, colorful, and sheer entertaining the story has been, this has probably been the best," Carreyrou told Business Insider in a May interview. His first in a series of detailed exposs about the company was published on the front page of The Wall Street Journal in October 2015.
In his book, " Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup ," Carreyrou reveals more to the story beyond The Journal's coverage. Carreyrou also walks through his reporting in " The Inventor: Out For Blood In Silicon Valley, " a documentary by director Alex Gibney that debuts on Monday at 9 p.m. ET on HBO.
Carreyrou first caught wind of skepticism around Theranos back in early 2015, when Adam Clapper, a pathologist who ran an industry blog, first approached Carreyrou about Theranos.
Clapper's tip and a handful of secondhand sources helped confirm Carreyrou's gut feeling when he read a New Yorker profile on Theranos: Something was off. But Carreyrou knew that to push the story forward he'd need to talk to someone with firsthand experience at the company.
From that point, it took him about two and a half weeks to make his first contact with Beam (a pseudonym). After one phone call, Carreyrou knew he had a great story on his hands. Beam told Carreyrou everything he knew about the company. The offenses he said he witnessed included cheating on proficiency tests for the technology and providing false data to patients.
"He was the biggest hero of the story, but he was also a very reluctant hero," Carreyrou said. By speaking with Carreyrou, Beam subjected himself to speculation and relentless harassment from Theranos.
After Beam's recount, Carreyrou went back and reread past coverage on Theranos and Holmes. The lack of peer-reviewed data to back up the company's scientific claims, Holmes' vague descriptions about how Theranos' blood-testing technology worked, and the secrecy that shrouded day-to-day operations at the company stood out to Carreyrou.
It became clear to him that there was a discrepancy between what Holmes portrayed to the public and the reality, and he said that discrepancy was perpetuated through lies, including one regarding the nature of her relationship with Sunny Balwani a company executive and Holmes confidant to the board of Theranos.
Once Carreyrou started speaking with Beam, the story unraveled quickly. From there, he was able to reach many other ex-employee sources. Beam, along with a lot of the former employees, seemed traumatized by working at Theranos.
"It was like a mind-warping sort of experience," Carreyrou told Business Insider.
Theranos, which at one point was valued at $9 billion, told investors in June that it was shutting down . Holmes and Balwani face criminal charges of wire fraud brought by the Department of Justice.
This article was initially published on May 21 and has been updated. Charlotte Hu contributed to an earlier version of this post.
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How Long Would a Spacecraft Take to Reach Proxima Centauri?
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Artist's depiction of a planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri B. [Image Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/Nick Risinger]
In science fiction movies, we see crews being frozen in cryogenic chambers so that they can make long trips across the universe. The crew being placed in an induced state of hibernation at the start of their mission would not only leave them in a mentally and physically healthier state by the time they arrive at their destination months or years later, but would also limit the necessity for large living quarters, and various types of heavy equipment.
While we obviously don't have that type of technology at our disposal at the moment, it does still raise questions about how realistic the prospect are of travelling to far off distant worlds. For instance, is the nearest star so far away that we couldn't make it there in a single lifetime? How long would it take using the methods currently available, and what methods of interstellar transportation might be available in the future that would be faster?
Let's take a look at some existing and theoretical methods of space travel to find the answers. For the sake of this article, we'll be discussing how long it would take to reach Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our solar system. It is about 4.24 light years away as a frame of reference.
Current Methods of Space Travel
Ionic Propulsion
Ionic Propulsion has been developed to move unmanned space probes across the universe at faster speeds. The latest craft use solar power to make their ion thrusters move, resulting in a very fuel efficient system in which only small amounts of xenon or another propellant are needed for the journey. Its fuel efficiency would make ionic propulsion the most practical and inexpensive method of journeying to the next closest star. In 1998, Deep Space 1 (DS1) became the first spacecraft to use ion drive technology, and during its mission to test the new technology, DS1 managed to attain a velocity of 35,000 miles/hr (56,000 km/hr). At that rate it would take 81,000 Years to reach Proxima Centauri; however, improvements in the design of ion thrusters could reduce the travel time but not to that of an average human's lifespan.
Gravity Assist
At the present time, the fastest way to travel through the universe is with Gravity Assist, a method by which a spacecraft uses the gravity and orbit of nearby planets to help propel it at a fast pace. In 1974, it was used for the Mariner 10 spacecraft's trip to Mercury, where the gravitational field of Venus was used to catapult the vessel forward. NASA Helios 2 space probe in 1976 then became the fastest man-made object ever made after reaching a maximum velocity of over 150,000 miles/hr (240,000 km/hr), using the orbital speed attained from the gravitational pull of the Sun. At this rate, it would take 19,000 to 76,000 Years to reach Proxima Centauri, depending upon the velocity that the space craft was able to reach.
Nuclear Thermal and Nuclear Electric Propulsion
This type of propulsion has never been used in a spacecraft, but basically uses nuclear engines to produce thrust. Both Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) rockets and Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NEP) rockets involve using uranium or deuterium-based reactions to propell the spacecraft through either nuclear fission or nuclear fusion, rather than using chemical propellants. If it could be safely perfected, NTP/NEP would be cost effective, and would allow for lightning fast transport through space with minimal costs. Using this method, the time required to reach Proxima Centauri could be reduced to 1000 years.
Electromagnetic Drive
The electromagnetic propulsion drive (EM Drive) has been built here on Earth but has never actually been used in a spacecraft. Some speculate that it would not actually work, and that it goes against the law of momentum conservation. Basically, this type of propellant-less thruster does not require any type of mass such as ionized particles to power its movement, but instead uses solar power to produce multiple microwaves which bounce back and forth inside an enclosed cone to create thrust in the direction of the cone's narrow end. Likened to the Starship Enterprise's Impulse Drive, some studies have shown that the thruster could theoretically be used to travel through space at faster speeds that we have so far been able to manage, and that Proxima Centauri could be reached in just 100 years.
Theoretical Methods of Space Travel
Since all of the following methods of space travel are still little more than concepts, it's not possible to know just how quickly they could get us from Earth to Proxima Centauri; however, if any of them were available, they would be likely to drastically reduce the travel time, potentially making it possible to make the trip in significantly fewer years than the modes of travel currently available.
Nuclear Pulse Propulsion
First proposed in 1946, Nuclear Pulse Propulsion was studied briefly during the 1950s and 1960s by a team at Princeton University. A simple explanation of this technology is that a spacecraft equipped with the propulsion system explodes a series of thermonuclear warheads behind it that create a wave of energy that is absorbed by a pusher pad which subsequently drives the vehicle forward.
The cost for such a spacecraft would probably run around $2.5 trillion and bans on nuclear testing make it virtually impossible to study the method of propulsion in order to determine if it could ever be made feasible. Nevertheless, estimates suggest a spacecraft could reach 5% the speed of light using this method, or 33,353,083 miles/hr.
Fusion Rockets
Fusion rockets were studied briefly during the 1970s and are another potentially fast way to move through the galaxy. In this type of spacecraft, deuterium and helium-3 pellets are detonated inside of a fusion reactor to produce plasma energy to power the rocket. There are a number of obstacles that would need to be overcome in order to bring this concept to reality, one of the biggest of which is that helium-3 would need to be mined in outer space as it is not readily found on Earth. Gradually accelerating up to 12% the speed of light, or 80,473,995 miles/hr, a craft could travel to Proxima Centauri in 36 years.
Fusion Ramjet
Robert W. Bussard introduced the idea of a ramjet spacecraft in 1960. Building on the idea of the nuclear fusion rocket, this vehicle would have an electromagnetic funnel that would bring hydrogen from space into the rocket's reactor and compress it until thermonuclear fusion occurs. Continuously refueling the spacecraft in this way would make the spacecraft very cost efficient, and could potentially allow the craft to reach 4% the speed of light.
Laser Sail
A completely different concept for space travel is the laser sail, developed off of the concept of the solar sail, a spacecraft that moves solely using power harnessed from the sun. A laser sail in space would receive a photon boost from an array of powerful lasers located on the Earth or stationed around Earth's orbit, with their highly focused and perfectly synchronized beam providing an irradiation 100,000 times greater than the Sun's. This could lead to astonishing speeds being attained, with a 1 meter (3 ft) diameter laser sail reaching about 26 percent the speed of light in just 10 minutes, and Proxima Centauri in a mere 15 years.
Studies are still being done to explore this possible method of interstellar travel but so far the high cost that it would take to craft the sail out of a material that could withstand the heat has made moving forward with the technology impractical.
Antimatter Engine
Fans of Star Trek will known that warp-capable Federation starships are powered by a matter/anti-matter reaction that produces vast amounts of energy. Anti-particles have the same mass but an opposite electrical charge to its corresponding particle, and it was only in 1928 that Paul Dirac revised Einstein's E = mc2 equation to allow for a + or – value for Energy (E).
Basically, an antimatter engine slams particles of hydrogen and antihydrogen together, with the resulting reaction producing huge amounts of energy, together with a subatomic particles traveling one-third the speed of light, which are subsequently channeled out of a magnetic nozzle to produce thrust. Is is believed that a spacecraft using an antimatter engine could travel at half the speed of light, and reach Proxima Centauri within 9 years. On the downside, antiparticles are extremely rare, are not easy to store, and to date scientists have only been able to create 20 nanograms of anti-matter by collisions inside large particle accelerators, with the cost of producing even one gram of anti-matter apparently costing trillions of dollars.
Alcubierre Warp Drive
In 1994, Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed his concept for a propulsion system (Alcubierre Warp Drive), that would allow spacecraft to travel faster-than-light speeds without contradicting Einstein's laws. According to his speculative idea, a spacecraft fitted with such a device would be able to use gravitational effects to contract the space-time in front of it, and expand the space-time behind, creating a warp bubble that carries the craft through space-time distances faster than light could have managed. In this instance, there is no violation of Einstein's relativity theory beause while nothing can exceed the speed of light, space itself is able to expand or contract faster than any photon ever could.
The spacecraft would then travel at zero gravity within a bit of flat spacetime inside the warp bubble, and ride the wave of compressed and expanded spacetime at superluminal speed. Such a craft would theoretically be able to travel up to 10 times the speed of light, cutting a journey to Proxima Centauri to less than 5 months. Some of the many problems associated with the idea, however, include the huge amount of energy required to power the warp drive, dangers of the gravitational fields produced ripping any spaceship apart, and also Alcubierre's mathematical model violating some of nature's fundamental laws.
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Chapter: Clinical Cases in Anesthesia : Thrombocytopenia In Pregnancy
What are some practical recommendations regard-ing neuraxial anesthesia in the parturient who presents with a low platelet count?
If the decision is made to proceed with neuraxial anesthesia, a subarachnoid block using a small-caliber spinal needle is preferable to epidural anesthesia.
If the decision is made to proceed with neuraxial anesthesia, a subarachnoid block using a small-caliber spinal needle is preferable to epidural anesthesia. This is not always possible, especially for women in labor who will require repeated doses of local anesthetic. An epidural anesthetic should be placed using a midline technique. The lowest concentration of local anesthetic necessary to pro-duce analgesia while preserving motor function should be used. The patient should be examined every 1–2 hours to assess the extent of the motor block, and these examina-tions should continue until after the anesthetic has worn off and the catheter has been removed. In this way, if the patient develops a motor block out of proportion to what one would expect, or if the anesthetic has a prolonged duration of action, the patient can be immediately assessed with MRI for the development of an epidural hematoma. Immediate evaluation is necessary because an emergent laminectomy and decompression must be performed within 6–12 hours of diagnosis to preserve neurologic function. If a patient develops a coagulopathy with an epidural catheter already in situ, the catheter should be removed only after the coagulation status is corrected.
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Clinical Cases in Anesthesia : Thrombocytopenia In Pregnancy
What are the concerns when placing an epidural catheter if the platelet count is low?
Who is at risk for developing an epidural hematoma?
What is considered a low platelet count from the perspective of epidural catheter placement?
What is the expected platelet count during pregnancy?
Describe coagulation and the role that platelets play in the process
What are the causes of thrombocytopenia during pregnancy?
What tests are available to evaluate platelet function?
Describe the bleeding time test and its limitation
Describe the thromboelastogram and its limitations
Describe the platelet function analyzer and its limitations
What is the overall risk of epidural hematoma?
Describe the known cases in the literature of epidural hematoma in the parturient
What is the evidence that initiating an epidural anesthetic in a woman with a platelet count <100,000 mm?3 may be safe?
How do you evaluate the patient who has a platelet count <100,000 mm?3?
What is low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) and how does it compare with and differ from standard heparin?
Why do some pregnant women take LMWH?
What has been the anesthetic experience with LMWH and neuraxial anesthesia?
What are some of the unique recommendations for anesthetizing the parturient taking LMWH?