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Photon-pair generation in photonic crystal waveguides

Saravi, Sina GND

In this thesis, I overcome the challenges and fill the gaps in knowledge for the design and analysis of photonic crystal slab waveguides (PCSWs) as spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) sources of photon-pairs, as well as to investigate their potential for engineering the properties of the photon-pair quantum state. I have developed the required formalism for analyzing both the quantum process of SPDC and its classical counterpart of second-harmonic generation (SHG). In studying SHG, I verified my formalism through comparing its results with direct nonlinear simulations. In these formulations, special attention was given to treating lossy modes, as they prove to be an inherent part of the SPDC designs in PCSWs. Moreover, I have found a practical set of PCSW designs, phase-matched for three-wave-mixing processes, while demonstrating that PCSWs can offer a strong control over the phase-matching configuration. This includes reaching phase-matching between modes of different propagation directions, reaching simultaneous phase-matching between multiple processes, and controlling the group velocity of the modes at the point of phase-matching. These capabilities proved to be the key to discovering the unique strength of PCSWs for the SPDC application. Through the use of various phase-matching configurations, I showed how compact SPDC sources can be designed using PCSWs that are capable of creating entanglement and tuning its extent in different degrees of freedom, with specific examples for path and spectral degrees of entanglement, all in a fully integrated way and directly at the generation step. This work also includes my experimental results on characterizing lithium niobate nanostructured ridge waveguides, demonstrating phase-matched SHG. Finally, I propose the concept of atom-mediated SPDC, for interfacing a single-emitter source with a photon-pair source, relying on the bandgap evanescent modes of a periodic waveguide.

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2016 Student Newsletters > April > Trend Shows Voting Low Among Students; Step It Up

Trend Shows Voting Low Among Students; Step It Up

This article appeared in an April 2016 issue of the student newsletter.

By Gilda Ordonez

Brookhaven Courier Staff Writer

The U.S. is waiting to see if college-age voters will play a key role in the 2016 presidential election. Current trends show they have lost faith in the government and believe their vote is irrelevant.

In the 2008 presidential election, 44% of 18-24-year-olds voted – the smallest amount of all age groups, according to cnbc.com. That number dropped to 38% in the 2012 election. Brookhaven College is abuzz with speculation about which candidate will be elected and whether he or she will keep his or her promises.

“I like Bernie Sanders,” Kelvin Brock, a student, said. “He speaks the truth about what he will do for America, and I’m all about honesty.” Voting is the most important civic opportunity for individuals hoping to affect change on the future. Other issues, such as gun control, free tuition and affordable health care should be topics of concern for college students, but they remain apathetic at the polls.

Valencia Cummings, a student, said: “There is no point in me voting. Even if I had a choice, I don’t think it will matter because it’s up to our representatives, and one vote won’t make a difference.” Cummings is not the only student who feels a lack of power in her vote. A change may come when students feel they can make a difference and feel a sense of responsibility for their community.

According to huffingtonpost. com, President Barack Obama saw a decline in young voters during both of his presidential elections, giving him a smaller victory margin. In 2008, 66% of voters age 18-29 voted for Obama, while only 36% voted for John McCain, according to huffingtonpost.com. In 2012, only 60% of 18-29-year-olds voted for Obama, compared to the 31% who voted for Mitt Romney.

Presidential candidates, such as Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz are trying to win votes and explain to the country why they are the best choice. Citizens will have a chance to vote in the coming months and make a difference.

This will be a good time to study the candidate’s policies, the heart of their campaigns and what they will do for college students. Leslie Lopez, a student, said she likes Clinton because she has presidential experience, but will probably not vote. “I’m only 19 years old, and this could be my first time voting,” she said.

With social media and the Internet, there are many articles to read about which candidate might be in line with one’s personal beliefs and morals. It takes more than a few minutes to make a long-term decision, which is why it’s important to research each candidate thoroughly. We the people can make a difference.


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Beat the heat

It is possible… especially when the temperature finally begins to drop off a bit in the evening. But even while it is hot, you can take your mind off it.

First, fill the pool and leave it out to get warmed up. Get the sprinkler going. Stick a slide in the pool, too.

Then tell the kids to get wet.

Tad cools off

The folding chair is where I was sitting, soaking my feet and letting the kids splash me.

Ane gets ready to slide backwards

Sliding backwards into the pool is also an entertaining option for cooling off.

Tickle, tickle

So is tickling your sister.

Ane, what are you doing?

Or attempting to drown your brother.

Kick splashing

And you can do all that kicking and splashing that Mom and Dad won’t let you do in the bathtub.

Dashing through the sprinkler

Finish off with a dance through the sprinkler which has been raining on you while you were playing in the pool, and all of a sudden, the hot weather is much more bearable. Hurray!

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    Looks like fun. It’s nice that your yard has so much shade.

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    Thanks for the delightful pictures and “instructions.” I feel cooler now!

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    July 31st, 2009 21:35

    Can I come and play, too??


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Kent wine tour: Top wineries to visit

Among the country’s prime territories for top-quality sparkling wines, this southeastern county also offers classically rural English charms of pretty villages, stately homes and fine gardens set in historical landscapes, with a wealth of great local produce on the menu. Fiona Sims plots a course around the Kentish vineyards...

There’s a good reason why Kent is described as the Garden of England. With much of it edged by the sea, stretching from the Thames estuary all the way round to the English Channel, you’ll find a verdant landscape of rolling hills, blossom-filled orchards, white-cowled oast houses (hop drying kilns), and timbered villages with tile-hung cottages. And thanks to its eastern location, it gets more sunshine and higher temperatures than most of the UK, which explains why it’s famous for its fruit.

These days, of course, there’s another crop grabbing the headlines – grapes. Make way for the Wine Garden of England.

In fact, this is the very name chosen by a ‘friendly collective’ of seven Kent winemakers who have got together to tell the world about this fast-changing corner of southeastern England – namely Biddenden, Chapel Down, Domaine Evremond, Gusbourne, Hush Heath, Simpsons and Squerryes.

Drive down the M20 today and you would be forgiven for thinking you were in France’s Champagne region in certain places, as the countryside undulates away into the distance – and you don’t have to divert too far off the main routes to find patches where row upon row of vines shimmer in the breeze on south-facing chalky slopes.

Last year (2018) was a bumper crop thanks to the long, hot summer, which should help producers to keep up with demand, as restaurants from Manhattan to Tokyo are eager to list English sparkling wines, while those closest to home continue to fight over allocations – which can be a problem for the wine tourist, as we found out, with selections in short supply on wine lists even in Kent.

The output of the UK wine industry might still be small fry compared with other wine-producing counties (think Oregon, USA, for a comparative size), but the nation has come a long way fast since its first commercial vineyard was planted in Hampshire in 1952. Many high-profile awards and trophy wins have followed, mainly for sparkling wines, fuelling some serious investment in land.

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UK wine producing regions (2017) South East 75% (1,922.6ha) South West 11% (290.8ha) East Anglia 5% (130.5ha) Wales 2% (42.3ha) Other 7% (166.5ha)

Area under vine 2,554ha (up 15% since 2015)

UK top varieties planted (2017) Pinot Noir 31.5% Chardonnay 30.2% Pinot Meunier 9.5% Bacchus 5.6%

Wine styles (bottles produced) Sparkling 68% (4m) Still 32% (1.9m)

Source: Wine GB, Wine Intelligence, Food Standards Agency

Domaine Evremond

Add to that the continuing interest from Champagne brands – Vranken-Pommery launched its debut release last year in partnership with Hampshire’s Hattingley Valley, and Taittinger is busy establishing its vineyard in east Kent near Faversham, with UK partners Hatch Mansfield, called Domaine Evremond – and the future is bright, particularly so in Kent.

It makes sense to start your tour of Kent wineries in the west of the county at Squerryes near Westerham, just a 10-minute drive from the outer reaches of greater London, and within rumbling distance of the M25. With its winery, craft brewery, deli and farm shop, it’s beginning to look a lot like California. The 300-year-old estate is run by eighth-generation family member Henry Warde, who tells how a prestigious Champagne house came calling back in 2004 talking of perfect conditions and partnerships, and how in the end they decided to do it themselves. ‘Their confidence gave us the confidence,’ he shrugs, pouring tasting samples of his sparkling wines, blended from Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier and made from their own grapes.

Hush Heath

Jump back on the A21 and push on deeper into Kent, making time if you can for a stop at the historic spa town of Royal Tunbridge Wells, with its colonnaded Pantiles shopping and dining parade, before continuing on down the A21 and cross-country (GPS is a must for negotiating Kent’s ancient network of winding country lanes) towards Staplehurst, where you’ll find Hush Heath.

Owner Richard Balfour-Lynn has pumped enough cash into the winery to virtually triple capacity and has recently opened a smart new visitor centre offering tutored tastings, and a vast wooden deck that shouts summer weddings. It’s surrounded by 54ha of vineyards, which are ringed by ancient woodlands that you can wander through aided by a free map, before grabbing a table and tasting through the range of Hush Heath wines, including the deliciously biscuity, leesy Balfour Blanc de Blancs 2014.

Chapel Down Kit Coty vineyard

Chapel Down’s Kit’s Coty vineyard lies on the edge of the North Downs near Aylesford. Credit: Chris Gale

Chapel Down

Next, head down the A229 and via the pretty Kentish villages of Benenden and Rolvenden to arrive at Chapel Down near Tenterden, one of the UK’s largest wine producers. Walk past gleaming new tanks and presses, and Chapel Down’s expansion programme is clearly evident. Add to that a swanky new deli bursting with local produce, a new tasting room called The Wine Sanctuary, and its smart on-site restaurant, The Swan, and you could almost be in Napa

Biddenden Vineyards

Not so at nearby Biddenden Vineyards, this year celebrating its 50th anniversary and clearly not chasing the Champagne dream. With its flower-filled hanging baskets and cider fermenting away in outdoor tanks next to the winery, it offers a more traditional experience, as visitors enjoy a glass of surprisingly good dry Ortega, and Gribble Bridge fizz made mostly with Reichensteiner

Gusbourne Estate

And then, bam, we’re back in California again with Gusbourne Estate’s sleek new visitor centre, The Nest. You can actually smell the sea in Gusbourne’s vineyards, located on a hill at Appledore, just 15 miles from the must-visit medieval coastal town of Rye just over the border in East Sussex.

Conservative party tycoon Lord Ashcroft has injected millions as a majority shareholder since 2013, which has expanded the business substantially. Gusbourne’s vintage fizz – an impressively creamy, lemony, brisk Blanc de Blancs 2013 – is a standout, and can be sampled in a tutored tasting if booked ahead.

Back on the other side of the county, the winery at Simpsons is so new that the sign hadn’t been erected, in the picturesque village of Barham, off the A2 just outside Canterbury with its spellbinding cathedral and city centre. Charles and Ruth Simpson already own Domaine Sainte Rose in Languedoc, but they are new to the English wine scene. Yet with the fizz still to launch, Simpsons has already made a name for itself with its Roman Road Chardonnay – rich and creamy with full-on flavours of melon, apple and honeysuckle, made from the estate’s own grapes grown on sheltered chalky slopes and fermented in stainless steel tanks before ageing for three months in French oak.

To complete the visit, there’s a ride on Simpsons’ Fruit Chute, described as the world’s first winery helter-skelter, which delivers you from tasting room to winery in a matter of a few thrilling seconds. It’s a brave new, New World in Kent.

Getting there

Kent is closely linked to London – from 15-30 minutes away – by some of the country’s fastest transport links, including Southeastern’s high-speed rail network, though travel by car is easiest. The nearest airport is London Gatwick, served by many different airlines. For more information go to and

Fiona Sims is a widely published freelance food, drink and travel writer. This first featured as part of a travel guide in Decanter June 2019 issue.


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I think the best approach may be to do exactly as I mentioned above... just get started. It's not a matter of what or how, but actually getting your hands dirty. Once you start, you basically just take off and let your creativity take over. If for whatever reason you happen to get stuck, well I'm certain there is plenty of reference material out there to get you back on the straight an narrow. Keep your goals in mind, but at the same time don't worry about your direction until you feel confident that you have it down. I think that is important to understand, but at the same time you don't want to just sit and code utter crap for hours on end.

My problem with a lot of these online video tutorials and pop-up academies is that they give you a good start in the way of theory, but they don't give you any sort of direction for problem solving and project conceptualization. I may be talking out of my ass, but that's just what my brain wants to crank out at the moment. Set aside a bit of time each day to work on problem solving and figuring out a layout for those projects, lest they consume and torment you for eternity.

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Josh Leivo has benefited from a change of scenery (and usage)

Winger's deployment has skewed towards the offensive side since joining Canucks.

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Elias Pettersson leads the Canucks in a lot of categories. He’s first in goals, points, power play goals and points, game-winning goals, and plus/minus. If you prefer your stats a little fancier, Pettersson leads the Canucks in Wins Above Replacement, aka. WAR, and is in fact one of the best in the league by that metric.

When you look at some other statistics, however, Pettersson comes in second place. Pettersson is second among Canucks forwards in corsi percentage, fenwick percentage, shots percentage, and goals percentage. He is second in all of those statistics to one player: Josh Leivo.

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In other words, with Leivo on the ice at 5-on-5, the Canucks out-attempt, out-shoot, and out-score the opposition to a greater degree than when any other player is on the ice.

That may come as a surprise, since Leivo is on a scoring drought with no goals in his last nine games and just one assist in that time. Leivo scored on his first shot in his first game with the Canucks and had four goals and five points in his first nine games after coming over from the Toronto Maple Leafs in a trade, but hasn’t scored since.

Although he hasn’t been putting up points, Leivo is still contributing in other ways, leading to his excellent underlying statistics. He has a 55.1% corsi, while no other Canucks forward is above 50%, and the Canucks have outscored their opponents 15-6 with him on the ice at 5-on-5.

It’s tempting to associate those numbers with playing so much alongside Elias Pettersson, but he’s done well in his time away from Petterson too. The Canucks have outscored their opponents 10-5 with both of them on the ice at 5-on-5; they’ve still outscored their opponents 5-1 when Leivo doesn’t have Pettersson with him.

A lot of good things are happening while Leivo is on the ice, but he’s not picking up a lot of points.

We can look at one game in particular to see how Leivo helps the Canucks offensively even when he doesn’t pick up points. On December 9th, the Canucks faced the St Louis Blues and walked away with a convincing 6-1 victory on the back of a Brock Boeser hat trick and a five-point night from Elias Pettersson.

Leivo was on a line with Pettersson and Boeser in that game and was on the ice for four Canucks goals at 5-on-5, but somehow didn’t record a single point.

On the first goal of the game, Leivo pressured Jay Bouwmeester behind the Blues net, lifting his stick as he attempted to ring the puck around the boards. As a result, he didn’t get much on the puck and it was picked off by Pettersson, who centred to Boeser for the goal.

The second goal came off the stick of Pettersson. On the zone entry, Leivo criss-crossed in front of Pettersson and opened up for the one-timer. That forced the defencemen to switch checks, which gave Pettersson a little more room, and forced goaltender Jake Allen to consider the possibility of a pass, leaving more space on the glove side for Pettersson’s shot.

While Leivo didn’t have much of an impact on the third goal, he was a key contributor to the 6-1 goal that completed Boeser’s hat trick and gave Pettersson his fifth point.

Leivo is the one who initially gained the offensive zone, then went to the front of the net, where he battled with two Blues defencemen, Colton Parayko and Joel Edmundson. Not only did his engagement with both Blues mean that another Canuck was open, the puck deflected into the net off Edmundson’s leg in front. Without Leivo causing a ruckus in front, that puck doesn’t go in.

In those three plays, we see three different ways that Leivo contributed without recording a point. On the first, his pressure on the forecheck led to a turnover. On the second, the smart path he takes into the zone opens up possibilities for Pettersson. And on the third, his willingness to get to the front of the net and battle led to more space for his teammates and a tougher save for the goaltender.

That illustrates some of the ways Leivo helps the Canucks, but the way the Canucks have used Leivo also helps him. He’s getting significantlymore favourable usage in Vancouver than he ever received in Toronto.

You can see that in his most common linemates. With the Leafs this season, he played primarily with fourth-liners Tyler Ennis and Frederik Gauthier; with the Canucks, he’s played primarily with Elias Pettersson and Brock Boeser. His change in usage goes beyond just his linemates, however.

Leivo is also playing more for the Canucks, averaging 10:51 in 5-on-5 ice time per game, compared to 8:45 per game with the Leafs. With more ice time and better teammates, Leivo is also facing stiffer competition, though is still seeing opponents’ top lines less than the league average, as illustrated by HockeyViz

HockeyViz - Josh Leivo teammates and competition with Leafs and Canucks - January 21, 2019

In other words, Travis Green has used his checking lines to shelter Leivo and his linemates from top lines. The sheltering goes beyond that, however: with the Leafs this season, Leivo rarely started his shifts in the offensive zone. With the Canucks, he almost never starts a shift in the defensive zone.

Only one player on the Leafs started a higher percentage of his shifts in the defensive zone than Leivo — Par Lindholm — while no player on the Canucks starts more shifts in the offensive zone. In fact, no NHL player starts a higher percentage of his shifts in the offensive zone than Leivo.

That tilted usage helps explain his 55.1% corsi, although Leivo also had a solid 50.0% corsi with the Leafs. Leivo is perfectly capable of playing in more of a defensive role, which makes his usage in Vancouver intriguing. Is it just because Green isn’t familiar with Leivo that he hasn’t put him in more defensive situations? Is that usage likely to change as Leivo learns the system more and earns more of Green’s trust?

Let’s take a look at a variety of statistics and how they’ve changed since his trade to the Canucks:

Josh Leivo - 2018-19
5-on-5 stats with Toronto with Vancouver
TOI/GP 8.75 10.85
Goals/60 0.51 1.23
Assists/60 0.25 0.61
Points/60 0.76 1.84
Shots/60 6.85 10.43
CF% 50.00 55.10
SF% 48.56 57.51
GF% 58.33 71.43
OZS/60 5.59 15.65
DZS/60 9.90 1.53
OZS% 36.07% 91.07%

With more offensive usage, Leivo is putting up points at a higher rate and putting up better underlying numbers.

What’s most intriguing is his shot rate. Leivo is averaging more shots per 60 minutes than any other Canuck, having surpassed Jake Virtanen in that category. His 10.43 shots per 60 minutes with the Canucks would rank 17th in the NHL.

At some point, the puck should start going in the net again for Leivo; in the meantime, he’s still contributing offensively.

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CM Group Acquires Vuture To Grow Marketing Portfolio, Secures $410M In Funding

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CM Group, a family of marketing technology brands that include Campaign Monitor, Emma and Delivra, acquired Vuture, a cross-channel marketing platform for legal and professional service providers. The company also raised $410 million in funding.

Vuture expands the CM Group’s offering with email event marketing, content management, payment and survey capabilities. It also brings nearly 400 new customers to the company.

The news follows the CM Group’s acquisitions of Liveclicker and Sailthru in January. The company said it intends to maintain all Vuture employees, and that the funding will be used to fuel future acquisitions and accelerate business growth.

“At CM Group, we are on a mission to build a portfolio of customer-focused email and multichannel technologies,” said Wellford Dillard, CM Group CEO, in a statement. “This mission is driven by the fact that there are over 7,000 martech companies in the space today, making it nearly impossible for marketers to navigate the technology buying process with confidence. CM Group’s portfolio approach allows us to work collaboratively with marketers to match them with the right platform based on their specific needs.”


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The latest news from DEME

DEME once more celebrated as most attractive employer of Belgium

DEME has once again been named most attractive private sector employer in Belgium at the Randstad Awards 2019. The award is based on the results of a survey among 14,000 respondents.

Over the years DEME consistently maintains its strong reputation as an attractive employer with an outstanding working environment as well as excellent career and development opportunities. In the annual Randstad survey DEME stands out as the number one in the categories job security, future perspectives to build a career, job content, an enjoyable workplace atmosphere, new technologies, salary and benefits. DEME also ranks as the top company people want to work for.

“This award is a fantastic recognition for our employees”, says Luc Vandenbulcke, CEO DEME Group. “The success of our company is first and foremost the achievement of our employees worldwide. At DEME we place great emphasis on attracting and retaining the best people in the industry, offering employees the opportunity to work on ground-breaking projects and to grow their careers in an innovative environment.”

A strong growth in offshore energy projects, as well as in the dredging, infra marine and environmental activities worldwide, meant that DEME faced the considerable challenge of recruiting more than 600 new employees over the past year, including 150 crew members. The strong reputation of the DEME brand was highlighted during this recruitment campaign as the company managed to fill all of the vacancies, even in today’s highly competitive labour market. Also in 2019 DEME is recruiting employees for projects worldwide as well as crew for the growing fleet of vessels.

About DEME
DEME is a world leader in the highly specialised fields of dredging, marine engineering and environmental remediation. The company can build on more than 140 years of know-how and experience and has fostered a pioneering approach throughout its history, being a front-runner in innovation and new technologies.

DEME’s vision is to work towards a sustainable future by offering solutions for global challenges: a rising sea level, a growing population, reduction of CO2 emissions, polluted rivers and soils and the scarcity of natural resources. Although DEME’s activities originated with the core dredging business, the portfolio diversified substantially over the decades, including dredging and land reclamation, solutions for the offshore energy market, infra marine solutions and environmental solutions.

While the company’s roots are in Belgium, DEME has built a strong presence in all of the world’s seas and continents, operating in more than 90 countries worldwide. DEME can rely on 5,200 highly skilled professionals across the globe. With a versatile and modern fleet of over 100 vessels, backed by a broad range of auxiliary equipment, the company can provide solutions for even the most complex projects. DEME achieved a turnover of 2.65 billion euros in 2018.

For additional information, please contact:
Vicky Cosemans, Head of Communications DEME Group
M: +32 496 588 645 - T: +32 3 250 59 22

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From Iraq to Afghanistan: An Italian Doctor Talks About Treating the Civilian Victims of the War on Terror

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The founder of the humanitarian group Emergency, Dr. Gino Strada, discusses the impact of sanctions on Iraq’s medical system and the U.S. use of landmines and cluster bombs. [includes transcript]

The website is estimating that up to 9,800 Iraqi civilians have died since the U.S. invasion began in March.

We will likely never know the final death toll or the number of Iraqi civilians injured.

Today speak with an Italian surgeon has spent considerable time in Iraqi hospitals both before the invasion and since.

His name is Gino Strada. He is the founder of the Milan-based medical organization Emergency which has been providing medical care to civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Gino Strada, founder of the Milan-based medical organization Emergency.

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AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!. I’m Amy Goodman with Juan Gonzalez.

VIDEO EXERPT FROM DESERT RAINBOW: Jose was in a man’s world. He was playing in the street when they found a funny looking piece of pipe on the ground and started throwing it back and forth. The pipe flared up as if in Elle’s hands. Many women are victims of accidents at home. Tackia is 20 years old and has five children. She’s pregnant with her sixth baby. While she was firing up her old kerosene stove to cook a meal, it blazed up and burned her. Alda, 17, has lost his sight in both eyes. He went behind the lines of his father in search of scrap metal, and anything he could use at home. He picked up a wooden ball that set off a mine trap. Christani, 12, said he found something in the hills where he was helping his father and brother tend their animals. He picked up the cluster bomb, and in a matter of seconds lost his eyesight and both hands.

AMY GOODMAN: An excerpt of Desert Rainbow, about the Milan based medical organization, Emergency. We are joined by its founder, Dr. Gino Strada, who has just returned from Afghanistan and before that, Iraq. The website,, is estimating that 9800 Iraqi civilians have died since the Iraqi invasion began in March. We’ll likely never know what that final death toll is. Thank you for being with us.

GINO STRADA: You’re welcome.

AMY GOODMAN: Tell us about your work.

GINO STRADA: Our work is to provide the surgical assistance to the victims of war. I like to say that in every conflict that I have been working, and in Iraq and Afghanistan are no exception and over 90% of the victims are civilians. 30 of the victims are children below 14, so, we are dealing with a big health problem, public health problem, which is caused by the war.

AMY GOODMAN: Tell us what you saw in Iraq. Tell us about the people we just saw in this video.

GINO STRADA: Well, in Iraq, you know, we have been there since 1995, and we have been through different phases of the conflict, including the civil war. What you see is always the same story. I mean, you see people who have no medical care, hospitals which were not working anymore — before, because of the embargo, or after that, because of outbreak of war. And, in the city of Karbala, we are building our third hospital. We had dozens and dozens of wounded, particularly children, wounded by cluster bombs and there was no facility to look after them. So, we had to transfer them to our hospitals up in the north of Iraq to be looked after surgically.

JUAN GONZALEZ: In terms of what you — how the conditions, the medical conditions are since the war and vs. during the period of the embargo and before President Bush declared war, has there been a qualitative change in the character of the medical treatment that most Iraqis can receive?

GINO STRADA: Well, I was in Baghdad in February, and I was discussing with the head of the Baghdad University Medical Center, and at that time due to this long-standing embargo, they said they had virtually nothing, no disinfectants, no suture materials, even because, you know, suture materials were considered dual use materials so import was forbidden. They had virtually no means to provide surgery for the wounded. After the — after March, the situation got even worse. I remember that not one hospital in Baghdad has been working for over a month simply because hospitals have been looted. In other cases, there was no fuel to run the generators so that we could run operating rooms and et cetera. We had to bring 40,000 liters of fuel from the north of Iraq to activate the generators at Baghdad hospitals.

AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about how Iraq compares to Afghanistan? Where you have just returned from?

GINO STRADA: Well, I think there are —

AMY GOODMAN: …the health care system.

GINO STRADA: In terms of the health system basically what we see in all of the so-called third world countries, although Iraq was not a third world country, it has been made a third world country, but what we see is basically the same. The so-called public health system is in fact a private system. Patients have to pay for everything because hospitals don’t have medicines, don’t have consumable materials. Doctors spend most of their time in their small private practices and therefore, you have this nonsense where the public health is private and when you go there as private organization and you in fact do public health.

AMY GOODMAN: Now, in both cases, and in Iraq we have certainly been focusing on this, the U.S. government has been pouring in billions of dollars. Where is it going?

GINO STRADA: Well, I’m not in the condition to answer this question. All I can say is that for instance, in Afghanistan where several millions of dollars have been poured, basically the living conditions and the health conditions of the population did not change. What we can see now is that there is a new aristocracy coming up in the city of Kabul to rent a house in Kabul will cost you between $4,000 and $5,000 U.S. dollars a month, which is ridiculous, and that money comes from the money of the international aid. In fact, it doesn’t go to the people. It doesn’t go to improve the living conditions of the population.

JUAN GONZALEZ: Now, you’re Italian and working in at least these two countries, in Afghanistan and Iraq, where certainly the conflicts of the last few years have made many Europeans not welcome. Not just Americans. What kind of relations did you have with the Afghani people and medical folks as well as the Iraqis?

GINO STRADA: Well, in Afghanistan, I think we do not have any security problem. I mean, we have been working in Afghanistan since many years. We were there in the Taliban time. I was in Kabul myself when Kabul was taken over by the Northern Alliance forces. The problem is that you know, we have been looking after people, regarded their political affiliation or ideology or ethnic groups. If you do that, people will respect you. I would say that in Iraq the situation is a bit different, because everybody claims to be in Iraq to do humanitarian work. The population doesn’t understand anymore who is whom. When you know from politicians to army people, to health organizations, they all say we are here to do humanitarian work: It’s a big mess. That makes our job much, much more dangerous.

AMY GOODMAN: What about land mines?

GINO STRADA: Well, that is a tragedy. I mean, it’s a tragedy that it persists–land mines and now even cluster bombs that behave like land mines when they stay unexploded in the ground. We have every day, every day, civilians maimed or killed by these weapons. I think these weapons are a form of terrorism in slow motion. They have no target. They just hit civilians. I mean, I have done myself surgery on more than 3,000 mine victims and I did not operate on any soldiers.

AMY GOODMAN: Explain exactly what happens. How — what is a cluster bomb, and how does it hurt someone?

GINO STRADA: Well, a cluster bomb, when it does not explode, performs like a land mine. We are talking about small objects, about the size of a pack of cigarettes or slightly bigger than that. Obviously, after a while, they are hidden in the ground. They are covered by the sand, and by grass. I mean, they are not visible, actually. And they move. They move with the water flow and et cetera. If this is a persistent danger for the population and the population must live in those areas to get the food. So, every day, you have new victims.

AMY GOODMAN: A report out of the Independent newspaper in Britain says that more than 1,000 civilians have been killed or wounded by cluster bombs in Iraq. And they are continuing to go off.

GINO STRADA: Well, it’s not difficult to believe. I mean, we have a few hundred for sure during the period of March, April.

AMY GOODMAN: What kind of warning is put out to the people now? I mean, the U.S. Is in charge. What are people told what are children told? What exactly do they look like? What color are they on the ground?

GINO STRADA: You have about 400 models, and you cannot say they are this color. There are mine awareness programs, but I don’t think they’re effective. The people, they do know about the mine danger. The problem is that that’s where they live. So, I mean, you cannot avoid the danger.

AMY GOODMAN: You have not only worked in Iraq and Afghanistan, you have also worked in Sierra Leone.

AMY GOODMAN: Can you describe the situation there?

GINO STRADA: In Sierra Leone now, at least there’s no war. There’s still a big poverty. The social infrastructure, the and health infrastructure is very, very weak. But the at the moment, there’s no fighting, so, we are dealing mostly with normal emergencies, not with the war surgery. And this is very good. This is a good sign.

JUAN GONZALEZ: In terms of the doctors who are native to these countries, what kind of — can you talk a little bit about their ability to continue to function and their persistence. Are people just giving up and leaving who are doctors in these countries, or are they managing to continue to move forward and do treatment in the best way they can?

GINO STRADA: Unfortunately, there are many doctors left. If you take from Iraq, this has happened over the last ten years. I mean, even because the public administration has no money to pay the salaries or doesn’t want to pay salary, so people are forced either to leave or to go into private practice.

AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about why you began Emergency? Why you spend your life in perhaps the most dangerous places in the world?

GINO STRADA: Well, just because it’s needed. I mean, there are huge needs, and there are — there is very little help. So, I mean, for a surgeon, I think it’s a good option to make the best out of your role, out of your study, of your university.

AMY GOODMAN: What kind of a team do you have with you?

GINO STRADA: We have surgeons and anesthesiologists, nurses, physical therapists, some logisticians a normal medical team. We tend to provide a high standard level of surgery, so it is not just field hospitals or emergency surgery, first aid. We do comprehensive surgery, because there’s nowhere we can refer to patients to.

JUAN GONZALEZ: How do you recruit doctors, from all over the world, or largely from Italy?

GINO STRADA: Yeah, from all over the world. At the moment we have in Kabul also a U.S. Surgeon. We are very happy to have personnel from different countries. And we recruit them purely on the basis of their professional skills.

AMY GOODMAN: Where do you get your support?

GINO STRADA: From Italian citizens. Private donations from Italian citizens.

AMY GOODMAN: How are you treated in Iraq both by Iraqis and by the U.S. occupying force?

GINO STRADA: Well, by the Iraqis, I think we have good relations, good relations with all of the Shiite authorities that we are working with in the city of Karbala. We have no relations with the occupation forces.

AMY GOODMAN: I want to thank you very much for being with us, Dr. Gino Strada, founder of the Milan based medical organization, Emergency.

GINO STRADA: Thank you.

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As Congress Slashes EPA, Climate Funding, Author Mark Hertsgaard on “Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth”

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The budget deal approved by Congress cuts $1.6 billion from the budget of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency—a 16 percent decrease; reduces funding for a planned climate desk within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and eliminates the position of assistant to the president for energy and climate change. Ever since taking control of the House, Republican lawmakers have taken a number of steps to curtail the Obama administration’s efforts to deal with climate change. We speak with investigative reporter Mark Hertsgaard, author of the new book, Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth. [includes rush transcript]

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JUAN GONZALEZ: We turn now to the latest on climate change and the budget. Last night Congress approved cutting $1.6 billion from the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency — a 16 percent reduction. The budget deal also cuts funding for a planned climate desk within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and eliminates the position of assistant to the president for energy and climate change.

Ever since winning control of the House, Republican lawmakers have taken a number of steps to curtail the Obama administration’s efforts to deal with climate change. The attack on climate change science began in January, when House Republicans shuttered the Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming. The House also passed a bill to prevent the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases, but the bill died in the Senate.

AMY GOODMAN: Meanwhile, the Obama administration’s climate policy is coming under criticism on an international level. Last week Obama’s lead envoy on climate change, Todd Stern, dismissed the need for a binding treaty to curb global warming. In an interview with Bloomberg, Stern said, quote, “I don’t think it’s necessary [that] there be internationally binding emission caps as long as you’ve got national laws and regulations. What I am saying is it’s not doable,” he said.

Well, to talk more about these issues, we’re joined here in New York by Mark Hertsgaard, author of the new book Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth. Mark is an investigative reporter who’s worked for more than 20 years on climate change, the environmental correspondent now for The Nation magazine.

Welcome to Democracy Now! Congratulations —

AMY GOODMAN: — on your book, Mark, and your daughter’s sixth birthday, though I think she accomplished that, not you.

MARK HERTSGAARD: Oh, yeah, she did.

AMY GOODMAN: But you did write it for her.

MARK HERTSGAARD: Yeah, she was the inspiration for this, because she had just been born when I was in London and doing a story for Vanity Fair about climate change, right after Hurricane Katrina, actually. And there has been a paradigm shift in this problem that came through to me that day.

I was interviewing David King, the chief science adviser of the British government. And all the time I had been covering this issue during the '90s and in the new century, you know, climate change was always seen as this very distant problem — very dangerous, but very distant — and, critically, one we could prevent if we got our act together. And by 2005, David King and the scientists were saying, “No, sorry, we got that wrong. Climate change came a hundred years sooner than we expected.” And, of course, the big — the most fiendish aspect of that is that once you have triggered climate change, you cannot turn it off quickly. And that's just because of the laws of physics and chemistry, that, you know, the CO2 stays in the atmosphere forever. And so, he said that even if we stopped all emissions tonight, which, clearly, as you show from the Todd Stern quote, we are hardly doing, but even if we did that, the temperatures will not stop going up for another 30 years.

So, when I walked out of his office that day, I realized that this was going to hit my daughter’s generation very hard. And that was where this book began, just more of a father’s quest to try and figure out how can my daughter live through this? What is it going to mean that the temperatures are going to go up for 50 years? What kind of extreme weather is that going to
put into play? And above all, what do we do about it?

And there are solutions. There are things we can do. But I do think that it is a terrible crime that has been committed against my daughter and the rest of Generation Hot, the two billion kids who have been born around the world since we were put on notice about this problem in June of 1988 by Jim Hansen, the NASA scientist, who went to the Senate and said, “Look, this is happening. If we don’t do something about it, we’re threatening the habitability of this planet.” We did not do something about it, for all the reasons that you guys have reported, the disinformation from the oil companies and so forth. And now my daughter and her generation are going to have to live with this. And I think that’s a terrible crime.

JUAN GONZALEZ: All the extreme weather in the past years, there’s a lot of debate as to whether we could reasonably link that to climate change, whether it’s the heat wave in New York City, record heat in 2010, the floods in Pakistan, the weather problems in Europe in 2003. Your sense of that, the individual events versus the general trend?

MARK HERTSGAARD: There’s only debate about that in the United States of America. And we — you know, I get this all the time now, where people say, “Well, you know, there’s all this disagreement.” There is not any disagreement, unless you are watching Fox News and listening to the House Republican Party. Look at the countries in Europe, for example. Conservative parties are running Britain, Germany, France. None of those conservative political parties have questioned the science behind climate change for 15 years. And they all, in terms of their policies, they want to do far more than Barack Obama does. So, we need to understand that the scientific community is clear on this, and has been clear on this for a long time.

But all the things you mentioned, Juan, those extreme weather events, of course you can never 100 percent tie those to global warming, and no scientist would say that you could. But they certainly part of this pattern. And speaking of that terrible heat wave that you all suffered here in New York last summer, 2010, it was a record, right? Pretty uncomfortable, right? Well, when my daughter is my age, that is going to be a normal summer here. You’re going to have that every other year. And the point is that we have got to figure out ways to prepare for that, as well as turn down the heat. But the challenge now on climate change has been transformed, because of this paradigm shift in the problem, because it’s no longer off in the distance. We’ve got to stop climate change, but we’ve also got to live through it.

AMY GOODMAN: We’re talking to Mark Hertsgaard. His book is called Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth. So, the tsunami and the earthquake happens in Japan, and the nuclear power plants are, to say the least, highly damaged, in partial meltdown, if not more than that. So, the whole question of nukes come up.

AMY GOODMAN: Nuclear power plants. You wrote an article called “Obama Loves Nukes.” There are many, like George Monbiot, a well-known British columnist, who is saying nukes are the answer, still, despite what’s happening in Japan, despite what’s threatened.

MARK HERTSGAARD: Absolutely, and most scientists say the same thing. David King in Britain says that. Jim Hansen, the NASA scientist who I just I mentioned — I was on a panel with him last night — he supports nukes, as well.

I’ll just tell you a little story. The very first book I wrote was called Nuclear Inc. And the very first time I heard the phrase “global warming” was in 1981 from a nuclear power industry executive, who told me, at a time when all the environmental activists were saying, “Oh, nuclear is dead because of Three Mile Island and no orders.” And I was investigating the industry. And he said, “Oh, no, we’re not dead. You just wait. Wait ’til the turn of the century, and people are going to realize how bad coal is for them and how bad it is for something called global warming.” I said, “What is global warming?” This was 1981. And the nuclear industry was saying then that global warming was going to save their bacon. It is very ironic to me to see George Monbiot and other environmentalists now bringing that prophecy to bear — to fruit.

The reality is, going nuclear will make climate change worse, not better. And that is not because of safety or proliferation. You know, if nuclear worked the way that it’s supposed to in theory, that’s why Jim Hansen is in favor of it. But look at the economics. It costs so much money to build a plant, it takes so long to build that plant, that by the time you’ve got it online, if you invested that same amount of money in energy efficiency, you would get seven times more greenhouse gas emission reductions. So, let’s spend the money where it’s going to give us the biggest bang for the buck, and that is not nuclear. I’m not saying this for any ideological reasons. I’m not opposed to it, in general. But how it works in reality, this is not the answer.

JUAN GONZALEZ: Well, not to mention that, but then the potential for one catastrophic accident destroying all of the supposed good that those nuclear plants would have created in less use of fossil fuels, because, clearly, the industry is not that old, but we’ve already been hit by several major calamities in the nuclear power industry. As you proliferate more and more reactors, you’re going to have more and more accidents.

MARK HERTSGAARD: Well, that is true, but I do think — and this is where the Monbiots and Jim Hansens and David King have a point. Let’s bear in mind that coal-fired electricity, which is the major source of electricity around the world, is killing tens of thousands of people every year. Now. Not theoretical, not sort of if something goes wrong at Fukushima. Now. So, it is true that we need to get off of — nuclear is not an answer, but the real challenge is to get off of coal. But still, energy efficiency and green technologies can do that, if we started to put the money into that rather than the other.

AMY GOODMAN: Fracking. Last night I was at an event at the Cooper Union in New York. Large groups of people, not only in New York State, trying to protect the New York watershed, but all over the country, deeply concerned about this new form of —- what the industry says is dealing with global warming, is getting gas another way -—

MARK HERTSGAARD: Yes, of course they do.

AMY GOODMAN: — even though more methane is released, it’s even more destructive than coal. But when we talk about, well, coal, gas, nuclear, what about — when we talk about the alternatives, it’s never actually hashed out. The media hardly talks about what is energy efficiency, what are renewables, what are the possibilities in this country for solar, for wind and more.

MARK HERTSGAARD: And there’s great success stories to be told. The fact is, is now most of — and this is true especially globally, but also here in the United States —- that the new electricity that’s coming is coming from wind, in particular, somewhat from solar. And this is why nuclear is basically a sunset industry. All the new money is going into wind. And energy efficiency is an enormously profitable -—

AMY GOODMAN: What do mean, wind?

MARK HERTSGAARD: Wind power. Wind power.

AMY GOODMAN: What do you mean, though?

MARK HERTSGAARD: Putting wind turbines up in — and it’s been a very great boon for farmers, for example. You can put a wind turbine in the middle of your field. You can still, you know, grow your corn or wheat, or what have you, around it. And this has been great for a lot of farmers, including in the state of Texas, of all places. Who would have thunk it? Texas is actually the wind leader in the United States of America. So, it is true that, in particular, I think energy efficiency gets overlooked because it sounds so boring, but it is where all the money is. And we know that, because the corporations are making it. The public sector is still leaving that money on the table.

But look at what BP did, back when they were first trying to so-called “green” themselves. They spent $20 million in 1999 to increase the efficiency within their own corporation — you know, better lighting and proper windows and insulation and so forth. Three years later, the bean counters checked, how did that turn out? They saved $650 million in fuel costs. That’s $630 million of profits on a $20 million investment. I mean, the Mafia does not get that kind of return on investment. And the corporations know that. And if you read the business press, Amy, they know that.

But so far, the public sector, and we as individuals, are still leaving that money on the table — not in California, where I live now, because we’ve changed the regulatory laws there to reward efficiency rather than pollution. But we need to do that internationally. We need to do that nationally here. And Obama has tried that, but of course the Congress doesn’t like that.

JUAN GONZALEZ: Well, Mark Hertsgaard decided to take his questions directly to Congress. He was accompanied by several members of Generation Hot, about two billion young people, all of whom have grown up under global warming and will spend the rest of their lives confronting its mounting impacts. Mark ventured up to Capitol Hill to confront key climate denialists.

MARK HERTSGAARD: I just want to ask you some questions —

MARK HERTSGAARD: — about climate science, and I know you have a lot of opinions about it.

SEN. JAMES INHOFE: Sure, sure.

MARK HERTSGAARD: Why does your party continue to deny what the National Academy of Sciences and virtually every major scientific organization in the world —

SEN. JAMES INHOFE: You know, you ask the same question over and over and over again. The science is mixed. We all know the science is mixed. The economy is not mixed.

MARK HERTSGAARD: When all of the scientific organizations in the world and every political party in the world, but your own, admits that climate change is happening, it’s real, and it’s dangerous, why does your party keep insisting that it’s not?

SEN. JAMES INHOFE: That’s not — you’re wrong on that. The science is mixed on that. And you know it.

MARK HERTSGAARD: I do not know that, sir.

GENERATION HOT MEMBER: I don’t understand why my generation has to suffer because it sounds like you’re not liking what you’re hearing.

MARK HERTSGAARD: You know what one of the most famous Republicans in this country said? That when 98 doctors tell me that my son needs a life-saving operation, and two doctors say that he doesn’t, I go with the 98. So what do you say about that?

SEN. JAMES INHOFE: You know, when you ask that question about, you know, “what if you’re wrong?” stop and think about it. What if you’re wrong?

JUAN GONZALEZ: That was Mark talking to Republican Senator Inhofe. Mark decided to take his — your response to what he said there?

MARK HERTSGAARD: You know, he knows his lines pretty well. And he’s going to stick with them. And that’s really the problem. They are climate cranks. They like to be called “climate skeptics.” And the media, I’m very sorry to say — the mainstream media, at least — calls them climate skeptics. They are not skeptics. Genuine skeptics are invaluable to science. That’s how science progresses, is with skepticism. But a true skeptic can be persuaded by evidence. They cannot. They have made up their minds for economic reasons or ideological reasons that they’re not going to believe in this. And because our country has allowed them to dominate the debate for 20 years, we’re now stuck with 50 more years of rising temperatures. We’re not locked in. My daughter, the rest of Generation Hot, are locked in to living under the hottest, most volatile climate our civilization has ever known. And that is a crime.

AMY GOODMAN: The last three chapters of your book, as we wrap up, “How Will We Feed Ourselves?” “While the Rich Avert Their Eyes,” and “'This Was a Crime.'” Put it together for us.

MARK HERTSGAARD: “How will we feed ourselves?” is going to be one of the big questions, because as temperature go up, it’s going to be harder to grow food. And, of course, Monsanto wants to tell us that the way to deal with that is with genetically modified seeds. That’s the worst way to deal with it. The fact is, is that organic agriculture is probably going to be our best bet. It’s the most resilient in the case of extreme weather.

“While the Rich Avert Their Eyes” — you did it at the top of the segment: Todd Stern, the United States, has been saying the same thing for 20 years: “You know, we’re not going to do this. It’s unworkable.” Well, we’re the ones who caused this problem. We didn’t know we were doing it, when my dad’s generation and before. But, you know, in a legal court of law, as Mr. Stern, a lawyer himself, must know, it does not matter if you didn’t know you were burning down your neighbor’s house — you still have to pay for it.

And I repeat. “This was a crime” is actually a phrase that came from the chief climate adviser to the, again, Conservative government in Germany, a man named John Schellnhuber, who looked at how the United States has refused to act in the last 20 years, despite the overwhelming scientific evidence. And he, too, like me, is the father of a young child. And we were talking about what we expected for our children in the next 20 to 30 years, and he said, “This was a crime.” And I think that, you know, we need to hold the criminals responsible. My daughter and the rest of her generation have been given a life sentence for a crime they did not commit, and it is time to go get the people who did commit it.

AMY GOODMAN: Mark Hertsgaard, his new book is called Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth. He is an environmental correspondent for The Nation magazine.

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The Denison women's basketball team led wire-to-wire against North Coast Athletic Conference rival Ohio Wesleyan on Tuesday evening, eventually picking up a 48-32 win at Livingston Gym in Granville.

The Big Red defense held the Bishops to a 1-for-10 performance from the field in the opening 10 minutes and forced OWU into eight turnovers which DU turned into seven points. The scoring was a lot closer in the second quarter, but Denison entered the locker room with a double-digit lead thanks to a Lucy Bancone jumper with just under a minute left in the half.

Denison never relinquished their double-digit advantage, leading by 14 points on three occasions in the third quarter and by as much as 19 in the final period. Junior Jordan Holmes capped off a 10-2 run with a free throw in the fourth to give the Big Red their largest lead of the night at 46-27 with 2:19 to play.

After shooting just 35 percent from the field in the first half, DU hit 11-of-22 in the second for a 50-percent conversion rate. The Big Red also overcame 24 turnovers by holding Ohio Wesleyan to just nine points off those giveaways. On the flip side, Denison generated 16 points off 18 takeaways. The Big Red almost doubled OWU's rebounding total (47-24) and dominated scoring in the paint, 28-8.

Holmes led all scored with 17 points on 8-of-10 from the field. She also added 18 rebounds, five blocks and two steals. Junior Emily Krumpe finished with a career-high tying 14 points after going 7-for-10 from the field. Senior Kellie Arter chipped in six points, five rebounds, three assists and three blocks, while Akilah Fletcher grabbed six boards off the bench.

Taylor Dickson led the Bishops with 11 points, while Mercedez Woods pulled down seven rebounds. Megan Kuether had five steals, while Erin Delaney and Hannah Fedorka logged two assists each.

Denison improves to 7-2 on the year and 2-0 in the NCAC, while Ohio Wesleyan falls to 0-6 and 0-2 in conference play. The Big Red will kick off a stretch of five-consecutive road games on Saturday (Dec. 12) when they travel to Springfield, Ohio to take on Wittenberg University at 2 p.m.

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Failing to make the correct diagnosis inevitably means the treatment will fail too. As this case illustrates, seeing the bigger picture should always be the aim...

A dentist saw a patient over a six-year period. The patient then presented with pain and swelling on the right side of her face. A lower right molar had been previously root-filled and the dentist diagnosed an abscess on that tooth, providing antibiotics for treatment.

The patient subsequently saw another practitioner who advised her that she needed extensive dental treatment, some of her previous treatment had been inappropriate and there was disease present in her mouth.

The patient had a continually high caries rate and poor plaque control, but no routine bitewing radiographs had been taken over the six years that the initial dentist had been treating the patient. Such bitewings may have aided the diagnosis of early interstitial decay and bone loss due to periodontal disease.

The bigger picture

Bitewing radiographs taken by the second dentist after six years showed generalised horizontal bone loss with some deep vertical pocketing and extensive carious cavities in a number of molar teeth. The first practitioner had failed to diagnose both periodontal disease and caries over an extended period of time.

In addition, at the conclusion of the relationship the first dentist had failed to diagnose a deep carious cavity in the lower right last standing molar tooth and in the upper right first molar tooth. This dentist had also failed to be aware of an apical area over the upper right lateral incisor.

Any of these teeth could have been the cause of the patient’s pain but the first dentist chose to only treat the lower right first standing molar tooth that she had previously had some difficulties root-filling.

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Information School
Name Da Vinci Academy
Previous Name Da Vinci Community School
Local Authority Derby
Address St Andrew's View, Breadsall, Derby, DE21 4ET
Telephone number 01332 831515
Website School Website
Open date 01/05/2017

The open date and status above indicates when Da Vinci Academy opened or when it changed to its most recent incarnation, with a number of schools converting to academies in recent years. Where schools have changed type recently, data for previous years covering their previous incarnation is included below as well.

What type of school is Da Vinci Academy and what are the admission criteria?

Information School Details
Type Academy sponsor led mainstream
Age Range 11 to 16
Gender Mixed
Religion None
Admission Policy Non-selective

How many children have been on the school roll in recent years?

Pupil characteristics - what percentage of pupils are in different groups and how does this compare to the national average?

Pupil characteristics

Pupils Pupils - School Pupils - National
% English not as first language 9.3 16.5
% Free School Meals 26 14
% SEN Statement / EHC 2.5 4.4
% SEN 19.7 10.4

How do we rate this school?

Rating 2019 Rating 2018 Rating 2017 Rating
Overall Stars 1
Overall Score 29.3
England Rank 2,984 (out of 3,166) (out of 3,031) (out of 3,088)
Local Rank 10
Missing Data? Yes - -
Data missing 6 (out of 46) - -

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How Da Vinci Academy scores in terms of stars for each indicator.

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Attainment 1
Progress 1
Attendance 2
Outcomes 3

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In its most recent inspection, Ofsted has given Da Vinci Academy an overall rating of Requires Improvement.

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Prior to September 2012, a score of 3 indicated Satisfactory, it now indicates Requires Improvement.

Overview School Overview
Overall Effectiveness Requires Improvement
Inspection Date 06/11/14
Web Link Read Report
Category of Concern

How does Da Vinci Academy perform on each of the areas inspected by Ofsted? A blank table indicates no recent inspections and as of September 2012, a score of 3 changed from indicating Satisfactory to Requires Improvement.

Category Ofsted
Outcomes for pupils Requires Improvement
Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires Improvement
Effectiveness of leadership and management Requires Improvement
Personal development, behaviour and welfare

How have pupils at Da Vinci Academy done in their GCSEs and how does it compare to Local Authority and national averages?

The government introduced the Attainment 8 measure in 2016 (although some schools chose to opt in a year earlier). It measures pupil performance across maths, which is double weighted in the score, English, also double weighted, three qualifications included in the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) and three other approved qualifications (GCSE or equivalent).

The higher the average score the better pupils at the school are doing.

The majority of GCSEs are now graded on a system of 9-1 grades, where 5 is a strong pass, equivalent to a high C and 4 is a standard pass, where the bottom of the boundary aligns with the bottom of a previous grade C.

The change was introduced in 2017 for English and maths with other subjects changing in 2018 or 2019.

In 2018 the average Attainment 8 score per pupil at Da Vinci Academy was 35.3.

Group School LA National
All pupils 35.3 43.2 46.4
Girls 34.9 45.8 49.3
Boys 35.8 40.8 43.8
Disadvantaged 27.6 31.8 36.7
Low attainment 19.5 21.2 22.6
Middle attainment 30.6 39.1 40.8
High attainment 48.1 59.3 61.1
English as an additional language 42.6 41.3 47.2

The EBacc was introduced in 2010 and the government announced in 2015 its intention that all pupils should take it from 2020 onwards. The Ebacc is made up of English, Maths, History or Geography, Sciences, and a language. To achieve it, pupils must get a 9 to 4 grade in English and Maths and a C grade or above in the other subjects.

In 2018, 12% of pupils at Da Vinci Academy had entries in all EBacc subject areas and 4% achieved the EBacc, with a standard pass in English and Maths, while 3% achieved it with a strong pass in those subjects.

What proportion of different groups at the school also passed the EBacc with standard passes.

In 2017, the most recent results available, 34% of pupils at Da Vinci Academy gained at least 5 A* to C or 9-4 grade GCSES including English and Maths at 9 to 4. Nationally 60.1% of pupils achieved this.

How does Da Vinci Academy do when it comes to GCSE results in just English and Maths and what percentage of pupils pass those at A* to C or 9 to 4 grades?

And what proportion of pupils achieved strong (grades 9 to 5) passes in both English and maths?

Year for outcome % strong 9-5 passes LA - % strong 9-5 passes National - % strong 9-5 passes
2018 22 38 43
2017 37 43

The Progress 8 measure was also introduced by the Government in 2016. It is calculated for each pupil by comparing their Attainment 8 score to the scores of all pupils nationally with similar prior achievement at the end of primary school. The school's Progress 8 score is the average of all those scores.

A score of 0 means pupils have made similar progress during secondary school to similar pupils across England. Above 0 means more progress and below 0 means less progress. Below 0 doesn't mean pupils have made no progress or negative progress, just less progress than comparable pupils.

How have pupils at Da Vinci Academy done in terms of their Progress 8 score for each element?

What were the Progress 8 scores for different groups of pupils at Da Vinci Academy?

Also were these scores significantly above or below the national average (set at 0)?

Group Progress 8 Significance
All pupils -1.02 Significantly below average
Girls -0.97 Significantly below average
Boys -1.07 Significantly below average
Disadvantaged -1.32 Significantly below average
Low attainment -0.61
Middle attainment -1.04 Significantly below average
High attainment -1.14 Significantly below average
English as an additional language -0.6

What is the pupil:teacher ratio at Da Vinci Academy and how does it compare to the national average?

How many teachers are there and what is the average wage?

Teachers Teacher Details
No. of Teachers (FTE) 32.6
No. of Teaching Assistants (FTE) 8.4
Average Teacher Salary (GBP) 33,501
Average Teacher Salary (GBP) - National 39,762

Figures below show what proportion of the half day sessions were missed by pupils and how this compares to the local and national averages.

In 2017/18, the most recent full school year, 6% of half day sessions were missed. Nationally, secondary school pupils missed 5.5% of sessions.

Figures below show what proportion of the half day sessions were missed by pupils and counted as an unauthorised absence and how this compares to the local and national averages.

What proportion of pupils are classed as persistent absentees (missing 10% or more of all sessions)?

Figures below show what proportion of the pupils, who left school in recent years, continued in education for longer than the first term.

Of the pupils who finished school in 2017, the most recent data available, % of pupils stayed on in education or went into employment or training. Nationally, 94% of pupils stayed on in education or went into employment or training.

There is also data on the proportion who stayed in education.

Year for outcome % education LA - % education National - % education
2009/10 83.3 84.7
2010/11 84 86
2011/12 83 86
2012/13 85 88
2013/14 88 90
2014/15 88 91
2015/16 87 91
2016/17 81 86

Figures below show the proportion of young people who dropped out of education, training or work within 3 months.

Year for outcome % not sustained LA - % not sustained National - % not sustained
2010/11 7 7
2011/12 8 6
2012/13 8 6
2013/14 7 5
2014/15 7 5
2015/16 7 5
2016/17 7 5

While finances are not included in our calculation of how good schools are, many schools publish information about how much they are spending on pupils' education.

What is the total school spend per pupil Da Vinci Academy compared to the local and national average? (school is in blue)

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The transfer rumour mill is in full swing ahead of another gruelling Championship season.

Derby County are preparing for the 2019-20 season, with Phillip Cocu at the helm following his replacing Frank Lampard, who departed for Chelsea on Thursday.

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Jansson set for departure from Leeds

Leeds United may be focused on adding players to their squad ahead of a promotion push next season but they are set to lose a key man.

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Jansson featured 37 times for Leeds in the Championship last season and if the Swedish star departs, it would be a massive blow for the Whites.

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Forest to sign £25m-rated starlet

Nottingham Forest are set to beat off competition from the likes of Burnley to secure the services of Alfa Semedo.

The 21-year-old Benfica starlet is looking to develop with more first-team football and Forest are close to the deal.

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Introducing Gmail Mic Drop

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Introducing Gmail Mic Drop
March 31, 2016
Posted by Victor-bogdan Anchidin, Software Engineer
Email’s great, but sometimes you just wanna hit the eject button. Like those heated threads at work, when everyone’s wrong except you (obviously). Or those times when someone’s seeking group approval, but your opinion is the only one that matters (amirite?). Or maybe you just nailed it, and there’s nothing more to say (bam).
Today, Gmail is making it easier to have the last word on any email with Mic Drop. Simply reply to any email using the new ‘Send + Mic Drop’ button. Everyone will get your message, but that’s the last you’ll ever hear about it. Yes, even if folks try to respond, you won’t see it.

When you drop the mic, your email will also include an explanatory image—just to help set expectations.

Friends and family have been testing Gmail Mic Drop for months, and the response so far has been awesome:
“Sending email is so much easier when you don’t have to worry about people responding!”
“Mic Drop is a huge improvement over Mute! I can finally let everyone know I’m just not interested.”
“My team solves problems so much faster with Mic Drop. In fact, we stopped talking to each other entirely!”
Gmail Mic Drop is launching first on the web, but mobile updates are on the way. So stay tuned, and stay saucy.

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    • Exports from both a "slice sheet" or from design mockups with full repeatability.
    • No need to manually set up slices.. unless you want to.
    • Auto slices also have visible export boundaries which you can easily edit.
    • Flexible! It's no problem to move assets around or resize slices. Much easier than native slices.
    • Multiple states of an asset can be exported from the same slice ensuring consistent dimensions. It also makes design changes super fast because you have fewer layers to edit.
    • Assets can be exported to different sub folders and @2x can be added directly.
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