Get to know a ’17 Liberty opponent: Charleston Southern – Lynchburg News and Advance (blog)

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The Flames conclude the regular season -- and their final at the FCS level -- against Charleston Southern. The finale is scheduled for noon on Nov. 18 in North Charleston.

CHARLESTON SOUTHERN BUCCANEERS

COACH: Mark Tucker, 0-0, fifth season at CSU (first as head coach)

2016 RECORD: 7-4, 4-1, tied for first in the Big South

POSTSEASON: lost at Wofford, 15-14, in FCS first round

Charleston Southern overcame a heartbreaking loss to Gardner-Webb early in Big South Conference play to run the table and deliver convincing victories over Liberty and Kennesaw State to earn a second consecutive trip to the FCS playoffs.

However, the Buccaneers need to replace the production of running backs Mike Holloway, Darius Hammond and Mike Robinson in the option attack, and Mark Tucker has taken over the coaching duties after Jamey Chadwell left to join the staff at Coastal Carolina.

QB Shane Bucenell (59.3 completion percentage, 1,100 yards, 15 TD, 6 INT; 88 carries, 325 yards, 3.7 average, 4 TD)

WR Kameron Brown (27 catches, 540 yards, 20.0 average, 6 TD)

DE Anthony Ellis (45 tackles, 16.0 TFL, 7.0 sacks, 1 PBU, 8 QBH, 2 FF)

LB Solomon Brown (70 tackles, 14.5 TFL, 4.5 sacks, 7 PBU, 8 QBH, 1 FF, 1 block)

LB Zane Cruz (49 tackles, 5.5 TFL, 2.0 sacks, 1 INT, 1 PBU, 5 QBH, 1 FR)

K Tyler Tekac (43-45 PAT, 4-6 FG, 38 long, 0 blocked)

RB Mike Holloway (105 carries, 881 yards, 8.4 average, 9 TD; 13 catches, 169 yards, 13.0 average, 2 TD)

RB Darius Hammond (100 carries, 576 yards, 5.8 average, 4 TD; 15 kick returns, 506 yards, 33.7 average; 21 punt returns, 225 yards, 10.7 average)

WR Colton Korn (15 catches, 235 yards, 15.7 average, 3 TD)

DB Troy McGowens (30 tackles, 3.0 TFL, 1.0 sacks, 4 INT, 4 PBU, 1 FR)

DB Corbin Jackson (57 tackles, 3.0 TFL, 0.5 sacks, 1 INT, 1 PBU)

P Truett Burns (48 punts, 37.7 average, 61 long, 16 I20, 4 50+, 1 TB, 0 blocked)

1. Whos toting the rock?

Gone are Mike Holloway, Darius Hammond and Ben Robinson. Its the second time in three seasons there is uncertainty at running back (remember when Christian Reyes graduated and people wondered the same thing?). The Buccaneers will continue to run the option offense under Tucker and he expects there to be plenty of battles. Chanin Hamilton and Ronnie Harris, both redshirt-sophomores, are currently slated atop the depth chart, with true freshman and midyear enrollee Elijah Henry and senior Noah Shuler, a transfer from Division III Methodist, in the hunt for carries.

We feel like weve recruited well. We have two upperclassmen returning that have played meaningful snaps in meaningful games; they just havent play near of them, Tucker said. We dealt with this two years ago when Christian Reyes graduated, and we had this group that just graduated out and that was their opportunity to shine. It gives our upperclassmen and some young guys opportunities to shine. Were just like everybody else in the room. Were dealing with running back and secondary.

Were going to have plenty of competition. Weve got kids that can flat go. How good a job they do of buying in and how good a job do we do of teaching and well see where it all comes out.

The Buccaneers lost two defensive backs to graduation, which means the front seven will continue to cause problems for opposing offenses. Ellis, Brown and Cruz anchor the 3-4 defense, which will have a new playbook under new defensive coordinator Zane Vance.

With the intensity, theres a lot of players buying into that, buying into what the coaches are saying, what theyre trying to teach us, the plays defensively, we have a whole new playbook, so the plays are different, Ellis said.

3. New mentality under Tucker.

Tucker has made it a focal point for the players to not be satisfied with back-to-back playoff appearances. He has established his style of coaching and the players have bought in.

This spring, coach Tuck made it a point to keep that intensity and increase it, Cirone said. I think change-wise, there is a slight change. Its definitely for the better, I believe. I think coach Tuck has the right mentality on where he wants to bring the program.

Charleston Southern had a Big South-leading three players named to the STATS FCS preseason All-America team Ellis, first team; Brown, second team; Cirone, third team. In the series against Liberty, CSU has scored 31 or more points in three straight victories after reaching that threshold only twice in the first 21 meetings. The Buccaneers ranked sixth in the FCS in rushing offense, averaging 266.5 yards per game. After having two guarantee games last season against North Dakota State and Florida State, CSU opens the season with a guarantee game at Mississippi State. CSU has two players on the roster with Virginia ties -- redshirt-sophomore kicker Kyle Reighard (Salem High School outside of Roanoke) and redshirt-freshman linebacker Malik Wright (Colonial Forge High School in Stafford).

Charleston Southern athletics: @csusports

Charleston Southern football: @CSUFB

Jeff Hartsell, who mostly covers The Citadel but sometimes covers CSU for the Post & Courier: @Jeff_fromthePC

Scott Eisberg, sports director at WCIV TV in Charleston: @SEisbergWCIV

Sept. 2: at Mississippi State, 4 p.m.

Sept. 9: at South Carolina State, 6 p.m.

Sept. 16: at Elon, 6 p.m.

Sept. 30: MISSISSIPPI VALLEY STATE, 6 p.m.

Oct. 14: at Presbyterian, noon

Oct. 21: SAVANNAH STATE, 6 p.m.

Oct. 28: MONMOUTH, 6 p.m.

Nov. 4: at Gardner-Webb, noon

Nov. 11: at Kennesaw State, 3:30 p.m.

THE SERIES (home team in CAPS)

1993: LIBERTY 42, Charleston Southern 6

1994: LIBERTY 59, Charleston Southern 27

1995: Liberty 19, CHARLESTON SOUTHERN 15

1996: LIBERTY 38, Charleston Southern 7

1997: Liberty 48, CHARLESTON SOUTHERN 14

1998: LIBERTY 28, Charleston Southern 21

1999: Liberty 34, CHARLESTON SOUTHERN 14

2000: Charleston Southern 25, LIBERTY 0

2001: Liberty 45, CHARLESTON SOUTHERN 31

2002: LIBERTY 31, Charleston Southern 17

2003: Liberty 17, CHARLESTON SOUTHERN 6

2004: LIBERTY 34, Charleston Southern 6

2005: CHARLESTON SOUTHERN 31, Liberty 30

2006: LIBERTY 34, Charleston Southern 20

2007: Liberty 50, CHARLESTON SOUTHERN 10

2008: LIBERTY 42, Charleston Southern 0

2009: Liberty 20, CHARLESTON SOUTHERN 13

2010: LIBERTY 44, Charleston Southern 20

2011: Liberty 38, CHARLESTON SOUTHERN 16

2012: LIBERTY 26, Charleston Southern 12

2013: Liberty 56, CHARLESTON SOUTHERN 14

2014: Charleston Southern 38, LIBERTY 36

2015: CHARLESTON SOUTHERN 31, Liberty 24

2016: Charleston Southern 48, LIBERTY 26

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This edition of Liberty Boosters and Busters is brought to you by reasonable Kentuckians who reject racism, bigotry and censorship with every fiber of their freedom-loving beings.

Liberty Booster The attorney generals office decided in favor of the Bluegrass Institute the organization I lead in its appeal challenging a Jefferson County school board meeting at a private law firm on the 28th floor of an office building in downtown Louisville on a Sunday afternoon in April.

Assistant Attorney General James Herrick ruled the meeting held to discuss applicants for the districts then-vacant interim superintendents position violated the law requiring public agencies to conduct meetings at specified times and places convenient to the public.

Its also likely the building was locked that day as it was on subsequent Sundays when some of my colleagues at the institute tried to enter an experience Herrick referenced in his ruling.

Liberty Buster U.S. District Court Judge Danny Reeves allowed Eric Conn, the eastern Kentucky lawyer who pleaded guilty to engineering one of historys largest Social Security fraud campaigns, to remain free on home incarceration, despite warnings against doing so by an FBI agent and witnesses claiming Conn had crossed 140 borders in eight years and had vowed to run before going to jail.

Conn ran, and likely is now sipping martinis and hanging out on the beach of some country with whom the U.S. has no extradition treaty with women for whom he previously claimed to have provided English lessons.

Yet Reeves forced Sam Girod, an Amish farmer from rural Bath County, to remain in jail for months without bond while awaiting trial before handing him a harsh six-year prison sentence for the crime of mislabeling homemade herbal skin salves containing such dangerous (sarcasm dripping) ingredients as chickweed and peppermint and not acquiescing to the Food and Drug Administrations ideological thuggery.

Prosecutors, gung-ho though they were to destroy this man and ridicule his way of life, failed to produce a single victim harmed by Girods concoctions.

Reeves permitted Conn, a wealthy white-collar criminal whose fraud resulted in 1,500 people losing their benefits and at least one person committing suicide, to remain out of jail.

He also handed a weak six-month sentence to Charlie Andrus, a former chief regional Social Security judge who pleaded guilty to conspiring with Conn to retaliate against the whistleblower in the campaign defrauding Social Security of $550 million.

Reeves in an unrelated case allowed a former University of Kentucky employee who swindled the school out of $200,000 to avoid prison altogether with a sentence of probation, calling it sufficient punishment.

Yet farmer Girod, whos harmed no one and had no criminal record when his nightmare began, languishes in a Pennsylvania prison more than 400 miles away from his home.

An appeals-court reversal or presidential pardon would go a long way toward highlighting the insufficiency of this judges contemptible inconsistency.

Liberty Boosters Gov. Matt Bevin and Frankforts Republican legislative leaders for planning to tackle pension and tax reform separately.

Claims that tax reform is critical to generating revenue wrongly blame Kentuckys public pension woes on insufficient support from taxpayers or poor returns on investments or, at the very least, place the cart before the horse.

The retirement systems funding levels continue to fall even though the commonwealths current budget poured an additional $1.2 billion into them.

Also, investment returns for the past 30 years have, on average, exceeded more than 9 percent in the Kentucky Retirement Systems and 8 percent in the Teachers Retirement Systems.

At the core of the pension crisis is a structural weakness rather than lack of dollars.

Stop the digging by fixing the systems benefit structures.

Then, looking for more dirt to fill the hole becomes an exercise in productivity rather than futility.

Jim Waters is president and CEO of the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, Kentuckys free-market think tank. Read previous columns at http://www.bipps.org. He can be reached at jwaters@freedomkentucky.com.

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Charges have been filed againsta mother in Liberty after hertwo-year-old was found shot in the thigh.

The two-year-old was initially taken to Northside Hospital and then flown to Akron Children's Hospital in Akron.

Liberty Police Chief Rich Tisone told 21 News that the mother, Kendrasia Johneisha Mayis charged with obstructing justiceand endangering children.

Authorities are saying if May is convicted, she could face up to 6months for obstruction of justice, a first-degree misdemeanor,andanother 36 months for the child endangering charge, which is a felony in the third degree.

Police say they still have not found the weapon. The child was interviewed by an expert who does not believe heshot himself.

It is still not clear who shot the child, someone may have been playing with the gun or handling it and it went off. The investigation is still ongoing, according to Chief Tisone.

May will be issued a summons through Girard court.

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Their actions were called "brave and selfless" and they received the highest honor the New York State Senate can award.

Libby Conners, Nathan Tyler, Amanda Lloyd and Delaney Ward were each given a New York State Senate Liberty Award by State Senator Patty Ritchie Monday morning.

The four were on the South Sandy Creek beach in Ellisburg last month when they saw a group of people in distress in the water.

That's when they sprang into action, saving three children and two adults from downing.

"What else would you do in that situation? You see these people who need help, we're the only people there, we didn't really see another choice," said Lloyd.

"I was, like, so amazed and so proud that they were part of our community that I thought that they were certainly, certainly deserved to be recognized with the Liberty Medal," said Senator Ritchie (R. - 48th District).

Besides getting the Liberty Medals, the four were also recognized for their heroic act by Jefferson County's Sheriff Colleen O'Neill.

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Give it a couple years, and traveling Liberty Avenue in the Strip District shouldn't feel so much like a sardine can. Wider, safer traffic lanes, new pedestrian signals and better lighting are among the changes planned there by 2019 or 2020. The nearly ...

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1. According to the libertarian, we experience our own freedom when we make choices. But in our dreams, we have the feeling that we are making choices even though we know that dreams are the product of the physiological and psychological causes that produce them. Hence, we can feel as though we are free even though causes are producing our behavior. 2. According to some thinkers, the scientific view of the world is based on the conviction that events follow fixed laws and that there is a cause for everything being the way that it is. If this statement is a correct account of science, does libertarianism then fl y in the face of modern science? If so, because nothing can compete with modern science in unveiling the nature of reality, don't these facts negate libertarianism? 3. According to libertarianism, every free act is based on a volition or an act of the will. But in a given case, why did a particular volition come about at the precise time that it did and why was it directed toward this or that outcome? (Why did you decide to listen to music at this precise time and not three minutes earlier or later? Why did you decide to listen to this particular CD and not the others that were available?) Isn't the libertarian forced to admit that either our volitions pop into our heads uncaused (in which case, they are unexplained, indeterministic events that happen to us) or they are the result of previous acts of the will? In the latter case, we are caught in an infinite regress. For example, your decision to listen to music was based on your decision to relax, which was based on your decision to take a break from studying, which was based on your decision to do x, and so on. Doesn't it seem that libertarianism leads to the notion that our free actions are based on an absurd and impossible infinite series of willings? 4. Isn't it the case that the better you get to know a person, the more his or her actions are predictable? Doesn't this finding indicate that the more knowledge we have of people's past, their personality, and the present circumstances that are affecting them, the more we understand the causes that are operating on them to produce their behavior? Aren't we convinced that a person's past experiences are a key to understanding why he or she became a saint or a serial killer? If so, doesn't this argument undermine libertarianism?

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Randy Bryce is a U.S. Army veteran, cancer survivor, and union ironworker. He joined the race for Wisconsins 1st Congressional District because his values are our neighbors values, and Washington has gotten way off track.

Randy was raised in southeastern Wisconsin, and went to public schools. After graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, and was posted to Honduras, where he earned the Army Achievement Medal. Randys father was a police officer, and his mother worked in a doctors office. His sister is a public school teacher.

After returning stateside, Randy was diagnosed with testicular cancer. He didnt believe he could ever have children, and now calls his only son Ben, his miracle child. Ben is a public school student like his dad was.

Randy found his way to an apprenticeship as an iron worker, and has now been helping to build America for more than 20 years. Hes been active in Ironworkers Local 8, serving as political coordinator for the union, and until recently as a member of the Milwaukee Area Labor Council board of directors.

My mother has multiple sclerosis, my father is in assisted living, and I survived cancer in my 20s to have a miracle child in my 40s, said Bryce. What Paul Ryan and the Republicans are doing to take health care away from millions of us, to make it cost more and cover less, and to allow the protections weve gained to be stripped away its just unacceptable.

Randy currently serves as President of the Wisconsin Veterans Chamber of Commerce board of directors, and as Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin Veterans Caucus. He resides in Caledonia.

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The national Libertarian Party executive director has issued a declaration denouncing racism and asking any white nationalists in the party to resign and leave the organization immediately.

There is no room for racists and bigots in the Libertarian Party. If there are white nationalists who inappropriately are members of the Libertarian Party, I ask them to submit their resignations today, Libertarian National Executive Director Wes Benedict declared in a news release. We dont want them to associate with the Libertarian Party, and we dont want their money.

That statement comes from the leader of a party that has had issues with white nationalists joining and seeking leadership posts in recent years. One, former lawyer Augustus Sol Invictus of Orlando, sought the Florida Libertarian Partys nomination to run for the U.S. Senate, a drive that had caused chaos at the top ranks of the state party, and in the Seminole County Libertarian committee. Invictus was not the only self-avowed nationalist to roil the partys ranks.

Invictus lost in the Libertarian primary, and the Orlando Sentinel reported Tuesday he had left the Libertarian Party and registered as a Republican this spring.

Invictus, who was a key figure in the Charlottesville rally last weekend, the Sentinel reported.

Benedict cited the national Libertarian Partys platform, which includes a plank that states,We condemn bigotry as irrational and repugnant. Government should neither deny nor abridge any individuals human right based upon sex, wealth, ethnicity, creed, age, national origin, personal habits, political preference, or sexual orientation.

Im not expecting many resignations, because our membership already knows this well, Benedict stated in a news release issued by his office.

Scott Powers is an Orlando-based political journalist with 30+ years experience, mostly at newspapers such as the Orlando Sentinel and the Columbus Dispatch. He covers local, state and federal politics and space news across much of Central Florida. His career earned numerous journalism awards for stories ranging from the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster to presidential elections to misplaced nuclear waste. He and his wife Connie have three grown children. Besides them, hes into mystery and suspense books and movies, rock, blues, basketball, baseball, writing unpublished novels, and being amused. Email him at scott@flordiapolitics.com or scottmichaelpowers@yahoo.com.

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August 16 - To the Editor:

The recent events in Charlottesville have left me disgusted and ashamed. Our country is better than what was on display last week.

What was even more frightening to me was the echoed silence coming from many members of the Republican Party. For too long they have turned the other cheek to their racist and bigoted members within their party base, fearing to lose their vote come election season.

For too long their silence has enabled the factually incorrect and morally repugnant wing of their party to grow in numbers and in power, to spread their hate-filled ideology, to the point of placing a white-nationalist enabler in the White House with known white-nationalist advisors.

To those in the Republican Party who are as appalled and sickened as I am seeing the racist views and openly practiced neo-Nazism on their airwaves, I beg of you to make a stand. Denounce the evil within your party and root out those within your party who treat others as second class citizens.

Or simply abandon the sinking ship of the GOP, because there is another political party which believes in fiscal conservatism and human rights. There is another party out there that believes that all people are created equal and inhibit certain inalienable rights. There is another party out there that believes all human rights apply to all humans, regardless of demographic. There is a party that believes this so strongly, they put it in their platform for all to see.

Join the Libertarian Party, and leave the racists and bigots to their festering party of white-nationalism enablers, and join a party of principle. Join the party that pledges never to use force to achieve political or social goals. Join a party that accepts everyone of faith, everyone of color, and every one of every gender not because it is popular, but because it is the right and moral thing to do.

I am Brian Shields, and I am running for State Representative in Dovers first ward, and I am doing so as a proud Libertarian because Dover needs a new voice in Concord. A voice that will not stand for bigotry, misogyny, and hatred, and will not turn the other cheek. This, I can promise you. You need someone who will protect your rights, all your rights. You need someone who will not have their vote bullied by party power leadership to further an agenda that doesnt benefit Dover. I am the independent voice Dover needs in Concord.

The Libertarian Party is the independent voice New Hampshire needs in the State House. If you are politically homeless, check us out. We welcome everyone with open arms.

Brian Shields

Libertarian Candidate for State Representative, Strafford 13

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Love Island champ Amber Davies says she’s only bought one thing with her 50k prize – Metro

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Love Island champ Amber Davies has revealed that she has only bought herself one treat with her 25,000-winning prize money a Chanel handbag.

I bought myself a Chanel bag, the reality star has admitted.

I thought to myself well I did win the show so I treated myself to a celebratory Chanel bag. Just one handbag isnt going to hurt is it?

Amber and Kem Cetinay won this years series thanks to their romance which began early on in the series and lasted despite many ups and downs, and they shared the 50,000 prize money.

Speaking to The Sun at V Festival, Amber added that Kem however has been spending his money, on hundreds of trainers, trainers and trainers and trainers as well as Amber: He has spoilt me rotten too though.

Although the pair are co-habiting just yet, Amber previously admitted that could change when her flat contract runs out next summer and wedding rumours are already swirling after Amber was spotted wearing a sparkly ring on her ring finger following Kems admission that Amber is the woman he wants to marry.

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Nestled on the Georgia coast, midway between Savannah, GA, and Jacksonville, FL, lies the mainland city of Brunswick and its four beautiful barrier islands: St. Simons Island, Sea Island, Little St. Simons Island and Jekyll Island. Pristine stretches of marshland, punctuated by small islands known as hammocks, define the breathtaking landscape and create the appearance of a continuous stretch of land reaching out to the barrier islands.

The largest of The Golden Isles, St. Simons Island continues to reveal the remarkable beauty and fascinating history of what 16th-century Spanish explorers called San Simeon. Visitors come year round to swim, stroll and sail along its miles of lovely beaches, to challenge its 99 holes of superb golf and numerous tennis courts, and to explore its countless shops and restaurants.

Reached by causeway from St. Simons Island, Sea Island is an internationally acclaimed resort. Though much of Sea Island is residential, Island life centers around The Cloister, perennially honored as one of the worlds great hotels. Golf club, beach club, gun club, horseback riding, fine dining and numerous other activities are among the amenities enjoyed by its guests.

Jekyll Island offers an abundance of recreational activities that are sure to please visitors of all ages. Miles of white sand beaches, 63 holes of golf, an outdoor tennis complex, water fun park, fishing pier, nature centers, bike trails and more. Accommodations are invitingly varied and include a grand historic hotel, oceanfront properties, even camping. Jekyll Island, once a haven for Americas elite, now beckons to all.

Accessible only by boat, Little St. Simons Island is the northernmost of The Golden Isles and certainly the most secluded. For many years a privately owned retreat, the Island now offers a limited number of guests the rare opportunity to experience the enchantment and solitude of the isolated beaches and marshlands that bound its10,000 acres of pristine woodlands.

Mainland Brunswick is named for Braunschweig, Germany, the ancestral home of King George II, grantor of Georgias original land charter. The streets and squares of this quiet port city were laid out before the American Revolution and their names, like Newcastle, Norwich, Prince and Gloucester, give Brunswick a decidedly English flavor. The unmistakable flavor of the south, too, can be sampled here, home of the original Brunswick Stew.

Interstate 95, the main Interstate Highway on the east coast of the United States, also serves the coast of Georgia. Within Georgia, it begins from the south at the St. Marys River and the Florida state line and continues north past the border of South Carolina at the Savannah River. Exits 29, 36, 38 and 42 serve the Golden Isles of Georgia.

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Set within Georgia's largest lake of Lake Lanier - Lanier Islands spans 1,500 scenic acres and beckons to families and corporate groups alike. Boasting immense natural beauty in an intimate setting, our resort and surrounding property is perfect for family vacations, romantic escapes, business meetings, weddings and more!

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16000 Indonesian islands registered at UN – Jakarta Post

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The United Nations Group of Expert on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) verified 2,590 islands registered by Indonesia during the 11th United Nations Conference on Standardization of Geographical Names (UNCSGN) in New York from Aug. 7-18, an official has stated.

With the additions, the names and locations of 16,056 islands in the archipelago are registered with the UN.

Indonesia has listed 17,504 islands under its sovereignty, saidArif Havas Oegroseno, the assistant for maritime sovereignty at the Office of the Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister.

"There are 1,448 islands left that need to be validated and verified," he said in a statement on Saturday.

Read also: Indonesia calls for Archipelagic & Island States Forum

He said the verification of islands in Indonesia needed to be conducted regularly because climate change and natural anomalies, such as abrasions, had led to the emergence and disappearance of islands.

Registering islands with the UN was also important to prevent duplicate names, Arif added.

Led by Geospatial Information Agency (BIG) head Zaenal Abidin, the Indonesian delegation at the 11th UNCSGN consisted of officials from the BIG, the Office of the Coordinating Maritime Affairs Minister, the Office of the Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister, the Home Ministry, the Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry and the University of Indonesia. (yon/bbs)

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The Islands of Ireland: Knight to remember on Clare Island – Irish Examiner

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Dan MacCarthydiscusses dragons and knights found on Clare Island, Co Mayo

Rainbow over Clare Island

Biblical dramas adorn our churches and enrich our understanding of art, paintings of a benevolent or agonised Christ, of Madonna and child, of apostolic anguish, beatific cherubs, and many others form a rich tapestry. However, there is another narrative, less religious and more secular, that also forms part of the artistic and literary discourse. Less god-fearing, more nature-worshipping. Less ethereal, more earthy. And on Clare Island, Co Mayo it can be seen in all its glory in the islands medieval church.

For here in St Brigids Abbey you finddepictions of dragons and griffons, stags stalked by wolves, a cockerel, a cattle raid, and a knight on horseback poised to go into battle. The paintings represent ideas current and historic and create a vivd picture of imagined life in 16th century Ireland.

These are scenes and motifs which infuse medieval literature and which repeatedly crop up in The Canterbury Tales and Le Morte dArthur and other great works of the period. Historians and archaeologists consider the Abbeys ceiling paintings unique in the country. The frescoes are in a delicate condition but an extensive preservation project in the 1990s has ensured their survival.

The works were likely commissioned by OMalley chieftains, whose matriarch, Grace or Granuaile, she of the piratical reputation, is believed to be interred in the abbeys tomb. The 16th century pirate queen of Connacht established a formidable reputation of plunder and conquest from her base on Clare Island and other fortresses in Clew Bay.

Medieval knight fresco depicted on the ceiling of St Brigids Abbey on the island

Prosperity was usually measured in head of cattle and with over 1,000, she was very wealthy indeed. Having inherited her fathers international trade business she also established a fleet of ships with 200 men under her command. Granuaile has inspired many songs and plays as a result of her exploits not least the episode where she sailed into the heart of enemy territory at Greenwich, London, to negotiate in Latin with Queen Elizabeth I for the release of her sons. Now all that remains of the pirate queen is her tomb, her reputation and a crumbling tower house on the islands pier. Not a bad legacy.

Clare Island is one of the largest in the country, ranking fourth when islands such as Valentia, Co Kerry, connected by bridge, are discounted. And it has a vibrant population of around 160 people. In 1841, it was home to 1,615.

Famine. Emigration. Survival.

The island has some superb walks which can take in the Napoleonic watchtower, the not insignificant 461m hill of Knockmore, in fact the highest island peak in ireland, and some imposing cliffs on the northside. When the Irish Examiner visited, a pair of wild ponies galloped freely along the cliff edge. Painters, writers, birdwatchers and lighthouse watchers have long been coming to the island. The lighthouse was decommisioned in 1965 as it was often obscured by mist and replaced by the one on Achill Beg to the north. Nowadays, it is a boutique B&B where visitors can even sleep in the old tower house.

Clare Island was the subject of a botanical experiment ifrom 1909 to 1911, when renowned botanist Robert Lloyd Praeger chose it to quantify and qualify the numbers and range of flora and fauna species on an island. Praeger and his team foraging all over the island but especially among the alpine cliffs and bird colonies of the northern cliffs, recorded 1,253 previously unrecorded animal species in Ireland - with 109 species new to science. They analysed everything from mammals to microscopic rhizopods. Of 3,219 plant species identified, 585 were new to Ireland and 11 new to science. The results of this monumental study were published by the Royal Irsh Academy in three volumes.

Describing a setting sun under a brooding bank of clouds on a visit in 1909 Praeger wrote: If a flight of demons or of angels had passed across in that strange atmosphere it would have seemed quite appropriate, and no cause for wonder.

Near the lighthouse road, the remnants of a once-mighty oak forest are visible.

The imagination teems with the former exotica of the now largely denuded island.

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Barb Nigretto District office general support

We have a new person in the Orcas Island School District business office Barb Nigretto; yes, of course, she is related by marriage to the island family of the same name! Barb is responsible for our accounts payable and receivables and provides general support for the business office. Barb and husband Ron have returned to the PNW after many years in Nashville Tennessee. Barb recently retired from a 30-year career with the Ford Motor Co., having worked in various financial management positions while there. Barb and Ron have two children daughter Natalie in Atlanta and newlywed son Anthony still resides in Tennessee. Barb and Ron love their new life on Orcas with their dog, Lucy. They are also enjoying time on their boat and spending time with their large extended family! Were happy to have her here!

John Pacasum Maintenance

OISD welcomes John Pacasum! John was hired just before the end of the school year to work in OISD Maintenance, and just in time to help ready our campus for our largest event of the year OHS graduation. John migrated to the US (West Los Angeles) from The Philippines when he was a teenager. After attending college at UC Santa Cruz he managed to live in Hawaii for a while until finally landing in the Northwest where he met his wife, Lisa Jenkins. John and Lisa moved to Orcas from Tacoma just last year when Lisa was hired as one of our elementary school teachers. John has years of working in the construction trade. Prior to moving to Orcas, he was a roofing contractor. John and Lisa have three children all students at OISD David (16), Joseph (12) and Khloe (9). John describes his marriage to Lisa as still blissful after 12 years.

Ryan Kennedy High school math

Meet our new Orcas Island High School math teacher, Ryan Kennedy. Ryan has always wanted to teach, however, life and careers took him in other directions first. This latest career choice has been a great transition for him and his young family. He is 27 years young and credits his love of math to an amazing high school teacher of his back in Atlanta GA, where he is originally from. In addition to teaching here, Ryan is also working on obtaining his masters in Education (Instruction design and technology) from Western Governors University. He also has 9 years of experience cooking in restaurants from a farm/restaurant in France (where he learned to cook), to Corsica, Spain and California. Ryan moved to Orcas in 2012 where he went to work at Doe Bay Caf and then onto work as Sous Chef at Hogstones Wood Oven. He did his student teaching for his certification here at OIHS with Vicki Clancy. He and his wife, Stephanie have two children 3-year-old daughter, Charlie, and a 1-year-old boy, Teddy (pictured here with his dad while on vacation this summer). They are proud owners of an OPAL home and love living on Orcas Island. Ryan is thrilled to be starting his teaching career here!

Kristee Rajczi Special education

Orcas Island School District welcomes another new teacher to our Special Education staff this year Kristee Rajczi she has 10 years overall teaching experience in Friday Harbor and Las Vegas, Nevada. For the last five years, Special Education has held a special place in her heart. In addition to her teaching duties, Kristee is also pursuing a National Board Certificate. This school year she will be working with our teachers and families in grades pre-kindergarten through second. She and her family, including her husband and daughter, Janna, will continue to live on San Juan Island where they maintain a small business. They love living and working in an island community!

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Chinese data buoy found in Andaman and Nicobar Islands – The New Indian Express

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CHENNAI: A data buoy believed to be of Chinese-origin has been located by the Indian Coast Guard and Para Military Force (PMF) on the shores of Kamrota island in Nicobar district of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Indian National Centre for Oceanic Information (INCOIS), Hyderabad, director Dr Satheesh C Shenoi told The New Indian Express that Chinese officials informed INCOIS about the buoy drifting towards Indian waters.

The data buoy was deployed at the International waters and has drifted towards Andaman and Nicobar Islands after breaking free from its moorings, Satheesh Shenoi said.

The Coast Guard said that a search party off Dring Harbour on the Northwestern side of Kamrota Island was tasked with locating the yellow buoy after receiving information from INCOIS.

It was discovered that the buoy landed on the beach, and the top antenna was broken and separated, the Coast Guard said.

The approach to the buoys location is only from the sea as the surrounding area is thickly wooded and has a dense forest, it added.

"The Coast Guard is coordinating with the National Institute of Ocean Technology, Chennai to ascertain further details of the buoy," a statement said.

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A Closer Look at the Human Gene Editing Lab – Futurism

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In BriefAs the scientific community takes in the work of the team whoedited the DNA of the human embryos this month, different opinionsabout the safety, efficacy, and potential of the technique abound. The Gene Editing Process

In a lab at Oregon Health & Science University, biologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov and a team of experts have been exploring and learning how to edit the DNA in human embryos efficiently and safely. This month, they announced their successful edit and correction of a mutation which causes a heart condition that can be fatal hopefully the first landmark step of many on the road to preventing thousands of genetic diseases with editing.

To edit an embryo, a researcher will begin by taking a human egg and monitoring it on a computer screen. They will then inject, with a pipette, donor sperm and CRISPR, microscopic chemical sequences that act as a gene-editing tool, that is designed to make the precise desired edit. CRISPR then goes to work, slicing the target defect from the DNA. After this editing process, the scientists place the embryos created using the process in an incubator and monitor them.

Mitalipov and the team believe that the editing process finally started to work when they began to inject the sperm and CRISPR into the egg simultaneously. Waiting until the embryos were already created produced results that were less accurate and more likely to be plagued by dangerous mutations. And, while the team isnt totally certain on how the process works, they believe that the slice CRISPR makes as it targets defects triggers the repair process in the embryo.

Thus far, the results from this study appear to be promising. However, many questions in the scientific community about the technique itself and the underlying ethics of the process remain. For example, the technique has not yet been reproduced by other teams, and some scientists believe that the data doesnt support the conclusions Mitalipov and the team are claiming.

Others are more concerned that this kind of technology has not been proven safe. worried that less careful scientists might rush ahead too quickly and attempt to make babies before the technique has been proven to work and be safe. Any change to the genome, or germline editing, could be passed along for generations, perpetuating mistakes and even potentially leading to the development of new diseases. Harvard Medical School Dean George Daley told NPR, I think it would be professionally irresponsible for any clinician to use this technology to make a baby. Its just simply too early. It would be premature.

Still, others are critical of the technique from an ethical standpoint, arguing that scientists editing embryos are playing God, and pushing the field toward selling the ability to create designer babies to parents who can afford the technology. I think its extraordinarily disturbing, Marcy Darnovsky, head of the watchdog group the Center for Genetics and Society, told NPR. Well see fertility clinics advertising gene editing for enhancement purposes. Well see children being born who are said to biologically superior.

Mitalipov and the team acknowledge these criticisms and agree, specifically, that the technique requires reproduction and further testing and should be used for medical purposes only. However, they point out the amazing potential that the technology has to improve our world and the quality of human life. Mitalipov thinks the process may eventually be able to wipe out many genetic diseases:

[There are] about 10,000 different mutations causing so many different conditions and diseases, he said to NPR. Were talking about millions of people affected. So I think the implications are huge.

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Life Lessons: Next generation testing – WFMZ Allentown

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When Audrey Lapidus 10-month old son, Calvin, didnt reach normal milestones like rolling over or crawling, she knew something was wrong.

He was certainly different from our first child, said Lapidus, of Los Angeles. He had a lot of gastrointestinal issues and we were taking him to the doctor quite a bit.

Four specialists saw Calvin and batteries of tests proved inconclusive. Still, Lapidus persisted.

I was pushing for even more testing, and our geneticist at UCLA said, If you can wait one more month, were going to be launching a brand new test called exome sequencing, she said. We were lucky to be in the right place at the right time and get the information we did.

In 2012, Calvin Lapidus became the first patient to undergo exome sequencing at UCLA. He was subsequently diagnosed with a rare genetic condition known as Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome, which is most commonly characterized by developmental delays, possible breathing problems, seizures and gastrointestinal problems.

Though there is no cure for Pitt-Hopkins, finally having a diagnosis allowed Calvin to begin therapy.

The diagnosis gave us a point to move forward from, rather than just existing in that scary no-mans land where we knew nothing, Lapidus said.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of people living in that no-mans land, desperate for any type of answers to their medical conditions, said Dr. Stanley Nelson, professor of human genetics and pathology and laboratory medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Many families suffer for years without so much as a name for their condition.

What exome sequencing allows doctors to do is to analyze more than 20,000 genes at once, with one simple blood test.

In the past, genetic testing was done one gene at a time, which is time-consuming and expensive.

Rather than testing one sequential gene after another, exome sequencing saves time, money and effort, said Dr. Julian Martinez-Agosto, a pediatrician and researcher at the Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA.

The exome consists of all the genomes exons, which are the coding portion of genes. Clinical exome sequencing is a test for identifying disease-causing DNA variants within the 1 percent of the genome which codes for proteins, the exons, or flanks the regions which code for proteins, called splice junctions.

To date, mutations in the protein-coding parts of genes accounts for nearly 85 percent of all mutations known to cause genetic diseases, so surveying just this portion of the genome is an efficient and powerful diagnostic tool. Exome sequencing can help detect rare disorders like spinocerebellar ataxia, which progressively diminishes a persons movements, and suggest the likelihood of more common conditions like autism spectrum disorder and epilepsy.

More than 4,000 adults and children have undergone exome testing at UCLA since 2012. Of difficult to solve cases, more than 30 percent are solved through this process, which is a dramatic improvement over prior technologies. Thus, Nelson and his team support wider use of genome-sequencing techniques and better insurance coverage, which would further benefit patients and resolve diagnostically difficult cases at much younger ages.

Since her sons diagnosis, Lapidus helped found the Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome Research Foundation. Having Calvins diagnosis gave us a roadmap of where to start, where to go and whats realistic as far as therapies and treatments, she said. None of that would have been possible without that test.

Next, experts at UCLA are testing the relative merits of broader whole genome sequencing to analyze all 6 billion bases that make up a persons genome. The team is exploring integration of this DNA sequencing with state-of-the-art RNA or gene expression analysis to improve the diagnostic rate.

The entire human genome was first sequenced in 1990 at a cost of $2.7 billion. Today, doctors can perform the same test at a tiny fraction of that cost, and believe that sequencing whole genomes of individuals could vastly improve disease diagnoses and medical care.

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