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“It is a challenge,” Osbon said of the D-I schedule with the likes of Pinkerton, Londonderry and Salem. |
He said that some of the old schools from D-II can compete at that level, but it can’t be done consistently to help programs out. |
Osbon describes Dover’s program as one that comes in cycles, going back to the 1930s. That means when the cycle comes, you have two or three good seasons and then you rebuild again. |
“Rebuilding in Division II is a lot easier than rebuilding in Division I,” he said. |
But the job he has done to make Dover competitive has not been lost on his players and coaches. |
“I can’t thank him enough for all of the time he’s put in to make sure myself, my teammates, and countless alumni were in the best possible situation to win football games,” said Julian Nicholson, a former three-year starter who worked with the team this past year as an assistant coach. |
Now Osbon will step aside to let a new coach take over. He hopes his staff is retained, which includes Innis and his son-in-law, Eric Cumba, who previously coached at nearby St. Thomas Aquinas. |
For high school teams to be competitive, particularly in D-I, it is a year-round commitment and Osbon has fiercely embraced that. |
He wants to spend more time with his family — his wife, his three daughters, his granddaughter. |
UberPool was supposed to make things better. |
One of the main talking points about Uber and Lyft is that, by getting more people to take taxi rides instead of drive, congestion would ease up everywhere. That hasn’t happened. And now, according to a new study, it appears Uber and Lyft’s services to pool riders into cars, with the ostensible purpose of helping allev... |
It’s something we’ve covered time and again, but the report from Bruce Schaller, a former deputy commissioner for traffic and planning at the New York City Department of Transportation, takes a hard look at ride-hailing options like UberPool and Lyft Line and concludes they’re making traffic worse “by appealing directl... |
Who would’ve thought that adding a bunch of cars to the streets for purposes of creating a modern day taxi fleet would have this sort of outcome? I’m just shocked. |
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, NIV). |
From the smallest concern to the biggest problem in our lives, God cares. If it is big enough to concern you, it is big enough to concern Him. |
Author, speaker Holocaust survivor Corrie Ten Boom told of a remarkable experience at the horrific Nazi Ravensbruck prison camp. |
Together we entered the terrifying building. At a table were women who took away all our possessions. Everyone had to undress completely and then go to a room where her hair was checked. |
We hurried back to the row of women waiting to be undressed. A little later, after we had our showers and put on our shirts and shabby dresses, I hid the roll of underwear and my Bible under my dress. It bulged out obviously through my dress; but I prayed, “Lord, cause now Your angels to surround me; and let them not b... |
Calmly I passed the guards. Everyone was checked, from the front, the sides, and the back. Not a bulge escaped the eye of the guard. The woman just in front of me had hidden a woolen vest under her dress; it was taken from her. They let me pass, for they did not see me. Betsie, right behind me, was searched. |
God answers prayer. Sometimes He uses His angels to do so, but I believe the most important thing about prayer is that we pray! |
Jesus longs for times of heart conversation with His children, dream sessions where we pour out all that we are and hope to be to the One who can make those dreams a reality. |
Every problem, every concern is important to God. If it is important to me, it is important to Him. God is always waiting, ready to turn His heart toward the voice of His child as surely as a mother hears her baby’s cry above all others. |
To think that God wants to talk with me, to hear my voice and listen to my deepest heart longings is an amazing thought. But it is a true thought. Prayer is simply conversation with God, but it is in those intimate conversations that battles are won and strength is gained. |
In Biblical times, the high priest was the communication link between God and man. However, today, Jesus is our high priest, our communication link with God. |
God sent His son Jesus Christ, the greatest communicator ever to walk the earth, so that He could make a way to reach us. The birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ make it possible for us to have an intimate relationship with Him, to communicate with God, right where we are. |
I just know that our Father loves it – absolutely loves it – when we, His children, stop in the middle of our busy lives for no other reason than the fact that we love Him and just need to talk with Him. When I pray, I picture His head turning toward me, to the sound of my voice. He smiles, knowing that “Mary wants to ... |
Father, I don’t know how to thank You for loving me. I praise You for the privilege and gift of prayer. I want to learn how to turn to You quickly and easily as I go through every moment of each day. I have to admit that I don’t understand how You can love me like You do, but I cherish that love and the freedom it offe... |
I want to encourage you to keep a journal of your journey with God. Carry it with you in your purse, briefcase or diaper bag. Write out your prayers to Him and then record the answers when they come. From time to time, look back over your journal entries and celebrate what God has done in your life. |
You and I were created to live life at its best and to experience true success. To live that kind of life requires an unshakable faith that will see us through every storm and every trial we will ever face. An unshakable faith is the foundation for the abundant life Jesus came to provide for each one of us. In this pow... |
(Host) Some of those drawn to Howard Dean’s presidential campaign are young people who learned about the former governor through the Internet. On Monday in Burlington, they were out in force to cheer on their candidate. |
(Dillon) It was a Howard Dean party in downtown Burlington. Streets were blocked off and supporters swayed to the blues music of Big Joe Burelle. |
Chip Robinson of Morristown, New Jersey, says he came to Vermont as part of an extended road trip for Howard Dean. |
(Dillon) The Dean campaign has tried hard to emphasize the youth vote. Campaign organizers chose Gray Brooks, a student at Presbyterian College in Clinton South Carolina, to give the introduction for Dean. |
(Dillon) Dean says that it’s supporters like these who will propel his campaign to the White House. |
NVP to orchestrate a strategy that would help Indo-US technological partnership, Promod Haque tells Prerna K Mishra. |
A few days before Promod Haque's present visit to India, he got a call from a Congressman. And this time, it was to talk neither for nor against outsourcing. He wanted to know how US could engage with India for the next phase of technological innovation. So from now on, the Managing Partner of Norwest Venture Partners ... |
Agreed that the political pressures against the Indian outsourcing story seem to have waned in the US. But, why this sudden change of heart about technological partnership with India? |
There are many parameters that are at play which make the partnership seem as the most logical thing to do in the chang ing technological landscape. One look at the competition from China, Eastern and Central Europe and other Asian players, and one knows that the low end jobs may easily migrate to any of these countrie... |
But why not China, why India? |
In a way, US does not want to offer the leadership of the next technological wave to China on a platter. In a way, it fears that if it does not move fast, China may do it on its own with funds from anywhere and everywhere. But with India, the comfort level to incubate such partnership is unmatched. Both countries are s... |
Is your investment portfolio and interest in India getting any bigger? |
We have primarily focused on hybrid companies based in the US and doing most of their development from India. But in the past six months we have been looking at direct investments in companies headquartered here. We have some $200 million invested here in 20-odd companies so far. The focus is basically on two areas c... |
After a long phase of lukewarm response from fund carriers, the consumer internet space seems to be resurrecting.Any particular reason? |
The Indian internet landscape is exactly where the Chinese market was five years ago -- A burgeoning middle class, an aggressive broadband rollout, incremental increase in PC and mobile penetration. So the time is ripe for venture capital to flow back into portals and online businesses that have a proven business model... |
How different will the OPD companies be from the current captives doing product development for their US or European parents out of India? |
The OPD is of huge strategic importance for the Indian IT space. What we did so far was more under the services umbrella as in testing verification and product upgradation in bits and pieces. But the natural progression for the Indian product development firms will be development of their own Made in India products. |
You have talked about encouraging some of the ventures you have invested in to list with the Indian bourses. What makes the Indian stock market attractive? |
Many of the smaller players are finding it difficult to meet the compliance standards set in the US due to the Sarbanes Oxley Act. For companies that have just started to get profitable, it is killing to spare those extra $2 million or more dollars for compliance. |
That is why we could see many companies looking at the Indian bourses. But, here my only suggestion to the Indian regulators would be that getting more discipline into the market is one thing but framing laws for over-regulation can stifle a healthy market. I know the regulator is framing new rules to get more discipli... |
The White House has lifted a major obstacle long standing in the way of studies into the use of pot to treat victims of post-traumatic stress disorder and other ailments. |
The Health and Human Services Department has published in the Federal Register its announcement eliminating Public Health Service reviews of marijuana research projects not funded by the government. |
"The significance is that the Obama Administration is making formal a decision that they made informally more than a year ago," said Rick Doblin, executive director of Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, which plans to conduct a study whose test subjects include 76 veterans. |
The Veterans Affairs Department estimates that between 11 and 20 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans suffer from PTSD. For veterans of the Persian Gulf War, the estimate is 12 percent, and for Vietnam veterans, 15 percent. |
The Public Health Service granted review approval to the association in March 2014, but also noted in its letter that what it had previously set down as requirements for approval were now suggestions. |
The latest move, Doblin said, signals "the Obama Administration is open to ending federal obstruction of privately-funded medical marijuana drug development research." |
HHS in a statement said it was aware that the Public Health Service review "is perceived to be an obstacle to non-federally funded research" and so eliminated it as a requirement. |
"The Department expects the action … will help facilitate further research to advance our understanding about the health risks and any potential benefits of medications using marijuana or its components or derivatives, as well as the health implications of other uses of marijuana," the statement said. |
HHS took the step after its officials, along with those of the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration, concluded that there was enough "overlap" between the two reviews as to make unnecessary the Public Health Service requirement, which has been in place since 1999. |
According to Doblin, the reviews offered nothing to advance the kinds of studies his association and others might undertake. |
"The PHS reviewers come from the world of basic science, seeking knowledge about how things work. The FDA reviewers come from the perspective of drug development, where you don't need to know how things work, you just have to prove safety and efficacy," Doblin said. "There was a mismatch between the approaches of the d... |
Doblin said another important step that must be taken is to end the National Institute of Drug Abuse's monopoly on the production of Drug Enforcement Agency-licensed marijuana that can be used in FDA-regulated research. |
The move helps clear the way for an oft-delayed study into the use of marijuana in treating veterans with PTSD, Doblin said. |
The administration's decision also comes one month after a bipartisan group of lawmakers wrote Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell demanding an end to the requirement for a review by the Public Health Service. |
Marijuana is the only Schedule 1 drug for which independent research had required such a review, according to Americans for Safe Access, a group dedicated to ensuring safe and legal access to pot for medical research. |
Though the government approved the MAPS study well over a year ago, research has been delayed, in part because the University of Arizona, designated as one of two testing sites, without explanation fired lead researcher, Dr. Suzanne Sisley shortly after it won approval. |
The university reportedly terminated Sisley under pressure from Arizona lawmakers opposed to the study. |
In a statement released on Monday, Sisley said the government "has systemically impeded marijuana efficacy research, and the PHS review has played a large role in that stonewalling … To see the government finally eliminate this waste of taxpayer dollars is a triumph and hopefully represents another historic shift in dr... |
Doblin said there is still one more hurdle: ending the National Institute of Drug Abuse's "monopoly" on the production of marijuana that can be used in Food and Drug Administration-regulated research. |
He said the marijuana made available by NIDA can be used for research, "but not for prescription use," which means the pot will not meet FDA requirement that "studies be conducted with the exact same drug for which marketing approval is being sought." |
He said MAPS will soon begin working in July with Lyle Craker, a professor in the Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, to apply to the DEA for a license to grow marijuana specifically for federally regulated research purposes. |
Craker has been trying for about a decade to get that permission from the DEA, so far without success. |
The mutual fund (MF) industry’s bid to optimise yields on debt portfolios have led them to load up on exposure to the infrastructure space. However, experts say that the recent instance of IL&FS’ special purpose vehicle (SPV) denying repayment to bondholders, coupled with challenges in Essel group’s infra investments, ... |
“A significant share of these infrastructure investments would be in annuity structure projects that allow reasonable cash flows. However, the recent case of an IL&FS SPV not paying coupon payments to bondholders is a bad precedent and a cause of concern for MFs holding such exposures," said Kaustubh Belapurkar, direct... |
MFs have taken exposure to Essel group entities, including a road-related SPV, where promoters’ shares are placed as collateral. According to analysts, in instances where enhanced collateral is not forthcoming, the practice of giving loans against shares could hurt the net asset value of the schemes. |
As of December 31, 2018, MFs’ debt exposure to the infrastructure space stood at Rs 56,000 crore, which is double of what it was at FY16-end, shows data from Value Research. Some industry experts question the rationale for fund houses taking large exposures to capital-intensive sectors like infrastructure. |
“Sectors like infrastructure that are regularly in need of capital infusion don’t make for safe investments and we are seeing these risks play out now," said Dhirendra Kumar, chief executive officer of MF tracker Value Research. |
A debt fund manager, requesting anonymity, said a new legal interpretation seems to have emerged in the case of IL&FS SPVs, going by which these structures are holding up re-payments despite having cash flows to service them. He added that this new interpretation is the major cause for worry. |
On Monday, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal allowed 22 of the 173 IL&FS entities to service their operational and financial debt obligations. Meanwhile, analysts are of the view that lenders might need to take haircuts on some of their exposures to road assets in the future. “We expect recovery to be slower.... |
“We continue to be concerned about the rising stress in the Indian infra space in the absence of resolution, and flag the risk of bad-landing especially via debt-for-equity structures and leverage buyouts," said analysts at CLSA. |
Experts said promoters pledging shares to borrow for unrelated diversification or other purposes should make MFs wary of such investments. |
Rohingya Muslims who paid hundreds of dollars to flee squalid Myanmar camps by boat are destitute since they were stopped at sea and returned, the UN refugee agency told AFP on Friday. |
Images of hungry and thirsty Rohingya huddled on boats have stirred memories of a 2015 crisis, when thousands of fleeing Rohingya were stuck at sea as a trafficking trail south collapsed. |
Some 120,000 of the stateless Muslim minority have languished in camps in central Rakhine for six years since a bloody bout of intercommunal violence with ethnic Rakhine Buddhists. |
The end of the monsoon brings more favourable, if still treacherous, sailing conditions for those desperate to escape the camps that are branded as "open-air prisons" by rights groups and where Rohingya have little access to work, education or healthcare. |
One Rohingya boat this week made it to Aceh on the northern tip of the Indonesian island of Sumatra but several others have been picked up in Myanmar waters and those on board sent back to the camps. |
Many of the Rohingya had sold or lost all their possessions, including their shelters, to pay the extortionate fees to traffickers, said UN refugee agency spokeswoman Aoife McDonnell. |
They are in "acute need of support" now they are back in the camps, she said. |
Journalists are not allowed to enter the camps except on brief government-chaperoned tours, but Rohingya there told AFP by phone that many also sold their food ration documents. |
"They have nothing to eat," one Rohingya in Thetkal Pyin camp said, asking not to be named. |
"They can't get their money back from the traffickers." |
A leader in nearby Dapaing camp confirmed that the escapees had paid up to USD 700 for their places on the flimsy fishing boats, often in the hope of reaching Malaysia or Indonesia. |
So far five boatloads are known to have set off from central Rakhine, including the group of 20 men who made it to Aceh. |
The four other boats were picked up in Myanmar waters between November 16 and 29 and carried between them a further 356 people, who have since been sent back to the camps. |
There have also been rumours of sightings of several other vessels. |
But fears that the number could escalate to 2015 levels are for now overstated, said Chris Lewa from the Arakan Project. |
The circumstances are "completely different" now, she said, pointing out that the Bangladeshi authorities have so far also prevented any mass departures from the camps there. |
"This time we don't have any big boats leaving at all," she said. |
Rakhine State police chief Colonel Kyi Linn told AFP that six traffickers so far have been detained. |
"These places are big and we can't control everywhere," he added. |
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