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Lucy Dacus's 'No Burden' is full of surprises -- sharp lyrical observations, playful turns of musical phrase, hooks that'll embed themselves in your frontal lobe for days. But the most surprising thing about this album might be the fact that it's a debut; it has a keen sense of self about it, and it nearly glows from the self-possession held by the woman at its core. The 21-year-old Dacus grew up in Richmond; she was adopted at a young age, an experience that informed her curious, openhearted
Lucy Dacus's 'No Burden' is full of surprises -- sharp lyrical observations, playful turns of musical phrase, hooks that'll embed themselves in your frontal lobe for days. But the most surprising thing about this album might be the fact that it's a debut; it has a keen sense of self about it, and it nearly glows from the self-possession held by the woman at its core.
The 21-year-old Dacus grew up in Richmond; she was adopted at a young age, an experience that informed her curious, openhearted songwriting. "When my parents were explaining what adoption was -- which was very early on in my childhood -- they always said that my birthmother thought I was worthwhile even though she couldn't be my mom," she says. "And so from essentially infancy, I was taught that life was innately worthwhile because a bunch of people had worked together to set me up with one.
"Every other philosophy of mine has been built on that foundation," she continues. "Humans want this experience for each other; there has to be some reason why. I seem to always end up trying to write and understand how we can live the most worthwhile life, and therefore how we hold each other up from getting there."
Dacus started playing around Richmond while in college, opening for local acts and eventually meeting Jacob Blizard, a guitarist who invited her to make a record for a college project of his. 'No Burden,' which originally came out in February on the Richmond label EggHunt Records, opens with the forthright, almost brutally honest "I Don't Wanna Be Funny Anymore," the last song Dacus wrote before the album's day-long recording session at Starstruck Studios in Nashville. Dacus delivers scalpel-sharp observations about resisting pigeonholing over chunky guitars, ticking off ideals of femininity and youth until the track's not-quite-resolution.
These themes extend to the lyrics of songs like "Strange Torpedo," a whirling portrait of a friend whose "bunch of bad habits" who, Dacus sings, has "been falling for so long... [and hasn't] hit anything solid yet." "I've been that friend watching a loved one do what they know is bad for them and not understanding why," says Dacus. The song offers a simple message: "'I love you, why don't you love you? You're the one in your body so you get to choose what to do with it, but if I were you I'd treat me differently.'"
The rest of 'No Burden,' which was produced by Collin Pastore, puts Dacus's voice center stage, allowing the glinting poetry of her lyrics to shine even more brightly. "Trust," which Dacus wrote in late 2013, showcases her alone with her guitar, her faint vibrato floating over strummed chords as she sings of self-redemption. And the diptych "Dream State..." and ."..Familiar Place," which revolve around Dacus repeating "Without you, I am surely the last of our kind/ Without you, I am surely the last of my kind," capture disappointment and loss in a jaw-dropping way; the music trembles around her while her voice stays steady, anticipating whatever might come next.
'No Burden' is a forthright, disarmingly catchy statement. And while it's a sterling debut, it only hints at the potential possessed by this passionate, thoughtful young woman. - Maura Johnston
MPMF 2016 :: Saturday
Photos from MidPoint Music Festival 2016 courtesy of Calan Beasley (FortyCal Productions), Steve Thrasher, & Jesse Roos.
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Forecastle Festival Announces Lineup Additions
Sturgill Simpson, Phantogram, Spoon, Capital Cities, Tycho, Real Estate, What So Not, K.Flay, Whitney, Classixx and more join LCD Soundsystem, Weezer, Odesza, Cage the Elephant and others for the 15th anniversary of Forecastle Festival. Celebrating 15 years at sea, Forecastle Festival will take...
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Midpoint Superlatives: The Weekend in Review
By: Nat Tracey-Miller & Zach Moning Best in Show: Bob MouldBob Mould is about to turn 56, but his scorching 40-minute 15-song set blew everyone half that old off the stage. Fronting a power trio rounded out by Jason Narducy (Superchunk/$plit $ingle) and Jon Wurster (Superchunk/The Mountain...
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Lucy Dacus Doesn’t Want to Be Funny at MPMF
Lucy Dacus is just the right mix of southern soul and witty pop. Dacus is a singer/songwriter whose solo tunes have evolved into twangy indie rock slow-burners with help from the rest of her talented quintet. She began writing mostly for herself, but met up with like-minded players in Richmond,...
Thursday, August 18, 2016, 2:34am
MPMF Releases Daily Lineup
Midpoint Music Festival has released their daily lineup (below)! This year’s festival will take place the weekend of September 23-25 in Over The Rhine. In all, the event will feature over 60 local, regional, national and internationally recognized acts including a diverse mix of up-and-coming...
Wednesday, August 10, 2016, 5:50am
MPMF Announces Initial 2016 Artists
Band Of Horses, Future Islands, Wolf Parade, JJ Grey & Mofro, Reggie Watts, Lucero, Frightened Rabbit, Houndmouth, Kamasi Washington, Bob Mould & many more added to MPMF.16! Tickets go on-sale Friday at 10am HERE! In March we announced that MEMI had joined forces with Midpoint Music...
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Call for Reservations: 830-990-9202. And for IBDA members, the Members Area contains nearly 4,000 historical Birddog photos and documents – all available for viewing and downloading. Join IDA’s new weekly virtual series for inspired leaders shaping cities. Learn More Bird of the Year 2021 Announced Register for these live webinars Bird of the Year 2020 Learn More IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT BIRDLIFE SOUTH AFRICA OFFICE CLOSURE Due to Covid-19 and to help prevent BirdLife South Africa's staff, members, volunteers, and indeed the public from contracting the virus (and to help limit the spread of the virus), our offices will be closed with immediate effect. As a member of the International Birddog Association, you’ll be supporting the preservation and history of the Birddog. International Air Transport Association (IATA) Courses REGIONAL TRAINING PARTNER (RTP) Bird Academy, as a Regional Training Partner, hosts classroom trainings by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) that cover the full spectrum of the aviation industry. Little by little, it caught on. Some IBDA History: The concept for an organization dedicated to the Cessna L-19/O-1 Birddog originated with Mr. Phil Phillips of Albuquerque, New Mexico. As a member of the International Birddog Association, you’ll be supporting the preservation and history of the Birddog. The International Writing Centers Association, a National Council of Teachers of English affiliate, was founded in 1983. In 2000, the IBDA, with the assistance of Cessna and the U.S. Air Force, held its first “Birddog Reunion” in Wichita, Kansas to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the aircraft. chestnut2017-12-31T17:39:08-06:00August 24th, 2017|Comments Off on The All Unit Birddog Reunion and Memorial Dedication, birddogunit236 Fort Rucker, cheap Alabama, home of US Army Aviation, hosted members of, chestnut2017-12-31T17:40:52-06:00August 24th, 2017|Comments Off on New Photo Gallery, The IBDA has created a new way for members and others to view, chestnut2017-12-31T17:41:06-06:00August 24th, 2017|Comments Off on The Historic Birddog Carrier Landing by Major Buang-Ly, Watch the reinactment video after clicking the Read More button On 29 April, chestnut2017-12-31T17:41:13-06:00August 24th, 2017|Comments Off on Invest in Responsible Birddog Ownership, As a Birddog owner, your best investment is in the Maintenance and Parts. The International Association of Avian Trainers and Educators. 545 likes. It contained a mixture of war stories, technical tips, and classified advertisements. Our primary goal is to facilitate worldwide communication in ornithology and conservation based on an up-to-date evolutionary classification of world birds and a set of English names that follow explicit guidelines for spelling and construction. He set about to correct both problems. No bank cards or credit cards are required at any time and payments and … There were 46 Birddogs and over 250 people in attendance at that first reunion which turned out to be a premier event for all. Click on “Galleries” in the menu above to see more. Flight training, both military and civilian, generates a mixture of experiences that are, chestnut2017-12-31T17:41:39-06:00August 24th, 2017|Comments Off on Welcome Home, The Vietnam conflict was a long time ago but it is still on, chestnut2017-12-31T17:41:51-06:00August 24th, 2017|Comments Off on The Birddog Memorial at Fort Rucker Alabama, Birddog Memorial The memorial monument dedicated to the memory of the Birddog airplane, chestnut2017-12-31T17:42:00-06:00August 24th, 2017|Comments Off on “Capturing Charlie with the Birddog” by Bob Brewster, ambulance “Headhunter 37”, "CAPTURING CHARLIE WITH THE BIRDDOG" BY Bob Brewster, ambulance "Headhunter 37" Pictured to, chestnut2017-12-31T17:42:11-06:00August 24th, 2017|Comments Off on Traveling to Southeast Asia for Fun and Profit, Submitted by Les Hobgood In early 1963, I was a First Lieutenant Crew, [ Placeholder content for popup link ] WordPress Download Manager - Best Download Management Plugin, L-19/O-1 Operator’s Manual & Pilot/Crew Checklists, on The All Unit Birddog Reunion and Memorial Dedication, on The Historic Birddog Carrier Landing by Major Buang-Ly, on Invest in Responsible Birddog Ownership, on The Birddog Memorial at Fort Rucker Alabama, on “Capturing Charlie with the Birddog” by Bob Brewster, ambulance “Headhunter 37”, on Traveling to Southeast Asia for Fun and Profit, The All Unit Birddog Reunion and Memorial Dedication, The Historic Birddog Carrier Landing by Major Buang-Ly, The Birddog Memorial at Fort Rucker Alabama, “Capturing Charlie with the Birddog” by Bob Brewster, ambulance “Headhunter 37”, Traveling to Southeast Asia for Fun and Profit, WordPress Download Manager - Best Download Management Plugin. The following is a list of journals and magazines relating to birding and ornithology.The continent and country columns give the location where the journal or magazine is published and may not correspond with its scope or content. IDA’s new weekly online series will empower urban champions with the tools and solutions needed to address the most critical urban issues and support our downtowns and city centers. You’ll have special access to the members’ area of the website containing resources such as hard to find technical and authenticity information, history, Birddog photos, and much more. BirdLife International is a global partnership of non-governmental organizations that strives to conserve birds and their habitats. BirdLife aims to identify, protect and manage a network of sites that are significant for the long-term viability of naturally occurring bird populations. Unfortunately, he was also frustrated. Parts suppliers were located and members notified of those sources. Wildfowl Carving, decoy carving, decorative wildfowl carving, shorebird decoys, duck decoys, bird sculpture, wildfowl carving competition, bird carving contest, wildfowl carving instruction, youth carving education, IWCA, IWFCA, International Wildfowl Carvers Association, wildfowl art Get your dues in early so you don’t miss out on any new info and the nearly 300 documents of Birddog-specific maintenance and technical information in the Members Area of this website. Unfortunately, he was also frustrated. The IBDA grew over the years and eventually became a full-fledged 501©3 organization supervised by an elected Board of Directors and Officers. Before it was over, he not only had a Birddog to fly, but it was a show-stopper to boot! is an organization for individuals who are active in the field of avian training and who are involved in environmental education programs. We look forward to your membership in the IBDA as a fellow Birddog enthusiast. The organization was serving its members in a way not possible before the website was created. Many merchandise selections are available through the IBDA. Many sites are also important for other forms of biodiversity, so the conservation of IBAs ensures the survival of a correspondingly large number of other animals and plants. The IBDA serves those who were pilots, observers, maintenance crews, and those who have a love of aviation and military history. No matter the method, simply follow the instructions. The organization was serving its members in a way not possible before the website was created. As a member of the International Birddog Association, you’ll be supporting the preservation and history of the Birddog. chestnut2017-12-31T17:41:27-06:00August 24th, 2017|Comments Off on Do You Have a Flight Training Story? You’ll have special access to the members’ area of the website containing resources such as hard to find technical and authenticity information, history, Birddog photos, and much more. Come North with us and enjoy birding Minnesota’s boreal forest, the pothole wetlands of North Dakota and the vast prairies in between. Believe it was National Guard bird. In 1998 the IBDA became even more well known world-wide with the initiation of a new website. In 1998 the IBDA became even more well known world-wide with the initiation of a new website. TAIWAN INTERNATIONAL BIRDING ASSOCIATION. Michigan Bird and Game Breeders Association; North American Gamebird Association; Pheasants Forever; United Gamefowl Breeders Association; United Peafowl Association; World Pheasant Association; Ratite Associations. Attn; Suzanne Cobb. BirdLife International has, to date, identified and documented more than 13,000 sites in over 200 countries and territ… You do not have to have a PayPal account. You can renew online from this Membership tab (simply scroll down) using PayPal or your credit card through the secure PayPal connection. Located on T82 airport: 155 Airport Rd, Fredericksburg, TX 78624. Plenty for every member…. Since then, the IBDA has held two more reunions, now labeled “Birddog Roundup.” Both were held at Fredericksburg, Texas and occurred in 2005 for the 55th anniversary of the aircraft, and in 2010 for the 60th anniversary. Elections are held every two years and this gives those interested in serving in any of those positions a chance to do so. It’s the “Members Area” section of this site that really shines: Hundreds of technical papers to help you maintain and operate your Birddog; A “Historical Photos and Documents” section with more than 3,500 searchable / downloadable archival photographs documenting almost 70 years of Birddog operations; Military “I was there” stories; Bark newsletter archives; Operators’ Manuals; and much more. Birding Tours A lot of people can find you birds, and we certainly do that. View International Bird Beer Label Association (www.ibbla.com) location in Alaska, United States , revenue, industry and description. With the site the IBDA was able to sign up new members and keep track of Birddogs that were for sale, bought, and restored to flyable condition. TIBA stands for Taiwan International Birding Association. There were 46 Birddogs and over 250 people in attendance at that first reunion which turned out to be a premier event for all. Rockjumper Birding Tours proudly offers quality birding adventures, expertly guided by our passionate and experienced professional tour leaders. IELA members enable your operational excellence, serving well beyond expected industry standards in the care and safety of your exhibits and the success of your exhibitions.. IELA is a worldwide trade association dedicated to enhancing the professionalism of the transportation logistics and freight handling segments of the exhibition & event industry. The International Sign Association announces The Link: a virtual experience designed to help sign, graphics and visual communications companies explore dynamic solutions, make vital connections and yield concrete results. Once back in the States and beginning a career in the private sector, he thought affectionately about the humble little warbird from Cessna that had served him so well. Many of these Lights Out Programs also involve a pledge, like the one published by Portland Audubon . When renewing, or whenever you log into the Members Area using your user name and password, please make sure your contact info is complete and be sure to update any of your information that’s changed. World Birdstrike Association is the international forum and association of birdstrike committees and wildlife experts in aviation safety around the globe. The IOC World Bird List is an open access resource of the international community of ornithologists. You’ll be able to network with Birddog pilots, owners, and enthusiasts, from all over the world. According to Connie Sanchez, Bird-friendly Buildings Coordinator at National Audubon Society, Lights Out Programs typically consist of three elements: awareness, engagement, and advocacy. Rate is $109 / night – 48-hour cancellation policy. Nonprofit Organization Or, you may pay by check and print out an application form for mailing. These photo galleries present but a few of the Birddog photographs available for viewing and downloading from this web site. The 2019 Annual Conference will be held in Seoul, South Korea, a thriving metropolis where modern skyscrapers, high-tech subways and pop culture meet Buddhist temples, palaces and street markets. Once back in the States and beginning a career in the private sector, he thought affectionately about the humble little warbird from Cessna that had served him so well. BirdLife International's priorities include preventing extinction of bird species, identifying and safeguarding important sites for birds, maintaining and restoring key bird habitats, and empowering conservationists worldwide. The Taiwan International Birding Association was formally registered as a not-for-profit society on May 21, 2005, at a meeting at the Council of Agriculture, Taipei, Taiwan.Officers elected: Yang Chung-tse, Chairman; Lin Maw-nan, Vice Chairman; Tso Chien-hui, Executive Secretary; Zheng Shu-kai/Kerry Zheng, Treasurer. Joining the IBDA is easy, and the yearly dues are very reasonable at only $30. The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation. The IAF is an international federation of falconry organisations. It contained a mixture of war stories, technical tips, and classified advertisements. Promote the welfare of birds and their environment. Our activities help raise awareness about Philippine avian biodiversity and its preservation, while promoting birdwatching as a responsible way to enjoy nature. The International Fellowship of Birdwatching Rotarians – one of about 70 groups that bring members together around common interests – got its start at the 1991 Rotary Convention in Mexico City with a bird walk near the convention site. BirdLife International has today joined 20 of the world’s leading conservation organisations in today calling on the G20 for urgent action to invest in nature to protect biodiversity and reduce thereby the risk of future pandemics. You’ll be able to network with Birddog pilots, owners, and enthusiasts, from all over the world. With the site the IBDA was able to sign up new members and keep track of Birddogs that were for sale, bought, and restored to flyable condition. The association offers manuals, maintenance information, wearables, artwork, books and more. Rate is $109 / night – 48-hour cancellation policy. It was appreciated by Birddog pilots and military aviation students alike and became the focus for a growing number of fans for this unsung little aircraft. An organization was formed, the International Birddog Association (IBDA) and in 1984, Phil published the first issue of The Observer, a newsletter dedicated exclusively to the Birddog enthusiast. MORE INFO>> The International Boarding & Pet Services Association (IBPSA) is a professional business association that provides business resources, industry expertise, staff education and training, certifications, and legislative support for the pet care services industry. If you’re not bringing a Birddog, we have an alternate hotel: the Inn on Barons Creek. Any suggestions on search beyond web or USAF Records would be appreciated. Phil found a tired old Birddog of his own and began a quality restoration. Membership is $30.00 for the whole year or the Lifetime Membership is an option. $119 / night – 48-hour cancellation policy – You must mention that you’re attending the IBDA Roundup event in order to reserve a room. The Civil Air Patrol also had a few and there was a rumor that those airplanes might be sold to private individuals at some point. Welcome to the International Orthoptic Association (IOA) The aim of the IOA is to promote the science of orthoptics worldwide, to provide information and support to national bodies and individual orthoptists, and to help maintain and improve standards of education, training and orthoptic practice. How is Taiwan International Birding Association abbreviated? There was very little printed material about this noteworthy airplane and worse yet there was not a single flyable example anywhere near his hometown that would allow him to borrow a few minutes of “cockpit time” to reacquaint himself with his old mount. There was very little printed material about this noteworthy airplane and worse yet there was not a single flyable example anywhere near his hometown that would allow him to borrow a few minutes of “cockpit time” to reacquaint himself with his old mount. Working with the Partnership for International Birding, we’ve arranged an itinerary that will allow us to take in these iconic natural landscapes at the peak of bird breeding activity. Phil approached the Birddog’s lack of notoriety with the same intensity. International Birddog Association. Login . Advancing Places Series. [ Placeholder content for popup link ] WordPress Download Manager - Best Download Management Plugin, L-19/O-1 Operator’s Manual & Pilot/Crew Checklists, WordPress Download Manager - Best Download Management Plugin. In 2000, the IBDA, with the assistance of Cessna and the U.S. Air Force, held its first “Birddog Reunion” in Wichita, Kansas to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the aircraft. Officers elected: Yang Chung-tse, Chairman; Lin Maw-nan, Vice Chairman; Tso Chien-hui, Executive Secretary; Zheng Shu-kai/Kerry Zheng, Treasurer. Pursuant to the provisions of Article II, Section 4(c) of the Bylaws of the American Birding Association, Notice is hereby given to members of the American Birding Association, Inc. that the Annual Meeting of Members will be held on Saturday, 5 December 2020 at 4:00 PM, at the ABA Headquarters in Delaware City, DE. Log in ... company to reach out to the participants that come from all over the world and work in all kind of subjects related to bird & wildlife strike prevention. Research indicated that there were a few demilitarized Birddogs that were in the hands of civilian owners. American Birding Association Principles of Birding Ethics 1. For more information about IBDA membership, contact Suzanne Cobb, Membership Director. Thank you for your interest. Your account can be managed and controlled via your PC, iPhone or iPad. Tell them you’re attending the International Birddog Association event. About Us: TAIWAN INTERNATIONAL BIRDING ASSOCIATION. He set about to correct both problems. To join as a new member, click here. TIBA is defined as Taiwan International Birding Association very rarely. You may send her a message via the “Contact Us” page. Phil had served as a U.S. Army Aviator in Vietnam and had flown numerous combat missions in the Birddog. Joining the IBDA is easy, and the yearly dues are very reasonable at only $30. The Hotel is located at 308 S Washington, about 3 miles from the airport and an easy walk to all that’s best about Fredericksburg. To join, simply click on the “Join Today” button, below. All memberships renew in January of the next calendar year. Tell them you’re attending the International Birddog Association event. The concept for an organization dedicated to the Cessna L-19/O-1 Bird Dog originated with Mr. Phil Phillips of Albuquerque, New Mexico. We have an L-19, but cannot find any operational history, 1951-1979. Find related and similar companies as … To join, simply click on one of the three buttons below and complete the application process. Through events such as anniversary celebrations, airshow and fly-in participation, and support of military units that flew the Birddog the history of the aircraft is kept alive for all generations to experience and enjoy. Simply click on “Shop” at the top of this or any other page. For renewing members, click here. Signing up literally takes seconds and is hassle-free. Since then, a few dozen Rotarians have gathered annually to explore the convention city on foot. If renewing, just click on “Member Account” that appears at the top of every page. An organization was formed, the International Birddog Association (IBDA) and in 1984, Phil published the first issue of The Observer, a newsletter dedicated exclusively to the Birddog enthusiast. The Link will launch its first events in September and continue rolling out opportunities on an ongoing basis. 1(a) Support the protection of important bird habitat. s/n 51-16963 Flew for NC Forestry as N9623Q See More ecopayz casinos offers many fantastic benefits to all of their clients. Seoul is developing as a design, fashion and technology centre, and breaking out as a key business hub Parts suppliers were located and members notified of those sources. The Hotel is located at 308 S Washington, about 3 miles from the airport and an easy walk to all that’s best about Fredericksburg. It’s now time to renew your membership in the International Birddog Association. The Taiwan International Birding Association was formally registered as a not-for-profit society on May 21, 2005, at a meeting at the Council of Agriculture, Taipei, Taiwan. If you prefer, you can print out the Membership Info form and mail it with a check to IBDA, PO Box 1025, Fredericksburg TX 78624. Interest was picking up in the civilian market where the aircraft’s excellent flying characteristic and reasonable operating cost were beginning to cause some excitement. The International Pet and Animal Transportation Association (IPATA) strongly suggests all pet owners who are relocating or traveling with their pets wait, if that is an option. The Wild Bird Club of the Philippines is a nation-wide club of birdwatchers interested in the wild birds of the Philippines. Our 300 scheduled tours annually explore the world’s prime birding areas, and our Tailor-made department can custom design your dream birding vacation. Phil had served as a U.S. Army Aviator in Vietnam and had flown numerous combat missions in the Birddog. Call for Reservations: 830-990-9202. Once airlines start accepting pets again, it is expected that there will be increased screenings and additional quarantines depending upon the …
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Sarah Rowe: Family member of a domestic violence death turns to broadcast as a platform for feminism
by Georgia Longphee July 11, 2017 September 4, 2020
As a teen, Sarah Rowe didn’t entirely understand the fuss about feminism. Coming from a relatively normal background, Rowe was never forced to come to terms with gender inequalities, and, like many young girls, saw feminism as being unappealing.
“My first experience with inequality and gender violence was when I was in grade 11. My aunt Karen was murdered by her husband, my uncle … That was a pretty traumatic experience for my family.” — Sarah Rowe
“In high school, no matter what you’re taught, you’re like ‘Ugh, I’m not a feminist, I don’t burn my bras, I shave my armpits.’ You have this idea of a feminist woman and you want to distance yourself from that because of internalized misogyny.”
But little did she know, Rowe’s life would be thrown into a whirlwind of tragedy.
“My first experience with inequality and gender violence was when I was in grade 11. My aunt Karen was murdered by her husband, my uncle … That was a pretty traumatic experience for my family.”
Karen Beck’s murder, which happened back in 2007, stuck with Rowe, making her re-think her ideas on feminism. A particular element of her aunt’s case struck her: woman-shaming.
“My aunt lived in Maple Ridge, B.C. which is a small town, so it made the papers. Journalists were trying to imply that it was my aunt’s fault. That first started me thinking about how women were shamed in these types of situations and how it’s never the man’s fault. And that started me thinking about the men in my life and their behaviours and what all of that meant.”
Indeed, local newspapers did cover the issue with very little sympathy to the victim, as well as tip-toeing around the issue of domestic abuse. Susan Lazaruk for the Province covered the story in 2007. In an interview with a neighbour, Lazaruk mentioned that the husband, Richard Beck, was “controlling” but did not specify nor did she follow up with family members. The focus of the article was predominantly on Karen’s small conflicts with her husband, rather than on her death.
Despite all of this, Rowe didn’t really come into feminism until university. While taking a double major in english and communications from the University of Calgary, Rowe was able to start analyzing her daily life and how gender inequalities impacted it.
“I started thinking, ‘Why don’t I speak up about my opinion?’ I realized I needed to keep on doing things because I like doing them, not because society or someone else told me to.”
Rowe’s interest in feminism didn’t end there, however. These inequalities started Rowe on a path towards intersectional feminism: the idea that inequalities overlap and intersect in systems of oppression and discrimination.
She also believes that the true core of feminism is self-reflexivity: “Being a feminist is essentially questioning why you’re doing these things … it’ll show our bad behaviours and give us the means to correct them.”
This feminism and critical mentality led to Rowe being interested in radio – specifically the podcast, ‘Yeah, What She Said’ on the University of Calgary’s campus radio, known as CJSW.
Rowe has been a volunteer host for the show – something she’s been doing since 2013, along with managing productions.
As the only current host of the show, Rowe organizes it, along with several contributors, to create an educational podcast for feminists and the community as a whole.
“When I bring guests on the show I want them to stand on the platform that the show gives them and broadcast their message – I really just guide them onto that platform … I’m just a conduit.”
Indeed, Jennie Palmer, who hosted ‘Yeah, What She Said’ from 2006 to 2014 states that the one thing that has changed from the early days of the show is content: “As we got more comfortable in the later years we started reaching out to experts [in the feminist community] to contribute, which definitely improved the show.”
Rowe also mentioned that ‘Yeah, What She Said’ has progressively moved towards intersectional feminism than the predominantly ‘white feminism’ ideals in the previous years.
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Rowe explained that with the help of experts, the main work she’s doing to spread her ideals is the show itself. To accomplish this, Rowe plans to use the educational platform that ‘Yeah, What She Said’ creates to broadcast the importance of intersectionality.
The problem with Calgary, Rowe explains, is that we’re a very conservative community – which dampens our chances at being fully feminist.
“You’re pushed to do conservative, white feminist studies. And that’s ridiculous … Feminism should, at large, be at the forefront of pushing oppression. And in Calgary is so held back into its beliefs.”
But despite these issues, there is still hope for the Calgary feminist community.
For example, Take Back the Night — an event that supports survivors of sexual and domestic abuse — has been a tradition in the feminist community for years, but was cancelled this year. The main reason? It completely ignored indigenous women that have been targeted in domestic and sexual violence – focusing on white feminism instead.
According to Rowe, the Calgary feminist community decided to push more support towards organizations such as the Red Dress Project that push for intersectionality and advocate for indigenous women. Rowe sees this as a huge step in the community, one that can surely affect our society as a whole.
“As long as we’re learning, we can affect change. It won’t happen overnight, but as long as we’re in the know, then we can educate society.”
‘Yeah, What She Said’ is broadcasted at least once a month under the CJSW station at the University of Calgary. Photo by Georgia Longphee
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Belmont Stakes Special: Affirme vs. Alydar 1978 Rivalry
By Terri
It was May 19, 2013, and I was home from church. I was on the computer, and was thinking about the 2013 Preakness that was just the day before. The Kentucky Derby winner, Orb finished fourth to Oxbow, and thus, once again, racing fans had to face the fact that the Triple Crown will be vacant.
We racing fans had to face the fact that once again, no horse has been able to win the Triple Crown since Affirmed in 1978.
It has been 35 long years since Affirmed (Exclusive Native-Won’t Tell You-Crafty Admiral), owned by Harbor View Farms won all three legs of the Triple Crown.
Now, I am going to be aging myself, but, as a 10 year old, I can still remember “the Kid,” 18 year old Steve Cauthen. I remember Cauthen wearing those pink and black silks, and smiling in the winner’s Circle of all three races.The image of him in the Derby comes to mind quickly.
Laz Barrera, Affirmed’s trainer, who I thought was a pompous jerk, instantly comes to my memory. I remember his stuck up attitude, and being all full of himself.
Of course, without looking at a video or photo, I remember Affirmed, with his nice chestnut coat, and that stripe down his face. I was not a huge fan of his then, or his connections, and I surely am not a fan now. He never was one of those horses I liked. I do recognize him as one of the best ever. He was amazing, especially in his 4YO year.
Let’s say I have a huge appreciation, and respect for Affirmed. I especially respect his courageousness. He was a front running speedster, but when great horses like Alydar, Exceller, and Spectactular Bid challenged him, Affirmed was able to fight them off.
Let’s discuss the horse who was Affirmed’s thorn in his side, Alydar. Alydar (Raise A Native-Sweet Tooth-On and On), was owned and bred by the famous Calumet Farm, trained by John Veitch, and ridden by Jorge Velasquez. I can remember Velasquez being very humble and quiet. John Veitch was very confident in Alydar.
I always remembered Veitch from all the other trainers due to his bald head. I remember the images of Lucille Wright and her husband holding hands as the Derby ran. What really stood out was the famous Calumet Devil Red and Blue silks that Velasquez wore when he was on Alydar, and of course, the red cap. When Alydar wore blinkers, they were red also.
I remember Alydar for his stunning chestnut coat. His stalking style of racing was exciting, and I loved that star on his forehead. One of Alydar’s characteristics, which I believe cost him several races, especially against Affirmed, was that he never changed leads (switch from one lead leg to another), and he didn’t like being hit left handed.
I loved horses all my life from when I was about 4. I didn’t get into racing till I was about 9, when a horse named Seattle Slew won the Triple Crown in 1977. However, it was Alydar, and not Affirmed that got me hooked, and I have loved racing and Alydar ever since.
I love Alydar more than ANY horse that has ever run in history. Because of stuff in my life, I have always pulled for those who try harder, or who are overcoming something. It is easy to pull for those who have a leg up, or for those who have everything. I like to pull for people who have to work a little harder to make it. I always will give more credit to those who win more, or accomplish more with less, than someone who already is two steps ahead.
What I loved about Alydar is that he never gave up. He bravely battled Affirmed, and gave it his best shot. I just was amazed by him. I got a lot of strength from him. I learned to never give up.
When away from Affirmed, he showed that he was a great horse in his own right, by demolishing fields in the Bluegrass Stakes, the Florida Derby, and against older horses in the Whitney. In about any other year, Alydar would have been a Triple Crown winner.
That being said, let’s discuss the two horses as far as their Triple Crown Series, and their legendary Belmont Stakes, 35 years ago.
The two horses started their rivalry as 2YOs in 1977 in the Youthful Stakes, with Affirmed winning, and Alydar (his first race) finishing fifth. During their 2YO season, the two legends would meet five more times, with Affirmed winning three, and Alydar winning two. Affirmed was voted Outstanding 2YO of the Year for 1977 at the Eclipse Awards.
During their 3YO seasons, leading up to their clash in the Triple Crown races, Affirmed and Alydar went their separate ways to get ready for the 3YO Classics. Affirmed went to California, and Alydar went to Florida. Alydar demolished horses in the Flamingo Stakes, Florida Derby, and the Bluegrass Stakes. Affirmed won the San Felipe, the Hollywood Derby, and the Santa Anita Derby.
When they met in the Kentucky Derby on May 6, 1978, Alydar was the slight favorite, due to his stalking style, and Affirmed, a front runner type, was the second choice.
I remember, at age 10, when the starters loaded Alydar, he did not want to go in the gate. I learned later that there are racehorses, like Alydar, who are not good gate horses.
Anyway, the race unfolds with Affirmed laying off the lead set by Raymond Earl, and Sensitive Prince. Affirmed gets the lead in the stretch. Alydar, who was laying off the pace in 9th down the backside, starts to make his move, and gets going in the stretch. Alydar tried to catch his rival, but falls 1 1/2 lengths short.
The 1978 Kentucky Derby: http://youtu.be/65V3xFLPNLA
Two weeks later, on May 20, 1978, Affirmed and Alydar faced off in the Preakness. This time, Alydar’s trainer John Veitch had Alydar’s jockey Jorge Velasquez get Alydar into the race earlier. This time, Affirmed was favored.
When the gates opened, Affirmed and Track Reward went to the front, and battled for the lead. Alydar was taken back to 6th. Coming around the clubhouse turn, Affirmed eventually grabbed that lead. However, Alydar makes a bold move down the backside, and by the mile pole, he is right there, and at the top of the stretch, he is challenging Affirmed. Affirmed manages to hang on by a neck.
The 1978 Preakness Stakes: http://youtu.be/A5Zytq6GWWM
During the three weeks before the duo’s epic showdown at the Belmont Stakes on June 10, 1978, there was the usual speculation. Could Affirmed win the Triple Crown? Could there be back to back Triple Crown winners, as Seattle Slew had accomplished the feat the year before? Could Alydar, with his breeding, pull the upset?
Before I continue, I want to say that for me as a kid, this was so exciting. I was so enthralled with horse racing. The late 70’s for me, in general, was so exciting. It was fun, at least for me, to be a youth in the 70’s.
The cultural backdrop for me, living in Edison, NJ, was awesome. My New York Yankees and the rival Boston Red Sox were having an Affirmed vs Alydar battle of their own. Reggie Jackson was all the rage. Bucky Dent hitting that home run over the “Green Monster” in Fenway Park in 1978 was delightful.
The TV shows were much better. There was “All in the Family,” “The Jeffersons,” “One Day at a Time,” and “Sanford and Son.” They were controversial then, and very UN-PC. That was before every show nowadays has to be careful not to offend everyone. Imagine a show featuring a character like Archie Bunker or Fred Sanford today? That show would be attacked by the PC police in two seconds. Those were the days. (RIP to Jean Stapleton.)
As far as music is concerned, in 1977, I got into a little band from New York City called KISS, and they were the HOTTEST BAND IN THE WORLD, and at their peak in 1977-78. That was my first introduction to rock and roll.
So, I guess the cultural background I loved as a child is another reason why I am so attached to this particular Triple Crown Series, and this Belmont. It was one of the major things that I loved as a child. I loved the Alydar/Affirmed Rivalry, Seattle Slew (the year before), the NY Yankees, and KISS. That was my childhood, as far as liking celebrities and such.
Of course, as a grownup, I STILL love horse racing, KISS, and the Yankees. However, I love a lot more other things.
Now, back to the Belmont Stakes, which as I said, took place on June 10, 1978 at Belmont Park. For this race, not only was Alydar going to challenge Affirmed earlier, John Veitch was going to remove Alydar’s blinkers. The reason behind the move was to get Alydar to see Affirmed eye to eye. (Perhaps Veitch and Velasquez should have tried to get Alydar out of the habit of running on that same right lead also.).
The race unfolds with Affirmed going to the front. Judge Advocate is in second, and Alydar is on the rail in third. This does not last long. Affirmed is allowed to lope on the lead with a half mile time of :50. Alydar then makes his move, and challenges Affirmed down the backside at the 5/8ths marker, and the race pretty much turns into a match race. The other three horses are pretty much getting workouts.
Affirmed and Alydar duel down the backside, and increase the pace. From the point where the two horses go around the far turn till the finish, these horses just put on a show. It was a head and head battle that still blows my mind every time I see it. Jorge Velasquez had Cauthen and Affirmed closed in. Both jockeys were urging their horses. The exciting part for me was when Alydar took that lead for a brief moment. Affirmed, though, being hit left handed for the first time (Cauthen said later that Affirmed was tiring under the pressure, and he could not hit Affirmed right handed anymore, so he hit Affirmed for the very first time ever. ), got the lead back, and won the Belmont Stakes, by a head over Alydar, and the Triple Crown.
1978 Belmont Stakes Video: http://youtu.be/9ZmaqszF4GA
Thirty Five years later, no horse has been able to win the Triple Crown since.
The two horses did meet one last time (their 10th), in the Travers at Saratoga on August 19, 1978. Jockey legend Laffitt Pincay replaced an injured Steve Cauthen on Affirmed. Affirmed got caught wide by a horse named Shake Shake Shake, and finally dispatched “Shake” entering the far turn, when Alydar was challenging on the inside. When Alydar was within a neck of Affirmed, Pincay (for reasons only he knows) while going into the turn, has Affirmed slamming into Alydar. Not only did Alydar lose his action, and drop back about six lengths, he nearly went down, and nearly unseated Jorge Velasquez. Alydar, being the gutsy horse he was, got back into it, but could get no better than second to Affirmed by 2 lengths. The inquiry sign, and objection sign went up. The then record crowd was booing. Affirmed was disqualified, and rightly so. Alydar was declared the winner.
Of course, there was some bickering between the two camps, but sadly, the two rivals never met again.
1978 Travers Stakes Video (includes a brief interview with Alydar’s trainer, John Veitch):
http://youtu.be/2rg5ABMOkdw
Well, I hope that you enjoyed this blog. I look forward to your comments.
Terri Bey currently blogs for CamelClutchBlog.com about Wrestling, NFL, and other sports/pop culture related subjects. Her work has appeared in BleacherReport and for F4WOnline.com. Terri can be found here at Facebook- http://www.facebook.com/TerriBey and at Twitter- http://www.twitter.com/giopontifan
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By Lindsey Phillips May 1, 2020
Maria Davis-Pierre, a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Lake Worth, Florida, first suspected her daughter might be on the autism spectrum when she was 6 months old and showed signs of sensory issues. Then at 10 months, her daughter, who had been saying simple words such as “mama,” “dada” and “ball,” suddenly stopped speaking. When Davis-Pierre and her husband tried to get their daughter to mimic them saying the words, she acted as if she had forgotten them. As a therapist, Davis-Pierre understood the importance of early intervention, so she was proactive about getting her daughter a diagnosis. But it wasn’t easy.
Her pediatrician referred her to health professionals who specialized in developmental delays in infants and toddlers. They tested her daughter and thought she had autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but because she was still so young (around 18 months), they didn’t feel comfortable officially diagnosing her. They recommended she see a pediatric neurologist.
After more tests (which cost the family thousands of dollars out of pocket), the pediatric neurologist agreed about the presence of ASD but was also uncomfortable officially diagnosing the child at such a young age. Davis-Pierre told the doctor she was going to sit in his office every day until her daughter got a diagnosis. One week later, that finally happened.
Davis-Pierre thought the next steps would be easy, especially given that both she and her husband are in the health care field. But what she experienced was more frustration.
“At no point — even with the neurologist — was there a check-in with the parent: ‘OK, this is the diagnosis. This is what happens next,’” Davis-Pierre recalls. “It was, ‘OK, here’s your paperwork. This is the diagnosis. Now, go figure it out.’” According to Davis-Pierre, the health care professionals didn’t provide her family with resources or give any consideration to how the family’s culture would factor into their daughter’s treatment.
When Davis-Pierre spoke with other parents of children on the autism spectrum, she found out that this treatment was the norm. And it left her — and the other parents — feeling overwhelmed.
This experience prompted Davis-Pierre, an American Counseling Association member, to start Autism in Black, a private practice that specializes in helping black parents of children with autism get the help they need.
In a blog post on the website GoodTherapy, Janeen Herskovitz, an LMHC in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, points out four areas in which counseling can help parents of children with ASD: adjusting to the diagnosis (which is often traumatic for parents), learning parenting skills, staying connected to their partners, and managing stress. Professional counselors can also help families prepare for developmental transitions, learn to effectively communicate with one another and extended family, and navigate cultural barriers.
Working through developmental transitions
ASD “is a neurodevelopmental disability, which means at different developmental stages, our clients are going to run into different developmental barriers, and they’re going to need us as counselors,” says Chris Abildgaard, a licensed professional counselor and director of the Social Learning Center in Cheshire, Connecticut. So, it’s important for counselors to understand where families are on their journeys, he points out. Is the family adjusting to the diagnosis? Are they struggling to communicate with their child? Are they helping a child through puberty? Counselors should also prepare to help families with life milestones such as going to prom, getting a driver’s license or grieving a death, Abildgaard adds.
Some families experience grief when they first learn about the ASD diagnosis, says Michael Hannon, an assistant professor of counseling at Montclair State University in New Jersey. These families will be reconciling a new reality and having to let go of certain elements of the relationship they expected to have with their child. “It’s really about [the family] learning to adjust to the needs, strengths, capacity, and some challenges of the people they love living with autism,” he adds.
Another challenging transition for parents and caregivers is when the child enters adulthood. Parents have likely been involved in every aspect of the child’s life, especially in the school system, so it is a significant adjustment when the child takes over this responsibility, Davis-Pierre says. She helps ease this transition by having parents teach their children to advocate for themselves before they reach adulthood. The more parents involve children with ASD in the day-to-day decisions about their lives and school, the more they realize that their children are capable of advocating for themselves, she says.
Abildgaard, an ACA member who specializes in ASD (and author of the 2013 Counseling Today article “Processing the ‘whole’ with clients on the autism spectrum”), has noticed that families sometimes push their child to do something that the child isn’t ready for or doesn’t want. For example, parents often ask him how they can make their child have a friend. Counselors need to educate parents that relationships take time and that individuals on the spectrum may not fully understand the intricacies of relationships and friendships. They will need support and coaching in this area well into their late teens, early 20s or beyond, he says.
Counselors can also help parents make plans and prepare for certain life events and developmental transitions, Abildgaard says. He finds visuals useful in helping families with a child on the spectrum to process events. Recently, he had a family who was going on a trip to a large city. He brought out his whiteboard and on one side wrote down all the thoughts and feelings the parents were having about the upcoming trip, such as feeling anxious that their child would have a tantrum and run from them. Then, Abildgaard asked the parents to consider their child’s perspective and why he might have a tantrum. On the other side of the whiteboard, he wrote down the child’s thoughts and feelings, such as being overwhelmed by all the lights and sounds.
This activity helped the parents realize the link between their own thoughts, emotions and behaviors and those of their child. It also started a discussion about proactive strategies the parents could take to decrease the likelihood of their child experiencing sensory overload. This, in turn, lowered their anxiety about the trip, Abildgaard says.
Helping families stay connected
Having a child with autism affects the entire family system, Abildgaard says. It affects how parents interact with each other, how parents interact with each of their children, how siblings interact with each other, and how the family interacts with extended family members.
Couples don’t typically preemptively discuss the possibility of a having a child with a disability, Davis-Pierre notes. So, when a child is first diagnosed with autism, parents often have to reassess the roles, expectations, responsibilities and core values of the family, she says.
Counselors may also have to coach families through complicated life events such as divorce. Abildgaard, an adjunct professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Saint Joseph, reminds counselors that regardless of the situations that families bring to them, it is important to break these situations down into manageable parts for the clients.
When the parents of a client with ASD were going through a divorce, Abildgaard, a nationally certified school psychologist, brainstormed with the parents how best to explain the situation to their son. Abildgaard also learned from the client’s school that the child had been making comments about the divorce there. Abildgaard says his role as a counselor was to help the client process and express his feelings about the divorce. To do this, he said, “Tell me some things your eyes are noticing that are different at home.” He made his language concrete and specific, which allowed the child with ASD to talk about what he had been noticing, such as his parents arguing more. The boy also said he was scared to talk about these things with his parents, so he and Abildgaard worked through his anxiety together.
Then, Abildgaard brought the entire family into his office to discuss these issues. He chose to have them come in during the morning hours when his office would be quiet so the family would be more comfortable and not feel rushed or distracted.
Balancing the parenting of both neurotypical and neurodiverse siblings is another common challenge that Hannon and Davis-Pierre hear about from their clients. They try to help parents learn how to better communicate with their children and to maximize and be intentional about the time they spend with each child.
Hannon, a licensed associate counselor in New Jersey, uses empathizing strategies to help parents understand what their neurotypical child is feeling. For instance, he asks, “What would your neurotypical child say about this experience right now?” and “What would the child say about how you attend to the sibling with autism compared to how you attend to his or her needs?” This exercise allows parent to empathize and reconcile some outstanding issues with their neurotypical children, he explains.
Davis-Pierre’s clients also report struggling to know how to engage with their neurodiverse children. “We’re so used to looking for [the child to verbalize] … the actual feeling that we’re not looking at the behavior of what the child is showing,” she says.
She has parents role-play to gain perspective on what the child might be thinking or feeling and to increase awareness of behavioral patterns. (For example, Davis-Pierre has noticed that her daughter expresses happiness by flapping her arms and spinning in circles.) If appropriate, she has the child role-play with the parent, but if that is not possible, Davis-Pierre does it herself. To increase understanding, parents can also keep a behavioral journal or use the picture exchange communication system, which allows individuals with little or no verbal communication to present a feeling card to communicate their feelings, Davis-Pierre adds.
Children on the spectrum pick up on their parents’ and caregivers’ emotions more often than people think, Abildgaard points out. However, if they do sense these emotions, they often don’t know what to do with them. Children on the spectrum may appear to be ignoring the person or emotion, but in many cases, they just don’t have the language or perspective-taking ability to process the emotion and the “right” response to it, he explains.
So, Abildgaard works with parents to help them process their own emotions and then explain those emotions to their children so they aren’t left to interpret them on their own. In fact, parents can overtly model how to handle certain emotions such as anger or frustration. Abildgaard often suggests that parents (especially those with younger children on the spectrum) put themselves in “time out” to show their children that even adults need breaks.
Cultural implications
According to a 2014 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 in 59 children in the United States have been identified with ASD. But this number doesn’t take into consideration cultural and racial implications such as delayed diagnosis. According to a 2019 news report on Spectrum, which bills itself as “the leading source of news and opinion on autism research,” black children with autism are often diagnosed later than white children, misdiagnosed more frequently with other conditions such as behavioral problems or intellectual disability, and underrepresented in studies of autism.
Hannon attributes the disparities in diagnosis rates to 1) inequalities in access to health care, 2) mistrust of health care systems among people of color and 3) greater misdiagnosis of symptoms in minority children as behavioral rather than developmental.
Davis-Pierre says the history of racism and discrimination in U.S. health care may persuade some black families not to be completely honest with health care professionals when discussing their children because they fear their children will be taken away. For example, frustration and exhaustion are normal responses for families caring for a child on the autism spectrum, perhaps leading someone to say or think to themselves in a particular moment, “I just can’t do this another day.” But many black families fear serious repercussions should they admit to such passing thoughts with a counselor, Davis-Pierre explains.
Even the treatments families choose for their children are often informed by one’s culture. Applied behavior analysis (ABA) aims to help individuals on the spectrum increase behaviors that are helpful and reduce behaviors that may be harmful to them by positively reinforcing desired behaviors. Debate has swirled, however, over whether ABA is helpful or harmful. According to a 2016 article on Spectrum, some have criticized the therapy for being too harsh in how it corrects maladaptive behaviors and for attempting to make people on the spectrum “normal” instead of advocating for neurodiversity.
But for some families, Davis-Pierre says, ABA makes sense. For example, a black child spinning in circles and banging his head against something in public will often be viewed differently than would a white child who exhibits the same behavior. In this instance, ABA can help protect the black child by helping him learn to replace the maladaptive behavior — one that could put him in danger — with a more socially accepted behavior, Davis-Pierre explains.
The harsh reality is that black people often have to operate differently in public settings because of prejudice and racism, she continues. So, she advises families to consider their child’s behavior and safety when choosing the best treatment for their child’s autism.
Davis-Pierre, author of Self-Care Affirmation Journal and Autism in Black, also finds that clinicians often don’t respect the culture of the home when treating children who are on the spectrum. A client once told Davis-Pierre that she had a therapist come into her home and not remove their shoes despite seeing a place for them by the front door. This act made the parent feel disrespected, and she no longer wanted the therapist in her house working with her child.
Another of Davis-Pierre’s clients was upset by a therapist who had made a decision involving her child without consulting the mother first. While the therapist and child were working together in the family’s home, the child wet himself. The therapist wanted to help the parents by changing the child herself. When the mother discovered that the therapist had gone through her child’s clothes drawers to find clean underwear, she felt as if the therapist had been snooping.
Abildgaard says his role as a counselor is to help clients on the autism spectrum adapt to different social situations and understand social context and social norms for particular settings and cultures. Counselors need to be aware of clients’ cultural and religious norms before instilling certain perceived social skills such as maintaining eye contact, he says. For example, as Abildgaard points out, some Asian cultures make eye contact only with certain people or in certain situations. So, counselors should understand the whole child before prioritizing what social skills or competences are most relevant to focus on in session, he asserts.
Religious beliefs can sometimes pose another barrier to seeking treatment. For instance, Davis-Pierre says, people in the black community are often taught to pray about their problems and not to discuss problems with anyone outside of the family. Counselors may assume that families who aren’t willing or enthusiastic participants in therapy are resistant, but as she points out, they may actually be having an internal struggle between seeking counseling and feeling that they are still maintaining their faith in God.
Davis-Pierre often uses genograms to help clients identify family patterns, such as other family members with a developmental disorder, or cultural values that have been passed along that no longer work for the family. Through genograms, she has noticed that her clients’ families often inherit a pattern of keeping secrets that hurts, rather than helps, the family dynamic. Davis-Pierre acknowledges that even she had a difficult time explaining to her extended family why she and her husband are so vocal about their daughter being on the autism spectrum.
Hannon and Davis-Pierre say that counselors have to be brave and willing to talk about clients’ and families’ cultures and about inequalities based on race and ability status. Starting this conversation can be as simple as including a question such as “What cultural traditions should I take into consideration?” on the intake form, Davis-Pierre says. This question shows that the clinician is already thinking about how culture affects treatment, she explains.
Supporting dads
Abildgaard argues that fathers are often overlooked when thinking about an autistic individual’s support network, so mental health professionals must do a better job of incorporating dads into the therapeutic process. He has noticed that mothers with children on the spectrum are often more proactive about independently finding and supporting each other, whereas fathers, even though they are involved in their children’s care, don’t tend to form support groups on their own. Abildgaard suggests that counselors could offer focused support services such as fathers’ groups or “dad’s night out” events to help these men learn from and bond with other fathers in similar situations.
Such support groups matter when it comes to providing care to individuals on the spectrum. Hannon, an ACA member who specializes in the psychosocial aspects of autism on fathers and families, often co-leads a group for fathers who have children with ASD. These men have reported that just being connected with other fathers who share similar experiences can be life-changing. In these groups, dads find others who speak their language and understand their journeys, which makes them feel heard, Hannon says. Groups also help fathers become more aware of their own needs and challenges and discover effective coping and adjustment strategies, he adds.
Fathers also spend a significant amount of time thinking about their children’s prognoses, their children’s futures, and the ways they can prepare their children to live full lives, Hannon says. In his dissertation, he studied the experiences of black American fathers of individuals with autism. At the ACA 2018 Conference & Expo, Hannon presented his findings from a grounded theory study on how diverse fathers orient themselves to their children’s diagnoses. Fathers often want to help their children who are on the spectrum, he continues, but if they have been raised with certain gendered expectations, counselors may need to take a few extra steps to help these dads increase their efficacy with day-to-day activities such as helping with temper tantrums.
Counselors may also need to help fathers retain focus on their emotional journeys because men are often task-oriented in how they solve problems, Hannon points out. Also, because men have often been socialized to engage only with specific emotions such as lust and anger, counselors may have to dig deeper with them to reveal the other underlying emotions. For example, counselors could suggest, “You’re angry, but it sounds like the source of your anger is fear for your child’s safety.”
Generational pushback
Parents sometimes face generational challenges in caring for their children. Hannon describes a common scenario that fathers often share with him: They leave their children in their grandparents’ care, providing suggestions for ways to best communicate with the children and guidance on particular eating preferences. To which the grandparents might respond, “We’re not doing any of that. We’ll do what we want with our grandchildren. They just need a good talking to.”
Such scenarios often leave parents of children on the spectrum feeling frustrated. If the parents and grandparents have a good, healthy relationship, then counselors can help parents learn to communicate openly and honestly with the grandparents. Hannon advises parents to lead with love and acceptance before critiquing the grandparents’ interaction with the children. Parents can first emphasize how the grandparents love their grandchildren before saying that they just want to show them additional, special ways to show love to a grandchild on the spectrum.
When Abildgaard works with grandparents who need help accepting their grandchild’s diagnosis of ASD, he starts by saying that he could use the grandparents’ help to allow him to better understand their grandchild. Once this barrier is broken down, he finds that grandparents tend to ask more questions and start honest dialogues about grandchildren who are on the spectrum.
Counselors can also help clients realize that while it is OK to establish boundaries with extended family, they should aim to set realistic boundaries that honor both the child on the spectrum and the family, Davis-Pierre says. For example, if a family depends on grandparents to provide child care, then the family must be particularly careful in setting boundaries. At the same time, the family can still have a respectful conversation with the grandparents about the needs of the child and family.
Adjusting language
Abildgaard’s clients with ASD sometimes complain that their parents always ask the same question after school: “How was your day?” Because, from their perspective, their days are always the same, the children wonder why their parents ask something they already know the answer to.
Abildgaard advises parents to instead use concrete language such as “Tell me two good things about your day and one thing you would have changed.” This phrasing gets to the heart of what parents actually want to know from their child and makes the conversation more productive, he says.
Abildgaard is also careful about the language he uses with clients with ASD and their families. Recently, the mother of one of his clients (a boy in sixth grade) told him that her son ran out of his classroom at school. When the boy walked into his office, Abildgaard said, “Tell me two good things about your day and one thing you would have changed.” This prompted the client to tell Abildgaard he had run out of his classroom.
After admitting this, the boy looked at Abildgaard, seemingly waiting to be chastised. Instead, Abildgaard asked the boy, “What do you think I’m thinking right now?”
The boy responded, “You’re thinking you are mad at me.”
Abildgaard drew a thought bubble on a whiteboard and wrote the client’s thought inside the bubble. Then he drew another thought bubble and wrote what he was actually thinking: “I’m wondering what made him run out of the room.”
The boy’s body language instantly relaxed. This exchange took Abildgaard out of the authoritarian role and shifted the conversation from focusing on the problem to focusing on how to solve the problem.
Similarly, Hannon recommends that counselors focus on strengths, and not just deficits and challenges, when working with families who have a child on the spectrum. He makes a point of asking parents about the victories they have had that week or month.
This question prompted one of Hannon’s clients to share how his son had used appropriate language and displayed empathy — a skill the child had previously struggled to demonstrate — that week.
The child’s mother had said, “I’m going to run through the shower.”
The child on the spectrum responded, “No, you can’t do that because you’re going to fall.”
Even though the child hadn’t grasped the true meaning of his mother’s words, he had shown concern for his mother and responded appropriately, which was a huge victory for this family, Hannon says.
Support often makes all the difference. Davis-Pierre and her family’s autism journey may have had a challenging start, but they eventually found health care providers who worked with them as a team. With this support, Davis-Pierre and her husband were able to stop focusing so much on the challenges and instead start enjoying their child for who she is.
Lindsey Phillips is a contributing writer to Counseling Today and a UX content strategist. Contact her at hello@lindseynphillips.com or through her website at lindseynphillips.com.
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Lucy May 4, 2020 at 12:16 am
I understand the importance of early intervention in children. What is categorically remiss is the lack of resources and intervention for adults who have been diagnosed. It would be nice to have an article like this that relates to the adult experience of autism and the impact on families when the parent is the autistic one.
Counseling Today Post author May 4, 2020 at 11:24 am
Hi Lucy, this article from the Counseling Today archives might be helpful: “Achieving a better understanding of adult autism“
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Fernstrom granted release from ISU women’s hoops
Jared Stansbury, Jan 11 • 0 Comments
AMES — During his weekly press conference on Monday morning, Iowa State women’s basketball coach Bill Fennelly had a bomb to drop.
He announced that sophomore center Bryanna Fernstrom asked for, and will be granted, her release from the program.
The 6-foot-5-inch post from Center City, Minnesota was averaging 9.1 points, 6.7 rebounds and shooting 45 percent from the floor in 20.7 minutes per game this season. She also started 12 of Iowa State’s first 15 games.
“Definitely surprised,” Fennelly said. “Second semester starts (Monday) and six weeks to go in the season. I would say surprised, but then again there’s a lot of things young people do that don’t surprise me anymore.”
The move comes as a shock for people around the program, even though Fernstrom was replaced by freshman Meredith Burkhall in the starting lineup for Iowa State’s 65-49 win over Kansas Saturday night.
Fernstrom has been up-and-down all season long but led the team in scoring four times, with a high of 25 points against Texas State. She also broke the program record for blocks in a game with nine against Northern Arizona.
“My focus is on the kids who want to be here,” Fennelly said. “If you don’t want to be here, we will release you. There’s university policies that dictate how that goes and where you can go, but it was a very short meeting. She asked for it, we will grant it and she’ll move on.”
Fernstrom struggled at times with the physicality of Big 12 play and against teams that featured a great deal of length on the front-line, but when she was playing well she took Iowa State’s offense to another level of efficiency.
The pressure is now on for Burkhall and redshirt freshman Claire Ricketts to fill the void left by the loss of production.
“I’m going to have to step up, just like the other posts on the team,” Burkhall said. “With her absence we’re going to have to build and change some things, just work hard for Texas Tech.”
Fernstrom’s departure leaves only two players, Emily Durr and Ricketts, left from Iowa State’s Top-25 rated recruiting class of 2014. Point guard Nakiah Bell and forward Blaire Thomas both transferred at the conclusion of last season.
“It doesn’t change anything for me,” Fennelly said. “We have kids in this program that love playing at Iowa State, and they’ve going to play hard. Obviously, when TeeTee (Starks) got hurt we had to come up with 20-some minutes. I think Bry is averaging 18 to 20 minutes in the conference so that means (Burkhall), (Ricketts) will have to play a little more. We’ll have to be more creative in how we do some things.”
Iowa State will be back in action Sunday afternoon when they visit Texas Tech.
Jared Stansbury
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Jared a native of Clarinda, Iowa, started as the Cyclone Fanatic intern in August 2013, primarily working as a videographer until starting on the women’s basketball beat prior to the 2014-15 season. Upon earning his Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from Iowa State in May 2016, Jared was hired as the site’s full-time staff writer, taking over as the primary day-to-day reporter on football and men’s basketball. He was elevated to the position of managing editor in January 2020. He is a regular contributor on 1460 KXNO in Des Moines and makes regular guest appearances on radio stations across the Midwest. Jared resides in Ankeny with his four-year-old puggle, Lolo.
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Why the New First Country Asylum Rule Won't Work
Written by Rebecca Merrill
In 2016 then-Candidate Donald Trump campaigned upon a promise to crack down on asylum seekers. Throughout this year, he has tried to fulfill that promise as aggressively as possible.
In January 2019, the Trump administration implemented a “Stay in Mexico” policy wherein migrants coming from Mexico, legally or illegally, who are applying for asylum are sent back to Mexico while they await their hearing date in the United States even if they are not from Mexico. If the migrant has multiple hearings, he is sent back to Mexico in between each one. The administration argues that this is legal under 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(2)(C) which states that a migrant who is arriving on land from a foreign territory contiguous to the United States, may be returned to that territory pending a proceeding.
The policy is likely a ploy to try to prevent these migrants from gaining asylum in the United States. According to 8 U.S. Code § 1158(2)(A)(vi), a migrant must be denied asylum if he was “firmly resettled in another country prior to arriving in the United States”. The administration is trying to force migrants to become resettled in Mexico before they can get a hearing to prevent them from obtaining asylum in the United States. A migrant is considered to be resettled if “prior to arrival in the United States, he or she entered into another country with, or while in that country received, an offer of permanent resident status, citizenship, or some other type of permanent resettlement”. 8 CFR § 1208.15.
This is also problematic because the migrants can be arrested and deported from Mexico since they are usually not Mexican citizens. Additionally, because the migrants are not Mexican citizens, they are unable to find employment during the time they are stranded in Mexico unless they receive authorization, which would likely destroy their chance of obtaining asylum in the United States.
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), people can also be denied the ability to claim asylum in the U.S. if they can be removed to a ‘safe third country’ with which the U.S. has a formal agreement. However, no such agreement exists between the U.S. and Mexico, and evidence suggests the conditions in Mexico are far from secure.
This could also be against international law because under the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, ratified by the United States, “[n]o Contracting State shall expel or return ('refouler’) a refugee in any manner whatsoever to the frontiers of territories where his life or freedom would be threatened on account of his race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.” Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, art. 33, Jan. 31, 1967, 606 U.N.T.S. 267.
However, the Ninth Circuit has upheld this program at least to this date. As it stands now, it would appear that the only way to stop this policy is through legislation passed by Congress. Fortunately, there are two ways a migrant could get around this resettlement issue under 8 CFR § 1208.15(a). First, the migrant will not be considered resettled if he can prove that he has no significant ties to that country. The migrant could prove this by showing that “This would require showing that: (1) the entry into that country (Mexico) was a necessary consequence of his or her flight from persecution, (2) that he or she remained in that country only as long as was necessary to arrange onward travel, (3) and that he or she did not establish significant ties in that country.
Second, the migrant will not be considered resettled if he can prove that “the conditions of his/her residence in that country were so substantially and consciously restricted by the authority of the country of refuge that he or she was not in fact resettled”. In making his or her determination, the asylum officer or immigration judge shall consider the conditions under which other residents of the country live; the type of housing, whether permanent or temporary, made available to the refugee; the types and extent of employment available to the refugee; and the extent to which the refugee received permission to hold property and to enjoy other rights and privileges, such as travel documentation that includes a right of entry or reentry, education, public relief, or naturalization, ordinarily available to others resident in the country.
While the “Stay in Mexico” policy may be arbitrary, exceptions in the law could allow migrants to still obtain asylum in the United States. Since the courts have allowed this policy to continue and there is no telling how the administration may continue to undermine the immigration process, it seems that the future of asylum law lies at the discretion of Congress.
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‘Always Be My Maybe’ Director Nahnatchka Khan Already Has Ideas for a Sequel
By Anna Menta Twitter @annalikestweets Jun 7, 2019 at 3:25pm
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The only complaint I have about Always Be My Maybe, that new Ali Wong and Randall Park romantic comedy on Netflix you’ve been hearing so much about, is that there’s not more of it. Based on all your thirsty gifs of Park and Keanu Reeves, I’m guessing most of you feel the same way.
So when director Nahnatchka Khan told me that she wants to do a sequel, my only question was: Why is that film not greenlit yet?
“I mean listen,” Khan said in a phone call with Decider, “if Ali and Randall [who co-wrote the screenplay] know what they want to do for the sequel—and they want to do it—I would work with them again in a second.”
The director, who also created Fresh Off the Boat and Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23, even had an idea for a title and plot: “We were all saying we could go back to the original Mariah Carey title and have it be Always Be My Baby and see what happened.” (She elaborated that Wong and Park’s characters could have a baby together, in an interview with IndieWire.)
To Decider, she added that so far, these sequel discussions haven’t been too-too serious.
“But,” she went on, “the response has been so amazing, so I’m sure it’s going to come up in earnest soon. But it’s really up to those guys. I would love to work with them in any capacity, for the rest of my life.”
So: Netflix, Wong, Park—what more do you need? The film has a 90 percent certified fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and while Netflix doesn’t release viewership data, I think it’s safe to say a lot of people watch this film based on the sheer number of tweets on my timeline. Godzilla: King of Monsters was greenlit by Warner Bros. on the opening weekend of 2014’s Godzilla, so don’t tell me it’s too soon. Get on it!
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Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Jade Warrior was one of the most intriguing and inventive bands signed to the Vertigo label in the early Seventies. Last Autumn's Dream was their third album, first released in 1972 and features Tony Duhig (guitar), Glyn Havard (vocals, bass) and Jon Field (flute, congas, percussion), together with Allan Price (drums) and David Duhig (lead guitar). The band's unusual name reflects their interest in Eastern music (a 'Jade Warrior' means a Japanese Samurai swordsman who is also interested in art and poetry). The Jade Warrior group was a unique concept, and the music on this LP has great subtlety that progressive rock fans will find especially appealing. Among the highlights are the singles 'A Winter's Tale' and 'The Demon Trucker' as well as instrumental numbers such as 'Dark River' and 'Obedience'.
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Last Autumn's Dream (Uk)
Artist: Jade Warrior
1. A Winter's Tale (2014 Remaster)
2. Snake (2014 Remaster)
3. Dark River (2014 Remaster)
4. Joanne (2014 Remaster)
5. Obedience (2014 Remaster)
6. Morning Hymn (2014 Remaster)
7. Way Queen (2014 Remaster)
8. The Demon Trucker (2014 Remaster)
9. Lady Of The Lake (2014 Remaster)
10. Borne On To The Solar Wind (2014 Remaster)
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Vinyl LP pressing. Trading Places present reissue of Ultrafunk's Meat Heat, originally released in 1977. Anonymous British funk band Ultrafunk was spearheaded by Blues & Soul magazine proprietor John Abbey, who ran a record shop and label called Contempo during the 1970s; he conceived of the group as the UK counterpart to US studio bands, like MFSB. Arranger Gerry Shury, who had worked with Barry White and Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees, drafted guitarist Chris Rae and bassist Frank McDonald (who often composed library music together) and future Rubettes drummer, John Richardson. A lack of band photos, suggestive song titles and a predilection for American cover tunes led many to believe the band was US-based. Second LP, Meat Heat, shows the group at the peak of their powers, with five choice hard funk instrumentals, including a tasteful synth-led adaptation of Stevie Wonders's "I Wish" (beautifully arranged by session guitarist Gordon Hunte, who had worked with Osibisa and Rebob Kwaku Baa), while their take on Norman Whitefield's "Sunrise," from the Car Wash soundtrack (1976), is exceptionally rendered. Sadly, Shury's death in a car crash would soon squash the group, leaving Meat Heat the best reminder of their musical talents.
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North Korea & WMD: How to Think About the Unthinkable
Spencer talks with David Schmerler, a researcher who keeps track of North Korea and its weapons of mass destruction. David says his work can be like a spy novel, or a video game — and in fact he even helped create a Minecraft simulation to help people understand what’s at stake. But knowing the difference between fiction and reality is crucial — for him, and for all of us.
Find the full details, plus links, at the episode page: http://dastardlycleverness.com/blog/north-korea-and-wmd
David Schmerler
James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
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Lost History, Media, Obama Administration
Gaza and American ‘Security’
Exclusive: Despite opposition — and even warnings — from the U.S. government, a group of Americans will join a small flotilla of boats challenging Israel’s blockade of the 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza. Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern explains why he is joining this protest.
By Ray McGovern
Stuffing my backpack before setting out to board “The Audacity of Hope,” the U.S. boat to Gaza, I got a familiar call from yet another puzzled friend, who said as gently as the words allow, “You know you can get killed, don’t you?”
I recognize this caution as an expression of genuine concern from friends. From some others, who don’t care about Gaza’s plight or who do not wish us well the words are phrased somewhat differently: “Aren’t you just asking for it?”
That was the obligatory question/accusation at the end of a recent interview taped for a BBC-TV special scheduled to air this coming week as we put to sea to break, or at least draw attention to, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza and the suffering it inflicts on the people there.
I also have been cautioned by a source with access to very senior staffers at the National Security Council that not only does the White House plan to do absolutely nothing to protect our boat from Israeli attack or illegal boarding, but that White House officials “would be happy if something happened to us.”
They are, I am reliably told, “perfectly willing to have the cold corpses of activists shown on American TV.”
I mention this informal warning for the benefit of anyone who may have harbored hope that the U.S. government would do something to protect us American citizens from the kind of violence used by the Israelis against last year’s flotilla. Better to be up front and realistic about what to expect.
Two millennia ago, “Civus Romanus Sum” automatically won lawful treatment and free passage for Roman citizens in trouble. It was a matter of pride and a benefit of being part of a powerful empire.
Today, the contrast could hardly be clearer. It is sad fact that “Civus Americanus Sum” would engender laughter, rather than respect, if invoked by those of us working on behalf of justice for the Palestinians.
Americans also face the reality that they are put in harm’s way by the view held by millions around the world — and especially in the Middle East — that the United States is partly responsible for the injustices and the humiliations that Palestinians face daily.
As I make my final preparations, let me turn around the question/warning to me about safety and direct it to those who won’t be onboard “The Audacity of Hope”:
“You know you can get killed, don’t you?” if the U.S. government continues to enable Israel in keeping a million and a half Gazans in a densely populated open-air prison with few prospects for a normal life.
The longer that goes on the more likely it becomes that many more Americans will become the target of terrorists seeking to inflict some pain on the great power that stands behind Israel whatever it does.
We already know of two suicide bombs famously targeted against Americans that can be traced to outrage at U.S. support for Israeli oppression in Gaza.
The 290 people aboard Northwest flight 253 were spared on Christmas Day 2009 when the “underwear bomber” was prevented from setting off an explosive over Detroit. A week later, seven CIA officials were not as lucky. They were killed by a suicide bomber in eastern Afghanistan.
In recent interviews about Gaza and about my reasons for going on “The Audacity of Hope,” I have called attention to the oft-repeated biblical admonition to show special concern for the widow, the orphan, the refugee.
All too often, I have watched eyes glaze over and overheard muted comments regarding what planet I might be coming from. For most folks, such concern or compassion, if any, seems to stop at the water’s edge. After all, the widow, the orphan, the refugee might be a “terrorist.”
Bedrock American virtues like goodness and honor seem in very short supply these days, having been sacrificed on the altar of fear and overweening concern for “security.”
Americans have been so desensitized by years of the government’s multi-colored “terror” warnings and protestations from politicians that nothing is more important than the safety of the American people that most citizens utter not a murmur as they watch their tax dollars enable the worst kinds of brutality abroad.
Or they train themselves NOT to watch, preferring the diversion of late-breaking news on Congressman Anthony Wiener’s photogenic “junk.”
It is mostly to such folks that I include the facts that follow, acknowledging that many of you readers are likely to be quite familiar with some or all of them.
It is for the nonreaders, like perhaps those in your family or your neighbors, that I feel a need to make one more effort to expose the reality that by turning a blind eye to Israeli brutality in Gaza, our government and our media make Americans a great deal LESS safe and secure.
I am guessing that only a direct, fact-based appeal has much chance of prompting many Americans to push, if only out of self-interest, for a more utilitarian, and at the same time more moral, approach to the festering wound of Gaza.
The Fawning Corporate Media (FCM) will not array the facts as they should be arrayed (if they mention them at all). And, of course, that goes in spades for TV “news.” Yet, it is not difficult to connect the dots, once you learn what they are.
What follows is intended for people like the fellow who flipped an obscene gesture at me after reading my bumper sticker that says simply, “God Bless the Rest of the World Too.”
It is for those who choose to express their exclusive concern for just one segment of humanity by chanting “U.S.A., U.S.A.” It is for those who have never heard of, or blithely reject, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s wise admonition that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
Little Known Facts
–Israel itself helped to create Hamas in 1987 as a Muslim fundamentalist, divide-and-conquer counterweight to the secular Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
–The bulk of Hamas’s popular appeal, like that enjoyed by Hezbollah in Lebanon, stems not from the crude rockets fired toward Israel, but rather from the tangible help they give to oppressed Palestinians.
And don’t take my word for it. Here’s what James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, included as a sort of afterthought at the end of his 34-page “Worldwide Threat Assessment” before the House Intelligence Committee on Feb. 10, completely missed, for some reason, by the FCM:
“We see a growing proliferation of state and non-state actors providing medical assistance to reduce foreign disease threats to their own populations, garner influence with affected local populations, and project power regionally.
“In some cases, countries use health to overtly counter Western influence, presenting challenges to allies and our policy interests abroad over the long run.
“In last year’s threat assessment, the Intelligence Community noted that extremists may take advantage of a government’s inability to meet the health needs of its population, highlighting that HAMAS’s and Hizballah’s provision of health and social services in the Palestinian Territories and Lebanon helped to legitimize those organizations as a political force.
“This also has been the case with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.”
I hope readers were not shocked by the diabolically clever way these “terrorist” movements garner public support by providing people life-saving medical care.
–-It was on that public-service record (and also because of wide awareness of flagrant corruption in the PLO), that Hamas won a key parliamentary election in January 2006, defeating the PLO-affiliated Fatah party. While the election results were not disputed, they were not what the U.S., Israel, and Europe wanted. So the U.S. and the EU cut off financial assistance to Gaza.
–Confidential documents, corroborated by former U.S. officials, show that thereupon the White House had the CIA try in 2007, with the help of Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, to defeat Hamas in a bloody civil war. That, too, did not go as expected. Hamas won handily, leaving it stronger than ever. (See “The Gaza Bombshell” by David Rose, in Vanity Fair, April 2008, for the entire sad story.)
–Israel and Egypt then imposed an economic blockade on Gaza eventually reducing virtually all Gazans to a bare subsistence level and 45 percent unemployment.
–From Dec. 27, 2008, to Jan. 18, 2009, while President George W. Bush was a lame duck, Israel launched an armed attack on Gaza, killing about 1,400 Gazans compared to an Israeli death toll of 13. Israel’s stated aim was to stop rocket fire into Israel and block any arms deliveries to Gaza. President-elect Barack Obama said nothing.
Guilt by Association
The United States is widely seen as responsible for Israel’s aggressive behavior, which is hardly surprising. It is no secret that Israel enjoys financial ($3 billion per year), military and virtually unquestioned political support from Washington.
What is surprising, in the words of widely respected Salon.com commentator Glenn Greenwald, is “how our blind, endless enabling of Israeli actions fuels terrorism directed at the U.S.,” and how it is taboo to point this out.
Take for example former CIA specialist on al-Qaeda, Michael Scheuer, who had the audacity to state on C-SPAN: “For anyone to say that our support for Israel doesn’t hurt us in the Muslim world is to just defy reality.”
The Likud Lobby had already succeeded in getting Scheuer fired from his job at the Jamestown Foundation think tank for his forthrightness, and the Israeli media condemned his C-SPAN remarks as “blatantly anti-Semitic.” There can be a high price to pay for candor on this neuralgic issue.
Yet, perhaps the most flagrant and egregious example of this syndrome is the unprecedentedly brief career, six hours, of former Ambassador Chas Freeman as chair of the National Intelligence Council.
On the morning of March 10, 2009, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair welcomed Freeman to the job overseeing U.S. intelligence analysis and praised his “long experience and inventive mind.” That afternoon, the White House succumbed to pressure from the Likud Lobby and told Blair that Freeman had to go.
Foreign policy analyst Chris Nelson described the imbroglio as a reflection of the “deadly power game on what level of support for controversial Israeli government policies is a ‘requirement’ for U.S. public office.”
Freeman’s credentials were impeccable. He was not only widely regarded as one of the very brightest foreign policy specialists around but had this weird addiction to speaking truth to power. He also would not bow to the Likud Lobby.
That was simply unacceptable. After all, Freeman might have braced the President with the reality of how Washington’s blind support for Israeli behavior is risking American lives.
Let’s move at this point from the general to the specific, and show how Israeli attacks on Gaza and oppression of its inhabitants, have inspired a number of anti-American terrorist acts, with more and bigger to follow as the night the day.
Christmas Day Bomber
Remember Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who almost downed a Northwest flight 253 over Detroit on Dec. 25, 2009? What was his motive and how was this 23-year-old Nigerian of privilege persuaded to do the bidding, however amateurishly, of al-Qaeda in the Persian Gulf?
An Associated Press report quoted Abdulmutallab’s Yemeni friends to the effect that he was actually “not overtly extremist.” They pointed out, however, that he was angry over Israel’s wanton slaughter of more 1,400 Gazans a year before.
It was a brutal offensive, by any reasonable standard, but one that was defended in Washington as justifiable self-defense.
Nor was Abdulmutallab the only terrorist motivated by the carnage in Gaza. When the Saudi and Yemeni branches of al-Qaeda announced that they were uniting into “al-Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula,” their combined rhetoric railed against the Israeli attack on Gaza.
And how does a 32-year old Jordanian medical doctor, Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi, from a family of Palestinian origin get radicalized to the point where he decides to blow himself up in order to kill seven American CIA operatives and a Jordanian intelligence officer?
Al-Balawi’s suicide bombing, near Khost, Afghanistan, occurred on Dec. 30, 2009, just five days after Abulmutallab’s attempt fizzled.
Though most U.S. media stories treated al-Balawi as a fanatical double agent driven by irrational hatreds, other motivations could be gleaned by looking at his personal history.
Al-Balawi’s mother told Agence France-Presse that her son had never been an “extremist.” Al-Balawi’s widow, Defne Bayrak, made a similar statement to Newsweek. In a New York Times article, al-Balawi’s brother was quoted as describing him as a “brilliant doctor.”
So what led Dr. al-Balawi to take his own life in order to kill U.S. and Jordanian intelligence operatives? His brother said al-Balawi “changed” during the three-week-long Israeli attack on Gaza.
Al-Balawi actually volunteered with a medical organization to treat injured Palestinians in Gaza, but was promptly arrested by Jordanian authorities, his brother said.
Adding insult to injury, the Jordanian intelligence service coerced al-Balawi into becoming a spy to penetrate al-Qaeda’s hierarchy and provide actionable intelligence to the CIA.
Taking full advantage of amateurish tradecraft by his CIA and Jordanian handlers, al-Balawi exacted his revenge.
“My husband was anti-American; so am I,” his widow said later, adding that although her two little girls would grow up fatherless, she had no regrets.
So, what does all this have to do with Gaza? Readers, please take out a piece of paper. You have five minutes to answer that question in three sentences or less. (Those who get their information only from the New York Times and Washington Post will be granted an additional five minutes because of their handicap.)
Moribund Fourth Estate
I continue to be amazed at how many otherwise well-informed Americans express total surprise when I refer them to 9/11 “mastermind” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s explanation regarding his motivation for attacking the United States, as cited on page 147 of the 9/11 Commission Report:
“By his own account, KSM’s animus toward the United States stemmed not from his experience there as a student, but rather from his violent disagreement with U.S. foreign policy favoring Israel.”
One can understand how even those making an honest attempt to follow such key issues closely can get confused. Five years after the 9/11 Commission Report, on Aug. 30, 2009, readers of the neoconservative Washington Post were given a diametrically different view, based on what the Post called an unidentified “intelligence summary”:
“KSM’s limited and negative experience in the United States, which included a brief jail stay because of unpaid bills, almost certainly helped propel him on his path to becoming a terrorist He stated that his contact with Americans, while minimal, confirmed his view that the United States was a debauched and racist country.”
Apparently, the Post found this revisionist version politically more convenient, in that it obscured Mohammed’s actual explanation implicating “U.S. foreign policy favoring Israel.”
It’s much more comforting, if a bit of a stretch, to view KSM as a disgruntled visitor who nursed his personal grievances into justification for mass murder.
An unusually candid view of the dangers accruing from the U.S. identification with Israel’s policies appeared several years ago in an unclassified study published by the Pentagon-appointed U.S. Defense Science Board on Sept. 23, 2004. Contradicting President George W. Bush, the board stated:
“Muslims do not ‘hate our freedom,’ but rather, they hate our policies. The overwhelming majority voice their objections to what they see as one-sided support in favor of Israel and against Palestinian rights.”
Are we starting to get the picture of what the United States is up against in the Muslim world, and, more importantly, why?
An enhanced PR effort is not going to do the trick. And yet it seems as though the U.S. political/media establishment is incapable of confronting this reality and/or taking meaningful action to alleviate the underlying causes of the violence?
Revenge has not always worked out very well in the past ,and particularly not in spirals of violence beginning in Gaza.
Does anyone remember the brutal killing of four Blackwater contractors on March 31, 2004, when they took a wrong turn and ended up in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, and how U.S. forces virtually leveled that large city in retribution after George W. Bush won his second term the following November?
How many know of the epidemic of horribly disfigured babies born there since, believed to be the result of depleted uranium and other U.S. weaponry?
If you read only the Fawning Corporate Media, you would blissfully think that the killing of the four Blackwater operatives was the initial step in this particular cycle of violence; that it was started by fanatics who along with their neighbors got the pummeling by U.S. forces they deserved.
You wouldn’t know that the killings represented the second turn in that specific cycle.
On March 22, 2004, nine days before the Blackwater incident, Israeli forces assassinated in Gaza, Sheikh Yassin, a founder of Hamas and its spiritual leader, a withering old man, blind and confined to a wheelchair.
That murder, plus sloppy navigation by the Blackwater people, set the stage for the next set of brutalities in Fallujah.
The Blackwater operatives were killed by a group that described itself as the “Sheikh Yassin Revenge Brigade.” Pamphlets and posters were all over the scene of the attack; one of the trucks that pulled around body parts of the mercenaries had a poster of Yassin in its window, as did store fronts all over Fallujah.
But Blackwater contractors are American, you may be thinking. Why would the “bad guys” in Fallujah blame the Americans for Israel’s assassination of Sheikh Yassin in Gaza?
If you have read down this far and cannot figure that out, you may wish to go back to reading the New York Times.
Et Tu Petraeus?
Even the sainted Gen. David Petraeus, in a rare moment of candor in March 2010, admitted in written testimony to Congress that Israeli behavior endangers U.S. troops. His testimony stated:
“The enduring hostilities between Israel and some of its neighbors present distinct challenges to our ability to advance our interests in the Middle East. Israeli-Palestinian tensions often flare into violence and large-scale armed confrontations.
“The conflict foments anti-American sentiment, due to a perception of U.S. favoritism for Israel. Meanwhile, al-Qaeda and other militant groups exploit that anger to mobilize support.”
Petraeus’s statement is obviously true, but he quickly came to regret his truth-telling, desperate to retract it out of fear that he had offended America’s influential neocons and the Likud Lobby and might end up like Ambassador Chas Freeman.
Many neocons regard any suggestion that Israeli intransigence on Palestine contributes to the dangers faced by American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan or by the U.S. public from acts of terrorism at home as a “blood libel” against Israel.
So, when Petraeus’s testimony began getting traction on the Internet, the general quickly e-mailed Max Boot, a neocon writer based at the high-powered Council on Foreign Relations, and began backtracking on the testimony. The groveling was stomach-turning but informative:
“As you know, I didn’t say that,” Petraeus said, according to a March 18, 2010, e-mail to Boot. “It’s in a written submission for the record.” (No doubt the general, who is soon to take the helm at the CIA, will be more careful in the future not to let his underlings slip hard truths into his written testimony.)
The “horse’s mouth” e-mail exchange was made public by James Morris, who runs a Web site called “Neocon Zionist Threat to America.” He said he acquired them by chance, after he sent an e-mail congratulating Petraeus for his testimony.
In responding, Petraeus forgot to delete the trail of e-mails with Boot in which they collaborated to find ways to knock down the story of the general’s implicit criticism of Israel. [For details, see Consortiumnews.com’s “Neocons, Likud Conquer DC, Again.”]
Back to the Flotilla
As we embark on “The Audacity of Hope” and its humanitarian mission to Gaza, we can expect no help from the likes of Petraeus, senior NSC officials, or, for that matter, President Barack Obama, who last year maintained a studied silence when Israeli forces killed nine passengers and wounded fifty in stopping a similar flotilla.
One of those killed, 19-year old Furkan Dogan, was a U.S. citizen as well as a citizen of Turkey. Did he have time to tell the Israeli attackers, Civus Americanus Sum? Would it have done him any good?
In trying to piece together why I shall be on “The Audacity of Hope,” I came upon these words of Daniel Berrigan in his autobiography, To Dwell in Peace. Dan is reflecting on his own motives in joining eight others burning draft cards with homemade napalm on May 17, 1968, in Catonsville, Maryland:
“It was only after the Catonsville action that I came on a precious insight. Something like this: presupposing integrity and discipline, one is justified in entering a large risk; not indeed because the outcome is assured, but because the integrity and value of the act have spoken aloud.
“When such has occurred, matters of success or efficiency are placed where they belong: in the background. They are not irrelevant, but they are far from central.
“There was a history of such acts of ours. In such biblical acts, results, outcome, benefits are unknown, totally obscure. The acts are at variance with good manners and behavior.
“More yet: everything of prudence and good sense points to the uselessness, ineffectiveness of such acts. And, finally, immediate and perhaps plenary punishment is bound to follow. [Yet] one was free to concentrate on the act itself, without regard to its reception in the world. Free also to concentrate on moral preparation, consistency, conscience.
“One had very little to go on; and went ahead nonetheless. Looked at in this light, the ‘little’ appeared irreducible, a treasure.”
Thanks, Dan. I certainly could not have said it better. And my thanks to any reader who had gotten down this far.
Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington. He served as an Army officer and CIA analyst for 30 years and, in retirement, co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
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Geri S
Speaking for myself, after reading this extremely informative piece of information, “dawn finally breaks on Marblehead” why we are in the MIddle East — Israel. I always thought it was oil, maybe it’s both. I’m certainly no expert, but I have a young nephew who served 3 tours in Iraq with the USMarines, was wounded separately on two tours, is home now and is unable in integrate back into society. His life is ruined — for what? We need more cold facts like this information out there for more Americans to read and understand the real truth why we are in the Middle East. We don’t belong there — bring the troops home!
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This is a digitized image of a printed paper map of the Niagara, Ontario region (Sheet No. 3), published in 1920. It is the fifth edition in a series of maps, which show both natural and man-made features such as relief, spot heights, administrative boundaries, roads, railways, trails, waterways, bridges, buildings, mills, power lines, terrain, and land formations. The image includes coverage of New York, the United States of America. The survey for this map was conducted in 1904, as part of a national topographical survey originally commissioned by Department of Militia and Defence in 1904. Surveys for Ontario were completed by one of two Canadian Government Agencies: the Survey Division of the Department of Militia and Defence (after 1923: the Geographical Section, General Staff, Department of National Defence) and the Geological Survey in the Department of Mines (after 1935: the Mapping Branch of the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources). Original maps were digitally scanned and georeferenced as part of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) Historical Topographic Map Digitization Project.
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Job Announcements, News
Job: Associate Professor Film & Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZDEPARTMENT OF FILM & DIGITAL MEDIA Associate or Full Professor See job posting here. The Department of Film & Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz, invites applications for a position in the theory, practice, and/or history of film and digital media at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor.
Areas and media of specialization are open. We seek an accomplished and influential filmmaker, media artist, and/or scholar with a distinguished record of publications, exhibitions and/or screenings, whose modes of production and research intersect with and expand upon the department’s current strengths: nonfiction forms; media archaeologies; transnational media; race, gender and sexuality; media arts engaging issues of social justice and political activism; and creative experimentation across media forms and platforms.
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High Line Park
Büro Happold (British structural engineering firm, founded 1977); Diller Scofidio + Renfro (American architectural firm, founded 2004); James Corner (American landscape architect, born 1961); Piet Oudolf (Dutch landscape architect, born 1944)
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Ipe wood curved benches with backs in a continuous row; The High Line is a 1-mile (1.6 km) New York City linear park built on a 1.45-mile (2.33 km) section of the former elevated New York Central Railroad spur called the West Side Line (built 1929-1934), which runs along the lower west side of Manhattan; it has been redesigned and planted as an aerial greenway. The High Line Park currently runs from Gansevoort Street, three blocks below West 14th Street, in the Meatpacking District, up to 30th Street, through the neighborhood of Chelsea to the West Side Yard, near the Javits Convention Center. The recycling of the railway into an urban park has spurred real estate development in the neighborhoods which lie along the line. The park was designed by the New York-based landscape architecture firm James Corner Field Operations, and architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, with planting design from Piet Oudolf of the Netherlands and engineering design by Buro Happold. The hardy, naturalized plantings are inspired by the self-seeded landscape that grew on the disused tracks. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/10/2012)
xeriscape; promenade (walkway)
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French government should remember carbon allowances in ArcelorMittal dispute
by Damien Morris | Nov 26, 2012 | Carbon Pricing
The French industrial minister, Arnaud Montebourg, recently clashed with steelmaker ArcelorMittal over the company’s plan to close blast furnaces in its Florange steelworks, putting 629 jobs at stake.
The French government has struggled to find buyers for the furnaces alone, but ArcelorMittal refuses offers for the entire Florange works. The tensions have led to Montebourg accusing ArcelorMittal of “lying”, “blackmail” and “never holding to its engagements”.
In this context, climate NGO Sandbag notes that the steelmaker has received 20 million spare carbon allowances from the French government over the past four years, with a current value roughly €138 million. [1] The Florange installation alone has accrued 4.7 million spare carbon allowances over 2008-2011, with a current value of €33 million. This amounts to over €50,000 for each of the workers facing redundancy.
Commenting on the developments, Damien Morris from Sandbag said:
“The carbon allowances awarded to ArcelorMittal by the French government were meant to help fight climate change but since the recession they have been used as a form of corporate welfare, with the company selling off spare allowances to generate income while production has been low. Instead of awarding allowances to ArcelorMittal for reducing its output and laying off staff, the French government might have sold these allowances and invested the revenues in low-carbon projects that could have created new jobs and fought climate change at the same time. As President Hollande prepares to meet with Mr Mittal on Tuesday he should keep in mind the carbon assets the government has conferred on the steelmaker.”
– Data is from Sandbag and the EU Transaction Log. ArcelorMittal was approached to corroborate this data ahead of Sandbag’s ETS report _Losing the Lead_ launched in July 2012, but declined to respond. The carbon price is taken from Blue Next exchange (current as of 23/11/2012)
– ArcelorMittal has topped Sandbag’s European list of Carbon Fatcat companies benefitting from the EU ETS for three consecutive years
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Education For Autonomy
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ATA Announces Share Repurchase Program
ATA Inc.
BEIJING, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- ATA Inc. ("ATA", Nasdaq: ATAI), the leading provider of computer-based testing and testing-related services in China, today announced that its board of directors approved a share repurchase program, effective immediately, during its regular board meeting held on February 5, 2010.
Under the approved program, ATA is authorized to repurchase up to US$ 5 million of its issued and outstanding American Depositary Shares ("ADS") from time to time in open-market transactions on NASDAQ at prevailing market prices, in negotiated transactions off the market, in block trades, pursuant to a 10b5-1 plan (which if adopted, will allow ATA to repurchase its ADSs during periods in which it may be in possession of material non-public information), or otherwise.
This share repurchase program will be in effect through March 31, 2011.
ATA's board of directors will periodically review the share repurchase program and may authorize adjustments to the program's terms and size. The board may also suspend or discontinue the repurchase program at any time.
The repurchases will be made subject to restrictions on price, volume, and timing. The timing and extent of any purchases will depend upon market conditions, the trading price of its ADS, and other factors.
Mr. Kevin Ma, ATA's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said, "Our board of directors implemented this share repurchase program to demonstrate its confidence in the long-term growth trend for ATA's value and to repurchase ATA shares when it believes ATA's market price is a relative bargain. This ADS repurchase program is consistent with our commitment to create additional value for our shareholders. Our ample cash position gives us the flexibility both to continue to execute our growth strategies and to implement the repurchase program."
ATA expects to pay for the repurchases using internally available cash. As of December 31, 2009, ATA's cash balance was Chinese RMB 255.3 million, equivalent to US$37.4 million.
ATA had 44.8 million common shares outstanding, approximately 11.6 million of which were represented by ADS (with each ADS representing two common shares), as of December 31, 2009.
About ATA Inc.
ATA is the leading provider of computer-based testing services in China. ATA offers comprehensive services for the creation and delivery of computer-based tests, based on its proprietary testing technologies and test delivery platform. ATA's computer-based testing services are used for professional licensure and certification tests in various industries, including information technology services, banking, teaching, securities, insurance, and accounting.
ATA's test center network comprised 1,977 authorized test centers located throughout China as of December 31, 2009. ATA believes it has the largest test center network of any commercial testing service provider in China. Combined with its test delivery technologies, this network allows ATA's clients to administer large-scale nationwide tests in a consistent, secure, and cost-effective manner.
ATA has delivered more than 33 million tests, including more than 23 million billable tests, since it started operating in 1999. During a single weekend in June 2008, using its test delivery platform, ATA delivered tests to approximately 470,000 test takers for the China Banking Association.
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Posted on November 5, 2017 March 25, 2018 by Lewis Tallon
Rockets and Round-ups: Dangerous times in the Kingdom
In this report, Lewis Tallon examines the last week’s multiple developments in Saudi Arabian political, military and diplomatic affairs. With a major roundup of key political and economic players under the auspices of an anti-corruption drive taking place, and a simultaneous missile attack on Riyadh airport, this marks one of the more active weeks in the Kingdom.
Recent days have seen a number of significant movements within Saudi Arabia, with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman having rounded up dozens of key players in the Kingdom in what is reported to be an anti-corruption drive. Concurrently, during the late hours of Saturday night, a ballistic missile fired by Houthi-rebel forces in Yemen appears to have struck in close proximity to King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh.
The Missile Attack on Riyadh
On the evening of November 4th, anti-missile systems deployed around the Saudi Arabian capital city of Riyadh are reported to have intercepted a number of ballistic missiles fired from northern Yemen. One round out of a salvo estimated to contain four missiles appears to have struck northeast of King Khalid International Airport, with initial reports suggesting that damage may have been inflicted to one of the passenger terminals, although this appears to have been incorrect given continuing flight activity from the airport. The remaining three missiles appear to have been intercepted by U.S.-supplied Patriot air-defence batteries. The Houthi insurgency was quick to claim responsibility, with sympathetic media outlets in Yemen suggesting that the missile was a Scud-B copy from the Burqan (meaning “Volcano”) 2-H series.
The Houthis are believed to have generated their long-range missile capabilities from a mixture of inherited Yemeni military systems and Iranian-supervised home-built units. Around 60 legacy ballistic missiles inherited from the Yemeni military were likely available to Houthi forces at the start of the conflict, with the bulk having been neutralised. At this stage, it is believed that most of the legacy systems captured or carried by defectors from the Yemeni military have been destroyed by a relentless Saudi-coalition air-attack campaign. In particular, the Houthi movement’s bulky Transporter Erector Launcher (TEL) units have long remained difficult to conceal, and are thought to have been mostly been picked off over time by Saudi strikes. As such, it is likely that the majority of ongoing launches into Saudi Arabia are domestically-produced units, although some legacy systems may have survived, hidden in Northern Yemen’s dramatically mountainous landscape.
The Burqan series missiles are relatively crude by modern standards, although they remain dangerous nonetheless; able to deliver a 600kg payload to an estimated range of 1,400km, with Houthi media sources claiming an extended range of 2,000km. Their use is seen as a direct response to the ongoing Saudi-led coalition operations in Yemen, generating controversy and concern across the Arabian Peninsula and significantly undermining the credibility of the Saudi-coalition’s regular proclamations of success in the campaign. The Houthis claim that justification for the targeting of Saudi cities is fair retaliation for the aerial bombing campaign against Yemeni targets, for which Saudi Arabia has drawn international criticism. This far in the conflict, the Patriot batteries deployed by the Kingdom have scored a high knockdown rate against incoming missiles targeting major urban areas, but operations to destroy the home-built replacement TEL systems hidden within Yemen have been less successful. The cheaply-produced Yemeni weapons also economically outmatch the expensive Saudi defensive operations, although given the vast budget of the Kingdom’s military, this is unlikely to place significant strain on Riyadh in the short to medium term.
Improvements in the Houthi’s missile capabilities are rumoured to have been supported in part by Iranian and potentially even North Korean expertise, with the Houthis indending to bring all of Saudi Arabia and coalition allies such as the UAE into range. The Burqan 2 series, having apparently improved in both range and accuracy over the Burqan 1, first saw service in July 2017 against the Saudi coastal city of Yanbu, while Saturday night’s attack marks its second appearance, indicating limited stocks of the weapon. Despite limited long-range missile stocks, a number of surface-to-air weapons from the SA2 “Guideline” series are believed to have been converted by Houthi forces into short-range surface-to-surface missiles with 250km tactical range. In addition to these, Iranian-supplied Zelzal and Qahar series weapons have also surfaced in the Yemen theatre, indicating an unabating missile threat to both Saudi-coalition forces in Yemen and the Kingdom’s population centres.
At this stage it appears that the Houthis’ seek to bring an end to the conflict via domestic and coalition pressure on Riyadh through mounting attacks deep within the Kingdom. Notably, Houthis forces have reiterated their desire to strike all coalition partners, including Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates. Given that their most capable missiles can now strike Riyadh, less populated parts of the UAE are credibly in range, and increasing capabilities could place population centres in range in the near term. Despite this, limited stocks mean that attacks will likely remain sporadic, while Coalition air-and-missile defence systems continue to develop.
The Anti-Corruption Round-up
On November 4th, Saudi Arabian media reported that dozens of key players, including members of the extensive 10,000-strong House of Saud, had been arrested as part of a mass anti-corruption drive being spearheaded by the ambitious Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
So far, the following key figures appear to be among those detained:
Prince Mitaab Bin Abdullah (Minister of the National Guard)
Adel bin Mohammed Faqih (former Labor Minster and current Economy and Planning Minister)
Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal (owner of The Kingdom Holding group)
Prince Turki Bin Abdullah (Former Governor of Riyadh)
Prince Turki Bin Nasser
Waleed Ibrahim (Owner of MBC Media)
Khaled Al Tuwaijri (Former President of the Royal Court)
Omer Dabbagh (Former president of the General Investment Authority)
Saleh Kamel (Saudi Billionaire worth an estimated $2.2B US)
Saud Al Tobaishi (Head of Royal Ceremonies and Protocols)
Ibrahim Al Assaf (Former Finance minister and current State Minister)
Bakr Bin Laden (Owner of Bin Laden Group)
Saud Al Dawish (former CEO of Saudi Telecoms)
Khaled Al Mulhem (former Director General of Saudi Arabian Airlines)
Of this list, the most significant names appear to be those of Prince Mitaab Bin Abdullah, who was both the minister overseeing the Saudi Arabian National Guard and onetime contender for the throne, and Adel Faqih, the Minister of the Economy who had been central to the Crown Prince’s ambitious “Vision 2030” reform plan.
While outwardly these arrests have been reported as corruption-linked, which is not at all unbelievable given the endemic nature of graft in the Kingdom’s “Wasta”-based culture of nepotism, it is also likely that an element of internal power-politics has factored. At 32, the young Crown Prince has been a controversial figure within the typically elderly upper echelons of the House of Saud. His internationally-lauded reformist and modernist agenda has drawn criticism from both political and religious conservatives in a nation that lags behind much of the modern world in multiple aspects, including women’s rights, economic policies and international diplomacy. As such, it is likely that among those arrested are key figures opposed to Bin Salman’s rapid ascension, with corruption charges being a useful political tool in a society deeply intertwined with graft culture.
Such a move would not be the first for Bin Salman, with rumours that his own uncle and main rival for the throne Mohammed bin Nayef was placed under house arrest earlier this year. Nayef took the role of Deputy Crown Prince in January 2015, before being dismissed from the role in a surprise move in June of this year to be replaced by King Salman’s favoured son, bin Salman. The most surprising factor of his dismissal and probable arrest is the fact that Nayef, for 16 years, commanded the Kingdom’s domestic intelligence capabilities and was known as a shrewd political player. Having been outmaneuvered by his nephew in such a high-profile case demonstrates bin Salman’s own level of political prowess.
Despite the high probability of a political element to this crackdown, genuine graft is also likely under threat. Bin Salman is keenly aware of the damage caused to the Royal Family’s reputation by years of lavish living while much of the population remains impoverished. Genuine incidents of corruption are reportedly due to be investigated, including the impact of graft on the government’s response to the 2009 floods that devastated parts of Jeddah, and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus outbreak.
In all, November has commenced with two major events within the Kingdom, and further change is likely to follow. The war in Yemen drags on with little tangible progress on either side, while conversely dramatic change appears to be underway in Riyadh. The new trajectory of the Kingdom, both internally and regarding it’s Yemen campaign will almost certainly remain unclear for the foreseeable future, and as such a close eye on Saudi affairs is encouraged in the coming months.
Lewis Tallon is a former British Army Intelligence Officer with several years experience working and living in the Middle East and North Africa region and Asia Pacific in geopolitical, armed conflict risk and threat intelligence roles. Lewis currently specialises in providing MENA-region geopolitical intelligence support to the oil & gas industry, and the financial sector.
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Impact of Farm Management Practices on Downy Mildew Disease of Cucumber in High Tunnels
Muhammad N. Shahid, Muhammad Abid, Sobia Chohan, Muhammad Binyameen, Muhammad Sajid
Downy mildew of cucumber caused by Pseudoperonospora cubensisis is a serious threat to the cucurbits production in high tunnels. In this study, the disease incidence and severity were recorded from nine high tunnel farms, located at Vehari District, Pakistan. The results revealed that downy mildew incidence was ranged from 24 to 80%. The disease development was correlated with plant genotype, sowing time, commonly used fungicides, and plant growth stages. "Kaan" was the most resistant while "Yayla" was the highly susceptible plant genotype against the disease. Cucumber sowing at mid-November showed significantly less disease over early and late sowing. Flowering was the most vulnerable stage of plants for disease development. ‘Champion’ (Copper hydroxide) followed by ‘Score’ (Difenoconazole) fungicides reduced the disease to 55% and 43%, respectively, which increased the yield 8-15 %. We conclude that the use of resistant genotype “Kaan”, protectant fungicide ‘Champion’ and appropriate sowing time Mid-November may reduce the disease incidence appreciably in high tunnels.
Downy mildew; Pseudoperonospora cubensis; Cucumber; plant resistance; sowing time; fungicide; high tunnels
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Cohen, Y., A. Rubin and M. Galperin. 2016. Formation and infectivity of oospores of Pseudoperonospora cubensis, the causal agent of downy mildew in cucurbits. Horticultural Reviews, 279: 314.
Colucci, S. J. 2008. Host range, fungicide resistance and management of Pseudoperonospora cubensis, causal agent of cucurbit downy mildew. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, Master of Science.
Delmas, C.E., Y. Dussert, L. Delière, C. Couture, I. D. Mazet, S. Richart Cervera and F. Delmotte. 2017. Soft selective sweeps in fungicide resistance adaptation: recurrent mutations without fitness costs in grapevine downy mildew. Molecular Ecology, 26: 1936-1951. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14006
Ding, X., Y. Jiang, T. Hao, H. Jin, H. Zhang, L. He, Q. Zhou, D. Huang, D. Hui and J. Yu. 2016. Effects of heat shock on photosynthetic properties, antioxidant enzyme activity, and downy mildew of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.). Public Library of Science One, 11: e0152429. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152429
Dodds, P.N. and J.P. Rathjen. 2010. Plant immunity: towards an integrated view of plant-pathogen interactions. Nature Reviews Genetics, 11: 539-548. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg2812
Garrett, K.A., S.P. Dendy, E.E. Frank, M.N. Rouse and S.E. Travers. 2006. Climate change effects on plant disease: genomes to ecosystems. Annual Review of Phytopathology, 44: 489-509. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.phyto.44.070505.143420
Ghini, R., E. Hamada, R.R. Gonçalves, L. Gasparotto and J.C.R. Pereira. 2007. Análise de risco das mudanças climáticas globais sobre a sigatoka-negra da bananeira no Brasil. Fitopatologia Brasileira, 32: 197-204. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0100-41582007000300003
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Shetty, N.V., T.C. Wehner, C.E. Thomas, R.W. Doruchowski and K.V. Shetty. 2002. Evidence for downy mildew races in cucumber tested in Asia, Europe, and North America. Scientia Horticulturae, 94: 231-239. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-4238(02)00013-4
Thomas, A., 2016. Biology, Epidemiology and Population Genomics of Pseudoperonospora cubensis, the Causal Agent of Cucurbit Downy Mildew North Carolina State University.
Urban, J. and A. Lebeda. 2006. Fungicide resistance in cucurbit downy mildew-methodological, biological and population aspects. Annals of Applied Biology, 149: 63-75. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7348.2006.00070.x
Vanden Langenberg, K.M. and T.C. Wehner. 2016. Downy Mildew Disease Progress in Resistant and Susceptible Cucumbers Tested in the Field at Different Growth Stages. HortScience, 51: 984-988. https://doi.org/10.21273/HORTSCI.51.8.984
Wolfe, D.W., L. Ziska, C. Petzoldt, A. Seaman, L. Chase and K. Hayhoe. 2008. Projected change in climate thresholds in the Northeastern US: implications for crops, pests, livestock, and farmers. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 13: 555-575. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-007-9125-2
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DOI: 10.33687/phytopath.009.03.3457
Copyright (c) 2021 Muhammad Nadeem Shahid, Muhammad Abid, Sobia Chohan, Muhammad Binyameen, Muhammad Sajid
Muhammad N. Shahid
Department of Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, 60800 Multan
Muhammad Abid
Sobia Chohan
Muhammad Binyameen
Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Bahauddin Zakariya University, 60800 Multan
Muhammad Sajid
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Raising the Visibility: Collective Power’s Potential to Break the Gender Barrier in the Video Game Culture
Video game has long been known to be a highly gendered area dominated by male adolescents, in spite of the actual ratio of women who play video games. Past literature pointed out that this stereotype was repeatedly generated because of the low visibility of women gamers. Recently, after a multiplayer shooting game called ‘Overwatch’ gained a huge popularity, numbers of female gamer groups started to come to the front and raise women’s visibility in the game fan community.
This paper presents a case study of a game-fan community/feminist group called the National D.Va Association (NDA), which has struggled to thrive in the gendered space of the online gaming community. First, a content analysis was conducted to describe the traits of Overwatch that appealed to female game fans. Also, this paper presents a tweet analysis around the National D.Va Association (NDA). The purpose of the analysis is to find out how female gamers formed a collective group, and how it contributed to the rise of the women’s visibility in the game community.This study combines quantitative and qualitative study methods to analyze the tweet data. 5,846 tweets, all tweets posted by NDA (@for_diva_) and mentions sent to NDA from November 21, 2016 to September 4, 2017 were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively.
Frequency of the keywords in NDA’s tweets engendered topics that were discussed vigorously during certain periods. Those keywords were divided into 4 phases: Phase 1 – Attracting public attention, Phase 2 – Building cohesion, Phase 3 – Wartime, be brutal, and Phase 4 – NDA as a sustainable feminism activity. In the result section, the top keywords for each period were presented, along with the qualitative analysis of related tweets, to illustrate how NDA organized the collective power of female gamers and raised their visibility among the gaming community.
NDA has worked to overcome the invisibility of women resulting from gender bias in the gaming environment. NDA accomplished their goal by uniting women’s collective power and raising the visibility of women in the gender-biased environment of online gamers. This paper also addresses the potential of video gaming as a medium to impact society and the ways in which the interpretation and reproduction of the game fan community leads to their participation in social activity.
Je Seok Lee
PhD Student, UCI Department of Informatics
Jeseok Lee is a Ph.D. student studying social behavior of esports game players. He investigates players’ in-game behavior pattern and seeks for a connection to other aspects of their life. Currently, he is applying machine learning methods to analyze complicated patterns of collaborative behavior when people play cooperative games.
Constance Steinkuehler, PhD
Professor, UCI Department of Informatics & School of Education
Constance researches the cognitive and social aspects of multiplayer online videogames and esports. Current projects include studies of teenage boys and gameplay, parenting and videogames, and impacts of the NASEF high school esports league. She formerly served as Senior Policy Analyst under the Obama administration in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, advising on games and digital media, and founded the Higher Education Video Games Alliance (HEVGA), a national network of game-related programs.
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Historic Reno Preservation Society presents 1st Tuesdays @ 5:30pm: Geoff Schumacher discusses Fact, Fiction and Howard Hughes
Howard Hughes, one of the most intriguing and accomplished Americans of the 20th century, had a profound effect on Las Vegas. His investments in the 1950s, 60s and 70s helped transform the city. But his secretive and reclusive nature has generated innumerable myths that obscure the true story. Geoff Schumacher, author of a new biography of the billionaire, explains how truth is stranger than fiction in the life of Howard Hughes.
Geoff Schumacher is the Vice President of Exhibits & Programs for The Mob Museum in Las Vegas. He is the author of Sun, Sin & Suburbia: A History of Modern Las Vegas and Howard Hughes: Power, Paranoia & Palace Intrigue. He earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Nevada, Reno, and his master’s degree in American history from Arizona State University. He had a twenty-five-year career in journalism, with stops at the Las Vegas Sun, Las Vegas CityLife, Las Vegas Mercury, Las Vegas Review-Journal and Ames (Iowa) Tribune. He serves as associate editor of the Nevada Historical Society Quarterly.
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“The Inspired Psalms, as being the dictates of the Spirit of truth, are entirely free from error, and although, in some cases, we may be unable to discover the application of the figures, or the full import of the expressions, we cannot hesitate for a moment to declare, that in arrangement, expression, and design, the psalms are absolutely perfect.”
Another fine selection from the Reformed Covenanter website:
Rev. Thomas Houston
“We have always thought that the serious imperfections that are justly chargeable upon the most favourite uninspired hymns furnish a powerful argument against employing them in the Psalmody of the Church. The Inspired Psalms, as being the dictates of the Spirit of truth, are entirely free from error, and although, in some cases, we may be unable to discover the application of the figures, or the full import of the expressions, we cannot hesitate for a moment to declare, that in arrangement, expression, and design, the psalms are absolutely perfect. To say otherwise, as some modern hymn-makers have done, is to charge the Author of inspiration with imperfection, and to cast contempt on his best gift to our world. No such declaration, however, can, with propriety, be used in relation to those merely human compositions which have been introduced to rank with the Psalms of David, or, in many cases, to supplant them, in the praises of the Church. Select the most esteemed of them, and they will be found, either in matter, or style, or arrangement, to betray evident marks of human imperfection: in some instances, noxious error it diffused under the embellishments of poetry; in others, the style is turgid, abounding in puerile conceits or unnatural images, and forced expressions; while, in almost all, there is a wide departure from the unadorned simplicity and dignified gravity of the Words of the Holy One of Israel.” Rev. Thomas Houston
Covenanter, Mar. 1837, p. 49.
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“No instance can be adduced in which the King of Zion has abrogated the use of the church’s inspired songs, or given permission to supplant them by the effusions of men.”
Two excellent quotations have recently been posted at the ReformedCovenanter website. The following are from Thomas Houston originally published in the Belfast Covenanter in 1835 and 1836.
“The Belfast Covenanter periodical briefly explains why heretics love uninspired hymns and hate the book of Psalms:
Arians, Socinians, Arminians, and other sectaries, have all pleaded for the use of uninspired hymns. The reason is obvious:- they could find room, by this means, to circulate their unscriptural tenets, while the use of inspired psalms would be fatal for their heterodox dogmas.” Covenanter, May 1836, p. 102, found here.
“After highlighting the fact that inspired psalms were divinely appointed in the Old Testament to be sung in the worship of God, the Belfast Covenanterargued that psalm-singing remained a duty in the New Testament as it had not been abrogated:
We allege, further, that there is no ground to conclude that the use of the inspired Psalms in the Church was abrogated at the close of the former economy.
It is an incontrovertible maxim, that whatever God has appointed to be observed in his worship should be perpetually observed, unless he himself intimated that it is temporary, or declares its abrogation. Singing God’s praise is obviously a moral duty, and, as such, of permanent obligation. Jehovah himself once appointed this duty to be performed in the words of David and Asaph; that is, by means of the inspired Psalms. Neither the duty of singing not the form of psalmody was of a ceremonial of judicial nature, [1] and, consequently, there is no reason to regard them abrogated when Christ came, and the partition wall was broken down. The church is, moreover, one in all ages. Every institution which her glorious Head has given her, she is bound carefully to observe, until it be abrogated by the same authority which first ordained it. No instance can be adduced in which the King of Zion has abrogated the use of the church’s inspired songs, or given permission to supplant them by the effusions of men. The divine sanction for using the Psalms is, therefore, yet disannulled, and the church now has the same warrant for drawing hence spiritual consolation, as had those to whom the sweet singer of Israel first delivered the inspired songs of Zion.” Covenanter, Jan. 1835, p. 6, found here.
[1] The term ‘judicial law’ is here used to describe laws that were unique to the Hebrew Republic. Hence a few paragraphs later we find the author arguing that, ‘The singing of the Book of Psalms was no part of the judicial law, for it had not particular reference to the civil policy of the Jews’. Ibid., p. 9.
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Network study available!
The network feasibility study commissioned by the EDIC and performed by CCG has been finalized. It concludes that it is feasible to build and operate a community based network in Falmouth. Quoting from the Summary of Findings:
CCG found that broadband customers in Falmouth experience inconsistent speeds and frequent outages and that as many as 61% of residents and many businesses would consider moving to a new broadband network. With that level of potential demand, CCG determined that it would be financially feasible to build and operate a new high-speed fiber optic network that would bring gigabit broadband capability to every home and business in Falmouth.
This new fiber network would eliminate the slowdowns and interruptions in internet service that many homes experienced during the pandemic. It will also have the capacity to accommodate future growth for broadband services as more people work from home on the Cape; as business demand for uploading data continues; and as health care providers, schools, and community institutions continue to provide more internet-based services in a post-pandemic world.
Some of the key next steps are to continue to grow public awareness, figure funding sources (public. private or some combination) and talk to potential build and operating partners.
A major step towards establishing a modern, community based network for Falmouth has been accomplished but we are only at the beginning.
The full report is available here. The report is lengthy and highly detailed, but has been written so that the major findings are presented in the first several pages.
Time To Act!
(The following is a letter to the editor published in the Falmouth Enterprise on Feb. 14)
The Falmouth community could enter an internet competition, and the results of a new survey indicate that residents are ready to embrace it.
The survey of Falmouth residents randomly selected from voter rolls was conducted by Doug Dawson of CCG Consulting, a firm that helps communities build their own fiber optic networks. The survey is the first phase of a feasibility study for a locally controlled, broadband internet service.
The Falmouth Economic Development Industrial Corporation provided funding for the study. The data from the survey were released at the EDIC Meeting on Tuesday.
Mr. Dawson found that 70 percent of those surveyed want better internet service in Falmouth. And almost 90 percent say that they want more options for their internet service and lower prices.
The results are significant and shouldn’t be surprising.
The vast majority of Falmouth residents rely on Comcast for the delivery of their internet; 83 percent, according to the survey results.
That’s a monopoly.
The survey also found that Falmouth residents pay on average $183 to Comcast a month. That’s more than $30 above the national average.
A monopoly in action.
Perhaps more significant than price, though, is service. The powerful storm of October 17 cut power to Woods Hole, causing residents of a village to go without power or internet access for three days. With climate change, such storms will cause worse and more-frequent blackouts.
The survey found that about half the residents surveyed have experienced an internet blackout, a vast majority of those lasting more than one day.
In an age when we rely on internet connections for communication and even basic necessities, that’s unacceptable.
Perhaps the most telling result of the survey: Mr. Dawson projects that some 60 percent of Falmouth residents would be customers of the community network we envision. Not only does that mean residents are weary of a monopoly providing internet connections, they also think the community can do a better job.
Knowing this, Falmouth should act.
Hundreds of localities around the United States, including several in Massachusetts, are planning, building and operating their own internet access services.
As the Falmouth community network committee, we believe it is time to start now.
Falmouth residents who want to know more or get involved are invited to contact us. We’re available to present information at community gatherings including school meetings, professional meetings and neighborhood get-togethers. There’s a Facebook page with more information at facebook.com/falmouthcommunitynetwork/.
Courtney Bird
Sippewissett Road
Phone survey shows strong support for a community network
The recently completed survey of Falmouth residents shows strong support for a community based network. In professional study conducted by CCG Consultants, 70% said they wanted better Internet service and 92% wanted competitive options. The survey was the first part of a broader feasibility study which will now enter a second phase to examine construction details and develop financial models.
See the news articles in the Falmouth Enterprise and the Cape Cod Times for additional details.
Video of the Survey Kickoff Meeting
FCTV recorded the Dec. 12th kickoff meeting and you can watch it here. Members of the EDIC and the Falmouth community network group talk about the need for a local network. Next Doug Dawson, the president of CCG discusses how his company will be conducting the survey and answers questions from those attending.
The Falmouth Enterprise also wrote about the meeting in this article.
The Falmouth Economic Development and Industrial Corporation (EDIC) will kick off a feasibility study for a community fiber optic network for Falmouth at a public meeting on December 12 at 6:30p in the Hermann Room of the Falmouth Public Library, 300 Main Street.
At the meeting, Doug Dawson, President of CCG Consulting, the contractor selected by the EDIC to lead the study, will provide an overview of the project and will encourage those in attendance to share their experiences and ask questions regarding Internet services available now or in the future in Falmouth.
In announcing the kick-off meeting, Christopher Land, Chairman of the Falmouth EDIC noted “All sectors of Falmouth’s economy require reliable, high speed Internet service. This first ever assessment will give us a handle on what problems our residents and businesses are experiencing and whether a community fiber optic network is a possible solution”.
The idea of a Falmouth community network was conceived by a grassroots group of Falmouth residents as a competitive, locally controlled alternative to service providers like Comcast or Verizon. In June, the Falmouth Community Network Group brought its idea to the EDIC, Falmouth’s non-profit economic development corporation, and the Board voted to fund a $50,000 feasibility study. The group has continued to work with the EDIC to move the Falmouth community network study towards reality.
Today’s Internet connections in Falmouth are subject to summer overloads and weather-related outages. Verizon’s most advanced residential service, FIOS, doesn’t cross the Cape Cod Canal. As a result, Comcast has the only high-speed residential service in Falmouth.
As conceived by advocates, the proposed network would provide a competitive alternative to existing commercial internet service providers. By making high speed fiber optic technology more widely available, the Falmouth community network would support reliable service and fast internet access. In addition, the network would have the capacity to serve Falmouth’s summer population while also supporting the year-round economy. A locally controlled community-based network would offer better customer service and more transparent rates.
Currently there are 16 Massachusetts communities with locally controlled internet access networks including the eastern Massachusetts towns of Taunton, Norwood, Braintree, Concord and Reading. Falmouth is one of twelve Massachusetts towns that have announced moves (actions) to explore community networks in 2019.
The Falmouth feasibility study will survey Falmouth residents and businesses about their current internet services. It will examine Falmouth’s communications infrastructure to determine the cost of building the envisioned network and it will specify several options for financing and operating the network.
The study’s findings are expected next spring.
In July, the EDIC, working with the Falmouth Community Network Group, issued an RFP for consultant services to complete the feasibility study. Nine firms responded with proposals. CCG Consulting, based in North Carolina, was selected by the EDIC at its November meeting. CCG Consulting, in business since 1997, is a full-service telecom consulting company for small communications carriers. It has completed over 200 similar feasibility studies for clients around the country. Many of these clients are local and county governments.
A new competitive network option for Falmouth Businesses
OpenCape is now offering network services designed for small businesses. In coordination with the Falmouth EDIC and the Chamber of Commerce, OpenCape has designed a new Gigabit, fiber optic based, low cost offering for Main St businesses and beyond as described in Falmouth Enterprise.
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PERCICHTHYIDAE
PERCIFORMES Perches and allies
PERCICHTHYIDAE Temperate basses
Bostockia(1) Gadopsis(2) Guyu(1) Maccullochella(4) Macquaria(3) Nannatherina(1) Nannoperca(7) Percalates(2)
Family PERCICHTHYIDAE
Common name: Australian Freshwater Basses, Australian Freshwater Blackfish, Australian Freshwater Cods, Temperate basses, Temperate Seabasses
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Dianne J. Bray, Temperate basses, PERCICHTHYIDAE in Fishes of Australia, accessed 16 Jan 2021, http://136.154.202.208/Home/family/204
Family Taxonomy
The family Percichthyidae includes 22 freshwater and estuarine species in nine genera from Australia and South America. Eight genera and 18 species are known from Australian waters. The family includes the Australian genera: Bostockia, Edelia, Gadopsis, Guyu, Maccullochella, Macquaria, Nannatherina and Nannoperca, and the South American genus Percichthys. Most of these are detailed in McDowall (1996) and Allen et al. (2002). The species of Edelia, Nannatherina and Nannoperca were reviewed by Kuiter & Allen (1985). The temperate basses include the Australian Murray Cod, Golden Perch and relatives, revised by MacDonald (1978). The percichthyids were first separated from the Serranidae by Gosline (1966). Paxton et al. (1989) included a large number of genera and species, following Gosline (1966) and Nelson (1984), in the family Percichthyidae. Nelson (1994), however, followed Johnson (1984) in restricting the family to freshwater taxa from Australia and South America, including Edelia, Nannatherina, and Nannoperca, genera that were placed in the Kuhliidae by Paxton et al. (1989). As well, the genus Gadopsis, previously in the family Gadopsidae and not covered in Paxton et al. (1989), is now included in the Percichthyidae. Nock et al (2010) revised Maccullochella, elevating M. peelii mariensis to species status. The other genera listed in the Percichthyidae by Paxton et al. (1989) were placed by Nelson (1994) in the families Acropomatidae (Acropoma, Apogonops, Doederleinia, Howella, Malakichthys, Polyprion, Synagrops), Epigonidae (Sphyraenops) and Moronidae (Lateolabrax). Although Nelson (2006) placed the genus Howella in the Percichthyidae, it is now in the Acropomatidae.
Family Distribution
Percichthyids inhabit freshwaters and estuaries of Australia and South America.
The Murray Cod, Maccullochella peelii, is the largest percichthyid and can grow to a length of 1.8 m and a weight of more than 100 kg.
Family Feeding
Percichthyids are carnivores and feed on crustaceans, fishes, insects, molluscs, birds and mammals.
Dianne J. Bray
Allen, G.R., Midgley, S.H. and Allen, M. (2002). Field guide to the freshwater fishes of Australia. Western Australian Museum: Perth. 394 pp.
Berra, T.M. and Weatherley, A.H. (1972). A systematic study of the Australian freshwater serranid fish genus Maccullochella. Copeia 1972: 53–64.
Gosline, W.A. (1966). The limits of the fish family Serranidae, with notes on other percoids. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 33: 91–111 figs 1–10
Gosline, W.A. (1968). The limits of the fish family Serranidae, with notes on other percoids. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 33: 91–111 figs 1–10.
Harris, J.H. and Rowland, S.J. (1996). Family Percichthyidae – Australian freshwater cods and basses. In Freshwater Fishes of South-eastern Australia. (Ed. R. McDowall.) pp. 150–163. (Reed Books: Sydney.)
Johnson, G.D. (1984). Percoidei: development and relationships. In Moser, H.G. et al. (eds) Ontogeny and systematics of fishes. Am. Soc. Ichthyol. Herpetol. Spec. Publ. 1: 464–498 figs 254–264
Katayama, M. (1960). Fauna Japonica. Serranidae (Pisces). Tokyo : Biogeographical Society of Japan 189 pp. 86 pls
Kuiter, R.H. & Allen, G.R. (1985). A synopsis of the Australian pygmy perches (Percichthyidae), with the description of a new species. Rev. Fr. Aquariol. 12: 109–116 figs 1–12
Loughnan, S.R., Baranski, M.D., Robinson, N.A., Jones, P.L. & Burridge, C.P. 2004. Microsatellite loci for studies of wild and hatchery Australian Murray cod Maccullochella peelii peelii (Percichthyidae). Molecular Ecology Notes 4: 382-384.
MacDonald, C.M. (1978). Morphological and biochemical systematics of Australian freshwater and estuarine percichthyid fishes. Aust. J. Mar. Freshwat. Res. 29(5): 667–698 figs 1–11
McDowall, R.M. (1996). Freshwater Fishes of South-eastern Australia. Sydney : Reed Books 2nd Edn. 247 pp.
Nelson, J.S. 1984. Fishes of the World. New York : John Wiley & Sons 523 pp.
Nelson, J.S. (1994). Fishes of the World. New York : John Wiley & Sons 3rd Edn 600 pp.
Nelson, J.S. 2006. Fishes of the World. Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 601 pp.
Nock, C.J., M.S. Elphinstone, S.J. Rowland & P.R. Baverstock. 2010. Phylogenetics and revised taxonomy of the Australian freshwater cod genus, Maccullochella (Percichthyidae). Marine and Freshwater Research 61: 980–991.
Paxton, J.R., Hoese, D.F., Allen, G.R. & Hanley, J.E. (1989). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Pisces Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 7 665 pp.
Pusey, B., Kennard, M. & Arthington, A. (2004). Freshwater Fishes of North-eastern Australia. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne.
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Passport: Kremlin’s ‘Sputnik’ Newswire Is the BuzzFeed of Propaganda Kremlin’s ‘Sputnik’ News...
Kremlin’s ‘Sputnik’ Newswire Is the BuzzFeed of Propaganda
Out of the ashes of RIA Novosti, the respected Russian state news agency that was dissolved last year, a curious, postmodern kind of bird has emerged. It’s called Sputnik, and it’s the Kremlin’s latest foreign-facing outlet, designed to counter “propaganda promoting a unipolar world.” The outlet launched on Monday, and even as its head, Dmitry ...
By Elias Groll
| November 10, 2014, 11:01 PM
Photo by Mark Davis/Getty Images for Buzzfeed
Out of the ashes of RIA Novosti, the respected Russian state news agency that was dissolved last year, a curious, postmodern kind of bird has emerged. It’s called Sputnik, and it’s the Kremlin’s latest foreign-facing outlet, designed to counter “propaganda promoting a unipolar world.”
The outlet launched on Monday, and even as its head, Dmitry Kiselyov, took to a Moscow stage to insist that Sputnik will serve up a more objective kind of news, it’s obvious what it really is: yet another compliant outlet to trumpet the Kremlin line. “We will provide alternative interpretations that are, undoubtedly, in demand around the world,” Kiselyov said.
Like RT, Sputnik slickly remixes President Vladimir Putin’s brand of revanchist nationalism for an international audience, presenting the United States as an ailing imperial power bent on holding on to its domains. But whereas RT functions more like a tabloid news service, Sputnik looks to be presenting a kind of propaganda that’s very much rooted in 2014. RT, one might say, is the Daily Mail of Kremlin propaganda — aggressive, brash, and often ridiculous. (One headline from its homepage: “Cockroaches to the rescue: ‘Cyborg’ insects can help save people trapped in earthquakes.”) Sputnik, meanwhile, is like its BuzzFeed equivalent: cheeky, Internet-savvy, smarter.
It’s only the site’s first day in operation, but judging by its output so far, Sputnik seems to be taking a slightly edgier approach to propaganda. Or at least trying to. An article headlined “Kiev’s Top 5 Mistakes That Made Eastern Ukraine Crisis Worse” blasts the pro-Western government for labeling pro-Russian rebels “terrorists,” for shelling civilian areas, and for allying with disreputable militia groups. It’s certainly not an innovative way to present Putin’s take on the crisis, but it does succeed in repackaging it as a web-friendly “listicle” while failing to mention the many ways Moscow has made the crisis work.
Another article examines the different names used to describe the self-proclaimed Islamic State, concluding that the media’s frequent use of the ISIL acronym “ultimately made it easier to convince Americans — and the rest of the alliance — of the need for an Iraqi and Syrian War.” Even if that argument doesn’t quite ring true, the article represents a kind of news analysis that an outlet like RT doesn’t typically engage in.
A similar article argues that the reported killing or wounding of Islamic State commander Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi won’t seriously harm the group. And that’s an argument that makes a great deal of sense.
The highlight of Sputnik’s opening day content is a piece looking at independence movements around the world, which serves as justification for Russia’s annexation of Crimea. A listicle of global secession efforts, the article lumps Crimea in with Scotland, Spain’s Catalonia region, the Italian region of Veneto, and Miami. Yes, Miami. “To be clear, the southern half of the panhandle state isn’t looking to create the world’s newest nation and form a standing army of sun-bleached blonde models and Disney characters (Orlando would be in the newly created state),” the author writes. “Rather, they are looking to establish America’s newest state with its own legislative body and the ability to protect itself from an encroaching force: the ocean.”
Just like the people of Miami, the residents of Crimea are on this reading just trying to look out for their own futures:
In March, the now-former Ukraine region known as Crimea held its own plebiscite and declared itself a sovereign state before joining the Russian Federation. Unlike in the aforementioned votes [in Scotland and Catalonia], Crimean citizens acted following a coup and change in administration in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, prompting the Russian majority in Crimea to organize the referendum.
According to the head of the Crimean Parliament’s commission on the referendum, Mikhail Malyshev, 81.3 percent of eligible voters participated. The European Union and the United States called the referendum invalid.
That Russia orchestrated this referendum through an egregious violation of international law — the insertion of Russian troops that effectively toppled the local government — goes unmentioned.
Rounding out Sputnik’s inaugural day is an interview with an old Russian general arguing against talk of a new Cold War, an article on Tony Blair’s work for Saudi oil companies, and a short look at how U.S. support for Kurdish fighters might lead to a confrontation between the Iraqi central government in Baghdad and an increasingly autonomous Kurdistan.
Taken together, Sputnik’s content is beating a predictable drum of anti-Western rhetoric, but it’s doing so in such a way that is building up a more robust ecosystem for pro-Kremlin views. Its slick, modern logo and elegant design call to mind a reputable media outlet, and it functions as a lighter complement to RT’s more obviously neo-Soviet aspirations. Now, when Putin wants an un-ironic listicle of his Top 10 Manly Moments, he has someone to call.
Indeed, Sputnik, which shares a name with the first satellite launched into space, is the result of a consolidation of state power over Russian media. Late last year, Putin announced that he would dissolve RIA Novosti and install one of his loyalists as its head. Sputnik is the result of that effort; Novosti’s old web address automatically redirects to Sputnik. In a measure of Novosti’s former independence, the news agency wrote that its destruction points “toward a tightening of state control in the already heavily regulated media sector.”
That this tightening of state control has resulted in something so remarkably fluffy is a measure of just how savvy the Kremlin’s spin doctors are.
Elias Groll is a staff writer at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @EliasGroll
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The Age of the Airship May Be Dawning Again
Dirigibles ruled the skies once. Can they make a comeback?
By Justin Ling
| February 29, 2020, 9:00 AM
You might think that the tragic end of the Hindenburg disaster in 1937 marked a clear end to the airship era. The famous footage of the German airship plunging in flames became the overwhelming image of a seemingly doomed technology.
For decades, the Goodyear fleet of blimps have been the only working airships most people had a chance of seeing in real life. But a handful of companies are looking to bring back the spectacular dirigibles.
The government of Quebec will be pitching 30 million Canadian dollars (23 million in U.S. dollars) to Flying Whales, a French company, to start building its massive zeppelins. The company has only been around since 2012, and it hasn’t gotten any of its airships off the ground—yet. The plan has been derided by opposition parties, not as a flying whale but as a white elephant.
But cargo airships may actually make a tremendous amount of sense. They are relatively cheap, they can carry enormous amounts of material, and they emit significantly less greenhouse gas than other modes of transportation.
The compelling arguments for dirigible travel put these airships in a class of technology, with nuclear power and lunar colonization, that is experiencing an unexpected modern renaissance.
Flying Whales’ LCA60T model, according to the company, will be able to carry up to 60 metric tons of goods, travel up to 62 miles per hour, and serve remote areas with ease. If all goes according to plan, the company hopes to get the first airship off the ground in 2022.
There’s still a healthy dose of skepticism around the company’s lofty promises. Its main backers, prior to Quebec’s financial endorsement, have been the French National Forest Agency and the Chinese government.
Flying Whales’ website is enigmatic, and the section of the site explaining the airships’ structure isn’t particularly helpful—the description of its structure reads “what else… – Hi George :)” while if you’re looking for details on their “safe lifting gas” it reads, somewhat snarkily, “helium obviously.”
It’s that last point that might make the whole idea completely untenable: There might just not be enough helium left.
The R-100 airship, circa 1920. Theodor Horydczak/U.S. Library of Congress
A slow, steady return
While the most famous airship may be the Hindenburg, it was hardly the first—nor was it the last.
For a time in the first half of the 20th century, airships were fashionable, practical, and futuristic. But their calamitous track record ultimately soured the public.
Less remembered, perhaps because its downing was never immortalized on an album cover, was the English airship R101. The dirigible was dubbed the “socialist airship,” as it was designed and built by the United Kingdom’s state aviation department. The R101 was constructed as part of a state-sponsored competition, pitting government engineers against private-sector workers. The “capitalist airship,” the R100, was designed and constructed by a scrappy engineering team on a remote airbase in Yorkshire.
The opulent socialist airship was rushed to flight, even amid a variety of problems. It took off, en route to British India, just as its capitalist competitor set off for Canada. The government airship sagged and crashed into the French countryside just a day into its voyage, killing 48 of the 54 onboard—including the aviation minister—while the private airship conducted a celebrated tour of Montreal and Toronto before heading back to London. (“Everybody’s talking about the R100,” goes the chorus of a song from the iconic francophone Canadian folk singer La Bolduc.)
Most airships of the day took off using the highly flammable hydrogen—thanks mostly to an American monopoly on helium, its nonflammable alternative. Washington had banned the export of the gas, in part over fears of the military uses of the airships, which had been used in the world’s first air raids on London during World War I.
The helium-buoyant American ships weren’t always safe, either. The USS Akron carried out several successful flights across the continent, but it was ultimately pushed down by strong winds in 1933 and crashed into the Atlantic, killing 73 people on board and two rescuers.
As U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt remarked after the Akron went down, “ships can be replaced, but the Nation can ill afford to lose such men.” Eventually, governments stopped replacing the ships.
The USS Akron over New York City in the early 1930s. U.S. Navy/Interim Archives/Getty Images
But it was the 1937 Hindenburg disaster, made famous by the newsreel footage of the zeppelin bursting into a ball of flames as it tried to dock at the Lakehurst air base in New Jersey, that really scuttled the industry. The United States’ decision to lift its helium ban after the crash did little to revive faith in airships. The U.S. Navy used its small fleet for anti-submarine warfare and reconnaissance in World War II, but the airship industry was effectively dead.
It would stage a comeback, in a limited way, some decades later, when Goodyear opted for nonrigid airships—blimps—for its advertising campaigns. Airship Industries came around in the 1980s, promising a return of the dirigible. Its ships, like Goodyear’s ships, had no rigid structure inside, meaning they could carry only limited cargo and no more than 14 passengers. The airships of earlier in the century had immense metal structures inside, allowing them to carry more. These new nonrigid ships were made famous by Bond villains, Pink Floyd, and, later, by Ron Paul supporters.
Fame aside, the blimps had little use for commercial air travel or cargo transport. The niche purpose of the blimps meant Airship Industries was hemorrhaging money, and it shut down by the end of the decade.
As with many other commercially nonviable products, airships later found a home in the U.S. military. There was a hope that the dirigibles, which are capable of taking off and staying aloft for prolonged periods of time, would be ideal for persistent aerial surveillance.
The contractor Northrop Grumman was awarded a $517 million contract to build a surveillance airship in 2010, and it managed to build a successful prototype in 2012. The contract was axed a year later. Raytheon was awarded nearly $3 billion for its model, which tethered the airship to a mooring and allowed for constant surveillance of a wide area for a month at a time.
One of Raytheon’s spy blimps was tested in Maryland, where it hung eerily in the sky above suburban homes. In 2015, it broke loose from its mooring and drifted haplessly through Pennsylvania, trailed by fighter jets, before crashing in a field. Raytheon’s hopes of building more surveillance dirigibles crashed with it.
A similar program in Afghanistan, which became notorious among Kabul residents, saw even worse results. The tethers that kept the Big Brother balloons in place were notorious for snaring helicopter blades—one incident killed five American and British service members.
An aerial visualization of the Ocean Sky airship. KIRT x THOMSEN
A commercial appeal?
The market for military airships and commercial blimps remained limited thanks to past failures, though not dead entirely.
The cruise company OceanSky is forging ahead with plans to send a passenger airship to the Arctic, using a ship originally designed under the U.S. military’s surveillance program, with a planned voyage in 2023.
Many are banking that the real future of airships, however, is in cargo.
In the vast expanses of the Canadian north, there has long been a need for reliable transportation. Many communities are only accessible by road when winter rolls around and the ground and lakes are solid enough to drive on, if they are accessible by road at all. That means basic goods need to be stockpiled when the weather is cold or flown in by cargo plane—never mind supplies to build long-term infrastructure. Many of these remote communities are reliant on gas generators and are facing shortages of reliable housing stock.
The airships also promise to be a boon for economic development, if they work.
In 2016, a junior mining company in Quebec inked an agreement with U.K.-based Straightline Aviation to use a design being developed by Lockheed Martin to haul rare earth minerals from a remote open-pit mine—the road that was initially planned would have cut across a caribou migration path. That plan went belly-up when the minerals company went bankrupt, although Straightline is forging ahead with plans to offer commercial and tourism flights.
The interior of the Ocean Sky airship. Hybrid Air Vehicles Ltd and Design Q
Stranded resources and communities are a policy concern in Canada, Alaska, Greenland, Russia, and elsewhere. Flights are expensive and carbon dioxide-intensive, and they require airport infrastructure. Shipping is more viable as Arctic ice melts, but that often requires deep-water ports and can have damaging impacts on marine life. It’s part of why people keep coming back to airships.
That’s the niche Quebec Premier François Legault is hoping Flying Whale can fill in the province’s remote north.
It’s why the French forestry sector is interested in the ships as well. The promise of lifting lumber from far-off places earned the company praise from French President Emmanuel Macron as one of the “industries of the future.”
The opportunity is also caveated with an array of risks and problems. There is no guarantee that the airships will even fly in the frigid north—Le Journal de Quebec reported that the airships will need a significant amount of water, which may be hard to come by amid Arctic temperatures.
Quebec seems unphased.
“If we don’t take risks, we go nowhere,” Legault told reporters earlier in February. Quebec’s investment earned it a 25 percent stake in the project, which in turn brought derision from opposition politicians—one questioned whether the government was inhaling helium when it made the decision.
The money puts Quebec on par with China in the project—Beijing put in $4.9 million for its 24.9 percent stake, through the state-owned Aviation Industry Corporation of China General and the Ministry of Science and Technology. China has plenty of Arctic ambitions itself—and vast distances to cover in its underpopulated west.
The Hindenburg disaster in Lakehurst, New Jersey, on May 6, 1937. Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images
A lack of lift
There’s one massive drawback for the airship industry: The world is almost out of helium.
In recent years, helium prices have skyrocketed as supply has dwindled. Far from just being used in party balloons and blimps, the gas is necessary for MRI scanners and rocket engines. Stockpiles of helium often escape, and are wasted, during other extractive projects. While there have been shortages before, helium is a nonrenewable resource and can take an enormously long time to generate—estimates suggest the earth’s supply could be gone this century.
If the world runs out of helium, it’s not clear that there’s a good alternative. The dangers of hydrogen are well established, and the gas behind the Hindenburg disaster is unlikely to make an air travel comeback.
Hypothetically, there could be an airship lifted by a vacuum—that is, by material that can contain nothing at all inside but withstand the atmospheric pressure from the outside. It is, at this point, science fiction, although NASA has posited that some kind of vacuum airship could eventually be used to explore the surface of Mars.
Airship companies seem satisfied with helium for the time being. OceanSky cruises has a reassuring FAQ on its website, telling those looking to join them on an airship trip to the North Pole that 600 of their cruise ships “would account for just 1% of annual helium consumption” and that each ship “stays filled with the same helium as from its inception, less a tiny annual leakage.”
If these airships can take off despite carrying a century of failed projects, a lack of its necessary resource, and economic justifications that still seem more wishful thinking than reality—it might just be the return of the zeppelin.
Justin Ling is a journalist based in Toronto.
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craxie
CANTSTOP21
I thought by now everyone here knew that Crazie is never wrong? What's wrong with you all of you that disagree with him? JEEZUS!!
Fear knocked on the door, faith answered, there was nobody there!
Originally posted by NoMoreExcuses04 View Post
Kim is right. Talk is cheap.
But in May, that's all there is, so you can either complain about it or accept it.
WhoMe??
Originally posted by craxie View Post
Tiki managed it while leading the league in yards from scrimmage 2 years in a row
Yes he didn't use 2 arms the entire time, but he sure did when it mattered
Would those be Barber's 8th and 9th years in the league when he had 5 fumbles (like Matthews) and 1, or the 5 years prior to that when he had, let's see, 5,9,8,9 & 9? Sure glad he got around to fixing that problem right away.
Last edited by WhoMe??; 05-31-2012, 01:37 AM. Reason: grammar
Captain Penny's Rule: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time; but you can't fool mom."
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Jesus, craxie needs to shut his mouth if he's gonna just spew nonesense. Mathews fumbled exacty once over the last 5 games (92 carries) and twice through the first 8 games.
He had one bad game against Chicago where he fumbled twice.
Fumbling at this point isn't all that huge an issue, the thing the article did address was Mathews inability to make the last man miss. Something that if e can improve on, could very well thrust him to the elite in the NFL.
Originally posted by theedge634 View Post
He also has a tendency to run pretty upright which leads to taking big hits.
That said, when he does make a guy miss or gets into the open field...it is obvious how explosive he is.
He certainly has things he can improve on but really his biggest thing is health. If he is relatively healthy and on the field for most or all of the games, I think he will have a huge season.
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humbolt
Trump is not my president
One key, highlighted area is making the last defender miss in the open field.
In 2011, Mathews had 34 rushes of 10 or more yards, tied for third most in the league. But he’s yet to break off a 40-yard run in his career, and he was one of only two running backs last season to total 200 rushes without a run of 40 or more yards.
This is not a big deal IMO. If the Bolts score consistently from inside the red zone, I prefer the long, clock-consuming drives that wear down opposing defenses and keeps our defense fresh. I'd rather have Mathews rip off four 10-yard runs during a drive than a single 40+ yarder.
#Bernieismypresident
Originally posted by humbolt View Post
... I'd rather have Mathews rip off four 10-yard runs during a drive than a single 40+ yarder.
are you saying you don't miss the Fouts era where he'd take the team down and score before the defense could take off their helmets....
I swear there were times those guys couldn't finish a cup of water...
Originally posted by SanDiegoRon View Post
I will always reminisce fondly on the Fouts era, but those days were hard on the Bolts' defenses.
Mister Swede
Originally posted by KimPossible View Post
I don't give a rat's a** about the off season from any player or coach. Just show up to the real season.
Every single year under this tenure it is "going to be different." Good, I hope it is. Just shut up and prove it.
It IS different every year. We find new and interesting ways to blow it than in the previous years.
Damn, modding!!! How'd you guys wake up the beast????
Still_here
Grice-Gone but not forgotten
Originally posted by Old School SD Fan View Post
Craxie, you were much better with the VJ situation.
Good thing this is preseason, I expect better from you come September.
http://www.chargers.com/news/article...5-1504839d23a7
By Scott Yoffe
Chargers running back Ryan Mathews is preparing to have his number called a lot in 2012.
Chargers Head Coach Norv Turner hopes that No. 24 is a number he can dial with more frequency in 2012.
That means Ryan Mathews, the Chargers’ Pro Bowl running back fresh off a 1,500-yard campaign that ended with an invitation to play in the Pro Bowl, should be one of the NFL’s top workhorses and a Fantasy Football favorite in 2012.
Mathews rushed for 1,091 yards in 2011 and added 455 as a pass-catcher to become just the 14th player in team history to top 1,500 total yards from scrimmage, earning the Chargers’ offensive player of the year award.
“We’re going to give Ryan everything he can handle,” said Turner of his expectations for Mathews. “Ryan is going to get an opportunity to play a lot of football and he’s grown over the last two years, developing like a young player should.”
Mathews looks like a chiseled physical specimen as he makes his way around Chargers Park. It’s really the first time as a pro he’s been able to enjoy a full offseason working with his teammates and coaches, including the Chargers’ strength and conditioning program.
“I’ve been working hard this offseason and I’ve been preparing myself for this upcoming season,” Mathews said. “Actually getting to work out with the team and stuff; basically just being with the team and being able to be here with the coaches and really getting work in. That’s what I didn’t get last year.”
New fullback Le’Ron McClain, who’s lined up in front of some talented backs during his career, has been impressed by what he’s seen in Mathews.
“He reminds me of Ray Rice with the power,” explained McClain. “People may not think Ray Rice has power, but Ray can catch a check-down and use his power to get up the field and get 10 or 12 yards. And he has the smoothness of Arian Foster for running stretch plays, getting into the gap and turning on that other gear down the sidelines. He’s got all dimensions because he can do everything. Ryan’s a two-type of back because he can hit you with the power and he has speed. I don’t know if a lot of people know about it, but he’s fast.”
Only the 10th player in team history to top 1,000 yards rushing, Mathews really found his legs late in the season, rushing for more than 100 yards in consecutive games against Denver, Jacksonville and Buffalo. During that same stretch, he put together a string of five-straight games in which he had at least one run of 20 yards or longer. Only two other players in franchise history, Natrone Means and Paul Lowe, had similar streaks. Mathews’ average of 4.9 yards per carry became the sixth-highest in team history (min. 200 attempts).
The late-season push is what earned Mathews a spot as a second-alternate on the AFC Pro Bowl roster. And when two players ahead of him pulled out of the game, Mathews got the call that there was a ticket to Hawaii waiting with his name on it. Though a bit overwhelming, that week in Hawaii did a lot to boost Mathews’ confidence.
“Just being able to be around (the other Pro Bowl players), to be invited and get to fly out there and everything,” said Mathews of the experience. “Just being able to be on the same field as them and the same locker room and see what they do and I talked to a few of the guys and I think it boosted my confidence also. It’s kind of overwhelming to be there the first time and see all those guys, but it helped boost my confidence a little more.”
As a former first-round draft pick, Mathews knows all eyes are on him to succeed and he’s meeting the challenge head on. Though they’ve only been working together for about two months, McClain can sense that Mathews is ready for a big year.
“His confidence level is all the way up,” said McClain. “He knows the workload that he has to take on this year. He looks smooth and fast, he’s catching the ball great and he’s getting his conditioning level up to the maximum. I think he’s doing great.”
And when asked about it himself, Mathews only needed a few words to answer.
“I’m ready. Yeah, I’m ready.”
*** this guy is in for a big year.... maybe he'll get his own thread...
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The current COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a global crisis with short- and long-term implications for health, the economy, and social relations. The negative impacts of the crisis are expected to be more pronounced in developing countries. Therefore, there is an urgent need for policymakers in these countries to monitor the extent of the spread as well as ongoing and future implications. Against this background, G²LM|LIC launched a special call of interest for research on COVID-19 in low-income countries. Relevant Two types of research are needed:
First, research aiming at collecting data utilizing innovative approaches (e.g., mobile technology, internet, etc.) to give insights on the current status of the pandemic as well as the economic and social impacts of different measures taken by governments to curb the spread of the pandemic.
Second, innovative research projects with designs that allow for longer-term impact evaluations of the pandemic and measures taken by governments, using wide-range of research methodologies and data sources (e.g., administrative data, publicly available data, private sector data including remote sensing data, online or phone surveys, etc.). These can be new or in addition to existing longitudinal surveys as long as they address the implications of COVID-19.
The research projects aim to focus on vulnerable groups, other than women, e.g. informal workers, migrants, factory workers, etc. The research will provide evidence-based policy recommendations to help in achieving quick policy responses to COVID-19 challenges.
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Resilience and recovery: The economic impact of COVID-19 on the informal sector in Uganda
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Assessing the labor market impact of COVID-19 on women with young children in Egypt
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Remittances and Coping with COVID‐19
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Gender Effects of COVID-19: Evidence from the Kenya Life Panel Survey
Governments in many countries are implementing social distancing measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19, yet there is limited evidence about the effectiveness of these measures in low-income contexts. This is particularly true of travel restrictions/lockdowns; this, plus school closures, are likely to have major labor market implications, and potentially differential effects by gender. The…
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Getting workers back to good matches: Wage Vouchers in the Wake of COVID-19
Prolonged production shutdowns due to COVID-19 are severing ties between employers and workers. In Myanmar’s garments sector, as of early April, tens of thousands of workers have already been laid off, with many more facing risks of job loss. Further, some firms appear to be acting opportunistically to fire union members. These types of manufacturing…
Migration, Changing Residence Patterns, and Covid-19in India
Informal insurance through family members and temporary migration are among the most important ways that individuals in low-income countries mitigate economic shocks. Covid-19makes these traditional means of informal insurance socially costly. Temporary or permanent migrants respond to the negative economic shock of the pandemic by returning home to co-reside with family members and risk spreading…
Meet Your Future: Job Search Effort and Aspirations of Young Jobseekers
The study is looking for add-on funding for descriptive data collection around COVID-19 using two samples from an existing ongoing project called “Meet You Future: Job Search Effort and Aspirations of Young Jobseekers”. The main study –jointly funded by a JPAL initiative and an IDRC grant -investigates the relevant barriers to quality employment that young…
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20 Facts You Didn’t Know About The Office
By Dominic Franks, Reporter
If you know me, you’ll be happy to know that my favorite show is The Office, I mean I’ve seen it eighteen times… The show is a classic sitcom to watch for any occasion really. You can watch it when you’re bored, doing homework, hanging with friends(which you won’t be doing during quarantine), eating, making art, and more.
Along with the iconicness of the show, there are some behind the “scene secrets” most fans don’t know. Here’s a list of 20.
John Krasinski had to cut his hair for a movie he was filming, so during a few episodes in season three, he was wearing a wig.
The kiss between Oscar and Michael was improvised by Steve Carell, so the cast’s reactions were completely real
Steve Carell has very active sweat glands, so the thermostat was always set to 64 degrees
Rainn Wilson also auditioned for the role of Michael Scott
Phyllis was actually a casting associate for the show and helped the actors with their lines, but the producers liked her, so they made her a role for the show.
John Krasinski actually shot the opening credits on a trip he took to Scranton, Pennsylvania.
The cold open where Jim pops Dwight’s fitness orb was a complete accident
B.J. Novak was the first person to get casted.
The first season was shot in an actual office, while the other seasons were filmed on a soundstage.
The lactation consultant who helps pam is played by Jenna Fischers husband, Lee Kirk
After they got cast, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, Steve Carell, and Rainn Wilson had lunch and predicted the show to last eight years
In the episode “Lunch Party’, Jim accidentally signs Meredith’s cast “John Krasinski”
Steve Carell is married to Nancy Ellen Carell, who played Carol Stills on the show.
John Krasinski wrote a heartfelt note to Jenna Fischer, which was actually the note Jim put in Pam’s teapot.
Mindy Kahling used to prank B.J. Novak by making up lies about their co-stars.
During Jim and Dwights fight scenes, the actors would give each other arguing tips.
The showrunners didn’t tell NBC executives that Steve Carell would return for the finale, so Creed read Michael’s final lines.
Many of the cast members, such as John Krasinski, Ed Helms, Mindy Kahling, and B.J Novak directed episodes.
The cast and crew shot and wrote too more footage than needed, so some episodes could’ve been twice as long.
And Last but not least, during season five, production had to be shut down because John and Rainn couldn’t stop laughing at Kelly’s ridiculous birthday party.
Dominic Franks, Reporter
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Is the (Tea) Party Over?
Ron Paul February 26, 2018
The recently-passed big-spending budget deal’s failure to generate significant opposition from the “tea party” has led some to pen obituaries for this once-powerful movement. These commentators may have a point. However, few of them understand the true causes of the tea party’s demise.
The movement commonly referred to as the tea party arose in opposition to the 2008 bank bailouts.
The tea party grew as its focus shifted to opposition to President Obama’s policies, particularly his stimulus spending bill, cap-and-trade legislation, and, of course, the health care plan tea party leaders successfully branded as Obamacare.
In its early days, the tea party was equally opposed to big spenders in both parties.
In fact, it was often harder on Republicans than on Democrats.
Tea party groups even backed primary challengers to Republican incumbents.
Unfortunately, the tea party was quickly co-opted by the GOP.
As a result, while tea party groups still opposed Republican policies, they began muting their opposition to all but the worst Republican politicians.
Now that Republicans control the White House and Congress, tea party groups have even muted their opposition to the policies.
This reinforces the tendency of Republicans to support spending bills backed by Donald Trump or George W. Bush that they would have fought tooth and nail if they were proposed by Barack Obama or Bill Clinton.
The tea party’s effectiveness as a force for fiscal conservatism was also crippled by the support of too many of its leaders and favorite politicians for a hyper-interventionist foreign policy.
Support for foreign interventionism logically requires support for huge military budgets, which conflicts with a commitment to fiscal conservatism.
Some tea party-backed politicians tried to reconcile support for militarism and fiscal conservatism by claiming to be “cheap hawks.”
The problem with this formulation is that the so-called cheap hawks accept the neoconservative premise that American exceptionalism justifies US military intervention around the globe.
This makes it impossible for them to resist the calls for increased military spending to ensure the United States has the ability to police the world in the name of “democracy.”
Devotion to protecting the military-industrial complex from the budget ax leads defense hawks to cut deals with progressives to increase spending on both warfare and welfare.
We saw this with the recent budget deal, where so-called fiscal conservatives defended a $65 billion increase in domestic spending because it was necessary to get progressive support for an $80 billion increase in military spending.
One cannot be both a budget hawk and a defense hawk.
Fortunately, while the tea party is dead or at least on life support, a related movement is alive and growing.
This is the liberty movement that grew out of my 2008 presidential campaign.
Ironically, one of the first events of that movement was called a “tea party.”
Unlike the tea party, the liberty movement does not just focus on domestic policy.
It works to roll back government in all areas.
Thus, the liberty movement is just as committed to ending unnecessary and unconstitutional wars and protecting civil liberties as it is to repealing Obamacare.
Liberty movement leaders and activists also refuse to compromise their principles for the benefit of the Republican Party.
The commitment to consistency and principle may be why the liberty movement is so attractive to young people.
This growing movement is a source of hope that the cause of individual liberty, free markets, and limited government will prevail.
Article posted with permission from Ron Paul
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Dr. Ron Paul is an American physician, author, and former politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 14th congressional district, which includes Galveston, from 1997 to 2013 as well as the 22nd congressional district for special term between 1976 and 1977, when he lost reelection in 1978, and for 3 later terms, from 1979 to 1985. On three occasions, he sought the presidency of the United States: as the Libertarian Party candidate in 1988 and as a candidate in the Republican primaries in 2008 and 2012. Paul is best known for his libertarian views and is a critic of American foreign, domestic, and monetary policies, including the military–industrial complex, the War on Drugs, and the Federal Reserve. Paul has been married to Carol Wells since 1957. They have five children, 18 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren. Ron Paul produces a weekly column known as Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk and is the author of several books.
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Maxim Oreshkin: Young Technocrat and Minister of Economic Development
Maxim Oreshkin, at just 34 years of age, became Russia's Minister of Economic Development. Photo from Kremlin.ru.
Maxim Stanislavovich Oreshkin is a Russian economist and former investment banker now serving as Minister of Economic Development for the Russian Federation. At just 36 years of age, his rise has been significant. He is seen as quite free market oriented. In 2016, for instance, stated that “the only place where we can find the accelerator pedal, is outside the state, in the private economy.” As Minister, he has faced not only typical issues like development and economic relations with foreign countries, but also extraordinary ones like sanctions and trade wars.
Born on July 21, 1983, Oreshkin grew up in Moscow. His mother is a university professor and published scientist, while his older brother works in the banking industry. Oreshkin has remained quiet about his private life, however, and not much has been reported about his family. Almost nothing is known, for instance, about his father and he seems to have been raised by his mother.
In 1998, he entered the prestigious Higher School of Economics, where he earned both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Economics.
Banking Career and Beginning in Civil Service
Oreshkin worked at Russia’s Central Bank from 2002-2006, starting while still pursuing his master’s degree. During his time at the Central Bank he served as a chief economist, as well as head of the balance of payments department. He then held a number of positions at private banks, both Russian- and foreign-owned. From 2006-2010 worked at Rosbank, a major Russian bank headquartered in Moscow, as both a senior manager and managing director. Another step of his early career came in 2010, when he was named Head of Research on Russia and CIS at Crédit Agricole CIB, a French bank. In 2012, he moved to the massive state-controlled Russian investment bank VTB Capital as Chief Economist for Russia, Turkey, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and the Slovak Republic. He did not stay there for long, however, and quickly landed a position at the Russian Ministry of Finance in 2013 as director of the Long-term Strategic Planning Department. His meteoric rise continued in 2015 as he assumed the role of Deputy Minister of Finance.
Oreshkin made a name for himself quickly as a vocal and active member of the ministry. In 2015, he spoke against continuing to divert funds intended for long-term investment into Russia’s state pension funds. Since the economic crisis of 2014, Russia had faced budget shortfalls. The portion of revenue from Russia’s social taxes intended for investments was “frozen” and diverted for use in paying current pension needs. Oreshkin and others, however, argued that not investing that portion in Russia’s economy would hurt the economy and, in the long run, the pension system itself. He instead suggested the further privatization of Rosneft, Russia’s state-controlled oil company as a source of new revenue. Although his policy course was not taken (in part because Rosneft and its powerful head, Igor Sechin, vehemently oppose it), the incident did show that Oreshkin supported investment, savings, and liberal economic policies (and that he was willing to directly challenge powerful people to support them).
He has also supported increasing taxes on oil extraction. However, he has more recently backed away from this suggestion after moving to the Ministry of Economic Development. Interestingly, his previous position would have increased state revenues, benefiting the Ministry of Finance. That previous position, however, is somewhat controversial, as Russia’s hydrocarbon extraction companies will also need considerable capital to invest in opening new fields and maintaining production. Allowing the companies to keep and invest more of their profits can thus be seen as better for economic development, Oreshkin’s new purview as minister.
Minister of Economic Development
On November 30, 2016, Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Maxim Oreshkin to the position of Minister of Economic Development, commenting that “you haven’t been working for very long, but as a whole you have worked for some time and you’ve proved yourself successful.” The former minister, Aleksey Ulyukayev, had fallen from grace due to a bribery scandal and has since been convicted by a Russian court and sentenced to eight years in prison and a $2 million fine. As Minister of Economic Development, Oreshkin’s responsibilities include presiding over the Ministry of Economic Development, which is the Russian government agency responsible for business regulation and facilitating a strong economy. Oreshkin also serves on the National Financial Board, a council of the most important economic policymakers in Russia.
Oreshkin meets with President Vladimir Putin. Photo from Kremlin.ru.
Oreshkin’s tenure has been notable for three key developments. These are the weathering of sanctions by western countries, returning Russia’s economy to growth through macroeconomic and regulatory reform, and handling trade relations with foreign countries.
Sanctions have frozen assets held by some Russian individuals and organizations and blocked access to credit for them. These have included major Russian banks that, in turn, are responsible to providing lending to the wider economy. This is a big issue, as the major state-controlled banks have assets that are, on average, 94 times greater than smaller Russian banks. Thus, the banks impacted most are also the ones with the largest role in the economy. Other problematic situations caused by sanctions like reduced economic growth and the depreciation of the Russian Ruble on world markets, have largely stemmed from decreased investment, lost as credit vanished. Wider uncertainty caused by sanctions led foreign direct investment (FDI) in Russia to fall by 98% in 2015. As Minister of Economic Development, Maxim Oreshkin is keenly concerned with how to adjust to and deal with these situations.
Some measures taken include trying to minimize uncertainty and calming business concerns. The most tangible example of this is in how Oreshkin has given several speeches outlining measures that the Central Bank, Ministry of Finance, and Ministry of Economic Development are taking. Although the three entities have had a reputation as warring forces fighting for policy turf, Oreshkin and other current heads have been vocal in confirming that they are on the same policy page. Furthermore, all three have found much success in being active with the press to make sure that their policy directions are publicly known. Oreshkin has been particularly adept at doing this for international investors as his knowledge of economics is complimented by fluent English.
He feels that Russia will successfully weather the effects of sanctions, saying that although “Macroeconomics and financial markets will of course withstand [losses],” the floating exchange rate will moderate the problem. A floating exchange rate is set by market forces rather than a government or central bank. Theoretically, the lower demand for rubles will decrease the ruble’s value, and therefore increase the price of imports, making local goods more attractive, while decreasing the price of exports, making them more attractive outside Russia as well.
Oreshkin speaks about the lessening impact of sanctions on the Russian economy.
To foster economic development in Russia, Oreshkin has argued that attracting foreign investment requires promoting a “predictable business environment.” This appears to be succeeding at least a little bit, as foreign direct investment in Russia reached $20-25 billion in 2017. While still not at pre-sanctions levels, FDI has recovered significantly from the initial shock of sanctions. Oreshkin confirmed that the outlook is improving in a speech he gave at a development conference.
The two main methods the Ministry is looking to use to achieve the goal of a predictable business environment are through macroeconomic policy and the regulatory environment. As far as macroeconomic policy, Oreshkin has discussed tax deductions for foreign companies that do infrastructure work, particularly in electrical grids and power generation, where Russia could gain considerably from increased efficiency. The idea behind this policy is simple. Tax deductions lower firms’ costs, making them more likely to want to invest in Russia. Reforming the regulatory environment in Russia is also important to him. He stresses the importance of “clarity, predictability and transparency” for businesses. This addresses a prominent complaint of foreign investors: that Russian regulations can be unclear and capricious. Recent legislation appears to have gone some way in resolving these issues.
Oreshkin speaks on economic development in Russia.
Finally, Oreshkin has done significant work with foreign countries to ensure cooperation and promote mutual investment.
Some countries he has made significant strides with include India, Egypt, and China. This year, for example, Russia and India announced several measures to integrate their economic efforts. This includes not only assisting each other in catching tax-dodgers by sharing tax service information, but also improving transport links between the countries, pushing for increased rupee-ruble trade (as part of a wider effort to “de-dollarize” as additional insulation from sanctions), working to open “single-window” government service for Russian companies operating in India, and, of course, growing trade in arms and defense, which has historically been strong between the two countries. Additionally, Oreshkin will be one of the key speakers at the first Russia-India Strategic Dialogue held in St. Petersburg, which will seek to advance the two countries’ cooperation in agriculture, small- and medium-sized business, transport, industry, and digital transformation to speak at a conference on Russia-India relations.
Minister Oreshkin quite recently announced that the EAEU will soon open talks with Egypt about a possible FTA. This is linked to a Russian industrial zone being established in the Suez Canal Economic Zone. It has potentially much wider implications, however, as much of Egypt’s considerable wheat imports and arms purchases come from Russia and Russian tourists contribute greatly to Egypt’s important tourism industry. This will also help strengthen the EAEU, another long-term policy goal for Russia.
Economic relations between Russia and China are another important issue. Some key developments include boosting trade in rubles and yuan to substitute for the dollar, billions of dollars’ worth of investment, and upgrading infrastructure to facilitate trade. Minister Oreshkin has expressed a desire to boost exports to China in light of the ongoing trade war between China and the United States. Cooperation has helped both countries assuage the effects of sanctions and tariffs imposed by the United States. While such a relationship would not have been expected during the Cold War, it makes more and more sense from a comparative advantage point of view—Russia has natural resources and China has manufacturing might.
Oreshkin has also been vocal on sanctions and tariffs imposed by the US on Russia. For instance, following steel and aluminum tariffs imposed by the United States, he has “calculated the damage done to our economy by this decision of the United States, it stands at about $600 million.” The tariffs have harmed Russia’s steel and aluminum producers. He estimates that Russian retaliatory duties have brought in about $100 million. He also stated that the US moves are counterproductive and hurtful to all countries, including the United States. In July 2018, Russia filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) that the United States’ tariffs were unlawful under WTO rules.
Oreshkin, center right, meets with other European Ministers of Economy. Photo from the Twitter account of the Russian Government
Praise and Criticism
Maxim Oreshkin has received both praise and criticism for his views and performance in both private sector and governmental positions. Anton Siluanov, the Russian Minister of Finance, described Oreshkin as a “classy macroeconomist” and a “super-qualified specialist.” Likewise, Elvira Nabiulina, head of the Central Bank, said that Oreshkin is, “one of the strongest macroeconomists in the country.” This is high praise indeed from some of the most important figures in the Russian economy.
Some of his former colleagues in the private sector have described him with words and phrases such as “diligent,” “well-connected, “easy to work with,” and “great analytic skills.”
In government, he is seen by some as a favorite of President Putin. However, both Russian officials and Oreshkin himself have not seemed inclined to accept this title. It is clear, however, that Oreshkin’s intelligence and capabilities are well-respected. After a formal economic education and a career in the banking industry, Oreshkin, although young, is seen as a capable technocrat.
Others have completely rejected the suggestion that Oreshkin is a favorite of President Putin. Common criticisms include that he is looking after the interests of liberal elites rather than Russia. Nikita Krichevsky, head researcher of the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said that, “Not Putin is behind Oreshkin but a narrow liberal group of people who are orientated to officials of the Central Bank, Sberbank, etc.” Oreshkin is part of a group of economic liberals within the government that face opposition from some hardliners who want to challenge Western democracies more.
The career of Maxim Oreshkin is on an upward trajectory. He seems capable, well-liked, and an effective leader for the Ministry of Economic Development. There has been some speculation that President Putin might endorse him as a successor for the presidency when Putin’s term expires, but for now that is all it is—speculation. In the meantime, it can be expected that he will continue to look after the interests of the Russian economy as he understands them and at least attempt to usher in reforms that will grow it.
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The ultimate Travel Guide to Peel, Isle of Man
By Girlswanderlust January 14, 2020 United KingdomLeave a Comment on The ultimate Travel Guide to Peel, Isle of Man
Head west on the Isle of Man and you’ll find Peel, the third largest town on the Island. Peel is a thriving Manx fishing port and is known as the ‘Sunset City’. Next to award stunning sunsets, in Peel you can explore the magnificent ruins of Peel Castle, try the world famous Manx Kippers, and eat some of the best ice cream in the Isle of Man! This travel guide to Peel, Isle of Man, will give you advice on how to get to Peel, where to eat in Peel, what to do in Peel, and where to stay in Peel. Enjoy!
What about Peel, Isle of Man?
Peel is a seaside town and small fishing port on the Isle of Man. It is the third largest town on the island after Douglas and Ramsey. Fishing has a long history in Peel as it once was the island’s main fishing port. To this day, the harbor can be seen filled with boats of the fishing trade. The world famous Manx kippers are smoked in Peel.
Peel offers many local shops, restaurants, narrow streets, small houses near the coast, a pleasant beach, a promenade, and a beautiful castle. In the evening a stunning sunset can be seen, which is why Peel is also known as the Sunset City.
How to get to Peel, Isle of Man?
Peel is located on the west coast of the Isle of Man. To the north west is St Patrick’s Isle (Peel Castle), connected to the mainland by a causeway, and to the west across the river is Peel Hill (Corrin’s Tower). Peel is easily accessible to all parts of the island. The A1 road connects Peel with Douglas. The A4 and A3 roads connect Peel with Kirk Michael and Ramsey. To the south of Peel is Castletown, the former capital of the island. When you arrive by car, you can park your car for free at Fenella Beach Car Park.
What to do in Peel, Isle of Man?
There are plenty of nice activities you can do in Peel, Isle of Man. Here’s a list with examples:
Finding layer on layer of Manx history in Peel Castle
Visit Peel Castle on St Patrick’s Isle, an isle once home to Christian missionaries, Viking warriors and kings, and be impressed by this magnificent heritage site. Constructed by the Vikings in the 11th century, Peel Castle remains an impressive place and provides an intriguing walk through history. This post will give you some background information on Peel Castle, shows Peel Castle’s main sights, introduces you to Modde Dhoo, and shows the best photos author Daphne took during her holiday on the island.
Enjoy Peel beach
Peel Beach is a sandy beach set in a beautiful bay, bounded by Peel Castle and the Peel Harbour on one side and red sandstone cliffs on the other.
Watch the sunset from Peel Promenade or the castle perimeter
Peel is known for its amazing sunsets. Take a walk around the promenade or the castle perimeter to view the sunset.
Photo by James Qualtrough
Tour Moore’s Traditional Curers in Peel
If you are interested in Manx produced food, you should tour Moore’s Traditional Curers in Peel and learn about traditional Manx kippers (smoked herring).
Hike to Corrin’s Tower and overlook the city of Peel
Peel Hill is a short walk from the town. Along the way, the views are already fantastic, even if you don’t make it to the top. Those who reach the top are rewarded with views for miles along the west coast in both directions, and through the central valley to the East. On the hill overlooking the City of Peel stands a stone tower known as Corrin’s Tower. Corrin’s tower was built around 1806 by Thomas Corrin, who owned the hill and much land nearby. The site and its position at the summit of the hill was one of his favorite places. It is really worth to hike to Corrin’s tower. The views are stunning!
Admire stars at the Peel Dark Sky Discovery Site
Peel Castle is one of 26 registered Dark Sky Discovery Sites on the Isle of Man. When you follow the coastal path around Peel Castle and when there is minimal light pollution, Peel is the perfect place to admire the stars over the North West and South. To access the stargazing site, follow the coastal footpath on the right of the castle, under the stone archway. The path is narrow and leads to a grassed viewing area. The footpath has steps present, but the first part is flat.
Photo by James Graham
Learn more about Manx Whale and Dolphin
Visit the Manx Whale and Dolphin Watch Visitor Centre and learn about the marine life found around the Isle of Man. The centre monitors and conserves the unique species and can also give you hints and tips for spotting these incredible creatures.
Spot basking sharks from the shore
The seas by Peel are home to basking sharks in early summer (between May and August). Basking sharks are seen occasionally from the land and more often from boats. Often up to the length of a bus in size, they regularly come within metres of the shoreline and surrounding cliffs. Seals are often to be found around the breakwater by the castle.
Photo by Steve Halama
Visit the Cathedral Isle of Man
Visit Cathedral Isle of Man in Peel to discover the history of the Isle of Man through the mediums of religion, art and culture. The cathedral also has some beautiful gardens.
Collect shells at Fenella Beach
Between the Castle and Peel Hill you find a quiet beach, Fenella Beach. On this beach, you can find plenty of beautiful shells and a small sheltered cove. The view from Fenella Beach is very picturesque.
Find out more about the Island’s history
There’s also the opportunity to find out more about the Island’s history by visiting the interactive House of Manannan museum, the Leece Museum and the unique Manx Transport Heritage Museum. The House of Manannan Museum was built in 1997 and covers the past and present of the island and houses. The Leece Museum is devoted to objects, photographs and documents specifically relating to Peel and the fishing industry of Peel.
Where to eat in Peel, Isle of Man?
If you are looking for some Manx produced food, you can tour Moore’s Traditional Curers in Peel and learn about traditional Manx kippers. It also worth to visit the mobile Fish Bar at the end of the promenade and to try a bun/bap with some fresh fish. There are several tearooms and restaurants in town. If you are still hungry after all the local bites, make sure to visit Davison’s Ice Cream Parlour at the Peel promenade to eat the best Ice Cream you can buy on the Isle of Man.
Where to overnight in Peel, Isle of Man?
Accommodation in Peel is hard to find. At the time I visited Peel, there were no hotels or guesthouses in the town itself. Via AirBnB you can find a room to stay. For example a private room in the townhouse of Glenda or a private room in the townhouse of Moira.
I hope this information can help you prepare and enjoy Peel, Isle of Man. I am sure you will enjoy Peel as much as I did. If you have been to Peel and know any other good things to do, food to eat, hang out places or anything else that could be useful for preparing a trip to Peel, please let me know in a comment! I would love to hear about it.
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Israel Kinneret Hits Highest Level in 16 Years
Kinneret Hits Highest Level in 16 Years
By Yoni Weiss
Tuesday, April 14, 2020 at 5:10 am | כ' ניסן תש"פ
View of the Kinneret lake as it seen from the promenade of Teveria. (David Cohen/Flash90)
For the first time in 16 years, the water level in the Kinneret has risen above the level of 209 meters below sea level. On Tuesday, the water level was measured at 208.985 meters below sea level, an increase of 1.5 cm (.59 inches) since Monday.
The Israel Water Authority reported that the water level has been rising at a rate of 2.5 cm (.98 inches) a day and the lake is only 18.5 cm (7.3 inches) short of the Upper Red Line, the level at which the Degania Dam must be opened to allow water to flow out to prevent flooding.
The Degania will be opened if the lake fills to maximum capacity.
The Kinneret has benefited from an unusually rainy winter, baruch Hashem. Three weeks ago, the Water Authority reported that the water level was the highest that it had been in 17 years, standing 49 cm (19 inches) short of the Upper Red Line.
This means that between March 23 and April 14, the lake rose by a foot.
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Open access to scientific articles: a review of benefits and challenges
Bo-Christer Björk
Information Systems Science, Helsinki
The Internet has fundamentally changed the publishing of scholarly peer reviewed journals and the way readers find and access articles. Digital access is nowadays the norm, in particular for researchers. The Internet has enabled a totally new business model, Open Access (OA), in which an article is openly available in full text for anyone with Internet access. This article reviews the different options to achieve this, whether by journals changing their revenue structures from subscription to publishing charges, or authors utilizing a number of options for posting OA versions of article manuscripts in repositories. It also discusses the regrettable emergence of “predatory” publishers, which spam academics and make money by promising them rapid publication with only the semblance of peer review.
The situation is further discussed from the viewpoints of different stakeholders, including academics as authors and readers, practicing physicians and the general public.
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Biden-Harris Offers a Chance for an Immigration Reset, Part 2
This is part 2 of a series of blog posts on the likely implications of a Biden Presidency on U.S. immigration policy. Read the first post here.
The mission of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is to administer “the nation’s lawful immigration system, safeguarding its integrity and promise by efficiently and fairly adjudicating requests for immigration benefits while protecting Americans, securing the homeland, and honoring our values.”
As I wrote in my previous post, in February 2018 the USCIS removed a passage from its mission statement that referred to the United States as a “nation of immigrants”. In so doing, the USCIS reflected the Trump administration’s fervent desire to abdicate America’s historical role as a safe haven for those fleeing persecution. Instead, in redefining the USCIS’s mission, the administration cast the agency as a dispassionate robotic bureaucracy adjudicating cases to fulfill narrow objectives.
In practice, the agency has not even lived up to its revised mission: adjudications have been anything but efficient and fair, and the values that gave rise to America’s status as a respected world leader have been swept under the rug, further eroding its moral standing.
The failures of the USCIS during the past four years have not been only moral; the agency has suffered from incompetent leadership, driven by political aims rather than technocratic imperatives, and has achieved few of its stated aims.
The USCIS is an agency of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Under the Trump administration, five people have served as DHS Secretary. Of these, only two have been confirmed by the Senate and none has held the position for more than 18 months – many have served for much less – resulting in an average tenure of just over nine months.
John F. Kelly, Trump’s first appointee as DHS Secretary, lasted 192 days. His successor in an acting capacity, Elaine Duke, served for 128 days. Kirstjen Nielsen, the embattled third appointee, under whose watch the border separation policy for migrant children was instituted, held on for 490 days. Kevin McAleenan succeeded Nielsen, serving in an acting capacity for 216 days, but later saw his term deemed illegal by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
The current DHS Secretary, Chad Wolf, has been in office for over a year, but his tenure was also deemed unlawful by the Government Accounting Office in August 2020 because it failed to adhere to the processes outlined in the Federal Vacancies Reform Act.
These personnel changes in DHS leadership have weakened the agency’s ability to enact and execute a coherent and consistent strategy that generates consensus. They have also resulted in massive revenue loss for the agency as it was steered away from its core function of efficiently processing applications and petitions to instead dedicate its limited resources to hunt for fraud. In essence, the agency’s policy shift was akin to a grocery store directing its employees to spend most of their time looking for suspected shoplifters instead of stocking shelves, helping customers, and ringing up sales.
The politically driven administration of the DHS has resulted in numerous legal setbacks for Trump Administration immigration policy. First of all, the illegality of the appointment of the two most recent DHS Secretaries has meant courts have ruled they lack the authority to issue directives.
In July, a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York ruled that a memorandum issued by DHS Secretary Wolf that effectively suspended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program pending a departmental review was invalid because Wolf was “not lawfully serving” as the Acting Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security when he issued it.
Then this week, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California set aside DHS and U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) rules that were designed to cripple the H-1B skilled worker and the permanent labor certification programs on the unsubstantiated pretext of the domestic unemployment resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The DHS interim final rule, Strengthening the H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa Classification Program, which sought to revise the definition of “specialty occupation”, was to take effect on December 7, 2020. The DOL interim final rule, Strengthening Wage Protections for the Temporary and Permanent Employment of Certain Aliens in the United States, which drastically changed the computations of occupational prevailing wages to price out many employers from petitioning for their foreign-born talent, took effect on October 8, 2020.
The Northern District court concluded that the DHS and DOL rules were promulgated in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act’s notice and comment requirement because the agencies – through their own internal delays, inconsistencies, and reliance on flawed data – failed to show good cause for not following proper procedure.
The DACA and H-1B rulings were merely two in a series of court embarrassments for the administration, which also saw courts strike down its attempts to implement a travel ban for nationals of predominantly Muslim countries (eventually a skeletal version of was upheld), include a citizenship question on the census, and bar Central American applicants from requesting asylum at the border.
By nominating Alejandro Mayorkas as the DHS Secretary, President-elect Joe Biden has communicated his intention to return the department to its mission. An experienced technocrat, Mayorkas served the DHS as the Deputy Secretary and the Director of the USCIS during the Obama administration. That Mayorkas is himself an immigrant is a bonus.
In a statement confirming his nomination, Mayorkas tweeted:
When I was very young, the United States provided my family and me a place of refuge. Now, I have been nominated to be the DHS Secretary and oversee the protection of all Americans and those who flee persecution in search of a better life for themselves and their loved ones.
Mayorkas’s words are a welcome signal of his intention to redirect USCIS toward its mission by humanizing the agency and mending bridges with its constituents.
In my next post on the current state of our immigration system, I will focus on the inefficiencies that have shackled the agency over the past four years and describe the steps the Biden administration can take to undo their impact.
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John Archer (1863-1932)
John Archer can only marginally be considered in a collection of Communist biographies by virtue of his brief association with Saklatvala, in the context of the early concept of Labour Communism. Nonetheless, as an individual he is sufficiently interesting in the larger picture to be considered worthy of inclusion.
He was born on 8 June 1863 in Liverpool, his father being a ship’s steward from Barbados and his mother an Irish Catholic. The evidence suggests that John Archer was a merchant seaman In his youth; his wife Bertha was a black Canadian, but it is not clear how they met, or where Archer had travelled before he settled in Battersea, which was certainly by 1901.
He was by this stage a professional singer but appears later to have been a medical student at some point. Archer began to become involved in left-wing circles about this time. He was linked to the work of the Battersea Trades and Labour Council and its alliance with the local electoral political group, the Progressives, which sought to control local municipal affairs, such as fair wages, social and leisure services, from 1894.
He attended the first Pan-African Conference in July 1900, held at WestminsterTown Hall and was elected to the Executive Committee of the short-lived Pan-African Association established at the Conference.
In November 1906, standing as a Progressive candidate, Archer was elected to Battersea Borough Council as one of six councillors for the Latchmere ward and he also opened a photographic studio in Battersea Park Road. Some photographs taken by him have survived in Annual Reports of the local Trades Council. He was appointed to the Baths, Health and Works Committees. Later on, he joined the Board of Guardians, which supervised public health and welfare, then became Chair of the Baths Committee. He maintained an interest in the Nine Elms Swimming Club for the rest of his life.
The following year he was being attacked in local journals for too close an interest in the writings of the SDF leader, H.M. Hyndman.
In the November 1909 Council elections the Progressive Alliance, the Labour Party and the socialist organisations fielded separate lists of candidates and Archer failed to get re-elected.
In 1909, he was re-elected for Latchmere Ward, and shortly afterwards re-elected to the Board of Guardians. Following re-election of the Progressive group as a majority, Archer was Mayor from November 1913 to November 1914.
Only the second black mayor in Britain (the first was a Bahamian doctor elected in Norfolk in 1904) but, being the first to be elected in a major city, he attracted much attention, receiving many messages from well-wishers throughout the world.
Archer increasingly threw himself into local politics, becoming identified with the struggle to improve local conditions through the Borough Council and the Board of Guardians.
By 1919, Archer had become election agent for Charlotte Despard, celebrated suffragette, Irish nationalist and socialist parliamentary candidate in North Battersea.
In February 1919, he attended the first post-war Pan-African Congress in Paris and, in June, as President of the African Progress Union, he led a deputation to Liverpool to discuss the recent race riots in the city. The APU also financially aided the Guyanese lawyer who defended black men arrested in the disturbances.
In July 1921 Archer introduced the Indian left-winger Shapurji Saklatvala in a session on colonial freedom at the second Pan-African Congress and was to be election agent for Saklatvala in 1922, 1923 and 1924, brokering a deal by which his candidate was uniquely unopposed by Labour. When the Labour Party imposed a ban on Communists holding office, Battersea Labour Party opposed the move, especially as it affected its MP. Saklatvala.
The local Labour Party was disaffiliated and Saklatvala had the whip withdrawn in 1924 and from then on sat as a Communist MP. When the police, raiding the Communist Party HQ in Battersea, discovered a letter from Saklatvala outlining plans to undermine the Labour Party. Archer set up a new affiliated North Battersea Labour branch in his shop, and organised the campaign of a new candidate, William Sanders, who fought and defeated Saklatvala in 1929.
His health continued to deteriorate and he was admitted to St James Hospital, where he died on Thursday 14 July 1932, a few weeks after his 69th birthday. His death certificate states the cause of death as cardio-renal failure.
www.100greatblackbritons.com/bios/john_archer.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Archer_
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James Lane wins NY Green Party nomination for Congress
James Lane for Congress – Green Party
http://www.VoteJamesLane.org
James Lane 917-865-2591; VoteJamesLane@gmail.com
Michael O’Neil, Green Party of Brooklyn, 917-825-3562; michael@counterpower.org
Climate Change, Police Oversight to be Key Issues
James Lane announced today that he has won the nomination of the Green Party to be its candidate for Congress in the 11th District, which includes Staten Island and a portion of Brooklyn. Mr. Lane won the nomination over several other candidates. The election is set for May 5th.
Mr. Lane was the Green Party candidate for Public Advocate in NYC in 2013, finishing third among seven candidates. Mr. Lane said that his two key issues in the race will be police accountability and climate change.
“I want to give a voice to the average New Yorkers in this election who is concerned about the need for living wage jobs, affordable health care, and a decent opportunity for all regardless of their race, sex, sexual orientation or country of origin. Most New Yorkers are ill-served by the two corporate dominated parties that promote the interests of the 1%,” said Lane.
Born in Flushing, Queens and raised in Harlem, he is a lifelong resident of NYC. Lane lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son and works for an internet media company. As an adoptee, he has been active in the movement to give adoptees greater rights (e.g., access to birth and family records).
Like many New Yorkers, Lane and the Green Party were disturbed by the failure of Mr. Donovan, the Staten Island District Attorney and Republican nominee for the seat, to secure an indictment of the police officer who killed Eric Gardner. Mr. Lane has been an active participant in the Black Lives Matter movement. The Green Party has long advocated for the appointment of independent prosecutors in cases involving violence against residents by police officers.
“We need to ensure that our police protect the well-being and safety of all residents, treating everyone with dignity and respect. The police like everyone else need to be held accountable for their actions. I reject policing techniques that end up targeting people based on their color or economic status. I want a city where my son doesn’t have to worry about dealing with the police due to his race,” said Lane.
Mr. Lane will also call for greater federal action to reduce climate change. Many parts of Staten Island andBrooklyn suffered devastating damage from Hurricane Sandy and have yet to be restored. Climate change is especially harmful to the poor, seniors, children and other vulnerable residents. Extreme weather will become more frequent as climate change accelerates as we have witnessed during this winter.
“Climate change is probably the greatest threat we face, especially in coastal cities like New York. We need an immediate massive investment in renewable energy and conservation. Investing in climate action is also a great way to create jobs. We also need to invest in helping our communities better withstand climate change, including restoring the natural barriers such as wetlands that help absorb storm surges,” said Lane.
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Singles listed in “Treasure Island,” the back-of-the-book discography from Stranded (Alfred A. Knopf, 1979), with links to YouTube streams [YT] and reviews or references [REV]. Note that this is not every single listed in “Treasure Island,” but rather, just the one-shots (and two-shots)—those performers, as noted by Marcus in his introduction to the discography, “with only one thing to say, or worth hearing.”
Faye Adams, “Shake a Hand” (Herald). 1953 [YT]
Angels, “My Boyfriend’s Back” (Smash). 1963. [YT]
Ashton, Gardner & Dyke, “Resurrection Shuffle” (Capitol). 1971.
Bee Gees, “Holiday” (Atco). 1967. [YT]
Belmonts, “Tell Me Why” (Sabrina). 1961. [YT]
Jesse Belvin, “Goodnight My Love” (Modern). 1956. [YT]
Big Bopper, “Chantilly Lace” (D/Mercury). 1958. [YT]
Big Brother and the Holding Company, “Coo Coo” (Mainstream). 1968. [YT]
Blue Swede, “Hooked on a Feeling” (EMI). 1973. [YT]
Bob and Earl, “Harlem Shuffle” (Marc). 1963. [YT]
Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans, “Why Do Lovers Break Each Other’s Hearts” (Philles). 1963. [YT]
Jan Bradley, “Mama Didn’t Lie” (Formal/Chess). 1963.
Donnie Brooks, “Mission Bell” (Era). 1960. [YT]
Jackson Browne, “Running on Empty” (Asylum). 1978. [REV]
Browns, “Three Bells” (RCA). 1959. [YT]
Buchanan & Goodman, “The Flying Saucer” (Luniverse). 1956. [YT]
Eric Burdon & the Animals, “Sky Pilot” (MGM). 1968. [YT]
Solomon Burke, “Cry To Me” (Atlantic). 1962. [YT]
Johnny Burnette & the Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio, “Train Kept A-Rollin'” (Coral). 1956. [YT]
Jerry Byrne, “Lights Out” (Specialty). 1958.
Cadets, “Stranded in the Jungle” (Modern). 1956. [YT]
Cadillacs, “Speedo” (Josie). 1955. [YT]
J.J. Cale, “Going Down” (Shelter). 1973. [YT]
Freddie Cannon, “Palisades Park” (Swan). 1962.
Capris, “There’s a Moon Out Tonight” (Planet/Old Town). 1960. [YT]
Clarence Carter, “Patches” (Atlantic). 1970. [YT]
Cellos, “Rang Tang Ding Dong (I Am the Japanese Sandman)” (Apollo). 1957. [YT] [REV]
Gene Chandler, “Duke of Earl” (Vee-Jay). 1962. [YT]
Chantays, “Pipeline” (Downey/Dot). 1963. [YT]
Chiffons, “One Fine Day” (Laurie). 1963. [REV]
Claudine Clark, “Party Lights” (Chancellor). 1962. [REV]
Dave Clark Five, “Catch Us if You Can” (Epic). 1965. [YT] Dee Clark, “Raindrops” (Vee-Jay). 1961.
Cleftones, “Heart and Soul” (Gee). 1961. [YT]
Eddie Cochran, “Summertime Blues” (Liberty). 1958. [YT]
Commodores, “Machine Gun” (Motown). 1974. [YT]
Contours, “Do You Love Me” (Gordy). 1962. [YT]
Contours, “First I Look at the Purse” (Gordy). 1965. [YT]
Alice Cooper, “Eighteen” (Warner Bros). 1971. [YT]
Country Joe and the Fish, “Bass Strings”/”Section 43″(Rag Baby). 1966. [YT]
Counts, “Darling Dear” (Dot). 1954. [YT]
Crests, “Step by Step” (Coed). 1960. [YT]
Crosby, Still, Nash and Young, “Ohio” (Atlantic). 1970.
Cuff Links, “Guided Missiles” (Dootone). 1957. [YT]
Johnny Cymbal, “Mr. Bass Man” (Kapp). 1963. [YT]
Danleers, “One Summer Night” (Mercury). 1958. [YT]
Spencer Davis Group, “Gimme Some Lovin'” (UA). 1966.
Desmond Dekker, “Israelites” (Uni). 1969. [YT]
Dells, “There Is” (Cadet). 1968.
Dell-Vikings, “Whispering Bells” (Dot). 1957. [YT]
Jackie DeShannon, “What the World Needs Now is Love” (Liberty). 1965. [YT]
Diamonds, “Little Darlin'” (Mercury). 1957. [YT]
Ral Donner, “Girl of My Best Friend” (Gone). 1961.
Dovells, “Bristol Stomp” (Parkway). 1961. [YT]
Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, “Carry Me, Carrie” (Columbia). 1972. [YT]
Dubs, “Could This Be Magic” (Gone). 1957. [YT]
Eagles, “Hotel California” (Asylum). 1977.
Easybeats, “Friday on My Mind” (UA). 1967.
Edsels, “Rama Lama Ding Dong” (Twin). 1961. [YT]
Tommy Edwards, “It’s All in the Game” (MGM). 1958. [YT]
Elastic Oz Band, “Do the Oz” (Apple). 1971. [YT]
Eldorados, “At My Front Door” (Vee-Jay). 1955. [YT]
Elegants, “Little Star” (Apt). 1958. [YT]
Falcons, “You’re So Fine” (Unart). 1959. [YT] [REV]
Charlie Feathers, “One Hand Loose” (King). 1956. [YT]
Five Du-Tones, “Divorce Court”/”Shake a Tailfeather” (One-derful!). 1963.
Five Satins, “In the Still of the Nite” (Standard/Ember). 1956. [YT] [REV]
Flares, “Foot-Stomping Part 1” (Felsted). 1961. [YT]
Four Deuces, “W-P-L-J” (Music City). 1955. [YT]
Four Seasons, “Walk Like a Man” (Vee-Jay). 1963. [YT]
Stan Freberg, “The Old Payola Roll Blues” (Capitol). 1960. [YT]
Free, “Wishing Well” (Island). 1973. [YT]
Bobby Freeman, “Do You Wanna Dance” (Josie). 1958. [YT]
Don Gardner and Dee Dee Ford, “I Need Your Loving” (Fire). 1962. [YT]
Lesley Gore, “You Don’t Own Me” (Mercury). 1963. [REV#1; REV#2; REV#3]
Grand Funk Railroad, “We’re an American Band” (Capitol). 1973. [YT]
Grass Roots, “Where Were You When I Needed You” (Dunhill). 1966. [YT]
Dobie Gray, “Drift Away” (MCA). 1973. [YT]
Guess Who, “Share the Land” (RCA). 1970. [YT] [REV]
Guitar Slim, “The Things That I Used to Do” (Specialty). 1953. [YT]
Harptones, “A Sunday Kind of Love” (Bruce). 1953. [YT]
Joyce Harris, “No Way Out” (Infinity). 1960. [YT]
Dale Hawkins, “Susie-Q” (Checker). 1957. [YT]
Ronnie Hawkins, “Who Do You Love” (Roulette). 1963. [YT]
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, “I Put a Spell on You” (Okeh). 1956. [YT]
Heart, “Crazy on You” (Mushroom). 1976. [YT]
Heartbeats, “A Thousand Miles Away” (Rama). 1956.[YT]
Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry, “I Don’t Know Why, But I Do” (Argo). 1961. [YT]
Herman’s Hermits, “A Must to Avoid” (MGM). 1967. [YT]
Jessie Hill, “Ooh Poo Pah Doo” (Minit). 1960.
Hollies, “Bus Stop” (Imperial). 1966. [YT]
Hotlegs, “Neanderthal Man” (Capitol). 1970. [YT]
Isley Brothers, “Shout” (RCA). 1959. [YT]
Isley Brothers, “This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak For You)” (Tamla). 1966
Jackson 5, “I Want You Back” (Motown). 1969.
Jackson 5, “The Love You Save” (Motown). 1970. [YT]
Mick Jagger, “Cocksucker Blues” (Ruthless Rhymes Ltd./W. Germany). 1970/1976. [YT]
Jamies, “Summertime, Summertime” (Epic). 1958. [YT] [REV]
Jarmels, “A Little Bit of Soap” (Laurie). 1961.
Jay and the Americans, “Cara Mia” (UA). 1965. [YT]
Jefferson Airplane, “Runnin’ Round This World” (RCA). 1966. [YT]
Jewels, “Hearts of Stone” (Imperial). 1954. [YT]
Johnnie and Joe, “Over the Mountain, Across the Sea” (J&S/Chess). 1957. [YT]
Janis Joplin, “Kozmic Blues” (Columbia). 1969. [YT]
Kalin Twins, “When” (Decca). 1958.
Paul Kelly, “Stealing in the Name of the Lord” (Happy Tiger). 1970. [YT]
B.B. King, “The Thrill is Gone” (Bluesway). 1969. [YT]
Ben E. King, “Stand By Me” (Atco). 1961. [YT]
Kingsmen, “Louie, Louie” (Jerden/Wand). 1963. [YT]
Knickerbockers, “Lies” (Challenge). 1965. [YT]
Gladys Knight and the Pips, “Midnight Train to Georgia” (Buddah). 1973. [YT]
Sonny Knight, “If You Want This Love” (Aura). 1964.
Curtis Lee, “Pretty Little Angel Eyes” (Dunes). 1964. [YT]
Left Banke, “Pretty Ballerina” (Smash). 1967.
John Lennon, “God” (Apple). 1970. [REV] [YT]
Smiley Lewis, “One Night of Sin” (Imperial). 1955. [YT]
Gordon Lightfoot, “If You Could Read My Mind” (Reprise). 1970. [YT]
Little Anthony & the Imperials, “Hurt So Bad” (DCP). 1965. [YT]
Little Eva, “The Loco-Motion” (Dimension). 1962. [YT]
Little Peggy March, “I Will Follow Him” (RCA). 1963. [YT]
Little Willie John, “Need Your Love So Bad” (King). 1956. [YT]
Love, “Alone Again Or” (Elektra). 1968. [YT]
Darlene Love, “A Fine, Fine Boy” (Philles). 1963. [REV] [YT]
Robin Luke, “Susie Darlin'” (International/Dot). 1958.
Magazine, “Shot By Both Sides” (Virgin/UK). 1978. [REV] [YT]
Magic Sam, “21 Days in Jail” (Cobra). 1958. [YT]
Majors, “A Wonderful Dream” (Imperial). 1962. [YT]
Marcels, “Blue Moon” (Colpix). 1961. [YT]
Bobby Marchan, “There Is Something On Your Mind” (Fire). 1960. [YT]
Mar-Keys, “Last Night” (Satellite). 1961. [YT]
Marshall Tucker Band, “Can’t You See” (Capricorn). 1973. [YT]
George McRae, “Rock Your Baby” (TK). 1974. [YT]
Barry McGuire, “Eve of Destruction” (Dunhill). 1965. [YT]
Wayne McGinnis, “Rock, Roll & Rhythm”/”Lonesome Rhythm Blues” (Meteor). 1956. [YT]
Don McLean, “American Pie” (UA). 1971. [YT]
Clyde McPhatter, “A Lover’s Question” (Atlantic). 1958. [YT]
MeadowLarks, “Heaven and Paradise” (Dootone). 1955. [YT]
Medallions, “The Letter” (Dootone). 1955. [YT]
Mellow Kings, “Tonite-Tonite” (Herald). 1957. [YT]
Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes, “If You Don’t Know Me By Now” (Philadelphia International). 1972. [YT]
MFSB, “TSOP” (Philadelphia International). 1974.
Mickey and Sylvia, “Love is Strange” (Groove). 1956. [YT]
Garnett Mimms and the Enchanters, “Cry Baby” (UA). 1963. [YT]
Mink Deville, “Cadillac Walk” (Capitol). 1977. [YT]
Monotones, “Book of Love” (Argo). 1958. [YT]
Moody Blues, “Go Now” (London). 1965. [YT]
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers, “Merry Christmas, Baby” (Exclusive). 1949. [YT]
Move, “Do Ya” (UA). 1972. [YT]
Music Machine, “Talk Talk” (Original Sound). 1966. [YT]
Mystics, “Hushabye” (Laurie). 1959. [YT]
Nervous Norvus, “Transfusion” (Dot). 1956. [YT]
Thunderclap Newman, “Something in the Air” (Track). 1969. [YT]
Nutmegs, “Story Untold” (Herald). 1955.
O’Jays, “Love Train” (Philadelphia International). 1973.
Olympics, “Dance By the Light of the Moon” (Arvee). 1960. [YT]
Orioles, “It’s Too Soon to Know” (Natural). 1948. [REV] [YT]
Orlons, “Don’t Hang Up” (Cameo). 1962. [YT]
Bill Parsons, “The All-American Boy” (Fraternity). 1958. [YT]
Passions, “Just to Be With You” (Audicon). 1959. [YT]
Paul and Paula, “Hey Paula” (LeCam/Phillips). 1962. [YT]
Penguins, “Earth Angel” (Dootone). 1954. [YT]
Peter and Gordon, “I Go To Pieces” (Capitol). 1965.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, “American Girl” (Shelter). 1977. [YT]
Phil Phillips, “Sea of Love” (Khoury’s/Mercury). 1959. [YT]
Gene Pitney, “Every Breath I Take” (Musicor). 1961. [YT]
Gene Pitney, “Mecca” (Musicor). 1963. [YT]
Plastic Ono Band, “Cold Turkey” (Apple). 1969. [YT]
Platters, “My Prayer” (Mercury). 1956. [YT]
Police, “So Lonely” (A&M/UK). 1978. [YT]
Poppy Family, “That’s Where I Went Wrong” (London). 1973. [YT]
P.J. Proby, “Mission Bell” (Liberty). 1965. [YT]
Procol Harum, “A Whiter Shade of Pale” (Dream). 1967. [YT]
Professor Longhair, “Bald Head” (Mercury). 1950. [YT]
Quin-Tones, “Down the Aisle of Love” (Hunt). 1958.
Rays, “Silhouettes” (Cameo). 1957. [YT]
Rebels, “Wild Weekend” (Swan). 1962.
Mac Rebennack, “Storm Warning” (Rex). 1960. [YT]
Revels, “Church Key” (Impact). 1961. [YT]
Paul Revere and the Raiders, “Just Like Me” (Columbia). 1965. [YT]
Jody Reynolds, “Endless Sleep” (Demon). 1958. [YT]
Righteous Brothers, “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling” (Philles). 1964. [YT]
Billy Lee Riley and His Little Green Men, “Flying Saucers Rock ‘n’ Roll” (Sun). 1957. [YT]
Johnny Rivers, “Secret Agent Man” (Imperial). 1966. [YT]
Rivingtons, “Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow” (Liberty). 1962.
Marty Robins, “El Paso” (Columbia). 1960. [YT]
Vicki Sue Robinson, “Turn the Beat Around” (RCA). 1976. [REV] [YT]
Rods, “Do Anything You Wanna Do” (Island). 1977. [YT] [YT]
Linda Ronstadt, “You’re No Good” (Capitol). 1975. [YT]
Rosie and the Originals, “Angel Baby” (Highland). 1960. [YT]
Merrilee Rush and the Turnabouts, “Angel of the Morning” (SpearSound/Bell). 1968. [YT]
Safaris, “Image of a Girl” (Eldo). 1960. [YT]
Santo and Johnny, “Sleep Walk” (Canadian American). 1959. [YT]
Linda Scott, “Don’t Bet Money Honey” (Canadian American). 1961. [YT]
Searchers, “Needles and Pins” [YT] / “Ain’t That Just Like Me” (Kapp). 1964.
Neil Sedaka, “Calendar Girl” (RCA). 1960. [YT]
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, “Night Moves” (Capitol). 1976 [REV] [YT]
Ronnie Self, “Pretty Bad Blues” (CBS). 1957. [YT]
Sensations, “Let Me In” (Argo). 1962. [YT]
Shangri-Las, “Leader of the Pack” (Red Bird). 1964. [YT]
“I Can Never Go Home Anymore” (Red Bird). 1965. [YT]
Shep and the Limelights, “Daddy’s Home” (Hull). 1961. [YT]
Shields, “You Cheated” (Tender/Dot). 1958. [YT]
Shirley and Lee, “Let the Good Times Roll” (Alladin). 1956. [YT]
Shirley and Company, “Shame, Shame, Shame” (Vibration). 1975. [YT]
Shocking Blue, “Never Marry a Railroad Man” (Colossus). 1970. [YT]
Troy Shondell, “This Time” (Goldcrest/Library). 1961. [YT]
Showmen, “It Will Stand”/“Country Fool” (Minit). 1961. [YT] Silhouettes, “Get a Job” (Ember). 1958. [YT]
Carly Simon, “You’re So Vain” (Elektra). 1972. [YT]
Skyliners, “Since I Don’t Have You” (Calico). 1959. [YT]
Small Faces, “Here Comes the Nice” (Immediate/UK). 1967. [YT]
Sonny and Cher, “But You’re Mine” (Atco). 1965. [YT]
Jimmy Soul, “If You Wanna Be Happy” (S.P.Q.R.). 1963. [YT]
Joe South, “Games People Play” (Capitol). 1969. [YT]
Spikedrivers, “Strange Mysterious Sounds” (Reprise). 1967. [YT] [YT]
Spirit, “I Got a Line on You” (Ode). 1969. [YT]
Edwin Starr, “War” (Gordy). 1970. [YT]
Ringo Starr, “It Don’t Come Easy” (Apple). 1971. [YT]
Billy Stewart, “Summertime” (Chess). 1966. [YT]
Stories, “Brother Louie” (Kama Sutra). 1973. [REV] [YT] [YT]
Barrett Strong, “Money” (Anna). 1960. [YT]
Surfaris, “Wipe Out” (DFS/Dot). 1963. [YT]
Donna Summer, “Hot Stuff” (Casablance). 1979. [YT]
Swingin’ Medallions, “Double Shot (of My Baby’s Love)” (4 Sale/Smash). 1966.
Joe Tex, “Hold What You’ve Got” (Dial). 1964. [YT]
B.J. Thomas, “Rock and Roll Lullaby” (Scepter). 1972. [YT]
Carla Thomas, “Gee Whiz (Look at His Eyes)” (Satellite/Atlantic). 1964. [YT]
Irma Thomas, “Wish Someone Would Care” (Imperial). 1964. [YT] [REV] [YT]
Junior Thompson, “Raw Deal”/“Mama’s Little Baby” (Meteor). 1956. [YT]
Trashmen, “Surfin’ Bird” (Garret). 1963.
John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, “You’re the One That I Want” (RSO). 1978.
Troggs, “Wild Thing” (Fontana). 1966. [YT]
Doris Troy, “Just One Look” (Atlantic). 1963
Tubes, “White Punks on Dope” (A&M). 1975 [YT]
Tommy Tucker, “Hi-Heel Sneakers” (Checker). 1964. [YT]
Turbans, “When You Dance” (Herald). 1955. [YT]
Joe Turner, “Shake, Rattle and Roll” (Atlantic). 1954. [YT]
Ike and Tina Turner, “River Deep, Mountain High” (Philles). 1966. [YT]
Conway Twitty, “It’s Only Make Believe” (MGM). 1958. [YT]
Ritchie Valens, “La Bamba” (Del-Fi). 1959. [YT]
Bobby Vee and the Shadows, “Suzie Baby” (Soma/Liberty). 1959. [YT]
Ventures, “Walk—Don’t Run” (Blue Horizon/Dolton). 1960.
Vibrations, “My Girl Sloopy” (Atlantic). 1964. [YT]
Volumes, “I Love You” (Chex). 1962. [YT]
Jerry Jeff Walker, “Mr. Bojangles” (ATCO). 1968. [YT]
“L.A. Freeway” (MCA). 1973. [YT]
Junior Walker, “Shotgun” (Soul). 1965. [YT]
Joe Walsh, “Life’s Been Good” (Asylym). 1978. [REV] [YT]
War, “Slippin’ into Darkness” (UA). 1972. [YT]
Dionne Warwick, “Don’t Make Me Over” (Scepter). 1962. [YT]
Gino Washington, “Gino is a Coward” (Ric Ti/Son Bert). 1964. [REV] Johnny “Guitar” Watson, “Cuttin’ In” (King). 1962. [YT]
We Five, “You Were on My Mind” (A&M). 1965. [YT]
Lenny Welch, “Since I Fell for You” (Cadence). 1963. [YT]
Tony Joe White, “Roosevelt and Ira Lee” (Monument). 1969. [YT]
Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs, “Stay” (Herald). 1960 [REV] [YT]
Chuck Willis, “It’s Too Late” (Okeh). 1956.
Willows, “Church Bells May Ring” (Melba). 1962. [YT]
Bill Withers, “Lean on Me” (Sussex). 1972. [YT]
Link Wray and His Wray Men, “Rumble” (Cadence). 1958 [YT]
Young Rascals, “Good Lovin’” (Atlantic). 1966 [YT]
Kathy Young and the Innocents, “A Thousand Stars” (Indigo). 1960. [YT]
Timi Yuro, “What’s a Matter Baby” (Liberty). 1962.
Zurvans, “Close the Book” (End). Release date unknown.
Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island, 1979
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Maria Ho Reflects on Hall of Fame Poker Career, Teases Her Future Plans (Exclusive)
Maria Ho is only 37 years is old and is a poker Hall of Famer. In 2018, Ho was inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame, which was her first year being eligible. And she has continued to prove she’s worthy of the honor, earning millions of dollars in winnings and recently placing 22nd out of 705 players in the World Series of Poker Main Event. PopCulture.com had a chance to catch up with Ho — who fans might also recognize from American Idol and The Amazing Race — who revealed that she never thought she would be a Hall of Fame poker player.
“I definitely took on poker as a hobby and had no idea I could make a living doing it, let alone a career,” Ho said to PopCulture. “It’s really been my life for the last 15 years. Being inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame was a huge honor for me because I know that women who came before me had a much tougher path to pursue this as a career choice. The fact that it was them that voted me in really made me feel like it’s one of my greatest poker accomplishments. …It’s really important for me to carry that torch and be able to show other women that they can find success in the game and hopefully encourage them to play.”
Ho is one of the best poker players in the world, but her path to the game started in an interesting way. The California native said she was introduced to poker when she was attending the University of California in San Diego. She had a group of friends that would play but “never got the invite.” That led to her gaining more interest in poker.
“Even though I had no knowledge of the game, it made me want to go and see what it was all about,” Ho stated, adding that no women were playing in their game. “One day I just showed up at their dorm room with some beer and I feel like it was the way to gain entry into a college kid’s game.”
“The first time that I played, I was hooked because I’ve always been a competitive person,” Ho continued. “But I really enjoyed the strategy elements of the game, even though I didn’t have any idea what I was going.”
The college games led to Ho learning more about poker and eventually playing in various tournaments. Her first major tournament was the World Series of Poker in 2007 where she was the last woman remaining in the main event, finishing in 38th place. She repeated that accomplishment in 2014, finishing in 77th place out of 6,683 players. In her career, Ho has won over $4 million in live poker tournaments and is also a top commentator, co-hosting tournaments on CBS, ESPN, NBC, Amazon eSports and PokerGo, the top Poker streaming service in the world.
It seems like Ho has nothing to prove in her poker career. However, despite being a Hall of Famer, Ho says she has more things to accomplish. “I was traveling 250 days out of the year prior to the pandemic,” Ho said. “This time where I really have been forced to slow down and travel less, it’s really made me realize how much I enjoy staying in one place. … Even though I’ll never miss a World Series of Poker main event, I think that my time in terms of being that full-time traveling tournament pro is dwindling down. …I do feel like there some things I want to do and accomplish in poker, but I would say I would like to move on to the next thing and there’s so many other things that I’m passionate about. It’s just about finding the right next thing for me.”
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About the Energy Access Project
Developing solutions to energy policy and market challenges in emerging economies
The production and use of energy have far-reaching implications for human health, economic opportunity, and the livability of the planet.
With nearly a third of humanity lacking reliable electricity and even more without clean fuels and technologies for cooking, energy access represents one of the greatest challenges of our time.
The Energy Access Project at Duke University takes an interdisciplinary approach to developing sustainable, modern energy solutions around the world. Established in 2017, the project supports foundational research and fosters constructive dialogue among the world’s policy makers, entrepreneurs, and scholars to identify ways of applying that research. It engages students, locally and globally, in finding innovative approaches to accelerate clean energy deployment in emerging markets. It’s supporting the development of new, disruptive tools, such as the means to evaluate electricity access through machine learning techniques applied to aerial imagery data.
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Sustainable Development Goal 7 has focused the world’s attention on ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all by 2030. Eliminating energy poverty will require accelerated deployment of technology, a paradigm shift in capital deployment, and bold regulatory models that embrace energy system transformation. The Energy Access Project is working to provide policy makers, project developers, investors, civil society and impacted communities with the tools and analysis to help drive this transformation.
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Some of the leading lights from the energy access community convened in Washington, D.C., February 23 2018 for the launch of Duke University’s Energy Access Project. As the new project assembles its agenda, leaders from business, government, and civil society weighed in on the market and policy challenges facing the billions of people lacking access to modern energy. Here’s some of what we heard.
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Report: Climate risks compound financial challenges for Midwest nuclear plants
Written By Kari Lydersen August 31, 2020
AP Photo/Nati Harnik
The Fort Calhoun nuclear power station in Nebraska was severely damaged by flooding in 2011 and shut down a few years later.
As debates over operating subsidies continue, stresses from rising temperatures and flooding increase the risk.
Illinois nuclear plants are at high risk of climate stress, a new investment report finds, an issue that could become increasingly important for plants across the Midwest as they seek license renewals and consider infrastructure improvements in coming decades.
A report released last week by Moody’s Investor Services found that five of Exelon’s six Illinois plants are at “high risk” and/or more extreme “red flag” risk for both heat and water stress. Exelon’s Quad Cities plant on the Mississippi River, meanwhile, is considered at high risk of flooding.
Other Midwestern plants are also considered at high risk for heat and/or water stress, including the Davis-Besse plant in Ohio, NextEra Energy Resources’ Point Beach plant in Wisconsin, NextEra’s Duane Arnold Energy Center in Iowa, Entergy’s Palisades plant in Michigan and Northern States Power Company’s Monticello plant in Minnesota, which is also at high risk of flooding.
Nuclear plants need large amounts of water for cooling, so if water becomes too hot or if levels fall too low in the rivers or lakes the plants rely on, or if flooding occurs, the plants may have to temporarily shut down or curtail generation. Opponents of nuclear power note that heat and water stress risks are highest in summer, when the plants are most needed to meet peak demand.
All but Davis-Besse are among the 37 U.S. nuclear plants that have licenses expiring before 2035, the report notes.
“Given pressures to support baseload demand, we expect many nuclear plant operators to file for license extensions over the next decade, given that they have to apply for them many years in advance,” the report says. “Their ability to operate effectively will be affected by these climate hazards.”
Exelon’s Clinton and Dresden plants are among the licenses expiring soonest, in 2027 and 2029, respectively.
On Aug. 27, Exelon announced that Dresden along with its Byron plant will close by next fall unless the state of Illinois guarantees increased payments it says it needs because low energy prices and competition are making the plants unprofitable. But in announcing his energy policy recently, Gov. J.B. Pritzker denounced the measure that Exelon wants legislators to adopt.
Toby Shea, Exelon analyst for Moody’s, noted that while climate impacts are not part of the discussions about legislative supports for Exelon, they will likely be relevant if the plants survive and seek license renewals.
“They’re teetering on the brink of closure,” Shea said. “If they’re needing to invest to shore up the physical risk issues such as heat stress, that would be a wonderful thing for them to have to worry about. Their decision to keep it open or not doesn’t have anything to do with capital expenditures [to address climate impacts] — they can’t cover their operating costs, so any capital expenditure in the future would only compound the problem.”
FirstEnergy Solutions in Ohio has also argued it needs subsidies to continue operating its Davis-Besse plant. But a law passed last year, which critics called a “bailout,” is being reconsidered and could be repealed in the wake of a bribery scandal.
Water stresses
Extreme flooding events, becoming more common as the climate warms, can also have a significant impact on a plant’s economics. The Fort Calhoun nuclear plant in Nebraska, for example, suffered significant damage in a 2011 Missouri River flood and was shut down for three years. Omaha Public Power District, which owns the plant, voted in 2016 to shut it down permanently despite it being licensed to run through 2033.
“The consequences of climate change can affect every aspect of nuclear plant operations — from fuel handling and power and steam generation to maintenance, safety systems and waste processing,” says the report, produced by a Moody’s affiliate called 427.
If companies don’t adequately invest in resiliency measures, their ability to access credit could suffer, the report notes.
Report co-author David Kamran, project and infrastructure finance analyst, said the report relies on climate projections for the area and does not take into account the often considerable resiliency investments the plants have already made.
“These are some of the most hardened assets in the U.S.,” Kamran said. “The post-Fukushima response was pretty robust from the nuclear industry, they put in when needed certain systems to ensure cooling at the plants, backup generators and pumps.”
The report notes that after the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan, “updated evaluations of flood and earthquake risk led to modifications of some U.S. plants, including the installation of hardened battery banks, pumps and generators.”
Exelon did not respond to questions about climate change impacts or measures it has taken.
The study defined high risk of heat stress as the area predicted to experience “relatively high changes in extremes compared to global average,” while red flag risk meant the area would likely be “exposed to some of the most severe changes in global heat extremes.” High risk of water stress was defined as “current water stress is likely already high, and water supplies are diminishing.” “Red flag” water stress meant “competition for water resources is extreme, and future water supply failure is possible.”
Financial risks vary
Half of Exelon’s Illinois fleet — the Clinton, LaSalle and Quad Cities plants — were tagged as red flag for heat stress, and Byron was considered red flag for water stress. Out of 26 plants in deregulated states included in the study, only one other garnered red flag water stress status, and only two others were red flag for heat stress.
At least two plants in regulated Midwestern states are also considered at high risk of heat and water stress: DTE’s Fermi plant in Michigan and the Monticello plant in Minnesota.
Moody’s noted that plants on the West Coast and in the Southeast are more vulnerable to flooding, because of the risk of sea-level rise and hurricanes. Those plants are also more likely to be in regulated states where they can recoup costs for resilience investments from ratepayers. The Midwestern plants at higher risk of heat and water stress are largely in deregulated states where they sell their power on the market.
The Moody’s report says that “the credit impact of these climate risks is likely to be more pronounced [for plants in deregulated states like Illinois] relative to regulated/cost based nuclear plants because market-based plants do not have the ability to recoup costs through rate recovery mechanisms, thereby posing a higher financial risk for operators. In certain cases, zero emissions credit programs, such as those found in Illinois, New Jersey, and New York, offer some counterbalancing financial support to operators.”
The zero-emissions credit program, or ZEC, was implemented in Illinois as part of the Future Energy Jobs Act. But it only applies to two of Exelon’s plants, in the MISO market territory, and the company has said it needs more supports to keep its Illinois fleet operating.
Critics of Exelon have long questioned whether the plants are as financially troubled as the company claims. In his energy policy, Pritzker said, “Exelon has refused to show their math,” adding “they are asking us to take their word for it without providing the relevant financial statements for each plant.”
Shea said it would seem in the interest of fighting climate change to make sure the plants stay open — a position increasingly embraced by climate advocates.
“These are very large plants — without additional state support, we’re likely to see at least two of them close,” Shea said. “If you’re talking about climate-related issues, closing two nuclear power plants is a negative.”
But Dave Kraft, executive director of the Chicago-based Nuclear Energy Information Service, which opposes nuclear energy, said the Moody’s report confirmed what the group has long argued.
He cited Nuclear Regulatory Commission filings in saying that in 1988, Exelon’s Dresden and Quad Cities plants partially or entirely curtailed generation over the course of more than three months because of high temperatures and low river levels. A fact sheet published by Kraft’s group also lists other times generation was curtailed or nearly curtailed at Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan plants, citing official filings.
“The reactors were unavailable when needed most to meet the severe power demands during those heat waves,” Kraft said. “Future predicted conditions will be much more severe and unpredictable. … It is therefore a dangerous gamble — environmentally and economically — to rely on [nuclear power] in a major energy plan.”
Kari has written for Midwest Energy News since January 2011. She is an author and journalist who worked for the Washington Post's Midwest bureau from 1997 through 2009. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, Chicago News Cooperative, Chicago Reader and other publications. Kari covers Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana as well as environmental justice topics.
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Belarus, Russia agree on concerted action in international arena
MINSK, 26 November (BelTA) – Belarus and Russia have agreed to coordinate their activities in the international arena. Such an agreement was reached at a joint meeting of the collegiums of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Belarus and Russia led by foreign ministers Vladimir Makei and Sergey Lavrov on 26 November, BelTA learned from the press service of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“A resolution was adopted at the joint meeting of the collegiums. The heads of the delegations signed a plan of consultations between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia for 2021. This plan defines key areas of cooperation between the foreign ministries of the two countries and reaffirms plans to coordinate actions in the international arena,” the press service of the ministry informed.
The participants had an in-depth discussion of Belarus-Russia cooperation in various fields. They also discussed cooperation prospects within the framework of integration associations and the expansion of mutual support at international platforms. They also exchanged views about the state of global and regional security.
The participants of the meeting discussed a possibility of lifting travel restrictions between Belarus and Russia while complying with COVID-19 prevention measures.
Other topical issues on the agenda included relations of Belarus and Russia with the European Union, the participation of the two countries in UN peacekeeping operations, the prospects of joining UN peacekeeping activities by the CSTO, coordination of integration processes in the Eurasian space with a view to establishing a Greater Eurasian partnership.
The participants of the meeting also discussed joint efforts to maintain information security and combat cybercrime, including at international platforms, including the UN. The parties supported the steps aimed at developing and adopting universal rules and norms of conduct of countries in cyberspace under the auspices of the UN.
In addition, the participants of the meeting confirmed that the joint efforts to counter the falsification of history and the glorification of Nazism remain a priority avenue of work.
The Belarusian side expressed gratitude for the political and information support provided by Russia in the face of external pressure on Belarus and attempts to destabilize the situation in the country. The parties declared their readiness to jointly resist any outside interference in domestic affairs.
The parties reviewed progress in implementing the program of concerted action in the field of foreign policy of the states - parties to the Union State Treaty for 2020-2021 and discussed its further implementation.
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Lavrov: Russia, Belarus are equally interested in strengthening relations
MINSK, 26 November (BelTA) – Belarus and Russia are equally interested in strengthening relations, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov said at a meeting with Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko in Minsk on 26 November, BelTA has learned.
"First of all, I would like to convey you the best wishes from Vladimir Vladimirovich [Putin]. He has confirmed everything you had agreed with him before, especially in Sochi. Russia and Belarus are equally interested in strengthening relations. We can call it in different ways but we have the same goal: to move towards the mutual benefits for our peoples, the countries and the Union State," Sergey Lavrov said.
The head of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs recalled that earlier the Belarusian head of state put forward several initiatives. According to the minister, they are very important for the Belarusian society. "As President Putin has repeatedly stressed, we are interested to see these initiatives get through. If we can do something to support them, we are always open for this," Sergey Lavrov added.
Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov is on a working visit to Minsk. His meeting with Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei has already taken place. The collegiums of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Belarus and Russia will hold a joint meeting. “The main task is to secure concrete agreements regarding the effective implementation of our joint program of concerted actions in the field of foreign policy," the diplomat said.
The parties will also discuss the coordination of actions in international organizations, cooperation in the EAEU, the CSTO and the CIS. The diplomats will also exchange views on relations with the EU, the possibility of the CSTO's participation in UN peacekeeping operations, the prospects for forming a large Eurasian partnership through the alignment of the integration processes and cooperation in the field of international information security.
Following the meeting, the parties are set to sign joint documents, including the plan of ministerial consultations for 2021 and a document of the collegiums on the agreements reached following the discussion of the issues.
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> Engineering and Natural Sciences > TU awarded $1.5 million grant for SETO solar research
TU awarded $1.5 million grant for SETO solar research
The University of Tulsa Department of Mechanical Engineering has been selected to receive a $1.5 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) to advance research on concentrating solar power. Mechanical engineering faculty and students will focus their efforts on lessoning the risk of particle use in high temperature solar thermal power plants.
(Left to right) Professors Michael Keller, Todd Otanicar and Siamack Shirazi receive the SETO award from the U.S. Department of Energy.
The SETO Generation 3 Concentrating Solar Power Systems (Gen3 CSP) funding program will build on previous research for high-temperature concentrating solar thermal power (CSP) technologies. Individual projects will attempt to advance high-temperature components and develop integrated assembly designs with thermal energy storage that can reach high operating temperatures. The Gen3 CSP program has selected three teams to build an integrated system that can efficiently receive solar heat and deliver it to a working fluid at greater than 700 °C while incorporating thermal energy storage. During the first two-years of the project, these teams will de-risk the components of CSP technology options, prepare a detailed design for a test facility and undergo a rigorous review for final selection of one awardee to construct a proposed facility.
In addition to the three awardees, TU is among eight recipients chosen to develop either component-level technology or apply unique cross-cutting research capabilities that support the goal of a successful integrated testing site. The project will allow diverse teams of researchers, laboratories, developers and manufacturers to test components and systems through operating conditions necessary to improve CSP technology. TU’s area of research will build on its expertise in solar energy and erosion to develop CSP plants that are more efficient.
“The next generation of plants are expected to operate well above 700 °C, but there are many unknowns about functionality at this high of a temperature,” said Todd Otanicar, principal investigator and associate professor of mechanical engineering. “TU will specifically concentrate on plant durability particularly from erosion at high temperatures.”
TU’s specific role involves developing a comprehensive particle and substrate durability model that will enable improved understanding of the performance of high-temperature components for the particle-based pathway. The team will advance existing research capabilities in erosion, corrosion, fracture mechanics, macro- and micro-scale materials characterization and thermal and optical property characterization. The results will be used to develop a broad understanding of mechanical durability that can be used to determine component lifetime and performance degradation models.
“This program will help drive the solar industry closer to the Department of Energy cost target for CSP energy to 5 cents/kilowatt hour by 2030,” Otanicar said. “This will be one of Oklahoma’s first program leads for the DOE Solar Energy Technologies Office.”
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4 August 2020 - 21:19
Enemy seeking to institutionalize insecurity in region: Defense Minister
Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier-General Amir Hatami said on Tuesday that the enemy had a big plan for the region aiming to institutionalize insecurity in the region for decades and centuries.
Brigadier-General Hatami said that Lieutenant-General Soleimani and other Resistance members stood against the plan driving it to failure.
Talking to the press on the sidelines of the inauguration of a gallery to honor late General Soleimani, Hatami said the exhibition shows two issues: the wickedness and the crimes of the enemy indicating they had a big plan for the region.
He added that soldiers of the Resistance could stand up to all the blasphemy, crimes, money and weapons of the enemy with General Soleimani as the commander and with Iran’s military support.
He said that Iran is better-equipped than before and will support its military -- the air force, navy, civil defense, missile units, and cyber and electronic units in order to defend the Iranians and the people of countries endeavoring to beef up security so that they can uproot crime and oppression from the world.
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9 January 2021 - 22:43
Spokeswoman for Iran's Ministry of Health and Medical Education Sima Sadat Lari announced here on Saturday that the COVID-19 death toll in Iran has reached 82 during the past 24 hours.
Lari said that another 82 people have lost their lives due to the deadly virus during the past 24 hours in Iran.
According to her report, the number of the total death toll reached 56,100 after claiming the 82 lives in the country, she added.
Elaborating on the latest situation of the coronavirus pandemic in Iran, Lari said that 5,924 new cases infected by the COVID-19 were found over the past 24 hours, some 456 of whom have been hospitalized.
She went on to say that 1,280,438 Iranians have totally been confirmed infected, some 1,067,466 of whom have either recovered or been discharged from hospitals.
Lari further underlined that 4,686 COVID-19 patients are in critical conditions and under treatment in intensive care units.
Since its outbreak, the COVID-19 pandemic has killed near 1,900,000 people across the world.
New virus recently found in the UK has raised concerns worldwide about the future of the deadly virus.
The spokesperson also said that the experience of fighting the virus proves that the coronavirus’ changes have not been predictable, because it could change every minute and astonish health systems around the globe.
Public cooperation in fighting the coronavirus pandemic is considered as the main way to fight the spread of the virus, she said, urging people to respect health protocols.
According to the health expert, the COVID-19 would not come to an end for the time-being and it will continue to spread throughout the world. She also expressed hope that people would help health personnel overcome the pandemic and lower the number of infections.
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Studies indicate countries with high HPV vaccination coverage show increased incidence of invasive cervical cancer
Paradoxical Effect of Anti-HPV Vaccine Gardasil on Cervical Cancer Rate
Wednesday, February 6th 2019 at 12:30 pm
Nicole Delépine
Originally published on www.docteur.nicoledelepine.fr
“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress”. Niels Bohr (Nobel prized for his works on the structure of the atom and chemical reactions)
Changing the natural history of cancer that increases in frequency and occurs faster.
It takes a long time to affirm that a preventive action really protects. But the failure of this supposed protection can sometimes be very quickly obvious. To prove that the Titanic was truly unsinkable would have required decades of navigation on the most dangerous seas of the world. Demonstrating that it wasn’t, took only a few hours … This » Titanic » demonstration is unfortunately reproduced by the Gardasil vaccination.
Evidence that vaccination increases the risk of invasive cancer can be rapid, if the vaccine changes the natural history of cancer by accelerating it. The analysis of trends in the incidence of invasive cervical cancer published in official statistics (registers) was studied in the first and most fully vaccinated countries (Australia, Great Britain, Sweden and Norway). Unfortunately, it’s the case for HPV vaccines.
Pre-vaccination period: spectacular success of cervical smear screening with a steady decrease in the rate of invasive cervical cancer.
In all countries that performed smear screening, the pre-vaccination period from 1989 to 2007 was marked by a significant decrease in the standardized incidence of cervical cancer.
In less than 20 years, the incidence of invasive cancer of the cervix decreased from:
13.5 to 9.4 in Great Britain [1]
13.5 to 7 in Australia [2]
11.6 to 10.2 in Sweden [3]
15.1 to 11 in Norway [4]
10.7 to 6.67 in the USA [5]
11 to 7.1 in France
Globally, in the countries that used smear screening, the average annual rate of decline was 2.5% between 1989 and 2000 and 1% between 2000 and 2007, resulting in a total decrease of nearly 30% across 1989-2007.
Era of vaccination: reversal of the trend. Gardasil’s prevention failure erases the beneficial effects of the smear and accelerates the onset of cervical cancer.
Since vaccination, in all the countries implemented with a large vaccination program, there is a reversal of the trend, with a significant increase in the frequency of invasive cancers in the most vaccinated groups. Let’s look at OFFICIAL sources.
AUSTRALIA: contrary to the FAKE NEWS OF THE MEDIA AND POLITICS, REGISTER DOES NOT SHOW CANCERS OF THE CERVIX DISAPPEAR, BUT INCREASE.
Australia was the first country to organize routine immunization for girls (April 2007 school-based program for females aged 12–13 years, July 2007 time-limited catch-up program targeting females aged 14–26 years) and then for boys (2013). According to the last Australian Institute of Health and Welfare publication (2018 publication describing the detailed rates until 2014) [6], the standardized incidence in the overall population has not decreased since vaccination 7/100000 in 2007 versus 7.4 in 2014.
This global stabilization results from two contradictory trends that only appear by examining trends, according to age groups.
Vaccinated age groups women have seen their risk increase:
100% increase for those aged 15 to 19 (from 0.1 in 2007 to 0.2 in 2014)
113% increase (from 0.7 to 1.5) in groups aged 20 to 24 more than 80% of them were catch up vaccinated when 13 to 17 years old.
But, as the figures are very small, this increase does not reach statistical significance.
About a third increase for 25-29 group (from 5.9 to 8,p=0.06) and for 30-34 (from 9.9 to 12.4 c=0.80 p=0.01) less vaccinated. These increases are statistically significant cannot be due to hazard.
A drama known to one top athlete: Sarah Tait
This increased risk of cancer following vaccination was dramatically illustrated by the sad story of Sarah Tait, olympic rowing champion, at the 2012 London Olympics. This champion saw her life shattered in full glory: she suffered invasive cervical cancer a few years later, being vaccinated and died at age 33. Of course, we don’t know if vaccination was the direct cause of her cancer, but she has, statistically, a one in two chances of having suffered from a cancer linked to vaccination (to be part of the 113% increase of cancer observed after vaccination). In addition, we remark that cancer appears very early in this woman.
Non vaccinated women continue to benefit from screening with pap smear
During the same period, older women (and therefore unvaccinated) saw their cancer risk decrease significantly:
less 17% for women aged 55 to 59 (from 9.7 to 8.1)
less 13% for women aged 60 to 64 ( from 10.3 to 8.9)
less 23% for those aged 75 to 79 (from 11.5 to 8.8)
and even less 31% for those aged 80 to 84 (from 14.5 to 10)
GREAT BRITAIN: THE PARADOXICAL EFFECT OF GARDASIL PROMOTING CANCER
In UK, a national program was introduced in 2008 to offer HPV vaccination routinely to 12–13-year-old and offer catch-up vaccination to girls up to 18 years old. The UK national program initially used the bivalent HPV vaccine (Cervarix), but, changed in 2012 to use the quadrivalent vaccine (Gardasil). HPV vaccination coverage in England has been high with over 80% of 12–13 years old receiving the full course coverage. The catch-up cohort has been lower covered (ranging from 39% to 76%).
Since the vaccination, the standardized incidence in the overall population increased from 9.4 per 100000 in 2007 to 9.6 in 2015. We observe contrasting trends between the age groups.
Vaccination promoters expected cervical cancer rates decrease in women aged 20 to 24 from 2014, as vaccinated adolescents enter their second decade. However, in 2016, national statistics showed a sharp and significant increase in the rate of cervical cancer in this age group. This information of 2016 has unfortunately not been publicized. They could have served as an alert.
Women aged between 20 and 25 years, vaccinated for more than 85% of them, when they were between 14 and 18 years old, have seen their cancer risk increase by 70% in 2 years (from 2.7 in 2012 to 4.6 per 100,000 in 2014 p = 0.0006) and those aged 25 to 30, ( aged between 18 and 23 at the time of the vaccination campaign) have seen their cancer risk increase by 100% between 2007 and 2015 [7] (from 11 / 100,000 to 22 / 100,000 ).
Women 25 to 34 years, (less vaccinated, only exposed to some catch-up vaccinations), have seen their risk increased by 18% (from 17 in 2007 to 20 in 2014).
In Great Britain, as in Australia, older, unvaccinated women have seen their risk decrease:
(-13% for women aged 65 to 79 and -10% for those over 80), most likely because continuation of smear screening.
SAME PARADOXICAL PHENOMENON OF GARDASIL IN SWEDEN: THE RATE OF CANCER INCREASES IN THE VACCINATED AGE GROUPS. ALERT!
In Sweden, Gardasil has been used since 2006. The vaccination program was rolled out in 2010, with vaccination coverage of 12-year-old girls approaching 80%. In 2012-2013, with a catch-up program, almost all girls aged 13 to 18 were vaccinated.
In this country, the standardized incidence of cervical cancer in the global population has increased steadily since vaccination from 9.6 per 100000 in 2006 to 9.7 in 2009, 10.3 in 2012 and 11.49 in 2015 [8]. This increase is mostly due to the increase in the incidence of invasive cancers among women aged 20-24 whose incidence doubled (from 1.86 in 2007 to3.72 in 2015 p<0.001) [9] and in women aged 20 to 29 the incidence of invasive cancer of the cervix increased by 19% (from 6.69 to 8.01)
In contrast, as in Australia and Great Britain, a decrease in the incidence of invasive cancer has been observed in women over 50, a group that has not been included in the vaccination program. The incidence of invasive cancer of the cervix decreased between 2007 and 2015 by 6% for women aged 50 to 59 (from 14.24 to 13.34), and 4% for those aged 60 to 69 (12.63%). at 12.04,) 17% for those aged 70 to 79 (from 15.28 to 12.66) and 12% for those over 80 (from 15.6 to 13.68).
Cancer registry shows an increase in the standardized incidence of invasive cancer of the cervix from 11.7 in 2007 to 12.2 in 2009, 13.2 in 2012 and 14. 9 2015 [10].
This increase is due -almost exclusively- to young women, which include all vaccinated, as evidenced by the sharp decline of the average age of onset of the cervix cancer from 48 years in 2002-2006 to 45 years in 2012-2016.
Between 2007 and 2015, the incidence of invasive cervical cancer increased by 8% among women aged 20 to 29 (from 7.78 to 8.47). [11]
During the same period, a decrease in the incidence of invasive cancer was observed in older women, not involved in the vaccination program: -11% for women aged 55 to 64 (15.47 to 13.7), -16% for those aged 65 to 74 (17.7 to 14.71) and -29% for those aged 75 to 85 (18.39 to 13).
In this country, vaccination coverage is lower than in previous countries (close to 60%).
According to the Cancer Statistics Review 1975-2015 [12], the standardized incidence of invasive cervical cancer remains stable (+0.1) since vaccination.
In US, the same discrepancy is observed according to age groups, but of lesser amplitude. Women over 50, benefit a 5% decrease in their risk (from 10.37 per 100000 in 2007 to 9.87 in 2015), whereas younger women, which include vaccinated, have given their risk increase of 4% (5.24 in 2007 to 5.47 in 2015).
WITNESS COUNTRY: FRANCE
The evolution of these countries, with high immunization coverage, can be compared to the trend observed in metropolitan France, where HPV vaccination coverage is very low (around 15%). France can be considered, for this reason, as a control country. In France [13] the incidence of cervical cancer has steadily decreased from 15 in 1995 to 7.5 in 2007, 6.7 in 2012 and 6 in 2017, much lower than those of countries with high vaccine coverage.
This decrease in incidence was accompanied by a decrease in mortality from 5 in 1980 to 1.8 in 2012 and 1.7 in 2017.
It is paradoxical and very worrying that these excellent French results, with low cervix cancer rate and low related mortality, could be jeopardized by an obligation considered in the short term by our policies, for some misinformed and other big pharma links [14].
DRAMATIC AND UNEXPECTED PARADOXICAL EFFECT OF GARDASIL: THE ALERT MUST BE GIVEN TO DECISION MAKERS AND THE MEDIA.
In all countries that achieved high HPV vaccination coverage, official cancer registries show an increase in the incidence of invasive cervical cancer.
For women under 20, the crude numbers are too small to reach statistical significance, but the similar increases in all the studied countries constitutes a strong alarm signal.
For women 20-30 the incidence increases after catch up vaccination, and is highly significant (p<0.01or 0.001). In these same countries, during the same period, older women, not vaccinated, have seen their risk of cervical cancer continue to decline.
Similarly, in metropolitan France, a country with low vaccination coverage, the incidence of cervical cancer continues to decline at a rate comparable to the pre-vaccination period.
These paradoxical results plea for a rapid revision of recommendations and intensive research to explain this catastrophic issue.
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[1] Cancer Research UK, Cervical Cancer (C53): 1993-2015, European Age-Standardized Incidence Rates per 100,000 Population, Females, UK Accessed 08 [ 2018 ].
[2] AIHW [2]. 13. AIHW 2017. Cancer in Australia 2017. Cancer series no. 101. Cat. No. CAN 100. Canberra: AIHW.
[3] NORDCAN, Association of the Nordic Cancer Registries 3.1.2018
[4] Bo T Hansen, Suzanne Campbell, Mari Nygård Long-term incidence of HPV related cancers, and cases preventableby HPV vaccination: a registry-based study in Norway BMJ Open 2018; 8: e019005
[5] Table 5.1 Cancer of the Cervix Uteri (Invasive) Trends in SEER Incidence and US Mortality SEER Cancer Statistics Review 1975-2012
[6] Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2017 Australian Cancer Incidence and Mortality (ACIM) books: cervical cancer Canberra: AIHW. <Http://www.aihw.gov.au/acim-books>.
[7] A Castanona, P Sasienia Is the recent increase in cervical cancer in women aged 20-24 years in England a cause for concern? Preventive Medicine 107 (2018) 21-28
[8] Nationellt Kvalitetsregister für Cervix cancer prevention (NKCx), http://nkcx.se/templates/_rsrapport_2017.pdf [in Swedish]
[9] Engholm G, Ferlay J, Christensen N, Hansen HL, Hertzum-Larsen R, Johannesen TB, Kejs AMT, Khan S, Olafsdottir E, Petersen T, Schmidt LKH, Virtanen A and Storm HH: Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Prevalence and Survival in the Nordic Countries, Version 8.1 (28.06.2018). Association of the Nordic Cancer Registries. Danish Cancer Society. Available from http://www.ancr.nu, accessed it 30 / 09 / 2018.
[10] Cancer in Norway 2016
[11] Engholm G, Ferlay J, Christensen N, Hansen HL, Hertzum-Larsen R, Johannesen TB, Kejs AMT, Khan S, Olafsdottir E, Petersen T, Schmidt LKH, Virtanen A and Storm HH: Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Prevalence and Survival in the Nordic Countries, Version 8.1 (28.06.2018). Association of the Nordic Cancer Registries. Danish Cancer Society. Available from http://www.ancr.nu, accessed is 1 / 10 / 2018
[12] SEER 9 National Center for Health Statistics, CDC
[13] Francim, HCL, Public Health France, INCa. Projections of Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Metropolitan France in 2017 – Solid Tumors [Internet]. Saint-Maurice: Public health France [updated 02/01/2018; viewed on the 09/05/2018
[14] https://www.agoravox.fr/tribune-libre/article/gardasil-alerte-risque-imminent-d-206314 Gardasil, alert, imminent risk of mandatory vaccination against HPV unnecessary, and sometimes dangerous, for girls and boys.
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How to Orchestrate Change from the Bottom Up
A study of two U.S. hospitals.
Katherine C. Kellogg
Organizational change is difficult. It’s challenging to get people who are set in their ways to go about their jobs differently. So what types of interventions might actually change people’s behaviors in ways that make change more palatable? To answer that question, a researcher conducted a two-year ethnographic study of the primary-care departments in two U.S. hospitals. Both had received grants to implement the same change throughout their hospitals, but one was dramatically more successful than the other. What made the difference? At the hospital that was the most successful, managers had enlisted the aid of medical assistants to help change the doctors’ behaviors. They had a had a high capacity for influence because they had a lot of structural power; in other words, they were best poised to intervene in a doctor’s workflow and critical tasks. The act of leveraging the structural power of low level workers to push change from the bottom up may have implications for other fields, too, including law, accounting, or consulting.
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Organizational change is difficult, no question about it. It’s challenging to get people who are set in their ways to go about their jobs differently. So what types of interventions might actually change people’s behaviors in ways that make change more palatable?
To answer that question, I conducted a two-year ethnographic study of the primary-care departments in two U.S. hospitals. The hospitals were part of the same parent organization, did similar work, and employed doctors and clinical staff with similar backgrounds. In addition, both hospitals had received grants of $750,000 to implement a change within their organizations: patient-centered medical home (PCMH) reforms that are being rolled out across the United States. PCMH requires primary-care doctors to change their daily work practices by moving from reactive care to prevention (vaccinations, pap smears, mammograms, colonoscopies, and so on) and by using evidence-based guidelines to treat patients with chronic illnesses like diabetes.
I observed the day-to-day work at both hospitals for three months before the start of their PCMH initiatives. Specifically, I studied the interactions between managers, doctors, and medical assistants, since they were the key players involved in the day-to-day changes in line with the reforms. I observed them as they engaged in activities such as “huddling,” where doctors and medical assistants discussed the conditions and progress of patients coming in for office visits that day, and strategic planning meetings, in which managers, doctors, and medical assistants talked about how to best implement the reforms.
After the PCMH reforms were introduced, I continued observing those interactions for the next two years. In total, I shadowed and interviewed 48 doctors, 10 managers, and 24 medical assistants. I also analyzed documents, including PowerPoint presentations, clinic paperwork, and other materials that the managers developed to facilitate the implementation of PCMH.
Initially, a small number of doctors were adamantly opposed to the PCMH reforms, while the majority believed the changes had merit. Even for those who had a positive view of PCMH, however, many felt the reforms might run counter to their ability to apply their specialized expertise to help the ill, and to use their discretion and autonomy to treat patients. In other words, while widespread pushback wasn’t common, some degree of resistance was.
In the end, managers at one hospital were much more successful in changing their doctor’s behavioral practices than were managers at the other hospital. Specifically, across three phases of the study, the adoption rate for PCMH practices at the successful hospital soared from 6% to 65%, while the rate at the other hospital remained relatively flat from the initial low 6%. Why the huge difference?
From an analysis of the data, I was able to identify the most significant factor: On the teams that were most successful, managers had enlisted the aid of medical assistants to help change the doctors’ behaviors. At both facilities, the medical assistants were responsible for bringing patients from the waiting area to the exam room, weighing them, and taking their blood pressure. And yet despite having no formal authority over doctors, the medical assistants had a high capacity for influence because they had a lot of structural power.
First, the medical assistants occupied a central position in the doctors’ workflow. They could both remind doctors to implement new practices such as delivering particular vaccinations, and could give doctors opportunities to review and approve suggested changes before they were implemented.
Second, they performed tasks that were critical to doctors’ daily work, making it relatively easier for them to ask the doctors for favors; this led doctors to see themselves as implementing the new practices to help their medical assistants rather than to meet managerial demands.
Third, the medical assistants were central in the doctors’ peer network, enabling them to spread the word about those doctors who had adopted the new practices.
And fourth, they were positioned between the patients and the doctors, so they could suggest changes in doctors’ practices while also shielding doctors from the emotional challenges of upset or angry patients.
But it wasn’t just that the medical assistants had a lot of structural power; they were given specific tools to leverage this structural power to persuade the doctors to implement PCMH. Specifically, the managers at the successful hospital provided the medical assistants with things like visual prompts, which helped indicate whether a particular patient was due for a certain procedure or test. For example, each patient packet included a purple checkout form, in which the medical assistants could mark any required colonoscopies or mammograms as a helpful reminder to the doctors. “The purple sheet is helpful,” said one doctor. “There is so much going on [at the time of the visit] that it’s good to be reminded.”
Another effective tool was “favor scripts” provided to the medical assistants. One script was to help persuade doctors to implement a particular reform for treating diabetes. In the script, medical assistants would pose the change as something a doctor could do as a favor to them (“It’s very helpful for me if you would…”) as opposed to being a policy imposed by management (“We need to do this…”). As one medical assistant recalled, “I told [doctor] that when patients are on the list, I need to keep managing them, and that takes time. Finally, she said she would do the [lipid panel checks] to get those patients off the list for me.” In other words, the doctors viewed themselves as helping the medical assistants and, as one doctor noted, “We want to keep the MAs happy because we depend on them.” Doctors were willing to make changes to help their MAs, as long as these decisions did not run counter to their clinical judgment.
These tools were effective because they significantly lessened the degree to which the reforms threatened the doctors’ expertise, autonomy, individual responsibility for patients, and engagement in complex work.
Importantly, the managers at the successful hospital freed up time for their MAs to engage in the new work associated with influencing the doctors. They also established a two-way dialogue that allowed MAs to tell the managers about the hurdles they were facing and to ask for the resources they needed to address them. For example, it was the traditional practice in both hospitals to cover staffing shortfalls by rotating MAs who had few doctors in session on a particular day from one area of the department to another. With the introduction of PCMH, MAs needed to do offline work to identify which patients were due for vaccinations, pap smears, and the like. When managers rotated MAs, MAs experienced work intensification because they could not use downtime to catch up on this offline work. The MAs discussed amongst themselves and raised this issue with their managers. The managers responded by eliminating rotation of the MAs.
While the MAs at the successful hospital reported that the quality of their work life had improved from using these tactics, they do raise possibility of manager exploitation of semiprofessionals, if used without attention to semi-professionals’ well-being. Future research could explore the costs for semi-professionals that stem from engaging in influence attempts with more powerful professionals on behalf of managers, and how these might be prevented.
While my study investigated two hospitals that were trying to change the work practices of its doctors, I believe the idea of leveraging the structural power of low level workers to push change from the bottom up has broader implications, especially for other organizations employing professionals. This might include law, accounting, or consulting firms, among others. For example, could a law firm more effectively alter the behavior of its lawyers by enlisting the aid of its paralegals in the change initiative? And might companies do the same with their administrative assistants when implementing organizational change?
Given the dismal success rate of change initiatives at many companies, enlisting low-level semi-professionals to help change the practices of the professionals with whom they work is certainly an approach worth considering.
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Katherine C. Kellogg is the David J. McGrath Jr. (1959) Professor of Management and Innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research focuses on organizational change and the changing nature of work and employment.
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Dangerous if the cyst of the brain in newborns
cyst in the newborn brain is formed by the accumulation of fluid filling the place of dead tissue in different parts of the brain.Education is a balloon filled with water.
In some cases, it may be formed in the shell wall, agglomerated as a result of the inflammatory process.In this sticky cavity through a tiny slit penetrates the liquid, forming a cyst.It can occur in any part of the brain and have one or more entities with one or from two sides of the head.
cyst in the newborn brain is of three kinds: the vascular plexus, and subependymal Arachnoid.
vascular plexus cyst in most cases detected in a child during its prenatal form.Education, which arose in the early stages of pregnancy, it is considered quite normal and is usually for a specified period usually disappears.
cause of the formation that appeared at a later stage, after the birth of a child, can serve a variety of infection and inflammation, transferred the woman during pregnancy.A cyst in the newborn brain can be caused by obstructed labor and difficult the pregnancy.Quite often the cause of cysts is normal and herpes.
Arachnoid cyst or cerebrospinal fluid of the brain, which can be formed anywhere in the brain, has different sizes and shapes.It occurs on a background of inflammation, such as meningitis, cerebral circulatory disorders of the head, as well as trauma.
arachnoid education is progressive in nature, eventually expands, exerting pressure on the adjacent centers of the brain (motor, visual, etc.).In newborns with this formation may be present the following symptoms:
- poor coordination of movements;
- excessive regurgitation;
- delayed physical and psychomotor development.
subependymal cysts of the brain in newborns - is education, which requires constant monitoring.The main reason for its occurrence is the insufficient blood circulation in the brain ventricles of the head.Lack of oxygen triggers death of tissue, in place of which a cavity later filled with liquid.
With progressive nature of education appointed by the passage of magnetic resonance imaging several times a year.The rapid growth of cysts causes an increase in fluid pressure, resulting in it.Liquid, putting pressure on the surrounding tissues, change their position, which may cause deterioration of general condition, exacerbation of neurological symptoms and seizures.
cyst in the newborn brain is detected by means of ultrasound.Such a study is completely harmless for the baby and carries no radiation load on the child's body.The first survey of the baby are doing even during fetal formation.The next survey is conducted after birth, usually within a month.
vascular plexus cyst usually does not require treatment and resolves spontaneously during the first year after birth.In these cases, you need to identify and eliminate the cause of education.
Subependymal cysts do not require intensive care.In this case, constant monitoring and some surveys.
arachnoid cysts require special attention and radical measures.These cysts do not resolve on their own and are actively progressing.The child must be constantly monitored by a neurologist, and he was often on the testimony necessary surgery.Cysts of the brain are not treated folk remedies.
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Emily VanCamp Height, Weight, Age, Body Statistics
Emily Irene VanCamp
Port Perry, Ontario, Canada
She was passionate about dancing since childhood and is learning it since the age of three. To learn dancing professionally, she took admission into ballet school École supérieure de ballet du Québec at the age of 12.
Father – Robert VanCamp (Animal Nutritionist)
Mother – Cindy VanCamp
Siblings – Katie VanCamp (Oldest Sister) (Children’s book writer and former dancer), Molly Dawn VanCamp (Younger Sister), Alison VanCamp (Older Sister)
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Emily VanCamp dated –
Ben McKenzie (2004) – The two actors were RUMORed to be dating in 2004 when they were seen kissing at a public place. But, their reps announced that they are just friends.
Chris Pratt (2004-2006) – After meeting on the set of Everwood, Emily started dating her co-star Chris Pratt in 2004. In the starting, they kept their relationship secret. But, gradually made it public.
Dave Annable (2007-2008) – American actor Dave Annable started dating his Brothers & Sisters co-star VanCamp in 2007. They split in January 2008.
Joseph Morgan (2010-2011) – Emily did a small TV series Ben Hur in 2010 and met Joseph Morgan. She started dating this English actor in that year. But, this relationship also saw an end in October 2011.
Joshua Bowman (2011-Present) – In December 2011, she started dating another English actor Joshua Bowman. She met him on the set of ABC’s primetime television series Revenge. They got engaged on May 11, 2017. The couple married on December 15, 2018, in The Bahamas.
Emily VanCamp and Joshua Bowman
Dark brown eyes and blonde hair
34-24-35 in or 86-61-89 cm
4 (US) or 36 (EU) or 8 (UK)
8 (US) or 38.5 (EU)
She has appeared in television commercials about Chevy, Pepsi, Time Warner Cable, etc.
Playing Amy Abbott in The WB’s drama series Everwood from 2002 to 2006, as Rebecca Harper in the ABC’s drama series Brothers & Sisters from 2007 to 2010, and as Emily Thorne / Amanda Clarke in the ABC’s Revenge since 2011.
In 2000, she appeared in a TV film Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis for her role as Jackie Bouvier – age 13.
In 2000, she appeared in the very first episode of YTV’s horror / fantasy-themed TV series Are You Afraid of the Dark? for her role as Peggy Gregory in season 7.
She finds her way to fitness in the form of Pilates and Yoga.
She feels her childhood ballet training is helping a lot for her role as Amanda Clarke in Revenge. She needs to do fight scenes, which is nothing but choreography.
Emily tries to finds a fruitful way in which she can balance her mind, body, and spirit while working.
Emily VanCamp Favorite Things
Exercise – Pilates
Sport – Ice Hockey
Team – Montreal Canadiens
Idol – Audrey Hepburn
Designers – Michael Kors, Gucci, Versace
Stone – Emerald
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She is a ballet dancer also. Emily started taking interest in dancing at the age of three.
She can speak English, Québécois French, and Spanish.
She was into photography in and around 2002. She was cast in Everwood in 2002 and wanted to buy F100 Nikon Camera.
Emily is also skilled in horse riding.
Her job was to deliver food to people in her hometown, thus helping her father.
She is skilled in various dance forms such as ballet, tap, jazz, hip-hop.
If she weren’t into acting, she would probably be either a dancer or a cook.
She is also an ice hockey fan. She supports the Montreal Canadiens team.
In 2003, Emily was named as one of the E! Online’s Sizzlin’ 16.
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UK Government announces shake up of Fire Services
Neil Wallington
Fire Brigades will be told to cut costs as part of a major shake-up of the way they are run after Home Secretary Theresa May announced she was taking over responsibility for the service. The Home Secretary, who earlier pushed through controversial policing reforms, said she was “determined” to improve efficiency in fire and rescue services.
Mrs May said that Fire services have poor procurement, IT systems and buildings management, and indicated she plans to introduce an independent inspectorate as well as order routine performance data to be published. The Home Secretary, who pushed through controversial policing reforms, said she was “determined” to improve efficiency in fire and rescue services.
It comes as the government prepares to give police and crime commissioners (PCC’s) responsibilities for fire and rescue authorities where a case is made locally following a consultation earlier this year. All three emergency services will also be forced to look at ways to work together to improve efficiency, including through sharing administration systems to cut costs.
Mrs May said: “I look at the fire and rescue service and I see the need for many of the same reforms that I started in policing five years ago. Better local accountability, more transparency and a relentless focus on efficiency. So, while I continue to finish the job of reform in policing, I am also determined to properly kick start the job of reform in fire.”
The Home Secretary continued: “We’ve already set out its proposals to allow PCCs to take over fire and rescue authorities – this will provide direct, democratic accountability in fire as we now have in policing. We need to go further still though. I am struck by the fact the fire and rescue service doesn’t have an independent inspectorate and does not routinely publish data on performance. Local people need these things to hold their local public services to account. And from my experience fire has the same problems as policing in terms of poor procurement, ICT and management of buildings.”
Mrs May said “I’d like to bring the same collaborative approach we’re seeing in policing to fire services too. But, at the same time, I think fire and rescue services have things to teach the police too. The extraordinary success of fire-fighters preventative work has hugely reduce the number of fires and saved countless lives. I want to police to focus on prevention to achieve the same results in regard to crime.”
But the Fire Brigades Union has criticised the plans for police and crime commissioners to take over fire authorities. “Enabling PCCs to govern fire and rescue services will neither deliver economic, efficient or effective emergency services not optimise public safety,” the Union said in a pamphlet on its website. On the contrary, these proposals threaten to damage the well-earned trust of the public in firefighters, hamper innovation and will lead to the fragmentation of emergency services delivery across the UK.”
PCCs “do not bring any skills or exeprtise” to the service and some have an “unfortunate record for ill-judged interference in operational matters”, it added. Matt Wrack, General Secretary of the FBU, accused PCCs who supported the move of “empire-building”.
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The Independent Financial Review Panel was established in July 2011 by the Assembly Members (Independent Financial Review and Standards) Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 to make Determinations in relation to the salaries, allowances and pensions payable to members of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
The Panel is fully independent, is not subject to the control of either the Northern Ireland Assembly or the Assembly Commission, and its objectives are to:
ensure probity, accountability and value for money with respect to the expenditure of public funds;
secure for Members of the Assembly a level of remuneration which fairly reflects the complexity and importance of the job, and does not, on financial grounds, deter people from seeking election to the Assembly; and
secure for Members adequate resources to enable them to do their jobs.
The terms of appointment of the first Independent Financial Review Panel appointed in July 2011 ended on 1 July 2016. The Assembly Commission is working on the appointment of a successor Panel.
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Our Research on Diversity in Entrepreneurship
Today’s MBA Student is Tomorrow’s Entrepreneur: Gender’s Impact on Career Choices
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Recent research by Illuminate Ventures shows that over 80% of the MBA students that participated in their survey are drawn to entrepreneurship and more than half to careers in venture capital, but most do not have the support or access they desire. As a result, there is a compelling reason for both educators and investors to better understand the aspirations and needs of these students, many of whom are likely to become the future’s most impactful entrepreneurs and investors. The research also reveals key differences between male and female attitudes toward entrepreneurship, including perceived confidence gaps, concern about the availability of funding, and barriers to their success.
Select Findings
What influences, motivates, and supports MBA student interest in entrepreneurship?
By far, the most selected reason for considering entrepreneurship for both men and women was to bring ideas they are passionate about to the market. This mirrors the response from our prior research of current entrepreneurs.
Roughly 60% of students interested in an entrepreneurial career path had an entrepreneur friend, and over two-thirds had a parent or mentor as a role model.
The most prized data source for MBA students was current entrepreneurs.
How do students think about entrepreneurial barriers and success attributes?
Across current and prior survey respondents, all agreed that the most important attribute of a successful entrepreneur is a combination of resilience and perseverance.
All but one of the groups surveyed also selected the ability to attract a great team as the second most important success attribute. This ranking is likely well-merited since data shows that 23% of startups fail because they lack the right team.
When considering barriers to entrepreneurial success, male and female MBAs both selected financial security (58%) as a very significant barrier, followed by access to startup capital (37%). These top two barriers paralleled those of both male and female founders in our prior research.
Female MBA students ranked “self-confidence” as a barrier to entrepreneurial success somewhat higher than the male students surveyed.
How far along are students on their entrepreneurial journey?
Over a third more male respondents already had a startup idea versus female.
Many students prefer joining an existing startup versus launching their own when starting out.
A much higher proportion of male students reported that they were already active in an entrepreneurial project when compared to female students (48% versus 34% of respondents).
What level of interest exists and what barriers are perceived in a venture capital career?
While MBAs were interested in careers in venture capital – 63% of men, and 53% of women – they believed it is very hard to break into the space. Roughly 75% of female students perceived a “high barrier to entry” and nearly 80% of male students.
Historically, the odds of landing a VC role have been far worse for women and other diverse groups lacking the right networks.
Students believed the best way to gain exposure to VC was through an internship in the space, but few have access to these types of opportunities.
Research shows that even minimal exposure to VC networks substantially benefits men, but is less helpful for women.
We are pleased to be able to share the views of current MBA candidates, many of whom are likely to be tomorrow’s entrepreneurs. We hope that the data may be useful to young people considering entrepreneurship or venture capital investing as a career direction. We also encourage educators to leverage the student perspectives represented in the survey data as they design their entrepreneurship programs.
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Gender Differences in Entrepreneurship: Voices of Founders and Funders
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The level of diversity in venture-backed companies remains extremely low, with less than 5% led by a woman and only 15% with a woman co-founder (data as of 2018). In a survey of high-tech founders and venture capital investors conducted by Illuminate Ventures, a series of questions were posed to try to identify barriers that may be suppressing the growth of these numbers. High-tech founders were asked about their motivations, perceptions of attributes key to success, and barriers to achievement. Venture capital investors responded to the same questions, and were also asked to rate the likelihood the success attributes would be displayed and barriers faced, based on the gender of an entrepreneur.
While the survey data showed that male and female startup founders think quite similarly about their entrepreneurial motivations and the personal attributes that impact success, it also revealed important differences regarding the barriers they perceive and how VCs think about each group.
Old Stereotypes Are Disproved:
The belief that entrepreneurs launch companies chiefly for financial gain is a myth. Only 15% of male and 2% of female founders consider this a primary motivation.
Common wisdom that you must have a STEM degree or an entrepreneurial background to be a successful tech founder was dismissed nearly unanimously by founders and VCs alike.
Traditional thinking that women founders are more risk-averse than men, or are unable to balance work/family, is dated. More than twice the percentage of male founders indicated that “balancing family and work” was a strong barrier (31% versus 17% of women), and they also rated the “need for financial security” as a strong barrier in slightly higher numbers than women.
Investor Thinking Needs a Refresh
More than half of VCs assume men are much more likely to have attributes like “prior start up experience” and the “desire to scale a business massively” when founder responses refute this.
VCs don’t seem to understand the importance of family in the entrepreneurial equation. Not a single VC selected “gaining the support of family” among the top 5 barriers to entrepreneurial success, when it was chosen by nearly a quarter of founders
It is Not a Level Playing Field
Both male and female VCs saw all of the 16 potential barriers to entrepreneurial success we measured as likely to impact women founders more than men.
Over 40% of women entrepreneurs consider the limited number of women VCs to be a significant barrier to their success.
Male VCs, on average, see less than half the number of women co-founded opportunities as female VCs.
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High-Performance Entrepreneurs: Women in High Tech
Our research shows what many have long suspected: Women entrepreneurs are poised to lead the next wave of growth in global technology ventures. The full report, prepared by Illuminate Ventures, documents the performance of women entrepreneurs in the past decade and the trends propelling them towards a critical mass in the high-tech sector.
Efficiency, Efficiency, Efficiency: The high-tech companies women build are more capital-efficient than the norm. The average venture-backed company run by a woman achieved comparable early-year revenues, using an average of one-third less committed capital.
Leadership Progress: More women are serving as officers of venture-backed companies with successful exits. In 1988, only 4% of the 134 firms that went public in the U.S. had women in top management positions. Of 2009’s 19 high-tech IPOs, all but two had at least one woman officer.
Expanded IP Contributions: From 1985 to 2005, the annual number of female-invented fractional software patents in the U.S. increased 45-fold – three times the average growth rate in that sector.
Growing Influence in Tech: Women-owned or led firms are the fastest-growing sector of new venture creation in the U.S., expanding at five times the rate of all new firms between 1997 and 2006 – now representing nearly 50% of all privately-held businesses.
Venture-level Returns: In the past 10 years, more than 125 companies with over 200 women co-founders or officers have achieved IPOs or >$50M M&A exits in the U.S. high-tech sector alone.
Diversity Improves Performance: Organizations that are the most inclusive of women in top management achieve 35% higher ROE and 34% better total return to shareholders versus their peers. Research shows gender diversity is particularly valuable where innovation is key.
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Yeşilköy (prior to 1926, San Stefano or Santo Stefano from the Greek: Άγιος Στέφανος pronounced Ayos Stefanos, rendered in Turkish as Ayastefanos, Сан Стефано) is a neighbourhood (mahalle) in the district of Bakırköy, Istanbul, Turkey, on the Marmara Sea about 11 km west of Istanbul's historic city centre.wikipedia
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Yeşilköy (prior to 1926, San Stefano or Santo Stefano from the Greek: Άγιος Στέφανος pronounced Ayos Stefanos, rendered in Turkish as Ayastefanos, Сан Стефано) is a neighbourhood (mahalle) in the district of Bakırköy, Istanbul, Turkey, on the Marmara Sea about 11 km west of Istanbul's historic city centre.
The municipality of Bakırköy is much larger than the quarter and also includes several other neighbourhoods, such as Yeşilköy, Yeşilyurt, Ataköy.
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San Stefano was where in 1878 the Russian forces halted their advance towards Constantinople at the end of the Russo-Turkish War and was the location where the Treaty of San Stefano was signed between the Russian and Ottoman Empires. San Stefano Peak on Rugged Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after the settlement, in connection with the Treaty of San Stefano.
The 1878 Treaty of San Stefano (Russian: Сан-Стефанский мир; Peace of San-Stefano, Сан-Стефанский мирный договор; Peace treaty of San-Stefano, Turkish: Ayastefanos Muahedesi or Ayastefanos Antlaşması) was a treaty between Russia and the Ottoman Empire signed at San Stefano, then a village west of Constantinople, on 3 March 1878 by Count Nicholas Pavlovich Ignatiev and Aleksandr Nelidov on behalf of the Russian Empire and Foreign Minister Saffet Pasha and Ambassador to Germany Sadullah Bey on behalf of the Ottoman Empire.
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San Stefano was where the first aviation facilities were built in the Ottoman Empire in 1912 and an aviation school was set up and later developed by German officers to train pilots for the Ottoman Aviation Squadrons.
Two tent hangars for the Aircraft School (Tayyare Mektebi) were erected in January 1912 at Yeşilköy, west of Istanbul (which is the Atatürk International Airport today.)
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Shortly after the Ottomans' entry into the First World War as Germany's ally, on 14 November 1914, a monument erected here in 1898 to commemorate the Russian soldiers who died in 1878, was blown up by the Ottoman military as a propaganda event; the demolition is thought to have been filmed by the first Turkish filmmaker Fuat Uzkınay and thus is officially deemed to be the birth of Turkish cinema.
Demolition of the Monument at San Stefano (Ayastefanos'taki Rus Abidesinin Yıkılışı) is a 1914 Turkish documentary film directed by former army officer Fuat Uzkınay.
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The first Turkish-made film was a documentary entitled Ayastefanos'taki Rus Abidesinin Yıkılışı (Demolition of the Russian Monument at San Stefano), directed by Fuat Uzkınay and completed in 1914.
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The British sent a fleet of battleships to intimidate Russia from entering the city, and Russian forces stopped at San Stefano.
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Istanbul Atatürk International Airport, formerly known as the Yeşilköy Airport, is located in this district.
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Douglas G. Scrivner
Former General Counsel & Secretary, Accenture PLC
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Doug Scrivner, former General Counsel of Accenture, retired in 2011 after 31 years with the company and 14 years as General Counsel. During his tenure, he built a legal group of over 400 lawyers in 35 countries and also oversaw the company’s government relations function and served as Corporate Secretary, Compliance Officer and as a member of Accenture’s Executive Leadership Team.
Mr. Scrivner has participated and held leadership positions in several educational and professional organizations. At the University of Denver this has included serving as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Denver, where he was Chair from 2014 to 2018 (and designated Chair Emeritus in 2018), and chairing the Advancement Committee during the public phase of DU’s ASCEND comprehensive campaign; Chairman of the Visiting Committee, University of Denver Sturm College of Law; National Co-Chairman of the Second Century Campaign, University of Denver Sturm College of Law; member of the Advisory Board of Educating Tomorrow’s Lawyers at IAALS; and member of the executive committee of IAALS and the Barton Institute for Philanthropy and Social Enterprise. He has also served as an adjunct professor at the Sturm College of Law.
He has served as a member of the Board of Visitors, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University; a member of the Arts & Sciences Campaign Committee, Duke University; co-chair of the Sanford School campaign committee in Duke’s Duke Forward campaign; a member of the board of the Gladstone Institutes Foundation in San Francisco; a member of the Advisory Board to the Diversity and Flexibility Alliance (formerly PAR); a member of the California State Bar Academy Strategic Task Force; and an occasional guest speaker at UC Berkeley School of Law, Northwestern University School of Law, Daniels College of Business and Sturm College of Law.
Mr. Scrivner received an A.B. in political science and history from Duke University, an M.Sc. in international relations from the London School of Economics, and a J.D. from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.
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'''Jean Guillon''' is an independent Consultant in the domain name industry. He calls himself a [[New gTLD Program|new gTLD]] Evangelist and provides marketing advice to entities who are interested in applying for new generic top level domain names ([[gTLD]]s), as well as identifying and connecting with proper investors. He is also a writer/contributor of [http://www.circleid.com/members/3503/ CircleID], a website dedicated in providing information about the internet infrastructure and domain name industry. Jean contributes to the French [http://www.journaldunet.com/account/jean-guillon-1569 "Journal Du Net"], a website about tomorrow's Internet economy.
'''Jean Guillon''' is an independent Consultant in the domain name industry. He calls himself a [[New gTLD Program|new gTLD]] Evangelist and provides marketing advice to entities who are interested in applying for new generic top level domain names ([[gTLD]]s), as well as identifying and connecting with proper investors. At present, Jean Guillon is working on the developing [[dotVinum]] project ([[.wine]], [[.vin]], [[.vino]] new gTLDs).<ref>[http://www.guillon.com/ New generic Top-Level Domain activist]</ref><ref>[http://www.dotvinum.org/ Project DotVinum]</ref> He is also a writer/contributor of [[CircleID]], a website dedicated in providing information about the internet infrastructure and domain name industry.<ref>[http://www.circleid.com/members/3503// About Jean Guillon]</ref> Jean contributes to the [["Journal Du Net"]], a french website about tomorrow's Internet economy.<ref>[http://www.journaldunet.com/solutions/expert/56174/nom-de-domaine---vive-la---science.shtml Nom de domaine : vive la “.SCIENCE” !]</ref>
Jean is proficient in English, French, Spanish and Italian.
Jean is proficient in English, French, Italian and Spanish.
==Career History==
Before developing the Dotvinum project, Jean Guillon served as a gTLD consultant for [[INDOM]] from 2008 to 2011. He was responsible for providing new gTLD feasibility studies, administrative and technical domain name management, and marketing the services of the company for new gTLD applications. He has also served as International Development Business Manager for [[Cuzco]], a company based in Luxembourg managing cuzco.lu and ofindo.com, and as Corporate Manager for [[Gandi]] SAS, the French retail registrar. He worked for both companies before joining INDOM. In 2007, he worked as Domain Name Consultant for [[RegisTrust]], a domain name portfolio management and consulting firm, and for [[CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.]]. In 2005, he served as Support of Officer for [[EURid]], the registry operator for the [[.eu]] [[ccTLD]]. He has also worked for [[Aibus]] SAS as Domain Name Portfolio Manager, Traffic Manager for [[Sumo Communications]] and Website Developer for [[Caplaser]].<ref>[http://www.guillon.com/curriculum-vitae Curriculum Vitae]</ref>
Before developing the [http://www.dotvinum.org/ Dotvinum] project, (for .WINE - .VIN and .VINO domain names), Jean Guillon served as a gTLD consultant for Indom (now NetNames) from 2008 to 2011. He was responsible for providing new gTLD feasibility studies, administrative and technical domain name management, and marketing the services of the company for new gTLD applications. He has also served as Corporate Manager for [[Gandi SAS]], the French retail registrar. In 2007, he worked as a Domain Name Consultant for RegisTrust, a domain name portfolio management and consulting firm, and for [[CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.]]. In 2005, he served as Support of Officer for [[EURid]], the Registry operator for the .EU [[ccTLD]]. He has also worked for Airbus SAS as Domain Name Portfolio Manager, Traffic Manager for Sumo Communications and Website Developer for Caplaser in south of France.
Today, Jean is the CEO of [[Jovenet Consulting]] and provides new gTLD consultancy services and enhanced visibility for new gTLD applicants and service providers, conferences about TLDs, products and services related to new gTLDs. Jean is involved in Wine Registries Governance and informs governments on wine Registries specific questions. <ref>[http://www.jovenet.com Jovenet Consulting]</ref>
Today, Jean is the CEO of [https://www.jovenet.consulting/ Jovenet Consulting] and provides new gTLD consultancy services, writes ".BRAND" SWOT analysis and studies for future rounds of the [https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/ ICANN new gTLD program], delivers enhanced visibility for new gTLD applicants and service providers, promotes conferences about TLDs, products and services related to new gTLDs. Once a month, Jovenet Consulting delivers [https://www.jovenet.consulting/reports new gTLD reports] focusing on domain name registration volumes according to group of Top-Level Domains. Jean was involved in Wine Registries Governance.
==Online==
Jean moderates the [[New gTLD|new generic Top-Level Domains]] (new gTLDs) group on LinkedIn (1500+ subscribers), a group to share knowledge about new gTLDs.<ref>[http://www.linkedin.com/groups?groupDashboard=&gid=1840166 New gTLDs on LinkedIn]</ref> He recently launched [[NEWSgTLDs.com]], a website where to find the latest info about new gTLD. <ref>[http://www.newsgtlds.com NEWSgTLDs.com]</ref>
Jean moderates the [https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1840166 new generic Top-Level Domains group on LinkedIn] (2600+ subscribers): a group to share knowledge and information about new gTLDs. He also launched [https://www.gtld.club gTLD.club], a website where to find the latest info about new generic Top-Level Domains. The website's newsletter is sent once a day at 8:00PM CET.
===ICANN Involvement===
Jean Guillon is active in providing comments and recommendations on different issues being discussed by the [[ICANN]] community in the public forum. In March, 2011, he was chosen as one of the volunteers for the [[GNSO]] Study Group on Use of Names of Countries and Territories.<ref>[http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/council/msg10882.html Updated GNSO Open Council Meeting Agenda - San Francisco]</ref>
Jean is active in providing comments and recommendations on different issues being discussed by the [[ICANN]] community in the public forum. In March, 2011, he was chosen as one of the volunteers for the [[GNSO]] Study Group on Use of Names of Countries and Territories. He was a member of the Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) too.
==Education==
Guillon holds a Master Degree in Marketing Management and Communication and a Bachelors of Science in Business. He also holds an Advance Technician Certificate (Brevet de Technicien Supérieur).<ref>[http://www.guillon.com/qualifications Qualifications]</ref>
Jean holds a Master Degree in Marketing Management and Communication and a Bachelors of Science in Business. He also holds an Advance Technician Certificate (Brevet de Technicien Supérieur).<ref>[https://www.guillon.com/bio Curriculum Vitae]</ref>
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Email: contact@jovenet.email
https://www.jovenet.consulting/
LinkedIn: Jean Guillon
Twitter: @jeanguillon
Jean Guillon is an independent Consultant in the domain name industry. He calls himself a new gTLD Evangelist and provides marketing advice to entities who are interested in applying for new generic top level domain names (gTLDs), as well as identifying and connecting with proper investors. He is also a writer/contributor of CircleID, a website dedicated in providing information about the internet infrastructure and domain name industry. Jean contributes to the French "Journal Du Net", a website about tomorrow's Internet economy.
1 Career History
2.1 ICANN Involvement
Before developing the Dotvinum project, (for .WINE - .VIN and .VINO domain names), Jean Guillon served as a gTLD consultant for Indom (now NetNames) from 2008 to 2011. He was responsible for providing new gTLD feasibility studies, administrative and technical domain name management, and marketing the services of the company for new gTLD applications. He has also served as Corporate Manager for Gandi SAS, the French retail registrar. In 2007, he worked as a Domain Name Consultant for RegisTrust, a domain name portfolio management and consulting firm, and for CSC Corporate Domains, Inc.. In 2005, he served as Support of Officer for EURid, the Registry operator for the .EU ccTLD. He has also worked for Airbus SAS as Domain Name Portfolio Manager, Traffic Manager for Sumo Communications and Website Developer for Caplaser in south of France.
Today, Jean is the CEO of Jovenet Consulting and provides new gTLD consultancy services, writes ".BRAND" SWOT analysis and studies for future rounds of the ICANN new gTLD program, delivers enhanced visibility for new gTLD applicants and service providers, promotes conferences about TLDs, products and services related to new gTLDs. Once a month, Jovenet Consulting delivers new gTLD reports focusing on domain name registration volumes according to group of Top-Level Domains. Jean was involved in Wine Registries Governance.
Jean moderates the new generic Top-Level Domains group on LinkedIn (2600+ subscribers): a group to share knowledge and information about new gTLDs. He also launched gTLD.club, a website where to find the latest info about new generic Top-Level Domains. The website's newsletter is sent once a day at 8:00PM CET.
ICANN Involvement
Jean is active in providing comments and recommendations on different issues being discussed by the ICANN community in the public forum. In March, 2011, he was chosen as one of the volunteers for the GNSO Study Group on Use of Names of Countries and Territories. He was a member of the Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) too.
Jean holds a Master Degree in Marketing Management and Communication and a Bachelors of Science in Business. He also holds an Advance Technician Certificate (Brevet de Technicien Supérieur).[1]
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BIEBER DROPS "YUMMY" SINGLE/VID AND SEASONS YOUR 2020 STEW (UPDATE)
Def Jam's Justin Bieber has dropped a new single, "Yummy," the first salvo from his forthcoming album. Upon release, it immediately began zooming up the iTunes singles chart; it currently sits at #1. Check out the official video right here.
Biebs will debut a documentary series about his life and the creation of his forthcoming album. The 10-part series, Justin Bieber: Seasons, is set to bow on YouTube on 1/27 at midnight ET. You'll see talking heads Scooter Braun and Hailey Rhode Bieber, among others, in the trailer below. It's been reported that the series cost the online giant in the vicinity of $20m.
Biebs offered more tantalizing hints and a "special message" to fans on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve on ABC.
The doc is produced by Bieber Time Films, SB Projects and OBB Pictures. Justin Bieber will serve as an executive producer. Braun, Allison Kaye and Scott serve as executive producers for SB Projects and Michael D. Ratner, Scott Ratner and Kfir Goldberg are executive producers for OBB Pictures.
MAY YOUR NEW YEAR BE "YUMMY"
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Posted: December 29, 2020 | Author: Frank Hoeber | Filed under: Hoeber | Tags: CAU, Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars, Institute for International Education, Nazis and Scientists, Rudolf Hober, Scholar Rescue Fund, University of Kiel | Leave a comment
A couple of years ago, I wrote about The Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars, which paid my grandfather’s salary at the university of Pennsylvania in 1934, making it possible for him to escape Nazi Germany. That Committee was a project of the Institute for international Education Scholar Rescue Fund. This year, the IIE-SRF celebrates its centenary, marking a hundred years of aiding international scholars threatened by conditions in their home countries. As part of the observance, the IIE is publishing stories of some of the scholars they helped over the years. They asked me to write an article about my grandfather. Here is the result.
From the IIE scholar rescue archives: Renowned physiologist Rudolf Höber
For the past 100 years, IIE has led special efforts to rescue academics who face threats to their lives and scholarly work. One of IIE’s most notable efforts was the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars, which from 1933-1945 offered temporary academic homes in colleges and universities in the United States to more than 300 European scholars facing Nazi persecution. One such scholar was Dr. Rudolf Höber, a celebrated physiologist and human rights defender. In the below article, guest author Francis W. Hoeber tells us more about his grandfather’s remarkable life and work.
“My grandfather, Rudolf Höber (1873-1953), was a celebrity in the world of physiology. His pioneering work in biochemistry and biophysics won him worldwide recognition and two nominations for the Nobel prize. From 1911 to 1933, Höber was a professor at the University of Kiel in Germany and head of the prestigious Physiological Institute there.
Höber was more than a brilliant scientist; he was a humanist and social progressive as well. An early feminist, he focused on bringing women into the field of medicine, including his wife, Dr. Josephine M. Höber; 22 of the 24 doctoral dissertations he supervised at the University of Zürich early in his career were prepared by women scholars. When women got the right to vote in 1920, his wife quickly became a leading political activist, especially in public health and women’s rights. In the 1920s, Höber joined with other leading scientists and writers calling for the decriminalization of consensual same-sex relations. From 1930-1931, Höber served a term as Chancellor of the University of Kiel. Twice he had to discipline right wing students who disrupted speakers who were liberal or Jewish. In 1931 he expelled several Nazi students and banned the Nazi student group from the campus.
When Adolf Hitler took power in January 1933, Höber’s anti-Nazi record, plus the fact that one of his grandfathers was Jewish, made him an immediate target. That April, men in uniforms of Hitler’s Stormtroopers and the SS charged into Höber’s classroom. The Nazis threatened to kill him and throw grenades into his classrooms unless he quit his teaching. Höber laid low for a couple of days, but then returned to teaching his students despite the risk.
In the summer of 1933, however, the Nazi Education Ministry fired him from his professor position and expelled him from the university. Desperate to continue his scientific research, Höber applied to IIE’s Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars for help. In a fairly short time, the Committee’s director, Edward R. Murrow, wrote Höber and arranged a teaching position and small lab at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. At UPenn, he continued his research on the molecular structure of cell membranes, with his wife as his laboratory collaborator. They co-authored numerous scientific articles and a new edition of Höber’s celebrated monograph, The Physical Chemistry of Cells and Tissues. This was in addition to lecturing and mentoring graduate students in advanced medical research. Höber’s adult children and their families were eventually able to follow him and his wife to the U.S. His descendants contributed much to their new country as academics, scientists, public servants, and artists.
The work of IIE’s Emergency Committee meant, literally, the survival of our family. In the midst of our current dark times, IIE helps us remember that the world has recovered from dreadful situations before.”
More stories about the Höber family are in Against Time: Letters from Nazi Germany, 1938-1939, published by the American Philosophical Society. Information is available here. Also available at Amazon.com.
German edition, Deutsche auf der Flucht, ein Briefwechsel zwischen Deutschland und Amerika von 1938 bis 1938, available here.
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Posted: August 27, 2020 | Author: Frank Hoeber | Filed under: Hoeber | Tags: A Method to Measure the Electrical Conductivity Inside Cells, Dieter Ast, Elektrische Leitfaehigkeit, IEEE Microwave, Ilke Schmueser, James C. M. Hwang, Journal of Electrical Bioimpedence, kiel physiological institute, Pflüger's Archiv, Ron Pethig, Rudolf Hober, University of Kiel, university of pennsylvania | Leave a comment
Prof. Rudolf Höber, Kiel, around the time he published his article on measuring electric current inside cells.
THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE IN GERMAN
There are about 75 million cells in a tablespoon of blood. My grandfather, Rudolf Höber, an early cellular physiologist, spent his whole life studying these microscopic entities, trying to figure out how they work. He and others knew that electric current is conducted within and between these cells. How much electric current? How does it work? How do you measure it? My grandfather figured it out. He published the method of measuring conductivity in cells in a German scientific journal, Pflüger’s Archiv für die gesamte Physiologie der Menschen und der Tiere [“Journal of General Physiology of Humans and Animals.”] In the original, it looked like this:
Rudolf Höber’s article on measuring electrical current inside blood cells, as it originally appeared in “Pflügers Archiv” in 1910.
Apparatus diagrams as published in “Pflügers Archiv” in 1910.
A couple of years ago, I was surprised to learn that my grandfather’s work on the measurement of electrical current in cells was still considered relevant, sufficiently so that it warranted publication of its own commemorative article. Ron Pethig, Professor of Bioelectronics and Dr. Ilke Schmueser, Researcher, both at the University of Edinburgh, published “Marking 100 Years Since Rudolf Höber’s Discovery of the Insulating Envelope Surrounding Cells and of the Beta-Dispersion Exhibited by Tissue” (Journal of Electrical Bioimpedence, vol. 3, pp. 74-49, 2012).
THE ARTICLE AS NEWLY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY JAMES C. M. HWANG AND DIETER G. AST, 2020
Recently, I was unexpectedly contacted by James C. M. Hwang, a senior research professor in materials science at Cornell University. He had just completed an article on “Label-free Noninvasive Cell Characterization by Broadband Impedance Spectroscopy“, to be published next year by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers in its IEEE Microwave Magazine . His article reviews work done by various scientists in the past, including that of my grandfather, and finds that the principles they explored may be adapted to promise advances in science and engineering using today’s technologies. He found the work of my grandfather sufficiently interesting and relevant today that he enlisted a German-native-speaker colleague, Prof. Dieter G. Ast, to collaborate with him on producing an English translation. And now I am very pleased to be able to present “A Method to Measure the Electrical Conductivity Inside Cells,” available for the first time in English, thanks to Profs. Hwang and Ast. In the continuing documentation of our family’s history, we are grateful to them for this work. The complete translation appears at the end of this post.
HAVING TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING THESE ARTICLES?
I have been told that my Opa Rudi, the great physiologist, had hopes that I might follow him into a career in the sciences. Alas, my life took me in different directions. As a result, I must admit that my understanding of my grandfather’s groundbreaking article is limited, even in English. Nevertheless, it is a great satisfaction that scientists who do have the necessary knowledge find his work of a century ago to be relevant for further research, discovery and invention in the twenty-first century.
NOTE: The copyright on my grandfather’s original article is arguably still owned by the successor to the original publisher. Hence the following notice: Translated by permission of Springer Nature, Rudolf Höber, Pflüger’s Archiv für die gesamte Physiologie der Menschen und der Tiere, “Eine Methode, die Leitfähigkeit im Innern von Zellen zu messen,” copyright 1910.
Posted: July 31, 2018 | Author: Frank Hoeber | Filed under: Hoeber, Uncategorized | Tags: Franco-Prussian War, Jewish Family Life, Jews in Germany, Moritz Daniel Oppenheim | 2 Comments
Note: With the exception of the first illustration below, the images in this post are borrowed from the wonderful book, Der Zyklus „Bilder aus dem altjüdischen Familienleben“ und sein Maler Moritz Daniel Oppenheim [The Series “Pictures of Old Jewish Family Life” and its Painter Moritz Daniel Oppenheim] by Ruth Dröse et al. (Hanau: Co-Con Verlag, 1996).
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim and his first wife, Adelheid Cleve, 1829 (self portrait). Nothing in their dress or demeanor distinguishes them visually from others in Germany’s rising bourgeoisie of the period.
Minority groups in any society continually negotiate a balance between maintaining their distinct identity and fitting into the larger society in which they live. In the United States, this negotiation has been repeatedly managed by immigrant groups, including Irish, Italian and Eastern Europeans in the 19th century and East and South Asians, Middle Easterners and myriad Latinos today. Jews in Germany in the 1800s faced similar social negotiations. At the beginning of the century, Jewish mobility was tightly restricted and their lives were often segregated from the majority community. A hundred years later, however, Jews were leaders in countless fields in Germany, including literature, the arts, science, the professions and business. Prejudice and discrimination persisted, but the progress over the century was remarkable.
As German Jews entered the middle and educated classes, they faced the conundrum of maintaining their distinctive customs and beliefs while sharing the benefits and liberal values of participation in a broader, more diverse, modern society. In the second half of the 19th century, the domestic art of my great-great-great grandfather’s brother, Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, portrayed a credible balance between these competing objectives. You can read a prior post about him here. His series depicting Jewish life became wildly popular. They started as black-and-white paintings that were photographically converted to lithographs. The set sold thousands of copies in many editions.
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Freitag Abend [Friday Evening], 1867. The father returns from the synagogue for the Sabbath meal with his family.
Close family relations, benevolent gender roles, respectful children, education, hospitality, formal mealtimes, well-made but not opulent furnishings and clothing — these were all esteemed values of German middle class life when Moritz painted this illustration in 1867. He dressed the figures in clothing from a century earlier – perhaps suggesting that the Jewish exoticism pictured was explicable as an anachronism. The artistic style, however, is a mid-19th century domestic genre scene. Except for the figure on the right and the Sabbath lamp hanging over the table, this could be many idealized German homes of Oppenheim’s day. The father blesses his daughters while his wife nurses the baby. Three boys stand respectfully; one holds a book while observing the Sabbath guest, a religious student in foreign dress. The Sabbath bread lies under a napkin waiting for the family to sit and eat together. For both Jewish and Gentile audiences, this image conveys strong nineteenth-century family values held in common by the majority and minority populations.
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Sabbat-Nachmittag [Sabbath Afternoon], (1866). A Jewish family quietly observes the Day of Rest.
Aside from the males’ skullcaps and the Sabbath lamp in the center of the room, this illustration could be an idealized scene of Christian piety on a Sunday afternoon in the mid-1800s. It is, however, a Jewish home on a Saturday. While the father dozes, the sons and daughters read and study. No doubt their books are religious or moral texts. The good but not extravagant clothes and furnishings and the domestic tranquility convey that this is a gutbürgerlich, solid middle class, pious German home.
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Das Wochen- oder Pfingstfest [The Feast of Weeks, or Shavuot] 1880. The late spring festival features decorations of garlands and flowers.
Once in a while, Moritz Oppenheim would allow his illustrations of Jewish life to convey greater distinctiveness than others. In this portrayal of Shavuot, the men wear prayer shawls (Talit) and the central figure carries a richly decorated Torah. The Gothic-arched windows of the synagogue and the tablets of the Ten Commandments over the door, however, would connote a religious environment familiar to German Christians of the time. What this image has most in common with Christian illustrations of the time is the attentive, prayerful, eyes-upraised piety of all the participants, including children.
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Die Jahrzeit (Minjan) [Minyan], 1871. Jewish soldiers interrupt the war to observe Jahrzeit, the anniversary of the death of one of the soldiers’ father.
Jews showed their German patriotism by volunteering for the army in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. In this scene, ten German-Jewish soldiers – officers and enlisted, infantry and medical corps, battle-ready and wounded – pause in the war to observe the anniversary of the death of the father of one of their number, the man third from right with a prayer shawl. The place is a commandeered home in a French village. The crucifix hung on the back wall by the French family has been covered with a cloth for this occasion but remains part of the scene. French girls observe the unusual ceremony through the window. The message is one of German loyalty and communal piety, so the soldiers at prayer are simultaneously unified with and and yet different from German society as a whole.
Prof. M. Oppenheim, Bilder aus dem altjüdischen Familienleben [Pictures of Old Jewish Family Life], edition of 1872.
The first portfolio of Oppenheim’s lithographs with six images was published in 1866 and was followed by numerous later editions with additional plates. Thousands of the sets were sold . The huge 1901 edition pictured, measuring nearly 2 feet by 3 feet, included 20 large prints. Oppenheim’s lithographs, with their multilayered meanings, decorated Jewish homes across Europe for decades. They can be seen at the Jewish Museum in New York and at the Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art housed in the historic Rodeph Sholem Synagogue.
Posted: July 17, 2018 | Author: Frank Hoeber | Filed under: Hoeber, Uncategorized | Tags: Bernhardine Oppenheim Friedeberg, Carl Mayer von Rothschild, Frankfurt am Main, Goethe and Mendelssohn, Hanau, Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Boerne, Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Nathan Mayer Rothschild | 3 Comments
Note: The images in this post are borrowed from the wonderful reference book and catalogue raisonné , Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Die Entdeckung des jüdischen Selbstbewußtseins in der Kunst [“The Discovery of Jewish Self-Awareness in Art”], edited by Georg Heuberger and Anton Merk, Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt am Main, 1999.
Moritz Oppenheim (1800-1882), Selbstbildnis, 1825.
One of the fascinating things about digging into my family’s history was to discover that before 1900, almost everyone on my father’s side of the family was Jewish. My father was baptized and confirmed as a Protestant, as was his father, and my mother came from an entirely Protestant background,. So it was only late in my life that I learned of my father’s Jewish roots. My 5X great-grandfather, Lazarus Gumpel, sponsored the first Reformed synagogue in Hamburg, Germany around 1800. Other family members were close with Abraham Geiger and Theodore Creizenach, among the founders of Reform Judaism in the early 19th century.
One of the interesting characters I discovered was my 3X great-grandfather’s brother, Moritz Oppenheim (1800-1882). He was born in the confined ghetto in Hanau, near Frankfurt, to a wealthy family of jewelers and bankers. He grew up to be called The First Jewish Painter. He showed his talent early, with this remarkable and quirky self-portrait when he was just 14 years old.
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim. Selbstbildnis, 1815.
Moritz discovered early that he could make a decent living painting religious scenes based on both Old and New Testament themes. Many of these, however, bear the saccharine character of popular 19th century religious illustrations. The slightly racy quality of this painting of Potiphar’s Wife (here trying to seduce Joseph) makes it more interesting than some in this genre:
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Joseph und das Weib von Potiphar, 1828.
I think Moritz really was at his best when he got into portraiture. He had a wonderful capacity to capture the personalities of interesting people. I love this painting of my great-great-aunt, Bernhardine Friedeberg (1822-1873), which captures not just her beauty but her intelligence and determination:
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Bernhardine Friedeberg, 1846.
Good portraits were a sign of status and taste in Europe and America in the 19th century, and Moritz’s skills eventually came to the attention of the Rothschild banking family, then legendary as one of the wealthiest families in the world. In 1836, the Rothschilds commissioned him to paint portraits of the five brothers who dominated banking in Europe as well as other Rothschild relatives. The brilliance of the paintings and the fame of their subjects made Oppenheim himself famous.
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Carl Mayer von Rothschild, 1850.
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1853.
The Rothschild commissions opened doors to other clients, and Moritz was appointed to paint portraits of the greatest literary figures of his time, including the romantic poet Heinrich Heine and the political commentator Ludwig Börne. Working from earlier sketches, in 1864 he also created a painting of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, at 21 the most famous composer in Europe, playing piano for Wolfgang von Goethe in 1830.
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Ludwig Börne, 1833.
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Heinrich Heine, 1831.
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy spielt vor Goethe, 1864.
I previously wrote a post about my artist great-grandmother, Marie Höber, here. Moritz Oppenheim was her great-uncle, and Marie treasured a letter she received from him praising her miniatures on ivory. The letter from Uncle Moritz, with its handsomely addressed envelope, is preserved in my family’s papers.
Letter from Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, in Frankfurt, to his great-niece, Marie Höber, in Berlin, June 17, 1871. Envelope below.
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim dictated his memoirs shortly before his death at the age of 82, but they wouldn’t be published until his grandson edited them 42 years later.
Moritz Oppenheim Erinnerungen (Memoirs), edited by his grandson, Alfred Oppenheim, 1924.
By the time he was in his sixties, Oppenheim was highly successful and known throughout Europe. And yet his greatest fame and popularity was yet to come with the publication of an extraordinary series of lithographs providing a particular portrayal of Jews as they fit into the contentious social and political world of Oppenheim’s times. This series will be the subject of Part 2 of this post, coming soon.
Posted: June 5, 2018 | Author: Frank Hoeber | Filed under: Hoeber, Uncategorized | Tags: Clara Fischer, Düsseldorf, Elfriede Hoeber, Franz Fischer, Küingdorf | 4 Comments
Franz Fischer (standing, center) with his brothers and sisters at the Fischer farm in Küingdorf about 1900. The stern pair at the table are his parents. Franz’ sister Berta holds his arm. Click for a larger image.
My mother’s father, Franz Fischer, for whom I am named, was born on a pig farm in the village of Küingdorf, Germany in 1868, 3 1/2 weeks after his parents married. Located on the border between Westphalia and Hanover ( now Niedersachsen or Lower Saxony ), the landscape around Küingdorf is reminiscent of parts of Vermont or central Pennsylvania. The farm had sufficient land to raise grain to feed the pigs as well as a productive and profitable forest area. The farm was prosperous and well-maintained, but a pig farm all the same,
Franz was the oldest of nine children and in other another area of Germany would have been the heir apparent. It was a peculiarity of the traditional law in the Küingdorf area, however, that a farm was inherited by the youngest son, not the oldest. Thus, Franz knew early on that he would have to find another way than farming to earn his living. So while still a very young man he became interested in that most modern of conveyances, the bicycle.
Franz Fischer as a young man with his bicycle, about 1900.
In 1902, Franz met Clara Schallenberg, a city girl. She was the daughter of a successful retail and wholesale merchant dealing in household china and kitchen ware. Franz and Clara married in 1903.
Clara Schallenberg, later Fischer, around 1900.
One of the first things Franz and Clara did when they married was to register as Konfessionslos — without religious affiliation — in the local registry office. This registration would exempt them from church taxes. My mother wrote later of Franz and Clara, “I grew up in a pleasant, peaceful family in which I was taught to have deep disrespect for organized religion and great respect for fundamental ethical principles that none of us would ever abandon. Our father’s principles were rather simple: we do the right things, not to appeal to some figure ‘up there’ in the sky, but simply to do the right thing.” It was a powerful moral rectitude grounded in principled atheism.
Although Franz was born a farm boy, in the city of Dusseldorf he made himself into a gentleman in a time when social mobility was more limited than it is today. While industrialization at the turn of the twentieth century brought substantial migration from farm to city, Franz and Clara took things a step further and entered the Bildungsbuergertum, the literate and cultured middle class. I remember the proud, respectful tone in my grandmother Clara’s voice when she told me Franz was ein richtiger Herr, a genuine gentleman. Clearly one of the things that made Franz a gentleman is that he dressed the part.
Franz Fischer around the time of his marriage to Clara Schallenberg, 1903.
As Franz’ business prospered, he and Clara attended concerts and plays, kept a large library and read extensively. Clara could recite long passages from Goethe and other German classics as well as Shakespeare and the Bible, her atheism notwithstanding. Franz and Clara sent their daughter, my mother Elfriede, to the university preparatory school (Gymnasium) and supported her through her PhD. at Heidelberg. Franz embellished his considerable library by pasting a handsome book plate, designed by a friend who was a graphic artist, inside each cover.
Franz Fischer’s book plate, 1920s.
Franz and Clara remained committed to bicycling throughout their lives.
Franz and Clara Fischer around 1930.
Clara Fischer and Franz Fischer walking in Düsseldorf, about 1930
Franz died in 1937, well before I was born, but his photographs have made him very real to me. From my mother’s stories about him, he was an easy person to like and was admired by those who knew him.
Franz Fischer not long before his death in 1937.
Deutsche Ausgabe erscheint im Sommer 2018 // The German Edition is Coming this Summer
Posted: February 26, 2018 | Author: Frank Hoeber | Filed under: Hoeber | Tags: American Philosophical Society, Düsseldorf, Elfriede Hoeber, Escaping Nazi Germany, Francis W. Hoeber, German Social Democrats, Hoeber, Immigrant experience, Johannes Hoeber, Letters from Nazi Germany, Philadelphia, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph | 4 Comments
Deutsche Ausgabe: “Deutsche auf der Flucht, Ein Briefwechsel zwischen Deutschland und Amerika von 1938 bis 1939.”, erscheint im Sommer 2018.
Liebe Kollegen/innen, Freunde, Verwandte,
Grüße aus Philadelphia! Es freut mich sehr, Ihnen/euch mitteilen zu können, dass mein Buch, Against Time, Letters from Nazi Germany, 1938-1939, im Frühsommer dieses Jahres in deutsche Fassung erscheinen wird. Der deutsche Titel lautet, Deutsche auf der Flucht, ein Briefwechsel zwischen Deutschland und Amerika von 1938 bis 1939. Viele von Ihnen/euch kennen das Buch schon auf Englisch, und der Berliner Lukas Verlag wird jetzt die deutsche Version des Buchs herausgeben. Es ist eine besondere Ehre, dass die Kosten der Veröffentlichung durch die Stiftung Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand (Berlin) unterstützt werden. Für weitere Informationen zum Buch, siehe unten.
Im Laufe des letzten Jahres habe ich mich mit der Abfassung der deutschen Version beschäftigt. Ich bedanke mich bei den deutschen und amerikanischen Kollegen/innen und Freunden/innen, die meine Forschungen im Bereich meiner Familiengeschichte in den letzten Jahren Unterstützt haben. Natürlich werde ich Ihnen/euch allen das Veröffentlichungsdatum ankündigen, sobald ein Termin festgelegt ist.
Mit freundliche Grüße, Ihr/euer
Dear Colleagues, Friends and Relatives,
Greetings from Philadelphia! I am pleased to tell you that my book, Against Time: Letters from Nazi Germany, 1938-1939, will be issued in a German edition this summer. The German title is Deutsche auf der Flucht, ein Briefwechsel zwischen Deutschland und Amerika von 1938 bis 1939, (“Germans Fleeing: An Exchange of Letters Between Germany and America from 1938 to 1939”). I am honored that the costs of publication are being supported by the German Resistance Memorial Foundation in Berlin. During the last year I have been occupied with the preparation of the German edition, which involved translating my notes and comments from English to German and re-editing all of the original German letters written by my parents. I am grateful to the American and German colleagues and friends who have supported my research into my family’s history over the last several years. I will, of course, let everyone know when a definite publication date has been set.
The English edition remains available from the publisher and on Amazon. For further information about that book, click here.
English edition: Against Time: Letters from Nazi Germany, 1938-1939, by Francis W. Hoeber. Published by the American Philosophical Society Press, September 2015.
This Website is Now Also a Book
Posted: February 14, 2018 | Author: Frank Hoeber | Filed under: Hoeber, Uncategorized | Tags: Düsseldorf, Elfriede Hoeber, Escaping Nazi Germany, Francis W. Hoeber, Heidelberg, Immigrant experience, Jawaharlal Nehru, Johannes Hoeber, Josephine Hober, Kristallnacht, Lloyd I. Rudolph, Mannheim, Novemberpogrom, Reichsbanner schwarz-Rot-Gold, Rudolf Hober, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph | 2 Comments
Francis W. Hoeber, A Family Over Three Centuries, 2018.
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The Gestapo Has No Sense of Humor – Düsseldorf 1933
Posted: April 18, 2017 | Author: Frank Hoeber | Filed under: Hoeber, Uncategorized | Tags: Düsseldorf, Elfriede Hoeber, Gestapo, Herbert Fischer, Hoeber, Johannes Hoeber, Paul Fischer, Rudolf Hober, Stormtroopers | 4 Comments
The National Socialists took control of the German government on January 30, 1933 and consolidated their power with great speed. Political street violence had been part of German life for a long time, but the Nazis escalated that pattern rapidly and brutally, using terrorist tactics to wipe out political opposition in a matter of weeks. My father, Johannes (1904-1977), was the first victim in our family, when he was arrested in March and imprisoned for several weeks because of his liberal politics, and my grandfather, Rudolf (1873-1953),was next when he was expelled from his professor’s position the following fall, in part because of actions he took against Nazi students. The situation with my mother’s brothers was something else entirely.
My mother had three younger brothers who, in 1933, were in their mid-twenties. All three were good looking and charming, with cheerful dispositions and a taste for evenings with friends in the taverns of Düsseldorf’s Altstadt, taverns with names like the Golden Kettle (Im Goldenen Kessel) and Fatty’s Irish Pub, which are still popular today. On the night of Tuesday, November 7, 1933, my uncles Paul Fischer (1909-1947), a recent law graduate still in training, and Herbert Fischer (1907-1992), by day in business with his father, went out for an evening of socializing. Their father Franz (1868-1937) and older brother Günter (1906-1979) were away on a business trip for several days.
Herbert Fischer (1907-1992). This picture was taken several years after his imprisonment by the Gestapo in 1933.
The social evening lasted until 3 :00 in the morning, when the bars closed. Paul and Herbert, whose state after a long night of drinking can only be guessed, got into the car of a friend who drove them home. Still joking as they tumbled out of the car, Herbert spotted a poster that had been pasted on a nearby wall and was partially coming off. Tearing the poster off the wall, Herbert crumpled it into a ball and threw it into the car at his friend saying, “Here! You can use this to clean your windshield!” It seems that Herbert didn’t recognize the poster as Nazi propaganda, nor did he notice the Stormtrooper watching nearby. Although lacking legal authority, the hundreds of thousands of brown-shirted Stormtroopers of Hitler’s Sturmabteilung constituted a militia of the Nazi Party and were free to attack and bully citizens who showed any sign of dissent from the regime. Although Herbert was non-political, the waiting Stormtrooper saw his petty vandalism as a political act and took him into custody. Paul went along to be a witness in his brother’s defense, but soon found himself taken into custody as well.
Paul Fischer (1909-1947). This picture was taken a couple of years after his imprisonment by the Gestapo in 1933.
As Paul and Herbert got passed on from the Stormtrooper to a bicycle policeman to an automobile police squad to the police station, the story of the incident grew from a tipsy prank to an organized conspiracy against the state. By dawn, both Herbert and Paul were arrested and imprisoned and their case turned over to the “political police,” a part of the recently formed Secret State Police (Geheime Staatspolizei or Gestapo). Apparently the fact that Paul was a lawyer in training (Referendar) increased the Gestapo’s suspicions. The brothers were held for more than a week without charges and were subject to repeated beatings.
The day after the arrest, my grandmother and my father and mother began agitating with the police for the young men’s release. It took three days just to identify the official with authority over Paul and Herbert’s case. My grandmother was so desperate for her sons’ release that she forced herself to mumble “Heil Hitler!” to the police official, the only time in the entire Nazi period that she ever used that hated salutation. As my father wrote at the time, “Endless approaches, endless waiting, walking down endless corridors, daily hopes, daily disappointments, long negotiations and discussions, after the third day with the help of a lawyer.” After a week, Paul was released with no explanation either for his arrest or his beatings or his release. He left the city immediately to recuperate from the wounds he received in the beatings. Herbert continued to be held, inexplicably, because, as my father wrote, “He never at any time ever engaged in any political activity whatsoever.” Nevertheless, it took another week to negotiate his release, again without explanation, but, as my mother wrote, he came out “relatively undamaged.”
In the end, it all came to nothing and the brothers returned to their respective occupations. But the reality of being arrested and beaten and held for many days for no reason was part of the atmosphere of terror that would be part of daily life in Germany for the next 12 years.
Johennes Höber’s letter to his parents telling of the Gestapo’s arrest of his brothers-in-law, Herbert Fischer and Paul Fischer, on November 8, 1933. (Deutschleser: Bitte klicken für ein größeres Bild.)
More stories about the Hoeber and Fischer families are to be found in Against Time: Letters from Nazi Germany, 1938-1939, published by the American Philosophical Society. Information is available here. Also available at Amazon.com
How Tyranny Begins
Posted: February 21, 2017 | Author: Frank Hoeber | Filed under: Hoeber, Uncategorized | Tags: Academic freedom, Christian-Albrechts Universitaet, Free speech, German Social Democrats, Hoeber, kiel physiological institute, Resistance to Nazis, Rudolf Hober, Schleswig-Holstein, SPD, Stormtroopers, University of Kiel, Widerstand gegen NSDAP | 7 Comments
Seeburg Student Center, University of Kiel, where Nazi students prevented the lecture of Prof. Walther Schücking , May 26, 1930.
The following account is based on documents I recently received from the Schleswig-Holstein State Archives in Schleswig, Germany. I am indebted to my friend, archivist Dagmar Bickelmann, who has been endlessly helpful in locating records relating to my grandfather’s time at the University of Kiel.
My grandfather, Rudolf Höber (1873-1953), was elected Rektor (Chancellor) by the faculty of the University of Kiel in March 1930. Shortly after his installation, the university community was shaken when the local chapter of the National Socialist German Student Association forcibly disrupted a lecture by the distinguished professor of international law, Walther Schücking (1875-1935).
Schücking had served in 1918 as a German delegate to the Versailles peace conference that ended World War I. Thereafter, he became a strong advocate for the League of Nations, the international organization dedicated to ending war, and spoke often on the struggle for world peace. On Monday, May 26, 1930 he was scheduled to speak in the ceremonial hall of the Seeburg, the student center on Kiel Harbor. His lecture was entitled “The Moral Idea of the League of Nations.” The Nazis opposed the League of Nations, just as they opposed “pacifism.” They claimed that ending war and supporting the League would cause Germany to live for decades under the onerous terms of the Treaty of Versailles, which they believed could be reversed only by a new war.
Prof. Schücking’s lecture meeting was chaired by a distinguished panel of academics and jurists. The Nazis packed the hall early, making it difficult for anyone else to find a seat. When Schücking began to speak, the Nazis interrupted his presentation, shouting insults and catcalls. His discussion of the accomplishments of the League of Nations was derided by the audience and met with raucous laughter. As Schücking continued his lecture, the disruptions got louder. During a discussion that followed Prof. Schücking’s talk, a Nazi party member, Schalow, screamed that the League was a fraud and that leaders who preached the “emasculating” doctrine of pacifism were cowards. He claimed that the presiding panel was nothing but a bunch of Jews. The panelists intervened vigorously in the debate. A jurist condemned the “murderous activities of the SA,” the Sturmabteilung or Nazi Stormtroopers who often physically assaulted their opponents. Nazis screamed that one of the panelists was a member of the Reichsbanner, a pro-democracy militia of the Social Democratic party. When it became apparent that the most disruptive speaker, Schalow, was a student, one of the professors threatened to bring him before the university disciplinary tribunal for violation of the university’s code of behavior. This temporarily brought the meeting back under control.
Near the end of his talk, Prof. Schücking spoke critically of the political ineptness and rudeness of German political fanatics. The Nazis showed their displeasure by stamping their feet so loudly that the meeting had to be brought to a close. Triumphant at having prevented Prof Schücking from finishing his lecture, the Nazi students launched into a chorus of the Horst Wessel Lied, an anthem of the Nazi Party. They finished the evening by standing, giving the Nazi salute, and shouting “Heil Hitler!” in unison. In response, someone in the audience, possibly another professor, shouted “Pfui!,” in those days roughly the equivalent of yelling “Disgusting!” Someone else in the audience – according to the Nazis, an angry “German worker,” not a student – responded by punching that person in the face. The meeting thus came to a tumultuous end.
Clipping from Nazi newspaper boasting about suppressing academic freedom by disrupting Prof. Schücking’s speech. Schleswig-Holsteinische Tageszeitung, 31 May 1930.
As it happened, the Nazi student group had reserved the same room in the Seeburg student center for a meeting of their own two days later, on Wednesday, May 28. On the afternoon of the scheduled Nazi meeting, however, a notice was posted from Rektor Höber that read, “Because of the events on Monday evening … we hereby withdraw the permission previously granted for the use of the large hall for a National Socialist meeting.”
Rudolf Höber, Professor of Physiology and Rektor of the University of Kiel, around the time he banned the Nazi party from the University because of its disruption of free speech.
The president of the National Socialist Student Association, a student named Münske, went to the office the Rektor, who agreed to meet with him. Rektor Höber, however, refused to allow the Nazi meeting, in order to ensure there was no repetition of the violence of March 26. In a letter to Rektor Höber three days later, Münske renewed his claim that the Nazis should not be held responsible for disrupting Prof. Schücking’s lecture and should not be excluded from use of the hall in the future. Rektor Höber dictated a file memorandum noting that he would not respond to Münske’s letter, since he had discussed the matter with him on May 28. The memo included evidence showing the Nazis as a group to be responsible for breaking up the Schücking meeting.
Rektor Rudolf Höber’s memo concerning the Nazi attack on Prof. Schücking, 7 June 1930.
The Schücking affair was a marker in the advance of the Nazi assault on liberalism, internationalism and academic freedom of speech. It was a precursor to the Baumgarten affair five months later, when Nazi students disrupted a sermon of the liberal theologian Otto Baumgarten, branding him a pacifist, “Jew-lover” and traitor to the nation. In response, Rektor Höber expelled the students involved and permanently banned the National Socialist German Student Group from the University campus. This action was one of the factors held against Höber when the Nazis took control of the country in 1933, leading to his expulsion from the faculty and emigration to the United States.
More stories about the Hoeber family are to be found in Against Time: Letters from Nazi Germany, 1938-1939, published by the American Philosophical Society. Information is available here. Also available at Amazon.com
My Grandfather’s Pearl Stickpin – 1918
Posted: November 1, 2016 | Author: Frank Hoeber | Filed under: Hoeber | Tags: Gabriele Höber, German navy mutiny 1918, German Revolution of 1918, Hoeber, Johannes Hoeber, Josephine Hober, Physiological Institute Kiel, Rudolf Hober, University of Kiel, Ursula Hober | 2 Comments
Regular readers of this website may know that, for me, photographs, documents and objects are bridges across time. In this case, a picture and a pearl connect me to my family as it was nearly a century ago.
A German historian contacted me recently and asked for a photograph of my grandfather, Rudolf Höber, around 1915. That’s when Rudolf became Professor and Director of the Physiological Institute at the University of Kiel. I don’t have an individual portrait of him in 1915, but I found this great family portrait taken in February 1918.
The Höber Family, Kiel, Germany, February 1918. Rudolf Höber surrounded by, from left, Ursula, Josephine, Johannes, Gabriele.
The parents and their three children all look somewhat gloomy, but serious portraits were the fashion of the day. At the time the picture was taken, scientists came from as far away as Japan to study with Rudolf at the Physiological Institute, despite the fact that it was the middle of World War I. The sailor suit my father is wearing in the picture was typical for German school boys then and later. It was particularly appropriate in Kiel, which had a huge naval installation. A few months after this picture was taken, Johannes, 14, was on his way home from his Gymnasium when he witnessed the shooting that marked the mutiny of the German naval forces, starting the German Revolution of 1918.
When the photograph was cropped to pull out the portrait of Rudolf the historian had requested, I noticed something. In the center of the knot of Rudolf’s tie is a pearl stickpin.
Prof. Rudolf Höber, Kiel, February 1918.
When Rudolf died in 1952, the pearl stickpin passed to my father, Johannes. And when Johannes died in 1977 the pearl stickpin passed to me.
My grandfather’s pearl stickpin.
Although it is not particularly fashionable today, I still try to find occasion to wear the stickpin once in a while.
Wearing my grandfather’s pearl stickpin – 2016.
Revolutionary Politician — Great-great Uncle Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim (1819-1880)
Posted: October 13, 2016 | Author: Frank Hoeber | Filed under: Hoeber | Tags: 1848, Abraham Geiger, Amalia Oppenheim Hoeber, Baden uprising, Bettina von Arnim, German Revolution, Gustav Struve, Heidelberg University, Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim, Ludwig Bamberger, Schoenhauserallee Cemetery | 4 Comments
Doctor of Law degree granted to Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim by the University of Heidelberg, March 20, 1839.
In the extensive archive of my family’s papers, I found the University of Heidelberg law degree bestowed on my great-great-grandmother’s brother, Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim. This was in 1839 and he was just 19. Although he taught law for a time, Heinrich was denied a position as a professor of law because he was Jewish. Later, however, his legal training enabled him to become a well-known journalist and commentator for liberal and left radical causes for nearly 40 years.
As a young man, Heinrich was a member of the intellectual and literary circle around Countess Bettina von Arnim in Berlin. Although he was short and had an odd voice and accent, he was known as a great conversationalist and a man of “uncommon wit” (Carl Schurz). His boyish appearance and sparkling talk made him a favorite with women. In the von Arnim salon he befriended some of the leading European thinkers and progressive political figures of the day. For a time he shared rooms with theologian Abraham Geiger, one of the prime founders of Reform Judaism, and he was good friends with the young Karl Marx.
In March 1848, Heinrich participated in the political uprising in Berlin in a failed attempt to wrest a more democratic form of government from King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia. He addressed several of the mass demonstrations in the Tiergarten park in the Prussian capitol. Later in 1848, Heinrich fled to the southern Duchy of Baden where he continued his revolutionary activities with a left extremist wing led by Gustav Struve in Karlsruhe and Lörrach.
Declaration of the short-lived German Republic by Gustav Struve, Lörrach in the Duchy of Baden, September 21, 1848. Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim was was one of the leading voices in this failed attempt to establish a constitutional form of government.
In July 1849, the Baden revolution collapsed and Heinrich was driven into an 11-year exile in Switzerland, France, Belgium and England. He was unable to return to Germany until 1861. During his political exile, he continued to publish pro-democracy commentary, much of it in French.
Revue Germanique, Paris 1858, including articles by Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim
Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim, “Letters on Modern German Historians,” Revue Germanique, Paris, 1858.
When he was finally able to return to Germany, Heinrich continued his liberal political writing. In 1879-80 he earned recognition for his articulate opposition to a sudden onslaught of antisemitism led by the prominent historian Heinrich von Treitschke. Oppenheim’s articles targeted the attacks as a political strategy of conservatives to discredit governmental reforms being pressed by liberal activists, many of whom were Jews.
Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim’s rebuke to the notorious antisemites Heinrich von Treitschke and Adolf Stöcker, Die Gegenwart, Berlin, January 1880.
On March 29, 1880, a few weeks after publishing his rebuke to the Berlin antisemites, Heinrich died of a chronic lung ailment . His funeral was attended by many representatives of the Berlin news corps as well as liberal political activists from all over Germany. Shortly thereafter, his colleagues published a long pamphlet collecting numerous speeches about him and the obituaries published in the many newspapers in Germany. The pamphlet contains the only known portrait of Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim.
Memorial brochure of obituaries and tributes by public figures dedicated to Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim, Berlin, 1880.
The funeral for Heinrich took place in his home in Berlin and a long procession accompanied his casket to the Schönhauser Allee cemetery. In December of that year, the family arranged for the erection of a grave monument of pink granite. My family’s papers includes the original text of the gravestone inscription, written by the liberal political leader Ludwig Bamberger.
Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim’s grave inscription written by Ludwig Bamberger, 1880.
“In memory of Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim, born Frankfurt a/M 20 July 1819, died Berlin 29 March 1880.
True and good of heart, strong and bright in spirit, always a ready fighter, always a helping friend, expert in learning and life, compassionate to the least of men, faithful to the greatest of men, willingly accepting and even more willingly giving all that a man can give, thus he worked for his country, thus he lived for others to his last breath, thus unforgettable, irreplaceable, he lives in the memory of his family and his friends.”
Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim’s grave (left), Schönhauserallee Cemetery, Berlin. The grave of his sister Amalia, my great-great grandmother, is on the right.
The Photographic Art of Philadelphian Bill Rapp
Posted: September 27, 2016 | Author: Frank Hoeber | Filed under: Hoeber | Tags: Bill Rapp, Camden Ferry, Ditta Baron Hoeber, Frank Hoeber, Free Library of Philadelphia, Horticultural Hall, Michael Froio, Philadelphia street scenes, street photography | 1 Comment
Bill Rapp, Philadelphia-to-Camden Ferry on its last day of operation, March 31, 1952. Bill Rapp Collection, Free Library of Philadelphia.
I first spotted one of Bill Rapp’s photographs among the antiques at the Fitler Square Fair in our old neighborhood in Philadelphia. This was around 1980. Bill’s wife Jean dealt in prints and old documents, and in her booth she had a beautiful image of the interior of the old Philadelphia-to-Camden Ferry. The price was a little more than I wanted to pay, by my artist wife Ditta encouraged me to buy it. Bill made his living as an advertising agent, not a photographer, but he had a wonderful eye and his printing was impeccable.
A portion of our collection of Bill Rapp originals that we acquired in the 1980s.
At the annual spring fairs over the next several years, Ditta and I acquired additional prints of Bill’s beautiful work. My particular interest was the rare slices of Philadelphia history that Bill had captured. Ditta, the photographer-artist, had a particular appreciation for the artistry of Bill’s work. By the time Bill died in 1989 we had accumulated a nice collection of his photographs. What happened next, however, was unexpected. About a year after Bill died there was a knock at our front door — it was Jean Rapp. She held tightly in her hands a sizable batch of photographic negatives bundled together with a rubber band. They were Bill’s. She said that because we had shown so much interest in Bill’s work over the years she wanted Ditta and me to have the negatives to print whatever copies we wanted for ourselves. When we finished with them, Jean asked that we donate them to the Free Library of Philadelphia. We gratefully accepted the negatives and the responsibility that went with them. Not long after this we learned that Jean, too, had passed away.
Bill Rapp, Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia. This building was a relic of the U.S. Centennial Exhibition in 1876. It was destroyed by Hurricane Hazel in 1957. Bill Rapp Collection, Free Library of Philadelphia.
In those days Ditta had a darkroom in our house for her own work. She hired a student to come in and make rough prints of the negatives so we would know what we had. The resulting proofs were fine, but we weren’t ready to part with the negatives because we lacked the resources then to print the images in the finished quality they deserved. Years passed with Bill’s negatives and the proof prints resting quietly in storage.
Bill Rapp, Ship Maintenance, Philadelphia, ca. 1950. Bill Rapp Collection, Free Library of Philadelphia.
In 2011, we decided it was finally time to deal properly with Bill’s legacy. In the meantime we had become friends with Mike Froio, a photographer and instructor at Drexel University. We arranged with Mike to clean and scan all of Bill’s negatives. Ditta selected more than a hundred of them to be printed in archival form. In 2012 and 2013 we donated two large albums of these prints to the Free Library of Philadelphia along with an indexed archive housing all of Bill’s original negatives. We also gave the Library a set of disks containing the scans of the negatives and photographs along with a digital inventory.
Bill Rapp, Street scene, 9th and Bainbridge Streets, Philadelphia, ca. 1950. Bill Rapp Collection, Free Library of Philadelphia.
Recently, the Free Library finished loading many of Bill’s images online; you can see them by clicking here (look for the live lambs that were once sold in the Italian market to be turned into Easter dinner). Curator Laura Stroffolino also posted a nice blog entry about the collection that you can read here. It is a privilege to participate in preserving the legacy of a fine artist whose work might otherwise have been lost.
Bill Rapp, O.U. Lunch (“Baked Beef Hash Rice and Carrots 35 cents”), Philadelphia, 1950s. Bill Rapp Collection, Free Library of Philadelphia.
Stories about the Hoeber family are to be found in Against Time: Letters from Nazi Germany, 1938-1939, published by the American Philosophical Society. Information is available here. Also available at Amazon.com
A Story in Some Grains of Sand
Posted: July 6, 2016 | Author: Frank Hoeber | Filed under: Hoeber | Tags: Baltic Sea, Delft vase, Elfriede Hoeber, Hoeber, Immigrant experience, Jacob Marx, Johannes Hoeber, Josephine Hober, kiel physiological institute, Rudolf Hober, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, University of Kiel | Leave a comment
Old Delft vase acquired by Jacob Marx around 1870, Berlin.
When I went to my late sister Susanne’s Vermont home recently, I spotted this familiar old family vase. I placed it on a table on the sunny porch to photograph it. Then, with relatives watching, I turned the vase over and poured out — some ordinary sea sand.
Sand from the vase. Baltic Sea, Kiel 1914, Barnard, Vermont 2016
How did I know there would be sand in the vase? The answer is a story I heard from my father a long time ago.
My great-grandfather, Jacob Marx, was a banker and investor in Berlin in the mid-nineteenth century. He made some smart investments in the industrial boom before and after the Franco-Prussian War in the early 1870s. Some of his new wealth he invested in art, including several antique Delft vases.
Jakob Marx, 1835-1883
After Jacob died in 1883, the vases were owned by his widow, Marie, and when she died in 1913 they were inherited by my grandparents, Rudolf Höber and Josephine Marx Höber. At that time, Rudolf and Josephine lived on Hegewischstrasse in Kiel, a university city and naval harbor on the Baltic Sea.
Rudolf and Josephine Höber with their first child, Johannes, around December 1904 (ten years before they inherited the Delft vases).
Josephine displayed the vases atop a tall Schrank, an antique wardrobe cabinet in the family living room. Inconveniently, however, a streetcar line traversed the street in front of the residence, and every time a trolley went past the Delft vases shook and rattled. The noise annoyed Josephine, who also feared the old pieces would be shaken off the cabinet and break. To resolve the problem, she gave her ten-year-old son Johannes a metal pail and told him to go down to the shore of the Baltic, fill the bucket with sand and bring it home. Josephine then filled each Delft vase with sand. The extra weight kept them from rattling on top of the Schrank for the next 19 years.
In 1933, the Nazis forced Rudolf out of his position in Kiel and he and Josephine emigrated to Philadelphia. They took the vases with them — and the sand went along. Josephine died in 1941 and Rudolf in 1953 and then the vases — and the sand — were inherited by my parents, Johannes and Elfriede. They moved several times and at each move the vases were carefully packed and the sand with them.
Johannes died in Washington DC in 1977 and Elfriede in Oakland, California in 1999. When we divided up Elfriede’s possessions among her three children, my sister Sue expressed a desire to have the Delft vases. We wrapped them and transported them — and the sand — to the house in Barnard, Vermont, where she and her husband Lloyd worked and wrote in the summers for many years. And there they have remained until now. The next home for the Delft vases and the sand from the Baltic Sea remains to be seen.
Susanne and Lloyd Rudolph’s house in Barnard, Vermont, the last stop so far in the Delft vase’s journey.
The Dark Humor of a Nuremberg Prosecutor — 1945
Posted: May 17, 2016 | Author: Frank Hoeber | Filed under: Hoeber, Uncategorized | Tags: denazification, Elfriede Hoeber, Escaping Nazi Germany, German Social Democrats, Immigrant experience, Johannes Hoeber, Letters from Nazi Germany, Nuremberg Prosecution, Robert M. W. Kempner | 2 Comments
Robert Kempner was my parents’ friend and, like them, a Social Democrat and activist against the Nazi Party before 1933. Like them, he fled Germany for America before World War II. At the end of the War the U.S. government recruited Kempner, a lawyer, to be one of the lead prosecutors at the International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg. The fact that he was bilingual made Kempner particularly effective in cross examining the Nazi leadership. He also was a witness against Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1960.
Robert M. W. Kempner when he was a prosecutor at the International War Crimes Tribunal, Nuremberg, 1946.
While my parents were able to escape Germany before the War, my mother’s mother and three brothers were trapped there for the duration. After the war, communications between Americans and German nationals continued to be restricted for many months. Desperate for news about her family, and unable to communicate through civilian channels, my mother wrote to Robert Kempner in Nuremberg asking him to find out if they were alright. As a prosecutor, he had access to the American military mail system, and wrote my parents an extraordinary postcard in response. The original is preserved in my family’s papers.
Postcard from Nuremberg Prosecutor Robert M. W. Kempner to Johannes and Elfriede Hoeber, December 26, 1945.
The first surprising thing is that Kempner used a Nazi-era card with an Adolf Hitler postage stamp. There is great irony in the inscription on the lower left: The Führer knows only war, work and care. We want to take whatever part [of that burden] off him that we can. By the time this postcard was written, the Führer’s cares were long over, since he had killed himself more than six months earlier when the Nazis were crushed by the Allies.
The trial of Major War Criminals had begun on November 20, 1945 and would continue until the end of the next year. There was evidently a Christmas recess in the proceedings, since Kempner writes that he was on a vacation trip (!) to places like Heidelberg and Mannheim where he and my parents had been associated in anti-Nazi activities years earlier. Note, by the way, that Kempner wrote in English, even though his and my parents’ first language was German. American military censors would probably not have allowed letters through if they were written in a language other than English.
Reverse of Postcard from Robert Kempner to Johannes and Elfriede Hoeber, December 26, 1945.
Kempner did not respond directly to my mother’s questions about her family (he probably wasn’t able to contact them) but he responded to reports of widespread starvation and freezing conditions in the war-devastated country. This was probably my mother’s biggest concern and Kempner wrote, “The Germ.[an] situation is not to [sic] bad, they need more fat and meat but they have enough bread and also enough coal for [heating] 1-2 rooms.” Overall, though, Kempner shows little sympathy for the suffering of the Germans, far too many of whom denied any involvement in the nation’s atrocities. Here is the full text of the postcard:
Dear Elfriede and Jonny:
It was very nice of Elfriede to write me. Thanks for the letter. At present I am travelling (5-6 days) for vacation, visiting Heidelberg, Mannheim, Wiesbaden, Frankfurt.
The Germ. situation is not to[o] bad, they need more fat and meat but have enough bread and also coal for 1-2 rooms. Of course, they don’t like the de-nazification program. You know they all ‘had’ to join the Party, were helpful to Jews, if not having a Jewish grandmother, or at least participants of July 20, 1944, which was, if all the allegations of participation were true, a mass movement of the first rank. The Communist vote will be pretty low because of the happenings in the Russian area where fraternization without giving cigarettes is called rape. There are a lot of openings for Elfr. & Jonny but I think we better stay around Philadelphia Pa. Hope you will write me again.
Robert MWK
“July 20, 1944” refers a failed attempt by eight military officers to assassinate Hitler. After the war, totally unrealistic numbers of German claimed to have supported it.
The comment about the Russians is unclear, but it was well known that the occupying Soviet Army committed massive rapes of German women, including elderly women and young girls.
Kempner’s comments about “lots of openings” refers to the fact that, as exiled Germans committed to democracy, my parents would have opportunities in a new government to be installed by the Allies — but Kempner didn’t recommend it. In any event, my parents never considered returning to the country from which they had been driven out.
It was an idiosyncrasy of Kempner’s that he addressed my father as “John” or “Jonny.” My father was adamant about not Anglicizing his name, which was Johannes. During his lifetime Robert Kempner was the only one with the temerity to address him as John.
Years later, Robert Kempner successfully sued the German government for restitution on behalf of hundreds — perhaps thousands — of victims of the Nazis, primarily in Israel and America. My parents were among the clients for whom he secured some compensation from the German authorities for the losses they had suffered.
Review of “Against Time: Letters from Nazi Germany, 1938-1939” from CHOICE, A Publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries
Posted: May 2, 2016 | Author: Frank Hoeber | Filed under: Hoeber, Uncategorized | Tags: Against Time: Letters From Nazi Germany 1938-1939, American Philosophical Society, Destruction of Duesseldorf, Elfriede Hoeber, Escaping Nazi Germany, Francis W. Hoeber, Hoeber, Immigrant experience, Immigration visa, Johannes Hoeber, Letters from Nazi Germany, Philadelphia reform movement, Susanne Hoeber, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph | 1 Comment
I am delighted that the following review appeared on May 1, 2016, in CHOICE, a publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries.
AGAINST TIME: Letters from Nazi Germany, 1938-1939, by Francis W. Hoeber
Francis Hoeber possesses, apparently, decades’ worth of materials from his family’s history. However, he has chosen to publish only letters from 1938 and 1939, because they are truly exceptional in foregrounding human experience in the face of obliterating fascism. His father, Johannes, had emigrated from Germany in 1938, with the idea that Elfriede would follow with their young daughter. Complications arose. Eventually they united, lived in the US, and raised their family. That is a passive, objective summary. In contrast, these letters, written by two literate, gifted writers, construct a deeply experienced history entwined with significant world events. Genuine, emotional, human, rational—the letters exemplify precisely why published history needs such primary material. We can read or view synthesized historical accounts in textbooks or documentaries; we can summarize and categorize, intellectually. However, only by absorbing the personal narratives of people who recount the events they lived through can readers approximate the feelings, the vibrant presence, the individual acts that enliven historical experience. Through self-expressed microhistory, whether routine (running a business) or epochal (Kristallnacht), readers feel the macrohistory viscerally. Hoeber provides relevant context in footnotes and summaries to orient readers.
Summing up: Highly recommended.
–J. B. Wolford, University of Missouri—St. Louis
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Posted: April 25, 2016 | Author: Frank Hoeber | Filed under: Hoeber, Uncategorized | Tags: Cape Cod, Chatham MA, Düsseldorf, Elfriede Hoeber, Escaping Nazi Germany, Fiorello LaGuardia, Hoeber, Johannes Hoeber, Josephine Hober, Philadelphia, Rudolf Hoeber, university of pennsylvania | 2 Comments
Through Books, Immigrants Become Americans. 1939 …
Posted: March 17, 2016 | Author: Frank Hoeber | Filed under: Hoeber, Uncategorized | Tags: Baedecker, Dr. Spock, Elfriede Hoeber, Escaping Nazi Germany, Huckleberry Finns Fahrten und Abenteuer, Immigrant experience, Johannes Hoeber, Kenneth Roberts, Letters from Nazi Germany, Philadelphia history, Rudolph Blankenburg, Scharff and Westcott | Leave a comment
If you’re pretty well educated in your birth country, it’s daunting to face a new country and become a person who knows less than anyone else. So how do you catch up? When my parents decided it was time to flee Nazi Germany, their answer was books. I still have some of them. I love this beautiful history of the United States, with its funky canvas dust jacket and the stars on the spine:
Firmin Roz, Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten, Leipzig, 1930.
My mother’s mother gave her fleeing daughter and son-in-law this old Baedeker’s guidebook to the United States, in English. The fold-out city maps are small but quite detailed. Years later my mother fell in love with the Rand McNally Road Atlas, but in the beginning it was this Baedeker that got her and my father started on American geography:
Karl Baedecker, United States, Leipzig, 1909
Baedecker’s United States. This fold-out map of Washington D.C. is one of 50 maps in the book. Click for larger image.
What do you give a bright eight-year-old to learn a bit about adventures in America? The choices in Nazi Germany weren’t too great, but you could do worse than providing her with a German translation of an American classic — Huck Finn. Susanne learned to love Mark Twain’s stories of life on the Mississippi well before she got here:
Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finns Fahrten und Abenteuer, Berlin, 1938
And how do you learn to raise children the American way? A couple years after arriving here, my parents were confronted with two new babies in short order — my brother and then me. Fortunately, every American at the time followed the same child-rearing Bible, Dr. Spock. That my mother referred to it frequently is shown by the tattered condition of this cheap paperback edition. She must have been comforted by the first eight words of the book, one of the most uplifting opening sentences of any book ever: “You know more than you think you do.” The simplest reassurance imaginable.
Benjamin Spock, M.D., Baby and Child Care, New York, 1946
German schools didn’t teach much about the American Revolution, so even educated immigrants didn’t know much about early American history. A German friend who had arrived in America a couple of years earlier than my parents introduced them to the historical novels of Kenneth Roberts set in the American Revolution and the years of the Early Republic. Roberts was a fine historian as well as a novelist, and my parents learned more than many Americans about our early history in a short time from his books. Because of him they loved to visit historic sites in the U.S., starting with Valley Forge shortly after their arrival:
Oliver Wiswell (1940 ), Rabble in Arms (1933 ), Lydia Bailey (1947 ) by Kenneth Roberts. My parents learned a lot of American history from these novels.
My mother, particularly, developed an interest in the history of Philadelphia. She was fascinated to learn that in the early 20th century Philadelphia was governed by a German-American progressive named Rudolph Blankenburg. At Leary’s huge used book store on 9th Street above Chestnut, she was able to by a book on Mayor Blankenburg, written by his wife, for half a dollar:
The Blankenburgs of Philadelphia (1928), by Lucretia Blankenburg. Mayor Blankenburg was called “Old Dutch Cleanser” because of his work cleaning up ocrruption in Philadelphia.
When my parents had been in the U.S. for some time, my mother acquired her great treasure, a copy of Scharf and Westcott’s magnificent three-volume History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884. Standards of historical accuracy were different when this set was published, but it is still a wonderful source of anecdotes about the city in its first 275 years:
History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884 by J. Thomas Scharff and Thompson Westcott, 1884. My mother also bought this set at Leary’s Used Books on 9th Street for $25 around 1955.
History of Philadelphia, 1609-1884 by J. Thomas Scharff and Thompson Westcott, 1884. Click on image to view more clearly.
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World War I Begins, as Seen by a Ten-Year-Old – Berlin, August 10, 1914
Posted: February 9, 2016 | Author: Frank Hoeber | Filed under: Hoeber, Uncategorized | Tags: August 1914, Hoeber, Johannes Hoeber, Kaiser Wilhelm, Kiel, potsdam, Rudolf Hober, World War I | Leave a comment
It was said in my family that my father, Johannes Höber, had a knack for being present at historic events. I recently discovered such an incident that I had not known about before. The story is told in a couple of postcards that were found recently among the papers of my sister, Susanne. The postcards were written by my father as a child, in an old fashioned German script that even some German readers do not know today. As was usual at that time, a grownup drew lines on the card with a ruler and pencil to help the child write straight and evenly.
August 10, 1914, postcards from Johannes Höber, age 10, in Potsdam, to his father in Kiel.
Johannes lived with his parents in the northern port city of Kiel, where his father was a professor and his mother a physician. Johannes’s widowed grandmother, Großmama Mimi, lived in Berlin, a five hour train trip from Kiel. In Late July 1914, Johannes and his younger sister Grilli and their mother made the trip from Kiel to Berlin to stay for a couple of weeks with Großmama Mimi. Perhaps the occasion for the trip was Johannes’s birthday: he turned ten on August 7. While the children were visiting friends in Potsdam, outside Berlin, World War I broke out with Germany’s declaration of war against Russia on August 1, followed promptly by the German invasion of Russia’s ally, France.
1914. At school, Johannes and his classmates played at being soldiers. Johannes is in the front row, third from the left, wearing a spiked helmet [Pickelhaube]. Click on image to enlarge.
In the postcards postmarked August 10, Johannes wrote home to his father in Kiel, thanking him for a birthday card and telling him the excitement he had seen in the city. He probably started with a single card, but his enthusiasm carried the message to a second card. Here is what he wrote:
Dear Papi,
Your card just arrived and I like it a lot. Hopefully we will see each other again soon. Yesterday there was an outdoor church service and a departure parade for the first infantry regiment. We left here already at 10 and arrived at the Lustgarten [park in front of the Imperial palace] – that’s where the parade was – just as a group of the soldiers were marching in. We then looked around and found a very nice place to watch the Kaiser arrive. We had waited barely 5 minutes when we heard “Hurrah!” in the distance and suddenly the Kaiser’s car came around the corner and drove by directly in front of us. It continued for a while that way and eventually we saw the Kaiser driving back.
It is wonderful here in Potsdam. Grilli went to school with [her friend] Tutti today and tidied up and then sewed a gusset and a “Nog” [?] on a shirt for a soldier’s uniform. I spent the whole morning today cutting up wood with a saw.
Your Jonny (now 10)
Kaiser Wilhelm II in an open car. This is probably what he looked like when Johannes saw him.
Thus Johannes was present to see some of the first troops to depart from Germany for the War, under the personal direction of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Four years later, as the War came to an end, Johannes would also witness the mutiny of German Navy at the Kiel naval base. He was walking home from school when he encountered sailors firing on their officers in the streets outside the warship facility. This was one of the events leading to Germany’s signing an armistice ending the War, and another in a string of historic events to which Johannes would be an eyewitness.
Johannes, summer of 1918 (age 14) near the end of World War I.
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Unlocking Nehru: The Rudolphs Innovate, 1963
Posted: January 21, 2016 | Author: Frank Hoeber | Filed under: Hoeber, Uncategorized | Tags: Delhi, Francis W. Hoeber, interview techniques, Jawaharlal Nehru, Lloyd I. Rudolph, New Delhi, political science of India, Prime Minister's Secretariat, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph | 4 Comments
Lloyd Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, a few years before their interview with Jawaharlal Nehru in New Delhi.
My sister Susanne met her husband, Lloyd Rudolph, at Harvard and they embarked on a unique joint career as political scientists. They wrote and taught together, specializing in political development in the then newly-independent India. They were 32 and 35, respectively when they took their second research trip to India in 1962-63. On this occasion they settled in the capital, and shortly after their arrival asked with intrepid directness for an appointment to interview Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. They were pleased and somewhat amazed when their request was granted. The invitation, in an oversize parchment envelope and typed on impressive stationery, was hand delivered by a uniformed messenger in an elegant car to the Rudolphs’ house at 44 Lucknow Road. The interview was scheduled for Tuesday, February 13, 1963.
The house at 44 Lucknow Road, Delhi, where Susanne and Lloyd Rudolph lived at the time they interviewed Nehru.
Recognizing that this was a rare opportunity, Sue and Lloyd devised a singular scheme for making the most of their time with Nehru: they decided they would take no notes, so that neither he nor they would be distracted by their writing. Sue and Lloyd prepared for days. They read articles and newspapers and began drafting a set of questions for the Prime Minister. These they revised again and again to make them simple and direct, with the intention of being both respectful and provocative. When they were finally satisfied with the questions they had formulated — they memorized them. Their determination was to be with Nehru with no paper or writing instrument visible.
Prime Minister’s Secretariat Building, New Delhi, where Susanne and Lloyd Rudolph met Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, February 13, 1963.
On the appointed day, Sue and Lloyd drove their little green Fiat to the imposing Prime Minister’s Secretariat in New Delhi. There they were ushered into Nehru’s private office, where they were able to question him intently for more than an hour. He was cordial and frank, though guarded on certain issues as Sue and Lloyd had anticipated. In an amusing aside, Sue took out a cigarette at one point (everyone smoked then) and Lloyd and the Prime Minister both lit a match for her at the same time. Sue looked at Lloyd but turned and accepted a light from the handsome Nehru.
Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, 1947-1964.
Already while driving home, Sue and Lloyd talked rapidly as Sue furiously scribbled down notes of what the Prime Minister had told them As soon as they returned to the house on Lucknow Road, they hastened into their study and closed the door. With the prepared list of questions before them as an aid, they spoke into the microphone of their little tape recorder and dictated Nehru’s responses. Each reminded the other of what they had heard, using their collective memory to recall with precision what Prime Minister Nehru had said during the interview. Sometimes during the dictation, one of them would start a sentence and the other would finish it, a rhetorical characteristic that would become one of their habits in subsequent years. They turned the tape over to their secretary to transcribe and later edited the typed transcript before having it typed into a final version with an original and five carbon copies.
The transcribed interview came to a dozen legal-size pages. The candid responses they had been able to elicit from Nehru were a testament to their methodological inventiveness and unique teamwork. Sue and Lloyd used the information they gleaned in numerous articles and books over the ensuing years, and made the transcript available to other scholars. It was cited as recently as last year in a history of the Indian Army since Independence.
Sue and Lloyd’s study at 44 Lucknow Road, Delhi, in 1963. That’s me on the right holding their daughter, Jenny.
I know the details of this story because I was the secretary who typed the notes of the interview along with many others they conducted with government and political officials that year. In 1962-1963 I took a year off between my second and third years as an undergraduate at Columbia University to work for them in India. It was quite an adventure.
Sue and Lloyd were unique scholarly collaborators. Through decades of writing and teaching they made an indelible imprint on the field of political science and enriched the lives of countless students and scholars around the world. Their emotional, personal, intellectual and professional bonds made them inseparable life partners for 63 thrillingly adventurous years. Susanne died in her sleep on December 23, 2015. Lloyd slipped away equally peacefully on January 16, 2016, just 24 days after Susanne.
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd Rudolph, India, 2012
For more on the Hoeber Family go to http://againsttimebook.com/.
Beautiful Objects that Survived–1865-1901
Posted: December 17, 2015 | Author: Frank Hoeber | Filed under: Hoeber, Uncategorized | Tags: German Christmas in US, Hoeber, Jakob Marx, Josephine Hober, Rudolf Hober | 6 Comments
When my mother and father were forced to leave Germany in 1939, they had to abandon everything they owned. Five years earlier, however, when my father’s parents were expelled by the Nazis, it was still possible for them to bring personal effects with them. My grandfather, Rudolf Höber and my grandmother, Jospehine Marx Höber, both came from families that were pretty well off. Some of the things they brought with them are still in use in our house today, and we enjoy them particularly around Christmas time.
Linen napkins monogrammed by my great-grandmother Elise Köhlau before her marriage to Anselm Höber in 1865.
At Christmas dinner we often use white napkins saved for special occasions. Linen napkins in bourgeois households in 19th century Germany were huge, nearly a meter square. When my great-grandmother, Elise Koehlau, married Anselm Höber in 1865, she brought a supply of such napkins into the marriage. As was traditional then, she embroidered the monogram of her maiden name in the corner of the napkins with red thread and each napkin was numbered.
Hand painted dessert plates, Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur, Berlin, 1870.
My grandmother’s father, Jakob Marx, made money as a financier in the Franco-Prussian War. He and his wife Marie had a home at Pariserplatz 1, next to the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. These plates were theirs.
A hand painted flower from one of my great-grandparents’ KPM plates, 1870.
When my grandparents, Rudolf and Josephine, married in 1901 they got a set of silverware with an “RJH” monogram.
The silverware in use in 1901 was larger than the pieces we use today. The soup spoon on the left is ten inches long and feels huge.
The RJH monogram is for Rudolf and Josephine Höber, 1901.
When my parents and grandparents came to this country over 75 years ago, they rapidly became integrated into the life of their new country, to which they were devoted. Like so many American families, however, we hang on to some of the ways our family did things generations ago, particularly at holidays. After all these years, we still roast a goose at Christmas and bring out some of the beautiful things that remind us of our history.
The last remaining Christmas decoration that my grandparents brought to America when the Nazis expelled them from Germany in 1934.
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Hollywood Senior Center and The Oregonian’s Season of Sharing 2020
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The Hollywood Senior Center is pleased to be a beneficiary of The Oregonian/OregonLive’s Season of Sharing holiday fundraising campaign this year. The efforts we have made to continue and grow our programming is highlighted in a recent article.
Ron Thurston looked forward to his visits to the Hollywood Senior Center. He could be spotted at the facility at least five days a week, sometimes six.
Thurston, 73, a retired mechanical equipment salesman, enjoyed participating in activities and events at the center. Thurston developed a particular fondness for the exercise programs, which not only kept him in shape, but also gave him an opportunity to connect with others.
“Everyone greeted me warmly. I started attending a lot of classes,” Thurston said. “I considered it my second home.”
Then the coronavirus pandemic hit the nation. The Hollywood Senior Center closed its doors and has not reopened.
Thurston found himself spending more time at home.
“The isolation factor is felt and it’s tough,” Thurston said. “I miss the community that I had at the center. You can’t get close to people like you used to, to laugh and just talk.”
Amber Kern-Johnson, executive director at the Hollywood Senior Center, is well aware of the impact the center’s programming has.
“We have shifted very quickly in continuing to provide services and actually expanding services during this time,” Kern-Johnson said. That includes shifting the center’s Neighborhood Gleaners senior nutrition program, which provides farmers market produce, from pickup to delivery.
The Hollywood Senior Center has helped individuals who are at least 50 since its founding in 1973 by members of the Jaycees service organization who had received a grant to open a drop-in space for older adults. The center is a beneficiary of The Oregonian/OregonLive’s Season of Sharing holiday fundraising campaign this year.
>>To donate: Season of Sharing GoFundMe page
Kern-Johnson said the center has four full-time and four part-time employees. The backbone of the center’s operations is its 120 volunteers, the majority of whom are seniors.
The center has an annual budget of $900,000, funded through the federal and state governments, grants, fundraising, individual donations, pre-pandemic rental of the building for private events, a gift shop and a consignment store.
The center’s funding has allowed it to continue providing social, emotional, educational and recreational opportunities to the 3,100 seniors it serves annually.
Its exercise programs have gone virtual during the pandemic, and Kern-Johnson said the center sends out a monthly newsletter that includes instructions on accessing Zoom.
“We have, almost every day, different health and wellness classes. So that people can participate at home in a live format with a group,” Kern-Johnson said. “The instructor can watch and can provide support.”
Kern-Johnson made a point of using instructors who taught at the center before the pandemic to teach the virtual programs. She said clients feel more comfortable working with and listening to an instructor they have known, even in a virtual setting.
Jennifer Kain has been an instructor with the Hollywood Senior Center for the past eight years. She leads “Senior Yoga” and said she truly enjoys helping seniors learn more about taking care of their bodies and maintaining relationships.
“I feel like it’s an honor to teach older adults,” Kain said. “What’s happened is friends have recommended other friends and there’s this sense of camaraderie – they care about each other and there’s a real feeling of community in the class.”
It’s not the ideal scenario – not being able to hug or high-five each other – but it’s the best under the current circumstances.
“We acknowledge that this is good, but it sure is not like what we had,” Thurston said. “We understand that’s all we have and we make the best of it.”
Kern-Johnson said the classes not only encourage a healthy lifestyle and sense of community, but also help in keeping an eye on seniors during the pandemic.
Kern-Johnson said one instructor noticed that a regular participant suddenly started missing classes and contacted her to find out why. The participant needed a new cell phone and Kern-Johnson was able to get her one.
Zoom classes and virtual programs are the “new normal” for the Hollywood Senior Center. Kern-Johnson said when the pandemic does end, how the facility operates and serves its clients will be different and challenging. But Kern-Johnson said she, her staff and volunteers will be up to the task.
“We can still find ways to fulfill the mission and provide really critical support services,” Kern-Johnson said. “There are going to be more and more seniors who are going to be using technology for the first time. That’s an undertaking. It really requires a lot of patience and a lot of support to make that happen. The result is so rewarding to see someone who is able to now participate and engage and feel connected to the community. It’s worth it.”
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Boys + Girls (EP)
Boys & Girls 1+1=3
Boys and Girls may refer to:
Boys and Girls (1983 film), a 1983 short film directed by Don McBrearty
Boys and Girls (2000 film), a 2000 romantic-comedy film of two people whose lives are intertwined through fate
Boys & Girls (67 Special EP), a 2005 EP by 67 Special
Boys and Girls (album), a 1985 studio album by Bryan Ferry
Boys + Girls (The Promise Ring EP), a 1998 EP by The Promise Ring
Boys & Girls (Alabama Shakes album), a 2012 studio album by Alabama Shakes
"Boys and Girls" (Angelica Agurbash song), a 2005 song by Angelica Agurbash
"Boys and Girls" (Human League song), a 1981 song by The Human League
"Boys and Girls" (Mandy Smith song), a 1988 Pop-dance song in the album Mandy
"Boys & Girls" (Ayumi Hamasaki song), a 1999 song by Ayumi Hamasaki
"Boys and Girls" (Pixie Lott song), a 2009 song by Pixie Lott
Boys & Girls (Martin Solveig song), a 2009 song by Martin Solveig featuring Dragonette
"Boys and Girls", a song from Girls' Generation's 2010 album Oh!
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Boys + Girls is an EP released by The Promise Ring. This was the first Promise Ring recording to feature bassist Scott Schoenbeck. After a car accident which everyone miraculously survived, they wrote the song "Tell Everyone We're Dead," which became one of their more popular songs.
Davey von Bohlen – vocals, guitar
Jason Gnewikow – guitar
Scott Schoenbeck – bass guitar
Dan Didier – drums
Boys + Girls at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)
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Boys & Girls 1+1=3 is a Malaysian pop/rock compilation album produced by New Zealander Paul Moss and released on January 1, 1996.
The songs on the album were written and/or performed in English, as part of the English-medium music scene Malaysia experienced in the 1990s, where local music was able to reach and grab the interest of international fans. The album featured a well established fand, OAG, but was primarily a debut album for several up and coming teen aged artists, like Nita, as well as some relatively unknown bands, like Nicestupidplayground, a teenage group from Sarawak, Borneo who until this album had not recorded professionally. The first and only single from the album was by Nicestupidplayground, called "Bedroom Window", and it is considered to have brought the band out of obscurity.Boys & Girls 1+1=3 also marked the recording debut for punk rock all-girl trio IntoXicated, goth rock duo Brodwyn (later renamed Juliet the Orange), and for Nita, who sang the song "He's a Mod", which is a cover of a song by The Senators called "She's a Mod" that was popularized in the 1960s by the band Ray Columbus & the Invaders. Also, Nita covered the song "True Love", which was originally written by The Marching Girls; both bands were from New Zealand, as was the album producer Paul Moss.
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Voice of Russia
Moscow (Tchaikovsky)
Moskva (magazine)
The Voice of Russia (Russian: Голос России, tr. Golos Rossii) was the Russian government's international radio broadcasting service from 1993 until 9 November 2014. Its interval signal was a chime version of "Majestic" chorus from the "Great Gate of Kiev" portion of Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky.
On 22 December 1993, Russian President Boris Yeltsin issued a decree which reorganized Radio Moscow with a new name: The Voice of Russia.
A popular feature of Voice of Russia was Moscow Mailbag, which answered listeners' questions in English about Russia. Until 2005, the programme was presented by Joe Adamov, who was known for his command of the English language and his good humour.
On 9 December 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a presidential decree liquidating Voice of Russia as an agency and merging it with RIA Novosti to form the Rossiya Segodnya international news agency.
Several reports published in 2013 claimed that Voice of Russia was to cease its shortwave service as of January 1, 2014 due to budget cuts, however service continued into the new year.Margarita Simonyan, editor in chief of the Rossiya Segodnya, said in March 2014 that "We will stop using obsolete radio broadcasting models, when the signal is transmitted without any control and when it is impossible to calculate who listens to it and where." Voice of Russia ceased shortwave and European mediumwave broadcasting effective 1 April 2014. The service had continued to be available worldwide via the internet, in selected regions on satellite, and in several cities on FM, AM (in North America) or local digital radio.
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Moscow (/ˈmɒskaʊ/ or /ˈmɒskoʊ/; Russian: Москва́, tr. Moskva; IPA: [mɐˈskva]) is the capital and the largest city of Russia, with 12.2 million residents within the city limits and 16.8 million within the urban area. Moscow has the status of a federal city in Russia.
Moscow is a major political, economic, cultural, and scientific center of Russia and Eastern Europe, as well as the largest city entirely on the European continent. By broader definitions Moscow is among the world's largest cities, being the 14th largest metro area, the 17th largest agglomeration, the 16th largest urban area, and the 10th largest by population within city limits worldwide. According to Forbes 2013, Moscow has been ranked as the ninth most expensive city in the world by Mercer and has one of the world's largest urban economies, being ranked as an alpha global city according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and is also one of the fastest growing tourist destinations in the world according to the MasterCard Global Destination Cities Index. Moscow is the northernmost and coldest megacity and metropolis on Earth. It is home to the Ostankino Tower, the tallest free standing structure in Europe; the Federation Tower, the tallest skyscraper in Europe; and the Moscow International Business Center. By its territorial expansion on July 1, 2012 southwest into the Moscow Oblast, the area of the capital more than doubled; from 1,091 square kilometers (421 sq mi) up to 2,511 square kilometers (970 sq mi), and gained an additional population of 233,000 people.
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Moscow (Russian: Москва / Moskva) is a cantata composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1883 for the coronation of Alexander III of Russia, over a Russian libretto by Apollon Maykov. It is scored for mezzo-soprano, baritone, mixed chorus (SATB), 3 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, harp and strings.
Introduction and chorus. Andante religioso (A major)
Arioso. Moderato con moto (D major)
Chorus. Allegro (D major)
Monologue and chorus. Moderato – Largo (B minor)
Arioso. Andante molto sostenuto (E-flat minor)
Finale. Moderato con moto (D major)
Wiley, Roland John (2009). Tchaikovsky. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195368925.
Moscow: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
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Moskva (Москва, Moscow) is a Russian monthly literary magazine founded in 1957 in Moscow.
Moskva magazine was established in 1957, originally as an organ of the RSFSR Union of Writers and its Moscow department. Its first editor was Nikolay Atarov (1957-1958), succeeded by Yevgeny Popovkin (1958-1968). It was during his time that (in December 1966 - January 1967 issues) for the first time ever Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita was published.
The magazine's third editor-in-chief Mikhail Alekseyev has brought its selling figures to record highs (775 thousand in 1989) and made history too by publishing Nikolay Karamzin's History of the Russian State (1989-1990) for the first time since 1917. In the 1990s and 2000s, under Vladimir Krupin (1990-1992) and Leonid Borodin (1992-2008), Moskva, along with Nash Sovremennik magazine and Alexander Prokhanov’s Den/Zavtra newspapers, moved into the vanguard of the so-called 'spiritual opposition' movement. In 1993 the subtitle, The Magazine of Russian Culture, was added to the magazine’s title.
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12/31/2018 Phoenix Suns
What to watch on NBA League Pass for the week of Jan. 1 - Jan. 7
Four games, two within the division and three exclusively on NBA League Pass makes the Phoenix Suns this week's team to watch.
By Carlan Gay
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From Dec. 31-Jan. 6, there will be a plethora of games set to air on national TV, for the rest you can catch the action on NBA League Pass.
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From this week's team to watch to the biggest matchups throughout the week, check below for the week ahead on NBA League Pass.
Team to watch: Phoenix Suns
Let's be honest NBA league pass was made for teams like this year's Phoenix Suns. When you look at their record of 9-28, they aren't the most attractive national television team, but for the basketball junky, they're every bit as exciting as the Golden State Warriors.
The Suns are in arguably the toughest division in basketball with the Warriors, Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles Lakers and now Sacramento Kings all looking like playoff teams, which is why they're currently 0-6 in their own division. However, they have two opportunities this week to break the ice with the Warriors and Clippers both visiting Talking Stick Resort Arena on Monday and Friday respectively.
The Philadelphia 76ers roll into town on Wednesday, on the second night of a back-to-back, which marks the second and final meeting this season between Joel Embiid and DeAndre Ayton. Embiid made a crack about Ayton's defence on draft night back in June after analyst tried to compare the two bigs.
Don't compare Ayton to me either... I play DEFENSE
- Joel Embiid (@JoelEmbiid) June 22, 2018
The first meeting didn't go quite as planned for Ayton - although he put up 17 points, nine rebounds in the 119-114 loss, he was in foul trouble all night long and Embiid torched him for 33 points, 17 rebounds and three steals.
Ayton has been putting up solid numbers all year long, but the last five games he's asserted his potential dominance averaging 21.8 points, 14.0 rebounds, 2.0 steals and 1.4 blocks. It's clear his offensive game is translating to the league, but where he's struggled at times is on the defensive end and being able to defend without fouling. In 14 of the 37 games Ayton's played in so far he's had four or more fouls leading to him spending time on the bench more than he should. As the game slows down for him, he'll find ways to affect the game on that end of the floor and he has made progress in that department. With Embiid rolling into town it will be a perfect time to showcase his learnings so far this season.
T.J. Warren's play has also been a positive for the Suns this season and despite missing some time at the beginning of the month, he's come back playing great basketball. Warren's averaging 20.4 points, 4.2 rebounds shooting 49% from the field in December - it's no surprise that five of the team's nine wins have come in that stretch.
Devin Booker is the key to the Suns' success, Ayton may be his perfect Robin, but having Warren as a legit third option gives Phoenix some nice building blocks for the future.
Best Games of the Week
Tuesday, Jan 1: Dallas Mavericks vs. Oklahoma City Thunder 5:30 a.m. on TEN1
Wednesday, Jan. 2: New York Knicks vs. Denver Nuggets 7:30 a.m. on NBA League Pass
Thursday, Jan. 3: Minnesota Timberwolves vs. Boston Celtics 6:30 a.m. on NBA League Pass
Sunday, Jan 6: Golden State Warriors vs. Sacramento Kings 8:30 a.m. on Sony ESPN
Monday, Jan. 7: Washington Wizards vs. Oklahoma City Thunder 5:30 a.m. on NBA League Pass
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IWC – a classic watch manufacturer in the premium segment
The International Watch Co AG from Schaffhausen IWC cultivates the high art of watchmaking at the highest level and is specialized in branded products for the luxury watch market worldwide. IWC Schaffhausen not only brings the expertise to manufacture sophisticated complications, as a watch manufacturer you are an Institution and with your experience unique in the market. Swiss watches are the epitome of precision and are exceptionally innovative, elegant and modern watch designs.The development of IWC’s mechanical masterpieces is entirely in the hands of the world’s best watchmakers, who have carried on their highly specialized craftsmanship and all their Know-how for many generations and give the family-owned Swiss company the reputation that the IWC watch collections enjoy internationally. Since 2000, the company has been part of the Swiss luxury goods group Richemont International SA and increasingly relies on robust watches for everyday use. IWC rounds off its Portfolio with high-quality sports watches and the finest complications of Haute Horlogerie. Also, there are special collections such as Grande Complication or the IWC Vintage Collection.
IWC Watches – absolute highest quality is guaranteed
IWC watches stand above all for reliability and robustness. IWC can guarantee the highest quality utilizing special development and Quality Management and a demanding Test series before the watches come on the market at all. For example, the Aquatimer diver’s watch spends two weeks in a saltwater bath at 37 degrees Celsius to ensure its corrosion resistance. The manufacturer’s Credo could be: less is more! Instead of mass production, IWC relies on a few quantities with absolutely the highest quality. Each IWC watch leaves the factory only in perfect condition and represents a masterpiece of technology and precision. Besides, you can expect a little more with this luxury product: over 70 employees ensure that the timepieces from all over the world are optimally maintained, maintained and repaired. To ensure that this always runs smoothly, all data of all watches produced since 1885 are collected in the manufacture’s family books. By collecting the data of all watches leaving the factory, IWC can guarantee that for each piece of caliber, Material, case – and on newer models also the reference number. were held. Each IWC watch receives an IWC Certificate After careful examination.
IWC – the brand’s innovation
In addition to the IWC watch models, which enjoy cult status and are simply unmistakable through the IWC Design, it is above all the philosophy of the brand that inspires watch lovers around the world. The luxury company primarily refrains from producing mass products. Incidentally, it is a matter of course that IWC Schaffhausen relies entirely on a resource-saving technology. As a result, IWC is developing very exclusive and exceptional collections that are only available in limited quantities. This increases their value and makes them sought-after collectors ‘ items.
IWC as a brand – your advertising polarizes
IWC has established itself as a strong but also polarizing brand. For example, she made a name for herself through image campaigns that many saw as humorous, ironic and imaginative, while others saw it as discriminatory or anti-women. One thing is certain: through the advertising campaigns, IWC was discussed a lot and the company gained a lot of attention. For commercials like ” almost as complicated as a woman. But on-time ” or ” often found on the bedside table of stewardesses.” There was even the Swiss EFFIE – one of the most prestigious awards in the advertising and communication industry. Since 1999, the International Watch Company has been promoting its luxury watches. And very successfully. The controversial advertising messages are also well received by women. At least one Portuguese model was even named women’s watch of the year.
Prominent carriers of IWC
In advertising campaigns, IWC seems to increasingly address the world of men and especially presents the men’s models. Because for the watch brand, values such as strength and robustness are more important. This is also evident in its prominent wearers, exclusively men of the sport. Especially with footballers, the masculine timepieces seem to be well received. Above all, Jogi Löw is known here as an IWC watch wearer. At the beginning of the European football championship 2012 there was a partnership with the German Football Association and IWC Schaffhausen scored with a special edition. The Swiss watch manufacturer was allowed to manufacture the official watch of the German national team several times in limited numbers. Furthermore, Ralf Möller, Jan Ullrich, Boris Becker, Tom Cruise, Christopher Lambert, Heiner Lauterbach, Heinz Hoenig, and Vitali Klitschko were spotted with IWC watches. Exclusively strong personality and role models of masculinity. IWC Pilot watches in particular stand for a sporty-masculine Image. This means especially the models of the pilot’s watches, which are relatively large and robust as well as easy to read, are well received.
The Swiss watch manufacturer IWC was founded in 1868 by an American engineer who coined the name international watch. The original goal was primarily the production of high-quality pocket watches for the American market. Founder Florentine Ariosto Jones wisely chose Switzerland as the company’s headquarters. Thanks to the centuries-old tradition of watchmaking in Switzerland, he was able to feel at home here and build a company with a future from the experience and safety of his watchmakers. The Innovation and modern Zeitgeist of the American company founder, together with the Swiss, traditional expertise, became the signature of IWC – which is now an indispensable part of the watch market. However, there was a long way to go from the foundation to the present day and the IWC changed hands several times – in 1880 they were taken under the wing of the Schaffhausen machine manufacturer Rauschenbach. The Rhine Falls of Schaffhausen inspired not only poets and thinkers to great masterpieces. The spark needed to create a genuine work of art that can compete at the highest level with the best of the best has also leaped into Swiss watchmaking. Besides, Schaffhausen offered above all a perfect factory site and a hydroelectric power station on the Rhine, as well as experience in the field of watchmaking. IWC has been owned by the Swiss luxury goods group Richemont since 2000 and, with around 650 employees, is committed to perfect Watch models for men and women. The most famous Watch models have functions such as perpetual calendar, minute repeater, power reserve, Tourbillon or moon phase.
Overview of the most important IWC models
The Ingenieur family is an IWC collection that brings real history. The watch design the engineer was significantly influenced by the watch designer Gerald Genta, who discovered the model in the 70s and designed a new Design. His work with the legendary Ingenieur SL, reference 1832, which was developed exclusively for IWC Schaffhausen. The most important elements of the design are technically inspired and look very sporty and robust. The Ingenieur SL has been on the market since 1976. The model is distinctive and masculine – an essential trademark of IWC in general.
IWC Portuguese
1939 the well-known Portuguese watch is developed. This collection is a series of significantly larger wristwatches with very accurate pocket watch calibers. The models are inspired by great sailors. Here two worlds meet, which together create something great. On the one hand the world of great technical power and on the other hand the world of adventurers, courageous explorers, and daring ventures. Here, too, the IWC Design is very inspired by masculine, sporty values. The Portuguese models are masterpieces in the tradition of nautical instruments and equipped with the latest technology and mechanics.
A must for watch lovers. The IWC da Vinci watch first appeared with the quartz movement Beta21. in 1985, IWC developed the Da Vinci watch as a mechanical chronograph with a fully mechanically programmed perpetual calendar and a four-digit date display. Similar to other models, such as the Portuguese, IWC combines two worlds in its Design to create a unique symbiosis. The Da Vinci models show love for art, as well as for Natural Science and the technology of timekeeping. Just as Leonardo da Vinci has always been a respected artist, scientist and fortress builder at the same time. Da Vinci was also far ahead of his time and innovative. This certainly included a dash of madness and experimentation. Thus, since the 1960s, IWC has had a watch family that continues to bear this name and pays homage to arguably one of the greatest artists and scientists of all time.
Mediterranean joie de vivre and a desire for high quality characterize this IWC watch Family, which, in contrast to the Da Vinci or Ingenieur collection, brings more lightness and playfulness. Portofino also stands for a whole attitude to life, for the perfect scene for Stars and starlets – an attitude to life of the Sixties, which on the one hand brought a certain lightness, but also embodies Glamour and Grace. The Portofino watches from IWC are considered classically elegant and show with a rather reserved style, with a lot of Understatement what good style and taste mean.
The Aquatimer Automatic from 1967 represented a novelty in the field of diving watches and founded a unique success that continues to this day. With the very first Aquatimer, IWC responded to the growing popularity of diving – and introduced a model series that is very dynamic and focuses on technical aspects. The Aquatimer is primarily robust and suitable for everyday use. The Design above all distinctive and recognizable. Above all, we know the IWC GST Deep one from 1999, which became the first IWC watch with a mechanical depth gauge as a diving watch with a titanium case. In 2009, the Aquatimer Deep two was developed as a successor. The Aquatimer is hard to beat in terms of reliability and technical level –above all, the requirement to be able to read the time flawlessly at all times even in the most unfavorable light conditions applies here. Another Feature: the Aquatimer Automatic 2000 has a compressive strength of 200 bar.
IWC Pilot
From 1936 onwards, IWC produced a new wristwatch for the military use of the British Army – the IWC Pilot watches were discontinued.
since a great career. The IWC special watch for pilots is one of the most famous models ever. In addition to playful models, IWC has always focused on technical innovations, as well as on the production of pocket watches or pilot watches in the luxury segment. Here one knows above all the exciting models such as the IWC Pilot watch or the IWC Pilot Chronograph. In 1885 IWC developed the first, so-called Pallweber pocket watches with a digital display of jump digits. At the beginning of flying, most pilots were dependent on pocket watches. In addition to the breathtaking technical Features, the trademarks of IWC Pilot watches are above all a center second with a stop device and a long leather strap, so that the Watch also fits over a pilot suit. The clear and reduced Design is based on the on-board instruments of aircraft and guarantees the very best readability even in adverse conditions. Therefore, mostly bright, luminous hands on a black background were used. Since 2003, an IWC Pilot’s Watch Series is known, which is named after the legendary, English aircraft Spitfire.
IWC Watches have very high-value retention and are often also traded as popular collectibles.
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Podcast: Bill Dally from NVIDIA on What’s Next for AI
July 29, 2018 by Doug Black
Bill Dally, Nvidia Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Research
In this AI Podcast, Bill Dally from NVIDIA describes what’s next for Artificial Intelligence.
NVIDIA researchers are gearing up to present 19 accepted papers and posters, seven of them during speaking sessions, at the annual Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference next week in Salt Lake City, Utah. Joining us to discuss some of what’s being presented at CVPR, and to share his perspective on the world of deep learning and AI in general is one of the pillars of the computer science world, Bill Dally, chief scientist at NVIDIA.
Bill Dally joined NVIDIA in January 2009 as chief scientist, after spending 12 years at Stanford University, where he was chairman of the computer science department. Dally and his Stanford team developed the system architecture, network architecture, signaling, routing and synchronization technology that is found in most large parallel computers today. Dally was previously at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1986 to 1997, where he and his team built the J-Machine and the M-Machine, experimental parallel computer systems that pioneered the separation of mechanism from programming models and demonstrated very low overhead synchronization and communication mechanisms. From 1983 to 1986, he was at California Institute of Technology (CalTech), where he designed the MOSSIM Simulation Engine and the Torus Routing chip, which pioneered “wormhole” routing and virtual-channel flow control. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM, and has received the ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award, the IEEE Seymour Cray Award, and the ACM Maurice Wilkes award. He has published over 250 papers, holds over 120 issued patents, and is an author of four textbooks. Dally received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech, a master’s in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from CalTech. He was a cofounder of Velio Communications and Stream Processors.
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The population of the island is approximately 630.000 (2005), and over a third of it is found in the three major cities, Iraklion (~150.000), Hania(~50.000) and Rethymnon (~30.000) located on the north coast of the island.
Although globalisation, tourism and economic growth have inevitably changed the way of life in Crete, especially in the large urban centres, to a modern and cosmopolitan style, the Cretans still preserve the bonds with their rich folk traditions and cultural heritage. The Cretan dances, Pentozalis, Haniotikos, Pidihtos, Maleviziotikos etc, are still danced at every opportunity and the "madinades" and the "rizitika" songs resound in every celebration. The extra virgin olive oil the legumes and vegetables constitute the base of the local cuisine as did for thousands of years and made the Cretan Diet renowned worldwide for its benefits on longevity and good health. In the countryside, even in our days many old Cretan men and women wear the traditional costume and the Cretan idiom is widely spoken even in the large cities.
There is also an exceptional artistic production in traditional sectors such as pottery, embroidery, jewellery etc and of course the very special Cretan Music. The violin (Violi), the lyre (lyra) and the laouto remain the characteristic musical instruments and there are many remarkable new musicians, singers and composers who continue the work of the famous Nikos Xylouris, Thanassis Skordalos, Kostas Moundakis and others.
Arts and literature had always played a significant role in the life of the Cretan people, famous painters like El Greco, Michael Damaskinos, writers like Nikos Kazantzakis, poets like Vincenzos Kornaros and Odysseas Elitis, composers like Mikis Theodorakis, Manos Hatzidakis and Giannis Markopoulos are Cretans or of Cretan origin. Today there are many important Cretans with significant contribution in all aspects of the cultural life in Greece.
The educational level of the Cretans is relatively high (compared to the other regions of Greece). The educational system consists of the following stages:
Primary School 6 years (obligatory)
High School 3 years (obligatory)
Lyceum 3 years
University 4-6 years
Public and private schools offer education from the primary school to the Lyceum and there are quite a few schools that offer proffessional education & training. For anyone who wants to continue his/her studies there are public Higher Technical Institutes (TEI) offering HND level diplomas and Universities. These institutions offer undergraduate , graduate and post graduate courses on a wide variety of disciplines.
Cretans love sports and there is plenty of choices from mountaineering to all kind of watersports to tennis, basketball and footbal which is the most popular. Two Cretan football (soccer) teams compete in the Greek Super Leage (2006-2007 - www.superleaguegreece.net/), OFI (ΟΦΗ: www.ofi.gr/) and Ergotelis (Εγοτέλης :www.ergotelis.gr/). Iraklion has one of the biggest stadia in Greece Pancretan Stadium with a capasity of 26.000 seated.
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Rheotaxis and prey detection in uniform currents by Lake Michigan mottled sculpin (Cottus bairdi)
Max J. Kanter, Sheryl Coombs
Journal of Experimental Biology 2003 206: 59-70; doi: 10.1242/jeb.00056
Max J. Kanter
Sheryl Coombs
Lake Michigan mottled sculpin, Cottus bairdi, exhibit a lateral-line mediated, unconditioned orienting response, which is part of the overall prey capture behavior of this species and can be triggered in visually deprived animals by both live (e.g. Daphnia magna) and artificial (e.g. chemically inert vibrating sphere) prey. However, the extent to which background water motions (e.g. currents) might mask the detection of biologically significant stimuli like these is almost entirely unknown, despite the fundamental nature and importance of this question. To examine this question, the orienting response of mottled sculpin was used to measure threshold sensitivity to a nearby artificial prey (a 50 Hz vibrating sphere) as a function of background noise level (unidirectional currents of different flow velocities). Because many fish show unconditioned rheotaxis to uniform currents, we also measured the fish's angular heading relative to the oncoming flow in the absence of the signal. Frequency distributions of fish headings revealed positive rheotaxis to flows as low as 4 cm s-1 and an increasing degree of alignment with the oncoming flow as a function of increasing flow velocity. Sculpin positioned in the upstream direction were able to detect relatively weak signals (estimated to be approx. 0.001-0.0001 peak—peak cm s-1 at the location of the fish) in the presence of strong background flows (2-8 cm s-1), and signal levels at threshold increased by less than twofold for a fourfold increase in flow velocity. These results are consistent with the idea that lateral line canals behave as high-pass filters to effectively reject low frequency noises such as those caused by slow d.c. currents.
rheotaxis
prey orientation
lateral line
mottled sculpin
Cottus bairdi
The lateral line is a mechanosensory system distributed superficially on the skin surface and in fluid-filled dermal canals on the head and body of all fishes (and superficially in some amphibians). This spatially distributed system allows these aquatic vertebrates to detect water movements produced by both biotic (e.g. nearby swimming fish) and abiotic (e.g. tidal currents) forces as long as there is relative movement between the fish and the surrounding water. Because water movements can arise from many different sources under many different circumstances in the aquatic environment, it is not too surprising that the lateral line is important in many behaviors, including rheotaxis, prey detection, station holding, spawning behavior and schooling behavior (for recent reviews, see Montgomery et al., 1995; Coombs and Montgomery, 1999).
Despite the presence of ambient currents in many aquatic environments and their obvious role in stimulating the lateral line, most behavioral investigations on the sensory capabilities of this system have been conducted under still-water conditions. For example, lateral-line mediated sensitivity and reactive distances of Lake Michigan mottled sculpin (Cottus bairdi) to water movements created by live (Daphnia magna) and artificial (a small vibrating sphere) prey has been determined in the absence of any background water motions (Hoekstra and Janssen, 1985, 1986; Coombs and Janssen, 1990), although preliminary observations indicate that sculpin can detect artificial prey in the presence of slow (approximately 2 cm s-1) unidirectional currents (Hoekstra and Janssen, 1985). In the natural environment, however, the general background noise created by other biotic and abiotic sources may mask or interfere with the ability of mottled sculpin to detect the small water movements created by their prey. The extent to which background noise masks the detection of biologically significant signals and the extent to which the lateral line system is able to filter out these unwanted noises is almost entirely unknown, despite the fundamental nature of this question.
Although the literature is replete with examples of prey detection by fishes in fluvial environments, only a handful of studies have systematically examined the effects of ambient water motion on lateral line-mediated prey detection. Montgomery and Milton (1993) showed that mean reactive distance of torrentfish Cheimarrichthys fosteri to live, natural prey deteriorated from 6 cm at 0 cm s-1 to less than 2 cm at 100 cm s-1. Although this study provides a nice example of how ambient flow can degrade the fish's ability to detect prey signals, the information that it yields about the signal-to-noise processing capabilities of the lateral line system is limited. For example, the amplitude, frequency and duration of prey movement and the position of the fish relative to the prey and flow direction were not controlled in these studies. Thus, signal-to-noise ratios were not characterized and, although care was taken to produce unidirectional, uniform flows, it is quite likely that there were considerable a.c. components (e.g. turbulence) to the background flow at the high flow speeds (10 and 100 cm s-1) used in this study.
In addition to this one prey detection study, a recent series of studies by Montgomery and colleagues on the rheotactic responses of several different fish species to low velocity (<10 cm s-1) currents has demonstrated for the first time an important of role of lateral line superficial neuromasts in rheotaxis (Montgomery et al., 1997; Baker and Montgomery, 1999a,b). Upstream orientation may be an important behavioral strategy for prey detection by fluvial species. It may help fish intercept small, downstream drifting prey or odors from larger upstream prey. Many animals appear to use a combination of odor-conditioned rheotaxis and chemotaxis to localize food odor sources (Weissburg, 2000; Weissburg and Zimmer-Faust, 1993, 1994; Montgomery et al., 1999). Thus, these studies remind us that ambient water currents may function as both signals and noise. The degree to which ambient water currents function to enhance or degrade biologically relevant signals will in large measure depend upon the saliency of different sensory cues and the sensory hierarchies evolved for signal detection in different fish species. In any event, studies on the potential masking effects of uniform flows on prey detection abilities must take the rheotactic behavior of the fish into account.
Despite the near absence of behavioral data on the signal-to-noise processing capabilities of the lateral line, a good deal of information exists on the filtering properties of the lateral line periphery. Both theoretical considerations (Denton and Gray, 1983, 1988, 1989; Kalmijn, 1988, 1989) and neurophysiological measures of afferent fiber responses (Kroese and Schellart, 1992; Coombs and Janssen, 1990; Montgomery et al., 1994) support the idea that the lateral line periphery can be broken down into low-pass (superficial neuromasts) and high-pass (canal neuromast) subsystems with respect to fluid velocity. These biomechanical and hydrodyamic-based differences suggest that canal neuromasts are better suited for filtering out low-frequency, ambient water motions (e.g. uniform flows) and for passing higher-frequency, prey-like signals, whereas superficial neuromasts are better suited for responding to slow, uniform flows while rejecting higher frequency, rapidly changing events (Montgomery et al., 1994).
Indeed, recent physiological studies on goldfish lateral line fibers have shown that although both putative superficial and canal neuromast fibers respond to a 50 Hz dipole source in the absence of background flow, only canal neuromast fibers continue to respond to the source in the presence of a 10-15 cm s-1 background flow (Engelmann et al., 2000, 2002). Conversely, superficial neuromast fibers respond robustly to uniform, background flows and increase their firing rate in response to increasing flow velocities (Voigt et al., 2000; Engelmann et al., 2000, 2002), whereas canal neuromast fibers do not (Engelmann et al., 2000, 2002). These findings are in nice agreement with behavioral studies showing that superficial neuromasts rather than canal neuromasts are important to the rheotactic response of fish to low-velocity uniform flows (Montgomery et al., 1997; Baker and Montgomery, 1999a,b), whereas canal neuromasts, rather than superficial neuromasts, appear to underlie prey-orienting responses to discrete, a.c. sources (Coombs et al., 2000b).
In this study, we take advantage of the unconditioned, lateral-line mediated, prey-orienting response of Lake Michigan mottled sculpin to investigate the effects of increasing background flow rates on the ability of sculpin to detect prey-like signals. We also determine the rheotactic response of these benthic sculpin to the same background flows in the absence of prey signals. Given that current-orienting behaviors are subserved by a low-pass (superficial neuromasts) subsystem and that the firing rate of superficial neuromast fibers increases with increasing flow rate, we predict that rheotactic responses in the upstream direction will increase as a function of increasing flow velocity. Likewise, given that the prey-orienting behavior of the Lake Michigan mottled sculpin depends on the high-pass (canal neuromast) subsystem and that uniform (DC) flows are ineffective stimuli for canal neuromast fibers, we predict that increases in flow velocity will have minimal effects on the ability of sculpin to detect the prey-like (a.c.) signals.
Animal care collection
Mottled sculpin Cottus bairdi Girard (6.3-8 cm in standard length) were collected from Lake Michigan using baited minnow traps placed at depths of 1-4 m in near-shore waters. Upon return to the laboratory, fish were housed in 38 or 76 litre aquaria at densities of 1-5 fish per tank. Water in both the flow tank and home tanks was dechlorinated tapwater, maintained at 15±2°C; this temperature is at the upper end of the temperature range for Lake Michigan sculpin. To control for the possibility that fish might use visual cues, all experimental fish were first surgically blinded. This was done under anesthesia (0.01% MS-222) using (1) complete enucleation, or (2) lens removal followed by aspiration of the retina. After surgery, fish were allowed a minimum of 1 week to recover before experiments began. Fish were hand-fed small pieces of squid delivered by long-nose forceps three times per week. Protocols used in the handling of animals during the course of this experiment were approved by, and on file with, Loyola's Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee.
Flow tank and flow measurements
All experiments were conducted in a `flow tank' of similar design to that reported by Vogel and LaBarbera (1978). The flow tank was placed on a vibration-isolated table (Technical Manufacturing Corp., Peabody, MA, USA) to reduce substrate vibrations. The main body of the tank was a long Plexiglass rectangular channel (44 cm × 18 cm × 17 cm), with a circular opening at each end. The opening at one end was connected to the opening at the other end by a 10.2 cm diameter circular polyvinylchloride (PVC) return tube. Water depth was always kept at 15.5 cm, well above the dorsal surface of these benthic fish, which rarely swim off the bottom. Unidirectional flows were created by a motor-driven impeller placed at the downstream end of the tank, and mounted to a separate bench, so that motor vibrations were not transmitted to the flow tank. Impeller speed was adjusted by a motor controller which also provided a digital readout of the number of revolutions per minute (revs min-1).
A series of two collimators placed upstream of the experimental arena served to reduce turbulence in the flow. Each collimator consisted of approximately 500 soda straws (each 3 cm long) attached together to cover the entire cross section of the tank, and with the long axis of the straws parallel to the flow and long axis of the tank. Fish were placed in an area (22 cm × 17 cm) bounded by the second collimator on the upstream side, and a mesh screen supported by a plastic grid (egg crate) on the downstream side to prevent the fish from being drawn into the impeller. A video camera below the flow tank provided a ventral view of the test arena.
Flow velocities produced by impeller revolutions at different revs min-1 were measured in the experimental arena by two different techniques. Methylene Blue dye streaks were released from pipette tips 12 mm above the bottom of the flow tank at the approximate eye level of the sculpin and at five different locations, separated by 2 cm, along the width of the tank at its upstream end. The movement of the dye downstream was videotaped and the distance traveled by the dye streak from one time-stamped video frame to the next (17 ms frame-1) was used to compute flow velocity. Average mid-stream and focal point velocities (i.e. at the level of the fish) were also measured with a commercially available flow meter (Marsh-McBirney, Model 2000, Frederick, MD, USA) as was done by Facey and Grossman (1992). Visual inspection of time-lapsed video frames revealed that bulk flow was unidirectional and spatially homogenous in the plane of view at all flow velocities tested. Moreover, dye-streak measures of flow velocities at different motor speeds were in excellent agreement with those made with the commercial flow meter.
Signal generation and measurement
Prey-like stimuli for masking experiments were simulated with a small (6 mm diameter) plastic sphere rigidly attached to a mini-shaker (Brüel and Kjaer, Norcross, GA, USA) by a stainless steel, blunt-tipped needle (16 gauge, 15 cm length); sphere vibrations were in the vertical plane. The center of the sphere was placed 12 mm from the bottom of the tank at the approximate eye level of the fish, and at the same level as the dye streak. The shaker assembly was mounted to a support system that was independent of the flow tank and the underlying vibration-isolation table. The amplitude and frequency of oscillation were computer controlled through a Tucker-Davis modular hardware system consisting of a digital-to-analog converter, electronic attenuator, and digital input and output. Sphere vibration (50 Hz) was gated on and off (500 ms on and 500 ms off) with 10 ms rise/fall times with a starting phase of 0°. A light-emitting diode, which could be seen through the camera, was time-locked to each 500 ms signal pulse so that there was a video record of when the signal went on and off.
To ensure that the signal source created sinusoidal water motions at 50 Hz and that the amplitude of water motion was a linear function of signal attenuation, the water motion created by the sphere in the absence and presence of flow was measured with a hot-film anemometry system (TSI, Inc., St Paul, MN, USA) as described in Coombs et al. (1989). Stimulus measurements were taken in the same tank that behavioral experiments were done, but in the absence of the fish. The sensing element was positioned 1 cm from the sphere center and at the same elevation as sphere center. The sensor was oriented to measure the amplitude of water motion along the axis of sphere vibration. The root mean square (RMS) voltage or amplitude of the anemometer response at 50 Hz was measured with a Hewlett Packard Wave Analyzer (3 Hz bandwidth) for different signal levels. The output of the anemometer was also digitized (analog-to-digital converter, Tucker Davis Technologies, Alachva, FL, USA) for suprathreshold signal levels (50 dB SL) and the Fourier transform of the digitized time waveforms was computed in Matlab.
Hot-film anemometer measurements confirmed that the vibrating source created sinusoidal water motions and that the amplitude of these motions declined linearly with signal attenuation. The Fourier transform of the digitized time waveforms for normal experimental conditions revealed a predominant spectral peak at 50 Hz, with increasing levels of low frequency (<30 Hz) energy as flow velocity increased (Fig. 1A). Low frequency energy near 0 Hz was similar for both the 0 and 2 cm s-1 conditions and represents the noise floor for ambient substrate vibrations. The amplitude of the second harmonic (100 Hz) was 19 dB less than that of the fundamental for the no-flow condition, but approximately 27 dB down from the fundamental for all flow conditions. Amplitude spectra for control conditions used in signal detection experiments (motor on/flow off) (Fig. 1B) were nearly identical to that for the normal, motor off/flow off condition (dotted line, Fig. 1A), except possibly for the 8 cm s-1 motor speed, where the energy below 25 Hz was somewhat higher (see Signal detection experiments, below, for further explanation).
Average amplitude spectra of digitized anemometer responses to a suprathreshold (15 m s-2 (RMS) at the source) 50 Hz vibrating sphere for four different flow velocities (0, 2, 4 and 8 cm s-1). Each amplitude spectrum represents the average of four spectra, each obtained from repeat measures of the time-waveform at a given flow velocity. (A) Amplitude spectra from normal, experimental conditions. (B) Amplitude spectra from control conditions in which the flow-producing impeller blade was removed from the drive shaft, but the drive shaft motions remained coupled to the water for different motor speeds. Note that 60-cycle electrical noise is inexplicably more prominent for the 8 cm s-1 flow condition in A.
Experimental overview
Two types of experiments were performed: one to measure the rheotactic behavior of fish and the other to measure the ability of fish to detect artifical prey vibrations as a function of background flow rates (signal detection experiments). In both cases, flow velocity was varied from 2 to 8 cm s-1 (approximately 0.1-1 BL s-1; BL = body length) — well below the approximate slip speed (12 cm s-1) at which sculpin tend to be displaced downstream by the flow (Webb et al., 1996). These flow speeds are also in the range of focal point velocities (measured with a commercial flow sensor near the head of the fish) reported for stream dwelling populations of mottled sculpin in their natural habitat (Facey and Grossman, 1992).
Experimental sessions for both rheotaxis and signal detection experiments were run 3 days per week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) and lasted approximately 20-40 min for each fish. Fish were transported to the experimental tank in water-filled, plastic lined nets in order to minimize damage to superficial neuromasts. In both experiments, rheotactic and orientating behaviors were videotaped with a camera placed below the flow tank to yield a ventral view of the fish on the substrate. Rheotactic experiments were run before signal detection experiments and three of the four animals used in these experiments were subsequently used in signal detection experiments. Procedures for conducting rheotactic and signal detection experiments and for analyzing the results are described below.
Rheotaxis experiment
Before each experimental run, a random order of flow speed presentation was determined by drawing numbers corresponding to the three flow speeds (0, 4 or 8 cm s-1) out of a `hat' and recording the sequence. The revolution rate of the impeller was adjusted to the first of three flow speeds and the fish was allowed to acclimate to the flow for several minutes. The fish's behavior was then videotaped for 5 min. At the end of the first 5 min period, the motor speed was adjusted again to produce the next flow speed in the randomly chosen order. Fish were allowed several minutes to acclimate to the new flow speed before being videotaped for another 5 min period. This procedure was carried out for 1-3 experimental sessions per day until all three flow speeds were tested. A different order of test velocities was then randomly generated for the next set of experimental sessions, and so on until each flow condition had been tested four times for each of four fish.
For data analysis, videotapes of rheotactic experiments were subsequently reviewed frame by frame to determine the position of the fish at different times during the 5 min test period. Because sculpin tend to move frequently, stopping for several seconds at each new position, each stationary position was defined as a potential data point and assigned a number corresponding to the order of occurrence during the test period (e.g. 1, 2, 3...). 25 of these positions, selected with a spreadsheet random-number function, were then captured, digitized and analyzed with a commercially available imaging program (SigmaScanPro, SPSS). For each position, the fish's heading with respect to the oncoming flow was defined as the angle between the fish's head vector (a line down the midline of the fish from the snout to the position of pectoral fin insertion) and the flow vector (a line parallel to the flow direction and intersecting the fish head vector at the point of pectoral fin insertion). By convention, an angle of 0° (fish pointing directly into the flow) represents perfect, positive rheotaxis. The frequency distribution of fish headings was then plotted for each fish and test velocity. The vector strength of the distribution (Batschelet, 1981), which can vary from 0 (fish headings randomly distributed across 360°) to 1 (all fish headings the same), was used as a quantitative measure of the degree to which sculpin showed orientation preferences. A modified Rayleigh (V) test (Greenwood and Durand, 1955) was used to statistically discriminate between uniform (random) and non-uniform distributions centered on the predicted, upstream direction for positive rheotaxis (0°).
Signal detection experiment
As with rheotactic experiments, the order in which different flow velocities (0, 2, 4 and 8 cm s-1) were used was determined randomly at the beginning of each experimental run. The desired flow speed was then set and the fish was allowed to acclimate to the flow for several minutes. The fish was then lured into a fixed starting position with a small piece of squid dangled at the end of a long-nose forceps. Sculpin were positioned so that (1) the long axis of the fish was parallel (±20°) to the flow vector and facing upstream, (2) the midline of the fish was 5±1 cm away from the center of the signal source and (3) the source was approximately at the rostral/caudal level of pectoral fin insertion on the sculpin. Because lateral line sensitivity to both live (Daphnia magna) and artificial (a vibrating sphere) prey is best when the vibrational source is near the head, intermediate when it is near the trunk and poorest when near the tail (Hoekstra and Janssen, 1986; Coombs and Janssen, 1990), we chose the base of the pectoral fin as a convenient and easily identified location near the junction between head and trunk. A target area, outlined on the bottom of the flow tank, enabled easy and precise positioning of the fish relative to the signal source, which was centered in the horizontal plane of the test arena.
Once the fish was in position, the experimenter initiated a computer-controlled trial during which sphere vibrations pulsed on and off for a total of 5 s. The sculpin's response was scored as either a detection [movement towards or strike (bite) at the sphere], or non-detection (no movement, or movement away) response. A perfect orientation towards the source, which was to the side of the fish in the center of the tank, resulted in a 90° deviation from the upstream direction. Detection responses were reinforced by feeding the fish with small pieces of squid. If the fish moved before the trial began, it was repositioned, and a new trial sequence was begun.
To measure threshold sensitivity, an adaptive tracking technique was used in which the fish's response to a trial determined the amplitude of the subsequent trial, such that a detection response resulted in decreasing the amplitude of the next trial by 5 dB, and a non-detection response resulted in increasing the amplitude of the next trial by 5 dB. The signal level midway between that for consecutive `yes' and `no' responses was then defined as a transition threshold. This procedure was followed until 10 transition thresholds had occurred for a given flow velocity, which required 1-3 consecutive experimental sessions. After 10 transitions had occurred, the session for that day was terminated, and the next session on the following test day was begun with the next test velocity in the randomly chosen sequence. This procedure was repeated until there were 10 transitions for each test velocity. A new random order of test velocities was then generated, and the entire procedure repeated until a total of 20 transitions per test velocity had been measured.
To measure the probability that orienting responses occurred by chance, 30% of all trials were presented without sphere vibration (blank trials) at randomly distributed times. To control for the possibility that motor-generated acoustic noise or other a.c. flow noises rather than impeller driven d.c. flow noise may have masked signal detection, control conditions were also run with the impeller removed and the impeller drive shaft both in and out of the water.
For data analysis, the mean of 20 transition thresholds at each test velocity was computed for each of five fish. A repeated-measures analysis of variance (RM ANOVA) was used to test for significant threshold differences between fish and between test velocities. Because it was difficult to apply any specific criteria for judging detection and non-detection responses during the real-time execution of the experiment (e.g. fish had to move at least 5° and/or 5 mm towards the source for a detection response), a post-hoc video analysis of the fish's position before and after the initial response was performed to determine the distribution of response angles and distances for all blank and signal trials. SigmaScan Pro software was used to measure the fish-to-source angle and distance for each position before and after the response. In cases where the fish did not respond at all, the same position served as both the `before' and `after' position.
Orientation preference as a function of flow rate
In the absence of flow, sculpin showed no orientation preference within the flow tank and fish were as likely to orient towards the downstream end (±180°) or the sides (±90°) of the flow tank as the upstream end (0°) (Fig. 2A). A Rayleigh test for circular uniformity on the distribution of orientation angles revealed that distributions for all four fish at 0 cm s-1 were not significantly different from random. In the presence of flow, sculpin showed clear orientation preferences in the upstream direction (Fig. 2B,C). A modified Rayleigh (V) test revealed that angular distributions were significantly different from random and grouped around 0° (= directly upstream) (P<0.01 for all fish). Finally, increasing flow velocities resulted in increasing degrees of positive rheotaxis, as determined from the vector strengths (r) of the angular distributions (Fig. 3). Vector strength was positively correlated with flow velocity (r2>0.90 for all individuals).
Frequency distribution of fish orientation relative to the oncoming flow at 0 cm s-1 (A), 4 cm s-1 (B) and 8 cm s-1 (C). An orientation angle of 0° represents perfect positive rheotaxis (fish facing directly upstream). Each dotted line represents the distribution of orientation angles for one of four individuals, while the solid line indicates the mean distribution for all four individuals. Bin width=10°.
Vector strength (r) as a function of flow speed (cm s-1) for each of four individuals (M6, M7, M10 and M11). The solid heavy line is the linear regression through the data from the four individuals (r2=0.99).
Post-hoc analysis of response angles and distances for threshold detection experiments
Because the adaptive method of threshold tracking in the threshold detection experiments required the experimenter to make instantaneous judgements as to whether fish moved in the direction of the signal source or not, it is conceivable that the experimenter may not have applied the same response criteria to each trial type (i.e. signal versus blank trials). Two types of errors were possible for each trial type. The experimenter may have mistakenly judged that the fish moved towards the source (a so-called `hit' during a signal trial and a `false alarm' during a blank trial) when in fact the fish moved away from the source or the movement towards the source was insufficiently large to fulfil the criteria for a positive response (Type I error). Conversely, the experimenter may have mistakenly judged that the fish moved away from the source or did not move at all during the trial period (a `miss' during a signal trial and a `correct rejection' during a blank trial) when in fact the fish moved towards the source during the trial period (Type II error).
A post-hoc, videotape analysis of the fish's position before and after each response was used to determine the extent to which experimental errors of these types were made as a function of two different response criteria: the degree by which the fish turned towards the source (the change in fish-to-source angle) and the degree by which the fish moved closer to the source (the change in fish-to-source distance). The distributions of response angles scored as hits (signal trials) (Fig. 4A), misses (signal trials) (Fig. 4B), false alarms (blank trials) (Fig. 4C), and correct rejections (blank trials) (Fig. 4D) were very similar across flow conditions, as were the distributions of response distances for the same judgements (Fig. 5). Pooled distributions across all individuals and conditions also revealed that the experimenter's judgements were consistent for hits and false alarms, as were the judgements for misses and correct rejections (Figs 4E, 5E). That is, the vast majority (>90%) of responses judged to be hits or false alarms were based on fish movements that reduced the fish-to-source angle by greater than 30° or the fish-to-source distance by greater than 10 mm. Likewise, the vast majority of responses judged to be misses or correct rejections were based on movements that reduced the fish-to-source angle by less than 30° or the fish-to-source distance by less than 10 mm. Using the 30° angle and 10 mm distance criteria, type I and II errors occurred at relatively low frequencies (<10% of the time) for both trial types (Table 1). Thus, it is highly unlikely that errors of this type had any systematic or significant effects on the threshold sensitivity results presented here.
Frequency distribution of response angles from post-hoc analysis of fish-to-source angles before and after orienting responses. Frequency distributions are grouped according to how responses were judged during the real-time execution of the experiment — i.e. as hits (A) or misses (B) for signal trials, and false alarms (C) or correct rejections (D) for blank trials. Each solid line represents the distribution of response angles (pooled from 4 individuals) for one of four flow conditions (0, 2, 4 and 8 cm s-1). In E, the mean distributions of all flow conditions are plotted for responses judged as hits, misses, correct rejections and false alarms. Bin width=10°.
Frequency distribution of response distances as in Fig. 4. Bin width=10 mm.
Percentage of Type I and Type II errors as a function of response (angle versus distance) and trial (signal versus blank) type
Signal detection results
Because the rheotaxis experiment clearly showed that sculpin naturally tend to orient upstream (Figs 2, 3), fish were positioned facing upstream for signal detection experiments. Threshold detection results revealed that sculpin were able to detect relatively weak, prey-like signals in the presence of a strong ambient background flow. Peak—peak mean signal levels at threshold ranged from 0.7-1.2 cm s-1 at the source for background flow rates of 2-8 cm s-1. Although it is difficult to know the exact signal strength at the fish, the 1/r3 law for attenuation of a dipole source (in the absence of flow and fish) predicts that signal levels 4 cm away would be on the order of 0.001-0.0001 cm s-1, several orders of magnitude below the background flow levels. Mean signal levels at threshold were approximately fourfold lower in the absence of flow than in the presence of flow and increased by less than twofold for a fourfold increase in current velocity (Fig. 6A). A one-way RM ANOVA of mean thresholds from five individuals showed that different flow conditions (0, 2, 4 and 8 cm s-1) had significant effects on threshold sensitivity (P<0.05). Post-hoc (Tukey's multiple comparison) comparisons of the means revealed that threshold signal levels in the absence of flow were significantly different from those in the presence of flow for all flow velocities (Table 2). In the presence of flow, however, only the lowest (2 cm s-1) and highest (8 cm s-1) flow velocities produced significantly different thresholds (Table 2). Mean fish-to-source distances at the time of signal onset (measured from post-hoc videotape analysis and pooled across all individuals) varied by no more than 2 mm (mean ± S.D. = 56±9, 55±8, 54±8 and 56±7 mm for 0, 2, 4 and 8 cm s-1, respectively). Thus, different signal levels at the fish due to different degrees of attenuation with distance are unlikely to account for these threshold differences.
Signal level (at the source) at threshold (A) and false alarm rates (B) as a function of flow velocity for 5 individuals (dashed lines with different symbols). Mean thresholds in A and false alarm rates in B for normal experimental conditions are plotted as heavy solid lines (N=5).
P values for Tukey's pair-wise tests of signal detection thresholds under normal conditions at different flow velocities (cm s-1) for five individuals
Control condition results
A number of controls were run to determine if threshold differences between flow and no-flow conditions were due to masking effects of the flow alone or to some other factor, such as vibrations passed through the impeller drive shaft to the water or the proclivity of sculpin to orient upstream rather than to the side of the tank towards the signal source.
Blank trials were run to determine the propensity of fish to respond in the direction of the source in the absence of any vibration signal. Although response (false alarm) rates to blank trials appear to be somewhat higher in the no-flow condition, they were not significantly different from false alarm rates at different flow rates (Fig. 6B) (RM ANOVA, P>0.05).
Motor noise controls were run to assess the possibility that the motor and the mechanical assemblage (drive shaft plus impeller) may have caused acoustic or a.c. flow noise (in addition to the uniform d.c. flow noise) that interfered with the ability of sculpin to detect the signal vibrations. Two no-flow noise controls were run on three fish. The first control tested the potential masking effects of airborne motor noise alone (transmitted from the air to the water). In this case, the impeller and shaft were removed from the water to prevent flow and any mechanical linkage from the motor to the water through the shaft and impeller. The motor was then run at the speed that would have produced an 8 cm s-1 flow if the shaft and impeller had been in the water. Signal levels at threshold for this control condition were not significantly different from those measured in the normal setup with the motor turned off and the flow rate at 0 cm s-1 (RM ANOVA, P>0.05). Thus, airborne motor noise alone cannot account for threshold differences between flow and no-flow conditions.
For the second control, the flow-producing impeller blade was removed, but the drive shaft was left in place so that motor-driven vibrations could be directly transmitted to the water. The no-flow threshold was again measured for the highest (8 cm s-1 motor) speed and compared to thresholds in the absence of boh flow and motor noise. In essence, we wanted to test the hypothesis that elevated levels of low frequency (2-30 Hz) energy produced by motor vibrations alone (Fig. 1B) might have contributed to some of the threshold differences between flow and no-flow conditions. Signal levels at threshold for this motor-on/flow-off control condition were significantly (P<0.01) greater than those obtained in the normal motor-off/flow-off condition, but only by a factor of 2.5 dB (approximately 1.3).
In this study, we show that mottled sculpin are capable of a mechanosensory based, positive rheotactic response to low-velocity flows in the absence of visual cues and that, furthermore, the degree of rheotactic alignment with the oncoming flow increases as a function of increasing flow velocity (Figs 1, 2). Although we cannot say for certain whether the mechanosensory basis of this behavior was based on tactile, lateral line or auditory cues, theoretical considerations alone predict that the superficial neuromasts of the lateral line system were responsible, as these low-velocity flows did not cause the fish to be displaced relative to its surroundings. This idea is further supported by recent behavioral studies demonstrating a role of superficial neuromasts in mechanosensory-based rheotaxis to low velocity flows (<10 cm s-1) in several different species (Montgomery et al., 1997; Baker and Montgomery, 1999a,b). Finally, given that rheotaxis at these flow rates is likely to depend on superficial neuromasts, the increase in rheotactic alignment with increasing flow velocity is understandable in light of recent physiological studies showing a firing-rate dependence of superficial neuromast fibers on flow velocity (Voigt et al., 2000).
Recent studies comparing the rheotactic behavior of lake populations with stream populations of mottled sculpin under identical test conditions have confirmed these results, but have also revealed that sculpin tend to spend more time near the sides of the flow tank than in the center (S. Coombs and G. D. Grossman, unpublished results). This behavior, which is most likely a part of the natural shelter-seeking behavior of these animals, occurs even in the absence of flow. Nevertheless, these results raise the possibility that sculpin may be aligning their bodies along the sides of the flow tank and that the orientation of the tank walls is an additional factor contributing to the orientation of the animal's body. Although we cannot completely exclude this possibility, we think it is unlikely to play a significant role, for the following reasons. (1) The random distributions of fish headings in the absence of flow (Fig. 2A) provide compelling evidence that fish orientations are not constrained or biased by the tank size or shape; indeed, the area of the test arena (approximately 2×2.75 fish BL) is more than adequate for orientations in any direction. (2) If body orientation were entrained solely by the sides of the tank, we would expect that (i) orientation distributions would be bimodal — half in the upstream and half in the downstream direction — rather than random (no-flow conditions) or unimodal (flow conditions) and (ii) the vector strengths of the distributions would be independent of flow velocity. In summary, the most parsimonious explanation for the results in their entirety is that sculpin exhibit positive rheotaxis to uniform flows.
We further show that sculpin, when oriented upstream, can detect and orient towards relatively weak (approximately 0.001-0.0001 cm s-1 at the fish) prey-like signals in the presence of strong (up to 8 cm s-1), background uniform flows. When flow is present, the ability of sculpin to detect the prey-like signal is largely independent of flow velocity, with signal levels at threshold increasing by less than twofold for a fourfold increase in flow velocity (Fig. 5A, Tables 1, 2). In the absence of flow, however, signal levels at threshold are two-to fourfold less than those in the presence of flow (Fig. 5A, Tables 1, 2). Displacement thresholds for the no-flow condition (approximately 10-9 m at the fish) are in the same low range as those reported earlier for the lateral line and other hair cell systems (reviewed by Kroese and van Netten, 1989), including those obtained from the mottled sculpin over a decade ago using similar behavioral techniques (Coombs and Janssen, 1990). Threshold results for ambient flow conditions can probably best be understood in terms of the high-pass filtering properties of lateral line canals and a number of different factors that contribute to sensitivity differences between flow and no-flow conditions.
High-pass filtering by lateral line canals
The exquisite sensitivity of sculpin to weak a.c. signals in the presence of strong d.c. flows and the absence of appreciable threshold shifts to increasing flow velocity are consistent with the idea that fish are using the high-pass filtering characteristics of lateral line canals to optimize signal-to-noise ratios for detection tasks involving high-frequency a.c. signals. This idea is further supported by recent physiological results showing that the amplitude-dependent spike rate and phase-locking responses of putative canal neuromast fibers, in goldfish to a 50 Hz dipole source are not significantly degraded in the presence of a 10 cm s-1 flow (Engelmann et al., 2001, 2002). When tuning curves from acceleration-sensitive lateral line fibers in the mottled sculpin are plotted as a function of velocity, the low frequency leg of the tuning curve has a slope of -6 dB octave-1 (Coombs and Janssen, 1990), as would be expected for canal neuromast fibers, and as has been modeled for simple, straight-sided tubes (Denton and Gray, 1988, 1989). Thus, the lateral line canal is not a very steep filter, and while it may be quite effective in filtering out 0 Hz energy (DC flows), it becomes much less effective as frequency increases. As such, the upward spread of low-frequency (<50 Hz) energy associated with increasing flow velocities (Fig. 1A) may contribute to the elevated thresholds. This explanation is certainly consistent with the decrease in prey-detection distances observed for torrentfish when flow velocities are increased from 10 to 100 cm s-1 (Milton and Montgomery, 1993). This upward spread of energy is most likely associated with small scale turbulence produced at the higher flow velocities (Coombs et al., 2001a).
Although the ability of mottled sculpin to detect low-level a.c. signals in the presence of strong d.c. flows is undoubtedly enhanced by the filtering abilities of lateral line canals, it is conceivable that the temporal and/or spatial perturbations caused by the signal in the ongoing flow also contributes to this ability.
Threshold shifts between flow and no-flow conditions
Although the shallow, low-frequency slopes of lateral line canal filters and the upward spread of low frequency energy might explain the modest (<twofold) decrease in threshold sensitivity with a fourfold increase in flow velocity, the two-to fourfold shift in threshold sensitivity between flow and no-flow conditions requires further explanation. One possibility is that elevated thresholds in the presence of flow are due to factors other than the masking effects of flow noise alone, such as the propensity of sculpin to orient upstream rather than in the sidewards direction of the signal source, the presence of artifactual noises (e.g. those produced by the motor-shaft assembly used to generate the flow), and/or alterations in the stimulus field due to complex interactions between the fish's body and the surrounding flow field.
Control, conditions, in which the drive shaft (minus its flow-inducing impeller) was driven at the highest motor speed, produced a small elevation in mean threshold above that measured in the normal, no-flow (motor-off) condition. This effect, however, can account for only 10-20% of the total threshold shift, leaving 80% of the difference unaccounted for. Upstream response biases are also unlikely to account for much of the difference. Three lines of evidence argue against them. (1) False alarm rates in the no-flow condition were not significantly higher than those for various flow conditions, as would be expected if sculpin turned to the side more frequently when freed from their `compulsion' to orient in a forward (upstream) direction. (2) Previous studies have shown that in the absence of flow, sculpin are much more likely to make spontaneous movements in a forward rather than lateral direction (Coombs, 1999). (3) Threshold levels do not increase linearly with flow velocity, as would be expected if upstream orienting biases were a major controlling factor. That is, for a twofold increase in flow velocity (from 4 to 8 cm s-1), the mean vector strength of the rheotactic response doubled, but the mean threshold signal level increased by a factor of only 1.3.
Another confounding factor, impossible to control for but important to understand, is the possibility that when flow is present, the fish's body alters the flow field to the lateral line system in such a way that a new type of a.c. noise interference is created, or the effective a.c. signal level at the fish is attenuated above and beyond what it would be in the absence of the fish. Digital particle image velocimetry (DPIV) has recently been used to determine how 2-8 cm s-1 flow fields are altered in the vicinity of the sculpin's body (Coombs et al., 2001a). The results from this study show that fish body parts can significantly alter the local hydrodynamic stimulus field to the lateral line relative to ambient water motions only a few cm away. In particular, flow around the large, extended pectoral fin of the mottled sculpin showed separation at the edge of the fin and a trailing wake, similar to that observed for a flat plate perpendicular to the flow. The high frequency energy in the turbulent wake may have thus introduced an additional noise masker to the detection task.
Finally, it is conceivable that reduced sensitivity in the flow condition is due to a drop in the available energy at the second harmonic (100 Hz). Our anemometer measurements show that while the amplitude of the fundamental frequency varied by no more than 2 dB across all conditions, the amplitude of the second harmonic was about 8 dB less for all flow conditions than for the no-flow conditions (Fig. 1A). Because there was no reduction in the second harmonic for different motor speeds in the absence of impeller-driven flow (Fig. 1B), we can be fairly certain that the reduction in the second harmonic is somehow caused by the flow. Behavioral and physiological measures of threshold sensitivity in the absence of flow show that mottled sculpin are equally sensitive to 50 and 100 Hz dipole signals (Coombs and Janssen, 1990), making the detection and use of energy at the second harmonic plausible if not likely.
In summary, motor driven vibrations of the impeller shaft can account for only a small percentage of the threshold difference between flow and no-flow conditions. A number of other, inter-related factors are likely to make up the remaining difference. These include less energy at the second harmonic for the flow conditions, the upward spread of low-frequency energy associated with increasing flow velocities, and additional noise interference (e.g. shed wakes) created by the interaction between the fish's body and the flow field.
Prey-orienting and current-orienting (rheotactic) behaviors
Both rheotactic and prey-orienting behaviors are naturally occurring, unconditioned behaviors exhibited by many different fish species, including the Lake Michigan mottled sculpin. These behaviors may be inexorably linked, in that the ability to orient upstream is thought to play an important role in the feeding behavior of many fluvial species. Trout, for example, presumably orient upstream to be in the best position to intercept downstream drifting prey. Station holding behaviors in which fish position themselves upstream in current—velocity shelters may also enable fish like trout to hold low-velocity positions adjacent to a high-velocity region, providing them with an abundance of invertebrate drift (Everest and Chapman, 1972; Fausch, 1993). Finally, many animals use a combination of odor-conditioned rheotaxis and chemotaxis to localize food odor sources (Weissburg, 2000; Weissburg and Zimmer-Faust, 1993, 1994; Montgomery et al., 1999). Although it is not known whether Lake Michigan mottled sculpin use rheotactic behavior to detect and localize prey, other similar, non-fluvial, benthic species, such as the antarctic fish, Trematomus bernachii, appear to approach prey using a combination of rheosensory and chemosensory information (Montgomery et al., 1999). In any event, currents and flows created by seiches, wind effects and temperature-related mixing are certainly present in lake ecosystems (Goldman and Horne, 1983). Moreover, given that sculpin feed at night when vision is limited (Hoekstra and Janssen, 1985), it is likely that sculpin rely heavily on their non-visual sensory systems. It is reasonable to expect that sculpin may use a combination of different strategies, depending on factors such as current conditions, prey type and prey availability. As a consequence, lake currents may function as both a noise interference for mechanosensory-based detection of moving prey and as a signal for rheosensory-based enhancement of odor source detection and localization. The ability of fish to simulataneously take in and filter out ambient water motions is made possible by two lateral line subsystems — one that passes and processes uniform flow as a behaviorally relevant signal (superficial neuromast system), and one that filters out uniform flow as an interference noise (canal neuromast system). In this regard, it is interesting to note that the uniform flow in these experiments elicited an orienting behavior in the upstream direction of the tank, but that the prey-like source elicited an orienting behavior away from the upstream direction and towards the source. Thus, the orientating response to the prey source is clearly capable of overriding the rheotactic response to bulk flow, even at the highest flow velocity tested.
We would like to acknowledge Drs Marty Berg, Chris Braun, Dick Fay and John New for their helpful comments and suggestions throughout the course of this work. This work has been supported by an NIH Program Project Grant.
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DRIP IRRIGATION, JEWEL OF ISRAELI TECH, SELLS FOR $1.5B
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As part of the deal, the parties said they have agreed to maintain Netafim’s core activity in Israel, including continued production and R&D activity, for at least the next 20 years.
The Mexican petrochemicals giant Mexichem will be purchasing 80% of the Israeli irrigation company Netafim for about $1.5 billion, the firms announced on Monday.
Under the deal, Mexichem will acquire all the shares of Netafim held by the Permira Fund and Kibbutz Magal and a portion of those held by Kibbutz Hatzerim – which was the birthplace of the Israeli company and its revolutionary drip irrigation technologies.
The 80% acquisition deal, worth $1.516b., values Netafim at $1.895b.
As part of the deal, the parties said they have agreed to maintain Netafim’s core activity in Israel, including continued production and R&D activity, for at least the next 20 years. While completion of the transaction is subject to the receipt of approvals as required by the law, the process is expected to be completed by the fourth quarter of 2017, the companies said.
“This is a strategic acquisition that strengthens Mexichem’s unique product portfolio and solutions,” said Antonio Carrillo Rule, CEO of Mexichem. “The synergy between the companies will enable us to strengthen Netafim’s position as a leading and innovative company in the rapidly growing smart irrigation market.
The Permira Fund, which acquired control of Netafim in 2011, currently holds 61% of the company, while Kibbutz Magal has a 6% share. In addition to gaining all of these assets, Mexichem will be taking on an approximately 13% chunk from Kibbutz Hatzerim, which today has a 33% share of the firm.
“Netafim has a long history of innovation and technological leadership in the field of irrigation, and the acquisition will give Mexichem access to this advanced technology, which will eventually serve as a basis for ‘smart’ solutions in other industrial sectors,” Carrillo said.
Founded in the Negev Desert’s Kibbutz Hatzerim in 1965, Netafim has grown to become one of the world’s leading companies in the smart irrigation sector. The company operates 17 manufacturing plants worldwide and works in more than 30 countries, and its products are sold in more than 100 companies, a statement from the firm said.
In recent years, Netafim has experienced considerable growth in sales and profitability, with a turnover of about $855 million in 2016, the statement added.
“We looked for a strategic partner for Netafim that would enable us to continue developing the company and to execute the next leap forward,” said Netafim president and CEO Ran Maidan. “We are proud to win the trust of a leading company like Mexichem and believe that, together, we can ensure the continued growth and prosperity of Netafim.
“The terms of the agreement guarantee Netafim’s continued Israeli character, with a commitment to preserving the company’s center of operations in Israel for many years to come,” Maidan added.
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Bangkok attracts more than 780,000 visitors over festive New Year period
Bangkok attracted more than 780,000 visitors over the festive 2017 New Year period, an increase of 30% from 2016 with over 50% international tourists. Among the top attractions during this period, the spectacular ‘Beautiful Bangkok by Magnolias @ Ratchaprasong’, a world-class 3D projection mapping performance incorporating a special New Year’s Eve Countdown and embodying Thainess and cultural pride, brought thousands to the Ratchaprasong district of the city. Ratchaprasong has evolved over time to ascend to its current position as the city’s heart, soul and premier center for shopping, hospitality, business and tourism.
Mr. Visit Malaisirirat, CEO of Magnolia Quality Development Corporation Limited, said, “Visitor spending helps to boost tourism revenue and economic growth of the city. We’re delighted to have been able to present ‘Beautiful Bangkok by Magnolias’ as our contribution to the city at the time of Christmas and New Year. It definitely brought a joyful year-end to all visitors who came to Bangkok, home of Magnolias Ratchadamri Boulevard. The lighting performance embodies Thai character and our cultural pride; it highlights Bangkok’s status as an international destination for leisure and business travelers, and also for luxury property investors.”
Ahead of London, Paris and Singapore, Bangkok had a record of 19.41 million visitors in 2016, more than London 19.06m, Paris 15.45m, and Dubai 14.87m, and is expected to have hosted nearly 20.2 million tourists in 2017, according to Mastercard’s annual list.
“We expect visitor numbers in the Ratchaprasong area, where our development is located, will have shown an increase by about 30% from 600,000 visitors to 780,000 visitors during the Greeting Festival as they come to shop, celebrate the countdown, and see the stunning 3D light art installation projection. Many will have returned home to cities like Hong Kong and Singapore after appreciating the relative value here and considering Bangkok as a very possible option for investing in property or starting a business”.
According to the Tourism Authority of Thailand, foreign and Thai tourists are expected to have spent some Bt15.56 billion from December 29 to January 2, 2018. Based on air ticket and accommodation reservations, about 420,000 foreign tourists are expected to visit Thailand during the New Year holiday period, an increase of 17 percent over last year.
New Year’s Eve in Bangkok marks the closure of a year in which the city is now considered to be a true alternative to other premier regional cities — one of the very top destinations for investment in property and business. “We’ve very pleased to create ‘Beautiful Bangkok by Magnolias’ lighting project to show and to attract visitors to Bangkok. We’re also satisfied that our beautiful project and its aesthetically pleasing design is perfectly suited to the attractive and ever-evolving skyline of Bangkok, our beautiful city,” concludes Mr.Visit.
Magnolias’ lighting show has been displaying special Christmas motifs, New Year’s Eve countdown and an integrated fireworks display to mark the magical close of 2017.
Magnolias Ratchadamri Boulevard (MRB) is a mixed-use project with sophisticated and iconic architecture inspired by magnolias flowers, encompassing 316 luxury residence units, office areas and the 5-star hotel Waldorf Astoria Bangkok, the first branch of Hilton’s flagship brand in SE. MRB offers the prime investment opportunity in Thailand, and presents one of the best opportunities in Asia for investing in the luxury property sector.
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Enbridge and Spectra Energy to Combine to Create North America’s Premier Energy Infrastructure Company with C$165 Billion Enterprise Value
Houston, Press Releases
Transaction creates increased scale, asset diversity, financial flexibility and an industry leading secured project portfolio and development project inventory
Creates largest energy infrastructure company in North America with C$1651 billion (US$127 billion) enterprise value
Anticipated 15 percent annualized dividend increase in 2017 and annual 10-12 percent dividend growth thereafter through 2024. Industry leading secured project and risked development inventory of C$74 billion (US$57 billion) with C$26 billion (US$20 billion) currently in execution
Complementary and diversified asset base to increase customer service offerings and optionality
Enhanced ability to pursue projects that will improve customer access and service
Strengthens investment grade balance sheet
96 percent of cash flow generated by cost-of-service, take-or-pay, or fee-based contracts
Industry-leading total return potential
CALGARY, Alberta and HOUSTON, Texas – September 6, 2016 – Enbridge Inc. (TSX, NYSE:ENB) (Enbridge) and Spectra Energy Corp (NYSE:SE) (Spectra Energy) today announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Enbridge and Spectra Energy will combine in a stock-for-stock merger transaction (the “Transaction”), which values Spectra Energy common stock at approximately C$37 billion (US$28 billion), based on the closing price of Enbridge’s common shares on September 2, 2016. The combination will create the largest energy infrastructure company in North America and one of the largest globally based on a pro-forma enterprise value of approximately C$165 billion (US$127 billion). The Transaction was unanimously approved by the Boards of Directors of both companies and is expected to close in the first quarter of 2017, subject to shareholder and certain regulatory approvals, and other customary conditions.
Under the terms of the Transaction, Spectra Energy shareholders will receive 0.984 shares of the combined company for each share of Spectra Energy common stock they own. The consideration to be received by Spectra Energy shareholders is valued at US$40.33 per Spectra Energy share, based on the closing price of Enbridge common shares on September 2, 2016, representing an approximate 11.5 percent premium to the closing price of Spectra Energy common stock on September 2, 2016. Upon completion of the Transaction, Enbridge shareholders are expected to own approximately 57 percent of the combined company and Spectra Energy shareholders are expected to own approximately 43 percent. The combined company will be called Enbridge Inc.
This combination brings together two highly complementary platforms to create North America’s largest energy infrastructure company and meaningfully enhances customer optionality. With an asset base that includes a diverse set of best-in-class assets comprised of crude oil, liquids and natural gas pipelines, terminal and midstream operations, a regulated utility portfolio and renewable power generation, the combined company will be positioned to provide integrated services and first and last mile connectivity to key supply basins and demand markets. On a combined basis for the 12 months ended June 30, 2016, the company would have generated combined revenues in excess of C$40 billion (US$31 billion) and combined Earnings before Interest and Taxes (EBIT) of C$5.8 billion (US$4.4 billion), and will have the scale, balance sheet strength, financial flexibility and free cash flow to comfortably fund future growth.
“Over the last two years, we’ve been focused on identifying opportunities that would extend and diversify our asset base and sources of growth beyond 2019,” said Al Monaco, President and Chief Executive Officer, Enbridge Inc. “We are accomplishing that goal by combining with the premier natural gas infrastructure company to create a true North American and global energy infrastructure leader. This Transaction is transformational for both companies and results in unmatched scale, diversity and financial flexibility with multiple platforms for organic growth.”
Greg Ebel, President and Chief Executive Officer of Spectra Energy, who will become chairman of Enbridge following the closing of the Transaction, said, “The combination of Enbridge and Spectra Energy creates what we believe will be the best, most diversified energy infrastructure company in North America, if not the world. This is an incredible opportunity for both companies and we at Spectra Energy could not be more excited about what it means going forward. Together, the merged company will have what we believe is the finest platform for serving customers in every region of North America and providing investors with the opportunity for superior shareholder returns.”
Mr. Monaco added, “Bringing Enbridge and Spectra Energy together makes strong strategic and financial sense, and the all-stock nature of the Transaction provides shareholders of both companies with the opportunity to participate in the significant upside potential of the combined company. With combined secured projects in execution of C$26 billion (US$20 billion) and another C$48 billion (US$37 billion) of projects under development, the Transaction allows us to extend our anticipated 10-12 percent annual dividend growth through 2024. We believe our combination of best-in-class assets, superior growth and strong commercial underpinning of our business will be unrivaled in our sector. Importantly, we will preserve and enhance our shareholder value proposition, which centers on delivering consistent growth with a low-risk business model.
“This is also a combination of two companies, management and staff that have a shared vision and talented teams that are dedicated to serving customers and providing the energy that people want and need, safely and reliably every day. We look forward to welcoming Spectra Energy employees to Enbridge as we move forward as one company. In building on our existing strengths by joining with Spectra Energy, Enbridge will be very well positioned for future growth and continued value creation.”
Mr. Ebel added, “The strength of the combined company will support a large capital program to fund the continued development of Spectra Energy’s existing, preeminent project inventory in addition to allowing the combined company to compete for and win the most attractive new growth projects – all while maintaining expected strong dividend growth with exceptional coverage. The transaction premium recognizes the strength of Spectra Energy’s world-class natural gas pipeline system and significant expansion program, while providing shareholders the opportunity to participate in the unparalleled value creation potential of the combined company. While our assets are largely complementary, our values are shared, and together we will create a best-in-class company for shareholders, employees, customers, and communities alike.”
Compelling Value Proposition
Six leading strategic growth platforms: The combined company brings together many of the highest quality energy infrastructure assets in North America: liquids and gas pipelines; US and Canadian midstream businesses; a top tier regulated utility portfolio; and a growing renewable power generation business. A map of the assets of the combined entity is available at www.enbridge.com and www.spectraenergy.com.
Secure, low-risk commercial structure with stable long-term cash flow visibility: 96 percent of pro-forma free cash flow is underpinned by long-term commercial agreements (cost-of-service, take-or-pay, of fixed fee); 93 percent of customers are strong, investment grade or equivalent counterparties; less than 5 percent of combined pro-forma cash flow will have direct exposure to commodity price risk.
Largest and most secure program of diversified organic growth projects in the industry: Together, Enbridge and Spectra Energy bring C$26 billion (US$20 billion) in secured capital and a C$48 billion (US$37 billion) inventory of probability weighted projects in development.
Strong balance sheet, growing cash flow and access to capital markets to fund large capital program: The combination is expected to result in sufficient internally generated cash flow to fund growth and improve balance sheet strength. Enbridge will have multiple, cost-effective funding sources and be even more competitive in capturing opportunities.
Attractive dividend yield with visible organic dividend growth: The combined company’s C$74 billion (US$57 billion) organic growth platform is expected to support a highly visible dividend growth rate of 10-12 percent through 2024, including an anticipated aggregate increase of 15 percent in 2017 post closing, while maintaining a conservative payout of 50-60 percent of available cash flow from operations (ACFFO). This provides an industry leading total return driven by a strong, low-risk dividend yield.
Achievable cost synergies: The combination is expected to achieve annual run-rate synergies of C$540 million (US$415 million), the majority of which should be achieved in the latter part of 2018. In addition, approximately C$260 million (US$200 million) of tax savings can be achieved through utilization of tax losses commencing in 2019.
Complementary businesses, shared culture and values support smooth integration: Enbridge and Spectra Energy have similar business and operational models, talented teams, common cultures and values, including shared commitment to safety, stewardship of the environment, meaningful stakeholder engagement and investing in communities.
Leadership, Governance and Structure
Upon closing of the Transaction, Al Monaco will continue to serve as President and Chief Executive Officer of the combined company. Greg Ebel will serve as non-executive Chairman of Enbridge’s Board of Directors.
Enbridge’s Board of Directors is expected to have a total of 13 directors consisting of 8 members designated by Enbridge, including Mr. Monaco, and 5 members designated by Spectra Energy, including Mr. Ebel.
The senior management team of the combined entity will be communicated in due course. On closing, the following appointments will take effect:
Guy Jarvis, President, Liquids Pipelines & Major Projects
Bill Yardley, President, Gas Transmission & Midstream
John Whelen, Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
The headquarters of the combined company will be in Calgary, Alberta. Houston, Texas will be the combined company’s gas pipelines business unit center; Edmonton, Alberta will remain the business unit center for liquids pipelines, with gas distribution continuing to be based in Ontario.
Enbridge and Spectra Energy will immediately establish an integration planning team composed of leaders from both management teams to prepare for and oversee the effective and timely integration of the businesses. The approach to integration planning will be collaborative, drawing on strong participation from both companies, and ensuring continuity for customers and other stakeholders.
On closing the Enbridge common shares to be issued in connection with the Transaction will be listed on the TSX and NYSE. Spectra Energy common stock will be delisted from the NYSE.
Enbridge expects the Transaction to be neutral to its 12 percent to 14 percent secured ACFFO per share CAGR guidance through the 2014-2019 time period, and strongly additive to its growth beyond that timeframe. Enbridge is committed to maintaining the financial strength of the combined company. The funding program is designed to ensure strengthening of the balance sheet with the objective of maintaining strong investment grade credit ratings. Enbridge expects it will divest of approximately $2 billion of non-core assets over the next 12 months to provide additional financial flexibility.
At closing, Enbridge Energy Partners, LP and Spectra Energy Partners, LP are expected to continue to be publicly traded partnerships headquartered in Houston, Texas. Enbridge Income Fund Holdings will remain a publicly traded corporation headquartered in Calgary, Alberta.
Timing and Approvals
The Transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2017 subject to the receipt of both companies’ shareholder approvals, along with certain regulatory and government approvals, including compliance with the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, and approval under Canada Competition Act, and the satisfaction of other customary closing conditions.
Credit Suisse Securities (Canada), Inc. acted as Lead Financial Advisor and delivered an opinion to Enbridge’s Board of Directors. RBC Capital Markets also acted as financial advisor to Enbridge and delivered an opinion to Enbridge’s Board of Directors. Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and McCarthy Tétrault LLP were legal advisors to Enbridge.
BMO Capital Markets and Citi acted as Joint Lead Financial Advisors to Spectra Energy’s Board of Directors. Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Goodmans LLP acted as legal advisors to Spectra Energy and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP acted as tax counsel.
Enbridge and Spectra Energy will hold a joint conference call on September 6, 2016 at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time (6:00 a.m. Mountain Time) to discuss the Transaction.
The conference call will begin with presentations by Enbridge’s President and Chief Executive Officer and Spectra Energy’s Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, followed by a question and answer period for investment analysts.
Analysts, members of the media and other interested parties can access the call toll-free at 1-866-610-1072 or within and outside North America at 1-973-935-2840 using the access code of 77468882. The call will be audio webcast live here (http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=1261390&s=1&k=27BFA58D1E6D82F42F35E52AF74D0395). A webcast replay and podcast will be available approximately two hours after the conclusion of the event and a transcript will be posted to the website within 24 hours. The replay will be available at toll-free 1-800-585-8367 or within and outside North America at 1-404-537-3406 (access code 77468882) for seven days after the call.
ABOUT ENBRIDGE INC.
Enbridge Inc., a Canadian company, exists to fuel people’s quality of life, and has done so for more than 65 years. A North American leader in delivering energy, Enbridge has been ranked on the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations index for the past seven years. Enbridge operates the world’s longest crude oil and liquids transportation system across Canada and the U.S., and has a significant and growing involvement in natural gas gathering, transmission and midstream business, as well as an increasing involvement in power transmission. Enbridge owns and operates Canada’s largest natural gas distribution company, serving residential, commercial, and industrial customers in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and New York State. Enbridge has interests in nearly 2,000 megawatts of net renewable and alternative generating capacity, and continues to expand into wind, solar and geothermal power. Enbridge employs nearly 11,000 people, primarily in Canada and the U.S., and is ranked as one of Canada’s Top Employers for 2016.
Enbridge’s common shares trade on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges under the symbol ENB. For more information, visit www.enbridge.com.
ABOUT SPECTRA ENERGY CORP
Spectra Energy Corp (NYSE: SE), a FORTUNE 500 company, is one of North America’s leading pipeline and midstream companies. Based in Houston, Texas, the company’s operations in the United States and Canada include approximately 21,000 miles of natural gas and crude oil pipelines; approximately 300 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage; 4.8 million barrels of crude oil storage; as well as natural gas gathering, processing, and local distribution operations. Spectra Energy is the general partner of Spectra Energy Partners (NYSE: SEP), one of the largest pipeline master limited partnerships in the United States and owner of the natural gas and crude oil assets in Spectra Energy’s U.S. portfolio. Spectra Energy also has a 50 percent ownership in DCP Midstream, the largest producer of natural gas liquids and the largest natural gas processor in the United States. Spectra Energy has served North American customers and communities for more than a century. For more information, visit www.spectraenergy.com.
This news release includes certain forward looking statements and information (FLI) to provide Enbridge and Spectra Energy shareholders and potential investors with information about Enbridge, Spectra Energy and their respective subsidiaries and affiliates, including each company’s management’s respective assessment of Enbridge, Spectra Energy and their respective subsidiaries’ future plans and operations, which FLI may not be appropriate for other purposes. FLI is typically identified by words such as “anticipate”, “expect”, “project”, “estimate”, “forecast”, “plan”, “intend”, “target”, “believe”, “likely” and similar words suggesting future outcomes or statements regarding an outlook. All statements other than statements of historical fact may be FLI. In particular, this news release contains FLI pertaining to, but not limited to, information with respect to the following: the Transaction; the combined company’s scale, financial flexibility and growth program; future business prospects and performance; annual cost, revenue and financing benefits; the expected ACFFO per share growth; future shareholder returns; annual dividend growth and anticipated dividend increases; payout of distributable cash flow; financial strength and ability to fund capital program and compete for growth projects; run-rate and tax synergies; potential asset dispositions; leadership and governance structure; and head office and business center locations.
Although we believe that the FLI is reasonable based on the information available today and processes used to prepare it, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and you are cautioned against placing undue reliance on FLI. By its nature, FLI involves a variety of assumptions, which are based upon factors that may be difficult to predict and that may involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties and other factors which may cause actual results, levels of activity and achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these FLI, including, but not limited to, the following: the timing and completion of the Transaction, including receipt of regulatory and shareholder approvals and the satisfaction of other conditions precedent; interloper risk; the realization of anticipated benefits and synergies of the Transaction and the timing thereof; the success of integration plans; the focus of management time and attention on the Transaction and other disruptions arising from the Transaction; expected future ACFFO; estimated future dividends; financial strength and flexibility; debt and equity market conditions, including the ability to access capital markets on favourable terms or at all; cost of debt and equity capital; potential changes in the Enbridge share price which may negatively impact the value of consideration offered to Spectra Energy shareholders; expected supply and demand for crude oil, natural gas, natural gas liquids and renewable energy; prices of crude oil, natural gas, natural gas liquids and renewable energy; economic and competitive conditions; expected exchange rates; inflation; interest rates; tax rates and changes; completion of growth projects; anticipated in-service dates; capital project funding; success of hedging activities; the ability of management of Enbridge, its subsidiaries and affiliates to execute key priorities, including those in connection with the Transaction; availability and price of labour and construction materials; operational performance and reliability; customer, shareholder, regulatory and other stakeholder approvals and support; regulatory and legislative decisions and actions; public opinion; and weather. We caution that the foregoing list of factors is not exhaustive. Additional information about these and other assumptions, risks and uncertainties can be found in applicable filings with Canadian and U.S. securities regulators, including any proxy statement, prospectus or registration statement to be filed in connection with the Transaction. Due to the interdependencies and correlation of these factors, as well as other factors, the impact of any one assumption, risk or uncertainty on FLI cannot be determined with certainty.
Except to the extent required by law, we assume no obligation to publicly update or revise any FLI, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. All FLI in this news release is expressly qualified in its entirety by these cautionary statements.
NON-GAAP MEASURES
This news release makes reference to non-GAAP measures, including ACFFO and ACFFO per share. ACFFO is defined as cash flow provided by operating activities before changes in operating assets and liabilities (including changes in environmental liabilities) less distributions to non-controlling interests and redeemable non-controlling interests, preference share dividends and maintenance capital expenditures, and further adjusted for unusual, non-recurring or non-operating factors. Management of Enbridge believes the presentation of these measures gives useful information to investors and shareholders as they provide increased transparency and insight into the performance of Enbridge. Management of Enbridge uses ACFFO to assess performance and to set its dividend payout target. These measures are not measures that have a standardized meaning prescribed by generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (U.S. GAAP) and may not be comparable with similar measures presented by other issuers. Additional information on Enbridge’s use of non-GAAP measures can be found in Enbridge’s Management’s Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) available on Enbridge’s website and www.sedar.com.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE TRANSACTION AND WHERE TO FIND IT
Enbridge will file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a registration statement on Form F-4, which will include a proxy statement of Spectra Energy that also constitutes a prospectus of Enbridge, and any other documents in connection with the Transaction. The definitive proxy statement/prospectus will be sent to the shareholders of Spectra Energy. INVESTORS AND SHAREHOLDERS OF SPECTRA ENERGY ARE URGED TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT/PROSPECTUS, AND ANY OTHER DOCUMENTS FILED OR TO BE FILED WITH THE SEC IN CONNECTION WITH THE TRANSACTION WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE, AS THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT ENBRIDGE, SPECTRA ENERGY, THE TRANSACTION AND RELATED MATTERS. The registration statement and proxy statement/prospectus and other documents filed by Enbridge and Spectra Energy with the SEC, when filed, will be available free of charge at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. In addition, investors and shareholders will be able to obtain free copies of the proxy statement/prospectus and other documents which will be filed with the SEC by Enbridge on Enbridge’s website at www.Enbridge.com or upon written request to Enbridge’s Investor Relations department, 200, 425 First St. SW, Calgary, AB T2P 3L8 or by calling 800.481.2804 within North America and 403.231.5957 from outside North America, and will be able to obtain free copies of the proxy statement/prospectus and other documents filed with the SEC by Spectra Energy upon written request to Spectra Energy, Investor Relations, 5400 Westheimer Ct. Houston, TX 77056 or by calling 713.627.4610. You may also read and copy any reports, statements and other information filed by Spectra Energy and Enbridge with the SEC at the SEC public reference room at 100 F Street N.E., Room 1580, Washington, D.C. 20549. Please call the SEC at 800.732.0330 or visit the SEC’s website for further information on its public reference room. This communication shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to appropriate registration or qualification under the securities laws of such jurisdiction. No offering of securities shall be made except by means of a prospectus meeting the requirements of Section 10 of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
PARTICIPANTS IN THE SOLICITATION OF PROXIES
This communication is not a solicitation of proxies in connection with the Transaction. However, Enbridge, Spectra Energy, certain of their respective directors and executive officers and certain other members of management and employees, under SEC rules, may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies in connection with the Transaction. Information about Enbridge’s directors and executive officers may be found in its Management Information Circular dated March 8, 2016 available on its website at www.Enbridge.com and at www.sedar.com. Information about Spectra Energy’s directors, executive officers and other members of management and employees may be found in its 2015 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 25, 2016, and definitive proxy statement relating to its 2016 Annual Meeting of Shareholders filed with the SEC on March 16, 2016. These documents can be obtained free of charge from the sources indicated above. Additional information regarding the interests of such potential participants in the solicitation of proxies in connection with the Transaction will be included in the proxy statement/prospectus and other relevant materials filed with the SEC when they become available.
1 Translated at spot FX rate on September 2 at close of trading.
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Regional distribution of children out of school
UNICEF estimates that 93 million children of primary school age were out of school in 2006. The graph below presents the regional distribution of these children according to the country classification used by UNICEF. The majority of children out of school, 41 million, lived in Sub-Saharan Africa, the region with the world's lowest primary school enrollment rates. In South Asia, 32 million children were out of school, most of them in India, the country with the world's largest population of children not in school.
In other regions, fewer children of primary school age were not in school. The Middle East and North Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, the industrialized countries, and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) combined account for 20 million children out of school, only one fifth of the global number.
Estimates for individual countries are available on the Childinfo website of UNICEF. The site also describes the data sources and methodology for UNICEF's calculation of the number of children out of school.
Regional distribution of children of primary school age out of school (in millions), 2006
Source: UNICEF, 2007, Progress for Children.
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). 2007. Progress for children: A World Fit for Children statistical review. New York: UNICEF. (Download PDF, 3.6 MB)
Universal primary education by 2015: A goal out of reach?
Global population of primary school age, 2000-2015
Population structure and children out of school
India has 21 million children out of school
115 million children out of school in 2002
Global trends in primary and secondary education, 2000-2004
Trends in primary school enrollment, 1970-2004
Primary school enrollment in 2004
Millennium Development Goal regions and UNICEF regions
UNICEF statistical review: Progress for Children
Childinfo website of UNICEF
National estimates of children out of school, UNICEF
Friedrich Huebler, 12 March 2008 (edited 8 February 2009), Creative Commons License
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The second UN Millennium Development Goal (MDG) is the achievement of universal primary education by the year 2015. Since 2000, many countries have come closer to this goal, but at the current rate of progress it is likely that the goal will be missed when the year 2015 arrives.
To ensure that all children attend and complete primary school, countries have to provide enough schools, teachers, and training materials. Future demographic trends are one factor that has to be taken into consideration to plan for the education system. The UN Population Division provides population projections that can be combined with data on national primary school ages from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics to calculate national and regional trends in the population of primary school age.
The graph and table below depict the population trends by MDG region. At the global level, the number of children of primary school age is projected to increase from 655 million in 2000 to 668 million in 2015. In some regions, the population of primary school age is expected to shrink, while other regions experience a population increase.
Population of primary school age, 2000-2015
Data sources: (1) Population: UN Population Division, World Population Prospects 2006. (2) Primary school ages: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Data Centre.
Two regions with very different trends stand out. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the number of children of primary school age is estimated to grow by 37 percent or 41 million children over the period 2000 to 2015. Countries in this region not only have to provide schools and teachers for all children that have been born so far, they have to increase the capacity of the education system further to accommodate the rapidly growing population. Even wealthy countries with a well-developed education infrastructure would struggle if they had to expand the capacity of their education system by more than one third over a period of 15 years.
In contrast, the population of primary school age in Eastern Asia is expected to drop by 25 percent or 29 million between 2000 and 2015, easing the pressure on the education system. Other regions with a projected decrease in the population of primary school age are the Commonwealth of Independent States and the developed countries. In Latin America and the Caribbean and in South-Eastern Asia, the population is expected to be virtually unchanged.
In Western Asia, Southern Asia, Oceania, and Northern Africa, the projections also show an increase in the population of primary school age, but at a lower relative and absolute level than Sub-Saharan Africa. Countries in the former regions therefore face fewer demographic obstacles on the path to universal primary education than countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Region Population of primary school age (million) Change 2000-2015
2000 2015 Million Percent
Oceania 1.1 1.3 0.2 22.8
Commonwealth of Independent States 15.1 12.3 -2.9 -19.0
Northern Africa 19.7 20.0 0.3 1.8
Western Asia 23.9 27.2 3.2 13.5
Latin America and the Caribbean 58.1 57.7 -0.4 -0.7
South-Eastern Asia 63.4 62.9 -0.5 -0.8
Developed countries 67.8 65.0 -2.8 -4.2
Sub-Saharan Africa 111.4 152.5 41.1 36.9
Eastern Asia 117.3 88.2 -29.1 -24.8
Southern Asia 177.0 181.2 4.2 2.4
World 654.9 668.3 13.4 2.0
Population: United Nations Population Division. 2007. World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision.
Primary school ages: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. 2008. Data Centre.
UN Population Division
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
National wealth and school enrollment
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(First impressions) A Silent Voice [Koe no Katachi]
A Silent Voice is my film of the year.
This is not a claim I make lightly. I saw your name. just two days prior to this masterpiece, and I’ll be seeing Godzilla Resurgence this coming week. I’m sure that I’ll also be catching some of next year’s Oscar favourites come Christmas. But even as my mind returns, time and time again, to the story that Yamada Naoko and her team at Kyoto Animation have brought to the screen, my conviction only grows. I simply cannot conceive of anything else giving me anything close to that experience at the theatre.
Filed under Anime, Film, Japanese
(First impressions) your name. [Kimi no Na wa.]
Unlike Kizumonogatari, Shinkai Makoto’s your name. was one of the two films I’d planned to see on my trip late last month. Seeing the trailer all three times I’d been to the cinema in July was one significant factor…but I was also a bit ambivalent about the idea, for Shinkai has been a bit of a mixed bag for me. I enjoyed thinking about his favourite themes regarding human connection in his earlier works—Voices of a Different Star and The Placed Promised in Our Early Days. However, whilst everyone else seems to rave about it, 5 Centimetres Per Second left me a bit cold. Because of that, I’ve yet to see Children Who Chase Lost Voices or The Garden of Words, even now.
In the end however, I gave in to the hype and went off to the theatre. It was still packed even though the film had been doing the rounds for three weeks by then…and I have to admit that I found myself a little bemused seeing a few moist eyes as everyone walked out two hours later. However, whilst my underlying ambivalence about the director has kept me from raving about the film—unlike everyone else who’s seen it, so it appears—with your name., Shinkai has achieved something that none of his other films did: characters that I would actually like to meet again. Read more of this post
The Age of Ultron: The Avengers, grounded…?
They’re back…but is it for the best?
That I love the first Avengers movie the most out of all the Marvel Comic Universe films so far is hardly a secret. My brother has thus far been unable to convince me to watch either Ironman 2 or 3, and I’ve only ever looked up one scene in the Thor films, one that you might be able to guess after reading through this post. There are a few other films I haven’t seen and remain unlikely to see…well, unless someone tells me that they’ll be important for the third and climatic phase of the MCU, where the seeds of all those mid- and end-credits scenes finally sprout. And the reason for this remains as it was last year: I prefer watching them play off each other, rather than having just one personality at the centre of a 2-hour movie.
This does not work quite as well in Avengers: The Age of Ultron. Read more of this post
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American Sniper: for those who have returned
Even the deadliest sniper in the US…was human…
Whilst I have not gone looking for reviews—other than a quick skim of what’s on Rotten Tomatoes—it’s probably fair to say that American Sniper is a rather controversial film at the moment. As I write, US troops continue to fight in Iraq against the Islamic State; and whilst the war in Afghanistan has formally ended, you can be sure that US forces of some kind are still in the country. Furthermore, proven and suspected evidence of torture and unlawful killings add more blemishes to a presence that was already controversial due to the way the war began as well as the way in which it was fought. This is not an atmosphere for the celebration of a man who painted ‘the enemy’ in such a black and white manner, and who seemed unable to leave the bravado attached to his legend behind when he returned.
Honestly speaking, I feel that those commentators are missing the point, deliberately or otherwise. This is not the place for me to make a political statement about my own thoughts on the conflicts that seems so endemic to our world today: it will come out when I look at fictional stories of war, if it hasn’t already. A two-and-a-half hour movie is limited in what it can focus on, and here, Director Clint Eastwood has chosen to highlight something all too many people prefer to brush under the rug: the veterans who have come home, and who have to adapt to civilian life again. Whether or not we agree with their choice of enlisting—for reasons as varied as ‘wanting to protect my fellow soldiers and the people back home’ to actually enjoying the adrenaline rush—it’s important that the people around them try to understand what they are going through. And I don’t mean the expectations that the media cultivates. Talk to them, listen to them, find out how they really feel about their experience. More than anything, I feel that American Sniper really brings out this disjunct between the main signal I picked up from Chris Kyle as portrayed in the film—a soldier’s feeling that ‘there is more that I can do, there are more people I can bring home’—and the tendency of many to focus other things we might assume about veterans. But first of all, you really need to find out how to talk with them.
American Sniper doesn’t explicitly provide the answers to the question of how to reintegrate veterans, nor can it, for even if some things are the same, the experience of each person is going to be different. But no matter how you feel about war and the part of the US and the West in the conflicts that currently dominate our headlines, I argue that, at the very least, American Sniper should be applauded for highlighting the challenges that face veterans when they return home. Perhaps this is easier for me to say, since I live in a country with far fewer people that have served…but nevertheless, now, the challenge that faces the rest of us is how to respond.
Filed under Film, Western Tagged with war
A third look at Usagi Drop
Rush hour!
The Usagi Drop film, with Matsuyama Ken’ichi and Ashida Mana as the mismatched pair building a life together, was released in 2011 amidst the spotlight associated with the ending of the manga series. Even though it’s taken me a couple of years to finally sit down an watch this film, I’m taking it as a blessing in disguise, for it allows me to once again reflect on the themes that Unita Yumi seems to have been concerned with. Most viewers — myself included — celebrated the anime for its heartwarming story about how Kawachi Daikichi, a young man on the rise in his company, learned how to be a father even through the sacrifices he had to make, and the film can certainly be read in exactly the same way.
However, in the time that I’ve since had to think about the controversial ending of the manga, I’ve started seeing far more complex ideas and messages in this story. And these are also reflected in the film: even though the movie gives Daikichi male peers who dote on their young children, as errinundra observed, he isn’t learning how to be a father, but rather how to be a single, working mother. In fact, Daikichi isn’t just learning how to be a single mother, he’s learning about the constrained choices that confront women in Japanese society. Read more of this post
Filed under Film, Japanese, Manga Tagged with adaptation, family, politics, relationships, society
Looking back on 2014, appendix: the list
Although it feels like I’ve seen a lot more this year than in previous years, when I actually went and tallied it up, the total was about on par with what I covered in 2013. I’d like to proudly claim that I’ve added nothing to my backlog either, but that’s not strictly true, since I’m hoping to catch up on Ronia, the Robber’s Daughter [Sanzoku no Musume Ronja] and Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works as their second halves get underway… There are also a few others that I’m still considering, such as Knights of Sidonia, so they might just show up on the backlog next year, unless I’m able to get to them…
Nevertheless, I’d definitely seen enough to have some difficulty in selecting my list this year: 9 were lock-ins, and three spaces were up for grabs. In fact, I was still mulling over them as I finished three series that I hadn’t been so sure about, over my first real Christmas ‘break’ in four years (i.e. I wasn’t working in retail this year!). In the end, in terms of anime, I still settled for series that I’d watched at a more leisurely pace over the year, even without interacting that much with other viewers on them; obviously, something about the way that I pick what to watch is still working for me. There are shows that I somewhat regret not keeping/catching up with, but even though I can’t see myself remembering 2014 as a great year for this hobby of mine, ultimately, I’ll be quite happy to look back and see these 12 memories.
Finally, I’d like to thank everyone who’s dropped by, hung around a bit, perhaps even taken the time to comment this year. Whilst I would probably be writing about my hobbies anyway, it’s the people I interact with who will always challenge me to read more widely, with the goal of always improving the quality of my writing and analysis. So thank you for your support and encouragement, and for challenging me to keep re-examining my arguments. And I look forward to seeing you again sometime this year, if what I write about still happens to interest you too.
And without further ado, here’s the list. Read more of this post
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12 Years a Slave: a reflection on how far we have (not) come…
12 Years a Slave tells the true story of Solomon Northup, a free man from New York who was kidnapped into slavery in 1841, during the tumultous years when America struggled to overturn an institution upon which the country can be said to have been built. It is, frankly speaking, an incredible film. It was nominated for a host of awards, and took home what many still regard as the most prestigious prize: the Academy Award for Best Picture. And whilst I did not see enough movies last year to be a fair judge, it probably deserves it. Solomon Northup’s story is perhaps the least embellished ‘true story’ that I have ever seen on film. There was unfortunately one major inaccuracy – unfortunate because it provided one of the most emotional moments on the film, but I doubt that the creative team behind the film intended it. Most of the story is as Northup related in his book, written with the aid of a ghost writer. The horrors that African Americans faced during those years of transition – the heavy whippings that I can’t imagine people today surviving, the sexual, physical and psychological abuse, the denial of these people’s humanity – come through on the screen through the raw emotion of its stars, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Lupita Nyong’o. It is worth watching the film for them alone.
Having seen both critics and audiences celebrate this film, however, I find myself puzzled at the degree of racial discrimination that still exists in America today. 2014 has seen race riots in Ferguson as questions over the death of an African American teenager at the hands of a white police officer remain. I remember when the new first broke back in August: one of the facts that stood out most to me was that whilst Ferguson’s population was about two-thirds black, there were only three or four black police officers to about fifty white ones. Such discrepancies – another is the difference in perceptions over how African Americans are treated in comparison to white people – are indicators of serious, underlying issues that the American people really need to consider.
That’s not to say that other countries are much better: in Australia, for example, most of us do not really understand just how much our policies aimed at ‘integrating Aborigines into our one Australian community’ is based on Western views of what society should be like. We may think that our societies have progressed quite far along the road to true equality between different races, as we think that our societies make opportunities available for those that work hard enough to deserve it. However, studies have found, for example, that it is still considerably easier for people with Anglo-sounding names to find jobs. Anecdotes I’ve heard also suggest that most jobs also go to people who are well connected, for reasons ranging from being able to obtain inside knowledge of what an employer is looking for, to having a referee to whom the people doing the hiring owe a favour. This is just food for thought, but perhaps the greatest obstacle to reaching the ideal of real equality is the belief that we are already there?
p.s. I had also been curious about what eventually happened to Northup – did he successfully return to his previous life? Did he become involved in the abolutionist movement? Apparently, he did, and was even involved in the Underground Railroad. However, as far as historians have been able to tell, his final years have not been documented in the historical record…
Mandela: the things I never knew about the giant
The trailer also has the line “The man you didn’t”…that was certainly true for me.
Nelson Mandela is one of those names that everyone connected to the globalised world has heard. He may even have a face that everyone recognises. However, whilst we know the legend, and have heard of the amazing legacy that he is credited with laying down for South Africa, most of us probably don’t know many of the wilder and, occasionally, less palatable, aspects of his life and legacy. Read more of this post
The Hunt [Jagten]
Although surrounded by old and close friends in his community, a teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie. (Based on the blurb at imdb.)
In an age where people in developed countries are becoming ever more sensitive to abuse, especially of children, it’s easy to forget that false accusations can still be made, and that it is important to seek the truth. Admittedly, it seems like it is still difficult to establish guilt; but that only makes it all the more important that we do not rush to assign that guilt to people who may well be innocent. Read more of this post
A few brief words on my first forays into the Marvel Cinematic Universe…
Have a guess: which did I like more?
I’m embarrassed to admit how long it took for me to see these films. In fact, the only reason I ended up seeing them is because some friends and I made plans to see The Winter Soldier when it came out earlier this year. So I found myself with a mini-Marvel Cinematic Universe marathon on my hands. Having never been the biggest fan of Ironman – sacrilegious, I know – the only other two I managed to get through before our movie date were the first Captain America film, and The Avengers. And boy, did I ever regret the two years I’d missed!
I’m sure that millions of words have already been written about these films, so let me just stick with what really stood out for me, having seen these three in a short space of time: for me, the ensemble effort wins hands down. Whilst the Captain America films were well made, and arguably do better at creating a believable internal conflict for the title character than Man of Steel did for Superman (at least in my book), I still didn’t really find myself invested in Steve Rogers. He’s just not as compelling for me as other characters that have carried entire films, such as Batman (NB: the Nolan–Bale incarnation), or even Wolverine. It’s not just the Captain, though – Ironman, too, is a character I don’t really like watching in his own film. Even though Robert Downey Jr is perfect as him, I find Tony Stark way too misogynistic and annoying to watch. (Well, it probably doesn’t help that I’m not a fan of Gwyneth Paltrow…) However, throw them all into a pot and magic just unfolds. I loved the snarky interactions between Capt and Stark in The Avengers. Having a few other people around to break Hank McCoy’s melancholy also made him more palatable to me, and having the Black Widow and Hawkeye in the mix was icing on the cake.
But what really made The Avengers was that Joss Whedon was behind that recipe. Although I could certainly anticipate some of the jokes, such as The Beast punching Thor out of the room, or treating Loki like the god he’s…well…not, they still had me rolling on the floor. And I still grin uncontrollably at the post-credits scene, which I do know was filmed after the film actually opened in the States! In sum, whilst I did enjoy The Winter Soldier, and might be convinced to watch the second and third Ironman movies if my brother happens to have them on DVD, what I’m really looking forward to is next year’s Avengers instalment, The Age of Ultron. Due down under on April 24: bring it on, I say!
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How Does LinkedIn Make Money?
Navigation: How Does LinkedIn Make Money?, How Does LinkedIn Monetize the Traffic and Users?
LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, with over 706 million users across 200 countries. But the social networking site is mostly a free service. So a lot of people wonder: how does LinkedIn make any money?
LinkedIn provides plenty of opportunities for career growth by helping professionals expand their network, meet new clients, boost their sales, and establish their brand. Its focus on building business and professional relationships is what sets it apart from other social networking sites. This also means that LinkedIn is full of high quality leads.
But of course, in order to keep this whole operation running, it needs to make money. In December 2016, LinkedIn was acquired by Microsoft for $27 billion. Even so, LinkedIn’s goal of connecting the world’s professionals to make them more successful hasn’t changed. And the same can be said for its monetization strategies: they’ve been using the same methods since the beginning.
Here we will talk about how LinkedIn monetizes its traffic and its users.
LinkedIn has three ways of making money: its marketing solutions, talent solutions, and premium subscriptions. This is according to LinkedIn’s quarterly SEC filings. The social networking site earns through these three revenue streams.
To put it simply, LinkedIn earns by selling recruitment services, advertising, and additional features. Of course, these revenue streams may not be obvious to most users because a lot of LinkedIn’s features are available for free.
In addition to these three main revenue streams, LinkedIn Learning Solutions is also worth mentioning. It is the site’s learning division. Although it is not a primary revenue driver, it is still significant because many LinkedIn members are using it to learn various skills and become more knowledgeable on different topics.
How Does LinkedIn Monetize the Traffic and Users?
LinkedIn’s Talent Solutions refers to the LinkedIn Recruiter product—which is geared towards recruiters. It is used by corporate recruiting teams that want to use LinkedIn to find highly qualified candidates for vacant job positions.
Primarily sold to employers and recruiters, Recruiter has always been one of LinkedIn’s biggest sources of income. In 2016, it accounted for 65 percent of LinkedIn’s revenue.
LinkedIn’s Talent Solutions comes in two parts: Hiring, and Learning and Development or L&D. Hiring helps recruiters find and hire talent. On the other hand, Learning and Development is focused on online courses and other learning content. L&D courses target both enterprise clients and individuals.
The LinkedIn Recruiter tool gives better access to detailed information about LinkedIn users—data that are not available to users with basic accounts. This tool helps recruiters find suitable professionals that fit their preferences.
LinkedIn Marketing Solutions are ads. It allows companies to advertise to LinkedIn users. LinkedIn earns money by selling ads and sponsored updates to online marketers. It helps marketers reach their target audience on LinkedIn more easily.
Finally, LinkedIn Premium Subscriptions are subscription plans that improve accessibility and provide extra features. It is a product that lets members see who is visiting their profile. It also allows premium members to send messages directly to users that are not part of their LinkedIn network. This feature, also known as InMail, is one of the main reasons people pay for Premium LinkedIn. The ability to contact people outside of your network is very important for marketers, business owners, etc.
LinkedIn Premium Subscriptions offer plenty of other features, such as access to analytics. It gives you access to LinkedIn’s massive database of passive and active job seekers.
LinkedIn’s premium plans come in four tiers: Premium Career, Premium Business, Sales Navigator, and Premium Recruiter Lite. These plans range from $29.99 per month to $119.95 per month. You can get significant discounts by paying annually.
Interestingly, LinkedIn makes most of its revenue from a small portion of users: with only 21 percent of total users having premium subscriptions as of March 2016.
If you want to take your career and LinkedIn marketing efforts to the next level, consider investing in LinkedIn Premium. This social networking site is already the biggest platform for professionals online and it is still growing. It is safe to say that the platform will only be more valuable in the future, so start taking advantage of its capabilities right now.
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Thomas Rhett’s ‘Remember You Young’ Video Remembers the Good Times
Thomas Rhett packs nostalgia into his tear-inducing "Remember You Young" video.
Rhett's new music video opens inside a diner, where four lifelong friends, now senior citizens, all gather around a table together eating, playing cards and enjoying one another's company. A voiceover advises, "While you're young, cherish your life as it comes to you. It's the only way it comes, after all."
As one of the men gets up to leave, he has a flashback of his younger self standing in the same spot as a busboy, looking at the waitress who would eventually become his wife. The video then follows him as he revisits a series of cherished memories, driving to an old carhop and nostalgically looking out the window as he remembers the sweet moments he and his wife shared, before making his way to a hotel where he sees the younger version of his wife and daughter walk through the hallway.
The penultimate moment comes as he makes his way to an open field, the older version of his wife standing in a white dress looking off into the sunset. He takes her hand, the camera circling around them as they transform into the youthful versions of themselves.
"And no matter how much time goes by / I hope we never have to grow up / For worse or for better, from now 'til forever / I'll always remember you young," Rhett sings as the elderly man stands alone, holding an urn in his hands, looking off into the abyss.
“We wrote this song about the people in life that we love, and always remembering them in their youth, no matter how much time passes and we all change,” Rhett describes in a press release. “There’s something sentimental about remembering your very best friends, who have real jobs and families now, tearing it up in college, or picturing me and my wife with no cares at the Tin Roof back in Knoxville."
"I love that the last verse is a bit of twist with it all coming full circle," Rhett adds. "It actually makes me emotional … It’s easily one of my favorite tracks on the album.”
"Remember You Young" is the second single from Rhett's latest album, Center Point Road.
These Pictures Prove Thomas Rhett and Lauren Are Meant to Be:
Source: Thomas Rhett’s ‘Remember You Young’ Video Remembers the Good Times
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The Knoxville Museum of Art’s collection includes more than 1500 objects-works on paper, paintings, mixed media works, and sculpture—with particular focus on the art history of East Tennessee from the mid-19th century to the present, and on recent developments in international contemporary art. The collection was begun in the 1960s by the KMA’s predecessor, the Dulin Gallery of Art (1962-1987), and continues to grow through gifts and purchases. The many generous donors of artworks and purchase funds are listed along with basic cataloguing information in the museum’s searchable collection database (link below). The KMA is grateful to the Aslan Foundation for its sustained support for collection development and other curatorial initiatives.
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The KMA’s holdings are displayed on a rotating basis in several permanent installations:
Higher Ground: A Century of the Visual Arts in East Tennessee, traces the history of art in the region from roughly 1860 to 1980, and includes stellar examples by such artists as Ansel Adams, Lloyd Branson, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Charles Farr, Bessie Harvey, Rudolph Ingerle, Charles Krutch, Philip Nichols, Eliot Porter, Charles Rain, Joanna Higgs Ross, Carl Sublett, Walter Stevens, and Catherine Wiley.
Currents: Recent Art from East Tennessee and Beyond examines recent developments in international contemporary art. It features a selection from the KMA’s growing collection of new works by emerging and established artists such as David Bates, Zsolt Bodoni, Jim Campbell, Daniel Canogar, Tomory Dodge, Wade Guyton, Ridley Howard, Loretta Lux, Ivan Navarro, Ulf Puder, Andrew Saftel, Hiraki Sawa, Leonardo Silaghi, Devorah Sperber, Jered Sprecher, Robert Stackhouse, Crystal Wagner, Charlotta Westergren, Anne Wilson, and William T. Wiley. Currents serves as a chronological extension and geographic expansion of Higher Ground. It also enables the museum’s audience to track the changing character of the region’s art community in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Cycle of Life Within the Power of Dreams and the Wonder of Infinity by Knoxville-based artist Richard Jolley was designed specifically for the KMA’s Ann and Steve Bailey Hall. At approximately 105 feet in length, 12 feet in height, 30 feet in depth, and weighing nearly 7 tons, Cycle of Life is comprised of thousands of cast and blown glass elements and tons of welded steel, and represents one the largest figural glass-and-steel assemblages in the world.
Facets of Modern and Contemporary Glass features the KMA’s growing collection of works by internationally recognized contemporary artists who are introducing new technical and conceptual approaches to the medium. It represents a broad spectrum of recent experimentation by modern and contemporary glass artists from around the world, and includes works by Curtiss Brock, Talibor Dichy, Luke Jerram, Dominick Labino, Harvey Littleton, William Morris, Iván Navarro, Clifford Rainey, Tommie, Rush, Frantisek Vizner, and Toots Zynsky.
Outdoor Sculpture: A selection of sculptures by Kenneth Snelson, Bill Barrett, Julie Warren Conn, Karen LaMonte, George Rickey, and others populates the museum’s South Garden, Rob and June Heller Garden, and Land Family Sculpture Garden.
Thorne Miniature Rooms, a group of nine period rooms created by renowned miniaturist Mrs. James Ward Thorne in the 1930s, are installed in a special gallery on the museum’s lower level.
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College Lacrosse Survived Spanish Flu, WWI and Will Survive COVID-19
Published on 10 Aug 2020 by Tanner Demling
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Around the nation, college football teams and conferences are scrambling to adjust their schedules, protocols, and even outright cancelling the 2020 season due to the Coronavirus Outbreak, which ended the 2020 college lacrosse season prematurely.
And as fall sports scramble, many are already starting to look ahead to February and trying to see if college lacrosse will happen during the spring of 2021. And while it is way too early to make outlandish predictions and statements pertaining to the cancelation of the upcoming season, it is worth noting that fall ball will not happen for multiple schools and there more may be in that same boat soon.
But as far as the 2021 season goes, it is very much up in air at this point. Things could change drastically either way from now until February 1st. And from where we sit right now, college lacrosse is very likely to happen and it won’t be the first time that the college lacrosse season has been played amid a massive virus.
From 1917-1919 the nation was ravaged by the Spanish Flu epidemic and World War I. But college lacrosse was still played, despite some programs shutting down for a brief period. Harvard, and Hobart didn’t field teams in either 1917 or 1918, while Johns Hopkins only played two games (Alumni & Carlisle Institute) and Yale didn’t play at all in 1917 only. Cornell suspended their program the longest, suspending play in 1917 and not returning until 1920.
While those schools and some others suspended their programs during the War and Influenza years, many continued to play full schedules, which were four to six games on average in those days.
During the 1917 season, Lehigh was named Co-National Champions along with Stevens Tech. Lehigh went 4-0, defeating Penn State, Carlisle Institute, Swarthmore, and Penn to win the USILL Southern Division. Stevens Tech was the only active Northern Division team, thus winning the division by default. 1918 and 1919 saw a very similar situation, as Johns Hopkins won the national title in both years. During 1918, Yale and Stevens Tech were the only two Northern Division teams to play. Things returned to more normalcy in 1919, as only a few Northern Division teams held out and by 1920 things were pretty much back to normal.
All this to say, college lacrosse has survived something very similar to what the world is facing today. Was it a different time? Yes. Did we likely know less about viruses back then and is the COVID-19 different than the Spanish Flu? Absolutely. And while the concerns over spreading the virus warranted, lacrosse can certainly survive it.
If the Coronavirus is still ravaging at a similar or slightly lesser pace than it is now in the spring, conferences will likely put the same protocols in place that they have for fall sports. That could mean conference only schedules, trimmed down rosters or traveling parties, limited to no fan access, and regularly testing.
The CAA has already put out some sort of guidelines on spring sport championships.
In that kind of environment, players will be much, much more safer than they would if they weren’t playing and either attending school on campus or online. Players want to play and many of them will do anything to be on that field. And that includes abstaining from large social gatherings off campus with people who aren’t under the same restrictions as them.
So in a sense, if things are the same as they are now come February, it might be in the best interest of many players and coaches to play rather than to not play. And if any conferences decide to not play spring sports in 2021, it will likely be the conferences in the north that jump to such ludicrous decisions. However, some players may independently decide to opt out. That’s just a fact and you’ve gotta respect their decision if things come to that.
2021 could very well see a repeat of what college lacrosse had from 1917-1919 where the majority of schools in the souther half of the sports footprint play, but many in the north decide to hold back. That would likely mean the Ivy league and Patriot League wouldn’t play but conferences like the ACC and SoCon might.
Things could get very messy later this fall and winter as far as college lacrosse is concerned, but hopefully we don’t even get to that point and college lacrosse is able to go forward with 2021 season as planned.
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12 Aug 2020 at 2:14 pm
Why did you ignore the fact that facilities and staff will be tough to get with fall and potentially winter sports playing?
Tanner Demling says:
Winter sports is usual to still be playing in Feb and March. Fall sports aren’t happening in the spring. You can’t have two seasons in an eight month period. Only way that could happen is a shortened three-month Jan-March season for fall, which I can’t see happening.
15 Aug 2020 at 12:38 pm
Pretty sure you still can. A truncated fall season in spring followed by a less-truncated fall season next fall that starts in October for ample recovery and training.
But if they want things to be back to normal, schedule wise, which most do, it won’t work.
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A Chat With GTA Online's Notorious Motorcycle Club
Patricia Hernandez
Earlier this week, we wrote about the Reaper Lords—a fascinating crew with hundreds of members that roam the streets of GTA Online. We told you all about their love of motorcycles, their intense rules, their dress code, and their curious social media presence. Today, you get to hear from an actual Reaper Lord.
Inside The World of GTA Online's Intense Biker Gangs
Of course people playing GTA Online have formed digital gangs—the "crews" feature, which allows…
I got a chance to chat with the Reaper Lord's "Brandless," a Paleto Bay member who also happens to be the vice president of the organization. All the tweets and videos we showed you the other day, like these ones?
That's his work. He manages the brand, which makes his handle a little ironic.
During our talk, Brandless, a 22-year old who loves GTA games, told me a little about the Reaper Lord's history.
"This brotherhood was formed in December of 2013, and it was created for the simple purposes of giving other players an environment to play and ride with like-minded people," Brandless explained.
"More specifically, [the Reaper Lords were] founded by LordKingGod, he wanted to recreate the brotherhood from his military past. That is where the general idea came from. I was lucky enough to find this featured on [Rockstar's Social Club] in January, and decided to prospect."
According to Brandless, a typical day for a Reaper Lord varies, depending on your role.
"Each day is different. In general, we meet up, either educate and evaluate prospects, or we can go into other crew-hunting sessions. This is also a practical way to test our prospects on combat skills, a lot of the time we ride around the city, country in formation, and chat," Brandless explained.
"Sometimes it can be a shut up and listen type of day, or it can be totally different. Some days we dedicate to recruiting, others we dedicate to riding, and combat training."
At the center of it all, though, is brotherhood—this word repeatedly came up during our interview. It's clear that the Reaper Lords go through the training and intense rules for a sense of camaraderie—a stark contrast to GTA's general hectic, sprawling vibe.
"We look our brothers, and sisters each and every day. We have three female patch members, two on Xbox, and one on Playstation," Brandless said.
"Being a Reaper Lord is about loyalty, brotherhood, and respect. Without these 3 characteristics, we wouldn't differ from any other GTA Online [motorcycle club]. What makes us us, is that we're organised, structured, and mature. People are willing to listen to what we have to say, and do whatever we ask. We expect that of our prospects, their undivided commitment and loyalty. We understand it's a video game, but we create an escape from normality where you get to play, ride, and kill with like-minded people.
Of course, being a Reaper Lord isn't just about riding choppers into the sunset. Brandless also described a strict training regimen, meant to discipline members and give members a competitive edge against other players and crews.
"We have a system where prospects have to earn their patch, nothing is simply handed to them. Without going into too much detail, prospects are brought up at patch meetings, and we vote on them to be inducted as a fully patched brother, but this vote must be a majority overall vote.
"We're [also] very big on combat, so regular training does take place," Brandless said. "This entails communication, and better knowing our maps and surroundings. We have our own system for training, I don't want to touch too much on that for reasons of a competitive nature—I will say that we have our own techniques and tactics that we tend to pass down."
While all of this might seem like taking the game way too seriously, the Reaper Lords are still in it to have a good time—not just terrorize other players, or lay claim to parts of the map.
"The goal is, and always has been to have fun," Brandless said. "Turf is digital, and unfortunately cannot be claimed. As much as we enjoy tearing apart other Clubs, and crews—that isn't our main motive. Every Lord is different, some are in it purely to ride and relax, others want to battle it out, that's the beauty of it.
"Beneath the structure, organisation, and respect, we all have our own motives and preferences. Which makes us one of the most, hell I dare to say formidable clubs out there right now.
"There's something to be said about turning up my headphones full blast, while we're riding in formation, seeing everybody in complete synchronization is simply beautiful, it's not uncommon for us to ride with a full lobby of 16 people either."
But even if it is just for fun, it's hard not to be struck by the Reaper Lords when you come across them in a game. I say this mainly based on the images they've shared on Twitter, but people inside the game have a similar reaction to the Reaper Lords, too.
"Some are in awe and want to join up immediately, others run off as we ride in packs, and some just attempt to challenge us. A lot of the time it's amusing to go into game chat, not say anything and then roll up on someone and see how they react after seeing 6+ people roll up on Harleys," Brandless said.
A few surprising things come up during our chat. For one, after initially looking through their videos, I had the misconception that it was a gang compromised of mostly kids. A lot of commenters assumed the same thing. But according to Brandless, that's not actually the case.
"The majority of our club is 18 and over," Brandless claimed. "I'm 22 myself and a lot of the guys are mature, have families, full time jobs, and otherwise 'real life' responsibilities...it is the way it is because of the patience, determination, and maturity we carry."
That's not to say there aren't some kids in the club, of course, but Brandless assured me the majority wasn't. And yes, some members do like motorcycles outside of the crew.
"Surprisingly we have a couple of guys who in real life, ride Harleys, and have the biker image, which is really cool," Brandless said.
What they want to make clear, though, is that they don't see themselves as bikers or anything like that—for them, it's just fiction, role playing. After talking to Brandless, the stuff they put up on social media seems more like earnest marketing more than anything else.
"We don't view ourselves as a gang, we're a club," Brandless said. "We're a Motorcycle club. Before all of the violence, and digital 'crimes' we're an organised, structured society of motorcycle enthusiasts...when I think of the word gang, I think of a bunch of unorganized, immature folk. When I say we're not a gang, we're a (fictional) motorcycle club, I mean that the key characteristics that define an motorcycle club are what set us apart from the generic "gang" culture."
Maybe that seems like a weird distinction, but it's a real one. A biker gang is not the same thing as a motorcycle club, though they might share some similarities. A club, for example, might have elected officials, as the Reaper Lords do.
The last thing the Reaper Lords want to leave you with? A petition to bring more biker DLC into the game, so the Reaper Lords have more stuff to play with.
You can read more about the Reaper Lords here, or check out their website here.
Its_McDude
This is the kind of crazy fuckery I love to encounter in online games.
Like, if you fight The Lost, you're just fighting some dumb computer that simulates a sense of community and dedication. But if you started a bar brawl with one of these dudes, I'm sure things would get a lot more hectic and a lot more fun because the bond is real, and you're against real people.
This is where video games are headed and what their purpose was to begin with. It's a virtual reality that doesn't significantly impact your actual reality.
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'New challenges to Russia's national security: the impact of modern international terrorism'
Escalations in recent conflicts in the world, both in the Middle East, as well as directly at the borders of the Russian Federation, pose in front of the scientific community, public authorities and law enforcement agencies in the region specific task of regional security and the security whole of the Russian socio-political space. This was the main prerequisite for the holding of September 21, 2015 the Department of Youth Policy of KFU together with the Department of Conflict Studies of ISPS round table on the theme "New challenges to Russian national security: the impact of modern international terrorism."
The main issues discussed at the round table were:
- Expansion of the Islamic state and the international crisis over Ukraine as a threat to Russia's national security;
- The impact of the threats of international terrorism in the regions of Eurasia and the Russian Federation subjects;
- Youth extremism in Russian society and methods of prevention (for example, the Russian regions).
In his opening remarks to the round table Head of the Department of Conflict Studies of KFU prof. Bolshakov A.G. noted the great importance of student flash mob to mark the Day of Peace and invited all those present to give him no less attention than to the actual current scientific and practical activities.
Opening the round table Advisor to the rector of KFU for Security and Cooperation Guzeyrov R.A. drew particular attention to the audience and participants on the issue of awareness of the dangers and threats posed by prevailing situation of terrorism around the world. More information about these threats is described in report by A.G. Bolshakov. A report by Professor of Nizhny Novgorod State University. Lobachevskii Grachev S.I. delineated the specifics of threats from the ISIS to the US and Russia. The main tool in the fight against these threats Vavilov identified the education system, the so-called "struggle for the minds." What is agreed with him and made their proposals on cooperation in the field the other participants of the round table. Guzeyrov R.A. said that the work in this area should start with high school students.
Lecturer of the Department of Conflict Studies, Ph.D. Mansurov T.Z. made a presentation on the regional scenario, the geography of the threats outlined above, the roundtable participants, both in Russia and in the world space. In his story, he touched the problems of interaction between regions in the fight against these threats. A clear illustration of the performance Mansurov T..Z in terms of cooperation between Russian regions was welcoming address to participants of the round table. Huseynov Y.M. - Representative of the department of civil and patriotic and moral education of the Ministry of Youth Affairs of the Republic of Dagestan presented the performance of the Ministry of Youth in the region over the past year and a half. Yusup Magomedovich spoke about the threats and challenges in the political space in the region and on the effectiveness of efforts to prevent extremism, terrorism and xenophobia. He expressed hope for cooperation in the field of activity being discussed with the participants of the round table.
Regional specificity the conversation continued Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences, a branch of KFU in Naberezhnye Chelny, Ph.D. Aetdinov E.H. The theme of his report was devoted to the problem of the Crimea, as a subject of the Russian Federation and the political situation there. Particular attention is paid to the speaker of the Crimean Tatar community of the peninsula, his ethnicity and political positioning, as well as on the nature of the social problems of Crimean average for the population as a whole.
Youth Policy in the direction of anti-terrorist measures was made rector Adviser on Security and Cooperation CFI Sadykov M.Sh. He made a clarification on the difference of radical forms of Islam, in terms of statistical data showed an increased level of threat of youth recruitment religious groups, talked about possible instruments to counter youth involvement in illegal activities. For more information about the work in online communities and networking communities to counter recruitment in its report said Associate Professor of Conflict Studies of KFU, Ph.D. A.V. Ivanov
Youth involvement and support of the round table were mentioned by students of KFU. It is they who originated the idea of flash mob dedicated to the Day of Peace, celebrated annually on 21 September. In a multi-year initiative of the students of Conflict Resolution, with the active support of students of different areas of study at the university, with the organizational support of the Department of Youth Policy and the Department of Conflict CFI culmination of the event were released into the sky white messengers of peace - pigeons and more than two hundred balls of white and blue, symbolizing the desire of students to conflictless, peaceful coexistence of the population of our planet.
Source of information: Department of Conflict Sudies
Keywords: 'New challenges to Russian national security: the impact of modern international terrorism.'
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Scriptnotes, Ep 403: How to Write a Movie Transcript
June 13, 2019 Scriptnotes Transcript
The original post for this episode can be found here.
Craig Mazin: Hello and welcome. My name is Craig Mazin and this is Episode 403 of Scriptnotes, a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters.
On today’s show, something we have never done before. It’s just me. No guest. No John. He’s off visiting family I believe in Colorado. So it’s just me today. And we’re going to do something that I’ve been looking forward to doing for a long time. I’m going to be talking to you today about structure and character. I’m kind of giving you my whole theory on how to write a movie.
I know it sounds like a lot. And it is a little bit of a lot. It’s a talk that I’ve done at the Austin Screenwriting Film Festival a number of times. I haven’t done it in a while. And I feel like their exclusive right to it has ended, so now I’m giving it to you. This is sort of my how-to write a movie.
But before we get into that we do have a little bit of business to go through. And it’s about our live show. Our next live show, we’ve talked about this before. It’s going to be on the evening of Thursday, June 13 here in Los Angeles at the Ace Hotel which is a beautiful venue. And it is benefiting Hollywood Heart. We do this every year. It’s a great charity.
We have probably the best guest lineup we’ve ever had. We have Alec Berg, the showrunner of Silicon Valley and Barry. We have Rob McElhenney, showrunner of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. We have Kourtney Kang, writer of Fresh Off the Boat. And we have Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone. And by the way that’s – Melissa McCarthy and Ben – I’m not talking about other Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcones that you don’t know. I mean the ones you know. Those.
It is just about the most comedy firepower I think we can ever assemble on one stage for this show. You’re not going to want to miss it. Tickets I believe are still available but we’re getting close to running out, so take a look at the link in the show notes and get your tickets.
All right. Let’s get into it. So when we talk about writing a script a lot of times we’re talking about structure. There are, I don’t know, four million books about structure. I went online and I looked for just images based on screenplay structure and what I saw was kind of mind-blowing. There are these long narrow lines with little ticks on them and then there’s a pie chart. And then there’s a swirly thing that kind of looks like a snail shell. There’s a triangle. There’s a diamond. I think there’s a parallelogram. And if there’s not a trapezoid maybe one of you can get on that.
All of this is designed to help you learn how to structure a screenplay. Here’s the problem. All of it is done from the wrong end. All of it. It’s all done from the point of view of analysis. They look at things, they take them apart, and then they say, look, all these pieces fit into this swirly shape, or this diamond. The issue is that’s not going to help you actually write anything because when you write you’re starting from scratch. You’re not breaking something apart. You’re building something out of nothing. And when you’re building something out of nothing you need a different set of instructions.
I can think of a doctor who takes bodies apart. That’s a medical examiner or a coroner. That’s not the doctor you want to go to to make a baby for instance. It’s just a very different thing, right? So we’re going to come at it from the point of view of making babies and your baby is your script. Don’t worry, we’re going to keep this safe for work.
So, structure. Structure, structure, structure. Screenplay is structure. You need to know how to do your structure. Structure I’m here to tell you is a total trap. Yes, screenplay is structure, but structure isn’t what you think it is. Structure doesn’t say this happens on this page, this happens on that page. Here’s a pinch point. Here’s a stretchy point. Here’s a midpoint. Structure doesn’t tell you what to do. If you follow strict structural guidelines in all likelihood you will write a very well structured bad script.
Structure isn’t the dog. It’s the tail. Structure is a symptom. It’s a symptom of a character’s relationship with a central dramatic argument. Take a moment. Think about that for a second. I’ll repeat it. Structure is a symptom of a character’s relationship with a central dramatic argument. Structure isn’t something you write well. It’s something that happens because you wrote well. Structure is not a tool, it is a symptom.
When we think of rigid structural forms I have to tell you there’s nothing honest about them. There’s nothing true about them. They’re synthetic. There’s never been one single great writer who created one single great screenplay following a structural template. Not one.
What real writers follow are their characters. And what great writers follow are their characters as they evolve around a central dramatic argument that is actually meaningful to other human beings. Let me stop for a second and tell you that we are going to get into real practicals but for a bit now we’re just going to talk a little bit of philosophy. First, let’s consider what we call basic structure. There’s a Syd Field point of view. You have your three acts, your inciting incident, act break escalation, magical midpoint character shift, third act low point, and kick off to climactic action.
We also have the Chris Vogler Hero’s Journey, ordinary world, call to action, refusal of call, acceptance of call, and blah, blah, blah. Save the Cat is a lot of stuff.
There’s a lot of what to do but where’s the why? Who came up with this stuff in the first place? Why is it there? Why are there three acts at all? Why is there a low point? Why do we like it when there’s an inciting incident? Why do we like it when there’s a low point? If we don’t know why those things are there how are we supposed to know how to write them? Because we process the world through our consciousness and our consciousness is sort of a natural storyteller, all of us are actually walking around doing this right all the time. We just don’t know it. We’re narrativizing our own lives better than most who try and do it on purpose on Fade In or WriterDuet, or Highland2. I don’t know any other software.
Right now you’re sitting there, you’re riding along in your car, you’re being passive. You are accepting this structure talk, wondering when I’m going to get to the practicals. And I will. But later if someone asks you about this experience you’re having you will naturally, without thinking, create a story. You won’t have to consult a graph or a chart or a swirly thing. You’ll just tell the story.
Here’s a story. I listened to a podcast. It was on the following topics. Reasonable people could agree or disagree. Anyway, I’m the same. That’s not a very good story, is it?
Here’s another story. I was listening to a podcast and it was OK, it was sort of a little boring, but then the person said this one thing and it reminded me of something else I’d heard once and that tied back to this moment in my life where something really interesting happened. And now I’m wondering maybe if I was wrong about that thing and I should be doing it this way instead. Huh. There you go. And that story has character, meaning you. That story is about you and maybe it’s about me. It’s about a relationship that we’re having right now through this podcast, for better or worse.
And if you were to relay this story, this experience, you might share some parts of this that you thought were interesting or some parts that you thought were stupid, but you will naturally contextualize it as such. This moment in time did or did not help you in your desire to change. We live our lives this way, but when we sit down to write we somehow forget. You know who never forgets? Actors. They have to get it because they are the characters and we are experiencing them as the characters.
So there’s that old cliché line: what’s my motivation? Well it’s not a joke. Believe it or not that is the key to structure. What is the purpose of all this storytelling that we engage in, all this narration? Well, narration helps us move through a changing world. And story is about a change of state. There are three basic ways your story changes. And this applies I think to every possible story.
The first way is internal. This is what is going on inside the character’s mind. This is the things they’re thinking, they’re feeling, their emotions. And this axis goes all over the place. It zigzags up and down. Then there’s interpersonal. That’s the main relationship of your story. It has a start, it has an end. It usually begins in a kind of neutral way. Then depending on how your story unfolds it can dip and then rise and then plummet and then spike. And finally you have the external axis. That’s the narrative, the plot, the things that are going on around you. And that generally is just a straight line. Start to end.
All of this is made up of scenes. And within scenes we’re doing something that follows the Hegelian dialectic. Calm down. You don’t need to look it up. I’ll help you out. The Hegelian Dialectic basically is a way of thinking about how we formulate ideas and thoughts and arguments. You take a thesis. That’s a statement. Something is true. And then you apply to that an antithesis. No, that’s not true and here’s why. Those things collide and in theory what results from that is a new thesis called the synthesis. And that starts the whole process over again. That synthesis becomes a thesis. There’s an antithesis. A new synthesis. That becomes a thesis. Constant changing. Every scene begins with a truth, something happens inside of that scene. There is a new truth at the end and you begin, and you begin, and you begin.
And who is the person firing these antitheses at these theses? You.
So, as we go through this talk never forget this one simple fact. At any given moment as you begin a scene you have a situation that is involving those three axes and you are going to fire something at at least one of them to make something new. That is all story is. But what is the glue that holds all those changes together? What’s the glue that you the creator can use to come up with your antitheses and get your new syntheses and do it over and over again?
And that brings us to theme. Theme is otherwise known as unity. Unity is a term that was first used by Aristotle in Poetics and this is one you actually should read. I know you’re like, Aristotle? Hegel? Hegelian guy. Calm down. It’s fine. In fact, Aristotle was really a contemporary writer in his own way. Poetics is an easy read. It will take you about 30 minutes. It’s a pretty good bathroom book. And in it you’ll find a lot of things that we hear today, like for instance the worst kind of plot is an episodic plot. Well, that’s pretty much true.
What did he think of unity or theme? Well basically theme is your central dramatic argument. Some of those arguments are interesting. Some of them are a little cliché. And the quality of the argument itself isn’t necessarily related to the quality of the script. For instance, you can have a really good screenplay built around you can’t judge a book by its cover. That’s OK. The theme itself doesn’t have to be mind-altering or, I don’t know, revolutionary. It’s your execution around it that’s going to be interesting.
But the important thing is that the argument has to be an argument. I think sometimes people misunderstand the use of theme in this context and they think a theme for a screenplay could be brotherhood. Well, no. Because there’s nothing to argue about there. There’s no way to answer that question one way or the other. It’s just a vague concept.
But, man and women can’t just be friends, well, that’s an argument. Better to be dead than a slave. Life is beautiful, even in the midst of horrors. If you believe you are great, you will be great. If you love someone set them free. Those are arguments.
Screenplays without arguments feel empty and pointless. You will probably get some version of the following note. What is this about? I mean, I know what it’s about, but what is it about? Why should this movie exist? What is the point of all this?
Now, it’s really important to note you probably don’t want to start with an argument. That’s a weird way to begin a script. Usually we think of an idea. And that’s fine. But when you think of the idea the very next question you should ask is what central dramatic argument would fit really well with this? And ideally you’re going to think ironically. For instance, let’s talk about this idea. A fish has to find another fish who is somewhere in the ocean. Got it. The animators will love it. Water. Fish. Cool.
OK, let’s think of a central dramatic argument. How about if you try hard enough you can do anything, even find a fish? That’s a bit boring, isn’t it? How about sometimes the things we’re searching for are the things that we need to be free from? Well, OK. That’s an interesting argument. I’m not sure how it necessarily is served or is being served by this idea of a fish in the ocean. How about you can’t find happiness out there, you have to find it within yourself? That could work. That’s sort of Wizard of Oz-ish.
But let’s go really ironically. How about this one? No matter how much you want to hold onto the person you love, sometimes you have to set them free. Well, that is pretty cliché but it is a great central dramatic argument to pair with a fish needs to find another fish. Because when you’re looking for somebody out there in the deep, deep ocean you the writer know that what you’re promising is they’re going to find them and then have to let them go anyway. And that is starting to get good.
All right. Let’s get into some practicals, shall we? Because this is thematic structure. This is going to help you write your script. In thematic structure the purpose of the story – and listen carefully now – the purpose of the story is to take a character from ignorance of the truth of the theme to embodiment of the theme through action. I shall repeat. The purpose of the story is to take your main character, your protagonist, from a place of ignorance of the truth or the true side of the argument you’re making and take them all the way to the point where they become the very embodiment of that argument and they do it through action.
So, let’s talk about how we introduce. We begin in the beginning with the introduction of a protagonist in an ordinary world. You’ve probably heard this a thousand times. But why? Sometimes movies don’t start ordinarily. You probably saw Mad Max: Fury Road. If you didn’t, do so. Well, there’s no ordinary beginning there. I mean, it’s crazy from the jump. Ordinary doesn’t mean mundane. Although sometimes it can.
What ordinary means here is that the protagonist’s life essentially exemplifies their ignorance of the theme, of the argument that you want them to believe eventually. In fact, they believe the opposite of that argument. That’s how they begin. Typically in the beginning of a story your main character believes in the opposite of the theme and they have also achieved some kind of stasis. There’s a balance in their life. In fact, their ignorance of that theme has probably gotten them to this nice place of stasis and balance. It doesn’t mean they’re happy. What it means is that without the divine nudge of the writer-god their life could go on like this forever. It’s not a perfect life. It’s not the best life they could live but it’s the life they’ve settled for. Their stasis is acceptable imperfection.
If we’re going to circle back around to my favorite fish movie, Marlin can live with a resentful son as long as he knows his son is safe. That’s acceptable imperfection. I get it. Nemo resents me. He’s angry at me. He feels stifled by me. That’s OK. He’s alive. I can keep going this way.
And then along comes you, the writer. Your job is to disrupt that stasis. So you invent some sort of incident. Ah-ha. Now we know the point of the inciting incident. The point of the inciting incident is not to go, “Oh god, a meteor!” The point of the inciting incident is to specifically disrupt a character’s stasis. It makes the continuation of balance and stasis and acceptable imperfection impossible. It destroys it. And it forces a choice on the character.
OK, but why? I’m just going to keep asking that question. But why? But why? But why? Why do you have to do this to this poor character? Because you are the parent and you have a lesson to teach this person, or animal, or fish. Your motivation is part of your relationship to your character. You don’t write an inciting incident. You don’t write push character out of safety. That gives you no real guidance to let something blossom. What you write is an ironic disruption of stasis. Ironic as in a situation that includes contradictions or sharp contrasts that is, and hear me out, genetically engineered to break your character’s soul.
You’re going to destroy them. You are god. And you are designing a moment that will begin a transformation for this specific character so you have to make it intentional. It can be an explosion, or it can be the tiniest little change. But it’s not something that would disrupt everyone’s life the way it’s disrupting this person’s life. You have tailored it perfectly and terribly for them.
So, what’s the first thing your character wants to do when this happens to them? Well, it they’re like you or me they’re going to immediately try and just get back to what they had. They have to leave their stasis behind because you’ve destroyed it, but everything they’re going to do following that is done in service of just trying to get it back. Shrek doesn’t have his swamp, so he has to go on a journey so he can get his swamp back. The point here is that the hero has absolutely no idea that there is a central dramatic argument. They’ve made up their mind about something and their mind has not changed.
Your heroes should be on some level cowards. I don’t mean coward like shaking in your boots. I mean coward like I don’t want to change. I’m happy with the way things are. Please just let me be. And underlining that is fear. And fear, especially in your character, is the heart of empathy. I feel for characters when I fear with them. It is vulnerability. It’s what makes me connect. Every protagonist fears something.
Imagine a man who fears no other man. He doesn’t fear death. He doesn’t fear pain. But, ah-ha, fill in that blank. But the point is it has to be filled in. You can feel it, right? Like he’s going to have to fear something. Because fear is our connection to a character. And a fearful hero should have lived their lives to avoid the thing they’re afraid of.
You, are taking their safety blanket away. So I want you to write your fearful hero honestly. What do they want? They want to return to what they had. They want to go backwards. And believe it or not that is the gift that is going to drive you through the second act. The second act.
Oh, the thing that’s so scary. No. No, you should be excited about it. Let me take a break for a second and say that everything I’m talking about here is mostly to serve the writing of what I would call a traditional Hollywood movie. That doesn’t mean. It doesn’t mean cliché. It doesn’t even mean formulaic. It just means it’s a traditional narrative. So, I don’t know, if you’re looking to be a little more Lars von Trier about things, well, I don’t know how interesting or helpful this is going to be. But I’m presuming that most of you just want to write a general kind of movie that conforms to a general kind of movie shape.
So this is how we’re going to help you do it. And the second act is the part that I think freaks people out the most. They get scared. But I think you should be excited about pages 30 to 90 roughly. Please do not quote me on those numbers. But first, are you getting it? Have you stopped thinking about plot? Have you stopped thinking about plot as something to jam characters into? Because when you do that that’s why you run out of road in your second act. You ran out of plot because it wasn’t being generated by anything except you.
Ah-ha. But when you start thinking of your plot as not something that happens to your characters but what you are doing to your characters that’s when you can lead them from anti-theme to theme. How do we do it?
First, we reinforce the anti-theme. That might sound a little counterintuitive but hear me out. You’ve knocked your hero out of their acceptable stasis. They are now on the way to do whatever they need to do to get back to it. The hero is going to experience new things. And I want you to think about making those new things reinforce her belief in an anti-theme. Because this is going to make them want to get back to the beginning even more. Oh, it’s delicious. We’re creating a torture chamber basically. Keep thinking that way.
Imagine your hero is moving backwards against you and you push them forward and they push back. Ah-ha. Good. Design moments to do this. You’re going to keep forcing them forward, but you’re also going to put things in their path that make them want to go backwards. That’s tension. That’s exciting. And more importantly when they do get past those things it will be meaningful. You want to write your world to oppose your character’s desires.
So, you’re going to reinforce their need to get back. Ah-ha. So, let’s see, Marlin wanders out into the ocean. His theory is the ocean is really, really dangerous. What should the first thing be? Maybe let’s have him meet some sharks. And actually, oh, you know what, they’re not scary at all. Oh god, yes they are. The ocean is in fact way worse than he even imagined. That’s what you need to do. He needs to get his son back really, really soon so he can return to stasis. And then when you’ve done that you’re going to introduce an element of doubt.
Something or someone lives in a different way. Someone or something in your story is an example of the life of theme rather than the life of anti-theme. So remember, your hero believes in one side of the central dramatic argument. It’s the wrong side. You want them to believe the other one. OK, but they believe the wrong one. They need to run into someone or something that believes in the right side of it. This element of doubt creates a natural conflict for the protagonist because of course I believe this, you believe that. But it’s also attractive to them on some level because – and again, really important. Your hero is rational. This is a critical component of a good hero. You are dealing with somebody that probably lives irrationally, fine, but they have to have the capacity to see that maybe there is a better way.
You’re living things maybe the wrong way but you need the capacity to see things going the right way. It is fear that separates the irrational hero from their rational potential. And because they’re rational when they get a glimpse of this other way of being they’re going to realize there’s value to it through circumstance or accident or necessity or another character’s actions. These are all things you’re inventing, but here’s why – the hero is going to experience a moment of acting in harmony with the right side of the central dramatic argument.
This could involve their own action or it could be something that they watch someone else do or something they experience passively. But this is why the magical midpoint change occurs. See, now you know why. You’re not just doing it because a book said. These things generally happen in the middle of the movie because our hero’s belief system has been challenged. There is an element of doubt. There is not a willingness to go all the way and believe the other side of the argument yet. They may not even understand the other side of the argument.
There’s only a question that maybe for the first time they have to wonder if their side of the argument that they started with, the anti-theme, maybe it doesn’t explain or solve everything. Have I been living a lie? That’s what’s happening in the middle of a movie.
So, remember in Finding Nemo there’s a moment where because Marlin has to rescue Dory from this field of jellyfish he invents a game. She forces him to do something that he normally wouldn’t do. Play. He’s doing it for the old Marlin reasons of neurosis, but it’s working. She’s following him. And as he’s doing it he gets a glimpse of what it’s like to live without fear. He gets a glimpse of what it’s like to be carefree. To not worry so much. To be, well, a little less conservative with your own life. And he loves it.
And then what happens? She gets stung. Oh, glorious. And that gets us to this reversal of theme. The very moment your hero takes the bait that you put there to think about maybe switching sides – maybe switching sides of the argument – you need to hammer them back the other direction. The story has to make them shrink back to the old way. Dory almost dies in the jellyfish. And why? It happened because Marlin decided in a moment out of necessity to have fun and then forgot himself, forgot his fear. And what’s the price of forgetting fear and not being vigilant? Pain and tragedy. The tragedy of the beginning is reinforced and the hero retreats once again.
Ah. It’s good stuff. And it means you have to be kind of mean. Sadistic really. But it turns out that these are the kinds of things we want out of our narrative. It’s the essence of what we call dramatic reversal.
I’m going to put aside the examples from Pixar for a second and I’m going to talk about somebody real. There’s a guy named Jose Fernandez. This is a true story. Jose Fernandez is born in Cuba and at the age of 15 he escapes Cuba with his mother and his sister and many others, all packed in a very small boat. And during the difficult village he is awakened to the sound of someone yelling. That someone has fallen overboard.
And Jose, 15 years old, doesn’t hesitate. He dives into the choppy water to save whoever it is. And it’s only when he drags this person back onto the boat does he realize he has saved his own mother. Wow.
Jose Fernandez grows up, he’s a hell of an athlete. He goes on to pitch. Major League baseball pitcher. And he’s really good. In fact, he is the National League Rookie of the Year. And he’s an All Star. His future isn’t just bright, it is glorious. Jose Fernandez is living the American dream and I don’t know how much you know about baseball but ace pitchers they get paid hundreds of millions of dollars.
But at the age of 24 Jose Fernandez dies. He doesn’t die from illness. He doesn’t die from violence. He dies in an accident. But not a car accident. He dies in a boating accident. A boating accident. Now, do you feel that? Do you feel more than you would if I had said he died of a blood clot? Well, why? I mean, death is death. Why does this detail of the boating accident make you feel more?
Because it’s terribly ironic. Because this is a guy who saved his own mother from water and then he dies in water. It implies that there’s a strange kind of order to the universe even when that order hurts. And this is where we start to pull irony out of drama. This is essential to your choices when you decide how you’re going to push back against your hero. How you’re going to hammer them back. How you’re going to punish them.
Think about that Pixar Short, Lava. And I talk about Pixar all the time because it’s just pure storytelling and they’re really, really good at it. So he thinks he’s alone. He’s a volcano in the ocean. He thinks he’s alone. And then he discovers he’s not alone. But when he discovers that he also discovers that she’s facing the wrong way and she can’t see him. And he doesn’t know how to sing anymore. So she doesn’t even know he’s there. Oh, that’s terrible. It’s unexpected. It’s contradictory. And it’s ironic. And that’s exactly what you want to do.
So, consider the irony that’s involved with Marlin. Marlin is worried that he has lost his son. Every parent who loses a child, even for an instant in a mall, is scared. But that’s not enough. Let’s talk about what the people at Pixar understood they needed to do to this character from the very start to punish him so that his journey would be that much more impressive. It’s not enough to say, look, you love your kid, your kid is lost, you’ve got to go find your kid. Everybody loves their kid, right?
OK. But they go a step further. They say, you know what, there’s no mom in the picture. Mom died. It’s just you. You’re a single dad. You’re the only parent. You’ve got to find your kid. No, that’s not enough. How about this? How about your wife and all of your other children were eaten in front of you because you couldn’t protect them? And the only kid you had left out of all of that, the only memory you have of your wife and your happy life before is one tiny egg. One kid.
And that is still not enough. And this is why Pixar is so amazing. Because they knew that the further they went the more we would feel at the end. It’s not enough that he only has one kid. When he looks at that little egg he can see that the one kid that’s left is disabled. He has a bad fin. Now it’s enough. Now you have created the perfect circumstance for that individual, you cruel, cruel god of story.
Now I know why he’s so panicked that that kid is somewhere out there in the ocean. When you’re designing your obstacles and your lessons and the glimpses of the other way and the rewards and the punishments and the beating back and the pushing forward, keep thinking ironically. Keep thinking about surprises that twist the knife. Don’t just stab your characters. Twist the knife in them. If someone has to face a fear make it overwhelming to them. Don’t disappoint them. Punish them.
Make your characters lower their defenses by convincing them that everything is going to be OK and then punch them right in the face, metaphorically.
So, sorry to tell you that as a writer you are not the New Testament god who turns water into wine. You are the Old Testament god who tortures Job because, I don’t know, it seems like fun. And when you’re wondering where to go in your story and what to do with your character ask this question: where is my hero on her quest between theme and anti-theme? Or I guess I should say between an anti-theme and theme. And what would be the meanest thing I could do to her right now? What would be the worst way to do the meanest thing right now? Then do it. And do it. And do it again until the hero is left without a belief at all.
So as the demands of the narrative begin to overwhelm the hero, the hero begins to realize that her limitations aren’t physical but thematic. Think about Marlin. I promised that I would never let anything happen to him. But then I suppose nothing ever would happen to him. That’s what Dory says. And Marlin knows she’s right. He knows that if all he does is basically lock his kid up to prevent anything bad from happening to his kid nothing good will happen to his kid. The kid won’t have a real life.
So, now what? Well, the answer is obvious, right? If you love someone let them go. And I’m sure that at that point in the movie if you ask Marlin that he would say, “I suppose that’s the thing that I’m supposed to believe.” But they can’t do it. Not yet. In fact, you’re going to want to have a situation where they have a chance to do it. And they fail at it in some important way because they don’t really accept the central dramatic argument you want for them. They just lost the belief in their original point of view. They’re trapped between rejection of the old and acceptance of the new. They are lost. Their old ways don’t work anymore. The new way seems impossible or insane.
Shrek doesn’t want his swamp back anymore. He wants love, but he is also not willing to do what is required to try and get it. He’s trapped. And this is why they call it the low point. It’s not random. It’s not the low point because the books say page 90 is the low point. It’s the low point because your character is lost and in a whole lot of trouble.
Their goal in the beginning, which was to go backwards to the beginning to achieve stasis, to re-achieve stasis, that goal is in shambles. Their anti-thematic belief, whatever it was that they clung to in the beginning of this story, it’s been exposed as a sham. And the enormity of the real goal that now faces them is impossibly daunting. They can’t yet accept the theme because it’s too scary. When your core values are gone and when you aren’t ready to replace them with new values, well, you might as well be dead. And this is why people go to movies.
So, granted, we love the lasers, we love the explosions, we love the ka-boom, and we love the sex, and we love the tears, but what we need from drama – and when I say drama I mean the drama of comedy and the drama of drama – what we need are these moments where we connect to another person’s sense of being lost. Because we have all been lost.
And that’s why the ending is going to work. Because without this there can be no catharsis. Catharsis comes from the Greek word for vomiting I’m pretty sure. So just think of a lot of your plot as shoving really bad food down the throat of your hero because that’s how you’re going to get to this catharsis.
Now, I want to say that these approaches don’t help you map out a second act. What these approaches do is help you develop your character as they move through a narrative. And that narrative is going to impact their relationship to theme. And when you finish that movement of this character interacting with story so that their relationship to the theme is changing from I don’t believe that to, OK, I don’t believe what I used to believe but I can’t believe that yet, suddenly you’ll be somewhere around the end of the second act.
And here is the big secret. John and I have said this many, many times. There are no acts. So you can’t really be scared of the second act. It doesn’t exist. It’s not some sort of weird wasteland you have to get through. It’s just part of one big piece. There’s one act. It’s called your story. And now we get to the third act, sorry, end of your one act. And this is the defining moment. Your character needs to face a defining moment. And this defining moment is their worst fear. It is their greatest challenge. This is the moment that will not only resolve the story that you’re telling but it will resolve the life of your character. This moment will bring them to a new stasis and balance. Remember synthesis, thesis, antithesis, synthesis. Here we are again.
But what are you going to do? You have to come up with this thing. This is the difference between what I’m saying to you now and what a lot of books say. Books will say, “Defining moment goes here.” And I’m saying, yeah, but how? What makes it so defining? You’re going to design a moment that is going to test your protagonist’s faith in the theme. They need to go through something where they have to prove that they believe this new theme. They have to prove it. It’s not enough to say, OK, I get it. What I used to think is wrong. There’s a new way that’s right. That’s not enough.
They have to prove it. And they have to prove it in a way where they literally embody the point of that idea with everything they have. But before you do that don’t you want to torture them one more time? Of course you do.
The relapse. A nice ironic relapse. You want to tempt them right before this big decision moment. Right before the defining moment. You want to hold that safety blanket up and say, “Go ahead. Go back to the beginning. You get it. The thing you wanted on page 15, I’m giving it to you. Don’t go forward. Don’t change. Go back.”
And what do they have to do? They have to reject that temptation. You design a machinery where they have to reject that temptation and then do something extraordinary – extraordinary – to embody the truth of the theme. And now you get acceptance through action. The hero acts in accordance with the theme. Specifically by doing so they prevail. They have to act.
So let’s go back to Marlin. It’s not enough for Marlin to say, “I get it now. I’ve heard the wise turtles. I’ve seen the way Dory is. I’ve learned my lesson. I’ve got to let you live.” That’s not enough. What Pixar does is create a perfect mechanism to tempt and then force action. Dory is captured. And Nemo says to Marlin, “I’m the only one who can go in there and save her.” And this is a great temptation. This is where Marlin has to reject the old way. We’re saying go ahead, you’ve got your kid, we’re giving him back to you. It’s all you wanted. On page 15 you just wanted your kid. Here he is. Get out.
But he has to act in accordance with the theme. So he rejects that and he says, “No. Go ahead, son. And try and save her.” And that simple decision is how he acts in accordance with theme. And it is terrifying. And now you get one last chance to punish him. Briefly. Go ahead. Let’s see Nemo coming out of that net and let’s think that he’s dead. And let Marlin hold him. And let Marlin remember what he was like when he was in that little egg. And let Marlin kind of be OK with it. Because that’s what it means to live in accordance with theme.
If you say, look, sometimes if you love someone you have to let them go, that’s one thing. Actually having to let them go is another thing. Letting them go and seeing them get hurt is yet another. That is the ultimate acceptance of that idea, isn’t it? And that’s what he sees.
But then, of course, faith in the theme rewards. And Nemo is alive.
So then you get this denouement. What is the denouement? Why is it there? It’s not there because we need to be slowly let down and back out in the movie theater lobby. It’s there because we need to see the new synthesis. You have successfully fired a billion antitheses against a billion theses and come up with one big, grand, lovely new synthesis. Please show it to me. So we now see that the after story life is in harmony with theme.
And here’s the deal with the first scene and the last scene of a movie. If you remove everything from the story except the introduction of your hero and the last scene of your hero there should really be only one fundamental difference. And here it is. The hero in the beginning acts in accordance with the anti-theme and the hero at the end acts in accordance with the theme.
Now, this should all help you create your character. When you’re creating character I want you to think of theme. I want you to imagine a character who embodies the anti-theme. You can be subtle about this. You probably should be. It generally works better if you are. And I want you to think of your story as a journey that guides this character from belief in the anti-theme to belief in theme. Remember you’re god – angry, angry god. You have created this test. That’s what your story is. In order to guide your character to a better way of living, but they have to make the choices.
Oh, if you’ve heard, “The worst character is a passive character,” that’s why. They have to make the choices or you’re making it for them. And then, well, it just doesn’t count, does it?
If you can write the story of your character as they grow from thinking this to the opposite of this, and guess what, you will never ask well what should happen next ever again. You’ll only ask how can I make the thing that I want to happen next better. That’s a whole other talk. Maybe I’ll do that one in like five years or something.
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Catchy (Sitting 38) Tulips (Two Lips)… March 4th, 2018
Matthew awoke with a pounding headache, sore throat, a mushy brain and a hangover that seemed to have hung on for weeks. He was lying in a fancy circular bed covered with satin sheets, in a bedroom which looked like a tribute to the color red.
He tried to focus on where he was. After about thirty seconds of trimming away frustration, he uncovered the fact that he was in Amsterdam.
Suddenly it all came back to him. He had spent the night before sharing a bong with a young female Chinese capitalist–an oil speculator from the United Arab Emirates, and a Lutheran minister from Southern California. He vaguely remembered their discussion as one punctuated with verbosity, absent much profundity.
Then, leaving the gathering of the “three wise ones,” he headed into the street and found himself at the De Wallen–often referred to as the “Windows” street of Amsterdam, because in window after window, prostitutes posed, availble for purchase–a Christmas display of female flesh.
As he remembered more, he recalled coming upon a window with a tall blond girl with spiked hair and deep-set, dark eyes. For some reason, he had decided he had to have her. So he stepped into her room. She pulled the curtains for privacy and he made arrangements with her–with one stipulation. He wanted her to be with him all night.
It was an expensive necessity, for the last thing in the world Matthew wanted was to be kicked out of his bed of pleasure because his time was up.
And it was pleasurable. Perhaps a little predictable and unemotional, but the woman he chose was certainly adept at the craft of love, if not the feeling.
Still lying in his bed, he turned his head and saw her sleeping next to him. What was her name? He knew she told him, because he commented on it. All at once, he remembered his own joke.
“Did you say girdle?”
She didn’t find it funny, but since she was a hired employee, she choked out a giggle. Her real name was Gerta.
As he gazed at her, he wanted to wake her up. He wanted to talk to her. Actually, he wanted her to give a damn about him. He felt a bit feminine–like a young girl who gives away her cherry, hoping that her lover would want to hang around for the rest of the “Sunday.”
All at once she stirred. “Are you awake?” she asked in the most crackly, sexy voice he had ever heard.
“I am,” he whispered, trying to be equally as appealing. Unfortunately, his voice sounded more like he had bronchitis.
“Did you sleep well?” she asked with her thick German accent.
“I did,” Matthew replied. He realized the conversation would go nowhere unless he inserted greater input. “Gerta, can I ask you a question?”
“Sure,” she said, turning over and exposing her perfect breasts and beautifully bronzed skin.
Matthew gasped. Gerta laughed. She pulled the sheet up so as to take away the temptation to stall conversation.
Matthew took a deep breath and inquired, “Am I a good lover? And please–tell me the truth.”
Gerta burst into laughter. “This is always what the men want to know. Usually they want me to score them in comparison–sometimes even by nationalities.”
Matthew was quite offended. “Well, I don’t want anything like that. I’m just horribly insecure at this point in my life, and I would like to know, deep in my heart, that my penis is doing well.”
Gerta sat up with her arms dangling in front of her and asked, “Do you want the truth or do you want me to make you feel extra, extra, extra good?”
“Wow,” said Matthew. “That’s scary shit.”
Gerta frowned. “I’m not familiar with ‘scary shit.’ Would that be an unexpected bowel movement, or a discoloration?”
She was dead serious. Matthew had his own fit of laughter. “I’m sorry. I didn’t realize it was so American. Scary shit just means it’s really, really, really scary.”
“I see,” said Gerta, as if cataloguing the phrase into her brain trust. “So, which is it, big boy? Do you want the truth, or do you want me to make it more padded and less, as you say, scary shit?”
She said it so cutely that he wanted to kiss her.
“I guess I want the truth,” said Matthew.
“The truth is, you’re average. Average looks. Average penis size. Average length of time it takes you to reach the top of your mountain. And average minutes for you to fall asleep afterwards.”
Matthew pretended to wipe sweat from his brown. “Phew… And here I thought I was a loser.”
There was a pause while both of them stared at a small shaft of light that had figured out how to wiggle through the dark curtains.
At length, Matthew said, “Thank you for staying all night.”
“Thank you for the money,” said Gerta.
“Why are you a prostitute?” he suddenly asked.
“Why do you ask foolish questions?” she countered, slinging her legs over the side of the bed, standing to her feet and scurrying into the bathroom for a quick pee.
“I’m sorry,” said Matthew, speaking through the wall. “I think being a prostitute is…unusual.”
She emerged, having donned panties, and slipping on his ragged t-shirt. She still looked beautiful.
“Listen, sir,” she said, sitting on the side of the bed. “Being a whore is unusual. Being a prostitute is a job. But that’s neither here nor there. I’m in my last two months.”
Matthew sat up, shocked. “Your last two months of what?”
She reached over, grabbed a cup of water and took a sip. “I am a contracted prostitute. You see, here in the Netherlands, everything is done by law, to keep things proper. So my contract is up in two months, and even though I’ve renewed three or four times, this is my last.”
“What will you do?” asked Matthew. “I’m not trying to be nosy, but since we’ve exchanged bodily fluids, I thought a little questioning might be permitted.”
She didn’t smile. It was obvious she did not find her work to be a matter of silliness. Her eyes suddenly lit up. It was like they began to dance across her face in jubilation.
“A month ago I went to Paris and participated in the Carlos Movement.”
Matthew nearly fainted. Never in his mind’s eye could he have envisioned laying in the bed of a prostitute in Amsterdam, trying to recover from a night of excessive marijuana, and hearing the name “Jubal Carlos.”
She proceeded on. “I went there on a lark. I was sure that since it was a religious movement, that once they found out I was a prostitute from Amsterdam, from the De Wallen, they would be condemning of me. So I walked up to one of the workers who appeared she might be the most prickly one, and I said, what do you think your Jesus feels about me? I’m a prostitute from Amsterdam.”
“This worker took my hands and said, ‘Well, I know what he thinks. You’re the one he’s been waiting for.'”
Matthew closed his eyes. Had to be Sister Rolinda. No doubt about it. When he reopened his eyes, he saw that Gerta was crying.
“I don’t know why it struck me so,” she said, “and why it still moves my heart this morning, but the idea of Jesus waiting for me just overcame all my barriers. I danced, I ate, I embraced, I drank some wine and I listened to the message of Father Carlos. At the end I came back to the woman who said those words to me, and I told her, ‘I’m glad Jesus was waiting for me, because I have been waiting for him for a long time.’ She hugged me until I nearly broke and led me into a deeper understanding of a new beginning. So I came back here, gave my…notice? Is that what they say in America? Anyway, now I’m waiting.”
Matthew frowned. “You still didn’t answer my question. What will you do?”
“Oh,” she said. “I’m sorry. They asked me to join the team. They want me to fly around and share my story. I can’t think of anything more exciting.”
Matthew tried to lighten the moment. “So… Now you’ve been with Jesus. How would you rate him?”
Gerta stared at Matthew as if looking through his backbone all the way to his soul. It made him uncomfortable, so he tumbled out of the bed, searching unsuccessfully for his underwear. He slid on his pants and shoes, requested his shirt, plopped it on, and headed to the door.
He paused and turned back to Gerta, who was cradling her breasts. “What if telling your story is not as exciting as being a prostitute?”
Once again, she gave him that deep, all-knowing glance. “What if it’s not as painful?” she responded.
Matthew nodded his head, opened the door and entered the streets of Amsterdam, immediately hailing a cab. While waiting for his transportation to come to the curb, he was thinking.
How did this simple idea get all the way to De Wallen Street in Amsterdam?
The taxi rolled up, Matthew climbed in, and the young man sporting a big smile, who spoke in broken English, said, “Good morning, my brother.”
Matthew replied, “Take me to the airport.”
Seated in the back, Matthew looked up on the dashboard, where there would normally be a picture of the driver along with his license. In its place was a handbill with a photo of Jubal Carlos, and, in what appeared to be German, the words: “Live from Berlin.”
He glanced into the rearview mirror and saw the eyes of the cabbie.They were those eyes–bright, hopeful and mysteriously enlightened.
Matthew shook his head and whispered to himself, “Jesus Christ. He is everywhere.”
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India. Heineken launch from UB stables likely to be delayed
The launch of Heineken, the legendary Dutch beer in India from the stables of the United Breweries Ltd (UBL) is understood to have been delayed once again.
According to alcohol beverage trade officials, UBL is understood to be gearing up to launch Heineken in India during early 2012 from the earlier scheduled launch of October 2011.
According to trade officials, this is due to the delay in the upgrade work which is going on at one of UB’s brewery in Mumbai, the sole brewery which will be used to brew Heineken beer to meet its global standards.
The decision to brew Heineken in India was taken after Heineken NV picked up a 37.5 per cent stake in India’s largest brewery company – UB, during late 2009. The management of UB had indicated that they may be able to launch Heineken during end of 2010, a date which was later deferred to mid or late 2011.
“There are lot of technical issues in brewing Heineken in India. An entire line to brew the beer is being imported and is being fine-tuned to retain its exclusive taste. Not only the line, even the barley to brew the beer in India is being imported from Europe,” senior officials at UB Group said.
However when contacted, UBL MD Kalyan Ganguly said that they are working towards a launch during October and do not see a delay. The brewery in Maharashtra is being upgraded with an investment of around Rs 30 crore.
In addition to this upgradation, UB is also putting up a greenfield brewery in Andhra Pradesh which will be built with capabilities to brew Heineken beer at a later date.
Even as UB is taking active steps to brew Heineken to India, the company has earlier introduced Heineken in selected markets of India thr-ough imports. Presently, the cost of Heineken is high (around Rs 150 for 330 ml) due to higher duties imposed on imported beer.
Domestic brewing will help to substantially reduce the price of this beer in the country, though it will be still at the premium end of the market. A 330 ml Kingfisher pint costs around Rs 60 at the premium end and Heineken, even after being brewed in India is expected to be upwards of Rs 90.
As per industry experts, this is also going to help Kingfisher in realising a revenue upside by selling this premium brand in the country.
Heineken, through the partnership with UB, is hoping to reach various metros in India to start off with riding on UB’s strong distribution network. In turn, UB is hoping that its brands will get a global stage through Heineken network in more than 60 countries.
UBL, which sold more than 105 million cases of beer in FY11, has around 50 per cent marketshare in India and has been facing tough competition from competitors like Sab Miller in its regular beer segment.
“The margins are also under pressure due to rise in commodity prices. The launch of Heineken in India will not only improve margin of UBL but also boost its efforts in premium beer segment,” an analyst said.
Meantime, the beer company, which aims to touch 200 million cases in the next three years period, is ramping up its manufacturing facility through acquisitions and setting up of greenfield breweries to meet the increasing demand for its products with an investment of around Rs 700 crore. It is planning to introduce greenfield breweries in Nanjangud of Karnataka along with one in Bihar.
It will also expand its existing capacity in Odisha, Kalyani (West Bengal), Aurangabad in Maharashtra (two units) and Hyderabad (three units) in the near future. With these planned capacities, UBL’s present capacity will go up to 16 million cases per month from 12.6 million cases in the current calender year. The company is also in talks with various state governments to cultivate barley for captive sourcing.
UBL has posted a 53 per cent rise in its net profit to Rs 40 crore in the fourth quarter of 201-11, as compared with Rs 26.1 crore in the same period last year. Net sales rose 46.5 per cent to Rs 839.5 crore during this period as compared with Rs 573.15 crore last year.
On an annual basis, the company registered a 73 per cent rise in net profit in 2010-11 to Rs 168 crore as compared with Rs 97 crore in 2009-10. Net sales rose 41 per cent to Rs 2,778.8 crore in 2010-11 against Rs 1,973.1 crore reported in 2009-10.
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Rodney O. Lain Archive
Angry Mac Man: Steve Jobs Should Run for Governor
Rodney Lain - 2000.02.24
The only way I can lose this election is if I’m caught in bed with a dead woman . . . or a live boy. – Edwin Edwards, former governor of Louisiana
And, he did win that election, BTW.
I remember, growing up in Louisiana, hearing story upon story about the infamous Long brothers. I’m sure you’ve heard of them if you have even a cursory knowledge of American history. I think it was Huey P. Long who coined the phrase a chicken in every pot.
The Long boys were scoundrels, but they were our scoundrels, dammit.
I can’t think of too many governors that didn’t bring controversy. Even though we had a few quiet, good-ole boys in the governors mansion, the road to the Baton Rouge governorship could always be counted on to give us a few laughs, if nothing else.
I remember 1991-92, the year that David Duke prompted all redneck Louisiananians to don the proverbial paper sack. David Duke was the ex-Grand Wizard of the local Ku Klux Klan. He did harmless things like celebrate Hitler’s birthday, propose that the U.S. be carved up and allotted to its respective ethnic groups.
And, of course, he warned the good citizens about the evils of miscegenation.
One of my favorite incidents occurred when he gave a speech to one group, and this interracial couple walked up to him afterwards, got his attention, then they kissed each other.
What do you think of that? they asked him. The girl was white; the guy was black.
Without missing a beat – everyone expected him to explode about such a travesty – he said to the young man, sir, what in the world is an intelligent, handsome young man doing with trash like her?
I remembered all of this the year that I escaped (read emigrated Louisiana in 1995). I also thought about the illustrious Edwin Edwards. This is the man who told a reporter, I’m a crook. You know I’m a crook. You will still re-elect me. Then he proceeded to make the comment about being caught in bed with the woman or the boy.
For some reason, I thought about this when I read a secondhand news report that claims a reputable financial-analyst group is spreading the rumor that Apple will be releasing an Internet/digital appliance at this summers Macworld Boston.
If this is true, it will solidify my opinion that Mr. Jobs is akin to Edwin Edwards in that he ostensibly can do no wrong.
Is there anything he can do that would cause him to fall from grace?
I doubt it. The man has proven the the strength of the human spirit. Sure, Amelio may have laid the foundation for Apple’s resurgence, but it was Steve Jobs’ charisma, vision and sheer force of will that pulled the company up by its bootstraps. No other person could have done it, as many have said in times past.
If he’s that good, maybe he should run for governor? Or president. Then again, maybe he shouldn’t.
As the late Lewis Grizzard, a Great American, once said: only a fool would run for president! Ditto for governor. But iCEO? Ah, that’s different matter.
– Rodney O’Neal Lain
Rodney O. Lain is The iMac’s Associate Editor. A former professor, he lives in St. Paul, MN, where he is a freelance writer and a supervisor at a major US corporation. He enjoys comic books and pencil drawing. He adores Mike Royko, Zora Hurston, Lewis Grizzard, Maya Angelou, John Byrne, bell hooks, Frank Miller, and Henry Louis Gates. He also writes for Low End Mac, Applelinks, and My Mac Magazine. When no one’s looking, he rants and raves on his home page, Free Your Mind & Your Behind Will Follow.
This article was originally published on The iMac.com, a site which no longer exists. It is copyright 2000 by RAC Enterprises, which also seems to no longer exist. It is thus reprinted here without permission (which we would gladly obtain if possible). Links have been retained when possible, but many go to the Internet Wayback Machine.
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Nevada high school football coaches submit proposal for shortened season
Pessimistic play can proceed as planned, coaches are calling for answers
L.E. Baskow
Liberty head coach Richard Muraco smiles back as his team celebrates another score over Green Valley during their high school football game on Thursday, September 28, 2017. .
By Case Keefer
Sun, Jul 19, 2020 (3:29 p.m.)
High school football coaches across the state of Nevada are determined to play the upcoming season safely.
That’s why several of them collaborated on a scheduling proposal that Rich Muraco, Liberty coach and head of the Southern Nevada football coaches’ association, formally sent to the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association Sunday morning.
“We decided we wanted to have a plan to address fall sports, football in particular, because we haven’t had any communication with what’s going to happen,” Muraco said. “We’re supposed to be less than two weeks away from putting helmets on and anyone can see that’s not going to happen; we’re not going to play our first games by August 14.”
Muraco’s proposal, which coaches including but not limited to Arbor View’s Matt Gerber, Palo Verde’s Joe Aznarez and Silverado’s Andy Ostolaza helped write, suggests a six-week moratorium on football-related activities starting this week. That would give the NIAA and Clark County School District until Sept. 1 to formulate a more concrete plan with the hope that the coronavirus situation could improve by then.
Under the coaches’ proposal, a seven-game, six-week schedule could begin on Sept. 25. The playoffs would be cut in half to allow for one less round and the season completing by the end of November.
If the pandemic continues to make conditions unplayable, then the coaches are calling for the possibility of a spring season beginning on Feb. 15 and wrapping up by May 10.
“Our biggest concern right now is, it’s hard to justify kids and coaches being out there and risking their health when we can all pretty much see there’s no chance with how the governor has worded things that we’re returning to play,” Muraco said. “The governor has us in Phase 2 and we’re not going to be in Phase 3 by July 30, which is when we would need to start padded practice for the season.”
Muraco said he coordinated with several coaches from the North, and they were on board with the plan. He also took cues from what other states have decided in regard to football.
Ten states have pushed back the start of the season to at least late September. At least one (New Mexico) has agreed to spring season.
Four states (Utah, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Idaho) have indicated they’re going ahead with high-school football.
“We didn’t want to be one of those states who says we’re going to play no matter what,” Muraco said. “That’s just not going to work for us. We want to be safe.”
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Gamble uses old-school methods to train students for brave…
Vicksburg Fire Department Chief Craig Danczyk
City seeks to use lease purchase to pay off fire trucks
By John Surratt
Published 10:40 pm Friday, November 20, 2020
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen are considering paying off two fire trucks through lease purchasing.
The board authorized City Clerk Walter Osborne to advertise for requests for proposals for a lease-purchase agreement totaling about $1.56 million to pay off the trucks over time.
Vicksburg Fire Chief Craig Danczyk said the agreement would involve the fire department’s two E-ONE “Typhoon” trucks, Ladder 3 and Ladder 15. Both trucks feature a 78-foot aerial, a pump capable of pumping 2,000-gallons per minute and can accommodate up to five firefighters.
Ladder 3, was purchased for $752,642. It was delivered in November 2017 and is stationed at Independence Station 3 on Berryman Road. Ladder 15 is stationed at Station 5 on U.S. 61 South and cost $815,303. It was delivered in March.
Mayor George Flaggs Jr. said after the meeting buying “big-ticket items” like fire trucks and heavy equipment has been a common practice buy the city.
“You’re not paying the money all at once out of appropriations,” he said. “It’s like buying a car over a period of time as opposed to paying for it in cash. You can spread the payment over years instead of all of it coming out of your budget (at one time).”
About John Surratt
John Surratt is a graduate of Louisiana State University with a degree in general studies. He has worked as an editor, reporter and photographer for newspapers in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. He has been a member of The Vicksburg Post staff since 2011 and covers city government. He and his wife attend St. Paul Catholic Church and he is a member of the Port City Kiwanis Club.
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Islamic State takeover in Ramadi will be 'costly' for terrorist group, U.S. warns
By Jacqueline Klimas and Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times
Amid local reports that the Islamic State is making gains in Ramadi, U.S. officials on Friday maintained that the terrorist group is on the defensive and that any victories will be “short-lived and highly costly” for the terrorist fighters.
Police sources said that the radical terror group’s flag was flying over a government compound only hours after six suicide car bombs went off in the heart of the city, Reuters reported.
Brig. Gen. Thomas Weidley, chief of staff of the Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve, acknowledged that there was a “complex attack” by the Islamic State on Iraqi Security Forces in Ramad, but said that he could not confirm the reports on social media showing the government compound under the control of terrorist forces.
He said the attack was not a setback and was similar to previous attacks by the Islamic State, also known as Daesh, that the Iraqi forces have been able to repel.
“Daesh does remain on the defensive,” he said to reporters at the Pentagon via phone from Southwest Asia. “We will see episodic, temporary successes, but again these typically don’t materialize into long-term gains.”
Reuters reported that an armored bulldozer bursted through blast walls as the Islamic State pushed into the city, which is roughly 60 miles west of Baghdad.
A statement released by the Islamic State group said that control of the government compound was obtained after “eliminating the apostates” inside.
Brig. Gen. Weidley could not give a percentage for how much of the city is under Islamic State control, but said Iraqi Security Forces and local police retain control of “most” of the city.
He said he expects to continue seeing these types of “harassing” attacks for the Islamic State to use in propaganda efforts to recruit more fighters.
The fight at Ramadi is not the only one where the Islamic State is having some success. Brig. Gen. Weidley said a key oil refinery in Baiji remains contested, with several hundred Islamic State recruits fighting to breach the perimeter and maintain “episodic control” of parts of the refinery.
Despite these, Brig. Gen. Weidley detailed several instances where Iraqi forces have had great success in driving out the Islamic State, including Kobani and Sinjar Mountain, as well as a 25 square mile area south of Tikrit that the Peshmerga secured in just two days.
He also said a change in the Islamic State’s behavior signifies it is on the defensive. While fighters would wear uniforms, display the group’s flag and travel in large groups last summer, recruits are now more conspicuous, traveling in smaller groups and in civilian vehicles.
“We believe across Iraq and Syria that Daesh is losing,” Brig. Gen. Weidley said. “We’re going to continue to see these episodic attacks, harassing attacks, sometimes complex attacks, sometime high profile attacks in order to further their messages.”
Tikrit, who was liberated from the Islamic State in April and remains secure, is another success story for the American-trained Iraqi Security Force, aided by U.S. air support, Brig. Gen. Weidley said.
“This is a great example of the power of the coalition combined with Iraqi Security Forces able to liberate Tikrit on short order,” he said.
The city is still uninhabitable about a month after fighting ended since essential services in the city have not been restored and improvised explosives remain around the city. Brig. Gen. Weidley said local forces are working to clear the undetonated explosives so the population can return to the city.
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GM’s Cruise begins testing autonomous vehicles without human drivers in San Francisco
Two self-driving Chevy Bolt EV cars are seen during a media event by Cruise, GM’s autonomous car unit, in San Francisco, California, U.S. November 28, 2017.
Elijah Nouvelage | Reuters
Cruise, a majority-owned subsidiary of General Motors, has started testing self-driving vehicles without driver monitors in San Francisco, the company said Wednesday.
The company plans to begin testing a handful of vehicles, followed by a “very methodical and responsible” ramp-up across San Francisco, Cruise CEO Dan Ammann said. He added that the testing marks the first use of the permit in a major U.S. city.
“What this represents for Cruise and, I think, the self-driving industry more generally is you’re seeing fully driverless technology out of the R&D phase and into the beginning of the journey to being a real commercial product,” he told reporters on a call Wednesday. “I think that’s incredibly exciting and a significant milestone on the overall journey.”
While the vehicles will not have humans in driver’s seats, Cruise plans to maintain a safety operator in the passenger seat during the beginning of the testing, according to Cruise spokesman Ray Wert.
“The safety operator has the ability to bring the vehicle to a stop in the event of an emergency, but does not have access to standard driver controls,” he said in an email to CNBC. “Eventually, this safety operator will be fully removed.”
The commercialization of self-driving cars is taking far longer than most thought it would be even a few years ago. Despite significant hype on Wall Street and companies, including Cruise, promising driverless ride-hailing fleets by or around now, Alphabet’s Waymo remains the only company operating self-driving vehicles for public use, in Arizona.
Ammann declined to say when the company plans to launch a commercial autonomous vehicle business for passengers or cargo, citing “there’s a lot more to come next year.” He said the company’s progress will be “much more visible and tangible from here.”
“I think next year is going to be a pretty exciting year,” Ammann said. He said the test vehicles are expected to eventually be part of an employee test program before public use.
Cruise last year delayed the launch of a commercial, self-driving vehicle service in San Francisco, which it had expected to deploy in 2019. The company has consistently said the timing would be guided by safety. Ammann reiterated that position Wednesday.
The new testing comes less than two months after Cruise received a permit from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to remove the human backup drivers from its self-driving cars. Others such as Waymo, Autox Technologies, Nuro and Amazon’s Zoox received such a permit before Cruise.
Cruise has driven more than 2 million miles over the past five years and invested billions of dollars in the operations, according to Ammann. GM is majority owner of Cruise, along with Honda Motor and Softbank.
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Matrix Announces the Successful Sale of Double Quick, Inc.
RICHMOND, VA / BALTIMORE, MD – April 23, 2020 – Matrix Capital Markets Group, Inc. (“Matrix”), a leading, independent investment bank, announces that it has advised Double Quick, Inc. (“Double Quick”) on the sale of its convenience retailing, petroleum marketing, and quick service restaurant (“QSR”) assets to Charleston, SC based FR Refuel, LLC d/b/a Refuel, a portfolio company of First Reserve, a leading global private equity investment firm exclusively focused on energy. Double Quick directly operates 48 convenience retailing and petroleum marketing locations, five stand-alone QSR sites, and offers proprietary food service or branded QSR concepts at 34 of its convenience stores.
In 1983, Double Quick opened its first convenience store in Greenville, MS, and soon after opened two additional locations. The following year, Double Quick acquired 16 former “Mr. Quick” stores. The acquisition established Double Quick as a notable player in the Mississippi Delta convenience store market. Under the leadership of Tom Gresham, President & Partner and Bill McPherson, Partner, Double Quick established its own proprietary hot food offerings in 1984 which eventually became known as Hot N’ Crispy Chicken & Seafood. Double Quick saw an opportunity in the early 1990s to bring branded fast food to its marketing platform and entered into a partnership with Church’s Chicken. As the partnership with Church’s grew, Double Quick looked for other opportunities to expand its food offerings by also partnering with Krystal restaurants in 1995.
Matrix provided merger and acquisition advisory services to Double Quick, which included valuation advisory, marketing the business through a confidential, structured sale process, and negotiation of the sale. The transaction was managed by Spencer Cavalier, Co-Head of Matrix’s Downstream Energy & Convenience Retail Group; Sean Dooley, Director; Andrew LoPresti, Vice President; and Martin McElroy, Associate.
Tom Gresham stated, “Bill and I would first like to thank the awesome Double Quick team members who, over the last 36 plus years, adopted our core values of ‘Learn, Be Honest, Work Smart Together and Have Fun’, making Double Quick what it is today.” Bill McPherson added, “Tom and I want to thank our CFO Barry Schuster, for her support and guidance, Matrix for their financial advisory and transactional expertise, and the Bradley law firm for their legal guidance and professionalism throughout this entire process.”
Mr. Cavalier commented, “We are honored to have advised the Gresham and McPherson families on the sale of Double Quick. Tom and Bill were very progressive in the early years in establishing a reputable food service offering, which greatly increased customer trips and brand loyalty. They have built one of the most successful convenience retailing and restaurant companies we have advised to date, and it was a pleasure working with them on this transaction.”
Michael Noble, David Roth and David Rutter of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP served as legal counsel for Double Quick.
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The Journal of the American Oriental Society
Vol. 116 Nbr. 4, October 1996
An Introduction to the Hadith.
Author: Dickinson, Eerik
This is a book that wears its title rather uneasily, for it contains much advanced material. Burton does offer certain concessions to the title's promise, but ultimately limitations remain. It is very difficult to decide whether the book should be judged as a technical treatise for experts or a general work aimed at beginners. Elements of both are found and they jostle one another uncomfortably.
For some time Burton has been one of the most productive and provocative researchers in early Islamic thought and a summary of the conclusions he has reached concerning hadith would be of great value for students in the field. Therefore, it is regrettable that he has chosen here not to provide a clear and coherent exposition of his original insights, but rather to imbed them in critiques of Ignaz Goldziher and Joseph Schacht, found throughout the text. As it is, the reader must extract Burton's views one-by-one and piece them together on his own. Those who have read Burton's other works are familiar with the importance he ascribes to "the looming presence of the Quran" (p. 149), and he states here that "many of the hadiths can be shown to spring from an ancient source in the primitive [Qur anic] exegeses" (p. 181). Although these hadith may not have necessarily emanated from the Prophet, they may date from "very soon after" (p. 181). For Burton, most hadith are the "documentary precipitation" of a "paper war" between scholars more concerned with establishing ideals than regulating behavior (p. xxiii). This differs considerably from the view of Schacht, who saw late Umayyad administrative practice and popular usage as the sources of many legal hadith. Chapter four, "The Study of the Hadith," examines the exegetical hadith and is one of the most interesting sections of the book. Burton divides exegetical hadith into "pure" and "applied," the difference being that the former were directly inspired by the text of the Qur an while the latter seem to be those that argue their point by providing variant readings of the Qur anic text. Here we are expertly led through a number of legal disputes where the role played by hadith is clearly shown. These discussions are unavoidably intricate, but they amply repay the effort expended in following them. Burton's discussion of the question of whether hadith could abrogate the Qur an is also important (pp. 113-16).
The elements of the book which are appropriate for an introductory work aimed at undergraduates or...
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Home GovernmentThe Governor
H. E. Governor Dr. Alfred Nganga Mutua’s Profile
BORN: 22nd August, 1970
POLITICAL PARTY: Maendeleo Chap Chap Party – Founder and Party Leader
RESIDENCE: Machakos County
ALMA MATER: University of Western Sydney, Australia
Eastern Washington University, U.S.A
Whitworth College, U.S.A
WEBSITE: www.alfredmutua.com
IN-OFFICE: Government Spokesperson and Public Communications Secretary – 2004 – September 2012
PRESENT: Governor, Machakos County, Kenya (2nd term)
Dr. Alfred Nganga Mutua was born in Masii, then, a remote part of Machakos District in Kenya’s Eastern Province. He attended Toi Primary school n KIBERA, Dagoretti High School for his O’ levels and Jamhuri High School for his A levels.
A family man, he has studied, lived and worked in Kenya, United States, Australia and United Arab Emirates. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism from Whitworth College, U.S.A, a Master of Science Degree in Communications from Eastern Washington University, U.S.A and a Doctorate in Communication and Media from the University of Western Sydney, Australia.
Mutua began his career as a journalist while still in high school, publishing his first story in the daily newspapers at the age of 15. After high school, he wrote features for The Sunday Nation, Standard Newspaper and the defunct Kenya Times Newspaper. In 1989, at the age of 19, he registered his first company Golden Dreams Company and started publishing a newsletter/magazine “Golden Times.”
While in the United States for further education, he published stories for several American newspapers and started video production work, producing “An African in America” documentary in 1996. He worked for several TV stations including PBS in Seattle, Washington. He later worked for Nation Media Group as a reporter and features writer from 1997.
Later in Australia, he was published by the Sydney Morning Herald and worked as a foreign correspondent for SBS TV’s international magazine show Dateline. He travelled extensively covering major happenings in the world.
He also lectured at the University of Western Sydney, Macquarie University and several TAFE colleges in Sydney. In 2002, he was poached from Sydney and moved to The United Arab Emirates as an Assistant Professor of Communication and Media at the Prestigious Zayed University. While in the UAE – Dubai and Abu Dhabi, he also undertook research in the Middle East East and traveled to Oman and Beirut, Lebanon to present papers and research on the use of mead and communication for peace and development.
From 1999, he wrote a popular weekly travel feature “Msafiri” for the Friday edition of the Daily Nation Newspaper and became a contributor of opinion pieces for the Sunday Nation. In 2003, he undertook consultancy work at the then Nation TV, training and assisting journalists transition to modern broadcasting standards as the station changed its name and look to NTV.
MEDIA, FILM WORK, BOOKS & MAGAZINES
While in Dubai, Dr. Mutua continued producing films and in 2002 made “And the Desert Smiled” a film about always hoping and winning. Later from 2005, he revived his company Golden Dreams Company and made Kenya’s first modern action TV series “Cobra Squad” TV which gained a huge following in the region. He also produced other shows including Beba Beba and “How to be Rich in Africa.”
He published a fashion magazine PASSION and wrote a book: “How to be Rich in Africa and other secrets of survival” among many other ventures than included the East African Music Awards in 2011.
He is also the proprietor of Woni TV station and has diverse interests in the hotel industry, aviation and real estate.
IN 2002, when the Kibaki administration came to power under the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC), there were loads of hope and optimism among Kenyans. One of the biggest promises made to Kenyans was the establishing of a Public Communications Department that would ease access to all Public Information held by the government as well as keep the masses informed on how the government was operating.
The new NARC government created the Office of Public Communications Secretary, popularly known as Government Spokesman and appointed Dr. Alfred Mutua as its first holder. Much was expected of him due to his job experience and educational background. He was charged with the duty of collecting information and analyzing events within the set-up of the government. Essentially, his work entailed communicating information to and from media, government ministries, state corporations and the public on behalf his employer, the State.
Mutua served at a time when the country was undergoing major conflicts and scandals and he managed to raise the stature of the office by ensuring members of public and media had access to government information.
After close to nine years as the Government Spokesperson, Dr. Alfred Mutua resigned in September 2012 and joined the race for Machakos County Gubernatorial seat competing against politician Wavinya Ndeti, who was then the Member of Parliament for Kathiani Constituency (now split into Mavoko and Kathiani).
He became the flag bearer of the Wiper Democratic Movement Party and eventually won the election with a landslide, 71% of the total vote.
Indeed, from being the FIRST Government Spokesman to the FIRST Governor of Machakos County he has been a trail blazer with enviable leadership skills.
Dr. Alfred Mutua hit the ground running in implementing the devolved government system after the 2013 elections. He set the pace on how county governments should be managed and run.
Through his focus and leadership, he was the first Governor to constitute his government and barely two months after his election into office, he spearheaded the first ever County Investment Forum that attracted investors from all corners of the world. The conference saw the signing of Memorandums of Understanding amounting to Kshs. 2.1 Trillion.
Barely a year in office, Dr. Mutua made history again by being the FIRST Governor in Kenya to buy an ambulance for every location in his county, saving hundreds of thousands of lives. With a response time of maximum 8 minutes, residents who previously trekked long distances during emergencies to get to the health centers can now get health service faster and at relative comfort.
In 2017, Dr. Mutua successfully defended his gubernatorial seat under his newly formed Maendeleo Chap Chap Party. He is the party leader of Maendeleo Chap Chap Party – which despite being new, won several parliamentary seats and county assembly seats from all over Kenya.
Winning against a strong tide of the Wiper Party in Ukambani, was a strong sign of the voter’s confidence on his performance. It was also a message from the electorate of their expectations on him as a community.
In his tenure as the Governor of Machakos, great strides have been made in the improvement of infrastructure. Through lobbying to international development partners, collaborations with the National Government and County Government initiatives, Machakos County now boasts of over 200km of new tarmac roads, over 8,000 kilometers of graded roads that have greatly increased access across the county.
Interventions in the agricultural sector have seen the people of Machakos move from being dependent on government food relief during drought and famine to being self-sufficient and trading their surplus produce with neighboring counties of Kitui, Makueni and Kajiado. Policies such as subsidized fertilizers to the farmers, free hybrid seedlings from the county government and provision of extension services from qualified agricultural officers has seen farmers increase yields, engage in value addition for their produce.
Provision of water to the people of Machakos has remained a core to Dr. Mutua’s administration. With over 440 solar powered boreholes dug and equipped between 2013 and 2019 in all sub counties, 240 dams and pans and 216 weirs, the water problem is far from over, but great strides have been made to ensure our mothers no longer trek long distances in search of water. Plans are underway to ensure that by 2022, water reticulation to markets and homes of Machakos residents is complete with over 360 kilometers of pipes already laid.
A leader keen on empowering lives of the youth through education, Dr. Mutua has initiated scholarships for the youth in Machakos wishing to pursue courses at Certificate, Diploma and Degree levels. Collaborations with international universities for Machakos youth at subsidized costs have been made that have provided them with international exposure.
To equip the youth with employable skills, in 2016, Dr. Mutua initiated a FREE vocational training program where Machakos youth can study for free in all Government vocational colleges within the county. This has seen a visible increase in skilled plumbers, dress makers, mechanics, masons from the county, who continue to export their skills across the country, becoming productive Kenyan taxpayers whose success trickles down to ultimately improve their families’ quality of life.
A sports & recreational enthusiast, Dr. Mutua has made great strides in promoting Machakos as a premier sports tourism hub. The iconic Machakos Stadium, that from 2014-2017 remained the only FIFA accredited stadium built by a county government, has hosted international matches ranging from CECAFA, World Cup Women’s qualifiers and Rugby tournaments. Dr. Mutua has also initiated the construction of 8 stadiums across the sub counties, complete with staffed sports academies that will go a long way in nurturing the sporting talent of the youth in every subcounty. Construction in Mavoko, Kinyui, Masii and Ikombe has begun. The Machakos People’s’ Park which was built in his first term has won awards as the best public park in Kenya and is the starting point for the annual Tour De Machakos and home to the popular film festival Machakosfest.
At the forefront on the fight against cancer, Dr. Mutua has initiated cancer awareness campaigns across all the Sub counties, with over 3,000 residents tested. Through the health centre rehabilitations program that has seen all health centers equipped, staffed and stocked with medicines, residents can now get screened for cancer for free in all health centres.
Machakos became the first regional government to open a cancer Centre and now the Machakos Cancer treatment and research facility is fully operational and providing free treatment registered under the Universal Health Coverage (UHC). His emphasis in health has transformed Machakos to be the premier health county on Kenya.
Dr. Mutua’s tenure as Machakos Governor, has seen Machakos county transform into a solid investment hub. Investors, both local and international have gained confidence in Machakos County. Land value in Machakos has appreciated exponentially and under his guidance, strong structures and transformative policies that have continually uplifted the lives of the residents of Machakos continue to be developed.
Due to his development work and his focus in rolling poverty, Dr. Alfred Mutua has been recognized several times and as recently as September, 2019, as the leading Governor in Kenya in terms of development and leadership.
ANTI-CORRUPTION CRUSADER
Dr. Alfred Mutua has spoken and written about the effects of corruption on African country. He is a champion in the fight against corruption which he views as one of the major causes for slow down in development and entrenchment of poverty in Kenya and many African nations.
Dr. Mutua introduced the argument of lifestyle audits for all Government officials and up to date, he is the only Kenyan government official to take himself to the Ethics and Anti Corruption commission to avail details of his wealth and to request for a lifestyle audit to be conducted on him and his close relatives.
President Uhuru Kenyatta also echoes Dr. Mutua’s sentiments and said that all Government officials should be subjected to a lifestyle audit.
A strong believer in the rule of law, Dr. Mutua continues to speak against corruption and to educate the public that when they vote for corrupt leaders or accept corrupt money in fund raisers, they are enslaving themselves to years of suffering.
PRESIDENTIAL AMBITIONS
As we gear up to 2022, Dr. Alfred Mutua will be seeking the people’s mandate to serve as the 5th President of the Republic of Kenya.
Offering creative and innovative ideas to govern the country, Dr. Mutua pledges to help Kenyans to grow wealth and completely eradicate corruption – the vice that has greatly affected service delivery in the country.
Running under a youthful and transformative platform, Dr. Mutua enjoys massive support among the young and middle-aged citizens and is seeking a fresh input and perspective into Kenyan politics and strives to shift political mindsets and propel Kenya from a third world into the first world.
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H.E Dr. Alfred N. Mutua, EBS, EGH.
Governor, Machakos County
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This year, the 15th edition of ISB’s Leadership Summit will be held at the Mohali campus on September 22 and 23, 2017, and at the Hyderabad campus on September 23 and 24, 2017. The theme for the summit is ‘Transforming Tomorrow: The Future Unraveled.’ It would focus on the trends that will be instrumental in shaping India’s future, as well as of the world as a whole.
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Florida State University established its first marine laboratory, the Oceanographic Institute, in 1949 on 25 acres on the harbor side of the peninsula that forms Alligator Harbor, about 45 miles south of Tallahassee.
The Oceanographic Institute maintained a substantial research effort throughout the 1950s and 1960s. The research conducted by the faculty and graduate students was intended to be interdisciplinary, balancing fundamental investigations of the productivity of tropical continental-shelf waters in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico with applied research on practical problems of the commercial and sport fisheries and the use of other marine resources.
In addition to the laboratory building—divided into a wet laboratory classroom and a room of research cubicles for use by staff, faculty, and graduate students—facilities included large concrete seawater tanks for keeping marine animals, a large pool (70 x 50 ft, 7 ft deep) constructed in 1954 to keep dolphins, a faculty residence building, a boathouse-shop, and a 300-foot concrete pier for docking small boats. The laboratory was equipped with five power boats (22 to 38 ft) and several skiffs.
Other marine stations maintained by Florida State University until 1954 included one at Mayport, on the St. Johns River near Jacksonville, which conducted research related to the menhaden and shrimp fisheries and oceanographic problems of the Gulf Stream and the mouth of the St. John's River, and one on Mullet Key at the mouth of Tampa Bay which studied red tide.
In 1966, FSU formed the Department of Oceanography on campus, and the Oceanographic Institute was closed. A new facility was built across the harbor and further to the west on land donated to Florida State University by Ed Ball, President of the St. Joe Paper Company. This facility opened in 1968 and was known as the Edward Ball Marine Laboratory.
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Past Directors of the FSU Oceanic Institute
H. Humm
A. Collier
C. Oppenheimer
R. Harris
W. Menzel
Director from 1955-1961
Ph.D. California Institute of Technology (1940)
Areas of expertise: botany, economics of marine algae, seaweed systematics
Dr. Humm was a leading authority on algae, marine bacteriology, and land-plan ecology and taxonomy. At least 11 new species of marine algae, diatoms, and invertebrate animals were named in his honor. He was the first Resident Director of the Duke Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, NC (1948-49); founding Director of the Oceanographic Institute of Florida State University (1949-1954); visiting scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (1959); Jacques Loeb Associate in Marine Biology, Rockefeller Institute (1959-60); and founding Director of the University of South Florida Institute of Marine Science (1967-1974). He also was the mentor of Dr. Sylvia Earle, National Geographic Explorer.
Ph.D. Duke University (1945)
Dr. Fox was perhaps best know for his groundbreaking work on the origin of life, in seminal experiments conducted in the 1960s on the synthesis of thermal proteins from amino acids, and for his demonstration that these proteins, when placed in water, spontaneously self-organize into structures, known as microspheres, that resemble primitive cells. On three occasions he was invited to the Vatican to explain the results of his work to the Pope.
At the behest of NASA, Fox left the institute to take the position of director of the Institute of Bioscience at Florida State (1961-1964) before moving to the University of Miami to become director and professor of its Institute of Molecular and Cellular Evolution (1964-1989). In 1989, he became distinguished research professor in the Department of Plant Biology at Southern Illinois University and since 1993 has been distinguished research scientist in the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Southern Alabama.
Collier worked for several federal agencies and taught at Florida State University and the University of Arizona between 1933 and 1982. He was a key player in a 1946 investigation of the role of petroleum production in increased Gulf Coast oyster mortalities, during which he and the other investigators discovered a new parasite and its potential damage to oysters.
Ph.D. University of California, San Diego (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) (1961)
Areas of expertise: marine microbial ecology, geomicrobiology, marine bacteriology, petroleum microbiology and pollution, oceanography, general ecology, coastal zone management, microbiological pollution control, microbial enhanced oil recovery, bioremediation. He is known to be one of the world's founding fathers of bioremediation.
Oppenheimer received Fulbright Fellowships to both Norway and Italy, then returned to Scripps as an Assistant Marine Biologist. He then moved to the Pan American Petroleum Corporation Research Center before heading to the University of Texas Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas. In 1961, he joined the faculty of the Institute of Marine Science, University of Miami. From there, he moved to Florida State University, where he was a professor in the departments of Biological Science and of Oceanography. Dr. Oppenheimer served as the last director of the Oceanographic Institute (1964-1968) and the first director of the Edward Ball Marine Laboratory (l968-l97l).
In 1971, he returned to the University of Texas, where he remained for the rest of his career. In addition, he served as Vice President for Research and Development at the Alpha Environmental Corporation in Austin, Texas, and later established his own company, Oppenheimer Environmental Company.
Ph.D. Rice University, Houston (Geochemistry)
Areas of expertise: chemical oceanography, including the distribution of iron and manganese in the sea, and the ecological implications of mercury pollution in aquatic systems.
Harriss served as director of the FSU Marine Laboratory from 1971 through 1974. Before accepting his current post as a Senior Scientist at the Institute for the Study of Society and the Environment of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, he served as Professor (adjunct) Department of Planning and Design, College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado; Professor (adjunct) Department of Marine Sciences, Texas A&M University at Galveston; and Principal Scientist, The Institute for Oceans and Coasts.
Dr. Harriss has previously served as Director of the Institute for the Study of Society and Environment of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Director of the Sustainable Enterprise Institute of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station; holder of the Wiley Chair in Civil Engineering; and Director, Science Division, Mission to Planet Earth, NASA headquarters.
Awards include fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Harvard University Fellowship, and NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement and Outstanding Leadership Medals.
Ph.D. Texas A&M University (1954)
Areas of expertise: mollusc biology
Winston Menzel spent his entire professional career at Florida State University, where he concentrated on molluscan aquaculture and genetics. His research ranged from projects in selective breeding and hybridization in clams and oysters to clam mariculture. He is noted for developing a management plan for the oyster resource in Apalachicola Bay with the Florida State Board f Natural Resources. Much of this body of work is extremely relevant to the Apalachicola Bay System Initiative currently being conducted at the lab in 2020.
Past Directors of the FSU Edward Ball Marine Laboratory
M. Greenberg
W. Herrnkind
R. Ellington
N. Marcus
R. Iverson
Professor Emeritus (Pharmacology), University of Florida
Ph.D. Harvard University (1958)
Areas of expertise: molluscan pharmacology, osmotic regulation, and echinoderm regeneration
Dr. Greenberg started at FSU in the Department of Biological Science in 1964, where he taught general (cell) physiology and comparative physiology. The diversity of his students' research and collection sites led Greenberg to establish, in 1969, The Tallahassee, Sopchoppy, & Gulf Coast Marine Biological Association of which he is still president.
Greenberg left FSU in 1981 to become Director of the Whitney Laboratory, University of Florida. During his tenure, the Whitney increased in size and population, an effective board of trustees was established, and in Greenberg's lab, many invertebrate neuropeptides were discovered and their effects investigated. The latter efforts were supported by a MERIT award, in 1986, from the National Institutes of Health. Greenberg retired from the directorship in 1996, from the University in 2001, and in 2004, from editorship of the Biological Bulletin.
During his tenure as FSUML Director, Greenberg oversaw a complete renovattion of the lab; obtained funding for and purchased a package of general use equipment that facilitated teaching at the lab; initiated (in 1978) the 15-credit-hour course Experimental Marine Biology, which met all day, five days per week, for a full 10-week quarter (students and instructors lived in the lab's dormitories); and directed the FSU scientific diving program and its staff.
Robert K. Godfrey Professor Emeritus, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Ph.D. University of Miami (1968)
Areas of expertise: enzyme structure, function, and evolution
While director of the FSUML, Bill Herrnkind designed, initiated (1984), hosted, and secured grant funding for the "Saturday-At-The-Sea" educational outreach program (in collaboration with Dr. Patricia C. Hayward, founder of FSU's Office of Science Teaching Activities). In 1981, he acquired the R/V Seminole (captured by U.S. Customs in a drug bust), secured funds to upgrade it, and oversaw its renovation into to a serviceable research platform (from 1977, when FSU's lease on the R/V Tursiops ended, until acquisition of the Seminole, the lab had only outboard skiffs and pontoon boats). He also Acquired terminal and linkage to the FSU campus main-frame computer, bringing the first computer access to FSUML (before the age of desktops). In response to a burglary/assault threat on a student assistant staying overnight, he established round-the-clock security personnel, a barrier fence, and expanded outdoor lighting. He taught summer and residence courses at FSUML; initiated and promoted the development of the Academic Diving Program as a science-diver training, research, and graduate service operation providing free use of SCUBA and instrumentation as well as safety oversight; and oversaw the first on-site Marine Lab "Open House" for FSU faculty, staff, students, and friends thereof.
Dr. Herrnkind currently serves as an FSUCML docent.
Michael J. Greenberg Professor of Biological Science
Ph. D. University of Rhode Island (1976)
Dr. Ellington's research while at FSU included development of a federally funded research program focused on the structure, function, and evolution of a family of phosphoryl transfer enzymes. Ellington served as Associate Vice President for Research and Vice President of the FSU Research Foundation and was a faculty member in the Department of Biological Science from 1981-2020. In addition to his service as FSUCML director, he served as Director of the Institute of Molecular Biophysics and Structural Biology Program from 1997 through 2005. Ellington served as Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs prior to joining the Office of the Vice President for Research.
Ellington was instrumental in developing the research proposal funded by the Triumph Fund in 2019, The Apalachicola Bay System Initiative.
Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor and Mary Sears Professor of Oceanography
Ph.D. Yale University (1976)
Areas of Expertise: ecology and evolutionary biology, centering on dormancy as part of the life cycle in marine copepod species
Marcus started her career at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, as a Postdoctoral Fellow for two years and then as a member of the scientific staff for nine more. She moved to the Florida State University Department of Oceanography in 1987.
In addition to her responsibilities as a professor and as FSUML Director, she served as Director of the Women in Math, Science, and Engineering program and Chair of the Department of Oceanography. These roles led to her to take on a new challenge in August 2005, Dean of Graduate Studies.
Professor, Department of Oceanography, Florida State University
Ph.D. Oregon State University (1972)
Areas of expertise: physiology and ecology of marine phytoplankton
During his tenure as director, Iverson significantly upgraded the FSUML infrastructure. For example, he secured and oversaw installation of a 5000-square-foot modular building; a fiber optic Internet cable throughout the FSUML research, education, and maintenance buildings; and server and new personal computers for all staff members (permitting direct communication with FSU's main campus). via the Internet.
He also replaced the antiquated telephone system, including complete rewiring throughout FSUML research, education, and maintenance buildings; refurbished the RV Seminole (replacing the electrical system, installing a new winch, replacing the radar/sounding system with an advanced unit, and replacing the life rafts); re-engined the small-boat fleet; and arranged for reroofing of the nonresidential FSUML buildings.
Past Directors of the FSU Coastal & Marine Laboratory
F. Coleman
Full Research Faculty, FSUCML & Biological Science
Ph.D. Florida State University (1991)
Areas of expertise: species-habitat interactions and the effects of exploitation; fisheries & habitat management
Dr. Coleman developed & directed (15 yrs) a Marine Biology Program in the Biology Department providing professional development and research internships for undergrads. Her diversely-funded research in conservation & management led her to serve on relevant panels with the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council, the National Academy of Science, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and Lenfest, among others. She is a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation & an Aldo Leopold Conservation Fellow.
During her tenure as director, the research facility geared for campus-based and visiting scientists shifted to become a research institution in its own right, with seven resident faculty. She changed the lab's name to reflect a new research focus on the connectivity between land and sea. Coleman streamlined operations to increase efficiency and moved the Dive Program from the main campus to the lab at considerable cost savings. She worked closely with donors to bring a closed seawater system, weather station, outdoor classroom, a research boat, and several funds for graduate student research. She worked with architects to build a 63-ft research vessel (c. 2013) and develop plans for new research buildings.
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The new bill that entered circulation today.
Benito Juárez, gray whale grace new 500-peso banknote
The bill pays homage to Mexico's historical identity and natural heritage, Banxico said
Published on Monday, August 27, 2018
Images of former president Benito Juárez and a gray whale replace those of artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera on the new 500-peso bill which entered circulation today.
The Bank of México (Banxico) officially launched the new blue-colored note at an event in Mexico City, where it was announced that it is the “first in a new family of bills that pay homage to our historical identity and natural heritage.”
The central bank said in a video that “the ecosystem of coasts, seas, islands and the gray whale” and “the historic process of La Reforma [a 19th-century liberal reform] and the restoration of the republic” feature together on the new 500-peso bill.
Juárez, a Zapotec lawyer from Oaxaca who served as president between 1858 and 1872, now appears on two bank notes as his likeness is already featured on the 20-peso bill.
Although both notes are blue and feature Juárez, Banxico pointed out that the 500-peso bill is larger than the 20 and that the former is made of cotton paper whereas the latter is plastic.
Bank of México governor Alejandro Díaz de León said the decision to change the 500-peso note was made because it is the most widely circulated and most counterfeited denomination.
The new bill features a range of security features including fluorescent ink, a dynamic thread, embossing perceptible by touch, a watermark and a multicolor denomination.
A new 200-peso bill, featuring independence heroes Miguel Costilla y Hidalgo and José María Morelos on one side and the El Pinacate desert biosphere reserve on the other, will enter into circulation next year, while a new 1,000-peso note will be issued in 2020.
The latter will pay homage to the Mexican Revolution, with images of Francisco I. Madero, Carmen Serdán and Hermila Galindo on one side. The opposite side will feature Campeche’s Calakmul Biosphere Reserve.
The 500-peso bill was first issued in 1994 and featured an image of army general Ignacio Zaragoza.
The Frida and Diego bill appeared in 2010 but will now be gradually withdrawn from circulation.
Source: El Financiero (sp)
Bank of México puts new 100-peso banknote into circulation
It features the likeness of 17th century feminist poet and nun Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz on one side and monarch butterflies on the other.
Bank of México releases 20-peso coin celebrating founding of Veracruz
One side of the coin features images of the original Veracruz town hall and a 16th-century ship reminiscent of the one on which Hernán Cortés sailed.
US returns 3,500 copper coins that were in use more than 500 years ago
The United States returned a collection of over 3,500 pre-Hispanic copper coins to Mexican authorities in a ceremony in Miami on Monday.
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Divorce is defined as a legal action to end a marriage. This means that two people are no longer considered united as one. In Florida, the marriage has to be seven years or more to receive a decent amount of spousal support. Florida now considers a marriage of four years to be able to earn a living together and the amount of alimony at this stage will not be impossible but it will be highly unlikely. When it comes to divorce in Florida, neither spouse is at fault; however, fault can play a significant role in determining spousal support.
A person may wonder where does alimony money come from? The answer is simple. In the state of Florida, the gross income of the payor is calculated at 30%, while the payee’s gross income is calculated at 20%. Child support takes precedence over spousal support. A payor will be approximately 40% of his or her gross income and the other spouse will include their gross income based less than 50%.
Spouses Must Sign a Written Agreement
Alimony can be waived if the supporting spouse doesn’t agree to it or declines it; however, both spouses must sign a written agreement stating that the other is waiving the right to alimony. If the spouses do agree on an alimony amount a court document will be made available to the court and a judge will enter it in the court order. As of January 1, 2019, Flordia no longer allows divorced couples to deduct alimony on their tax returns. The payee isn’t allowed to claim alimony as an annual income.
Assets and Liabilities
During divorce proceedings, assets and liabilities will also play a major role in the decision for alimony. Depending on who makes the most annual gross income that person will be the one chosen to make alimony payments to the other spouse. Both parties involved must agree to the terms of the divorce before a judge can make a ruling and enter a court order.
There are various types of alimony in Florida. An attorney will weigh all the options available during the divorce proceedings. Any spousal support will be made monthly or semi-monthly. Either spouse can decide to pay a lump-sum at once or hand over a personal property as part of the settlement. Spousal payments will be made directly from the Florida State Disbursement Unit to prevent any contact between the spouses about the payments.
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Surgery for movement disorders
W. Hu, B. T. Klassen, M. Stead
Over past three decades, there has been a resurgence of interest in functional neurosurgery for movement disorders. Recently, thanks to the increased understanding of cellular pathophysiology and advances in technology and surgical techniques, deep brain stimulation (DBS) has essentially replaced ablative procedures for most of these conditions. Success of DBS treatment in the movement disorders depends on the recognized limitations in the medical treatment, our understanding of the anatomy and physiology of these disorders and, particularly, involvement of neurologists, neurosurgeons, clinical neurophysiologists and neuropsychiatrists in outcome studies of DBS surgery. Up to now, the exact mechanism of DBS is not fully understood. This review provides an overview of use of stereotactic neurosurgery, particularly DBS, for movement disorders, focusing mainly on the patient selection, target options, clinical outcome, adverse effects and possible mechamisms of DBS for advanced Parkinson's disease, dystonia, and essential tremor.
Journal of neurosurgical sciences
Deep brain stimulation
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Hu, W., Klassen, B. T., & Stead, M. (2011). Surgery for movement disorders. Journal of neurosurgical sciences, 55(4), 305-317.
Surgery for movement disorders. / Hu, W.; Klassen, B. T.; Stead, M.
In: Journal of neurosurgical sciences, Vol. 55, No. 4, 01.12.2011, p. 305-317.
Hu, W, Klassen, BT & Stead, M 2011, 'Surgery for movement disorders', Journal of neurosurgical sciences, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 305-317.
Hu W, Klassen BT, Stead M. Surgery for movement disorders. Journal of neurosurgical sciences. 2011 Dec 1;55(4):305-317.
Hu, W. ; Klassen, B. T. ; Stead, M. / Surgery for movement disorders. In: Journal of neurosurgical sciences. 2011 ; Vol. 55, No. 4. pp. 305-317.
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