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The Marković Cabinet was the 41st cabinet of Montenegro. It was led by Prime Minister Duško Marković. The was elected on 28 November 2016 by a majority vote in the Parliament of Montenegro. The coalition government was composed of the Democratic Party of Socialists, the Social Democrats, and ethnic minority parties. The cabinet lasted until 4 December 2020, when it was succeeded by the Krivokapić Cabinet, and was the last cabinet of the era of DPS dominance, which lasted from the introduction of the multi-party system in SR Montenegro.

Government formation

2016 election

Parliamentary elections were held in Montenegro on October 16, 2016 and resulted in another victory for the long-ruling Democratic Party of Socialists.

Forming the majority
Although DPS failed to win a majority on their own, they succeeded in remaining in power once again, forming a government with the newly formed Social Democrats (SD), as well as parties representing Albanian, Bosniak and Croat minorities.

On 9 November 2016, Deputy PM Duško Marković was nominated as Prime Minister by President Filip Vujanović. On 28 November, the government was elected by 42 out of 81 members of the parliament. The entire opposition boycotted the assembly.

Cabinet composition

Party breakdown

Ministers

Controversy and affairs
In its political rights and civil liberties worldwide report in May 2020, Freedom House marked Montenegro as a hybrid regime rather than a democracy because of declining standards in governance, justice, elections and media freedom. Freedom House stated that years of increasing state capture, abuse of power, authoritative and populist leadership had tipped country over the edge, and for the first time since 2003, Montenegro was no longer categorised as a democracy. The report emphasised the unequal electoral process, cases of political arrests, negative developments related to judicial independence, media freedoms, as well as a series of unresolved cases of corruption within the DPS-led government.

Electoral fraud and abuse of state resources
All 39 opposition MPs (out of 81 in total) started boycotting Parliament since the constitution of its current convocation in December 2016, due to claims of electoral fraud and that the elections were not held under fair conditions, at the 2016 parliamentary elections. They are demanding snap elections and reform of electoral laws.

In its June 2018 report, the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, called for election reforms in Montenegro, and for more integrity, impartiality, and professionalism in election administration. The period before the 2020 parliamentary election also  was marked by the high polarization of the electorate. Several corruption scandals of the ruling party triggered 2019 anti-government protests, while a controversial religion law sparked another wave of protests. Election observers OSCE stated: "Abuse of state resources gave the ruling party an unfair advantage", and said that although the elections were competitive, the governing party also benefited from a lack of independent media.

Political trials against the opposition

Alleged plot and "Coup d'etat" case

A coup d'état in the capital of Montenegro, Podgorica was allegedly planned and prepared for 16 October 2016, the day of the parliamentary election, according to Montenegro's special prosecutor. In September 2017, the trial of those indicted in connection with the plot began in the Higher Court in Podgorica, the indictees including leaders of the Montenegrin opposition and two alleged Russian intelligence agents. Russian government denied any involvement. In 2019, the Higher Court found guilty of plotting to commit ″terrorist acts″, also of "undermine the constitutional order of Montenegro" and first instance sentenced 13 people, including Montenegrin opposition leaders. On 5 February 2021, the Court of Appeals of Montenegro annulled the first instance verdict on all counts of the indictment. "The Council annulled the first-instance verdict because significant violations of the provisions of the criminal procedure were committed in the procedure of its passing and in the verdict itself, due to which neither factual nor legal conclusions could be accepted in the first-instance verdict, as in the existence of criminal offenses guilty, as well as in relation to the existence of their guilt for the acts ", it is stated in the announcement of the appellate court. The "coup d'etat" case was returned to the Higher Court in Podgorica, for a retrial before a completely changed composition. Many saw the decisions of the appellate court as a confirmation of then ruling Democratic Party of Socialists's mounted political process against its political opposition, and proof that the first instance verdict was passed under the pressure of the then DPS-led regime in Montenegro.

Assault on journalist Olivera Lakić
In early May 2018 Olivera Lakić, an investigative journalist from the Montenegrin daily newspaper Vijesti, was shot and wounded in front of her house in Podgorica after she published a series of articles about allegedly corrupt businesses involving top state officials and their families. The identity of the shooter is still unknown.

Marović case and Budva affair
In 2016, then vice president of the ruling DPS Svetozar Marović was arrested in connection to a long-running corruption case concerning his hometown of Budva; the Montenegrin prosecutor's office labeled him as "head of Budva criminal group," which he later admitted in court. He eventually fled to neighboring Serbia for alleged psychiatric treatment in Belgrade, where he currently resides. Montenegro has repeatedly requested his extradition from Serbia.

In August 2020, Marović spoke to the media for the first time, after fleeing to Belgrade, accusing the leadership of the party he founded of corruption, nepotism, partocracy and authoritarianism, also accusing DPS leader Milo Đukanović of rigging the corruption process against him and members of his family.

The "Atlas" and "Envelope" affairs
In mid-January 2019, a video clip from 2016 surfaced in which fotlrmer DPS-led regime former ally, Montenegrin-British businessman Duško Knežević, chairman of the Montenegro-based Atlas Group, appeared to hand the Mayor of Podgorica and high-ranked ruling party member, Slavoljub Stijepović, an envelope containing what Knežević later said was $97,000, to fund a Democratic Party of Socialists parliamentary election campaign. After fleeing to London, Knežević told the media he had been providing such unreported money to the DPS for the past 25 years.

Anti-corruption protests
Protests against corruption within Montenegrin DPS-lead government have started in February 2019 soon after the revelation of footage and documents that appear to implicate top officials in obtaining suspicious funds for the ruling party.

Controversial religion law and protests
After its ninth congress in November 2019, the ruling DPS dominantly increased its ethnic nationalist and even conservative discourse, by officially and institutionally supporting the rights of the canonically unrecognized Montenegrin Orthodox Church, announcing its "re-establishment". As of late December 2019, the newly proclaimed religion law which de jure transfers the ownership of church buildings and estates from the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro to the Montenegrin state, sparked a series of massive protests followed with road blockages, which continued to 2020.

Government and police response
During the mass protests from December 2020 to August 2021, many Serb Orthodox clerics were attacked by the police, also being apprehended, and a number of opposition journalists, activists and protesting citizens were also arrested and injured by the police forces. PM Marković and ruling Democratic Party of Socialists officials, including president Milo Đukanović and members of the cabinet blamed the Belgrade-based media and Government of Serbia for the current political crisis, destabilization and unrest across the country, claiming that the ongoing Church protests actually are not against the disputed law but "against Montenegrin statehood and independence." Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro categorically rejects that allegations. President Milo Đukanović called the protesting citizens "a lunatic movement".

Foreign relations of Montenegro

In the 2020 election aftermath, President Đukanović and the outgoing Marković's DPS-led cabinet started pushing the narrative of "Montenegro being left to Serbia by the United States and the EU", although they are declaratively pro-western, which some media, NGOs and political analysts saw as a new turn in the foreign policy of the outgoing DPS regime.

On 1 September, Milo Đukanović conceded defeat, accusing Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić and Belgrade-based media of interfering in the internal politics of Montenegro, as well of alleged trying to revive a "Greater Serbia policy". He stated that it is possible that his party lost its support due to dissatisfaction with some policy, but also due to manipulations from Belgrade, as well from the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro, due to the disputed Law on Religious Communities.

On November 28, 2020, Serbian ambassador to Montenegro Vladimir Božović was declared persona non grata in Montenegro by then outgoing Marković cabinet, for alleged meddling in interior affairs of Montenegro and for making multiple statements that were "unacceptable for a diplomat" according to Montenegrin ministry of foreign affairs. On November 28, 2020, in response to Montenegro declaring Serbian ambassador Božović person non grata, Serbian ministry of foreign affairs declared Montenegrin ambassador to Serbia Tarzan Milošević persona non grata and was given 72 hours to leave Serbia. Next day Serbian prime minister, Ana Brnabić revoked the decision by Serbian ministry of foreign affairs and Tarzan Milošević wasn't expelled and wasn't persona non grata anymore, at the suggestion of the European Commission and European Enlargement Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi. Outgoing DPS-led cabinet rejected the suggestion, calling European Commissioner Várhelyi "Belgrade-affiliated diplomat" and an "ignorant".

Montenegro Airlines affairs and liquidation
In late 2020 it was uncovered that a number of individuals close to the ruling DPS party, such as controversial religious leader Miraš Dedeić, were given free tickets or significant discount for the flights of the Montenegro Airlines.

In December 2020, the new government cabinet announced the shutdown and liquidation of the company in the forthcoming weeks stating mismanagement and accumulating losses for several years. Shortly after, it has been announced that the airline will suspend all flights from 26 December 2020 marking the end of its operations.

See also
Duško Marković
Government of Montenegro

References

Government of Montenegro
Cabinets established in 2016
2016 establishments in Montenegro


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Legendary & Unknown
About Gary Hickling
Before reading my autobiography, you may like to know that I founded the Lotte Lehmann Foundation in 1997, served as its president for six years and stepped down completely in 2005. But I found myself still obsessed with Mme. Lehmann, her wonderful voice, and fascinating personality. So I'm having fun allowing her to live again with this website in a personal rather than an institutional way. As the Lotte Lehmann Foundation, inactive now, has faded from the web, I've decided to provide the names of the donors and Advisors. The World of Song Award was something that began with the Foundation and lapsed as the Foundation lapsed. This was revived, with mezzo soprano Christa Ludwig awarded for 2013 and composer Richard Hundley for 2014. An extra award for Paul Sperry was presented in December 2014. After taking nominations for the collaborative pianist who should receive the award in 2015, we had a tie and presented the award to both Roger Vingoles and Irwin Gage. In 2016 the final award went by unanimous vote, to Elly Ameling. The Lotte Lehmann Foundation also supported CyberSing, that was supplanted by our International Art Song Contest, which has been cancelled. It had been handled through my Singing and other Sins radio program, but it wasn't possible to keep it going at its previous level.
At the end of my double bass career I played and recorded three movements that Dennis Moore wrote for me: "Three Pieces for Solo Bass." We entered it in the International Society of Bassists' composition contest in June 2012. We did not win. But it's a fine piece that I'm happy to share, both my playing of it and more importantly, the actual sheet music: Toccata Elegie Dance My performance of the movements is limited by my facility. The outer movements (the Toccata and Dance) should go faster. But the recording I made will give you an idea of the music. To follow the music at the same time you listen, just open a second page. I hope you enjoy Dennis' "Three Pieces for Solo Bass": Toccata Elegie Dance
You can hear the 6 January 2015 presentation called "Lotte Lehmann, Legendary and Unknown" that I prepared for the New York City Vocal Record Collectors Society. The presentation included Lehmann singing well known as well as rare aspects of her repertoire. I provided the introductions to each selection. Part One lasts over an hour. Part Two lasts just over 30 minutes.
Now for the autobiography. Below that you'll find my proud moments and "one offs."
1941 Born in California
1953-1956: Played drums and later bass in a neighborhood orchestra in La Cañada. The founder/conductor was J. Hobart McLaughlin, a music administrator (and solid musician) who happened to live nearby.
1956 – 1959: Glendale High School: played bass in the band & orchestra; sousaphone in the marching band for a Rose Parade, half-time shows etc. Performed under Eldred Balzer , a fine, musical conductor who introduced me to a wide range of classical music.
1959 – 1963: UCLA: studied bass with Peter Mercurio; coordinated programs between Band and Orchestra and Chorus; liaison for music department to the Daily Bruin (UCLA's paper); band librarian, orchestra manager; performed sousaphone in marching band (Rose Parade, half time shows, European Tour), bass in concert band, symphony orchestra, opera orchestra, chorus; graduated with B.S. Performed under Lucas Foss, Richard Dufallo, Clarence Sawhill, Jan Popper, Wolfgang Meier, Roger Wagner, Kelly James. I feel so old when I notice that they're all dead. They worked hard to inspire us and Dr. Popper even rehearsed us individually for Dallapicola's Il Prigioniero.
1962 – 1964: Studied bass during the summers with Peter Mercurio at the Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara. Played under Maurice Abravanel. Audited master classes of Martial Singher. I never missed one of his classes. In the same fashion as Lehmann, Singher showed how to imbue each movement on the opera stage with the importance that it deserved. His song classes were also of the highest order. Audited private lessons of Lotte Lehmann. Abravanel was a power-house. He demanded from us students the highest levels of professional playing.
Grad Recital with David Walter, pianist Alex Farkas, Michael Ann
1963 – 1966: Manhattan School of Music, studied bass with David Walter; earned M.M.; continued bass and studied music education: graduated with M.M.Ed.; orchestra manager, weekend MSM building super, assistant conductor for MSM Preparatory Orchestra; taught Preparatory Bass; performed under Jonel Perlea, Frank Brief, Anton Coppola, Richard Katz, among others. Perlea was already badly affected by the stroke which shortened his career. But he still had the fire of music in him and shouted at us until our pianissimi were really soft! I was charged with the task of bringing him to and from rehearsals in a taxi and so got to know him personally.
Summer 1965: Yale Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk, CT. Studied with Yale professors, played bass in chamber music, visited with Paul Ulanowsky who was teaching there.
Maestro Jonel Perlea at my masters recital
1966 – 1967: Played bass in the Manila Symphony Orchestra as part of the John D Rockefeller III Fund's support for symphonic music in the Philippines. Taught over 25 students. Played under Herbert Zipper, Oscar Yatco. Dr. Zipper was an authentic Viennese with the accent, the courtliness, and the depth of knowledge about the classical repertoire. It was through the JDR III Fund that I met its director Porter McCray, who developed into a lifelong friend. The late Jaime Austria was one of my Manila students. He played in the New York City Opera Orchestra. Another fine student was Angel Sicam, a member of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra until his retirement. And Angel Peña, both bassist and composer, deserves a page all to himself! Just before leaving Manila, I played a solo recital in PhilAm Life Auditorium.
1967 – 1973: Played freelance bass in New York with the American Symphony Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski, NYC Ballet, Westchester, Hudson Valley, Long Island, Queens Philharmonics, Municipal Concerts Orchestra (both summer chamber orchestra and winter full orchestra seasons); Princeton Chamber Orchestra (mostly touring) as bassist & librarian; taught bass privately and at MSM. Besides Stoki, who always was full of surprises, (very humble and compelling as hell), I had the joy of playing under Eleazar de Carvalho: I'll never forget his full version of the Berlioz Requiem (with band shells set up in the hanger where we performed it!)
1969 – 1970: Taught string orchestra at Howitt Junior High School, Farmingdale, Long Island . I'm proud of the students who have gone on to be professional musician/teachers (Fred Fehleisen, Ted Grille, Ellen Caruso) or have continued playing as amateurs (Matthew Abrams, Rachel Spector Peak).
1970 – 1971: Taught bass (as well as theory and cello/bass for teachers) at the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, playing two solo bass recitals there as well as in Denver. Returned to NYC to play a solo bass recital at Lincoln Center's Bruno Walter Auditorium when I returned to the NYC free-lance scene where I enjoyed two years of weekly Bach Cantatas at the Lutheran Church and a series of Handel Anthems, Organ Concertos etc. at another church. During this time I also began my radio career on WBAI interviewing Lehmann.
1973 – 1977: Studied bass privately in Munich with Franz Ortner; played bass in Symphonie-Orchester Graunke (now, since Kurt Graunke's death called the Münchener Symphoniker); Symphonisches Orchester Berlin (Berlin Symphony Orchestra); Münchener Kammerorchester (Munich Chamber Orchestra); Münchener Philharmoniker (Munich Philharmonic); Bayerische Staatsoper Orchester (Bavarian State Opera Orchestra); under Kurt Graunke, Rudolph Kempe, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Hans Stadlmair, etc. Played a solo bass recital at Amerika Haus in Munich. Taught bass at various "Gymnasien" in Munich; Manfred Rössl was one of my talented students; he is now principal bass in Bielefeld, where he also teaches.
Student Mani Rösl, (now principal bass Bielefeld) & GH in Mani's final "gymnasium" concert
1977 – 1979: Played freelance bass in Los Angeles; taught public school strings and band.
1979 – 1980: Played bass in the opera orchestra of Mexico City's Bellas Artes.
1980 – 2005: Managed Alameda Thrift Store in Compton, California.
1983 – 1998: Played bass in the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra under Donald Johanos, Dan Welcher, Maxim Shostakovich, Seigi Ozawa, and many others; performed in chamber music groups of Honolulu and gave six solo bass recitals,
HSO stand partner Mark Kuraya
including a recital of mostly commissioned works of Angel Peña at Orvis Auditorium, with the composer present. Taught bass at Punahou, Iolani and Kamehameha schools and conducted the combined junior high school strings in a HASTA event. Punahou student (the late) Alton Clingan went on to study bass and composition at Eastman School of Music, Columbia University and Harvard. Taught Randy Wong, who is now the Executive Director of the Hawaii Youth Symphony and a performer in the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra.
Punahou student, the late Alton Clingan
Bill Moran in his workplace
1986 – 1988: Researched and compiled the discography for Beaumont Glass' Lotte Lehmann biography. The late William Moran, a discographer of international repute, was my mentor. I also spoke about the discography at the Lotte Lehmann Centennial that UCSB presented.
1989 – 2009: Produced and hosted Great Songs on Hawaii Public Radio. This was the only hour-long radio program dedicated to art song in the world. Interviewed such art song specialists as Marilyn Horne, Ned Rorem, William Bolcom, Hughes Cuénod, Elly Ameling, Thomas Hampson, Dan Welcher, etc.
1997 – 2005: Founded and directed the Lotte Lehmann Foundation, which moved from Hawaii to New York in 2003. During this time produced two Lehmann tribute CDs featuring her students, colleagues and Foundation advisors. Produced Three American Art Songs, a film setting art song into stories; developed supra titles for art song performance. Produced LyricLanguages, an audio/visual use of art song for the language lab; and began CyberSing, an international art song competition, that commissioned Libby Larson, Dan Welcher, and Ned Rorem to write the required song.
1996 – 2008: Ran Hawaii Public Radio's Art Song Contest, inviting singers from throughout the Hawaiian Islands to share their performances of art song; Winners Recital Programs were held in Honolulu and broadcast on Great Songs. In the photo below you'll see Quinn Kelsey who now has an international career in opera and song.
1999 Winners Bea Lemke, Mark Boyle, Phyllis Haines, GH, Quinn Kelsey
2006 – 2009: Studied classical voice with Leon Williams, Maya Hoover, Buz Tennent, and the faculty of the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival as part of their LifeLong Singers program.
2006 – 2010: Provided commentary and hosted performances of the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival in Waimea on the Big Island of Hawaii.
2007 – 2013: Sang regularly in the nursing homes of Honolulu with pianist Dale Hall and soprano Kazuyo Takagi (Butts).
Stroke patient humming along
2010 – 2014: Distributed my Lotte Lehmann collection to UCSB, Stanford, University of Missouri Kansas City, and Yale University.
2011 – 2013: Assembled Lehmann recordings that were never commercially available and provided them, as well as liner notes and translations, for the Music & Arts label. This became their 2014 release called "Lotte Lehmann: A 125th Birthday Tribute."
2011: Initiated the Lotte Lehmann League website.
2011: After a two-year hiatus during which Dr. Maya Hoover produced Great Songs for Hawaii Public Radio, I resumed that project under the new title: Singing and other Sins.
2013: Since the Lotte Lehmann Foundation no longer was active, I re-initiated the World of Song Award.
2015 – 2016: Prepared the Apple iBooks: Lotte Lehmann & Her Legacy Volume I and Volume II.
2017: Worked on Lotte Lehmann & Her Legacy Volume III, IV, V that feature her master classes.•
2017: Produced the Lehmann Acoustics for Ward Marston.
2018: Prepared Lotte Lehmann & Her Legacy Volume VI, which offers LL in English-language interviews and re-wrote and re-published Volume I.
2018: Celebrated 30 years of art song in Hawaii, first as Great Songs and now as Singing and other Sins.
2019: With the help of my former German student, Manfred Rössl, finished Lotte Lehmann & Her Legacy Volume VII, which provides the LL German language interviews.
2019: Produced the Lehmann Berlin Electrics for Ward Marston.
2019: Prepared Lotte Lehmann & Her Legacy Volume VIII, which offers her art work.
2020: Compiled Lotte Lehmann & Her Legacy Volume IX, called Documents. This combines LL's own handwritten and typed suggestions for art song and aria performance interpretations not found in her published books.
2021: Organized Lehmann's handwritten suggestions (mentioned above), rare photos, her first book of poetry, as well as letters, records, etc. and sent to the Lehmann Archive at Stanford University.
Gary Hickling with Dennis Moore
Dennis Moore has been my friend, partner and inspiration since I met him in Munich's Graunke Orchestra in 1973. Despite pain and limitations which would embitter other people, he has remained kind and understanding. We married in 2013. Photos etc. available.
Proud Moments
I've been asked to list my proudest moments. There are many and some are very personal and so may not mean much to others.
• It gave me great pride to join my friend and partner of 40 years, Dennis, in marriage in 2013. You can view the video.
Suzie with her wonderful smile
• Two young women, took my advice and flew into new and demanding careers. Kayaking with Susan Duprey (then McCreary) she told me that she wasn't necessarily looking forward to teaching Spanish in September. She'd really like to be a choral conductor. Before reaching the island of our destination, we turned the kayaks around, and she called Westminster Choir College to request an enrollment form. Now, she happily conducts the Windward Choral Society on O'ahu and the Kona Choral Society on the Big Island. Suzie recently emailed: "Awesome story and I share it often. Both [choral groups] are bursting at the seams with great music-making, singers, and audiences."
• The other woman is Susan Deaver. A flutist, she was studying the other instruments to become a teacher. While I was teaching her the rudiments of the double bass there at the University of Northern Colorado, I recommended that she spread her wings and go to New York, at least as a flutist. She is now the conductor of several orchestras, teaches flute at Long Island University and is the conductor of the North Shore Symphony Orchestra and the University Orchestra at Stony Brook University. Way to go! Susan Deaver responded to this with: "How wonderful that you remember that you completely CHANGED the course of my life! Thanks so much for thinking of me! AND thanks for influencing my life in a very good way!!!!!!!" She sent photos of her conducting the Long Island Youth Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and one of her conducting the University Orchestra at Stony Brook University.
Susan Deaver conducting the University Orchestra at Stony Brook University
Susan Deaver at Carnegie Hall
• Just after the intermission of a performance in my senior year with the Glendale High School Symphonettes, the conductor, Mr. Balzer, presented me with a present and thanked me for my work as orchestra manager.
• I was always pleased to see Leopold Stokowski enter my teaching studio at MSM with encouraging words for my bass students. I brought the students of my junior high school string orchestra to an American Symphony Orchestra rehearsal (in which I was playing), and during intermission they gathered at the podium to meet Stoki. He was gracious and when he learned they were my students, first asked if all 40 of them were bassists. I clarified that they were all string players (with one bassist) and he invited them to any rehearsals they wished to attend.
• It was extremely gratifying when my former bass student, the late Jaime Austria, joined me for a duet in my Manila and New York recitals and then became a member of the American Symphony Orchestra, while I was still in the bass section.
• I was Randy Wong's first bass teacher and now to see him the successful executive director of the Hawaii Youth Symphony and a bassist in the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra is very satisfying.
• At the beginning of our telephone interview Christa Ludwig said "Hello, Gary" in a tone that was so kind and friendly that one could assume that we were great friends.
• It has always been a source of great pride for me that Lotte Lehmann was so generous with her time (interviews, letters, photos, etc.) to a non-singer, non-student.
• In a similar vein, it always impressed me that the great piano accompanist, Dalton Baldwin was so helpful and supportive.
• Though we only knew each other by mail and phone, tenor Hughes Cuénod always treated me as if I were a colleague or friend.
• Certainly one of my proudest accomplishments was the gratis participation of the many great artists, pianists, and recording engineers who participated in both of the Lehmann Tribute projects.
• Beebe Freitas, one of the leading lights of the Honolulu vocal scene always supported me in whatever project I undertook. She recorded the accompaniments for the Three American Songs video, took part in my radio program (demonstrating from the piano), played for the Art Song Contest recording sessions and often for the Winners Recitals. Her passing was sad for all who knew and worked with her.
• I was shocked, surprised and pleased when the famed conductor (and former bassist) Jonel Perlea arrived for my graduating bass recital. I was only the second bassist at MSM to give a solo recital in fulfillment of the master's requirement. The first was Frank Proto.
• When I ran in late for the final art song master class given by Martial Singher and the Music Academy of the West director stopped me saying that I couldn't enter barefoot, Lehmann, who'd overheard the commotion, called for me to sit with her.
• I associate a prolonged period of pride with the accomplishment of Enrique Arias, who took over the management of Alameda Thrift.
• The casual interview that Frederica von Stade recorded for Singing and other Sins and the other support that she has shown me, has made me feel very appreciated by her.
• One of my proudest accomplishments is the three year project that culminated with the release of the "Lotte Lehmann: A 125th Birthday Tribute." And now, the Gramophone Magazine wrote of it: "…you could justifiably claim that the set's highlight is a quite magnificent CD-ROM…producer Gary Hickling's commentary on the tracks themselves, the sources, accompanying artists and actual interpretations, are models of what one needs with 'historic' sets such as this."
• I have assembled a list of many of the musicians who have allowed me to interview them for one project or another (usually for the radio) and it is something between bragging and feeling honored, that I offer it here.
Strange, weird, wonderful, audacious, and unusual stuff that I've done (in no particular order).
• For John Corigliano's first symphony, I demonstrated to him on the bass the difference in pitch from a harmonic b natural and a pressed one, causing him to rewrite that note.
• RCA's John Pfeiffer asked what I would recommend for their forthcoming Lotte Lehmann CD; I was able to ask for original metal masters in their archives, resulting in a release that was of both historic and sonic consequence.
• I read (badly) for the books for the blind.
• I sold men's clothes (also poorly) at the New York City's Brooks Bros.
• I was on the headline of a Compton newspaper when a reporter quoted me as saying that all Compton officials were corrupt (they were).
• I wrote one review for Opera News (Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots performed at UCLA).
• What a privilege to play bass in a chamber orchestra that accompanied antiphonal choral music in Venice's San Marco, for which it was written!
• I took Frederica von Stade to lunch, and she's as nice as everyone says. She also submitted to an interview for Singing and other Sins.
• I marched with a Sousaphone on my shoulder in two Rose Parades (one for Glendale High School and one for UCLA).
• I wrote LP liner notes for a famous pianist's recordings for which he received the credit (and I was paid!).
• While learning yoga in a Munich center (and cooking for them), I travelled to yoga centers in Paris and London to relieve their cooks (and have a free place to stay/eat) and see their cities.
• Within the same year, two conductors berated me for playing bass too loud when I hadn't played at all (I was still waiting to enter with my first notes!).
• Though lawyers could find no solution, after studying the California law that seemed to threaten the thrift store endeavor I owned, I was able to find a way to operate within the law.
• As kids, my brother and I played in two castles in the desert mountains behind our house in La Cañada. The "Rock" castle was supposed to have been occupied by a Spanish governor of California. The "Pink" castle, built in 1911 (how do I remember that, when I can't remember my doctor's appointment?) was unoccupied. It had so many doors that they never locked them all and Steve and I ran through the place with glee. We never damaged anything (after all, we were planing to return to play there!) and always locked the door behind us.
• I once did a swan dive (into a river in Baguio, Philippines). If I hadn't done such a dive, I would have hit the bottom of the shallow river.
• I went boating (in a little canoe) on the ocean off Long Island with Jerome Robbins. We saw the little uninhabited island called "Robbins" but it has nothing to do with the famous choreographer.
• During my L. A. substitute teaching days (with no training) I taught deaf kids.
• With no experience or training I wrote a script for a movie and produced it (Three American Art Songs)
• With no experience, but with the help and direction (and forbearance) of the discographer William Moran, I compiled a discography (for Glass' book on Lotte Lehmann).
• I brought a mini-bouquet to Marilyn Horne's hotel room and sang the first line from Wolf's "Auch kleine Dinge können uns enzücken" and Marilyn Horne answered without missing a beat, "auch kleine Dinge, können teuer sein" and then I hugged her (there was a lot to hug!). So I can say, MH sang to me!
• I met Imelda Marcos in Malacañang Palace, Manila.
• While on a guided tour, a friend and I were accidentally locked in the catacombs of Vienna's St. Stephen Cathedral with the bones of plague victims.
• At four different times in my life I've saved people from drowning.
• Angel Peña wrote two bass sonatas, one short four movement piece, and one bass concerto for me.
• I was for a short time co-chair of the Hawaii Green Party.
• I coached Beverly Sills. Well, in 1972 when the American Symphony Orchestra was performing a benefit for the UN at Lincoln Center, she rehearsed a song with harp after the orchestra left the stage. I remained behind to hear her sing and was the only person in the hall. She asked me if the balance was ok and I said "yes."
• I snuck into a dress rehearsal of my dream cast of Marriage of Figaro in Munich. Fischer-Dieskau was the count; Gundala Janowitz, the countess; Hermann Prey was Figaro, Reri Grist, Susanna; Brigitte Fasbaender, Cherubino; and Karl Böhm, the conductor. After her rendition of Porgi Amor, Böhm shouted "Bravo Janowitz" and without missing a beat, continued the rehearsal.
• I turned pages for pianist Paul Ulanowsky during Bach Aria Group performances at Town Hall, NYC, and got paid for it!
• I played bass for the UCLA jazz band in Hollywood Bowl. After a long rehearsal my pizzicato finger-blisters broke. I went to a hardware store and bought gloves to play the performance. I also snuck over a fence there once to see Dorothy Kirsten's Madame Butterfly.
• I taught Hermann Prey. Actually, after I interviewed him in Munich, for a radio program I was preparing for WBAI in NYC, he asked me to help his English for the role of Aeneas that he was preparing for a recording of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. He was surprised that I knew the role from memory; I had taught it to Katsuumi Niwa years before.
With Jeannine Altmeyer
• I shared a talk on Lehmann with her last student, Jeannine Altmeyer.
• When I was putting together the advisers for the Lotte Lehmann Foundation, I invited Birgit Nilsson and she wrote back that she thought she was too old to be of any use to the Foundation. I responded that Hugues Cuénod had joined and he was 99 at the time. Mme. Nilsson answered immediately that she would be happy to be listed and that she had always been a fan of Lotte Lehmann's singing.
• One of the great happy surprises of my adult life was inviting internationally famous singers and pianists to record their songs and/or Lehmann memories for the tribute CDs and discovering that not only did they do a great job of it, but that both the singers and the pianists recorded without charge. And with very few exceptions the recording engineers also volunteered their time!
• For a few years I was on the board of the Family Peace Center in Honolulu. Run by Laura Crites, this center worked to support not only women in troubled relationships (read "battered"), but also helped the men and the children of such families.
• As President of the Lotte Lehmann Foundation I was able to present the World of Song Award to Ned Rorem personally.
• My best "one off" may never be matched for being unique: in 2011 I enjoyed meeting with Joseph Gosalvez, who was the same age (26) as I was when I taught in Manila. Now for the "one off": he is the grandson of Angel Peña and Johnny Gosalvez, my two most advanced students in Manila during my time there in 1966 – 67. Joseph is interested in music.
• His only Munich recital of the season being sold out, a German buddy (Frank Manhold) and I devised a way of sneaking into Herkulesaal from back-stage to hear Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau with Wolfgang Sawallisch at the piano. We had to retrace our steps at the end of the event and ran into DFD. Frank was completely tongue-tied; I stammered "Vielen herzlichen Dank," and we disappeared happily into the night.
• During my year of playing bass for operas at Mexico's Bellas Artes, I spent a night "off" in the university concert hall to hear the touring Brooklyn Philharmonic perform. I arrived early and was looking over the program and the names of the many NYC friends in the group, when I got a tap on the shoulder and an invitation to play in the orchestra…right now! The bass section had been decimated by amoebic dysentery; they supplied someone's ill fitting tails, a bass and a bow and I sight-read the concert, under my UCLA-days conductor, Lucas Foss.
• When I was preparing one of my radio programs for WBAI in New York City, I approached one of the most art song-knowledgeable experts I could find, Philip Miller. (He deserves a whole page unto himself! That will be a project for the future.) The program was to be the "top 40" Schubert Lieder by 40 different singers. He helped tremendously. Finally, I asked him to recommend one of the many Schubert songs recorded by Lehmann. He said, without hesitation, that though Lehmann was 60 years old when she recorded it for RCA, there wasn't a more beautiful version to be found of An den Mond. This is not the Schubert Lied to Goethe poetry, but rather to that of Hölty.
• When Beaumont Glass began his Lotte Lehmann biography in 1985, he asked me to provide the discography and when I contacted Mr. Miller he immediately suggested Bill Moran who became my mentor on the project.
Still singing in retirement homes: March 2013
• I've begun a list of German-speaking composers, and before that a sampling of the over 8,000 Lieder inspired by Heine's poetry. These two presentations were prepared for the "History of the German People" class I took in the Spring of 2014 with Dr. Schweizer at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.
• In 2021 I was invited by the International Wagner Society in London, to prepare two webinars: Lotte Lehmann as Wagner Singer and Lotte Lehmann as Wagner Teacher.

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So long coming but entirely worth it. I spend far less time on Twitter these days and more time in Reeder on iPhone or iPad reading stuff. So it's nice to have the option to read it all on the Mac again and have it sync to the other devices. I can't stand any of the various web interfaces.


Alfred C. Hobbs: The American who shocked Victorian England by picking the world's strongest lock.
Victorian England made the strongest locks in the world—until an American showed up and promised he could pick them.
On July 22, 1851, on a day when a visitor to London had any number of amusements at his disposal—from M. Gompertz's Giant Panorama ("including a new diorama of intense interest") at the Parthenium Rooms on St. Martin's Lane, to the "Real Darkies from the South" (replete with "the Sayings and Doings and Lights and Shadows of the Ethiopian race") appearing at Gothic Hall—a group of men assembled in a small room in Westminster.
Given the failure of all previous picking attempts, the arrival on July 21 of a letter, headed "American Department, Crystal Palace," at the firm's offices likely brooked small concern. "An attempt will be made to open a lock of your manufacture on the door of a Strong-room at 34, Great George Street, Westminster, tomorrow, Tuesday, at 11 o'clock A.M. You are respectfully invited to be present, to witness the operation." Chubb, perhaps mildly piqued, sent a man to watch. But the letter was a gauntlet, and it had been thrown. Hobbs had not only opened the lock, but he had opened it again. The Detector had been foiled.
Hobbs had a penchant for this sort of thing. Born in 1812 to a Boston carpenter—whose death not long after left the family destitute—Hobbs rambled through a number of professions in his teens: farmhand, dry-goods clerk, carriage painter, coach trimmer, harness maker, firefighter, sailor, glass cutter, and, eventually, exclusive vendor of safe locks for the prominent New York City firm Day and Newell.
And so, like some kind of midcentury Melvillean trickster, Hobbs roamed the country, a succession of sprung doors and flabbergasted bank managers in his wake. In April 1851, Hobbs boarded the steamship Washington, bound for Southampton, for a task of a different nature. He was bound for London's Great Exhibition, where Day and Newell's "Parautopic Lock" (from the Greek, for "hidden") would join the teeming cavalcade of objects—numbering more than 100,000—on display.
Officially, Hobbs was a salesman en route to a trade show, traveling across the Atlantic to help Day and Newell promote their new lock. But the American had additional plans. Among Hobbs' luggage was a small trunk with six drawers' worth of lock-picking tools; and, to help smooth the passage through customs with a bevy of illicit implements, a letter from George W. Matsell, New York City's chief of police, which announced: "I can unhesitatingly bear ample testimony to your character as a gentleman and a citizen." What Hobbs had in mind was not the usual cajoling of a provincial bank into an upgrade, but exposing weaknesses in the British Empire itself by revealing the faults of one of Day and Newell's competitors.
In the window of Bramah and Co., Engineers and Founders, at 124 Piccadilly, sat a lock and a small printed board, which announced: "The Artist who can make an Instrument that will pick or Open this Lock, shall Receive 200 Guineas The Moment it is produced." The Bramah Precision lock, a "monster" lock that, along with Chubb's Detector, represented the pinnacle of Britain's lock supremacy, had not been picked since it was manufactured—in 1790.
Not surprisingly, Hobbs had it in his sights. In June he visited the shop to make wax impressions of the keyhole. A few days later, he wrote to Bramah, saying he "would be pleased to see you in relation to the offer you make on the sign in your window for picking your lock." On July 22, Hobbs and Bramah chose arbitrators and settled on terms: The American would have a month to attempt to pick the lock, which would be mounted in a board in a room above Bramah's shop. On July 24, Hobbs set to work, armed with various tools, including what the Observer described as a "something like a crochet needle." On Aug. 23, after logging some 50 hours of work, Hobbs opened the lock. On Aug. 29, upon Bramah's request, Hobbs opened it again.
The Lock Controversy raised a number of questions about the nature of security and how best to achieve it, and troubled Victorian England with a question that still haunts us today: How safe could something—or someone—ever be?


Fort Walton Beach, FL, is located on the Emerald Coast of the Gulf of Mexico, in northern Florida's Okaloosa County. A city of approximately 20,000 people, it is a tourist destination and is primarily known for its beautiful wide beaches, its focus on family-friendly activities, and its year-round mild climate. Historical museums, a science center, and opportunities to view wildlife in the aquarium or in the calm Gulf waters are major attractions in the area. Here are the best things to do in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
The Emerald Coast Science Center's goal is to inspire a life-long interest in science, and does so by enabling children to have fun with scientific developments. The science center houses many interactive exhibits and high-quality educational programs in the fields of robotics, color and light, and physics. Kids are invited to fly and land a model plane in a wind tunnel, to guide robotic arms, and to interact with animals such as snakes and parakeets in the critter exhibit. Weekly features of the science center include hands-on experiments and story-time. There are monthly workshops for home schooled children, and class field trips are always welcome.
The Air Force Armament Museum presents a history of aircraft, bombs, guns, missiles, and rockets that were used by the United States Airforce in WWII, and in the Korean, Vietnam and Gulf Wars. Inside the museum are four vintage aircraft, a large collection of weaponry, and interactive cockpit simulators. Outside, visitors can view 29 aircraft dating from WWI to present, including the fastest plane ever built, the SR-71 Blackbird. A 32-minute film about the Eglin Air Force Base and its role in developing armaments is presented every day at regular intervals. The museum's gift shop sells high-quality commemorative souvenirs.
The Gulfarium Marine Adventure Park is an aquarium with a difference. It focuses its attention on educating visitors about marine life through personal encounters with wildlife. Visitors to Gulfarium may dip their hands into a pool filled with gentle stingrays, touch juvenile alligators, feed snacks to loggerhead turtles, snorkel with stingrays and sharks, feed and touch African penguins, stand on a submerged platform for up-close time with friendly bottle-nosed dolphins, and meet and touch approachable seals and sea lions. Arrangements can be made for visitors to shadow a marine animal trainer, or to have a delicious breakfast in the dolphin enclosure. Kids will get a thrill out of a child-oriented reptile safari that will permit them to learn about and touch turtles, lizards, snakes and alligators.
The Indian Temple and Mound Museum pays homage to the 12,000 years of Native American occupation that occurred before European explorers and settlers came to the Emerald Coast. The Native Americans in the area were intensely agricultural, and built mounds for burial and sacred purposes. Most of the museum's 1,000 artifacts are from the period 1100-1550 AD, although it does have a fine collection of much-earlier prehistoric ceramics. In 1528, Spanish explorer ÁlvarNúñezCabeza de Vaca came to these shores, and the museum has some items from this exploratory period, and from the early settlers of north western Florida. Visitors may climb steps level with the top of the prehistoric mound, although climbing on the mound itself is strictly forbidden.
Wild Willy's Adventure Zone welcomes kids of all ages for dinosaur-themed fun. Indoors, in air-conditioned comfort, kids can explore the 17,000 square foot arcade, a 3D movie theater where the seats move along with the action, and a laser maze which challenges participants to climb over and slither under laser obstacles. Outside there are two mini-golf courses, one with scary animatronics designed for older children, and a little kid's course with cartoonish baby dinosaurs. There is a rope climbing course, a unique roller coaster with spinning seats, a reverse bungee trampoline, and remote control boats with a military theme. Hungry adventurers will enjoy the pizza joint and the ice cream parlor at the park.
Goofy Golf has been operating in Fort Walton Beach, Florida since 1958, and has always been an inexpensive way of spending quality times outdoors with family and friends. Goofy Golf has two 17-hole courses, and share the 18th hole, which is called "The Snake's Mouth." Goofy Golf offers tournaments, day passes and t-shirts. The course has a mascot, a 23' tall model T-Rex named Hammy. The mini-golf courses are favorites of visitors and locals, some who have been coming to play the two courses since its inception in the 50s.
The Fort Walton Beach Flea Market is indoors, air-conditioned, and has over 70 different vendors and a food counter for quick meals and drinks. In its 14,000 square foot home, visitors and local residents can find a constantly-changing array of goods, including quality vintage clothing, purses, music, books, costume jewelry, musical instruments, art, furniture, and décor items. Many vendors sell antiques and are knowledgeable about their goods. Collectors will find treasures here, including Hummel figurines, gold and sterling silver jewelry, and baseball cards. A portion of sales at the flea market go to help local charities, including The Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge.
The Garnier Post Office Museum is part of the Fort Walton Beach Heritage and Cultural Center in downtown Fort Walton, and can be found behind the Camp Walton Schoolhouse Museum. From 1906-1917, the area's post office was located in the mercantile store of Mr. Euphrates M. Mooney, the first county postmaster. In 1918, the first formal post office was built at the junction of Mooney and Garnier Post Roads, with Mr. Mooney remaining in the role of postmaster. The small museum has a number of items from the early postal era of the county. It is open to the public and offers educational programs.
Before the area was known as Fort Walton Beach, it bore the name Camp Walton, after the Confederate Army encampment that existed there in the 1860s. In 1911, a native pine and oak school house was built for area children, which opened in 1912 with fifteen students and one teacher. Grades 1-8 were taught in the one-room schoolhouse. In 1927, an extra room was added, and one more teacher hired to instruct students from grades 9-12. The school was closed in 1936 when the all-brick Fort Walton School was erected nearby. Visitors to the schoolhouse can see how early classrooms were set up, view actual artifacts of the school, and see under what primitive conditions students and teachers existed in the early days of Florida education.
John Beasley Park is a huge waterfront park between the communities of Fort Walton Beach and Destin on Okaloosa Island. It has two timbered pathways leading over the sand dunes to the wide, picturesque beach, which is a quiet, family-oriented seashore, perfect for sunbathing, surfing and swimming. There are two large pavilions, one of which can be rented for special occasions. There are outdoor showers for rinsing off salt water and sand, and large restrooms with changing rooms. During peak season, beach chair and umbrella rentals are available; also during high season the beach has a lifeguard during posted hours. There is a large parking lot, and the beach is wheelchair accessible.
Uptown Station is Fort Walton Beach's premier shopping district, with over 60 stores, services, and food vendors. Shoppers can buy anything under the sun at Uptown Station, which has stores dedicated to clothes, home furnishings, sporting goods, and everything in between. There is a large supermarket and a dollar store. People in need of pampering can get their hair done, have a manicure, or indulge in a massage at the spa. Hungry shoppers can eat their fill at various food stands, which sell subs, sushi, Korean food, fried chicken, burgers and fries, ice cream, coffee and pastries, and frozen yogurt. Central Park is a relaxing area of Uptown Station where kids can play at an amazing playground, and where shoppers can sit down in the village green and watch the dancing fountains.
The Fort Walton Beach Golf Club, municipally-owned, offers two superb 18-hole championship courses, which are beautifully maintained, and set in pristine North Florida landscapes. The Pines Course is 6,800 yards, and is a challenge as it goes uphill through a pine forest. The Oaks Course is 6,400 yards, and plays through narrow, oak-lined avenues and over difficult water hazards. The Golf Club has a full-service restaurant, a large lighted driving range, and a golf shop. Charity golf tournaments are held at the courses throughout the year, and a Junior Golf Program runs through the summer months and offers free clinics. Membership is available in The Fort Walton Beach Golf Club, at a fraction of the cost of privately-run establishments.
Parasailing is the sport of gliding through the air wearing an open parachute while being towed by a motorboat. Fort Walton Beach Parasailing is the only company in the region that offers parasailing, and it guarantees safety, professionalism, excellent views of the entire Fort Walton area, and an experience that visitors will remember for the rest of their lives. Parasailers are loaded directly from a dock, and can fly alone or with one or two companions. The rides last between 30 minutes and an hour, and photo packages are available, offering photos taken by crew members with zoom lenses. Visitors wanting a discount should try the early bird or sunset tours, and there is also a military discount.
The Downtown Arts and Entertainment District is a shopping and dining district, featuring award-winning cuisine, an annual art walk held in August, and fine boutiques selling art, antiques, jewelry, gifts, and equipment for scuba diving, snorkeling, surfing and sailing. The downtown area has a farmer's market, open on the second Saturday of every month, where visitors and residents can buy locally-grown produce, fresh dairy products, and a wide variety of handmade items. The many restaurants offer a broad choice of cuisine, including Mexican, Italian and deli food, as well as numerous pubs, sports grills and coffee shops. Salons, spas and fitness centers dot the downtown, and provide a perfect place for pampering in air-conditioned comfort.


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When I first started my freelance career in Brazil 15 years ago, a wizened, only-slightly-older-than-me freelance magazine writer named Mac Margolis — now a Cabot-Prize-winning Newsweek correspondent — gave me his formula.
He said his method was to report a story once and sell it as many times as he could. He would write a version for Time, another for The Economist and a third version for an airline in-flight magazine. He would focus the same story on the specific area of interest of each magazine. He'd sell the stories to publications around the world where multiple languages opened a new non-competing market for each story.
To smart fingers on a computer keyboard, this model could work well for Internet journalism where pay per story may be quite low, but the market is huge.
Just a brief note today to congratulate my former student Kathryn Cook on acceptance to this year's Joop Swart Masterclass, held for a very select very few by the World Press Photo Foundation in Amsterdam.
And to Luceo's Matt Eich and the rest of the honorees.


Market Street Catch is the latest seafood-centric offshoot from Buster's Sea Cove owner Tom Antonarakis. The new spot has docked on the newly redeveloped restaurant row that runs along the west side of St. Lawrence Market between Front and The Esplanade.
Inside, the 26-seat space by Squarefoot Design is decked out with corrugated metal, a calm sea-themed mural and nautical ephemera. Front windows are open completely to what will soon to be a 14-seat patio - on a breezy day, I swear I can even smell the lake. Upfront, the fresh catch is displayed on ice; orders are taken at the counter and then called out for pick-up at the open kitchen.
Service style is informal, but that doesn't mean you'll be eating fish wrapped in news paper or chowder from a cup. Creamy seafood chowder ($7.95) is served in big steaming bowls full of chunks of potato, shrimps, scallops and tilapia, and given a deliciously smoky flavour from smoked salmon and bacon.
Tacos ($15) are served three per order and can be had in a choice of fillings like halibut, shrimp, octopus or seared tuna. If only they were available a la carte - I could have been swayed to try one of each. Doubled-up tortillas prove necessary thanks to heaping applications of pico de gallo, salsa roja, crema and slaw.
Fish and chip options cover the usual battered and fried selections: halibut ($13.95), haddock ($12.50), pickerel ($13.95), calamari ($11.50), crab cakes ($13.95), or even sea smelts ($11.95). Substitute a salad for a dollar more or skip the fried food altogether in favour of almost a dozen healthy grilled choices like tilapia with salad ($14.50). Fry baskets and grill platters ($18.95-$23.95) offer a varied sampling for the adventurous.
Market Street Catch is currently open Tuesday to Sunday from 11am to 9pm. Summer hours might be extended later.


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1. there are at least 100,000 chemical reactions going on in a normal human brain every second.
2. "It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling"
3. "The older I get, the faster I was"
4. You cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva.
5. Of the 247 billion email messages sent every day, 81% are pure spam.
7. 85% of American shoppers go to their right when entering a store.
9. "We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress"
10. Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
12. Temperature can affect a person's appetite. A cold person is more likely to eat more food.
** so the people standing nearby will be fine, but the person at the end of the block should cover their nose and mouth?
Loved, loved, loved your additional comment for #6!
Grace; think of all those things that are supposed to happen when Hell freezes over, everyone who says I'll do that when Hell freezes over etc.
All true, so far as I know. In my artist/show days, the right hand turn is so true. New exhibitors would panic as they saw "the gate" turn right at opening time. We would soothe them; pretty soon they would be around.
Joanne; I've noticed similar in Australia, in supermarkets people turn right to the shelved goods first, then the fresh produce can go on top of the cart and not get squashed I suppose.
Love these, and now if I am up to anything dishonest I will be careful not to lick anything.
joeh; I think you're pretty safe, licking would smear the print.
Nmber three......ain't THAT the truth.
only slightly confused; yes it is.
1. I can think of a number of people where that number must be considerably less.
10. Useful for an amputee who wants to use fingerprint security on your phone.
Andrew; probably people who are retarded in some way or perhaps in a coma, and those who just don't think fast enough.
I hadn't thought of amputees and security in relation to tongues, I would have thought they'd use voice recognition.
An intriguing selection. And how I wish sneezers would cover their face.
Elephant's Child; yes and coughers too. I now have a persistent cough as a side effect of the blood pressure medication, so I cover my mouth each time I cough even though I'm not contagious, and still I see people looking at me and wondering.
A 100mph sneeze I would have never thought!
Hell freezing over, that is funny unless you are in Hell, Michigan I suppose.
Jimmy; this is how it manages to spread so far so fast. Sneaky little germs aren't they?
And there is a Hell River where they have an ice fishing contest each year, so Hell has to freeze over or no contest.
messymimi; I didn't know about Hell River. I'm going to be more careful now about promising things when Hell freezes over.
I go to my right when I enter my supermarket...as that is where the fruit, vegetable and raw nuts section is...and that is my first point of shopping.
I guess Hell, Michigan was the reason why The Eagles reformed to perform again after firmly declaring they wouldn't perform again until "Hell freezes over!"
Lee; I go to my right to pick up cat food first, then non perishables like coffee, detergent etc and finish up with the fruit and veg which is to the left of the entrance. You could be right about The Eagles.
I must have been standing on my head when I wrote my previous comment!! I go to my left, not my right!
These are equal parts funny and surprising. I'm sure scientists are going to know much more about the brain within the next fifty years; I just wish I would still be around to read about it.
jenny_o; sometimes the surprising ones are more interesting, although I do like a good laugh as well.
I guess the people in Hell, Michigan, want ice water...to wash down all that extra food they're eating because they're cold.
Val; if that was me, I'd be washing food down with hot coffee, I can't drink ice water when it's winter here, let alone winter there.


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I imagine you now as this blanket caressing me, clinging to all the contours of my body. You were my blanket.
I imagine you now as this blanket caressing me, clinging to all the contours of my body.
You shielded me with your body wrapped tightly around mine.
We laid there with our legs intertwined, fingers tangled together and our heads gently resting on the pillow.
Peacefully laying underneath our blanket fort listening to each others voices.
My bed holds so much empty space now.
and the bottom corners being your legs wrapped around me.
I lay my head on the pillow, imagining it as being on your chest.
The soft breeze coming from the vent, feels like your warm breath softly kissing my neck.
I close my eyes and sigh, although you may be gone it still feels like your around.
For now I will imagine you as my blanket again.


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Home » Science » Biology » What is the Difference Between Uniport Symport and Antiport
What is the Difference Between Uniport Symport and Antiport
by Lakna
The main difference between uniport, symport, and antiport is that uniport moves molecules across the membrane independent of other molecules, and symport moves two types of molecules in the same direction, but antiport moves two types of molecules in opposite directions. Furthermore, all channel proteins are the examples of uniports, and Na/glucose symporter is an example of a symport, while Na/H antiporter is an example of antiport.
In brief, uniport, symport, and antiport are the three types of integral membrane proteins, which participate in moving molecules across the cell membrane. Specifically, they take part in active transport in which molecules move against the concentration gradient by using energy.
1. What is Active Transport
– Definition, Primary Active Transport, Secondary Active Transport
2. What is Uniport
– Definition, Mechanism of Transport, Examples
3. What is Symport
4. What is Antiport
5. What are the Similarities Between Uniport Symport and Antiport
– Outline of Common Features
6. What is the Difference Between Uniport Symport and Antiport
Active Transport, Antiport, Carrier Proteins, Integral Membrane Proteins, Primary Active Transport, Secondary Active Transport, Symport, Uniport
What is Active Transport
Active transport is the mechanism of transporting molecules across the plasma membrane against the concentration gradient by using energy. Generally, integral membrane proteins take part in the process. Also, depending on the types of cellular energy used, there are two types of active transport mechanisms, occurring in a cell; primary active transport and secondary active transport.
Primary Active Transport
Generally, primary active transport is the type of active transport, using ATP as the form of cellular energy to transport molecules across the membrane. Also, the type of integral membrane proteins used for primary active transport is carrier proteins, which are always coupled with ATPase. Significantly, metal ions such as Na+, K+, Mg2+, and Ca2+ are the substances transported by primary active transport. Basically, they are called ion channels. Here, the most common example of primary active transport is the sodium-potassium pump, which moves three Na+ ions into the cell and two K+ ions out of the cell.
Figure 1: Na/K Pump
However, although the sodium-potassium pump transports two types of ions through the same pump, each type of ion is transported one at a time. Importantly, the sodium-potassium pump helps in maintaining the cell potential.
Secondary Active Transport
In comparison, secondary active transport relies on the electrochemical gradient of the ions on either side of the plasma membrane to transport molecules. Therefore, it uses the energy released by transporting one type of molecules through its concentration gradient to transport another type of molecule against the concentration gradient. Hence, transmembrane proteins involved in secondary active transport are cotransporters. Importantly, one of the main characteristic features of cotransporters is the transport of two types of molecules simultaneously through the membrane protein. Basically, the two types of cotransporters are symports and antiports.
What is a Uniport
Uniport is the type of integral membrane protein, transporting a single type of substrate across the cell membrane by using primary active transport mechanisms. In addition to the active transport, uniport can operate through facilitated diffusion as well, while transporting the substrate along a diffusion gradient. Usually, a uniport works by binding to one molecule of the substrate at a time while the opening of the channels may occur in response to a stimulus and allow the free flow of specific molecules. Importantly, uniports participate in biological processes such as transmitting action potentials in neurons.
Figure 2: Uniport, Symport, and Antiport
What is a Symport
Symport is one of the two types of cotransporters, which use secondary active transport mechanisms. However, the direction of the transportation of two different types of substrates is the same. Also, as it uses secondary active transport mechanisms, symports use the electrochemical gradient to transport molecules. For example, SGLT1 in the intestinal epithelium is a symport. It transports sodium ions and glucose across the luminal membrane of the epithelial cells in order to be absorbed into the bloodstream. In addition to that, Na+/K+/2Cl− symporter in the loop of Henle is another example of symport.
What is an Antiport
Antiport is the second type of cotransporter, which uses secondary active transport mechanisms. In contrast to symport, antiport transports the two different molecules in opposite directions. For example, N general, Na/H antiporter, Na/Ca exchanger, etc. are antiports. Of these, many cells use Na/Ca exchanger removes cytoplasmic calcium by exchanging one calcium ion for three sodium ions.
Figure 3: Na/Amino Acid Pump
Similarities Between Uniport Symport and Antiport
Uniport, symport, and antiport are three types of integral membrane proteins, permanently attached to the cell membrane.
Also, they are transmembrane proteins, being channel proteins and carrier proteins.
Furthermore, they penetrate through the phospholipid bilayer while attaching via hydrophobic, electrostatic or non-covalent interactions.
Besides, they use active transport to move molecules across the cell membrane.
Therefore, they use cellular energy to move molecules, especially ions against their concentration gradients.
Difference Between Uniport Symport and Antiport
Uniport refers to an integral membrane protein, which transports a single type of substrate species across the cell membrane. And, symport refers to another integral membrane protein involved in the transport of two different molecules in the same direction through the cell membrane. Meanwhile, antiport refers to the third type of integral membrane protein involved in the secondary active transport of two different molecules in opposite directions.
Types of Molecules to be Transported
A single type of molecules moves through uniport, but two different types of molecules move through both symport and antiport.
The Direction of the Movement
Both uniport and symport transport molecules in a single direction, but antiport transports molecules to both directions.
Types of Transporter Proteins
Uniports are carrier proteins, but both symports and antiports are cotransporters.
Type of Active Transport
Uniport uses primary active transport, but both symports and antiports use secondary active transport.
Uniport uses energy from ATP for the transport of molecules, while both symports and antiports rely upon the electrochemical potential difference.
All channel proteins are the examples of uniports, and Na/glucose symporter is an example of a symport, while Na/H antiporter is an example of antiport.
Uniport is a type of integral membrane protein, transporting a single type of molecules in one direction across the cell membrane. Also, it is a carrier protein, which uses primary active transport. Thereby, it uses energy from ATP for the transport of molecules. In contrast, both symport and antiport use secondary active transport and the driving force of molecules is the electrochemical gradient. In addition to that, both transport two different types of molecules at the same time. However, symport transports two types of molecules in the same direction while antiport transports two different types of molecules in opposite directions. On that account, the main difference between uniport, symport, antiport is the mechanism of transport.
1. Cherak, Stephana J. "Membrane Transport." Basic Biochemistry. Available Here.
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Artist: Hearts On Fire
Label: Melodic Rock Records
Genre: AOR / MELODIC ROCK
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Item Number: MRR090
HEARTS ON FIRE are:
Jean Funes - Lead and Rhythm Guitars, Acoustic Guitar (Sound Of Eternity)
Richard Andermyr - Vocals, Guitars (Rian)
Joel Mejia – Drums (Codigo Eterno)
Dennis Ward - Bass and Keyboards
Mixed and Mastered by Dennis Ward
HEARTS ON FIRE is about passion for life. All the songs are born from a place of true inspiration.
We believe that music is the perfect way to express deep emotions like Love, Pain, Regret, sadness etc. and the album 'Call Of Destiny' is about that.
HEARTS OF FIRE are a long-term project for MRR and the guys, this is definitely going to be one of those debut albums you look back upon as a classic.
Formed in 2017, by Jean Funes, guitarist of Sound Of Eternity. He had the vision to create an AOR / Melodic Hard Rock band in the style of his lifetime heroes; Def Leppard, Journey, Whitesnake, Scorpions, Europe, and called his former bandmate in Codigo Eterno, drummer Joel Mejia, who shares this passion and vision of creating new music, and together HEARTS ON FIRE was started.
The searching for vocalist begun and Richard Andermyr of Rian was contacted after listening to the great Rian debut album and was introduced by Andrew McNeice. Richard proved to be a perfect fit for the band, not only with his voice but because of his chemistry with the rest of the band. First single was created and recorded as the first song of the project, "Hearts On Fire", an uplifting mid-tempo song with great hooks and melodies, being the perfect example of what the band have in their hearts to create.
Nello Dell'omo created the great logo and the artwork for the debut album titled "Call Of Destiny", "We chose this name because we believe that it's our fate to create music and deliver a message from the heart to the listener. Everything happens for a reason and we are together doing this, even with the fact that we are separated by an ocean, so far from each other." says Jean Funes.
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The Flaws to launch new single in Whelan's
Irish indie four-piece the Flaws are set to launch their brand new single 'Animals' in Whelan's of Dublin on Thursday, September 4th.
Taken from the Flaws upcoming third studio album Springtime, 'Animals' is a suitably cathartic experience that convey's a revitalisation within the group after a difficult period. Set to a vivid production aesthetic the single is a compelling glimpse into its forthcoming parent record.
The follow-up their 2010 sophomore release Constant Adventure, the Flaws' new album was recorded by the band themselves allowing the four-piece to explore their sound and songwriting independent of outside interference.
Tickets to see the Flaws' 'Animals' single launch in Whelan's on Thursday, September 4th are priced at €6 and are available now via whelanslive.com. Doors are at 8pm.
Click below to watch the music video for the Flaw's new single 'Animals'. The band's upcoming third L.P. Springtime is due for release this Autumn.
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Man in critical condition after being shot 3 times by deputy
Bicyclist hid between cars with dark cellphone in his hand
Updated: 5:05 PM EDT Sep 13, 2013
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A man was wounded in a deputy-involved shooting on Norma Elaine Road.
SOURCE: Chris Emma/WPBF
A man was wounded in a deputy-involved shooting in West Palm Beach.The shooting occurred in the 5000 block of Norma Elaine Road at about 8:30 a.m. Friday.More From WPBF: Email alerts | Mobile | SocialPalm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said a deputy had an altercation with a man on a bicycle. He said the man was acting suspicious, so when the deputy asked him what he was doing, the man jumped off his bicycle and hid between two cars."The guy came out with (a) dark object and turns toward the deputy," Bradshaw said, referring to the object that his deputy thought was a gun. "It turns out it's ... a black-colored cellphone, but you don't know that. It could be too late. It's been the other way around. Lots of times it turns out to be a gun."The deputy shot 20-year-old Dontrelle Stephens three times."It was frightening," a witness told WPBF. "First, I thought somebody was doing construction, then I realized it was serious."Stephens was taken to St. Mary's Medical Center and spent the day in critical condition.Investigators also said Stephens had marijuana on him."All the guy had to do was stop, put up his hands and say here's who I am," Bradshaw said. "But he didn't want to because he's involved in criminal activity."View, Share Breaking News Photos On WPBF.com's u local:9146236
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A man was wounded in a deputy-involved shooting in West Palm Beach.
The shooting occurred in the 5000 block of Norma Elaine Road at about 8:30 a.m. Friday.
Mom, young daughter found dead inside West Palm Beach home
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Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said a deputy had an altercation with a man on a bicycle. He said the man was acting suspicious, so when the deputy asked him what he was doing, the man jumped off his bicycle and hid between two cars.
"The guy came out with (a) dark object and turns toward the deputy," Bradshaw said, referring to the object that his deputy thought was a gun. "It turns out it's ... a black-colored cellphone, but you don't know that. It could be too late. It's been the other way around. Lots of times it turns out to be a gun."
The deputy shot 20-year-old Dontrelle Stephens three times.
"It was frightening," a witness told WPBF. "First, I thought somebody was doing construction, then I realized it was serious."
Stephens was taken to St. Mary's Medical Center and spent the day in critical condition.
Investigators also said Stephens had marijuana on him.
"All the guy had to do was stop, put up his hands and say here's who I am," Bradshaw said. "But he didn't want to because he's involved in criminal activity."
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Read about the ESA-Roscosmos mission to Mars (article). The first of two, actually. The Proton-M rocket lifted off today from Baikonur. With an orbiter and descent craft, they will test equipment, measure rare gases and electric fields.
In mid-October, the two vessels will separate and begin their distinct missions.
The orbiter uses Canadian hardware: the communication antenna subsystem built by MDA.


In 1982, the founders of Fresno Coin bought a Cigar Store Indian at a Pomona swap meet to be used as a decoration. After family friends Betty and Floyd Smith inquired about the Indian's name, it dawned on Steve Sr. that they had overlooked naming him. He was immediately named in honor of Floyd Smith and has been part of the family ever since. Floyd resides in our Loan building at the Blackstone location.
A customer approached Steve Jr. and said he had a Cigar Store Indian he wanted to sell. He was transported in the back of a truck to our Blackstone location, and was carefully stored away until the opening of The Showroom. As family friend and sago-palm enthusiast, Leroy Boyd had previously passed away, the Indian was named in his honor, and has proudly watched over our fine jewelry and coin collection at The Showroom since 2009.
When we were about to open our Downtown Fresno location in 2011, the relative of one of our employees offered to sell us a Cigar Store Indian. After seeing him, we decided he would be perfect fit for our downtown lobby. Because the Indian is always on the lookout, we decided to name him after our long-time and loyal security guard, Henry Sanchez.
During a meeting with Tulare County Office of Education Superintendent Jim Vidak, we talked about the history of our Cigar Store Indians. With Mr. Vidak being such a respected leader and teacher, we decided to honor him by naming the fourth Indian Jim. Steve Jr. and Philip searched tirelessly online to find the perfect Chief to preside over Visalia Jewelry and Loan starting in 2013.


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Tropical Delight
Our client, St Joseph Hospital, asked us to turn the blank walls and ceilings in their new radiology room into a soothing tropical environment. We accomplished this by creating a relaxing tropical beach scene rendered out on our digital wall covering material. In addition to this, we created a tropical coral reef by replacing existing ceiling window panels with our customizable backlit transparencies.
Our Day/Night backlit material can be viewed with the lights on or off. This material turns a ceiling light fixture into an instant light box at the flick of a switch.
We were pleased to hear that these graphics were a big hit with the staff and patients.
Star Treatment
Our client, Boeing, needed a display to hold their 2009 Energy Star award for energy conservation. Working with their account manager, Francisco Flores, a display was designed that showcases the award located in their Long Beach facility.
Energy Star awards are given by the federal Environmental Protection Agency and are designed to recognize significant contributions in the area of energy conservation and environmental stewardship.
The Boeing display needed to show off the Energy Star award while not restricting the view for security. Also, the display could not be attached with screws to the building structure. Using acrylic sheets and high strength adhesive tape, we assembled the display you see above.
No matter the challenge, we are here to help you look good. Call us and we'll give you the star treatment, too.
Comfortable, Inviting Environments
Our client, DGWB Advertising, called upon their All Wall Graphics Solutions-Specialist, Mike Mertz, to help produce a wall-covering project for Children Hospital of Orange County (CHOC).
After a walk-through with the clients to discuss details of the lobby area project, measurements were taken to create a layout. Brian Mundy, VP of Digital Imaging, drew schematics and sent them off to DGWB for the creative. Brian then enhanced the children's life-style images and we dropped them into the approval file. After a round of proofs, we printed and laminated the wall covering. Our expert installers hung the wall covering art in one afternoon.
The lobby at CHOC now has a more friendly, comfortable and inviting environment. Let us help you transform the walls of your facility into the type of environment that works for you.
Fifty-Five Years Young
This week we wanted to pause and celebrate two birthdays. The first one is Photomation's 55th birthday. Founded in 1955 by Dean Hesketh, our company first started out as a commercial photography company. Opening the same year Walt Disney started his Magic Kingdom in Anaheim, Dean took borrowed money and set up his studio in Anaheim. A graduate of the Art Center School of Design in Los Angeles, Dean quickly became one of Southern California's most sought after commercial photographers.
The lab portion of the business started when he began to process his own film and make his own prints. In the late 1960's, Photomation was born and has been a force within the graphics community ever since. Our company is committed to continuous innovation and providing the best quality and service available. Your continued support has allowed us to celebrate "Double Nickels" or 55 years of service.
The other birthday I wanted to mention is John Hesketh's 55th birthday. Yes, he is the same age as the company. The family lore is that Dean brought in the paperwork for the first lease to be signed in the hospital room, right after John was born! So congratulations to John and to Photomation. Both are 55 years young!!
Mosaic Banner Promotes Industry
Our industry's main trade show is PMA, Photo Marketing Association. This year, this event was held in our backyard at the Anaheim Convention Center. Attended by members worldwide, the annual show brought 15,000 attendees to Southern California.
All Wall Graphics provided an 8'x16' mosaic banner made up of thousands of individual pictures of submitted by local residents. The photo mosaic is a nighttime shot of the Anaheim Garden Walk. People were encouraged to upload their digital images of Orange County to a website set up for this purpose. The image assembly was coordinated though the association's Jackson, Michigan office and the file was then sent to us to be printed. Pole pockets were added to facilitate installation on-site.
The enormous banner was a huge success and you would find attendees looking for the picture they submitted within the mosaic banner.
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Secret Life of Pets Adoption Movie Review
Max was a small, friendly puppy alone in a cardboard box when Katie found him and brought him to her Manhattan apartment. Now, Max and Katie have formed a happy owner-dog family, and Max is very content to share his life with her. But one day, Katie brings home Duke, a large, shaggy dog who also needed a home.
(SPOILERS THE REST OF THE WAY) Max hates the thought of sharing his home with a new brother, and Duke resents Max's attitude – Duke has come from the pound, and can't afford to be taken back in. Max conspires to get Duke in trouble so that Katie will get rid of him, and Duke conspires to get Max lost far from home. While trying to get rid of each other, they encounter animal control officers and a dangerous gang of human-hating mistreated animals. Facing this mutual danger brings Duke and Max closer to each other; their friends help them find their way home, and with their newfound friendship, they are able to begin life as brothers.
Katie brought Max into her home, because Max needed a home. Later, she sees Duke's need for a home, and brings him in as well, telling Max that they are now brothers. We don't know why Max needed a home – Katie found him in a box labelled "free puppies" – but Duke needs a home because he got lost; he had chased something, and lost track of his elderly owner. Katie's home reminds me of a foster-adoptive home. The initially unaccepting feelings that Max and Duke have towards each other might be familiar to kids who have viewed new siblings with reluctance and skepticism. Duke feels desperate – he needs this home to work out. Max feels displaced – Duke literally takes Max's bed and leaves him in the trash.
Duke does try to go home to his original owner, but finds that his original owner has died; his initial response is anger towards Max, but he and Max quickly repair their relationship.
The dangerous gang of human-hating animals calls themselves "The Flushed Pets." They have become embittered because they were discarded or mistreated by the humans that had cared for them. They are bent on revenge against the people who "said they love us, then throw us out."
Max and Duke overcome a rough start to become friends and brothers.
There are many more potential strong points covered in the next section.
Potential Strong Points, Possible Triggers
Max and Duke express realistic feelings; Max does not want a new brother, and seems to fear being displaced. Duke acts out aggressively in response to Max's cold welcome, Max tries to get Duke in trouble, Duke escalates his behaviors. Most behaviors make sense within a certain context – and for Max and Duke, the context of their behaviors is that each wants a place in Katie's family, and they do not initially see how they can both fit. For some young viewers, and for kids who have issues regarding rejection, some aspects of this story could be very hard. For older kids, this film could be very helpful for allowing them to talk to their parents about their feelings regarding being new in a home, or about accepting a new sibling into the home. I think Secret Life of Pets has the potential to be a triggering film for some, and potential to be very helpful for others. Parents, you know your kids best, so you might want to screen this one first to decide how it will likely impact your kids. It's definitely worth taking a look, and depending on your kids' needs, it might be worth screening yourself before bringing your kids.
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There's a parallel to Finding Dory here (double spoiler alert!!) Dory and Duke have both wandered away from their homes, and have been lost for a long time. They both find their homes, and in both cases, their loved ones are gone. Dory is able to find her parents, and incorporates her new family with her original family. Duke's situation plays out more painfully (although some would argue, more realistically). He can't reconnect with his original family; he grieves this, and eventually bonds to his new family.
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It would be possible for kids to focus on Max's and Duke's attempts to get rid of each other; it might take intentional guidance from parents for kids to view the whole story in context – Max and Duke have normal feelings which they followed into damaging behavior, but were able to be friends and brothers even though they initially didn't think it would be possible.
To try to impress the dangerous gang, Max and Duke fabricate a story about how they used a blender to kill their owners. The gang howls approvingly.
Secret Life of Pets probably isn't a good choice for families who have just recently added a new child into their home through adoption or foster care; kids who do not yet feel secure about their place in their new family might find this one very scary. It could also be rough for kids who have known insecure home situations, who might have fears (even unexpressed fears) of being taken from your home. However, for families who are considering adding another member to their family, this would be an excellent film to use to invite conversation about your kids' worries, fears, and ambiguities about a potential new family member. Think about this one for kids ages 7-12, but think about waiting on it if your family has recently added a member who might feel insecure about their place in the family.
Why was Max unhappy to have Duke come to his home? Was it OK for him to feel that way?
What are some other ways that Max could have treated Duke?
If Max had been kind to Duke, how do you think Duke would have felt?
At what point did Max and Duke become brothers?
What parts of having new people in our family are exciting? What parts are scary?
What does it feel like to be new somewhere (like in a family, or in a class?)
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Rachel Kellerman sits in front of her school office "totem," a corkboard that she tacks valuable pictures, quotes and objects on.
Rachel Kellerman lives for stories.
To the six-year Palo Alto High School librarian, stories come in more forms than just books and writing. They can be experiences like traveling to the London Olympics and exploring different career paths, or what she personally values: searching for and finding a personal "space" where you feel at peace.
Across a large bulletin board in her office — what she calls her totem — hang special items that pinpoint memories and lessons she values, from a bright Giants rally towel to a fortune cookie slip her daughter recently sent. Many of the items have traveled with her over the years and symbolize the kind of person she is today.
Kellerman's love for stories began in high school. She attended Pacific Palisades High, or "Pali," which was a large and progressive Los Angeles charter school with little school spirit.
There, Kellerman met the English teacher Rose Gilbert, currently the oldest teacher in Los Angeles at 92 years old, who sparked Kellerman's lasting love of reading and writing.
Kellerman went on to major in psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles, where she acquired people skills that came in handy as a TV commercial producer at a San Francisco ad agency.
It was also in the world of advertising and media that Kellerman discovered that she loved being creative and experimenting with technology.
But after five years, Kellerman realized that the job — selling frozen food and other items — wasn't very fulfilling.
Seeking more, Kellerman went down a new path: education. Following her parents, who were also educators, she went on to earn a masters degree at University of California at Berkeley and a degree in library science at San Jose State University. Kellerman became a librarian at several Palo Alto schools before moving to London for four years.
To her, living abroad was just the right thing. Kellerman finds travelling to be one of the healthiest and most eye-opening things someone can do.
With her daughter currently living in Boston and her son studying in New York, Kellerman travels frequently with her husband to the East Coast. Other than trips within the country, Kellerman has traveled to Switzerland for a 10-day hiking trip and, more recently, to London for the 2012 Summer Olympics.
To Kellerman, who grew up going to many UCLA sporting events and is a lifelong sports fan, this trip was true "sports gluttony." She says her love for sports comes from seeing and knowing its stories.
"I just think that there's something about sports and the commitment that you make as a team member and the stories that are told every night on the field that really appeal to me," she says.
Other than sports, Kellerman has a lasting appreciation of archiving.
While looking to the future, she hopes to get an official archiving certificate, which will enable her to take charge of the collection in the back of the library, scan its information and make it available online. In doing so, she says she'll be combining all her library, teaching and media skills.
For now, Kellerman simply loves working at Paly, a job she considers active, physically demanding, and very suitable for someone like her. Other than getting to dip into multiple subjects for short lessons, she loves that she can talk to and connect with kids and teachers around campus and feel like she's making an impact.