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Name: Act of 19 October 2001 on health insurance (Text No. 1587).
Subject(s): Medical care and sickness benefit
Published on: Narodne Novine, 2001-10-30, No. 94, pp. 3093-3111
ISN: HRV-2001-L-59969
Bibliography: Narodne Novine, 2001-10-30, No. 94, pp. 3093-3111
Abstract/Citation: Provides, inter alia, for categories of beneficiaries, their rights and obligations, financing sources, complementary health insurance, and private health insurance.
2006-07-13 (HRV-2006-L-74289)Act of 13 July 2006 on compulsory health insurance (Text No. 2015).
Repealed text(s):
2001-09-21 (HRV-2001-L-59775)Act of 21 September 2001 to amend and supplement the Act on Health Insurance (Text No. 1401).
2001-06-28 (HRV-2001-L-59759)Act of 28 June 2001 to amend and supplement the Act on Health Insurance (Text No. 961).
1999-03-26 (HRV-1999-L-55019)Act of 26 March 1999 to supplement the Act on health insurance (Text No. 708).
1999-01-29 (HRV-1999-L-51795)Act of 29 January 1999 to amend and supplement the Act on Health Insurance (Text No. 246).
1998-06-24 (HRV-1998-L-51239)Act of 19 June 1998 to amend and supplement the Act on Health Insurance (Text No. 1193).
1998-01-30 (HRV-1998-L-48994)Act of 30 January 1998 to amend the Act on Health Insurance (Text No. 200).
1997-10-03 (HRV-1997-L-48991)Act of 3 October 1997 to amend and supplement the Act on Health Insurance (Text No. 1663).
1996-12-04 (HRV-1996-L-45732)Act of 1993 on Health Insurance, as amended to 1996.(Text No. 2)
1996-06-28 (HRV-1996-L-45061)Act of 28 June 1996 to amend and supplement the Act on Health Insurance of 30 July 1993. (Text No. 1072)
1993-07-30 (HRV-1993-L-40489)Act of 30 July 1993 on Health Insurance (Text No. 1535).
2005-07-13 (HRV-2005-L-72124)Act of 13 July 2005 to amend and supplement the Act on health insurance (Text No. 1774).
2004-12-03 (HRV-2004-L-71753)Act of 3 December 2004 to amend and supplement the Act on health insurance (Text No. 3076).
2004-03-03 (HRV-2004-L-66781)Act of 3 March 2004 to amend the Act on health insurance (Text No. 824).
2008-04-23 (HRV-2008-R-81600)Regulations of 23 April 2008 on conditions and procedure of implementation of rights deriving from basic health insurance on the basis of occupational accident and disease (Text No. 1940).
2006-04-24 (HRV-2006-M-73585)Rules of 24 April 2006 to amend and supplement the Rules of establishment and implementation of complementary health insurance (Text No. 1164).
2005-09-20 (HRV-2005-R-72127)Regulations of 20 September 2005 to amend and supplement the Regulations on rights, conditions and means of realizing rights derived from basic health insurance (Text No. 2066).
2004-12-23 (HRV-2004-M-71757)Decision of 23 December 2004 on the extent of rights for health protection deriving from basic health insurance for 2005 (Text No. 3236).
2004-12-21 (HRV-2004-R-71760)Regulations of 21 December 2004 on standards and norms for health protection rights deriving from basic health insurance for 2005 (Text No. 3237).
2004-12-21 (HRV-2004-M-71761)Decision of 21 December 2004 on the conclusion of contracts with medical establishments and private practitionners for 2005 (Text No. 3238).
2004-12-21 (HRV-2004-M-71762)Decision of 21 December 2004 on special standards and measures for their application in the realization of primary health protection deriving from basic health insurance for 2005 (Text No. 3239).
2003-10-14 (HRV-2003-R-65248)Regulations of 14 October 2003 on the right of a contributor to be reimbursed of a part of a contribution in the event of occupational accident or disease (Text No. 2431).
2003-05-14 (HRV-2003-R-64080)Regulations of 14 May 2003 on rights, conditions and means of realizing rights derived from basic health insurance (consolidation).
2003-02-19 (HRV-2003-R-63426)Regulations of 19 February 2003 on conditions and procedure of implementation of rights deriving from basic health insurance on the basis of occupational accident and disease (Text No. 430).
2002-12-30 (HRV-2002-R-63495)Regulations of 30 December 2002 on duration on longest sick-leave depending on type of illness (Text No. 51).
2002-12-23 (HRV-2002-R-63496)Regulations of 23 December 2002 on standards and norms regarding right to health protection deriving from basic health insurance for 2003 (Text No. 4).
2002-12-23 (HRV-2002-M-63497)Decision of 23 December 2002 on special standards and measures for their application in primary health protection deriving from basic health insurance for 2003 (Text No. 2003).
2002-12-23 (HRV-2002-R-63498)Rules of 23 December 2002 to amend and supplement the Rules of establishment and implementation of complementary health insurance (Text No. 7).
2002-08-08 (HRV-2002-R-62734)Regulations of 8 August 2002 on conditions to exempt farmers from the age of 65 from payment of contributions for basic health insurance (Text No. 1962).
2008-04-09 (HRV-2008-R-81596)Decision of 9 April 2008 to amend and supplement the Rules of establishment and implementation of complementary health insurance (Text No. 1539).
2002-03-06 (HRV-2002-M-61180)Plan and Programme of measures for basic medical insurance health protection of 6 March 2002 (Text No. 647).


The so called off season has been a busy time with a fleet of liveries in IMSA and other series either complete, or in progress, plus the release of the IMSA Spotter Guide.
I have been fortunate to have been able to produce a number of liveries for teams which will be on display at the Rolex 24 at Daytona. Here is a quick summary. Full features on some of these liveries coming soon.
Moorespeed are a long term client and I have designed their liveries for a few years in the IMSA Porsche GT3 Cup. This year, they move up to the WeatherTech series with a new Audi R8 LMS GT3. Main sponsor Bardahl traditionally run in black and yellow. We wanted to mix it up a bit and make the car more stealth, so a mix of Gold (to tie in with the #IMSA50 celebrations) create a clean looking design which is also unique on the grid.
Current Lamborghini Super Trofeo AM champion, Ryan Hardwick has commissioned me to design his liveries in the past and returned this year to create an all new look for Paul Miller Racing with Ryan's 1st Phrom sponsorship. This was a tricky design as another (NDA) client had an identical livery brief in terms of color, for a while, so we played with a Blue and then a Black base.
As is often the case the extra variants and revisions helped to resolve the design.
I had great fun designing the Chupacabra for JC Perez and P1 Motorsport last year. The livery also ended up on multiple Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeos as well as their race haulers. This became a huge fan favourite for kids which was cool We tweaked the design this year, using a graphite base and adding in a side illustration of a Chupacabra, ready to pounce. P1 Motorsports will be racing the full season of the IMSA WeatherTech championship.
Quite a few 'first looks' including my updated Chupacabra.
If you are going to the race, there will be printed booklets available (they went to print over the weekend, so aside from updated #9 Pfaff and #29 Land liveries, pretty much complete).
Online guide will be updated with any changes later this week.
Thanks to IMSA and almost every team for helping out. 96 illustrations including 11 of my own liveries.
This was a beast to produce!
Sadly, the website continues to take a back seat with a great range of working coming in. Most of my work is with motorsport liveries and these are showcased here.
All of this wouldn't have been possible without the support of my family, friends and the teams, sponsors and drivers who commissioned me to design these liveries, so a huge THANK YOU!
All the liveries shown have competed (or used in public, in the case of the Vancouver Canucks liveries) during 2018. A couple (the CES BMW M6 for example) were collaborations and a few are older liveries still in use today.
Also a few sponsorship proposals which never saw the light of day and a couple which are confidential with NDA etc. There were a few helmets, race haulers, race suits, t-shirt designs and vehicle styling projects along the way was well.
Signing off 2018 with wishes for a healthy, happy, fun-packed and peaceful Happy New Year.
Where did the 2018 season go? I've had the most amazing season, but also easily the busiest, even busier than legendary crunch time on EA games, or back to back race weekends when I was at McLaren many moons ago.
So, with the result of up to14+ cars running on an IMSA weekend in all classes, plus others, the website had to take a back seat. I had to ensure my client work were not compromised.
However, now, I'm starting to update the site so pop back and see some of the liveries I will be highlighting including the Chupacabra P1 Motorsports Mercedes AMG GT3 racecar. More soon.
Pop back tomorrow as a new project I styled for Ken Block and the Hoonigans drops on You Tube. Somehow, its stayed a secret for two years, but this teaser below might give you a clue. All I can say is its bonkers.
I will be bringing this site up to date during the summer months, so check back for 18months of liveries!
Been a busy few months with liveries and Spotter Guides, so updates have been less frequent on here than I would desire.
In addition to the usual IMSA WeatherTech and Continental Spotter Guides, updated for each race weekend, I have recently released the Official IMSA Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge USA by Yokohama Spotter Guide and the Official Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America Spotter Guide. Both series racing this weekend at CoTA.
With these four series, a total of 13 cars will be carrying my liveries, plus a couple more I helped on a little. Pretty cool!
New regs, new cars, new liveries and lots of new driver combination makes the Official Spotter Guide a must. The guide will be updated later in the week with any driver or livery additions (probably after Tech is completed). Livery wise, all except Rebellion have previously been confirmed.
If you are at the circuit, a printed guide/program will be available later in the week.
The guide also features a number of my own liveries.
Thanks to the teams for their help with reference of the guides, to IMSA of course, the proof readers and you for downloading and sharing the guide!
The online guide will be available here, at SpotterGuides.com, and a smaller size version at IMSA.com from Tuesday 24th January. This will be kept updated during the week.
The guide will be updated prior to each event and the plan is to have this online on the Monday before the race from Round 2 (Sebring).
Long term client, CJ Wilson Racing, recently announced a partnership with Porsche GT3 Cup team, WinWard Racing to run a Porsche Cayman GT4 ClubSport in the IMSA Continental Tires SportsCar Challenge.
Leading Porsche racer, Corey Fergus has been a client for a number of years, campaigning various Porsche's in the Pirelli World Challenge with an AERO supported 'paint' wrap including the Porsche Cayman below.
For 2017, Corey has teamed up with Moorespeed Racing to race in IMSA's Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge USA with the new updated Gen 2 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Car.
New race team, VOLT Racing, promoting the VOLT Lighting brand recently commissioned me to design a livery for their new McLaren 570S GT4 in the IMSA Continental Tires SportsCar Challenge.
VOLT lighting corporate colors are a vibrant yellow and black and the team wanted to utilize a florescent yellow/green vinyl for the car to really stand out on track. Combined with Graphite Grey, this gives maximum contrast. The livery has been designed to be very clean and utilize the lines of the McLaren.
If everything aligns with delivery, this weekend will see the debut of a new IMSA t-shirt at Virginia International Raceway.
The Colors of IMSA showcase 16 liveries from the 2016 series from the iconic colors of Corvette, Turner Motorsport (hopefully 😉 ) and Stevenson to some of the striking new colors this year including the Gas Monkey Viper and the new Ford GT. Can you guess the rest?
On the rear, all the full time teams are listed.
The shirt should be on-sale at the IMSA Shop on site at Virginia International Raceway and will then be online in the next week or so.
Thanks to commissions by IMSA and Lamborghini Squadra Corse, EVERY race at the '6hrs of the Glen' event will have its own Spotter Guide!
All the guides are now available to download on the sister site SpotterGuides.com.
Thanks to Lamborghini and IMSA for their continued support.
I have recently produced a new IMSA commissioned Spotter Guide to join the existing folio of IMSA Spotter Guides. The Mazda Prototype Lites Presented by Cooper Tires is a feeder prototype series for both IMSA and Mazda through their 'Mazda Road to 24' program.
Hard copies of the guide will be available in the Lites paddock, or you can download a guide from its new dedicated Prototype Lites page.
This weekend's IMSA 6 hours of the Glen will see Spotter Guides for EVERY race, including the main event and Porsche GT3 Cup and Lamborghini Huracan Super Trofeo. These will be released during Monday once various embargos and liveries have been launched.
Thanks to IMSA for the commission!
As the title says, the 2016 Dunlop Le Mans Spotter Guide has been updated following two days of Scrutineering in the town of Le Mans. Thanks to some helpful teams and photographers, along with less changes than previous years, I've been able to release V2 earlier than ever. Full details including change list on the dedicated SpotterGuides.com page here.
In addition to the usual WeatherTech/Continental Tires entry lists, IMSA have commissioned me to produce a range of support series guides, starting with the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge USA.
As a further bonus, Lamborghini North America also commissioned me to produce a Spotter Guide for their 2016 Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo North America Championship which kicks off this weekend.


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What a splendid surprise! Good King Nigel of Norwich popped in for a Royal Visit to Captain Fawcett's Marvellous Barbershop Museum in King's Lynn.
For King Nigel is none other than Fawcett chum and 'Triumphant' Signature Series partner in crime Rufus Hound, who's starring in Jack and the Beanstalk at the Theatre Royal, Norwich, until 7th January 2023. Famed for his luxurious trademark whiskers, he was sporting a particularly lush 'English handlebar' moustache when a chance meeting led to his collaboration with the Captain. The result was 'Triumphant', a rather splendid Signature Series Gentleman's Grooming range which made its debut in 2019 with a Moustache Wax. 'Triumphant' was such a success, six months later the range was expanded and now includes a Beard Balm, Beard Oil and magnificent Eau De Parfum with a heady fragrance reminiscent of the balmy days of Spring. The scent was inspired by Rufus riding his beloved motorcycle through England's green & pleasant countryside.
He whizzed over to Fawcett HQ for tea with the Right Hand Man. Let's listen in on their chat…
What a place! Everything is totally in the Captain Fawcett character. Honestly, everyone should come and see what's been created here. Has to be one of the UK's most eccentric museums. It's just amazing! Is it actually the Right Hand Man's playroom?
About Captain Fawcett…
Captain Fawcett's melange of magical moustache managers and array of oils, waxes and parfums are never far from my washbag or my whiskers. The products are fantastic, I have something for every season. Captain Fawcett is about stories. Actually everything is stories. It's all about how well you tell that story. And Captain Fawcett does it better than anyone.
About 'Triumphant'…
Being asked to collaborate with Captain Fawcett is one the most flattering things that's ever happened. I met Iain Crockart at a party and we bonded over motorcycles. Then the Captain asked me what smell I'd put in a moustache wax. My answer was immediate. I ride a Triumph motorcycle in an open face helmet. On those glorious days of summer, to be on a British bike, riding through the twisty, turny B roads of the British countryside is an exceptional treat. Whizzing through little villages on a bike designed to do just that is heavenly. The combination of sunshine, flowers and williwaw arrives olfactorily but manifests spiritually. If there was one smell, I wish there more of in the world, that's it.
About Celebrity Fragrance…
When 'Triumphant' was mentioned in Vogue it was just unreal. I mean, I'm not Beyoncé or Ariana Grande, I'm just a bloke from the theatre who does panel shows…with his own fragrance. It feels as insane to me as it does to you, it's brilliant and completely nuts!
About Captain Fawcett Eau De Parfums…
I like all the smells in the Captain Fawcett ranges. I wear them seasonally. I really love Triumphant when it's baking hot summer weather. That floral smell is glorious, it makes you feel properly splendid. As winter nights draw on a bit of Booze & Baccy is fantastic. Great for when you're sitting down, Sunday lunch, drinking a pint and eating a stew. Barberism I like for going out, evenings when you're keeping your options open. And then bring out that incredible red bottle, Maharajah. That's the one for some serious nighttime business!
About whiskers…
I've chosen to wear facial hair since I was able! I often have to shave for a role. But I can go from clean shaven to a moustache with a little flick at the end in about a month. But the full thing takes about 6 months. People with whiskers are making a lifestyle choice. We're a more considered bunch in my humble opinion! Controversial, but I'm holding to it! As an actor, big moustaches aren't right for every role, but I've been a ring master for the last year so that's perfect. When I let my moustache grow longer I get two curls which is harder to manage. So I'm keeping it at one for now.
About Beard and Moustache Competitions…
For a bit of a lark I entered the 2008 World Beard and Moustache Championships in Brighton. It was absolutely incredible. They hadn't reckoned on the people of Brighton getting so into it, people came to poke fun, but ended up loving it. It was so moving, over 2,000 going mad cheering when this old Bavarian guy won. He was crying, Brighton was crying! It was properly emotional. I was in the Natural Moustache category and my moustache was professionally judged by Nick Cave. That's a sentence I never imagined saying!
About pantomime…
The roots of panto are brilliantly disruptive. They come from Roman Saturnalia, celebrating winter with all kinds of mayhem and cross-dressing. They're shows where communities take stock of themselves, mock and laugh at their themselves. They're about local knowledge and in-jokes. References to things like street names get the biggest laughs. They're raucous and irreverent. Pretty subversive but life enhancing.
A trip to the pantomime is where most people get their first experience of theatre. They don't have to sit quietly, they can shout and scream and have a wonderful time. Hopefully that means you've established the theatre as somewhere you can look to for stories that mean something, that move you. They resonate and live on. Then when you're older, you might give Hamlet a go!
About Mark Rylance…
I think a lot about whether acting is an art or a craft. How you collectively get the rhythm right to contribute to the story and bring these disparate people, the audience, along with you. But that's not to diminish it. You can be profoundly moved by craft. I mean, anyone who shows mastery of a craft, it can be sublime. An actor like Mark Rylance understands the craft absolutely, so then his wizardry takes hold. His Hamlet was extraordinary, the was a pause in 'To be or not to be' that made the audience complicit in Hamlet's existential crisis, he made something solipsistic become universal, which is the whole point. That's craft motherfucker!
About Norfolk…
I remembered Norwich as a good place when I was in a touring production of One Man, Two Guvnors at the Norwich Theatre Royal. Norfolk audiences are an excellent bunch. I was immediately up for coming back to do panto. I like Norfolk very much, it's a funny old place. I could happily live in Norwich Market! It's incredible!
And back to panto again…
Joe Tracini plays Jack in Jack and the Beanstalk. He's a Norwich panto regular and was born to be in pantomime. It's exhausting doing two shows a day. We only get Christmas Day off. But when people are really joining in, screaming and shouting, that's where the energy comes from. It's non-stop and there's no buzz like it.
Oh yes there is…and it smells 'Triumphant'!
Jack and the Beanstalk is playing at the Theatre Royal, Norwich until Saturday 7th January 2023. Tickets start at £10.
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Rosie Cowell receives NSF CAREER award
This 5-year award, "Testing a unified theory of perception and memory in the medial temporal lobe," for approximately $600,000 will allow Professor Cowell to develop and test a theory of how memory interacts with high-level visual perception and why both of these cognitive functions depend upon the medial temporal lobes. By applying the theory to both amnesia caused by brain damage and the more moderate memory loss caused by normal aging, this project will investigate whether these two forms of memory loss can be expained by the same mechanisms. This research will employ studies of memory performance, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and computational modeling.
Gerald Downes receives grant to study how brain regulates locomotion
Neurobiologist Gerald Downes, with chemist James Chambers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Amherst College neurobiologist Josef Trapani, have been awarded a three-year $824,025 collaborative research grant from the National Science Foundation to study the zebrafish brain to better understand how neurons regulate locomotion. Downes, the lead investigator, says his ultimate research goal is to better understand how different chemical signals, called neurotransmitters, work together at cellular and molecular levels to coordinate normal locomotion such as walking and swimming. Read more
The Role of Sleep in Product Choice
New research suggests sleep may counter impulse buys. Neuroscientists Rebecca Spencer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Uma Karmarkar of the Harvard Business School offer experimental results suggesting that normal nighttime sleep gave shoppers more positive feelings about their purchasing choices, but sleep failed to help them feel more confident about their decision. Further, sleep seemed to make participants reluctant to commit to spending money on an item they had considered buying the day before. Results appear in the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. Read more
Clarifying Prefrontal Neurons' Roles in Flexible Behavior
Results of a new study reported by David Moorman of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Gary Aston-Jones of Rutgers University suggest that adjusting behavior based on previous events involves an unexpected mix of neurons working together in the brain's prefrontal cortex. Findings appear in the online version of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Read more
Sandra Petersen to receive Presidential Award for STEM mentoring
NSB faculty member Sandra Petersen is set to receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering. She will receive her award at a White House ceremony later this year. According to a press release, the White House presents the awards "to individuals and organizations to recognize the crucial role that mentoring plays in the academic and personal development of students studying science and engineering--particularly those who belong to groups underrepresented in these fields." Dr. Petersen is one of only 14 individuals and one organization to receive this award this year. In addition to being honored at the White House, Dr. Petersen will also receive a $10,000 award from the National Science Foundation. Congratulations to Dr. Petersen!
Ajay Kumar is runner up in Innovation Challenge
Current Neuroscience & Behavior Program student Ajay Kumar (Bittman lab) was a runner up in UMass' Innovation Challenge MinutePitch competition. Ajay (as a member of Team GeneRisk) proposed a software and web database combination that allows clinicians to deposit raw genetic data to obtain a risk score for Autism Spectrum or related disorders. Congratulations to Ajay!
Park paper published in Cerebral Cortex
NSB faculty member Joonkoo Park's paper titled "Rapid and Direct Encoding of Numerosity in the Visual Stream" was recently published in Cerebral Cortex.
Amanda Cremone received travel award from CRF
NSB student Amanda Cremone (Spencer lab) received a travel award from the University of Massachusetts Center for Research on Families (CRF). CRF provided funding to Amanda to present Influence of a Mid-Day Nap on Response Inhibition in Preschool-Aged Children at the Society for Research in Child Development's conference in Philadelphia.
Janna Mantua recipient of Sleep Research Society Abstract Merit Based Award
NSB student Janna Mantua (Spencer lab) is a recipient of a Sleep Research Society Abstract Merit Based Award. This award is based on the scientific merit of the abstract that she submitted for presentation at SLEEP 2015, the 29th Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies that will be held June 6-10, 2015 in Seattle, WA. Janna received a Meritorius Award of $500. Congratulations to Janna!
Adaeze Egwuatu awarded a Millenium Scholars Fellowship
Adaeze Egwuatu, 1st year NSB student working in Jennifer McDermott's lab, was awarded a Millenium Scholars Fellowship through the Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD) for a recent conference meeting in Philadelphia. The Frances Degen Horowitz Millennium Scholars Program "offers the selected scholars mentorship from advanced graduate students and early career scholars in the field who provide them guidance and support in their pursuit of educational and professional goals." Congratulations to Adaeze!
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Template:Infobox Company Yahoo! Inc. Template:Nasdaq is an American computer services company with a mission to "be the most essential global Internet service for consumers and businesses". It operates an Internet portal, a web directory and a host of other services including the popular Yahoo! Mail. It was founded by Stanford graduate students David Filo and Jerry Yang in January 1994 and incorporated on March 2, 1995. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
According to Alexa Internet, a Web trends company, Yahoo is the most visited website on the Internet today. The global network of Yahoo websites received 3 billion page views per day as of October 2004.
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Yahoo started out as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web" but eventually received a new moniker with the help of a dictionary. The name Yahoo is an acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle," but Filo and Yang insist they selected the name because they liked the general definition of a yahoo, as in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." Yahoo itself first resided on Yang's student workstation, "Akebono," while the software was lodged on Filo's computer, "Konishiki"—both named after legendary sumo wrestlers. The "yet another" phrasing goes back at least to the Unix utility yacc, whose name is an acronym for "yet another compiler compiler".
Yahoo had its initial public offering on April 12, 1996, selling 2.6 million shares at $13 each.
As Yahoo's popularity has increased, so has the range of features it offers, making it a kind of one-stop shop for all the popular activities of the Internet. These now include: Yahoo! Mail, a Web-based e-mail service, an instant messaging client, a very popular mailing list service (Yahoo! Groups), online gaming and chat, various news and information portals, online shopping and auction facilities. Many of these are based at least in part on previously independent services, which Yahoo has acquired - such as the popular GeoCities free Web-hosting service, Rocketmail, and various competing mailing list providers such as eGroups. Many of these take-overs were controversial and unpopular with users of the existing services, as Yahoo often changed the relevant terms of service. An example of this would be their claiming intellectual property over content on their servers, which the old companies had not.
Yahoo has now begun making partnerships with telecommunications and Internet providers - such as BT in the UK, Rogers in Canada and SBC in the US - to create content-rich broadband services to rival those offered by AOL. The company offers a branded credit card, Yahoo! Visa, through a partnership with First USA.
Beginning in late 2002, Yahoo quietly began to bolster its search services by acquiring competing technologies. In December 2002, it acquired Inktomi, and in July 2003, it acquired Overture Services, Inc., and through it, search sites AltaVista and AlltheWeb. On February 18, 2004, Yahoo dropped Google-powered results and returned to using its own technology to provide search results.
As of 2005 Yahoo!'s news message boards have gained somewhat of a cult following. Attached to every story is a discussion board, yet rarely are the posts pertinent to the story.
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1995: Ziff Davis Inc. launches the magazine Yahoo! Internet Life, initially as ZD Internet Life. The magazine was meant to accompany and complement the web site.
February 7 2000: Yahoo.com brought to a halt for a few hours as it was being the victim of a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). [1] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/635444.stm) [2] (http://news.com.com/2100-1023-236621.html?legacy=cnet). On the next day, its shares rose about $16, or 4.5 percent as the failure was blamed on hackers rather than on an internal glitch, unlike what happened to eBay earlier.
December 2002: Yahoo! Inc. starts acquisition of Inktomi Web search engine
July 2003, Acquires Overture Services, Inc.
January 19 2004: Yahoo! Inc. announces the formation of Yahoo! Research Labs (http://research.yahoo.com), a research organization focusing on the invention of new technologies and solutions for Yahoo. Yahoo's Head and Principal Scientist, Dr. Gary William Flake, leads the new organization.
February 19 2004: Yahoo dropped Google-powered results, returning to its own results after a long time.
March 2004: Yahoo launches its own search engine technology.
March 1 2004: Yahoo announces (as cited in the New York Times article listed in the "References" section) that it will practice paid inclusion for its search service.
March 25 2004: Yahoo acquires the European shopping search engine Kelkoo.
December 15 2004: Yahoo launches beta version of its video search engine.
February 9 2005 Yahoo!Launch is changed to Yahoo!Music, which still provides free music.
February 15 2005 Yahoo establishes its European Headquarters in Dublin, Ireland with the creation of 400 new jobs. [3] (http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Yahoo_chooses_Dublin_as_location_of_new_European_Headquarters)
February 28 2005 Yahoo! launches a developer network (http://developer.yahoo.net/) giving an API to most of its search verticals.
March 2 2005 Yahoo! completes 10 years of corporate existence. Gives out free ice cream coupons at Baskin Robbins to its users to celebrate its "birthday."
March 20, 2005 Yahoo! acquires photo sharing service Flickr [4] (http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2005/03/yahoo_actually_.html)
April 7, 2005 Wikimedia Foundation announces Yahoo! support [5] (http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_announces_Yahoo_support)
May 26, 2005 Yahoo! announces its new PhotoMail service
Yahoo-owned services
This is a partial list. For a complete listing of the services see List of Yahoo services (http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/family/more/).
Link: http://mail.yahoo.com
Link: http://messenger.yahoo.com
Yahoo! Search
Link: http://search.yahoo.com
Yahoo! Games
Link: http://games.yahoo.com
Link: http://finance.yahoo.com
Yahoo! Groups
Link: http://groups.yahoo.com
Link: http://maps.yahoo.com
Link: http://music.yahoo.com
Link: http://autos.yahoo.com
Yahoo! Movies
Yahoo! Movies (http://movies.yahoo.com/) provides information on current movie theater releases, including showtimes, critical reviews and general popular opinion. It also offers information on a broad library of DVD/Video titles.
Yahoo! TV (http://tv.yahoo.com/) is an online television listing service. It provides schedules, reviews, and information on television programs being shown throughout the United States and certain countries through the world. Local, cable, broadcast, and satellite listings are supplied, sorted by ZIP Code and provider. The website also serves as a portal for entertainment industry news.
Yahoo! 360º
Yahoo! Health
Link: http://health.yahoo.com
Yahoo! Personals
Link: http://personals.yahoo.com
Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/) is an Internet-based news service. It features Top Stories, U.S. National, World, Business, Entertainment, Science, Health, Weather, Most Popular, News Photos, Op/Ed, and Local news. Most articles in Yahoo! News comes from Associated Press and Reuters, and numerous other news sources directly or via Yahoo! News.
Yahooligans!
Yahooligans!, a kids' version of the web portal
Link: http://www.yahooligans.com
GeoCities
Link: http://geocities.yahoo.com
Yahoo! Music / LAUNCH/LAUNCHCast
Yahoo! Musicis (http://music.yahoo.com/) a free music video website provided by Yahoo!. You must have a Yahoo! account to view many of the videos. The account is free, although it requires personal information.
In addition to music videos, Yahoo! Launch also provides a web radio service called Launchcast. This service is available for free with ads and limitation to listen to 600 songs per month; however a paid service with additional features is available, but currently only for U.S residents.
Yahoo! Hotjobs
Yahoo! Hotjobs is a leading internet employment listing site.
Link: http://hotjobs.yahoo.com
Yahoo! Developer Network
The Yahoo! Developer Network (http://developer.yahoo.net/) enables software developers to create applications that integrate with Yahoo through their XML-based APIs.
"Yahoo to Charge for Guaranteeing a Spot on Its Index (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/02/business/02net.html)" The New York Times, March 2, 2004
List of search engines
Official website (http://www.yahoo.com/)
Yahoo! Directory (http://dir.yahoo.com/)
Yahoo! Mail (http://mail.yahoo.com/)
Yahoo! Mobile (http://mobile.yahoo.com/)
Yahoo! Shopping (http://shopping.yahoo.com/)
Yahoo! Visa (http://visa.yahoo.com/)
Yahoo! Web Hosting (http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting/)
Yahoo! Music (http://music.yahoo.com/)
Yahoo! Video Search (http://video.search.yahoo.com/)
Yahoo! Search (http://search.yahoo.com/)
Yahoo! 360° (http://360.yahoo.com/)
Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/)
Yahoo! News Beta (http://beta.news.yahoo.com/)
Yahoo! - Yahoo! Inc. Company Profile (http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/48/48043.html)
Yahoo! for Good (http://brand.yahoo.com/forgood/index.html)
Yahoo! history (http://docs.yahoo.com/info/misc/history.html)
Yahoo! Netrospective: 10 years, 100 moments of the Web (http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/)
Corporate milestones (http://docs.yahoo.com/info/pr/milestones.html)
External timeline (http://www.robotwisdom.com/sites/yahoo.html)
Yahoo! Facts, compendium of Yahoo! lore and get answers to traditions you've always wondered about (http://www.tempilang.org/news/index.php?p=350)
The Search Engine Relevancy Challenge Results (http://www.rustybrick.com/rustysearch-results.php)Search engine trying to determine whether Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask Jeeves is more relevant by whiting out out the name of the Search Engine returning the result. Instead it is possible to vote on a site's relevancy.da:Yahoo!
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La Serie A 2004–05 fue la 103.ª edición del campeonato de fútbol de más alto nivel en Italia y la 73.ª desde la creación de la Serie A, además fue la primera en adoptar el formato de 20 equipos desde la temporada 1951/52.

Juventus fue originalmente el campeón pero luego del escándalo de arreglo de partidos conocido como Calciopoli, el título fue anulado y declarado desierto. Parma mantuvo la categoría al ganar el play-off por el 3.º descenso, condenando a Bologna a jugar la Serie B junto con Atalanta y Brescia.

Clasificación

Desempate por el descenso

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Bologna descendió a la Serie B.

Resultados

Enlaces externos
  - Todos los resultados en el sitio de estadísticas en internet de Rec.Sport.Soccer (RSSSF)
 Equipos de la Serie A 2004-05 - (www.footballsquads.com)

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Fútbol en Italia en 2004
Fútbol en Italia en 2005

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40 Stories in 40 Weeks: Land Trust transfers Jurassic Flats open space to city
Sept. 10th Daily Sentinel, by Dan West
The 16-acre parcel of conserved open space called Jurassic Flats on the Redlands was officially transferred from the Colorado West Land Trust to the city of Grand Junction last week.
The parcel at the northwest corner of Monument and South Camp roads is used informally by hikers and was purchased by the Colorado West Land Trust last year. Last fall, the city signed a lease agreement for the parcel.
"Our parks and recreation system has many strengths, and thanks to the tremendous efforts of our partner, the Colorado West Land Trust, the critical open space piece of the puzzle continues to grow stronger," Grand Junction Parks and Recreation Director Ken Sherbenou said in a statement. "This further establishes Grand Junction as an even more desirable place to live with a high quality of life."
The parcel was named Jurassic Flats for its proximity to Riggs Hill and other paleontological locations by George Callison, an accomplished paleontologist and artist who lives in the area, according to the Land Trust.
It will remain mostly conserved as open space and will preserve views of Colorado National Monument from Monument Road. A trail head and parking will be constructed for road cyclists and hikers. Once the next phase of the paved Monument Connector Trail is constructed, it will provide easy access from Jurassic Flats to the Lunch Loops as it connects to the South Camp paved trail.
"Thanks to the generosity of a community member, the Land Trust is delighted to be able to conserve this property as a public park and give the land to the city," Colorado West Land Trust Executive Director Rob Bleiberg said. "This is a wonderful addition to the network of open space and trails along Monument Road that will benefit the community today and generations that follow."
According to the Land Trust's release, neighbors and those who recreate in the area had long sought to conserve this piece of property. Due to its location, the land had a high value as a potential residential or commercial development. Bill Haggerty, a neighboring homeowner, said he was glad to see the property conserved.
"I am grateful to the previous landowner of 30 years for his willingness to share this great open space with his neighbors, like me," Haggerty said in a statement. "I am now extremely grateful for the Land Trust that secured this property as open space forever. Its value is so much more than intrinsic."


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Q: why does my code which takes fasta formated DNA and transforms it into a vector crashes on run I compiled both in code blocks and cygwin but it crashes when i run it.
The source.txt file is formated like this:
>sample1
ACTG
GCA
GTC
>sample2
TAACG
GGCC
And dtb should look something like this:
dtb=(sample1,ACTGGCAGTC,sample2,TAACGGGCC)
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <vector>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
    ifstream myfile;
    int i=0;
    string seq="",holder="";
    myfile.open("source.txt");
    vector<string> dtb;
    while (myfile>> seq)
    {
        if (seq.substr(0,1)==">")
        {
            dtb[i]=seq.substr(1,seq.length()-1);
            i++;
            if (i!=0)
                dtb[i]=holder;
            holder="";
        }
        else
        {
            holder+=seq;
        }
    }
    cout<<dtb[0]<<"\n"<<dtb[1]<<"\n"<<dtb[2]<<"\n"<<dtb[3];
    return 0;
}

A: A std::vector object starts out empty. That means any indexing in it will be out of bounds and lead to undefined behavior.
You need to add elements to the vector, using e.g. push_back.

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Part of Auburn's commitment to sustainability involves the examination of our operations to identify ways we can improve our performance across all four areas of the sustainability compass. Through active participation of many units and departments, Auburn has been able to make great strides in optimizing our operations for sustainability.
The links below will provide more information on our Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System (STARS) report. Of course, you can always contact our office if you would like additional details about Auburn's efforts.


So, when does Ben Sasse announce that he's not running for reelection either?
New #NeverTrump hail mary: What if we can get just one big Republican name to un-endorse Trump?
Now we're going to have delegates "unbind" themselves?
Trump campaign to blacklist #NeverTrump outfits?


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Pine Lemoray Provincial Park
Mount Hunter
Mount Murray
Mount Le Moray
Murray Range
Solitude Mountain
Pine Le Moray Provincial Park is located in central British Columbia near the Alberta British Columbia border. The park was established in 2000 and covers 106,970 acres of land. There are 5 named mountains in Pine Le Moray Provincial Park. The highest and the most prominent mountain is Mount Hunter at 6,667 feet with 2,211 feet of prominence.
Major Trails and Hiking Areas
During the 1940s the construction of Highway 97 was planned out and building began. By 1950 a lodge known as Mount Le Moray Lodge was constructed along Pine Pass. The lodge acted as a stopping place for those working on the road as well as tourists who were coming to explore the newly accessible area. Over the following decades, the region grew in popularity amongst outdoor sports. Summer months provided space for camping, fishing, and hiking while winter months provided snow for skiing and snowmobiling. Prior to colonizers settling in the region, the land was home to the First Nations of the Treaty 8. Because the region was growing in popularity, it became protected in 2000 to help preserve the wildlife and its ecosystems. Today the main parking area is located along Heart Lake.
The mountains that run through the park are known as the Hart Range and sit next to the Rocky Mountains. Throughout the mountains of the park, run the Pine River, Link Creek, Mountain Creek, and Heart Lake. The Pine Le Moray Provincial Park helps protect the upper watersheds of these bodies of water as the surrounding Engelmann Spruce-Subalpine Fir Biogeoclimatic Zone. While trout, grayling, and whitefish live within the waters of the park, the surrounding land is home to grizzly bear, black bear, caribou, moose, and the elusive wolverine.
Hikers should note that there are not maintained trails within the park. Though some have been established overtime, they are not regularly monitored by the park service.
Mount Murray (Pine Pass): The most popular hike in the park leads up to Mount Murray, the second tallest peak in the park at 5,955 feet. Also known as Pine Pass, this trail is just over 5 miles long with 3,579 feet of elevation gain. The steep trail climbs high above the highway below with alpine lakes throughout. The dense forest gives way to the rugged peaks within the park allowing for panoramic views.
Murray Range Trail: The Murray Range Trail is 2.8 miles long with 2,982 feet of elevation gain. The route climbs steeply above the highway, allowing for views of the Murray Range that runs through the park and the surrounding land.
To the northeast of Pine Le Moray Provincial Park lies the city of Fort St. John. The city has a population of roughly 21,000 individuals. The city has moved over six times throughout its history and now resides north of the Peace River. With its population, Fort St. John is one of the largest cities in the entire region. The city is home to restaurants, shops, a hockey rink, and hosted the BC Winter Games in 1984. During January the city also hosts an annual festival full of ice sculptures. The oil, gas, and forestry industries are crucial to the city's economy.
The city of Prince George is located 2.5 hours south of the Pine Le Moray Provincial Park. With a population of nearly 90,000, Prince George is the largest city located in northern British Columbia. The city is situated at the confluence of the Fraser and Nechako rivers near the transition of the northern and southern Rocky Mountain Trench. Within the city there are riverfront trails although the city is known for being close to four provincial parks. The parks offer an abundance of trails as well as skiing.
from Bonney Lake, Washington
I was born and raised in the beautiful state of Washington. Growing up I spent my summers hiking in the mountains and my winters skiing in them. After heading to Portland, Oregon to go to college, I decided to return back to Washington state. My love for the mountains is deeply rooted with spending time hiking, biking, skiing, and running with them. Though I've traveled all over world, exploring various mountain ranges, I still feel there is nothing as beautiful as my home state. When I'm not writing about sustainability or the great outdoors, I'm most likely out hiking or trail running. In my free time I love to run ultra marathons and help show others how to make the outdoors more accessible for all.


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Campus community ignores LGBT+ issues
By Michael Santone, News Editor
Contra Costa College has an outside perception as being a diverse, unified community college that embraces and accepts everyone from all walks of life.
But as you start to peel back the layers, you begin to expose a core community that is underrepresented and even ignored.
The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT+) community remains voiceless and it is something that we should acknowledge because of a continued stigmatization that hovers over this vulnerable community.
The stigmatization of the LGBT+ community is in response to decades of scapegoating by religious organization, the AIDS epidemic, feminine and masculine stereotypes and the lack of education and understanding.
This confidence-robbing state of mind runs deep within each and every person who makes up the LGBT+ community.
It has led to their fundamental rights being purged, embarrassing encounters in public, suicide, inequality, discrimination and a mass exodus of individuals into a safe zone of generic personality and a persona that fits what society deems acceptable.
For those outsiders, who peek at the LGBT community through a pinhole, the state of mind is simple: ignore what you don't understand.
But here at CCC, this is something you don't notice.
It is not something that is mentioned or talked about. And that's the problem.
It is this lack of dialogue by faculty and staff that becomes the catalyst of under-representation.
But here at CCC, you would never know.
Walking through the campus you can't help but notice the diversity, the ever- changing atmosphere, the melting pot of students that make us all proud to be a part of CCC.
It is their voices that have risen up, creating clubs sponsored by Student Life and the Associated Student Union that reflect these diverse communities.
These clubs aim to educate students on campus, spreading awareness and getting them involved through activities, services and programs.
Clubs on campus provide resources that the LGBT+ community desperately needs, especially in an environment like a community college.
During a time when many students are having identity issues, an LGBT+ club can provide a safe place, access to counseling and services that are imperative.
These types of services will also educate the student body who will then be sent into the world to pass on this knowledge and understanding.
But this is a lot easier said than done for LGBT+ students as no such club exists on campus.
Because of the outsiders' state of mind and the blatant disregard for the critical connections that faculty and staff have failed to establish between themselves and the LGBT+ community, students who wish to have a voice are isolated, creating a homophobic campus.
These students fear the backlash they may receive from their peers for being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, and until they feel safe and supported, they will continue to remain voiceless.
Faculty and staff must undo their own decades-long personal neglect of acknowledging the LGBT+ voice throughout our college.
It should be through the initiative of the faculty and staff to reach out and gain the trust of the LGBT+ community and let them know they are safe and protected to express themselves.
Until then, this community will remain closeted on campus, only observed through a pinhole of ignorance.
Through the perseverance and dedication of those brave individuals who fought and continue to fight for the LGBT+ community, much has been accomplished, with more on the horizon.
While societies throughout California and the nation make progress, the CCC LGBT+ community remains hidden behind the college's veil of diversity.
It is scary for me, as a gay male, to see this college as a homophobic place. But it is even more scary to call it diverse because then we are pretending it does not exist.
As the country around us changes, CCC is moving in retrograde through decades of fighting for equality, acceptance and a voice.
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The BNB chain will focus on decentralization and interoperability
by Ronald Chasteen August 30, 2022
BNB Chain presented its technical roadmap regarding its developments in terms of inter-chain interoperability, decentralization, governance and mechanisms.
A response to criticism of centralization
In response to criticism regarding the centralization of its Binance Smart Chain (BSC), Binance merged the BSC and the BNB Beacon Chain (formerly known as Binance Chain) in February to form the Build N' Build chain (BNB). The merger was announced as being more decentralized and with higher scaling capabilities.
Indeed, decentralization is at the heart of all discussions in Web 3.0, as investors are looking for less centralized solutions in order to keep as much control as possible over their cryptocurrencies. We can note the scandals of OpenSea and Metamask having revealed that these solutions still remain centralized on certain topics.
According to the official Twitter account, the BNB channel has reached 2 million monthly users, which is twice as many as Ethereum at the moment. The message emphasizes that the upcoming developments are aimed at making the blockchain layer 1 more decentralized, integrate open source applications into its Beacon Chain and almost double the number of validators via the BEP-131 proposal.
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said the enhanced features will position the BNB Chain as the future of blockchain, as it becomes a highly decentralized product controlled by its community :
« Blockchain can do a lot of things. The first applications focus on the challenge, but I think that BNB Chain is much more important than Binance.com . It is the community that decides its future. I think that in the future, people will interact with the blockchain without even knowing it, be it money, banking, etc. »
Source: Twitter Binance
The BNB blockchain at the heart of many problems
However, despite these changes and the improvement of the blockchain, it remains at the heart of many scandals and problems. Indeed, it is the reference blockchain for creating so-called "coin scams", this is largely due to the extremely low fees and the much higher number of users than on other blockchains such as Solana or Avalanche.
According to the Q1 report of the blockchain data analysis platform Nansen on the main blockchain networks, despite a massive decline in its activity on the chain at the beginning of 2022, BNB Chain continued to maintain its position as the industry leader and the most active blockchain network among blockchains layer 1.
The report also noted that the rebranding of the network from Binance Smart Chain (BSC) to BNB network indicates an intention to expand beyond its crypto exchange, Binance.
For this, Binance is doing everything to develop its image with many investors, by setting up in many Gulf countries such as Dubai and strengthening its position in Europe, with a license in France and Italy.
But the blockchain is trying to give itself a very complicated role, bitcoin maximalists swear by the security of Bitcoin and all other alternatives are largely ignored by this community. Transparency is also a very sensitive topic, any unexplained movements of funds, unclear transactions or other facts that can be analyzed on the blockchain will be discovered by experts and posted on twitter.
It is therefore necessary for Binance to strengthen its assets in terms of decentralization and transparency, and to listen to the investor community in order to keep this status as a Web 3.0 behemoth.
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Discussion Group Transference and the "Real" Relationship Barry Magid May 5th 2018
Standing in the Spaces: The Multiplicity Of Self And The Psychoanalytic Relationship Philip M. Bromberg, Ph.D. Transference and the "Real" Relationship
From this frame of reference there is no single transference reality that can be spoiled or contaminated by making a "technical" error. The analyst, guided by the patient and by his own experience of personal authenticity, allows himself to form relationships with each of the patient's selves or self-states to the degree the patient allows it, and in each relationship he has an opportunity to creatively utilize a range of his own states of consciousness. Often, a particular self-state of the patient has never before been drawn out in its own terms so that it can, without shame, communicate to another human being its unique sense of self, purpose, personal history, and personal "truth." In my own work, this experience has at times led directly to the source of a symptom or behavior pattern that until then has been "resistant" to change, as for example, in the case of a patient who had suffered many years with an eating disorder, and then revealed one day that she had finally discovered why she binged. "I do it," she said, "because I feel my brain trying to switch to another consciousness and I want to stop it—so I eat or drink something cold to stimulate me in the moment. I need to stay awake, to stay grounded, and sometimes, when I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to, I eat something heavy like pasta or bagels."
The interplay between confrontation and empathy is interesting and especially relevant when working from the perspective of multiple real relationships rather than "a real relationship and a transferential relationship. "Each of the patient's dissociated self-states has its own reason for existing—a single "truth" that it tries to act upon—and will not rewrite its reality to suit an analyst's personal belief system of what defines "growth." The analytic relationship is, in this light, a negotiated dialectic between attunement and confrontation, or (to express it in a slightly different frame of reference) between "empathy and anxiety" (Bromberg, 1980). There is no way that one's personal narrative of "who I am" ever changes directly; it cannot be cognitively edited and replaced by a better, more "adaptive" one. Only a change in perceptual reality can alter the cognitive reality that defines the patient's internal object world, and this process requires an enacted collision of realities between patient and therapist. The analyst's struggle with his own confusion—his ability to make creative use of contradictory realities within a single analytic field, without unduly inflicting his need for clarity of meaning upon the patient—plays as much of a role in the analytic process as do empathy or interpretation individually. In other words, for a patient to develop confidence in his growing ability to move from dissociation to intrapsychic conflict, he must engage with the analyst in what I have called the "messy" parts of the analytic relationship (Bromberg, 1991). As the analyst furthers the capacity of the patient to hear in a single context the voices of other self-states holding alternative realities that have been previously incompatible, the fear of traumatic flooding of affect decreases, along with the likelihood that opposing realities will automatically try to obliterate each other. Because there is less opposition between aspects of self, there is less danger that any individual self-state will use the gratification of being empathically supported in its own reality simply to further its individual sense of "entitlement" to priority within the personality. Translated into the traditional metapsychology of "pathological narcissism," a patient's investment in protecting the insularity of a so-called grandiose self (see Bromberg, 1983) diminishes as the need for dissociation is surrendered and replaced by increased capacity to experience and resolve intrapsychic conflict.
Fonagy (1991) labels the capacity to symbolize conscious and unconscious mental states in oneself and others as the capacity to "mentalize" (p. 641) and writes that "'wholeness' is given to objects only through an understanding of the mental processes that provide an account of the objects' actions in the physical world. Before mental states are conceived of, the mental representation of the object will be, by definition, partial, tied to specific situations . . . since the vital attribution of mental functioning is absent" (pp. 641-642). Consequently, Fonagy argues, "the distortion of mental representations of objects through projection is unavoidable at this early stage. . . . Until the point is reached when mental states may be confidently attributed to the object there can be no capacity to limit this projection" (p. 642). He goes on to state that "in individuals where the capacity to mentalize is severely impaired, dealing with this aspect of the transference may be considered a precondition of analytic treatment. . . . [F]ailure to achieve this may lead patients to treat interpretations as assaults and analytic ideas as abusive intrusions" (p. 652; italics added).
Psychoanalysis is at its core a highly specialized communicative field, and what constitutes a psychoanalytically "meaningful" moment is constantly in motion with regard to one's experience of both reality and temporality. The shifting quality of time and meaning reflects the enactment of self-states in both patient and analyst that define the multiplicity of relationships that go on between the patient's selves and the analyst's selves, only some of which are being focussed on at any given moment. I would thus agree with Loewald (1972) who wrote that "the individual not only has a history which an observer may unravel and describe, but he is history and makes his history by virtue of his memorial activity in which past-present-future are created as mutually interacting modes of time" (p. 409). As an analyst opposes, is opposed by, affirms, and is affirmed by each dissociated aspect of the patient's self as it oscillates—in its cycle of projection and introjection—between his own inner world and that of his patient, the energy the patient has used in sustaining the dissociative structure of his mind will be enlisted by him in vitalizing a broadening experience of "me-ness" as simultaneously adaptational and self-expressive, rather than certain self-states remaining as "on call" watchdogs that, suddenly and unexpectedly, seem to become possessed by an "irrational" need to make a mess.
One final note. Grotstein (1995) wrote that projective identification "saturates the manifest and latent content of all psychoanalyses in its role as projected 'alter egos,' which are signifiers of the self at one remove" (p. 501). He stated that "the analytic relationship, like any couple relationship, constitutes a group entity in its own right as well as a relationship between two individuals. As a consequence, the couple is subject to the laws of group formation" (pp. 489-490). What Grotstein calls "alter egos" is not very different from what I call multiple self-states, or with some patients, multiple selves.
I find Grotstein's observation both astute and interesting, and from time to time I've even had the thought that by experiencing the analytic process in this way, it begins to overlap in a funny way with certain elements of doing couples therapy—sort of like treating a couple (or sometimes a family) in a single body. For instance, in the early phase of couples therapy, it is virtually impossible for the therapist to make statements about the couple as a unit, to which both parties can be responsive. The therapist has to develop a relationship with each member of a couple individually, while dealing with their problems that pertain to the couple as a single unit. If this complex task is done with skill, it becomes possible to slowly speak to the couple as a unit, even though each member sees things differently, because there is a context that has been created (the individual relationships to the therapist) that allows the individual subjectivity of each "self" to be negotiable. Through this, each reality can begin to negotiate with other discrepant realities, to achieve a common goal.
Used judiciously, an approach that addresses the multiplicity of self is so experience-near to most patients' subjective reality, that only rarely does someone even comment on why I am talking about them in "that way." It leads to a greater feeling of wholeness (not dis-integration) because each self-state comes to attain a clarity and personal significance that gradually alleviates the patient's previously held sense of confusion about who he "really" is and how he came, historically, to be this person. And for the therapist, it is not necessary to work as hard to "figure out" what is going on, what has gone on in the past, and what things "mean." He engages in a dialogue with that self that is present at the moment, and finds out from that self, in detail, its own story, rather than trying to approximate it. All told, it facilitates an analyst's ability to help his patient develop increased capacity for a life that includes, in Loewald's (1972) language, a past, a present, and a future as mutually interacting modes of time.
Barry Magid May 19th 2018 Koans on the multiplicity of self: Kuei-shan's Buffalo
Barry Magid April 28th 2018 Standing in the Spaces


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Harry Evans (1946-2014)
Harry Evans was the longest serving Clerk of the Senate, serving from 1988 to 2009. Born at Lithgow in 1946, he died in Canberra on 7 September 2014. The interview was recorded in 1989 by Greg McIntosh, Political Science Fellow at the Australian Parliament, for his project Rounding up the Flock? Executive Dominance and the New Parliament House.
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Interview with Harry Evans
The museum holds the entire set of interviews for this project in the McIntosh Collection. Mr McIntosh's report can be read at the Australian Parliament House website.
G McIntosh: An interview with Harry Evans, clerk of the Senate, Parliament House Canberra, Tuesday August 22nd 1989. The first area I'd like to ask you about is your general view on the state of the parliament – executive relationship?
H Evans: Very parlous, but the relationship has been parlous for an awful long time. It hasn't changed all that much. We have a peculiar system of government in which the executive government totally controls the House of Representatives and won't allow it to exercise anything remotely representing parliamentary functions. I mean the party control of the House of Representatives is used to supress the parliamentary functions in effect. The party is a device for ensuring that there is no effective scrutiny of the government. There is no legislative activity properly, so called, that the government's legislation just goes through, untouched.
G McIntosh: You may be interested — Minister Beazley, when I spoke to him about the problems of guillotining things through in the last session. He says, one of the reasons why we as an executive have to crack down really hard on the House of Representatives is because of the Senate.
H Evans: [laughs]
G McIntosh: The Macklin resolution leads us to have to force them through by a certain date. What's your view on that argument?
H Evans: [laughs] Well, that's a good alibi but the problem with that is, they've been doing it long before the Macklin motion ever came on the scene. I think the Macklin motion has made them come down a bit harder, but I mean that reaction is just a symptom of the problem not a cause of it. The government reacting in that way just demonstrates what — how the system works. I mean the more rational reaction would be, let's take a bit more time over legislation in the Reps and look at it a bit more closely and perhaps allow a few well thought out amendments so it doesn't meet quite so much trouble in the Senate, but that's not the reaction you get from governments.
G McIntosh: They also point to the problem of the Parliamentary Counsel Draftsman, whatever, do you see that as a problem as to why legislation bunched up and comes in late?
H Evans: The Office of Parliamentary Counsel is a bottleneck. I don't say that as a criticism of it because drafting legislation is complex and difficult and, they've got a limited amount of draftsmen and so on, but that problem could be overcome by other actions elsewhere. I mean the draftsman will tell you he gets crumby instruction from departments, they don't know what they're doing. They come along too late with their instructions. Their instructions are confused and have to be clarified and so on. It's not the draftsman's fault, it's the fault of the system.
G McIntosh: Yes.
H Evans: They should take account of the fact that they have to go through the narrow neck of the bottle in the shape of the draftsman. The departments should get their instructions clarified earlier and so on.
G McIntosh: A lot of people, well not a lot, but there has been some material written about the revival of the parliament and they point to the Senate particularly since the late '60s, early '70s and the committee system. Do you think there has been a bit of a revival of parliament in recent years, or has it got worse?
H Evans: Oh yes, there has been a revival there. I mean it's glaringly obvious, of course, it springs from the fact that the government doesn't have a party majority in the Senate. If the government had a party majority in the Senate they could just ram the stuff through. As I say, supressing anything that looks remotely like parliamentary work, in the same way it happens in the Reps. Now, historically that didn't happen when the previous government had a majority in the Senate. I mean the previous Coalition Government had a majority in the Senate because they couldn't control their Senators. They had a number of famous rebel Senators they couldn't control but that's gone. I doubt that we'll ever see that again.
G McIntosh: You are saying in the Coalition now discipline is a lot tougher than it was in the past?
H Evans: Oh yes.
G McIntosh: They still pride themselves on this free vote if they want it, but it doesn't happen very often.
H Evans: Oh yes, I mean there are a few — if they were back in government there are a few Senators there would no doubt kick over the traces but nothing like the famous Senators of days gone by in Coalition governments. So if there is any parliamentary activity, and any effective control over the executive it springs entirely from the government not having a majority in the Senate and the balance being held by minor party people who are never going to get into government and therefore look favourably on parliamentary scrutiny of the executive. So, you know, the system is very fragile and depends entirely on that one factor, and I mean, there has been a revival of parliament in that sense, in that the Senate has done a lot of good work reviving the traditional parliamentary functions of scrutiny of the executive, scrutiny of legislation, review of legislation and so on, but it's a very unbalanced thing. It depends entirely on the Senate and as you have pointed out it's led to the Reps being even more bludgeoned into submission than it ever was before, because the government's got trouble with the Senate they tend to supress the Reps even more.
G McIntosh: Another area that a lot of people throw up as to why the executive is more dominant, is informational type monopoly they have. In a very complex society with massive amounts of information and issues are very complex now. If you're looking at say, one hundred and eighty odd backbenchers in whatever party, and a couple of staffers, not necessarily trained in those areas, can they possibly keep up with an executive that's got hundreds of thousands of people backing it?
H Evans: Yes, I think — I mean it is a problem, it's a problem of modern society obviously, but I think it can be overstated. The problems of government and legislation, when somebody comes to have a close look at them, turn out to be not so difficult as we thought. If you get a Senate Committee looking at some complex matter, it can get to the bottom of it, it can ferret out what information the government's got and usually finds that the government doesn't really know what it's doing. In other words the government can't handle the information either.
G McIntosh: They must have more chance of handling it. A lot of backbenchers I've spoken to, mainly MHRs said, 'I just don't read any legislation'. 'We rely totally on the party, let the Shadow Minister go, this is for Opposition'. Even in the Labor Party they say the caucus committee system doesn't work, they won't let us fiddle with it, they like the final draft, almost. They just don't look at legislation. They are tied up with constituency work and other matters and they're not legislating in that sense.
H Evans: Yes, I think that is right. I think if the effort were put into trying to get to the bottom of these things, it could be done. Now, obviously, the way to do it is to have a very active committee system and to have specialization. Members that are specialised in their areas, the committees have got to be the vehicle for that specialization. Now governments are anxious that committees are kept on a short lead.
G McIntosh: In the Reps they can't determine their own references, for instance.
H Evans: Yes, that is right. I mean the only committee inquiries of any real note that we have had recently in the Senate have been referred to committees on the motions of Opposition people. Things where they think the government is on the back foot and they refer them on to a committee to have a closer look at them. But, when these committees get going, everybody agrees that they do a wonderful job. They look at legislation and get to the bottom of it and make good suggestions for improvements. I mean there is the committee on the ASIC legislation and other recent examples, so I think it can be done. It's just the matter of the will being there. The government stranglehold over the place being somehow weakened, and the members themselves being ready to accept specialization.
G McIntosh: Some of the people I've spoken to also said that they thought maybe there is too many committees now, particularly in the Senate. They are a bit overstretched, and under resourced, and you've also got — one Senator particularly mentioned about putting people on committees from the Senate bureaucracy not necessarily in areas of their speciality. Is that a problem or is done for career structure reasons?
H Evans: Well, it's certainly not done for career structure reasons. The Senate Committee Secretariat is now getting more people on contract, and more people on secondment, to get people with the specialist knowledge, but I don't think that's a big problem. I don't think staffing is a big problem. You can always get appropriate staff, but staff don't substitute for members. It's no good trying to substitute masses of staff for the members doing the work. I mean basically making up a committee report and making recommendations is a political task. The elected members have got to do it otherwise it won't work. So, you know, there is an optimum level of staffing beyond which you can't go. You've got to get the members involved and to do the work. I mean we assist them to do the work, of course, but ultimately they've got to take responsibility for the essentially political task of looking at something and formulating a report.
G McIntosh: Your friend Senator Walsh seemed to think that the Senate bureaucracy did all the leading, in terms of dragging the Senators along by their nose.
H Evans: Well, that's a misperception. There is — you just don't get a committee report unless you get it from the Senate, that's all it amounts to. A lot of government members use committee inquiries and committee reports to further their own views, in a disguised way, while not looking as if they are doing it. They say to the Ministers, well the Opposition just took hold of that inquiry and ran it and we couldn't do a thing about it'. When in fact they are also using it to push their own views, sometimes contrary to that of the government, in a surreptitious way. But there is a problem of the members being spread too thin, that is certainly a problem. There is a tendency in the Senate, instead of referring things to a Standing Committees to establish a new Select Committee, a proliferation of Select Committees.
G McIntosh: Do you think the committee system is as about as large as it can be at the moment?
H Evans: It shouldn't be any larger. It should be narrowed down. A lot of the things the Select Committees are looking at should be done by the Standing Committees.
G McIntosh: Is there more scope for Joint Committees between the Reps and the Senate? I mean less duplication of areas?
H Evans: I think duplication should be avoided but the way to do that, I think, is to have the two separate committee systems, avoiding duplication by agreement. The Joint Committees don't work terribly well, partly because of administrative problems. The problems of getting a group of Senators and Members together in the same place and the same time. Partly because the two Houses are rather different creatures and their members have become over the years rather different creatures with different priorities and different views. Joint Committees are difficult for both of those reasons, but as I say duplication is avoided by two separate committee systems and avoiding duplication by agreement. There certainly is a place for Joint Committees on some sorts of things. I think the Electoral Committee is one. You have to look at the electoral system as a whole, for both Houses, I think that's an effective thing for a Joint Committee to get involved in.
G McIntosh: We will just move on to the second area then. What are your views on the new building? Do you think it will have an effect on parliamentary – executive relations?
H Evans: I don't know the answer to that. It's too early for me to tell anyway. Other people may be able to tell. I do detect a certain increased separation between Ministers and others creeping in. A lot of people have said, because the executive was in a bunker of its own out the back there and they are physically separated you will get a greater separation between government and backbenchers. I do see evidence of that creeping. There does seem to be a certain widening gap between government backbenchers and ministers, but very difficult from my point of view to tell how much the building has influenced that. I think the members are more effective in some ways, because they've got good offices and good facilities. They've got their computers and so on. I think in some ways they are less effective because the contact between them used to go on all the time in the old building, tends to break down a bit.
G McIntosh: Is there any problems in terms of Senate bureaucracy and your contact with other people in the building, including the House of Reps side or other members and Senators?
H Evans: There is certainly less face-to-face contact than there used to be, you have to make an effort to get it. You don't run into people in the corridors, but, as I say, you make an effort to overcome that. I don't think that will be a really long term, important factor, in influencing the relationship between various institutions in the building. As I say, I think we'll just get used to that and take steps to overcome it.
G McIntosh: The last area, and probably the most important one. Do you think there is any means, or any ways, in which the parliament can get back more of a traditional type role, or revive itself a bit more than it has, is it possible?
H Evans: Yes, I think the way to do that — well there are two possible ways in which that might come about. It's a bit like trying to have a revolution in Germany when the police won't allow it. You know that old joke. I forget who was supposed to have said that, Engels or somebody wasn't it? You won't have a revolution in Germany because the police won't allow it. It's a bit like that. But there are two ways in which it could come about, notwithstanding that the authorities won't allow it. One is, I think, if the Senate continues to be a place where a collection of Independents, minor parties of all sorts hold the balance, and that comes to be seen as a permanent thing. Governments of both persuasions give up any hope of ever holding the majority in the Senate, which they seem to have done in recent times. The Senators will come to see themselves as reviewers, as legislators, rather than rivals for executive office. Senators of the major parties will say to themselves, 'well here we are stuck in this institution, never going to get — we might get into government but we're never going to get into a majority in this place, let's pursue more of a sort of parliamentary role'.
G McIntosh: So it would be like enhancing say a chairman of the committee to ministerial status?
H Evans: Yes, that sort of Hamer type scheme.
G McIntosh: Getting ministers out of the Senate, or is that going too far?
H Evans: That would be very difficult. I don't think that will happen. It would be very difficult. I think that would be desirable in many ways but difficult. I mean there will be limits to this process but I think there would be a greater acceptance among Senators of the major parties of this parliamentary role of the Senate. If that will come to be accepted as a normal part of the system instead of something abnormal that we've got to put down.
The other way in which it could come about is if the present government proves to be long lived and — [break in the recording] — government backbenchers would eventually get fed up of just keeping their own government in office and doing nothing that is not directly connected to keeping their own government in office and will say to themselves, 'why don't we do a bit of useful work on the side while we're at it'. A government with a secure hold on office tends to have that effect. When the Liberal government was in office for twenty-three years a lot of government backbenchers said to themselves, 'well we've got the other mob permanently anchored to the Opposition benches, we can afford to kick over the traces a bit and do our own thing a bit without imperilling our hold on office'. Now that could happen. It's starting to happen now. It has been happening for the past couple of years. You could get a further development. The Reps committees, the Reps committee chairman …
G McIntosh: Like Tickner and Alan Griffith and those sort of people …
H Evans: Yes, start to kick over the traces a bit and start doing a bit of useful parliamentary work.
G McIntosh: Apart from that do you think there is any hope of changes in the House of Representatives situation, or is always just going to be totally dominated by the numbers?
H Evans: Well, as I say that is one way in which there could be developments in the House of Reps. I think it would be very limited. But you could get some prominent committee chairmen starting to kick over the traces and do a bit of useful parliamentary work on the side.
G McIntosh: A lot of the members I spoke to, including Labor backbenchers, would like to see party discipline lessened. They always point to problems in the media and the argument thrown back about the thin edge of the wedge and so on. It might be desirable to lessen discipline but do you think it would ever happen?
H Evans: It's very difficult, very difficult. I think it's mostly likely to happen, as I said, when you get a government that's got a secure hold on office, or see themselves as having a secure hold on office. The backbenchers start to say to themselves, 'what are we here for, are we here just as lobby fodder, or can we do something with our lives?'
G McIntosh: A lot of them actually quite happy to accept that. They see their constituency role as their most important thing and they work like hell on that. They are quite happy to be lobby fodder, there is quite a few of those.
H Evans: Yes, I think there always will be a lot of those people. I mean constituency work is a real drag on the system, there is no doubt about that. It's another of the peculiarities of our system. It means that the Members can't come here and spend a decent long session here. They're expected to go back to their electorates, frequently and for long periods.
G McIntosh: Do a lot of their constituency work while they are here too.
H Evans: Yes.
G McIntosh: Do you think we ask too much of our MPs then?
H Evans: I think, what you've referred to as constituency work is far too demanding. I mean there is a hell of a lot of people out there who expect their local MP to solve all their problems, down to and including their neighbour's cat, their quarrels with the social security department and so on. I think in that sense we do expect too much from them. On the other hand, we expect too little from them in other areas. I mean the Australian public is very apathetic about the big policy issues, large legislative issues and so on. They go along to their MP to say 'what are you going to do about my neighbour's cat or what are you going to about my pension?', rather than 'how are you going to vote on that issue that is coming up next week?' In that sense I think Australia is a politically immature country in many ways.
G McIntosh: So perhaps if changes, or reforms in this area, we may need to wait until we have an electorate that is a little bit more informed, a little more concerned.
H Evans: Well, I think educating the electorate is certainly a big task, a very big task. It's what the education program we've got running now is aimed to do, but I mean that is quite — without any apologies focused on the legislative policy making role of parliament not its constituency role.
G McIntosh: Yes, I've kept a fairly close eye on what's happening there. I know Richard Gilbert …
H Evans: I mean that sort of pushes the line that parliament is the place where the big policy issues are decided and where laws are made and the public should be taking an interest in that and influencing that process. Certainly a more educated and more politically mature public is needed. I mean most people don't know who their local MP is let alone how he voted on some particular issue.
G McIntosh: Never read the Constitution.
G McIntosh: And if they did they would realize that it doesn't tell us much about how we're governed anyway.
H Evans: Yes. But I mean the public don't take much interest in legislation and policy issues. They squawk when they get hit in the neck but until then they don't take much interest and I think that's got to change. The parliament needs to change.
G McIntosh: Well just finally are there any other areas where you think change should occur, or could occur, or is achievable?
H Evans: Well I mentioned before specialization. I think there has to be a much greater acceptance of specialization in parliament. One of the problems that we have in the Senate at the moment is, everybody thinks it would be a good idea to refer bills off to committees, and have committees deal with bills. That would be much more efficient but the trouble is that people expect to have a full debate, with full opportunity for amendment and so on when the bill comes back into the whole Senate. They're not willing to leave this bill to that committee. When the bill comes back they say to themselves, 'well that committee has looked very thoroughly at that and my friend so and so was on that committee and he's a good feller, he did a good job on that. I'm quite happy to leave it to that committee'.
G McIntosh: Independents like Harradine are a bit upset with that, aren't they because they can't ….
H Evans: Well that's a problem, yes, because they can't go around every committee and they can't afford to specialize too much, but the problem is not with those people in the Senate anyway. The problem is mainly with Opposition backbenchers who want to have a full debate and full opportunity for amendment when the bill comes back. I think it's backbenchers of the major parties who have to be educated into specialization. Otherwise the legislative log jam, which is the big problem. There is far too much legislation than can possibly be dealt with in the time available. We can't expand the time available, so it appears anyway. They can't sit longer, which means that legislation's got to be dealt with in committees to both deal with it in the time available, and deal with it effectively, scrutinize it effectively. That means that there's got to be some acceptance of specialization. This bill you will leave to that committee. If that committee comes back saying that it needs these amendments and then it will be okay, you don't want to start the process right back from scratch again, and go through the whole thing again. You accept to a certain extent the work that that committee has done.
G McIntosh: I wonder whether a lot of legislation is all that necessary anyway. Is there too much legislation?
H Evans: One hesitates to say that because in Australia at the federal level lots of things are done by legislation that in other places are done by executive decree or by regulation. I wouldn't like to see us go in the other direction because you are then diminishing parliamentary control. You wouldn't like to see the government do more by administrative action than regulation because ….
G McIntosh: I was wondering whether those pig slaughter amendment levy bills that come up all the time and do they have to go through that legislative process or could they be done in some other way? Seems to be lots of those agricultural type …
H Evans: Yes, the solution is for those sorts of bills to go through without debate. I mean the problem with those sorts of bills is, not that people want to talk about the bills, but they want to use them to talk about something remotely connected to the bill. If the thing is raising the levy on pig meat, or something, from two dollars to three dollars or something, people don't want to talk about that, but they want to talk about the state of primary industry. The report of the Select Committee on Legislative Procedures goes through all these problems, admittedly very briefly, but they've made a suggestion that that sort of bill just be put through, let's not have long debates on those sorts of bill. Let's not ever refer them off to a committee, just bung them straight through. You wouldn't want to see more stuff taken away from parliament and just done by executive decree I think that would be dangerous. The government and the bureaucracy would then succumb to temptations they shouldn't be exposed to, but, I mean the Houses have got to be more efficient in dealing with this stuff. That's not lessening the amount of the stuff but dealing with the stuff in a more efficient way, that's the solution to the problem.
G McIntosh: Okay, well, thanks very much for your time Harry.
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Alan Griffith, Brian Harradine, Committee system, Constituency work, Draftsman, House of Representatives, Kim Beazley, Legislation, Macklin resolution, Michael Macklin, Office of Parliamentary Counsel, Parliament-Executive relationship, Robert Tickner, Senate
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Terra Ferment opens downtown
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The building at 206 S. Sixth St. in Springfield that formerly housed the Andiamo coffee shop is now home to Terra Ferment, the newest addition to the downtown beer scene.
Terra Ferment officially opened to the public on Feb. 29, and owner William Tubbs described the weekend as a "steady and sometimes frightening stream of people coming in." As the only employee, Tubbs recruited his friend John Zerkle, co-owner of the nearby Anvil & Forge Brewing and Distilling, to help out behind the bar for a few hours.
Rather than brewing beer on site, Terra Ferment offers a wide variety of different beers, ranging from those made at Anvil & Forge or Buzz Bomb to beers that are found overseas. "I want to try to represent the classic styles from around the world, as well as the local and regional brewers," Tubbs said, noting that he carries about half European beers and half North American beers, including several made locally. "When I started traveling more I saw the bar culture in other countries and how different it is from here."
Tubbs retired last July after 28 years with the state of Illinois, most recently as the editor of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and decided to turn a lifelong passion into a business venture.
"I'm a home brewer and used to be the president of Prairie Schooners, the local home brew club. Lots of the guys who have brew pubs around Springfield are friends of mine," said Tubbs. "If you talk to my friends, they'll tell you I've been talking about this for the last 20 years and it was finally the right time."
While Tubbs hopes to be able to use the basement space for small events, he said that had to be put on hold while he was focused on opening, particularly since he doesn't have other staff yet to help with coverage. He's also working on compiling a list of downtown restaurants who would be willing to deliver to his location. Terra Ferment doesn't serve food, but patrons can bring their own or have it delivered.
Tubbs said he also plans to get a special permit that will allow him to serve beer to go on the day of the St. Patrick's parade downtown, since his location will be in the center of the action. "It's going to be wall-to-wall people outside," he said.
Terra Ferment is open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 4-10 p.m., Saturday from 2-11 p.m. and Sunday from 2-8 p.m.
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