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Blu-ray Review: Claudia Weill's Girlfriends on the Criterion Collection
Weill's subtle, masterful dramedy is one of American cinema's great character studies.
More than perhaps any other classic independent film, Claudia Weill's Girlfriends feels like the ür-text of the modern Amerindie, namely for showing the dramatic potential of a small-scale story seemingly about nothing. Its conflicts are so understated that they only come into focus over the period of years that the film covers, with most of the narrative trajectory devoted to patiently observing the characters as they grow together and apart.
Girlfriends revolves around twentysomething friends Susan (Melanie Mayron) and Anne (Anita Skinner) struggling to figure out what they want from life. For Anne, her aspirations as a poet start to take a backseat to her growing relationship with boyfriend Martin (Bob Balaban), while Susan makes a living photographing weddings and bar mitzvahs while dreaming of exhibiting her more personal, artistic photos.
Girlfriends spends most of its first act simply aligning itself with the characters' cadences and contradictory impulses. The film jumps, for example, from Anne admitting to Susan that she's in love with Martin to her later exploding about his fickle commitment to their relationship, and then to her abrupt announcement of their engagement. Weill uses these jarring emotional leaps for comedic effect, but also to communicate how close the women are and how easily they can adapt to each other's wavelengths, from Susan gleefully hugging the happy Anne to taking her to the nearest bar after her blowup and helping her to calm down. In only a few minutes of screen time, the film clearly establishes the ying-yang nature of their relationship.
That same concision applies to how the film captures Anne and Susan's relationship fraying as their lives go in vastly different directions. Weill conveys Susan's somewhat shellshocked reaction to Anne's wedding by playing audio of the reception over a shot of Susan repainting their apartment alone. At a party with other bohemians, she initially turns down a dance with a stranger, Eric (Christopher Guest), until people keep asking about the wedding, at which point she asks the man for a dance, and subsequently begins a relationship with him. Susan is established as sardonic and calm individual at the start of the film, but she looks erratic as she follows Eric home after the party, only to then flee back to her own apartment with a dazed look on her face as she endures awkward small talk from a cabbie.
Much of Girlfriends unfolds as a subtle comedy that leans into the maladroit social humor of awkward conversation between people who have no idea what to say to each other. The film can wring both tension and laughs from, say, Susan attempting to make conversation with Martin, who offers her coffee only to then unnecessarily say, "It's Moroccan." Weill slowly turns the film's vignette-like structure into a series of anti-jokes that play on Susan's hapless social skills with everyone who isn't Anne. Whether professionally hustling or attempting to make personal connections, Susan always gets too deep into a chat to gracefully bow out but never has enough material to make it to the natural end of a conversation. A potential affair with a rabbi (Eli Wallach) is cut short by a cringe-comedy reveal that anyone except the adrift Susan could have seen coming, and the shock is as pitiable as it is darkly amusing.
So much of Girlfriends plays up Susan's haplessness at self-advancement that it makes the final act, in which her belated modicum of success sparks a wave of jealous resentment in Anne, all the more surprising. Restricted to Susan's perspective for so much of the film's running time, we've felt only her sense of stasis and frustration. As such, the most brilliant turn of Vicki Polon's screenplay comes with the revelation of Anne's struggles to accept her life as a housewife and mother, as well as Susan getting to live the one that she can now only fantasize about as she lounges about her house upstate, only exerting any control over her existence by choosing whether or not to have more children. This reconfigures Girlfriends from a comedy of manners about coming of age into a more reflective study of the various paths life can take and how enviable even the most seemingly rudderless existence can be for some. The film's seemingly disconnected structure thus comes into sharp relief as carefully planned, revealing the strong direction that guided its listlessness.
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Sourced from a 4K transfer, the Criterion Collection's disc preserves the grain and texture of the film's 16mm photography. The natural colors look well-saturated, and there are no visible instances of debris or scratches. Flesh tones are realistic and capture all the blemishes that make the actors look like, well, real people. The soundtrack is clear, with dialogue centered and crisp but for the slight echo of speech in high-ceiling rooms.
An interview with Claudia Weill focus on the director's eclectic career—from her art studies in college to her documentary work—including an assignment to film a delegation of women traveling to China in the wake of Nixon's visit. She also covers how she assembled Girlfriends, starting with an expository script and whittling it down to the observational, suggestive version that was produced. Screenwriter Vicki Polon also discusses that process in a separate interview. A group interview with Weill, Melanie Mayron, Christopher Guest, and Bob Balaban is also included, as is a conversation between Weill and filmmaker Joey Soloway and an archival interview with Weill and Mayron for a Canadian talk show. Rounding out the video extras are two of Weill's documentaries: Joyce at 34, co-directed with Joyce Chopra about how Chopra's motherhood affected her career, and Commuters, about suburban New Yorkers going to and from work in the city. A booklet essay by Molly Haskell unpacks the film's feminist themes, arguing that the confused, frustrating lives led by Susan and Anne are powerful demonstrations of the freedoms finally offered to women not limited to lives of subservience.
Claudia Weill's subtle, masterful dramedy is one of American cinema's great character studies, and it receives an excellent home video release from Criterion.
Cast: Melanie Mayron, Anita Skinner, Eli Wallach, Bob Balaban, Christopher Guest, Gina Rogak, Amy Wright, Viveca Lindfors, Mike Kellin Director: Claudia Weill Screenwriter: Vicki Polon Distributor: The Criterion Collection Running Time: 88 min Rating: PG Year: 1978 Release Date: November 10, 2020 Buy: Video
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Balkans | A young man, who was shot by Greek police, was killed last week
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It was reported that the 16-year-old boy, who was seriously injured as a result of gunfire fired by police in Greece last week, died in the hospital where he was being treated.
The 16-year-old, who had been in treatment since December 5, died at 10:00 this morning, according to the statement made by Ippocrateo Hospital.
The driver, who fled in Thessaloniki, Greece by not following the "stop" warning, was seriously injured when police opened fire.
The driver, who had a head injury, was treated in the intensive care unit.
The statement issued by the Greek Police Organization (ELAS) stated that the police pursued the young man on the complaint of the gas station employee, who left without paying for the petrol he had bought.
He pointed out in the statement that the police tried to stop the young man, who was said to have been driving dangerously to avoid police pursuit and to ignore warnings by firing two shots.
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Biden's Infrastructure Law: Energy & Sustainability Implications
Mintz - Energy & Sustainability Viewpoints on 1/5/2022
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OCSLA Amendments Pave the Way for Carbon Sequestration in Offshore Federal Waters
Liskow & Lewis on 12/7/2021
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Under the Sea: Congress Amends OCSLA to Provide for Offshore CCS
Bracewell LLP on 12/3/2021
Offshore carbon sequestration on the Outer Continental Shelf ("OCS") could be just over the horizon. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (the "Infrastructure Act"), signed into law by President Biden on November 15,...more
Can the Biden Administration Meet Its Offshore Wind Goals?
Blank Rome LLP on 10/19/2021
In the first week of his presidency, President Biden, by Executive Order, set a goal of doubling offshore wind by 2030—an ambitious goal to help put the United States on a path to meet its commitments under the Paris Climate...more
Preliminary Injunction Issued Preventing Ban on New Federal Oil and Gas Leases
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This Week at the Ninth: Offshore Occupation
Morrison & Foerster LLP - Left Coast Appeals on 7/23/2021
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Federal Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction Halting the Biden Administration's "Pause" on New Oil and Gas Lease Sales
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Temporary Ban on New Federal Oil and Gas Leases Under Fire
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Considerations on the Use of Offshore Wind Vessels for U.S. Operations
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As Offshore Wind Energy Projects Expand, So Too Does the Reach of the Jones Act
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 5/14/2021
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The Biden Administration's Undoing Project Continues — A Flawed Interior Interpretation is Jettisoned
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State Attorneys General Update – April 2021
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CBP Modifies First Offshore Wind Ruling
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Developments in Offshore Wind: Part Two
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Jones Act Extended to the Pristine Seabed of the Outer Continental Shelf
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CBP Expressly Applies Jones Act to Offshore Wind Projects on Outer Continental Shelf
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Biden Administration Halts New Oil And Gas Leasing On Federal Public Lands: What You Need to Know
Vinson & Elkins LLP on 1/28/2021
On January 27, 2021, President Biden issued an executive order — effective immediately — directing the Secretary of the Interior to pause new oil and natural gas leases on federal public lands or offshore waters to the extent...more
New Legislation to Apply the Jones Act to Offshore Renewables (Updated)
Blank Rome LLP on 12/9/2020
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Legislative Update – Congress Acts to Clarify the Application of the Jones Act to Offshore Wind
Cozen O'Connor on 12/8/2020
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The Bouknadel Statement
Written by Liz Thompson
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation was one of 17 philanthropic foundations that have signed on to The Bouknadel Statement. This joint statement was launched on the occasion of the 2022 United Nations Ocean Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, to raise awareness for the need to increase investment in ocean science to support sustainable development.
The Foundations Dialogue of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development — an informal, global network of community, corporate, and private foundations that have chosen to work together to support the vision of the Ocean Decade — today launched The Bouknadel Statement affirming their commitment to investing in transformative ocean science. The Statement was launched during an event celebrating the Ocean Decade during the 2022 UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon.
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United Nations Ocean Decade Endorsed Action — Science Without Borders®: Conserving the Tropics
Written by Renée Carlton
We are proud to announce that a project proposed by the Khaled Bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, Science Without Borders®: Conserving the Tropics, was endorsed by the United Nations as an official Ocean Decade Action. This prestigious endorsement from the Executive Secretary of …
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World Oceans Day: Working with Partners for Positive Ocean Change
Happy World Oceans Day!
This year's theme for World Oceans Day is "Revitalization: Collective Action for the Ocean." Here at the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, we are adopting this theme by celebrating all of the ways we are working with partners to bring about positive ocean change.
We know we can't save the ocean alone, so we embrace our philosophy of Science Without Borders® and work with like-minded institutions on areas where we can lend our expertise. Over the past year we have made great strides in working with our partners around the world on joint efforts to preserve, protect, and restore our living oceans…
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The Second Foundations Dialogue Meeting
Last week, the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation (KSLOF) participated in the Second Foundations Dialogue Meeting, coming together with other ocean-focused foundations from around the world to address the major challenges facing our oceans.
Organized by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, the Foundations Dialogue Group provides a platform for the philanthropic community to collaborate and work together to move the needle towards ocean conservation. Specifically, the group seeks to address how the foundations could align their efforts to achieve the bold ambitions of the United Nations Ocean Decade for Sustainable Development ('Ocean Decade').
The Second Foundations Dialogue Meeting was hosted by the Mohamed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection and held at the Hassan II International Center for Environmental Training in Sidi Bouknadel, Morocco, from June 1-3, 2022. It presented a unique opportunity to discuss how to enhance the role of the philanthropic community in co-designing the science we need and then making it available to key stakeholders to drive the actions necessary to support the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Alexandra Dempsey, KSLOF's Director of Science Management, attended this high-profile meeting to share our knowledge of coral reef science and conservation. She participated in a plenary session, "Uptake of Ocean Science," and spoke about how we can ensure that issues of usability and uptake are built into initiatives from the outset when we are working with local communities and managers on ocean conservation…
Riyadh Blue Talk: Tune-in Tomorrow @ 7am ET
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is delighted to be participating in the Riyadh Blue Talk tomorrow morning, May 24, 2022.
The "Riyadh Blue Talk" is organized by the Office of the United Nations Resident Coordinator, the Embassy of Portugal, and the Embassy of Kenya in Riyadh. The event begins at 7am ET and will be live-streamed to allow for virtual participation.
The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation has been invited to share our knowledge of marine science and conservation, and to present our work to provide science-based solutions to protect and restore ocean health.
Our Chief Scientist, Sam Purkis, will be discussing what measures can be implemented so we can have accessible, affordable, shared data to better support the decision-making process towards ocean sustainability. He will also be participating in a panel discussion on increasing scientific knowledge and developing research capacity to advance ocean conservation initiatives.
Tune in to watch his presentation LIVE @ 8:20 am ET!
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This Earth Day, Celebrate our Planet's Blue Heart
Written by Janelle Levine
This Earth Day, we invite you to celebrate the blue heart of our planet: our oceans. The oceans produce half the oxygen we breathe, regulate our climate, sequester vast amounts of carbon, and even control the weather. The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation focuses on ocean conservation because we want to protect, preserve, and restore the health of our planet's blue heart— our living oceans.
In 1969, the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, USA caught fire. Not a boat on the river, or something in the water — the water itself had so much flammable waste dumped into it that it quite literally caught fire, garnering the attention of the entire nation. That same year….
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The Protists Prophets: An Innovative Way to Unlock the Past, Present, and Future of Coral Reefs
Written by Angelique Rosa Marin
Coral reef ecosystems are rapidly declining due to numerous local and global pressures such as climate change and pollution. In response to the coral reef crisis, the Khaled bin Sultan Living Ocean Foundation (KSLOF) conducted the Global Reef Expedition (GRE) to assess the state of coral reefs in 16 countries around the world. The expedition helped generate extensive data collection including coral reef maps and benthic surveys and 2,500 sediment samples from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. After traveling more than 50,000 km conducting research, the GRE's valuable data opens the curiosity to explore unconventional approaches to globally evaluate coral reef health.
Now, the Khaled Sultan Living Oceans Foundation and the University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (UM-RSMAS) are working together on a new project called Protist Prophets. Run by Dr. Sam Purkis's lab at RSMAS and funded by the National Science Foundation, this exciting project uses the sediment samples KSLOF collected on the GRE to evaluate global reef health using benthic foraminifers (forams) as markers of environmental changes and stressors. Our innovative scientific efforts will inform reef conservation strategies and develop non-traditional reef management techniques. Plus, we will assemble the Little Creature with a Big Message educational curriculum using the foram data to complement the foundation's existing Coral Reef Ecology Curriculum available in the KSLOF Educational Portal.
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Shark tagging with our partners, Black Girls Dive Foundation
Written by Amy Heemsoth
"There's a shark on the line!" The young ladies from Black Girls Dive Foundation (BGDF) squirmed with anticipation and giggled with excitement. As their chaperone, I could feel my own adrenaline surging as we watched the University of Miami (UM) team scurrying around at the back of the boat. The chaperones fitted the first four students with gloves and life vests. Then the students lined up in single file to begin their assigned individual and group tasks. It was time to get to work.
In December, I had the honor of being asked to join our partners at Black Girls Dive Foundation on a shark tagging expedition with the UM Professor Neil Hammerschlag's Shark Research and Conservation team at Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmosphere Science. The trip is part of BGDF's Science, Technology, Robotics, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics with SCUBA (STREAMS) program, which is designed to introduce black girls between the ages of 9 and 17 to a multitude of activities. The Shark Research and Conservation Capstone is a component of the STREAMS program that teaches about the behavioral ecology and conservation of sharks. After completing a series of lecture and lab activities, this part of the program culminates with a field-intensive research expedition: shark tagging.
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Corals in the Anthropocene
Written by Anderson Mayfield, PhD
This guest blog comes from a former KSLOF fellow, Dr. Anderson Mayfield, who joined the foundation on many of our Global Reef Expedition research missions in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. A former student of the renowned coral biologist Dr. Ruth Gates, Dr. Mayfield studies coral health and physiology at NOAA's AOML Coral Program and at the University of Miami's Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies. He continues to publish scientific papers based on data collected on the Global Reef Expedition, including his latest paper, recently published in the journal Oceans.
As a naïve post-doctoral researcher back in 2012, I had an idea that was surely far from novel at the time: corals of far-flung, uninhabited atolls are in better shape than those closer to major human population centers. The logic was that these corals would be under global-scale stressors only (namely those associated with climate change), and not the threats that instead plague reefs close to cities (such as pollution and overfishing).
As a fellow with the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation during their Global Reef Expedition (GRE), I tested this hypothesis by sampling corals from among the most seemingly pristine islands and atolls in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Although we certainly observed beautiful reefs with high coral cover (see image above) and diversity as well as a plethora of fish —all the visible hallmarks marine biologists look for in 'healthy' reefs—the corals themselves told a different story (Mayfield et al., 2017); high cellular stress levels were documented in the vast majority of the many hundreds of corals sampled across the GRE.
Despite looking healthy, the corals were struggling to survive.
These high stress levels do not, in and of themselves, imply that all such sampled corals are not long for this Earth. They do signify, however, that we likely never visited 'pristine' reefs during the GRE, despite studying some of the most remote coral reefs on the planet. This is a testament to the wide reach of climate change. This statement may come as a surprise to some, who, like me, assumed that somewhere out there, one might find corals entirely untouched by humankind, but this unfortunately does not appear to be the case.
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Sea Secrets Lecture: Beauty and Peril in the Red Sea
Our Chief Scientist, Dr. Sam Purkis, will be giving a virtual lecture on January 18th at 7pm ET entitled "Beauty and Peril in the Red Sea."
Dr. Purkis has joined the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation on many research missions, including several to the Red Sea. We hope you take this opportunity to hear more about his work and learn about the remarkable diversity and resiliency of coral reefs in the Red Sea.
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What is a "Military Nurse?"
What is a military nurse? in the most basic sense of the word it is a nurse who also serves in the military and holds military rank. All the services currently have nursing branches which are called corps. A corps is a semi-independent or independent military command whose members are grouped together because they share a common mission or career focus. In the case of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard the corps share the common mission of nursing.
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Nurses and female physicians who have been awarded commendations from the US Armed Forces: http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/medals.html
History of Military Branch Nursing Corps
Navy Nurse Corps was officially established by Congress in 1908; however, unofficially, women had been working as nurses aboard Navy ships and in Navy hospitals for nearly 100 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_
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Army Nurse Corps
During World War II (1939-45) nearly sixty thousand American nurses served in the Army Nurse Corps (ANC). Whether stationed in Europe or in the Pacific, they risked their lives daily, working on or near the front lines; on land, sea, and air transport vehicles; and in field hospitals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_Corps_%28
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Air Force Nurse Corps
Nurses within the U.S. Air Force initially were "flight nurses" which envolved out the the Army Air Corp during World War II. In 1947, the U.S. Air Force was established and in 1949 the Air Force Nurse Corps emerged from the Army in which 1,199 nurses were brought over to the Air Force branch. http://www.luke.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123147272
The U.S. Navy oversees the medical needs of the U.S. Marine Corps.
Military Nursing Casualty Statistics
The casualty figures below are not definitive. These figures represent the best of our knowledge to date and include deaths from all causes: hostile fire, illness as a result of military service, and accidents that occurred in the line of duty during times of war. We do not have statistics for earlier wars, because women were not yet serving officially in the Armed Forces.
Spanish American War: Twenty one contract nurses died from diseases such as typhoid, and malaria.
World War I: 430 casualties. Many of these were Army and Navy Nurses who died from influenza — an epidemic swept through military ports and bases in the U.S. and Europe. Two women (Army nurses stationed in Europe) were wounded by hostile fire, but did not die.
World War II: 460 casuaties. Six Army nurses died from hostile fire at Anzio Beachhead, 1944. Six Army nurses died when a Japanese suicide plane crashed into the Hospital Ship, USS Comfort near the Philippine Islands in 1945. Less than twenty others died from hostile fire in isolated incidents in North Africa, Europe, and the Southwest Pacific Area during WWII. The majority of women died from weather-related plane crashes, motor vehicle accidents, other work-related accidents, and disease. Included in this figure are 38 WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot) deaths from weather related accidents, mechanical failures, and pilot training errors.
Korea: Sixteen Army, Navy and Air Force Nurses in theater or enroute to the battle theater – other servicewomen were not permitted in theater. None died directly from hostile fire. Army Nurse Genevieve Smith's aircraft crashed en route to Korea early in the war. One Navy Nurse died when a U.S. Navy Hospital Ship was accidentally rammed by a freighter off the California coast. Eleven Navy Nurses died when their plane crashed off Kwajalein Island enroute to Japan. Captain Vera Brown, Air Force Nurse died when the plane she was assigned to crashed during a medical evacuation flight. Two other Air Force nurses also died in air crashes.
Vietnam: Eight nurses in theater or enroute to theater. One Army Nurse, Lt. Sharon Lane, died from hostile fire.
You'll Know You're a Military Nurse When...
Read stories submitted by military nurses or submit your own at the Sigma Theta Tau International website "You'll Know You're a Military Nures when...". Sigma Theta Tau has also published a book of military nurse stories from Workd War II to present day military action.
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The Medical Heritage Library is a collection of scanned public domain books, on medicine, pharmacy, nursing, and allied areas. Basic metadata for each text is included, and downloads are available in portable document format (PDF), Kindle, and a variety of other file formats.
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Avoiding Water Bankruptcy in Drought-Affected Southwest: What the United States and Iran Can Learn from Each Other
The 2021 water year ends September 30, and it was another hot and dry year in the western United States, with almost the whole region in drought. Vital reservoirs for farms, communities and hydroelectricity have fallen to dangerous levels.
The biggest blow came in August, when the U.S. government released its very first declaration of water shortage for the Colorado River, triggering water use restrictions.
In response, farmers and cities across the South West are now finding new, often unsustainable, ways to meet their future water needs. Las Vegas has opened a low-level tunnel to Lake Mead, a Colorado River reservoir where water levels have reached unprecedented lows at 35% capacity. Farmers are mobilizing groundwater pumping. Officials in Arizona, which will lose nearly a fifth of its river water allocation under the new restrictions, have even pitched the idea. of water pipes hundreds of miles from the Mississippi River.
These strategies hide a more fundamental problem: the uncontrolled growth in water consumption. The South West is in a "anthropogenic drought"Created by the combination of natural water variability, climate change and human activities which continually widen the gap between water supply and demand.
In the long run, this can lead to "water bankruptcyWhich means that the demand for water invariably exceeds the supply. Trying to manage this by increasing the water supply is doomed to failure.
More than 7,000 miles away, Iran faces water problems similar to those in the southwestern United States, but more serious. One of the driest years in five decades, following decades of poorly managed water resources, prompted warnings of water-related conflicts between Iranian provinces this year.
As environmental engineers and scientists – one of us is also a former deputy director of Iran's environment ministry – we have closely studied the water challenges in the two drought-prone regions. We believe past mistakes in the United States and Iran offer important lessons for future plans in the Southwestern United States and other areas that are increasingly experiencing drought and water scarcity. .
Pumping groundwater: a temporary solution to the consequences
As the Colorado River's water supply dwindles, southwestern farmers are putting no more straws in the already declining groundwater accumulated over thousands or even millions of years. But it is a short-term and unsustainable solution that has been tried. on the other side United States and around the globe – with major consequences. The High Plains Aquifer and Central California Valley are just two examples.
Iran offers a case study of what can go wrong with this approach, as our research shows. The country almost doubled its groundwater extraction points between 2002 and 2015 with the aim of supporting a growing agricultural industry, which has drained aquifers to the point of exhaustion. As its water tables declined dramatically, the salinity of groundwater increased in aquifers to levels that might no longer be suitable for agriculture.
As the water-filled pores in the soil are drained, the weight of the overlying soil compresses them, causing aquifers to lose their water-holding capacity and accelerate land subsidence. The capital of Iran, Tehran, with more than 13 million inhabitants, sagged more than 12 feet between 2003 and 2017. In the same way, some areas of California are sinking at a rate of up to 1 foot each year.
Kaveh Madani discusses the drying up of the Zayandeh Rud river bed in Isfahan, Iran.
Inter-basin water transfer: a Pandora's box
Another proposal in the Southwest was to bring water elsewhere. In May, the Arizona legislature urged Congress to initiate a feasibility study bring water to the Mississippi River to replenish the Colorado River. But that too has been tried.
In Iran, multiple inter-basin water transfer projects have doubled the flow of Zayandeh Rud, a river in the arid central part of the country. The influx of water supported unsustainable growth, create demand without enough water to support it. In the dry years now, no one has enough water. Many people in Khuzestan – the region that provides water in central Iran – lost their livelihoods as their farms dried up, wetlands disappeared and livestock died of thirst. Residents of central Iran also lost crops due to the drought as the water supply was cut off. The two regions saw demonstrations turn violent This year.
California diverted water from eastern Sierra Nevada to support the growth of Los Angeles in the early 1900s, turn the once prosperous Owens Lake Valley into a bowl of dust. Dust storm mitigation costs there now exceed $ 2 billion. Meanwhile, California needs more infrastructure and investment to meet its demand for water.
Another project, the California Aqueduct, was built in the 1960s to transfer water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in northern California to the Central Valley and the southern part of the state to support agriculture and part of urban demand. It also did not close the gap between water demand and supply and pushed native fish species and ecological systems of economic and cultural significance into the delta. to the point of collapsing.
Looking to the future in light of looming water bankruptcy
As the continuous influx of people into the American Southwest increasing demand for water in the face of dwindling water supply, we have to ask ourselves if the South West is heading for water bankruptcy.
If there is no easy solution, a number of actions are possible.
First, recognize that water shortages cannot be alleviated only by increasing the water supply – it is also important to manage water demand.
There is great potential for water savings through efficient watering and precision farming systems, which could maintain the viability of agriculture in the region.
Cities can save water by reducing outdoor water loss and excessive water use, such as on ornamental lawns. Californians with success reduces their water demand by more than 20% between 2015 and 2017 in response to severe drought conditions. Replanting cityscapes with native drought tolerant vegetation can help conserve water.
On the supply side, communities can consider non-traditional water sources, recycling and reuse of water in all sectors of the economy, and channel runoff and flood water to recharge groundwater.
There is also emerging technological solutions that could increase water resources in some regions, especially fog water collection, which uses mesh sheets to trap moisture from fog, and desalination plants that turn seawater and saline groundwater into potable water. A new desalination plant planned for Huntington Beach, California is awaiting final approval. However, the environmental consequences of these measures must be carefully considered.
The southwest monsoon returned this summer after a record drought the previous year and a half in the region, but it was not enough to end the drought there. Forecasts now suggest a a good chance that a La Niña model will develop over the winter, meaning the southwest will likely experience another drier than normal early 2022.
Mojtaba Sadegh is assistant professor of civil engineering at Boise State University; Ali mirchi is Assistant Professor of Water Resources Engineering at Oklahoma State University; Amir Agha Kouchak is professor of civil and environmental engineering at University of California, Irvine, and Kaveh Madani is a guest researcher at Yale University. This article is republished from The conversation, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to unlocking expert ideas, under a Creative Commons license.
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In early June 2006, Dave Revsine (WCAS91) called his dad, the late Kellogg School of Management professor Lawrence Revsine (EB63, KSM65, 68), to chat. But his father was preoccupied.
"He said, 'Can I call you back?'" Dave recalls. "I was incredulous. What could be more important than talking to your son?"
Lawrence replied that he was watching the Northwestern softball team play in the Women's College World Series on television. Dave had no idea his father was a softball fan.
"I'm not a softball fan," the elder Revsine responded. "I'm a Northwestern fan."
Dave, now the lead studio host for the Big Ten Network, often retells this story as an example of how the world of sports journalism is changing. Years ago, before sporting events were available 24/7 on television and the Internet, sports enthusiasts were never able to follow so-called minor sports such as softball. For the most part, fans could only keep up with their local teams, the ones featured regularly on television and radio and covered at length in the local newspapers.
Today, however, with the Internet and cable television, opportunities have expanded immensely, allowing fans to follow as many teams or individual players as they want. A baseball lover in New York can read about, watch or listen to a Los Angeles Dodgers game almost as easily as a Yankees game. And if that fan misses even one out, there is an animated pitch-by-pitch replay on the Internet, the recap will be posted within 20 minutes, and the highlights will be on TV soon after.
The vast increase in sports availability has significantly altered the way journalists cover sports today, according to several leading alumni sportswriters and broadcasters interviewed for this story, including Christine Brennan (J80, GJ81), a sports columnist for USA Today; Brent Musburger (J61), a play-by-play broadcaster for ABC Sports; Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist and author Ira Berkow (GJ64); nationally syndicated sports radio talk show host Mike Greenberg (J89); and several others.
With fans awash in a flood of sports news and analysis, these journalists say they must work harder and dig deeper today to establish an angle and provide both analysis and entertainment.
All Sports, All the Time
Last December, during one week of primetime television, ESPN aired the Monday Night Football game, three college basketball games, four NBA games and the Poinsettia Bowl. Other sports networks provided coverage of poker, women's college basketball, golf, the World's Strongest Man competition and even a dog show — all in one five-day workweek.
"What ESPN definitely changed is it gave me more things to do," says veteran play-by-play announcer Brent Musburger with a laugh. "Somebody in my business, with all the games to broadcast, should never be without work."
ESPN debuted on cable television nationwide Sept. 7, 1979. For the first time, Americans could watch sports programming at any time of the day, all week long. Although it took several years for ESPN to establish itself as must-watch TV, its arrival on the scene signaled a new era for sports enthusiasts.
"There is absolutely no question that ESPN changed the way sports were covered and consumed in this country," says Mike Greenberg, co-host of Mike & Mike in the Morning, a nationally syndicated program on ESPN Radio.
In less than three decades, ESPN has met growing consumer demand by expanding to nearly every possible medium. In addition to several secondary channels, there is the radio network, a magazine, a web site and even a restaurant chain under the ESPN brand name.
Musburger says one of the biggest changes he has noticed with ESPN's rise is the never-ending analysis on television and radio about games and stories that happened earlier in the week.
The type of coverage is also changing. In their quest to fill their schedules, the around-the-clock sports networks provide fans with a larger variety of sporting events than ever before. Whether it's college volleyball or bass fishing, networks realize that there is always a group of people devoted to watching.
"ESPN has its finger on the pulse of what people are interested in," Revsine says. "They realized one year that college softball was getting better numbers than the NHL, so they made the switch."
Sometimes this coverage can create a nationwide phenomenon in the process. In 2003 ESPN decided to devote more time to the World Series of Poker than ever before. Within three years, 10 times as many people were participating in the No-Limit Texas Hold'em Main Event, the World Series of Poker's $10,000 buy-in championship event, as poker playing underwent a massive revival across the country.
"There's no way poker would be as popular as it is without the advancement of technology," says Irving Rein, professor of communication studies, referring to the concealed lipstick cameras that show a player's hand. "That adds drama to the game, exposing television viewers to something they otherwise wouldn't experience."
As a result of this added exposure, the popularity of and demand for nonmainstream sports increase. Rein, co-author of The Elusive Fan: Reinventing Sports in a Crowded Marketplace (McGraw-Hill, 2006), says these peripheral sports are making it much more difficult for executives from the major sports to hold fans' interest. (Rein wrote The Elusive Fan with Philip Kotler, S.C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management, and Ben Shields [C03, GC04], a communication studies doctoral candidate at Northwestern with expertise in sports and technology.)
The same challenges also exist in the media. Rein says two different markets are developing: one for large sports like baseball and football, and one for the smaller sports like dodgeball.
"Whoever heard of such a thing?" asks Rein in amazement. "Dodgeball used to be just a game for playing in third grade. Now there are rules and tournaments and televised matches."
Because a network like ESPN covers a broad spectrum of sports across the country and even around the world, there is a limit to how much it can provide. As a result, specialized channels have formed, not to compete directly with ESPN but to offer more coverage of a particular sport.
"Our network is guaranteed to succeed," Revsine says of the Big Ten Network. "College sports fans have an insatiable thirst for more information on their school every single night, which ESPN simply can't provide."
The expanding menu of sports programming means there are many more opportunities for top broadcasters and reporters, but also that job security exists mostly on a national level. Local sports coverage, either on television, radio or in newspapers, has become a casualty of the expanding world of cable and Internet sports coverage. While around-the-clock sports stations have grown, the role of local sportscasters is diminishing, believe some alumni sports journalists.
Sports Not So Local Today
When Mike Greenberg was growing up in New York City, he relied on his local broadcasters to get the latest on the world of sports. Three to five minutes of sports news at the end of each newscast was all he needed. Today, though, viewers have already seen the game highlights before the evening news begins. They expect more.
"In some ways I feel bad about this because there are still great guys doing great work in the same business, just on a local level," Greenberg says. "But there's no question that most fans who want to know what's going on in sports will turn on ESPN before the local news."
Around-the-clock sports coverage has taken a bite out of the local sports pages, too.
"Unless you're not breathing as a sports fan, you've seen the highlights multiple times and have gotten every detail you'd ever want," says Christine Brennan. "What's the morning paper going to give you that you didn't already have?"
Brennan (see "Widening the Playing Field") sees the focus turning from the "who, what, where and when" to the "why and how." Columnists and beat writers receive top placement following games because they provide analysis to go along with the box scores. Since readers have already formed their own judgments on a game, they want to compare their opinions with those of the "experts."
Still, the analysis newspapers provide is dated. As soon as a game ends, sports fans can find a variety of commentary, reactions and analysis on TV and on the Internet.
"I thought I could end my career in the newspaper business," says Michael Wilbon (J80), a longtime columnist for the Washington Post. "I thought it would sustain my career, but that's just not the case anymore."
Wilbon, however, did not go looking for opportunities in television. ESPN found him. In 2001 the network proposed that he and fellow Washington Post columnist Tony Kornheiser host their own sports talk show, Pardon the Interruption. The pair have been debating hot-button sports issues every weekday since.
"Everybody has somebody they argue with about sports in their own lives," Wilbon says. "The audience sees themselves in Tony and me, and they identify with us."
"PTI is the greatest show ESPN's ever come up with," Revsine says. "There have been imitation shows, but no one cares what those hosts think. Viewers care what Michael and Tony have to say."
Although Wilbon (see "Widening the Playing Field") has been a featured columnist with the Post since 1990 (and a reporter at the paper for a decade before then), PTI brought him a tremendous amount of national recognition. He enjoys the perks (he owns a second home in Arizona and has the freedom to cover what he wants, when he wants) but also admits that fame is still a foreign concept to him. All he really cares about is telling stories that need to be told.
"I still describe myself as a sportswriter," Wilbon says. "ESPN came to me because that's what I am. I don't need to be a celebrity."
Many Ways to Tell a Sports Story
Alan Abrahamson (J80), a classmate of both Wilbon and Brennan, recently left his job at the Los Angeles Times to write columns for NBC.com and NBC Sports. Like Brennan, a sports commentator for ABC News, ESPN and National Public Radio, Abrahamson also makes regular TV appearances to discuss the biggest sports story of the day. He still recalls a conversation he and Wilbon had at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
"He said, 'There isn't just one way to tell a story anymore,'" remembers Abrahamson, who adds, "The values of 'newspapering' that we got at Medill continue to serve us as we explore how to do this on a variety of platforms."
Abrahamson is enjoying the challenge of telling stories not just with words but digitally and with photos. However, not all sports content available online is produced by trained journalists. With the expansive reach of the Internet, blogs and message boards tend to release much of the sports news and gossip first. This allows any person with a computer to "report" on whatever he or she pleases, with little to no oversight.
"If you've bought a newspaper, it's in your hands, and you know who produced it," Brennan says. "But you go to the Internet, click on a few links, and you may end up on a blogger's site who hasn't had one day of journalistic training."
Brennan's concern is not that bloggers are unable to write. She's worried that consumers will struggle to know what is credible and what is not.
"It's the Wild West out there," Brennan says. "We have to make sure those people who have worked as journalists for years are not all of a sudden lumped in with someone sitting in a basement all day blogging off a television set."
Greenberg sees this problem carrying over into broadcast journalism as well.
"Too many people these days get into the media business by majoring in communications, where they teach you to look into a camera and read from a prompter," Greenberg says. "But they don't teach you anything about actually gathering and delivering news. An understanding of the basic fundamentals of journalism is critically important, whether you're covering sports or anything else."
Much of the old-fashioned legwork has faded away now that reporters can simply search Google for facts and figures. Some journalists, such as Pulitzer Prize–winner Ira Berkow, worry that this approach will cause reporters to miss the real stories.
"As a sports journalist you have great access to these athletes," says Berkow, who worked as a sports columnist for several decades at the New York Times. "You can actually sit down with someone who is in a slump, push the right buttons and get them to open up."
For that very reason, Berkow thinks newspapers and their beat writers still hold an advantage over national reporters. They can actually attend games regularly, visit the locker room and speak personally with players away from the cameras.
Many athletes, however, are starting to use the Internet to avoid these situations. Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas and golfer Tiger Woods are just a few of the superstar athletes who operate their own web sites or blogs.
"Golf writers will occasionally have to go to Tiger's web site to see what he's doing," Brennan points out. "A lot of athletes put the big news on their web sites so they can control the message and know that their quote is not being misconstrued."
Journalists also face accessibility issues when coaches close practice to control information surrounding their teams. "This is not good," Brennan says. "I worry about our ability as journalists to do our jobs properly if we are shut out.
"I believe strongly in the independent observer and the role we play," she says. "It's very important for us to be there."
Sports News or Entertainment?
Some say it's an unfortunate reality that the biggest and brightest stars of the game get more ink than they should.
"We live in a celebrity-driven culture, a society fascinated by stars, and the sports world has some big ones," says Greenberg. "The starting left guard of an NFL team might be the glue that holds the whole thing together, but everyone's paying attention to the quarterback."
Greenberg points out that sports are part of the entertainment industry. As such, media outlets provide viewers and readers with stories about the entertainers that interest them the most in order to turn a profit. It's part of a larger trend away from hard news and analysis in favor of entertainment.
"There is less and less news we pay attention to," says Northwestern emeritus sociology professor Bernard Beck, who places sports journalism in the same niche as fashion and arts and leisure. "What used to be routinely needed info doesn't sell well anymore. Instead, things that keep people delighted, like sports, sell."
Wilbon sees that reality in the sports pages he reads.
"There's an obsession with certain teams, like the Red Sox and Yankees, and it gets tiring," Wilbon says. "I write more on the issues surrounding the games, the people who play them and the cultural aspects of why sports are important to people. Some writers don't want to take on those topics."
Those worthwhile subjects are often lost as editors and producers focus instead on telling the sensational stories — the stars' sky-high salaries and off-the-field exploits — that the audience demands.
"Some people find these stories interesting, and that's fine," Berkow says. "But sports editors don't have to follow along like lemmings. There are adult readers who do enjoy a strong story not on these hot-topic personalities."
Berkow retired from the New York Times last year after writing on a variety of subjects, primarily sports. He has also written 18 books, allowing him to delve deeper into subjects that interest him.
Berkow's current book, The Corporal Was a Pitcher: The Courageous Story of Lou Brissie, due out later this year, details the career of a war veteran who nearly lost his leg in World War II. He made it back to the majors with a large brace and earned a spot on the 1949 All-Star team as a pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics. Even with his distinguished reputation, Berkow struggled to find a publisher.
"It was not an easy sell," Berkow says. "Brissie is not well known, so it was tough to get it published by a good publisher. If you write about an athlete more than 40 years old, it seems like fewer companies are willing to publish it."
CNBC sports business reporter Darren Rovell (C00) makes a living by finding the unique twists to a story. Ever since he hosted his own sports business show on WNUR — Northwestern's student-run radio station — Rovell has had a knack for pushing the boundaries. When Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban made a derogatory remark about managing a Dairy Queen in 2002, Rovell thought of the perfect angle. He convinced the billionaire entrepreneur to work for one day at the franchise's ice cream shop in Coppell, Texas.
"I always tell kids if they want to be a sports columnist, find some sort of niche," Rovell says. "There could be a lot more people doing things in sports besides your standard game recaps and analysis."
Some areas of the sports journalism industry are delving into more in-depth reporting. ESPN recently devoted more resources to investigative journalism, hiring several new writers and producers to make it happen. One of those new employees is Mark Fainaru-Wada (J89), who spent several years investigating steroid use in sports, leading to his much-heralded book, Game of Shadows (Gotham, 2006), co-written with his former San Francisco Chronicle colleague Lance Williams (see "Inside Sports: The Untold Stories"). Fainaru-Wada made the move to ESPN for several reasons, including the chance to do more stories on a national platform.
He says the sports landscape is rife with opportunities for investigative journalism.
"If you look at sports pages and media across the country, 99.9 percent of the stories are positive or neutral features," Fainaru-Wada says. "This is an opportunity to shine a light and uncover things that are going on every day that people don't talk about."
Wilbon says there are more investigative pieces being written today because of the number of voices that get to be heard. He still worries, though, that students now entering the field will take too many shortcuts and go for the easy stories because of technology's availability. He encourages aspiring sports journalists to look at the bigger picture, not just, for example, the number of touchdowns superstar Tom Brady threw in a season.
"Know what Otto Graham [SESP44] did before you say Brady is the best quarterback of all time," says Wilbon, referring to Graham's record of leading the Cleveland Browns to a league championship game every single year of his career. "Too many sportswriters think just because it happened today, it's better than anything in history. That lowers the bar for sports reporting and discussion, but that's the culture we live in. People want it instant and easy."
In this new era of immediacy, Greenberg believes it's more important than ever to maintain a sense of history about the world of sports journalism.
"The media, from where it was 10 years ago to where it is now to where it will be 10 years from now, is, like most things, very fluid," he says. "But being a sports journalist will always be a wonderful way to make a living."
Ryan Morton, a senior in the Medill School from Schaumburg, Ill., broadcasts Northwestern athletic events on WNUR. He also hosts his own Broadway music program on the student-run radio station.
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NEW YORK—The Ryokan Collection, an assemblage of 32 small luxury inns spread throughout Japan, will be ramping up its marketing and sales efforts throughout the U.S. and Europe, targeting luxury travelers with a yen to experience traditional Japanese culture, company executives said at an event in New York on Wednesday. The collection, whose clientele is already 69 percent American, touts its fine cuisine (traditional Japanese breakfasts and dinners are served in the rooms) and its hot spring communal baths, which are situated outside the inns (many rooms also include private baths) as its biggest selling points. Also, unlike bigger luxury hotels, the inns are small and have a quiet tranquil atmosphere. "We are trying to make the inns more accessible and inviting for customers," said Cecelia Tee, executive director of the Ryokan Collection. The collection is marketed under three groupings: Luxury Ryokan Collection (line consists of the most famous luxury inns), Superior Ryokan Collection (inns targeted for their value) and Small Luxury Japanese Hotels, a line of boutique-style properties. Also announced was a new partnership with RPI Concierge, an outfit that deals in tailor-made, high-end guest itineraries. Tee says the Ryokan Collection is the only company to have this type of partnership. Ryokan Collection president, Hiroki Fukunaga, said that the average price at one of the inns is about $420 per guest. For more information on the collection, visit [www.ryokancollection.com].
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The Symphony of Southeast Texas is planning a memorial concert to honor the violinist who died during Saturday night's performance, a tragedy that has orchestra members rallying behind the violinist's family.
Yu Zhao Gu, 60, fell from his seat while performing next to his wife and stand partner, Ying Zhao, at the Julie Rogers Theatre in Beaumont. He died of a heart attack.
The city has sent symphony officials several dates when the theater will be available for a memorial concert, executive director Douglas Fair said. It could be several more days before a date can be confirmed.
Gu and his wife were a fixture of the symphony and were especially attuned to each other while performing, an even more rare sight than seeing a couple together in the same symphony, Maestro Chelsea Tipton said.
Gu had been with the symphony since the mid-1990s.
As first-section violinists, the couple were directly in front of Tipton when the health emergency occurred. Tipton said it was touching to see at least six physicians in either the symphony or crowd respond to provide resuscitation to Gu, and to see other members stop to pray for the family.
The Rev. Jim Fuller, senior pastor at Calder Baptist Church and a member of the symphony board, said he saw the incident from the balcony where he was watching the performance and lingered while physicians responded. In the balcony, and later on the stage with members of the symphony and audience, Fuller said he did what he knows best: he prayed.
Like most of the symphony musicians, Gu and his wife lived in Houston. Their son is a student at University of Houston. As professional musicians, they also performed with other area groups including the Lake Charles Symphony and Galveston Symphony Orchestra.
Sparky Koerner, Galveston Symphony manager and principal trumpet player, said Gu and his wife at been with the string section there for at least 10 years.
Koerner said Gu was a model musician and a vital part of the group, even filling in to direct when the concertmaster was unable to make rehearsals.
He said Gu would likely be memorized in the April 21 program for the symphony's Easter concert.
Fair said the members of Symphony of Southeast Texas were trying to support Gu's wife and family during this time, including raising money through a GoFundMe available at the symphony's Facebook page.
R.A. Schuetz in Houston contributed.


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Q: Why is my node count so high and climbing in Zookeeper? When I run telnet 127.0.0.1 2181 and use the four letter command stat. Everything that gets printed out makes sense to me except for my Node count, which is at 542 and climbing every time I run my program.
Does this mean that I have persistent nodes lying around that I need to clean up?
I am using the O'Reilly Zookeeper book and I use the "AdminClient" class and I am printing out all the possible nodes and everything is deleted before my program closes using zk.delete().
I am new to zookeeper so any ideas about what is going on or best practices is appreciated.
UPDATE
Does nobody have a method of inspecting the nodes in a zookeeper instance? There has to be a way to see what nodes exist without knowing the path beforehand.

A: There is a command line utility /opt/zookeeper/current/bin/zkCli.sh that allows you to navigate zookeeper node hierarchy like a file system. Run it on any box that has ZK installed and then in ZK console use commands like ls, get, set, rmr etc. The full list of supported commands and tgeir syntax can be displayed by running help command. See http://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/trunk/zookeeperStarted.html for details

A: It's znodes cf. https://zookeeper.apache.org/doc/r3.4.6/zookeeperProgrammers.html#sc_zkDataModel_znodes
$ echo srvr | nc localhost 2181

Zookeeper version: 3.3.0-925362, built on 03/19/2010 18:38 GMT
Latency min/avg/max: 0/8/76
Received: 17
Sent: 16
Outstanding: 0
Zxid: 0x300000002
Mode: follower
Node count: 4

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*mode indicates the serving mode, typically leader/follower but might be standalone if not running an ensemble

*node count is the number of znodes in the ZooKeeper namespace (the
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This is the first feature from Robert Kirkman's Skybound entertainment. You may have heard of Kirkman before. He's the creator of the comic book series that little AMC show is based on (along with writer and Executive Producer)…. The Walking Dead? I'm a big fan of TWD, so I made it a point to check out this film, happily in the comfort of my living room.
Air is set in a post-apocalyptic world (seems as though there is no other kind these days) where engineers have the task of maintaining numerous underground, bare-bones facilities. These hold safe the future of humankind, constituted of scientists with varying specialties who remain in cryo sleep until the world is safe again and they can start over. The two-man team is awakened twice a year for a two hour period to perform routine maintenance checks and repairs to keep the place up and running. Problem is that one of the workers is a little cray cray and hallucinating just a tad. Of course, some other stuff happens and as I try to keep to a no spoiler post, I'm not going to say much more about the plot.
The film is directed by the inexperienced Christian Cantamessa. Cantamessa, credited primarily for video games and shorts, seems out of his depth here. We've seen some really taut thrillers with a small cast in a tight and tenuous position… such as Gravity and Alien. Also, some not stellar but still fine … Solaris, Leviathan, and The Core followed a similar premise. It's too bad that this one just sort of plods and dawdles along. While there is a dilemma to solve along with complicating factors, what was missing for me was that element of danger: that one extra that makes a bad situation oh so very much worse. Even when the twists do come, neither character seemed overly flummoxed by any development all that much, and therefore nor was I.
Though a futuristic dateline, this is really just a straight up suspense film. All in all, my opinion is that this movie is much like its title: a bit gaseous. While it's not awful, it's certainly not more than just ok. I don't remember seeing any trailers or promos, save what was promoted at SDCC. I found that interesting, but after seeing the film I'm not surprised that it came out in simultaneous release in theaters (limited), on demand and digital.
While I was pleased to see Norman Reedus in a role other than Daryl Dixon, that may have been the best thing about this movie. This feels a lot like a fan or even vanity project, though I'm not sure for whom. It's too bad that Kirkman didn't engage one of the TWD directors as we know they can drive suspense, but maybe that was a budgetary concern.
You may be a curious fan like me, and want to see Air no matter what. If so, don't rush. I would recommend that you wait for redbox or cable. You won't have to wait that long.
Recommendations: If this type of movie appeals to you, watch Gravity or Alien. Both deliver on that sense of urgency that was missing here.
Your Turn: What's your favorite sci-fi suspense movie, and why?


J. Jeff Beckman is currently an Adjunct Professor of Music Education at Vanderbilt University, Blair School of Music and the Supervisor of all Residency I and II Music Education students at Tennessee State University. He works in the Macy's Parade Band Division of Students on Broadway in New York City and is also the Executive Treasurer for the Middle Tennessee School Band and Orchestra Association. Beckman is an active Adjudicator and Festival Director throughout the Southeastern United States. He was formerly the Co-Director and Director of Bands at McGavock High School for twenty-seven years. He was also the Team Leader for the Center of the Creative Arts and Chair of the Music Department at McGavock. During his tenure, the McGavock Band was named the Tennessee State Marching Champion fifteen times, Grand Champion at the Contest of Champions in Murfreesboro, Tennessee ten times, Grand Champion of the Bands of America Southern Regional Competition three times, and a finalist at the Bands of America Grand National Championships. They received numerous superior ratings in both concert and marching festivals and competitions. The McGavock Band participated in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City, New York, the Orange Bowl Parade in Miami, Florida, Hollywood Christmas Parade in Hollywood, California, and Boscov's Thanksgiving Day Parade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In 1994, both the McGavock Band and Mr. Beckman were awarded the Sudler Shield Award presented by the John Philip Sousa Foundation. The National Band Association awarded Beckman the Certificate of Merit for Marching Excellence three times. In 2005, he was named "Teacher of the Year" at McGavock High School and received the "Educator of the Year" award from the Donelson-Hermitage Chamber of Commerce. Beckman was most recently awarded the "Carol Crittenden Arts Advocate of the Year"Award for outstanding support of Music Education and the Performing Arts in Middle Tennesseeand was elected as the newest member of the "Tennessee Bandmasters Hall of Fame" this past spring.


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Jeff was an officer in the Royal Australian Regiment, serving both at home and overseas. He was a member of the Victorian Parliament for twenty-three years, and was premier of the state from 1992 to 1999. A director of Equity Trustees and a director of Seven West Media, Jeff is currently chairman of Open Windows Australia, CT Management Group, Amtek Corporation and LEDified Lighting Corporation. He was also a member of the Singapore Tourism Advisory Board from 2000 to 2006, and was president of the Hawthorn Football Club from 2005 to 2011.
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New York, Oct 25, 2019-
Tulsi Gabbard, the first Hindu elected to the US Congress, has announced she will not be running for re-election next year.
Gabbard, who is seeking the Democratic Party nomination to run for President next year, said that she was dropping het re-election bid because she is preparing to "to walk into the Oval Office".
Her presidential campaign has failed to make much headway and her support in polls has not exceeded three per cent.
Gabbard, who was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2012 from a constituency in Hawaii, is not of Indian descent, but a practising Hindu and took her oath of office on a Bhagavad Gita. Ethnically she is a Samoan, which is a Pacific Island group.
She came under attack last week from Hillary Clinton, who called her "a favourite of the Russians" and alleged they were grooming her to be a third party candidate in next year's election.
Gabbard hit back, calling Clinton "the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long".
Gabbard has been at odds with the party leadership and resigned as the Democratic National Committee's vice chair in 2016 alleging that the leaders were being partisan towards Clinton, who was defeated by President Donald Trump that year.
A serving major in the Army National Guard, which is similar to India's Territorial Army but with more active deployments, Gabbard is a veteran of the Iraq war and her combat experience has made her an opponent of US military action abroad.
This has brought criticism against her from her own party.
She has said that the US should stop engaging in "regime change warsa to topple foreign leaders it does not like.
In the middle of her campaign, she was called up for active duty in August and deployed on a mission in Indonesia.
In her announcement that she is not seeking re-election, Gabbard referred to the Hawaiian word, "Aloha", which besides being a greeting, also stands for peace and love in the native Hawaiian tradition.
She said: "Washington, our country, and the world is in dire need of aloha. … Only aloha has the power to bring our nation together a" recognizing we are all God's children, and we are all Americans."
Asking for support for her presidential bid, she said: "As President, I will lead with aloha – putting people ahead of profits, putting people ahead of politics, putting the wellbeing of our people and our planet above all else."
Gabbard has also been criticised by some as a "Hindu nationalist" for meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
She has denounced the criticism as a sign of religious bigotry as those making it have singled her out and not made similar accusation against non-Hindus meeting Modi.
Gabbard has also been attacked by the media.
The New York Times that often reflects the views of the Democratic Party establishment recently published an attack on Gabbard trying to link her to "white nationalists and Russians" and the right.
Gabbard has disowned support from white nationalists.
The newspaper also criticised her for saying that the party leadership was trying to rig the 2020 election.
A commentator for CNN, which is owned by the telephone and telecommunications giant AT&T, called her "a puppet for the Russian government", shortly before the debate of Democrat candidates hosted by the channel and the Times.
Gabbard called their campaign against her "despicable" and said: "New York Times and CNN have also smeared veterans like myself for calling for an end to this regime change war." (Agency)
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