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Secrets of Athabasca
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Signage all around the Town of Athabasca points out historical buildings, interesting stories, and unique characters that are part of Athabasca's heritage. Available for purchase is the Athabasca Historical Walking Tour booklet, which includes over 60 pages of descriptive text and historic buildings and locations, numbered on the fold-out map. Photos from yesterday and today show how the Town used to look when it was first settled.
More information on this and other historical literatures are available from the Athabasca Heritage Society.
Athabasca Train Station
In the decades around the turn of the twentieth century, significant attention was paid to the development of the railroad infrastructure of the Canadian west, notably the branch line network in what would become the province of Alberta. The Edmonton & Slave Lake Railway (E&SLR) was chartered in 1899 to reach Slave Lake via Athabasca Landing, which was a riverboat transportation hub on the Athabasca River.
The E&SLR was acquired by the Canadian Northern Railway in 1902 and construction on the line finally commenced in 1909, reaching Athabasca in early 1912. The town experienced a significant real estate and construction boom, fuelled largely by speculation the railway would continue on to the Peace River District and the CNoR terminus at Port Simpson, British Columbia with Athabasca becoming a major railway hub. Ultimately, these hopes were unfounded; the CNoR elected to bypass Athabasca and accessed the Peace Country via a line through Grande Prairie. This decision resulted in Athabasca becoming the end of a minor branch line rather than the central hub which it had aspired to be.
The railroad station in Athabasca was built in 1912 according to the CNoR standard plan No. 100-39. The interior of the Athabasca station was simple and did not feature any specialized passenger waiting areas or dining rooms and had smaller baggage storage capacity. Regardless of being scaled down, the station in Athabasca was still substantial, befitting a large community on what was originally expected to be an important rail transportation corridor.
The Athabasca train station occupies a prominent position on 50th Avenue, the main east-west road through town, which runs parallel to the railroad right-of-way, and at the head of 51st Street where it is highly visible down the entire length of that road. Today, the Athabasca Heritage Society is renovating the property to reflect its original historic state. The Visitor Information Centre is housed in the train station during the summer months.
Photo courtesy of Athabasca University.
Text adapted from Alberta Registry of Historic Places.
Athabasca Public School
The Athabasca Public School was built in 1913 during a wave of optimism that swept the town of Athabasca as well as other small western towns. Athabasca had long been the gateway to the north, and recent railway and other development in the area suggested the town was poised on the brink of rapid population and economic growth. It is one of the best examples of buildings constructed during the pre-war boom existing in the town, and one of just a handful that remain. It was the centre of education from 1913 to the 1950s. This building displays the most impressive architectural features of any brick building in Athabasca. The school is one of the most recognizable landmarks in Athabasca.
Built with an eye to architectural style – its facade reflects a number of Doric design elements – it was also constructed using the best quality materials, such as Calgary red brick and Bedford limestone, available at the time. It was also designed to take advantage of the latest developments in teaching methods and ideals and could house students from grade one to grade twelve in its four original classrooms. It was very much a typical urban school of the period, similar to schools found in Edmonton, Calgary or Medicine Hat, but a very unusual school for a northern community like Athabasca.
The building was home to Family and Community Support Services until Spring 2014. Currently, discussions are underway to determine the next chapter in its story.
Text adapted from Alberta Register of Historic Places
Grand Union Hotel
In 1913, a fire devastated the downtown core of Athabasca. With the buoyant optimism of the time, however, the business district was soon restructured to accommodate extensive future growth. Among the edifices to grace the new town centre, was the largest and most lavish hotel north of Edmonton at that time, the Grand Union. Owned and operated by W.R. Day, this brick structure replaced the earlier wood frame Grand Union that had been destroyed by the fire. The new hotel included 50 rooms, many with private baths, and centralized steam heating. The building itself also included a café, tavern, billiard room, bowling alley and writing room.
As the Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia (ED and BC) Railway by-passed Athabasca in 1914, however, the community and hotel did not come to serve many of the settlers bound for the Peace River Country. In 1919, the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway was completed to Fort McMurray, and another major traffic flow was diverted from Athabasca. In the years that followed, the community held its own as lumbering centre with some mixed farming in its vicinity, but it did not attain the development level anticipated in 1914. The prominent placement of the structure at the town's centre would always render it a familiar landmark and a common watering hole for local residents.
Today, the Grand Union Hotel hosts the Heritage Grill, Trappers Pub, and renovations are underway on the hotel rooms upstairs.
Photo courtesy of Alberta Culture and Community Spirit, Historic Resources Management.
Text adapted from Alberta Registry of Historic Places
Amber Valley & Obadiah Place
The historical significance of Obadiah Place lies in its association with the Afro-American settlement of the Amber Valley area of the County of Athabasca in north-eastern Alberta, and two of the community's leading citizens, Willis Reese Bowen and his son Obadiah Bowen.
In 1911, a group of black Americans emigrated from Oklahoma and filed for homestead on lands north of Edmonton and east of Athabasca Landing. Obadiah Place is located on one such homestead, settled by Willis Reese Bowen in 1913. Bowen's original log cabin served as a central part of the community, housed as the first post office and was the site of the community's first telephone. The log cabin was replaced in 1938 when Obadiah Bowen, his son, built the current house. Obadiah was very active in the community, and served as pastor at an interdenominational church built in 1953 on land he donated about a half mile from the house.
The dwelling is a one and one-half storey square prairie vernacular wood frame building that retains most of its original architectural features. The farmhouse, yard and outbuildings, represent the experience of homesteading in an isolated area as well as vernacular basic wood frame construction that is becoming increasingly rare in rural Alberta. Though not the original homestead dwelling, this house is the oldest structure in the community. Owing to its size, it was frequently used for social gatherings.
Today, Amber Valley is active in the community with twice-annual friend chicken suppers, baseball tournaments, and monthly music jams in the spring, fall, and winter.
Photo courtesy of Heritage Collaborative.
The heritage value of the Athabasca United Church lies in its association with the growth of Athabasca prior to World War One and its Gothic Revival architecture.
Founded as a Hudson's Bay Company (H.B.C.) post in 1875, the settlement at Athabasca initially developed as a vital transportation hub for the fur trade and the Klondike Gold Rush, connecting traders and prospectors with a vast land and river network extending into Northern Alberta and the Western Arctic. The heady optimism of the times is evident in the large-scale of the Athabasca United Church (originally the Athabasca Methodist Church) built in 1913. One of Alberta's largest frame structures with a capacity exceeding 600 people, the church was built at the height of hopes for Athabasca, before railway lines bypassing the settlement brought the town's rapid expansion to an abrupt halt.
Adapting the Gothic Revival style of architecture to the particular needs and sensibilities of the community in Athabasca, well-known Edmonton architect Ernest William Morehouse designed the Athabasca United Church as an elegant, spacious building. The Gothic Revival style in evident in the twin corner towers, the trefoil gable window, and the pointed, arched windows. The church resembles other Protestant houses of worship in Alberta derived from the Gothic Revival style, but is distinguished by its use of wood as the primary building material and its roof supported by walls, rafters, and ceiling joists without any interior pillars. The plan of the church, with its many windows and almost square design, was intended to create an atmosphere of spaciousness and grandeur centred on the preacher proclaiming the Gospel.
The Athabasca United Church continues to hold weekly services and serves as an occasional venue for musical performances.
St Alban's Anglican Church
St. Alban's Anglican Church was one of a series of churches constructed in the Athabasca Landing area between 1912 and 1915 to serve the needs of the incoming settlers. These churches included Holy Trinity, Pleasant Valley; St. James, Pine Creek; St. Mark, Flat Lake and St. Andrew, Colinton.
Settlement of the area was underway as early as 1905, but completion of the Canadian Northern (CN) Railway branch line to Athabasca Landing in 1912 accelerated the process. One of the Anglican clergymen active in the area was Reverend Robert Little, whose visits led to the decision to build St. Alban's Church. Two acres of land were donated for use as a site and funds for the purchase of materials came from England. Volunteer labour under the direction of a local carpenter named Tarrant built the church. Construction was initiated in 1914 and then completed in August of 1915.
The parish was a quiet one, in which few exceptional events occurred. During the Great Depression, St. Alban's Church took its part in the provision of relief services. In 1937, for example, St. Alban's Church followed a member's suggestion and collected a boxcar of vegetables for shipment to destitute settlers at Hilda, Alberta. The parish history gives the impression of steady community participation, and the church helps to illustrate the Historic Sites Source Master Plan theme of settlement underway before World War One.
St Alban's Church remains part of the Athabasca Parish of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Photo courtesy of Alberta Culture and Community Spirit, Historic Resources Management
West Athabasca School
In 1903, the Athabasca School District 839 was incorporated; by 1910, homesteaders began to enter the district around Athabasca, with the land having just been surveyed. Then, in the summer of 1912, the Canadian Northern (CN) Railway arrived from Edmonton. This made farming in the district even more viable, and, that very year, three school districts were incorporated to the south and east of the town. In 1914, a school district was incorporated for the people living just straight west of Athabasca.
As time passed, the district of west Athabasca did not grow considerably. As a result, there was no clamour for a larger school in west Athabasca, and so, the original 1914 structure was able to survive. By the end of World War Two however, district roadways had improved to such an extent that it made sense to have the children of the district bussed a few miles into town. In 1948, the 1914 structure was also moved into town, among several other early twentieth century dwellings. Here, it was made to accommodate mostly elementary students. It was closed as a school in 1951, but used occasionally after that as a church and a Sunday school for the Missionary Church Society.
Athabasca Landing Trail
The Athabasca Landing Trail was constructed by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1876, generally following a traditional First Nations route. It was the first overland road from Fort Edmonton to the southernmost point of the Athabasca River. The ALT was constructed through trees, creeks, and boggy territory and became known for bugs, mud, and moonshine. It was constructed at a total cost of $4059 and was Alberta's first Dominion Highway and Canada's first toll road. In 1898, some 600 gold rush prospectors started out along the trail, intent on reaching the Klondike. The ALT was dubbed the '100 Mile Portage' since it linked two major waterways – the North Saskatchewan River and the Athabasca River.
After the railway was completed in 1912, the ALT lost its importance as a freight route but was still the primary route for regular traffic. Within a few years of the trail being declared a public right-of-way by the federal government, many homesteaders claimed land along the route. Many of these settlers provided food, shelter, and a variety of other services to travellers on the trail, and their homes were known as stopping houses. As traffic increased on the trail, schools and churches were built. Additional homesteads were developed near these facilities and when the railway came through in 1912, they became thriving communities. Many of the original public buildings stand today, and some are still used for community functions.
The original trail from Edmonton to Athabasca is being recreated and can be travelled from Athabasca to Perryvale in our region.
Photo courtesy of Athabasca Archives.
Text adapted from Athabasca Landing Trail
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Q: Birthday Paradox Answer I understand that if there are 253 comparisons to be made when checking if any two people out of 23 share the same birthday, that it's 1 minus the probability of them not sharing a birthday (.99726) to the power of 253, and that makes perfect sense, like flipping a coin multiple times and multiplying the probabilities of each trial together.
$$P = 1 - (.99726)^{253}$$
But I can't figure out why just simply putting 253/366 gives you the wrong answer.
If there are 253 comparisons and 366 days why does this not work. I know it's wrong I just really want to understand why, what am I missing?
Thanks in advance,
Richard

A: It turns out that $\frac{253}{366}$ is the expected number of pairs of people with the same birthday (assuming each day is equally likely.) But in some sets of 23 people, you'd have more than one such pair. So the expected number of pairs will be strictly greater than the probability that a pair exists.
Essentially if $X$ is the number of pairs of people with the same birthday, and $$Y=\begin{cases}1&X\geq 1\\ 0&X=0\end{cases},$$ then $E(X)=\frac{253}{366}$ and $E(Y)=P(X>0)$ is the probability some of the $23$ people have the same birthday. We know $Y\leq X$ with strict inequality sometimes, you have $E(Y)<E(X).$
But your first answer is wrong, too. The probability that they don't have the same birthday is:
$$\frac{366}{366}\cdot\frac{365}{366}\cdots\frac{366-22}{366}=\prod_{k=0}^{22}\left(1-\frac{k}{366}\right)$$
This is not equal to $\left(1-\frac{1}{366}\right)^{253}$, although it is not a terrible estimate since $1-\frac{k}{366}\approx \left(1-\frac{1}{366}\right)^k$ for $k$ small.
Bernoulli's inequality gives us $1-\frac{k}{366}<\left(1-\frac{1}{366}\right)^k,$ so we have that $P>1-\left(1-\frac{1}{366}\right)^{253}$.

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GSX+ Game Changer: Security and Supporting Creativity
By Sara Mosqueda
GSX+ Daily 2020
"I did not make anything up," Max Brooks said of his account of a world recovering from a zombie pandemic. "I just zombified."
Yes, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War is fiction, but Brooks said that the veneer of brain-hungry ghouls was a valuable tool in educating readers about military history and responses; in fact, his philosophy is that an effective way to educate people is to first entertain them.
In both the book and his Game Changer session Friday morning at GSX+, the best-selling author and senior fellow at the Modern War Institute and Atlantic Council, Brooks pointed to the need for creativity to succeed—especially when faced with incredible challenges like the coronavirus pandemic.
Brooks added that we failed to look at history when trying to grapple with COVID-19, which led the United States to fall short in how it dealt with the pandemic.
"It's because at this point in our history, especially in the West...we lost our living memory," Brooks said. "We have lost the last generation to have grown up before vaccines and before massive public health and infrastructure."
There have been a recorded 203,000 deaths from the coronavirus in the United States, as of GSX+ Daily's press time, with the University of Minnesota estimating that underreporting COVID deaths may be as high as 30 percent. But beyond the fatalities, the nation is still struggling with severe economic and psychological fallout thanks to the pandemic's continued and almost unrelenting presence in several parts of the country.
"We lost a golden opportunity with COVID because there's been tremendous psychological damage from this disease," Brooks said. "It has caused horrific anxiety and depression, and it didn't have to be that way."
If we do not want to continue to fall into fear and feed further anxieties, Brooks adds that things must change. "We need to confront these fears instead of collapsing," Brooks said.
While we look for new solutions for the problems of today and tomorrow, we need to consider the past to avoid repeating the mistakes we and our ancestors already made. If we look at dealing with the coronavirus like fighting a war, then even more of Brooks's insight becomes applicable.
When trying to win a war, especially one that involves new threats, such as novel tactics or weaponry—Darwinism becomes gospel, proving that evolution is essential.
"That's the story of war: whoever adapts, wins.... If you do the same thing over and over and over again, you will lose," Brooks said.
Creativity—along with courage and discipline—can turn the tide, allowing an army to adapt to the threats it faces.
Brooks pointed back to the Battle of Taranto, which occurred during World War II, to illustrate the efficacy of this trifecta. The battle was the first time an all-aircraft ship attacked a navy, with the British Royal Navy using biplane torpedo bombers to raze half of the Italian naval forces in a single night.
Although most looked at the attack and considered it an outlier, unlikely to occur again, 36-year-old Minoru Genda listened to reports about the attack and realized that the Japanese could apply similar tactics.
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto championed Genda's idea, and after the nuts and bolts of the operation were developed, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service successfully led an attack at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The surprise strike occurred a little more than one year after the Battle of Taranto, with one country successfully using the creative process, while the other could not see nor adapt to the threat until lives were lost.
"That is the creative process," Brooks said. "An idea, a champion, and a nuts-and-bolts person."
This example points to the fact that not everyone has to be the British Royal Navy or Genda. Successful leaders need to be able to recognize the great ideas and support them.
"When a good idea has a champion, it changes the world," Brooks said.
If you missed Brooks's session, GSX+ All-Access pass holders have the ability to watch the replay on demand through 31 December 2020.
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Beginner's Luck
by Margaret Foster March 23rd, 2001 August 29th, 2020
To launch a publishing house far outside the publishing capital of Manhattan, Andrew Clarke needed, well, the luck of the Irish. Last October, Clarke, who emigrated from Roscommon, Ireland, 10 years ago, unveiled Atlantic Ireland, one of the District's newest presses. From their Corcoran Street NW headquarters, Clarke and photographer James Gleason put together Atlantic Ireland's first and only book, Contemplating Ireland, a collection of black-and-white images of the old country accompanied by stanzas by Irish poets including W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney. Irish novelist Deirdre Purcell wrote the book's introduction.
Atlantic Ireland released the book at a fête at the Irish Embassy, surrounded by professors from Georgetown University's and Catholic University's Irish Studies programs. "As a small publisher, getting attention is difficult," admits Clarke. "It's very tough to get going." But Clarke has had some success: So far, he has persuaded home-and-garden retailer Smith & Hawken, as well as some national and independent bookstores, to stock Contemplating Ireland.
Clarke and Gleason set out to create a book that was more than the average coffee-table fodder. "There are a lot of gift books [about Ireland] out there that are very green and rather schmaltzy and very traditional—lots of leprechauns," says Clarke. "We wanted to do a gift book that was a little deeper."
Clarke decided to publish a book of his own in 1998, when he saw his friend Gleason's black-and-white slides of his Irish vacation. "Ireland usually doesn't get shot in black and white because everybody wants to do green," Clarke says. "This gives it a different dimension."
Printing the book came easily, because Clarke is president of Asia Pacific Offset (which has one of its three national offices in the same building as Atlantic Ireland's headquarters), a printing company that produces books for HarperCollins, Time-Life Books, and other large and small publishing houses.
Gleason, who is from Auburn, N.Y., has a background in black-and-white photography and has worked at custom labs, for fashion catalogs, and for NHL Web sites. Some of his photographs were included in the gift book The Art of Fine Cigars; others have been published in several newspapers, including the Washington Times. Gleason's images of Ireland are currently on display in Arlington at Black & White, a custom photo lab.
For the book's photographs, Gleason sought out moody Celtic cemeteries, moss-covered statues, and, of course, sheep, leaving no dolmen unturned. While he stalked Irish landscapes for the perfect light, Gleason also hunted for the perfect pint. "You'd think it's really easy to pull those taps," he says, "but it's a science." —Margaret Foster
Publisher Andrew Clarke and photographer James Gleason will discuss Contemplating Ireland at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 28, at Olsson's in Arlington. For more information, call (703) 525-4227. For more information about Atlantic Ireland publishing, visit www.atlanticireland.com.
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La crisis económica en España de 1993 significó para la economía española uno de los momentos más difíciles de las últimas décadas. La recesión se instaló en España y su traducción fue un crecimiento del desempleo del 16% al 24% –a finales de noviembre de 1993, había en España 3.545.950 parados–, una caída inusitada de los beneficios y de la inversión de las empresas, un volumen de deuda pública cercano a los 30 billones de pesetas (unos 180.300 millones de euros), un 68% del PIB y un déficit del conjunto de las administraciones públicas superior al 7% del producto interno bruto (PIB).

Antecedentes

A principios de la década de 1990 los países desarrollados se vieron afectados por una crisis económica y financiera originada por el estallido de la burbuja inmobiliaria en Japón en 1990, y agravada con las tensiones del precio del petróleo ocasionadas por la guerra del Golfo, que afectaron a la inflación.

Los efectos de esta crisis tardaron en llegar a España, gracias al volumen de inversión pública entre 1990 y 1992 para preparar al país para grandes eventos como la Exposición Universal de Sevilla –incluyendo las infraestructuras del Nuevo Acceso Ferroviario a Andalucía, NAFA, y su extensión como línea AVE Madrid-Sevilla y la autovía Madrid-Sevilla–, los Juegos Olímpicos de Barcelona 1992 o el proyecto Hispasat. Después de este enorme esfuerzo inversor del Gobierno de Felipe González, las cuentas públicas registraban altos niveles de deuda, y debido a la finalización de estas obras y proyectos, se agravó el aumento del desempleo, ya de por sí voluminoso por el efecto de la recesión.

En el segundo trimestre de 1992 el producto interno bruto español sufrió una contracción del 1,1%. El crecimiento del PIB se mantuvo en tasas negativas o nulas hasta el tercer trimestre de 1993, con un aumento del 0,9%.

La crisis se vio agravada por su coincidencia con la peor sequía del siglo XX en España, que alcanzó sus momentos más graves en 1995. Este período de falta de lluvia afectó sobre todo a la mitad sur de la península, especialmente a Andalucía, donde se llegaron a sufrir cortes de suministro de agua en un importante número de municipios, y enormes pérdidas en el sector agrario.

13 de mayo de 1993: el «Jueves negro»

En ese día, el Gobierno español se vio obligado a devaluar de nuevo la peseta, esta vez en un 8%. Fue la tercera devaluación en 9 meses. Las anteriores se habían producido el 16 de septiembre de 1992, en un 5% y el 21 de noviembre siguiente en un 6%. La primera de estas devaluaciones tuvo lugar en el llamado «Miércoles negro», el día en el que el Reino Unido, Italia y Portugal también devaluaron sus monedas, y los dos primeros países tuvieron que retirar sus monedas del Mecanismo europeo de tipos de cambio.

Las autoridades económicas y monetarias españolas intentaron defender a toda costa el valor de la peseta en los mercados monetarios, lo que se saldó con una pérdida de reservas de 3,2 billones de pesetas (unos 19.300 millones de euros), según cifras oficiales del Banco de España. También en ese mismo día, el Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE) publicó la Encuesta de Población Activa, referida al primer trimestre de 1993. En España había 3.300.270 parados, lo que significaba que desde 1991, año en el que se produjeron los primeros síntomas de crisis, la economía española había perdido 750.000 empleos. Además, la tasa de paro alcanzada situaba a España a la cabeza de los países de la CEE en número de parados sobre la población activa, y el INE comunicó ese fatídico «Jueves negro» que la inflación, pese a la recesión, no cedía.

La crisis tenía, además un rasgo característico y alarmante: el déficit público superaba por esas fechas los 1.7 billones de pesetas (unos 10.200 millones de euros), cuando lo previsto para todo el año era de 1.4 billones de pesetas (unos 8.400 millones de euros). Para financiar los agujeros, el Estado se había gastado más de 1.5 billones de pesetas (unos 9.000 millones de euros) o, lo que es lo mismo, 7.037 millones de pesetas (casi 43 millones de euros) cada día desde el 1 de enero.

Las medidas del Gobierno

El 8 de octubre de 1993, el Consejo de Ministros aprobó la Ley Financiera, de la cual hay que destacar que se dio luz verde a reducir la prestación mínima para parados sin hijos a cargo, desde el 100 al 75% del salario mínimo interprofesional (SMI).

El inicio de la recuperación: 1995

En 1994 el desempleo alcanzó su valor máximo, un 24,1%, a partir de entonces el empleo comenzó su recuperación.

España dejó atrás la recesión en 1994 con un crecimiento del 2,4% del PIB, que continuaría con una cifra del 2,8% en 1995. En estos dos años se crearon 400.000 puestos de trabajo y el desempleo bajó hasta el 22%.

Pese a todo, los problemas no habían terminado, el Gobierno debía enfrentarse a una nueva adversidad: los gastos de la Seguridad Social, que costeaban las pensiones, el desempleo y la sanidad. En 1995, por primera vez, el sistema de Seguridad Social español entró en déficit al registrar más gastos que ingresos. Para solucionar este problema, el 6 de abril de 1995 el Congreso de los Diputados aprobó el Pacto de Toledo, que incluía una serie de reformas en el sistema de Seguridad Social, incluyendo una propuesta para que la sanidad pública dejara de ser financiada con el dinero de las pensiones y pasase a correr a cargo de los Presupuestos Generales del Estado.

El 26 de octubre de 1995 el Congreso no consigue aprobar los Presupuestos Generales del Estado para 1996. Convergència i Unió rompió el pacto de legislatura que tenía con el PSOE y votó en contra de los presupuestos. Al perder la confianza de la cámara, Felipe González se vio obligado a adelantar las elecciones generales, que fueron fijadas para el 3 de marzo de 1996. Los presupuestos no fueron aprobados y por consiguiente se prorrogaron los del año anterior.

La crisis de la Seguridad Social continuaba en 1996. El Pacto de Toledo no entraría en vigor hasta 1997 y para entonces ya era demasiado tarde. Pese a que en 1996 se registró un aumento del PIB del 2,4% y se crearon casi medio millón de empleos, la Seguridad Social continuaba con pérdidas. En diciembre de 1996 el recién elegido Gobierno de José María Aznar recurrió a la financiación privada para costear la paga extra de Navidad de los pensionistas.

El final de la crisis

En 1997 se creó el Fondo de Reserva de la Seguridad Social, previsto en el Pacto de Toledo, para proteger en lo posible el sistema ante situaciones de dificultad y en el que se iría acumulando el superávit que registrara la Seguridad Social. El Pacto de Toledo entró en vigor y la Seguridad Social vio aliviado su balance, puesto que ya no tenía que hacerse cargo de la sanidad pública, que hasta entonces suponía el 15% de sus gastos.

A partir de 1996, la economía española disfrutó de una etapa de prosperidad económica ininterrumpida que duró más de diez años, con tasas de crecimiento siempre superiores a las de la media europea. El cambio de modelo económico fue diseñado por Rodrigo Rato, ministro de Economía y Hacienda del Partido Popular. A diferencia de los programas de fuerte inversión pública del anterior Gobierno, el PP llevó a cabo un plan de privatizaciones de empresas públicas (Argentaria, Telefónica, Endesa, Repsol entre otras), y la creación de empleo se fundamentó en el sector de la construcción y sus industrias auxiliares, lo que animó a incentivar el endeudamiento privado y la especulación inmobiliaria, causas principales de la crisis económica de 2008.

Referencias

Espannza 1993
Economía del siglo XX
España en 1993
Historia económica del siglo XX en España


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You will occasionally see photographs posted here which were captured on Canon gear. Two years ago just after my Nikon broke but before I had replaced it with my Fuji, my wife's best friend, Ami, loaned me her father's Canon EOS 5D Mark III and Canon EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM. Her father, Kunj Trivedi, a retired businessman and respected nature photographer who spends most of his days between Madagascar and India, had purchased a new camera and had gifted…
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The Faculty of Ethnic Studies at Oregon State University stand with OSU's Black students, faculty and staff, and with Black communities across the nation. We vow to continue teaching histories of resistance to anti-Black racism and to inspire new creative
Welcome to Ethnic Studies!
At Oregon State University, Ethnic Studies is the interdisciplinary and comparative study of ethnicity, Indigeneity, race, and racism in the United States and globally. The field was born out of student and community-led social movements and cultural/political struggles of the 1960s. As Ethnic Studies scholars, our research and teaching provide a critical framework for historical comparative understandings of particular racialized and Indigenous groups as well as the relationships among them. We do so through an analysis of the intersections of race with gender, class, sexuality, religion, immigration status and other systems of difference and power -- past and present. As a field of study, we analyze the shifting nature of racisms and the histories of resistance locally, nationally, and transnationally.
Thinking about jobs? No problem. Ethnic Studies graduates find great and meaningful careers in politics, education, health care, ecology, arts, science, writing, journalism, law, business, and much more. And that is just the beginning. Come find out more! See MAIS alum Amanda Ekabutr Promotion to UMass Director of Student-Athlete Development/Diversity and Inclusion Officer.
Ethnic Studies CALL TO ACTION (Summer of 2020)
While the nation as a whole reckons with police violence targeting Black communities and systemic racism, we are listening to our students calling for racial justice and an anti-racist OSU.
We submitted this call to incoming President Alexander on July 22, 2020. As the only unit specifically focused on the systematic study of race and racism, and further, as the only academic unit on campus constituted almost entirely by Indigenous faculty and faculty of color, the Ethnic Studies department and faculty should be visible and at the forefront of the University's stated commitment to actions that advance racial justice on our campus and society.
Thus, in light of our mutual commitment to continued anti-racist action, and in support of furthering Ethnic Studies' efforts for OSU, we submit the following calls for action.
12 Calls for Action
Infrastructural Support
Produce marketing materials for Ethnic Studies
Generate an Ethnic Studies recruitment plan
Initiate a targeted Foundation effort
Hire an Ethnic Studies academic advisor
Tenure-track Ethnic Studies faculty position: anti-Blackness & policing
Tenure-track Ethnic Studies faculty position: Critical Whiteness Studies
Tenure-track Ethnic Studies faculty position: Pacific Islander Studies
Annual 1-course buy-out option for year long faculty-in-residence posts within the Cultural Resource Centers
Establish an Ethnic Studies Research Lab
Fund a paid, annual, DPD-based professional development seminar for Ethnic Studies faculty and faculty intensively engaged with issues of race and racism
Provide startup funds for the K-12 Ethnic Studies Summer Institute for Oregon teachers
Hire an Ecampus/PACE coordinator to support additional Ethnic Studies public-serving teaching and training initiatives
Our calls for infrastructural support reflect the continued need to make ALL current, incoming, and potential students aware of Ethnic Studies. These simple steps will actively promote our field as a valuable academic major or minor, and further highlight the value of such learning for all students at OSU and beyond. A dedicated plan of action for marketing, recruiting, funding, and supporting this overlooked asset of OSU needs to be implemented.
The calls for action in teaching and research represent the minimum support needed to enhance the work already being done in our classrooms, scholarship, and our communities. The research lab allows us to more effectively include students in research and collaborate with other university and community partners. The seminar bolsters the skills and collaborative capacity for faculty doing this crucial work every day. The faculty positions and residence program generate greater and more meaningful impact in key areas that need reinforcement. Each action item here allows the university to highlight for the broader community our genuine level of commitment to addressing anti-racism through our academic pursuits.
Our calls for support in public service offer a way to have concrete and immense impact in the broader community. The state has already mandated, for example, that K-12 implement Ethnic Studies and Native American Studies into their curriculum. We are in a prime position to provide guidance and training for this requirement and impact teachers and students across the state for generations. OSU must be a leader within this opportunity.
Working Together, to Lead
We have developed plans to enhance and extend the impact of our work among OSU students and the communities we serve. This plan is informed by our longstanding work, and thoughtful reflection on the obstacles we face. The university can become, with just a few small commitments, a leader in the broader social project of racial justice and social equality.
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Indigenous peoples, in Oregon and beyond, are decolonizing maps - OPB - November 28, 2020
'Maps can tell the tribal story, not just that of the conquerors.'
Native American Heritage Month Proclamation - Washington County Oregon - November 05, 2020
On Tuesday, November 3, the Board of Commissioners proclaimed November 2020 as Native American Heritage Month in Washington County.
Indigenous cartographers work to decolonize mapping of traditional lands - Mirage News - October 27, 2020
Amid growing national discourse around social and racial justice, a group of cartographers are diving into decolonial mapping as a means to recenter Indigenous voices and values.
An Oregon State University Professor Wants to Decolonize Mapping by Recentering Indigenous Cartography - Willamette Week - October 27, 2020
Precolonization, many Native American tribes mapped the land through stories, ceremonies and song. Now, the United States' borders, and most of its state lines, bisect the ancestral lands of Indigenous tribes.
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Coleridge, Henry James, Doctor of Divinity 1822-1893, born on 20 Sept. 1822, was second son of Sir John Taylor Coleridge [qv.]. He was thus a grand-nephew of the poet and younger brother of John Duke Coleridge, Baron Coleridge [qv.]. From Eton he proceeded to Trinity College, Oxford, where he matriculated on 16 June 1840. Soon after taking his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1845 he was elected a fellow of Oriel College. He graduated M.A. in 1847, and after taking Anglican orders he held for a short time a cure at Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, a village which for nearly two centuries has been associated with his family. He was received into the Roman catholic church in 1852 and soon afterwards went to Rome to pursue his theological studies in the Collegio Romano (Browne, Annals of the Tractarian Movement, p. 262). He was ordained priest in 1855 and took about the same time his doctor's degree. He joined the jesuit novitiate at Beaumont Lodge, near Windsor, 7 Sept. 1857, and on the expiration of his two years' probation he was sent to St. Beuno's College, Flintshire, where he was engaged for six years in teaching holy scripture.
About 1864 the Month was started under the editorship of Miss Fanny Margaret Taylor, and in 1865 she sold it to the jesuit fathers, who were anxious to possess a periodical of their own. This was the immediate occasion of Coleridge's removal from Wales to Farm Street, London, where he spent the remainder of his active life. He became editor of the Month, and held that post till 1881, when he resigned it in order to devote himself exclusively to his work on The Life of our Lord and the bringing out of The Quarterly Series. In 1891 he had a stroke of paralysis, and he died at Manresa House, Roehampton, on 13 April 1893. His remains were interred in the family vault at Ottery St. Mary.
He was the author of: 1. Vita Vitæ Nostræ Meditantibus Proposita, London, 1869, 8vo; translated into English under the title of The Story of the Gospels harmonised for Meditation, London, 1884, 8vo. 2. The Theology of the Parables — with an arrangement of the Parables — by Father Salmeron, London, 1871, 8vo. 3. The Life and Letters of St. Francis Xavier, 2 vols. London, 1872, 8vo; new edit. 1881. 4. The Life of our Lord, including The Life of our Life, 2 vols.; The Public Life of our Lord, 11 vols.; Passiontide, 3 vols.; and The Passage of our Lord to the Father, London, 1872, &c., 8vo, in The Quarterly Series, beginning with vol. xii. and ending with vol. lxxviii. 5. The Prisoners of the King: Thoughts on the Catholic Doctrine of Purgatory, London, 1878, 8vo; reprinted 1882. 6. The Sermon on the Mount (part of a larger work — on the Life of our Blessed Lord), 3 vols. London, 1879, 8vo. 7. The Life and Letters of St. Teresa, 3 vols. London, 1881-8, 8vo. 8. The Life of Mother Frances Teresa Ball, Foundress in Ireland of the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, London, 1881, 8vo. 9. The Works and Words of our Saviour, gathered from the Four Gospels, London, 1882, 8vo. 10. The Return of the King: Discourses on the Latter Days, London, 1883, 8vo. 11. The Baptism of the King: Considerations on the Sacred Passion, London, 1884, 4to. 12. The Preparation of the Incarnation, London, 1885, 8vo. 13. The Mother of the King: Mary during the Life of our Lord, London, 1886, 8vo. 14. The Mother of the Church: Mary during the First Apostolic Age, London, 1887, 8vo. 15. Teachings and Counsels of St. Francis Xavier, London, 1888, 8vo. 16. Chapters on the Parables of our Lord, London, 1889, 8vo.
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Month, May 1893, p. 1
Tablet, 22 April 1893, p. 624
Times, 17 April 1893
Weekly Register, 22 April 1893, p. 499.
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People generally have poor awareness regarding what they know versus what other people know. It makes sense. It is impossible to know someone's background and perspective upon introduction. Further, when we acquire new information we then adopt it into our own framework and perspective to such an extent that we forget the information isn't general knowledge. However, this results in ineffective communication and a potential client or referral source walking away from a conversation without a clue about what it is you do.
Q: Great to meet you, what is it you do?
A: I'm an attorney and I advise microfinance institutions on developing standardized structures and documentation to increase efficiency in lending.
Q: Uh-huh. So you work with really small banks?
A: No, actually, I generally work with major investment banks to develop user-friendly, multijurisdictional legal templates for microfinance loans. And you, what do you do?
This scenario quickly evokes an image of the potential referral source's eyes glazing over and his increasing restlessness in wanting to leave the conversation. It is readily apparent from this short conversation that the attorney hasn't considered the professional background, knowledge base, or interests of his audience. The potential referral source makes his confusion clear in asking if the attorney works with really small banks, but the attorney proceeds with more jargon. Would you refer someone who can't effectively communicate the work that they perform daily? Probably not.
A: I work with large banks in microfinance lending, which is when an institution lends a small amount, as little as $20, to people and small businesses that struggle to access conventional financing, often in developing countries.
Q: That's so interesting, what do people use a $20 loan for?
A: Well, a villager in Bangladesh might use $20 to buy a cow she can milk to start her own business. The work is rewarding because it enables those living in poverty to become more economically stable. What is it you do?
Which version provides a clearer picture of the professional's service?
Who would you rather work with, the jargonist or the altruist?
This best practice applies beyond your networking conversations. It represents a principle to use in creating content for your website, marketing material, and speaking engagements.


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Perhaps like me you are becoming tired of the alarmism about climate change and global warming. In the movie An Inconvenient Truth Al Gore says the polar bear need more ice to survive. Now we have a lot of ice, but the polar bear is starving and find their food at the garbage dumps in towns. To much sea ice, so they are very hungry. In fact, ice between <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Canada and Greenland has reached the highest level in 15 years (refer link below).
It is a popular belief today that extreme weather is something relatively recent, and therefore that it must have a discernibly recent cause. The name global warming did not exist before 1970. People fear that the polar ice caps will melt, raising sea levels leading to environmental chaos. The idea is that after billions of years of fluctuating natural changes in climate and geological history, the planet has reached a tipping point that is beyond a point of no return, and we are staring in the face of collapse. Nature is now portrayed as an invading army, out to destroy itself and us in the process. The fact that this "invasion" has failed for 4.5bn years is immaterial.
Skeptics quietly say the problem is imaginary and simply an international exercise in slick marketing, but they are not in charge of media and few hear it. Even fewer have access to historical records which tell of many warming episodes and subsequent cooling periods that have bedeviled humans for thousands of years. The ancient Greek philosopher Plato(427 - 347 BC), wrote about major climate changes that were known in his day. In the dialogue, "Timaeus," he wrote that warming at regular intervals often leads to great floods. Plato's student, Aristotle, who lived from 384 BC to 322 BC, also recorded evidence of global warming in the first book on meteorology, "Meteorologica." He noted that in the time of the Trojan War, the land of Argos was marshy and unarable, while that of Mycenae was temperate and fertile. "But now the opposite is the case," Aristotle wrote. "The land of Mycenae has become completely dry and barren, while the Argive land that was formerly barren, owing to the water has now become fruitful." He observed the same phenomenon elsewhere covering large regions and nations. In turn, Aristotle's apprentice Theophrastus (374 -287 BC), discussed climate change in his work, "De ventis," which means "The Wind." He observed that in Crete, "nowadays the winters are more severe and more snow falls." In earlier times, Theophrastus said, the mountains there bore grain and fruit, and the island was more populous. But when the climate changed, the land became infertile. In his book, "De causis plantarum," Theophrastus noted that the Greek city of Larissa once had plentiful olive trees, but that falling temperatures killed them all.
While the few books that have always been around have noted climate changes, no one then appeared to be in a moral panic over their writings. We know a great deal about climate changes from historical records. These changes occurred long before industrialization and could not possibly have been man-made in any way whatsoever. Carbon dioxide emitted from volcanoes has been in the sky well before humans and SUVs came along. There is still no proof that man is now suddenly affecting the climate through carbon dioxide emissions. So what is different, because never before have newspapers been so full of doom? Climate is constantly slowly changing from ice ages through interglacials over hundreds of thousands of years, so local or international changes in the environment can be discounted. Shorter cycles of temperature variation can be explained by changes in amounts of the sun's radiation strength, yet no one seems interested in it enough to fund any research.
The hype is upwardly exponential. Maybe we just enjoy hype. No one ever talks about the good of climate change, like the warm Mediaeval Warm Period from 400-1400AD, when temperatures were much warmer in Europe than today and there was so much over-production in agriculture that a middle class evolved which permanently changed world commerce and allowed art to evolve into a major industry. Is the excitement driven solely by newspapers? Not really, because all newspapers ever want to do is sell more newspapers. They report what they can sell and sell what they can report. By politicians? All they ever aspire to is to get re-elected. The real reasons for this new concern may have more to do with the human psyche than the planet we walk on. The recipe seems to combine gullibility, greed, guilt and excitement. Graft may be in there, too, but I don't want to be the one to say it. Where once a whacky notion usually died a quick natural death, now the internet and the feeding trough of journalists magnify it and make it salacious. As a result we now have climate porn, which in a matter of hours can be read and gloated over by billions.
Perhaps what has changed is not the climate, but the climate of reporting. As always it is mostly about money. Those calling the loudest for research funding are those who end up with it. The NZ government has put over a billion dollars into research and development into "climate change" over the past decade. It is hard to see where a near-billion dollar debt to Kyoto has been value for money. In an age of eager over-regulation, local councils have dreamed up new revenue gathering plans. Nelson and Christchurch regional bodies seek legislation to ban burning wood and coal in fireplaces. The science is woefully napping. Burning a log of wood merely releases the carbon dioxide that was absorbed from the atmosphere during the growing process of the tree. No more carbon dioxide can ever be added to the environment than was initially there already. It is the same with coal, gas and oil. Otherwise, how does anyone think these materials were formed? Certainly not by bringing in extra carbon from outer space.
It's not the first time scientists have talked rubbish. Idiotic theories come and go in science all the time. In 1899, U.S. Commissioner of Patents Charles H. Duell declared that everything that could be invented had been invented. In 1907 scientists feared the world would soon be poisoned by the fumes from horse manure lying in the streets. In the 1950s rock'n'roll was banned for fear it would corrupt life as we knew it, in the 1960s and 70s it was the Cold War, the Bomb, acid rain, the population explosion, then came the Y2K bug, the end of the world due to a planetary alignment, Mad Cow Disease if you ate hamburgers, Sars if you traveled, and Bird Flu if you ate chicken. In NZ in 1981 a popular paperback, "NZ 2001" (by George Bryant, published by Cassell) was published, with chapters written by prominent visionaries, including Don Brash, Gordon Dryden, Sir James Doig, Jack Shallcrass, and Colin James, looking 20 years ahead. The book postulated that in 2001 we would have no cars, no trucks ("phantoms of a bygone age") - just "nuclear trams"; that children would carry passports, that cash would be obsolete, that cancer and asthma would be a memory, that there'd be no such thing as fences, that it would be impossible to rob a bank, that the government would pick the All Blacks and that Waitangi Day would be gone forever. To cap it all off, in 2001 we would all be recovering from a nuclear war. The eminent authors were dead wrong. Man-made global warming is also opinion-based and, so far, fictional. The true danger could be the spreading of unmitigated nonsense dressed up to look like real science.
http://sermitsiaq.gl/klima/article30834.ece?lang=EN (click on link to see photo of Greenland's expanding ice!)
One is still entitled to one's opinion, but one is not entitled to one's own facts. When we talk of global warming maybe we should look at what we mean by 'temperature'. In any metservice recording station in the course of a day only two readings are taken, the maximum and the minimum. These are added and halved to find the "mean." Suppose for station X the maximum for today is 25C, taken at say, 3pm. Suppose the minimum is 5C, taken at 6am. The mean, or average, is 25+5 divided by 2, or 15C. But 15C may NOT have been the average for the day at all, especially if the maximum of 25C only lasted for five minutes around 3pm, and the minimum only held at 5C for two minutes, and most of the rest of the day sat on around 18C. A southerly may have come up and pulled most of the day down to 12C, and a northwesterly may have burst in at 2pm raising the maximum. Or any other combination of variations.
Suppose it is summertime. Temperatures can change within a minute when the cloud comes over and obscures the sun. But temperature readings are NOT snapped every minute. A digital system could do that today, but doesn't, and we didn't have manpower to do it in a pre-computer era. How then do we know what average temperatures prevail, not only for one place but for only a few feet away? It is impractical to set up data-gathering stations every few meters. There is also altitude variation where a mound a few feet higher can have its own microclimate. The top of a garden might be warmer than the bottom. Gardeners know this and plant accordingly. I have an expensive state-of-the-art thermometer, the most accurate available, called an EcoScan. You can stand it in one spot and watch it change temperature every few seconds. In short, no one knows what daily averaged temperature a location has, because our instruments do not measure it. A thermometer only measures the temperature of itself. We have no way of knowing if we are warming or cooling, as a town, a country or a globe, over a year, a century or "since records began". We only know what we have made instruments to do, not what nature is actually doing.
NIWA's website is in agreement with the IPCC, in that the globe has warmed 0.6 of a degree over the past century and by just one degree in total over the past 8,000 years. If true then there is little to worry about because every single day goes through a temperature variation maximum to minimum of at least ten degrees and over thousands of millennia Man has found ways to cope with this phenomenon. The Earth seems to know what it is doing and has remarkably all by itself orchestrated ice ages and interglacials without our help. Thermometers were only invented about 300 years ago initially as a plaything of the rich. About 200 years ago they began to be employed in weather. Until the digital age the old thermometers were made of glass and could not read tenths, so a global 0.6C rise over a century is just a guess. Scientists think that if you put a decimal point in something it will not be disputed. Satellites have been recording temperatures since 1979, too recent for a global perspective spanning centuries. Few temperature readings are gathered from icecaps, deserts, craggy mountain tops, swamps and uninhabited islands, let alone the sea, which alone covers 76% of the earth's surface. So we are left with ground-based stations. These are around cities, mainly at airports or on top of schools or post offices. They are in high density suburbs and main streets for convenient access and maintenance. The equipment is housed in white boxes with wooden vanes all around. Cities have become steadily warmer over the past century, with the increase and expansion of reflective glass, asphalt and vehicle fumes. The difference between town and country temperature can be anything up to 5C. If you have a vehicle-dash thermometer, watch it drop as you leave the city. Cities are not representative of the globe.
But wait, there is more. Now councils shift these temperature recording boxes to the warmest parts of a city. Whoever can boast the best climate can attract more tourists and their money, and those retired looking for a warmer environment to live and invest. There are thermometers next to air conditioners, sewerage treatment plants, airport tarmacs and parking lots. Already New Plymouth, Kerikeri, Wanganui, Kaikoura, Rotorua and Napier have downtown temperature recorders. In Napier there is an agreement to supply radio and TV with the daily temperature from either the airport or mid-city Nelson Park stations, whichever is the higher. NIWA's carbon dioxide measuring apparatus for Auckland can be seen at tail-pipe exhaust level at an intersection on the Mountain Rd- Khyber Pass corner, on the busiest, fumiest road in the whole country, right beneath a motorway overpass. You could be forgiven for thinking that such unscientific techniques could not possibly be permitted, let these are the nation's climate trends spokespeople. This is this how 'evidence' of 'global warming' and CO2 increase is gathered.
Ask any geologist - Earth's natural state is Ice age. Our planet has spent 80% of its geological history iced up. Only 15,000 years ago Antarctica was forested, ice-free and occupied by humans, with the South Pole close to Perth. Western Australia was snow-covered (NZ was not). The North Pole was over Chicago, the 'Illinoisian Icecap'. Ice ages occupy 50-60,000 years and interglacials, which we are in now, span 10,000 years. Astronomers teach about solar and lunar cycles, and that ice ages are caused by the cosmos passing through a zone of space dust as it orbits the Celestial Centre in the Milky Way, which blocks solar radiation. The Earth has been in an "Ice House Climate" for the last 30 million years. When the Earth is in its Ice House climate mode, there is ice at the poles and the seas are lower. Since the last Ice Age with the melting of the ice caps the seas have been rising and seas are now the highest they have ever been. They will not go higher. Nine tenths of the ice has already melted. As it has been 11,000 years since the last Ice Age geologists say we are now on the way to the next. The polar ice sheet expands and contacts because of variations in the Earth's orbit (Google Milankovitch cycles) and not because of what lightbulbs humans are using.
The real catastrophe is the erosion of what we used to call freedom and what we used to call science, because freedom is becoming undermined by over-regulating governments and science is becoming hijacked by business and politics. As poles gently shift and countries find themselves at different latitudes the climate will always change, over thousands of years. But it won't fall over because humans suddenly decide to walk to work or recycle plastic. It's a pretty safe bet that volcanoes will continue putting CO2 in the air, the glorious sun will shine and the rains follow to wet the Earth, long after the dust of many centuries has blown over all our graves.
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Cornwall and Cambridge done. Tomorrow, Paris.
I've yet to organise my photos from Cornwall with the Mithens and I haven't even told you of my adventures on the trains and bus ride from Guildford to Cambridge. Suffice it to say that this holiday is one heck of an adventure and it's only my second week!
Now for the clandestine part. In Cambridge, obviously being a university town, we wanted to see the different colleges and churches and libraries. Now, if you were a student and knew the back entrances, you wouldn't have to pay for entrance fees and you would be allowed into areas that weren't for the general public, tourists included. Rhea's friend, Paul, is an excellent tour guide. He knew all the back ways which he says are actually prettier that the front entrances of the colleges anyway. In order for us to get into some of these back ways, we had to pretent to be a student and that meant keeping the camera away and trying not to look like a tourist. It also helps if you walk like you know where you're going and – this is the most important – look like you're deep in thought and maybe a bit sullen. LOL, student life! Being in Cambridge is making me feel like wanting to go back to school. Oh my goodness! Today, we went to the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences! I don't even have the words to describe how giddy I was inside the museum!
Hanging with one of the founders of modern geology.
Next up was the University Museum of Zoology and then the Whipple Museum. You may be wondering why we stayed indoors today and the answer lies in the weather. The forecast was torrential rains and rain it did. At least indoors, we were kept dry. In the afternoon, we headed to the Botanic Gardens and when it started to rain again, we hung out in the green house. Not bad planning around the fickle UK weather, eh?
Now, Rhea and I are back at our B&B on 51 St. Andrews Road resting. Paul's out on rowing practice with his rowing club.
The rains flattened our hair.
On the grounds of the many colleges around Cambridge.
Paul showing us where we're going next.
Thanks, Paul, for punting! What a lovely way to see Cambridge.
Although Paul encouraged us to try steering, we just couldn't bring ourselves to stand up. Rhea and I both don't have good balance.


Maybe if they stopped living in their parents' basements and had to earn a living to support themselves they would shape up.
Dogs are the truest, most sincere form of unconditional love, not to mention great wisdom about love.
I can't imagine a life without making art, but I'm worried about my partner.
Dear Dr. Donna: What is the meaning of life?
My mother loves cooking. She lives alone so she will cook a big batch of something and keep a little for herself and bring the rest to our house for our family to eat. Some of it is great, but many times we just don't like what she cooks.
My son is in 1st grade. I have recently separated from his father, so he and I are living without a Dad in the house. School started recently and while he says he loves school he completely falls apart when it's time to go.
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Two years ago I was just a block from my apartment when I saw a man walking a giant turtle.
Not one to be shy in random moments like this – I walked up and said hello.
I learned that his turtle liked to go for walks (he certainly scooted along pretty quickly), and that he didn't like when dogs came up and put their dirty noses on his shell.
I'm sure he has people asking him questions every time he takes his turtle for a walk, but when I told the gentleman I had been to the Galapagos Islands he seemed excited to stop and talk to me.
He even offered to let me feed his turtle some apple. I walked away having one of those – I can't believe that just happened – moments. I saw the man a few more times that summer, but I haven't seen him since. Now that the weather is warmer I often hope I'll run into him when I leave my place.
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Q: Confusion about the matrix "B" returned by `quantreg::boot.rq` When invoking boot.rq like this
b_10 = boot.rq(x, y, tau = .1, bsmethod = "xy", cov = TRUE, R = reps, mofn = mofn)

what does the B matrix (size R x p) in b_10 contain: bootstrapped coefficient estimates or bootstrapped standard errors?
The Value section in the documentation says:

A list consisting of two elements: A matrix B of dimension R by p is returned with the R resampled estimates of the vector of quantile regression parameters. [...]

So, it seems to be the coefficient estimates. But Description section says:

These functions can be used to construct standard errors, confidence intervals and tests of hypotheses regarding quantile regression models.

So it seems to be bootstrapped standard errors.
What is it really?

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I also wonder what difference the option cov = TRUE makes. Thanks!
The bootstrapped values are different depending on whether I use cov = TRUE or not. The code was written by someone else so I'm not sure why that option was put there.

A: It stores the bootstrap coefficients. Each row of B is a sample of coefficients, and you have R rows.
These samples are the basis of further inference. We can compute various statistics from them. For example, to compute bootstrap mean and standard error, we can do:
colMeans(B)

apply(B, 2, sd)

Do you also happen to know what difference the option cov = TRUE makes?

Are you sure that cov = TRUE works? First of all, boot.rq itself has no such argument. It may be passed in via .... However, ... is forwarded to boot.rq.pxy (if bsmethod = "pxy") or boot.rq.pwxy (if bsmethod = "pwxy"), neither of which deals with a cov argument. Furthermore, you use bsmethod = "xy", so ... will be silently ignored. As far as I could see, cov = TRUE has no effect at all.

It works in the sense that R doesn't throw me an error.

That is what "silently ignored" means. You can pass whatever into .... They are just ignored.

The bootstrapped values are different depending on whether I use cov = TRUE or not. The code was written by someone else so I'm not sure why that option was put there.

Random sampling won't give identical results on different runs. I suggest you fix a random seed then do testing:
set.seed(0); ans1 <- boot.rq(..., cov = FALSE)
set.seed(0); ans2 <- boot.rq(..., cov = TRUE)
all.equal(ans1$B, ans2$B)

If you don't get TRUE, come back to me.

You're right. It's just because of the different seeds. Thanks!!


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Joanna Pinto-Coelho '09 is currently a visiting assistant professor at Bryn Mawr in the Department of Sociology and the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research. She earned a master of science in social policy and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania.
In a Q&A just before the start of the Spring 2018 semester, Pinto-Coelho talked about the crucial support she received as a Bryn Mawr student from the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship program; her current research and career path in academia; and how current students can benefit from what she has learned along the way.
She previously spoke with two other Mellon Mays fellows about the benefits of the program, in a story she wrote for the Alumnae Bulletin magazine.
On how current Bryn Mawr students can benefit from the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship opportunity:
This one I think I covered well in the piece I wrote for the Alumnae Bulletin, but I would say that MMUF helped me prepare for and get through graduate school. The Bryn Mawr program demystified academia for me, and then the financial support in graduate school was an enormous help. Perhaps the biggest help, though, were the two five-day workshops/retreats to work on our dissertation proposals and to finish our dissertations. They helped me get over difficult "humps," as it were, in the process.
On ways that her Mellon Mays and Bryn Mawr experiences helped to make the daunting nature of research and an academic-focused career path seem less overwhelming (current students might find a rundown of Pinto-Coehlo's own research quite daunting, for example):
It is a lot of work, there's no question there, but you don't do it alone. The academic path often feels very solitary, especially if you're a quantitative researcher, but there are ways to make sure it isn't, you just have to put in some extra effort to build a support structure for yourself. MMUF is a first and critical step to building that infrastructure. Your MMUF mentor and your fellow fellows are your first touchpoints in your support network, and you build out from there — other fellows and program alums and supporters you meet at MMUF conferences, and then your graduate school cohort, your graduate school advisor and professors and committee members, other academics you meet and make friends with at conferences, your future teaching colleagues, even academics you make e-friends with on Twitter.
And in terms of the work itself, it accumulates over years. You have to start changing your perspective of what accomplishments mean, and start celebrating all the little victories along the way, because getting papers published takes forever, the research takes longer, and you'll probably do a lot of job hopping. You get good, over time, at all the little hacks: you co-author things with peers and superiors, you try to turn anything you work on (e.g., paper for a class, conference paper, blog post) into a publishable journal article.
All this — and, you know, being a person in the world who does other things — can often feel overwhelming, I won't lie about that. It's important to remember that self care is absolutely critical, and whatever you may be feeling to that effect, you are never, nor have you ever been, alone. Taking care of your physical and mental health are very important, in spite of the popular image of the grad student who doesn't sleep, only drinks coffee, and only eats pizza (the free, cold, and stale kind that lays around the department after meetings or talks). There's absolutely nothing to be gained by trying to live up to that, or by playing "misery poker." Eat well, sleep well, go to a therapist, take whatever medication you need, and set healthy boundaries in terms of taking breaks, and spending quality time with family and friends.
Your Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship mentor and your fellow fellows are your first touchpoints in your support network, and you build out from there.
On how she envisioned a career in academia as a student, and the differences and surprises compared to how she thought it would be:
As an undergraduate, I think I envisioned a career in academia as something that would come more easily. Perhaps it was naïveté, though I do recall professorship sold to us, in the abstract, as a vocation and not as a job, as a make-your-own-hours, spend-time-with-other-bright-people, get-paid-to-learn-all-you-want-about-the-things-you're-interested-in kind of dream situation.
I know I'm only at the beginning of my career, but I also know it's not like that now, and it probably won't be later down the line. The job of an academic is a job, not a magical calling. You can think of it as a vocation, but that is often a dangerous path. Then your self-esteem and self-worth get tied up into it, and the constant rejection that's a part of this career can really cut you down.
It really is a career like any other. There are politics and uncertainty, reasons to stay and reasons to go. We can't afford to hide in our offices, our libraries, or even our classrooms or fieldsites, and think we are insulated from everything that's going on in the world. Tenure is not safety, if we're lucky enough to have it. The world is changing, and we — as researchers, teachers, and people — have to constantly adjust.
On her current research (in early January 2018) and the shape it is taking:
I'm in Paris right now, in my research partner's living room, and we've been working for the past week or so on a lot of things.
We're working on a research project together — she's the qualitative brains and the grant writer, I'm the numbers guy and the paper writer — that we first got funded through a grant from the France-Berkeley program last summer. We want to understand how welfare state structures (the "macro") and interactions with social service agencies (the "micro") facilitate or frustrate the integration efforts of Latin American immigrants to European and American receiving cities.
So far, our first grant has funded interviews in Madrid, ESP; Paris, FR; and San Francisco, CA, USA. In the next month or so, we'll hear back about another half dozen grants for which we applied that would continue to fund our research. Some are actual block grants that would provide us salaries, health insurance, and research expenses over a year, two, or three as we do our international fieldwork; and others are postdoctoral or junior faculty fellowships that would provided similar packages over similar periods of time but in residence at a single institution in a single city.
This past week and half has been the first time since my research partner and I have actually physically seen each other in over three years! We met at a conference in Chicago four summers ago, when we were both living in Cambridge, MA, and we've been doing research and writing papers together since then. She is based in Paris, though she's also lived in Palo Alto, CA over the past few years, and I'm now based in Philadelphia, though I've also lived in Washington, DC in that time.
So my research partner and I have spent a lot of time planning during this research trip. We don't know what grants or fellowships we will win or lose, or exactly what we will do or where we will go if we do win any, but we still had a significant amount to plan. We outlined and plotted out "burn charts" for our articles and conference papers in progress, which means we made very detailed lists of every single task we need to complete for every current project, identified how long each task would take, assigned each task to one or both of us, and then blocked out time during each week of the semester to accomplish each specific tasks. Burn charts like these are so helpful when you aren't working with hard or external deadlines, or when you're working with a partner or a team, especially when your team member(s) live far away or in other time zones, because they help keep both of you on track.
We're also making sure we share everything — books, articles, drafts of papers and grant proposals, spreadsheets — in the cloud so we both access and edit the latest version, and so we have access to the same information all the time.
We are also thinking long-term about our futures as academics, and how we can take steps in the present to position ourselves better for the futures we want. I told Marie that I had read a lot recently about the increasing importance of branding in academia (as opposed to its existing importance elsewhere in the world, and in other fields), so I'm revamping my personal website and adding a page on there for her (since she doesn't have one), making another page on there for our shared research, developing a plan to blog more (and meaningfully), and getting her on Twitter.
As part of what the French call vulgarisation, which is the process of translating the academic into the more publicly consumable, we're also going to do training with the Op-Ed Project and try to get opinion pieces and editorials published in English, French, and Spanish in the next few years. I'm also planning on learning R and system dynamics — the latter of which I'm convinced is the best way for us to accurately meld qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
The world is changing, and we — as researchers, teachers, and people — have to constantly adjust.
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Elske Wilton-Pfaeltzer is a painter of portraits and landscapes in oil on canvas and panel. She also sketches portraits with red chalk on coloured Canson paper.
"I have always been interested in people, in finding out what makes the unique. I spent many years living abroad, starting out in Lebanon during the Lebanese civil war. After experiencing all the sorrow of the destruction of so many lives I turned to the creative process of portrait painting. I wanted to concentrate on the positive side of humankind - to build up instead of destroy, to show the very best of each person by holding up a loving mirror.
I use oil paints because I want my choice of colours to create the right atmosphere to emphasize the positive side of that person. Once the features are in place the real story begins. Absolutely everything (colour, value, temperature, form) in the whole picture plane should help to tell the story of who my subject is and what drives him of her.
In my drawings I also seek to capture the essence of the person. But here the approach is more sparse, with one line or one shadow saying it all. It's this search for the 'what, how and where ' that fascinates me.
Elske is member of the Portrait Society of America and the Cecilia Beaux Forum.


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Deal volume held steady in September, compared with September 2012. A slight dip in volume for the services sector (down 2.2% vs. a year ago) was made up in the technology sector (up 20.7%) for a 6.6% increase overall. That's not much to cheer about, though, if you consider that in the third quarter last year, M&A activity slowed considerably, down 15% compared with Q2:12 deal volume. We're pulling together data for Q3:13 and will be reporting on the results in a few weeks. Stay tuned.
Two weeks ago we noted the "surge" of deals in the Rehabilitation sector, and you'll note there were three announced in September. The third and final one was announced on September 30th, by Kindred Healthcare (NYSE: KND). The company purchased TherEX, Inc. for $14 million. TherEx provides on-site, hospital-based rehabilitation services in 11 states. It fits well with Kindred's RehabCare division, which specializes in partnering with hospitals to manage inpatient and outpatient rehab services….Want to read more news? Click here for a free trial to The Health Care M&A Information Source and download the current issue today.
This is more about the pipeline, not what's in it. Frazier Healthcare, which invests in emerging healthcare service and biotech companies, announced it has closed its seventh healthcare fund, Frazier Healthcare VII. The big news was that the fund surpassed its target of $300 million by $77 million from existing limited partners and a few new partners. ..Want to read more news? Click here for a free trial to The Health Care M&A Information Source and download the current issue today.


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Hello All, Well here we go the season is going to get going, Karen and I will be at Russo's Marina one week from today Saturday February 9th. We look forward to seeing Ya All and hope that the new year is going good and safe for all. The coffee will be hot and ready by 4:45 AM Saturday morning. Just a reminder any team that fishes all Six events can fish all Three of American Bass TOC"S That is three chances at a new Ranger Boat, We are the only Org in California to offer up a TOC of this type. LAKE BERRYESSA IS THE HOME THE 2019 TOC going out of Pleasure cove resort . This resort is full of cabins and camp sites at lake side. And full hook ups as well. Three Ranger Boats up for grabs lets see who really wants too play. See Ya ALL AT RUSSO'S this coming weekend. Blast Off at Safe light.
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How do spiritual life, intellectual reflection and societal engagement relate to each other? This article explores the question based on explorative dialogical research among practitioners of spirituality and intellectuals engaged with societal issues. Taking as a starting point the ideas of three witnesses of what the triangle of spirituality, engagement and reflection can mean, dialogues (collatios) have been held, recorded and analysed to explore associations of personal forms of life, analytical skills and social action. The three 'ant-agonists' are Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Dorothee Sölle and Thomas Merton. We used core texts of all three during the fieldwork. The impulses of these texts provide a frame for our reflection on the data presented here. In the first part, the dimension of societal engagement is explored, in the second part the dimension of intellectual reflection and in the third part the dimension of a spiritual involvement. We found that a comprehensive self for practitioners of spirituality and intellectuals should entail transformative knowledge and substantive analysis of ultimate values, as well as an eschatological open attitude for study and research.


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4.1 The Armed Services Committee was created by the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946. This chapter includes descriptions of the records of the Armed Services Committee and the three committees that were its predecessors. Two of these, the Committee on Military Affairs and the Committee on Naval Affairs were established as standing committees in 1822. They continued to function until they were abolished by the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946. The Committee on the Militia, the third predecessor committee, was created in 1835 and existed until 1911 when it was abolished and its jurisdiction transferred to the Committee on Military Affairs.
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Benin has joined a growing list of African states imposing levies for using the internet.
The government passed a decree in late August taxing its citizens for accessing the internet and social-media apps. The directive, first proposed in July, institutes a fee (link in French) of 5 CFA francs ($0.008) per megabyte consumed through services like Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter. It also introduces a 5% fee, on top of taxes, on texting and calls, according to advocacy group Internet Sans Frontières (ISF).