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e-Newsletter for Holocaust Educators
The Jews of North Africa and the Holocaust - October 2011
E-Learning Environments for Holocaust Education
About the International School for Holocaust Studies
Survivors Testimony Films Series
Welcome to the 25th issue of Teaching the Legacy. This edition focuses on the fate of the Jews of North Africa during the Holocaust. We feel that this is an important topic, as only recently has it been officially acknowledged that the Jews of North Africa faced the looming prospect of systematic mass murder and the Final Solution – yet unlike the Jews of Europe, they had the fortune to be saved as the tide of the war turned in favor of the Allied armies.
The main article discusses this acknowledgment, and the factual bases for the assertion that the Jews of North Africa would have met the same fate as the Jews of Europe. There are also articles on the Jews of Libya and on the Jews of French North Africa (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia), which give some factual background as to exactly what did occur in these countries during the war years. We are proud that this newsletter features an interview with Benjamin Doron (Dadush), himself a child survivor from Libya, who made aliyah after the war and fought in the Palmach and the Israeli army. There is also an accompanying teacher's guide that can be used by educators to discuss the day-to-day life of the Jews in Libya before World War II.
As always, the newsletter features new publications, book reviews, and updates on recent and upcoming activities at the International School for Holocaust Studies and across Yad Vashem. We hope you find this issue interesting and resourceful, and we look forward to your feedback. We hope you find this issue interesting and resourceful, and we look forward to your feedback.
The Jews of North Africa
Jackie Metzger
In most of the history written on the Second World War, North Africa assumes secondary importance as compared with the main arenas of Europe and the Pacific War. In general, British interests in maintaining free access to the Suez Canal in Egypt and French or Italian colonial interests across the top of Africa fade in importance against the massive confrontation ignited by conflicting German–Soviet aspirations in Europe.However, the theater of North Africa was intensely felt by the armies that fought there, the populations that lived there and the Jewish communities that suffered there during...
The Jews of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia
Sheryl Silver Ochayon
On the eve of World War II there were 400,000 Jews in French North Africa (Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, sometimes called the "Maghreb", meaning Arab North Africa), and another 30,000 Jews in Libya, then an Italian colony. The fate of the Jews in North Africa was different depending on the country in which they were located. In Libya, which was an Italian colony, thousands of Jews were sent to labor camps and concentration camps, and almost 600 died in these camps from hunger and disease. In the three North African countries that fell under the regime of Vichy France, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco,...
The Jews of Libya
Not a single Jew remains in Libya today.Though Libya had been home to a Jewish community for thousands of years, and though the Jews had lived under Greek, Roman, Ottoman, Italian, British, and Arab rule, no trace of this once-thriving community exists anymore.
The modern history of Libya can be dated from 1911, when Libya became an Italian colony. Indeed, the fact that Libya was an Italian colony and did not fall under the Vichy regime in France made the fate of the Jews of Libya different from that of the Jews of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. In the early twentieth century, much...
Marking the Seventieth Commemoration of the Mass Murder at Babi Yar
Lani Berman
"No monument stands over Babi Yar.
A steep cliff only, like the rudest headstone.
… I'm every old man executed here,
As I am every child murdered here"1.September 28-29, 2011 marks the seventieth anniversary of the victims of Babi Yar. After capturing Kiev on September 19, 1941, the Germans rounded up the city's Jewish population. In two days, the German mobile killing units (Einsatzkommando), and the German and Ukrainian police murdered 33,771 Jewish people in the Babi Yar ravine, located in northwestern Kiev.This year, on October 3-4, 2011, to commemorate...
Interview with Benjamin Doron, Child Survivor from Libya
Kathryn Berman
Historical overview: Libya during World War IIFrom 1911-1943, Libya was under Italian control. In September 1938 the Italian government issued racial laws, similar to Germany's Nuremberg Laws, and they were applied to the Jews of Libya in 1940. This was the start of the deterioration of the Jews' situation.British, Italian, and German troops vied for dominance in the region, and their seesaw battles for Libya also affected the Jews. In 1942, thousands of Libyan Jews were sent to concentration and labor camps in Libya. More details of the fate of the Libyan Jews can be found in "The...
Righteous Among the Nations: Vladimir and Galina Imshennik
In a world of total moral collapse during the Holocaust, there was a small minority who mustered extraordinary courage to uphold human values. These were the Righteous Among the Nations. They stand in stark contrast to the mainstream of indifference and hostility that prevailed during the Holocaust. Contrary to the general trend, these rescuers regarded Jews as fellow human beings who came within the bounds of their universe of obligation. This piece highlights one story of Righteous Among the Nations, in an effort to recognize these heroic individuals. For educators, this topic lends itself...
Artifacts from North Africa
This painting is by Raphael Uzan, who was born in 1922. It is entitled, "The German Entry into Nabeul, Tunisia, December 1942", and was made with acrylic and inks on paper. The painting is part of a series depicting the Germans' entry into North Africa, and the artist's internment in the Menzel Temime labor camp. According to Mr. Uzan's testimony, the occupation of his area lasted six months, during which time he was incarcerated in a labor camp for one week.
The painting belongs to the Yad Vashem Art Collection, and was a gift of the artist.
The Boy: A Holocaust Story - Dan Porat
The Pillar of Salt - Albert Memmi

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\section{Introduction}

Arp 299 consists of two interacting galaxies (IC 694 and NGC 3690) that are in an early merger stage \citep{keel95}. At a luminosity
distance of 44.8 Mpc \citep{fixsen96} for $H_0 =
73$~km~s$^{-1}$~Mpc$^{-1}$ (1'' corresponds to 217 pc) , Arp~299 has
an infrared luminosity, $L_{\rm IR} \approx 6.7\EE{11} L_{\odot}$
\citep{sanders03}.  The nuclear regions of Arp 299 are heavily
dust-enshrouded, which prevents their study at optical
wavelengths. Fortunately, radio observations are not affected by dust,
and therefore stand as the most promising way to study the innermost,
buried regions of Arp 299.

Radio interferometric VLA observations of Arp 299 at about one
arcsecond resolution (e.g. \citealt{neff04}) show that its radio
emission is mainly due to ionized gas. The large distance to Arp 299
requires the use of very long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) technique
to resolve the radio emission from the innermost regions of this
interacting starburst galaxy.  In fact, VLBI observations of the two
primary nuclei of Arp~299 have resulted in the discovery of a large
population of very compact sources in the nuclear regions of Arp~299-A
(=IC694) and Arp~299-B1 (=NGC 3690) \citep{pereztorres09a,ulvestad09}.
The high brightness temperatures observed for this population of
compact sources were indicative of a nonthermal origin for the
observed radio emission, implying that most of those sources were
young RSNe and SNRs.  On the other hand, X-ray imaging and
spectroscopy \citep{dellaceca02,zezas03,ballo04}, as well as the
presence of nuclear H$_2$O masers \citep{henkel05,tarchi07}, indicate
that the nuclear regions of Arp 299-A and Arp 299-B1 are likely to
contain an AGN, but its location has so far remained an open question.
On the other hand, \citet{almudena09} have noticed that the MIR properties of
Arp 299-A were consistent with obscured star formation, although they
could not exclude the existence of an LLAGN.  In this Letter, we focus
on studying the inner few parsecs of the nucleus in Arp 299-A. A
detailed discussion of the radio emission and spectral properties of
all the compact components in the central hundred parsec region will
be presented in another paper.

\section{EVN observations of Arp 299-A}

We used the European VLBI Network (EVN) to image the central region
of Arp~299-A at 1.7~GHz on 7-8 June 2009, and at
5.0 GHz on 12-13 June 2009, with the pointing position
centered on the Arp~299-A nucleus.  We used a sustained data recording
rate of 1024 Mbit s$^{-1}$ in two-bit sampling. Each frequency band
was split into eight intermediate frequencies (IFs) of 16 MHz
bandwidths each,
for a total synthesized bandwidth of 128~MHz.
Each IF was in turn split into 32 channels of 0.5~MHz bandwidth each.
Our array included the following antennas at both frequencies:
Effelsberg, Cambridge, Medicina, Jodrell Bank (Mk 2), Onsala, Torun,
Urumqi, Shanghai, and Westerbork. In addition, the Yebes antenna in
Spain was also part of the array at 5.0 GHz.
Each of the two VLBI observing epochs consisted of 6.0 hr
phase-referenced experiments. Our target source, the nucleus of
Arp~299-A, was phase-referenced to the calibrator J1128+5925 with a
duty cycle of 5 minutes.  The strong source 4C~39.25 was used as
fringe finder and bandpass calibrator.  The total effective time on
source for Arp~299-A was  $\sim$3.6 hr.

The data were correlated at the EVN MkIV data processor at JIVE using
an averaging time of 2~s.
We performed standard a-priori gain calibration using the measured
gains and system temperatures of each antenna.  This calibration, as
well as the data inspection and flagging, were done within the NRAO
Astronomical Image Processing System (AIPS).  We also corrected for
ionosphere effects (of particular relevance at 1.7 GHz) and
source-structure effects of the phase-reference source at both
frequencies, following the same procedures as described in
\citet{pereztorres09a}. No self-calibration was performed on the data, since the peaks of emission
were too faint to qualify for these procedures.  We also used AIPS to
image Arp 299-A, that is, the images in Figure \ref{fig,arp299a} were
obtained by applying natural weighting to the data, which resulted in
FWHM, synthesized interferometric beams of (11.9 mas $\times$ 4.4 mas
at PA=-76$^\circ$) and (5.0 mas $\times$ 4.1 mas at PA=7$^\circ$) at 1.7 and
5.0 GHz, respectively.  The attained $1\sigma$ off-source r.m.s noise
was of $\sim 25\,\mu$Jy at 1.7 GHz and $\sim 22\,\mu$Jy at 5.0\,GHz.

\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=90mm,angle=0]{15462fg1.eps} \\
\caption{ {\it Top:} 5.0 GHz full EVN image of the central 150 parsec
  region of the luminous infrared galaxy Arp 299-A (=IC 694),
displaying a large number of bright, compact, nonthermal
  emitting sources, mostly identified with young RSNe and
  SNRs. The image center is at RA 11:28:33.63686 and
  DEC 58:33:46.5806.  {\it Middle and bottom:} Blow-ups of the inner
  8 parsec of the nuclear region of Arp 299-A, as imaged with the full
  EVN at 1.7 and 5.0 GHz.  The image center is at RA 11:28:33.61984
  and DEC 58:33:46.7006 in both panels. The morphology, spectral
  index and luminosity of the A1-A5 region are very suggestive of a
  core-jet structure.  The color scale goes from -50 $\mu$Jy/b up to 400
  $\mu$Jy/b in the top panel and from 125 $\mu$Jy/b to 400 $\mu$Jy/b in
  the middle and bottom panels. Contours are drawn at 5 and 10 times
  the off-source r.m.s. noise.}
 \label{fig,arp299a}
\end{figure}

\section{Results and discussion}

Our results are summarized in Figure \ref{fig,arp299a} and Table
\ref{tab,evn}.  Figure \ref{fig,arp299a}  shows the field
of the central (150$\times$80) pc of Arp 299-A (top), as imaged with
the EVN at 5.0 GHz on 12-13 June 2009.  Our 5.0 GHz EVN image
is very similar to the images previously published in
\cite{pereztorres09a}, and confirms that Arp 299-A hosts a large
number of bright, compact radio sources. As already noted by
\cite{pereztorres09a}, the high brightness temperatures displayed by
those compact components indicate that they must be nonthermal
emitting sources, most likely young radio SNe and SNRs, and a detailed
discussion of the radio emission and spectral properties of all these
compact sources will be presented elsewhere.  The middle and bottom
panels of the figure are blow-ups of the inner 8 parsec nuclear region
of Arp 299-A, as imaged with the full EVN at 1.7 and 5.0 GHz, and the
positions of its compact components, as well as their flux densities,
are summarized in Table \ref{tab,evn}.

The main results from our observations concern the nature of component A0 and,
especially, of the complex formed by A1-A5 (lower panel in Figure \ref{fig,arp299a} and
Table \ref{tab,evn}), which we discuss in the next sections.

\begin{table*}[htbp]
\centering
\caption{The parsec-scale structure of Arp 299-A as imaged with the EVN}
\label{tab,evn}
\renewcommand{\footnoterule}{}
\begin{tabular}{llcclrrl}
\hline \hline
Source & Source & $\Delta\,\alpha^{\mathrm{a}}$ & $\Delta\,\delta^{\mathrm{a}}$ &
Angular size$^{\mathrm{b}}$ & S$_{1.7}$ ($\mu$Jy) $^{\mathrm{c}}$
               & S$_{5.0}$ ($\mu$Jy)$^{\mathrm{c}}$ &
               Spectral index  \\
Name  & Type & (J2000.0)  & (J2000.0)  & (milliarcsec) &  & & $\alpha_{1.7}^{5.0}$ \\
 \hline

A0  &      SN & 33.6213 & 46.707 & $\leq 4.1\times4.0$ &    $\leq$75 &307$\pm$27 &  $\geq$1.28  \\
A1   &   AGN (core)    & 33.6199 & 46.699 & $\leq 6.1\times 2.7$  & 822$\pm$48 & 716$\pm$42 & -0.13$\pm$0.11\\
A1b &  AGN (jet)     & 33.6190 & 46.699 & $\leq 10.1\times 5.1$  &314$\pm$30 & $\leq$ 66 &  $\leq$-1.42  \\
A1c &  AGN (jet)     & 33.6183 & 46.695 &  $\leq 14.3 \times 6.2$
& 267$\pm$28 &  $\leq$ 66 & $\leq$-1.27 \\
A5  &   AGN (jet)        & 33.6176 & 46.694 & $\leq 6.9 \times 5.0$     &246$\pm$28  & 183$\pm$24  &  -0.27$\pm$0.22  \\

\hline
\end{tabular}
\begin{list}{}{}
\item[$^{\mathrm{a}}$] Coordinates are given with respect
  to $\alpha$= 11:28:00.0000 and $\delta$ =
  58:33:00.000, and the typical uncertainty is less than 1 mas.
\item[$^{\mathrm{b}}$] Upper limits to the deconvolved angular size (Major axis $\times$
  Minor axis, in mas) as obtained using  task IMFIT within AIPS, using
  our 5.0 GHz for all components but A1b and A1c, which were only
  detected at 1.7 GHz.
\item[$^{\mathrm{c}}$] The uncertainty in the reported flux density
  (and derived spectral index) for the detected compact components
  corresponds to 1$\sigma$, where $\sigma$ was determined by adding in
  quadrature the off-source r.m.s.  in each image and a 5\% of the
  local maxima, to conservatively account for possible inaccuracies in
  the EVN calibration. Upper limits for undetected sources are three
  times the off-source r.m.s.
\end{list}
\end{table*}

\subsection{The young radio supernova A0}

Component A0 was identified with an RSN by
\citet{neff04}. A0 showed a strongly inverted spectral index between
2.3 and 8.4 GHz, indicating that it was a very young SN.
We already detected it at 5.0 GHz \citep{pereztorres09a}, more than
five years after its discovery at 8.4 GHz, which implied that A0 was a
longlasting, slowly evolving, nonstandard RSN
\citep{pereztorres09a}.  Our current 5.0 GHz EVN observations show
that A0 continues to be very bright, with $L_{5.0} = 7.4
\EE{26}$\mbox{~erg~s$^{-1}$~Hz$^{-1}$}, confirming that it is a longlasting, slowly evolving
Type II supernova in a rich, dense surrounding medium. Not
detecting A0 at 1.7 GHz also confirms the suggestion by
\cite{pereztorres09a} that its radio emission is being suppressed at
low frequencies by a nearby absorber, most likely a foreground H~II
region in the vicinity of A0. We can characterize the main parameter
of this H~II region, its emission measure $EM$, by assuming an
(intrinsic) spectral index typical of Type II SNe in their optically
thin phase [$\alpha = -0.75$; $S_{\rm intr, 1.7} = S_{\rm 5.0} (1.7/5.0)^\alpha$];
and purely foreground, free-free absorption
($S_{\rm obs, 1.7} = S_{\rm intr, 1.7} \, e^{-\tau_{\rm ff, 1.7}}$).
We then obtain $\tau_{\rm ff, 1.7} \geq$ 2.2.  The $EM$ at GHz frequencies is proportional to
the free-free optical depth and is given by $EM = 3.1\EE{6} \, \tau_{{\rm ff}, \nu}\,
T^{1.35}_{e,4} \, \nu^{2.1}$ cm$^{-6}$ pc  \citep{mezger67}, where
$T_{e,4}$ is in units of $10^4$ K, and $\nu$ in GHz.  Assuming
the free-free absorber is a purely hydrogen plasma with $T_{e,4} = 1$,
we obtain $EM \geq 2.0
\EE{7}$ cm$^{-6}$ pc for the H~II close to A0. This value of $EM$ is very similar to the one obtained
for the foreground H~II region close to the well studied
SN~2000ft \citep{alberdi06,pereztorres09b}, in the dust-enshrouded
galaxy NGC 7469.

\subsection{The A1-A5 complex}

We detected components A1 and A5, which were already reported at 5.0
GHz by \citet{pereztorres09a}. A1, the brightest compact source
detected during our previous 5.0 GHz eEVN observations, continues to
be the brightest one at 5.0 GHz ($L_{5.0} = 1.8 \EE{27}$\mbox{~erg~s$^{-1}$~Hz$^{-1}$}), and
is also detected at 1.7 GHz ($L_{1.7} = 2.0 \EE{27}$\mbox{~erg~s$^{-1}$~Hz$^{-1}$}).
Component A5 is also detected at both frequencies.
\citet{pereztorres09a} suggested that A1 could be an SNR, while A5 it was
suggested a possible SN, based on its marginal variability at
5.0 GHz (although we could not exclude that A5 was an SNR).  However,
our new, contemporaneous observations at 1.7 and 5.0 GHz shed new
light on their nature, and suggest a rather different scenario.

In fact, A1 and A5 are part of a ``global structure'', as clearly
shown by our 1.7 GHz EVN observations (see lower panel in Figure
\ref{fig,arp299a}), where a bridge of radio emission connects them,
with two new regions of enhanced emission in between (components A1b
and A1c) .  The extension of the A1-A5 complex is $\simeq$
31$\times$21 mas, corresponding to a linear size of $\simeq$
6.7$\times$4.6 pc.  Within the 1.7 GHz structure, we detect two new
components, A1b and A1c, which are not detected at 5.0 GHz more than three
times the off-source r.m.s. Nevertheless, detecting them clearly at 1.7 GHz
($\geq 9\sigma$) implies that they are real, steep-spectrum
components, whose nature we discuss in the next two sections.

\subsubsection{A chain of nested SNe and SNRs in an SSC...?}

The spectrum of A1 between 1.7 and 5.0 GHz is very flat ($\alpha =
-0.13 \pm 0.11$). This spectral index would in principle be compatible
with an H~II region but, as we already showed in
\citet{pereztorres09a}, all compact components in Arp~299-A show
brightness temperatures that imply a nonthermal origin for their
radio emission. Thus, the flat spectrum shown by A1 could be explained
by radio emission from an SNR or, alternatively, from an AGN.  How can
we distinguish these two scenarios? To answer this question we
must consider A1 in the context of the complex it is part of, together
with components A1b, A1c, and A5.  As with A1, the brightness
temperatures of the other components rule out a thermal origin for
their radio emission. In principle, the spectral indices of those components (see
Table \ref{tab,evn}) are compatible with A1b and A1c being young
supernovae in their optically thin phase, and A5 being another SNR,
all of them part of a super star cluster (SSC).

The existence of SSCs in Arp~299-A has been demonstrated by their
detection using 2.2-$\mu$m adaptive optics imaging
\citep{lai99}, and  further evidence comes from {\it
  Hubble Space Telescope\/} ({\it HST}\/) FOC and NICMOS images, which
reveal a population of young  (4$-$15 Myr) stellar clusters in the central regions
of Arp 299-A \citep{almudena00}.
High-resolution near-infrared spectra of the nuclear starburst of M~82 \citep{mccrady03}
have shown that its SSCs have typical radii of 2$-$3 pc, and masses that range from
$\sim 10^5$ \hbox{M$_{\odot}$}\, up to (1-2)$\EE{6}$ \hbox{M$_{\odot}$}.
The size of the A1-A5 complex is 6.7 $\times$ 4.6 pc, in agreement
with expectations for SSC sizes.  Therefore, a possible scenario is
one where a young SSC has resulted in two young, recently exploded SNe
(A1b and A1c), and two SNRs (A1 and A5). In this case, the steepness
of the spectral indices for sources A1b and A1c can only be explained
as from very recently exploded ($t \lsim 10-20$ yr) core-collapse
supernovae. Furthermore, to estimate the age of the SNR candidates A1 and
A5, we use upper limits to their (deconvolved) angular size (column 5
in Table \ref{tab,evn}).  A1 and A5 have a maximum angular radius of 6.1
and 6.9 mas, which correspond to a linear size of 1.3 and 1.5 pc,
respectively. Assuming an average expansion speed of 3000 \mbox{\,km s$^{-1}$} for
both SNRs, those sizes correspond to kinematic ages of $\simeq$430 yr
for A1 and $\simeq$490 yr for A5.

In summary, if the A1-A5 complex is an SSC, it has yielded four bright
radio supernovae in the past 500 yr. Now, this is very unlikely to
happen in an SSC of just 3.4 pc radius whose mass is unlikely to be
higher than (1-2)$\EE{6}$ \hbox{M$_{\odot}$}. Indeed, evolutionary models for the
radio emission in starbursts by \citet{perezolea95} show that the SN
rate in an instantaneous burst can be as high as 20$\EE{-10}$
yr$^{-1}$\hbox{M$_{\odot}$}$^{-1}$ up to an age of $\simeq$6 Myr, and about
10$\EE{-10}$yr$^{-1}$\hbox{M$_{\odot}$}$^{-1}$ at an age of 9-15 Myr. Thus, an SSC
of 10$^6$\hbox{M$_{\odot}$} would yield $\leq$1 SN every 500 yr at an age of 6 Myr,
and $\leq$1 SN every 1000 yr at an SSC age of 9-15 Myr. Therefore, if
A1-A5 were SNe and SNRs exploding in a SSC, we should have expected to
detect at most one SN/SNR in the past 500 yr, whereas we find
four.  The probability of detecting two (young) SNe in the past 20 yr,
and two SNRs with ages of $\sim$430 and $\sim$ 490 yr in the past 500
yr is less than $3\EE{-6}$.  All this evidence seems to rule out an SSC
scenario for the A1-A5 complex.

\subsubsection{...Or the long-sought AGN in Arp 299-A?}

We show in the next paragraph that a much more plausible scenario for the A1-A5
complex is that of an AGN, where A1--the brightest compact source at
both frequencies in the nuclear and circumnuclear regions of Arp
299-A-- is identified with the core of the AGN in Arp
299-A, while components A1b, A1c, and A5 are jet components (see Figure
\ref{fig,arp299a}). There are strong grounds for this scenario:

\noindent (i) A1-A5 displays a core-jet morphology, typical of AGNs.
(ii) The two-point spectral indices of the A1-A5 complex (see Table~\ref{tab,evn})
agree well with expectations from an AGN. In this scenario A1, which has the
flattest spectrum between 1.7 and 5.0 GHz, would be the core, and A1b,
A1c, and A5 would be jet components.
(iii) There is evidence of strong flux density variability of A1 at
2.3 and 8.4 GHz between 2002 and 2003 \citep{neff04, ulvestad09}.
Figure 5 of \citet{ulvestad09} shows little variation for A1 starting
from 2004, or even a slight decrease (increase) in flux density at 2.3
(8.4) GHz. On the other hand, there is no evidence for significant
variability at 5.0 GHz between April 2008 and June 2009 (see
\citealt{pereztorres09a} and Table~\ref{tab,evn}).  This behavior is
at odds with an SN origin for the radio emission of A1, and is more
easily reconciled within an AGN scenario.  In addition, by combining the data from
\citet{ulvestad09} with ours and assuming no variability between 2005
and 2009 at cm-wavelengths, we find that the spectrum of A1 must
have a turnover frequency between 1.7 and 5.0 GHz, as expected for the
core of an AGN whose radio emission is partially self absorbed.
(iv) The radio luminosity of the A1-A5 complex between 1.7 and 8.4 GHz
is $\simeq 1.9\EE{37}$\mbox{\,erg~s$^{-1}$}, typical of LLAGNs.  (v) The ratio of (5
GHz) radio-to-X ray (soft) luminosity (\citealt{terashima03}) for the
A1-A5 complex in Arp 299-A is typical of LLAGNs.  From Table
\ref{tab,evn}, we obtain $\nu\, L_{\nu, 5.0} \approx 2.0 \EE{37}$
\mbox{\,erg~s$^{-1}$}. The combined absorption corrected X-ray
luminosity for the X-ray sources discovered by \citet{zezas03} in Arp
299-A is $\sim 1.9 \EE{40}$\mbox{\,erg~s$^{-1}$}.  This results in a value of $R_{\rm
  X} \simeq 1.1\EE{-3}$, which agrees closely with expectations from an
LLAGN (see Figure 4 of \citealt{terashima03}).

We therefore identify the A1-A5 complex with the AGN in Arp 299-A. In
this case, the cm-radio luminosity of the AGN in Arp 299-A is very
similar to the one displayed by the LLAGN in M~81, which is the closest
galaxy with an active nucleus. The core of M~81 also presents a faint,
one-sided jet, with a flat spectrum near the core and a steep spectrum
along the jet \citep{bietenholz04}.
Furthermore, cm-VLBI observations of the merger system
NGC 6240 \citep{gallimore04} and
mm-Plateau-de-Bure interferometer observations of the prototypical
ULIRG Arp 220 \citep{downes07} have suggested the coexistence of both
AGN and starburst in their nuclear regions.
Thus, our discovery suggests that both starburst and AGN are frequently associated in merging systems.

\section{Summary}

We imaged with milliarcsecond resolution the inner eight parsecs of the
nuclear region in Arp 299-A, using contemporaneous EVN observations at
1.7 and 5.0 GHz.  At 5.0 GHz, we detect components A0, A1, and A5, as
previously detected by \citet{pereztorres09a}. At 1.7 GHz, A1 and A5
are also detected, but not A0. In addition, two new components  between A1 and
A5 (A1b and A1c) are detected at 1.7 GHz, forming a complex.

We find that the morphology, spectral index, radio luminosity, and
radio-to-X ray luminosity ratio of the A1-A5 complex are consistent
with that of an LLAGN, and rules out the possibility that it consists
of a chain of young RSNe and SNRs in a young SSC. We therefore
conclude that A1 is the long-sought AGN in Arp 299-A.
Since Arp 299-A had long been thought of as a pure starburst, our finding of a buried, low-luminosity AGN in its central region, coexisting with a recent burst of starformation, suggests that both a starburst and AGN are frequently associated phenomena in mergers. In this case, our result is likely to have an impact on
evolutionary scenarios proposed for AGN and the triggering mechanism of activity in general.

Finally, we also note that component A0, previously identified as a
young RSN, is not seen at our low-frequency observations,
which implies there is a foreground absorbing H~II region.  It is
remarkable that this RSN exploded at the  mere distance
(projected) of two parsecs from the putative AGN in Arp 299-A, which
makes this supernova one of the closest to a central supermassive
black hole ever detected. This result may also be relevant to
accreting models in the central regions of galaxies, since it is not
easy to explain the existence of very massive, supernova progenitor
stars so close to an AGN. While seemingly contradictory, this could
explain the low-luminosity of the AGN we see in Arp 299-A. In
fact, since massive stars shed large amounts of mechanical energy into
their surrounding medium, thereby significantly increasing its
temperature, those massive stars would hinder the accretion of material to the
central black hole, which could in turn result in a less powerful AGN
than usual.

\begin{acknowledgements}
We are grateful to  Luis Colina and Emilio Alfaro for useful discussions and to the anonymous referee for suggestions and comments that have improved the science of our paper.
 The EVN is a joint facility of European, Chinese, South African and
other radio astronomy institutes funded by their national research
councils.  MAPT, AA, and CRC acknowledge support by the Spanish
MICINN through grant AYA2009-13036-CO2-01. This research has been
also partially funded by the Autonomic Government of Andalusia under
 grants P08-TIC-4075 and TIC-126.
 MAPT is also grateful for  financial support from the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) through
  grant 200950I139.
\end{acknowledgements}

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Facebook rolled out its new platform without fanfare, possibly following in the lead of TikTok/Musical.ly, which rose to stardom more from word-of-mouth popularity than professional promotion. Lasso users can login with existing accounts on either Facebook or Instagram, and the company says the videos they create can eventually be shared on both platforms as well.
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To lure back that key demographic of teenage users that's since fled for cooler alternatives, Facebook is leaning heavily on music. Its deals with labels and publishers have allowed it to offer millions of songs for placement within user-generated content, like Instagram stories, Facebook posts and now Lasso videos. "Together with the music industry, we are working to enable people around the world to include music in their videos on Facebook, opening up more options for creativity and sharing memories with friends and family," two of the company's executives said in a blog post announcing other music-integrating video features in June.
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After receiving approval from the University of Texas System Board of Regents, UTD is looking to move forward with construction on the Athenaeum project. Projected to be built in three phases, the Atheneum is an expansive undertaking for the predominantly STEM-focused university, which University president Richard Benson said is much-needed...
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The Jake Laird Law: Indiana Gun Rights and the Red Flag Law
The Indiana red flag gun law, commonly called the Jake Laird Law, was passed in 2005 and amended in 2019. Indiana was the second state in the U.S. to pass a red flag law, which permits law enforcement to seize and retain firearms from individuals who are deemed "dangerous" under the law. Red flag laws have come into the spotlight following mass shootings throughout the country, and Indiana's law, in particular, has attracted media and public interest after the tragic shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx facility in April 2021.
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In the wake of the Indianapolis FedEx shooting, local and national news outlets, including the Indy Star and New York Times, published stories noting that the state's red flag law failed to prevent the April 2021 attack. In the NY Times article, Keffer Hirschauer's attorney and founding partner, Bradley Keffer, explained how the law as written is limited in its ability to prevent this kind of occurrence.
To understand your Indiana gun rights, it is vital to understand Indiana gun control laws like the Jake Laird law. Here, the Indianapolis defense attorneys at Keffer Hirschauer LLP explain the Indiana red flag gun law, how it impacts citizens and law enforcement, and what happens when Indiana gun rights are suspended under the law.
An Overview of Indiana's Jake Laird Law
The provisions of the Indiana red flag gun law are set forth in Indiana Code chapter 35-47-14. The statute defines the process by which law enforcement can seize and retain a firearm (or firearms) from a person who is determined to be dangerous as defined by section one of the code.
The Jake Laird law states a person is deemed dangerous if he or she is considered an immediate risk to self or someone else or if it is probable that he or she will present such risk in the future. Potential future risk can be presumed in cases of an individual with mental illness who refuses to take medication or when documented evidence illustrates the potential for violence or self-harm. Without more, having undergone treatment for mental illness, recent release from a mental health facility, or having a mental health condition that is controlled by medication are not grounds for seizure of a person's gun(s) or suspension of permission to own and carry those weapons.
How Can a Gun Be Seized under the Indiana Red Flag Gun Law?
When a person meets the definition of "dangerous" as described in the Jake Laird law, a firearm in his or her possession can be seized by law enforcement with or without a warrant. The process for seizing a weapon with a warrant requires a law enforcement officer to submit a sworn affidavit to a court with jurisdiction over the matter. The affidavit must provide the following information:
Description of interactions with the individual or another credible person that caused the officer to believe the person possesses a firearm and is dangerous as defined by law
Description of the location where the weapon is believed to be located
Based on the information provided by law enforcement, the court then determines if there is probable cause to believe the individual in question is both dangerous and in possession of a firearm. If so, a search warrant may be issued to confirm possession and seize the weapon.
If a weapon is seized, the law enforcement agency responsible must then file a search warrant return that states that the warrant was served and details the number of firearms taken and descriptions of those weapons. This report must also include the date and time the warrant was served and the name and address of the individual from whom weapons were seized.
If a law enforcement officer is in an immediate situation in which he or she believes a person is dangerous and in possession of a firearm, the gun or guns may be seized without a warrant. Within 48 hours, the law enforcement officer who seized the gun(s) must submit an affidavit to the court of jurisdiction with the same information required as if a warrant had been sought in advance. The number and kind of weapons seized must also be included in this report.
The court should review a case of this nature as quickly as possible to make a determination as to whether there was probable cause to seize the firearm or firearms. If so, the court would then issue an order permitting the law enforcement agency to keep the firearm. If the court does not find probable cause to believe the person in question is dangerous, any firearms seized must be returned as soon as possible and no later than five days from the date of the court's order.
Indiana Gun Control Laws: After a Weapon Is Seized
After a firearm is seized from a person believed to be dangerous by law enforcement, the Jake Laird law states that a hearing shall be held within 14 days or, if that timeframe is not possible, as soon as possible. If the individual who is alleged to be dangerous wishes to request a continuance (delay) of the hearing, he or she may do so for up to 60 days, and the law states that these requests "shall be liberally granted."
At the hearing, the burden of proof is upon the State, which must prove the alleged facts by clear and convincing evidence. If the court rules in the state's favor, it issues an order finding the individual in question to be dangerous and prohibiting the individual from owning or possessing a firearm. If the person has a handgun license, that license may be suspended. If the court believes the individual should be referred for involuntary commitment to a treatment facility, it may also order that at this time.
When a court finds against the State and determines that the individual in question was not proven to be dangerous, an order must be issued that states that the person is not dangerous as defined by the Indiana red flag gun law. Any firearms seized from a person deemed not dangerous by the court must be returned within five days of the court's order or earlier if possible.
Indiana Gun Rights under the Jake Laird Law
When a person's right to possess a firearm is suspended under the Indiana red flag gun law, the individual may petition the court to review the case 180 days after the court's order. When this petition is filed, the court sets a date for a hearing to determine if the individual is still considered dangerous under the law and notifies the prosecutor, who represents the State.
In a petition filed within one year of the court order suspending rights, the individual previously deemed dangerous bears the burden of proof and must convince the court that he or she is no longer dangerous based on the standard of preponderance of evidence. If more than one year has passed, the State must prove by clear and convincing evidence that the individual is still dangerous and should not possess a firearm.
A preponderance of evidence is the burden of proof required in civil cases such as this and is less stringent than other burdens of proof, such as proving a claim by clear and convincing evidence or beyond a reasonable doubt. To prove a claim by preponderance of evidence, the court must find that there is a greater than 50 percent chance that the stated claim is true. To prove a claim by clear and convincing evidence, the court must find it substantially more likely that the claim is true than untrue.
When a court finds that an individual is no longer dangerous under the law, it issues an order declaring that the person is no longer dangerous, reinstates the individual's rights to own and possess a firearm and any suspended licenses, and orders the agency in possession of any weapons seized to return those firearms to the individual.
If a petition to have Indiana gun rights reinstated is denied, the individual may request a review of the case again by the court after 180 days have passed.
Questions about Indiana Gun Rights: Ask the Indianapolis Defense Attorneys at Keffer Hirschauer
Indiana gun rights will likely continue to be a topic of conversation in the media and conversations about Indiana gun control laws are important. The Indianapolis defense attorneys at Keffer Hirschauer LLP are experienced in interpreting the law and helping our clients navigate it to obtain the best possible result in their case.
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RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has signed an agreement in Dhaka to set up an SR188 million solar plant in Bangladesh.
The agreement was signed between the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) and the Riyadh-based Alfanar Energy, which is a 100 percent subsidiary of the Alfanar company.
FBCCI Secretary General Hussein Jameel and Alfanar Energy Project Coordinator Mohammed Irfan inked the accord in the presence of Bangladesh Ambassador Golam Moshi and Mushabab bin Abdullah Al-Qahtani, who was heading the Council of Saudi Chambers team.
Bangladesh Embassy Commercial Counselor Mohammed Abdul Hassan, who returned from Dhaka on Tuesday, told Arab News that the plant, which will be located in the port city of Chittagong, is expected to produce 40MW to 100 MW of power in Bangladesh. He said the project will be completed within six months.
He said that the visiting Saudi and Bangladeshi officials also discussed details of other big projects including a paper mill, a cement factory and a factory for Diammonium Phosphate (DAP).
The counselor said the two-way trade between the two countries is estimated at $1 billion, which is in favor of the Kingdom, whose exports had reached $750 million.
In a statement to Arab News, Mushabab Al-Qahtani stressed the keenness of the Saudi business sector to strengthen trade and investment ties with the Bangladeshi business sector and build partnerships that boost economic relations between the two countries.
During the Bangladeshi-Saudi Economic Forum, organized by the FBCCI in Dhaka, Bangladeshi Trade Minister Tufail Ahmed called on Saudi investors to establish a "special economic zone" in his country to boost trade and investment between the two countries and benefit from the safe investment climate there.
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RIYADH: The first phase of the "Pulse of Alkhobar" project has been launched as part of plans to develop an integrated cultural center in the heart of the city and transform the Eastern Province's arts scene.
The project follows calls by architecture experts, social media activists and artists for a collaboration across multiple sectors to strengthen the province's cultural impact.
According to Culture Minister Prince Badr bin Abudllah bin Farhan, the project, centered on the site of the city's old market, is the fruit of a partnership between the ministry and its municipal and rural affairs counterpart.
Acting Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs Majid Al-Hogail said that the project will build an artistic and heritage destination that will improve the lives of residents of Alkhobar governorate as well as visitors to the Eastern Province.
The project will help define the region's culture and enhance its position as a tourist destination, he added.
Abdulhadi Al-Shammari, the province's municipal chairman, told Arab News that the new project will also improve services at municipal facilities, while preserving Saudi heritage and culture.
The project introduces tourists and visitors to the culture of the province, and highlights Al-Olaya district as the center of the city's culture and arts activities.
Al-Shammari said that the project will boost the city's finances, driving sustainable development and growth as well an improvement in quality of life.
"It will create new investment opportunities for the private sector, and encourage small and medium-scale enterprises, which have an excellent and effective social impact," he said.
Al-Shammari added: "The Saudi government supports all sectors to help them deliver lucrative investment opportunities and build a conducive environment for local and foreign investment, where new job opportunities are created for young men and women."
Faisal Al-Fadl, secretary-general of the Saudi Green Building Forum, told Arab News that creating a cultural and arts destination that is open to a range of activities will add to the city's tourist appeal.
• The 'Pulse of Alkhobar' project follows calls by architecture experts, social media activists and artists for a collaboration across multiple sectors to strengthen the province's cultural impact.
• According to Culture Minister Prince Badr bin Abudllah bin Farhan, the project, centered on the site of the city's old market, is the fruit of a partnership between the ministry and its municipal and rural affairs counterpart.
"Cooperation between the public sector and international organizations, as well as professional organizations, archaeologists and the public, is instrumental in preserving the cultural and architectural heritage of neighborhoods and cities," he said.
Al-Fadl added that the collaboration between the two ministries reflects "the importance of architectural and cultural heritage, and the tangible and unique archaeological importance of the buildings as a key element in the history of peoples and relationships inside and outside the Arabian Peninsula."
He thanked both ministries for their efforts.
Arafat Al-Majed, a Qatif Muncipal Council member, said the partnership is a step forward that falls in line with agreements concluded as part of Vision 2030.
"The agreement will increase interest in cultural heritage and the buildings and towns whose profound and ancient history should be brought out to the world to see and enjoy," she told Arab News. "The agreement will also improve the urban landscape."
She said that the joint committee should have branches in municipalities around the Kingdom in order to shed light on heritage sites that can be included in UNESCO. "The Kingdom is rich in such heritage sites."
Al-Majed said that the project will introduce today's generation to the ancient heritage of the province in a way that encourages investment opportunities.
"Nobody can deny the fact that some municipalities are still hesitant about what to do with heritage buildings and towns since some of these are abandoned or about to collapse. These municipalities want to tear them down. But these are historical treasures that should be preserved and invested in to become an important economic driver, and a source of arts and culture," she added.
Maysoon Abu Baker, a Saudi poet and columnist, said the Saudi government attaches great importance to culture and heritage.
"Vision 2030 emphasized the significance of the culture existent in old cities," she told Arab News.
"Arts, culture and heritage are at the top of the agenda for developing cities and preserving their culture. The cultural impact is important for the future of the Kingdom and is related to its history."
Yousef Al-Harbi, director of Culture and Arts Society in Dammam, said that the partnership will lead to "new visual perceptions highlighting the Saudi, Arabian and Islamic identity."
He highlighted the importance of nurturing Saudi art and architectural talent, and facilitating cooperation in order to "bring out the beauty of Saudi heritage and cities."
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 Australia: Chief of Army, fino al 1997 Chief of the General Staff;
 Albania: Shef i Shtabit të Përgjithshëm;
 Canada: Commander of the Canadian Army, fino al 1964 Chief of the General Staff;
 Germania (1871-1919): Chef des Großen Generalstabs;
 Israele: Ramatkal;
 Italia: capo di stato maggiore della difesa, fino al 1948 "capo di stato maggiore generale" del Comando Supremo italiano;
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 Regno Unito: Chief of the General Staff, prima del 1964 noto come Chiefs of the Imperial General Staff.
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Is it burnout or are you walking through the fires of hell???
In a recent post, Carey Nieuwhof listed 9 SIGNS YOU'RE BURNING OUT IN LEADERSHIP. Burnout is one of those topics that almost everyone reads about and acknowledges as a real and present danger. I have only met a few Pastors and other leaders who are foolish enough that think that they are above this danger. One aspect of this discussion that is often overlooked is that burnout is not just a clergy issue. Leaders throughout the church and every other aspect of life experience the reality of burnout.
My experience of this came to a head early last year. I found myself displaying many of the classic signs of burnout. I was thankful that I, along with other trusted confidants (including my wife) were able to identify this reality before it reached a truly destructive level.
Like most leaders I had seen list after list of "the signs of burnout." Even still I was easily blinded to those signs in my own life. This not only speaks of our need to have self-awareness but also truth tellers in our lives. Having trusted individuals around us who are able to point out our burnout behavior before it's too late is a critical need for all leaders. As such, we need to be purposeful in ensuring we have a support system to help us.
The following coaching questions come to mind when I think of avoiding burnout.
Who in your life is able to give you true feedback on your attitude and behavior?
If you don't have a truth teller in your life, how can you get one? Who might it be?
Are you truly open to having someone challenge you with an honest assessment of your current ability to function?
What do you need to do in order to be open to a truth teller in your life?
If you have a trusted truth teller in your life I would encourage you to share Carey Nieuwhof's 9 SIGNS YOU'RE BURNING OUT IN LEADERSHIP. If you don't have an a truth teller I encourage you to find one. As a coach I can help you make a plan for this work in your life. Through coaching you can formulate a plan for ensuring your receiving the feedback you need in order to avoid burnout. To begin this work simply request a free introductory session by clicking HERE.
Click the link to to read Carey Nieuwhof's original post on 9 SIGNS YOU'RE BURNING OUT IN LEADERSHIP.
Below is his list, what might you add?
1. Your motivation has faded. The passion that fueled you is gone, and your motivation has either vapourized or become self-centered.
2. Your main emotion is 'numbness' – you no longer feel the highs or the lows. This was actually one of the earliest signs for me that the edge was near. I wrote more about emotional numbness here.
3. People drain you. Of course there are draining people on the best of days. But not everybody, every time. Burnout often means few to no people energize you anymore.
4. Little things make you disproportionately angry. When you start losing your cool over small things, it's a sign something deeper is very wrong.
5. You're becoming cynical. Many leaders fight this one, but cynicism rarely finds a home in a healthy heart.
6. Your productivity is dropping. You might be working long hours, but you're producing little of value. Or what used to take you 5 minutes just took you 45. That's a warning bell.
7. You're self-medicating. Your coping mechanism has gone underground or dark. Whether that's overeating, overworking, drinking, impulsive spending or even drugs, you've chosen a path of self-medication over self-care. Ironically, my self-medication was actually more work, which just spirals things downward.
8. You don't laugh anymore. Nothing seems fun or funny, and, at its worst, you begin to resent people who enjoy life.
9. Sleep and time off no longer refuel you. Sometimes you're not burnt out; you're just tired. A good night's sleep or a week or two off will help most healthy people bounce back with fresh energy. But you could have a month off when you're burnt out and not feel any difference. I took three weeks off during my summer of burn out, and I felt worse at the end than when I started. Not being refueled when you take time off is a major warning sign you're burning out.
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Sometimes it is tempting to grasp at the next great leadership trend. New ideas or even old ideas presented in a new way have the great ability to excite us and give a shot of leadership adrenaline. We have all read a book, attended a conference or watched a video and shouted "AMEN!" When I first heard Simon Sinek's Ted Talk many years ago, was one of those moments for me. The message of his talk resonated with me. I quickly found myself reading and listening to more of him. I'm not sure that I have ever fully utilized his insights but I have been drawn back to his, "start with why" concepts over and over.
When I find myself returning to a speaker or writer's work I feel that it must have a deeper hold on me than a passing fancy. Below you will find Sinek's Ted Talk for your viewing pleasure. After you have viewed the video please let me know if you would be interested in joining a discussion group on his book Start With Why. This discussion group can be in person or through Zoom Conferencing.
This image has floated around the Internet for many years. It is a great visual representation of the difference between a boss and leader. In my own leadership I try to refrain from asking anyone who is following me to do something I'm unwilling to at least try myself. This is a great principle and often helps people get behind the work I'm asking of them.
The picture of the leader struggling with the followers is a stark comparison to the boss image. Of course this image congers up the Biblical story of the Egyptian Pharaoh commanding the Jews to make bricks without straw. A domineering dictator is obviously not a leader, especially when harsh punishment is the reward for rebellion. We all have been in settings where the employees feel that there is a serious price to pay for disobedience to the boss. This is the reality of why many women have been forced into sexual situations with their supervisor.
A good leader brings the followers into the mission by showing their commitment and helping them to see how their individual contributions help the mission succeed. Yet, there are still times when a leader needs to be directive.
Did you notice the location of the boss in the upper image? Not only is the boss not helping, but the boss it part of the burden to be pulled. I have had numerous conversations with friends, parishioners and coaching clients who feel the weight of carrying their boss. If we must be directive we also need to acknowledge that we can become part of the burden. To become part of the burden is unfair and negates our leadership. When a good leader needs to be directive they must give clear expectations and then let the workers loose.
How have you experienced the weight of a leader in your work?
What do you do to ensure you aren't a burden to your followers?
What other insights do you see from this image?
For the past two days I have had the honor of spending time with Chris Holmes of Holmes Coaching Group during the first part of Coach Approach Skills Training in the National Capital Presbytery. During this time I sat in as a Pastor/Coach. For the past few years I have been working out ho to integrate coaching with the pastoral life. This time of training was not only affirming of this hard work but also my commitment to using coaching in every aspect of my life and ministry.
Watching the students, many of whom I know from other forums, discover how powerful coaching and being a coach can be was a truly awesome experience. Within a few hours I saw a certain amount of skepticism or fear melt away and coaches begin to emerge.
I also found myself in a place where I was challegned to double down on my coaching aspirations. Hearing from other pastors about how they can see the deep possibilities of coaching to transform how they lead makes me want to coach more.
I want to help create a culture of coaching that in many ways was modeled by Jesus himself. More and more I see how those that are trained as a coach often follow the model of Jesus. Jesus was often approached to simply solve a problem or alleviate a burden. More time than we might want to acknowledge, Jesus sought to transform the person through his or her own agency. The account of Jesus and the woman at the well was lifted up as a prime example of how this worked. She came to him with a certain understanding of herself and the world. Jesus helped her redefine those views through the use of imagery, questions, imagination, truth telling and many other coaching core competencies to do this. It's amazing to me how spiritual coaching actually can be.
I am thankful and honored to have been part of this special time of spiritual, professional and personal development. I also look forward to continuing this journey in the National Capital Presbytery with my new colleagues in coaching.
A long while ago I resigned myself to the fact that meetings are necessary to accomplish collaborative work. Virtual or in person, meetings are a vital way to coordinate the common work we endeavor to complete.
In organizations that depend on volunteers to accomplish their ministry we need to make sure that we use our people's time wisely. There are times in the life of the church where we have a meeting to simply have a meeting. Even monthly board meetings can at times be held only because they are scheduled. Like most areas of our life if we don't consider the purpose of our activities they become meaningless and might even become a burden.
The HBR article cites a phrase from Stephen Covey, "Begin with the end in mind." This doesn't mean that we know the outcome of decisions or control the discussions. Knowing the desired outcome of a meeting means that you can keep all the parties on task. Clearly stating the goal of a meeting to a team also helps everyone know that the meeting actually has a clear purpose. Knowing purpose means that participants can contribute towards that end and gives a sense that actual progress is being made.
Often we believe we have a clear purpose because we have an agenda. A critical question we must as ourselves as a leader is, "Is our agenda moving us towards a purpose, or are we simply checking boxes?" Many church boards use an agenda that looks exactly the same as those used fifty years ago. They may have "changed" the agenda when they substituted teams for committees but substantive change geared towards achieving vision rarely happens . Our meetings need to by focused on the shared mission and vision of our organizations. If a Christian Education committee is looking to strengthen adult classes it is important that the agenda makes that the focus. Making it clear that the purpose of a given months meeting is to focus on looking for ways to make Adult classes stronger will help everyone move towards that goal.
Do you have a meeting this week that lacks purpose?
If so, what can you do to help give it a clear purpose?
Sometimes this is us in life. Worried about NOTHING!
Many of us make New Year's resolutions. It seems right to think of a new year as a new opportunity to make oneself better. "A new year, A new you," is one of those catchy ways to sum up our newfound hope that comes with a fresh calendar year.
Even still, most of us also make those resolutions with little to no expectation that we will achieve them. It is easy to throw out standard resolutions that make us feel like we have turned over a new leaf. Herein lies the problem; making generic "commitments" to change are not very helpful.
This is a great place for us to apply the SMART goal setting. You may employ this practice in your work life. Many corporate organizations use the SMART model throughout their planning. SMART is an acronym that highlights what a goal should be all about.
S- Specific: Goals should state exactly what you want to accomplish. Use the old who, what, when, where, and why questions to help whittle down a grand idea into a more precise goal.
M- Measurable: It is critical to decide how you will determine success. What will you use to gauge your movement towards achieving your goal?
A- Attainable: Goals should challenge you to move beyond your current state but not be so out of reach that you set yourself up for failure. Be willing to push yourself, but also be realistic.
R- Relevant: Check to make sure that the goal you are setting is in line with your "big picture." It is easy to set up competing goals that inevitably mean that neither goal is achieved. Does this new goal fit into your overall objectives?
T- Time Bound: Setting a schedule for your goals helps you to move forward. An open-ended time limit allows you to push it back for an indeterminate amount of time. Finite time limits encourage action. It is also good to set waypoints along the way to see how much daily, monthly or quarterly progress is being made.
It is not enough to just say you are going to do something. The adage, "Failing to plan is planning to fail" is attributed to Ben Franklin. We often think that setting a goal is planning. An end point (goal) is not a plan it is a dream. To achieve dreams it is critical that we set ourselves up with SMART goals that encourage us to actually accomplish what we are dreaming about. I know that dream is a big word. After all we don't necessarily think that higher sales numbers or a little less weight as a dream. Yet, without an actionable plan that is all our goals will be, far off dreams.
As a coach it is my role to encourage and help coachees take their dreams and begin a process of formulating SMART goals to achieve them. Do you feel like you have a bold vision for what could be, but don't know how to get there? A coach is a valuable resource to help you sort through all of the competing claims on your time and energy and to help set a plan to achieve the dreams you have for your life.
If you want a partner in your SMART goal setting and are looking for a coach, please contact me at www.geoffmcleancoaching.com. A new year, a new you can be more than just a trite phrase. It can be your future.
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I have used the Prepare/Enrich program for over 15 years and have been a trainer for four years. This program has helped me make premarital sessions meaningful and impactful. This has been particularly true for weddings that include couples that are not part of our congregational life. This simple tool gives a quick and insightful snapshot of the couples relationship.
This training is more than just a premarital program. Prepare/Enrich offers inventories that are useful in helping everyone in a long-term relationship identify their strengths and areas of growth.
The Prepare/Enrich Training cost $200 with lunch provided. This one time training allows you to use the program without any ongoing training cost.
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NPR listeners shift from over-the-air radio, to streaming content (in a very big way)
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, William Lee who shares the following story via Nieman Labs. Note that this is an excerpt from the story and that my comments follow:
Radio listening has plummeted. NPR is reaching a bigger audience than ever. What gives?
This year, for the first time, NPR will make more money from underwriting on podcasts than on its radio shows.
Since the pandemic took hold in the United States, NPR's radio ratings have taken a nosedive. Half of AM/FM listening in the United States takes place in a car, but between reduced (or eliminated) commutes and social distancing, there's been a steep decline in the drivers that make up public radio's traditional broadcast audience.
"People who listened to NPR shows on the radio at home before the pandemic by and large still do," NPR's own media correspondent, David Folkenflik, reported on July 15. "But many of those who listened on their commute have not rejoined from home. And that threatens to alter the terrain for NPR for years to come."
Even as its legacy platform's audience has declined, though, NPR says it is reaching more people than ever. The dip in radio listenership — 22 percent — has coincided with a record number of people turning to NPR on virtually every other platform. More people than ever are reaching NPR through the website, apps, livestreams, and smart speakers ("Alexa, I want to listen to NPR").
[…]Some of the changes in NPR's audience mirror what we've seen elsewhere in the news industry — traffic to news sites spiked in the early months of the pandemic — but the pandemic's long-term effects seem poised to have a unique impact on radio listenership.
NPR's senior director of audience insights, Lori Kaplan, has said public radio's audience includes a disproportionate percentage of workers who are able to do their jobs remotely during coronavirus shutdowns — and that these professionals are interested in continuing to work from home even after we've left coronavirus in the rearview mirror.
"We're experiencing a sea change," Kaplan told Folkenflik. "We're not going back to the same levels of listening that we've experienced in the past on broadcast."
[…]NPR's leaders have been reading the tea leaves. They've seen the studies showing younger generations overwhelmingly use the internet and their phones (not radios) for audio. In other words, they knew this shift was coming. They just didn't know it would happen all at once.
"It was so clear people's behaviors were changing," said Tamar Charney, who leads NPR's digital strategy. "You'd look at the demographic trends and young people were not listening to radio like older people."[…]
Continue reading the full story at Nieman Labs.
This is a fascinating report and I'm willing to bet NPR has nothing to lose by being open about listening numbers and platforms compared to some commercial networks.
I've spoken with a number of friends in the commercial radio industry and the story is very familiar: since the pandemic especially, less people use over-the-air radio to listen to programming. The majority of over-the-air radio listening is done in the car and with the C-19 pandemic, there's simply been less driving and commuting.
We radio enthusiasts are unique compared with our neighbors in that we actually have radios in our homes.
There is a trend, though, above and beyond anything pandemic related and it's hard to ignore: with the proliferation of mobile Internet devices that anyone and everyone carries on their person, consumers prefer and expect on-demand content. If you have a radio show on an FM station and it's not offered as a podcast or via one of the streaming networks, you could be missing out on the bulk of your potential audience.
Even though I'm a hard-core radio enthusiast (by pretty much any measure), I appreciate on-demand content. For example, my staple evening news show these days is Marketplace. I prefer listening to the show live at 18:00 local on WCQS (88.1 FM) even though the signal isn't super strong at my home (fortunately, I've got some brilliant radios to pull it in!). At least half of the time, however, family plans intrude on that 18:00-18:30 time slot, so I rely on the Marketplace podcast version of the show which is typically posted thirty minute after the end of their live show. So even though I'm a radio enthusiast, I still rely on streaming content for my favorite news show.
As technology and listener habits shift, I do wonder how local radio stations will adapt.
We've a number of SWLing Post community members who work in the radio industry around the world. Feel free to chime in and comment with your thoughts and experience.
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This entry was posted in AM, Broadcasters, FM, News and tagged AM Radio, FM Radio, National Public Radio, Nieman Labs, NPR, Radio listenership, William Lee on August 22, 2020 by Thomas.
Interview with Scott Simon of NPR regarding potential time station shutdowns
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Hi, folks! If you just heard me on NPR's Weekend Edition regarding the NIST Budget cuts to WWV, WWVH, and WWVB, welcome, and stick around! This is where the SWLing Post (and other projects we work on, such as the Shortwave Archive, the Radio Spectrum Archive, and the non-profit, Ears to Our World) serve up all things shortwave. Here, we discuss both the fun (and importance) of this cool old-school medium that, remarkably enough, still has relevance even in our internet-interconnected world.
And for our regular Post readers: on Thursday afternoon, I had the great pleasure of being interviewed by Scott Simon of NPR via Radio Canada/CBC in Québec City, QC, Canada. More on that to come.
The show (with the SWLing Post bit) aired just this morning. You can click here to listen via NPR's website, or via the embedded player below:
I feel especially chuffed that NPR would give the topic of WWV some exposure. This piece wasn't so much a call to action as simply building awareness of what the shutdown of our national pacemaker––in the form of WWVB time station––might mean to the average person who has a self-setting wall clock, or watch (most of us do). (Even at NPR, they'll be asking, Now, where did we store that stepladder?)
Or what it might mean to the shortwaves themselves, which we in North America may appreciate a source of nostalgia or entertainment––and, yes, handy for keeping time––we have to recognize that there are still pockets of our world, especially in remote, rural, and/or war-torn regions, where shortwave radio is especially vital.
So, something that belongs to all of us––yet another example of a global source of information––may soon be taken away. If you disagree with this proposal, I urge you to contact your local representatives, and sign this White House petition.
This entry was posted in Interviews, News, Shortwave Radio and tagged National Public Radio, Ned Wharton, NIST, NIST 2019 Budget Request, NIST Time Station, NPR, Scott Simon, Weekend Edition, WWV, WWV Closure, WWVB, WWVB Closure, WWVH, WWVH Closure on August 25, 2018 by Thomas.
"I listen to NPR…on my shortwave radio"
Last year, National Public Radio (NPR) asked listeners when and how they listen to NPR. Their goal was to put together clips into a short spot for the network's spring fund drive. After telling them that I've been known to listen to NPR on shortwave, they asked for me to record a short clip stating this fact. I amiably complied.
Last week, I rediscovered the clip. The spot would have been aired on local member stations in the first half of 2013:
https://swling.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/WIth-You-MIX.mp3
Have you listened to NPR on shortwave? Both the American Forces Network and Radio Australia broadcast NPR news content.
This entry was posted in Broadcasters, News, Shortwave Radio and tagged AFN, American Forces Network (AFN), National Public Radio, National Public Radio Shortwave, NPR, NPR Shortwave, Radio Australia on June 10, 2014 by Thomas.
And now, the Shipping Forecast…
When I lived in the UK, I would often fall asleep and/or wake up to the Shipping Forecast: a BBC Radio broadcast of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the coasts of the British Isles.
Though I had, of course, no real need of the Forecast, on many occasions it lured me like the voice of a hypnotic siren (especially, I must admit, when read by a woman). When I moved back to the US in 2003, I missed hearing the Forecast on the radio, but thankfully one can listen to it at Radio 4 online. Although the online stream lacks the delectable sonic texture of long wave radio, the Forecast still has the power can still reel in its listeners.
Last December, I followed a brilliant series on NPR which highlighted the BBC Shipping Forecast. I intended to publish it here on the SWLing Post at the time, but somehow lost it in the shuffle of a busy travel season. Fortunately, NPR has archived audio from the series online. I love their introduction:
"It is a bizarre nightly ritual that is deeply embedded in the British way of life.
You switch off the TV, lock up the house, slip into bed, turn on your radio, and begin to listen to a mantra, delivered by a soothing, soporific voice.
"Viking, North Utsire, South Utsire, Forties, Cromarty, Forth, Tyne, Dogger …." says the voice.
You are aware — vaguely — that these delicious words are names, and that those names refer to big blocks of sea around your island nation, stretching all the way up to Iceland and down to North Africa.
The BBC's beloved Shipping Forecast bulletin covers 31 sea areas, the names of which have inspired poets, artists and singers and become embedded into the national psyche.
Your mind begins to swoop across the landscape, sleepily checking the shorelines, from the gray waters of the English Channel to the steely turbulence of the Atlantic.
Somewhere, deep in your memory, stir echoes of British history — of invasions from across the sea by Vikings, Romans and Normans; of battles with Napoleon's galleons and Hitler's U-boats.
Finally, as the BBC's Shipping Forecast bulletin draws to a close, you nod off, complacent in the knowledge that whatever storms are blasting away on the oceans out there, you're in your pajamas, sensibly tucked up at home"
You can listen to the series on NPR, or via the embedded player below:
Click here to listen to the Shipping Forecast on the BBC Radio 4 website. Also, check out the history of the Shipping Forecast on Wikipedia and from this excellent article by Peter Jefferson in Prospero (PDF, page 10).
This entry was posted in AM, Articles, Longwave, News, Slightly Off Topic and tagged BBC Radio 4, Longwave, National Public Radio, NPR, Shipping Forecast, Weather on April 11, 2014 by Thomas.
Own a piece of National Public Radio history
NPR Studio 2A, home of NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered, is one of the lots up for auction.
National Public Radio (NPR) is moving to a new building in Washington, DC. They're auctioning off all of the studio equipment and furniture they're leaving behind.
Here's your chance to own a piece of radio history–and, perhaps, start your own radio station or recording studio!
Click here to view the list of items up for auction.
This entry was posted in Broadcasters, Current Events, News and tagged National Public Radio, National Public Radio Auction, NPR, NPR Auction, NPR History on March 20, 2013 by Thomas.
NPR: WWII 'Canteen Girl' Kept Troops Company From Afar
(Photo source: NPR)
Long before the Internet and satellite phone, Phyllis Jeanne Creore Westerman brought soldiers home at Christmas via shortwave radio:
(Source: National Public Radio)
American service members have long spent holidays in dangerous places, far from family. These days, home is a video chat or Skype call away. But during World War II, packages, letters and radio programs bridged the lonely gaps. For 15 minutes every week, "Canteen Girl" Phyllis Jeanne Creore spoke and sang to the troops and their loved ones on NBC radio.
Her Christmas shows were morale boosters. America must "use more sentiment and less tinsel, and that's the way it should be," she told her listeners during one wartime Christmas broadcast. Now 96, Phyllis Jeanne Creore Westerman sits in her apartment on New York's Fifth Avenue, remembering those seasonal broadcasts she recorded 70 years ago.
[…]She did a bit of radio work, found singing jobs with various bands at hotels like the Biltmore, and volunteered at the Stage Door Canteen. That's where she got the idea for a regular radio show — to reach more troops — across the U.S., and in Europe by short wave.
Read the full article and listen to Susan Stamberg's interview on NPR.org.
This entry was posted in Broadcasters, Music, News, Nostalgia, Shortwave Radio and tagged National Public Radio, NPR, Phyllis Jeanne Creore Westerman, Susan Stamberg on December 18, 2012 by Thomas.
National Radio Day 2012
Click to enlarge. (Source: NPR)
Today in the US, it's National Radio Day–a day to acknowledge the significance of radio technology and the way it has shaped our past, shapes our present, and continues to shape our future.
National Public Radio and its member stations typically celebrate with some fanfare. I especially love their vintage-inspired graphic this year, featuring Guglielmo Marconi.
In fairness, we should also acknowledge Nikola Tesla, whose 17 patents may have helped Marconi win his Nobel Prize as the father of radio.
This entry was posted in Broadcasters, News, Nostalgia and tagged Guglielmo Marconi, Marconi, National Public Radio, National Radio Day, National Radio Day 2012, Nikola Tesla, NPR on August 20, 2012 by Thomas.
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Q: $H(\mathbb A)^0/H(k)$ is homeomorphic to a closed set in $G(\mathbb A)/G(k)$ I'm reading Godement's paper Domaines fondamentaux des groupes arithmetiques and am confused about a part in a proof.  The setting is $k$ is a number field, $\mathbb A$ is the ring of adeles of $k$, $H$ is a closed subgroup of an algebraic group $G$, both defined over $k$, and $H(\mathbb A)^0$ is the subgroup of $h \in H(\mathbb A)$ for which $|\chi(h)| = 1$ for all $k$-rational characters $\chi$ of $H$.
In the attached picture, Godement is proving that $H(\mathbb A)^0/H(k)$ is homeomorphic to its image in $G(\mathbb A)/G(k)$, and that this image is closed.
Godement uses the construction of the quotient variety $G/H$: there is a finite dimensional $k$-vector space $V$, a $k$-rational representation $\rho: G \rightarrow \operatorname{GL}(V)$, and a vector $a \in V$, for which $H$ is the stabilizer of the line through $a$.

I'm confused about the claim that $\mathbb A_k^{\ast 0} G(k).a$ closed in $V(\mathbb A)$, where $\mathbb A_k^{\ast 0}$ is the group of ideles $x$ with $|x|= 1$.  Godement says that this is because $\mathbb A_k^{\ast 0}$ is the product of a compact set $Z \subset \mathbb A_k^{\ast}$ and $k^{\ast}$, and $k^{\ast} G(k).a$ is closed in $V(\mathbb A)$ because it is discrete.
My question is, how do we know that $k^{\ast}G(k).a$ is closed or discrete in $V(\mathbb A)$?  Neither of these assertions seems evident to me.  Even if it was discrete, that does not mean it's closed, right?
Edit: If we think of the line $\ell$ through $a$ as an element of projective space $\mathbb P(V)$, then $G/H$ is isomorphic as a variety to the image $G.\ell \subset \mathbb P(V)$, which is a locally closed subvariety of $\mathbb P(V)$.
Then I suppose $k^{\ast} G(k).a$ is the preimage of $G.\ell$ under the natural  map $V(k) - \{0\} \rightarrow \mathbb P(V)(k)$.  However, as we do not know that $G.\ell$ is closed in $\mathbb P(V)(k)$ (since $H$ is not necessarily parabolic), this doesn't imply that $k^{\ast} G(k).a$ is closed in $V(k)$.

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