Johann Nikolaus Forkel, in his biography of Bach, tells us that Bach's son Carl Philipp Emanuel was employed as court musician at the residence of King Frederick II of Prussia, great music lover and amateur flutist. The King had long insisted to meet Carl Philipp Emanuel's father, Johann Sebastian. The encounter took place in Potsdam, the 7th of May, 1747.
Frederick wanted to show the elder Bach a novelty, the piano, which had been invented some years earlier. The King owned several of the experimental instruments being developed by Gottfried Silbermann. During his anticipated visit to Frederick's palace in Potsdam, Bach, who was well known for his skill at improvising, received from the King a long and complex musical theme on which he improvised a three-voice and an eight-voice fugue.
At the end of his performance, Bach promised to the King to compose a whole work on his theme, and so he did. His Musical Offering was given to the king as a gift on July of the same year.
The order of publication of the Musical Offering has remained a mystery, because this work had been divided into 5 separate sheets, without page numbers. Ursula Kirkendale wrote an article in 1981, on the Journal of American Musicological Society, in which she theorized an order that has almost become nowadays standard, inspired to Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria.
Greco found out that Bach, for his two last works, which he composed during the same years, got the inspiration from a book that had been published 100 years before. The parallel between these works and that ancient text naturally revealed that every piece composing the Musical Offering and the Art of Fugue recalls particular rhetoric figures. This comparison also solved numerous enigmas that so far were considered impenetrable; it also produced an order that is perfectly superimposable to Institutio Oratoria of Quintilian, as Kirkendale said, but progressively, word by word and chapter by chapter (while the American musicologist had considered the Latin work in a random order).
Thanks to this order, some pieces of the Musical Offering, which are normally performed far from each other, once put together reveal analogies and symmetries that had so far been neglected.
The enigmas and their solution.
The entire work of Bach has an enigmatic character: for example, it contains an acrostic (Regis Iussu Cantio Et Reliqua Canonica Arte Resoluta – RICERCAR), Latin phrases that invite to research (Quaerendo Invenietis) and recall extra-musical topics (Ascendenteque Modulatione Ascendat Gloria Regis), titles that contain Latin and Greek and are apparently contradictory (Fuga Canonica in Epidiapente), clefs that are both upside down and back to front (as in the image above). All the enigmas, non excepted, find immediate solution in Greco's research.
The ideal performance of the Musical Offering would require a small chamber group, composed by a flute, a violin, a cello and a harpsichord or a piano, according to the placement that one intends to give to the concert.
Duration: 50 minutes + talk.


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Unter der Bezeichnung jüdische Jugendbewegung werden verschiedene jüdische Jugendverbände des Deutschen Kaiserreichs und der Weimarer Republik zusammengefasst, die in ihren Inhalten und Formen von der deutschen Jugendbewegung beeinflusst wurden und sich gleichzeitig auf speziell jüdische Elemente beriefen. Die Bünde der jüdischen Jugendbewegung machten in nur geringem zeitlichen Abstand die Entwicklungen der deutschen Jugendbewegung mit, zunächst wurden Formen des Wandervogels, später der Bündischen Jugend und der Jungenschaft übernommen.

Mit der zunehmenden Judenverfolgung im Deutschen Reich zwischen 1933 und 1939 wurden die Möglichkeiten der jüdischen Jugendbünde immer stärker eingeschränkt, bis sie 1939 verboten wurden. Zahlreiche Mitglieder der Bünde wurden in den Vernichtungslagern ermordet. Eine doppelte Ausnahme stellt der Hashomer Hatzair dar, der als einziger nennenswerter Bund der jüdischen Jugendbewegung außerhalb des Deutschen Reiches entstanden ist und wegen seiner internationalen Ausrichtung bis heute existiert.

Die politische Ausrichtung der jüdischen Bünde war uneinheitlich und wandelte sich mit der Zeit. Zu Beginn herrschte die Prägung durch das assimilierte Judentum vor, während später vor allem zionistische und sozialistische Ideen die Bünde prägten. Daneben gab es aber auch immer Gruppen des religiösen Judentums.

Geschichte
In ihrer Anfangsphase nahm die Wandervogelbewegung Jungen ungeachtet ihrer Religion auf. Ab 1904 spaltete sich die Bewegung in unterschiedliche Bünde, von denen einige wie der Wandervogel, Deutscher Bund schon in ihrem Namen den Bezug auf das Deutschtum herstellten. Gleichzeitig gewannen Vorstellungen des Dürerbundes und des Alldeutschen Verbands Anhänger in der Wandervogelbewegung. In den folgenden Jahren orientierte sich die Wandervogelbewegung in weiten Teilen immer stärker an der völkischen Bewegung. Der Österreichische Wandervogel erklärte 1913: "Darum haben wir (…) kundgetan, daß wir weder Slaven, noch Wälsche, noch Juden in unseren Reihen sehen wollen, weil wir, umbrandet von Fremden und durchsetzt von Mischlingen, unsere rassische Reinheit bewahren müssen."

Der erste jüdische Jugendverein, dem bald Gründungen in Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main, Lörrach und Bremen folgten, wurde 1892 in Stuttgart gegründet. Vor dem Hintergrund der Erfahrung des Unerwünschtseins in der Wandervogelbewegung entstanden im ersten Jahrzehnt des 20. Jahrhunderts weitere lokale jüdische Wandergruppen, wie beispielsweise der Breslauer Wanderverein 1907. 1912 regte dessen Gründer Joseph Marcus auf dem Delegiertentag der Zionistischen Vereinigung für Deutschland die Gründung von wandervogelähnlichen Jugendgruppen an. Im gleichen Jahr entstanden an mehreren Orten Blau-Weiß-Bünde, die sich 1913 mit dem Wanderverein 1907 zu Blau-Weiß, Bund für Jüdisches Jugendwandern in Deutschland zusammengeschlossen. Durch einen antisemitischen Vorfall in einer Zittauer Wandervogelgruppe, der von den Medien im Deutschen Reich aufgegriffen wurde, hatte Blau-Weiß schon im Gründungsjahr starken Zulauf. Bei Kriegsausbruch 1914 hatte Blau-Weiß etwa 900 Mitglieder, bis zum Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs wuchs die Mitgliederzahl auf circa 3000. Angeregt von dieser erfolgreichen Gründung im Deutschen Reich entstand ein gleichnamiger Wanderbund in Österreich.

Obwohl Blau-Weiß schon 1925/26 nach einem gescheiterten Siedlungsprojekt in Palästina aufgelöst wurde, zeichnete seine Entwicklung die der meisten anderen jüdischen Jugendbünde vor: Die Entstehung als Reaktion auf äußere Einflüsse, die Entwicklung eines eigenen jugendbewegten Stils und die Hinwendung nach Palästina und zur Alija sind typisch für die jüdische Jugendbewegung. Aus den Restgruppen von Blau-Weiß entstanden mehrere andere jüdische Jugendbünde, die ähnliche Entwicklungsschritte durchmachten.

Anders als die nichtjüdischen Jugendbünde wurden die jüdischen Bünde nach der Machtergreifung der Nationalsozialisten nicht aufgelöst, sie mussten sich aber dem Reichsausschuß der jüdischen Jugendverbände anschließen. In den Mittelpunkt der Arbeit rückte jetzt immer mehr der Hechaluz und die Auswanderung nach Palästina, für die von den Bünden mehrere Hachscharah-Lager eingerichtet wurden, die auch zur Schulung gegen die nationalsozialistische Ideologie genutzt wurden. In diesen Formen konnten die Bünde der jüdischen Jugendbewegung bis 1938 weiterarbeiten, als sie durch die verstärkte Verfolgung nach den Novemberpogromen 1938 ihre Arbeit komplett auf die Auswanderung umstellen mussten. Anfang 1939 wurden die jüdischen Jugendbünde dann verboten. Einzelne Gruppen setzte im Rahmen der Hachscharah-Lager ihre Arbeit bis 1943 fort, obwohl bereits 1941 die Auswanderung von Juden aus dem Deutschen Reich verboten worden war und die Lager in Zwangsarbeiterlager umgewandelt worden waren. Das Hachscharah-Gut Landwerk Neuendorf in Neuendorf im Sande in der heute amtsfreien Gemeinde Steinhöfel wurde als letztes der Lager am 8. April 1943 aufgelöst, die 160 Menschen wurden in das KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau deportiert.

Eine nach der Fabrikaktion am 27. Februar 1943 im Untergrund in Berlin weiter existierende Gruppe aus diesem Bereich war der Chug Chaluzi um Jizchak Schwersenz.

Über die Jugendalijah und die Hachscharah konnten mehrere tausend jugendliche Juden nach Palästina auswandern. Durch sie wurden Formen der Jugendbewegung in die israelischen Jugendverbände wie zum Beispiel die Pfadfinder eingeführt, die damit die jüdische Jugendbewegung fortführen.

Daneben gab es in den 1930er Jahren häufig Überschneidungen zwischen aus der Arbeiterbewegung stammenden Widerstandsgruppen beispielsweise der KPD, der KPO, der IKD und des ISK einerseits und jüdischen Jugendverbänden wie dem Deutsch-jüdischen Wanderbund "Kameraden", den Werkleuten oder dem Hashomer Hatzair andererseits. Die bekannteste dieser Widerstandsgruppen ist die Herbert-Baum-Gruppe, die sich um 1933 bildete und nach dem Brandanschlag auf die NS-Propaganda-Ausstellung "Das Sowjetparadies" am 18. Mai 1942 zerschlagen wurde.

Bünde der jüdischen Jugendbewegung
Ähnlich wie die nichtjüdische Jugendbewegung wurde die jüdische Jugendbewegung von einer Vielzahl unterschiedlichster Bünde geprägt, die zum Teil nur kurz bestanden, miteinander fusionierten oder sich von anderen Bünden abspalteten. Als Dachorganisationen der unterschiedlichen Verbände fungierten der
 Verband jüdischer Jugendvereine Deutschlands (VJJD), gegründet 1909
 Der oben bereits erwähnte Reichsausschuß der jüdischen Jugendverbände hatte bereits vor 1933 als Dachverband existiert, nach Adler-Rudel als Initiative aus den Kreisen der jüdischen Jugend. "Die zahlreichen Jugend-Organisationen, die zumeist in der Periode der Weimarer Republik entstanden waren, hatten sich 1924 zu einer Dachorganisation zusammengeschlossen, dem 'Reichsausschuß der jüdischen Jugendverbände'. Dieser Dachverband, dem 1933 15 Jugendverbände mit ca. 600 Ortsgruppen und etwa 40 000 Mitgliedern angeschlossen waren, bewährte sich in seiner Wirksamkeit als Jugendbeirat der Zentralwohlfahrtsstelle der deutschen Juden. Die Geschäftsführung lag in den Händen von Dr. Ludwig Tietz und Dr. Georg Lubinski."

Die wichtigsten Bünde waren:
 Blau-Weiß und seine Nachfolgeverbände:
 Blau-Weiß, Bund für Jüdisches Jugendwandern in Deutschland. Dieser Verband entstand 1913 aus dem Zusammenschluss mehrerer lokaler Bünde.
 Kadima (Jugendverband) ging 1926 aus Blau-Weiß hervor und schloss sich 1933 mit dem
 Jung-Jüdischer Wanderbund, ab 1929 Brith Haolim (Bund der Aufsteigenden), zum Verband der
 Habonim Noar Chaluzi (Bauleute) zusammen.
 Betar steht als Abkürzung für Brit HaNoar HaIvri al shem Joseph Trumpeldor, deutsch Hebräischer Jugendbund Joseph Trumpeldor. Der Verband ist auch bekannt als Brit(h) Trumpeldor. Nach anderen Quellen steht Betar allerdings für den Namen der Festung, von der aus Bar Kochba 135 n. Chr. den Aufstand gegen die römischen Legionen in Palästina leitete,
 Jüdischer Pfadfinderbund Deutschland (J.P.D.), gegründet 1928 als Bund jüdischer Pfadfinder (BJP). Der J.P.D. schloss sich 1934 mit dem
 Makkabi Hazair (Junge Makkabäer) zum J.P.D. – Makkabi Hazair zusammen.
 Hashomer Hatzair (Junge Wächter)
 Kameraden, deutsch-jüdischer Wanderbund, aus ihm sind mehrere Abspaltungen hervorgegangen:
 Schwarzer Haufen um Hans Litten und Max Fürst (Schriftsteller)
 Werkleute (Bund jüdische Jugend)
 Schwarzes Fähnlein, von diesem wiederum spalte sich 1934 unter der Führung von Paul Yogi Mayer die Gruppe
 Blaue Schar ab.
 Freie deutsch-jüdische Jugend
 Bund deutsch-jüdischer Jugend (BDJJ). Zu ihm hatten sich im Dezember 1933 die folgenden nicht-zionistischen Verbände zusammengeschlossen:
 Deutsch-Jüdische Jugendgemeinschaft (DJJG)
 Hamburger Deutsch-Jüdischen Jugend
 Jüdische Jugend- und Kinderscharen Berlin
 Jüdisch-liberaler Jugendverein
 CV-Jugendgruppen
 Als orthodox-jüdische Jugendbünde gelten:
 Brith Hanoar schel ziere Misrachi (Bund der Misrachi-Jugend)
 Esra Pirche Agudath Jisroel (Esra, Bund der thoratreuen Juden)

Siehe auch
 Hans Litten
 Hechaluz
 Kinder- und Jugend-Alijah

Literatur
 Lothar Bembenek: Werner T. Angress, Paul Yogi Mayer und Guy Stern. In: Barbara Stambolis (Hrsg.): Jugendbewegt geprägt, V&R UniPress, Göttingen, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8471-0004-1, S. 69–88.
 Suska Döpp: Jüdische Jugendbewegung in Köln 1906–1938, LIT, Münster, 1997, ISBN 978-3-8258-3210-0.
 Jutta Hetkamp: Die jüdische Jugendbewegung in Deutschland von 1913–1933. LIT, Münster 1994. ISBN 3-89473-797-2.
 Werner Kindt (Hrsg.): Dokumentation der Jugendbewegung.
 Bd. 2: Die Wandervogelzeit. Quellenschriften zur deutschen Jugendbewegung 1896–1919. Diedrichs, Düsseldorf 1968.
 Bd. 3: Die deutsche Jugendbewegung 1920 bis 1933. Die Bündische Zeit. Diedrichs, Düsseldorf 1974, ISBN 3-424-00527-4.
 Irmgard Klönne: Deutsch, Jüdisch, Bündisch. Erinnerung an die aus Deutschland vertriebene jüdische Jugendbewegung. Puls 21. Verlag der Jugendbewegung, Witzenhausen 1993,
 Bodo Mrozek: Kurzporträts jüdischer Jugendbünde, in: Wilfried Löhken u. Werner Vathke: Juden im Widerstand. Drei Gruppen zwischen Überlebenskampf und politischer Aktion, Berlin 1939–1945. Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-89468-068-7.
 Ulrike Pilarczyk: Gemeinschaft in Bildern. Jüdische Jugendbewegung und zionistische Erziehungspraxis in Deutschland und Palästina/Israel, Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0439-0.(= Hamburger Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Juden, Bd. 35; Volltext)
 Eliyahu Kutti Salinger: Nächstes Jahr im Kibbuz. Die jüdisch-chaluzische Jugendbewegung in Deutschland zwischen 1933 und 1943. KoWAG, Paderborn 1998, ISBN 3-933577-01-2.
 Barbara Stambolis: Jüdische Jugendbewegungen. In: Michael Klöcker/Udo Tworuschka: Handbuch der Religionen 67. EL, Hohenwarsleben 2021 Westarp Science Fachverlage, ISBN 978-3-86617-501-3
 Andreas Winnecken: Ein Fall von Antisemitismus. Zur Geschichte und Pathogenese der deutschen Jugendbewegung vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg. Wissenschaft und Politik, Köln 1991, ISBN 3-8046-8770-9.

Weblinks
  – Darstellung einer aus den Kameraden hervorgegangenen Gruppe
 Hachschara-Stätte Ahrensdorf, geleitet von Makkabi Hazair
 Blau-Weiß Blätter. Monatsschrift für jüdisches Jugendwandern beim Digitalisierungsprojekt Compact Memory an der Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
 Jugend in Deutschland 1918 bis 1945: Jüdische Jugend (NS-Dokumentationszentrum der Stadt Köln)

Einzelnachweise

Jüdische Geschichte (Deutschland)

Jugendbewegung

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Meet the Author: Dr. Elizabeth Mezzacappa
By Steve Stark, Army AL&TSeptember 25, 2018
1 / 1 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Crowd motion-capture data is overlaid on a video recording, with the boxes indicating the location and orientation of each of the crowd members and each member of the control force. The results are used to help Soldiers understand what nonlethal weapons might be used to react to aggressive behavior in such circumstances. (U.S. Army photo by Robert DeMarco, RDECOM ARDEC) (Photo Credit: Robert DeMarco, RDECOM ARDEC) VIEW ORIGINAL
by Mr. Steve Stark
Dr. Elizabeth Mezzacappa could seriously hurt you.
But if she did hurt you, it would be nonlethal and totally ethical (to understand why, you have to read the article she wrote, "Radical Futures," in the July - September issue of Army AL&T magazine). Her laboratory got its start in nonlethal weapons, but just because they're nonlethal doesn't mean that they'd be pleasant.
That's just one of the many cool things about our new pal, Liza-that's Dr. Mezzacappa to you-from the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) Tactical Behavior Research Laboratory (TBRL) in Picatinny, New Jersey.
Another cool thing: She's been on panels at a bunch of science fiction conventions. Seriously. In a recent interview, she said that the work TBRL is looking at in the near future would've been science fiction when she first started out.
"The coolest thing we're doing," Mezzacappa said, "is building the closest thing that the Army has right now" to the holodeck on "Star Trek." (For you non-Trekkies, the holodeck is a virtual reality system that can create "solid" characters and objects as well as holographic projections to simulate specific vistas or scenarios.) That's so the TBRL team can figure out all kinds of way-beyond-your-pay-grade things about-among other things-the neural reactions of Soldiers in particularly stressful situations-crowd control, for example. The computer can play any scenario that the artists create and the team can get tons and tons of data about tactical behavior.
In addition to cool, Mezzacappa is soft spoken, like the nicest therapist a person could have. And she's working on weapons. But mostly she's working on how Soldiers respond to those weapons-lethal and nonlethal-from both ends of the barrel.
Just take a look at the video. You'll get it.
When the amazing "Radical Futures" article dropped out of the ether and into our laptops, our first thought was, "We are not worthy." Meanwhile, Mezzacappa was thinking that Army AL&T wouldn't be interested.
What? Seriously?
"Right before I submitted to you," she said, "somebody in my lab gave us articles that you had published on AI [artificial intelligence] and swarms. ... When I looked at that, you had high-level people" writing the articles in the magazine. "To me, that told me that you wouldn't want something from me. I don't have a title like that."
Probably the first time in the last decade she's been wrong.
WHAT? NO, WAIT. REALLY?
We were immediately intrigued when we wrapped our flabbergasted heads around the work her team does, which falls under the general heading of Inventing the Future of Warfare, and has a whole lot of bullet points beneath it, one of which would be: Testing Nonexistent Weapons.
We could go on. Better yet, do whatever you have to do to hustle on over to read Mezzacappa's "Radical Futures." It will be worth it.
Oh, and since the article was published, Mezzacappa said, her team has been "contacted by a company for collaboration and I was invited to speak at a London conference because of the article." Could not have happened to a nicer person.
When Army AL&T talked with Mezzacappa in late July, she had just returned from being out of town and was marooned at home, her car's battery having died while she was gone. She was more than happy to talk about the work that her laboratory does and the difficulties in publishing the laboratory's research. In a general sense, Mezzacappa said, "Within acquisition, and perhaps because of the kind of area that I'm in, which is human subjects, with its own kind of methods and own kind of analysis, it's been my observation that defense acquisition does not really have an outlet for the scientific work that we do."
The problem, she said, is that mainstream psychological journals "don't want to hear about guns. No psychologist, behavioral scientist, wants to hear about guns. Even within the Army where they have psychologists for Soldier support, they tend to do kind of general kinds of behavioral psychology," she said. "They're not comfortable dealing with how you make a Soldier more lethal."
Or even how you create nonlethal weapons. Her laboratory, she said, "started off in nonlethal weapons and we slid into lethal weapons because that's where the priorities are right now. So there's no place for a lab like us to publish. The general behavioral science areas don't like to deal with war, and the general Army publications aren't set up to evaluate that kind of behavioral science." She was quick to add that "might be changing. We're starting to publish so that people might understand what we're doing. The closest area [to what we do] is probably operations research and systems analysis. They're the closest thing to putting a person in a situation and seeing how the performance is of the person, plus whether their systems are working."
The original paper she wrote and submitted to a science journal, she said, was about a nonlethal weapon. "We were trying to generate obscuring requirements to protect vehicle mines. There's personnel mines that traditionally blow up people, and they don't want to blow up people anymore." The question was, can we "make a nonlethal way to prevent people from removing the vehicle mines that we put out?" And how much obscurant would be necessary? "So we designed a test bed, which I believe is in the article, it's that fog test bed. That was what the article was about." Talking with Mezzacappa and her team is a continuous revelation of the fascinating and vital work that they do.
Perhaps fortunately for Army AL&T, that paper was rejected. Mezzacappa, for whom "persistent" might be an understatement, kept looking for venues to show the work TBRL does.
"I'm still trying to find a place for it."
For writers guidelines and to submit articles, go to: https://asc.army.mil/web/publications/army-alt-submissions/.
STEVE STARK is senior editor of Army AL&T magazine. He holds an M.A. in creative writing from Hollins University and a B.A. in English from George Mason University. In addition to more than two decades of editing and writing about the military and S&T, he is the best-selling ghostwriter of several consumer-health oriented books and an award-winning novelist.
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July 4, 2015 New Ottawa Critics MNTF 2015
"Re: Union" is Completely Compelling
Completely compelling, Re:Union pulls you into a little known story about a well known topic — the Vietnam War. The play, produced by Horseshoes and Hand Grenades Theatre, is a captivating journey of discovery and truth. In October of 2001, Emily Morrison (Alexa Devine) travels to Washington, DC to confront Robert McNamara (Andrew Wheeler), US Secretary of Defence, about an act of protest committed by her father, Norman Morrison (Brad Long), at the peak of the Vietnam War. Topics of martyrdom, conscience, faith, and reason are discussed as characters weave in and out of time, using projections and live video, adding to the visual experience.
Playwright and director Sean Devine, in this remounted production for Magnetic North (originally directed by John Langs), effortlessly weaves together a semi-fictionalized narrative that shifts between the 1960s and the buildup to the War on Terror. Morrison, a Quaker living in Baltimore, hears of an attack on a Vietnamese village that results in the deaths of many innocents. Disturbed by this news, he sets out to find inspiration from God in silence. In an act that surpasses reason, Norman and his one-year-old daughter Emily travel to Washington, DC, and Norman sets himself on fire in front of McNamara's office at the Pentagon. Thirty-six years later, Emily, now married with children, tries to coerce McNamara into participating in her own act of terrorism, but her plans go awry when she is dealt a great truth about her role in her father's death.
The impressive set, designed by John Webber, is made up of rectangular panels that serve as projection screens for live and recorded video, which provide atmosphere while situating and advancing the action. A plinth is located centre stage that serves as desk, projector, and counter. The elements of technology incorporated into this production are clever, without being too ostentatious or drawing away from the acting.
Long is at once endearing and thought provoking, raising great sympathy as the audience watches his spiritual and emotional struggle. Wheeler delivers a deeply engaging performance as McNamara, nailing the voice and physicality of this man, creating a great dynamic between him and Alexa Devine's bold and raw performance as Emily. The tense scenes between them are broken up by Long, as Morrison, offering lectures to the audience (the real-life Morrison was a teacher) about the parable of Isaac and Abraham, using arguments from Kierkegaard to dissect its meaning. This creates a lovely ebb and flow of action and suspense while maintaining a solid relationship between the two time periods.
Re:Union certainly falls under Magnetic North's tagline of "Radical lessons for a meaningful life": There are lessons to be learned from this piece. Offering a Canadian approach to an American story, Re:Union is not biased towards any one viewpoint. Whether or not this has potential to tour depends on how audiences may react to Canadians telling an American story.
Re:Union
Written and Directed by Sean Devine
Horseshoes and Hand Grenades Theatre
By Hilary Peck
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The timing of the transition from mortality compression to delay in Europe, Japan and the United States
F. Janssen, J.A.A. de Beer
Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)
Research output: Contribution to journal/periodical › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Previous research found evidence for a transition from mortality compression (declining lifespan variability) to mortality delay (increasing ages at death) in low-mortality countries.
We specifically assessed the year at which increases in life expectancy at birth transitioned from being predominantly due to mortality compression to being predominantly due to mortality delay in 26 European countries, Japan, and the United States of America (USA), 1950–2014.
To unsmoothed age- and sex-specific death rates from the Human Mortality Database, we applied the CoDe (compression and delay) mortality model.
Among women, the transition first occurred in the USA around 1950, then in North-Western Europe (1955–1970) and Southern Europe (1970–1975), and still later in Eastern Europe. Among men, the transition occurred about 10 years later and is still incomplete in Eastern Europe. We identified four stages: (1) predominance of compression mainly due to mortality declines at young ages, (2) declining importance of mortality compression due to the decreasing impact of mortality declines at young ages, (3) delay becomes predominant due to the increasing impact of mortality delay and the counterbalancing effects of mortality compression/expansion at different ages, and (4) strong predominance of delay accompanied by strong adult mortality declines and declining compression at old ages.
Our results suggest that life expectancy and maximum lifespan will increase further. With mortality delay, premature mortality and old-age mortality are shifting towards older ages.
GENUS - Journal of Population Sciences
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Janssen, F., & de Beer, J. A. A. (2019). The timing of the transition from mortality compression to delay in Europe, Japan and the United States. GENUS - Journal of Population Sciences, 75, [10 (2019)]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-019-0057-y
Janssen, F. ; de Beer, J.A.A. / The timing of the transition from mortality compression to delay in Europe, Japan and the United States. In: GENUS - Journal of Population Sciences. 2019 ; Vol. 75.
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abstract = "Previous research found evidence for a transition from mortality compression (declining lifespan variability) to mortality delay (increasing ages at death) in low-mortality countries.We specifically assessed the year at which increases in life expectancy at birth transitioned from being predominantly due to mortality compression to being predominantly due to mortality delay in 26 European countries, Japan, and the United States of America (USA), 1950–2014.To unsmoothed age- and sex-specific death rates from the Human Mortality Database, we applied the CoDe (compression and delay) mortality model.Among women, the transition first occurred in the USA around 1950, then in North-Western Europe (1955–1970) and Southern Europe (1970–1975), and still later in Eastern Europe. Among men, the transition occurred about 10 years later and is still incomplete in Eastern Europe. We identified four stages: (1) predominance of compression mainly due to mortality declines at young ages, (2) declining importance of mortality compression due to the decreasing impact of mortality declines at young ages, (3) delay becomes predominant due to the increasing impact of mortality delay and the counterbalancing effects of mortality compression/expansion at different ages, and (4) strong predominance of delay accompanied by strong adult mortality declines and declining compression at old ages.Our results suggest that life expectancy and maximum lifespan will increase further. With mortality delay, premature mortality and old-age mortality are shifting towards older ages.",
keywords = "Mortality,, Life expectancy, Transition, Modal age at death, Mortalitycompression, Mortality delay, Shifting mortality",
author = "F. Janssen and {de Beer}, J.A.A.",
doi = "10.1186/s41118-019-0057-y",
journal = "GENUS - Journal of Population Sciences",
Janssen, F & de Beer, JAA 2019, 'The timing of the transition from mortality compression to delay in Europe, Japan and the United States', GENUS - Journal of Population Sciences, vol. 75, 10 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-019-0057-y
The timing of the transition from mortality compression to delay in Europe, Japan and the United States. / Janssen, F.; de Beer, J.A.A.
In: GENUS - Journal of Population Sciences, Vol. 75, 10 (2019), 2019.
T1 - The timing of the transition from mortality compression to delay in Europe, Japan and the United States
AU - Janssen, F.
AU - de Beer, J.A.A.
N2 - Previous research found evidence for a transition from mortality compression (declining lifespan variability) to mortality delay (increasing ages at death) in low-mortality countries.We specifically assessed the year at which increases in life expectancy at birth transitioned from being predominantly due to mortality compression to being predominantly due to mortality delay in 26 European countries, Japan, and the United States of America (USA), 1950–2014.To unsmoothed age- and sex-specific death rates from the Human Mortality Database, we applied the CoDe (compression and delay) mortality model.Among women, the transition first occurred in the USA around 1950, then in North-Western Europe (1955–1970) and Southern Europe (1970–1975), and still later in Eastern Europe. Among men, the transition occurred about 10 years later and is still incomplete in Eastern Europe. We identified four stages: (1) predominance of compression mainly due to mortality declines at young ages, (2) declining importance of mortality compression due to the decreasing impact of mortality declines at young ages, (3) delay becomes predominant due to the increasing impact of mortality delay and the counterbalancing effects of mortality compression/expansion at different ages, and (4) strong predominance of delay accompanied by strong adult mortality declines and declining compression at old ages.Our results suggest that life expectancy and maximum lifespan will increase further. With mortality delay, premature mortality and old-age mortality are shifting towards older ages.
AB - Previous research found evidence for a transition from mortality compression (declining lifespan variability) to mortality delay (increasing ages at death) in low-mortality countries.We specifically assessed the year at which increases in life expectancy at birth transitioned from being predominantly due to mortality compression to being predominantly due to mortality delay in 26 European countries, Japan, and the United States of America (USA), 1950–2014.To unsmoothed age- and sex-specific death rates from the Human Mortality Database, we applied the CoDe (compression and delay) mortality model.Among women, the transition first occurred in the USA around 1950, then in North-Western Europe (1955–1970) and Southern Europe (1970–1975), and still later in Eastern Europe. Among men, the transition occurred about 10 years later and is still incomplete in Eastern Europe. We identified four stages: (1) predominance of compression mainly due to mortality declines at young ages, (2) declining importance of mortality compression due to the decreasing impact of mortality declines at young ages, (3) delay becomes predominant due to the increasing impact of mortality delay and the counterbalancing effects of mortality compression/expansion at different ages, and (4) strong predominance of delay accompanied by strong adult mortality declines and declining compression at old ages.Our results suggest that life expectancy and maximum lifespan will increase further. With mortality delay, premature mortality and old-age mortality are shifting towards older ages.
KW - Mortality,
KW - Life expectancy
KW - Transition
KW - Modal age at death
KW - Mortalitycompression
KW - Mortality delay
KW - Shifting mortality
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DO - 10.1186/s41118-019-0057-y
JO - GENUS - Journal of Population Sciences
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M1 - 10 (2019)
Janssen F, de Beer JAA. The timing of the transition from mortality compression to delay in Europe, Japan and the United States. GENUS - Journal of Population Sciences. 2019;75. 10 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-019-0057-y


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I've configured both interfaces in the /etc/network/interfaces file. Both of the connections work separately. I replaced the default gateways with the one below:
# ip route add default \
    nexthop via 192.168.1.1 dev bond0 weight 1 \
    nexthop via 10.143.105.17 dev wwan0 weight 1

I added masquerade targets in iptables on both of the interfaces:
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o wwan0 -j MASQUERADE
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o bond0 -j MASQUERADE

Also I enabled (partially) reverse path filtering via sysctl:
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 2
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 2

This setup works. Packets (connections) are sent via both interfaces. There's just one problem I don't get.
When I want to check my IP address using the following commands:
$ curl text.whatisyourip.org
$ curl eko.one.pl/host.php

The IP address is different in both cases, which means that the mechanism works well. Also I can see it working in wireshark. But when I'm trying to send, for instance, multiple requests to the first of the domains above, I always get the same IP address in response. So it looks like that packets that are destined to the specific IP address always go through the same interface. I'm just wondering why. Is there any mechanism that remembers the destination IP addresses of the previous requests and makes the next requests to the same addresses to go through the same interface?

A: I've managed to solve the problem. In this link you can read the following:

IPv4: Hash-based multipath routing. When the routing cache was removed
  in 3.6, the IPv4 multipath algorithm changed from more or less being
  destination-based into being quasi-random per-packet scheduling. This
  increased the risk of out-of-order packets and made it impossible to
  use multipath together with anycast services. In this release, the
  multipath routing implementation is replaced with a flow-based load
  balancing based on a hash over the source and destination addresses
  merge commit

So even though the cache was removed in kernel 3.6, the requests are still being cached. Now the source and the destination addresses matter. So that's why the packets go always through the same interface.

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