The time has finally come for the 2014 NFL Draft. Everyone has their mock drafts and everyone knows that they will be wrong but they do it anyway. There will be trades so the teams in the positions they are now won't all likely be there when the pick actually arrives but for the time being, this is if no trades happen. Here are my previous attempts at this in March and April leading up to this final mock draft. Here is how I see the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft shaping up.
A look at this shows that there is no Teddy Bridgewater in the first round and he is more likely to be taken with the first pick of the second round by the Texans if nothing else happens in front of them during the first round. It's now time to wait and see which teams actually pick which player. It is definitely going to be an exciting three days coming up for fans and teams around the NFL.


For many people dentures are a part of growing old, but you can lose teeth earlier through disease and teeth can also be knocked out in fights and sporting accidents. If that has happened to you, do you have any false teeth? You can keep your dentures hidden, or show off your false teeth – or you may choose not to replace missing teeth at all! That is really freaky.
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How to memorise an entire foreign dictionary (and become a Scrabble world champion)
news Tuesday, July 28, 2015 - 05:30
Lauren Knott, City University London
New Zealand's Nigel Richards, who doesn't speak French, has won the French-language Scrabble world championships. In the Scrabble world, Richards is considered to be the best player ever, having won the English world Scrabble championships three times, the US national championships five times and the UK Open six times. His latest remarkable feat was achieved after reportedly memorising the entire French Scrabble dictionary in just nine weeks.
Richards is not the only person who has wowed the world with exceptional memory skills. Dave Farrow is the Guinness World Record holder for greatest memory. In 2007 he spent around 14 hours memorising a random sequence of 59 separate packs of cards (3,068 individual cards), looking at each card once. In 1981, Rajan Mahadevan recited from memory the first 31,811 digits of pi, a record that was astonishingly broken by Hideaki Tomoyori in 1987, who recited 40,000 digits.
For those of us struggling to remember what happened a couple of days ago, such innately superior memory capacity is remarkable. The question of whether these people are born with exceptional memory ability or acquire it by deliberate practice has interested both scientists and the general public alike for hundreds of years.
Memory genius comes with practice
Many books were published in the 1980s and 90s on the topic of genius and exceptional performance, with pioneering research comparing the superior performance of chess experts over beginners.
What became apparent, however, is that, although some people were able to recall large amounts of information seemingly effortlessly, their memory was truly exceptional only for materials that were specific to their expertise. In one study in the 1970s, William Chase and Herbert Simon at Carnegie Mellon University had world chess experts recall the configuration of chess pieces on a chessboard. When the chess experts were shown an actual chess positioned board, their recall of the pieces was far superior to novices. However, with random chessboards, players of all skill level had the same poor recall performance.
In order to answer the question of how to achieve exceptional memory performance, Chase, alongside K Anders Ericsson, developed the "skilled memory theory" which proposed three basic principles.
First, individuals need to rely on prior knowledge and patterns to encode and store the material in long-term-memory – what they called the "encoding principle". Second, encoded information needs a "retrieval structure" – meaning it is associated with a cue when first seen so that it can be triggered during retrieval from long-term memory. And third, with additional practice people become more proficient in their encoding and can store the same amount of presented information in less time – the "speed-up principle".
Even with the conjugations? Mglovesfun at fr.wikipedia, CC BY-SA
Techniques to try
What this is referring to is a mnemonic strategy. We are all capable of using such strategies although some of us are more skilled at it then others. The oldest and most common method is the method of loci (Latin for "places"). In the method of loci, the mnemonist first creates a series of places, imagined rooms (the encoding principle), then puts what is to be remembered in said rooms, and finally walks from room to room in a fixed order, to recall the material (retrieval structure principle).
The more familiar and elaborate the detail of the imagined place is, the faster they will be able to place and retrieval material (the speed-up principle). Many mnemonic methods such as loci require such visualisation. For example, digit sequences can be associated with word links. If 59 is "lip" and 47 is "rock", then 5947 can be remembered by an interactive image of "lips kissing a rock". Other mnemonic techniques include a digit-consonant system or converting digits into syllables (based on the Japanese language) which are then regrouped into words.
Although Richards is a somewhat reclusive figure, so we can't say for certain what techniques he used, it is more than likely that he is highly skilled at mnemonic strategies, along with having an exceptional mathematical talent to play scrabble. He, and others like him are able to utilise mnemonic strategies beyond our comprehensible understanding. However, whether it is his dedication to practice or some innate superior memory that is responsible for this ability is still under scientific investigation.
Lauren Knott is Lecturer in Psychology at City University London.

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If Greece is forced to leave the euro, the immediate repercussions for the rest of the European Union could be limited. Greece barely accounts for 1 percent of the European economy while both the bloc as a whole and other heavily-indebted states in its periphery, such as Italy and Portugal, say they are now better prepared for a Greek exit than they were in 2010, when the country received its first bailout.
But in the long term, a Greek withdrawal from the currency union or even the European Union altogether could do serious damage to the strategic position of other European states.
In what may turn out to be a sign of things to come, Greece defied its NATO allies earlier this month to sign a €2 billion gas pipeline deal with Russia. The European Union and the United States had both urged it not to and advised Greece to help build the Southern Gas Corridor instead which is meant to deliver gas from the Caspian Sea region into Europe.
The far-left government that came to power in Athens in January has made an effort to repair Greek-Russian relations. Composed of former communists and illiberal radicals who see in Germany and the United States the embodiment of a neoliberal world order they reject, the administration — if it survives a euro exit — can be expected to look to Russia first as an alternative ally if feels betrayed by the West.
Russia is a major trading partner for Greece. It accounted for 14 percent of the Balkan nation's imports in 2013 and supplies most of its natural gas.
Alexis Tsipras, the Greek prime minister, has suggested that his government can serve as a "bridge" to Moscow at a time of heightened East-West tension over Russia's aggression in Ukraine.
But Greek support for a Russian pipeline that would allow Europe's largest provider of natural gas to bypass Ukraine suggests Tsipras would be less of a neutral arbiter in relations with Russia and more of a Russian proxy.
In a recent report (PDF), the crowdsourced consultancy Wikistrat warns that Greek voters' desire to "punish" Europe for ejecting it from the euro and likely triggering a deeper economic crisis could justify unorthodox alliances with Russia or even China — which would quickly call the country's European Union membership into question as well.
The company argues that Greece became a member of the European Economic Community in the early 1980s for geostrategic reasons and that not much in the region has changed since then.
Southeastern Europe is tilting dangerously toward subtle forms of authoritarianism and ethnic tensions are waiting to be revived and exploited and Greece stands out as a relatively liberal democracy. Russia's expansive tendencies in the Black Sea region and the steady influx of migrants and refugees from Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia across the Aegean Sea underscore the rest of Europe's need to not turn an ally here into an enemy.
Russia's strategic goals in Greece extend beyond maintaining a monopoly position on its gas market and finding an ally in Europe that can block another round of sanctions the bloc imposed after it seized the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine last year.
If Russia is to project power into the Mediterranean, it requires Greece's acquiescence. Even if it improves relations with Turkey — and Russian president Vladimir Putin appears to have found a like-minded leader in that country's increasingly erratic and anti-Western president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan — it could still be blocked by Western powers in the Aegean. Once Greece succumbs to its influence, however, the Mediterranean will be wide open.
Hence Western support for the Greek national government against the communists during the 1946-1949 Civil War. And hence Greece's NATO membership, something Tsipras and his supporters aren't so sure about anymore.
As the war in Ukraine's southeastern Donbas region seems to be fizzling out, another conflict on Russia's borders could soon be frozen.
Although a truce negotiated by the leaders of France and Germany last month is still tenuous and although Russia has yet to fully back down, the civil war it instigated in the largely Russian-speaking frontier region of its former Soviet republic is losing intensity.
Edward W. Walker, a comparative political scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, believes a frozen conflict is now more likely. Neither the separatists, who are supported by Russia, nor the authorities in Kiev are in a position to decisively end the war, he argues.
If anything, Russia's meddling in Ukraine has strengthened NATO's resolve and aggravated the threat Russia believes it poses to its security. In the wake of Russia's occupation and annexation of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine last year, the Western military alliance for the first time deployed forces in the former East Bloc states that freed themselves from Moscow after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
That might not be politically feasible. President Vladimir Putin has staked his popularity on taking a "tough" stance against what Russians see as Western encroachment on their traditional sphere of influence. Retreating from Ukraine could be interpreted by the Russian public as weakness and threaten Putin's hold on power.
Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is almost certain to win his country's first direct presidential election on Sunday.
A victory for Erdoğan, who has ruled Turkey for more than a decade, would likely reinforce the NATO member state's Islamization and exasperate opponents who have proven unable to thwart what they perceive as a drift toward authoritarianism.
Erdoğan, who has won every Turkish election for his conservative Justice and Development Party (AKP) since 2002, promises to exercise the full powers granted to him if he is elected president — unlike his predecessors, who were appointed by parliament and played a largely ceremonial role.
The current constitution, which was written under military rule after a 1980 coup, would enable him to appoint the prime minister as well as top judges and chair cabinet meetings.
An election victory could also embolden Erdoğan to push for constitutional changes in order to expand the powers of the presidency further.
Opponents of Erdoğan's government worry that such a move would allow the Turkish leader to manipulate the country's democratic institutions and suppress dissent.
Erdoğan has recently been battered by graft accusations he claims were fabricated by supporters of a former ally, the religious leader Fethullah Gülen, who lives in the United States.
He has purged thousands of police officers as well as hundreds of judges and prosecutors who were involved in corruption investigations against members of his cabinet.
The AKP nevertheless won the local elections in March, when it got almost 43 percent support nationwide.
But the elections were overshadowed by a government ban on social media and voting irregularities, including power outages in provinces where the party was struggling to hold on to seats and claims from opposition newspapers that they had come under cyber attack during election night.
The crowdsourced consulting company Wikistrat warns in a report (PDF) it released shortly before Sunday's election that Turkish politics could see more conflict and polarization if Erdoğan interprets his victory as a mandate to marginalize and eliminate his opponents.
"If the opposition fails to present a formidable challenge," Wikistrat's analysts assess that Erdoğan will crush them and establish his power.
If, on the other hand, the opposition manages to present a unified front, Erdoğan will need to make concessions and seek reconciliation in order to accomplish much of anything.
The country's two largest opposition parties — the secular Republican People's Party and the far-right Nationalist Movement Party — did jointly nominate a presidential candidate: Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, an academic and former diplomat who lead the Organization of Islamic Cooperation for ten years before stepping down in January.
But his nomination itself marks a surrender of Turkey's secularists, according to the Council on Foreign Relations' Steven A. Cook and Middle East expert Michael Koplow.
That Turks are being offered a choice between two religious candidates should be the final death knell for the meme that Turkey is a state being pulled apart by a battle between Islam and secularism.
The truth, they argue, is that "religion won out a long time ago and the fundamental divides in Turkish politics and society are organized around different fault lines" — such as economic inequality, the role of the state, Turkey's place in the West and its treatment of minorities.
Erdoğan's particular blend of Islamism and Turkish nationalism is what appeals to this majority of pious and — due in no small part to the economic liberalism of his early years — bourgeois voters who will no longer let a secular city elite dictate what it means to be Turkish.
Africa, once the forgotten continent in American foreign policy, has rather abruptly become important again. US Africa Command has been front and center as a result of operations in Libya, Somalia and elsewhere. Terrorist groups like Al-Shabaab, Boko Haram and Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) are active and spreading and Chinese economic expansion into the continent makes it strategically interesting almost by default. It is time, now rather than later, for Western policymakers to consider the place of Africa in the world.
The first and most important way of engaging with an entire continent is developing regional allies. In the case of Africa, these can often be identified by what they oppose. Al-Shabaab may run rampant in Somalia but neighboring Kenya is ready and willing to listen to Western advice and aid. Boko Haram, a key substate actor in Nigeria, is counterbalanced by American diplomatic and economic engagement with the Nigerian government. And AQIM, arguably the most important of Africa's major terrorist groups, is countered in some areas by a Moroccan constitutional monarchy that has shown great willingness to cooperate with the West on matters of counterterrorism and regional strategy.
None of these regimes are entirely blameless. But they are convenient allies and a realist approach to international relations requires doing business with imperfect people whose interests nevertheless align with the United States'.
Credibility, though, has a lot of different sides. The image that the United States want to project in Africa is a simple one: speak softly, carry a big stick in one hand and carry a lot of aid money in the other. That image is somewhat complicated, in the case of American-Moroccan relations, by the issue of Western Sahara.
Western Sahara is a chunk of desert roughly the size of Colorado and has a population of around half a million. Morocco, a little less than twice that size, has a population of 33 million. The territory has been called the last colony in the world; it may well have been that in 1975 when the Spanish withdrew and Morocco abruptly occupied and annexed it. Sixteen years of often brutal insurgency followed, pitting Moroccan security forces against Western Sahara's inhabitants, the Saharawi, who do not see themselves as Moroccan and have limited interest in joining the kingdom. A ceasefire in 1991 nominally ended the violence, on the condition that a referendum be held to determine the future of the territory. More than two decades later, that referendum has yet to occur.
Occasional protests in Western Sahara are still often handled violently and a substantial portion of the population lives behind a 1,700 mile long militarized wall, complete with millions of landmines. No country in the United Nations recognizes Morocco's claim to Western Sahara but the issue tends to attract very little attention outside Africa.
Though it does not much trouble the United States, Western Sahara has been a contentious issue for Morocco's neighbors. The border between Morocco and Algeria remains closed, partially as a result of Algeria's support for an independent Western Sahara. The Moroccan government has taken considerable flack for its stance on the territory and the Saharawi people have been a minor magnet for activists and journalists, although much of the territory is technically closed to reporters.
It is not hard to make the argument that no ally is perfect, of course, and maybe Moroccan cooperation on other issues is worth being, as they say, diplomatic over Western Sahara. Maybe Morocco is headed in the right direction on enough fronts that it makes no sense to be picky just now. And certainly, the cancelation of a joint American-Moroccan military exercise last April — in conjunction with an American proposal for human rights monitoring in the Western Sahara — may have made the point succinctly enough for politicians, though probably not for Saharawi activists. Or maybe not.
Nevertheless, it bears thinking about: how far does pragmatism go? If the logic underlying diplomatic alliances with unsavory regimes — of which Morocco is not really one; as far as African countries go, it is doing extremely well in all dimensions — is that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, what does that mean for the Saharawi? If the Saharawi see Morocco as the enemy, and the United States as Morocco's friend, what does that mean about Saharawi cooperation with, say, Al Qaeda? What does that mean about the relationship between Afghan villagers and the Taliban? Or postwar Iraq and newly conciliatory Iran?
The Saharawi, despite the harshness of their natural environment and the unpalatability of their political environment, are not going anywhere. They were living in the desert when Gaius Suetonius Paulinus marched a Roman army south from the Atlas Mountains to what is now Mauritania. They were still there when Islam arrived several hundred years later. They were there for the Almoravid Empire, for the Spanish protectorate and for the post-1975 insurgency. And, like all marginalized peoples, they will still be there when the geopolitical order shifts once again.
The question of what to do about them isn't really a question about the Saharawi, or Morocco, or any particular group in any particular place. For America, it is a question of reputation. It is a question about how it wants to look to future historians — and future allies. It is a question about whether a cohesive global strategy for the world's only superpower requires that superpower to compromise on the moral high ground. And if compromise is required, when is it required? How far need it go before the price of doing business starts becoming too high to justify the sometimes unappetizing but wholly necessary moral grey areas that have always characterized robust foreign policy?
However, as Mark Twain (apocryphally) said, history doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes. Many analysts extrapolate the Middle East's future based on historical parallels. When taken together, however, these disparate rhymes don't quite make a neat harmony. The cacophony of comparisons reflects the difficulty to grasp and forecast the the Middle East's future. It reveals social and political shifts unprecedented in the region's modern history, as strained governments repress a growing desire for more freedoms.
The recent economic recession, coupled with events that the West has a hard time understanding and reacting to, has led to significant indecisiveness and inaction. Western nations don't quite know what to make of General Abdul Fatah Sisi's coup against the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, for example. His brutal crackdown against the Islamist group has put his role as impartial steward in question. In the case of Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons or the support of Syrian rebels against Bashar al-Assad, the West has refused to use force and halfhearted diplomatic efforts have frustrated its allies.
Accordingly, regional powers, in particular Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, are taking matters into their own hands.
The Saudis displayed their displeasure with the United States with surprising force by refusing a seat on the United Nations Security Council last month. They have entered the fray in the Syrian Civil War, plotting an independent course in their support of the rebellion. They have also granted a huge sum of money to Egypt's Sisi, after the United States cut their aid. Iran, meanwhile, backs Assad and seeks to develop a nuclear bomb as a means to defend its own independence of action.
These two countries are doing their best to shape the outcome of what has been dubbed the Arab Spring. That wave of protests, which had different proximate causes and results in every country it affected, had the same underlying pressures: economic difficulties and political exclusion. Rising food and fuel prices, inefficient economies, lack of jobs, a dearth of political freedoms and decades of repression brought about unparalleled frustration which burst onto the scene in early 2011. Only Israel and Turkey had built societies that could adequately handle these issues. Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Syria and Yemen were rocked by revolutions and proved unable to effectively govern their peoples and manage their economies. Some of these countries, in particular Iraq and perhaps Egypt, are reverting to autocratic tendencies. Although democracy brought great change, it did not fix enough fast enough.
The outcome of these events is hard to forecast precisely because they are so radically different from what has come before in the Middle East. The desire for freedom and progress among Middle Eastern peoples, and its messy struggle against the too familiar autocratic reflex among their rulers, will shape their future. Even in Iran, where sanctions are taking their toll, and in Saudi Arabia, whose king is hard pressed to keep his subjects happy with handouts, governments are finding it difficult to contain the pressures that overwhelmed their neighbors.
Coming full circle, one further historical analogy can cast some light on the outcome of this momentous transitional period.
In 1848, revolutions shook Europe to its core. Similarly to today's Middle East, the demand for more accountable and participative democracies, along with serious labor disputes, caused explosive public unrest. However, after this "Spring of Nations" — the Arab Spring's namesake — was quelled, Europe looked rather similar to the way it did before. The social grievances that were aired were nonetheless glaring and Europe would inexorably become more democratic. After catastrophic wars, centuries of autocracy and decades of communism, Europe is now mostly democratic and at peace.
Bearing this in mind, it may be that the economic and social issues brought to light during the Arab Spring won't be resolved any time soon. Reactionary reflexes and impatience with democracy threaten their future. However, in these revolutionary times, now that the people of the Middle East know the power of their voice, autocrats are unlikely to have the same control they did before. Perhaps this is, like it was in Europe, the beginning of a transition to democracy, one that will be slow and turbulent.
The Middle East is in turmoil as the third act of the post-Ottoman period — the colonial period and the nationalist regimes like Gamal Abdel Nasser's that succeeded it being the first two — moves forward in an unstable and bloody fashion.
The events should remind observers of an extremely devastating conflict that once embroiled Europe called the Thirty Years' War. That massive, and complex, conflict began with the notorious "Defenestration of Prague" in 1618 and was largely a religious conflict between Protestant German princes jealous of their autonomy and faith arrayed against the power of the Catholic Hapsburg rulers of Austria.
The conflict metastasized into a great power conflict between the ruling dynasties of Catholic France led by the famous practitioner of realpolitik, Cardinal Richelieu, and the Hapsburgs of both Austria and Spain.
Along the way, the geopolitical ambitions of Protestant powers like Denmark and Sweden, under one of the great generals in world history, Gustavus Adolphus, became enmeshed in the conflict. The individual ambitions of generals like Austria's Albrecht von Wallenstein and German princes seeking to secure independence and new territory for their own bloodline dynasties also played a role.
This brutal conflict left between 25 and 40 percent of the German population dead as a result of battle, deprivation, disease and famine. It also led to a series of treaties which became part of the larger Peace of Westphalia and the instantiation of the entire "Westphalian" state system international relations scholars take largely for granted today.
The analogy is important because it shows how the current Middle East is enmeshed in its own way in a complex web of conflicts that are geopolitical as well as sectarian. Even great power intervention in the guise of the United States and Russia, along with some European states, plays a part.
How much does a single self-immolation in Tunisia now seem like that famed event in Prague almost four hundred years ago when Protestants rallied against the closing of their chapels by the Catholic emperor.
Frustration by a small number of individuals sparked a tinderbox long ready to explode. The long dormant Shia-Sunni conflict was originally stoked by the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. The rise of Iran and its looming nuclear program with no Sunni power on its border powerful enough to check it began arranging those flammable pieces of timber as the Saudis and other Sunnis had to prepare for conflict. Meanwhile the rise of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's Islamists and the "Turkish" model began to make itself felt in regional diplomacy. The longstanding Israeli-Palestinian conflict remained ready for action as did conflict with Iran's Syrian backed catspaw Hezbollah well ensconced in Lebanon.
The so-called Arab Spring has led to a myriad of tragicomedies from the ouster of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya and the proliferation of weapons across North and West Africa to the quasi coup that really wasn't a coup in strategically vital Egypt after the overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.
Given Egypt's population, strategic location, including control of the Suez Canal, and relative peace since the 1979 peace treaty with Israel have given it an outsized role to play in the Middle East. However, since the resignation of former strongman Hosni Mubarak in early 2011 and the recent removal of his elected Muslim Brotherhood successor from office, it is clear that stability will not be forthcoming anytime soon.
While Morsi's ouster in a relatively bloodless coup opens the opportunity for a more reasonable, technocratic government potentially capable of dealing with Egypt's wretched economy, there is much reason for skepticism. In the short term, the transitional government will probably be able to pacify the immediate tumult brought to the fore by the Muslim Brotherhood's overreaching. However, rising food prices have been a prime source for much of the "Arab Spring" unrest. Absent a great power benefactor, like the United States, or a regional power, like Saudi Arabia, offering extensive loans for food for a long period of time, Morsi's removal might be but one of a series of political transitions that will occur at an accelerating pace until Egypt fully descends into chaos with limited, if any, centralized authority able to maintain order.
The rise of more radical Salafi Muslim parties in the wake of the Muslim Brotherhood's removal from government will only increase the challenges to maintaining centralized control. At that point, all bets are off as the Sinai may become a flashpoint between Egypt and Israel despite the Egyptian military's desire to avoid major shooting incidents.
This is happening simultaneously with the descent into hell in Syria. Already a full-scale civil war is underway there with over 100,000 lives estimated lost and atrocities committed by both warring parties. Not only does this exacerbate the backdrop of the sectarian Shia-Sunni battle embodied by Iran's rise, Turkey's assertions and Saudi Arabia's concerns; the added ingredient of renewed great power competition between America and Russia intermingles as well.
As Egypt on the western side of the region descends into its own chaos, it is difficult to envision that there will not be an even greater movement of jihadists regionwide along with terrorism, starvation and a spread of disease such as the new MERS coronavirus. What also will become of Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates? These countries have largely escaped unrest but it seems doubtful they can indefinitely.
The bottom line is that Egypt will become another ideological and quasi-military battleground for jihadists that will open a door for Iranian influence, though not as much as Syria. This will force Saudi Arabia, and an intelligent United States, to act and prop up the military in order to stall state collapse, especially depending on the circumstances on the ground in Syria. Israel will keep its powder dry but is forced to increase vigilance on the Sinai border when the Egyptian army is incapable of effectively policing the area.
If this all seems complex, it clearly is. There is no single cause for the conflicts embroiling the region. While the Defenestration of Prague analogy works well in a certain sense, one could go all the way back to the end of World War I to find the seeds of conflict planted. Or maybe even as far back as 632 when the Prophet Muhammad died and the initial schism between Shia and Sunni emerged. In a way, all these events and so many more have led the region to the point it is now — on the precipice of catastrophe.
Europe's Thirty Years' War was massively destructive, perhaps even more destructive in its day than the twentieth century's world wars. Whether the current miasma of bloodletting in the Middle East will last so long or wreak the same level of carnage is an open question. However, until something dramatic happens to stop a continued spiraling out of control, the Thirty Years' War likely will represent the most useful analytic lens through which to view the Middle East's tragedy. A happy ending does not appear to be in the cards. But maybe, as with the Thirty Years' War, some accommodation like the Westphalian system can eventually be secured out of the ashes of desolation.
This article was originally prepared during a brainstorming session about Egypt's future involving more than fifty analysts at the geostrategic consultancy firm Wikistrat.


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The race-built galleons introduced by the English were a variant of common galleon building practice, featuring a greater length-to-beam ratio, lower slung decks, far less superstructure both fore and aft, and improved sailplan.
Even though the race-builts were copied by other nations after the campaign, they were a temporary diversion in terms of naval construction. Other nations continued to build more traditional galleons, and 1610 the English themselves had moved back to constructing larger, less fine ships.
I'm not sure exactly how many were present during the armada campaign, but several English galleons in the 500 ton range is a good candidates. This ship will represent Dreadnought in my collection.
This is the hull, painted and enhanced with applique stripes.
Test fitting of the masts. Note that on this and other models I have removed the spritmast, and moved its associated sail up to the topgallant postion on the mainmast. It is my understanding that spritmasts did not appear until the 1620's.
This is the complete kit, built out-of-the-box. She measures 7" from the tip of the bowsrite to the taffrail, 4 3/4" on the waterline, stands 6 3/4" tall as built, and weighs 9.8 oz.


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 Кивалина — город в боро Нортуэст-Арктик, штат Аляска, США.
 Кивалина — аэропорт в городе Кивалина.
 Кивалина — река на северо-западе штата Аляска.
 Кивалина — лагуна в которую впадает река Кивалина.


I opened the Sunday newspaper last week and saw an article about healthy and fun lunch ideas. It sure didn't look like anything the refluxers I know would eat! As a reflux mom, I have learned to smile and ignore these articles. While there isn't a "reflux diet", there are several types of foods that trigger reflux symptoms in many children such as acidic foods (tomato, oranges, and orange juice), high fat foods, spicy foods, carbonated beverages chocolate and caffeine.
•	A baggie of deli meat, a baggie of breakfast cereal or crackers may provide similar calories and nutrients to a standard sandwich.
•	Substitute a lactose free nutrition drink or lactose free milk for milk.
•	Offer 100% juice or water rather than sugary drinks.
•	Substitute yogurt for a high fat pudding cup.
•	Give the carb junkies their fill of pretzels, popcorn, crackers, breakfast cereal and granola bars.
•	Add protein from peanuts and peanut butter (if no peanut allergies).
•	Add calcium and protein from drinkable yogurt, cheese sticks and yogurt cups.
•	Sneak in some veggies and fruit with dip.
•	Throw in that Hershey kiss if you child tolerates it. You can attach a small note that says: I love you!
Think outside the box, the lunch box that is. Remember the study in the popular press recently where it was found that packaging food in a Mc Donald's wrapper made the food more appealing to children? Your job is to provide healthy foods that are packaged so they will actually get consumed by your picky eater. So with a great deal of fanfare, help your child select a very cool lunch box or bag to transport her food to school. Fun little containers, colorful spoons, stickers on the baggie and a note from mom can go a long was toward making your picky eater at least try to nibble on something in the lunch bag. There is nothing worse than opening the lunch bag after school and finding that the food was untouched, a common occurrence according to many parents of refluxers.
Tip #3 Make good choices in the cafeteria line.
The typical school cafeteria lunch menu is full of reflux trigger foods such as greasy pizza covered in cheese and tomato sauce and fried chicken with tater tots on the side. There is evidence that high fat or fried foods take longer to digest, triggering discomfort and reflux symptoms. You may need to avoid high calorie/high fat foods if your child is overweight or obese since there is some evidence that childhood obesity leads to an increase in reflux symptoms.
Most schools provide a menu in advance so you and your child can look at the options and choose foods that are tolerated. Many refluxers are such picky eaters that they wouldn't eat anything on the menu, preferring a familiar lunch from home. When my daughter Rebecca was in the middle of her picky eating phase, she would comment on the cafeteria food and mentioned that a few of the selections looked pretty appealing. I wanted her to try new foods and have the experience of buying lunch at school. We scanned the menu and chose a day for our trial run then packed her lunch money and a light lunch as a back up. She ate a combination of the cafeteria lunch and the food from home. I know this approach is somewhat wasteful but it was important for her to have access to her safe foods if she could not tolerate the new foods. Over time, she became a regular in the cafeteria line and got to the point that she just brought water from home to substitute for the drink options that were reflux triggers for her (milk or orange juice).
It is likely your child will eat more of her lunch if she has packed it herself. A younger child may need to be in charge of smaller decisions. An older child may be able to select foods and prepare the entire lunch. I know a parent who keeps a lunch food chart with columns on the refrigerator. The columns represent the food groups (protein, carbs, drink, fruit and other) and acceptable choices for each category. For instance, the protein column lists: ham, chicken, protein bar, cheese, and yogurt. The drink column lists: water, sports drink or 100% fruit juice pouch. Her refluxer needs to pick an item from each column to create a well rounded lunch.
So if you are eliminating foods that trigger reflux and foods that cause allergies and intolerances, what in the world is left? Many refluxers are carb junkies and seem to live on bread, cereal and crackers. In addition, your child may believe that only a few "safe" foods are acceptable. Therefore, your job is to make sure you stock up on massive quantities of the preferred foods.
On the other hand, perhaps you can expand her food choices. Your child may be lucky enough to sit next to a non refluxers who eats exotic foods like string cheese or apple slices dipped in a special sauce. Use this positive role modeling to your advantage by inviting your child to go food shopping with you and select a new food each week. I bet your child will select a food that she has seen another child eat at school. Don't worry if she selects the gummy snacks or cheese curls that are full of unknown, unhealthy ingredients. The goal is for your child to take a chance with a new food and add to her menu selections. Once she has become a bit more adventurous about new foods, you can narrow the selections to healthier foods.
Good luck to you and your child as your start a new school year!


Nine years ago, in the first quarter of 2010, a dream was born. Different Is Different Records released it's first EP by the label co-founder Elton D, which included a remix by our all-time techno hero Hertz.
Now, to celebrate the 9 year anniversary of our first release, we will invite our favourite artists to select their 21 best tracks of our catalog.
This is the first of our commemorative compilations and it was selected by Rafa Ortega, who recently released his "On The Road" LP in Different Is Different Records.


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Deep within aha!'s DNA is a history of creating enlightened, performance-oriented, and award-winning digital experiences for leading global brands.
Now it's healthcare's time to lead the way. Through deep consumer insights, sophisticated design, and powerful technology, aha! delivers engaging, resilient, and sustainable relationships with consumers and patients.
Healthcare has fallen behind on the digitalization curve. Providers are a long way from offering patients an intuitive, orchestrated, and delightful digital ecosystem that simply makes sense and, ultimately, makes it easier to stay healthy.
In an industry of constant innovation and discovery, the inability to offer frictionless and personalized experiences does not make sense — especially when it's expected out of virtually all other digital consumer interactions.
That's where we come in. aha! is a passionate, multidisciplinary team who delight in designing and building integrated, patient-centered digital experiences for healthcare.
We believe in making the best work, and being the best to work with.
We're a team of technologists, strategists, and creative problem solvers seeking to make a positive impact on your business and the world around us.
Paul Dain
President and Chief Experience and Innovation Officer
Cindy Larson
Executive Director, Experience Delivery
Sam Spicer
Senior Director, Experience Design
Tim Janczewski
Senior Director, Technology
Jessica Gallagher
Technology Lead
Kevin Flatt
Chief Creative Officer
Drew Slagter
Bob Atkinson
Executive Director, Content Strategy
Paul has been with aha! since its inception in 2017, leading the company and directing the product and service offerings. For over 25 years, his enthusiasm for superior user experiences and the creative use of technology has fueled his digital marketing and advertising career. Paul's goal is to share this drive with aha!'s clients, exploring transformative new ideas that delight consumers and patients.
As an avid runner and cyclist, Paul is a keen user of the latest consumer health and fitness technology, including fitness wearables and platforms (you can follow him on Strava). He appreciates when this technology seamlessly integrates into the activities he enjoys, amplifying the overall experience. It's these aha! moments of inspiration that Paul aims to build upon in his work.
With more than 20 years of experience in digital project leadership and delivery at diverse organizations, Cindy doesn't simply deliver experiences. She delivers sustainability — ensuring the client can keep up the same quality and magnitude once the project is handed over. At aha!, she solves for the cure, not the symptom. Fueled by curiosity, energy, and determination, Cindy quickly picks up the knowledge needed for any project and puts together the teams that succeed in delivering.
At home, Cindy loves her Peloton because it feels like you're riding together, though you're alone. When it comes to healthcare, we too often feel alone and left wondering, What happens next? Cindy works at aha! because she wants her family — and everyone — to feel partnered with their healthcare. We're all in this together.
Sam directs Experience Design at aha! with a passion for delivering transformative work that benefits both providers and their patients. With more than 20 years in creative technology and experience design, he always finds the sweet spot that merges the business's requirements with the end-users' desires. He does this through in-depth user research, helping clients articulate what they really need, and, of course, superior experience design.
Knowing that there is an enormous amount of data and information on our personal healthcare, but patients still often feel confused and powerless within siloed behemoth systems, Sam is motivated by his determination to bring more transparency and simplicity to healthcare. In turn, this helps patients become better-educated partners with their providers and, ultimately, healthier and happier consumers.
With over 20 years of technology leadership for some of the world's largest brands (including Volvo, Nike, Pepsi, and Microsoft) Tim leads and develops the overall technology strategy at aha. He provides thought leadership on technical issues to clients, aiming to build collaborative relationships with their internal teams to overcome challenges and train them to sustain their investments going forward. Tim takes pride in mentoring and overseeing the work of aha!'s Developers, ensuring that the digital experiences delivered meet and surpass all expectations.
Tim and his wife, Kelli, are the parents of three children, including twins, so of course simplifying healthcare is important to him. In the rare moments he has to himself, he crafts custom wood furniture, plays golf, and enjoys smoking meats and other delicious things. He also takes photos.
With a positive attitude and a relentless focus on collaborating with client teams to take their brands forward, Jessica leads client services and account management at aha. As the connective tissue between aha! and their clients, Jessica never loses sight of the big picture. She always knows what is happening across all projects for her clients and is able to bring forward solutions to advance their goals.
Having a strong background in higher education and advertising, Jessica was drawn to aha! because of their user-centered approach, which improves patient experiences — a mission that deeply appeals to her. Outside of work, Jessica enjoys gardening, mixology, baking, and crafting, as well as acting like a big kid with her two children, husband, and dog.
With a passion for (and a lot of experience in) creating products that are simple to use and maintain, Marc is an active contributor to both front- and back-end architecture. He loves working with the creative and technology teams at aha! to develop meaningful digital experiences that always hit the bullseye. Marc is inspired by the people he works with — the breadth of combined knowledge makes collaborating with his colleagues a joy. And, of course, collaboration is the heart of every project at aha.
While Marc has been smitten with computers and programming since he first used an Apple IIc (the 7.5 lb "laptop") in the 80s, his first love is music. He studied piano and later learned to play by ear, picking up guitar, bass, and drums. Marc believes that, much like music, a well-orchestrated design and codebase can be something truly beautiful.
Morgan Lees' interest in health and wellness began when she completed a marathon at 18 — six months after finding an old copy of "Running a Marathon for Dummies." She was drawn to Project Management from the beginning of her career, where the constant problem solving and collaboration with multiple work streams got her hooked. It's these professional and personal interests that bring her to aha!, where she finds joy in setting her teams up for success and seeing them prosper as they drive toward the common goal of delivering outstanding work.
Outside of aha!, Morgan teaches barre classes. A natural introvert, the instructor training was stressful, but seeing it through taught her much about facilitation and has improved her public speaking, both skills she has leveraged in her role at aha.
With an impressive career leading major advertising agencies, design studios and business startups, Kevin brings a holistic, design-centric approach to improving client's businesses — through his multidisciplinary Design expertise (including strategy, brand, UI + UX, product, packaging, and advertising).
Forever curious, Kevin is always pursuing new experiences and seeking knowledge. He is fascinated by the way human life has been massively transformed by innovative computer technology. Building better digital experiences that improve our lives (and health) with aha! is both fascinating and a noble cause. Kevin envisions a future where our homes act as hospitals (no surgery), tools that monitor health wherever we roam, and medical assistance and intervention is available when and where it's needed.
Drew is an architect for front-end solutions at aha! He works to create clean codebases and frameworks that execute the clients' needs and wants. He also collaborates closely with UX and Design to ensure that the product provides the best possible experience for the end user. In short, Drew turns aha!'s designs into code-based reality.
Outside of work, Drew strives to challenge himself, spending his free time learning woodworking skills, new songs on the guitar, and rad moves on his skateboard. Similarly, he finds fulfillment in his work at aha! through overcoming the technical challenges of his projects and constantly expanding his understanding of front-end technologies. He takes pride knowing that his work ensures any patient can engage with the experiences he creates and, therefore, utilize the providers' services to keep them well.
As the driver of Content Strategy for aha!, Bob puts his years of experience in developing flexible and sustainable content solutions to work for our clients, creating and maintaining robust content systems that deliver extraordinary user experiences, achieve business goals, and are built to last.
Outside of his role at aha!, Bob enjoys writing fiction, which relates to his work because designing content as a content strategist and creating narratives as a fiction writer both tap into the need to understand the audience and work within defined structures and expectations to create positive and memorable experiences. Bob is also an avid cyclist who captains a team that rides in various health-related charity fundraisers, including Moveable Feast of Maryland's Ride for the Feast and Bike MS in Washington, D.C.
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Family, friends tour Encino Energy well pad named in memory of late Petroleum Engineering student
Encino Energy hosted family and friends of a Marietta College student who passed away unexpectedly for a tour of a well pad named in his memory. Joel Wunnenberg '20 was an aspiring petroleum engineer in his first year at Marietta College when he tragically passed away in the spring of 2017.
The naming of the wells was the outcome of a question asked over a year and a half ago, when Derek Krieg '19, a Marietta College student who previously interned at Chesapeake Energy, approached the company with an idea about how to further Wunnenberg's legacy since his was tragically cut short.
"I wanted to find a unique way to honor Joel and since he was a petroleum engineering major, naming producing wells in his honor seemed fitting," Krieg said. "I'm grateful that Encino Energy has worked with us to make that a reality."
Encino Energy acquired Chesapeake's Ohio assets last year and has been drilling on the site near Cadiz for the past few weeks.
"Joel was an outstanding student who challenged himself athletically and academically as a Petroleum Engineering student and McDonough Scholar. His loss is still felt by the Marietta community," said Marietta College President William N. Ruud. "Tributes such as this help keep his memory alive, and we're thankful that Encino has partnered with us, his friends and family to remember his life."
Earlier this year, a wellhead — named the Wunnenberg 38H — was donated and installed on Marietta College's campus to help petroleum students better understand the components of modern shale operations.
"I graduated from Marietta with a degree in Petroleum Engineering, so, as a Pioneer, to be a part of this dedication is something really special," said Joe Baker '07, Encino Energy operations manager. "Encino is honored to see this project to completion and to have a small part in remembering Joel's life."
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New soccer stadium renderings unveiled as MLS4TheLou proposes sole ownership of venue
Posted 5:25 pm, October 30, 2019, by Vic Faust
ST. LOUIS – St. Louisans and MLS fans everywhere getting a new look for the proposed soccer stadium in downtown.
The 22,000-seat stadium will be built just north of Market Street, across the street from Union Station. Practice fields will be built just west of Union Station.
Carolyn Kindle Betz, head of the MLS4TheLou ownership group, was out of town but the group issued the following statement Wednesday afternoon:
"First, we would like to thank our partners at the City, State, and MoDOT for their continued support as we work through our plans to get an MLS team on the field by the 2022 season. It takes a collective effort to tackle a project of this scale and we want to be respectful of the process we're currently working through with them. We look forward to sharing more information as soon as we're able to."
St. Louis Board of Alderman President Lewis Reed says the plans look amazing and the stadium will host concerts and other events, making it a top-notch, multi-use facility.
"It's going to bring in over 300,000 people to the city of St. Louis on an annual basis and guess what they're going to do? Rent hotels, shop at our shops, eat at our restaurants; that creates revenue to address all sorts of issues," he said.
Patrick Rishe, director of sports business at Washington University, says the location is fantastic, is underutilized, and the plan larger than first discussed.
"I think one section running parallel to Market, you can use it for off game days or wedding receptions, for business meetings, also talk about using it for e-sports events," he said.
The stadium will be privately owned and the ownership group will pay property tax on land they purchase from MoDOT. The group is also asking for an abatement of the city's amusement tax.
Reed says this is all a win-win for everyone involved.
Construction on the stadium is expected to start in December. The St. Louis franchise will begin play in the 2022 MLS season.
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Architectural historian at Colonial Williamsburg will visit as fellow
Carl Lounsbury, architectural historian for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, will visit the campus Tuesday-Friday, Dec. 3-6, as this year's second American Art and Culture Fellow. While at the University, Mr. Lounsbury will draw from his fieldwork experience in America and England for a variety of lectures on the design and building of colonial American houses.
One of his talks, titled "The Architectural Design Process in Early America," is free and open to the public. It will take place on Tuesday, Dec. 3, at 4:30 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St. enter on High St.
Mr. Lounsbury will also make a presentation to students in the "History of Art 329a" course on Thursday, Dec. 5, at 9 a.m. in Rm. 200 of Street Hall, corner of Chapel and High streets. Members of the Yale community are welcome to attend.
Mr. Lounsbury is president of the Vernacular Architecture Forum and has written extensively on domestic structures and courthouses in the colonial South. His most recent publication is "An Illustrated Glossary of Early Southern Architecture and Landscape," which received the Abbot Lowell Cummings Award and the Historic Preservation Book Award. Currently, he is working on a comprehensive book on colonial American houses of worship, for which he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Peabody Essex Museum.
As the architectural historian for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation since 1982, Mr. Lounsbury is responsible for long-term architectural research projects and various architectural matters in the historic area of Colonial Williamsburg. He also serves on the advisory boards for the Hanover Tavern Foundation, Washington's Boyhood Home and The Miranda Society of Tryon Palace. He is a member of the Society of Architectural Historians and the National Trust for Historic Preservation, among other professional organizations.
Mr. Lounsbury's visit is sponsored by the Center of American Art and Culture, which is holding a series of lectures, discussions and workshops this year around the topic "The Interpretation of Domestic Space." For more information, contact Edward Cooke at 432-2724 or via e-mail: edward.cooke@yale.edu.
Environmental activist to talk at Law School
Frank Loy, chair of the League of Conservation Voters and former chair of the Environmental Defense Fund, will present a lecture on Tuesday, Dec. 3, as the 1996 Timothy B. Atkeson Environmental Practitioner in Residence at the Law School. His talk, titled "Real Influence: Do the Environmental NGOs Have Any?" will be at 5 p.m. in the faculty lounge of the Law School, 127 Wall St. It is free and open to the public.
The League of Conservation Voters is considered the political arm of the environmental community, and is the only organization whose sole mission is to elect members of Congress who support various environmental causes. Mr. Loy has served as its chair since 1995 and was acting president of the organization from September of 1995 until January of this year. He also serves as cochair of the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee to the U.S. Special Trade Representative, Ambassador Mickey Kantor.
Mr. Loy was chair of the Environmental Defense Fund EDF 1983-90, during which period the EDF launched a program approach using market-based incentives and other economic tools to make environmental progress. From 1981-95, he was president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, an independent American grant-making institution that concentrates on issues affecting both Europe and the U.S., particularly in the fields of economics, politics and the environment. He formerly was director of the Bureau of Refugee Programs for the U.S. State Department and was senior vice president of international and regulatory affairs for Pan American World Airways.
Mr. Loy is a founding member of the board of directors of the Regional Environmental Centre for Central Europe, located in Budapest, which is a grant-making and operating institution funded by the U.S. government, the European community, Japan and others. He is also a member of the Foundation for a Civil Society, which conducts programs in the Czech and Slovak republics.
Balancing parenting and legal careers is topic of Law School talk
Three individuals in the legal profession will participate in a panel discussion exploring the topic "Parenting and Legal Careers: Walking the Tightrope" on Tuesday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.m. in Rm. 127 of the Law School, 127 Wall St. The event, sponsored by the Law School's Alumni and Public Affairs and Career Development offices, Yale Law Women and SWAP Students Who Are Parents , is free and open to the public.
Panelists are Russell Pearce, associate professor of Law at the Fordham University School of Law; Jana B. Singer, associate professor of law at the University of Maryland School of Law; and Tirza S. Wahrman, Esq., who works in the law department of the Real Estate and Environmental Law Division of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Mr. Pearce, who earned B.A. and J.D. degrees from Yale in 1978 and 1981, respectively, teaches courses in professional responsibility, ethics in public interest law and remedies at Fordham's law school. He has written on such topics as being a Jewish lawyer in a multicultural society, the ethics of marketing legal services, access to legal services and family values and legal ethics. He formerly held positions as general counsel to the New York City Commission on Human Rights, staff attorney for the civil division of The Legal Aid Society's Chelsea Neighborhood Office in New York City; and an associate in the New York law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. After graduating from the Law School, he was a law clerk to Judge Jose A. Cabranes of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut.
Ms. Singer earned her law degree from Yale in 1982 and has taught at the University of Maryland Law School since 1985. Formerly a visiting professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and a Revson Fellow in Women's Law and Public Policy in that school's Sex Discrimination Clinic, she has written on such topics as the privatization of family law, divorce reform and gender justice, divorce obligations and alimony, the abortion rights of minors and joint custody of children. She has spoken at national meetings and conferences on topics ranging from feminist jurisprudence to enhancing gender fairness in family law and the Uniform Adoption Act.
Ms. Wahrman, a 1981 graduate of the Yale Law School, is involved in public policy litigation for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, where her responsibilities include defending environmental challenges to the dredging of the port and reporting on legal matters pertaining to the Port Authority's transportation projects. She previously was assistant to the president of Barnard College and was an attorney in the Washington, D.C., firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. She also was a trial attorney in the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Her publications include "To Dredge or Not to Dredge: Navigating the Shoals of Single- Issue Analysis in the Disposal of Contaminated Sediment," which was the lead article in the spring 1996 issue of The Urban Lawyer, and "A Study of the Disparity and Utilization of Minority and Women-Owned Business by the Port Authority of NY and NJ," published by the Port Authority in 1993. She has taught at Barnard College and the Fordham and New York law schools.
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet will read from his works
The Yale Review will sponsor two events on Tuesday, Dec. 3, featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anthony Hecht. Mr. Hecht will be the guest at a tea at 4 p.m. in the master's house of Jonathan Edwards College, 70 High St. Later that day, at 8 p.m., he will read from his works in the Jonathan Edwards common room, 68 High St. Both events are free and open to the public.
Mr. Hecht's first book of poems, "A Summoning of Stones," appeared in 1954, followed by "The Hard Hours," which earned the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1968. "Millions of Strange Shadows" was published in 1977, and "The Venetian Vespers" in 1979. In 1990, an anthology, "Collected Earlier Poems," was released as well as a new volume, "The Transparent Man." His latest volume of poetry is "Flight Among the Tombs" Knopf, 1996 .
In addition to poetry, Mr. Hecht has written several books of essays and literary criticism, including "Obbligati," a collection of critical essays; "The Hidden Law," a study of the poetry of W. H. Auden; and "On the Laws of the Poetic Art," originally presented as the Andrew W. Mellon Lectures on the Fine Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1992.
Mr. Hecht has taught widely, most recently as University Professor in the Graduate School of Georgetown University.
Writer surgeon to present lunchtime talk on 'Pieta'
Writer and surgeon Richard Selzer will present an a la carte talk as part of the series "The Body as Sacred Space" on Wednesday, Dec. 4, at 12:20 p.m. at the Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St. His subject will be an anonymous 15th-century "Pieta," a representation of the body of Christ lying in the lap of the mourning Virgin Mary. The program, which was postponed last spring owing to the job action at Yale, is free and open to the public.
Dr. Selzer has also presented talks at the art gallery on the "Dying Centaur," by 19th-century American sculptor William Rimmer and on a 17th-century Indo-Portuguese ivory figure of Christ on the cross. His discussion of that art object was published in M.D. magazine.
Dr. Selzer completed house staff training at Yale-New Haven Hospital in 1961 and for the next 25 years practiced surgery in New Haven and was a member of the School of Medicine faculty. He retired from surgery in 1986 to concentrate on writing. He is the author of eight books of essays, stories and memoirs, including "Mortal Lessons," "Confessions of a Knife" and "Down from Troy." He recently completed his first play, "The Black Swan," which premiered in St. Louis and has since been performed in Albany, New York. In addition to writing, Dr. Selzer lectures at universities and medical schools throughout the United States and volunteers his medical skills in Third World countries.
Israeli poet to read from and talk about his new collection
Haim Gouri, a prize-winning Israeli poet, will read and comment on selections from his new volume, "Words in My Lovesick Blood," a collection of poems drawn from his entire literary career, on Wednesday, Dec. 4, at 4 p.m. in the Romance Language Lounge, on the third floor of 82-90 Wall St. Sponsored by the Program in Judaic Studies, the event is free and open to the public.
Born in 1923 in Tel Aviv, Mr. Gouri has published 12 volumes of poetry. He is also a recognized journalist, novelist and documentary film maker. He has been awarded the Sokolov Prize for journalism, the Bialik Prize for poetry and, in 1988, the Israel Prize for his literary accomplishments. He has reflected for almost 50 years on the Israeli experience, including the struggle for the establishment of the State of Israel and the effects of the Holocaust.
Mr. Gouri's visit is supported by the Barbara and Morris Levinson Lecture Fund.
Award-winning essayist poet will read from her works
Katha Pollitt, an essayist, poet and associate editor of The Nation, will give a reading with commentary from her essays on Thursday, Dec. 5, at 4:30 p.m. in Sudler Hall of William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall St. The reading is free and open to the public.
Ms. Pollitt is author of "Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism" and "Antarctic Traveler," which won the National Book Critic Circle Award. Her column, "Subject to Debate," appears bimonthly in The Nation. She is a regular reviewer for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Grand Street, Time and other publications. Her poetry has appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, Paris Review, The New Republic, The Yale Review and Poetry. Ms. Pollitt, who lives in New York, has won fellowships from the Guggenheim and Whiting Foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts, and is the recipient of a National Magazine Award in Essays and Criticism.
Education in Reggio Emilia, Italy, is subject of Bush Center talk
Lella Gandini, an expert in early childhood education and U.S. liaison of Reggio Children, will present a talk titled "An Education Based on Relationship: Young Children, Teachers and Parents in the Schools of Reggio Emilia, Italy," on Friday, Dec. 6, at noon in Room 410 of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, corner of Grove and Prospect streets. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy.
The schools of Reggio Emilia have attracted the attention of educators and researchers worldwide for their approach to early childhood education. The curriculum of Reggio Emilia's schools is centered in children's interests and in their relationships not only with peers and teachers but parents, family, and the community at large. Ms. Gandini has written that the basis of the Reggio Emilia approach lies in educators' view of the child: "All children have preparedness, potential, curiosity, and interest in constructing their learning, in engaging in social interaction, and in negotiating with everything the environment brings to them."
Ms. Gandini, who is also an adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts, has published several children's books as well as numerous books and articles on parenting and early childhood issues. She is a coeditor of "The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach to Early Childhood Education," published in 1993. S
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The Introduction to Andrea Sutcliffe's Riveting Book: "STEAM, The Untold Story of America's First Great Invention"
In the summer of 1787, two events that would change the course of human history converged in Philadelphia. The first, of course, was the writing of the U.S. Constitution. The second was the running of the world's first fairly reliable machine-powered vessel. To call it a steamboat would be correct, but it didn't look anything like the Mississippi riverboats that came later. Alongside the graceful sloops and schooners on the Delaware, it stood out, an ugly duckling among swans. A dozen crank-driven oars, mounted six to a side on a large wooden rack, creaked and groaned as they slowly pushed the boat along. The inventor of this odd contrivance was a tattered genius named John Fitch, who had started out wanting to build a steam-powered car.
Steam power was an idea whose time was at hand, the motive force the new nation needed to help secure its economic independence. After the Revolution, George Washington's chief concern was how to unify a country divided by a hundred-mile-wide mountain range. He was certain that trade was the key to binding the two halves, but the roads of the day were hardly more than trails, and carting goods across the Appalachians was difficult, slow, dangerous, and expensive. Across the mountains, the Mississippi and Ohio rivers and their tributaries formed a network of natural superhighways. But without boats that could move upstream as easily as down, those rivers were one-way only.
In September 1784, less than a year after resigning his military commission, Washington crossed the mountains to examine road, river, and canal possibilities for connecting the Potomac River with points west. Five days into his trip, he met a Virginia millwright named James Rumsey, who showed him a model of a boat that could move upstream. Excited by the boat's potential, Washington publicly supported Rumsey's plan for a mechanical, pole boat driven by a water wheel. A year later, he would reject John Fitch's plea of support for his steamboat idea. It may have mattered that Rumsey was a well-dressed, well-mannered southern gentleman, while Fitch was a straight-talking New Englander in threadbare clothes.
Steamboat Pamphlet Wars Between Rumsey and Fitch
Washington warned Rumsey about Fitch, and the steamboat wars began with acrimonious pamphlets. These two men spent the next several years fighting each other, their investors, politicians, and the world in general. With nothing to lose but their pride, they refused to work together, and they each refused to quit.
The scientific leaders of the day—Benjamin Franklin and David Rittenhouse in particular—didn't believe steamboats would ever work well enough to be practical. Franklin, in fact, would have been dismayed to learn that he inadvertently hindered steamboat development. In a paper he published on his return from France in 1785, just as the steamboat inventors were getting started, Franklin theorized that paddlewheels were an inefficient way to propel boats. He proposed using air- or water-jet propulsion instead. Because Rumsey and Fitch were desperate for Franklin's approval, neither man ever gave paddlewheels a try. Rumsey went for jet propulsion, while Fitch used paddles that dipped in and out of the water like the oars of a canoe. Paddlewheels were never as efficient as the screw propellers that came much later, but given the weak engines of the day, they beat jet propulsion hands down.
In the spring of 1786, Fitch came to Philadelphia determined to build his steamboat. His first challenge was to devise a Watt-type steam engine without the benefit of ever having seen one. Although the English manufacturing firm of Boulton & Watt had recently begun selling steam engines, a new British law banned their export. Not a single Watt engine existed in America. Undaunted, Fitch formed a company of investors, hired a clockmaker as his lead engineer, and coaxed blacksmiths to make precision parts. In the new Fitch's unique 1786-87 steamboat republic's heady first years, the belief that anything was possible and that individuals could make a difference (and perhaps a fortune) encouraged men like Fitch. "What cannot you do," he told himself at the beginning of his quest, "if you will get yourself about it."
Constitutional Convention Delegates Taken on a Cruise
On August 22, 1787, Fitch demonstrated his remarkable steamboat with unique canoe-like paddles to delegates attending the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, and took several for a memorable ride on the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers.
Several months after Fitch's 1787 success on the Delaware, Rumsey came to Philadelphia to attack Fitch head on, fuming that Fitch had stolen his idea. Not long after, Franklin and several other influential Philadelphians formed a company to send Rumsey to England, where he could apply for a patent for his boat design and simply buy a steam engine. Just days after he arrived, Rumsey met with Matthew Boulton and James Watt. They were so impressed with his plans that they offered him a partnership. But after several rounds, their negotiations broke down and Rumsey returned to London to go it alone. He spent the next few years dodging creditors while trying to build a water-jet-propelled steamboat on the Thames.
Fitch: Technological Triumph … Financial Disaster
By 1790 Fitch had redesigned his steamboat and built an engine reliable enough to run regular passenger service between Philadelphia and Trenton. But even at eight miles an hour—twice the speed of Fulton's steamboats years later—he couldn't compete with stagecoaches. Most of his investors bailed out for good when Thomas Jefferson, as head of the first patent board, awarded Fitch and Rumsey federal patents dated the same day. Jefferson's unwillingness to choose one man over the other helped ruin both inventors. The government act that was meant to stimulate technological progress—and in fact was pushed into law to settle the steamboat wars—instead stifled it for many years.
Fitch and Rumsey persevered for a while longer, mocked by the public and dogged by bad luck. Rumsey died the day before his first scheduled steamboat trial in London. Fitch traveled to France for one last attempt but arrived to find himself in the middle of the Reign of Terror. The steamboat pioneers who followed—Oliver Evans, John Stevens, Samuel Morey, Nicholas Roosevelt, and a few others—faced similar hardships. In those days of steam technology, most citizens viewed inventors as self-indulgent crackpots, not pioneers of progress.
In 1806, Robert Fulton, after a string of failures in other endeavors, returned to America after living twenty years in Europe and made the steamboat a success. He was a shrewd and ambitious businessman who had money and advantages the early inventors could only dream of.
Fulton Builds the First Commercially Successful Steamboat
Fulton found the perfect partner in Robert R. Livingston, whose political pull gained them a twenty-year navigation monopoly on the Hudson River—geographically and commercially a perfect place to run a steamboat. Unlike his predecessors in steamboat building, Fulton by then was able to hire European immigrants who had mechanical expertise. Ignoring (or perhaps unaware of) Franklin's warning, he used paddlewheels. By studying the failures and successes of the previous inventors, he knew what would work and what wouldn't. Probably most important, a few years earlier he had craftily added a clause to his British militarycontract that allowed him to purchase and export a Boulton & Watt steam engine.
Although Fulton later received two U.S. patents, he never claimed to be the inventor of the steamboat. In fact, the head of the U.S. patent office in the early 1800s—a thorn in Fulton's side for years—often declared that Fulton's patents would be indefensible in court. But Fulton knew that navigation monopolies were better than patents, and he spent the last years of his life fighting to hold on to them. It would take a ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court nearly a decade after his death to strike down his Hudson River monopoly as unconstitutional. After that, the steamboat business boomed in the east and on the Mississippi. By the mid-1800s, some six thousand steamboats were running on the Mississippi.
The effect of steamboats on the nation's growth and economy was tremendous. Before they came along, it took four to six weeks to float a cargo-laden flatboat or barge downriver from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. It took another four months for the crew to walk back to their home port and start the process all over again. The high costs of labor, added to the product loss and spoilage that often occurred over such long periods, raised the price of goods to the point where they were nearly unaffordable. Trade languished. When the first Mississippi steamboat paddled up the river from New Orleans to Pittsburgh in 1815, it did so in twenty-five days, an enormous leap forward.
Steam engines transformed America. By the 1830s and for a century to come, they were powering not only boats and ships but railroad locomotives, mills, factories—and even cars. Productivity soared and prices dropped. The nation, united by trade made possible by easy transport, grew and prospered, as Washington had hoped. But it didn't happen overnight. It had begun with the need for a boat that could push itself upstream and an idea for a steam-powered carriage.
© Copyright Andrea Sutcliffe 2004.
Reprinted with permission of the author.
The full story is given in the book "Steam, the Untold Story of America's First Great Invention" by Andrea Sutcliffe. This limited-edition book is currently available for $24.95 from the John Fitch Steamboat Museum, Box 2042, Warminster, PA 18974.
Book reviewer John H. Lienhard wrote: "What a ride! It's all there: duplicity, steamy intrigue, and scandal, with cameo roles played by Napoleon, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson Thomas Paine, and James Watt. My personal hero, the tormented American steamboat inventor, John Fitch, rises above the glorious fray like cream upon milk. His is a story whose incompleteness has dogged us over the years. Indeed, we are, at last, shown the full tapestry of the steamboat invention in one fast-moving book. Hard history and good fun. You'll love it."
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Mr John CULBERT (1888 - 1943)
Place of Birth: Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia
Place of Death: Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
Member of the NSW Legislative Council 21 Dec 1925 22 Apr 1934 8 years 4 months 2 days Life Appointment under the Constitution Act. Date of Writ of Summons 21 December 1925.
Member of the NSW Legislative Council 23 Apr 1934 22 Apr 1937 3 years A Member of the indirectly elected Council 1934 - 1978. Date of Election 19 December 1933. A Member before reconstitution.
Australian Labor Party (ALP). Member of central executive from 1923 until 1926, 1941 until 1943.
Timber worker and union secretary. Educated at Christian Brothers, Newtown; at an early age commenced work in the Government Printing Office as a messenger boy, left for other employment; worked as a sawyer in timbermills; New South Wales secretary of the Australian Timberworkers Union from 1920 until 1943, and federal president. Was arrested in 1929 strike and found not guilty of conspiracy; director of Labor Motor Funerals Limited, secretary (1943); chairman of directors.
Son of James Culbert, carpenter, and Annie Josephine Farrelly. Married Delia Winifred Brady on 10 September 1913 and had issue, 2 sons. Roman Catholic. Buried in Waverley cemetery from St Brendan's Roman Catholic church in Annandale.


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Who's in charge of this body?
I do tend to latch on to things and get enthused. My latest fixation is a blog called This Gives Me Hope by Cathryn Wellner. She is a woman determined to locate 1001 things that, well, give her hope, and then to tell me and you about them.
The very idea of rashes, welts and scars appearing at the mere behest of the personality currently in charge has an almost eerie feel of demonic possession to it, until you think about it more. What this tells us is that the human mind is a powerful thing, certainly in terms of the control it wields over the body to which it is connected .
In my novel x0, I join countless others in postulating that our minds are capable of far more than we generally acknowledge. A brain that can create a scar can also reduce one. If a rash can be created, a rash can be eliminated. And so on. If you think about it, there is tremendous hope in this message.
The wonderful poster above is from the Facebook page of Raising Ecstasy, and it makes me wonder if what weighs us down the most is often the negative thoughts that we foist upon ourselves. Thanks Ms. Wellner for passing along the hopeful message that research and observation support the theory that each one of us is in charge of our own bodies, and we can do far more good for ourselves than we realize.