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A Tale of Springtime Michelle Orange
In Éric Rohmer's 1990 film, transience and possibility.
Anne Teyssèdre as Jeanne and Florence Darel as Natacha in A Tale of Springtime. Courtesy Janus Films.
A Tale of Springtime, written and directed by Éric Rohmer, available at Film Forum's virtual cinema
A Tale of Springtime (1990), the inaugural entry in Éric Rohmer's "Tales of the Four Seasons" cycle (a quartet of movies that will stream via Film Forum's virtual cinema this April), opens with a brief study in displacement. We first see Jeanne (Anne Teyssèdre) exiting the Lycée Jacques Brel, spotlit amid the students by her blazer, pumps, and belted chinos. Jeanne drives through a suburb and across the Seine into central Paris, where she enters an apartment strewn with tangled bedsheets, men's shirts, and the crumbs of a half-eaten baguette. Soon abandoning her reflexive tidying to pack a duffel bag with some clothes and two volumes of philosophy (Plato and Kant), she then drives to a second apartment. Here she finds things in better order, save for the strange young man (Marc Lelou) in his underpants. Is this place her home, and not the other? It is and it isn't, we learn, as her cousin and houseguest Gaëlle (Sophie Robin) appears and asks if she and her boyfriend can stay a few more days. Jeanne says no problem, claims she was only stopping by to switch out some clothes; it's spring, she adds. The ease with which Jeanne adopts the pretense of just passing through invites the viewer's admiration—how gracious—as well as her scrutiny. Is this deception in the name of courtesy, or vice versa? Where does this woman actually live? How to measure the gap between what Jeanne says and what she really wants?
We next see Jeanne in yet another apartment, striking the afflicted pose of the peripheral party guest. Seated on a couch apart from the action, she is joined by Natacha (Florence Darel), an eighteen-year-old conservatory student who has just been stranded there by her much older boyfriend. Talk of when and how to escape the party turns to that of their respective living situations: Jeanne's boyfriend, Mathieu, is away, and she can't bear to stay in his apartment alone; Natacha now has her childhood home to herself, her divorced father Igor (Hugues Quester) having effectively moved in with his twenty-year-old girlfriend, Ève (Eloïse Bennett).
Anne Teyssèdre as Jeanne in A Tale of Springtime. Courtesy Janus Films.
Bound by their navigation of different transitional phases, the pair's contrasting presentation suggests a larger shift in progress. In her shoulder pads, frosted lipstick, and Mary Lou Retton crop, Jeanne, a philosophy teacher in her late twenties, still cuts an '80s silhouette. Wearing crushed velvet bodysuits and ultra-high-waisted everything, at the turn of the decade Natacha already has both feet in the '90s. Yet the distance between them adjusts only slightly their engagement with the questions that bedevil so many Rohmer characters: how to form a coherent account of one's own desires and act in accordance with them, how to marry notions of selfhood with one's actual self, how to take possession of what one already has. Jeanne accepts Natacha's invitation to spend the night at her apartment, a gently dilapidated space with original moldings where the host complains about her mother and Ève, laments her father's failed literary ambitions, plays from Robert Schumann's Songs of Dawn on the piano, and exhibits a little girl's glee in showing Jeanne her bedroom.
Florence Darel as Natacha in A Tale of Springtime. Courtesy Janus Films.
By turns tentative and expansive, the connection between Jeanne and Natacha forms the seabed over which the film's various moods, schemes, and ideas flow. Each sees an opportunity in the other—Jeanne the remedy for her self-imposed exile, and Natacha a more suitable girlfriend for her father. When Natacha contrives a series of encounters between Jeanne and Igor—a mild, diffident civil servant—Jeanne is willing to see what happens. Despite abhorring Mathieu's personal disorder, Jeanne blames their relationship's current malaise on the untenable gap between acting married and actually being married. When Natacha expresses surprise at Jeanne's plan to wed a man she has just called "utterly despicable," Jeanne shrugs in the way of someone who has accepted compromise and practicality as the true songs of adult life. Enough doubt lingers, however, for her to dabble in Rohmerian economics—whereby ordinary, extremely verbose individuals negotiate interwoven hierarchies of romantic love and personal freedom, conscious to the point of paralysis of getting the best deal, making the optimal choice, holding out for whatever the real thing might be.
Anne Teyssèdre as Jeanne, Florence Darel as Natacha, Hugues Quester as Igor, and Eloïse Bennett as Ève in A Tale of Springtime. Courtesy Janus Films.
Though numerous scenes play out in the pastoral setting of Natacha and Igor's country house—where petulant, dad-obsessed Natacha clashes with smug, hair-swishing Ève, and Jeanne and Igor talk circles around whether to bone—the film's aesthetic is one of private interiors, the spaces that serve as vessels for our lives, if not for time itself. Back and forth these characters go, packing and unpacking their bags. Here as in each entry in the four-seasons series, Rohmer extracts from what amounts to chronic human dithering a story of transience and possibility. Long takes and simple, picture-book compositions foreground a talky script whose chatter serves—as chatter so often does—mainly as a distraction.
At stake is the shifting relationship between character and behavior, essence and expression, what is constant and what remains subject to constant change. Least reliable when they describe themselves, which they do frequently and at length, Rohmer's characters make self-awareness look a lot like self-delusion. They are also capable of bruising frankness: the sex is good because we know it won't last; I'm just playing this out until something better comes along. About love they are at once pragmatists and true believers, trusting in chance but filling the interim with cold assessment. Whatever triumph romantic attachment affords such restless creatures has less to do with personal (much less erotic) fulfillment than the hope of fixing one's self in time; of easing, even for a little while, its relentless passage.
Throughout A Tale of Springtime Jeanne calls herself fussy, clumsy; "fanatical about other people's freedom"; someone who "thinks about her thoughts, maybe too much"; not mad and therefore not capable of loving madly. Others note her calm: physically her solid presence cuts against Natacha's flouncing and Igor's noodley unease. Teyssèdre emits a subtle magnetism, her face a flickering mask, her vibe a sort of ardent detachment. Viewed at a distance, Jeanne's moral essence is clear, yet in the film's reality she remains inscrutable. It is this gap that interests Rohmer, and that viewers are invited to consider, to push past their judgment toward something closer to recognition. A source of folly at times, the gap also lets the light in. The film's effect is sneaky, cumulative, much like that of years gone past. Springtime ends on a note of resignation and sweetness, its final moments evincing the relief of possibility's closure: the solace of having chosen, freely and in good faith, before it's too late.
Michelle Orange is the author of This Is Running for Your Life: Essays and the forthcoming nonfiction book Pure Flame (2021).


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A tax credit may be applied against the tax imposed under Chapter 208 (Corporation Business Tax) for the incremental increase in research and experimental expenditures conducted in Connecticut.
Research and experimental expenditures as defined in §174 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, include but are not limited to:
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Q: How to resolve pop from empty list error? My goal is to create a dictionary of lists something like {1: ['c','b' 'a'], 2: ['c', 'b', 'a']}
a_list = ['a,','b', 'c'] #some_dates
some_dict = dict([(i, []) for i in range(1, 4)]) #date_dict
a_list.reverse()
print(a_list)
for key in some_dict.keys():
    a = some_dict[key]
    while len(empty_list) < 14:
        a.append(a_list.pop())

some_dict

However using this code, I get the following error message. I don't understand why I'm getting the error pop from an empty list when a_list has clearly already been created at the beginning?

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IndexError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-8-90ae0d4de7b6> in <module>
      6     a = some_dict[key]
      7     while len(a) < 4:
----> 8         a.append(a_list.pop())
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     10 some_dict

IndexError: pop from empty list

A: Your code intends to pop a_list into your dict.

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*But your while-loop isn't checking len(a_list), it's checking the wrong variable: len(empty_list), which isn't even defined! (Always recheck your code example in a clean session before posting your question here.)

*Anyway, it wouldn't even make sense for your loop's termination condition to be the check while len(a_list) < 14: as that won't prevent a_list becoming empty and you attempting to do a_list.pop(). You should be checking while len(a_list) > 0. (Assuming len(a_list) < 14 was true the first time through the loop, pop'ping is only going to keep making a_list shorter, so len(a_list) < 14 will continue to be true, even when len(a_list) == 0, so it won't prevent the IndexError: pop from empty list. That's not what you want to do.

*But we frown on this sort of iterative stuff in Python, we have list comprehensions and dict comprehensions. You can do everything you want to do in a one-line dict comprehension:
>>> {k: a_list for k in some_dict}
{1: ['c', 'b', 'a,'], 2: ['c', 'b', 'a,'], 3: ['c', 'b', 'a,']}

*That's faster, cleaner, more legible, almost impossible to write wrong. It also doesn't use up your input destructively, unlike a_list.pop()

*No need to declare yet another variable a to hold the list you're building for some_dict[key]. That also causes another bug, because you build your temporary a, but you never assign it some_dict[key] = a after the while-loop finished]s, before you do another iteration of the for-loop with the next key. You're throwing away a. (But anyway if you code this directly as a dict comprehension, with no temporary variable like a, you can't make that mistake.)


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Welt im Film 19/1945 21.09.1945
01 Berlin today debris in Berlin. Facade of the Sports Palace and Interior. Destroyed environment of the Brandenburg Gate. Ruined house fronts. Clean-up work. Queue in front of the building of the military Government. Newspaper-reading man. Newspaper people. Road with buses and horse-drawn carriage. People go railway entrance into the U.
(42 m) 2 Reims: curious regatta fashioned canister as Paddle boats for children. Children paddling in the water and sit on the shore. A race is started. Children run on the Bank. The winner alone in the image in the final sprint. He receives a bouquet of flowers and a kiss from a girl. American soldiers distribute drinks to children.(Coca Cola).
(37 m) 03 Okinawa: emergence of an airfield a native village. The residents will be relocated in another village. American trucks to transport sick people and furniture. A train by natives carrying loads on their shoulders. The cars drive over a bridge. Entry in the new cabins. In the courtyard, laundry is hung up. The first meal. A child drinks from a Cup. Workers for the airfield to be registered and receive dogtags. You stand in a long line, get instructions and bowing. Workers chop up the stony ground. Bags with cement, large. Funny hats against the Sun. Break from work with food from a can. Rollers smooth the airfield. A plane taking off.
(91 m) 04 Geislingen: keep a curfew men coming into a room. They stand side by side and an American officer interrogated them. An interpreter translated. Then women enter and the one explained their case. Payment of 200 DM as punishment. A receipt will be written out with the typewriter and signed.
(38 m) 5th France destroyed factory builds industry. Expert and senior staff advise in a room. Reconstruction work. The factory building of the Renault works in Paris. A furnace works. Workers at machines and truck engines. Finished trucks in a row. The Gudrich colon works, a tire factory. Look on the factory floor. A worker from a finished tyre. A tire is past rolled in exposed workers. Tyre warehouse-filling image.
(87 m) 06. London: the work of UNRRA Conference room. The Chairman Herbert Lehmann speaks. MPs in seats with the signs of their country before themselves. Oberammergau, Germany. In a concentration camp, children receive clothing and be examined by a doctor. A door with a sign of UNRRA. Education. A child counts on a large slide rule. A teacher stands on a table and informed before adults.
(48 m) 07. New Mexico: the atomic bomb the first film shot by an atomic bomb. The laboratory in Oakridge, Tennessee. The employees and workers go into her own post office, they go on the road. A newspaper is posted. The University of California. Nobel Prize winner Ernest Lawrence at the reactor. Again, the atomic bomb with mushroom. An 11 m high iron Tower, Very much narrow, burning up.
(91 m) 08 Ulm: German schools destroyed school in Ulm, Germany. In the background the Ulm Münster. Boys help the reconstruction with hoes. Stones are collected, passed in a chain and piled up. The students clean the stones. Hamburg. Little girls go for the first time in the school at the Graudenzerweg. A girl goes through a door with the sign registration here. The girls sit in the class. The headteacher Friedrich Ahrens stands behind the teacher's desk and speak, O sound. Impressions by schoolchildren, partial close-ups. Senator Landahl speaks tone to the children, O. The girls go out of school and are received by their mothers. Senator Landahl called sound to parents and teachers, O.
01 today Berlin these new newsreel footage To give another image of the extent of the destruction of Berlin and show the beginnings of reconstruction. The Sports Palace, the Forum of national socialism is a heap of rubble. In the area of the Brandenburg Gate, it looks more evil. Here, the war Berlin struck its most severe wounds. But in other areas of the city, the cleaning-up operations go ahead vigorously. Large and small, man and machine, the civilian population and the Allied military authorities are working to make Berlin habitable again. In this allied services, important new tasks are allocated to working professionals. 9 newspapers currently published in Berlin. Road transport in multiple forms livens up. Berlin's wheels rolling again.
02. curious regatta that war can bring joy this shows children's Festival in Reims in France organised by American soldiers. The inventive soldiers have transformed the attachments of aircraft with some tinkering in Paddle boats for children, and the result is a cheerful summer afternoon for both parts. Of course, there is a secondary tank regatta with a lot of hopeful participants, swinging the paddle as the large. The champion goes into the lead. He turns on greatly. Still a final spurt. He wins length with 5 containers. The prize is a kiss of his girlfriend and a shield. After large children society with everything that entails. The children of a front-line city of Reims will not soon forget this day.
03. creation of an airfield before the surrender of Japan commanded military need for the location of this small village on Okinawa to create an airfield. The village had to be cleared of civilians and laid down. In a neighbouring village, the houses for the evacuees were cleared. American trucks bring the frail, as well as heavy housekeeping items to their destination. The others go the short way on foot with their belongings. The military authorities strive to make too easy as possible the changes of residence the natives. Here they hit her new home now. Setup and adjustment is not long. What was dirty on the way, wash. The first meal in the new quarter. In the village, where a few hours ago were people, work already cranes, steam Spades and road rollers. Volunteers are hired as workers on the airfield. For their work, they are well paid and fed. You get a dog tag and be instructed. You bow down gracefully and walk to their workstations. Stone by stone the rocky ground is broken up, a hard work in tropical heat. Against the glowing rays of the Sun, use a curio collection of headwear, a more exotic than the other. Break from work and Essenfassen. A tin of chopped ham to the ration. The airfield was made operational in a short time and was an important base for Allied warplanes to the [...]iederingung Japan. Today, this field is the main base for the transport aircraft of the Allied occupying forces on their flight to and from Tokyo.
04. curfew keep imposing before. Curfews is a necessary measure of the Allied military Government for reasons of public safety. Who violates the regulations, has to answer, like these people here in Geislingen in Württemberg. An Allied officer directs the proceedings. Each accused to explain his case. An interpreter translated the prosecution and defense. These women are taken after closing time on the road. One submits their case by them. 65 people from Geislingen and environment were heard in this negotiation because circumvention of the Ausgehverbots. That became guilty exchanged 200 marks fined or sentenced to 20 days in prison.
05. France builds industry France is working hard to rebuild of its industry. Gradually new factories, new workplaces rise from the rubble of destroyed or heavily damaged factories. This is a car factory in Lyon. Advise Government officials and experts from Paris with the managers and employees about the best and fastest wag new and increased production. In many cases, already good work has been done. At the Renault factory in Paris for example 5 cars were produced in last October, the daily in March of this year already 43 daily. Each furnace and each forging hammer work with maximum pressure. Each newly produced cars represents another victory of the destruction and the chaos, because France needs A lot more cars more. Cars to textiles from Lyon to Normandy, butter from Normandy to Paris, to create coal from Alsace to the industries of Lyon. Equally important is the production of tires. You need them soon, plentiful and in good quality. America represents the raw rubber.
France the workshops and the workers. Here you can see the operation in the Gutrich colon works which have reached a high level of the post-war production thanks to intensive work. This is the last phase of the complicated production process. The inner mold is removed, and the tire is ready for use. Wheels roll and icons for the boosting of the French industry.
06. from the work of UNRRA, a Conference of UNRRA, the relief and reconstruction work of the United Nations was Instead of in London headed by its Chairman Herbert Lehmann. It was etc. announced that 25 million people in need in Europe and the far East prior to the winter through the UNRRA warm clothes will receive.
Oberammergau in Bavaria, formerly the international meeting place of tourists and onlookers. It is now, a concentration camp for deported Hungarian families. Children's clothing are issued within the framework of the UNRRA action. Most garments come from America. Medical care is one of the most important tasks of the UNRRA and in turn is the welfare of the children in the first place. [...] provides training and education. The children get their first introduction in the field of learning and knowledge. For adults, there are hours of language and other lessons, which should help them resume of a normal life.
07. friends nuclear bomb this is the photographic recording of an atomic bomb, filmed in the first blast at the 17. July 1945 in the desert of New Mexico, from a distance of 10 kilometers. The laboratory in Oakridge in the North American State Tennesy is similar to a secret city. 2 years scientists and technicians in strict seclusion working here at the completion of the hugest means of destruction, that the world has ever known. Completely cut off from the outside world, it had its own post office, their own streets and shops, their own newspaper, which tells them the success of their work. Nobel Laureate Professor Ernest Lawrenz work on the atomic bomb with the help of the Aton cyclotrons completed at the University of California. £ 500 million were spent on the preparatory work until this first attempt with the unleashed forces of nature could be executed. The impact was tremendous, only comparable to that with an earthquake or a volcanic eruption. The observers were protected by bunkers at a distance of 10 kilometers. Nevertheless, a number of them through the air to the ground were thrown and stunned. Searing heat spread, black smoke damage increased by 10 km high. A 11 metre high iron Tower, on the right side of the screen to see disintegrated into dust. This is the new Zerstörungsmittel that the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has eaten shortly before the end of the war from the ground, the most formidable weapon in the history of mankind. The allies, who hold the secret of the atomic bomb, are determined that this tremendous invention in the future should serve only as a deterrent to war and war makers. The successful nuclear fission begins a new era in the world with its incalculable wealth of applications. There should be a period of improving and the reassurance of human life.
06 by German schools of socialism has neglected the training of German youth, poisoned their education. The schleunigste restoration of the destroyed school building is all the more important. The Allied military authorities consider this task as one of the most important reconstruction work, and promote them by all means. But at the same time the self-help and the own initiative must work. In the rubble of the Keppler secondary school in Ulm have the boys with their teachers to the reconditioning their school together done. Everyone creates with hand, collects bricks, passes it, purifies it and stratifies them together. All these boys are under 16 years of age. You work every day from morning 8 until 12 noon. Students have become construction workers temporarily. They build, so that they can soon be students.
[...] So keep right on it. Your teachers and teachers will help you, and you will see, makes nie which thanks you hard work and every day more joyful."
Since the Allied occupation, over 100 Hamburg schools have been opened again. 70 more are to follow soon. Of 100,000 school-age children aged 6-14, around 50,000 enjoy teaching again. Using selected and politically reliable teachers with newly published textbooks. Senator Landahl has been determined by the Allied military authorities as the head of the Hamburg-based education. (Original sound) "My dear parents, my teachers, and teachers. Once again, new students are recruited in the school. All of us in the great task of raising our children together using land. We are No more living in the compulsory State of national socialism who knew nothing but blind obedience. Again, the public things must be borne by all of us. This is a vibrant democracy. So we To want us join hands and together to educate the children to real humanity. The school administration and the military Government began their preparations for the reopening of schools, we saw just rubble and debris, the only inheritance, Nazism has left us all around us. Ruins are still around us, but the evil time is over At last, and we go with our whole strength to work. Let us educate our children to decent, honest, tolerant people, people who love peace and reject violence to people who can rely on their own head, and also what they think and courageously before everyone represented, to people who are willing and able, disinterested in the community in which they are in, to serve.
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Der deutsche Vormarsch zur Marne


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Die Matronae Grusduahenae sind Matronen, die einzig aus einer Votivinschrift aus Alt-Inden, Kreis Düren am Niederrhein aus der Zeit des 2. und 3. Jahrhunderts überliefert sind.

Auffindung und Inschrift
Im Vorlauf der Erschließung des Tagebau Inden für den Abbau von Braunkohle wurden ab 2004 im Bereich des (heute abgebaggerten) Altortes Inden archäologische Grabungen durch die Bodendenkmalpflege des Landschaftsverband Rheinland durchgeführt. Im Planum eines größeren merowingerzeitlichen, fränkischen Reihengräberfeldes wurde der Votivstein aus Sandstein als Verbauung in einem Grab gefunden. Vermutlich stammt der Stein ursprünglich aus einem unweit gelegenen Matronenheiligtum beim Indener Ortsteil Geuenich. Der Stein befindet sich heute im Depot des LVR-Amt für Bodendenkmalpflege im Rheinland.

Von dem Votivstein ist der untere Teil mit der Inschriftentafel mit den Maßen 69 × 59 × 16 cm erhalten. Das Inschriftenfeld in Kapitalschrift ist in vier Zeilen gegliedert, wobei in der vierten Zeile deutliche Störungen des Schriftbilds durch Abrieb ("Verschmierungen" siehe Nedoma) bei den Buchstaben V, L und M gegeben sind. Bezüglich weiterer (punktueller) Störungen wie zwischen den Buchstaben S und D der ersten Zeile stellen nach Nedoma keine Worttrenner dar (siehe Lesart L'Année épigraphique; anders Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg).  Die Inschrift ist gekennzeichnet durch eine übliche Formel des niederrheinischen Katalogs der Votivinschriften (nicht nur im Kontext der Matronenverehrung) und zählt durch die Formel ex imperio ("auf Geheiß, Anweisung der Matronen") zur Gruppe der "Offenbarungs-Inschriften". Neben den auffälligen Beinamen ist der Name des Stifters Gaius Iulius Primus von Bedeutung. Denn ein Gaius Iulius Primus ist mit identischer Formel auch als Dedikant für die Matronae Hamavehae aus Inden-Altdorf belegt. Durch den lokalen Bezug kann es sich um dieselbe Person handeln, wobei dieser Namenszug aus weiteren Inschriften der römischen Rheinprovinzen bekannt ist.

Beiname
In der Erstpublikation durch Beyer/Pfäffgen wurde der Beiname in der ersten Zeile als GRVS DVAHENIS i. e. Grus Duahenis gelesen: "dem Kranich (lat. Grus) den duahenischen Matronen", oder Hartmut Galsterer/Stephan Meusel (R.I.D.24): "Die Kraniche für die duahenischen (Matronen) stifteten Caius Iulius Primus …". Robert Nedoma kritisiert beide Lesungen in sich als formal problematisch, grammatisch korrekt wäre bei der Lesung durch Beyer/Pfäffgen ein Dativ Singular lat. grui oder Dativ Plural gruibus der dritten lateinischen Deklination vorauszusetzen. Bei der Lesung durch Galsterer/Meusel ist der Nominativ Plural grues zu erwarten. Des Weiteren merkt er an, dass Kraniche weder als Votivobjekte noch als Votivgaben in Begleitung von Matronen belegbar sind. Daher fügt er als weiteres Argument gegen die bisherige Lesarten an, dass ein Beiname Duahenae sprachlich nicht befriedigend, schwer zu deuten sei. Andreas Kakoschke unterstützt Nedomas korrekte Lesung und vergleicht mit einer Sequenz |curia(lis) gru(e)s duas| einer anderen Inschrift deren Lesung ebenfalls bisher unbefriedigend, beziehungsweise problematisch war.

Als Lösung schlägt Nedoma deshalb vor, beide bisher getrennte Elemente als einheitliches Wort zusammenzuziehen (GRVSDVAHENIS), um dadurch eine Grundlage zu schaffen, den Namen sicherer aus dem Germanischen zu deuten. Er zeigt auf, dass bei einer Abtrennung des inschriftlichen lateinischen Flexivums -IS das häufig belegte Beinamen-Suffixkonglomerat -(A)HEN- erkennbar ist, das im Katalog mit der Form -(A)NEH- präsent ist, beziehungsweise bei Mehrfachbelegen "konkurieren". Als Beispiel führt er unter anderem die Matronae Veteranehae an, die die beiden Elemente zeigt: Veter-ahen-ae, Veter-aneh-ae. Als Wortstamm stellt sich die Suffixbildung GRVSDUA- (GRVS-DVA-). Das Glied Grus gehört etymologisch zu den mittelniederländischen n. gruus für "grober Sand, Kies, Grieß", dem mittelniederdeutschen n. grūs für "zerkleinerte Rückstände, Ziegelbrocken, Splitt, Schutt, zerstoßene Pflanze". Belege aus dem friesischen Sprachkontinuum schließen sich in Lautung und Bedeutung den niederländischen und niederdeutschen Belegen an (westfriesisch n. grús, ostfriesisch n. grûs für "zerkleinertes, Kleinzeug u. a.", nordfriesisch n. grüs für "grober Sand, Kies, Schutt"). Aus den nordgermanischen Sprachen liegen dänisch/schwedisch n. grus und norwegisch m./n. grus für "grober Sand, Kies, Splitt, Schutt, Grieß" vor, die möglicherweise aus dem Mittelniederdeutschen entlehnt wurden. Für die kontinentalgermanischen Belege lässt sich die westgermanische Form *grusa- rekonstruieren aus urgermanischen *grūssa- aus indogermanisch *ghruHdt-to-. In -DVA- liegt das germanische Suffix n. *-þwa- oder *-dwa- vor, mit dem unter anderem Verbalnomina gebildet werden wie gotisch f. Plural saliþwos für "Herberge" und althochdeutsch f. selida, altsächsisch f. seliða für "Wohnung, Unterkunft, Herberge, Haus, Hütte" aus urgermanisch *sali-þwõ. Daher stellt Nedoma eine westgermanische Form des *Grūs-twa her, die in Relation zum inschriftlichen Befund zwei grammatische Auffälligkeiten zeigt. Zum einen fehlt bei GRVS-DVA der Bindevokal (aus angenommener Primärbidung) und zum anderen, dass *(Grus)-twa inschriftlich -DVA- unverschoben wiedergegeben ist. In der Summe stellt sich die Bedeutung *grūs-twa- als "Zerbröckelheit", kiesiger Ort, Schotterplatz, Geröllgelände dar. Nedoma vergleicht Grusduahenae morphologisch-semantisch mit der Matronae Turstuahenae (ebenfalls von einem Ortsnamen abgeleitet *þurs-twa "trockene Stelle, dürrer Boden"). Der Beiname der Grusduahenae fügt sich zur Gruppe der zahlreichen weiteren Matronenbeinamen mit Ortsnamenbezug, beziehungsweise mit Ableitung davon.

Nedoma deutet den Beinamen von einem Ortsnamen ausgehend als die Matronen, die "zu einem kiesigen Ort, einem Schotterplatz, Geröllgelände gehören."

Siehe auch
 Liste von Matronennamen
 Lateinische Epigraphik
 Leidener Klammersystem

Literatur
 Brigitte Beyer, Bernd Päffgen: Neue Steindenkmäler aus einem römischen Matronenheiligtum bei Inden. In: Archäologie im Rheinland. 2006, S. 132–134.
 Patrizia de Bernado Stempel: Matronen- und andere Götter(bei)namen auf -genae/-es bzw. -chenae, -henae und -enae. In: Beiträge zur Namenforschung. NF Band 54, Nummer 2, 2019, S, 121 – 152.
 Robert Nedoma: Matronae Grusduahenae. In: Beiträge zur Namenforschung. NF Band 49, Nummer 4, 2014, S. 441–449 (PDF).

Weblinks
 Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg Nr. HD067610

Anmerkungen

Matronae
Beiname einer Gottheit
Germanische Gottheit


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Yellow Knolls, of Arizona, is a prominence in the Virgin River Gorge's east end, located in Mohave County, part of the Arizona Strip of northwest Arizona. Yellow Knolls is located on the north side of Interstate 15, and is also in the south of the Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness.

The knolls are located where the Virgin River enters Arizona from southwest Utah; the Virgin River is a due-southwest trending circuitous stretch, as it descends from higher elevations at the southwest of the Colorado Plateau, specifically the High Plateaus Section, a transition region to the lower elevation Great Basin that lies west, northwest; the lower elevation region is also at an intersection point with the northeast perimeter region of the Mojave Desert. After a short stretch in Nevada, the Virgin River turns south in the Overton Arm of Lake Mead.

Yellow Knolls is approximately 15-mi northeast of Littlefield-Beaver Dam, Arizona in the northeast of the Virgin Valley, and about 20-mi southwest of St. George, Utah.

The Yellow Knolls section is bordered on the west by a due-south flowing stretch of Cedar Pockets Wash, which arises on the southeast of Jarvis Peak, , (the highpoint of the south Beaver Dam Mountains section). The Yellow Knolls section is about 4-mi wide, and Yellow Knolls prominence, , is located at the southeast, adjacent the river and gorge, as the river descends from the northeast from Utah.

An aerial photo (shown above) shows the Virgin River meanders, and are easily identifiable on maps. The section shows the Arizona-Utah border; the canyon coming from the south is Black Rock Canyon, arising from Mustang Knoll highpoint, , a lower mountain section east of the Paiute Wilderness, located in the northeast end of the Virgin Mountains.

References

 Arizona Road & Recreation Atlas, Benchmark Maps, 2nd Edition, c. 1998, 112 pages, pp. 26–27, 60–61.
 Utah DeLorme Atlas & Gazetteer, 7th Edition, c. 2010, 64 pages, pp. 56–57.

Landforms of Mohave County, Arizona
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History of social network use reveals your identity
Technology 18 May 2010
By Jim Giles
When you sign up to a membership group on a social networking site you may be revealing more than you bargained for.
An experimental website has managed to identify the names of people who visit it, by harvesting information about the groups they belong to. It's a trick marketing teams and scammers would love to copy.
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Membership groups within social networks have distinct web addresses: the New Scientist group on Facebook, for example, is accessed via www.facebook.com/newscientist. What's more, the names of group members are publicly available.
Gilbert Wondracek at the Vienna University of Technology in Austria and his colleagues collected data on 6500 groups, containing 1.8 million users, on Xing, a business-oriented social network based in Hamburg, Germany. After analysing the overlap between membership lists they estimated that 42 per cent of users could be uniquely identified by the groups they visit.
Unique interests
The researchers then built a website that read visitors' history of browsing Xing addresses. When they asked 26 friends and colleagues who use Xing to try it, they were able to identify 15 of them. Wondracek's paper showing how this was done was presented at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in Oakland, California, this week.
Since Wondracek's experiment, Xing has started adding random numbers to the addresses used to access its membership groups. The Xing server ignores the extra numbers, but they confuse attacks by a site like Wondracek's.
Arvind Narayanan, a computer scientist at Stanford University in California, fears that this may not be enough to fend off similar attacks, especially if they use multiple social networks and other websites that host membership groups. It is unlikely that all such sites will use random characters to mask addresses, he points out.
More complete protection may come in the next round of browser updates. The developers of Firefox, Chrome and Safari are working on fixes that will prevent browsing history being relayed back to website owners. Microsoft declined to say whether it is working on a something similar for Internet Explorer, the web's most popular browser.
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All Bills of Rights use broad language, and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights is no exception. It is in their nature. This is a valuable feature, because it enables them to be interpreted in an increasingly expansive manner over time, as attitudes and values evolve. Strangely, the broad language has been used by critics of the Lisbon treaty to concoct scenarios and interpretations that have more to do with fantasy than reality.
The Lisbon Treaty makes clear that the provisions of the Charter shall not extend in any way the powers of the EU as defined in the relevant treaties. The fact that certain Charter rights concern areas in which the EU has little or no competence (for example, the death penalty or the right to strike) to act is no contradiction. Although the powers of the EU are limited, it must avoid even indirect interference with all fundamental rights.
Fundamental rights guaranteed by national constitutions are merely complemented, not superseded by the Charter. The Charter will certainly apply to EU institutions. But it only applies to the Member States when they implement EU law. This is not reflective of some sinister centralist agenda but rather a salutary commitment from Brussels to respect fundamental rights in all aspects of its activities. How can this possibly be harmful? It strengthens our protections and fundamental guarantees.
Yesterday, international jurist Richard Goldstone presented a report to the Human Rights Council on breaches of international humanitarian law in the Gaza conflict which had found strong evidence of violations during Israel's military assault that lasted from December 2008 to January 2009, and claimed more than 1400 lives. The report concluded that Israel and Hamas were responsible for numerous serious violations of the laws of war, some amounting to war crimes, and called on both parties to conduct impartial investigations to determine who was responsible for ordering or carrying out these violations within six months. The 47-member Council council has already condemned Israel in a statement last January and is expected to take a hard line this week. It is further expected that the report will be forwarded to the UN Security Council with a recommendation that war crimes trials be considered.
Please find below a Call for Papers for the Biennial Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance. Readers will note that a stream in rights and regulation is suggested. Issues relating to human rights can, of course, also arise in the other streams. In my view the theme on the causes and responses to crises seems to offer a particularly rich opportunity here.
On Wednesday, the Irish Times reported that, for the first time since 1995, more people were leaving Ireland than were coming here. However, the Times adds, significant numbers of immigrants continue to arrive: some 57,000 immigrants came to Ireland in the year to April and the outflow of migrants leaving Ireland has not been as large as expected. These facts trouble the assumption that public expenditure in the area of migrant integration (the McCarthy Report recommended reductions in language support teachers and the abolition of the Ministry for Integration) should be cut. The ICI has also criticised the anti-immigration rhetoric which has been a feature of the Lisbon referendum campaign, with its chairman John Cunningham forcefully arguing that 'this recession must not be used as a 'wedge' to divide those who are perceived as 'us' and 'them'.
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Todays Irish Times reports that Minister for Education Batt O'Keeffe has apologised for using the word "employees" to describe women who had been resident in Magdalen laundries throughout Ireland up to the mid-1990s.
The majority of reported victims of forced marriage in the United Kingdom are young women of South Asian Muslim origin. Because of this fact, the forced marriage project must be read critically against the background of a wider politics of British Muslim belonging, which is linked to the counter-terrorism and social cohesion agendas. This politics operates to exclude some British Muslims from full membership in the 'we group' of British citizens. The ground for exclusion is that of 'excessive' or 'difficult' culture. Those British Muslim who are presented as most bound up in cultural practice, I argue, have become the British citizen's 'other', and are subject to law's discipline on that basis.


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A night with Satsang at Felton Music Hall
December 2, 2021 Katey SchoenbergerComments 0 Alternative
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Satsang w/ Tim Snider
On Wednesday, November 17th, Montana-based quartet Satsang brought their All. Right. Now tour to Felton Music Hall, located up in the Santa Cruz mountains. Self-produced by frontman, Drew Mcmanus, the new album was entirely written and recorded during the bands hiatus from the road. Drew flew the band up to Montana, where they rented a cabin and recorded what is now, All. Right. Now. You can watch a short film on the making of the album on the band's YouTube, which gives you a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the recording process, as well as Drew's life at home in Montana, showing his rigorous routine balancing family, art, health and work.
The new album is a love letter to life in Montana, greatly emphasizing McManus' love and appreciation for his family and loved ones.
Opening the show was a familiar face, Tim Snider, with his new band, Tim Snider & Wolfgang Timber. Satsang fans will recognize Tim Snider and his amazing violin playing on the song "Go Fly", which appears on Satsang's last album, Pyramid(s). Satsang and Snider have also toured together in the past, so if you've seen a Satsang show, you may have seen him open!
Tim Snider & Wolfgang Timber are currently working on an upcoming album and played mostly those unreleased songs. One song titled "Sometimes This" is available and gives you a taste of what's to come. They also played Snider's song "Humanity", which features Justin Chittams. The set was very upbeat, with the crowd dancing and feeling the heartfelt musical messages. Tim Snider's songs are very uplifting and motivating. At the end of the set, in typical Tim Snider fashion, he ends with an EPIC solo on his electric violin, shredding the bow to bits.
Next, for the grand event, was Satsang, bringing the sounds of Montana to the Santa Cruz mountains. The crowd was pumped after Tim Snider and the good vibes kept rolling. The band played most of the songs off the new album, as well as some country covers and even some songs off The Story of You. The band all had great chemistry and you could tell they were having a great time. New lead guitarist Stefan was a great addition, playing not only lead guitar on parts, but also killer solos on the lap steel guitar and harmonica. A highlight of every Satsang show has to be on their song I Am" — it never fails. On the last verse, the crowd will always join in and sing every word back with the band. It's truly a beautiful moment to behold. Make sure you check out a Satsang show if they come to a town near you!
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LUCAS, ANTHONY – Football – University of Arkansas – Fayetteville – 1995-1999: A LA native, Lucas was a 1994 All-American football recruit. He signed with the Arkansas Razorbacks and ended his career with 137 career receptions for 2,897 yards and 23 touchdowns. This still ranks 2nd in the Razorback record books. He is ranked 6th (194 yds) and 9th (177 yds.) in single game receiving yards, 3rd in season receiving yards (1,004 yds.), tied for 1st in single game TD receptions (3 TD's), tied for 3rd in season TD receptions (10 TD's), and 3rd in career TD receptions (23 TD's). He was All-SEC as a freshman (1995), a 2nd team All-SEC selection (1998), was a 3rd team AP All-American, and made the Razorbacks All-Decade Team for the 1990's. He led the SEC in average yards per catch in 1995, 1998, and 1999, and led the nation in average yards per catch in 1998 with 23.3 yards. His career average of 21.0 yards per catch remains 1st in the SEC and 5th in the nation. He played in the Senior Bowl and for Green Bay and Dallas.
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Q: what does self refer to in Property class creating code? In the below code that emulates property creation code:
class Property:
    "Emulate PyProperty_Type() in Objects/descrobject.c"

    def __init__(self, fget=None, fset=None, fdel=None, doc=None):
        self.fget = fget
        self.fset = fset
        self.fdel = fdel
        if doc is None and fget is not None:
            doc = fget.__doc__
        self.__doc__ = doc

    def __get__(self, obj, objtype=None):
        if obj is None:
            return self
        if self.fget is None:
            raise AttributeError("unreadable attribute")
        return self.fget(obj)

    def __set__(self, obj, value):
        if self.fset is None:
            raise AttributeError("can't set attribute")
        self.fset(obj, value)

    def __delete__(self, obj):
        if self.fdel is None:
            raise AttributeError("can't delete attribute")
        self.fdel(obj)

    def getter(self, fget):
        return type(self)(fget, self.fset, self.fdel, self.__doc__)

    def setter(self, fset):
        return type(self)(self.fget, fset, self.fdel, self.__doc__)

    def deleter(self, fdel):
        return type(self)(self.fget, self.fset, fdel, self.__doc__)

in __get__, self is the instance of the property class?
Also, what does obj refer to? Why is obj passed to self.fget?
When I test it I get the following error:
class A:
    func = Property(fget=func)
a = A()
a.func

TypeError: 'Property' object is not callable

How does it work then if it's not callable? I was under the impression that when defining a decorator as an instance you need to make sure it implements the __call__ method?
What am I missing?

A: self is the instance of Property itself. Its main purpose is to simply hold references to the getter, setter, and/or deleter so that you can call them when the property is accessed. When those functions are called, they get a reference to the object from which the property was accessed, so in a.func, self is the instance of Property and obj is a.

The Property instance itself doesn't need to be callable, because it's not what gets called. Property.__get__ only returns self if you access it from the class, not an instance of the class. The built-in property works the same way.
>>> class A:
...   func = property(lambda self: 3)
...
>>> A.func
<property object at 0x10a33bb88>
>>> A().func
3

func is a class attribute whose value is an instance of property. The result of accessing the attribute differs depending on whether you look it up on the class itself or an instance of the class.
When accessed via the class, you get back the property itself.
A.func == A.__dict__['func'].__get__(None, A)
       == A.__dict__['func']

When accessed via an instance, you get back the result of calling the original function passed to property.
a = A()
a.func == A.__dict__['func'].__get__(a, A)
       == A.__dict__['func'].fget(a)
       == (lambda self: 3)(a)
       == 3


At least not pulling up in his department vehicle unannounced, in his dress uniform, accompanied by FireMan's captain, during or shortly after FireMan's shift.
FireMom's recent post reminded me of one of the hardest parts of being a FireWife. Which is why I never talk about it. I rarely think about it.
FireMan's job could kill him.And not in that anyone-could-die-doing-anything-at-any-moment sorta way. In the no-really-any-time-the-tones-go-off-he's-putting-himself-in-harm's-way kinda way.
I remember, shortly after he got his job as a full-time firefighter, so excited after so many years as a volunteer, so excited to be getting paid to fulfill his dream... one day he called me at work, so non-chalantly.
He said he was filling out paperwork for his personnel file, routine stuff, and began asking me questions. Name, date of birth, social security number, etc. Routine stuff.
I laughed. Why do they need the actual physical location of my work?
It's so the chief knows where to go.
See, it's just like you may have seen in the movies.
If a firefighter dies in the line of duty, in most departments (all that I know of, really), the chief puts on his dress uniform, at least one other fire officer joins him, they get in the chief's department vehicle, and notify the next of kin in person.
Thanks for calling me at work, hunny (as I start crying at my desk). Timing is not always FireMan's strong suit, that's for sure.
I managed to compose myself to get thru the conversation.
We got thru that, and moved on to the rest of the "routine" personnel questions.
Choose another firefighter to accompany the chief to notify your wife of your death.
If you choose, please name your religion, place of worship, and any clergy you wish to be present in the hospital, or to preside over your funeral.
Would you like a formal firefighter's funeral & burial, or a citizen's?
Would you like to be buried in the firefighter's memorial cemetery?
There were more. I know there were, but they escape me now.
We finished the conversation, as if it were nothing, I hung up, went to the bathroom, and bawled.
I don't know that every department does things that way. I'm certain that many husbands answer those questions without telling their wives.
But I'm glad that FireMan's department does. And I'm glad he included me in the answering of those questions.
Even if the memory of that conversation is a stark reminder of the danger he faces every day. Even if it means that a little, itsy bitsy party of me resents the Fire Chief, just because I know that if the God-forbid ever happened, he would be the one to tell me.
And no, Chief, you are not welcome at my home. Or at my work. At least not in your dress uniform. Not accompanied by another fire officer. Not in your department vehicle. Not unannounced. Not during or shortly after FireMan's shift.
I got tears in my eyes just reading this post. I hope and pray you never have to experience any of what you just described.


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Four-day Asheville Comedy Festival returns
Posted on August 5, 2019 August 1, 2019 by Mike Schoeffel
FUNNY BUSINESS: "I like to balance jokes with crowd interaction," says Brevard native and current Chicagoan Hobert Thompson, right, who will perform at the 13th annual Asheville Comedy Festival. "I want the audience to feel like they're in on my bit, not just passengers." Fellow North Carolinian Maddie Weiner, left, is also on the bill, along with dozens of other comedians. Photos courtesy of Weiner and Thompson
Brevard native and current Chicagoan Hobert Thompson is returning to Western North Carolina this week to perform at the 13th annual Asheville Comedy Festival. But that's not his only motivation for coming home.
"I'm definitely going to make some time to visit family … and go to Bojangles," he says. "We don't have Bojangles in Chicago. I don't want to sound like I'm only returning to eat a Cajun filet biscuit, but it was a factor."
Thompson is one of 51 comedians selected from a substantial applicant pool to perform at this year's event. The festival's executive producer, Charlie Gerencer, declined to comment on the exact number of submissions but noted that it takes approximately four months to select the official lineup.
Those who made the cut for the 2019 Asheville Comedy Festival, previously known as Laugh Your Asheville Off, will perform at three venues (Diana Wortham Theatre, Highland Brewing and LaZoom Room) Wednesday-Saturday, Aug. 7-10.
"The comedians at our festival are top-shelf," Gerencer says. "[They're] well-known, established comics and are, or will be, stars in the comedy world."
Take Thompson: The N.C. State graduate has never performed in Asheville, though he has appeared in Brevard and Hendersonville. He's a relatively new convert to stand-up, having moved to Chicago from Raleigh in 2014 with the aim of pursuing improv. Not long after arriving in the Windy City, however, he felt compelled to try open-mic stand-up.
It stuck.
"I stumbled into something I love doing," he says. "Chicago has been great so far. I really feel like its comedy scene is conducive to letting performers try new and different things."
Thompson is certainly trying different things. His act is offbeat, avant-garde and often incorporates his extensive improv background.
Take, for instance, one of his most popular bits, which he begins with the declaration that a paternity test has proved that he's the father of every single person in the audience. He then proceeds to walk through the crowd, grilling his "kids" about their drug use, career paths and other fatherly topics.
At least one iteration of this bit — a 2016 YouTube video filmed at CAMP comedy showcase in Chicago — finds Thompson shouting at one of his "sons" to "stand in the corner and stare at the wall" because he hasn't done his homework. It ends with the comedian belting out Elton John's "Circle of Life," while inviting his "children" (including his disgraced "son") onstage for an absurd, grandiose finale.
"If I had to describe my act to someone in a gun-to-my-head scenario, I'd quickly blurt out, 'Conceptual crowdwork, please don't shoot me,'" he says. "I'd understand if they shot me anyway because that sounds obnoxiously pretentious."
But basically, he continues, "I like to balance jokes with crowd interaction. I want the audience to feel like they're in on my bit, not just passengers."
While Thompson is more off-the-cuff, Pedro Gonzalez is a stand-up traditionalist. Gonzalez's story is unique. Born in Colombia, he moved to the United States at age 19 to join other members of his family who had already immigrated here.
Gonzalez, who now lives in New York, initially wanted to be an engineer. He soon realized he was better suited for a creative field. So he ended up at UCLA, pursuing a Ph.D. in literature "so he could get a cushy job teaching at a university and work only a few hours a day," as the bio on his website puts it.
He eventually ditched the Ph.D. track for comedy after he realized the latter requires even less work.
"I grew up a middle-class city child, but I come from a long line of farmers," he says. "Which is funny, because I'd die if I had to harvest my own food. The only reason I do stand-up is because all it requires is a piece of paper, a pen and an imagination."
Much, but not all, of Gonzalez's act addresses the struggles of living in Trump's America with the name Pedro and a strong accent. He employs a deadpan, nonsequitur style — ala Mitch Hedberg — to grapple with the touchy subject of race.
In one bit, he talks about a girlfriend he once lived with in Manhattan. The girl's father, "an old wealthy dude," as Gonzalez puts it, tells the comedian that he doesn't like Hispanics because they come to America and "live off the government."
"I was like, 'Sir, I'll have you know that I'm Hispanic and I don't live off the government. I live off your daughter. So get out of my house,'" Gonzalez responds, to uproarious laughter.
Though Gonzalez's material often pokes fun at the prevalence of racism in America, his actual experience in this country has been mostly positive. He's never encountered "aggressive racism," as he puts it. But he has had to deal with occasional affronts.
"Having the name Pedro makes me pretty unsexy on dating apps, for sure," he says.
Whatever bigotry he's come across has generally been offset by the welcoming nature of others — especially those in the New York comedy community, where he's found a home. On the whole, that community has been a bastion of acceptance, filled with fellow comics who have fully supported Gonzalez's version of the American dream.
"[The New York comedy scene] is filled with hardworking, positive friends who have encouraged me for years, and I'm grateful for that," he says. "I have nothing but good things to say about los gringos."
WHAT: Asheville Comedy Festival, ashevillecomedyfestival.com
WHERE: Diana Wortham Theatre, 18 Biltmore Ave.; LaZoom Room, 76 Biltmore Ave.; and Highland Brewing, 12 Old Charlotte Highway. See website for schedule
WHEN: Wednesday-Saturday, Aug. 7-10. Ticket packages $20-$70
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LaunchVic-backed accelerator aims to help migrants, refugees overcome startup hurdles
by James Harkness / Start-Up / 20 Feb 2018
Entrepreneurial migrants and refugees are being encouraged to apply for a free accelerator program that has been designed to generate long-term economic value for Victoria by increasing diversity and inclusion in the local startup ecosystem.
The First Gens Program is being run by YGAP – an international not-for-profit that backs early-stage social impact ventures – with the help of a $304,000 grant from startup ecosystem development agency LaunchVic.
There will be multiple intakes for the First Gens program, which consists of a five-day live-in accelerator followed by three months of tailored support for migrant and refugee entrepreneurs as well as startups that are helping to improve the lives of migrants and refugees in Australia.
The top entrepreneurs from each intake will receive access to additional support, including up to $25,000 in growth capital.
According to LaunchVic CEO Dr Kate Cornick, YGAP's First Gens program aligns with her agency's vision for a state where people, no matter what their background is, are empowered to launch a startup.
"Migrants and refugees are underrepresented in the startup ecosystem, which has been dominated by Caucasian men," she told Dynamic Business. "Part of the reason is that the venture capital industry has struggled with diversity and inclusion. In the same way that only 2% of the world's venture capital flows to female-led businesses, migrant and refugee entrepreneurs have struggled to attract venture capital.
"This is detrimental to the economy because migrant and refugee startup founders are providing themselves to be very successful entrepreneurs, often due to a very strong risk appetite, and they're actually making significant contributions to the economy. So, it's really important they have an avenue to follow to launch a startup."
Dr Cornick said that YGAP's accelerator – in equipping migrant and refugee founders with the skills necessary to build startups – will generate "real economic value", including the creation of "hundreds, if not thousands of jobs".
She noted, however, that the program is geared more towards the long-term sustainability of Victoria's startup ecosystem rather than overnight success stories.
"We know that not every founder will be successful the first time around," she said. "What we want is a cohort of educated founders who, even if their first startups aren't successful, can take the skills they've learned through the program and use them to help others or perhaps start a second startup."
"Many people think startups happen overnight but growing a business is a long, tough process. In Silicon Valley, for instance, ten-year 'overnight success stories' are common. While we don't expect large job creation and economic development to happen quickly, its really important for entrepreneurs to have access to programs like First gens so they're able to accelerate themselves along that journey."
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