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Are We Killing the Golden Goose?
Do you remember Aesop's fable of the goose that laid the gold eggs? Let me refresh your memory of this tale. It's about a farmer that was poor. One day he makes a startling discovery when he finds a golden egg in the nest of his pet goose. Skeptical at first, he has the egg tested and finds that it is indeed made of pure gold. Even more amazing, each day this farmer awakes to find that his goose has laid another golden egg. In very short order, this poor farmer becomes fabulously wealthy. But then his wealth brings greed and impatience. No longer satisfied with just one golden egg per day, the farmer cuts open his goose to harvest all of its golden eggs at once only to find the goose is empty inside. With a now dead goose, there will be no more golden eggs laid.
In remembering this fable, it sounded so familiar to the world of radio broadcasting. A radio station was like a wonderful "goose" that laid daily "golden eggs" for many an owner. It was an industry joke that having an FCC broadcast license was like having a license to print money. It was "golden."
But broadcasters not wishing to wait for each day's golden egg, cut open their goose with the Telcom Act of 1996. Twenty years ago, this act deregulated radio and now owners, like the farmer cutting open his goose to get all the eggs at once, now could own as many radio stations as they basically wished.
And how did that work out? Not much better than what the farmer discovered.
The moral of Aesop's fable is if you focus only on the golden eggs and neglect the goose that lays them, you will soon be without the very asset that produces the golden eggs.
The radio industry's quest for short-term returns, or results, took their free FCC licenses and ruined them by not maintaining the balance between the production of desired results and the production capacity of the asset.
Aesop's fable is the very principle of effectiveness. It's a natural law. Like gravity, you don't have to believe in it or understand its principles, but you can never escape its effects.
Radio broadcasters probably saw the moral of the fable being the more geese you own, the more spots you add to the hour, the more effective your R.O.I. (Return On Investment) will be. But ironically, it was the principle of "Less Is More" that in the end rules the day.
To be truly effective, you need to maintain the balance of what is produced (golden eggs/revenue) and the producing asset (your goose/radio station).
Stephen Covey wrote extensively about all of this in his book "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People."
"When people fail to respect the P/PC Balance in their use of physical assets in organizations, they decrease organizational effectiveness and often leave others with dying geese."
-Stephen Covey
One could certainly make that case for two of America's largest radio broadcasters today. They are reaping the results of those who've gone before them who've in essence liquidated the asset, before they took over and now the accounting system appears to show that they are not performing at the level of their predecessors. But is that really the case? Did they in reality inherit a very sick goose when they took over? The debt problem say many who are more schooled in this area of high finance than I, will probably be addressed with a re-set. And once that happens, it will come back to the people of radio.
Covey says to "always treat your employees exactly the way you want them to treat your best customers." Herb Kelleher at Southwest Airlines built his company on this very Covey principle.
Covey puts it this way: "You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is. You can buy his back, but you can buy his brain. That's where his creativity is, his ingenuity, his resourcefulness."
The bottom line is the future of radio will be determined by the vision of the people leading the radio industry. It will also be determined by the hiring decisions they make going forward.
"If you hire people just because they can do a job,
they'll work for your money.
But if you hire people who believe what you believe,
they'll work for you with blood and sweat and tears."
-Simon Sinek
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13 responses to "Are We Killing the Golden Goose?"
Damon Collins
Half of the radio stations in this country before 1996 were losing money. Owners were getting out and were offered huge sums of money. What wasn't known? A bad economy on the horizon, digital media, and other factors that would impact our industry. Now we have companies with an astronomical debt, and nowhere to turn (unless they diversify), even selling off properties is not going to solve the problem. This is turn gives our industry a very negative image…the perception that it is failing.
ws1o
Losing money? Are you sure? Maybe claiming to lose money by making a million less in profit than the 5 million a few years earlier, perhaps? Never saw a station owner in the 1970s through 1990s trade in their Caddy for a VW.
Charlie Mitchell
CBS 48 Hours made the same claim in 1992, that half the stations in the US were losing money.
georgejohnsradio
Dick we were told that consolidation would help lead to the bad stations becoming more like the good ones. I'm afraid the opposite happened. geo
Victor Escalante
Dick I was one of the students of World Changers 2007, at Wizard Academy. On our graduation day we had the past CEO/President of Clear Channel speak to us. Back then, he was saying the new model of the network was the long tail of future growth and revenues. I think all media drank the cool aid of we'll thrive on being all things to all people. The results we see is a flawed business model. Radio listeners continue to listen to radio because of selective quality programming (niche or tribal groups) and entertainment value. Talk radio is mostly political entertainment noise and music is all over the place because there are so many avenues of getting what you want to listen to. As I've said before, radio will always exist but its glory days are over and unless it leapfrongs the existing model with some innovation that is monopolistic,
It will continue to flatline or decrease in quality, programming mix, and availablity. Sorry, my previous post was posted unfinished by mistake,not by desgin.
So you're a fellow Wizard Academy grad. You're "family." Congratulations Victor. My class was from September 2001, right after 9/11, and not many who were supposed to be in my class showed up. We were dubbed "the Fearless Flyers" class by Roy.
I am working on some additional thought about all of this and expect to make that next week's post.
Stay tuned & thank you for offering your perspective.
Don Schrack
Prior to Telecom '96, truly great stations placed equal emphasis on super serving target listeners and advertisers, community involvement and the bottom line. Focusing on one element at the expense of the others resulted in inferior product, service and, subsequently, P/L. Post Telecom '96, the bottom line became everything – due primarily to huge debt loads. And the industry has suffered. Will there ever again be a great radio station?
Thank Don for joining in the conversation.
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I think there's some truth to the idea that a lot of radio stations were unprofitable before 1996 (I don't know about "half", though). But I'd counter that a lot…if not most…of them were Docket 80-90 dropins that, in retrospect, never should've been allowed. Those signals were small, hobbled by adjacent channel interference, and mostly in communities ill-suited to support a full-service local radio station.
And as we've seen, the 1996 Telecom Act didn't actually make any of these underperforming signals any better. All it did was allow cluster owners to paper over the problems and let the zombie signal shamble onward aimlessly.
I think it's without question that the single greatest thing the FCC could do to "revitalize" (word picked very deliberately there) the business is to re-introduce the ownership caps and force owners to sell off their underperforming properties. Let someone else take a chance on them…they'll probably fail but who knows? Maybe someone will innovate something new!
I'd also combine that idea with changing the rules to allow owners to "destroy" an allocation and "turn in" a license in the commercial FM band. If a signal cannot be made viable, the option should exist for the marketplace to remove it and "clean up the band" so other signals can function better.
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What a disastrous week of fantasy football. It started with the news Leonard Fournette was suspended, then Thursday night the Saints scored only 10 points with Drew Brees, Michael Thomas and Alvin Kamara doing next to nothing. Saturday, there was the Kareem Hunt news – that completely healthy first-round pick you had who was facing the Raiders this week? Yeah, he's out of football now. On Sunday, A.J. Green, Greg Olsen and possibly James Conner were lost for the fantasy playoffs too. Of course, "disastrous" is a matter of perspective – if you had none of those players on your teams, your chances just got a lot better.
I won't lie. I had a great week. Heading into Monday night I'm 12-3 against the spread and hoping this tweet ages well with a Redskins cover. Fantasy-wise it was a mixed bag, and I'll know more after the Monday night game. There's one league where I might get bounced from the playoffs if Adrian Peterson and Carson Wentz don't get me 40-odd points.
• If Conner (high ankle sprain) is out, rookie Jaylen Samuels (who qualifies at TE on Yahoo) is likely to start in his place. Le'Veon Bell's absence might burn the Steelers yet.
• Antonio Brown (13-10-154-1) torched Casey Hayward all game. The elite receivers can't be single covered.
• Keenan Allen (19-14-148-1) was less efficient, but he caught almost everything thrown his way and converted a least a couple huge third downs.
• Justin Jackson (8-63-1 on the ground, 19 receiving yards) looked more like the early-down back who can fill Melvin Gordon's shoes than Austin Ekeler.
• Nick Mullens (414 yards, 8.6 YPA) showed signs of life. He'll keep the job for at least another week, I'd have to imagine. Matt Breida hurt his ankle during pregame warmups, and someone named Jeff Wilson, Jr. went 9-8-73 as a receiver and 15-for-61 on the ground, though he lost a fumble.
• Russell Wilson attempted only 17 passes (10.2 YPA), four of which went for TDs. Why throw it when Chris Carson (13-for-69) and Rashaad Penny (7-65-1) are having such an easy time of it on the ground?
• One of my few ATS losses was on the Vikings. It's so rarely profitable to bet against the Patriots.
• I get that the Patriots scheme to take away the other team's best weapon, but it was bizarre that the Vikings were down 14 and attempting so many passes well short of the sticks. Why even schedule the game if you're not willing to try?
• Kirk Cousins (4.6 YPA), two picks was terrible. Adam Thielen (10-5-28-1) scored, but was woefully inefficient. Dalvin Cook was productive as a runner (9-for-84), but 10-8-22 as a receiver.
• James Develin scored two short TDs, killing value for most of New England's offense. James White (9-7-92) led the team in receiving, and Josh Gordon (3-3-58-1) scored the TD. Tom Brady (311 yards, 9.1 YPA) played well against a good defense, aside from a senseless late pick.
• Travis Kelce went 13-12-168-2 and almost had a third TD but was touched with his knee down a split second before running the ball in for a third score.
• Spencer Ware did not do a great Hunt imitation with only 47 yards on 14 carries and one catch for five yards. Even if the Chiefs get the top seed in the AFC, I'd be surprised if they make it to the Super Bowl without Hunt. A great running back is as important to the defense as he is to the offense, the guy who helps chew clock and sustain drives, giving the unit a rest. You don't need him when the offense is rolling in good conditions, but in adverse ones, or when you're out of sync, a back like Hunt, who can break tackles and make plays as a receiver, is especially valuable. Damian Williams (5-for-38, two catches) is probably not the solution, either.
• Derek Carr (285 yards, 7.5 YPA, three TDs, no picks) played well, and it's looking more likely Jon Gruden sticks with him after this season. It's not insane as a short-term band-aid if there were no game-changing QBs early in the draft, but Carr is well below the threshold for a long-term solution.
• Jalen Richard fumbled, but went six for 95 on the ground and 4-3-31 through the air. He might be a star in a good offense. Jared Cook (8-7-100-1) led the team in receiving, while Jordy Nelson (11-10-97) caught a bunch of short passes.
• The Jets blew a big lead, but they only had the lead due to a pick six and long field goals. Marcus Mariota spread the ball around in the comeback and put up decent stats. I wouldn't read much into it.
• Antonio Callaway had one of the more bizarre (and frustrating if, like me, you started him) sequences in recent memory. He caught a 80-ish yard TD pass that was called back by a hold, then a few plays later broke free on 71-yard catch, only to fumble it inside the five.
• Baker Mayfield had a bad first half, but finished with 397 yards, 9.1 YPA and a TD to Rishard Higgins. Jarvis Landry (9-6-103) and Callaway (6-3-84) led the team, while the laugh was on David Njoku (6-3-8) owners. Nick Chubb (72 YFS) had a quiet game.
• Deshaun Watson game-managed his way to the team's ninth straight win. Lamar Miller had 100 yards, DeAndre Hopkins went 12-7-91 and Ka'imi Fairbairn hit all five of his field-goal attempts.
• Andrew Luck (4.8 YPA), one pick, three sacks did nothing, Eric Ebron (16-10-81) lost a fumble and T.Y. Hilton (13-8-77) wasn't his usual efficient self. On the Jaguars side T.J. Yeldon (8-7-49) led the team with 65 YFS.
• The Panthers are now 6-6 and would be 5-7 but for Graham Gano's 61-yard last-second field goal over the Giants. Looking like a Bucs' quarterback, Cam Newton threw four picks and took four sacks, while Jameis Winston played a clean game (no picks) and led the team with a Newton-esque 48 yards.
• Christian McCaffrey went 10-for-106 on the ground and 10-9-55-1 through the air, making me look more foolish by the week for mocking him as a first-round pick. Curtis Samuel (11-6-88) led the team in receiving, while backup TE Ian Thomas (5-5-46) had a significant role after Greg Olsen's season-ending foot injury. D.J. Moore chipped in with 65 YFS.
• Chris Godwin (6-5-101-1) and Adam Humphries (9-7-61-1) led the Bucs, while Mike Evans (6-4-48) was an afterthought.
• The Giants game was entertaining at least. Eli Manning (4.9 YPA) was bad again, throwing behind receivers, taking three sacks and throwing a pick directly to a Bears DBs. But he made a great throw in overtime that would have won the game, had Sterling Shepard held onto it, and he delivered a few short strikes on key third downs. Either way, it's long past time the Giants auditioned Kyle Lauletta who was active for the first time all year as the team's backup.
• Saquon Barkley left briefly with a minor shoulder injury, but finished with 24 carries for 125 yards and three catches for 21 more yards. This absurd run, setting up a field-goal at the end of the first half, was a key play in the game, as was his first carry in overtime.
• Odell Beckham threw a 49-yard TD pass on a gadget play. He actually looked like he was about to run the ball, but kept his eyes downfield and tossed it when he saw a wide-open receiver. He also went 9-3-35-1 in the passing game and made some key blocks for Barkley.
• Chase Daniel isn't good, but led the Bears back into the game with the help of an onside kick by repeatedly targeting Tarik Cohen (14-12-156), who also had 30 yards rushing and a short-TD throw of his own. Daniel kept fumbling snaps in overtime, though, eventually doing the Bears in. Allen Robinson went 9-5-79 including a huge catch over a defender's helmet to keep the Bears in the game.
• Aldrick Rosas is a poor man's Justin Tucker, nailing three more field goals including the game-winner and a 57-yarder at the end of the first half.
• Josh Allen had a monster day with 135 rushing yards, 231 passing yards, two TDs and two picks. Given rushing yards count as at least double in most scoring systems, that's like passing for 501 yards.
• I had Zay Jones (9-4-67-2) on a couple benches. Last week, with Allen at QB, he put up a 1-0-0 line when I had him active. In fantasy, it's not only how much a player produces, but also that he produces when you were likely to use him.
• I don't understand how the Dolphins ever score points or win games. Everything they do seems like a fluke.
• I made the Packers 13.5-point favorites over the Cardinals at home and wanted to take them, but had to switch when I saw the line was 14. So crazy a team with a negative point differential was a double-digit favorite over anyone.
• Aaron Rodgers got only 4.7 YPA, David Johnson yielded both TDs to Chase Edmonds and Aaron Jones had only 3.3 YPC. Davante Adams (13-8-93-1) got his. He's not as good as he thinks in real life, but he's an elite fantasy receiver. Jimmy Graham (11-8-50) wasn't efficient, but at least he showed he could play through his thumb injury.
• Mike McCarthy was fired after the game, a move that was five years overdue. While his interim replacement, Joe Philbin, is hardly splitting the atom, I'd bet on a huge game from Aaron Rodgers and the receiving the corps against the Falcons next week.
• Todd Gurley tried to give away another TD at the end of Sunday's game – when you have 19, it seems like they grow on trees – but mercifully for Rams bettors (and Gurley owners) like me he punched it in a couple plays later. He finished with 132 yards and two TDs on the ground with 5-3-33 in the passing game.
• Jared Goff played the role of game manager. Robert Woods (9-5-67-1) led the way and scored.
• Levine Toilolo (6-4-90) led the Lions in receiving. It's been a bad year for Matthew Stafford.
• A.J. Green aggravated his toe injury and could be done for the year. Tyler Boyd (8-6-97) and Joe Mixon (95 YFS) are useful at least.
• Case Keenum's mistake-free caretaking continues to serve the Broncos, especially with Phillip Lindsay (19-157-2) running wild.
• Despite leaving for a few minutes to get checked for a concussion, Lamar Jackson had another serviceable fantasy output with 75 yards and a score on the ground and 125 passing yards. He took two sacks and lost a fumble, though. Joe Flacco could be back next week against the Chiefs, but apparently John Harbaugh hasn't yet decided which QB would start.
• Gus Edwards had another 21 carries for 82 yards, while Kenneth Dixon had eight carries for 37 and Ty Montgomery three for 13.
• Matt Ryan and the Falcons offense got throttled. Julio Jones (8-2-18) might have had his least efficient game as a pro.


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Vergil Andronache (also known as Virgil Andronache; born 16 September 1970) is a Romanian football manager and former football player. After spending most of his career as a player and as a manager with Sportul Studențesc, in 2018 he became the coach of CFR II Cluj, and in 2019 he moved to FCSB to work as an assistant.

Club career
Andronache played professional football for only one club in his career, his former youth side Sportul Studențesc București.

Coaching career
After ending his playing career he stayed at Sportul Studențesc and began coaching their youth teams. Later he was appointed manager of the youth center, but also the manager of the first squad of the club, between 2012 and 2013. After the bankruptcy of Sportul, Andronache took some young players and moved to Juniorul București, then to Viitorul Domnești, where he managed to end as runner-up in the Liga III.

Over time Andronache promoted many talented players, Sportul's youth center being one of the most productive in the country. From the last generation of Sportul, saved by Andronache by taking them to Juniorul, then to Domnești, a few names stand out, the likes of Octavian Vâlceanu, Paul Pațurcă, Bogdan Barbu or Mihai Dobrescu.

After a short spell at the second team of CFR Cluj, Andronache signed a contract with FCSB as an assistant coach, then, on 2 August 2019, he was named as the caretaker manager of the first squad, after the departure of Bogdan Andone.

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External links

 Vergil Andronache at fcsb.ro

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to contact the eldest daughter of 1st Lieutenant (maybe promoted to Captain) Harry Lee Roy who died 30th January 1967 in an air accident near Redwood City in San Francisco Bay (NTSB Report here). The lady has a beautiful letter written at the time of his daughter Leigh Ellen's birth (9th July 1949) which she would like to pass on. Leigh Ellen's mother is Mildred and her sisters are Regina Ann and Tammy.
1st Lieutenant Roy, whose home town was Wellington, TX, was stationed in England during WWII (with 98th Squadron, 440th Troop Carrier G.P.A.P.O-133, US Army, Exeter Airport, Devon) and the two families struck up a long friendship until his untimely death in 1967 in an air accident at which point he was a psychiatrist in private practice in Houston, TX. Some of this information was found on the very useful website of The 440th Troop Carrier Group History Project.
My father was in the 95th Squadron and I have a book called DZ Europe. I looked up Lt. Roy and found a picture of the flying officers of the 98th Squadron. My father died in 1991. I attended a reunion of the 440th WWII which included the 95th,96th,97th and 98th Squadron. Lt. Roy address during WWII is listed in the book as Route 2, Wellington, Texas. My dad, also a pilot, attended several reunions before his death. If you still need information on locating Lt. Roy's daughter, I know my mother gets a newsletter and has saved everyone since they started having reunions. She can most likely connect you with someone from the 98th Squadron that is still alive that can help you find out more. My dad kept in touch with many of the men in the 440th through Christmas Cards for years, these men were very close. Many of them are no longer living but there is a chance someone will help. Since we are from Texas my dad most likely knew him. The small town Texas boys stuck together.
My grandfather was in the 95th Squadron, his name was 2ns Lt. Wilmer S. Weber-he was a navigator. Do you happen to have any information on him? He just passed away on March 31, 2007 at the age of 85. He did attend many of the reunions so I was just wandering if you may have been lucky enough to know him or meet him. He was a great man. I love you Pop!
Was the photo of Sweet Phyllis taken at Exeter Airport? I run Exeter Memories and am working on a history of the irport and a photo essay.
I would very much like to contact 'anonymous'who posted a message on your site regarding contacting the eldest daughter of 1st Lieutenant Harry Lee Roy as I may be able to help.
came across this website by accident and may have some news about eldest daughter of Lt Roy.


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Did you know?: Goher Mumtaz gears up for Cookie
His upcoming serial, Cookie, will be directed by Fahim Burney, who launched him in Tanhai.
Sidrah Moiz July 07, 2013
Singer-turned-actor Goher Mumtaz. PHOTO: FILE
Pop-rock band Jal's front man Goher Mumtaz is set to start with his second drama serial, Cookie in a leading role opposite Saba Qamar, who is a household name in the Pakistani drama industry. The singer-turned-actor is currently seen in Hum TV's drama serial Tanhai opposite actors Ayesha Omar and Sohai Ali Abro.
His upcoming serial, Cookie, will be directed by Fahim Burney, who launched him in Tanhai. The serial will be shot in Karachi and Turkey. "We are done with the first spell, which included a 7-day shoot in Karachi. We will continue shooting after Eid, as Ramazan is almost here," he said.
Mumtaz, who is not a trained actor, finds the roles given to him as "challenging" and says that they require a lot of homework. However, he is confident about himself and considers himself lucky for having back-to-back leading roles in the start of his acting career. "I learn something every day, whether it's [related to] music or acting. Lots of actors in this industry have not made it this big. I think I got lucky."
The singer-turned-actor also gives himself some credit for the success he has achieved so far. "I was offered four to five plays while I was shooting for Tanhai, but I refused. I am glad that I had that patience in me to wait and make the right choices in terms for my acting career."
Co-written by Umera Ahmed, Cookie, which is a romantic play, will air in October. Sidrah moiz Khan
Published in The Express Tribune, July 8th, 2013.
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Flybe administration: Flights cancelled as air carrier stops trading
Suez Canal: Enormous haulage queues develop after crucial waterway blocked by large cargo ship
A cargo ship has turned sideways in Egypt's Suez Canal, blocking traffic in a crucial East-West waterway for global shipping.
24th Mar 2021, 7:34am
Traffic on the narrow waterway dividing continental Africa from the Sinai Peninsula stopped on Tuesday after the MV Ever Given, a Panama-flagged container ship with an owner listed in Japan, got stuck.
It was not immediately clear what caused the Ever Given to turn sideways in the canal.
GAC, a global shipping and logistics company, described the Ever Given as suffering "a blackout while transiting in a northerly direction," without elaborating.
The Ever Given's bow was touching the canal's eastern wall, while its stern looked lodged against its western wall, according to satellite data from MarineTraffic.com.
Several tug boats surrounded the ship, likely attempting to push it the right way, the data showed.
Evergreen could not immediately be reached for comment, though Taiwan's state-run Central News Agency quoted unidentified company sources as saying the ship had been overcome by strong winds as it entered the Suez Canal from the Red Sea but none of its containers had sunk.
The Ever Given, built in 2018 with a length of nearly 400 metres and a width of 59 metres, is among the largest cargo ships in the world.
A cargo ship has turned sideways in Egypt's Suez Canal, blocking traffic in a crucial East-West waterway for global shipping. (Photo by Christos GOULIAMAKIS / AFP)
An image posted to Instagram by a user on another waiting cargo ship appeared to showed the Ever Given wedged across the canal.
The ship appeared to be stuck 3.7 miles north of the southern mouth of the canal near the city of Suez.
Cargo ships and oil tankers appeared to be lining up at the southern end of the Suez Canal, waiting to be able to pass through the waterway to the Mediterranean Sea, according to MarineTraffic data.
Opened in 1869, the Suez Canal provides a crucial link for oil, natural gas and cargo being shipping from East to West.
Traffic on the narrow waterway dividing continental Africa from the Sinai Peninsula stopped on Tuesday after the MV Ever Given, a Panama-flagged container ship with an owner listed in Japan, got stuck. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)
Around 10 per cent of the world's trade flows through the waterway and it remains one of Egypt's top foreign currency earners.
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MACPF ist eine Familie von Proteinen, deren Vertreter eine MACPF-Proteindomäne besitzen. MACPF-Proteine sind z. B. C6, C7, C8α, C8β und C9 des membrane attack complex (MAC) des Komplementsystems und Perforin (PF), woher die Bezeichnung stammt. Sie dienen analog zu den porenbildenden Toxinen zur Bildung einer Pore in Bakterien, Pilzen, viral infizierten und entarteten Zellen im Rahmen der Immunantwort.

Eigenschaften
MACPF-Proteine sind in verschiedenen Datenbanken registriert (Pfam= PF01823, InterPro= IPR001862, SMART=  MACPF, PROSITE = PDOC00251, TCDB =  1.C.39). Das Protein C9 perforiert pathogene Gram-negative Bakterien und viral infizierte Zellen und führt somit zur Lyse und zum Zelltod. Perforin wird von zytotoxischen T-Zellen freigesetzt und erlaubt zusätzlich zur Lyse den Einstrom von Granzymen in die zu lysierende Zelle. Ein Gendefekt in einem der beiden Gene führt zu Erkrankungen. MACPF sind von ihrer Proteinstruktur mit den cholesterolabhängigen Zytolysinen verwandt.

Bisher wurden etwa 500 Vertreter der MACPF-Familie beschrieben. Im Menschen sind dies C6, C7, C8A, C8B, C9, FAM5B, FAM5C, MPEG1 und PRF1. Das pflanzliche Protein CAD1 dient ebenfalls der Infektabwehr. Die Seeanemone Actineria villosa verwendet ein MACPF-Protein als Toxin. MACPF-Proteine dienen der Plasmodium spp. zur Penetration der Zellen des Stechmückenwirts und der menschlichen Hepatozyten.

Nicht alle MACPF-Proteine dienen der Abwehr. Astrotactin kommt bei der Zellmigration von Neuronen vor. Apextrin ist in der Entwicklung von Seeigeln beteiligt. Das Torso-like protein in Drosophila steuert die embryonale Musterbildung. Die Beteiligung einer möglichen lytischen Funktion dieser Proteine ist unbekannt.

Die MACPF-Proteine in Chlamydia spp. und in Photorhabdus luminescens wurden noch nicht näher charakterisiert. Letzteres ist vermutlich nicht-lytisch.

Struktur und Mechanismus
MACPF-Proteine sind von ihrer Proteinstruktur mit den cholesterolabhängigen Zytolysinen verwandt. Die Proteinstruktur von Plu-MACPF, dem MACPF-Protein aus dem insektenpathogenen Enterobakterium Photorhabdus luminescens, ist homolog zu den porenbildenden Toxinen aus Clostridium perfringens. Die Konservierung der Aminosäuresequenz ist jedoch niedrig, weshalb der Nutzen sequenzbasierter Suchalgorithmen begrenzt ist.

Vermutlich bilden MACPF-Proteine und cholesterolabhängige Zytolysine Poren über den gleichen Mechanismus. Eine konzertierte Änderung der Proteinfaltung in jedem Monomer entwindet zwei α-Helices, woraus vier amphipathische β-Stränge gebildet werden, die die Zellmembran durchstoßen und die Pore in die Biomembran hinein erweitern.

Erkrankungen
Gendefekte im C9 oder anderen Teilen des MAC erhöht das Risiko einer Meningokokken-Meningitis. Eine übermäßige Aktivierung der MACPF-Proteine durch Mangel des Inhibitors CD59s führt zu paroxysmaler nächtlicher Hämoglobinurie.

Eine Perforindefizienz führt zur hämophagozytischen Lymphohistiozytose (FHL oder HLH).

Das MACPF-Protein DBCCR1 ist vermutlich ein Tumorsuppressor bei Blasenkrebs.

Weblinks
Phil Bird's laboratory at Monash University
The SMART MACPF protein family page
Histiocytosis Association

Einzelnachweise

Protein
Proteindomäne
Immunologie
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Fulton County Commissioner Robb Pitts is Full of It
by Andre Walker
The primary responsibility of a tax commissioner is to bill and collect property taxes.
Fulton County Tax Commissioner Arthur Ferdinand receives $134,440 annually to do his job. In addition to that six-figure paycheck, Ferdinand also gets a $154,726 annual tip from the city of Atlanta for doing his job.
Learning of this from a 6 February 2012 Atlanta Journal-Constitution report, Fulton County Commissioner Robb Pitts said he was "incensed" and called the practice of Arthur Ferdinand receiving "a handsome tip" from the people for doing his job "offensive."
"This practice should come to a screeching halt," Pitts said in a news release.
Last week, Robb Pitts had an opportunity to, using his own words, bring this practice to a screeching halt. Last week, the Fulton County Commission was asked to approve or reject a deal that continues Ferdinand's personal profit from fulfilling his constitutional responsibility for fifty years or until Ferdinand leaves office; whichever comes first. Last week, when presented with an opportunity to end Arthur Ferdinand's personal profit from the taxpayers, Fulton County Commissioner Robb Pitts voted to continue tipping Fulton County's tax commissioner with public dollars.
Fulton County Commissioner Robb Pitts is full of it, and a hypocrite.
Pitts says one thing, but does the other. Pitts says he is against his county's tax commissioner profiting off the public dime, but he votes to continue his county's tax commissioner profiting off the public dime.
After this blatant demonstration of hypocrisy, can anyone really trust anything coming out of Robb Pitts' mouth?
Labels: Fulton County, Local Politics
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Sturgess To Extend Needham Spell
@ColU_Official
Colchester United defender Callum Sturgess has extended his loan spell with Needham Market for a further month.
The former Crystal Palace man has played six times for the Marketmen so far, and will now spend more time with the Suffolk side.
They ran out 3-2 winners at the weekend to extend their unbeaten run to six games and pull themselves further away from trouble in the Bostik Premier.
Josh Pollard played ninety minutes for Harlow Town, who fell to a 4-2 defeat against Staines as the visitors staged a second half comeback.
Ryan Clampin played half an hour as substitute as Maldon & Tiptree's play-off hopes received a blow with a 2-1 home defeat to Mildenhall.
George Keys grabbed 89 minutes for Brightlingsea as they lost at home to Merstham, with Ollie Sims making his Regent debut with 45 minutes from the substitutes' bench.
Denny Johnstone was also a second half substitute for St Johnstone and they got back to winning ways with a 2-0 win over Ross County.
However, Craig Slater was an unused substitute as Dundee United lost to Livingston on Friday night.
There were no games for Aaron Barnes, Tommy O'Sullivan or Dillon Barnes at the weekend, whilst Cameron James missed Chelmsford's loss at Oxford City through injury.
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AN EVALUATION OF THE USE OF INTERACTIVE RADIO INSTRUCTION STRATEGY IN EDUCATING NOMADIC CHILDREN IN NORTHERN NIGERIA
Education Project Topics
January 5, 2020 ProjectSolutionz
It is unarguably a fact that the provision of basic education for all citizens, especially children, remains a sacred responsibility of governments the world over. In Africa for instance, it is estimated that about 67.16 million school age children are not in school because of their inability to access it. In Nigeria, of the 30 million school-aged children, 10 million are currently not enrolled in school; of those currently in primary school, less than one third will enrol in junior secondary, with even fewer reaching senior secondary school. Of this population, nomadic children account for over 10 percent. The implication of this is that over 90 percent of nomadic school-age children were not in school before 2009. This was because of their nomadic nature and the neglect of successive governments. After the establishment of National Commission of Nomadic Education in 1989, the Commission came up with a number of strategies to educate the nomads who were before now excluded from the normal school system because they could not fit in. Subsequently, in 2009, the National Commission for Nomadic Education (NCNE) developed the Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) strategy to educate nomadic children who could not cope in the conventional school system. Four years after the strategy was developed and used in six states, how far has it gone in raising the knowledge level of nomadic children in Nigeria? Using triangulation mixed method design, 397 nomadic pupils were studied in 15 nomadic primary schools in Kaduna, Adamawa and Plateau states in northern Nigeria. The qualitative and quantitative data generated using questionnaire, interview and observation revealed that: nomadic children participate actively in the IRI programme and as such their knowledge level has increased tremendously. However, the study revealed that the use of English in IRI programme, the religion of the nomads and the quest to attend to their flock are the major problems of the programme. Based on these findings, it was recommended among other things that the producers of IRI programme should play down on their excessive use of grammar in the programme to make it easier for the pupils to understand. Government should also provide more funding to enable the Commission to recruit more staff and develop grazing reserves to reduce constant movements of these nomads.
Background of Study
It is arguably a fact that the provision of basic education for all citizens remains a sacred responsibility of governments the world over. Irrespective of where the argument tilts to, responsible governments around the world have continued to invest huge resources in the educational sector in order to develop their countries. However, for some countries in the world, the provision of basic education for all citizens must remain one issue that must be treated with all the levity it does not deserve. This development is pronounced in the third world countries where education is not seen as a serious business, despite the fact that it remains a key factor in measuring the development index of any nation.
In Africa for instance, it is estimated that about 67.16 million school age children are not in school because of their inability to access it. In Nigeria, of the 30 million school-aged children, 10 million are currently not enrolled in school; of those currently in primary school, less than one third will enrol in junior secondary, with even fewer reaching senior secondary school (Solomon and Sankey, 2010, p.9). Unfortunately, Nigeria is one of the most developed countries in the African continent with revenues from crude oil production accounting for over 80% of GDP, 95% of foreign exchange earnings, and about 65% of government revenues. Despite all this, poverty is widespread in Nigeria just as it ranks 157 out of 177 on the United Nations human development index of social indicators. GDP per capital is estimated at $1128 whereas 70.8% of the population live below income poverty line of $1 a day. The adult literacy rate is estimated at 69% (60.1% amongst women), while the vast majority (68%) of children aged 7 -12 enroll in primary schools. The level of basic literacy among children age 4-12 is low with only 28% of children able to read part or all of a sentence and 45% able to add numbers correctly. The case is even terrible in rural areas where majority do not have access to formal education of any kind (Solomon and Sankey, 2010, p. 8).
Education in Nigeria is characterized by poor quality of services due to lack of basic instructional materials and school furniture, outdated curriculum, dilapidated infrastructural facilities, high pupil-teacher and pupil-classroom ratio, high rate of unqualified teachers, weak and poorly funded school administration, and weak relationship between parents and schools. It must also be noted that the complexities of the federal structure of government in Nigeria with varying roles for stakeholders at the federal, state and local government levels is a challenge to the implementation of any programme (Solomon and Sankey 2010, p, 9). Muhammad (2008, p.10) argued that government mostly builds schools in the urban areas and as such the pupils in the rural areas find it difficult to travel long distance in search of education. Most of the rural population who even have access are hindered by their cultures and occupations (Umeh, 2011, p. 6). These were the many problems of the nomadic population who live in the rural areas and constantly migrate from one place to another in search of greener pasture for their flock.
The nomadic population in Nigeria accounts for 9.3 million people, including 3.1 million school-age children. The majority of them are pastoralists (7 million), while the remainders are migrant farmers and fisher folk mostly found in the Middle Belt and Southern Nigerian regions respectively. The participation of the nomads in existing formal and non-formal educational programmes used to be extremely low, with the population's literacy rate ranging from 0.2 to 0.3 per cent in 1988 (Abbo, 2011, P. 39). According to Abbo (2011, p.39) the low level of nomadic pupils' participation in educational programmes is due to constant migration, attitudinal indifference to acquiring education, cultural and religious affiliation, misappropriated educational funds and poor instructional and school materials. These were directly responsible for the nomads not having any form of education before 1989. Nomads who are seen as people without any permanent place of domicile were before the establishment of the National Commission for Nomadic Education (NCNE) in 1989, excluded from the normal scheme of things in Nigeria because of their inability to have formal education (Umeh 2011, p.5).
Successive government before 1989 believed that it was difficult and even impossible to educate the nomads because of their nomadic nature of moving from one terrain to another in search of greener pasture for their flocks which are their only source of livelihood. This was directly responsible for the nomads not having access to formal or informal education, despite the fact that these educationally disadvantaged people (nomads) constitute about 6.6 million of the African population and 9.3 million that of Nigeria. The government of General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, therefore, saw the population of the nomads as too big to be left uneducated. Based on this, the federal government established the National Commission for Nomadic Education (NCNE) in 1989 through the instrumentality of Decree 41 now Law 243 of the federation (Muhammad, 2012, p.7). His government mandated NCNE to look for alternative ways of educating these nomads. The Commission was charged with the implementation of National Policy on Education (NPE) developed in 1987, which is aimed at providing and widening access to quality basic education for nomads (i.e. nomadic pastoralists, migrant fisher folks and migrant farmers) boosting literacy and equipping them with skills and competencies to enhance their well-being and participation in national development and integration (Muhammad and Abbo, 2010, P. 2)
To achieve this core mandate of the Commission which is to educate the nomads wherever they are or want to be, the Commission designed and developed five key strategies. These include: the Onsite School, Schools with Alternative intake, Shift System school, Mobile schools and Islamiya (Arabic school system) (Buti, 1998, p.1). The Onsite school system is used for semi sedentary nomadic groups. Such schools are cited along movement at fixed points of reference. Such schools may become schools of alternative intake, where movement pattern of nomads are necessary. The Mobile school (portable classrooms) or (collapsible classrooms) may are used for mobile families depending on their number within a clan cluster. The Islamiya School are incorporated here to teach the nomads both western knowledge and Arabic as they move from place to place (Buti, 1998 p, 2). These strategies having been implemented by NCNE was said to have improved educational enrolment while some argue that the quality and enrolment has not reached its desired aim. Research has shown that the goals of NCNE were not totally achieved because these strategies couldn't reach all the nomads (Muhammad and Abbo, 2010, P. 2).
Therefore, in order to increase access to education, the Commission came up with Radio Distance Learning Approach in 1996. This strategy was born out of the fact that the Commission realized that nomads are captives to transistor radio and cannot do without it (Tahir & Muhammad, 1998, cited in Tahir and Umar 2000, p.44). The RDL design has two main approaches: Radio Listening Group (RLG) which was adopted for the adult component and its Radio programme is Don Makiyaya a Ruga (for the Nomads in their homestead), while the Interactive Radio Instruction Strategy (IRI) was developed for the children and the radio school programme on air was titled Learning by Radio. Unlike the RLG which hit the airwaves in 1996, IRI was delayed until 2009. NCNE said it was due to logistics problem. Therefore, our concern here is not Radio Listening Group which has been studied by some researchers but IRI (Ekwe, 2012). This study is, therefore, focused on the children component known as Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI). IRI is distinct from most other forms of distance education because its primary goal has been improvement of educational quality. Unlike many distance learning efforts that are designed primarily to address access and issues, IRI began as a tool to use in the classroom to counteract inadequate teacher training, poor achievement among learners, and few resources. While IRI has demonstrated that it can be used to expand access and increase equity in both formal and non-formal educational settings, it retains a development strategy and methodology that require that active learning, attention to pedagogy, and formative evaluation included in the design. The IRI strategy is also different in that it requires that learners stop and react to questions and exercises through verbal response to radio characters, group work, and physical and intellectual activities while the programme is on the air (Bosch, Rhodes and Kariuki 2003, p.2).
For both teachers and students, the lesson becomes an immediate hands-on and experiential guide. Short pauses are provided throughout the lessons, after questions and during exercises, to ensure that students have the time to think and respond adequately. Interaction is also encouraged within the learning environment between teacher and learners as they work together to conduct short experiments, perform activities, and solve problems using local resources and imaginative situations and stories (Bosch, Rhodes and Kariuki 2003, p.2).
This IRI strategy has been actively engaged since the early 1970s, the original model was designed to instruct students on mathematics series in Nicaragua in the early 1970s. It was designed by a team from Stanford University with support of U.S agency for International Development (USAID) (World Bank, 2005, p.3). However, it was adopted by more than 14 countries across the world including Nigeria and South Africa. IRI is a methodology developed to turn a typically one way technology into a tool for active learning inside and outside of the classroom. It has continued to be an attractive educational strategy in developing countries, twenty five years after it was first used. According to Bosch, Rhodes and Kariuki (2003, p.2) IRI may be "described as interactive lessons in which an external teaching element delivered by a distant teacher through the medium of radio or audio cassette." This strategy is carefully integrated with classroom activity carried out by the classroom teacher and learners within this structure, the distant teacher and learner carries the main weight of the teaching, and directs learning activities within (such as exercise, answer to question, songs, and practical tasks) that take place during carefully timed pauses in the audio script. The classroom teacher's role is often to facilitate the lesson, give individual assistance to learners, and provide follow-up support. (TechKnowLogia, 2001, para.1).
Children at most times are captivated by sounds and illustrations but their attention spam does not last for long, therefore, to get them interested in education and maintain their interest, the radio medium was adopted. IRI school curriculum is not completely different from that of the formal school system; they have almost the same class content. IRI has been used to improve the teaching of literacy, numeracy, life skills, and other subjects to children in and out of school and in hard to reach and disadvantage areas all over the world. In addition, it has an in-service teacher training tool that exposes teachers to learners-centred teaching and active teaching methods. This is a complex process that consists of several steps. One of these is the development of curriculum content into 30 manageable minutes lessons based on an approved school curriculum, the radio school scopes and sequence have been developed from the nomadic math curriculum for primary one and other relevant curriculum materials. However, not everything in the curriculum will be covered by the radio programmes (TechKnowLogia, 2001, para.1).
The IRI programme content was first developed in 2008 as a pilot programme active in just six states ( Bayelsa, Plateau, Oyo, Anambra, Adamawa and Kaduna States). This pilot phase kick started its programme on air in 2009. Since then, the programme has been running in the states mentioned above. These states were chosen from the six geo-geographical zones (one from each).
In order to carry out its mandate effectively, the Commission had to partner with a number of agencies. The NCNE partners at the national level include: the Universal Basic Education, the Nigerian Education Research and Development Council (NERC). In the areas of curriculum adaptation, the National Teachers Institute (NTI) is used; in the area of teacher training and development, the National Commissions for Mass Literacy Adult and Non-formal Education (NMEC) is used. UNESCO and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) are engaged for research and development of community education projects, literacy provision, capacity development and pre-service teacher training for nomadic communities. The World Bank also partners with NCNE on programmes related to radio education capacity building and development (Abbo, 2006, p.34).
Since 2009 when the first programme of Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) programme was broadcast to over 1,219,62 nomadic pupils in Adamawa, Plateau, Oyo, Kaduna, Bayelsa and Anambra States under the phase 1 project of National Commission for Nomadic Education (NCNE), National Teachers Institute (NTI) and National Commission for Mass Literacy and Adult Education (NCMLAD), observers in the educational sector have been wondering whether this programme has played any significant role in raising their (nomadic pupils) literacy level. While some say it has played a key role in educating these pupils, others say it has not considering the fact that they are migrants and have a culture repugnant to formal education (Umeh 2011, p.34).
Unfortunately, there is little empirical evidence to support or refute whether the strategy is effective in educating nomadic pupils or not. In fact most studies on the effectiveness of this programme in educating these children were carried out by staff of NCNE and NCMLAD in form of progress reports. There are no studies, to the best of the researchers' knowledge, conducted by independent bodies or individuals in Nigeria on the effectiveness of this strategy. Umeh (2010, p. 32) and Olatunji, (2011, p.11) claimed that one cannot rely on the progress data put up by these commissions on the ground that "they could have been manipulated to attract funds". Apart from this, those reports cannot be regarded as empirical works since there was no evidence of scientific procedures used to arrive at those results
This study, therefore, is embarked on to investigate the effectiveness of IRI strategy in educating and raising the literacy level of nomadic pupils in Plateau, Adamawa and Kaduna states where the programme is active
The main objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the use of Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) strategy in educating nomadic children in Nigeria. Specifically, the study tried:
To find out whether nomadic IRI pupils participate in the IRI programme.
To determine the extent to which nomadic pupils participate in the IRI programme.
To find out the challenges of the IRI programme in educating nomadic children in Nigeria.
To ascertain whether the knowledge level of the nomadic IRI pupils has increased as a result of their participation in the IRI programme.
From the objectives of this study, four research questions were raised. They are:
Do nomadic pupils participate in the IRI programme?
To what extent do nomadic pupils participate in the IRI programme?
What are the challenges of IRI programme in educating nomadic children?
Has the knowledge level of the nomadic pupils increased as a result of their participation in the IRI programme?
1.5 Significance of Study
The findings of this work will have academic, professional and theoretical significance.
This study will no doubt serve as an important literature material to researchers and teachers interested in development communication. This is because its findings revealed the state of the union between communication and human development. This has put them in the know on whether resources budgeted for IRI programmes are actually used for that purpose.
Theoretically, this study serves as a platform to test the claims of the two theories used in this study.
1.6 Scope and Limitations of Study
This study evaluates the use of Interactive Radio Instruction strategy in educating nomadic children in Plateau, Adamawa and Kaduna States. This covers 792 nomadic primary schools which has 1, 219, 62 pupils and 3749 teachers.
One of the limitations of this study is the dearth of material on Interactive Radio Instruction strategy. This posed a serious challenge to the researcher. Most of the materials in this area are studies carried out in other countries that have IRI. It was a bit difficult to use such studies to draw strong conclusions since the strategy varies from country to country.
Again, this study is limited by the fact that the researcher could not covered all the nomadic primary schools in the six states because time, fund and poor security situation in the country. The researcher therefore studied only schools in the northern part of the country.
For easy understanding of key variables in this study, the researcher has defined some terms operationally as follows:
Evaluation: Evaluation here means a scientific attempt to make an in-depth assessment of the use of Interactive Radio Instruction in educating nomadic children in Plateau, Adamawa and Kaduna states.
Nomadic Children: According to NCNE, nomadic children are seen as children between ages five and 15 who never had any form of formal education because of their constant migration from one place to another.
Nomadic Education: Nigeria's National Policy on Education (NPE) defines nomadic education as the provision of basic education to the children of the disadvantaged and marginalized nomadic populations in the country through some strategies including IRI.
Interactive Radio Instruction: Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) is the name given to a particular type of learning strategy developed by NCNE which is delivered by the radio and emphasis is on active involvement of nomadic children in Nigeria. IRI has been used to improve the teaching of literacy, numeracy, life skills, and other subjects to children in and out of school and in hard to reach and disadvantage areas since 2010.
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