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Robert Geller: racetracks must work together for the long-term good of the sport
Emily Shields | November 26, 2019 |
Robert Geller: "Living in North America can mean you are in a bubble … and you forget that racing jurisdictions are thriving in other places." Photo: Will Wong
Robert Geller is currently the announcer at Woodbine Racetrack outside Toronto, but he has called races all over the world. Born in England, he started his professional career in Australia, then moved to Hong Kong to call at Sha Tin and Happy Valley. He called at Emerald Downs outside Seattle for 19 years before moving to Woodbine.
Who do you think is the most important figure in world racing history?
Can I say a horse? It's interesting to think a horse could be it, rather than a person.
Phar Lap. I think Phar Lap captured the essence of Australian racing, and when all is said and done I think Australian racing will be the first and last racing jurisdiction. There was so much folklore about him, so much mystique. And he traveled. I think he set the standard for Australian legends. Living in North America can mean you are in a bubble of North American racing, and you forget that racing jurisdictions are thriving in other places.
Which is your favourite venue and race?
My favorite horse race is the Melbourne Cup, and my favourite venue is Flemington Racecourse. I used to go there as a child, every time they were racing. I think it has retained its prestige and established itself with the Melbourne Cup as an important international race. It is nice to grow up with that, and see how important it is to the world.
The Melbourne Cup is a challenge because the race has become a bit swamped by international invaders. It's a handicap over two miles, it's been won by some very nice horses, and it's a race that is pivotal to the carnival in Australia. It was designed as a race for the battling horse but it has become a race for the quality horse. It brings chills when you watch it.
What is your fondest memory in racing?
Emerald Downs holds a great deal of emotional memory for me. It was the opportunity to start race calling in the United States and North America. I thought it was a wonderful honor to be inducted into the Hall of Fame there. There was something so honest and true in the way the racetrack and I had a real genuine connection. There was so much love put into the last day [before taking up the position at Woodbine].
I was shocked by how many little gestures they made towards making sure I had a good send off, like they had the jockeys raise their whips to me in the post parade. It was hard to keep going because it was so surprisingly touching. It really caught me by surprise how much love there was. Those things stay with me more than a race call or a particular moment. I had tears in my eyes that day.
What do you see as the biggest challenge racing faces today?
One thing we have to be careful of is to not dumb it down. There is a tendency in many industries to dumb things down. I think we should present racing differently; instead of saying, 'Here's an experience or a giveaway!' we need to put the question out: are you willing to come on a journey with us? The journey will take a little bit of time, but it is a wonderful journey.
There's a rush to feed the short attention span, and a rush to feed experiences, but are they long lasting? Anything with foundation has more chance of lasting.
Are people willing to invest more patience and time to appreciate the nuances of horse racing? One of the greatest gifts is to allow someone into your world honestly, and not present them a lot of blah. Cut the hot air, get down to what racing represents. If you raise the bar, people will go to that level. People are more resourceful than we give them credit for.
If you could change one thing in racing, what would it be?
I think the sport needs to work together and not take pride in one section of racing doing well at the expense of the other. At the end, everyone loses. We need to build from the bottom up; if you lose lower-level tracks, the higher-level tracks become lower level, and then what?
It's important to invest in the grassroots of people's lives and build it up. The trickle-down effect doesn't work. There has to be a level of respect given to every track, and they have to be uniform in their goal to promote racing. To have longevity, it can't just be about their own insular survival versus another track. Are they thinking about themselves, with no real ability to see the long-term effect of that on the industry, or are they genuinely able to find a way to make this industry work together?
I think right now we are really seeing we need to bring a degree of centrality to it. We can't just feed the top level. We've really seen too many tracks go under lately, for no good reason.
Phar Lap
Emerald Downs
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The IAS is sponsoring four linked sessions on the topic of Sanctity and the Arts in Medieval Italy; the original conference proposal may be found below.
Sanctity and artistry went hand in hand in medieval Italy, whether in religious or civic contexts. Churches and shrines arose on the sites of miracles and at the tombs of the very special dead. Artists and patrons developed visual narratives, presented as multiple episodes and as synthetic epitomes, that represented, altered, and exceeded textual recollections of the lives and deeds of the saints, while iconic images, in a variety of media, provided loci for cultic veneration. The arts also had a generative effect on the cult of saints, helping to expand local veneration, spread the cults of specific figures, and reshape existing cults by providing new intellectual or devotional contexts.
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2. Novel Narratives, Narrative Novelties. Changing circumstances often led to the changes in the presentation of hagiographical narratives, as for instance during the ecclesiastical reform in late eleventh- and early twelfth-century Rome.
3. Movable Icons, Movable Cults Cults. How did new icons change the cultic landscape, what can we learn about a foundation from the presence of a specific icon, and how were icons used as devotional propaganda, particularly by the new Orders?
4. Foreign Saints in Italy/Italian Saints abroad Abroad. While many cults were insistently local, others achieved transregional importance. This session examines the visual and material representation of "out of place" saints, be they saints from afar who achieved great Italian significance (e.g., Nicolas of Myra, later of Bari) or Italian saints who gained pan-Christian importance (e.g., Benedict).


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For more than a generation, many cities in the rural West like Tremonton, Utah, have watched their children grow up, go to school, and move away.
As mining, farming, and ranching - traditional staples of the rural economy - have waned, the boom of high-tech industries in cities throughout the West has created a one-way flow of urban immigrants.
Now, states from Washington to Colorado are taking concrete steps to ensure that rural areas remain healthy and vital well into the next century. But while loans and renewed investment are luring more businesses out of metro areas, many locals worry that the new development will undermine their precious rural heritage. It's a struggle that will determine the direction the West's frontier towns take as they seek to balance opportunity with tradition.
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During the past 12 months, the IAF has made six rural loans totaling $1.4 million and only one urban loan for $200,000. Mr. Nelson, for instance, helped persuade a $250-million, Montreal-based company, Intertape Polymer Group, to open a facility in Tremonton. The company was attracted by the pool of well-educated, hard-working, and underemployed rural residents in the small northern town. Now Tremonton, and other towns like it, are hoping that new businesses will bring young people back.
"Sure, it creates a tension in rural communities," Dr. Raitano says. But "in the 1970s, most of the kids left home. Those kids have kids and now say there's got to be something better [than city life]."
They're coming home to an ethic as much as a tradition - a sense that people look out for each other. "Rural communities are the keepers of the American dream," Raitano says, "the keepers of the American values."
Yet this tightly knit sense of community will be endangered by the governor's rural-redevelopment plan, say critics. Some legislators fear that growth will destroy the small-town, rural lifestyle or turn towns into cookie-cutter retirement communities like St. George in southern Utah. Others, wary of financial boondoggles, point to Wyoming, where the state raised and spent a large sum of money on a fiber-optics network that is grossly underused.
But Wyoming's experience should not discourage other efforts, Raitano says. Rather, she points to a successful example in her native Colorado.
A huge capital investment by the Durango phone company has helped the rural town of 15,000 blossom. Epitomizing the renaissance is Bill Lupien, a Los Angeles resident who moved to Durango permanently when the company installed a phone jack in his weekend ranch. Now capable of living a rural lifestyle with an urban paycheck, the inventor of computer stock-trading software has invested more than just money in the local economy.
In addition to bringing his international company to Durango, he also teaches at Ft. Lewis College in his spare time and hires graduates to staff his growing business. In short, he has helped lift rural Colorado into the global market and sustain itself.
Indeed, the coming of age of telecommunications has helped Durango keep pace without giving in to smoke-bellowing industries. And Raitano adds that this is a good example of how rural investment can benefit communities in other states throughout the region.
"We're not advocating rampant development of the West," she says. "We've begun the realization that growth of a community doesn't necessarily equate to more people."


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Q: Nature of induced emf in Faraday's law When there is a battery in a simple circuit loop, for instance, there is a real low potential terminal and a high potential terminal , the battery does work on charges and delivers them at high potential on another end from where the charges lose potential as they come back to the other terminal , however I cannot see such 'terminals' so to speak or rather points across which there is a potential difference in a closed loop having a bulb through which magnetic field is being changed, where is the potential difference being applied then, wherever I see the loop I cannot see a difference, same current, same resistance of dl length of loop, still current is cycling through it.
Or is it that the source of movement is no electrostatic in nature, what exactly is the nature of mechanism which produces this current?

A: You are right: the source of movement is not electrostatic in nature. Around the changing magnetic field there curls an electric field. This electric field does not arise from quasi-static charges, is not computable from Coulomb's law and cannot have the concept of potential difference applied to it.
But the electric field around a changing magnetic field is a proper electric field nonetheless, because it exerts a force on charges, even if these are stationary. So if you have a loop of wire through which the magnetic flux is changing, the free electrons in the wire will be urged around the loop. The emf is the work done per unit charge on any charge going once round the loop. [We cam still talk about the emf round a closed path, even if there is no conducting material around that path.]
You might now be tempted to ask, "What causes an electric field to curl around a changing magnetic field?" It's not really a case of cause and effect: it's better to think of the electric field and the changing magnetic field as parts of one electromagnetic field, inseparably associated at each point by the Maxwell equation
$$\vec{\text{curl}} \vec E=-\frac{d \vec B}{dt}.$$

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