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It's Oktoberfest! What happened to German beer culture in Chicago?
By Josh Noel
At Laschet's Inn, it's almost as if American beer never happened.
Among nearly 50 beers available at the venerable North Side German restaurant, exactly one is American-made: Miller Lite, whose presence is whispered at the bottom of the menu, alongside the nonalcoholic beers. (The indignity!)
Everything else at Laschet's is imported. Most of it is German — or Austrian or Czech, which are rooted in similar traditions.
That includes all 12 drafts, seven of which pour classics at least vaguely familiar to American palates — Hofbrau, Stiegl and Hacker Pschorr among them — and five that rotate with the seasons: malty maibock in spring; bright, refreshing kolsch in summer; fresh Oktoberfest this time of year; and dark, hearty doppelbock and dunkelweizen in winter.
On a recent Thursday evening, almost every table at Laschet's was occupied — with families, solo diners and well-dressed people just arriving from work. They sat with tall mugs filled with BBK, a slightly sweet pilsner that is the restaurant's top-selling beer. They discussed the merits of Grevensteiner's zwickel (a more malt-forward take on the unfiltered pilsner) versus Stiegl's (drier and absolute perfection). They ordered Julius Echter Hefe-Weisse, a creamy hefeweizen rife with notes of banana and light clove, and plenty of half-liters of Oktoberfest.
Bud and Bud Light, Corona and Modelo, PBR and any IPA need not apply.
"It's why our customers come to us," said Scott Seisser, bar manager at Laschet's. "If they wanted an IPA or a craft beer, there are places for it. We're a German place. We do German things."
Few things are more German than beer.
But although German beer remains the star at Lachet's, it is adjusting to its evolving role in the local and national beer landscapes.
Back in the 1970s, when the U.S. was home to fewer than 100 mostly similar breweries, German imports, along with beer from England, Belgium and a handful of other countries, were the alternative — the nation's original craft beer, in a sense.
Today the U.S. is approaching 7,000 breweries, about 150 of which are in and around Chicago. A new generation of drinkers is embracing a new array of options: craft beer, Mexican imports, wine and spirits, flavored malt beverages, hard seltzers and legal marijuana. German imports have been among the categories to suffer most; according to Chicago-based market research firm IRI Worldwide, dollar sales of German imports are down nearly 10 percent this year nationally, just as they were a year ago.
Chicago has a front row seat for the decline. Once rife with cozy, dim places like Laschet's, the city's roster of German bars and restaurants has dipped "from maybe 45 to about a dozen" during the past 20 years, said Monica Felix, museum and collections manager at DANK Haus, a German-American cultural center in Lincoln Square. The most recent loss was particularly stinging: The legendary Chicago Brauhaus closed in December after anchoring German culture for 52 years.
Bartender Holly Kumpf carries beer steins at Chicago Brauhaus in this undated file photo. The restaurant closed in December after anchoring German culture In Chicago for 52 years. (Erik Unger / for the Chicago Tribune)
"People remembered celebrating birthdays and anniversaries there," Felix said. "Christmases and Oktoberfest."
Yet Chicago's German beer culture stubbornly, pridefully chugs on. Though it only tends to enter the American consciousness this time of year — the original Munich Oktoberfest runs Sept. 22 to Oct. 7 — it remains on display year-round at Laschet's and beyond, including a trio of nearby bars: Resi's Bierstube, Huettenbar and Carola's Hansa Clipper, where the meager domestic offerings (Miller Lite and Miller Genuine Draft) come with an admonishment on the chalkboard menu: "You are in a German bar … get over it."
There are also a handful of modern takes on German beer, including local craft breweries Metropolitan and Dovetail, both of which are steeped in German-style beer and, in the case of Dovetail, laborious German brewing practices. Among bars, there's The Radler in Logan Square and Funkenhausen, which opened last month in West Town. Funkenhausen pours entirely imported beer on draft — all German, except one Austrian brand. About half the draft beer served by The Radler is craft that comes from within 50 miles of the restaurant, and the other half is German, Austrian or Czech.
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When launching The Radler five years ago, co-owner Adam Hebert was at once taking a calculated risk — craft beer was ascendant and built largely on the next IPA — while also scratching his own personal itch. He is a dedicated fan of German beer who thought a gamble on faultless drinkability couldn't fail.
"We were flooded with IPAs at the time, and when you picked something up, it could be absolutely stellar or complete garbage," Hebert said. "As much fun as that is to try a bunch of stuff, at the end of the day on my patio after a hard day of work, I wanted something clean and dependable that's delicious."
About half of the beer at The Radler, which opened on North Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago five years ago, is German, Austrian or Czech. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
Yet German beer is no monolith. It is lagers and ales. It is light and dark. It is easy drinking and profoundly complex. It is large brewing companies and smaller, more artisanal purveyors. It is often a superior alternative to Bud and Miller, but welcome relief for those fatigued by craft beer's boldness, bitterness, sweetness and occasional inconsistency.
If there's anything German beer tends not to be, it's inconsistent. Its proponents laud it as some of the most stable and well-built beer in the world — from the largest producers to the smallest — and argue that its renown has unjustifiably suffered in the U.S. amid the rise of craft beer.
Even The Beer Temple bar and bottle shop, regarded as a vanguard of Chicago craft beer, maintains a curated selection of German beers that appeal mostly to a small and dedicated fan base.
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"I love German beers," The Beer Temple founder Chris Quinn said. "They still dominate the lager world from a quality and purity standpoint, and their wheat ales are still among the best."
German beer is at once distinct from American craft brewing — boozy stouts or IPAs? Nein! — but also very much a source of inspiration. There has been a resurgence of American interest in lagers with depth and character in recent years; craft breweries from large (Firestone Walker, in Paso Robles, Calif.) to small (Chicago's Spiteful Brewing) have waded in.
Though the largest German brewers haven't seen a surge of interest (as evidenced by recent sales figures), the smaller ones have, said Samu Rahn, a key account and brand manager at Louis Glunz Beer, one of the city's primary distributors of imported beer.
"It seems to be a full circle, in a sense, where American craft consumers have run the gamut of extremity — palate-wrecking double IPAs, Warheads-level kettle sours, pastry stouts — and are now returning to balance, consistency and repeatability as the benchmarks for quality," Rahn said.
While Rahn has seen a modest uptick in interest in German, Austrian and Czech imports, he said beers from those countries also continue to suffer from an ingrained craft beer mindset that "fresh and local" is inherently better.
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"Too often a fresher, but lesser American offering is chosen over a superior import that many younger breweries are trying to emulate," he said.
The Germans have been brewing for so long, he said, that a 6-month-old German lager that has been properly packaged and maintained — that is, kept cold — can be superior to a fresh lager from an American brewery.
It's not impossible to believe. Plenty of American craft breweries make quality versions of Oktoberfest and unfiltered pilsner, but the odds of finding examples better than, respectively, Ayinger Oktober Fest-Marzen and Stiegl-Paracelsus Bio-Zwickl — both recently on tap at Laschet's — are slim.
Even so, questions about freshness justifiably persist with any imported beer. When was the beer brewed? Packaged? How long was it exposed to the elements on a European dock? Was its shipping container blasted by the sun for weeks during its trans-Atlantic journey? Did it sit at a dock in the U.S. getting warmer still, then sit at ambient temperatures in an importer's (and then distributor's) warehouse? Any or all scenarios are fairly likely.
However, retailers say they are seeing more frequent and smaller shipments arriving — which can translate to fresher beer. Also, importer B. United International launched a rigorous process nearly 10 years ago for ensuring freshness, which includes transporting the beer in refrigerated, pressure-controlled 3,500-gallon stainless steel tanks, then kegging and canning it once it reaches B. United's headquarters in Oxford, Conn. (Bottles are still filled by their breweries in Europe, then transported.)
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B. United founder Matthias Neidhart knew he needed to improve traditional importing practices when complaints increased among American retailers as his business grew. Bars and beer stores would gripe that the beer was arriving in dubious shape — either not fresh or impossible to pour due to over-carbonation from fermentation during the months between packaging and pouring.
The company, which imports beer from about 20 countries, including a sizable percentage that is German, is one of the few importers to keep its beer cold across the Atlantic and the only one to keg and can its imports stateside. It even adds yeast to some beer once it arrives in the U.S. to ensure that a second fermentation — which adds carbonation, body and complex flavors — happens closest to when the beer is consumed.
All of B. United's beer, including those delicate German lagers, are showing up in better shape than ever, Neidhart said.
When he began importing, he went after "very select German breweries," especially those considered "world classic" in the late beer writer Michael Jackson's "Pocket Guide to Beer." B. United's German portfolio includes renowned breweries such as Schneider, Einbecker, Uerige, Schlenkerla and Heinrich Reissdorf, whose Reissdorf kolsch is B. United's top-selling German beer. It has emboldened Neidhart to bring in even more, and adventurous, brands.
Laschet's is taking advantage by tapping a monthly specialty, often a rare import from B. United. Last month it was Leipziger Gose — a beer that single-handedly introduced American brewers to the tart, briny style.
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While many other bars and restaurants are content to duke it out for the latest craft beer, Seisser is quite happy for Laschet's to have dibs on the latest from Germany.
"It's an authentic product that has just been perfected," Seisser said.
Which raises a question: what is Miller Lite doing on Laschet's menu? It was a favorite of the previous owner's wife, Seisser said. He just decided to leave it. It doesn't sell much.
Where to catch Oktoberfest events in Chicago
St. Alphonsus church: Now in its 18th year, this festival pledges to be "three days of beer, brats, bands, and all things Bavarian." Festival entry is free, though Friday and Saturday includes a beer festival ($50) that features both German and American offerings. Sept. 28-30, 1429 W. Wellington Ave., oktoberfestchicago.org
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Revolution Brewing: A two-day fest of indie rock and craft beer outside Revolution's brewpub, where the brewery's Oktoberfest beer is sure to be the star of the weekend. The Radler is down the block and will be open to serve your imported German beer needs. $5 suggested donation. Sept. 28-29, 2323 N. Milwaukee Ave. revbrew.com/2018-oktoberfest
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Oktoberfestiversary: A block party co-hosted by Dovetail Brewery (which is steeped in traditional German brewing practices) and Begyle Brewing (which is a more modern take on American craft beer). Music, special tappings and food trucks will highlight this weekend festival. $5 suggested donation. Oct. 6-7, 1800 W. Cuyler Ave. facebook.com/events/226079781437753/
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Q: Difference between npm start and npm run start I have checked both commands npm start and npm run start, both works perfectly. I used create-react-app. But to make configuration changes in the CSS module, I run npm eject but it throws an error.
But npm run eject worked? I'm confused on why npm eject didn't work. Can I configure this?
Below is my package.json:
  "scripts": {
    "start": "react-scripts start",
    "build": "react-scripts build",
    "test": "react-scripts test --env=jsdom",
    "eject": "react-scripts eject"
  }

A: npm test, npm start, npm restart, and npm stop are all aliases for npm run xxx.
For all other scripts you define, you need to use the npm run xxx syntax.
See the docs at https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/run-script for more information.

A: npm start is the short form for npm run start. So, its one and the same thing.

A: One interesting thing to note is,
If the scripts object does not have a "start" property in package.json file, npm start or npm run start from command line will run node server.js by default.
But if the scripts object in package.json has "start" property, it overrides node server.js and executes the command in "start" property.
See - https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v7/commands/npm-start#description

A: Telling this because sometimes this can be help to someone.
Inside the jenkins pipelines you should use npm commands with "run"
ex- npm run start
if not the command will not be executed.

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Posts Tagged 'Bill James'
December 1, 2014 David Marshall	3 comments
Memory is a strange double-edged ability to possess. When it's working properly, it mines the past for all the strategies that worked the best. With the benefit of that experience comes wisdom. But that same memory can recall all the mistakes we made. Unless there's a filter of some kind, self-confidence can be fatally punctured and depression becomes the new norm. So if the psychologists are right and we become the sum of whichever memories we choose to rely on, we can either become very successful by avoiding all the mistakes of our past, or we can never amount to a hill of beans. Disclosures by Bill James, a pseudonym of James Tucker, (Severn House, 2014) rather elegantly gives us a model from the past and then invites us to consider which strategy will work best for the present.
In the blue corner of this twin narrative track comes Esther Davidson who had the responsibility of policing the imminent fight between Pasque Uno and Opal Render, two London gangs bent on bringing a turf war to a conclusion and so determine the right to distribute drugs in this particular neighbourhood. She had good intelligence of the impending gunfight, but instead of intervening early to prevent casualties, she decided the best interests of London would be served by having as many dead or serious injured criminals as possible. She got her way, although perhaps not all the shots were fired by the criminals. The survivors duly ended up in jail, and some degree of peace was established for a while in a London that remained ambivalent about this hands-off strategy.
In the red corner stands Ralph Wyvern Ember. He was supposed to be one of the combatants but, when the dust settled, there was no sign of him. He's now running The Monty, a club which he would like to be upmarket but, in this neck of the woods, there's no way he can raise the class of the place to match the Athenaeum, The Garrick or any of the other London clubs he dreams of emulating. He makes do as best he can. From this you'll understand he's rather a shallow man who has shamelessly embraced pretentiousness. This helps him maintain a veneer of apparent sophistication and some level of self-deception that he's not a coward. This involves him in not thinking about the past too much lest it disturb his self-image, whereas Esther quite often replays the tapes she's kept of the briefings she gave before the shootout.
Having seen what went before, we now come into the reality of today with Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur meeting up with an informant who believes this Christmas may be more than usually dangerous for Ember. When this news is passed on to Assistant Chief Constable (Operations) Desmond Iles, they have the same dilemma as faced by Esther Davidson all those years ago. If surviving gang members have now been released from jail and feel like paying Ember a Santa-like visit to spread a little good cheer, when, if at all, should they intervene? The answer provided is elegantly practical and not without its amusing side. Indeed, the whole is told with a kind of deadpan humour. If it had gone a little further, it might have become a farce. As it is, there's the opportunity to smile when things go right or wrong, depending on the point of view. Put all this together and you have a very British take on the practicalities of policing given the general rule that, for most of the time, officers do not carry firearms. In such cases, the police may wish the informers would keep their mouths shut. If they don't know, there's no obligation to be there and potentially get in the way of the bullets. As it is, Disclosures is an entertaining book that poses some interesting questions.
For reviews of other books by Bill James, see:
Snatched: A British Black Comedy.
Categories: Books Tags: Bill James, Disclosures, informers, police procedural
Snatched: A British Black Comedy by Bill James
April 13, 2014 David Marshall	2 comments
Snatched: A British Black Comedy by Bill James, a pseudonym of James Tucker, (Severn House, 2014) finds us in the Hulliborn Regional Museum and Gallery with its director, George Lepage who's now in dead man's shoes, the previous director having passed on to a place only a platypus would know. It seems there's a riot in the hallowed halls. Crowds baying for blood run through the museum. Cometh the hour, cometh the man, and our director knows this is his time for heroic action. I should explain that, like all public enterprises, museums have had to adjust to economic realities. There have been economies. Older staff have been persuaded to take early retirement, while the middle-ranking remnants have been promoted beyond their pay grade to do the work of the departed for only slightly more cash. It's a tough life when you're trapped in a senior management role. So now underpaid fortysomethings must outperform those they have replaced in a museum running on a reduced budget. At first, this is going well, but then comes the riot. It seems someone dressed up and inserted himself in a tableau of life in earlier times. When the party from the girls school entered, he stood, exposed himself and departed before anyone had a chance to catch him. Now Lepage must take control of the situation before the reputation of the museum is damaged — they are negotiating to take a display of early Japanese medical instruments and want nothing to prevent this coup.
One of the board decides to take direct action to protect the museum. Simberdy and his wife dressed in black, with a burglar his wife has recruited as backup (she's his solicitor), wait in the darkness outside the museum to catch the man. Except the burglar, living up to the high standards of his trade, breaks into the museum, steals four painting which may, or may not, be valuable, and drives off in the Simberdy's car with the loot. This comes as a surprise to Lepage who's inside the museum waiting for a telephone call from the female teacher who was so outraged by the indecent exposure during the day. He's not sure, but he may have found someone simpatico whom he can dissuade from taking action against the museum. The burglar, respecting the status of his solicitor, returns their car and three of the paintings. This is a poisoned chalice. If the paintings are never recovered, they can be worth millions on the museum's insurance policy. But should they be returned, an expert evaluation might find them fake and expose the museum's incompetence in parting with millions to buy them.
I should remind you Snatched is billed as a "British black comedy" with satirical overtones. All life involves some degree of suffering and, for the most part, we view those who do the suffering as deserving of our sympathy, if not pity. So it can make a refreshing change when an author decides to recalibrate the response to those who are victimised by circumstances. This goes beyond the prat fall on the banana skin. Every one of us has slipped and fallen at some point in our career as walkers. A laugh generated by depicting such a scene is a there-but-for-the grace-of-God-go-I moment of relief. It's human and understandable. But suppose we take a more alienated point of view and show existence as pointless and so somehow comic. This would enable the author to use all the standard tropes of physical and emotional violence, and death, in a different light. They may still be seen in some sense as tragic events but, with a satirical twist, they elicit a humorous response because the point of view is unexpected, perhaps even shocking, to the reader.
So here's a museum: an institution which should be considered an ultimately safe and rather boring place (unless Hollywood decides to bring exhibits to life in a moment of fantasy mayhem). If we use stereotypes, the people who administer these cultural and educational organisations are staid and unimaginative. They are married or partnered with fellow professionals who never take risks because they have reputations at stake. Well, all such expectations are turned on their heads by the situations which emerge in this book. The problem, for me, is that the situations are slightly too realistic. The true art of the black comedian is to be able to dabble in the grotesque. This is sharply observed, not a little satirical, occasionally surreal, and somewhat farcical, but I don't think it's a black comedy. Does this matter? Well, probably not. It's highly readable as the plot takes our small group of characters careening down an ever-more vertiginous slope, but I don't find any of it even remotely humorous (although I do confess to a slight movement of the lips when the security guard gets the name of one of the missing paintings wrong). Perhaps it's an age thing causing me to be slightly out of the mainstream when it comes to modern comedy. So if you want to see an author at the top of his game in constructing a plot of increasing complexity as even nicknames sprayed as "graffiti" are absurdly misunderstood as suggesting individuals may not be as dead as previously thought, this is the book for you. Snatched is great fun albeit not in the smile or laugh-out-loud league.
For the review of another book by Bill James, see:
Noose.
Categories: Books Tags: absurdism, Bill James, black comedy, farce, satire, Snatched, surrealism
Noose by Bill James
October 6, 2013 David Marshall	Leave a comment
Noose by Bill James, a pseudonym of James Tucker, (Severn House, 2013) is playing the identity game but with a twist. Under the usual rules, the character under review is based in contemporary times. Because we know the culture, we can understand the process to achieve the particular outcome. But this has changed the timeframe. We're now back to a twenty year or so period from the 1930s to 1950s in Britain. To the majority of modern readers, this might just as well be science fiction. Readers are transported to a different world and have to begin learning the new behavioral constraints. As I was growing up, we were rebuilding after World War II. I listened to my grandmother telling me what it was like when Queen Victoria was on the throne. As we've aged, my generation has been passing on our personal experiences of the bomb damage, food rationing and austerity as it used to be. We're a link to the past. But when it comes to the 1930s, personal knowledge is not available. It's all secondhand. That Britain was in a transition phase. The class barriers had been breached and the frustrations of life could more clearly be seen. That was my mother and father's time. They never seemed to have much to say about the 1930s. Coming back to this novel, the result is a slightly metafictional exploration of the life of one Ian Charteris. We watch forces shape him. We see what might have led the Government to try recruiting him as a spy. It's a fascinating story, or portrait or life narrative.
We start off in the 1950s. The young woman who may be his sister from the wrong side of the sheets has just ended up in hospital. She's an actress and he's a journalist reluctantly invited to extract her story for publication. Perhaps there was a time when ethics formed a part of the journalist's equipment but, in the early fifties, we'd moved to a time when morality was more flexible and permitted behaviour that focused on generating profits without worrying so much about the means. Hence, the editorial powers see Charteris as their inside track to discover why the "young thing" should have attempted suicide. And even if she didn't make the attempt, the story can always be written up to imply she'd been unlucky in love and had tried to end it all. Charteris was good at telling stories.
When he was younger, he'd given evidence in a murder trial. The accused had hung for killing a man in a public air-raid shelter during a bombing run. Journalists often come with emotional baggage. It gives them insights into the troubles of others. It helps build bridges so that trust can be established and confidences exchanged. The storytelling had been learned at his farther's knee. His father had been a sailor in the 1930s and switched from pleasure craft to the inshore merchant marine when hostilities began. He was a great raconteur even if prone to repeat the same stories. The story of his heroic rescue of Emily Bass had entered the mythology of the family and the area. There was even a special memorial service to mourn the loss of the brave captain who (idiotically) also dived in to try saving the young woman. That was certainly something to remember. A working class hero and a gentleman who couldn't survive in difficult waters let alone rescue the girl.
I knew men like the captains of the passenger vessels who were racing each other into the harbor. They ran their ships and businesses like unaccountable barons. If anything went wrong, which it often did, they walked away from blame by virtue of their class status. That made men like Charteris Snr. very bitter. They did all the work and carried the can when things did go wrong. That's why the father was always upset his son had involved himself in the events surrounding the murder. It brought unwanted attention to the family. The fact the boy was only eleven and had yet to perfect his understanding of how the word worked was no excuse. It soured the relationship a little. Later, of course, the son meets the rescued girl again. She's about forty and tells her side of the story. It explains aspects of his family's behaviour he'd not fully understood.
Later, as a journalist, he hears many other stories. That's the nature of his "profession". How far he's prepared to go to act on these stories is another matter. It all comes down to trust. People exchange stories for different reasons. Some are laudable, others less so. That's why I mentioned the problem of ethics earlier in the review. Just what does a journalist do with the information he gleans from all those he talks with? This book provides a fascinating answer. It may reach the end in 1956 but, as a parable, the issues still resonate with us today as Wikileaks and the activities of whistleblowers like Edward Snowden provoke debate about the covert activities of governments. Journalism always has been a difficult and sometimes dangerous role to play. Noose shows us why some people are attracted to the life and the price they sometimes have to pay. It also fairly successfully passes the history fiction test. There's enough here to enable modern readers to get a real feel for all the main characters and their motives. It's a clever and engaging read.
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Iraqi refugee raped 10yo boy in Austria, says it was 'sexual emergency'
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Austrian police have confirmed that an Iraqi refugee was arrested over the rape of a 10 year-old boy at a swimming pool in Vienna in December. He told police he did it due to a "sexual emergency," local media reported citing the interrogation record.
"A complaint was filed over the rape of a 10-year-old boy in the Theresienbad swimming pool. We determined the suspect is a 20-year old man, who lives in Vienna. He was arrested and later sent to the Josephstadt prison," Chief Inspector Roman Hahslinger told the Ruptly video new agency on Saturday.
Hahslinger added: "The suspect is an Iraqi citizen, who lives in Vienna and has refugee status."
The attack took place in a swimming pool cubicle on December 2. The man, whose name has not been disclosed, dragged a boy into the changing room and assaulted him. After the boy told a lifeguard what had happened, the police were immediately called. They managed to apprehend the attacker in the pool, who, to their amazement, instead of fleeing the crime scene, was having fun by jumping from a three-meter board, Die Heute reported.
The boy, who suffered severe internal injuries, was admitted to a children's hospital.
143 bodily harm offences, including 22 sexual assaults reported at Cologne Carnival
The perpetrator, who came to Austria via the Balkans on September 13, confessed to police he had acted because of a "sexual emergency." When asked if such actions were legal in his home country, he admitted he knew that "such acts were forbidden in any country of the world."
He also confessed he had made a "huge mistake," Die Standard reports, citing the interrogation record published by the Austrian Press Agency.
The state prosecutor charged the man, who remains in custody, with rape and grave sexual abuse of a minor, the body's spokeswoman Nina Bussek confirmed on Friday, the Kronen Zeitung newspaper reported.
"The topic of refugees certainly is occupying all at the moment, but people needn't be worried; Vienna is a safe city, nothing has changed about that yet," Hahslinger told Ruptly.
Austria has accepted the second highest number of refugees per capita so far in Europe. Only Sweden has taken in more. In January, Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann announced a plan to introduce a cap on the number of asylum requests the country would approve in 2016, fixing the number of refugees at 37,500.


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Commercial pilot lands new career in classroom
on April 3rd, 2008 Posted By BG in Articles
by Kimberly Stauffer - Houston Chronicle
As a corporate pilot, Paul Lindsay once spent his days chauffeuring the globetrotting elite, but a dramatic career switch now has him grounded in the classroom instead of on the runway.
Lindsay, a resident of The Woodlands, was at the beck and call of wealthy Houston and Dallas families for 15 years, but after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, his health took a nosedive and he was unable to remain physically fit to fly.
In search of a new career, Lindsay needed a job that allowed him to balance work and family, an aspect of his life he had neglected as a corporate pilot, as he was often gone for major holidays.
A flight instructor for several years, Lindsay used his teaching background and began volunteering at his daughter's school, Conroe Independent School District's Glen Loch Elementary, as a reading coach for 12 at risk pupils in the school's bilingual program. Born in Peru, Lindsay learned Spanish as a child before his family moved around the world, including Brazil, England and Canada before he graduated high school in Mexico. He ended up staying through the end of the school year at Glen Loch and at the urging of district officials he sought his teaching certification.
"During the whole time I really enjoyed it," Lindsay said of his time volunteering. "Dad and daughter going to work everyday."
Lindsay enrolled in an alternative certification program and was accepted into the bilingual program at Grangerland Intermediate teaching fifth and sixth grade math and social studies, but now only teaches his fifth-grade classes.
Lindsay is one of a growing number of professionals changing careers later in life. A graduate of Louisiana Tech's flight program, Lindsay said for the many doctors, engineers and stay-at-home mothers, teaching was never an aspiration.
After losing his health, Lindsay tried to find work as a flight instructor, but the market was deluged with other hopeful pilots searching for jobs. Too old to be an air traffic controller and unable to find work as a pilot, Lindsay new career found him.
"The opportunity just presented itself. I thought, the job's right here, I'll go to school with my daughter every day," he said. "Everything just fit just right."
Paired with a mentor, Lindsay and his fellow education converts brought new ideas and few expectations to the classroom.
"We come in with a very fresh outlook on education. We're combining real world experience into classroom learning," he said. "We come in with not so many preconceived notions."
Tammy Hamilton, principal at Grangerland Intermediate, said new teachers starting their second careers in the classroom can give students a new outlook through the veil of their own professional lives.
"I think the life experience of being out in the business world, outside education, is just brings so much," she said. "Their knowledge base is so much larger. We go to school to be teachers and educators. (Lindsay) brings a different twist. He can relate on a different level."
Calling Lindsay "an outstanding teacher," Hamilton said the pilot makes teaching at risk children look easy.
"He builds relationships with kids. He makes learning fun," she said. "It's a tough job. We're an at risk campus and have all different kinds of students."
At risk students often feel the pull of video games and hanging with friends or working instead of attending school, Hamilton said. Lindsay gives them a reason to show up.
"He has this ability to make kids want to come to school. When you're at risk, it's hard to read, hard to do math," she said. "It makes coming to school a hard decision. They come because of him."
At 43, Lindsay has found the perfect family-oriented career. Teaching affords him long summer and winter vacations and time with his wife and two daughters.
"Having a schedule is priceless. I missed all those holidays when the kids were younger."
Keeping his eye on the sky, Lindsay said he will stay in teaching as long as he is enjoying it. "I'm not going to say I'm totally giving up on flying, but I'm very, very happy and my wife is very, very happy and my kids are very, very happy," he said. " I don't see any immediate changes right now."
Interacting with his students has been an added bonus to his newfound career. While the students present tough challenges for teachers trying to instill core subjects and skills, Lindsay he enjoys the children and their parents enjoy him and other dedicated teachers. "They make me laugh, those kids. They'll say the funniest things," he said. "And the kids' parents in my school are extremely grateful their kids are getting an education."


The lowest-income region of the world, sub-Saharan Africa, has been having a surge of economic growth during the last decade or so. The IMF reviews the current situation in one of its Regional Economic Outlook reports, "Sub-Saharan Africa: Keeping the Pace," published in October.
The red line on the figure shows the rate of real GDP growth in the region sub-Saharan African since the late 1990s, measured on the left-hand axis. The green line, measured on the right-hand axis, shows the growth rate in sub-Saharan Africa compared with the 188 IMF member countries. Economic growth in the sub-Saharan region as a whole in the last decade has consistently been above the median country, and in recent years has been in the 60th to 70th percentile.
But this good news comes wrapped in some concerns. It's also been a time of high prices for oil and many minerals. Is Africa's economic growth really just about countries getting a better price for their minerals? Or is something deeper going on? The second chapter of the IMF report addresses this question head-on (as usual, footnotes and references to figure or tables are omitted for readability).
"Sub-Saharan Africa has grown strongly since the mid-1990s. There is a common perception that this growth has been the result of relatively high commodity prices, particularly for natural resources such as oil and minerals, generating both higher commodity revenues and attracting substantial new investment. Although growth in some countries in the region is heavily dependent on the export of natural resources, many nonresource-intensive LICs [low-income countries] have also experienced rapid growth. In fact, 8 of the 12 fastest-growing economies in sub-Saharan Africa since 1995 were LICs considered nonresource-rich during this period, and as a group they have grown slightly faster than the oil exporters ..."
The chapter then focuses on telling the story of six of these nonresource-intensive low-income countries. "All sample countries—Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda—have achieved strong and sustained growth since the mid-1990s, despite not having exploited natural resources on a large scale during this period. The countries were chosen on the basis of having experienced real output growth greater than 5 percent on average during the period 1995–2010, and real per capita GDP growth of more than 3 percent over the same period."
At the risk of oversimplifying the many details that differ across these six countries, I'd say that two main themes run through the discussion of their success. First, they enacted economic policies that made them attractive for investment, and capital arrived in the form of domestic investment, foreign direct investment, debt relief, and aid. Second, they saw a boost in their agricultural sector, which was a substantial share of the economy and a majority of the workforce and of poverty in all of these countries.
high investment is likely to have supported high growth in the sample countries."
Along with running more sensible macroeconomic policies and reducing the role of price controls, these countries also saw improved governance overall. "The sample countries registered improvements in governance relative to the comparator group in four out of the five dimensions considered in the World Bank's Worldwide Governance Indicators: control of corruption, government effectiveness, political stability and absence of violence, and regulatory quality."
These economic changes took effect in some important part through the agricultural sector. As economies develop, agriculture will typically play a smaller role in the economy, which as this graph illustrates has been happening for these six countries.
But the share of GDP that is in agriculture may understate the importance of agriculture in economic development, because and even larger share of low-income workers are in the agricultural sector. "Most of the labor force in the sample countries remains concentrated in the agricultural sector, and more significant productivity increases will be crucial to promoting inclusive growth and lifting more people out of poverty. It is estimated that the bulk of the sample countries' active labor force is engaged in the agricultural sector—about 80–81 percent in Mozambique and Burkina Faso, 71 percent in Uganda, and 65 percent in Tanzania ... Moreover, most of the extremely poor rely on subsistence farming for their livelihoods."
"Initial conditions are not so important. The majority of the countries in the sample are landlocked, and many were just emerging from conflict situations in the early 1990s. Postconflict and other fragile states can move onto rapid growth paths once a clear vision is formulated and consistently implemented."


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Topological insulators in Bi2Se3, Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3 with a single Dirac cone on the surface
Haijun Zhang1,
Chao-Xing Liu2,
Xiao-Liang Qi3,
Xi Dai1,
Zhong Fang1 &
Shou-Cheng Zhang3
Nature Physics volume 5, pages 438–442 (2009)Cite this article
Topological insulators are new states of quantum matter in which surface states residing in the bulk insulating gap of such systems are protected by time-reversal symmetry. The study of such states was originally inspired by the robustness to scattering of conducting edge states in quantum Hall systems. Recently, such analogies have resulted in the discovery of topologically protected states in two-dimensional and three-dimensional band insulators with large spin–orbit coupling. So far, the only known three-dimensional topological insulator is BixSb1−x, which is an alloy with complex surface states. Here, we present the results of first-principles electronic structure calculations of the layered, stoichiometric crystals Sb2Te3, Sb2Se3, Bi2Te3 and Bi2Se3. Our calculations predict that Sb2Te3, Bi2Te3 and Bi2Se3 are topological insulators, whereas Sb2Se3 is not. These topological insulators have robust and simple surface states consisting of a single Dirac cone at the Γ point. In addition, we predict that Bi2Se3 has a topologically non-trivial energy gap of 0.3 eV, which is larger than the energy scale of room temperature. We further present a simple and unified continuum model that captures the salient topological features of this class of materials.
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Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (* 1. Januar 1852; † 5. März 1903 Paris) war ein französischer Chemiker.

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Demarcay studierte an der École Polytechnique und war dort ab 1874 Assistent von Auguste André Thomas Cahours, bei dem er 1880 promoviert wurde. Später betrieb er seine Forschungen privat.

Demarçay war einer der Entdecker des Elements Europium, das er zunächst spektroskopisch nachwies und 1901 isolierte. Während dieser Zeit half er Marie Curie mit spektroskopischen Untersuchungen bei der Isolierung des Radiums aus Pechblende.

Er war einer der ersten Chemiker, die sich mit Geruchsstoffen von Pflanzen befassten. Er untersuchte Gase unter Druck bei tiefen Temperaturen und konstruierte eine Kältemaschine nach dem Joule-Thomson-Effekt. Mit seinem Lehrer Cahours untersuchte er Veresterungs-Reaktionen und verwendete als einer der Ersten Acetessigester für organische Synthesen. Ab 1880 befasste er sich mit Spektroskopie und verwendete diese zur Trennung seltener Erden, wofür er ein Verfahren mit rauchender Salpetersäure entwickelte. Das führte auch zu seiner Entdeckung von Europium.

Schriften (Auswahl)
 Eugène Demarçay: Spectres électriques. Atlas. Gauthier-Villars, Paris 1895; .
 Eugène Demarçay: Sur les acides tétrique et oxytétrique et leurs homologues. Gauthier-Villars, Paris 1880; .

Fachartikel
 Sur le spectre d'une substance radio-active. Comptes rendus, 127:1218, 1898.
 Sur le spectre du Radium. Comptes rendus, 129:716-717, 1899.
 Sur le spectre du radium. Comptes rendus, 131:258-259, 1900.

Literatur
Winfried R. Pötsch (Federführung), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexikon bedeutender Chemiker, Harri Deutsch 1989, S. 113

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Bullying can happen in all sorts of different ways. We might think first of physical bullying, but it can just as much be about words, looks or gestures which are, or are perceived to be, threatening or intimidating in some way. If there has been some form of physical bullying, an angry look can be extremely intimidating, carrying the very real threat of actual violence.
Bullying can happen in all sorts of different environments. We might think first of school, or maybe of the workplace, as the commonest places where bullying happens, but we can also see bullying in the family, in relationships, in business and between "friends". Really, any situation where two people interact has the potential to lead to bullying.
What can you do about bullying? Well, in the first place there may be practical things you can do. Schools these days are very alert to bullying and will have procedures and policies. In the workplace too, there will be a formal channel of complaint.
Alerting the appropriate people can be very helpful in stopping the bullies but things are not always quite so simple. Bullies can operate in quite subtle ways, through looks and gestures, and those things are much more difficult to stop than actual physical violence. And if the bullying is happening in an environment where there is no complaint procedure – within a family for instance – there may be little you can do to stop it.
When the bullying is non-physical, the most effective remedy can be to stop it affecting you. Even if there is no physical pain, the bullying can still cause emotional pain, but this can be something you can control, because you own these emotions – the bullies don't! And if the bullies realise that their games are having no effect, they will eventually get bored and stop – or find another target. They might try a change of tactics before that, but if that too has no effect, they will eventually stop bothering you.
So how can you stop the bullies getting to you? How can you stop the emotional pain? Here, counselling can help, in two main ways. The first is to find some effective techniques to help you ignore the bullies. There are various ways to do this and you will need to find ways that are effective for you – imagining yourself somewhere else, breathing deeply, imagining the bullies naked – all these can potentially help.
The second way in which counselling might help you is by exploring the origins of some of your feelings. It may be that particular phrases hurt you because they connect with childhood experiences – or particular looks may remind you of someone from your past. In these and other ways the bullies may be touching on nerves that make their behaviour much more effective that it would otherwise be. Identifying these links makes it possible to break them and see the bullies' behaviour for what it is: a pathetic attempt to help them feel better about their own inadequacies.
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(Camden, NJ) – The lineup of events and activities to be held at 24 historic sites and 12 history organizations throughout Camden County has been finalized for the first ever Camden County History Week, to be presented from October 13 to 21, 2018.
Camden County History Week is hosted by the Camden County History Alliance, an association of over 40 Camden County history organizations, historic sites, and support agencies. The History Alliance was created in 2016 to identify resources, increase the number of visitors, and institute projects that promote Camden County heritage.
Camden County History Week invites the public to visit the 36 participating historic sites and history organizations from October 13 to October 21 when they will be open with special activities for adults and children. The vast majority of the events and activities during the week are free.
The Heights Heritage League, in the Borough of Haddon Heights will be hosting a Revolutionary War Encampment; spinning display; walking tour of historic sites, on Saturday October 13, from 10AM. to 3PM rain or shine, the 3PM Walking Tour meets at North Park Drive and Green Street, Haddon Heights; Cannons and muskets will be fired at 11AM and 2PM, Free.
Peter Mott House and Underground Railroad Museum of the Lawnside Historical Society will be having The Peter Mott House Anniversary Party, and features food, merchandise and performers to mark the museum's 2001 opening, on Saturday October 13, Noon to 3PM, Free.
The Haddon Heights Historical Society will host a presentation by Dr. Mark Molesky, entitled "An Anniversary Celebration of the Great War's Armistice," at the Haddon Heights Public Library on Monday, October 15, 7PM to 8:30PM, Free.
The Esther Raab Holocaust Museum & Goodwin Education Center, located inside the Katz Jewish Community Center in Cherry Hill, will have a trained docent available who will share personal stories of the artifacts at the Holocaust Museum, on Wednesday, October 17, 7PM to 9PM, Free.
The Berlin Township Historical Association in West Berlin, NJ is hosting a Genealogical Presentation by professional genealogist, Shemele Jordon, demonstrating her Online Genealogy Quick Start method to find your ancestors online using popular websites, on Friday October 19, 7PM to 8PM, at the Berlin Township Municipal Building, 135 Route 73 South, West Berlin, NJ 08091, Free.
The Walt Whitman House Historic Site in Camden, will offer a Special Program Guided House Tour where you will explore the great writer's last residence, discuss everyday life in late nineteenth century Camden City and share the thoughts of the many visitors who came to see the aging poet in his final years, on Friday October 19, Saturday October 20 and Sunday October 21. Tour times all days 1:30PM – 2:15PM, 3:00PM-3:45PM, tours start at 328 Mickle Boulevard (MLK Blvd), Free.
Barclay Farmstead Museum in Cherry Hill, will host an event called Sample Quaker Life: churn butter, saw wood, try tinsmithing, play games, see hearth cooking, on Saturday October 20, 10AM to 4PM and on Sunday, October 21, Noon to 4PM, Free.
The Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial in Camden, offers visitors a tour of our nation's most decorated battleship – the Battleship New Jersey, berthed on the Camden Waterfront, NJ. Enter at 100 Clinton St., Camden, NJ 08103, Open every day from October 13 to 21 from 9:30AM to 3PM, $21.95 per adult, $17 for veterans, seniors and children 12 and under. During weekdays of October 15 to 19, guests can get a free tour with the purchase of adult tour.
The Burrough-Dover House of the Pennsauken Historical Society, in Pennsauken is offering a visit by Freedom Center for Wildlife with educational animals 1PM to 3PM on Sunday October 21, Free.
The Long-A-Coming Historical Society in Berlin NJ, is hosting the Berlin Cemetery Tour with re-enactors portraying colorful local residents, on Saturday October 20 1PM to 4PM at 40 Clementon Rd., Berlin, NJ, $5.00 per person.
The Mid Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities at Rutgers Camden campus, invites visitors to join MARCH for walking tours, arts and crafts, and pop up exhibits related to historic Cooper Street, on Saturday October 20 from 10AM to 4PM, meet at 325 Cooper Street, Camden, NJ, Free.
At the Gabreil Daveis Tavern in Glendora, the Gloucester Township Historic & Scenic Preservation Committee is offering Games and Chores of Colonial Children and Tours of the Gabreil Daveis Tavern Museum House on Saturday October 20 from Noon to 4PM, Sunday October 21 from Noon to 4PM, Free.
A full list of all 36 events during Camden County History Week is available on www.camdencountyhistoryweek.com.
This Camden County History Week is part of a larger heritage tourism effort to promote the more than 40 history organizations throughout Camden County. This work is funded by the New Jersey Historic Trust through a Historic Site Management Grant, Preserve New Jersey Preservation Fund. Camden County History Week is one of the major activities of this $28,750 grant to the Camden County Historical Society, and is part of the second phase of the three phase Camden County Heritage Tourism Plan. The William G. Rohrer Charitable Foundation supported the design and printing of the Event Guide and Passport, Heritage Tourism Map and Guide, and Rack Cards for 21 historic sites. The Camden County Historical Society manages the work of the Camden County History Alliance. Donna Ann Harris of Heritage Consulting Inc. is organizing Camden County History Week, (www.heritageconsultinginc,.com), a Philadelphia based WBE consulting firm specializing in historic preservation and heritage tourism.
The Preserve New Jersey Historic Preservation Fund was established by legislation in 2016 to provide an annual source of matching grants from the state's corporate business tax for historic preservation projects. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations and government entities. The Preserve New Jersey Fund continues the work of the Garden State Historic Preservation Trust Fund (2000-2012) and the Historic Preservation Bond Program (1990-1997). Since 1990, more than $137 million in matching grants has been awarded to worthy historic preservation construction and planning projects throughout the state. The New Jersey Historic Trust manages these grants.
The Camden County Historical Society is the sponsor of the Camden County History Alliance. The Historical Society has been dedicated to the collection, preservation, study, interpretation, and cultural enrichment of life in Camden County and Southern New Jersey since 1899. The Historical Society manages a small campus of buildings in the Parkside neighborhood of Camden. The society has maintained and restored the c. 1726 historic house museum Pomona Hall since 1924. Other campus buildings include the Charles S. Boyer building, which contains the Hineline Research Library and a handicapped accessible auditorium. As part of the campus, the Camden County Museum has been housed here since 1967. Finally, on the second floor of Pomona Hall is the Camden County History Room, which hosts temporary changing exhibits about Camden County history.
The William G. Rohrer Charitable Foundation was funded by the estate of William G. Rohrer, a former banker, businessman, public official and humanitarian from Camden County whose life was dedicated to improving the educational and economic prosperity of southern New Jersey. The foundation that honors Mr. Rohrer focuses on funding local causes in keeping with Mr. Rohrer's long-time dedication to local organizations. A $10,000 grant to the Camden County Historical Society supported the design and printing of 21 rack cards for Camden County Historic Sites, the History Week Event Guide/Passport, and Camden County Heritage Tourism Trails Map and Guide.


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The mission of The Preservation Society of Newport County is to protect, preserve, and present an exceptional collection of house museums and landscapes in one of the most historically intact cities in America. Champlin Foundation grants of $2.5 million since 1993 have supported the exterior restoration of seven buildings, installation of five new roofs, three garden restorations, and three new HVAC systems. Recent Champlin investments at our flagship property, The Breakers, include a geothermal climate control system, which is helping to preserve the collections and delicate interior finishes of this iconic Gilded Age mansion while significantly saving on energy; and the new, state-of-the-art Welcome Center, which is helping us to better serve the more than 475,000 visitors from all 50 states and 114 foreign countries who visit this National Historic Landmark each year.
By supporting the restoration and maintenance of our properties, Champlin funding contributes directly to the fiscal health of Rhode Island. The Breakers and our other nine historic houses open to the public are key drivers of local heritage tourism. In 2016, the Preservation Society was the first museum in New England outside Boston to surpass one million tours in a single year. We did it again in 2017, and in 2018 we set an all-time record with 1,022,277 tours. Studies demonstrate that our economic impact on the community is in excess of $109 million annually and our impact on Rhode Island's economy far exceeds $136 million. Working together with The Champlin Foundation, we will continue to protect and preserve Newport's vital historic assets, which contribute significantly to Rhode Island's fiscal resiliency, unique sense of place, and community pride.


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The security of smart home equipment has come under scrutiny again after a hacker compromised a USA family's connected camera system to spy on and talk to its 8-year-old daughter.
Even in Texas, one family was targeted when the alarm suddenly went off at midnight, and hackers demanded 50 bitcoins. Then we heard a voice coming from our camera. "I'm Santa Claus. Don't you want to be my best friend?"
In a statement, a Ring spokesperson told the Mirror: "Customer trust is important to us and we take the security of our devices seriously. Don't you want to be my best friend?" In Cape Coral, Fla., for example, a hacker gained access into a couple's Ring camera and made racist comments about their son.
"While we are still investigating this issue and are taking appropriate steps to protect our devices based on our investigation, we are able to confirm this incident is in no way related to a breach or compromise of Ring's security", the company said in a statement.
Peters warns against re-naming your network name to something like "Jon's wifi", which can lead hackers directly to your devices.
San Luis Obispo police said it's not considered burglary or home invasion if someone hacks into your devices unless they physically enter your home.
To secure all user's account ring is sending emails so they can keep two factors authentication on their accounts. "I'm still a little bit scared of it". Reports about hackers infiltrating the system and using it to interact with children and families have been dismissed by Ring as unrelated to the company's cybersecurity. "I didn't know who that is, how long he'd been watching us and I'm still scared now because I don't have any answers", Josefine Brown told WBBH in Fort Meyers. Unfortunately, when the same username and password is reused on multiple services, it's possible for bad actors to gain access to many accounts.
"We were both downstairs working in our office here, and our daughter called out", the girl's mother, Jo, told KING-TV. She disclosed the voice said "Ring support!" "She's saying, 'Mommy, mommy.' She said the voice is talking to me". Tania Amador, a 28-year-old who lives in Grand Prarie just outside Dallas, gave a video to local news which reportedly showed that her Ring security system had...
Ring suggest in a recent blog post that customers use "two-factor" authentications and strong passwords that are frequently updated to ward off these kinds of intrusions.
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The end of the 2019 was an intense period in Ukraine. On the one hand, political scandals cast a shadow on the new administration's efforts to move forward on its campaign promises. On the other hand, President Zelenskyy and his team achieved some progress on war-related issues and in Ukraine-Russia relations. This has somewhat eased the situation in the Donbas. A second prisoner exchange took place, and a new gas war was prevented through a last-minute agreement with Russia.
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Latin America has leapfrogged to the top of the U.S. foreign policy agenda in recent months, with protests erupting in Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador and Colombia; persistent migration from Central America; security challenges in Mexico; and a political and economic crisis in Venezuela with significant effects on its neighbors. In Congress, lawmakers from both parties have taken leading roles in addressing U.S.
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Silicon Chip: 49ers" coach Chip Kelly brings unseen innovation to NFL
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The 49ers" new coach gleans football insight from books on business management, once hired a special warfare expert as his team"s sports science coordinator and sought coaching advice from a cognitive psychologist. He requires players to submit a urine sample every morning.
He doesn"t seem to care much for huddles, either.
There are almost as many questions about Chip Kelly, recently fired by the Eagles after three seasons, as there were empty seats at Levi"s Stadium this season. But in one regard, Kelly, who was hired Thursday to become the 20th head coach in 49ers history, seems an ideal match for his new employer: One of the great innovators in football has come to the land of innovation.
Silicon Chip is a headset-wearing mad scientist with a New England accent, iconoclastic bent and raging curiosity. He doesn"t think outside the box. He lives there.
"He has always asked about the why, always asked about the how," said University of New Hampshire coach Sean McDonnell, who has known Kelly for decades. "He"s always searching to make something better."
Kelly, 52, talks fast, thinks fast and plays even faster. His warp-speed offense, created at New Hampshire and made famous at Oregon, revolutionized college football and has influenced the NFL.
But Kelly"s unique approach extends beyond mere Xs and Os, all the the way to Zzzzzs. Convinced of the benefits of sports science, Kelly hired a former Navy SEAL conditioning coach to oversee the Eagles" training. Players wore GPS devices during practice. Their heart rates and nutrition were monitored. Sleep patterns were examined. Urine samples were reportedly taken daily.
"Football gives him the avenue to converge information, technology and research on a physical field of play," said former Oregon coach Mike Bellotti, whose decision to hire Kelly away from New Hampshire in 2007 changed the sport forever.
Kelly will explore any angle that might provide an advantage and has a team of academics on his speed dial. He consulted with Harry Edwards, the Cal sociologist, when Eagles receiver Riley Cooper used a racial slur. He once brought in K. Anders Ericsson, a specialist in cognitive psychology, to discuss expert performance, according to a Wall Street Journal report. His core philosophy, the New York Times noted, traces to two management books, "Built to Last" and "Good to Great," by author Jim Collins
"The only thing I"ve never accepted is, "That"s the way it"s always been done,"" Kelly said before a 2014 tangle with the 49ers. "Give me a better reason than that."
Bellotti compared Kelly to former 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh. Born one month apart late in 1963, both can be blunt and dismissive. Both are relentless in their pursuit of success and have little patience for anyone who cannot help them succeed.
Harbaugh once joked that if you were to drill a hole in his skull and peek inside, you"d find a football. Kelly"s footballs are in his closet. His mom, Jean, has given him one for Christmas every year since Kelly was a kid, according to the Oregonian.
"They believe in what they do," Bellotti said of Kelly and Harbaugh, "and let"s just say they"re adamant in that belief."
Kelly is loath to discuss his methods, whether it"s his approach to playcalling or the details of his sports science program. His personal life is off limits, as well. Close friends and family members don"t talk to the media — they have been "sworn to silence," longtime coaching pal Mike Zamarchi told the Washington Post.
That same Post article, which focused on Kelly"s shrouded side, revealed that he was married for seven years (though Kelly has never confirmed it); dislikes green vegetables but loves beer; once ran with the bulls at Pamplona during an offseason; has been compared to Elon Musk, the inventor and Tesla CEO, by one NFL player; and is a fan of music from "The Lion King."
"There"s plenty of weirdos in the NFL," one of Kelly"s former players told the Post. "He"s just a different kind of weirdo."
We also know that Charles Edward Kelly was born Nov. 25, 1963 in Dover, N.H., and grew up in Manchester. That his father, Paul, was an attorney. That Kelly has three brothers. That he played hockey, football and ran track as a kid; was a quarterback and defensive back for the University of New Hampshire; and took his first college coaching job in 1990, at Columbia.
"He always wanted to coach," McDonnell said. "But he would have been good at whatever he did, because he"s smart and he works. He really works."
Kelly returned to New Hampshire in 1994 for what became a 13-year run as an assistant coach and offensive coordinator. Midway through his tenure, Kelly went about the business of devising a new offense.
It was 1999. The Wildcats had just lost star tailback Jerry Azumah and needed a system to maximize the skills of the returning players. Kelly visited several college staffs, leaned on nuggets of wisdom collected over the years from clinics and conversations, and devised a plan:
New Hampshire would spread the field to create space for playmakers, dispense with the huddle and play at a tempo never before seen at that level of football.
In order for the players to snap the ball quickly, the system needed to be simple and the players had to be expertly conditioned.
"He"s smart, he listens and whenever he does something, he investigates fully what the outcome will be," McDonnell. "Whether it was recruiting or study hall hours, he always had a good idea how it would work."
Kelly"s connection to a member of the Oregon coaching staff led to an interview with the Ducks for their offensive coordinator position in the winter of 2007. Bellotti was sold but had to convince Kelly to leave his alma mater for the Pac-12.
"One of the things I liked was that at New Hampshire, he had to do more with less," Bellotti said. "He thought about what you had to do to make players successful: "How can we focus on our strength and mask our weaknesses?""
As Kelly"s offense took hold and Oregon stocked its roster with players recruited for the system, the tempo increased — no team ever played faster. That speed is a natural result of Kelly"s analytics study. The faster the pace, the more plays and larger the sample size, giving the team that"s in better condition an advantage.
More plays also give the offense greater margin for error: The deleterious effects of a bad play are reduced incrementally.
Bellotti stepped aside in 2009, and Kelly took over. He played loud music in the office early in the morning, won 46 games in four years and became the hottest coach in college football — not only because of the victories but also the methods.
NFL scouts raved about the efficiency of his practices. Recruits flocked to Oregon to play in the cutting-edge system. He stared down coaching tradition by routinely going for it on fourth down and attempting two-point conversions instead of extra points.
On more than one occasion during his college career, Kelly was summoned to Foxborough, Massachusetts, to discuss strategy with Patriots coach Bill Belichick.
"When Chip took over," Oregon assistant Don Pellum told the Oregonian, "a lot of the (Oregon) coaches were like, "OK, we have to go look what other programs have." Chip was not real into that. Chip wanted to go visit Google and Yahoo.
"His deal was, "I"m not worried about Xs and Os. I want to go see the best environments.""
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