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The Arsenal of Democracy (Paperback)
FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War
By A. J. Baime
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"A touching and absorbing portrait of one of the forgotten heroes of World War II . . . A. J. Baime has given us a memorable portrait not just of an industry going to war but of a remarkable figure who helped to make victory possible."—Wall Street Journal
As the United States entered World War II, the military was in desperate need of tanks, jeeps, and, most important, airplanes. Germany had been amassing weaponry and airplanes for five years—the United States for only months. So President Roosevelt turned to the American auto industry, specifically the Ford Motor Company, where Edsel Ford made the outrageous claim that he would construct the largest airplane factory in the world, a plant that could build a "bomber an hour." And so began one of the most fascinating and overlooked chapters in American history.
Drawing on unique access to archival material and exhaustive research, A. J. Baime has crafted a riveting narrative that hopscotches from Detroit to Washington to Normandy, from the assembly lines to the frontlines, and from the depths of professional and personal failure to the heights that Ford Motor Company and the American military ultimately achieved in the sky.
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Champions of the Earth award-2022
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In news– Indian wildlife biologist Dr Purnima Devi Barman is among the honourees of Champions of the Earth award-2022, the U.N.'s highest environmental honour.
About the award-
The annual 'Champions of the Earth' prize is awarded to outstanding leaders from government, civil society and the private sector whose actions have had a positive impact on the environment.
Since its inception in 2005, the annual Champions of the Earth award has been awarded to trailblazers at the forefront of efforts to protect our natural world.
Champions of the Earth are celebrated in four categories:
Policy leadership – individuals or organizations in the public sector leading global or national action for the environment. They shape dialogue, lead commitments and act for the good of the planet.
Inspiration and action – individuals or organizations taking bold steps to inspire positive change to protect our world. They lead by example, challenge behavior and inspire millions.
Entrepreneurial vision – individuals or organizations challenging the status quo to build a cleaner future. They build systems, create new technology and spearhead a groundbreaking vision.
Science and innovation– individuals or organizations who push the boundaries of technology for profound environmental benefit. They invent possibilities for a more sustainable world.
It is the UN's highest environmental honour. To date, the award has recognised 111 laureates: 26 world leaders, 69 individuals and 16 organisations.
Dr Purnima Devi Barman-
Dr. Barman has been honoured with the UN Environment Programme's (UNEP) 2022 Champions of the Earth award in the Entrepreneurial Vision category.
A wildlife biologist, Dr. Barman leads the "Hargila Army", an all-female grassroots conservation movement dedicated to protecting the Greater Adjutant Stork from extinction.
The women create and sell textiles with motifs of the bird, helping to raise awareness about the species while building their own financial independence.
Dr. Barman is also Senior Project Manager of the Avifauna Research and Conservation Division, Aaranyak.
Barman's pioneering conservation work has empowered thousands of women, creating entrepreneurs and improving livelihoods while bringing the greater adjutant stork back from the brink of extinction.
In order to protect the stork, Dr. Barman knew she had to change perceptions of the bird, known locally as "hargila" in Assamese (meaning "bone swallower") and mobilised a group of village women to help her.
Today the "Hargila Army" consists of over 10,000 women. They protect nesting sites, rehabilitate injured storks which have fallen from their nests and arrange "baby showers" to celebrate the arrival of newborn chicks.
Greater Adjutant Stork-
The greater adjutant is a member of the stork family, Ciconiidae. Its genus includes the lesser adjutant of Asia and the marabou stork of Africa.
Once found widely across southern Asia and mainland southeast Asia, the greater adjutant is now restricted to a much smaller range with only three breeding populations; two in India, with the largest colony in Assam, a smaller one around Bhagalpur; and another breeding population in Cambodia.
They disperse widely after the breeding season. This large stork has a massive wedge-shaped bill, a bare head and a distinctive neck pouch.
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Pennsbury Concert To Build New School In India
Rick Rickman
Pennsbury High School band and orchestra students will be putting on a special performance Wednesday night to benefit the vulnerable in India. Proceeds will go towards the Sparsh Trust for the hungry and building a new school for children in India.
The Pennsbury Marching Band performing in the Tournament of Roses Parade on Jan 1, 2018.
Band member Priya Deliwala brought up the idea because only doing school work through the year makes it hard to focus on long term goals.
"Sometimes I feel like my life doesn't have anything that has an application, like a purpose, Deliwala explained. "Doing a concert gave me direction and honestly it's helped me build character. That's why I wanted to do it."
Teacher Mr. Frank Mazzeo calls his pupils kids, but admits he's impressed by their maturity.
"They are really young adults," Mazzeo said about his students. "It touches your heart when you see somebody get motivated like this to do something. Priya is being very humble here, but she's thinking of other people putting this together. She's really done a lot of the legwork for this."
200 students with various school music groups will perform, including the Pennsbury Symphony and Symphonic Orchestra, along with the Symphonic Winds and Pennsbury Concert Jazz Band.
The concert is scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 28, at 7 p.m. in the PHS East Auditorium. Attendees can buy tickets at the door. The price is $10 for adults and $5 student/children.
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Q: Batteries, open or made Are batteries suppose to show open or shorted across the taps from positive to negative? I have 20 or so 1.45v 265 ah SAFT batteries that show half of them open and half shorted.

A: Multimeters aren't designed to measure resistance in a live circuit. The voltage that the battery puts out is confusing the meter.
To test a battery, put an appropriate load on it and measure the voltage that the battery produces.

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An ecological comparison of spiders from urban and natural habitats in California
Jack B. Fraser
Gordon W. Frankie
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Jack B. Fraser was an entomologist, Western Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Albany, CA 94710; Gordon W. Frankie was professor of entolomogy, Department of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720.
Hilgardia 54(3):1-24. DOI:10.3733/hilg.v54n03p031. March 1986.
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A comparative study of spider communities in urban, native, and semi-native habitats was conducted in 1980 in northern California. Selected biotic and abiotic factors thought to be responsible for observed differences in spider-community composition among habitats were investigated.
Three backyards in the city of Berkeley comprised the urban study site. Plants found at this site included: Sequoia sempervirens, Juniperus sabina 'Tamariscifolia,' Hedera helix, Camellia japonica, and various annual and perennial flowers. Spider-community composition at the urban habitat consisted primarily of web-building spiders above ground level (aerial). Ground-surface spiders were fewer in number and species due to manipulation of the environment by homeowners.
A relatively undisturbed coastal chaparral habitat, 7.7 km east of Berkeley (in Contra Costa County), was chosen to represent the native site. A limited number of plant species and structural diversity was characteristic of this habitat. Baccharis pilularis, Lupinus albifrons, Lupinus bicolor, and various grasses (Avena fatua, Bromus mollis, etc.) dominated the plant community at this study site, Briones Reservior. Total numbers and numbers of species of aerial spiders were low at this habitat. However, ground-surface spiders were more numerous, probably due to an abundance of prey.
A semi-native habitat (Tilden Park) located between the urban and native habitats shared plant species with both these habitats. Plant species included both ornamental plants (Juniperus sabina, Pyracantha sp., and Prunus sp.) and native plants (Quercus agrifolia and Baccharis pilularis). The climate was most similar to the native habitat, although more humid. The aerial and ground-surface spider communities resembled the urban and native habitats, respectively.
Plant architecture in conjunction with local climate influenced aerial spider community composition. A greater diversity of plant species provided a heterogeneous habitat for aerial spiders at both urban and semi-native habitats. The cooler and more humid climates at these sites reduced exposure to potentially limiting factors such as desiccation. Low diversity of plant architecture and a hot and dry climate restricted aerial spider numbers and species at the native site.
Greater numbers of ground-surface spiders at the native and semi-native habitats were probably due to an abundance of prey, while owner manipulation of urban gardens negatively influenced ground-surface spider numbers and species at the urban habitat.
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Frankie G. W., Koehler C. Perspectives in Urban Entomology. 1980. New York: Academic Press.
Fraser J. B. Ecological and Biological Studies on Urban and Rural Spiders, Especially on Hololena adnexa (Araneae: Agelenidae) 1983. Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. Calif., Berkeley
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Materials Science (General)
Materials Analysis and Characterization
Handbook on Semiconductors
Basic Properties of Semiconductors
Editors: P.T. Landsberg
Published Date: 23rd December 1992
View all volumes in this series: Handbook on Semiconductors
Contemporary topics in band theory (M. Rasolt). 2. Chemical models of energy bands (J.C. Phillips). 3. Ab initio pseudopotentials and the structural properties of semiconductors (J.R. Chelikowsky, M.L. Cohen). 4. Deep and shallow impurities in semiconductors: Theoretical (M. Lannoo). 5. Impurities in semiconductors: Experimental (J.M. Baranowski, M. Grynberg). 6. Semiconductor statistics (P.T. Landsberg, O. Engström). 7. Surfaces and interfaces: Atomic-scale structure, band bending and band offsets (L.J. Brillson). 8. Nonlinear dynamics, phase transitions and chaos in semiconductors (E. Schöll). 9. Electron-hole liquid in semiconductors (A.A. Rogachev). 10. Dynamics and classical transport of carriers in semiconductors (L.M. Roth). 11. Conjugated polymer semiconductors: An introduction (E.M. Conwell, H.A. Mizes). 12. Electron tunneling in semiconductors (P.J. Price). 13. Quantum confinement and scattering processes (B.K. Ridley). 14. Classical transport and thermoelectric effects in low-dimensional and mesoscopic semiconductor structures (B.L. Gallagher, P.N. Butcher). 15. Coherence in III-V semiconductor superlattices (P. Voisin, G. Bastard). 16. From ballistic transport to localization (S.E. Ulloa, A. MacKinnon, E. Castaño and G. Kirczenow). 17. The quantum Hall effect (T. Chakraborty). 18. Hot-electron transport phenomena (D.K. Ferry). 19. Fundamental aspects of quantum transport theory (J.R. Barker). Author index. Subject index.
Since Volume 1 was published in 1982, the centres of interest in the basic physics of semiconductors have shifted. Volume 1 was called Band Theory and Transport Properties in the first edition, but the subject has broadened to such an extent that Basic Properties is now a more suitable title.
Seven chapters have been rewritten by the original authors. However, twelve chapters are essentially new, with the bulk of this work being devoted to important current topics which give this volume an almost encyclopaedic form.
The first three chapters discuss various aspects of modern band theory and the next two analyze impurities in semiconductors. Then follow chapters on semiconductor statistics and on surfaces, interfaces and band offsets as they occur in heterojunctions. Chapters 8 to 19 report on newer topics (though a survey of transport properties of carriers is also included). Among these are transport of hot electrons, and thermoelectric effects including here and elsewhere properties of low-dimensional and mesoscopic structures. The electron-hole liquid, the quantum Hall effect, localisation, ballistic transport, coherence in superlattices, current ideas on tunnelling and on quantum confinement and scattering processes are also covered.
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GM Andrew Berry – Cleveland Browns 'fully expect' Baker Mayfield to be starting QB, rebound in 2022
BEREA, Ohio – General manager Andrew Berry said on Tuesday the Cleveland Browns "fully expect" Baker Mayfield to be their starting quarterback in 2022 and "bounce back" from an injury-ridden season.
"It's easy to forget at this point in the year what we've seen with Baker over the past few years," Berry said. "We've been with Baker for a long time – we know his work ethic, we know his drive, we've seen it [be] a talented passer in this league, and we look forward to him regaining his health and continuing to improve. "
Mayfield was 27th in the league in QBR (35.3, 0-100 scale) last season, as the Browns finished 8-9 and failed to advance to the playoffs .
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Mayfield played through a torn labrum in his non-pitching left shoulder he suffered in Week 2, an injury that also forced him to wear a harness to hold the shoulder in place. He ended the year completing just 60.5% of his passes for 3,010 yards and 17 touchdowns, with 13 interceptions.
Berry, however, was quick to point out that Mayfield last season gave the Browns their first playoff victory in 26 years, while also thriving in coach Kevin Stefanski's system. Mayfield finished the 2020 season ranked 10th in the league in QBR (65.5)
"We look forward to Baker being healthy this offseason," said Berry, "and then doing a good job throughout the spring and with his coaches to have the kind of season that we know he will be. 'he can have."
Mayfield is due to have surgery to repair the labrum on January 19, with the hopes that he will be back in time to participate in the team's organized activities, which usually begin in late May. He will enter the final year of his rookie contract, which will net him nearly $ 19 million in 2022 after the Browns exercised his fifth-year option last offseason. The Browns drafted Mayfield with the No.1 pick in 2018.
"Baker, he's team oriented, he's a competitor, he's super tough," said Berry. "And he really wants the best for the team and really wants to take the steps he needs to improve himself to be the quarterback we know he can be."
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from __future__ import print_function
from __future__ import unicode_literals

from builtins import str, bytes, dict, int

import os
import sys
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "..", ".."))

from io import open

from pattern.vector import Document, PORTER, LEMMA

# A Document is a "bag-of-words" that splits a string into words and counts them.
# A list of words or dictionary of (word, count)-items can also be given.

# Words (or more generally "features") and their word count ("feature weights")
# can be used to compare documents. The word count in a document is normalized
# between 0.0-1.0 so that shorted documents can be compared to longer documents.

# Words can be stemmed or lemmatized before counting them.
# The purpose of stemming is to bring variant forms a word together.
# For example, "conspiracy" and "conspired" are both stemmed to "conspir".
# Nowadays, lemmatization is usually preferred over stemming,
# e.g., "conspiracies" => "conspiracy", "conspired" => "conspire".

s = """
The shuttle Discovery, already delayed three times by technical problems and bad weather,
was grounded again Friday, this time by a potentially dangerous gaseous hydrogen leak
in a vent line attached to the ship's external tank.
The Discovery was initially scheduled to make its 39th and final flight last Monday,
bearing fresh supplies and an intelligent robot for the International Space Station.
But complications delayed the flight from Monday to Friday,
when the hydrogen leak led NASA to conclude that the shuttle would not be ready to launch
before its flight window closed this Monday.
"""

# With threshold=1, only words that occur more than once are counted.
# With stopwords=False, words like "the", "and", "I", "is" are ignored.
document = Document(s, threshold=1, stopwords=False)
print(document.words)
print()

# The /corpus folder contains texts mined from Wikipedia.
# Below is the mining script (we already executed it for you):

#import os, codecs
#from pattern.web import Wikipedia
#
#w = Wikipedia()
#for q in (
#  "badger", "bear", "dog", "dolphin", "lion", "parakeet",
#  "rabbit", "shark", "sparrow", "tiger", "wolf"):
#    s = w.search(q, cached=True)
#    s = s.plaintext()
#    print(os.path.join("corpus2", q+".txt"))
#    f = open(os.path.join("corpus2", q+".txt"), "w", encoding="utf-8")
#    f.write(s)
#    f.close()

# Loading a document from a text file:
f = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "corpus", "wolf.txt")
s = open(f, encoding="utf-8").read()
document = Document(s, name="wolf", stemmer=PORTER)
print(document)
print(document.keywords(top=10)) # (weight, feature)-items.
print()

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The Terrible Gennas part 2
Posted on March 12, 2009 November 16, 2015 by adam
So, the Genna Brothers had cleared he way to move into O'Banion's territory, but they'd also made a LOT of enemies. ALL of the North Siders wanted them dead – and so did Al Capone.
One of them became president of the Unione Siciliane, a major organization that gave him a lot of clout. Capone believed they were just spreading out and biding their time to take over his whole operation. Plus, in retailiation for the death of O'Banion, the unholy trio of Weiss, Drucci and Moran were launching LOTS of hits on HIM – for which he blamed the Gennas.
First to be killed was Angelo Genna. The three north siders chased him down in his car down Ogden Avenue. He crashed into a pole and then shot to death.
His funeral was a MASSIVE affair – by rules of the game, gangsters from all sides paid their respects. He was buried wearing a rich purple robe (which covered the four bullet holes nicely) in a $6000 casket. One gang sent roses, another sent lillies of the valley. Torrio, who was still in jail, sent a huge vase of pink and white carnations. peonies from "Diamond Joe" Esposito, lillies from Al Capone…estimates put the cost of the flowers alone in the hundreds of thousands – much it from Schofield's Flowers, which had been co-owned by O'Banion.
O'Banion himself had a slightly larger crowd than the 10,000 or so who turned out for Genna's funeral – but it was a different kind of crowd. "Dean may have had a bigger mob, but a lot of it was curiosity seekers," said one. "Everyone here was a friend of Angelo."
He was buried in Mt. Carmel cemetery, very close to O'Banion's grave, and not far from Mike Merlo's. One onlooker was quoted as saying "when judgement day comes and them three graves are open, there's gonna be hell to pay in this cemetery."
If only he'd known that eventually the cemetery would also contain Weiss and Capone….and a couple more Gennas.
Within six weeks, their reign would be over…
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CNBC changes producers for business day programming
December 7, 2022 ElizabethBusiness News
Dan Colarusso, senior vice president of CNBC Business News, and Craig Bengtson, vice president of business news programming, sent out the following on Tuesday:
The success of CNBC's Business Day programming begins and ends with strong, optimistic leadership across our newsroom. In an effort to continue to develop fresh, content ideas in new places and offer growth opportunities to our colleagues, we are excited to announce the following re-assignments and promotions among our producer ranks:
Anne Tironi has been named Senior Executive Producer in charge of "Squawk Box." A confident and firm leader, Anne has had a significant and positive impact on this iconic program for more than 16 years with much of it coming from her steady hand in the control room. A tremendous collaborator and communicator, Anne is one of the few leaders who is adept at managing both content and people equally well.
Rebecca White has been named "Supervising Producer" and will move from "Power Lunch" to "Squawk Box," replacing Anne as second-in-command. Rebecca brings to "Squawk Box" a powerful, editorial voice with an array of management experience and a knack for improving any content she touches. Rebecca's Senior Producer position on "Power Lunch" will be posted.
Executive Producer Maria Boden will move from "The Exchange" and "Power Lunch" to "TechCheck," where her relentless energy and willingness to try new things will be of enormous value to the program. Hired by CNBC seven years ago, Maria is well known for her tenacious spirit and approach to making business news actionable and entertaining.
Senior Executive Producer Matt Quayle rejoins the daily ranks of Business News by taking the helm of "The Exchange" and "Power Lunch." After years of overseeing "Squawk Box," Matt was instrumental in the creation of "The Exchange," Closing Bell's "Market Zone" segment and "TechCheck." He has also worked diligently on a variety of new programming ideas, specials, and important projects including the use of augmented reality and the redesign of the daily "News Updates." It will be fun to see Matt leading a show team again.
Senior Executive Producer Max Meyers will begin work, immediately, on a new 7pm business news program. After four years leading "Squawk Box," Max will have an opportunity to deploy his deep markets knowledge and vast network experience to carve out CNBC's place in prime time. A 16-year veteran of the network, Max has been a driving force behind the success of many CNBC projects and programs including "Fast Money."
These changes will be effective December 19.
Please join us in congratulating, and supporting, all of our colleagues who are taking on new challenges and responsibilities.
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SNOW: THE MAGICAL INGREDIENT
Story and images by Vicki Hoefling Andersen
High on Adventure, January 2020
Snow -- such simple stuff, really: the marriage of a super-cooled water droplet and a speck of dust. More droplets join and freeze into place and a crystal is born. Mr. Webster defined it as "solid precipitation in the form of variously shaped white or translucent ice crystals originating in the upper atmosphere as frozen particles of water vapor." Had he been a snowsports enthusiast, I'm sure he would have had much more to say about the subject.
As this crystal descends towards earth, it changes with the temperature and moisture variations until it finally forms a snowflake. Flakes range from delicate needles to many-branched stars, with more than 5,000 different forms on record including stellars, dendrites, stars, columns, plates and needles. Snowfalls generally consist of a variety of these basic types of crystals.
Images from Edward R. LaChapelle's "Field Guide to Snow Crystals"
What we envision as the classic snowflake ubiquitous in winter holiday décor -- a hexagonal star with delicate arms and points resembling lace -- is called a "stellar dendrite" and is the largest of snow crystals. The most common type of flake is an "irregular," a small clump of crystals whose form cannot be deciphered, only greeted with joy by school children anticipating a Snow Day.
Regardless of their appearance and makeup when they land, snowflakes immediately begin to morph. Fresh, cold snow holds little moisture but has sharply pointed crystals, some of which interlock while others crush under their own weight. Due to the large amount of air in fresh snow (up to 90%), there is little cohesion and it doesn't pack well. As flakes settle, the sharp points tend to hook together and as they become denser and heavier, the bonding strength increases. Additional snowfall, temperature changes, wind and sun all produce a constant change in the snow pack, giving outdoor devotees a variety of snow conditions with which to contend.
"Powder" is the Holy Grail for snowsport fanatics. Low moisture content means the snow, mostly consisting of column and plate-type crystals, doesn't compact and can create a condition known as "white smoke." Keep your snorkel handy.
(photo by Dino Vournas)
"Hardpack" results when crystals melt during the day, then refreeze overnight to create a solid layer. A deep freeze followed by a thaw produces a solid sheet of ice called "boilerplate." When wind drives water vapor into the surface of the snow, the moisture condenses and freezes into crystals at the surface resulting in "windpack." Depending upon the depth of this crust, snow travelers may walk or glide across the top, break through with every attempt to step or turn, or alternate between these two possibilities. "Crud," often referred to on the West Coast as Cascade Concrete or Sierra Cement and other less printable monikers, is old snow, very heavy, unforgiving and is most often embellished with a sharp broken crust.
Nature often sculpts snow into art forms. A dune-shaped drift is known as a "snow barchan" (photo by Dino Vournas), while "sastrugi" are long, wavelike ridges and grooves formed by the wind.
Tiny, dry, pebble-like crystals are "frozen granular" which is dense, older snow that has lost its interlocking points. Alternate freezing and thawing produces "corn," is similar to frozen granular except the sun melts it back into separate grains. With no points left to hook together, it creates a delightfully sugary effect second only to powder for a big fun factor.
There have been reports of red, yellow and even black snow falling, most likely the result of pollen, windblown dust or volcanic ash. The snow on Iceland's Myrdalsjokull glacier is often colored by the volcanic ash from Eyjafjallajokull, less than 15 miles away.
Snow isn't actually white. A snow crystal's surface is faceted which creates hundreds of tiny prisms which refract the light into all colors of the spectrum and reflect back to our eyes as white. If the snow is deep enough, the layers absorb more red than blue and can give it a blue hue. It can even appear pink in high alpine and coastal polar regions where a type of cold-loving red-pigmented fresh-water algae tints the snow.
Snowflakes can be huge. The world's largest is said to have been a 15" wide by 8" thick flake that fell in Fort Keogh, Montana, in January 1887. Examples up to 6" wide have been reported in various places around the world, but it's a myth that every snowflake is unique. While they always have six sides or points, they can have twins as proven by a scientist in 1988 who identified two identical flakes from the same Wisconsin storm. Don't you wonder how many he had to scrutinize before he found a matching pair?
Moisture-laden air coming in contact with colder surfaces such as trees or chairlift towers often leaves a feathery pattern known as "hoarfrost" or "rime." Sometimes it builds up thick enough to create "snow ghost" trees like these lining the Coquihalla trail at Sun Peaks, British Columbia.
(photo above left by Dino Vournas)
But swirly flakes aren't the only way snow is delivered. If crystals fall through a freezing layer of damp atmosphere, ice may form on the outside of the snowflake to create snow pellets or "graupel." While most snowfalls are mesmerizing to watch, "thundersnow" can be unsettling when ice crystals crash about in the clouds and create visible lighting in the midst of a blizzard.
Just because it's snowing hard doesn't mean it's a blizzard. Winds must bluster at least 35 mph and snowfall reduce visibility to less than one-quarter mile for at least three hours before you have an official "blizzard;" otherwise it's a "snowstorm." If strong winds come and go it's a "snow squall." If a brief, windless snowfall leaves a dump of snow, it's a "snowburst."
Head out for a 32-mile roundtrip snowmobile jaunt from Diamond Lake to Crater Lake
and a passing snowburst may leave your trailer buried. Keep your shovel handy.
Weathermen roughly equate one foot of rain to one foot of snow, but this depends greatly upon the moisture content. One inch of liquid sunshine can result in anything from five to fifty inches of snow. Water content may be as high as 15-20% in coastal mountains of the Pacific Northwest, or as low as 5-10% in the Rocky Mountains.
U.S. record for most snowfall in one year is held by Washington's Mt. Baker Ski Area, whose whopping 1,140" (that's 95 feet!) fell during the winter of 1998-99, also placing it at the top of the World Record for Snow Accumulation. U.S. positions #2 and #3 are held by Thompson Pass, Alaska, with 974" in 1952-53, while the winter of 1948-49 left 822" at Crater Lake National Park in Oregon.
Average snow accumulations pile up deeper in the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest than anywhere else in the U.S. with Mt. Baker again topping the list at 701" and nearby Mt. Rainer Paradise Ranger Station in second place with 671." But if you want to really be wowed, in 2015 Capracotta, Italy, was buried under 100" in just 18 hours, a world record for the City with the Biggest Snowfall in One 24-Hour Period. Silver Lake, Colorado, has held that U.S. record since 1921 when nearly 76" fell, although the blizzard continued for 32.5 hours eventually leaving 95" behind, another record for the Most Flakes from One Continuous Snowfall.
Quebec City's Parliament Building shows off a dusting of snow.
An average 124" each year ties this Canadian capital with
Syracuse, New York, as one of the snowiest cities on earth.
The U.S. is hit with just over 100 snow storms every winter, typically lasting 2-5 days. But the winter of 1991-92 was so severe, in March 1992 the City Council in Syracuse decreed it illegal for any more snow to fall until Christmas Eve. But Mother Nature doesn't like to be bossed around - she covered the city again just two days later, and the following winter was even snowier.
Snow can fall in places you'd never imagine. Anywhere from a dusting to a couple of inches have graced Houston, Texas (1" in 2009, 0.7" in 2017, trace in 2018), Los Angeles (.03" in 1954), Tallahassee, Florida (1" in 1989, .01 in 2018), the Sonoran Desert (1.5" in 1932, dusting in 1967), and Antsirabe, Madagascar, where it covered the ground in 1900.
Better known for palm-studded beaches, world-class surfing and spewing volcanoes,
Hawaii Island is an almost annual recipient of snowfall. Mauna Kea, whose name means
"White Mountain," and Mauna Loa both top out over 13,000 feet and can receive up to
two feet at a time. Even Haleakala on nearby Maui gets a snowcap every couple of years,
with near record snowfall and four-foot drifts in February 2019.
(photo by Kirk Lee Aeder, courtesy Hawaii Tourism Authority)
In a twist of irony, the Earth's poles do not receive much snow. The ice-covered Arctic Ocean is surrounded by land which produces scant precipitation. Although ringed by ocean, Antarctica is in fact considered a desert. Cold air can't hold much moisture so only about two inches of precipitation accumulates annually, but that's enough to bury our southernmost continent under an ice sheet up to three miles thick and keep it covered for the last 40 million years.
Around 100,000 glaciers cover nearly 28,000 square miles of Alaska,
including this one emptying into the Gulf of Alaska. At 118 miles,
the Bering Glacier is Alaska's longest, terminating about 10 miles away.
Ice sheets, ice caps and glaciers cover nearly 6 million square miles or 10% of the Earth's surface. Holding almost 70% of its fresh water, if they suddenly melted, sea levels would rise more than 200 feet. Created over countless millennia, glaciers form where snow never melts and each new snowfall compresses the accumulation beneath, making it more and more dense until it transforms into glacial ice. At 250 miles long, 60 miles wide and 1.5 miles thick, Antarctica's Lambert-Fisher Glacier is the world's biggest, while Washington State has the most glaciated land area in the Lower 48. Even Mount Kilimanjaro, barely 200 miles south of the equator, has glaciers, although like all the planet's glaciers and ice sheets, it is rapidly shrinking.
A few facts and factoids about snow: Like a sparkling diamond or a translucent grain of salt, snow is also a mineral. It takes 180 billion molecules of water to create the average snowflake. The first person to photograph a snow crystal was "Snowflake" Bentley in 1885. Capturing specimens on black velvet, he used a bellows camera attached to a microscope to record over 5,000 amazing examples, after which he died of pneumonia. Insulated by the fresh, compacted snow from which it's made, then warmed by its occupants' body heat, an igloo can be over 100 degrees toastier inside than outside. A fear of or severe aversion to snow is called Chionophobia. Pibloktoq is the term for the cold, snow and darkness actually driving someone crazy, first documented among but not limited to the Inuit people. Google "baby names for snow" and you'll find over five dozen ways to name your little one after your favorite winter outdoor adornment.
Snow pillows on the Lewis River, Yellowstone, Montana.
With Snow and its harbinger, Winter, holding sway for months on end, myths and legends about them have arisen around the world. Some folklore says supernatural creatures only reveal themselves when it's cold. In Norse mythology, Ullr and Skadi are the God and Goddess of Snow and Mountains with Ullr deemed the Patron Saint of Skiers. Germanic tradition says snow is created by the goddess Holda shaking her feather bed. In Gaelic legend, Beira, also known as Cailleach Bheur, is the Goddess of Winter and her clean laundry creates a white blanket of snow.
Old Man Frost is a legendary Slavic character who is accompanied by the beautiful and ever-young Snegurochka, the Snow Maiden. A Japanese woman who dies from the cold becomes a yukionna, an entity who appears on snowy nights floating above the ground with her magical powers, sometimes transforming into snow itself. And beware the oshiroi baba or Snow Hags of Japan who come down from the mountains in winter, their faces covered in white.
Native American tribes included winter gods in their pantheon: Flint (Iroquois), Shakok (Pueblo) and Windigo (Ojibwa). The Aztecs personified cold and winter in their death god Itztlacoliuhqui. The Maori called their winter goddess Hine-Takurua, while the Hawaiian Snow Goddess Poliahu, sister of the Polynesian Fire Goddess Pele, is believed to reside on Mauna Kea. Iranian folklore tells of Nane Sarma or Grandma Frost.
The Greeks and Romans had deities who personified nearly everything, snow and winter no exception. Boreas, the Greek God of Winter and the Cold North Wind, lends his name to the term "boreal" meaning a climate with long winters or a subarctic ecosystem. From his daughter Chione, the Goddess of Snow, we derive Chionophobia, the fear of snow. Kheimon was the Greek Goddess of Winter, and the Romans hailed Hiems as their Winter God.
Another creature associated with snow is the abominable snowman aka yeti, aka bigfoot, aka many other monikers around the world. Linked in particular with the Himalaya Mountains, to the people of Tibet and Nepal, the Yeti is a sacred guardian of the mountains and soaring snowy realms.
It is commonly repeated that "the Eskimos have 50 words for snow," which isn't quite true. The Inuit (the accurate name for "Eskimos") have hundreds of words to define various characteristics and subtleties of snow. Siqoq is drifting snow, aniu is falling snow, upsik is wind-whipped snow, siqoqtoaq is crusty melting frozen snow, saluma roaq is fine smooth snow ... you get the gist.
The ways to enjoy winter's bounty are limitless. It can be a leisurely snowshoe through the forests of Idaho, blasting powder in the Chugach Mountains near Valdez, Alaska, or pedaling along a hardpack single-track. Building a snowman or staring out the window also count.
(Images above left and right courtesy of McCall, Idaho)
Folks who love winter escapades eagerly tune in to weather reports and are downright giddy to find the freezing level is falling and moisture is heading toward their favorite playgrounds. But it doesn't take a lively outdoor pursuit to enjoy the pleasures of snow. Is there any sight more calming than snowflakes fluttering earthward? They muffle and soften the sounds around you. They blanket everything with an indescribably fresh aroma. They have no taste but leave a light tingle when you capture a flake on the tip of your tongue.
Find your own special way to soak up the magical splendor of those "frozen particles of water vapor" that have arrived.
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Early in his career, David worked as an Analyst at Smith Barney before joining Fenway Partners, where he worked on a variety of consumer investments as an Associate. David earned both a B.S. in Economics, magna cum laude, and an M.B.A., with honors, from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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'This isn't a story about money' A transgender woman in St. Petersburg won a landmark LGBTQ and labor rights case. Here's her story.
Anastasia Vasilyeva in 2017
Ksenia Ivanova for "Meduza"
In 2017, Anastasia Vasilyeva (whose name has been changed at her request) was fired from her job at a printing press after coming out as a trans woman and changing the gender marker on her government identification documents. To justify this decision, her employer referred to a list of 456 professions deemed "too dangerous" for women in Russia. In April 2019, Vasilyeva won a lawsuit for unlawful dismissal, and on June 16 a court rejected her former employer's appeal, marking the end of the court proceedings. Meduza tells Vasilyeva's story and explains why her victory is a landmark case for all women in Russia.
Since 2005, Anastasia Vasilyeva had worked for a company in St. Petersburg that manufactured plates for engraved printing. These are mainly used for packaging large quantities of products like candy, chewing gum, or mayonnaise. Anastasia was responsible for checking the quality of completed plates using special equipment. "Calling us 'printers' is actually a stretch. Really we were just performing quality control on a finished product. The work poses no danger to staff," Vasilyeva explained in a 2017 interview with Meduza.
Vasilyeva started to transition in 2014, and a year later sent a memo out to her colleagues, in which she explained her situation. "I felt uncomfortable — everyone saw that something was happening with me, but no one could ask directly," Vasilyeva told Meduza. In December 2014 (before she had sent out the memo), Vasilyeva decided to speak to her managers to "get some kind of support."
According to Vasilyeva, at this time the company directors told her that she wouldn't be fired because of her transition. However, after this conversation, the management of the printing press tried to convince Vasilyeva to leave of her own accord on multiple occasions. "They offered me money, they sent the production manager, and the director asked if I was going to leave the city or the country," Vasilyeva recalls. "I told them that I want to continue to work [at the company], and wasn't preparing to go anywhere."
At one of these meetings in 2015 (during which a manager and company lawyer were present), Vasilyeva mentioned that "according to the job evaluation, a woman can work on this site." She now believes that by saying this, she herself could have given the company's leadership an idea of how they could actually dismiss her.
In 2016, Vasilyeva was shown an updated evaluation of working conditions at the press (the company commissioned a special organization to conduct the assessment). She was surprised to learn from this document that "women cannot work at her site," since work with engraved printing was included on the list of 456 professions that women in Russia are banned from holding. "When I was at the [St. Petersburg printing press's] parent company in Germany, women worked safely at this site. No one said that a woman can't work as a printer," Vasilyeva explains. "What's more, my position was originally called 'printing press operator,' and it has no gender restrictions. But since such a profession doesn't exist in Russia, they changed it to 'engraving printer,' so that bureaucratic questions won't arise when a person retires."
Vasilyeva decided that the company's leadership were using this as an excuse because "they wanted to get rid of her," since the managers may have feared that she would face aggression from other workers. They suggested that she either leave by mutual consent, or wait to be dismissed "in connection with the inability to fulfil employment relations."
Vasilyeva explained that after her transition, almost all of the employees at the company continued to address her as a man. "There were no direct insults, it was more the wordless psychological pressure, when they ignore your name and your feelings," Vasilyeva explains. "The company lawyer referred to me exclusively by my 'dead name,' she ignored how I asked her to address me." According to Vasilyeva, the company was dismissive of her everyday needs. For example, they didn't respond to her request to transfer her to the women's locker room — throughout the last two years she had to change her clothes in the bathroom.
"Not all of the people at work treated me badly, many were rather neutral, I considered this a positive thing. There were probably only one or two people who were actually nice to me, out of the company's 100 or more staff members," Vasilyeva recalls.
In conversation with Meduza, Vasilyeva said that she didn't think her case would go to court. "I didn't have any illusions about how they would treat me [at work], but everyone still saw that I was a good person. Why should their attitude towards me change?" she says. "I didn't want to continue to wear a mask to make other people comfortable, so I decided to transition. When I came out, I was enthusiastic at first — I thought maybe, everything wouldn't be so bad. But at certain moments it got very difficult for me to go [to work], because my name and everyday needs were ignored."
Vasilyeva decided to appeal to the courts with the help of the LGBTQ rights group "Vykhod" (Exit), which offers women legal support. "Max said that this was a unique case, and I was interested in the opportunity to influence something meaningful," Vasilyeva says, recalling the advice of Vykhod lawyer Maxim Olenichev, who represented her in court. "He said that [winning the trial] was a big deal."
At first, both district and city courts rejected Vasilyeva's lawsuit, but at the end of 2018 the Presidium of the City Court sent her case for review. Vasilyeva underwent a medical examination, which demonstrated that her health met the job requirements. The defense managed to prove that the list of professions women in Russia are banned from holding only applies to the protection of maternal health; to childbearing and caring for a newborn child. On April 9, 2019, a court recognized Vasilyeva's dismissal as unlawful and ordered her employer to pay her 1.85 million rubles in compensation for forced absenteeism (approximately $26,500), as well as 10,000 rubles in moral damages (approximately $144). On June 16, 2020, the St. Petersburg City Court denied her former employer's appeal, effectively ending all court proceedings.
Vasilyeva has complaints about how her case has been covered in the media: the amount of money she won in court often appears in the headlines. But she says this "isn't a story about money" for her: "The court's decision is important for me, first and foremost in the context of women's rights, without the prefix 'transgender,'" she explains. According to Vasilyeva, she never encountered discrimination while in a male social role, but after her transition she immediately had this experience: "It turns out you can't work where you want, simply because you are a woman. It seems to me that it's important for anyone to have the possibility to work wherever they want."
Vasilyeva is not the only woman who has fought back against the list of occupations off-limits to women in Russia. The story of Samara native Svetlana Medvedeva is well-known: she was rejected from a job working at the helm of a small boat, despite being a trained navigation officer. Her case made it all the way to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. Thanks to the work of activists, Russia's Labor Ministry revised the list in 2019: now, instead of 456 professions, it lists 100 types of jobs banned for women in Russia (the new document will come into force in January 2021).
That said, activists are demanding that the list be withdrawn in full, since its existence reflects the incontrovertible protection of maternal health, despite the fact that not all women plan to have children. "The motivation for the need to protect maternal health over a woman's choice of profession underscores that for the state, a woman is first and foremost a reproductive system, and not a person with her own ambitions and professional interests," Ksenia Mikhaylichenko, a lawyer who has repeatedly represented women in court for cases involving discrimination, wrote in a column for Forbes. In addition, some of the "harmful" professions can also affect the reproductive health of men, but the state doesn't take this into account, underscored Elena Varshavskaya, a professor in the Human Resources Management Faculty at the Higher School of Economics, in an interview with Business FM.
Anastasia Vasilyeva has since transferred to a new work place, where she didn't tell anyone her story for fear of facing transphobia. This is the same reason that Vasilyeva has made comments to the press under a pseudonym ever since her case began. However, her real name and other personal information have leaked to the media nonetheless. According to Vasilyeva, journalists from the newspaper Izvestia got a hold of her real name, some documents, and her address. "They laid siege near [my] house, knocking on the neighbors [doors]," Vasilyeva recalls. In addition, the publication Mash released materials about her, revealing Vasilyeva's real name, and publishing photos from her personal Facebook page.
Because of these incidents, Vasilyeva is "uncomfortable and partially afraid" — she fears for the safety of her daughter. Anastasia Vasilyeva lives with her wife of 20 years and their child.
Read more about Anastasia Vasilyeva's story
'My leaving doesn't mean they won' A transgender woman in St. Petersburg describes how she was fired after coming out because women are barred from her profession
Story by Ani Oganesyan
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EU warns London over undermining Brexit agreement
The UK's prime minister Boris Johnson (right) has set 15 October as the cut-off date to reach a post-Brexit trade agreement (Photo: European Commission)
By Elena Sánchez Nicolás
Brussels, 8. Sep 2020, 07:03
The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, warned on Monday (7 September) that the UK is legally obliged to respect the Brexit withdrawal agreement - after a new British piece of legislation was reported to undermine the already-agreed divorce pact.
Reports, first in the Financial Times, suggested that the new internal market bill could "override" the legal force of the withdrawal agreement in issues relating to Northern Ireland and state aid provisions.
But the British government responded that it would only mean "minor clarifications in extremely specific areas".
"I trust the British government to implement the Withdrawal Agreement, an obligation under international law and a prerequisite for any future partnership," von der Leyen tweeted on Monday.
"Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland is essential to protect peace and stability on the island and integrity of the single market," she added.
In London, a government spokesperson said that the UK was still committed to implementing the withdrawal agreement and the Northern Irish Protocol - which prevents a hard land border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, ensuring the well-functioning of the EU's single market.
"We are taking limited and reasonable steps to clarify specific elements of the Northern Ireland protocol in domestic law to remove any ambiguity and to ensure the government is always able to deliver on its commitments to the people of Northern Ireland," he said.
Despite having formally left the bloc last January, the UK remains in the so-called transition period until the end of 2020, as both parts try to secure a post-Brexit trade agreement with no tariffs and quotas.
However, the UK's prime minister Boris Johnson on Monday set 15 October as the cut-off date to reach a post-Brexit trade agreement, saying that there is no sense in thinking about timelines beyond this date.
"If we can't agree by then, then I do not see that there will be a free trade agreement between us," he said, according to a statement released by its office.
Ahead of the eight-round of negations, which begins on Tuesday in London, the European Union's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier expressed his concerns about the upcoming talks - which have been mainly focussed on clashes over state-aid rules and fishing quotas.
"I remain worried," Barnier told French radio on Monday, adding that "the British would like the best of both worlds - export their products to the European market on their terms".
'Backmail'
Meanwhile, the European Parliament's trade committee chief, MEP Bernd Lange, said that he was "shocked" by the way UK counterparts are negotiating.
"I haven't seen anything like it in decades. We will not allow ourselves to be blackmailed. We stick to agreements," he said in a statement.
"What madness to believe today that one can achieve actual sovereignty in complete independence. The British illusion of sovereignty will lead to the greatest loss of sovereignty in British history," he added.
For his part, the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, referred to the issue as an ongoing battle to defend the EU's interests.
"We might be losing the UK, but we won't lose our stiff upper lip," he said.
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5. Jun 2020, 17:16
"No significant progress" has been made on the latest round of talks between the UK and EU on how their relationship should look from January, according to Michel Barnier. The EU told UK to stick to its prior commitments.
The UK is scrambling to prevent migrant boat crossings but is facing legal obstacles in a move that seeks to offshore the issue onto France.
Post-Brexit talks between the UK and EU enter a crucial phase this week - the last round before a legal deadline expires on extending a transition period.
Britain's US trade deal is in jeopardy if the UK endangers Northern Ireland peace over Brexit, US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has said.
15. Oct 2020, 07:04
EU leaders, gathering in person in Brussels despite increasing Covid-19 fears, will urge London to make a move in the tortuous negotiations on a post-Brexit trade deal. They will also talks about climate, Covid and the budget.
London was irked by the conclusion of the EU summit last week, which demanded that the UK moved on key hurdles on the substance of the negotiations - such as fair completion and fisheries.
EU prepares to ratify post-Brexit trade deal
EU ambassadors of the 27 member states are meeting on Monday to provisionally apply the agreement, while top MEPs also discuss the way ahead for parliamentary approval.
EU tells UK to decide on Brexit as deal 'within reach'
The three key sticking points in negotiations remain: fair competition, access to each others fishing waters, and the rules that will govern the future relations deal.


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Between rides on the Millennium Falcon, an opportunity to build your own droid or lightsaber and a chance to drink blue milk from a Tatooine cantina, the new "Star Wars" theme park Galaxy's Edge coming to Disneyland and Disney World is aiming to be one of the most interactive Star Wars experiences around.
Several fan sites got the first look to tour the park, which is opening this summer in Disneyland in Anaheim and this fall in Disney World in Orlando.
The highlight of the park seems to be the Millennium Falcon: Smuggler's Run ride, in which visitors get to ride inside Han Solo's iconic ship. iO9 says that fans are greeted and get to tour around a life-size Millennium Falcon as they wait in line for the ride. They describe it as more than 100 feet long and 25 feet high, and decorated down to the finest detail and blaster burn.
EW says visitors are assigned the role of either a pilot, gunner or flight engineer aboard the Falcon and must interact with a video mission that will jolt or rock the cabin depending on what actions you take. They also describe being able to wander the corridors of the Falcon while you wait for your assigned flight group and being able to scan displays that will reveal story details and twists using a Disney Play app.
There's also the Rise of the Resistance ride, which features performances by Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, John Boyega and Oscar Isaac in another interactive experience. Read more about it via Nerdist.
Another cool aspect of the park that should remind visitors of the customizable and interactive wands at Universal's Wizarding World of Harry Potter is an opportunity to build your own lightsaber and droids. Laughing Planet says the blades start at $49.99 and a customizable, finished hilt will cost $109.00. The droids too are customizable, with visitors picking parts off a conveyor belt to build either an R-series or BB-series type droid. Or you can purchase one of the pre-made, familiar droids that are recognizable from the films. Like the wands in the Harry Potter world, these can interact with specific items and kiosks in the park.
And what trip wouldn't be complete without the blue milk (or green, if you prefer)? According to EW, at Oga's Cantina, you can get a non-dairy, frozen, milkshake-style beverage similar to the strange substance Luke Skywalker drinks in the original "Star Wars." It was also previously reported that Galaxy's Edge would serve alcohol at the park, and the cantina serves Star Wars-themed variations on a Bloody Mary, fuzzy navel and Cosmopolitan.


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Philanthropy and the State / Philanthropy in Sweden
A new social contract: Reconciling the welfare state and societal change through philanthropy
Posted on April 5, 2018 by HistPhil	Leave a comment
Editors' Note: HistPhil's forum on philanthropy in Sweden closes with a contribution from Johanna Palmberg and Pontus Braunerhjelm. The two authors describe shifting intellectual currents in Sweden (and Europe more broadly) which are making it increasingly favorable for philanthropy and conclude by suggesting ways for philanthropic giving to play an increasingly greater role in European societies such as Sweden.
Whereas welfare and capitalism are well-defined concepts with which most people can associate an image and purpose in society, philanthropy is more elusive. In this discussion, we define philanthropy as the art of putting wealth to work for the common good, or rather, the art of relocating private wealth into productive use in society.
Large parts of Continental Europe, specifically Nordic countries such as Sweden, are characterized by an egalitarian tradition where extensive and universal tax-funded welfare systems are an essential part of the societal contract between those in power and the public. Anglo-Saxon countries and particularly the U.S., on the other hand, are characterized by considerably smaller welfare regimes. Steeped in their political traditions, both Swedes and Americans have long tended to view their societies as quintessential models of democracies. For example, Swedish Social Democrats equate a robust welfare state with an egalitarian democracy, whereas leading Americans argue that a robust civil society—private actors providing for fellow citizens—strengthens democracy. Earlier contributors to HistPhil such as Olivier Zunz and Emma Saunders-Hastings note that Alexis de Tocqueville's observations of U.S. life in Democracy in America (1835, 1840) reflect this US perspective.
However, the differences between these varying models of democratic societies are narrowing. In this piece, we offer an overview of the shifting intellectual currents making it favorable for philanthropy in Sweden. We also present and respond to Swedes' (and more broadly, Europeans') key criticisms of philanthropy. The discussion ends with recommendations for a successful model of philanthropy in Sweden and throughout Europe.
Over the last 15 years, European welfare societies have witnessed an increased interest in philanthropy as a complement to public financing. For example, according to interviews with Swedish bank representatives there has been a continuous increase in the number of philanthropic foundations since the millennium shift. This upward trend has been facilitated and propelled by public policy reforms that have facilitated donations but also extended the scope of foundations' work to reach beyond research funding and to include cultural, social and religious causes.
Moreover, in a global economy characterized by increasing mobility of individuals, capital, and investments, the role of philanthropy is expected to increase. We identify four main explanations. First, over recent decades most European countries have experienced increasing private wealth accumulation. For example, in Sweden the numbers of billionaires (in Swedish krona) has increased from 35 to 184 over the last twenty years (Veckans Affärer, 2017). Second, the globalization process has generated an international tax environment that enables wealthy individuals to more freely locate their tax base. Holding companies may be registered and active in countries with low or zero capital taxes, and European Union (EU) citizens may choose their residence much more freely as compared to the situation before the EU was founded. Third, influences from the US, with many strong and successful role models such as the signatories of the Giving Pledge initiative, have created a much more positive view of philanthropy and illustrated how private giving can contribute to a more dynamic and entrepreneurial market economy. Finally, the European welfare state has gradually been challenged, and to some extent dismantled due to increasing demand for societal benefits, an elderly population and escalating migration.
Put differently, increasing private wealth accumulation in a global tax environment has generated financial capital available for philanthropy and, at the same time, a more positive view of private initiatives has emerged which also has influenced philanthropy positively in the traditional welfare states.
Notwithstanding an increasingly positive attitude toward philanthropy in European countries such as Sweden, some citizens still resist and question the value of private giving for several reasons. For example, some question philanthropy's potential for threatening the general impartiality of wealth redistribution in society. They also worry that, in the process of inviting a greater role for philanthropy, the society might become dependent on private sources. Another objection put forth is that philanthropy can only be expected to have marginal (or no) impact on solving complex societal challenges. However, previous research seems to challenge that view, claiming that donations to scientific research and education have a positive impact on societal change (see for instance Taylor et al., (2014) for a discussion of how philanthropy can contribute to the development of societies). For example, it is argued that the US has earned its top position in fields such as, bio-tech, bio-med, and information, communication and technology (ICT) – sector, due to private donations when research was still in an early stage (Acs and Braunerhjelm, 2005). Another critique of philanthropy is that private donations might be short-sighted and erratic. However, philanthropy should be seen as one source of financing and a complement to public funding, not as a substitute. Its main contribution may well be to provide new solutions to old problems, not only to augment funding: Well into the future, then, government can still be expected to continue serving its role as principal funder for research and public goods in general. For example, philanthropy amounts to about two percent of GDP in the US (Giving USA, 2016).
The understanding that philanthropy can influence countries' economic development has consequently gained wider acceptance in the Nordic countries. Swedish policymakers have extended the range of causes that private foundations can fund; and in Finland and Norway, there have been direct initiatives to match private donation with governmental funding (Braunerhjelm and Palmberg, 2017).
We argue that European countries would benefit from a strengthened philanthropic culture and a greater acceptance of philanthropy. Particularly appealing to a Nordic audience, advocates of philanthropy stress that private giving can help prevent wealth from becoming too concentrated (Acs, 2013). In this sense philanthropy aligns with the values of the traditional welfare state even as capitalism is legitimized: Markets are encouraged to maximize value (a capitalist goal) while some aspects of this generated wealth is distributed to less fortunate individuals and organizations (an egalitarian value shared by welfare states). Several aspects of philanthropy—from modifying the social contract and engaging individuals in complex problems affecting society to contributing with funding of urgent needs—have to be taken into account when considering philanthropy as a catalytic factor for innovations, entrepreneurship, economic development, and the promotion of societal values.
The question is whether European welfare states are ready to accept a societal norm that leaves more room for philanthropy. A first condition is for European politicians, emulating their colleagues in the U.S., to embrace and promote philanthropy. The US Senate state in a Report on Finance (Treasury Department Report on Private Foundations, page 5) already in 1965 that philanthropy is "…..uniquely qualified to initiate thought and action, experiment with new and untried ventures, dissent from prevailing attitudes, and act quickly and flexibly." No similar public statement has been issued in welfare economies such as Sweden. Furthermore, the U.S. government encourages philanthropy through generous tax rules, where donations to charity and philanthropic purposes are deductible. The rationale is not simply to promote monetary transfers to purposes such as culture, charity, education and science, but also because implicit in the American social contract, participation (with both monetary and non-monetary resources) in the civil sector is seen as an important part of a well-functioning society. Thus, both the social norm and the legal structure in the U.S. support philanthropic efforts. Some European countries have taken measures in the opposite direction: For example, Sweden recently abolished a modest tax deduction possibility for gifts by individuals. This illustrates the challenges involved in changing the current social contract in European welfare states to incorporate a U.S. model of philanthropy.
We reason, though, that such a shift can occur if philanthropy in the European (and thus too Swedish context) is shown to benefit the welfare state in two significant ways. First, philanthropists and their advocates should consider supporting educational and research institutions that promote opportunities for the individual, opportunities that also benefit society.
For example, philanthropists and their advocates should take note that the individual donor is invested in increasing the probability of improved standards of living and social mobility including attractive and secure environments. In the process of encouraging such opportunities for the individual, philanthropy will be benefiting the whole of society. After all, society tends to gain from better use of talented citizens, knowledge spill-overs and increased research. It also benefits from the increased opportunities for innovation and business creation sparked by this increased support for individual opportunities.
Second, philanthropy can also serve as an additional mechanism to distribute wealth made in the past and channel it to productive areas that strengthens opportunities for citizens. It can do so by recycling wealth and by re-investing it in common goods. To some extent, that is, philanthropy can mitigate significant income inequalities and thus contribute to a more just and prosperous society: a value that Nordic countries such as Sweden continue to maintain. Combining those insights with the revival in the belief in entrepreneurship and innovations as core factors in the development of advanced knowledge economies provides an excellent opportunity for philanthropists and their advocates in the Nordic countries to extend the social contract to include philanthropy.
-Johanna Palmberg and Pontus Braunerhjelm
Johanna Palmberg is Associate Professor in Economics and Senior Lecturer at Södertörn University, Stockholm. She is also Research Director at Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum. Palmberg earned her Ph. D. in Economica at Jönköping International Business School in 2010. Her research is about entrepreneurship and innovation, family firms and corporate governance, social entrepreneurship, social innovations and philanthropy. Pontus Braunerhjelm earned his Ph. D. at the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland in 1994, followed by an ek.dr. at Jönköping International Business School in 1999. He is a member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) and is currently serving at the boards of IVA, The Royal Swedish Theatre and Limina Solutions AB (chair). His previous positions include The Center for Business and Policy Studies (SNS), The Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Linköping University and Head of Department at Industrial Economics and Management (KTH). Pontus Braunerhjelm has been responsible for several high-level governmental commissions.Altogether he has about 200 published scientific publications. He has participated in a number governmental and international committees and projects.
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Acs, Z., and Braunerhjelm, P., (2005), "The Entrepreneurship-Philanthropy Nexus: Implication for internationalization", Management International Review, 45(3), 111-144.
Braunerhjelm P., and Palmberg, J., (2017), Creating impact through Philanthropy: A Nordic perspective, UBS and the Swedish Entrepreneurship Forum.
Taylor, M., Strom, R., and Renz, D., (2014), Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurs Engagement in Philanthropy: Perspectives, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham UK and Northampton, MA, USA.
Treasury Department Report on Private Foundations, (1965), Committee on Finance United States Senate, U.S. Government Printing Office 42-063 Washington, https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/SPrt101.pdf
Veckans Affärer, (2017), "Hela listan: Sveriges alla miljardärer 2017", https://www.va.se/nyheter/2017/12/12/sveriges-miljardarer-2017/
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Giving USA, (2016), Giving USA Foundation, Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. www.givingusa.org
Saunders-Hastings, Emma, "Is American Philanthropy Really Democratic in the Tocquevillian Sense," HistPhil (July 15, 2015).
Zunz, Olivier, "Alexis de Tocqueville on Associations and Philanthropy," HistPhil (July 13, 2015).
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The Fabulous Royal Wood in Kingston at The Octave Theatre on Friday, Oct. 7th!
Posted on October 2, 2011 by Scully Love Promo
The fabulous ROYAL WOOD who is quickly becoming a fan favourite across Canada, is coming to the Octave Theatre (711 Dalton Ave.) in Kingston on Friday, October 7th at 8:00 pm.
Tickets: $20 in advance and $25 at the door (if available) on sale now at Brian's Record Option (613) 542-2452 and at the Tricolour Outlet Store at Queen's University (John Deutsch Centre).
Royal's career trajectory is building one fan at a time through word of mouth, critical acclaim and impressive musical achievements. He was nominated for Songwriter of the Year at the Junos, named iTunes' Songwriter of the Year, Best Pop Album and Pop single, supported national tours with David Gray and Serena Ryder and landed song placements in TV shows like Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice. With the release of The Waiting, his most inspired record to date, an upcoming national theatre tour and more in the works, now more than ever Royal Wood is an artist on the rise.
Royal Wood's calling card has always been the connection he's cultivated with his fans. With the release of his critically acclaimed Juno Nominated 2010 album, The Waiting, he hit the road, performing concerts in major cities and smaller communities, clocking an incredible amount of time on stage across the country. In anticipation of his next studio album Royal headed out on his Sneak Peek Tour, starting in Winnipeg on September 18th performing new songs, old favourites and some unique covers in smaller venues across the country.
Royal's Sneak Peek Tour
Royal says, "The Sneak Peek Tour will be an intimate way to let my listeners in on the secrets that have been brewing." Each night on the Sneak Peek Tour Royal will be performing songs that are under consideration for his 2012 new album. Fans are encouraged to hit the world wide web (Facebook and Twitter) and give their opinion on what songs they think should make the cut. One would say that this is truly interactive!
The concept of the new tour was inspired by his fans' involvement in choosing songs for the Cover Sessions EP. While on tour last spring Royal decided to record a version of Foster the People's Pumped Up Kicks. After posting it on YouTube it was picked up by blogs and received unanimous praise for his unique recording. The response was so fantastic that he decided to ask his fans what other songs they would like to hear him cover and after hundreds of suggestions he selected 4 additional songs to record. The EP, Cover Sessions, was the result and it will only be available to fans that attend the tour this fall.
During the Sneak Peek Tour concert goers will be given the exclusive opportunity to pre-purchase a copy of the yet to be titled 2012 studio album. The autographed album will be sent a week in advance of the official release. They'll also go home with a copy of Cover Sessions, which will only be available to people that pre-purchase the upcoming album at one of the shows.
Joining Royal Wood on tour will be Montreal born intrinsic rocker Danielle Duval who launches OF THE VALLEY this fall. Produced by Carlin Nicholson and Mike O'Brien of Zeus (Arts & Crafts); delivered by a magnetically gutsy voice, the music is old school, harmony driven pop with an early rock n' roll sensibility.
Singer-songwriter Royal Wood offers a sneak peak to OurKingston.ca