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OWEN CANFIELD; Courant Sports ColumnistTHE HARTFORD COURANT
The Volvo International tennis tournament is over and the funniest guy won.
Andrei Medvedev (emphasis on the second syllable) is entertainment.
During the match. After the match. Golf needs a player like him. Though he didn't learn tennis by banging a tennis ball around with a Coke bottle, he is a tall, long-nosed Lee Trevino with a Ukrainian accent. His mouth seems perpetually turned up at the corners in a grin so broad it shows all of his teeth. He seems to have more than most people.
He's got more talent than most tennis players, too. At 18 going on 19, he could be on his speedy way to the No. 1 ranking in the world. He doesn't think of that, he says, because he doesn't like to put that kind of pressure on himself. Don't bet the house other people, especially those against whom he is matched on the ATP Tour each week, aren't thinking of it.
Medvedev beat Petr Korda in the same way he beat Olivier Delaitre, Tommy Ho, Jonas Svensson and Andre Agassi: He made the shots when he needed them.
Korda, as it turned out, didn't have his usual equipment. He is one of the world's best and a former Volvo champion, but he left his serve back in the hotel room this pleasant Sunday. Medvedev fell back 3-0 in games in the first set, but from the time he picked up his first service ace in the fourth game, he appeared to be in charge. Though the skinny Czech won the next two games, Medvedev had found his rhythm. He dominated the rest of the way.
In his somewhat anguished English, the champion thanked everybody but the tournament bartenders after putting away Korda 7-5, 6-4 and receiving his check for $152,000. Among those who did a great job during the tournament, he observed, were "the ball boys and the linesmens." His coach's little boy, Sasha Dolgopolov, came out to high-five him after Medvedev told the crowd, "I had so many good luck today."
Sasha, he said, is his "body." (Buddy.) "He gives good luck.
He's a confidence-giver."
Later, he said, "Sasha, he's my idol." They get on so well, he explained, "because he's almost the same age with me mentally."
Medvedev had won five times previously, all on clay. This is his first hard court victory and he stopped with the comedy long enough to say it is a significant moment in his career.
The day was perfect for tennis, both watching and playing, and the tournament, always at the mercy of the weather, was able to close out with a sweet taste in the mouths of the 11,347 who paid high prices to sit in the sun and watch. Tournament chairman Jim Westhall said he thinks the Volvo is the finest tournament in North America. Tournament chairmen are supposed to exaggerate, if they know which side their bread is buttered on. Who can say what is better than what? But the Volvo is surely a pleasant way to pass the time when the sun shines.
Early on, the First Company, Governor's Foot Guard Band of Hartford played martial music on closed-off Yale Avenue, then marched up to the tree-lined square greensward between Grandstand Court and Court 3 to serenade incoming ticket holders. Another concert.
They are 13 men and five women resplendent in red, black and tan uniforms. At 12:45, when the Legends of Tennis (Rod Laver, Owen Davidson, Ilie Nastase and Ken Rosewall) had finished a short exhibition, the band lined up around the DecoTurf II surface and played the national anthem. By this time, the Allen Lowe Trio -- with Lowe playing sax, Ray Kaczynski on drums and Jeff Fuller strumming the bass -- was keeping people happy in the Yale Avenue shade.
Watching high-level tennis, if you can swing the heavy prices and the rains don't come, makes for an easy day, particularly when the facilities are new and clean, and the food and drink plentiful. All conditions were met Saturday and Sunday.
It helps if the championship match is close and dramatic, too. Sunday it was kind of close, sort of dramatic, but the best part of it might be anticipation of what is to come. No one can predict what will occur tomorrow, never mind over the next year. But it is not wild speculation to suggest that Andrei Medvedev is not a man to stand in one place or back up.
If you follow tennis, you'll be hearing and reading more and more about him. About his game, his grin, his glibness. Maybe even his basketball.
He loves the game. Likes to play. Big Bulls fan. At 6 foot 4, he can dunk. He has played Korda one-on-one.
"Piece off cake," he said. "Easy. I can do a 380. It's reject, rebound, dunk; reject, rebound, dunk."
He talked a few more minutes, grinning all the way, and then walked off waving offhandedly to the press and saying, "See ya."
We'll see you, too, Andrei. Here next August and, I have absolutely no doubt, at a number of places in between. And probably in the winner's circle


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Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars
Jonathan Unger
January 1, 1970 Issue
To the Editors:
Many of the readers of the New York Review will probably be interested in the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars. The Bulletin is a scholarly/political quarterly published by a one-thousand member committee of Asia specialists who believe that it is essential that professional knowledge be combined with ethical and political concerns.
The Bulletin provides scholarly/political analysis of a kind that is too rarely authored. In the next issue of the Bulletin, for example, Donald Munro studies the Maoist educational strategy; Franz Schurmann examines the American Empire's future in Eastern Asia; Thomas Engelhardt explores America's early China policy; Robert Bellah and Michael Leiserson separately analyze the Japan/U.S./Vietnam triangle; novelist Oda Makoto, chairman of Japan's omnibus peace movement (Beheiren), discusses the U.S.-Japanese Security Pact; Orville Schell examines the McCarthyite persecution of State Department advisors who had been stationed in China during the 40's; and more.
Inquiries and subscriptions should be directed to: Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Rm. 304, 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Mass. 02138. Subscriptions are $4.00 per year. The introductory student rate is $2.00. Imprisonned subscribers receive the Bulletin free-of-charge.
Berkeley, Calif.
—— January 1, 1970 ——
See America First
Ellen Willis
Introducing Andrei Platonov
Alexander W. Astin
Looking for the Ancien Régime
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Camera traps have become a widely used survey tool that is implemented to answer a variety of ecological questions. In all types of camera trap studies, maximizing detection of wildlife is an important concern, and there are many methodological biases that have to be addressed. Past studies suggest many possible problems that may reduce the efficacy of camera trap surveys. Of the many technical and procedural considerations, one particular topic grabbed our attention: how does human scent at camera trap locations impact wildlife detection rates and the number of captures? In our paper "Do available products to mask human scent influence camera trap survey results?" we attempt to answer this question. While many other methodological questions regarding the implementation of camera traps have been addressed by researchers in the past, we offer the first look at how available scent-covering technology impacts camera trap studies. To explore our research question and hypotheses, we conducted a manipulative experiment for approximately 12 months in North Carolina (USA). This involved deploying cameras in two treatments. In one treatment, research scent was masked with commercially available products while servicing camera traps. No attempt was made to mask scent while servicing cameras in the other treatment.
Scent and odors are notoriously difficult to study in a natural setting, and our results reflect the subtle effect scent may have on wildlife. Additionally, our study illuminates complex relationships between wildlife and a human enforced "landscape of fear". In other words, is it possible for human scent to induce a base level of "fear" among animals that perceive human presence as a threat? From the results that we found, it is likely that this fear varies by species and time of year. Nonetheless, we were able to detect a significant treatment response of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) at one of our study sites. For this species, cameras traps that received our "human scent masked" treatment had higher capture rates compared to cameras that were maintained in the "unmasked" treatment.
Maintenance on camera traps involved swapping out memory cards and checking battery life. To minimize confounding of treatments, we followed specific GPS routes to stay far away from cameras in the opposite treatment. Here, we mimic the typical researcher in our scent "unmasked" treatment.
Further research is needed to distinguish between the impact of human scent and the efficacy of scent-covering products. We believe our research is a starting point, and we suggest future avenues of study regarding human scent, scent-covering products, and camera traps. We also discuss how human scent may play a larger role in projects that study species that are highly wary of human presence. Overall, implementing some sort of scent-covering product may be beneficial in ensuring higher detection rates of wildlife.
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Queens got their league campaign off to the best possible start after a comfortable opening day win over newly promoted Brechin City. Even without the influence of the injured Stephen Dobbie, Queens were too strong for the visitors and two goals in each half set up a victory that always looked on the cards once Queens found the breakthrough just short of the half an hour mark.
Following the game against Albion last weekend, we made four changes to the side that started our last BetFred cup group game, as John Rankin,Shaun Rooney, Dan Carmichael, and Connor Murray, replaced Andy Stirling, Callum Tapping, Scott Mercer, and Stephen Dobbie as once again the preferred formation of 4-4-2 was used.
After a rather low key start to the contest, the first main talking point of the game came on the quarter hour mark when Queens `keeper, Alan Martin appeared to be struggling with some form of muscle strain and although he continued for a few more minutes it became clear that on 17 minutes his afternoon was over.
The introduction of local youngster Jack Leighfield - making his full Queens debut - combined with the absence of Stephen Dobbie might have suggested that the home side would be in for a difficult afternoon, but Queens took it all in their stride and aided by some pretty ordinary play - especially in defence - by the visitors,soon began to turn the game their way.
On the left flank Jordan Marshall, and Dan Carmichael were starting to pose a threat and a whipped cross into the box from Carmichael caused some confusion as both defender and `keeper went for the cross, fortunately `keeper Smith got enough on the ball to punch it clear as Brechin re-grouped.
The first corner for Queens arrived on 19 minutes and although Marshall`s floated delivery looked inviting, the pushing and shoving amongst the players was always going to given as a foul against the attacking side.Danny Carmichael started the game looking sharp and his neat touch picked out Lyndon Dykes who in turn was only a fraction away from setting up a shooting chance for John Rankin as the home side`s dominance began to grow.
With pressure building on the visiting defence the best chance of the opening period fell to Derek Lyle who saw a goalbound header from Rankin`s cross blocked away for Queens 2nd corner of the game. The set-piece delivery from Carmichael found Rooney and his powerful header from 8-yards out was kicked onto the bar by a covering defender with `keeper, Smith well beaten and when the ball fell to Dykes he blasted the ball high over the bar.
As an attacking force Brechin were seldom seen in the Queens half and their only noteworthy attempt caused sub `keeper Leighfield no problems as Love drove a shot well wide of the target, and offered good protection by his defenders, the inexperienced `keeper was a virtual spectator for long periods in the half but when he was called into action, he performed well and his next involvement in the game would have been a real boost to his confidence as his confident catch, and then accurate distribution led to us going in front. The `keepers throw to Rooney on the right allowed the full-back to move forward and find Carmichael who then found Marshall as the flowing move switched to the left. Making for the bye-line, Marshall was able to deliver a low cross into the middle of the box that was confidently swept home by Derek Lyle.
The substitute `keeper`s next involvement might have caused him some embarrassment when he let a header back to him from Marshall escape his clutches and drift out for a corner which Queens dealt with comfortably. The goalscorer almost added another after 39 minutes when he got the faintest of flicks to a cross from Carmichael but Smith in the Brechin goal moved smartly enough to keep his header out. That save kept his side in the game, but just 3 minutes later his team fell further behind when we doubled our advantage.Good link up play involving Rooney, Connor Murray and Lyle allowed Rooney to burst forward into the box and when his strong drive was parried out, Derek Lyle was on hand to claim his second goal of the afternoon.
The lead was almost further extended moments later when Dykes showed good strength and determination to break clear down the right and when his cross across the face of goal was blocked into the path of Carmichael at the far post the Queens man couldn`t keep his shot on target and the chance to put the game beyond the visitors had gone.
The second period began with the visitors having their best spell of the game, and possession wise they would have been ahead on the stats, but once again they failed to pose any real threat as an attacking force and eventually as the half progressed, we began to assert control again.
Shaun Rooney had had a comfortable afternoon defending, and his ability to get forward to support the attack was proving to be a major bonus and a quick turn of pace and confident burst forward allowed him to create space for a shot which was deflected away for a corner. The resulting corner kick was well claimed by Smith ahead of the challenge of Rooney, and as the ball was moved quickly down to the other end, a snapshot from Jackson was the closest that the visitors had come to threatening Jack Leighfield`s goal all afternoon.
Just short of the hour mark the hosts made the points safe when they added a third goal. Lyndon Dykes showed good enthusiasm and tenacity to win possession just inside the Brechin half and although he was fouled, the referee allowed the advantage and let the striker continue his run towards the bye-line. Looking up he picked out Lyle at the far post and although the hat-trick seeking striker got his shot on target it was blocked but fortunately for most of the crowd of 1209 the ball fell kindly for Queens as John Rankin was on hand to smash the ball home from close range.
A second switch saw Andy Stirling replace Carmichael after the goal, and the substitute was quickly involved in the game producing a wonderful cross on the run that sadly failed to find a team-mate inside the box. Stirling was once again in the thick of the action when Lyle`s clever ball over the defence picked out his forward run, however his shot was blocked almost as soon as the ball left his foot, and no sooner had that incident occurred, a foul on Stirling by O`Neil saw the first yellow card being issued.
As the game moved into it`s latter stages a neat passing move ended with Dykes laying the ball into the path of Kyle Jacobs, but he was unable to keep the shot on target and drove his low shot well wide.
With 15 minutes left and from out of nowhere Brechin produced the moment of the game as far as they were concerned when a flowing passing move down their left carved Queens open and led to O`Neil finishing well to score a well created consolation goal.
Three minutes later our three goal margin was restored again and the goal came courtesy of yet more error prone football from the visitors. Having given away possession near the halfway line, a poor header backwards did not have the power to reach the `keeper and was seized upon by Lyndon Dykes who under pressure showed good composure to lift the ball over the stranded Smith and open his scoring account for the season.
Young midfielder, Jesse Akubuine was given his Queens debut for the final few minutes after coming on for Jacobs and with no further chances at either end, the game finished the same way as Queens opened their home league campaign last season, comfortable 4-1 winners.
Two goal Derek Lyle was chosen as man-of-the-match on a day when the only real negative was the injury to `keeper, Alan Martin.
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14:48 Brechin City; Smith, McLean, Dyer, Fusco, Love, Graham, Jackson, Layne, O`Neil, Spark, Crighton.
15:00 The teams are out and we`re moments from kick-off.
7 min Queens have had the majority of possession in the opening moments but haven`t been able to trouble the visiting keeper.
12 min Queens continue to attack but can`t put real pressure on the Brechin keeper.
15 min Rooney hits a great delivery from the right but Dykes heads wide.
16 min Martin comes off after pulling up after hitting a goal kick.
20 min Lyle`s header hits the bar but the assistant has his flag up for offside.
22 min Queens turning up the pressure here as the ball goes out for another home corner.
24 min Carmichael`s corner finds Rooney and his header is deflected onto the cross bar. So close.
28 min Marshall`s cross finds Lyle and he buries the ball home from 12-yards.
31 min Carmichael`s crosses to Lyle, who turns with an effort which is turned away by Smith.
37 min Murray`s shot cannons off a defender and out for another corner.
37 min Fordyce`s header is blocked. Still 1-0 Queens.
42 min Rooney`s shot is saved by Smith but Lyle taps home the rebound.
43 min Dykes squares the ball to Carmichael but the winger hooks the ball over.
Half Time A cool double from Derek Lyle gives the Doonhamers a 2-0 lead at the interval.
Half Time Today`s official attendance is 1209.
Half Time The teams are out for the second half.
53 min Rooney wins Queens a corner after his long range shot is deflected out.
59 min Dykes wins the ball off Dyer and his floated cross is hit off a defender by Lyle, which leaves Rankin to tap home.
64 min Rankin`s shot is blocked off the line.
66 min Lyle is denied his hat-trick by Smith.
71 min Jacobs misses from long range.
76 min O`Neil makes sure Love`s effort goes into the net and it`s game back on here. 3-1.
76 min Brownlie heads over the bar from a corner.
79 min Dykes captialises off a short Spark backwards header and dinks Smith to make it 4-1.
85 min Fordyce makes a superb interception on Jackson to deny the hitman a chance to score.
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For those who want to find out more about contemporary kitchen design, up-to-date information from the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Die Moderne Küche e.V. – AMK (the Modern Kitchen working group) is available here.
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Spoiled Rotten | You hear that?!?
Wednesday was a good day. Ridiculously good. In rapid succession, I got to hear three amazing new albums, leaving me feel deliriously lucky and frankly a little spoiled. Like Veruca Salt, only without the tantrums and the dangerous drop down a chute designed for golden eggs.
I tend not to care if I'm the first or last person to hear about something, but the enthusiasm in Vernon's tweet was hard to ignore. I Spotify'd Sylvan Esso's self-titled album without delay and without reading another word about the band. Blind dates like this can be a waste of time, but this one was a resounding success. I've since seen people use the words "delicious" and "yum" for this record, which is a little freaky, because words like "savor" and "rapturous" were some of the first that popped to my mind. There's something sensuous about the way Amelia Meath sings, like she's enjoying saying each word she utters, and while I think emotion and electronics are often falsely pitted against one another, the feeling Meath conveys makes it hard not to consider the relationship between what's human and what's machine, like lightly touching your fingertips to cold stainless steel.
Is that weird? That sounded kind of weird. Whatever — just listen below. I think you'll like it.
Wow. Just… wow. I was expecting to head into tonight's record release show at the Coalition Theater not having heard the above pictured album, aside from a pair of tracks Spacebomb had posted to Soundcloud. But lo, while I was rapturously savoring Sylvan Esso, I saw a Tumblr post from Matthew E. White saying that Grandma Sparrow & His Piddletractor Orchestra was streaming in full at Spin.com. I don't want to say too much, because I have a feeling I'll have plenty to write about after tonight's show, but I will say that it's been ages since I've had so much fun being thoroughly confused. Part of the magic of being young is not knowing things, and this record's colorful impenetrability makes me feel like I'm a kid again, wondering what all the adults are snickering about. It feels (and sounds) mighty good.
Side note: Grandma Sparrow's real name is Joe Westerlund, and one of his other gigs is playing drums in my beloved Megafaun. Guess who else plays in Megafaun? Nick Sanborn — the other half of Sylvan Esso. I found this from an NPR article I read while checking out Grandma Sparrow's album. Serendipity, man.
While I was winding my way through Grandma Sparrow's wacky world, a coworker asked me if I'd heard Ray LaMontagne's new album, Supernova. I hadn't, but I gave it a go after leaving Piddletractor and was wildly impressed. And heartened.
Ray LaMontagne's music taps into an age-old inequality between listeners and musicians: Bad events lead to good art. LaMontagne does an exceptional job of communicating sadness, and the songs of his I've connected with most are the ones he wrote in the wake of his divorce. They're crushing in a cathartic way, but to ask for more songs like the ones on Till the Sun Turns Black would be asking for LaMontagne to keep being sad, which strikes me as wrong. He's recorded sunnier music since, but I haven't heard him express joy as effectively as on Supernova. Songs sound playful, both in terms of mood and structure. It's good to hear, in more ways than one.
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Hi, is there an easy way to read PDFs on a smartphone?
I downloaded Adobe PDF reader and it works fine. Google, through Docs or Drive not sure, also has a built in PDF viewer.
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Welcome to Industrial Districts Management Ltd.
Initially, the management of Balaju and Hetauda Industrial District were undertaken by Nepal Industrial Development Corporation (NIDC) whereas Patan, Dharan, Nepalgunj and Pokhara Industrial Estates were under Department of Industries/ Government of Nepal. Later on as the ID/IEs grew up in number and its activities expanded, the entire management was formally handed over to the then Industrial Services Center (ISC), an undertaking of Government of Nepal in 1975.
Industrial Districts Management Limited (IDM) was established as a separate corporate entity in July 1988. It was entrusted with the overall management and supervision of all IDs plus other tasks such as conducting feasibility studies of IDs in potential areas, materializing new IDs and planning and promotion of industries therein. IDM is wholly an undertaking of Government of Nepal incorporated under the company Act in the form of a Public Limited Company. Its shareholders are Government of Nepal, Ministry of Industry, The Office of Comptroller General and Nepal Industrial Development Corporation. It has an authorized capital of NPRs.150 million and issued capital of NPRs.140 million.


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Over 150 staff from the trust turned out at the event to celebrate their colleague's achievements. The awards were presented to staff by the executive team and chairman Stephen Swords.


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In large, this is a story that has been told before, but never like this, as we get to follow both the Danish and Swedish perspective. A couple of the interviews in the film also give us information that was earlier unknown. Some of those who are interviewed have never before been asked to tell of these events, and the escape over Öresund.
Thousands of people were rescued over the strait between Helsingborg and Elsinore (Helsingør) during World War II. On the Danish side the resistance movement of the Elsinore Sewing Club collaborated with the Swedish police, the customs officials, the fishermen and the coast guards. Most prominent on the Swedish side were the four policemen known as "The Three Musketeers".
The documentary "The Strait Escape" tries to capture the events through conversations and interviews, and digs deep into film archives and historical records. Amongst other interviews, we also meet Grace, whose father, Erling Kjaer, joined the resistance. She tells about his fate and how he saved 1.400 people across the water, but became scarred for life.
We also make the acquaintance of Sören and Karina in Elsinore, experts of the Sewing Club and authors of a book on the same subject, and Stig Püschl who bases his daily research on Snekkersten and tells about the escapes over the strait in the 1940's.
The historian Jens Ulf-Möller is sharing the story of his mother who was a part of the resistance in Lyngby during the war, and later had to flee to Sweden. Further up in Gilleleje we meet Hanna, who fled from Germany to Denmark, and was later forced to flee from Denmark to Sweden.
Amongst them we also find Lennart from Höganäs, Sweden, who tells about his father who organized weapon transports and secret receptions of the people who came to the Swedish harbour. Then we turn to Råå where we find Stina Norling telling of how the fishermen were affected by the German occupation of Denmark. Who helped and how did they do it? We also meet Staffan in Helsingborg, Sweden, who with great knowledge tells what Helsingborg looked like during the war and why it was the Danish fishermen that saved so many people.
And finally, the author Conny Palmkvist, fills in the blanks about Sweden and tries to clarify the course of events. On his way he meets Lena Fält, whose father was one of the Swedish policemen. A moving meeting, that created a ripple effect.
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Beirut: Syria's southwestern Quneitra province includes the Golan Heights, most of which is annexed and occupied by Israel.
Syrian government forces on Thursday raised the flag in the buffer zone separating Syrian-held territory from the Israeli-annexed Golan, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The part of the province to the east of the buffer zone fell almost totally under regime control after a brief military offensive followed by deals under which the rebels surrendered or were evacuated from the region.
Here is some background about the province.
The rocky plateau known as the Golan Heights overlooks Israel's Galilee region and Lake Tiberius to the south and west.
Israel seized 1,200 square kilometres (460 square miles) of the Golan from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War and later annexed it in a move never recognised internationally.
The region is strategically important for Syria because it also controls a key highway from the Jordanian border to the capital Damascus.
After decades of calm, tensions began flaring up in the Golan with the 2011 uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
In March 2013, rebels fighting Assad's forces launched coordinated attacks in the area and began seizing parts of the province.
The following year, rebel fighters and jihadists from Al-Qaeda's Syria affiliate expanded their control, seizing the crossing between the Syrian section of the Golan and the part annexed by Israel.
In September 2014, the Israeli army shot down a Syrian military plane over the Golan in the most serious incident over the Heights since the conflict started.
The area has witnessed fierce fighting between rebels and the regime, with fire occasionally landing in occupied territory and prompting Israeli retaliation.
Israel in particular objects to the presence of regime-allied foreign fighters close to its borders: namely, Iranian forces or units from Lebanese militia Hezbollah.
On January 18, 2015, a raid blamed on Israel killed six members of Hezbollah and an Iranian general close to Quneitra.
On May 10, 2018, Israel carried out dozens of raids against Iranian targets, saying it was responding to Iranian rockets fired at the Israeli-held part of Golan.
On July 24, Israel said it had shot down a Syrian plane that had entered its airspace over Golan, a version denied by Damascus, which said the plane was carrying out operations against jihadists.
A "de-escalation" accord negotiated by Russia, the United States and Jordan saw southern Syria return to relative calm for the past year.
The regime launched an assault on Quneitra on July 15 with heavy bombardment.
Under pressure, the rebels accepted on July 19 to allow regime forces to take over, and began evacuating the next day.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights the regime now holds 90 percent of the Syrian side of the province.


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FERC approves initial NWE 53.8 percent rate increase pending settlement discussions
By Eleanor Guerrero
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On July 9, Carmen Citron, the Chief Administrative Law Judge, for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) which oversees utilities, issued an order stating that a settlement judge must be appointed to assist the parties in Vote Solar, et al, the smaller solar case, in reaching a settlement of issues.
The FERC ruling brings the rate increase question to the settlement stage but found sufficient reasonableness in the amount requested that may or may not be modified by settlement negotiations.
FERC said, "Northwestern states that, in its proposed OATT revisions, NorthWestern proposes an overall increase in its transmission rates from $3.16kW month (53.8 percent) to $4.831 kW month which reflects an increase in NorthWestern's overall cost of service that has occurred since its current stated transmission rates went into effect in 2006."
While utilities argued that NWE benefited from a 14 percent reduction in its corporate tax rate due to the current administration's tax cut, FERC found that instead, it appeared NWE was due an increase. "NorthWestern argues that no revisions to its current transmission rates are necessary because NorthWestern has offsetting increases in other expenses. NorthWestern supported its argument by providing evidence of increased costs which act as an offset to the benefits of the reduced federal corporate income tax rate…NorthWestern's proposed revisions to its OATT are hereby accepted for filing and suspended for a nominal period to become effective as of July 1, 2019, subject to refund, as discussed in the body of this order."
The FERC decision now goes to a settlement hearing between the parties. A judge has recently been appointed as agreed between the parties to oversee the settlement.
In the meantime, there will be an increase in costs to utilities using NWE transmission lines, including Beartooth Electric Cooperative, Inc., (BEC) and of course, NWE members.
Should there be a lower rate agreed to there will be a refund to BEC and NWE customers. It is hoped that this will be the case.
For the immediate future, the increase in costs to BEC will not come from any rate increases to members but only from Capital Credits. There is at least half a million in Capital Credits in the fund currently.
As for those in Carbon County who get their electricity from NWE, their rates will likely increase. According to NWE's website, "The typical bill impact of the proposed interim rates for a residential customer using 750 kilowatt hours per month would be an increase of 2 percent, or about $1.75 per month."
According to Kevin Owens, Beartooth Electric General Manager, he was surprised that the 53.8 percent raise in transmission rates requested by NorthWestern Energy has been approved by FERC.
Owens said, "What is shocking is that FERC approved their full request, subject to refund after a multi-month hearing process. Consequently we'll be paying 53.8% more for transmission service from NWE beginning July 1. This action will not immediately impact rates to members but it will certainly impact margins allocated to members annually."
Owens said, "BEC takes delivery of its power supply through NWE's transmission system at 10 delivery points (substations). Consequently, the proposed increase would impact BEC's transmission delivery budget by approximately $250,000 per year. BEC has intervened with FERC on this matter and will continue to monitor and review the process and work with other impacted parties. BEC's OATT intervener filing is available on BEC's website.
As of July 1, FERC has approved NWE's filing subject to refund after an extended hearing process where NWE will have to defend all objections brought forth by all of the interveners in the case."
Owens said, "I can't see this impacting member rates for the foreseeable future" and noted that the Montana Public Service Commission (PSC) does not have jurisdiction to approve or disapprove FERC rulings.
NWE has also filed a request for a general electric rate review with the PSC, the first such request since 2009. According to its website, "For a typical residential customer, the proposed increase would mean an average monthly bill increase of $6.37 per month, or about 7.4 percent. About 80 percent of NorthWestern's roughly 370,000 Montana customers are residential."
NWE also requested a new class to be charged, those using net metering. It will not apply to existing net meter customers using alternative energy but new ones will be charged if approved.
It further states, "NorthWestern is proposing a more sustainable pricing structure for residential customers who generate some of their own electricity and sell it back to NorthWestern and its customers. This proposal creates a 'demand charge' that better reflects the cost of providing service to future self-generating customers. These costs are currently paid by other customers. The proposal will not affect the roughly 2,000 NorthWestern residential customers who currently generate their own electricity."
The complex rate formula set forth by NWE is also heavily contested by the utilities in the action (which now includes BEC, which recently intervened) as lacking sufficient supporting evidence. One utility complained that this makes the formula difficult to dispute or confirm.
Other NorthWestern issues were recently contested, some of which still exist in the 20th Judicial Circuit case in Cascade County District Court (see this page) regarding contract terms (finalized as acceptable at 25 years), application of a symmetry formula (should not be applied to non-Qualifying Facilities) as well as what avoided carbon costs, avoided energy costs of operating a new resource, and undervaluing the capacity contribution of solar QF solar companies, should be allocated. Check CCN for further updates.


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Private investigators first known agency, Le Bureau de Renseignements Universels pour le commerce et l'Industrie, was founded in 1833 by French soldiers Eugene Francois Vidocq Who was also a criminal and privateer. This private investigator agency hired ex-convicts who carried out investigations and other private detective duties but were frowned upon by the official law enforcement who tried to shut down the operation on many occasions. On one occasion in 1842, after solving a case of embezzlement, Vidocq was arrested by police for suspicion of unlawful imprisonment and taking money on false pretences.
He was sentenced to five years imprisonment and fined 3,000 francs; he was later released by the Court Of Appeals. At the time Vidocq was doubtful of the conviction and felt that he had been set up. Despite his negative past his attributes include introducing record keeping, criminology and ballistics into criminal investigations.
Along with making the first plaster cast of a shoe and he created a form of anthropometry that is still used by the French police force today and through his own printing company, he invented indelible ink and unchangeable bond paper. Through the private detective company that Vidocq set up in France the private investigator industry was born.
Most of the early private investigators acted as police in cases where the client thought that police officers were not interested or prepared to do.
Many of the roles undertaken by these modern private detectives included helping businesses with labour disputes and in many cases they were employed as armed security guards.
Later in 1852,Charles Frederick Field, a private investigator in London, started an enquiry office when he retired from the Metropolitan Police.
Field was a friend of the writer Charles Dickens who would often accompany police officers on their nightly rounds and in 1851 Dickens wrote a short essay "On Duty with Inspector Field" and it is suggested that he based his "Bleak House" character Inspector Bucket on Field.
Over the pond in the United States, Allan Pinkerton set up the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in 1850 and became famous when he uncovered and hindered an assassination attempt on the then President-elect Abraham Lincoln in 1861. Services provided by Pinkerton National Detective Agency included undercover investigations, crime detection and supplying security guards who were often armed. Among the many private investigators that formed the workforce of Pinkerton National Detective Agency in 1856 Pinkerton hired the first female private detective in America, Kate Warne.
It is understood that in the United States in the late 19th century during the union unrest Pinkerton private detectives were made available for hire as armed security guards for companies to protect them. After the Homestead Riots of 1892 several states brought in "Anti Pinkerton" laws restricting the use of imported security guards during union strikes. The federal Anti Pinkerton Act of 1893 prohibits an "individual employed by the Pinkerton Detective Agency or similar organisation" from being employed. Pinkerton agents were hired to track down outlaws like Jesse James, the Reno brothers, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
The term "Private Eye" comes from the Pinkerton logo of an eye adorned with the words "We Never Sleep".
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A man alone on a sailboat deep in the Indian Ocean (Robert Redford) is beset by a series of disasters, beginning with a collision with a derelict cargo container—and getting worse from there. Redford is the entire cast, and we don't even know his character's name (he's identified in the credits only as "Our Man"). With no one to talk to, he speaks hardly a word, facing each crisis with a preternatural calm, sinking almost imperceptibly into despair. It's a one-man show, all right, but the one man isn't Redford, it's writer-director J.C. Chandor (Margin Call), who turns in a virtuoso performance in both areas. Comparison with Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity is unavoidable, and it's high praise that Chandor's movie holds up under it—it's not as tense as Gravity, but just as suspenseful, and almost as exhilarating.
Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux give arty soft-core sex new life.
This cinematic take on the sci-fi classic is schlocky and unrealized.
Even Naomi Watts' skilled acting can't save this tacky biopic about the late princess.
Adam Scott stars in this highly polished comic gem about adult children of divorce.
Director Steve McQueen and writer John Ridley tell the pre-Civil War true story of a man kidnapped into slavery.


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SysTools Google Drive Migrator Review- With All Features!
There are some situations in which a user thinks of migrating Google Drives data from one domain to another domain. It can be due to any reason such as users want to switch all its data to some other domain or its can be due to storage issue also. Like this there can be many other possible reason also for migration. But, when a user needs to perform this migration in a seamless and reliable manner, no solution is the perfect one. Thus, users look for some professional solution for the same. Google Drive Migration tool is one of the popularly used application for the same purpose. It let users transfer files from G Drive to another account in no time. Apart from this, there are many more features also offered by the tool. As users keep on searching for the tool so, a complete review of SysTools Google Drive Migrator tool is covered here. This will surely help users in deciding regarding the tool.
It is developed with the motive to let users move G Drive to another Google Drive. It transfer all data items like Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, etc., very easily without any hassle. It is one of the best application that permit users complete drive migration process in a customize way also. This Google Drive Migration tool is capable to export all type of data like videos, images, docs of any format supported by Google Drive. There is no limitation on type of files a user can move from Google Drive to another domain. Apart from all this, a user can run this application on any Windows OS version.
Whenever someone thinks of moving data between the drives, there can be many other demands also of users. For example, selective data migration, trash folder migration. So, let me give you a complete review of features offered by this Google Drive Migrator.
This application provides users option to move data between the drives. During the data transfer process, a user can move all type of data from one G Drive to another. It includes, audio, videos, photos, PDFs, docs, Google Slides, Google Jamboard, Google Sites, etc. In addition, it has a really good speed during G Drive to G Drive migration process.
Every Google Drive has one Shared With Me folder also that stores data shared by someone else. Thus, during G Drive to G Drive migration, a user might requires to move data from this folder also. Using this application, a user can migrate that also from one domain to another in no time. A user just needs to check Migrate Shared Files option, it will create separate folder at the destination location.
Another impressive features offered by SysTools Google Drive Migrator tool is that it let users move trash folder containing deleted items from one account to another. It is an optional feature that one can use according to his or her choice.
With the help of this tool, a user can transfer permissions applied on files & folder from source to destination drive. It is also an optional feature that one can use when he or she wants to move permissions between the drives.
In order to perform selective data migration from one Google Drive to another, the software offers date-based filter. A user needs to specify the date range, the software will transfer only that data from Google Drive to another Google Drive.
Keeping the overall functionality of this SysTools Google Drive Migrator in mind, it can be rated as 4.5 out of 5. This review covers all major highlights of this tool as it fulfills all the requirement of any user and allow to perform even domain to domain migration also via admin account. Highly recommended application for Google Drive to Google Drive migration.


Especially photo's with natural women, without make up, are hard to find. They excist, but there is a lack of pictures of profound shiny pure beautiful women who shine from the inside out and radiate Love, in all sizes, ages and cultures.. That's also the reason why there aren't enough of those kind of pictures on Wild Woman Sisterhood sites. They are hard to find. Our Power and goal is to connect, awaken and inspire every one, and not to create an image of 'perfect' women, as if a woman is only perfect when she is thin or with make up. Absolutely not! Pure Beauty shines from within. And that beauty we want to present on the images we use.
We are not anti make up/decorating to exemplify our femininity, not al all! We are pointing out that there is a lack of images available that shows us purity and natural looks, without make up and all kind of women.
Unfortunately at this moment, almost all the pictures we find that beholds that certain vibration that we share, are all 'perfect' women. It is not that we see it like this, everyone is perfect and everyone is Pure Beauty in his divine essence. It is our world that has created some kind of 'perfect' image of a woman, and the time is Now! to change this! It is time to show the World that real beauty shines from within.
So we also like to ask photographers to please use more varied kinds of women in your pictures. This world is craving to see women on pictures of all sizes and cultures, without make up and who are shining and radiate Peace, Strenght and Love. Pictures that also show us a a real healthy image of how women look like in reality. All women will shine from within once we have found ourselves and learn how to love our pure and wonderful own perfect Being.
What we are looking for are pictures that vibrate positive energy and we prefer a natural atmosphere with al kinds of women, all sizes, all cultures..
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By "knocking out" every known protein-encoding gene in the human genome and then testing the ability of the gene-modified melanoma cells to respond to T cells, researchers found more than 100 genes that may play a role in facilitating tumor destruction by T cells.
A number of the genes identified in the CRISPR screen as being necessary for tumor cells to respond to T cells were indeed associated with tumor cytolytic activity in patient samples.
One gene, APLNR, has a protein product called the apelin receptor. the apelin receptor protein was nonfunctional in some tumors, indicating that the loss of this protein may limit the response to immunotherapy treatment.
A new study published by Patel et al in Nature identifies genes that are necessary in cancer cells for immunotherapy to work—addressing the problem of why some tumors don't respond to immunotherapy, or respond initially but then stop as tumor cells develop resistance to immunotherapy.
The study, from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), was led by Nicholas Restifo, MD, a senior investigator with NCI's Center for Cancer Research, with coauthors from NCI; Georgetown University; the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University; New York University; and the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Restifo and his colleagues have previously shown that the infusion of large numbers of T cells can trigger complete regression of cancer in patients. They and others have also shown that T cells can directly recognize and kill tumor cells.
However, some tumor cells are resistant to the destruction unleashed by T cells. To investigate the basis for this resistance, the researchers sought to identify the genes in cancer cells that are necessary for them to be killed by T cells.
Working with a melanoma tumor cell line, the researchers used a gene-editing technology called CRISPR to stop the expression of individual genes in cancer cells. By "knocking out" every known protein-encoding gene in the human genome and then testing the ability of the gene-modified melanoma cells to respond to T cells, they found more than 100 genes that may play a role in facilitating tumor destruction by T cells.
Once the team identified these candidate genes, they sought additional evidence that these genes play a role in susceptibility to T cell–mediated killing. To this end, they examined data on cytolytic activity, or a genetic profile that shows cancer cells are responding to T cells, in more than 11,000 patient tumors from The Cancer Genome Atlas. Among genes identified in the CRISPR screen as being necessary for tumor cells to respond to T cells, they found a number that were indeed associated with tumor cytolytic activity in patient samples.
One such gene is called APLNR. The product of this gene is a protein called the apelin receptor. Although it had been suspected to contribute to the development of some cancers, this was the first indication of a role in the response to T cells. Further investigation of tumors from patients resistant to immunotherapies showed that the apelin receptor protein was nonfunctional in some of them, indicating that the loss of this protein may limit the response to immunotherapy treatment.
The researchers wrote that this gene list could serve as a blueprint to study the emergence of tumor resistance to T cell–based cancer therapies. Dr. Restifo noted that if this set of genes is validated in clinical trials, then these data could eventually lead to more effective treatments for patients.


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Funnel cloud spotted in Merced County; second in 2 days in Valley
A funnel cloud appeared in Merced County on Thursday afternoon, the National Weather Service has confirmed.
The cold air funnel cloud is the second to be spotted in the Valley in two days, as the first in a series of storms makes its way through California.
Video of the funnel cloud was shot by Twitter user @hectro805 around 1:30 p.m. near El Nido in Merced County.
A funnel cloud is a rotating funnel-shaped cloud and differs from a tornado because it has not touched down, according to the NWS.
The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for several counties. Click here for the latest weather updates.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story said the funnel cloud was spotted in Hanford. That is incorrect, it was actually spotted in Merced County.
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Beria et les services secrets
Laurenti Beria et les services secrets, au cœur du pouvoir soviétique et de la politique extérieure russe
12 mars 2012, 18h00-20h00
Intervenante : Françoise Thom, maître de conférences à l'université de Paris IV-Sorbonne
Séminaire «De l'URSS à la Russie, les évolutions du renseignement russe au XXe siècle», Metis (saison 9, séance 2), organisé par Olivier Forcade, Philippe Hayez et Sébastien Laurent
Contact: Marie-Laure Dagieu (marie-laure.dagieu@sciences-po.fr)
Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po
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Anticommunisme et guerre psychologique en RFA
Soutenance de thèse – Bernard Ludwig (université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) soutiendra sa thèse d'histoire sur le sujet :
«Anticommunisme et guerre psychologique en République fédérale d'Allemagne et en Europe (1950-1956). Démocratie, diplomaties et réseaux transnationaux»
Le mardi 6 décembre 2011 à 13h30 en Sorbonne (salle Jean-Baptiste Duroselle – Galerie Jean-Baptiste Dumas, 1 Rue Victor Cousin – 75005 Paris)
Jury :
Robert Frank, professeur à l'Université paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, directeur de thèse
Hélène Miard-Delacroix, professeur à l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, rapporteur
Georges-Henri Soutou, professeur émérite à l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, rapporteur
Corine Defrance, chargée de recherche au CNRS
Wolfgang Krieger, professeur à la Philipps-Universität Marburg (Allemagne)
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"Trust, but Verify". Confidence and Distrust from Détente to the End of the Cold War
7-9 November 2011
Scientific project: see the call for papers: http://guerre-froide.hypotheses.org/534
Location: German Historical Institute, Washington, DC
4:00 pm – Welcome at the GHI
4:15-5:30 pm – PANEL 1: The Personal Factor
Chair: Andreas Daum (SUNY, Buffalo)
Patrick Vaughan (Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland): Zbigniew Brzezinski as Mediator between the US, Poland, and Solidarity in the 1980s Soviet-Chinese Dimension
J. Simon Rofe (University of Leicester): Trust between Adversaries and Allies: President George H.W. Bush, Trust and the End of the Cold War
5:30-6:00 pm – Coffee Break
6:00-7:15 pm – Keynote Address
Ute Frevert (Max Planck Institute for Human Development): Emotions in History
7:15-9:00 pm – Reception at the GHI
Location: Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars
9:15-10:30 am – Keynote Address
Deborah Welch Larson (UCLA International Institute): Trust and Mistrust during the Cold War
10:30-11:00 am – Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 am – PANEL 2: Framing Trust: The Blocs at the Negotiation Table
Chair: Reinhild Kreis (University of Augsburg)
Michael Cotey Morgan (US Naval War College): Confidence and Distrust at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in urope (CSCE)
Sarah Snyder (University College London): Reagan, Trust, and Human Rights: The Vienna CSCE Review Meeting, 1986-1989
12:00-2:00 pm – Lunch Break
2:00-3:00 pm – PANEL 3: Inside the Blocs: East and West I
Chair: Sonya Michel (Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC)
Jens Gieseke (Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam): Whom Did East Germans Trust? Popular Opinion on Threats of War, Confrontation and Détente in the GDR, 1968-89
Jens Boysen (GHI Warsaw): "Brothers in Arms", but not really: East Germany and People's Poland between Mutual Dependency and Mutual Distrust, 1975-1990
3:30-4:30 pm – PANEL 4: Inside the Blocs: East and West II
Chair: Nancy Gallagher (University of Maryland)
Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol (University of Glasgow): Institutionalizing Trust? Regular Summitry (G7s and European Councils) from the Mid-1970s until the Late 1980s
Noel Bonhomme (Université Paris-Sorbonne): Summitry and (Mis)trust: The Case of the G7 Summits, 1975-90
5:00-6:30 pm – PANEL 5: On the sidelines or in the middle? Small and neutral states
Chair: Christian Ostermann (Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC)
Effie G. H. Pedaliu (University of the West of England-Bristol): 'Footnotes' as an Expression of Distrust? The US and the NATO 'Flanks' in the Last Two Decades of the Cold War
Aryo Makko (Stockholm University & Graduate Institute Geneva): A Neutral Trust Regime? Sweden and the Cold War, 1969-1991
Rinna Elina Kullaa (University of Jyväskylä, Finland): Foreign Policy of Neutralism as a Trust Building Mechanism: Finland, the Soviet Union and the United States, 1961-1975
9:00-10:30 am – PANEL 6: Implementation and Verification
Chair: Jeffrey Herf (University of Maryland)
Arvid Schors (University of Freiburg, Germany): The History of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), 1969-1979
Laura Considine, Nicholas Wheeler (Aberystwyth University): Trust and Verification, 1985-1991
Joseph P. Harahan (U.S. Department of Defense): Building Confidence and Trust between the United States and the Soviet Union: Implementing the INF Treaty, 1988 -1991
11:00-12:00 am – Concluding Discussion
Chair: Martin Klimke (GHI, Washington, DC)
Conveners: Martin Klimke (German Historical Institute, Washington, DC); Reinhild Kreis (History Department, University of Augsburg); Sonya Michel (United States Studies, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC); Christian Ostermann (Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC
For more information, please contact Dr. Martin Klimke (klimke@ghi-dc.org)
Publié le 24 octobre 2011 24 octobre 2011 Catégories Colloques et séminairesMots-clés Nucléaire, Services secrets, Société(s)Laisser un commentaire sur "Trust, but Verify". Confidence and Distrust from Détente to the End of the Cold War
Intelligence Services in Central Europe during the Cold War
Deadline for registration: 31 October 2011
During the Cold War, eastern and western secret services collided in Central Europe. Especially Austria was – above all as a result of its four-power occupation until 1955 – a hub for international espionage. It became a stamping ground for the secret and intelligence services of the Cold War protagonists, but also for services from neighbouring countries. Information on the other side was collected here, agents recruited and hostile activities exposed. The direct and indirect procurement of information quickly gained in strategic and political importance. Some Austrians, but also Hungarian emigrants, who had been recruited by, for example, the American military counterintelligence service CIC, were brought before Soviet military tribunals and received draconian sentences, even including death by shooting.
In the framework of this international conference, historians from Austria, Hungary, Denmark, Italy and the Czech Republic analyse the role and function of the intelligence services in Central Europe during the Cold War. Particular focus is placed here on Austria and the neighbouring states of Hungary and Czechoslovakia as well as on cooperation between Hungarian and Romanian state security services. Finally, the question will be pursued as to how agents and spies were recruited, and which consequences economic and scientific espionage had.
9.00 – Registration
9.15 – Welcome notes
Dir. Dr. Elisabeth Kornfeind, Austrian Cultural Forum Budapest
Doz. Dr. Barbara Stelzl-Marx, L. B. Institute for Research on War Consequences
9.30 – Introduction
Chair: Barbara Stelzl-Marx, L. B. Institute for Research on War Consequences
Thomas Wegener-Friis, University of Southern Denmark: Why European Intelligence Studies?
Siegfried Beer, University of Graz: Anglo-American Intelligence Services as Vanguard in Post-war Austria
10.30-11.00 – Coffee break
11.00-12.30 – Panel I: Hungary-related Intelligence Operations in Austria Chair: Siegfried Beer, University of Graz
Erwin Schmidl, Austrian National Defense Academy, Institute for Strategy and Security Policy: Contemporary History: Hot border in the Cold War: Secret Activities in Austria and Hungary
Magdolna Baráth, Historical Archives of Hungarian State Security: The activity of the Hungarian Intelligence Services on the territory of Austria 1944-1956
László Ritter, Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: The Hungary-related operations of the US Army's Counter Intelligence Corps in Austria 1945-1958
Barbara Stelzl-Marx, L. B. Institute for Research on War Consequences: Shot Dead in Moscow: Hungarian Spies in Austria
12.30-14.00 – Lunch
14.00-15.30 – Panel II: Central European Intelligence Services
Chair: Thomas Wegener-Friis, University of Southern Denmark
Philipp Lesiak, L. B. Institute for Research on War Consequences: Targets and interests of the Czechoslovak Intelligence Services in Austria 1945-1989
Katerina Lozoviukova, L. B. Institute for Research on War Consequences: Czechoslovak agents/couriers crossing the Austrian border: "Weapons" of the Cold War?
Stefano Bottoni, Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences: Hungarian-Romanian state security cooperation and (later, from the early 1960s) conflicts
16.00-18.00 – Panel III: Recruitment and Industrial Espionage
Chair: László Ritter, Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Harald Knoll, L. B. Institute for Research on War Consequences: The Broda Case: Austrian Scientists in the Focus of Foreign Intelligence Servies
Dieter Bacher, L. B. Institute for Research on War Consequences: The Recruitment of Austrian Citizens by Foreign Intelligence Services in Austria 1945-1953
Walter M. Iber, L. B. Institute for Research on War Consequences: Industrial Espionage. Western Powers and Soviet Companies in Austria 1945-1955
Peter Ruggenthaler, L. B. Institute for Research on War Consequences: The Soviet Military Intelligence GRU in Austria during the Occupation Era
Final Discussion
Orsolya Nemeshazi (orsolya.nemeshazi@bmeia.gv.at)
Austrian Cultural Forum Budapest, Benczúr u. 16, 1068 Budapest
Sponsors: Austrian Cultural Forum Budapest; Danish Cultural Institute Budapest; Ludwig Boltzmann-Institut für Kriegsfolgen-Forschung; EUNIC
Venue: Budapest, Hungary, Austrian Cultural Forum Budapest, Benczúr u.
16, 1068 Budapest
Publié le 22 octobre 2011 22 octobre 2011 Catégories Colloques et séminairesMots-clés Europe de l'Est, Services secretsLaisser un commentaire sur Intelligence Services in Central Europe during the Cold War
Guerre froide et espionnage naval
HUCHTHAUSEN, Peter A., SHELDON-DUPLAIX, Alexandre, et BOUDREAULT, Miville, Guerre froide et espionnage naval, Paris, Nouveau Monde éditions, août 2011, 548 p.
Présentation de l'éditeur:
Ignoré par les ouvrages traitant de la guerre froide, l'espionnage naval permit aux deux blocs d'utiliser les océans et les ports pour surveiller et pénétrer le camp adverse.
Nourri par des entretiens avec des protagonistes soviétiques et occidentaux, et par l'exploitation d'archives américaines, britanniques et de publications russes, ce récit fourmille d'anecdotes inédites, parfois terrifiantes. On y apprend qu'un cuirassé soviétique, ex-italien, explosa mystérieusement à Sébastopol en 1955, laissant croire à un sabotage par un prince fasciste, qu'un marin soviétique aurait obtenu d'un général français les plans de frappes de l'OTAN qui décidèrent Khrouchtchev à déployer des missiles à Cuba et qu'une erreur de traduction dans un message intercepté poussa Johnson à engager les États-Unis au Vietnam.
On y découvre qu'un capitaine de corvette soviétique servit d'instructeur au renseignement américain avant de disparaître dans des circonstances qui en faisaient un agent double ou triple, et qu'un officier-marinier de l'US. Navy livra les codes navals américains à Moscou pendant près de quinze ans. On comprend comment le président Reagan autorisa la marine américaine à mener des opérations de guerre psychologique et que l'échouage d'un sous-marin soviétique en Suède, suivi par des intrusions non élucidées retourna l'opinion suédoise en faveur de l'OTAN.
Enfin, cet ouvrage nous montre que des objets sous-marins ou aériens non identifiés conduisirent les États-Unis et l'URSS à édicter des instructions troublantes.
Ancien attaché naval des États-Unis à Belgrade, Bucarest puis Moscou, le capitaine de vaisseau Peter A. Huchthausen (mort en juillet 2008) est l'auteur de trois livres sur la marine soviétique. Alexandre Sheldon-Duplaix, chercheur depuis 1999 au Service historique de la Défense (Vincennes), enseigne à l'école militaire. Il a travaillé au ministère de la Défense de 1987à 1999 et publié trois ouvrages sur les sous-marins et les porte-avions.
Publié le 4 octobre 2011 4 octobre 2011 Catégories Parutions récentesMots-clés Services secretsLaisser un commentaire sur Guerre froide et espionnage naval
Figures du renseignement européen
26 septembre 2011, 18h00-20h00
Séance 1 du séminaire «Figures du renseignement européen – Metis saison 8», organisé par Olivier Forcade, Philippe Hayez et Sébastien Laurent. Pour en savoir plus sur le séminaire : http://chsp.sciences-po.fr/groupe-de-recherche/metis-le-renseignement-et-les-societes-democratiques
Intervenant : Julien Florent (Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV) : «Aux origines d'un renseignement européen, les coopérations françaises en matière de renseignement au début de la guerre froide»
Renseignements : http://chsp.sciences-po.fr/evenement/figures-du-renseignement-europeen-metis-saison-8-seance-1
Lieu : CHSP, 1er étage, 56 rue Jacob, 75006 Paris
Publié le 15 septembre 2011 15 septembre 2011 Catégories Colloques et séminairesMots-clés Services secretsLaisser un commentaire sur Figures du renseignement européen
Intelligence and Politics. Western and Eastern Perspectives
Need to Know: Intelligence and Politics. Western and Eastern Perspectives
One of the side-effects of the collapse of the communist system in Central/Eastern Europe was that hitherto highly classified data on key aspects of intelligence operations in some Warsaw Pact countries became relatively easily accessible. These data concerned such fundamental issues as: the impact of intelligence information on political decisions; international intelligence networks; data circulation and processing; goals, methods, and forms of intelligence work; information sources and intelligence operations; and intelligence as an organization.
The main aim of the conference is to confront the experience of scholars from Central/Eastern Europe, who analyze such materials on a daily basis, with research methodologies developed in Western Europe and the United States.
The conference will focus on modern intelligence from the World War II to the War on Terror, however with a emphasis on the Cold War.
The conference, conceived as an event accompanying the Polish presidency in the European Union, is scheduled to take place at the South Denmark House and the European Parliament in Brussels on 8-9 November 2011. It is co-organized by: Paweł Zalewski, MEP (European People's Party), Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation i Center for Cold War Studies of the University of Southern Denmark.
English will be the language of the conference.
Due to security procedures at the European Parliament, those who wish to participate in the conference as auditors are requested to register (by 30 August 2011) by filling in the attached form (download form) and mailing it back to the organizers. Conference participation is free of charge.
For additional information and registration please contact: anna.piekarska@ipn.gov.pl
9.00-11.30 – Opening Session
Dr Władysław Bułhak (Poland) – New Vision of Intelligence during the Cold War – Eastern Perspective
Prof. Thomas Friis (Denmark) – Why European Intelligence Studies?
Dr Sławomir Łukasiewicz (Poland) – Spies in Brussels. Polish Communists intelligence in the European institutions during the Cold War period
13.30-15.15 – Session II: HUMINT, part 1
Chair – Prof. Andrzej Paczkowski (Poland)
Prof. Idesbald Goddeeris (Belgium) – Belgian and Polish Secret Services during the Cold War
Prof. Mark Kramer (USA) – CIA Assessments of Warsaw Pact Capabilities and Intentions
Dr Helmut Müller-Enbergs (Germany) – How successful was the Stasi really in the West?
Dr Patryk Pleskot (Poland) – DIPLOMAT MEANS SPY. Intelligence activity of Western embassies in Warsaw in the view of the Polish counter-espionage service (1956-1989)
15.30-16.45 – Session III: Terror
Chair – Dr Łukasz Kamiński (Poland)
Przemysław Gasztold-Seń (Poland) – Between Geopolitics and the National Security. Polish Civilian Intelligence and International Terrorism During the Cold War
Prof. Kostadin Grozev (Bulgaria) – Ideology and Pragmatism: NATO v. Warsaw Pact Countries Approaches to Combating International Terrorism in the late Cold War Period (the case of Bulgaria)
Steve Hewitt (United Kingdom) – The Use of Informers by US Domestic Security Agencies and the Controversy Surrounding Them from the Cold War to the War on Terror
9.00-10.40 – Session IV: HUMINT, part 2
Chair – Prof. Erik Kulavig (Denmark)
Dieter Bacher (Austria) – The Recruitment of Austrian Citizens by Foreign Intelligence Services in Austria from 1945 to 1953
Prof. Kimmo Elo (Finland) – A Spider Spinning Its Web: The East German Foreign Intelligence in the Nordic Countries
Kurt Jensen, Don Munton (Canada) – International Intelligence Liaison: Canada and the Central Intelligence Agency in the Early Cold War Years
PhD Matej Medvecky (Slovakia) – Czechoslovak Foreign Intelligence Service and its activities in Great Britain in the first two decades of Cold War
11.00-12.45 – Session V: International Relations
Chair – Prof. Christian Ostermann (USA)
Prof. Jordan Baev (Bulgaria) – The Soviet Bloc Intelligence Information Exchange: Stages, Intensity, Framework, Reliability, and Effectiveness
Dr Douglas Selvage (Germany/USA) – Intelligence-Gathering and Active Measures: The East European Security Services and the CSCE Process, 1977-1983
Prof. Jacek Tebinka (Poland) – Intelligence Dimension in Anglo-Polish Relations 1945-1980/1981
Prof. Jakub Tyszkiewicz (Poland) – The Impact of Analyses prepared by American "Intelligence Community" on U.S. Policy toward Poland in 1956-1970
14.00-15.20 – Session VI: Decision-making, part 1
Chair – Sir Rodric Quentin Braithwaite (United Kingdom)
Prof. Nadia Boyadijeva (Bulgaria) – Intelligence Support of UN Peacekeeping Operations during the Cold War and After
Baptiste Colom-Y-Canals (France) – The Construction of the French Strategic Air Intelligence 1949-1972: Study on the evolution of a decision making tool
Dr Michael Goodman (United Kingdom) – The British Joint Intelligence Committee and the Prediction of International Crises
15.40-17.30 – Session VII: Decision-making, part 2
Chair – Dr Krzysztof Persak (Poland)
Dr Ben de Jong (Netherlands) – The KGB and the CPSU
PhD Valery Katzunov (Bulgaria) – The First Main Directorate of Bulgarian State Security: A Foreign Intelligence Unit or a Bulgarian Communist Party Sub-division
Molly Pucci (USA) – `News From Home': Wartime Intelligence and Post-war Security in Czechoslovakia, 1938-1946
Dr Aleksandar Zivotic (Serbia) – Yugoslav Intelligence and Foreign Policy decision-making during the Cold War
17.30-17.45 – Conclusion
Website: http://ipn.gov.pl/
(L'appel à communications du colloque est paru sur ce carnet de recherches : http://guerre-froide.hypotheses.org/807)
Publié le 6 septembre 2011 6 septembre 2011 Catégories Colloques et séminairesMots-clés Services secretsLaisser un commentaire sur Intelligence and Politics. Western and Eastern Perspectives
Soviet espionage and the Cold War
The Rosenberg case, Soviet Espionage, and the Cold War
PANEL 1, 9:00 AM to 10:45 — Historical Treatment of the Rosenberg Case
Chair: Joseph K. McLaughlin, President, International Epidemiology Institute, and Professor of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Allen M. Hornblum, Former Executive Director, Americans for Democratic Action, and Author, The Invisible Harry Gold
Kathryn S. Olmsted, Professor of History, University of California at Davis
Athan G. Theoharis, Professor of History Emeritus, Marquette University
Steven Usdin, Author, Engineering Communism, and Senior Editor, BioCentury
PANEL 2, 11:00 PM to 12:45 PM — The Rosenberg Case and the Historiography of Soviet Espionage in America
Chair: Max Holland, Editor, Washington Decoded
Bruce Craig, Assistant Professor of History, University of Prince Edward Island
John Earl Haynes, Modern Political Historian, Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress, and Harvey Klehr,Professor of Political Science, Emory University
Ronald Radosh, Adjunct Senior Fellow, The Hudson Institute, and Professor of History Emeritus, CUNY
Ellen Schrecker, Professor of History, Yeshiva University
PANEL 3, 1:45 PM to 3:30 PM — Nuclear Espionage, the Soviet Bomb, and the Cold War
Chair: Alexander Vassiliev, former Soviet foreign intelligence officer
Barton J. Bernstein, Professor of History Emeritus, Stanford University
Michael Gordin, Professor of History, Princeton University
James G. Hershberg, Professor of History, George Washington University
Mark Kramer, Director, Cold War Studies Program, Harvard University
John Prados, Senior Research Fellow, National Security Archive
PANEL 4, 3:45 PM to 5:30 PM — Soviet Espionage and Its Implications for Anti-Communism and Domestic Politics in the United States
Chair: Richard Gid Powers, Professor of History, College of Staten Island
Eric Arnesen, Professor of History, George Washington University
David J. Garrow, Senior Research Fellow, Homerton College, Cambridge University
Jason Roberts, History/Government Instructor, Quincy College
Katherine Sibley, Professor of History, St. Joseph's University
Observer: Sam Roberts, Reporter, The New York Times; and Author, The Brother
Venue: State Room, 7th Floor, Elliott School of International Affairs George Washington University, Washington, DC
The conference is free and open to the public.
Contact: john.earl.haynes@gmail.com
Publié le 11 juin 2011 Catégories Colloques et séminairesMots-clés États-Unis, Services secretsLaisser un commentaire sur Soviet espionage and the Cold War
Diplomacy and Statecraft (22/1, 2011)
Diplomacy & Statecraft, vol. 22, no. 1, hiver 2011
Effie G. H. Pedaliu and John W. Young, "Introduction: Professor Saki R. Dockrill (1952-2009)", p. 1-3
Christopher Baxter, "A Closed Book? British Intelligence and East Asia, 1945-1950", p. 4-27.
Wolfgang Krieger, "German-American Intelligence Relations, 1945-1956: New Evidence on the Origins of the BND", p. 28-43.
Geoffrey Warner, "Anglo-American Relations and the Cold War in 1950", p. 44-60.
Günter Bischof, "United States Responses to the Soviet Suppression of Rebellions in the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia", p. 61-80.
John W. Young, "Ambassador David Bruce and 'LBJ's War': Vietnam Viewed from London, 1963-1968", p. 81-100.
Effie G. H. Pedaliu, "'A Discordant Note': NATO and the Greek Junta, 1967-1974", p. 101-120.
Thomas A. Schwartz, "Henry Kissinger: Realism, Domestic Politics, and the Struggle Against Exceptionalism in American Foreign Policy", p. 121-141.
Geraint Hughes, "The Cold War and Counter-Insurgency", p. 142-163.
G. R. Berridge (2009). British Diplomacy in Turkey, 1583 to the Present. A Study in the Evolution of the Resident Embassy (p. 164-166, par Saul Kelly).
K. Robbins, and J. Fisher (Eds.) (2010). Religion and Diplomacy: Religion and British Foreign Policy, 1815 to 1941 (p. 167-169, par Peter J. Beck).
Y. Alon, (2009). The Making of Jordan: Tribes, Colonialism and the Modern State (p. 170-171, par Nigel Ashton).
W. Borodziej, S. Debski, (Eds.), Polish Documents on Foreign Policy, 24 October 1938-30 September 1939 (p. 172-174, par Anna M. Cienciala).
R. Wigg (2008). Churchill and Spain. The Survival of the Franco Regime, 1940-1945 (p. 175-177, par Tim Rees).
Publié le 18 mars 2011 18 mars 2011 Catégories Parutions récentesMots-clés Diplomatie, Services secretsLaisser un commentaire sur Diplomacy and Statecraft (22/1, 2011)
Intelligence and Politics: Western and Eastern Perspectives
"Need to Know: Intelligence and Politics: Western and Eastern Perspectives"
Date: 8-9 novembre 2011, Bruxelles
Date limite de réponse : 15 mai 2011
The conference will focus on modern intelligence from the World War II to the War on Terror, however with a emphasis on the Cold War. We do not, however, wish to limit ourselves by this time frame, for we are more concerned with a series of issues worth considering within a comparative framework. We are also mindful of the fact that in the recently announced Stockholm Program the European Union asserted a stronger role in the field at stake (most notably the exchange of intelligence information).
The list of issues we consider worth raising includes (but is not limited to):
New sources/new possibilities/advanced analytical methods in intelligence research.
The place of intelligence within the political system.
Mechanism of state control over intelligence services.
The significance of intelligence-gathering in East-West relations during the Cold War,
The role of intelligence data in decision-making in international politics.
Information processing in intelligence circles and the impact of specific modes of processing on the quality of intelligence information.
Strengths and weaknesses of intelligence information sources (human, technical, and open), particularly human sources (HUMINT).
The worldview of intelligence officers, its sources (esprit de corps, education, origins, gender) and its influence on the quality of intelligence information.
Academic research at the service of intelligence-gathering – intelligence at the service of science and technology (ethics, psychology, mathematics, and technical sciences).
Case studies of intelligence operations that offer valid lessons for European security (e.g. with respect to such issues as terrorism, immigration and migration, national and religious minority communities, economic, scientific, and technological espionage, disinformation, secret operations, etc.).
Anna Piekarska
Institute of National Remembrance
Public Education Office
ul. Towarowa 28
Email: anna.piekarska@ipn.gov.pl
Place: Brussels, Belgium (The South Denmark House and the European Parliament)
Organizers: Pawel Zalewski, MEP (European People's Party), Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation, Center for Cold War Studies of the University of Southern Denmark, and the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Further details and registration forms available at: http://www.ipn.gov.pl/conference2011brussels
Publié le 2 mars 2011 2 mars 2011 Catégories Appels à communicationMots-clés Services secretsLaisser un commentaire sur Intelligence and Politics: Western and Eastern Perspectives


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MHI Seminar Series presents Boa Kim, Ph.D. Research Associate, Cardiovascular Institute/Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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Summary of Seminar: Endothelial cells (ECs), which comprise the innermost wall of all blood vessels, are involved in a broad range of metabolic and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) that represent a global challenge with high morbidity. Dr. Kim's long-term research goal is to understand EC metabolism and find ways that improve endothelial function to prevent and cure CVDs. There remains an extremely limited understanding of endothelial lipid metabolism, despite its potential impact on CVD and systemic metabolism. In particular, lipid droplet (LD) metabolism in the endothelium itself and/or its contribution to systemic metabolism and health are largely unknown. For the next five years, using strong preliminary data, solid fundamental knowledge, and her extensive experience in the field, Dr. Kim's lab will elucidate largely unknown endothelial LD biology in the development of CVDs.
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We reached Trader Sam's at about 4:05 and they were already at maximum capacity. So we were given a pager and went outside to the Tiki Terrace to wait.
It looks like we photographed our drinks before we stirred them up. Once given a good stir with our straws, these were both very good and did the job of quenching our thirst. Both were given a rating of 5.
Finally at around 5:00 our pager went off and we were allowed to enter the Grotto bar inside.
Our dinner reservation at Kona Cafe was at 5:30 so we quickly placed our drink order once we found a table next to a "window" with a view of the volcano.
So our drinks were not cheap, but Allison really liked hers (rated it a 5) and loves the cup that she got to take home. My drink was a little too strong though for my taste, and since we had so little time before our ADR I had to drink it quickly instead of sipping it slowly. Consequently, the Tiki Rum drink with a little too much "tiki" only received a rating of 3 for me.
But overall our first experience at Trader Sam's Grotto and Tiki Terrace was a good one. I just wish we had had more time to savor those expensive drinks and experience more of the fun atmosphere and special effects.