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East Germany's First Super Star Ingrid Engel-Krämer Part 2: The Pride of East Germany (and West)
Ingrid Engel Kraemer Rome 1960 Getty
I remember walking the streets of Dresden in then East Germany in 1985, noting how modern the city looked and felt compared to my previous destination of Prague. And yet, I was constantly reminded of the terrible toll World War II had on this city, as I strolled by buildings in elegant decay, reduced to skeletons by the incessant firebombing by the Allies some 40 years before.
One of the greatest female divers of the 20th century, Ingrid Engel-Krämer, was a little less than two years old when the sky rained fire on her home town.
When the 1960 Rome Olympics rolled around, East Germany was still in a tremulous existential state. Born of the ideological split between Allies at the end of the Second World War, the Potsdam Agreement dictated a "provisional border" that would separate Germany into East and West, the former to become The German Democratic Republic (GDR), and the latter the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG).
And yet, in 1960, tensions between the two Germanys, and their proxies in the global cold war battle, the Soviet Union and the United States, were still high. Author of the book, Rome 1960, David Maraniss quoted a US National Security Agency report stating that East Germany was "teetering on the brink of stability", meaning that the possibility of East German government collapsing was diminishing rapidly. Of course, a year later, a wall was constructed on the East Berlin side, symbolizing in a very real way that East Germany was here to stay, making Germany, by default, the epicenter of Cold War hostility.
During the Rome Olympics, the GDR government declared that West German citizens would not be allowed to enter East Germany – this while over a 100,000 East Germans snuck through the border into West Germany. This ban was a reaction to an event in West Germany celebrating the return of World War II German POWs and their relatives. East Germany viewed this event as a celebration of Germany's fascist past.
Ingrid Engel Kraemer carries German flag at Rome Olympics closing ceremony
It was under this geo-political cloud that athletes around the world gathered in Rome for the 1960 Olympics. The condition by the International Olympic Committee for German athletes to compete was that they had to do so as a unified team, which meant competing under a specially created German Olympic flag. East and West German athletes on the whole got along as teammates on the field and in the Village. But, as Maraniss wrote, the press in each of the two Germanys turned Engel-Krämer's stunning achievements in Rome into a proxy Cold War battle, not because Engel-Krämer, an East German, defeated an American, Paula Jean Myers-Pope, in the 10-meter platform dive, but because both East and West Germany claimed her as their own.
When Kraemer was competing to make the unified team, she felt that the West German press was very "unfriendly" to her; at least one journalist, but her account, cursed her because of politics. But now the West Germans were embracing her as a German first, one of their own. The Western newspapers covered her events with obvious national pride, as though there were no separation between East and West. Accounts in Die Welt and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung raised no questions about the judging and described the final dives in a way that left no doubt that Kraemer had again outperformed her competition. German fans, who dominated the Stadio del Nuoto audience during her events, cheered long and loud for her every effort.
Yet the warmth the West Germans showed Kraemer infuriated the East Germans, who thought the other side was trying to steal her show and diminish the ideological implications of her triumph. Kraemer's victory was no accident, East Germany's Neues Deutschland proclaimed. Rather, she owed her success to her "joyful life in the socialism of the German Democratic Republic." The paper also complained that for all the copy Kraemer in the Western press, it was never mentioned that her father was an official of the SED and that the young diver herself was a member of the socialist mass youth organization.
February 7, 2017 Diving, Geo-politics, Other Olympics, Others, Weight lifting
East Germany's First Super Star Ingrid Engel-Krämer Part 1: The Dresden Doll Who Took Rome by Storm
Paula Jean Myers, Ingrid Kraemer and Elizabeth Ferris in Rome springboard finalists
She started diving off a low board at the age of five, even before she knew how to swim. Starting from the age of eleven, she would join her friends at the Dresden diving club a few times a week and stay there until the early evening. Those were the early days of young Ingrid Engel-Krämer, who would unexpectedly become one of the stars of the 1960 Rome Olympics, winning gold in both the women's 3-meter springboard and 10-meter platform diving competitions.
David Maraniss, in his seminal book Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World, profiled Engel-Krämer, explaining that at the time, Americans were the dominant force in diving. In fact, until Engel-Krämer broke the streaks, women from Team USA had taken both gold and silver in the previous seven summer Olympics in the 10-meter platform, and gold in the previous 8 Olympiads in the 3-meter springboard.
In the springboard, Engel-Krämer was a runaway train, showing off a precision in her technique that she would become renown for. As Maraniss noted in a Die Welt article, she was so far ahead in the springboard that "she could have jumped into the water with only a little grace in the last round, and she would have won the gold medal."
Could this wunderkind repeat in the 10-meter platform? Paula Jean Myers-Pope was confident that she would win back American glory in diving. And while the springboard event was a cakewalk for Engel-Krämer, the platform competition was a gritty end-to-end battle. As Maraniss explained, it came down to the final dives for both.
Enjoying Rome.
Both Engel-Krämer's and Myers-Pope's dives were, as I understand it, similar – a backward flip followed by two-and-a-half somersaults. Myers-Pope apparently hit the water with more splash than Engel-Krämer, who entered the water, as Maraniss describes, with a "quiet snap into the blue pool". Additionally, the judges felt that Engel-Krämer's dive had a higher degree of difficulty, which brought protests from the US. But in the end, Engel-Krämer earned her second gold medal, and not by a small margin.
There was a time when little Ingrid was scared to ascend the tower, fearful of the fall and the pain. In fact, her skin was considered somewhat sensitive to the impact on the water. Her father crafted special vests made of rubber foam to protect her back and stomach. "I wasn't courageous at all," she was quoted as saying. "I had to work hard on it and only bit by bit managed to overcome it." Even in Rome, according to Maraniss, it was the fear of pain that drove her to focus her thoughts on how to dive perfectly to minimize the impact of the water on her skin.
But in Rome in 1960, Engel-Krämer was the blonde sensation, the teenager who broke the American stranglehold on diving, and as the Western press referred to her as, the Dresden Doll.
Could you stare into the abyss from 10 meters above, and leap? This video from the New York Times shows that the average person could not. (Click on the image.)
February 6, 2017 Diving, Geo-politics, Other Olympics
The Political Football of Taiwan: Passed From IOC President Avery Brundage in 1960 to President-elect Trump in 2016
The Republic of China Olympic Team competing at the 1960 Olympics "Under Protest"
On December 2, 2016, Donald Trump took a phone call from the president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen. She was simply offering her congratulations to the American president-elect. And yet, this simple phone call established the possibility of a radically different Sino-American diplomatic relationship.
Wang Dong, an associate professor at the School of International Studies at Peking University, was quoted in The New York Times as saying, "this is a wake-up call for Beijing — we should buckle up for a pretty rocky six months or year in the China-U.S. relationship. There was a sort of delusion based on overly optimistic ideas about Trump. That should stop."
In fact, it was 38 years ago today (December 15) when then President Jimmy Carter officially recognized The People's Republic of China, and Beijing as the sole government of China. A year later, the US cut off ties with Taiwan.
But in the 1950s and the 1960s, neither the People's Republic of China (PRC), nor The Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan were officially recognized by the United States. The International Olympic Committee, however, recognized both. The IOC invited the PRC and the ROC to the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. The ROC withdrew in protest of PRC's Olympic debut. In subsequent Olympics, the ROC decided to participate, so it was the PRC's turn to boycott the Games, which they did until 1980. In 1952, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Avery Brundage, was viewed by the PRC as a puppet of the United States.
Brundage was the president of the IOC in the 1950s and 1960s, and had to deal first hand with the China issue. As the head of the Olympic Movement, and thus symbolic proselytizer of the Olympic Charter, Brundage wanted to "contribute to building a peaceful and better world" by ensuring as many different nations participate in friendly sports competition. In his mind, he needed a logical way to bring both the PRC and the ROC to the Games.
Avery Brundage
To that end, he got the IOC to vote and approve a decision that would force the ROC Olympic Committee to change their name from The Republic of China to either Taiwan or Formosa, which is another name for the island of Taiwan. According to David Maraniss and his seminal book, Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World, Brundage's argument was that the smaller ROC was in effect not able to represent the vast majority of China.
Brundage and the Marquess of Exeter, the strongest Western proponent of the name change within the IOC, said it was a practical decision arrived at free from ideological pressure and without political overtones. The political act came from those who insisted on calling it China when it was not China, they argued. "We cannot recognize a Chinese committee in Taiwan any more than we can recognize an Italian committee in Sicily or a Canadian committee in Newfoundland," Brundage said.
As Brundage quickly found out, the United States government was not keen on the IOC interfering in international diplomacy, and viewed Brundage, to his surprise, as a communist sympathizer. As Maraniss wrote, "the U. S. government, which recognized Chiang's Nationalist China but not Mao's mainland government, viewed this as a major symbolic victory for the communist bloc, and thought Brundage had been naïve and manipulated by the Soviets, who had initiated the proposal."
Brundage was a puzzled man. He believed himself to be a staunch anti-communist. And yet he found his name bandied about in the press as a communist sympathizer, with calls for his resignation from the IOC. But Brundage remained in role. The ROC competed as Formosa at the 1960 Olympics, and Taiwan at the 1964 Olympics.
In 1979, after the United States officially recognized the PRC, the IOC recognized the Chinese Olympic Committee from the PRC, and passed a resolution that the ROC team from Taiwan be designated Chinese Taipei at subsequent Olympics.
So you can understand why Taiwan hasn't felt all that respected in the latter half of the 20th century. And this has continued despite the fact that Taiwan emerged as one of the great Asian economic stories in the past 30 years, and is currently the 22nd largest economy according to the IMF.
So the phone call that was accepted by President-elect Donald Trump was not just a simple courtesy call. For the tiny island nation of Taiwan, aka The Republic of China, it was a gesture of respect and recognition.
You can bet, though, this political football game is far from over.
December 15, 2016 Geo-politics, Other Olympics
The Groundbreaking Wilma Rudolph Part 3: An Enduring Role Model for Women
When you see a champion, there is almost always a role model.
For Olympic champions like Florence Griffith Joyner, Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Evelyn Ashford, the role model is Wilma Rudolph, the first American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympic Games. Crowned the fastest women in the world at the 1960 Rome Olympics, Rudolph easily won the gold in the 100-meter and 200-meter sprints, and anchored the American 4×100 team to victory.
Due to her modest grace and her apparent beauty, as well as a life story of overcoming difficult odds to become the best in the world, Rudolph was in the early 1960s the most famous female athlete in the United States, if not the world.
And while she is well known for helping to integrate her hometown of Clarksville, Tennessee when she insisted on the relaxation of segregation laws during her Clarksville Welcome Home celebrations, she has perhaps had a more lasting impact on the success of women, particularly black women, in sport.
At the banquet in her honor during "Wilma Rudolph Day" on October 4, 1960, she made this statement: "In every effort I have been motivated by one thing: to do justice to those who believe in me and to use my physical talents to the glory of God and the honor of womanhood." David Maraniss, in his book Rome 1960, pointed out that phrase as a symbol of Rudolph's true lasting influence.
…it was the last phrase of her banquet speech – the honor of womanhood – that resonated deepest and longest. She was by no means the first great woman Olympian, but a unique combination of personal and cultural forces – her style and attractiveness, her candor and pride in who she was and where she was from, the leg braces of her childhood, the fact that she flashed onto the scene so brilliantly at the first commercially televised Olympics, her international esteem – made her a powerful symbol of the rise of women in sports. If there were a Mount Rushmore of women athletes, her profile would be one of the four chiseled faces. "For every woman athlete who came after, she was the person who opened the door," Ed Temple said later. "Wilma opened that door, and for all women, not just in track and field. She had that smile. She had that charisma."
Maureen M. Smith wrote the book, Wilma Rudolph: A Biography, and proclaimed, "Wilma Rudolph's story is more than the races she won and world records she established. It is the story of a young woman who overcame tremendous obstacles that should have kept her from ever experiencing athletic success, and yet she is the epitome of triumph."
Here was a woman that women, particularly black women, could look up to with pride, and set as the bar for achievement. When Rudolph passed away in November, 1994, here's what Joyner-Kersee had to say about her idol.
She was someone I could always talk to. She was very inspirational. She was always in my corner. If I had a problem, I could pick up the phone and call her at home. It was like talking to your sister or your mother, someone you knew for a lifetime. I always thought of her as being the greatest, and not only athletically. You respected her as a woman.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee with medals
None other than 1960 Olympics teammate and USA team captain, Rafer Johnson, wrote in his autobiography, The Best That I Can Be, that Rudolph's contribution cannot be overlooked.
One of the most important changes has been the advancement of female athletes. In my day, the public suffered under the assumption that women could not compete in the same sports as men, or had to be protected if they did. I remember women's basketball, for instance, when each team had an offensive and defensive unit so the players did not have to run full court. Most of the male athletes I knew had great respect for their female counterparts; we were not surprised to see the strides women have made since Wilma Rudolph dazzled the world in Rome.
November 30, 2016 Gender, Other Olympics, Pop Culture, Track and FIeld
The Groundbreaking Wilma Rudolph Part 1: Just Get Me the Stick!
Left-right: Wilma Rudolph, Lucinda Williams, Barbara Jones and Martha Hudson at the Rome Olympics
She was by then the Queen of Rome at the 1960 Summer Olympics. American sprinter, Wilma Rudolph, had already won gold in the women's 100- and 200-meter sprints. But her teammates from the famed Tennessee State Tigerbelles had been left out of the medal count. The 4×100 was their chance to join Rudolph in Olympic glory. And Rudolph, as described in David Maraniss' fantastic book, Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World, promised to help them get the gold on one condition:
In the warm-up room before the race, the Tigerbelles huddled and prayed together. "Just get me that stick," Rudolph, who would run the anchor leg, said at the end. "Just get me that stick, and we're going to get on that stand. We're going to win that gold medal!" her teammates could barely contain themselves; no jealousy now, just fire burning inside.
Maraniss went on to tell the story how her teammate, Lucinda Williams, in the third leg was going so fast heading into the exchange with the anchor, Rudolph, that they needed two attempts to get Rudolph the baton, at one point Rudolph needing to stop to grab it. In the fumbled exchange, Maraniss wrote that the team lost about a meter to the competition in that moment. But like a locomotive, Rudolph reached the leaders at about 60 meters, and then blew past them to win gold for the team.
Not only did the Tigerbelles share a momentous team victory, Rudolph's star in Rome and the world went super nova, the first ever American to win three track gold medals in a single Games. When President Kennedy heard that Rudolph was in Washington DC a few months after her return from Rome, he invited Rudolph to the White House and spent so much time talking with her in the Oval Office that he kept his next appointment cooling his heels for thirty minutes.
But as a child, Rudolph, was not the radiant and confident person she was to become. She was born prematurely in 1940, and due to polio, had to deal with a left leg and foot that twisted unnaturally and made it difficult for her to walk. Doctors had her wear braces and special shoes, and she had to be carried from room to room by family members. As one could imagine, to be seen as so different from your family and friends must be so terribly hard on a child. Maraniss wrote:
As Wilma later described her early childhood, she was depressed and lonely at first, especially when she had to watch her brothers and sisters run off to school while she stayed home, burdened with the dead weight of the heavy braces. She felt rejected, she said, and would close her eyes "and just drift into a sinking feeling, going down, down, down." Soon her loneliness turned to anger. She hated the fact that her peers always teased her. She didn't like any of her supposed friends. She wondered whether living just meant being sick all the time, and told herself it had to be more than that, and she started fighting back, determined to beat the illness.
Maraniss went on to describe how Rudolph's condition gradually improved to the point that she was able to secretly remove her braces so she could run around outside with her siblings. And then her parents did something wonderful, presenting Rudolph with a gift so ordinary and yet so life affirming that it transformed the shy, despondent girl into one filled with promise, bursting with energy.
Then one day her father, who did the shopping in the family, came home with regular shoes for Wilma, marking a dramatic change in her life. As Yvonne remembered the scene: "They were no longer the high-top shoes that she had to have with the braces. And my mother took her in to a room all by herself; she didn't even let us know she had these shoes. And they put them on her, and she came out of the room, and she was beaming all over. It was like she was a whole new little girl. And after that it was like she knew she was not different, and it gave her more confidence at that point."
After that, you couldn't stop Rudolph from running. A blur on the basketball courts, she picked up the nickname "Skeeter" because she flitted about so quickly like a mosquito. Her head coach at Tennessee State, Ed Temple, marveled at this determined young woman, but also wasn't sure if she had everything needed to be a champion. Just prior to the 100-meter finals, Temple hid in the tunnels of the Stadio Olimpico, barely able to see Skeeter in lane 3. Rudolph, a notorious slow starter, fell behind. But he also knew that Rudolph, like today's sprinting God, Usain Bolt, finished like a locomotive.
According to Maraniss, Temple had to be told that Rudolph had won easily in a blazing 11 second, what would have been a world record if not for the wind. His reaction? "You're joking." I'm sure it was a remark born out of ambivalence, that moment when one thinks one has a champion, but is not really sure, until proof is presented on a shining platter. That moment, when Rudolph crossed the tape to become the fastest women in the world, marked that rite of passage for champions, when all doubt is erased, expectations and achievements merge, and all is right in the world.
November 27, 2016 Gender, Other Olympics
Ed Temple: In Memory of The Greatest American Coach of Women's Track
Ed Temple with, from left, Carla Mims, Edith McGuire, Vivian Brown and Wyomia Tyus at the women's Olympic track and field tryouts on Randalls Island in New York City in 1964. Credit Ernie Sisto/The New York Times
Ed Temple was a black man who became a track coach for a women's team in Tennessee, who overcame, along with the women on his teams, a severe lack of resources as well as significant racial prejudice in the deep south, to become one of the most historically impactful coaches in American track.
In a career of over 40 years at Tennessee State University, Temple coached 40 Olympians who garnered 13 gold, 6 silver and 4 bronze medals, including the belle of the 1960 Rome Games, Wilma Rudolph, and her successor at the 1964 Tokyo Games, Wyomia Tyus. At the 1960 games, the four members of the American women's 4X100 team that blazed to gold were all members of Temple's Tennessee State University team, affectionately known as the Tigerbelles. On September 22, 2016, Temple passed away at the age of 89.
To be black and female in the southern states in America was a challenge in a good part of the 20th century. Black athletes, whose competitions would take them all over the country, had to deal with long hours in cars hoping to find a place that would serve them food or put them up for the night, thanks to legally or socially enforced segregation along racial lines. David Maraniss, who wrote about Temple in his book, Rome 1960, said this in a Nashville newspaper interview in 2008:
We're talking about the Jim Crow era, a period when the Tigerbelles . . . traveled through the deep South and endured harsh conditions to appear at meets. You look at what he accomplished and the obstacles he faced, and it's simply one of the great triumphs in sports and history.
Cassius Clay and Ed Temple both appeared at the 1960 Rome Olympics
Temple believed that for a black woman to persevere and win in America at that time, they had to be disciplined and smart. Temple's standards were high, so training on the team was painful. The Tigerbelles were locked into practices three times a day, starting at 5 in the morning, resuming at 9:30 am, and then again at 2pm, often times in the searing heat of summer. Tyus, who was crowned fastest woman in the world by winning the 100-meters in both Tokyo in 1964 and in Mexico City in 1968 said that Temple practices were "just brutal. I just thought, 'this man has got to be crazy.'" The Tigerbelles wrote and sang a song that reflected their feelings towards Temple and his practices: "It's So Hard to be a Tigerbelle".
And yet, the Tigerbelles won. But simply winning wasn't enough for Temple. He was not only their coach. He was their father and mentor, one who showed a bit of tough love and expected them to keep up with their studies. Tyus was interviewed in the book, Tales of Gold: An Oral History of the Summer Olympic Games Told by America's Gold Medal Winners, and she wrote about Temple was a father to her.
Coach Temple was an advisor as well as a coach. My father died when I was only 15, so he became a father figure as well. He was very strict, and he was very tough. He used to say, "If we're going to run, let's run. If we're going to be spectators, then let's get up in the stands where we belong." He also insisted that we train the European way, which to him meant "No play; just hard work." When I look back on it, I sometimes wonder how I made it, but I also know that he was very good for us as women. He was always there to lend a helping hand, but if you needed to be reprimanded, he was also very good at that. And academics always came first with him. We had to have a C average to compete, but he always pushed us to do much better than that. His whole philosophy was that we were not going to be athletes all our live, so we had to take advantage of this opportunity to get a college education. We did, and he was always so proud of the fact that of the 40 of us who competed in the Olympics, 38 have college degrees.
Temple insisted that his Tigerbelles be smart, not only intellectually, but also fashionably. There was a school of thought at that time that blacks who wanted to succeed had to hold themselves up to a higher standard of behavior and appearance in order to simply get accepted in broader swathes of society. According to Maraniss in his book Rome 1960, Temple made sure his women looked good.
As the caravan approached its destination, an order would come from the front: "Get your stuff together." This mean rollers off, lipstick on, everything brushed and straightened. The sprinters were a free-spirited group; some chafed at Coach Temple's rules of behavior but grudgingly obliged. "I want foxes, not oxes," he told them. The Tigerbelles had perfected the art of emerging from the least flattering conditions looking as fresh as a gospel choir, for which they were often mistaken.
October 9, 2016 Boxing, Gender, Other Olympics, Tokyo 1964, Track and FIeld
In Memory of Muhammad Ali: When Gold Medalist Cassius Clay and The Greatest Athlete in the World, Rafer Johnson, Became Lifelong Friends
Cassius Clay wins gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics after defeating Zbigniew Pietrzykowski by decision in the finals of the light heavyweight championship.
Muhammad Ali passed away on June 3, 2016, and the internet flooded with tears.
A great man has passed, and all we can do is remember.
In 1960, Ali was known as Cassius Marcellus Clay. The 18-year-old from Louisville was certainly one of the noisiest Americans at the Rome Olympic Games. He did claim to be the Greatest to anyone who would listen, but he was not viewed as a leader of the US team. According to David Maraniss in his book, Rome 1960, Clay was simply not recognized on the same level as fellow US Olympians like decathlete Rafer Johnson, sprinter Wilma Rudolph, high jumper John Thomas, basketball players Oscar Robertson and Jerry West.
Rafer Johnson in Rome in 1960.
As discus thrower Rink Babka, the discus thrower from USC was quoted as saying, "When I think of 1960 and hear people say Cassius Clay was Mr. Olympics and everyone went to see him – bullshit."
But one person in particular found Clay to be a kind of kindred spirit, or rather an alter ego. Maraniss wrote touchingly about the relationship between 1960's Greatest Athlete in the World, decathlon champion Rafer Johnson, and boxing's self-proclaimed Greatest of All Time.
"He (Johnson) felt close to the young boxer from the first time they met at the Olympic Village in Rome. Months after they had won their gold medals, they toured the South together on a speaking tour of predominantly black colleges. They were roommates on the road and stayed up late at night as Clay told Johnson precisely how he planned to become an unforgettable character as well as the heavyweight champion of the world. Many of the cocky phrases and poems that Clay – and later Ali – brought to the world, he first tried out on Rafer Johnson in their hotel rooms. Johnson saved those discussions for posterity on a small tape recorder.
The friendship, for Johnson, was an attraction to an opposite, or a repressed part of self, and he was self-aware enough to appreciate it, saying of Cassius Clay: "I love the way he talked. He was just brash and challenged people, and he said it the way he felt it, and he talked about it. I am not that type of person. I carry it inside. I talk about it a little bit, but I don't need to say everything. He seemed to need to say everything. He wanted to talk about the beginning, and how he was going to do it, and the end, how he was going to finish. I just couldn't do that. That just wasn't my makeup. But I loved him for being that kind of person. I loved him for that."
1960 Olympian and gold medalist Muhammad Ali defeats 1968 Olympian and gold medalist George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle in Zaire, in 1974.
Clay won the gold medal in the light-heavyweight division at the Rome Olympics. He would go on to fame, recognition and notoriety four years later as Muhammad Ali. You can read all about that on the Internet, where Ali will indeed go down in history as the Greatest of All Time.
1960 Olympian and gold medalist Muhammad Ali defeats 1964 Olympian and gold medalist Joe Frazier in The Thrilla in Manila, in 1975.
June 5, 2016 Boxing, Other Olympics, Pop Culture
The Pains of Amateur Purity in America Part 1: Two-time Gold Medalist Hurdler Lee Calhoun
The finish of the 100m hurdles at the Olympic games in Rome in 1960, just won by Lee Calhoun from the USA ahead of Willie Mae also from the USA.
Lee Calhoun was the 110-meter hurdles champion at the 1956 Melbourne Games. And like many other athletes in the post-war years, he was not financially well off. He was about to get married, but he wanted to keep his dream alive of repeating his gold-medal success at the 1960 Rome Games.
For many athletes in America up until about the 1980s, this meant sacrifice, scrimping and saving to maintain just enough to get by and be able to train. In 1958, Calhoun intended to marry his college sweetheart, but was under no illusion of being able to afford anything special.
His fiancé, Gwen Bannister, had an idea. Based on a tip from Calhoun's college coach, LeRoy T. Walker, Bannister would apply for participation on the popular game show, "Bride and Groom". On this program from the 1950s, couples would actually get married, revel in their wedding gifts presented on the show, and then be sent off on an all-expenses paid honeymoon.
As she explained to David Maraniss in his wonderful book Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World, Bannister said that Calhoun was not a party to the idea, but was all for it when he heard about it. "If they enjoyed your letter, they would put you on the show. Mine must have been a humdinger," Gwen told Maraniss. "I didn't tell Lee about it until I knew for sure. He thought it was wonderful. We knew we didn't have anything; didn't even have a job. [But] it was my choice. Lee didn't have anything to do with it."
Then fell the heavy hand of the AAU, the Amateur Athletic Union, which was the overarching governing body for sports in America recognized by the IOC. Only a week before Lee Calhoun and Gwen Bannister were to be married on television, Dan Ferris of the AAU informed the couple that Calhoun would no longer be considered an amateur if he appeared on "Bride and Groom". As Maraniss explained, "Calhoun was unduly benefiting from his status as an athlete and that the couple would not have been invited on Bride and Groom had he not been a track star."
Calhoun thought the judgment was unfair, "that anyone could be on the TV show, not just athletes." So Lee and Gwen rolled the dice and got married on Bride and Groom.
Calhoun was suspended from competing in track and field for a year. Fortunately, he was able to continue his Olympic journey after the suspension, go to Rome, and win gold in 110-meter hurdles.
April 22, 2016 Other Olympics, Track and FIeld
Bridge of Spies: When East and West Germany Were Sliced in Half by a Wall
Soviet spy, Rudolf Abel, actual (left) and as portrayed in the film, Bridge of Spies by Mark Rylance
I recently watched Steven Spielberg's film, Bridge of Spies. At 2 hours and 20 minutes, Spielberg needed time to tell the complicated story of how an insurance lawyer from New York ended up representing an arrested English Soviet spy living in New York, and subsequently getting in the middle of a two-front prisoner exchange negotiation in Cold War Berlin between uncertain representatives of the Soviet Union and East Germany, whose own alliance seemed strained at best.
And yet the time of the film zipped by. Tom Hanks plied his Everyman shtick to perfection as the lawyer thrust into geo-political intrigue. Mark Rylance was absolutely riveting as the captured Soviet spy, and the famed Coen brothers helped craft a narrative that was clear, and at times, witty.
One particular scene, which apparently had no basis in fact and was done for dramatic effect (effectively), made me wonder. It was a scene where Tom Hanks' character, James Donovan, is crossing from East to West Berlin over the wall, and witnesses in horror the shooting of a would-be escapee. What must have been the feelings of West and East German athletes at the Summer Games a few years after the wall went up, especially since they had to compete as one German team? Were they happy? Antagonistic? Were they so focused that they simply didn't notice each other?
East Germany sent no athletes to the Helsinki Games in 1952. But at the 1956 Games in Melbourne, 37 East Germans joined West Germans on a unified German team. This unified German team was identified by the country code GER, was represented by a flag with black, red and yellow stripes, centered by five white Olympic rings, and was presented gold medals using the opening to Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.
When East Germany was expected to send around 140 athletes to the 1960 Summer Games in Rome, East and West decided that it was time for both German teams to live and train together. But 15 years of political rhetoric had created a cultural rift between the two sides. For example, as David Maraniss wrote in his book, Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World, "it was part of the daily rhetoric of East Germany to denounce West German leaders as former Nazis." The victories of East German diver Ingrid Kramer were an inspiration to all Germans, but the rise of the Berlin Wall and geo-political tensions made a lie of the unified German team. Again, Maraniss writes,
The Berlin border closing during the Olympics had gone largely unnoticed by German athletes in Rome, but months later it took on an unavoidable physical reality when the Berlin Wall went up. Kraemer called the construction of the wall "a huge surprise…It was very cruel for many, especially the finality of it. We were all shocked, as nothing had hinted to its erection before it happened." The wall, and the cold war tensions that followed, made a sham of Avery Brundage's insistence that the Germans bring another unified team to the Olympics in 1964. West German sports officials refused to have anything to do with their East German counterparts after the wall went up, and fielded a combined team in Tokyo in name only, barely able to "maintain the façade of being unified," in the words of historian Heather L. Dicther.
Read a relevant post I wrote previously, Escape from East Berlin in October 1964: A Love Story.
February 5, 2016 Geo-politics, Other Olympics, Tokyo 1964
Abebe Bikila: The First of the Great African Long-Distance Runners
Abebe Bikila winning gold in the marathon in Rome in 1960.
He ran into the night along the Appian Way, torches held by Italian soldiers lighting the way, the only sound the onlookers would notice is the pidder padder of his barefeet on the road.
A complete unknown, Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia, won the marathon at the Rome Olympics in 1960. He was a member of the Imperial Bodyguard in Ethiopia, a country where people got around by running, commonly without shoes. When Bikila arrived in Rome, he tried on various pairs of shoes, but he could not find a pair that did not hurt and cause blisters.
Bikila and his fellow runner Abebe Wakjira decided to run barefoot. This was a decision that embarrassed them. They felt people were laughing at the poor Ethiopians who could not afford shoes, so they stayed hidden in their tent until the marathon began.
But Bikila's triumph had a tremendous ripple effect over the decades. Not only was Bikila a victory for Ethiopia, he was a symbol of pride and achievement for all of Africa. Bikila became the role model so important to sparking the imagination of other would-be long-distance runners in impoverished Africa.
Wrote David Maraniss in his book Rome 1960, "as the first black African to win a gold medal, Abebe Bikila paved the way for what would become a long and illustrious line of East African distance runners. Many were from Ethiopia but even more hailed from Kenya, led by the brilliant Kipchoge Keino, who won the metric mile at Mexico City, outpacing the American Jim Ryun, and took home the steeplechase gold four years later in Munich."
Here we are, decades later, at the recent IAAF Track and Field Championships in Beijing, it was Kenya that topped the medal tables, with Ethiopia in the fifth rank.
Maraniss cited a poem published in The Ethiopian Herald on the death of Bikila.
He made our flag to fly
Right above
Dead and gone Mussolini
Then and then
Abebe led, Mamo followed
Ethiopia led, Kenya followed
Here is the video of Bikila's triumph in Rome.
September 15, 2015 Other Olympics, Track and FIeld
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It's New Year's Eve and tomorrow starts a new year - a fresh start and a chance at a new beginning. I'm not completely sold on making new year's resolutions. They typically end up being thrown by the wayside if they're unrealistic or you lose motivation after a couple of weeks (or days even).
I feel like it's best to always try to better yourself throughout the entire year. I've been working on this for a while now. Things like self-care, growing as a baker, challenging myself with crafts and DIY projects, and trying out new hobbies.
For me, January 1st does feels like a fresh start. I love looking ahead and thinking about what I have going on in that upcoming year. I love filling out my new planner with events, conventions, and birthdays. Spending time organizing these things helps me clear my head. I recently read all about bullet journals and how they can help ease anxiety, scatterbrain syndrome (which is something that I have been dealing with over the last year), and are a great way to combine your planner/to-do lists/diary into one.
I'm cheating this year however. I already bought a really nice standard planner. One with monthly calendars and then the weeks broke down into bigger sections. I'm hoping to take some of the features and ideas behind a bullet journal and incorporate them into the planner I have. I was pretty pumped about it while looking at planner accessories at Michael's Craft Store earlier this week.
My carpal tunnel is also playing into not using an actual bullet journal right now too. The thought of marking out my own calendar and dates makes me cringe at the pain in my hand. So a journal already set up and ready to be filled out makes things easier for me.
I do have some other goals I want to work on in 2017... things I'll share another day.
For now, Happy New Year! Be safe tonight and see you in 2017!


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Myth: At least 50% of Americans do not believe in human-caused climate change.
Fact: The overwhelming majority of climatologists consider anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change to be a scientific fact.
Inexpensive energy has literally fueled America's economy for generations, but many Americans seem to think our economy cannot thrive without the heavy use of fossil fuels and that "clean coal" can alleviate any and all environmental concerns. A remarkably large number of Americans believe climate science–and because of it, climate change–is a hoax perpetrated to take advantage of us. Of those who do see it as a problem, large numbers don't think it will affect them personally. Others think our economy cannot thrive without heavy use of fossil fuels and that "clean coal" can address any environmental concerns.
The science, however, is clear: Mankind is very likely causing–or at least dramatically worsening–climate change, making it an existential threat to life on Earth.
We Have 12 Years to Curb Catastrophic Climate Change, UN Warns
by Civics Nation Admin | Oct 8, 2018
A new report from the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) illustrates just how dire a state our planet is in. Experts say that if governments don't act soon, global temperatures will reach 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels by as early as 2030.
Who to Trust on Climate Change
There's a scientific consensus–climate change is real, and it's caused in large part by humans. But somehow, the debate goes on. How is doubt about climate change so pervasive when the evidence is so overwhelming? Which experts should you trust, and which ones should you be skeptical of?
The Success of Energy Loan Programs
While some say that Solyndra is an example of the failure of the Bush-era clean energy loan program, which was designed to spur innovation in the field of green energy, the fact is that the Department of Energy has actually made money on the program. Interest payments from successful companies have offset the losses caused by failures.
The Language of Climate Change Deniers
Although 97 percent of climate scientists and 86 percent of Americans across party lines agree that climate change is real, climate change deniers like EPA head Scott Pruitt insist that more "precision" is needed in the study of the subject before they'll take it seriously.
New York Sues Big Oil Over Man-Made Global Warming
by Civics Nation Admin | Feb 27, 2018
In a historic action, New York City is suing five oil companies. The city is arguing that it's entitled to damages to help mitigate the costs of coastal protections, water, and sewage upgrades, claiming that the oil companies "misled the public to protect their profits."
Stop Arguing About Global Warming Already
As climate change accelerates ever faster, it's getting easier for people to understand how global warming affects individuals, families, and businesses. But what do we do about it? That discussion is, unfortunately, mired in partisan politics. It wasn't always that way, though.
You Can Officially Blame Global Climate Change for Some Natural Disasters
For many years, scientists couldn't make an exact connection between global climate change and natural disasters. But as climate science has advanced, it's become possible to determine that some natural disasters couldn't have happened without it.
Union of Concerned Scientists Sues the EPA
The fight is on. Last month, on January 23, the Union of Concerned Scientists filed a lawsuit against the EPA for limiting the involvement of certain scientists from serving on its advisory committees, specifically scientists from academia and nonpartisan non-profit...
What Is An Honest Climate Change Debate?
Scott Pruitt, head of the EPA appointed by Donald Trump, is calling for an "open, honest talk" about climate change, a topic that has traditionally divided Democrats and Republicans. In the current polarized political landscape, it's worth asking what exactly Mr....
A Climate Change Hoax?
Myth: At least 50% of Americans do not believe in anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change. Fact: The overwhelming majority of climatologists consider anthropogenic climate change to be settled scientific fact. Inexpensive energy has literally fueled America's...

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TRD Supercharged Scion tC at Willow Springs : NASA 2- 2010. Camera ran out of battery.
On Sunday Dan invited me up to Willow Springs for a NASA event. The last couple of years I have been helping Dan with his Scion tC race car that he competes in NASA TTC, PTC, WERC Endurance Series, and World Challenge TC in 2009. In the past the car has even run in the Koni/Grand Am Challenge. Talk about a car with a few race miles under its belt. This car is the "spare" car. Also known as the "street car". Same color, but stock suspension, stock brakes, less power, more weight.
Saturday it was raining, and I had some work to do, so I didn't go up on Saturday. Sunday however, I woke up early to head out to Willow Springs. It has been a long time since I have driven at Willow Springs. Last year I drove at Buttonwillow, and Streets of Willow, but its been years since the last time I drove at the "Big Track". The first session I rode with Dan, watched his lines, the gears he was driving in. Familiarize myself with the track again, and the car. This would be the first front wheel drive car I have ever driven at speed on a track. Normally its all Nissan GT-R's on the track for me.
My first session, I started from the back, and just wanted to drive around the track with Dan in the car. Follow another car, and just get familiar with everything. The Scion tC with the Nitto NT01 tires on it is easy to drive. Cornering was easy, the car went where I wanted it to go for the most part. A couple of times the electronic brake distribution did some weird stuff, but its more a matter of making sure you are actually braking in a straight line. Stock brakes with aftermarket pads and fluid worked out well. No problems with the brakes fading or getting mushy all day.
Willow Springs is a fast, horsepower track. The tC had a 112 mph governor on it so, we were running into the governor out on the track in a couple places. With Dan driving, it was about 3 places, and near start finish on the straight. Turn 8 – Turn 9 is the big spot at Willow Springs. Though 8 I glanced down and was at around 105 mph in the last session, fast long sweeper, followed by the dog leg of turn 9. Turn 9 is a fast turn that has a hole at the curb that more than a few cars have caught, and rolled. Rolling, or even going off track was in my plan for the day, so I kept it pretty mellow. Just driving around within my limits. The last couple of years I have been working on the other Scion tC, the racecar, at the track about 20 weekends a year. Compared to those weekends, this last Sunday was a very mellow day.
Heres a Fastlap with Billy Johnson from MotoIQ.


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The Projectionist by Philip Salom
by Andrew Taylor •
June 1984, no. 61
by Philip Salom
Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 88 pp, $7.50 pb
The Fremantle Arts Centre Press is an example of what a state-oriented press can do. Under intelligent guidance and with sympathetic but not irresponsible state funding assistance, it has now established a solid reputation for publishing goodlooking and worthwhile books. If west coast writers are now better known in the east than they were several years ago, this is only partly due to their qualities as writers, good though some of them undoubtedly are. It is also because the Fremantle Arts Centre Press has actively encouraged and promoted west coast writers, giving them the confidence that only professional book publication can.
Purists of the marketplace would probably claim (as they do of Literature Board subsidies) that this positive discrimination nurtures and promotes mediocrity, so that we can't see the trees for the wood. But any press which has published such diverse talents as Elizabeth Jolley, A.B. Facey, and Fay Zwicky – to name only three – need apologise to nobody.
Philip Salom
Andrew Taylor is a poet, academic, and translator based in Perth and Germany. His latest publications are Collected Poems (2004) and The Unhaunting (2009). His critical study <Reading Australian Poetry was published in 1987, and he has won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and the Western Australian Premier's Prize for Poetry.
The Legacy of Douglas Grant by John Ramsland
by Noah Riseman
Consolation by Garry Disher
by Tony Birch
December 2018, no. 407
One Lark, One Horse by Michael Hofmann
by Philip Mead
Wild Track: New and Selected Poems by Kevin Hart
New poetry by Tony Page, Noëlle Janaczewska, and Jenny Blackford
by James Antoniou
Excavation by Gig Ryan
by Lyn Jacobs


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Tehran criticizes EU delay in registering INSTEX
February 18, 2019 - 20:51
TEHRAN – Tehran has criticized the European Union (EU) for its delay in registering INSTEX, a financial channel for trade with Iran in the face of U.S. sanctions.
So far Europe has not been very successful in registering INSTEX and this issue has progressed very slowly, Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Monday during his bi-weekly press conference.
He acknowledged that the EU has taken the first step to open up the financial channel, but emphasized that Europe needs to fully implement INSTEX.
"They cannot expect Iran to completely fulfil its commitments in these circumstances," he said. "We have repeatedly emphasized that our patience is limited."
Qassemi also urged Europe to put more efforts in countering U.S. unilateralism. "We hope they will be able to perform their intrinsic duty and historic role."
Asked about the Foreign Ministry's stance with regard to Iran's accession to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the spokesman said ratification of the FATF-related bills is "beneficial to the country, people and economy."
"We hope the Expediency Council, which is supposed to make a decision on this issue, has a proper assessment and quickly ratifies whatever is expedient for the people and country," he stated.
'Pakistan given warnings on terrorists'
Commenting on a recent attack by the Jaish ul-Adl terrorist group, which is based in Pakistan, Qassemi said Iran has given Pakistan the "necessary warnings" to take immediate actions to prevent terrorist groups based in that country from freely crossing into Iran and conducting attacks.
"It is not tolerable for us that the government and the army of Pakistan cannot prevent such acts of sabotage and terror from inside their soil against Iran," he said.
On Wednesday, an explosives-laden car rammed into a bus carrying members of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) on a road in Sistan-Baluchestan Province, killing and injuring dozens of people.
Qassemi said "We hope this matter can be resolved appropriately through strengthened determination."
Qassemi declined to comment on Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit to Pakistan, saying "foreign relations of our neighbors is their own business and we do not interfere in that."
He then advised "our friends" to beware of some misdemeanors by certain countries aimed at impacting their relations with Iran.
MH/PA
Parliamentary committee chief: INSTEX does not include oil money transfer
INSTEX won't resolve Iran's economic issues: ex-envoy
European banking mechanism not progressing well, Tehran complains
Bahram Qassemi
INSTEX


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Q: onClick event on Categorized Dojo TreeGrid in XPages Creating a dojo treegrid using the example from Brad Balassatis: "Create a Categorized Dojo TreeGrid in XPages"
The grid is created, but how do have a onClick event on the row or grid?
i try to use the below function but i get error :Uncaught ReferenceError: item is not defined
var grid = new dojox.grid.TreeGrid({
    treeModel: treeModel,
    structure: layout,
    showRoot: true,
    onClick:  test(item, node, evt)

}, 'treeGrid');

function test (item, node, evt){
    var id=jsonStore.getValue(dijit.getEnclosingWidget(node).item, docId);
    alert("Execute of node " + id)

}

A: In the param onClick you are executing the test function.
You have to put just a reference to the function there:
var grid = new dojox.grid.TreeGrid({
    treeModel: treeModel,
    structure: layout,
    showRoot: true,
    onClick:  test

}, 'treeGrid');

Or, use an anonymous function:
var grid = new dojox.grid.TreeGrid({
        treeModel: treeModel,
        structure: layout,
        showRoot: true,
        onClick:  function (item, node, evt) {
               var id = jsonStore.getValue(dijit.getEnclosingWidget(node).item, docId);
               alert("Execute of node " + id);
           }
    }, 'treeGrid');

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Liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry characterization of oxidized amyloid beta peptides as potential biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease
Koichi Inoue, Carlos Garner, Bradley L. Ackermann, Tomoyuki Oe, Ian A. Blair
Alzheimer's disease is characterized by the deposition of senile plaques that consist primarily of amyloid β peptides. There is substantial evidence that amyloid β is oxidized in vivo, which has led to the suggestion that oxidative stress is an important mediator of Alzheimer's disease. Metal-catalyzed oxidation can mimic in vivo oxidation of amyloid β because the metal ion binds to the amino acid residues at the site of oxidation, which then deliver reactive oxygen species to that site. Based on electrospray mass spectrometry, it has been suggested that metal-catalyzed oxidation occurs on histidines-13 and -14. Unfortunately, the amyloid β peptides provide complex spectra, so it is difficult to definitively characterize the sites of oxidation. Trypsin digestion of both native and oxidized amyloid β1-16 and amyloid β1-40 resulted in the formation of tryptic peptides corresponding to amyloid β6-16, which could be separated by liquid chromatography (LC). Sites of oxidation were then unequivocally characterized as histidine-13 and histidine-14 by LC/tandem mass spectrometric (MS/ MS) analysis of the tryptic peptides. The ability to analyze the specific amyloid β6-16 tryptic fragments derived from full-length amyloid β peptides will make it possible to determine whether oxidation in vivo occurs at specific histidine residues and/or at other amino acid residues such as methionine-35. Using methodology based on LC/MS/MS it will also be possible to analyze the relative amounts of oxidized peptides and native peptide in cerebrospinal fluid from patients with Alzheimer's disease as biomarkers of oxidative stress.
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.2395
10.1002/rcm.2395
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Inoue, K., Garner, C., Ackermann, B. L., Oe, T., & Blair, I. A. (2006). Liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry characterization of oxidized amyloid beta peptides as potential biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 20(5), 911-918. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.2395
Liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry characterization of oxidized amyloid beta peptides as potential biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease. / Inoue, Koichi; Garner, Carlos; Ackermann, Bradley L.; Oe, Tomoyuki; Blair, Ian A.
In: Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, Vol. 20, No. 5, 2006, p. 911-918.
Inoue, K, Garner, C, Ackermann, BL, Oe, T & Blair, IA 2006, 'Liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry characterization of oxidized amyloid beta peptides as potential biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease', Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 911-918. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.2395
Inoue K, Garner C, Ackermann BL, Oe T, Blair IA. Liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry characterization of oxidized amyloid beta peptides as potential biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 2006;20(5):911-918. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.2395
Inoue, Koichi ; Garner, Carlos ; Ackermann, Bradley L. ; Oe, Tomoyuki ; Blair, Ian A. / Liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry characterization of oxidized amyloid beta peptides as potential biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease. In: Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 2006 ; Vol. 20, No. 5. pp. 911-918.
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RealClimate.org – down | Watts Up With That?
I figured I'd better note this since a number of people have brought it to my attention. Trying to reach realclimate.org was giving a 502 error much of today, which is likely due to an internal problem with their database used to run WordPress. They run a custom version of wordpress code and theme on a LAMP configuration, and it appears the PHP code can no longer communicate with the MySQL database.
Confirm that the application is running. If the application crashed, was terminated, or has not yet started following a system reboot, the application must be restarted to respond to requests. If the application was terminated, you will receive a notification email with additional information.To restart the application manually, please see your application type's documentation or control panel entry for instructions.Most stopped applications are automatically restarted during periodic cron jobs. Please see the application's entry in the control panel for details.
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Gavin is probably pulling out what little hair he has about right now.
This is why I use wordpress.com – I don't have to worry about maintenance, hacking, updates, or other server related issues.
Based on the return codes, the issues at RC today are likely due to internal code or maintenance problems, so I wouldn't speculate beyond that.
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I still find it amusing that given how much they deny the sun's influence on climate, they have the sun in their banner and you dont….
And what a bad pseudo gateway it is to climate science.
Hi Mike – all they care about is giving the impression of great heat – and hope people don't do something really radical like think about it.
Given the high traffic of your site, does it ever get overloaded? Or do you solve that by buying extra bandwidth?
Usually I'll see a sign that says "Wet paint" and won't touch the paint to see if it's still wet.
Why did I rush right over to RealClimate to see for myself?
I can connect, but I don't get anything back.
LAMP with MYSQL makes for a fairly nice web platform until it doesn't. At that problem you have a major project on your hands fixing it. Musta been the global warming that got to his CPU or something.
@Bradley, the major problem is the core database and its server. You have to do transactions to it and not get locks. Bandwidth turns out to usually be the least of your problems in the long run.
You know, Anthony, a truly decent human being would contact Gavin and offer to host all his posts until he'd resolved his issues. Kind of in the spirit of Trenberth meeting with skeptics…. Uh… your moderators would, of course, continue to handle the moderation duties.
Just my feelings too. Like a Freudian slip they show the sun and like a second Freudian slip they show it as angry. Truth will out.
Oh, gosh, Betsy must be pulling out her hair about now. Maybe now she realizes solar hosting might not be such a great idea after all.
RC is green technology. Only works when the wind blows government grants in their direction. The green you see is your $$ going down the toilet to help "the Team" live large.
Yeah, the ability to code for a supercomputer makes a mere webserver a piece of cake. I don't know how many times Warmista have implied that they understand their supercomputer code so well that reading it is as easy as reading a physics text. What could go wrong?
Maybe their part of the stimulus ran out and they won't be back up till the "Jobs act" is passed so they can get their jobs funding.
Yes, but Gavin doesn't have to worry about traffic….
Maybe their proxy server is upside down.
Theo, as most of their released code has proven to be Matlab, FORTRAN, or other codes which have been readily duplicated by non-progammers (Steve McIntyre is a mining engineer not a programmer, but has duplicated Team studies repeatedly in R), you need to be careful throwing that supercomputer coding idea around. People have been duplicating their "supercomputer codes" on desktop PCs all over the world.
Hmmm … time yet for a sidebar category titled "Down" ?
Does Mr. Soros get a refund or a credit note?
I'd put my money on that they have run out of disc space… Usually something you can plan for and the OS should be been screaming into the log files that the ceiling was fast approaching..
Maybe they're part of the IPCC Cloud and are now frantically cleaning house.
Hilarious! You must have spent ages thinking of that.
Stevo, you really need to develop a sense of humor. Gavin has a problem with his site that would lead most of us, many with IT skills, foaming at the mouth. Many of us would not wish it on a nicer person. I'm twice his age and have twice the hair. I think I don't have enough. Hope Gavin has a better response than hair-pulling.
It's wonderful how much I'm not interested.
Isn't that the standard server response to FOI?
Y'all are nuts! Clearly the site is possessed of demons.
Apparently the IT guys have been told to take Steig's Matlab class before they can fix anything which is slowing things down a bit. Also, it turns out one of the techs doesn't have his PhD in Radiative Physics yet.
While I am normally loathe to dispense free medical advice, Gavin should prepare a hot, moist herbal poultice and lay it upon his server to draw out the evil humors.
My guess is that it just got suicided in order to prevent any IPCC related FOIA requests.
Or someone has seized their database. That is another possibility.
Quote of the week! Thanks, Bob!
Maybe a denial of sevice hack from some of those Anonymous people, mistakenly thinking it was a Skeptic site….
Will give them more time to read "The Spoiled Child".
So RC is down? No great loss to humankind.
I'd noticed that before too. Looks like their sun's at solar maximum too.
Perhaps all their tech people are out supporting an "occupy something effort" somewhere ?
… and just for a few days at least, the Internet was slightly less stupid.
Still: "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable".
Who pulled the plug on this (private? – government?) project?
Maybe Gavin is trying to cover his tracks so it can't be shown as to how so very much time he has spent blogging and posting and moderating a website while on the taxpayer's clock.
It's 8:54 Arizona Time (which is the same as Pacific Daylight time since AZ doesn't go on daylight savings time), and RC is back up . .
Anthony/mods – Who has the sense of humor?
It's bad Karma to use a computer to make light of people having computer problems.
Has anyone blamed the 'Skeptics' yet?
Maybe they Bore Holed themselves.
I bet every cynical clickthrough from WUWT quadrupled their traffic hourly!
The RC server is not running, it's drooling.
Now because of this failure of 'service' for so many hours, and taking a lesson from RIM, we all deserve an apology in the form of $100 worth of free downloaded programmes, each.
I will accept, for my entire $100 credit, a download of the programme used to generate the CRU temperature output files, fully annotated by HarryReadMe.
Thinking the same, Gavin's been enlarging the borehole and the censorship props failed dumping the site in with the rest. Think of all that accumulated crud they carried and of course we know they are not meticulous engineers!!
When you have a website that already lies in their header image, you shouldn't expect truth below that (The same holds for SkepticalScience).
No mention of outage…perhaps really they don't expect anybody to notice.
So now there are hundreds of True Believers going to argue "502 Error" against evil deniers.
Was that comment really necessary?
Anyway, the Borehole is available again. Best part of the entire site.
I wonder if there were any hidden/password access forums on there that have mysteriously vanished ?
We are still on daylight saving time. PDT.
It's just been announced that Gavin Schmidt will be the recipient of AGU's first Climate Communications Award.
According to a leak from an engineer fixing RC's X-Box/Commodore 64, the problem was down to 'parasitic oscillations due to inter-stage feedback in the Eccles-Jordan mono-stable double diode flip-flop'.
harry did not work on CRUTEMP.
so many people get this wrong. the harry readme does not refer to ANY work done on hadcru.
Its an entirely different dataset that nobody even uses.
Only an idiot studying to be a moron would even consider running critical apps on a light weight DB engine such as MySQL. They should only be using an enterprise level one such as Postgres, Ingres, etc.
Was this fixed on company or personal time and who is paying for it?
Might want to have a little chit chat with the folks over at Slashdot who for many years did a helluva job running Slashdot on MySQL.
Considering the load and demands put on it – "light weight" is a little harsh.
Coincidence? The front page is a loving paean to Gavin, recipient of some award or other, probably written by Gavin. It's an infinite loop problem.
Probably a DDoS attack by climate deniers.


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Listen to Cornwall music heroes A Blaze of Feather's new single
Double A-side marks two 'bloody disturbing' political campaigns
They have proved to be one of the most successful bands to come out of Cornwall for quite some time and now A Blaze of Feather release a new double-A side single.
Dust In The Wind is an undoubted highlight of ABoF's self-titled debut LP, and finds a single release alongside the previously unheard November, a song written by vocalist/songwriter Mickey Smith written exactly a year ago, and marking a year of Trump's presidency.
Band leader and Penzance boy Mickey Smith said: "Dust In The Wind was written just after the British referendum, and November was written the day Trump was elected. The tone of both campaigns was so bloody disturbing I felt it left a lot of people feeling pretty heart sunk and headspun."
A Blaze of Feather's Mickey Smith
Mickey added: "Writing helped us find some clarity and we took that energy and put down both tunes live in the room together. The songs have become a focal point of our live shows ever since, moments of shared connection between folk from all walks. Music can raise spirits when that happens, transcend the spaces between and galvanise feelings in strange ways. No doubt it's an important time for human expression to counter and connect positively as one people right now, so here we are."
This new release follows a hectic summer of introductory live shows for the band including a triumphant sold-out headline date at House of Vans in London, and stand-out performances at this year's festivals including Citadel, Latitude, Boardmasters and Haldern Pop.
How Cornwall saved Will Young
Pasha loves this Cornish dance troupe
Why Phil Mitchell loves Falmouth
Bananarama star on life in Cornwall
A Blaze of Feather is the music of Ben Howard's long-standing guitarist and friend Mickey Smith, and aided by the same, sprawling six-piece band featuring fellow Cornish members Richard Thomas and Nat Wason.


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Moshe Bar Kepha's Commentary on the Gospel of Luke
Edited and Translated by Abdul-Massih Saadi
Series: Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies 59
Moshe Bar Kepha was a prolific writer of the ninth century. His writings reflect various aspects of West Syriac theology and ecclesiology, and his literary legacy links the earlier Syriac exegetical tradition (beginning with Ephrem) with the Syriac 'Renaissance' of the eleventh to thirteenth centuries. His use of sources crosses Christian confessional boundaries in such a way that his works are tinged with aspects of Syriac exegesis from both East and West Syriac traditions. In his Commentary on Luke, the Muslim-dominated context in which Moshe lived is clearly evident in the background, and his aim is to fortify the credibility of the Christian faith and the validity of Christian doctrines for his readers.
Universal Salvation and Freedom of Choice according to Origen of Alexandria
By Lee Sytsma
Series: Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics 74
The 3rd century theologian Origen of Alexandria has traditionally been famous for his belief in universal salvation. Yet, Origen is also famous for his insistence on moral autonomy, the fact that God allows each creature to freely choose to move in the direction of good or evil. How can these two beliefs not result in a paradox or logical inconsistency in Origen's theology, as many contemporary scholars suggest they do? This book explores the intersection between moral autonomy and God's foreordained universal salvation in Origen's writings. Origen was, in fact, aware of the apparent contradiction between these two ideas. He nevertheless stipulated that God can achieve universal salvation without violating a soul's freedom of choice. God accomplishes this through his foreknowledge of future voluntary possibilities, which God then prearranges into a sequence leading to God's desired outcome.
The Interpretations of the Theotokias by the Patriarch John ibn Qiddis
By Youhanna Nessim Youssef
The theotokias are prayers dedicated to the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God (Theotokos). In the early fourteenth century, the Patriarch of the Coptic Church, Ibn Qiddis, composed and paraphrased – in Coptic – the Theotokias. His work has only survived in a single manuscript. This book introduces the author, John Ibn Qiddis, his liturgical, pastoral, and literary activities, and the Coptic language of his time, followed by the texts and an English translation.
On This Day (June)
The Armenian Church Synaxarion (Yaysmawurkʿ)
Edited and Translated by Edward G Mathews Jr
Series: The Armenian Church Synaxarion 6
The Armenian Church Synaxarion is a collection of saints' lives according to the day of the year on which each saint is celebrated. Part of the great and varied Armenian liturgical tradition from the turn of the first millennium, the first Armenian Church Synaxarion represented the logical culmination of a long and steady development of what is today called the cult of the saints. This volume, the first Armenian-English edition, is the sixth of a twelve-volume series—one for each month of the year—and is ideal for personal devotional use or as a valuable resource for anyone interested in saints.
On This Day (May)
The Armenian Church Synaxarion is a collection of saints' lives according to the day of the year on which each saint is celebrated. Part of the great and varied Armenian liturgical tradition from the turn of the first millennium, the first Armenian Church Synaxarion represented the logical culmination of a long and steady development of what is today called the cult of the saints. This volume, the first Armenian-English edition, is the fifth of a twelve-volume series—one for each month of the year—and is ideal for personal devotional use or as a valuable resource for anyone interested in saints.
Fate, Freedom, and Happiness
Clement and Alexander on the Dignity of Human Responsibility
By Daniel Robinson
In what particular manner human beings are free moral agents and to what extent they can reasonably expect to attain a good life are two intertwined questions that rose to prominence in antiquity and have remained so to the present day. This book analyzes and compares the approaches of two significant authors from different schools at the turn of the third century CE, Alexander of Aphrodisias and Clement of Alexandria. These contemporaries utilize their respective Peripatetic and Christian commitments in their employment of the shared Greek classics toward these shared ethical questions.
"One of Life and One of Death"
Apocalypticism and the Didache's Two Ways
By Shawn J. Wilhite
This book explores the apocalyptic influence upon the Two Ways metaphor in antiquity and more particularly the influence of the Two Ways in the Didache as veering from an apocalyptic worldview. The argument includes essential critical evaluation of the apocalyptic genre and assesses the apocalyptic features in ancient Two Ways texts. The predominant focus of the book will document and critically assess how the Didache veers from maintaining an apocalyptic worldview in its expression of the Two Ways (Did. 1–6).
Kierkegaard and Eastern Orthodox Thought
A Comparative Philosophical Analysis
By Ágúst Ingvar Magnússon
Series: Perspectives on Philosophy and Religious Thought 18
The continuing popularity and influence of Søren Aabye Kierkegaard remains something of a minor miracle.Kierkegaard himself would undoubtedly find some humor in this development as a part of his overall philosophical project was to provide a full-frontal assault on the growing dominance of 'objective' thinking and the hyper-professionalization of all areas of human thought and life. This book provides yet another attempt to engage with the biting wit and philosophical insights of Kierkegaard's philosophy.
Zwischen Māturīdīya und Ašʿarīya
Abū Šakūr as-Sālimi und sein Tamhīd fī bayān at-tauḥīd
By Angelika Brodersen
Series: Islamic History and Thought 14
The present work provides a new edition and substantial German commentary of the important theological Arabic work Al-Tamhīd fī bayān al-tauḥīd ("Introduction to the explanation of monotheism") by the 5th/11th century scholar Abū Shakūr al-Sālimī. The work and its author belong to the theological school that succeeded Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī (died 333/944) and still serve as important markers of Sunnī theology into the nineteenth century.
Biblical Ethics
Tensions Between Justice and Mercy, Law and Love
Edited by Markus Zehnder & Peter Wick
Series: Gorgias Biblical Studies 70
Biblical theology is confronted with tensions between love and justice. There are sometimes attempts to avoid these tensions by dissolving one side of the opposing concept. One such attempt is to identify love and mercy as the essence of Christian theology, overcoming law and reciprocal justice. However, such a dissolution is irresponsible not only ethically, but also theologically—as the discussion in a number of the studies collected in the present volume will demonstrate.
Early Philosophical Ṣūfism
This study challenges the conventional image of the tenth-century Sufi mystic Al-Husayn Ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāğ (d. 929) as an anti-philosophical mystic. Unlike the predominantly theological or text-historical studies which constitute much of the scholarly literature on Ḥallāğ, this study is completely philosophical in nature, placing Ḥallāğ within the tradition of Graeco-Arabic philosophy and emphasizing, in a positive light, his continuity with the pagan Neoplatonism of Plotinus and Proclus.
The God of Thunder and War in Micah, Habakkuk, and Zechariah
By Jamie A. Banister
This volume explores storm-/warrior-god motif as found in non-biblical ANE texts, followed by an analysis of the language and imagery in several noteworthy theophanic passages in the Hebrew Bible. These characteristics and vocabulary are used in later chapters to identify and analyze similar motifs in the Twelve Prophets, especially focusing on Mic 7:7-20; Habakkuk 3; and Zech 9:9-16 as test cases. By tracing the use of the storm-/warrior-god motif and language associated with it, a detectable shift is apparent in the use of the motif in the HB that corresponds with the development of monotheism within Ancient Israelite religion.
Hippolytus of Rome: Commentary on Daniel and 'Chronicon'
Commentary on Daniel and 'Chronicon'
By T. C. Schmidt; Contribution by Nick Nicholas
This volume contains an English translation and introduction to Hippolytus of Rome's Commentary on Daniel and his Chronicon. Both works are the first writings of their kind. The commentary is the earliest extant Christian commentary on a book of the Bible and the Chronicon is the first extant Christian historical work.
Lactantius the Theologian
Lactantius and the Doctrine of Providence
By Anthony P. Coleman
This book examines the doctrine of providence as it appears in the works of the North African Latin apologist, L. Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius.
Ibn Sina's Theodicy
By Shams Inati
Series: Gorgias Islamic Studies 8
Who of us has not wondered why a God with absolute attributes causes or allows evil in the world? This most puzzling issue, known as the problem of evil, received significant attention from Ibn Sina. In the present work, Dr. Inati argues that Ibn Sina provides seven theses to justify God's causing or allowing the presence of evil, and that only the thesis which relies on God's omnipotence as defined by Ibn Sina eliminates the problem of evil in his philosophy. The book is an original piece of work and the first comprehensive study of Ibn Sina's Theodicy, which helped shape later Islamic and Christian treatments of the subject and left significant marks on the thought of major medieval philosophers, including Ibn Rushd, Aquinas and Suarez.
The Book of Adam and Eve
A Book of the Early Eastern Church
Translation and Introduction by S. C. Malan
Series: Kiraz Theological Archive 77
This work narrates the history of the world from Adam to Jesus, presented in an English translation of Ethiopic and Coptic manuscripts. This exclusive translation of rare sources is recommended for readers interested in comparative religion, Oriental Orthodoxy, and biblical studies.
The Bazaar of Heracleides
By Nestorius; Translation and Introduction by G. R. Driver & Leonard Hodgson
Dialogue by Nestorius, Archbishop of Constantinople, vindicating his theology and his actions; translated from the manuscript of the Syriac translation discovered in 1889.
The Diatessaron of Tatian
By Samuel Hemphill
Samuel Hemphill provides an English translation of the reconstructed text of The Diatessaron using the Arabic translation and Ephrem's commentary.
From Jerusalem to Nicea
The Church in the First Three Centuries
By Philip Stafford Moxom
This volume includes the text of the Lowell Lectures delivered by Philip Moxom on various topics in early Christian history.
Le Mouvement Baptiste
en Palestine et Syrie (150 av. J.-C. - 300 ap. J.-C.)
By Joseph Thomas
This book explores baptism in the ancient world, the sects which practiced it, their history, origins, characters, diversity, and influences.
L'Hellénisme et l'Apôtre Paul
By C. Toussaint
This book examines Paul as a hybrid of both Jewish and early Christian traditions meeting at the crossroads of a commonly-shared Hellenistic culture.
Prophetae Chaldaice
e fide codicis reuchliniani
Edited by Paul de Lagarde
This eastern Aramaic translation of the Old Testament contains one section of Paul de Lagarde's critical edition of the Babylonian Targum.
Epistulae Novi Testamenti Coptice
Distinguished biblical scholar Paul de Lagarde provides an annotated Coptic version of the New Testament arranged by the General Epistles, preceding Pauline Epistles, and concluding with Philemon. Titles and references are in Latin.
Apologie des Aristides
By Aristides of Athens; Translated and Annotated by Richard Raabe
In this second-century defense of Christianity, Athenian philosopher Aristides explains to the Emperor why the Christian way of worship is the only philosophically adequate one.


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Q: Why are user's facebook id's changing in ios? I am new to integrating facebook. So far I have the login implemented. I have been saving the users id in our database as a way to recognize them when they login.  However I noticed today that the id changed.  If the id changes, what can I use to identify the facebook users?
Here is the code I am using, g_fb_id is the id that is passed to our servers.
// This method will handle ALL the session state changes in the app
- (void)sessionStateChanged:(FBSession *)session state:(FBSessionState) state error:(NSError *)error
{
    // If the session was opened successfully
    if (!error && state == FBSessionStateOpen){
        NSLog(@"Session opened");

        // get facebook ID
        [[FBRequest requestForMe] startWithCompletionHandler:^(FBRequestConnection *connection, NSDictionary<FBGraphUser> *user, NSError *error) {
            if (! error) {
                g_fb_id = [user objectForKey:@"id"];
                g_user.birthday=user.birthday;
                g_user.fb_page=[user objectForKey:@"link"];
                g_user.first_name=user.first_name;
                g_user.last_name=user.last_name;
                g_user.email=[user objectForKey:@"email"];
                g_user.gender=[user objectForKey:@"gender"];

                [self fbLoggedIn];
            } else {
                [self fbLoginFailed:@"Login failed !!!"];
            }
        }];
    } else if (state == FBSessionStateClosed || state == FBSessionStateClosedLoginFailed){
        // If the session is closed
    } else {
        // handle errors
        // Clear this token
        [FBSession.activeSession closeAndClearTokenInformation];
        [self fbLoginFailed:@"Login failed !!!"];
    }
}


1. What is the purpose of this gift of sport?
2. Is the adult model of competition healthy for kids?
3. Parents, what's your role? What are your responsibilities in each of the 3 Dimensions?
Participation in sports does give opportunity to develop what we call social or performance character, essential in helping us attain our goals. Things like dedication, sacrifice, teamwork, leadership. HOWEVER, are your coaches intentionally imparting attributes like honesty, justice, responsibility, kindness, mercy? The research is pretty definitive here- not good in most situations.
I did a google search and typed in 2 words: parents and sports. The outcome: in .43 seconds I got 591…million results! Do you think there's interest? Do you think there are issues? Do you think we might be just a little obsessed? I typed in Life and Death and got 30 million fewer!
We are crazy about sports!
It's the number one discretionary activity we do.
No parent, no coach thinks, "I wonder what I can do today to undermine my athletes, subvert their effort, turn them off to learning, and limit their achievement." They think "I want to do whatever I can to help them be successful." Yet many of the things we do boomerang.
ALL of these questions and MUCH more will be answered when you attend one of our Parents' Events!
The main purpose of 3Dimensional Coaching is to come alongside coaches to help them maximize their influence and positively impact the lives of every player that comes through their program. AND we do the same with Mom & Dad.
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This log gives an overview of the most prominent changes in each release of NodePit for KNIME. Minor fixes, changes "under the hood" and refactoring changes are not listed here. We try to follow the Semantic Versioning scheme as much as possible.
Greatly improve performance when navigating in the NodePit explorer.
Remote configuration support for NodePit Enterprise environments.
NodePit Space: Add support for NodePit Space. Add NodePit Space as mount point in your explorer view and enable uploading your workflows to NodePit as well as accessing them from everywhere at any time.
Add configuration options for username and password of your NodePit account.
Links to websites outside of NodePit are now opened with the stand-alone browser.
Remove support for drag and drop update sites from NodePit website to NodePit plugin.
Add configuration options for API username and password in preparation for NodePit Enterprise.
Add debugging mechanisms to NodePit preferences in order to identify the underlying browser.
Fix an issue with drag and drop for the KNIME SWT browser.
Initial release of NodePit for KNIME.


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Home Coronavirus Pandemic Lockdown Impact: Residents in Punjab's Jalandhar see snow-capped Himachal mountain from 213...
Lockdown Impact: Residents in Punjab's Jalandhar see snow-capped Himachal mountain from 213 km distance first time in 30 years
There have been debates on the preparedness and planning by Prime Minister Narendra Modi before he announced a 21-day lockdown across the country. His decision sent hundreds of thousands of poor migrant workers into utter hardship as they were forced to walk back home on foot for hundreds of kilometers. However, one positive aspect of the lockdown has been the sharp reduction in air pollution since road and air transport have come to grinding halt. This was also evident in Punjab's Jalandhar where residents could spot the Dhauladhar mountain hills of Himachal Pradesh for the first time in over 30 years even from a distance of 213 kilometers.
Many residents took to Twitter and other social media platforms to share a majestic view of the mountain range. Others were quick to stream the spectacle live on Facebook. Himachal Pradesh Tourism tweeted one video as it wrote, "Jalandhar residents have a view of snow-capped mountains. This is with a dramatic dip in Air pollution levels due to lockdown. Senior citizens say it was almost after a generation that the mountains have invisible in the City."
Jalandhar residents have a view of snow-capped mountains. This is with a dramatic dip in Air pollution levels due to lockdown. Senior citizens say it was almost after a generation that the mountains have invisible in the City.
Video Courtesy: The Tribune pic.twitter.com/f1mnXIuIod
— Himachal Tourism (@hp_tourism) April 3, 2020
Such is the impact of lockdown on air pollution that even cities like Delhi and Noida have had blue sky for several days now. Delhi has earned notoriety for being one of the most polluted cities in the world.
The current lockdown is likely to end on 14 April. The measure was adopted to contain the spread of the coronavirus, which has claimed 68 lives in India. 2,650 people across India have tested positive for the deadly virus.
Himachal mountain
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