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(son of Albert Arnold Gore), a Representative and Senator from Tennessee, and a Vice President of the United States; born in Washington, D.C.,...
(son of Albert Arnold Gore), a Representative and Senator from Tennessee, and a Vice President of the United States; born in Washington, D.C., March 31, 1948; attended the public elementary schools of Carthage, Tenn.; graduated, St. Albans High School, Washington, D.C., 1965; graduated, Harvard University 1969; attended Vanderbilt University School of Religion, Nashville, Tenn., 1971-1972 and the School of Law 1974-1976; business executive; engaged in real estate development in Carthage; served in United States Army 1969-1971 in Viet Nam; investigative reporter for the Nashville Tennessean 1971-1976; elected in 1976 as a Democrat to the Ninety-fifth Congress; reelected to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1977-January 3, 1985); was not a candidate for reelection in 1984 to the House of Representatives, but was elected in November 1984 to the United States Senate; reelected in 1990 and served from January 3, 1985, until his resignation on January 2, 1993; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988; elected Vice President of the United States on the Democratic ticket headed by William Jefferson Clinton in 1992 and was inaugurated on January 20, 1993; reelected Vice President in 1996; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for president in 2000.
Former Vice President Al Gore has served as a Senior Advisor to Google, Inc. and Vice Chairman of Metropolitan West Financial LLC since 2001.
Mr. Gore was inaugurated as the 45th Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1993. He was re-elected in 1996 and served for a total of eight years as President of the Senate, a member of the cabinet and the National Security Council, and as the leader of a wide range of Administration initiatives, including in the areas of environmental policy, technology, science, communications, community empowerment and government cost cutting.
Gore is a visiting professor at the University of California Los Angeles, Fisk University and Middle Tennessee State University.
Al Gore was born on March 31, 1948, the son of former U.S. Senator Albert Gore, Sr. and Pauline Gore. Raised in Carthage, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., he received a degree in government with honors from Harvard University in 1969. After graduation, he volunteered for enlistment in the U.S. Army and served in the Vietnam War. Upon returning from Vietnam, Al Gore became an investigative reporter with the Tennessean in Nashville, where he also attended Vanderbilt University's Divinity School and then Law School.
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U 9 war ein deutsches U-Boot vom Typ II B, das im Zweiten Weltkrieg von der Kriegsmarine eingesetzt wurde.

Geschichte
Der Bauauftrag für das Boot wurde am 20. Juli 1934 an die Germaniawerft Kiel vergeben. Die Kiellegung erfolgte am 11. März 1935, der Stapellauf am 30. Juni 1935, die Indienststellung unter Kapitänleutnant Hans-Günther Looff am 21. August 1935.

Nach der Indienststellung gehörte das Boot bis zum 31. Dezember 1939 zur U-Flottille Weddigen. Bei der Umgliederung der U-Flottillen kam es am 1. Januar 1940 zur 1. U-Flottille in Kiel. Nach sieben Feindfahrten kam es vom 1. Juli 1940 bis zum 31. Oktober 1940 als Schulboot zur 24. U-Flottille in Memel, danach bis Mai 1942 zur 21. U-Flottille in Pillau, bevor es als Teil der 30. U-Flottille über Land und Donau in das Schwarze Meer verlegt wurde.

U 9 wurde nach dem Donauschlepp auf den Werften in Linz (Teilaufbau) und Galați (Endmontage) einsatzfähig gemacht und am 28. Oktober 1942 wieder in Dienst gestellt. Im Anschluss daran erfolgte seine Überführung zum deutschen U-Stützpunkt in Constanța. U 9 fuhr im Schwarzen Meer zwölf Feindeinsätze.

U 9 unternahm insgesamt neunzehn Feindfahrten, auf denen es acht Schiffe mit einer Gesamttonnage von 16.969 BRT sowie ein U-Boot mit 552 ts und ein Kanonenboot mit 80 ts versenkte.

Einsatzstatistik

Erste Feindfahrt
Das Boot lief am 25. August 1939 um 8:45 Uhr von Wilhelmshaven aus und am 15. September 1939 um 11:50 Uhr in Kiel ein. Auf der 22 Tage dauernden Unternehmung in der Nordsee und an der schottischen Ostküste wurden keine Schiffe versenkt.

Zweite Feindfahrt
Das Boot lief am 16. Januar 1940 um 21:45 Uhr von Kiel aus und am 22. Januar 1940 um 20:00 Uhr in Wilhelmshaven ein. Auf dieser sieben Tage dauernden Unternehmung in der Nordsee und an der britischen Ostküste wurden zwei Schiffe mit insgesamt 2.367 BRT versenkt.

 18. Januar 1940: Versenkung des schwedischen Dampfers Flandria (1.179 BRT) () durch einen G7e-Torpedo. Er hatte Stückgut sowie Kohle geladen und befand sich auf dem Weg von Göteborg nach Amsterdam. Es gab siebzehn Tote und vier Überlebende.

 19. Januar 1940: Versenkung des schwedischen Dampfers Patria (1.188 BRT) () durch einen G7e-Torpedo. Er hatte Kohle, Papier und Asphalt geladen und befand sich auf dem Weg von Rotterdam nach Göteborg. Es gab 19 Tote und vier Überlebende. Die 4 Überlebenden wurden vom schwedischen Dampfer FRIGG gerettet.

Dritte Feindfahrt
Das Boot lief am 5. Februar 1940 um 10:00 Uhr von Wilhelmshaven aus und am 17. Februar 1940 um 17:00 Uhr wieder dort ein. Auf dieser elf Tage dauernden und 1.099 sm über und 96 sm unter Wasser langen Minenunternehmung vor dem Moray Firth und dem Cromarty Firth wurden zwei Schiffe mit insgesamt 7.208 BRT versenkt.

 11. Februar 1940: Versenkung des estnischen Dampfers Linda (1.213 BRT) () durch einen G7e-Torpedo. Er hatte Kohle geladen und befand sich auf dem Weg von Blyth nach Göteborg. Es gab einen Toten.

 4. Mai 1940: Versenkung des britischen Tankers San Tiburcio (5.995 BRT) durch einen Minentreffer. Er hatte zwölf Flugzeugschwimmer sowie 2.193 t Heizöl geladen und befand sich auf dem Weg von Scapa Flow nach Invergordon. Es gab keine Toten, 40 Überlebende. Die Überlebenden wurden vom britischen ASW Trawler LEICESTER CITY gerettet und in Invergordon an Land gesetzt.

Vierte Feindfahrt
Das Boot lief am 14. März 1940 um 14:15 Uhr von Wilhelmshaven aus und am 20. März 1940 um 8:00 Uhr wieder dort ein. Auf der sieben Tage dauernden und 710 sm über und 63 sm unter Wasser langen Unternehmung zur U-Boot-Jagd in der Nordsee und vor Südnorwegen wurden keine Schiffe versenkt.

Fünfte Feindfahrt
Das Boot lief am 4. April 1940 um 10:00 Uhr von Wilhelmshaven zum Unternehmen Weserübung aus und am 24. April 1940 um 8:00 Uhr in Kiel ein. Auf der zwanzig Tage dauernden und 2.122 sm über und 302 sm unter Wasser langen Unternehmung vor Bergen und nordöstlich der Shetlandinseln wurden keine Schiffe versenkt. Ein Torpedoangriff auf den polnischen Zerstörer ORP Blyskawica am 20. April verfehlte sein Ziel.

Sechste Feindfahrt
Das Boot lief am 5. Mai 1940 um 17:45 Uhr von Kiel aus und am 15. Mai 1940 um 20:30 Uhr in Wilhelmshaven ein. Auf dieser elf Tage dauernden und 870 sm über und 105 sm unter Wasser langen Unternehmung in der Nordsee und an der niederländischen Küste wurden zwei Schiffe mit zusammen 3.811 BRT und ein U-Boot mit 552 t versenkt.

 9. Mai 1940: Versenkung des französischen U-Bootes Doris (552 t) () durch zwei G7a-Torpedos. Es war ein Totalverlust.

 11. Mai 1940: Versenkung des estnischen Dampfers Viiu (1.908 BRT) () durch einen G7e-Torpedo. Er hatte eine unbekannte Ladung und befand sich auf dem Weg von Antwerpen nach Miami. Es gab fünf Überlebende.

 11. Mai 1940: Versenkung des britischen Dampfer Tringa durch einen Torpedo. Er hatte 1000 t Pottasche und 1200 t Eisenerz geladen und war auf dem Weg von Antwerpen nach Glasgow. Es gab siebzehn Tote und sechs Überlebende.

Siebente Feindfahrt
Das Boot lief am 16. Mai 1940 um 15:00 Uhr von Wilhelmshaven aus und am 30. Mai 1940 in Kiel ein. Auf der fünfzehn Tage dauernden und 960 sm über und 141 sm unter Wasser langen Unternehmung in den Ärmelkanal wurde ein Schiff mit 3.256 BRT versenkt.

 23. Mai 1940: Versenkung des deutschen Dampfers Sigurd Fallbaums (3.256 BRT) () durch zwei G7e-Torpedos. Er war von den Briten aufgebracht worden und befand sich als Prise auf dem Weg von Zeebrügge nach Großbritannien.

Achte Feindfahrt
Das Boot lief am 11. November 1942 um 7:00 Uhr von Constanța aus und am 1. Dezember 1942 um 12:30 Uhr wieder dort ein. Auf dieser einundzwanzig Tage dauernden und zirka 3.000 sm über und 271,9 sm unter Wasser langen Unternehmung im Schwarzen Meer vor Batumi, Poti, Tuapse und Adler wurden keine Schiffe versenkt.

Neunte Feindfahrt
Das Boot lief am 19. Dezember 1942 um 11:45 Uhr von Constanța aus und am 7. Januar 1943 um 10:39 Uhr wieder dort ein. Auf dieser zwanzig Tage dauernden und 2.219 sm über und 153,1 sm unter Wasser langen Unternehmung im Schwarzen Meer wurden keine Schiffe versenkt. Am Nachmittag des 27. Dezember 1942 warf ein sowjetischer Minensucher vor Sotschi acht Wasserbomben auf das Boot, die geringfügigen Schaden verursachten.

Zehnte Feindfahrt
Das Boot lief am 3. Februar 1943 um 11:00 Uhr von Constanța aus und am 3. März 1943 um 11:45 Uhr wieder dort ein. Auf dieser achtundzwanzig Tage dauernden und 3.042,9 sm über und 316,1 sm unter Wasser langen Unternehmung im Schwarzen Meer wurden keine Schiffe versenkt.

Elfte Feindfahrt
Das Boot lief am 17. April 1943 um 13:34 Uhr von Constanța aus und am 10. Mai 1943 um 09:15 Uhr wieder dort ein. Auf dieser vierundzwanzig Tage dauernden und 2.622,4 sm über und 275,9 sm unter Wasser langen Unternehmung im Schwarzen Meer wurden keine Schiffe versenkt.

Zwölfte Feindfahrt
Das Boot lief am 20. Mai 1943 um 13:45 Uhr von Constanța aus und am 12. Juni 1943 um 11:30 Uhr wieder dort ein. Auf dieser vierundzwanzig Tage dauernden und 3.043,1 sm über und 179,6 sm unter Wasser langen Unternehmung im Schwarzen Meer wurden keine Schiffe versenkt. Das U-Boot wurde während der Fahrt angegriffen, aber nicht beschädigt.

Dreizehnte Feindfahrt
Das Boot lief am 26. August 1943 um 13:38 Uhr von Constanța aus und lief am 10. September 1943 um 19:15 Uhr wieder dort ein. Auf dieser sechzehn Tage dauernden und 1,661 sm über und 157,6 sm unter Wasser langen Unternehmung ins Schwarze Meer wurden keine Schiffe versenkt.

Vierzehnte Feindfahrt
Das Boot lief am 2. Oktober 1943 um 13:50 Uhr von Constanța aus und am 6. November 1943 um 12:15 Uhr wieder dort ein. Auf der sechsunddreißig Tage dauernden und 3.508,1 sm über und 501,3 sm unter Wasser langen Unternehmung im Schwarzen Meer wurden keine Schiffe versenkt.

Fünfzehnte Feindfahrt
Das Boot lief am 28. November 1943 um 12:56 Uhr von Constanța aus und am 25. Dezember 1943 um 8:16 Uhr wieder dort ein. Auf der achtundzwanzig Tage dauernden und 3.037,7 sm über und 258,6 sm unter Wasser langen Unternehmung im Schwarzen Meer wurden keine Schiffe versenkt.

Sechzehnte Feindfahrt
Das Boot lief am 21. Februar 1944 um 08:00 Uhr von Constanța aus und am 28. Februar 1944 um 09:42 Uhr wieder dort ein. Auf der sieben Tage dauernden und 595,7 sm über und 38,9 sm unter Wasser langen Unternehmung im Schwarzen Meer wurden keine Schiffe versenkt.

Achtzehnte Feindfahrt
Das Boot lief am 23. März 1944 um 07:00 Uhr von Constanța aus und am 6. April 1944 um 21:55 Uhr wieder dort ein. Auf der zweiundzwanzig Tage dauernden und 1.390,3 sm über und 73,4 sm unter Wasser langen Unternehmung im Schwarzen Meer wurden am 31. März 1944 zwei sowjetische Flugzeuge vom Typ Iljuschin Il-2 abgeschossen.

Neunzehnte Feindfahrt
Das Boot lief am 26. April 1944 um 23:00 Uhr von Constanța aus und am 28. Mai 1944 um 09:40 Uhr wieder dort ein. Auf der vierzehn Tage dauernden Unternehmung im Schwarzen Meer wurden ein Kanonenboot versenkt und ein Minenleger torpediert. Tiefenangriffe einer sowjetischen Eskorte am 11. Mai südlich von Jalta verursachten geringen Schaden.

 11. Mai 1944: Versenkung oder Beschädigung des sowjetischen Minenlegers Schtorm (700 t) durch einen T-V-Torpedo. Wahrscheinlich wurde das Schiff versenkt; es gibt heute keine genauen Unterlagen mehr.

 25. Mai 1944: Versenkung des sowjetischen Kanonenboots Pitt (ca. 80 t) durch einen T-V-Torpedo.

Versenkungen

Traditionspflege
In Erinnerung an die Erfolge des Vorgängerbootes SM U 9 durfte dieses Boot ebenfalls je ein Eisernes Kreuz an beiden Seiten des Turms führen.

Die beiden Eisernen Kreuze blieben bis zur Versenkung am 20. August 1944 an Bord.

Verbleib
U 9 wurde am 20. August 1944 im Stützpunkt Constanța beim Angriff sowjetischer Jagd- und Schlachtflieger durch Bombenvolltreffer versenkt (). Es lag zu diesem Zeitpunkt mit U 18 und U 24 im Päckchen an der U-Bootpier. An Bord befanden sich zum Zeitpunkt des Angriffs keine Besatzungsmitglieder.

Die erste Bergung des Bootes erfolgte durch den Havariedienst der sowjetischen Schwarzmeerflotte bereits am 22. Oktober 1944. Wegen fehlender Dockkapazitäten wurde das Boot vorübergehend im Flachwasser auf Grund gesetzt. Erst Ende März 1945 erfolgte das Eindocken im Hafen von Constanța. Nach erster Reparatur im Dock wurde das Boot nach Nikolajew zur Wiederherstellung auf der dortigen Werft überführt. Am 19. April 1945 wurde das Boot mit der Bezeichnung TC-16 in den Bestand der sowjetischen Seekriegsflotte aufgenommen. In Nikolajew lag es zunächst bei einer Gruppe von rumänischen Schiffen, die als Kriegsbeute von der UdSSR aufgebracht und dorthin überführt worden waren. Nach seiner Wiederherstellung im Oktober 1945 wurde TC-16 nach Sewastopol verlegt und der sowjetischen U-Boot-Ausbildungseinheit zugeteilt. Am 25. November 1946 erfolgte seine Ausgliederung aus dem Schiffsbestand der Schwarzmeerflotte und die Freigabe zum Abwracken.

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks
 http://www.uboat.net/boats/u9.htm

U-Boot-Klasse II
U-Boot im Zweiten Weltkrieg
Germaniawerft
U9

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Patrolman Thomas Griffiths was shot and killed after arresting a man for slashing another man with a razor during an argument at a bar. As Patrolman Griffiths walked the man to a police call box the man broke away and ran from the officer. As Patrolman Griffiths chased him the man turned and shot him twice in the upper body. As Patrolman Griffiths fell to his knees the man shot him again in the head, killing him. The suspect fled but was apprehended later that evening.
The suspect was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. In 1915 he escaped from the Utah State Penitentiary. In May of 1932 he was located in an Italian prison where he was serving a sentence for robbery. Italian officials told Utah officials that he would be returned to them as soon as he completed his sentence.
Patrolman Griffiths had served with the agency for 6 years. He was survived by his wife and six children. He is buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah.
This gentleman was my father's great uncle, our family is still living in Wales, the Home of Officer Griffith, I live in NY State.
My father was named in honour of his Griffith family, Thomas Griffith Collins.


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Anti-"fake news" bill gives French state unchecked Internet censorship powers
By Alex Lantier
On Thursday, the National Assembly began debating French President Emmanuel Macron's draconian bill empowering the state to censor the Internet during the three months prior to any national election. The bill marks a vast new attack on freedom of speech, amid a wave of threats to Internet freedom worldwide based on the pretext of fighting "fake news."
The bill would allow candidates and political parties to take articles and Internet statements to court, where judges could force Internet service providers to censor material by declaring that they believed it to be "fake news." Due to the French president's broad powers to name and control the promotion of top magistrates, the French judiciary is widely acknowledged to be dependent on the executive. The bill thus places enormous power over the Internet in the hands of the president.
The bill defines "fake news" not as information that is false, but as "any allegation or implying of a fact without providing verifiable information that makes it plausible."
This anti-democratic definition poses vast dangers to legitimate journalism and political activity by removing any obligation on the state to prove that a statement is, in fact, false and harmful before taking legal action to suppress it. It lets judges order that legally protected speech be censored simply by asserting that they personally do not believe it to be convincing. It also allows judges to censor any article based on confidential sources such as whistleblowers on the grounds that the information contained in the article is not "verifiable."
The bill grants the Superior Audiovisual Council (CSA) powers to censor and suspend television stations that are "controlled by a foreign state or under its influence." This paves the way for the banning of media outlets such as the Russian state-backed RT and Sputnik.
While the bill purports to limit its reach to the three months before elections, a press campaign is underway to demand that no time limit be placed on these powers. When asked by "20 Minutes" whether he supported the bill, Sorbonne Professor François Jost replied: "The real question is why would this law go into effect only during election campaigns… Claiming that you can just tell any old lie at a certain time but not at another is absurd."
In France, opposition parties across the spectrum of official politics have criticized Macron's bill, aware not only that censorship is unpopular, but also that Macron could turn it against them. Marine Le Pen of the neo-fascist National Front called the bill "a danger to liberty" in a column for Causeur, while Stalinist deputy Elsa Faucillon warned that it "set up the idea of an official truth." Right-wing parliamentarian Christian Jacob said Macron was establishing "thought police."
The bill moves France toward a situation where the state can censor the Internet at will. The justification advanced by Macron and his supporters in an attempt to give the bill a quasi-democratic veneer is the claim that Macron suffered intolerable damage to his reputation when his electoral rival in last year's presidential run-off, Le Pen, alleged in a TV debate that Macron had a hidden offshore bank account in the Bahamas. This is a cynical pretext and political lie.
Le Pen's allegation did not do significant damage to Macron. Voters largely shrugged it off and Macron won the election by a large margin. Now, however, broad sections of the press are trying to whip up outrage at the fact that a neo-fascist made an unsourced accusation to justify an attack on the freedom of expression of the entire population.
France does not need to pass a new law to make publishing false and defamatory statements illegal. An 1881 law already provides for heavy fines for making such statements.
What is driving Macron's moves to censor the Internet is not outrage at a few statements by Le Pen or RT, but fear of the growth of social anger and anti-war sentiment. Ruling circles want to dictate the political views to which masses of workers have access. This drive to remove oppositional information and opinions from social media and the Internet has taken its most virulent form in the collaboration of US tech firms such as Google and Facebook with the US government.
On April 25 of last year, Google publicly announced that it would implement an algorithm to exclude "fake news" from its search results and then blacklisted socialist and anti-war web sites, including the World Socialist Web Site. It refused to respond to press inquiries, including from the New York Times, as to whether it was deliberately targeting the WSWS, whose traffic coming from Google searches plummeted. However, later that year Google executives publicly boasted that they aimed to "improve" search results by blocking material from RT and Sputnik News.
At the beginning of 2018, Facebook announced that it would de-prioritize political news on its user feeds in favor of "personal moments." It said this would make Facebook "good for your well-being and for society."
French officials planning mass Internet censorship are no less terrified of public opinion. As Macron was preparing his censorship bill earlier this year, a press campaign erupted denouncing the French people for believing in "conspiracy theories." The so-called "conspiracy theory" that angered the press the most was the belief that NATO governments, including that of France, work with the Islamist networks that carried out terror attacks in Paris in 2015 and elsewhere in Europe since then.
That US and European intelligence agencies have poured billions of dollars into the arming of Islamist militias that serve as proxies in their war for regime-change in Syria is, however, not a paranoid "conspiracy theory" or "fake news" produced by "Kremlin trolls," but a widely-reported fact.
Official circles are concerned that broader and broader layers of the public are concluding that the "war on terror" and the French state of emergency imposed after the terror attacks are based on lies. Mass protests erupted in Barcelona last year shortly after the terror attack there, in which demonstrators denounced Madrid's complicity with the terrorists.
Macron's moves to censor the Internet are directly bound up with this growth of political opposition and a revival of class struggle. Mass strikes have broken out against Macron's austerity policies among rail, airline and energy workers, and dissatisfaction is growing among strikers over the efforts of the unions to isolate these different struggles to keep them from coming together in a common movement against Macron. Strikes are breaking out across Europe, from teachers and rail workers in Britain to airline workers in Spain and metal and autoworkers in Germany and Turkey.
The United States has seen a wave of teachers' strikes and protests organized by rank-and-file educators independently of and largely in opposition to the unions.
Fifty years after the May-June 1968 general strike brought French capitalism to the verge of collapse, the ruling class again lives in fear. Macron is well aware of the findings of the European Union's "Generation What" poll. It showed that after a decade of austerity, over 60 percent of youth in Europe are ready to participate in a "mass uprising" against the established order. Moreover, two thirds of the French population say the class struggle is a daily reality of life—20 percent more than on the eve of the 1968 general strike.
Under such conditions, imperialist policy makers and strategists increasingly view public opinion in military terms. One EU strategist wrote four years ago that since "the percentage of the population who [are] poor and frustrated will continue to be very high, the tensions between this world and the world of the rich [will] continue to increase, with corresponding consequences. Since we will hardly be able to overcome the origin of this problem… i.e., the functional defects of society, we will have to protect ourselves more strongly."
Macron's attempt to censor the Internet in the guise of fighting "fake news" is a key part of the desperate, anti-democratic maneuvers of the ruling elite as it seeks to save itself from the growing threat of social revolution.
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EuroBasket 2013 begins in Slovenia
By Christos T. Panagopoulos/ Published on: 03/09/2013
Review by Christos T. Panagopoulos
On the eve of the first matches of EuroBasket 2013, the opening ceremony for the biggest sporting event in independent Slovenia will be held in Ljubljana's Congress Square on Tuesday evening.
The event will start at 9 PM and will be attended by President Borut Pahor, the mayors of all four host cities (Ljubljana, Koper, Celje and Jesenice) and several other state officials and political figures.
Also in attendance will be representatives of the Slovenian Basketball Association and FIBA Europe and representatives of all 24 nations that will take part in the tournament.
The ceremony will be hosted by TV Slovenija news anchor Igor E. Bergant, a former sport journalist, while the musical highlight of the evening will be the performance of the world-renowned a cappella choir Perpetuum Jazzile.
EuroBasket 2013 will be played between 4 and 22 September, with the preliminary round taking place until 9 September in Ljubljana, Koper, Celje and Jesenice. The second round and the knock-out stage will be played on Ljubljana's Stožice Arena.
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Basketball Diaries: Lakers/Warriors
Wonderfully entertaining Lakers-Warriors game the other night. The Warriors are a pesky team, and they brought great energy and were hitting their shots relentlessly in the first two and one-half quarters of the game.
The question was whether the Lakers would remain patient and poised, stick to their game (pound it inside) and ultimately make one of their patented "lockdown runs" that squeeze the life out of the competition.
Sure enough, looking like champions, they worked a 17-3 run in the 4th that turned a game that they were losing for all of about 2-3 minutes into a solid victory.
Two monster blocks by Kobe Bryant (on Corey Maggette and Anthony Randolph (click link to see video), and continued brilliance of Pau Gasol, who is becoming a solid anchor to the offense.
Side comment: Anthony Randolph got into Lamar Odom's head all night, was brilliant for a young player, and is going to be REAL GOOD if keeps doing what he is doing. Very Lamar-like set of skills. Makes one wonder about Nelson's old school doghouse where Randolph has spent a lot of time this season.
Obama: An Officer and a Gentleman
Funny comments the other night by Dennis Miller on Jay Leno about Barack Obama's continued efforts to take the campaign to the people.
One, he suggested that half of America is sponsoring the other half of America in this bailout.
Two, he noted that the troubled McDonald's worker in one of Obama's town hall meetings is perhaps looking a bit too much at Obama as Richard Gere in 'Officer and a Gentleman,' expecting that Obama is going to carry him off to a happy ending.
I liked the inference that while our government has a role to play in stabilizing and supporting, we the American people can't look to others to lift us up. We have to lift ourselves higher.
Miller noted this sardonically, quipping, "You work at McDonald's until you don't want to work at McDonald's anymore. You build the skills you need, get out and then work somewhere better."
FRONTLINE: Inside the Meltdown
It's worth carving out an hour to watch the PBS FRONTLINE documentary, "Inside the Meltdown" (it's online HERE). First off, it presents the best analog to explain what's going on, comparing the crisis to systemic spasms that each time the spasms occur, they are getting worse.
Plus, it provides the most compelling argument I have read so far that the decision of the Fed to let Lehman fail was the seminal bad (but non-obvious) judgment call that infected the system, taking what could have otherwise been a contained event, and allowing it to become global and system wide.
Containment is a term you think of as being like a viral contagion or a nuclear threat, but it's very apropos to what is going on.
The documentary helps you follow the bouncing ball of terms from "Mass Losses to the Financial System" to "Global Interconnectedness" to "Moral Hazard" (and how it shaped handling of both Bear Stearns and Lehman) to "Wealth Loss" (via home and stock portfolio value contraction) to "Leverage Contraction" to "Liquidity Stringency" to "Overnight Intra-Bank Lending" (as viscosity lubricant that must be kept flowing daily to avoid engine seize and instantaneous collapse of investment banks) to "Lender of Last Resort" to "Financial System Meltdown in a Matter of Days."
The show raised a couple of questions for me. One is how to reconcile a bailout of global firms and assets, given national boundaries (the level of interdependency is jaw-dropping complex), especially in light of fact that there is lack of clear past precedent other than that you have to "do something."
This paradox provides color to how Congress can in rapid fashion stupidly vote against a bailout and understandably struggle with a fuzzy plan attached to a blank check. It also (unfortunately) feeds the type of sanctimonious rhetoric that congress excels at, which unfortunately is at its most destructive right now.
Lastly, it raises a fundamental question of "What if the system is insolvent? What then?" If, for example, as we have seen, the markets trade on all sort of virtual bets on real assets, and do so at multiples far greater than the real assets themselves (e.g., oil markets trading 8X volume to the level of real oil being consumed), then perhaps the REAL losses to the underlying actual asset are logarithmic-ally smaller on the downside (1/8)?
In other words, the dollars lost are real, but perhaps there is a way to get back to intrinsic value by stripping out the derivative element and representing separately as a balance sheet item.
I am not even sure that I can explain that one fully (I am not a quant) but key point is that dollars, homes, mortgages and physical assets don't just vaporize even if the markets surrounding them and the financial models supporting value assumptions collapse.
Pinch Media Analytics on iPhone Application Lifecycle
The title is self-explanatory but watch the slide show as it presents some interesting data for analyzing the moving parts of app usage lifecycle, pricing determinants (free versus fee) and ad monetization viability as a business strategy.
Worth noting is that while the data provides some valuable insight into the efficacy (or lack thereof) of ad support for most applications, what it doesn't speak to is the integral-ness of free 'lite' versions in driving users to upsell themselves to the premium 'full' version of the app.
This is standard practice in the App Store universe and there is a lot of data that supports the marketing value of lite version/full version as a (paying) customer acquisition strategy.
The other thing that this data doesn't speak to is the value of App Store as a distribution/monetization strategy for app builders relative to other channels.
My friends in the iPhone Developer universe that sell/sold their products through retail and other channels consider the iPhone App Store model to be manna from heaven in terms of margin, reach and control. To be clear, an imperfect channel, as all things are, but manna nonetheless.
See my post 'Surplus, Scarcity and the iPhone App Store' for more fodder on this topic.
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I am from Tampa, Florida, graduated from Freedom High School. I had a partial scholarship offer from the University of Puget sound a couple weeks before I enlisted into the United States Marine Corps. From my freshman year of high school to my sophomore year of high school I played cornerback, after my sophomore year I switched to offense and played at slot receiver. I did not have a chance to properly expose myself to other colleges while playing football so I was unable to get a concrete place to play football after high school. From this, I decided to enlist. I am currently enrolled in online schooling at Columbia College. I am set to get my associates in General Studies in April of 2019. I ran track, the open 800 yard relay, the 4x800, and the 1 mile. I am looking for an opportunity to play football again. Today, I still have the mentality of not being outworked and being the hardest worker in the room. I am doing whatever it takes to get back into the pads and playing the sport I love. I am currently training so when my name is called I will be ready.
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The hotel has 49 rooms, which are located both in the main building and the annex.
The annex was opened in 1997 and is much more modern than the main building. There are 3 Budget rooms, 23 Standard rooms, 20 Executive rooms, 2 Deluxe rooms.
The hotel also has a Belvédère (the tower room).
This room is located in the historic building (1865) of the hotel complex and offers a unique 360° view on the historic city of light.
The budgetrooms are in the main building of the hotel complex.
The rooms offer the choice between a queen-size bed or twin beds.
The standard rooms are both in the main building and the annex of the hotel complex.
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Queen bed or twin bed and private bathroom with bath or shower.
Spacious, luxuriously furnished room with a premium interior.
View on the Leie or the Gravensteen.
King or Queensize bed and a bathroom with bath and / or shower.
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St. Moritz, 13. Mai 2015; Das Grand Hotel des Bains Kempinski, St. Moritz, gewinnt den Senses Award in der Kategorie "Best Health & Lifestyle Resort 2015". Im Rahmen eines Galaabends wurden am vergangenen Freitag in Berlin die Besten der Besten aus Hotellerie und Tourismus, Wellness und Spa geehrt. Bereits zum 24. Mal wurden die internationalen Senses Awards des gleichnamigen Wellness- und Lifestyle Guides mit Sitz in Zürich und Berlin zelebriert. Auch in diesem Jahr wurden die Bewerber um den Award sorgfältig ausgewählt und von der Senses-Jury zur Teilnahme eingeladen.
Kempinski Grand Hotel des Bains is located right in the heart of St Moritz and only a few minutes' walk away from the famous lake with direct access to the slopes and mountain bike trails at Corviglia. Great service is offered in 184 rooms and suites, including 24-hour room and concierge services, babysitter services and special kid's menus and bathrooms with heated floors. You will be spoiled in the awarded restaurants, in our alpine Kempinski The Spa with an indoor pool and exclusive saunas, our sport shop and ski school and our well-lit banquet rooms with full technical equipment.
Created in 1897, Kempinski Hotels is Europe's oldest luxury hotel group. Kempinski's rich heritage of impeccable personal service and superb hospitality is complemented by the exclusivity and individuality of its properties. Kempinski now manages a portfolio of 75 five-star hotels in 30 countries and continues to add new properties in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Each one reflects the strength and success of the Kempinski brand without losing sight of its heritage. The portfolio comprises historic landmark properties, award-winning urban lifestyle hotels, outstanding resorts, and prestigious residences. Each one is imbued with the quality guests have come to expect from Kempinski while embracing the cultural traditions of its location.
Kempinski is a founding member of the Global Hotel Alliance (GHA), the world's largest alliance of independent hotel brands, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2014.


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Q: Rule to file mail in existing or newly created folder I am new to VBA and need your help on a rule that will search the subject of an email and if a specific string "LSC_" found in the subject eg: LSC_IND_TATA and the default naming convention is LSC_XXX_XXX or [LSC_XXX_XXX] then the message is moved to that named sub-folder or a newly created sub-folder of LSC.
So the outlook folder structure looks like the below
LSC
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Function CheckForFolder(strFolder As String) As Boolean

Dim olApp As Outlook.Application
Dim olNS As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim olInbox As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim FolderToCheck As Outlook.MAPIFolder

Set olApp = Outlook.Application
Set olNS = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set olInbox = olNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)

On Error Resume Next
Set FolderToCheck = olInbox.Folders(strFolder)
On Error GoTo 0

If Not FolderToCheck Is Nothing Then
    CheckForFolder = True
End If

ExitProc:
Set FolderToCheck = Nothing
Set olInbox = Nothing
Set olNS = Nothing
Set olApp = Nothing
End Function

Function CreateSubFolder(strFolder As String) As Outlook.MAPIFolder

Dim olApp As Outlook.Application
Dim olNS As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim olInbox As Outlook.MAPIFolder

Set olApp = Outlook.Application
Set olNS = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set olInbox = olNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)

Set CreateSubFolder = olInbox.Folders.Add(strFolder)

ExitProc:
Set olInbox = Nothing
Set olNS = Nothing
Set olApp = Nothing
End Function

Function SearchAndMove(lookFor As String)

Dim olApp As Outlook.Application
Dim olNS As Outlook.NameSpace
Dim olInbox As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim FolderToCheck As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim myItem As Object
Dim MyFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim lookIn As String
Dim newName As String
Dim location As Integer

Set olApp = Outlook.Application
Set olNS = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
Set olInbox = olNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
 For Each myItem In olInbox.Items
 lookIn = myItem.Subject
 If InStr(lookIn, lookFor) Then
     location = InStr(lookIn, lookFor)
             newName = Mid(lookIn, location)
        If CheckForFolder(newName) = False Then
            Set MyFolder = CreateSubFolder(newName)
            myItem.Move MyFolder
                Else
            Set MyFolder = olInbox.Folders(newName)
            myItem.Move MyFolder
        End If
    End If
Next myItem
End Function

Sub myMacro()
Dim str As String
str = "LSC_"
SearchAndMove (str)
End Sub

A: Function CheckForFolder(strFolder As String) As Boolean

Dim olApp As Outlook.Application
Dim olNS As Outlook.Namespace
Dim olInbox As Outlook.MAPIFolder

Dim olInbox_Target As Outlook.MAPIFolder ' <---

Dim FolderToCheck As Outlook.MAPIFolder

Set olApp = Outlook.Application
Set olNS = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")

Set olInbox_Target = olNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox).Folders("LSC") ' <---

On Error Resume Next
Set FolderToCheck = olInbox_Target.Folders(strFolder) ' <---
On Error GoTo 0

If Not FolderToCheck Is Nothing Then
    CheckForFolder = True
End If

ExitProc:
Set FolderToCheck = Nothing
Set olInbox = Nothing
Set olNS = Nothing
Set olApp = Nothing
End Function

Function CreateSubFolder(strFolder As String) As Outlook.MAPIFolder

Dim olApp As Outlook.Application
Dim olNS As Outlook.Namespace
Dim olInbox As Outlook.MAPIFolder

Dim olInbox_Target As Outlook.MAPIFolder ' <---

Set olApp = Outlook.Application
Set olNS = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")

Set olInbox_Target = olNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox).Folders("LSC") ' <---

Set CreateSubFolder = olInbox_Target.Folders.Add(strFolder)

ExitProc:
Set olInbox = Nothing
Set olNS = Nothing
Set olApp = Nothing
End Function

Function SearchAndMove(lookFor As String, myitem As mailItem)

Dim olApp As Outlook.Application
Dim olNS As Outlook.Namespace
'Dim olInbox As Outlook.MAPIFolder

Dim olInbox_Target As Outlook.MAPIFolder ' <---

Dim FolderToCheck As Outlook.MAPIFolder
'Dim myitem As Object
Dim MyFolder As Outlook.MAPIFolder
Dim lookIn As String
Dim newName As String
Dim location As Integer

Set olApp = Outlook.Application
Set olNS = olApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")

'Set olInbox = olNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
Set olInbox_Target = olNS.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox).Folders("LSC") ' <---

'For Each myItem In olInbox.Items

    lookIn = myitem.Subject

    If InStr(lookIn, lookFor) Then

        location = InStr(lookIn, lookFor)
        newName = Mid(lookIn, location)

        If Right(newName, 1) = "]" Then
            newName = Left(newName, Len(newName) - 1)
        End If

        If CheckForFolder(newName) = False Then
            Set MyFolder = CreateSubFolder(newName)
            myitem.Move MyFolder
        Else
            Set MyFolder = olInbox_Target.Folders(newName)
            myitem.Move MyFolder
        End If

    End If

'Next myItem

End Function

' Choose this in Run a Script
Sub myMacro(itm As mailItem)
Dim str As String
str = "LSC_"
SearchAndMove str, itm
End Sub

' To test
' Manually select an email with an appropriate subject
Sub myMacroTest()
Dim itm As mailItem
Set itm = ActiveExplorer.Selection(1)
myMacro itm
End Sub

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Q: How to port "return False" to a class and "try/except" clause I am relatively new to Python and I am trying to learn a thing or two about classes. I have some experience with functions and I am trying to understand how classes work. My question is about error handling.
Normally with a function, I can perform some operations and if something goes wrong, I can simply return False and validate it where the function's been called before moving on with the rest of the code execution.
How can I do this with the classes?
I have a simple class with a simple method, say:
my_object = MyObj()
my_object.swim()

When I make my_object "swim", I want to be able to handle errors or problems, in a simple manner.
For example:
During the execution of def swim(..): I want to be able to return False or raise different errors and handle them without interrupting the application completely.
I.e. I want to:
try:
    my_object.swim()
except:
    # it can not swim. I want it to tell me why or just tell me "False" so I can execute another codeblock and tell it to perhaps .walk_away()

I read about try/except blocks, raising errors, how they are classes. But it does not do what I like, which is to try performing a method and handling the results of that method's execution (true, false or another error, perhaps?)
How can I do this in Python?
Thank you.

A: You would do the following:
class MayNotSwimException(Exception):
    def __init__(reason):
        self.reason = reason

class Person(object):
    def __init__(self, can_swim):
        self.can_swin = can_swim

    def swim(self):
        if self.can_swim:
            self.do_something()
        else:
            raise MayNotSwimException("I can't swim because...!")

    def walk_away(self):
        self.do_something_else()

p = Person(can_swim = False)
try:
    p.swim():
except MayNotSwimException as e: # In python 2.5-, use MayNotSwimException, e
    print "That person can't swim because", e.reason
    p.walk_away()

Exceptions can be used to:

*

*Alter the flow of control (jump back to a try/except block)

*Transfer information through the exception itself. This can be achieved by raising different types of Exceptions (ie. We could define a MayNotSwimBecauseDoesntWantException and a MayNotSwimBecauseFeelsSleepyException and catch them separately) or through attributes of the Exception object itself (e.reason).

Please have a look at the documentation for a more detailed explanation!

A: Put the try..except or other form of checking for failure (and the reaction code) in the swim method itself. Exceptions need not be fatal, but I suggest you limit their use where normal conditionals can be used, to keep the code clean.


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City Council votes not to hold mid-December mail-in election
By Dan McKay / Journal Staff Writer
Published: Tuesday, October 7th, 2014 at 12:05am
Updated: Tuesday, October 7th, 2014 at 5:13am
Copyright © 2014 Albuquerque Journal
Albuquerque city councilors aren't ready just yet to call a special election on three questions that didn't make the Nov. 4 ballot.
Late Monday, they killed the idea of a mid-December mail-in election – at the request of the councilor who sponsored the idea, Ken Sanchez.
Sanchez, the council president, said he floated the idea only as a discussion item because holding a special election this year might help avoid the cost of multiple special elections down the road.
That's because one of the questions the council wants to send to voters would change the rules for petition drives, which often require the city to hold special elections if supporters gather enough signatures. The council wants to allow legislation brought via petition to go on the next regularly scheduled election ballot, rather than requiring an immediate special election.
Regardless, Sanchez said, it's better to wait, for now, and see whether voters change the state constitution this fall to allow the city to put municipal ballot items before voters during school-board elections. Albuquerque Public Schools has an election scheduled for February.
That would allow the city to get its questions to voters fairly quickly, Sanchez said.
"We're trying to avoid special elections," Sanchez said Monday. "I just think the cost at this time is too high."
The council and mayor have at least three ballot measures they want to put before voters: proposals to give the council approval authority over the hiring of a police chief, to authorize the sale of $6.5 million in bonds for redevelopment projects and to make changes to the petition process.
In other action Monday, the City Council:
• Adopted a resolution directing the city attorney to drop a lawsuit that alleges three union groups owe taxpayers more than $927,000 because their top officers drew city pay while handling union business, a practice known as "union time."
The bill, sponsored by Diane Gibson, was approved on a 5-4 vote along party lines, with Democrats in the majority. It now goes to Mayor Richard Berry, a Republican, and, if he vetoes it, the council would need six votes to override.
• Deadlocked on a resolution that says the city doesn't support the proposed settlement agreement Public Service Company of New Mexico has reached with some parties involved in the regulatory debate over the future of the San Juan Generating Station. A motion to pass the resolution failed on a 4-4 vote.
The resolution cited environmental and other concerns about the proposed settlement.


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The Neuroscience of Customer Experience
When neurological insights inform design thinking, companies can innovate with greater precision.
Paul J. Zak April 13, 2022 Reading Time: 13 min
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Thanks to brands like Sephora, Disney, Bass Pro Shops, and American Girl, consumers have come to expect extraordinary experiences — and companies are under increasing pressure to create them.1 Even the pros continue to up their game. Take Starbucks, where it has long been understood that a cafe is much more than a place to get coffee. Starbucks Reserve locations elevate the cafe experience to a new level. Patrons watch green coffee beans being roasted and then brewed onsite, while "mixologists" host coffee tastings and prepare unique cocktails. People can shop for local artwork and gifts with drinks in hand. They can also take tours, eat dinner, and attend classes.
Of course, extraordinary customer experiences are not always upmarket. For instance, low-cost airline Avelo flies only to and from small airports that are easy to navigate. It encourages passengers to check their bags in order to speed up boarding and deplaning, and it has eliminated flight-change fees. Avelo's focus makes affordable travel easy and comfortable — major upgrades when you consider the treatment that budget-conscious passengers usually get.
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While the variety of extraordinary experiences is wide, they do have a common objective: building brand attachment and customer loyalty. A single bad experience can drive away customers for life, but one that is fantastic creates a desire to buy again. However, trying to create something "mind-blowing" or "amazing" lacks the precision needed to consistently engineer the extraordinary.
Over the past 20 years, my research team has identified a set of brain signals that make experiences feel valuable and emotionally charged, rendering them memorable. Our work has shown that this combination produces a desire to repeat the experience.
Having measured people's brain activity during thousands of experiences, both in my lab and in businesses, I have augmented widely used design thinking principles with neuroscience so that anyone can create extraordinary experiences. I'll describe how, but first, let's look at the science in a little more detail.
The Components of Immersion
Powerful emotional responses supercharge memories of experiences.2 Think about how easily you can recall where you were on 9/11, for example, or how vividly you remember a film that moved you deeply.
An emotional response is an unconscious one, so it cannot be reflected in consciously delivered user feedback such as survey scores and ratings.
Paul J. Zak (@pauljzak) is a professor of economic sciences, psychology, and management at Claremont Graduate University. He also founded the neuroscience-as-a-service platform company Immersion Neuroscience. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Immersion: The Science of the Extraordinary and the Source of Happiness (Lioncrest, 2022).
1. B.J. Pine and J.H. Gilmour, "The Experience Economy: Competing for Customer Time, Attention, and Money," rev. ed. (Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2019).
2. This has long been established. See, for example, K.S. LaBar and E.A. Phelps, "Arousal-Mediated Memory Consolidation: Role of the Medial Temporal Lobe in Humans," Psychological Science 9, no. 6 (November 1998): 490-493.
3. L.K. John, O. Emrich, S. Gupta, et al., "Does 'Liking' Lead to Loving? The Impact of Joining a Brand's Social Network on Marketing Outcomes," Journal of Marketing Research 54, no. 1 (November 2017): 144-155. For findings that show more broadly that self-report measures are not predictive, see A.F. Kraig, J.A. Barraza, W. Montgomery, et al., "The Neurophysiology of Corporate Apologies: Why Do People Believe Insincere Apologies?" International Journal of Business Communication, July 9, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1177/2329488419858391.
4. J.A. Barraza and P.J. Zak, "Empathy Toward Strangers Triggers Oxytocin Release and Subsequent Generosity," Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1167, no. 1 (June 2009): 182-189.
5. For more details, see P.J. Zak, "Neurological Correlates Allow Us to Predict Human Behavior," The Scientist, Oct. 1, 2020, www.the-scientist.com.
6. G. Jocham, T.A. Klein, and M. Ullsperger, "Dopamine-Mediated Reinforcement Learning Signals in the Striatum and Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Underlie Value-Based Choices," Journal of Neuroscience 31, no. 5 (February 2011): 1606-1613.
7. P. Lin, N.S. Grewal, C. Morin, et al., "Oxytocin Increases the Influence of Public Service Advertisements," PLoS ONE 8, no. 2 (February 2013): e56934.
8. J. A. Barraza, X. Hu, E.T. Terris, et al., "Oxytocin Increases Perceived Competence and Social-Emotional Engagement with Brands," PLoS ONE 16, no. 11 (November 2021): e0260589.
9. S. Het, D. Schoofs, N. Rohleder, et al., "Stress-Induced Cortisol Level Elevations Are Associated With Reduced Negative Affect After Stress: Indications for a Mood-Buffering Cortisol Effect," Psychosomatic Medicine 74, no. 1 (January 2012): 23-32. See also E.T. Cox, T.M. Jarrett, M.S. McMurray, et al., "Combined Norepinephrine/Serotonergic Reuptake Inhibition: Effects on Maternal Behavior, Aggression, and Oxytocin in the Rat," Frontiers in Psychiatry 2, no. 34 (June 2011): 1-14.
10. T. Kelley, "The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America's Leading Design Firm" (New York: Broadway Business, 2001).
11. P.J. Zak, "Why Your Brain Loves Good Storytelling," Harvard Business Review, Oct. 28, 2014, https://hbr.org.
12. P.J. Zak and J.A. Barraza, "Measuring Immersion in Experiences with Biosensors — Preparation for International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies," Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (2018): 303-307.
13. C. Yoon, R. Gonzalez, A. Bechara, et al., "Decision Neuroscience and Consumer Decision Making," Marketing Letters 23, no. 2 (June 2012): 473-485.
14. V.G. Morwitz, J.H. Steckel, and A. Gupta, "When Do Purchase Intentions Predict Sales?" International Journal of Forecasting 23, no. 3 (July-September 2007): 347-364.
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Today was my first day of school for this week. I was able to wake and hop in a warm shower, which isn't something I normally get to do. After that, I had to hurry up and get ready, because I wanted to play with my i-pod before breakfast. I did end up getting a few minutes to do so, before it was finally time to eat.
After grabbing a bowl of apple cenoman oatmill, I joined the other people in my dorm, and we all left for school. We first had to stop by the health center so that the people that had meds could take them, but I didn't have any, and just wanted to get to school.
Well, we finally got to school, and it turned out to be a good day. I was the only student in the class I am in, and there are two teachers. That means that I get double the one on one attention I need.
Well, the throughout the day, we spent learning about voice over on the mac computer, and taking an assessment. That assessment consisted of the teachers asking me questions for about 30 minutes, which resulted in me being bored to tears.
At the end of the day, we had homework hour, which is an hour where we can do work from our regular schools. I completed english, and tried to start on math.
When we were picked up to go back to the dorm at 3, instead we went to the park. There is this spinner thing there, and I practicly spun myself sick on it, thus I had to rest for about an hour. After we left the park, like I said, I rested, before going to the dorm and doing homework hour. It was more like homework 20 minutes, because I didn't have enough time to make it an hour. However, I did work on social studies, and then had some pizza. Finally, I was able to get on the computer and post my journal. That is all I did today.


We have just returned to the SD ranch from AZ, and I was not sure what I should write about on WinkWorld–until I glanced at the books on my desk and my night stand. In what follows are some thoughts of what I have recently read. Here we go.
First, my colleague and dear friend, Janet Towell, sent me a book to read; her mother is next on our list of readers. Here is Janet when she visited us and our Little Free Library.
And, here is the book which she sent me to read, The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah. It is a fast and painful novel. The characters are powerful, real, and unforgettable, but keep your tissue close. Basically, it is a love story between a mom, with many challenges, and a daughter, with different challenges. Janet, I think I thank you. My heart was hurting as I read, but I couldn't put it down. Dawn, you are not allowed to read this one.
I also found a copy of Frank McCourt's Tis: A Memoir in a Little Free Library in Tucson, so I reread it. I had forgotten his writing style. I promise you that you will hear his Irish lilt and laughter when you read it.
While I was in Tucson, I went to visit the Worlds of Words (W0W)* at the University of Arizona. Kathy Short, who created this magical place did a talk on recent trends in literature for little kids and teen-agers. It was fascinating, as she did a book walk through 10s of books. And, I wanted them all. I limited myself to 3 children's books–the first is My Two Blankets by Irena Kobald & Freya Blackwood (an Autralian book). If you have kids in your class, who are new to our country and do not know English, I highly recommend this book. In the story, the little girl is such a happy, free-spirit in her home country. Her Auntie calls her, Cartwheel. However, when Cartwheel comes to her new country and does not understand English, and all that surround her seems so foreign, little Cartwheel withdraws in sadness and cuddles with her blanket from home. Eventually, a little girl in class befriends her, and little Cartwheel re-emerges with a new blanket, which is as warm, soft, and comforting as her first blanket from home.
While I was at WOW, Yetta Goodman sent a whole pile of her books for sharing. I tried really hard to let all of the teachers go first, but finally I just had to jump in–and, there I found a copy of Jane Tompkins' A Life in School: What The Teacher Learned. I used her writings with teachers in the 90s. From Tompkins, I learned about the dangers of the pedagogy of performance and the pedagogy of the distressed. Rereading this book is like visiting with an old friend. And, I love having a book from Yetta.
I bought a copy of Turning Pages: My Life Story b Sonia Sotomayor. In this childrens' book, Sotomayor tells how words, books, and libraries were central to her bilingual life. Finally, she tells how the law books were stories of real life people who need justice.
Carol Edelsky also was at WOW, while I was there. It was great to spend time with her. In 1991, she wrote a book with THE. BEST. TITLE. EVER. She has later editions, but this is a photo of my original book. And, yes, I added the roses and the baby-in-balls photo.
Carole recommended that I read, The Overstory by Richard Powers. OK, will do.
Thank you, Dr. Kathy Short and team of Worlds of Words at the University of Arizona.
Joan, thank you for such a wonderful list. I have books by Craig Childs and Gary Nabhan next to my bed now. I'm going to add a few of these titles to that stack.
My corner of northwest lower Michigan has many little free libraries sprinkled about along with many full size libraries in every community.
I love finding LFLs wherever we go! Thanks, Lindy.
Great list to stimulate us to keep reaching beyond self-imposed boundaries.
Cuzzin' Judy, I do not think you have very many self-imposed boundaries! You go, girl!
Lindy Barnes, thanks a lot for the article post.Much thanks again. Fantastic.