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Q: How to compute some basic statistics in R with the density and support only? I have no sample and I'd like to compute the variance, mean, median, and mode of a distribution which I only have a vector with it's density and a vector with it's support. Is there an easy way to compute this statistics in R with this information?
Suppose that I only have the following information:
Support
Density
sum(Density) == 1 #TRUE
length(Support)==length(Density)# TRUE

A: You have to do weighted summations
F.e., starting with @Johann example
set.seed(312345)
x = rnorm(1000, mean=10, sd=1)
x_support = density(x)$x
x_density = density(x)$y

plot(x_support, x_density)
mean(x)

prints
[1] 10.00558

and what, I believe, you're looking for
m = weighted.mean(x_support, x_density)

computes mean as weighted mean of values, producing output
10.0055796130192

There are weighted.sd, weighted.sum functions which should help you with other quantities you're looking for.
Plot

A: If you don't need a mathematical solution, and an empirical one is all right, you can achieve a pretty good approximation by sampling.
Let's generate some data:
set.seed(6854684)
x = rnorm(50,mean=10,sd=1)
x_support = density(x)$x
x_density = density(x)$y
# see our example:
plot(x_support, x_density )
# the real mean of x
mean(x)

Now to 'reverse' the process we generate a large sample from that density distribution:
x_sampled = sample(x = x_support, 1000000, replace = T, prob = x_density)
# get the statistics
mean(x_sampled)
median(x_sampled)
var(x_sampled)
etc...


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Jelen szócikk ezekről a távirányított fegyverrendszerekről ad egy áttekintést.

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The Wooden cutout collection Gives Air + Light Its Freedom
07.08.22 | By Kelly Beall
Photo: Gila Babich
Gila Babich
Tel Aviv-based designer and woodworker Gila Babich, founder of frill furniture, creates practical home decor that can make a space feel more alive. Her latest made-by-hand furniture and wall pieces, the cutout collection, was exhibited last month at SaloneSatellite. "I love the physicality of the woodshop, of breaking down giant boards of lumber into small, delicate pieces and putting them together into entirely different objects," Babich said of her process.
The cutout collection features a handmade two-layer panel with cutout abstract shapes, making it see-through. Air and light are free to move through the paper snowflake-like pattern, capable of casting beautiful shadow patterns. The design also allows for the piece to exist without interrupting the flow of a space. You might notice Babich's appreciation for architectural elements such as extruded bricks, traditional latticework, and modern wind walls in the patterns. The cutout collection is her interpretation of creating lighter construction, ventilation, privacy, and shade.
Babich's cutout panels can act as many things: a shelf, a cabinet door, a tabletop, a headboard, a room divider, or a piece of art. The panels are made of sustainable maple wood, and the wall art is made of painted MDF.
To learn more about the cutout collection, visit frillfurniture.com.
Photography by Hadar Dolan.
Kelly Beall is senior editor at Design Milk. The Pittsburgh-based graphic designer and writer has had a deep love of art and design for as long as she can remember, and enjoys sharing her finds with others. When undistracted by great art and design, she can be found making a mess in the kitchen, consuming as much information as possible, or on the couch with her three pets. Find her @designcrush on social.
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Sneak Peek at Delta Air Lines' New $1.9 Billion LAX Terminal
Johnny Jet March 30, 2022
Yesterday, I went to LAX for my first indoor business function at the airport in over two years. It's mind boggling when I sit and reflect on it but one thing's for sure: Delta and LAX used the downtime of the pandemic to their advantage. The construction of the new terminal was supposed to be completed in 2024 but finished a whopping 18 months ahead of schedule. As one of the executives quipped at their ribbon cutting ceremony, it was one of the silver linings of COVID-19.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti emceed the ceremony, debuting the new headhouse that featured six speakers including Delta CEO Ed Bastian.
This was Delta's and Los Angeles World Airports' first major phase of the Delta Sky Way at LAX. If you remember, Terminal 3 used to be home of TWA, then Alaska, then Virgin America/Australia and a number of others. It's difficult to keep up because of all the shifting but thanks to Delta's deep pockets and their vision for the future, LAX is slowly becoming one of the world's great airports.
I know, you snicker, but it's true. Just look at the Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT) next door. It's gorgeous and apart from the crazy long walk to their new satellite gate which I just experienced flying Hawaiian Airlines (here's my trip report), it's arguably the best terminal in the country.
Headhouse
The new gleaming, consolidated headhouse (check-in lobby) will connect Terminals 2 and 3 since it's smack in between and will feature 32 self-serve kiosks and 46 check-in positions to serve customers upon arrival. It's scheduled to open to the public next month on April 20 so there are still some finishing touches to be made. But one feature that's already complete is the stunning 250-foot digital backwall that spans the entire length of the facility. It features wayfinding in both English and Spanish as well as Sky Club volume and gate information.
All travelers will appreciate the expanded security checkpoint and baggage claim area, designed to create "a more efficient and seamless experience from the moment [passengers] arrive." On April 20, there will be seven security lanes open to customers but all 14 checkpoints will be fully operational by late summer.
The six baggage claim carousels are on the first floor of the headhouse and are spaced out nicely. I just wish they had higher ceilings. It was probably the only disappointment but if Delta can get passengers' bags out in the 20 minutes they promise, then who cares?
The new terminal will feature 27 gates. That's 11 more than what Delta had before the construction. Not only are there more gates but there will be twice the square footage with 1.2-million square feet, and in 2023, a post-security connection to the Tom Bradley International Terminal, which will then make all of LAX accessible for anyone who clears security. Passengers who have their walking shoes and don't want to go outside to take a shuttle or tram (if it's completed by then), won't have to clear security twice even if they making a connection from Terminal 1 to Terminal 8.
Sky Club
Frequent and premium flyers will no doubt love the new state-of-the-art Delta Sky Club.
On a clear day like yesterday, you can see the Hollywood sign off in the distance in the Hollywood Hills.
The club features over 30,000 feet of premium space, including an indoor/outdoor double bar, a year-round outdoor Sky Deck, premium showers and more, for customers to relax and recharge before, during or after their travels.
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Tip: Bring a zoom lens for some exciting plane spotting like the photo I snapped above
There are also sustainability-focused design elements, which include low-flow water fixtures, a "cool roof" to reduce the heat-island effect and maximize air-conditioning energy use and more.
Yesterday, the only functional bathroom was in the baggage claim area. I wasn't expecting much so I was pleasantly surprised to find that the sinks were all hands-free, including water, soap and a built in super hand dryer. They also had a hands-free paper towel option.
Delta Air Lines continues to put their money where their mouth is and after touring yesterday's new headhouse and meeting their executives, they have me all fired up to start traveling again. I'm also seriously considering doing a status challenge to jump ship from American Airlines Executive Platinum to Delta Air Lines Diamond Medallion.
One reason is because from LAX, Delta operates 140 daily flights to 53 destinations across the globe to destinations like Hawaii and Mexican beaches as well as to 18 of the top 20 markets for LA customers.
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While the terminal may be good. The airline is not. Delta needs a lot of help in their time management, gate attendants, and all of their customer service representatives.
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Plaintiff underwent a total right hip replacement utilizing a hip system that included a femoral neck component. Four years after Plaintiff's hip replacement surgery, the femoral neck component failed requiring that Plaintiff undergo a total hip revision. Thereafter, Plaintiffs brought action against the Company, the manufacturer of the femoral neck component at issue. Attorneys Singer and Kelly, on behalf of their client, moved to dismiss Plaintiffs' action based on lack of personal jurisdiction.
The Court applied Washington Law in its analysis of whether it could assert personal jurisdiction over the Company manufacturer in this case. In moving to dismiss, the Company argued that the Court had neither general nor specific jurisdiction over it. It argued that the Court lacked general jurisdiction as the Company was not 'essentially at home' in Washington. The Court concurred with the Company, heavily distinguished the cases advanced by Plaintiffs and found that the Company's activities in Washington made up only a minor portion of its overall revenue and that it had neither a business license in the state nor had it entered the state to deliver components directly to Washington customers. The Court also disagreed with Plaintiffs' argument that the Company's website established the necessary contacts to satisfy general jurisdiction, noting "[t]he Ninth Circuit allows a forum to assert jurisdiction based on a website presence only when a defendant operates a website that directly targets the forum." Because the Court found the Company operated an open, passive website not directly targeting Washington, the Court found that its connections were not so systematic and continuous as to render it essentially at home in Washington.
To determine if it had specific jurisdiction, the Court looked at Washington's long-arm statute and the due process requirements as set forth in the United States Supreme Court's decision in Burger King Corp. v. Rudzewicz, 471 U.S. 462 (1985), which require a showing of 1) purposeful minimum contacts, 2) injuries arising out of or relating to those minimum contacts, and 3) the exercise of jurisdiction consistent with the notion of "fair play and substantial justice."
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Moniker Art Fair returns to East London's Old Truman Brewery, taking over the newly refurbished 30,000 Sq.foot top floor and tripling in size. Despite a crazy amount of work still left to get the fair ready we've been able to ask a few questions of its fair director Tina Ziegler.
1 You have a new space for Moniker London do you have any special installations planned?
We actually have a whole installation hall. One of the objectives of Moniker has always been to help those visitors new to the urban and new contemporary art world engage with the art, and the installations play a huge part in that. This year we're working around a theme that encompasses the pivotal moments in the history of urban art, so it's a chance to bring together installations ranging from artists paying homage to the very beginnings of the scene through to those embodying its evolution and future all at once.
2 We see you have a more galleries this year have you been able to keep the same quality level despite the expansion?
It's a curated fair – quality is paramount. Fortunately as we get bigger, there are more international galleries available to us, so rather than having to search to try and find galleries 'good enough' to fit the bill, we have some huge names making debuts at the fair – Thinkspace is a good example of that. Then again, the scene tends to provide, and there are emerging galleries doing great things every year, so filling the stands with art that people will want to see isn't a problem.
3 The Art Conference returns to Moniker this year what are the themes for the talks ?
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4 What are you especially looking forward to at Moniker London this year?
Everything to be honest, this is my most ambitious event yet so there really is so much to look forward to. Personally I am very excited about welcoming Thinkspace, a gallery and friend of mine for the past 10 years coming from Los Angeles. They are presenting seven solo shows from artists I have been following my whole career, one of which is Audrey Kawasaki with her first UK solo presentation.
5 Finally can you tell us anything about New York?
It was inevitable, really. New York and urban art are linked from its point of genesis onwards. There are some incredible minds doing astonishing things within the scene out there, but there are also collectors and art-lovers hungry to take in what's happening over in Europe and further afield. Bringing everyone together is exactly what we've been working towards for the past eight years, and opening in NYC is the next big step.
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RPCV Thomas Gouttierre is Director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska
Thomas Gouttierre went to Afghanistan in 1964 as a Peace Corps volunteer. He returned to the United States in 1967 and earned a master's degree in Islamic Studies at Indiana University. In 1969 he went back to Afghanistan as a Fulbright Scholar. He stayed on to work for the Fulbright Foundation's Afghan-American Education Commission after the conclusion of his two-year fellowship. In 1974 Gouttierre became director of the Center of Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, which has become the leading institution for Afghan studies in this country. Gouttierre has testified on the Afghan War before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on International Relations and the U.S.-Russian Task Force on Regional Conflicts. He also has appeared before committees of the British Parliament, the French National Assembly and the Norwegian Sorting and the United Nations.
For 33 years, the UNO Center for Afghanistan Studies has been the most comprehensive U.S. resource center on that country, devoted mostly to exchanges of students and educators and improving educational opportunities in Afghanistan. In the early 1970s, Afghanistan seemed to appeal only to UNO scholars trying to find a niche for international studies. They were responding to a request by then-Chancellor Ronald Roskens to bring an international flavor to the campus on Dodge Street. But why Afghanistan, over other nations around the globe? Because Christian L. Jung, who was on the UNO geography/geology faculty, was a former Peace Corps volunteer in Afghanistan. Because the Fulbright Foundation in 1972 had a director in Afghanistan -- Thomas Gouttierre -- who knew Jung's father and was encouraged to help UNO with an educational exchange. Because the younger Jung died in 1974 and Gouttierre was recruited to leave Kabul and replace Jung as head of the new center. That same year, UNO created a Department of International Studies, and Gouttierre became dean. Since then, the department has been awarded $80 million in federal grants, more than $60 million of that to the Afghan studies center.
1.1 2000: Thomas Gouttierre went to Afghanistan in 1964 as a Peace Corps volunteer
2.1 2001: For facts on Taliban, world looks to RPCV Thomas Gouttierre in Omaha
2.2 2001: RPCV Expert on Taliban Thomas Gouttierre comments on Afghan Situation
2.3 2001: RPCV Thomas Gouttierre has close ties to Hamid Karzai, Afghan Leader chosen to head the Provisional Government
2.4 2001: RPCV Thomas Gouttierre has ties to several named to serve on Afghanistan's interim cabinet
3.1 2002: Afghanistan RPCV Thomas Gouttierre says Kabul's kids will soon be spelling 'Omaha'
3.2 2002: Afghanistan RPCV Thomas Gouttierre says U.S. should focus on Afghanistan, not Iraq
4.1 2003: RPCV Thomas Gouttierre helps Cities in Afghanistan and Nebraska Forge "Sister Cities" Partnership
5.1 2004: RPCV Thomas Gouttierre testifies to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on "Afghanistan – Continuing Challenges"
5.2 2004: Schneider and Gouttierre say Terrorists put progress at risk in Afghanistan
5.3 2004: When Thomas Gouttierre, director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, came to Scottsbluff in February 2002 to speak at Western Nebraska Community College, the little group began to feel a kinship with those distant people
5.4 2004: RPCV Thomas E. Gouttierre says of Afghan President Hamid Karzai "The eminent power right now is our military, and his central government is competing with the warlords... . Given the conditions, he's done a remarkable job."
5.5 2004: RPCV Thomas Gouttierre told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee recently: "Though routed out of their strongholds and camps after 9/11, replenished and reorganized elements of Al Qaida and the Taliban remain at large and constitute a threat, both real and symbolic, to the overall reconstruction effort"
5.6 2004: "This election had two major messages. First, Afghans believe they have a right to participate in their government, that it's their legacy after 30 years of violence," said Thomas E. Gouttierre, who just returned from Kabul and directs the University of Nebraska's Center for Afghanistan Studies. "The results will also carry a message to jihadis: Thanks for what you did against the Soviets, but we want to turn a new page and have another group of leaders for our future."
5.7 2004: Thomas Gouttierre offers other view of Afghanistan - President Bush's assertion that 75 percent of al-Qaida leadership has been eliminated is not true, he said. "They may have eliminated 75 percent of the original (organization), but now it has metastasized, it's bigger, it's all over the world."
6.1 2005: Centenial Dinner will feature Thomas E. Gouttierre, Dean of International Studies and Programs at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) and the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) and the Director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at UNO
6.2 2005: Thomas Gouttierre says: People of Afghanistan want U.S. Involvement
6.3 2005: A one-page information sheet prepared by Thomas Gouttierre, director of UNO's Afghanistan Studies center, said that the center is proud of its record in assisting Afghans to rebuild their education sector
6.4 2005: The majority of the controversial textbooks were written to help Afghan refugees in Pakistan educate their children while the Soviet Union occupied their country, Thomas Gouttierre said
6.5 2005: Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, is coming to Nebraska in late May. The Afghan president, a longtime U.S. ally and a one-time student of Thomas Gouttierre, the director of the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Center for Afghanistan Studies, will receive an honorary degree from UNO, Gouttierre said
6.6 2005: Thomas Gouttierre says believes there is still reason to be positive about the security situation in Afghanistan, mostly because three and a half years after the Taliban regime was brought down, things are finally getting back to normal.
6.7 2005: "The fact is, in Afghanistan the name 'Nebraska' is very well known," said Thomas Gouttierre, who is of Belgian ancestry but was introduced to Afghanistan after serving there as a Peace Corps volunteer
6.8 2005: Because of Dr. Thomas Gouttierre, who founded the Center for Afghan Studies at UNO, Nebraska has ties with Afghanistan that stretch back to a more peaceful and prosperous era in the early 1970s
6.9 2005: Hamid Karzai's visit was prompted by a long-standing relationship with Thomas Gouttierre and as part of a weeklong tour of the United States, which also included stops in Boston and Washington D.C.
6.10 2005: RPCV Thomas Gouttierre says Afghan militants may be desperate to interfere with the upcoming elections because they know they could not hope to win any seats in the national assembly
6.11 2005: Gouttierre explains roots of terrorism in Afghanistan
7.1 2006: Thomas Gouttierre says Most Indian students return to India
7.2 2006: Thomas Gouttierre faces undisclosed action following slapping accusation
8.1 2007: Dr. Thomas Gouttierre will be visiting scholar at the Václav Havel Civil Society Symposium
8.2 2007: A fellow named Thomas Gouttierre is speaking in our community this week. He is a go-to expert on Afghanistan whose life should someday be a major motion picture.
8.3 2007: Thomas Gouttierre to to talk about democracy in Afghanistan in Texas A&M
8.4 2007: Thomas Gouttierre says Benazir Bhutto will be remembered as the first woman to lead a Muslim country and a beloved symbol of democracy and modernization to many Pakistanis
9.1 2008: The main force behind the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Afghan Studies program is its director, Thomas Gouttierre, whose fascination with Afghanistan started when he was a Peace Corps volunteer there in the mid-1960's
2000: Thomas Gouttierre went to Afghanistan in 1964 as a Peace Corps volunteer
Gouttierre went to Afghanistan in 1964 as a Peace Corps volunteer. He returned to the United States in 1967 and earned a master's degree in Islamic Studies at Indiana University. In 1969 he went back to Afghanistan as a Fulbright Scholar. He stayed on to work for the Fulbright Foundation's Afghan-American Education Commission after the conclusion of his two-year fellowship. In 1974 Gouttierre became director of the Center of Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, which has become the leading institution for Afghan studies in this country. Gouttierre has testified on the Afghan War before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on International Relations and the U.S.-Russian Task Force on Regional Conflicts. He also has appeared before committees of the British Parliament, the French National Assembly and the Norwegian Sorting and the United Nations. Click this link to read more.
Original Source: BGSU. "Thomas Gouttierre Went To Afghanistan In 1964 As A Peace Corps Volunteer" June 29, 2000.
See Also Peace Corps Annual Report: 2000; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; What RPCVs are doing; Nebraska [1]
2001: For facts on Taliban, world looks to RPCV Thomas Gouttierre in Omaha
His war is just beginning. His arsenal is in-depth, firsthand knowledge of Osama bin Laden, the Taliban and Afghanistan. His battlefield is his desk at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, where he is dean of International Studies and Programs. From it he gives media interviews - more than 250 since the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. His assistant slides the office door open, attempting to make her interruption soundless so as not to disturb a phone interview with a Japanese newspaper reporter or the television reporter who is unfolding camera equipment. She mouths "the State Department" as she hands Gouttierre a piece of paper - Washington needs to know whether he is familiar with any of the names on the list. A former United Nations specialist, this son of a Midwestern baker is among the most sought out information sources since the attacks. "We are at war now," Gouttierre said. "I'm too old to fight. But I can help on the information side, on the education side." Click this link to read more.
Original Source: Kansas City Star. "Another Story About Rpcv Thomas E. Gouttierre Who Is Considered One Of The Nation's Leading Experts On The Taliban." September 30, 2001.
See Also Headlines: September 2001; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; Nebraska [2]
2001: RPCV Expert on Taliban Thomas Gouttierre comments on Afghan Situation
While Afghans are celebrating the Taliban's retreat, many worry as they recall past atrocities by groups making up the Northern Alliance. "We need to reassure the people of Kabul," said Thomas Gouttierre, director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. "We need to reinforce that this wasn't just to restore the Northern Alliance to power." Tuesday's capture of the capital heightened a concern that Tajuddin Millatmal has had ever since U.S. forces started supporting the Northern Alliance. "It was their atrocities that people were so tired of that they welcomed the Taliban," said Millatmal, an Afghan physician who fled his homeland in 1980 and remains involved in the country's politics. President Bush showed his concern by calling on the Northern Alliance not to capture Kabul before a government was ready. But when the Taliban forces retreated from the capital Tuesday, joyful Northern Alliance troops entered without a fight. Click this link to read more.
Original Source: Omaha World Herald. "November 14 - Omaha World Herald: Rpcv Expert On Taliban Comments On Afghan Situation" November 19, 2001.
See Also Headlines: November 2001; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; Nebraska [3]
2001: RPCV Thomas Gouttierre has close ties to Hamid Karzai, Afghan Leader chosen to head the Provisional Government
Hamid Karzai, the Pashtun tribal leader chosen to head the provisional government, visited the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1999 and was instrumental in selecting participants for a UNO conference to discuss a post-Taliban government. "I can't think of a better guy right now to be the head of this," said Thomas Gouttierre, director of UNO's Center for Afghanistan Studies. He said he considers Karzai "among my very closest Afghan friends." Karzai is leading Pashtun forces fighting the Taliban near Kandahar. His Cabinet will take over power in Afghanistan from the triumphant Northern Alliance on Dec. 22. The deal also asks the United Nations to authorize an international force to provide security in the capital, Kabul, and eventually other areas. Afghan leaders applauded and embraced Wednesday as they signed the pact creating the temporary administration for their war-ravaged nation. The choosing of a post-Taliban government to lead Afghanistan for the next six months was the result of nine days of furious negotiating and enormous international pressure on the Northern Alliance and three other Afghan factions meeting near Bonn. Click this link to read more.
Original Source: Omaha World-Herald. "Read The Article From The Omaha World-Herald On Rpcv Thomas Gouttierre And His Ties To Several People Who Have Been Named At Serve On Afghanistan's Interim Cabinet At:" December 6, 2001.
See Also Headlines: December 2001; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; Nebraska [4]
2001: RPCV Thomas Gouttierre has ties to several named to serve on Afghanistan's interim cabinet
Afghan delegates planning the provisional government at a meeting in Bonn, Germany, invited Abdul Salaam Azimi, a research associate at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, to be education minister. Azimi, former president of Kabul University, said he did not reject the position, but suggested alternate candidates when he received a call from Bonn, Germany, to his Omaha home. Later Wednesday, Ghulam Muhammad Yailaqi was named education minister. Azimi would not comment further. Thomas Gouttierre, director of UNO's Center for Afghanistan Studies, said Azimi came to Omaha as a refugee in the 1980s and was chief of UNO's education projects in Afghanistan. He became a U.S. citizen in 1990. If he had accepted the appointment, Gouttierre said, "there couldn't be a better, more qualified person for the position." UNO has ties to several people who did accept positions in the interim cabinet. Dr. Abdullah, the foreign affairs minister, visited UNO in 1999 or 2000, Gouttierre said. "He's the right guy for that job." Sima Samar, one of two women in the provisional cabinet, will be minister of foreign affairs and a vice chairwoman. She fled Afghanistan after the Soviet invasion in 1979 and worked as a doctor in a refugee camp in Pakistan, where she opened a hospital in 1987. She also ran schools in rural Afghanistan for more than 17,400 students as well as a school for refugee girls in Quetta, Pakistan. Literacy programs established by her organization were accompanied by distribution of food aid and information on hygiene and family planning. "She's great," Gouttierre said. "We were helping out her schools at one time." After the severe persecution of women under the Taliban, "that's amazing to have these two women in the cabinet," he said. "That's a huge step forward." Click this link to read more.
2002: Afghanistan RPCV Thomas Gouttierre says Kabul's kids will soon be spelling 'Omaha'
Thomas Gouttierre acknowledges that his latest project is "not a walk in the park by any stretch." As dean of international studies and programs at the University of Nebraska (Omaha), Gouttierre joined forces last month with the U.S. Agency for International Development in a massive undertaking: printing enough textbooks- somewhere between 4 million and 5 million-in time for the scheduled reopening of schools in Afghanistan on March 23. That project, called ARRENA, or America's Rapid Response to Education Needs in Afghanistan, will provide textbooks in both the Dari and Pashtu languages to Afghan students in all subjects for grades K-12. The project is a major part of international efforts to get schools ready for the school year in a country where fighting has recently intensified, the interim government remains on shaky ground, and many schools lack even the most basic supplies and infrastructure, such as toilets and heat. Gouttierre and his university have a long history in the country. Nebraska's Center for Afghanistan Studies-the only one of its kind in the United States-was started in 1973, and from 1986 to 1994, the center received more than $50 million in grants from U.S. AID for education projects in Afghanistan. During those years, about 8,800 Afghan teachers were trained and 13 million textbooks were printed and distributed. Click this link to read more.
Original Source: National Journal. "Kabul's Kids Will Soon Be Spelling 'Omaha'" March 30, 2002.
See Also Headlines: March 2002; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; Nebraska [6]
2002: Afghanistan RPCV Thomas Gouttierre says U.S. should focus on Afghanistan, not Iraq
The United States should keep its focus on rebuilding Afghanistan rather than taking on Iraq in a war, according to an Afghan expert who spoke to McHenry County College students, staff and area residents Wednesday. "We are at a crossroads right now with what we are going to do with Afghanistan," said Thomas Gouttierre, keynote speaker Wednesday morning at the college's ABC Breakfast Series. Gouttierre serves as dean of International Studies and director of the Center for Afghan Studies at the University of Nebraska in Omaha. He has spent time in Afghanistan working for the Peace Corps and with the United Nations studying Osama bin Laden. After the speech, Gouttierre said he believes bin Laden is dead. Gouttierre speculated on the al-Qaida's leader's death, citing bin Laden's need for kidney dialysis and his back problems. Hiding from the public eye as long as he has likely would exacerbate those problems, he said. Click this link to read more.
Original Source: Chicago Daily Herald. "U.s. Should Focus On Afghanistan, Not Iraq, Scholar Argues" September 26, 2002.
See Also Headlines: September 2002; Speaking Out; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; Nebraska [7]
2003: RPCV Thomas Gouttierre helps Cities in Afghanistan and Nebraska Forge "Sister Cities" Partnership
Forging links between U.S. and Afghan citizens is nothing new for Gouttierre, or for his university, where he also serves as director of its Center for Afghanistan Studies. One of the first things he did upon coming to Nebraska in 1974 was to establish a sister universities tie between UNO and Kabul University. Before that, he had lived in Afghanistan for almost a decade, first as a Peace Corps volunteer, then as a Fulbright Fellow and finally as executive director of the Fulbright Foundation's programs there. Indeed, Goutierre says, plans to link the two cities were in progress as early as the late 1970s, but then "the Communist coup took place and derailed that." With the Communist period followed by the rule of the Taliban, "we didn't have a chance to revisit that again until the Karzai government was established" after the Taliban were routed at the end of in 2001, he notes. Gouttierre said the new opportunity developed as the result of the U.S. antiterrorist campaign in Afghanistan following in the wake of the deadly September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. "There are, I guess, some positive things that may develop from that horrendous event," he said. Gouttierre -- and Nebraska -- have been quick to seize the opportunity to strengthen ties. Click this link to read more.
Original Source: U.S. Department of State. "Cities In Afghanistan And Nebraska Forge "Sister Cities" Partnership" February 3, 2003.
See Also Headlines: February 2003; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; Service; Nebraska; Nebraska [8]
2004: RPCV Thomas Gouttierre testifies to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on "Afghanistan – Continuing Challenges"
The continuing security, political, and economic challenges to the reconstruction of Afghanistan remain formidable. The most critical is security. It negatively affects all other factors. The lack of security is perhaps the only factor that might ensure a return of a stateless society to Afghanistan. The three primary security threats are terrorists, drug lords, and war lords. These are holdovers, protagonists, and allies from the period of protracted civil war in Afghanistan. Though routed out of their strongholds and camps after 9/11, replenished and reorganized elements of Al Qaida and the Taliban remain at large and constitute a threat, both real and symbolic, to the overall reconstruction effort. They gain financial support from drug interests. These elements threaten Afghan teachers, students, election workers and other government workers, even shopowners and farmers. They threaten them with death or other bodily harm if they teach, go to school, register to vote or assist the election process, or appear to side with the government. International assistance workers and military forces are also threatened; some have been killed. The continuing capacity of these terrorists to intimidate slows and even terminates reconstruction efforts. Click this link to read more.
Original Source: US Senate. "Testimony Of Thomas E. Gouttierre Dean, International Studies And Programs Director, Center For Afghanistan Studies Before The Senate Committee On Foreign Relations" May 12, 2004.
See Also Headlines: May 2004; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; Congress; Nebraska [9]
2004: Schneider and Gouttierre say Terrorists put progress at risk in Afghanistan
Thomas Gouttierre, director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, said the al-Qaida and Taliban terrorists who were routed following the Sept. 11 attack on the United States have been "replenished and reorganized." "The continuing capacity of these terrorists to intimidate slows and even terminates reconstruction efforts," he said. Gouttierre and Schneider testified last week at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on reconstruction. "Despite many successes on the ground, the prospect that we could fail in Afghanistan is very real," said Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., chairman of the committee. "Too little assistance to Afghanistan has been provided, and often, it has come too late to address the daunting needs of that country." Gouttierre and other experts told the committee that Afghanistan's security faces a threefold threat from resurgent terrorists, from warlords who control especially the rural areas and from drug lords whose poppy crop accounts for half of the country's gross domestic product. Men who want legitimate jobs "are vulnerable to those who would employ them away from the process of reconstruction into the militias of warlords and the cultivation of poppies," Gouttierre said. Click this link to read more.
Original Source: Omaha World Herald. "Terrorists Put Progress At Risk In Afghanistan" May 16, 2004.
See Also Headlines: May 2004; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; Speaking Out; Mark Schneider (Director 1999 - 2000); Nebraska [10]
2004: When Thomas Gouttierre, director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, came to Scottsbluff in February 2002 to speak at Western Nebraska Community College, the little group began to feel a kinship with those distant people
When Thomas Gouttierre, director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, came to Scottsbluff in February 2002 to speak at Western Nebraska Community College, the little group began to feel a kinship with those distant people. Maybe, members thought, the answer was as simple as friendship. They focused on Bamiyan as a possible Sister City because they saw similarities to Nebraska's Panhandle. Both are rural areas, high and dry country where farmers struggle to grow crops in stingy soil. When UNO brought three groups of Afghan teachers to Nebraska starting in 2002, two of the three groups visiting Scottsbluff included teachers from Bamiyan. Eventually, Bamiyan and Scottsbluff-Gering formally established ties through Sister Cities International. Mohammad Rahim Aliyar, governor of Bamiyan province, visited Scottsbluff in February. Security concerns postponed initial plans for a Scottsbluff delegation to visit Bamiyan. Boeckner, Marilyn and Paul Phillips, Jim Merrigan and Pam Cooper told about this month's journey and the Sister City efforts before they left and in e-mails from Kabul last week after their visit to Bamiyan and in phone calls to Kabul. "The people here are tough because they've been through hell, yet open, friendly and optimistic," said Merrigan, a Scottsbluff real estate agent. The group left June 7, arriving in Kabul nearly 40 hours later. Gouttierre, who already was in Afghanistan, accompanied the five western Nebraskans on their trip from Kabul to Bamiyan, along with Dr. Ward Chambers of the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The 120-mile trip in two SUVs took 11 hours. Aliyar sent a truck with four armed police. The Americans talked of being greeted by most of the men of a village in one stop, and of singing a Dari song they had practiced. Click this link to read more.
Original Source: Omaha World Herald. "Brotherly Love From Nebraska Sister City" June 20, 2004.
See Also Headlines: June 2004; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; Nebraska [11]
2004: RPCV Thomas E. Gouttierre says of Afghan President Hamid Karzai "The eminent power right now is our military, and his central government is competing with the warlords... . Given the conditions, he's done a remarkable job."
In the 21/2 years since Karzai took power, his central government has established its authority slowly in Kabul but exercises little or no control outside the capital, where warlords maintain order in their fiefdoms, often with tacit U.S. support in the absence of a national army. Drug trafficking has become rampant, sometimes tied to the warlords. The Taliban has reasserted control in part of the country. Few people believe conditions exist for free and fair elections, which the Bush administration wants to see take place this year. "He hasn't really been in control," said Thomas E. Gouttierre, a friend of Karzai and director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. "The eminent power right now is our military, and his central government is competing with the warlords... . Given the conditions, he's done a remarkable job." The Afghan Northern Alliance, backed by U.S.-led forces, toppled the Taliban from power in 2001, paving the way for Karzai to become president. There have been improvements since then. The number of children in school has quadrupled to four million. The average daily working wage has more than doubled, from $2.70 to $6.25. And the Finance Ministry has begun demanding that regional leaders hand over the taxes they have collected. Americans have built a modern roadway to replace a bombed-out highway linking Kabul and Kandahar - albeit at three times the $80 million budgeted cost. But for every step forward, it seems a new problem surfaces, and, in some dispiriting instances, old problems have resprouted worse than before the war. Click this link to read more.
Original Source: Philadelphia Inquirer. "Karzai, Lacking Support, Struggles To Fulfill Vision" July 4, 2004.
See Also Headlines: July 2004; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; Nebraska [12]
2004: RPCV Thomas Gouttierre told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee recently: "Though routed out of their strongholds and camps after 9/11, replenished and reorganized elements of Al Qaida and the Taliban remain at large and constitute a threat, both real and symbolic, to the overall reconstruction effort"
As Thomas Gouttierre, dean of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska (one of this nation's leading experts on Afghanistan), told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee recently: "Though routed out of their strongholds and camps after 9/11, replenished and reorganized elements of Al Qaida and the Taliban remain at large and constitute a threat, both real and symbolic, to the overall reconstruction effort. They gain financial support from drug interests. They threaten them with death or other bodily harm if they teach, go to school, register to vote or assist the election process, or appear to side with the government." Click this link to read more.
Original Source: WashingtonTimes. "Afghanistan's Critical Election" October 8, 2004.
See Also Headlines: October 2004; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; Politics; Elections; Nebraska [13]
2004: "This election had two major messages. First, Afghans believe they have a right to participate in their government, that it's their legacy after 30 years of violence," said Thomas E. Gouttierre, who just returned from Kabul and directs the University of Nebraska's Center for Afghanistan Studies. "The results will also carry a message to jihadis: Thanks for what you did against the Soviets, but we want to turn a new page and have another group of leaders for our future."
"This election had two major messages. First, Afghans believe they have a right to participate in their government, that it's their legacy after 30 years of violence," said Thomas E. Gouttierre, who just returned from Kabul and directs the University of Nebraska's Center for Afghanistan Studies. "The results will also carry a message to jihadis: Thanks for what you did against the Soviets, but we want to turn a new page and have another group of leaders for our future." Click this link to read more.
Original Source: Washington Post. "Election Touted As Model For Iraq -- To A Point" October 12, 2004.
2004: Thomas Gouttierre offers other view of Afghanistan - President Bush's assertion that 75 percent of al-Qaida leadership has been eliminated is not true, he said. "They may have eliminated 75 percent of the original (organization), but now it has metastasized, it's bigger, it's all over the world."
Thomas Gouttierre knew Afghanistan before it made headlines in America's newspapers. Before terrorists crashed into Americans' consciousness on Sept. 11, 2001, and then hid in the ancient country's rugged mountains. Before people talked of the Taliban and al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden over their breakfast cereal. He knew its history and its culture, the richness of the Persian language and how people created a wealth of beautiful poetry out of it. Poems like "The Children of Adam," which he read Saturday to participants in the fourth annual Nebraska International Multicultural Exchange Conference at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He did it to illustrate the rich culture of a country where he lived for 10 years, working as a Peace Corps volunteer. He read it because of its message. "What an excellent way to explain how important we all are to each other," said the dean of UNO's International Studies and Programs. And what an excellent way to show this group, sitting in the expansive auditorium in UNL's student union, that the essence of Afghanistan goes way beyond the headlines. "This country that we see in the headlines today, there's much, much more to it," he said. Click this link to read more.
Original Source: Lincoln Journal Sta. "Expert Offers Other View Of Afghanistan" November 6, 2004.
See Also Headlines: November 2004; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; Terrorism; Muslim Issues; Nebraska [15]
2005: Centenial Dinner will feature Thomas E. Gouttierre, Dean of International Studies and Programs at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) and the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) and the Director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at UNO
Gouttierre speaks, reads, and writes Afghan Persian (Dari), Iranian Persian (Farsi), and Tajiki Persian (Tajiki)fluently; he has also studied Arabic, French, German, Latin, Russian, and Spanish. His publications include numerous articles about Afghanistan society, culture, and politics; a co-authored, two-volume language textbook (Dari for Foreigners); original Dari poetry; translations of Persian poetry; and a variety of magazine and newspaper articles concerned with other international topics. Click this link to read more.
Original Source: Southwest Nebraska News. "Rotary Dinner To Feature Afghanistan Scholar" February 21, 2005.
See Also Headlines: February 2005; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; Nebraska [16]
2005: Thomas Gouttierre says: People of Afghanistan want U.S. Involvement
During his presentation, Gottierre discussed the history of the region, Afghanistan's ethnic diversity and post 9/11 democratization. Gottierre also discussed his relationship with prominent Afghan figures Ahmad Shah Massoud and Hamid Karzai. Gouttierre emphasized his belief that the fates of the Afghan and American people are interconnected and that U.S. involvement in the region was accepted by the majority of Afghanistan's citizens. "There is no ambiguity in the minds of the Afghans about weather or not they want the United States in Afghanistan" Gouttierre asserted, adding that if there were any complaints at all, it is "that we dumped them once and they are concerned that we might dump them again." Click this link to read more.
Original Source: Southwest Nebraska News. "Gouttierre: People Of Afghanistan Want U.s. Involvement" February 27, 2005.
See Also Headlines: February 2005; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; Speaking Out [17]
2005: A one-page information sheet prepared by Thomas Gouttierre, director of UNO's Afghanistan Studies center, said that the center is proud of its record in assisting Afghans to rebuild their education sector
The UNO center was awarded three major contracts by the United States Agency for International Development covering 1974-1978, 1986-1994 and 2002-2004, Hawks said in the letter. More than 50 faculty and staff members at UNO and UNL worked on the projects, under which more than 30 million textbooks were produced for Afghanistan children and adults, Hawks said. At Friday's meeting, officials distributed a one-page information sheet that was prepared by Thomas Gouttierre, director of UNO's Afghanistan Studies center, according to NU administration official Dara Troutman. The unsigned statement said that the center is proud of its record in assisting Afghans to rebuild their education sector. The statement does not address Olson's claims, but instead lists what are described as highlights of the center's work, including the development of maps, writing chapters for encyclopedias on Afghanistan and making thousands of appearances to talk about the country. Gouttierre was out of the office Friday and did not immediately return a call seeking comment. Olson's appearance before the board is the latest in a series of communications Nebraskans for Peace has had with the university related to the Afghan Studies program dating back to January. Click this link to read more.
Original Source: Casper Star Tribune. "Peace Group: Uno Textbooks Distributed In Afghanistan Contributed To Terrorism" April 15, 2005.
See Also Headlines: April 2005; Figures; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; Nebraska [18]
2005: The majority of the controversial textbooks were written to help Afghan refugees in Pakistan educate their children while the Soviet Union occupied their country, Thomas Gouttierre said
Turn to the back cover of one of several million of these books, published in the late 1980s, and see a familiar logo – that of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Paul Olson, a Nebraskans for Peace member and University of Nebraska-Lincoln English professor, uses the words "propaganda," "covert" "operations," "terrorism" and "violence-and-jihad-promoting" when describing these textbooks. At the University of Nebraska Board of Regents' meeting on Friday, Olson said these textbooks were used to educate grade-school children and UNO's involvement indicates a lack of ethics. "We provided the violence-laden propaganda to the Taliban-era Afghan children," Olson said. "The 9/11 terrorists emerged from this context." Nebraskans for Peace, a statewide peace group, has asked the board to conduct an investigation of these textbooks, develop a university-wide ethics policy and strengthen existing policies on the matter. Regent Howard Hawks of Omaha, chairman of the board, said the center followed university policy at the time, and there is no need to change those policies now. Thomas Gouttierre has been the director of the UNO Center for Afghan Studies since 1974 and said historical context has to be taken into consideration when looking at these textbooks. "While their intentions may be good," he said in a phone interview, "their interpretation of history is out of context." Since 1974, the center has received three contracts from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to help develop education in Afghanistan. The most controversial books were produced at UNO between 1986 and 1989, using USAID's funds and rules – which said all content of the textbooks was left up to the Afghans. "We were told explicitly that we were not to have any input into the content," he said, adding that the center has never denied that several of these books were militantly anti-Soviet. Click this link to read more.
Original Source: Daily Nebraskan. "Controversial Textbook Topics Oked By Uno" April 20, 2005.
2005: Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, is coming to Nebraska in late May. The Afghan president, a longtime U.S. ally and a one-time student of Thomas Gouttierre, the director of the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Center for Afghanistan Studies, will receive an honorary degree from UNO, Gouttierre said
Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, is coming to Nebraska in late May. The Afghan president, a longtime U.S. ally and a one-time student of Thomas Gouttierre, the director of the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Center for Afghanistan Studies, will receive an honorary degree from UNO, Gouttierre said Tuesday. Click this link to read more.
Original Source: Lincoln Journal Star. "Afghanistan President To Visit Nebraska" May 4, 2005.
See Also Headlines: May 2005; Figures; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; Nebraska [20]
2005: Thomas Gouttierre says believes there is still reason to be positive about the security situation in Afghanistan, mostly because three and a half years after the Taliban regime was brought down, things are finally getting back to normal.
Gouttierre, who heads the Centre for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska, believes there is still reason to be positive about the security situation, mostly because three and a half years after the Taliban regime was brought down, things are finally getting back to normal. "People are busy about their work and business, they want to provide for their families and get things on track again and that's all most people are concerned about in Afghanistan, and that, in some ways, is the most important asset...just the restoration of normality has introduced discipline to the society," he told Adnkronos International (AKI). Click this link to read more.
Original Source: Aki. "Afghanistan: Kidnap Damaging To The Country's Confidence, Says Expert" May 19, 2005.
2005: "The fact is, in Afghanistan the name 'Nebraska' is very well known," said Thomas Gouttierre, who is of Belgian ancestry but was introduced to Afghanistan after serving there as a Peace Corps volunteer
For 33 years, the UNO Center for Afghanistan Studies has been the most comprehensive U.S. resource center on that country, devoted mostly to exchanges of students and educators and improving educational opportunities in Afghanistan. President Hamid Karzai and 24 Afghan officials will arrive today and leave Wednesday night after Karzai is awarded an honorary UNO degree. "This makes a statement about how much President Karzai and the people of Afghanistan respect our state because of their relationship with the UNO Afghanistan Study Center," said Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. Karzai's visit is especially timely for the UNO center, which is facing new challenges. The center has been criticized by a UNO professor for not being more academically oriented or offering courses on Afghanistan. A peace group also repeatedly has criticized the program for publishing Afghan textbooks that included military themes. In addition, as Afghanistan has risen in worldwide prominence, other institutions have emerged to compete with UNO for federal grants. But in the early 1970s, Afghanistan seemed to appeal only to UNO scholars trying to find a niche for international studies. They were responding to a request by then-Chancellor Ronald Roskens to bring an international flavor to the campus on Dodge Street. But why Afghanistan, over other nations around the globe? Because Christian L. Jung, who was on the UNO geography/geology faculty, was a former Peace Corps volunteer in Afghanistan. Because the Fulbright Foundation in 1972 had a director in Afghanistan -- Thomas Gouttierre -- who knew Jung's father and was encouraged to help UNO with an educational exchange. Because the younger Jung died in 1974 and Gouttierre was recruited to leave Kabul and replace Jung as head of the new center. That same year, UNO created a Department of International Studies, and Gouttierre became dean. Since then, the department has been awarded $80 million in federal grants, more than $60 million of that to the Afghan studies center. Click this link to read more.
Original Source: Omaha World-Herald. "Afghans Feel A Kinship With Omahaa Uno Program Began Focusing On Afghanistan In 1972, When The Country Was "Not On The Radar."Uno And Afghanistan Timeline" May 24, 2005.
See Also Headlines: May 2005; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; Nebraska [22]
2005: Because of Dr. Thomas Gouttierre, who founded the Center for Afghan Studies at UNO, Nebraska has ties with Afghanistan that stretch back to a more peaceful and prosperous era in the early 1970s
Afghanistan has a chance to return to agricultural productivity. Thanks to U.S. and international intervention that drove the Taliban from power and created the conditions for a successful election approved by international observers, Afghanistan is on the road to stability. But, as the visit this week to Nebraska by Afghan President Hamid Karzai made clear, the country still has a long distance to travel to sufficiency and security. Struggling to survive, Afghan farmers have returned to raising poppies, which can be sold for the illegal production of opium. They need to find better options. The United States can help by sharing resources and the wealth of agricultural knowledge found in places such as Nebraska. Because of Dr. Thomas Gouttierre, who founded the Center for Afghan Studies at UNO, Nebraska has ties with Afghanistan that stretch back to a more peaceful and prosperous era in the early 1970s. Then the former Soviet Union invaded. The U.S. backed rebels, and finally the Soviets withdrew. But in an error that became painfully obvious in retrospect, the U.S. government lost interest in Afghanistan. Under the Taliban it became a training ground for terrorists who launched the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. America should learn from that mistake. The risk is that the United States will be distracted by other pressing problems and once again turn its back on Afghanistan now that the immediate threat has been eliminated. Click this link to read more.
Original Source: Lincoln Journal Star. "Nebraska Can Help Afghans" May 27, 2005.
2005: Hamid Karzai's visit was prompted by a long-standing relationship with Thomas Gouttierre and as part of a weeklong tour of the United States, which also included stops in Boston and Washington D.C.
On Wednesday, May 25, inside of an unassuming aircraft hangar and under the watchful eyes of several dozen Secret Service agents, Hamid Karzai, the first democratically elected president of Afghanistan, began his daylong tour of the Omaha area. He spoke to about 300 airmen at Offutt Air Force Base at 9:15 a.m. before moving on to the Harry Knobbe Farm and Feedyards in West Point and then to UNO to receive an honorary Doctorate of Letters. At UNO, Karzai viewed the Arthur and Daisy Paul Afghanistan Collection and the Luke Powell Photographic Collection in the University Library and then received his degree from the university in a ceremony at the Strauss Performing Arts Center. Several members of UNO faculty and administration including UNO Faculty Senate President Hollis Glaser, Thomas Gouttierre, and Chancellor Nancy Belck attended the Conferral of Degrees ceremony. UNO Student President/Regent Elizabeth Kraemer, University of Nebraska President James B. Milliken, Mayor Mike Fahey and Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy were also in attendance. During her opening statements, Belck said, "This is, indeed, an extraordinary day for the state of Nebraska, the city of Omaha and the University of Nebraska. It is a day we have long awaited." Karzai's visit was prompted by a long-standing relationship with Gouttierre and as part of a weeklong tour of the United States, which also included stops in Boston and Washington D.C. Click this link to read more.
Original Source: The Gateway. "Uno, Omaha Welcome Afghan President Hamid Karzai" June 7, 2005.
See Also Headlines: June 2005; Figures; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; Nebraska [24]
2005: RPCV Thomas Gouttierre says Afghan militants may be desperate to interfere with the upcoming elections because they know they could not hope to win any seats in the national assembly
Much of the fighting has been along Afghanistan's rugged border with Pakistan, including the battle that downed the helicopter Tuesday. The area is home to anti-American terrorists and drug traffickers who want the Afghan government to fail, said Thomas Gouttierre, director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. Drug traffickers and insurgents have joined forces, Gouttierre said, "because they recognize that a stabilized Afghanistan is not in their interest." Click this link to read more.
Original Source: USA Today. "U.s. Sees Fighting Rekindled In Afghanistan" June 29, 2005.
2005: Gouttierre explains roots of terrorism in Afghanistan
"Osama Bin Laden trained the Arabs living in Afghanistan in terrorism," Gouttierre said, "they first targeted the Saudi monarchy and then the U.S. because they were somehow connected." According to Gouttierre, Bin Laden believes that the U.S. is on a crusade to undermine Islam. Thomas Gouttierre, dean of International Studies and Programs and director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Afghanistan in the 1960's. Click this link to read more.
Original Source: Current . "Speaker Explains Roots Of Terrorism In Afghanistan" November 14, 2005.
See Also Headlines: November 2005; Figures; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; Nebraska [26]
2006: Thomas Gouttierre says Most Indian students return to India
The idea that most students from India stay in the United States to live and work is no longer true, says Thomas Gouttierre, dean of international studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Thomas Gouttierre, dean of International Studies and Programs and director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Afghanistan in the 1960's. Click this link to read more.
Original Source: TMCnet. "Fewer Students From India Make U.s. Home" January 25, 2006.
See Also Headlines: January 2006; Figures; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; Peace Corps India; Directory of India RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for India RPCVs; Nebraska [27]
2006: Thomas Gouttierre faces undisclosed action following slapping accusation
After an investigation, the university administration stated that, since there were grounds for disciplinary action, Gouttierre would face undisclosed actions. Being removed from office was not one of them. Thomas Gouttierre, dean of International Studies and Programs and director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Afghanistan in the 1960's. Click this link to read more.
Original Source: The Gateway. "Dean Faces Undisclosed Action Following Slapping Accusation" August 22, 2006.
See Also Headlines: August 2006; Figures; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; University Administration; Nebraska [28]
2007: Dr. Thomas Gouttierre will be visiting scholar at the Václav Havel Civil Society Symposium
He speaks and writes Afghan Persian, Iranian Persian and Tajikistani Persian, and also has studied Arabic, French, German, Latin, Russian and Spanish. He was the project director of the development of the Dari-English Dictionary, and his publications include many articles on Afghanistan culture and a two-volume language textbook, "Dari for Foreigners." Thomas Gouttierre, dean of International Studies and Programs and director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Afghanistan in the 1960's. Click this link to read more.
Original Source: University of St. Thomas. "Leading Expert On Afghanistan Will Be Visiting Scholar Here Starting Oct. 6" September 21, 2007.
See Also Headlines: September 2007; Figures; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; University Education; Nebraska [29]
2007: A fellow named Thomas Gouttierre is speaking in our community this week. He is a go-to expert on Afghanistan whose life should someday be a major motion picture.
Gouttierre and his center have raised eyebrows for their ties to U.S. government agencies and to a private oil company that wanted to build a pipeline in Afghanistan. The State Department asks him for advice and the U.N. hired him for its peacekeeping mission in the mid-1990s. (One of his tasks was to find Osama bin Laden, then barely on the radar as a dangerous jihadist. He says he determined his location within a few hours.) He once told a reporter for the Lincoln (Neb.) Journal Star that his sister doesn't believe him when he swears he's not a CIA agent. After 9/11, Gouttierre's visibility as an Afghanistan expert put the Omaha campus (the one where the famed Cornhuskers don't play) on the map. Thomas Gouttierre, dean of International Studies and Programs and director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Afghanistan in the 1960's. Click this link to read more.
Original Source: Pioneer Press. "Inviting Progress" October 11, 2007.
See Also Headlines: October 2007; Figures; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; University Education; Nebraska [30]
2007: Thomas Gouttierre to to talk about democracy in Afghanistan in Texas A&M
"It is important that students are informed on their government's involvement abroad," Gunter said. "Mr. Gouttierre is considered by many to be the leading expert on Afghanistan, and his hands-on experience will allow students to develop informed opinions about the current situation there." Thomas Gouttierre, dean of International Studies and Programs and director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Afghanistan in the 1960's. Click this link to read more.
Original Source: The Batt. "Mideast Expert To Lecture In Msc" November 5, 2007.
See Also Headlines: November 2007; Figures; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; University Education; Nebraska [31]
2007: Thomas Gouttierre says Benazir Bhutto will be remembered as the first woman to lead a Muslim country and a beloved symbol of democracy and modernization to many Pakistanis
Benazir Bhutto will be remembered as the first woman to lead a Muslim country and a beloved symbol of democracy and modernization to many Pakistanis, said Thomas Gouttierre, dean of international studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and a Central Asia expert. She also will be remembered for her checkered record as prime minister, Gouttierre said, during which she and her husband were accused of stealing more than a billion dollars from the government. Members of Bhutto's Cabinet also quietly aligned with extremists like the Taliban during her second term as prime minister, Gouttierre said. Thomas Gouttierre, dean of International Studies and Programs and director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Afghanistan in the 1960's. Click this link to read more.
Original Source: Omaha World-Herald . "Expert At Uno Sees A Complicated Future For Pakistan" December 27, 2007.
See Also Headlines: December 2007; Figures; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; University Education; Nebraska [32]
2008: The main force behind the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Afghan Studies program is its director, Thomas Gouttierre, whose fascination with Afghanistan started when he was a Peace Corps volunteer there in the mid-1960's
"Unlike the days when I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Afghanistan, we can call people on cell phones, use email and we have excellent communication," said Thomas Gouttierre. Gouttierre and his staff in Omaha are working long-distance to improve education in Afghanistan. "What we are doing is trying to provide in-service training to teachers so that there is a kind of standard body of teaching pedagogy that each teacher, regardless of his or her training, is following," he said. Although Gouttierre visits Afghanistan every year, he says the Taliban guerrillas have made it too dangerous for U.S. students to work there. He says the Taliban threaten Afghans on a regular basis in some border areas. "They are able to move back and forth across the borders of Afghanistan and Pakistan and into villages and pass out night letters suggesting to people that 'we are watching you and if your daughters go to school or your wife teaches school or you work with the Americans, we are going to get you and we are going to get your family," said Gouttierre. Gouttierre says he thinks the vast majority of Afghans have faith in U.S. efforts to help their country, but they are made uneasy by the fact that Osama bin Laden and others involved in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 remain free. Thomas Gouttierre, dean of International Studies and Programs and director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Afghanistan in the 1960's. Click this link to read more.
Original Source: VOA. "University Of Nebraska At Omaha Supports Afghanistan Recovery" July 16, 2008.
See Also Headlines: July 2008; Figures; Peace Corps Afghanistan; Directory of Afghanistan RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Afghanistan RPCVs; University Education; Nebraska [33]
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Q: Short story where humans exchange art and works of beauty for alien technology and other items (such as coffee) The story is about a man who stumbles upon some alien tech - I recall a lighter that just produces a flame without any mechanical parts....
He doesn't have the wealth to trade the art for these items so he basically becomes a middle-man.
I recall a quote about him asking himself "How do they manage to get the coffee to taste as good as it smells?" or something along those lines.
All of the trade is also set in those dusty non-specific trinket shops you occasionally walk past and wonder what on earth they do and how comes they haven't been turned into a Costa yet.

A: This is Bob Shaw's "A Full Member of the Club".
As you remembered, it ends:
"How on Earth, he wondered idly, do they manage to make it taste exactly the way it smells?"

Thanks to user14111 for the archive.org link.
Also the unaccepted (but correct, IMHO) answer to this slightly older question:Story about alien art smugglers

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Millbrook Community Players getting back in the 'habit' of live theater in September
Planning to present one-person show "Sister Robert Anne's Cabaret Class"; Fundraisers on for musical and needed supplies to fight virus
Shannon Heupel
Montgomery Advertiser
The Millbrook Community Players will fill their stage with "nunsense" when they bring live theater back in September.
"Everybody's tired of this COVID-19. They're ready to get out and do something," said John Collier, executive director. "We're hoping we can put something on that they can do safely."
The company is planning to present Dan Goggin's one-person show "Sister Robert Anne's Cabaret Class" over four nights starting Sept. 24.
"If we do have good response and we start to sell out, we'll probably add additional shows," Collier said.
It'll be the second live theater production with an audience in the River Region since coronavirus conditions locked down theaters across the world. Back in July, Prattville's Way Off Broadway Theatre presented "Little Shop of Horrors."
"With the success of Prattville's play and, of course us thinking about it anyway, we're going to try to go ahead with our September play," Collier said.
But that's a fairly expensive process, and the Players need help.
"We're trying to do a musical, so the rights are kind of high," Collier said. "With us not having any income for a while, we're kind of putting a few fundraisers out there."
They also have to purchase supplies to help keep them compliant with CDC rules - thermometers, masks, and lots of disinfectant.
A donation link has been set up at millbrooktheater.com, and there is also a code on the Players' group page on Facebook that once scanned will take people to the donation page.
If "Sister Robert Anne's Cabaret Class" goes well, Collier said they'll present the two-person show "A Tuna Christmas" in December. Two actors will play 20 characters.
"It has a lot of costume changes, so what I'll do is require the ones who I pick to have someone in their family help them with their costumes," Collier said. "So we can avoid contact with any outside people on that."
Both are small cast shows, something Collier said is being done on purpose to minimize the number of people on stage.
"We originally had planned on doing 'Steel Magnolias,' but it had six in it, and it had some older people and some health issues, and we decided to postpone that until hopefully next spring," Collier said.
They also had to cancel the Christmas production "Elf."
No tickets will be sold at the door. It will all be reserved seating, purchased in advance.
"We'll have somebody at the door, behind plexiglass, and we'll have someone with a mask and everything on seating people," Collier said.
Those who who purchased tickets in advance for 'Steel Magnolias' will get first choice. The can use it for this play, or wait until next spring. Season ticket holders also get early choice.
"After I get those people situated, we'll put them on sale to the public," Collier said. "I'm hoping within the next week or so."
Collier said their theater can hold 165 people under normal circumstances. With social distancing, Collier said each show would be able to hold 45 to 50 guests.
"It really depends on if we have family groups or not," he said. "The more family members you have that can sit together, the more people you can have."
The theater would be disinfected after every performance, Collier said. No concessions will be available. Guests will be scanned for their temperatures before they're allowed in the theater.
"We're going to do everything the CDC says, and hopefully everything will go great," Collier said. "I know people are ready to get out and see a play."
Contact Montgomery Advertiser reporter Shannon Heupel at sheupel@gannett.com.


Running is a fantastically simple way to burn fat, to improve your fitness and to build muscle. This is something that everyone can do, that you can do anywhere and that requires no equipment. It also just so happens to be incredibly effective when it comes to encouraging weight loss.
The only slight problem with running is that it's not that much fun. Not only is running very taxing on your body – hurting your joints and leaving you feeling tired and even sick quite quickly – but it can also be thought of as boring. Throw in some cold weather and you have a very unappealing way to spend an hour.
The first thing to do to make running more palatable is to invest in some of the right gear. First and foremost, that means getting yourself the right running shoes. To do this you should visit a proper running shop where you'll be able to have your gait analyzed to identify your foot stride. Some people hit the floor with their heel first, other people use the ball of their foot and others still use the mid-sole. Your shoe should be a minimalist or structured shoe with a variable heel-toe drop depending on the type of runner you are. Likewise, your shoe may need to correct wide or narrow feet. When you find the right shoe, the ride will be much smoother and less painful. Meanwhile, the right clothes for running will help you feel warmer but without getting sweaty.
When running, you should also change your objective at first. Don't run so fast it's not comfortable – just stay in your comfort zone by jogging gently to begin with.
Another useful gadget is a fitness tracker, running watch or running app. These can measure your distance, pace, time, calories burned and more. This makes all the difference to your running because it lets you actually see all the hard work paying off as you improve in your ability.
Finally, don't just run around a park or on a treadmill. This is about as dull as it gets! Instead, try exploring along with your runs. Using a watch you'll still be able to measure distance but this way you can discover new things in your area and see sights instead of just seeing the same scenery pass by over and over again.
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