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Energy 19 August, 2021 9:00 am
COMMENTS: Serhij Makogon
Makogon: Poland and Ukraine can ensure energy security to NATO's Eastern flank despite Nord Stream 2
– Thanks to access to the Trans-Balkan gas pipeline, Poland and Ukraine can create a powerful North-South gas corridor that will ensure energy security for the entire South-Eastern Europe, i.e. NATO's Eastern flank, says Serhiy Makogon, president of OGTSUA, the operator of gas transmission pipelines in Ukraine.
BiznesAlert.pl: What is the evidence of Russian non-economic use of NS-1 and NS-2? What numbers show that they omit Ukraine just for the political reasons?
Serhiy Makogon: Gazprom estimates its annual sales to Europe at ~200 bcm per year. Actual exports to the EU were below 150bcm in 2020. Exports to Europe (inclusive of Turkey, UK, etc.) were 175 bcm. The existing transit capacity from Russia to Europe is more than 270 bcma (Ukrainian gas transmission system, Yamal, Nord Stream 1, Turk Stream). Or 286 bcma if we count Blue Stream.
The infographics below show that there is no need of additional gas infrastructure to transit these gas volumes:
In other words, for the coming years, there is about 100 bcma of spare capacity in the East-West transit system. If Nord Stream 2 comes online, the spare capacity will reach ~150 bcma. This shows that there is no commercial or technical justification for the bypassing gas pipelines.
The market crunch clearly demonstrates that additional transit routes do not guarantee additional supplies to Europe. In a span of 12 months, the prices for natural gas have doubled, and then, doubled again. Meanwhile, Russia is holding back exports and refusing to book transit capacities which we have offered at every monthly auction. Gazprom has cut supplies to Europe by ~ 20% vs. the pre-pandemic levels and is emptying its storage facilities (during the season when they supposed to be refilled) to meet its contractual obligations. Tellingly, Elena Burmistrova, Director General of Gazprom Export, said a few week ago that Gazprom, "would be able to cover additional demand with the commissioning of Nord Stream 2."
Abuse of dominance is commonly defined as unilateral conduct using dominant market power/position to damage market competition and ultimately welfare of the end consumers. Bloomberg described the current situation as an energy shock and is warning about far reaching consequences of the rising prices on the post-pandemic economic recovery of Europe. Given that EU relies on Russia for ~40% of its gas imports (the next biggest supplier is Norway at only ~16%), I wonder what the competition authorities make of Gazprom's recent actions.
With Nord Stream 2 nearing completion, Europe still has an opportunity to defend its markets, its laws, and its principles. Germany and EU must insist on the full application of the Third Energy Package to all incoming gas pipelines. The landmark decision by the European Court of Justice (CJEU) in the OPAL case sets a strong precedent. Many experts describe the gas market squeeze as blackmail, and we all know that caving in to such pressure never solve the problem but exacerbates it.
I believe Europe should think about supply diversification. Alternative routes, on the other hand, deliver the same gas from the same fields to the same consumers and, under the current circumstances, appear to greatly weaken supply security. As an immediate action to relief price pressure, EU should (1) demand that Gazprom renounces its export monopoly and (2) insist on moving delivery points for Russian gas to the RF-UA border, which allows western traders to book transit capacities via Ukraine directly.
How do you assess a proposal from German-U.S. declaration on Nord Stream-2 about reverse gas supplies and hydrogen in Ukraine?
Given that the GTSOU was not a party to the negotiations, we cannot assess provisions in the agreement reached by Berlin and Washington. The joint statement reads as a declaration of further actions without any concreate guarantees. We believe that such agreement should be discussed with mandatory participation of Ukraine and Russia.
Ukraine has always been a reliable transit partner for the EU and has scrupulously fulfilled all of its obligations. Under the circumstances, the best path forward would be to apply the conditions of the Third energy package on all gas routes and secure a new transit agreement for 10-15 years with a volume of at least 50 bcm via Ukraine with explicit guarantees from international partners.
We are also considering to join PGNiG in its motion to the German Regulator regarding certification of Nord Stream2 AG.
We support climate targets and decarbonization goals, which are an integral part of our development strategy. The deployment of hydrogen technologies is not an alternative to our current activities (transportation of natural gas), but a part of the evolutionary and long-term process of the entire energy infrastructure across Europe, which will take decades of joint efforts of all the stakeholders.
What is the room for cooperation between OGTSUA and Gaz-System in this context?
Security of supply for our countries is our primary responsibility as TSOs. We must ensure that our consumers will be supplied with gas in any circumstances.
Poland plans to significantly increase gas consumption, which will require additional flexibility and sources of gas for Poland. Ukraine possesses the biggest underground gas storages in the EU, which are located just in 80 km from the border. Ukraine can offer up to 10 bcm of storage capacities to Poland in order to cover its peak demand. Building such storages in Poland will require billion euros of investments. Ukraine also can offer to Polish traders access to gas supplies from the South – Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary. Taking full advantage of those synergies will significantly contribute to energy security of Poland.
Ukraine is also interested to improve its energy security by having access to Polish LNG terminals in order to be able to directly import LNG to the country.
All these requires improving interconnection infrastructure between countries. Currently, firm capacities are available in the direction of Ukraine to Poland but not vis-a-versa. Gas cannot be delivered from Polish system to the Ukrainian one at this time. From our side, we have made all necessary works and capable to off-take at PL-UA border up to 6.6 bcm per year, if the Polish side is prepared to provide such volumes at the agreed level of pipeline pressure. We hope that firm capacities towards Ukraine will be also developed from the Polish side.
We strongly believe that Poland and Ukraine possess everything needed in order to develop joint integrated gas hub for the Eastern Europe. Our gas markets are the biggest in the region and jointly add up to ~50 bcm per year. Poland has very ambitious plans to develop LNG terminals, Baltic Pipeline and connections with neighboring countries. Ukraine has the biggest gas storages in Europe and well developed and powerful gas transmission system, which is connected to 7 neighboring countries. With access to Trans-Balkan pipeline our counties can create powerful South-North gas corridor, which will ensure energy security of the entire Southeastern Europe – NATO's Eastern flank.
What are the prospects for cooperation within the EU and the role of Ukraine's membership in the EU
Ukraine always was a reliable transit partner for Europe; and we hope it will continue to play this role in the future despite Russia's aggressive maneuvering. The Ukrainian GTS adheres to all the norms of the Third Energy Package. International partners trust us, as evidenced by the record 10 bcm of gas they have stored in Ukrainian underground storage facilities.
However, it would be incorrect to think that Ukrainian GTS will exists forever as a back-up solution for the EU if something happens with Nord Stream 1 or 2. Our transit network was designed and built to transit 146, not 40, bcma of gas. Such powerful systems require about $1 billion for operation and maintenance. Without significant transit volumes and certainty of long-term contracts, Ukrainian consumers cannot be expected to foot the bill. In a scenario where our transit network is significantly downsized, all major transit routes to the EU will be fully controlled by Gazprom. And we have just seen how Russia deploys this kind of market power.
Gazprom pushes a false narrative that Nord Stream 2 is an added delivery route to Europe. There is no additionality here, if Nord Stream 2 is ever commissioned at its full capacity of 55bcma, Ukrainian route will inevitably disappear.
The Ukrainian gas storages with a total capacity of 31 bcm could store strategic gas stock for Europe to protect it from price volatility. Exactly for that reason the US created national oil stocks back in 70-s.
As the market for decarbonized fuels develops and technologies improve, Ukraine could become an important supplier of biomethane and hydrogen into Europe. However, this will take many years if not decades. Continuity of gas transit, on the other hand, is a matter of immediate concern as it constitutes an important security buffer for Ukraine in a face of the Russian aggression.
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British Farmland Market Mooted by Brexit Uncertainty
Commercial News » London Edition | By Michael Gerrity | April 16, 2019 8:03 AM ET
Potential farmland buyers and vendors awaiting clarity
According to Knight Frank's latest Farmland Index, the average value of bare agricultural land in England and Wales remained virtually unchanged in the first three months of 2019.
Values continue to hover just below £7,000/ acre - 3% lower than they were 12 months ago and down 5% over five years - but still almost 50% higher than they were a decade ago.
At the time of writing we should have spent the past week outside the EU, but deadlock at Westminster to back Theresa May's Brexit deal or agree on an alternative plan means our departure date remains uncertain.
This lack of clarity means potential vendors and purchasers continue to sit on their hands unless there is an urgent reason to strike a deal. Speaking to a number of my colleagues, there is a feeling that any political decision that could unlock this pent-up demand may lead to a rebound in prices.
That isn't to say values would hit the record heights seen in 2015 when average prices broke the £8,000/acre barrier, but they could easily erase the slide of the past 12 months.
However, land markets across England and Wales will remain highly variable regardless of which way average prices head.
While cereal and milk prices are generally higher than they were 12 months ago, beef and sheep values have fallen.
Coupled with the perception that the livestock sector, particularly in upland areas, has the most to lose from leaving the Common Agricultural Policy, this could further exacerbate the difference between arable and grassland values.
Having said that, rollover relief remains a powerful market driver in certain parts of the country, helping to underpin values for all types of farmland. Where this leads to competition among buyers historically strong prices are still being achieved.
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Global Luxury Home Price Growth Rate Slows to 10-Year Low
According to international real estate consultant Knight Frank's latest Prime Global Cities Index, which tracks the movement in luxury residential prices across 45 cities globally, registered its lowest rate of annual growth since the final quarter of 2009, when the world was in the grip of the financial crisis.
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Review: Jackals (2017)
November 9, 2017 David Jeffery Reviews
Jackals -2017
Synopsis: Set in the 1980's, an estranged family hires a cult deprogrammer to take back their teenage son from a murderous cult, but find themselves under siege when the cultists surround their cabin, demanding the boy back.
Saw VI Director Kevin Greutert's 2017 horror/thriller "Jackal" drops us in familiar territory as Hollywood struggles to deliver us original material once again. The story begins with a young, and deranged antagonist "Justin" played by Ben Sullivan. "Justin" is kidnapped by a masked duo on the side of the road and brought to a remote cabin. He then learns that his abductors are none other than his father "Andrew", played by Jonathan Schaech, and former Marine, turned Cult Deprogrammer "Jimmy Levine", played by horror veteran Stephen Dorff. "Justin" is then surrounded by his immediate family, as well as his girlfriend, and new born child. Deprogrammer, "Jimmy" plans to transform Justin's possessed-like behavior and lifestyle with a series of family interventions. All of the stereotypical, movie tropes are present here. First we have the alcoholic, estranged wife, and mother "Kathy", played by screen, and plastic surgery hardened, Deborah Kara Unger. Then there's the overbearing and critical, asshole older brother, "Campbell", played by Nick Roux. Next, we hear from the loving and over-forgiving girlfriend/baby momma "Samantha", played by Chelsea Ricketts. Samantha will seemingly do anything to save her first love from being swallowed up by this treacherous sect. Add in the father, who was never around, and never paid any mind because he was too busy cheating on the mother, and we have the perfect recipe for teen angst. No wonder "Justin" ran off and joined a hellish cult.
As the story progress, much to the joy of our antagonist "Justin", an evil, satanic-like group of mask toting psychopaths surround the cabin with the intentions of rescuing young "Justin" and picking off his family one-by-one in Manson like fashion. Visions and memories of past films like "The Strangers" 2008, and "Straw Dogs" 1971 resonate all over the screen. The slasher aspects of "Jackals" deliver at a relatively decent rate as the blood, and kills mount. However, the intended home invasion, and claustrophobic tension never seems to rise with the exception of a scene or two.
Greutert never realizes the fight or flight intense pacing that Peckinpaw does in "Straw Dogs". And none of the actors present in "Jackals", can hold a candle to the talent of a Liv Tyler in it's contemporary "The Strangers". As a result, "Jackals", is destined to be another 2nd rate, retread of past Hollywood success. "Jackals" pays slight homage to both aforementioned films, but not enough of the same feelings of panic and fear are evoked. Another problem I had with this film is that you would never know that it is Based in 1983. Back dating a story gives the film makers an incredible opportunity to leave me with sweet, sweet, nostalgia tingling all over my body. But instead they seemed to brush over this fact almost entirely. Other than an old Yellow rotary, and no cell phones, you would never guess that this film wasn't taking place in current times. Give me an old Poison or Motley Crue poster or something. A reference to Michael Jackson or Ronald Regan. Give me that wonderful nostalgia that is so eloquently effective in other modern pieces like "Stephen Kings, IT", or "Stranger Things". But I digress.
While brisk in viewing at about 80 minutes or so, "Jackals" will still leave you wanting less. You can certainly do a lot worse with "Jackals", but I would hope that you would want to do a lot more. "Jackals" is a Monday night time killer while you're waiting for your pizza to arrive, and gearing up for your main event on movie night. I rate "Jackals" a 4.5 out 10.
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About me in Horror: My love for horror can be attributed to one man, my Father. I was maybe 5 years old when he showed me some of his favorites such as Halloween, The Thing (Carpenter), Night of the Living Dead, and Jaws. While some parents would shelter their kids from such violent films, my father saw no problem in taking the family out to the Hillside Theatre in Hillside, Illinois for a horror movie. We saw films such as Hellraiser, Aliens, and Pet Semetery when I was but a wee, little lad. I love my father for doing this, and to this day these films and many more stay with me as some of my favorites. My favorite sub genre of horror would be the zombie genre. There's something about the way zombie films reflect society as a dwindling, mindless horde of sheep that I believe appealed to me on a subconscious level as a kid. This look at society hits me at a more conscious level as an adult. Romero, is of course, the god of these films. However, I will watch pretty much any piece of crap Hollywood churns out simply because I cannot refuse an old fashioned zombie story. I would hate to rank all the other sub genre's because I enjoy them all. Slasher's, creature feature's, creepy, killer doll movie's, whatever. It's all good to me as long as it's well done, and sometimes not so well done. I'm not nearly as well versed as other Syndicate writers with horror before 1970. The 70's, 80's and 90's are my favorite decades for horror, but I have seen and loved classics like The Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Wolfman, King Kong, and Pyscho. Recently, thanks to The Horror Syndicate, and a good friend of mine, I've also been getting more familiar with the Italian horror films that so many seem to love, and that I missed out on as a kid. About me personally: Im the youngest of two boys, born in Mel Rose Park, Illinois, an originally Italian populated suburb West of Chicago. My father, full blooded Polish, and my Mother, full blooded Italian, gave me a wicked temper, and a love for sausage. I grew up playing tons of sports. Baseball is however my favorite. I started playing guitar at age 12. I had my first metal band at age 17, and to this day I still write and record music for fun in my little home studio aka my living room. I've never been married, nor have I ever had children, but I've been close twice. I graduated from the Joliet Junior College Culinary School in 2011, and have been working as a chef or cook at various levels, and positions in the food industry ever since. In closing, I've seen the Exorcist about 167 times, and it keeps getting better every single time I see it!! Not to mention that you're talking to a dead guy!! My top 10 Favorite Horror in order (subject to change) Jaws Aliens The Texas Chainsaw Massacre The Exorcist Halloween Alien Night of the Living Dead A Nightmare on Elm Street The Thing (Carpenter) The Lost Boys
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Born to a white mother and an absent black father, and despised for her dark skin, Helga Crane has long had to fend for herself. As a young woman, Helga teaches at an all-black school in the South, but even here she feels different. Moving to Harlem and eventually to Denmark, she attempts to carve out a comfortable life and place for herself, but ends up back where she started, choosing emotional freedom that quickly translates into a narrow existence.
The foreword states that if we don't call Jane Toomer's Cane a novel then the most accomplished novel of the Harlem Renaissance movement would be Nella Larsen's Quicksand. I discovered Nella Larsen just recently while compiling books for different reading projects I have started, one of them being dedicated to African-American writers. Nella Larsen is, like Zora Neale Hurston, and some other African-American writers, a mystery.
Nella was born to a Danish mother and a West Indian father. These mixed origins are reflected in her work. She wrote only two novels, Quicksand and Passing (which I will review later) and three short stories. After an unsavoury accusation of plagiarism concerning her last short story, she stopped writing. This may or may not have been the reason, it isn't exactly clear. Before she started writing she was a nurse, later became a librarian and after she stopped writing, worked as a nurse again during the last 30 years of her life. A lot – like in Zora Neale Hurston's case – isn't clear. It was never really established when she died, she went under many different names and she fabricated stories around her biography which obscured the facts.
Quicksand is a wonderful novel. I enjoyed it a great deal. It has so much to offer and reminded me at times of the novels of Elizabeth Taylor which is high praise. Helga Crane, the main character, is one of the most interesting heroines I've come across recently. A fascinating character. Quicksand explores different themes, the most important are race and gender. It was interesting to read about this. What would it be like if you were constantly aware of the color of your skin? If what you look like is more defining than who you are? For Helga this is doubly tragic as she is, like Nella Larsen herself, of mixed origins. The mother is Danish, the father Afro-American. She isn't accepted by the Whites and mostly has to hide her white heritage from the Black people around her. There is such a thing as a Harlem High Society and Helga, being a beautiful woman, frequents this society, the cabarets, cocktail parties, salons in which endless discussion on race bore her.
At the beginning of the novel she is a teacher in Naxos but restlessness and contempt for the methods that are applied there, lead her to leave and go back to her home town Chicago. This wasn't such a good idea, as she has to realize, as it is hard for her to find another job. On top of that she loves nice things, clothes, accessories and spends too much.
Luck is on her side and she finds an employer who takes her to New York, introduces her to the high society of Harlem. A beautiful rich widow, Anne, lets her live at her place until, once more, after some months, she is restless and decides to go to Denmark to visit her mother's sister.
In Denmark she experiences another side of racism. She is paraded and admired like an exotic animal. One of the most famous men, a painter, wants to get married to her. She enjoys her stay in Denmark. Like before in New York, she thinks at first that she has found "her place", her home. But once more she gets restless and returns to New York.
Offers for marriage are frequent and equally frequent are her refusals. It is also typical for Helga to be happy when she newly arrives in a place and to see it lose its lustre after a while. When the enthusiasm fades, she is prone to nervous attacks, panic and depression. At the end of her second stay in New York, this happens again.
Helga's life is a sequence of bad choices, of restlessness, pervaded by a deep feeling of not belonging. When, in a stormy night, she lands in some Christian congregation, she grasps the opportunity to be "saved" and when the pastor asks her to marry him, she accepts and follows him to Alabama.
Her first months in Alabama are full of bliss. She enjoys married life, to be the wife of an important man. There are a few signs here and there that this is superficial and the surface will crack soon but before her first child is born, she is feeling happy.
Everything contributed to her gladness in living. And so for a time she loved everything and everyone. Or thought she did. Even the weather. Ad it was truly lovely. By day a glittering gold sun was set in an unbelievably bright sky. In the evening silver buds sprouted in a Chinese blue sky, and the warm day was softly soothed by a slight cool breeze.And night! Night, when a languid-moon peeped through the wide-open windows of her little house, a little mockingly, may be. Always at night Helga was bewildered by a disturbing medley of feelings. Challenge. Anticipation. And a small fear.
The last part shows us a broken Helga. Someone who looks back on a ruined life, who hates motherhood or rather bearing children. By now she is the mother of five children and we know there will be more. She tries to make friends but her natural elegance and haughty looks keep her always outside.
I really liked this book, because I liked the writing and I loved Helga Crane. She is an endearing character with all her wishes, her longing, the restlessness and the feeling of being an outsider wherever she goes. We can see in her every outsider, every human being who doesn't fully belong, every one who is looking for something to transcend the ordinary. She stands for so many people who are different. But she also stands for the many women who find it hard to live the life of a wife and mother, who are worn out by birth.
Helga is a tragic figure and did remind me of a friend of mine who, full of hope for something better, turned down every good job offer he got and finally, running out of opportunities, had to go for something far below his capacities in the end.
There are many interesting parts on race and gender and the criticism of many aspects – for example Christian faith and its promises of a later redemption in which so many Afro-Americans believed and which held them down for so long – are intriguing.
I'm looking forward to read her stories and her second novel Passing.
I should add that both novels are very short, only 130 pages long. I hope this tempts you.
It reminds me of the Hanke book you reviewed lately, a woman who lives motherhood (and non-chosen pregnancies) like a burden. (Being a woman doesn't mean that your dream in life is being pregnant and take care of a tribe of children) But here Helga seems to have more alternatives and has made bad choices rather than faced the absence of choice.
Recently, I heard someone's interview on the radio. He (I don't remember his name) has written a book about people with mixed origins. He said that we often consider it as a chance (knowing two cultures) but that the persons sometimes have difficulty to know where they belong and suffer from it.
PS: About characters with mixed origins, have you read The Time of our Singing by Richard Powers?
It isn't a bleak book, Handke was extremely bleak. I didn't enjoy it but I really liked this one. She does make so many bad choices that's really her problem. She could have married a more suitable man but she didn't dare. Deep down she was ashamed to be of moxed origins.
I have Power's book here and should read it.
I am not mixed like they are but coming from different cultures, speaking different lanaguages always gave me the feeling to be an outsider to a certain extent.
Skin color is a different story than just being different in another way but I can understand what it is like. In Helga it is two things, she feels she doesn't belong and she isn't fully accepted. In my case it is a cultural thing as from a language perspective I blend in. I have no accents in any of the languages I speak but there are many things where I feel I'm neither this nor that. But race is another level of difference.
I need to read Power's book.
I was introduced to Larsen just recently and you have me moving her up on my TBR list. Thanks for a wonderful review.
You are welcome. I think Passing is said to be even better and I'll read it soon and post on it.
I am curious to to see what you will think of it.
I've seen several good reviews of Passing lately, and so that book has been on my radar. This is the first one I've read about her other novel, which also sounds most intriguing. Her life also fascinates me – people who obscure their trails are so interesting. I'd really like to read more about her. And more by her!
You should read her, I think you might like her. She is interesting for many reasons, her life as well as her fiction. Maybe she isn't the colorful characater that Zora Neale Hurston was but it is worth exploring her. I'm really looking forward toread Passing and the short stories.
This sounds fascinating! I did a report on the Harlem Renaissance in junior high, so I've always been interested in that period. I read about it most recently in Glorious by Bernice McFadden. Great review, as always!
Thanks, Anna. I really think it is worth reading. I will have to check the book you mention. It's a fascinating era. The music, the writers, the art. I would love to time travel to Harlem in the 20s of the last century. Imagine… And from there directly to Berlin!
Both this and Passing have been on my wishlist for a while now. Thank you for the reminder to get to them sooner rather than later! Larsen sounds like one of those writers who deserve more recognition and a wider readership than they have.
You are absolutely right, Nymeth, that's what I thought too. I just started Passing and hope to write about it soon. Maybe the fact that she stopped writing 3o years before her death and the accusation of plagiarism which seems not justified, tarnished her reputation.
I will stop by (it seems as if you are blogging again, then) and see what you think of it.
I have not yet read either Zora Neale Hurston or Nella Larsen yet, though I have books by both on my reading pile. I'm also intrigued by them and that period particularly. I didn't know anyhting about Larsen and didn't realize she was half Danish–it must have been hard living on the fringes of society–not being entirely accepted by either. I definitely am tempted by her work!
I'm sure you will like it. I've read Passing meanwhile and will post on it today but I defintely think I prefer this one. It is very hard to imagine how it would have been to be of mixed origins. From her novels I deduce that the African-American society was equally hard on its members and even more so on outsiders. It's sad to see that they passed on the negative things they experienced.
I read Quicksand in 2008 and absolutely loved it. I too, am fascinated by the Harlem Renaissance era and Ms. Larsen. I felt the plagiarism was never fully investigated and as a result America lost out on a gifted writer. I have a hint of what she must have felt having being accused of plagiarism while in college. I burned the oil lamp one night writing a thesis paper,turned it in and could not wait for the professor to tell me my grade. He called me in the other room, and said "This paper is too good to be written by you, and frankly I do not believe you wrote it". I felt a big lump rise up in my throat and started blinking back tears. I just couldn't believe he said that. I felt so humiliated and betrayed, not to mention staying up all night writing and how tired I was. I snatched my paper out of his hand and took it to the Dean. I told him what happened with the instructor, and he said, "He doesn't really believe you plagiarized because if he did, this paper would have been in my office." I said, "Would you read this paper and tell me what you think". After he finished reading, he said, "While I would not accuse you of plagiarism, this is by far an excellent paper." "It appears to be written by a published writer." I told him I have worked in a research department for the past 15 years, maybe that has something to do with it. But I guess what I am trying to say is, what was so terrible about me that I could not have written the paper. I guess that was what hurt so much. Maybe I'll post the paper and let the readers tell me what they think.
Oh no, how awful. I'm very sorry for you and thank you so much for this comment. It was on my mind for a long time why a gifted writer would just stop writing "only" because she was accused of plagiarism. I was thinking too much in terms of fraud. Although it is awful to be accused of fraud it is far more terrible to be underestimated. I really understand how you felt. I think it sort of cut a nerve in her. She never even gave it a try again. You should let someone read it, definitely. You have to think of it as if he had said to you "Wow, this is so good, how come you are not published?".
What Harlem Renaissance writers could you recomend? I want to read some more of Zora Neale Husrton soon. She is such fascinating character. Really gutsy.


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There's No Going Back to the Pre-Pandemic Church
By Kay Kotan on April 6, 2021 Leading Ideas
Kay Kotan says many churches feel a natural desire to return to the familiar, comfortable patterns of the past. But churches that embrace this time of disruption as a catalyst for lasting change are most likely to be vital in the post-pandemic world.
The church as we knew it before the pandemic no longer exists. Yet, we do not know what the church of the future will be. One thing we know for sure is that it will be different. It needs to be different. In fact, it has to be different! If we are to be the church to reach new people, we must show up in different and new ways. We must shed the methods that no longer serve the church and be open to being the church in new and yet to be determined ways.
When everything seems to turn upside down, there is an opportunity to stop some things that had not been working anyway, eliminate some things that were seemingly impossible in 'normal times', and start new things that might have been hard to imagine in the past.
After we exit the stage of liminality, we will begin the time of reorientation. We would all like to know where we are headed, what the future will look like, how it will be different, and what we will be doing. Unfortunately, we must also acknowledge that even this will be another difficult phase of adjusting, re-learning, and adapting. Still another season of being uncomfortable. We are in divergent times. Things are developing differently, or perhaps in different directions. While we would all love the perceived certainty we had in January 2020, we must face the reality of where our feet are planted, acknowledging we will need to move in unknown directions in the moments, days, and years to come.
Opportunity is born out of crisis.
The global pandemic has been horrific. No one could have predicted such chaos to occur or for so long. Yet, there is opportunity, the proverbial silver lining. Crisis is an accelerator. The church has been catapulted into the digital age. Some churches had no choice but to embrace technology they once refused. Congregations learned there are more ways to offer worship than we had previously imagined. We learned it is possible to engage people in online ministry that might never become involved in on-site ministry. The church learned that it could change, and it was forced to change quickly.
During a pandemic period when everything seems to turn upside down, there is an opportunity to stop some things that had not been working anyway, eliminate some things that were seemingly impossible in "normal" times, and start new things that might have been hard to imagine in the past.
A mere interruption or a blessed disruption?
When we look at the pandemic as an interruption, we are seeing it as a delay. It is though we hit the pause button and when the world returns to "normal," we will simply hit the play button again. On the contrary, disruption is defined as "a major disturbance, something that changes your plans or interrupts some event or process", or "a break in the action — especially an unplanned and confusing one." (Vocabulary.com.)
When the church sees the pandemic as a disruption, the leaders embrace the opportunity of knowing that going back is no longer an option. Disruption allows a church the opportunity to be awakened to the need for change at a much deeper level.
"I know the plans I have for you," announces the Lord. "I want you to enjoy success. I do not plan to harm you. I will give you hope for the years to come." (Jeremiah 29:11 NIRV)
Embracing disruption is the key to vitality.
While we all mourn the days of the past for what felt normal and comfortable, churches that embrace this as a time of disruption will likely be the most vital churches in the post-pandemic world. God wants the church to be healthy, vital, growing, and fruitful. We must understand that church health and vitality might look very different in the future.
As the church begins to emerge from the pandemic, its role is changing. It was already changing pre-pandemic, but the change is sure to escalate drastically post-pandemic. Effective churches will not look at the average worship attendance as the standard barometer for health. Rather, they will be focusing on engagement. How people are engaging in the church through ministries such as discipleship, service, worship, and evangelism will become the new barometer. This single example of changing how we measure the health of the church magnifies the shift required from a time of interruption to a time of disruption.
The pandemic has created a wake-up call for churches and its leaders. How will churches respond? The choice will be up to each individual church and its leaders. Will the pandemic be framed as a disruption that provides hope for new possibilities in the days to come? Or will the pandemic be framed as a brief interruption, simply waiting for a return to the days gone by?
No doubt, those that are able to see the pandemic in terms of a blessed interruption, providing new eyes and energy for what God is calling the church to be, will be the vital churches of the future.
This article is adapted from Being the Church in a Post-Pandemic World (Market Square Books, 2021) by Kay Kotan. Used by permission. The book is available at Cokesbury and Amazon.
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Chico Anysio, de son véritable nom Francisco Anysio de Oliveira Paula Filho (né le  à Maranguape - , Rio de Janeiro), est un humoriste et acteur de cinéma et de télévision brésilien. Il est aussi peintre et auteur d'ouvrages humoristiques. Il est, avec Chacrinha et Silvio Santos, un des personnages les plus connus de la télévision brésilienne.

Biographie
Né à Maranguape (Ceará) le , Chico Anysio déménage à Rio de Janeiro avec sa famille alors qu'il a six ans et commence travailler à Rádio Guanabara au début des années 1950 comme commentateur de sport et acteur radiophonique.

C'est à partir de la fin des années 1950 qu'il entame sa carrière à la télévision, sur TV RIO avec les programmes Noite de Gala en 1957 et Só Tem Tantã en 1959. En 1968, il entre à Rede Globo, la plus grande chaîne de télévision brésilienne. Il écrit toujours ses textes, et pour Rede Globo, il est journaliste sportif, et écrit aussi les textes de plusieurs chansons (comme Rancho da Praça XI, à l'occasion du quatrième centenaire du carnaval de Rio de Janeiro).

À la suite d'un accident en 1996 qui lui provoque une fracture de la mandibule, sa carrière subit un ralentissement jusqu'en 2005, lorsqu'il recommence à jouer dans le rôle du docteur Saraiva dans la télénovela Sítio do Picapau Amarelo.

Il meurt le  à Rio de Janeiro dû à une défaillance multiviscérale.

Il est le père de l'acteur Nizo Neto.

Télévision

 1973-1980 - Chico City, dans le rôle de plusieurs personnages.
 1982-1990 - Chico Anysio Show, dans le rôle de plusieurs personnages.
 1989 - Que Rei Sou Eu?, dans le rôle de Taji Namas
 1990-2002 - Escolinha do Professor Raimundo, dans le rôle du Professeus Raimundo
 1991 - Estados Anysios de Chico City, dans le rôle de plusieurs personnages.
 1995 - Chico Total, dans le rôle de plusieurs personnages.
 1995 - Engraçadinha, Seus Amores e Seus Pecados, dans le rôle comique d'un vendeur de cercueils
 1999 - Zorra Total, dans les rôles de Alberto Roberto, Professor Raimundo et  Rosseti
 1999 - Terra Nostra dans le rôle du Barão Josué Medeiros
 1999 - O Belo e as Feras, dans le rôle de plusieurs personnages.
 2002 - , dans le rôle du Detective Brito e di Cego
 2004 - A Diarista, dans le rôle du Rúbio
 2005 - Sítio do Pica-Pau Amarelo dans le rôle  Saraiva
 2006 - Sinhá Moça, dans le rôle d'Everaldo
 2007 - Pé na Jaca, dans le rôle de Cigano
 2008 - Cilada, dans le rôle du Dep. Sandoval
 2008 - Guerra e Paz, dans le rôle du Père Santo
 2009 - Caminho das Índias, dans le rôle de Namit Batra
 2009 - Chico e Amigos, dans le rôle de plusieurs personnages.
 2009-2010 - Zorra Total, dans les rôles de Alberto Roberto, Justo Veríssimo et de Bento Carneiro

Filmographie sélective

 1996 - , dans le rôle de Zé Esteves
 2009 - Se Eu Fosse Você 2, dans le rôle de Olavo
 2009 - Up - Altas Aventuras, dans le doublage de Carl Fredricksen
 2010 - Uma Professora Muito Maluquinha, dans le rôle de Monsenhor Aristides

Notes et références

Liens externes

 Page officielle de Chico Anysio

Naissance en avril 1931
Naissance au Ceará
Acteur brésilien du XXe siècle
Acteur brésilien du XXIe siècle
Humoriste brésilien
Décès en mars 2012
Décès à Rio de Janeiro
Décès à 80 ans

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The presents were piled high on the hardwood Friday at Flowery Branch High School's gymnasium, the culmination of a two-week toy drive of North Pole proportions.
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The Salzhaus ( Salt House) is a historic building in the German city Frankfurt am Main. It forms the northeastern part of the Frankfurt City Hall complex (Römer), on the Römerberg square in the centre of the Altstadt (old town).

The Salzhaus was originally built around 1600. It had a rich carved façade on the gable side, making it not only the most important artisan-produced civil building in the city, but also one of the greatest achievements of the Renaissance in the German-speaking world. This building was largely destroyed in World War Two by aerial bombing in March 1944. The base of the old building was preserved, but the floors above it were rebuilt in 1951/52 in a simple post-war architectural form. The reconstruction of the historic facade is still under discussion; it was considered in the 1980s along with a row of houses on the other side of the square (the Ostzeile) but was not carried out. Since then, the organisation Friends of Frankfurt have continued this discussion.

Historic Architecture
Like most of the buildings in Frankfurt's old town, the Salzhaus was built on a massive ground floor made of local red sandstone. As the only part of the building that has been preserved almost holistically to this day, the mastery of the Frankfurt stone masonry is still evident today.

The half-timbered part of the building rose above the stone ground floor into two upper and upper cantilever levels, cantilevering north and east. From the ground floor to the gable, the building was 22 metres high, and at the widest point only 10 metres across. The fact that the roof structure alone made up almost half of the total height of the building emphasised the late Gothic proportions, despite the rich Renaissance decorations.

Probably shortly after 1595 the house was completely redesigned in the style of the late Renaissance, or probably even completely rebuilt. From then on, the Salzhaus was considered one of the most beautiful buildings in Central Europe.
The facade of the Römerberg was painted in the red, white and gold colours of Frankfurt, as shown by a hand-coloured copper engraving from the coronation diary of Joseph I in 1705, and was also documented by the remains of paint from the renovation of the building at the end of the 19th century. The colours were likely changed in the second half of the 18th century as a result of classical architects attempts to give half-timbered buildings the appearance of stone buildings.

The Frankfurter Salzhaus was not only a rarity in the entire German half-timbered building, but especially for the city itself. The Gothic style continued very long in Frankfurt, even as far as the early 18th century, the Renaissance found a very muted reception and wealth of jewelry was frowned upon within the population. The few richly decorated half-timbered buildings came almost exclusively from immigrants,  whose preferences differed from the conservative citizens.

Therefore, the Salzhaus was an  rarity in Frankfurt's architectural history. The art historian Fried Lübbecke wrote in 1924 on its further significance: "[The] entire facade of the Römerberg, up to the gable, is covered with precious oak carvings. They belong to the most technically and artistically perfect of the whole German Renaissance. The crispness of the late Gothic combines the clarity of southern formation to a harmony that is rare in the north."

In terms of comparable quality, the Kammerzell House in Strasbourg gives a similar impression, since it was similarly splendidly redesigned in 1589, but in contrast it survived not only the Franco-Prussian war, but also both world wars without damage.

History
The first mention of the building goes back to a document dated May 5, 1324. It was being referred to as the Salzhaus in various documents in the 14th century, which derived from the salt trade taking place there.
It is likely that until the early 17th century there were two independent, very narrow half-timbered buildings on the plot, commonly known as the Salzhaus. This is shown both by pictures of the Römerberg from various older coronation records.

In around 1460, the Salzhaus was a private debt prison. Private prisons were are common in medieval Frankfurt, regulated by precise urban regulations. The prison in the Salzhaus was in the cellar vault, where a kind of cage had been constructed with the help of wooden slats.

Little is known about the history of the Salzhaus in the following two centuries. Due to its impressive design, the spacious cellars, the availability of a shop on the ground floor and its optimal location on the Römerberg, it would have been almost exclusively owned by rich Frankfurt merchant families.

On May 1, 1843, the city acquired the house and integrated it with the Frauenstein house to create a building complex around the Römerberg square. Since the demolition of the neighbouring Haus zum Wedel in 1866, the building made a somewhat skewed impression. This was due to the fact that the upper floors protruded only to the north, without compensation on the (built-in) southern side, and the overall construction had warped very little over the centuries. The apparent urban dependency on the neighbouring house initially suggests that it was built at the same time, if not before. The detailed plan of the city by Matthäus Merian from 1628, in which the Haus zum Wedel cannot be recognised, on the other hand, points to an erection only from the second third of the 17th century.

In the years 1887 to 1888, urgently needed renovation took place.under the direction of urban planning inspector Adolf Koch was tackled. The modular construction of the oak panels on the first floor made it easy to remove them and take them to the workshops of carpenters and sculptors, where they were extensively restored .

At the time of the renovation work, the frescoes on the north front of the building were so badly weathered that it was decided not to restore them but to replace them entirely. After making detailed sketches of the pictures, the old plaster was removed and completely replaced. Only after the plaster had dried for about a year from the summer of 1887 to 1888 and had proven its strength, were the previously documented pictures repainted using stable mineral colours. Finally, the foliage surrounding the gable, of which there was little left, was copied and completely replaced on the basis of the remains. City officials moved into the house in 1890.

Destruction in the Second World War
In the Second World War it became apparent from July 1942 at the latest that Frankfurt would also be the target of heavy bombing. A large part of the historically significant buildings in the old town of Frankfurt was then documented and immovable art monuments were walled in or had the historic parts removed,. These included all removable relief panels from the Salzhaus - only the carvings worked into the supporting beams of the actual half-timbered house had to remain on site.

On October 5, 1943, the first heavy bomb attack hit the city centre. Incendiary bombs devastated the interior of the Roman and the civil hall. The neighbouring salt house was initially spared. On March 18, 1944, about 750 aircraft attacked the eastern city centre. The Salzhaus remained undamaged again, although the Paulskirche on the opposite side of the street was hit and burned out completely.

On March 22, the heaviest air raid hit the old town. More than seven thousand buildings were destroyed or badly damaged. The Salzhaus was also hit by incendiary bombs and burned down. The entire interior was lost, only parts of the stone basement remained.

Post-war building to present

In 1946, work began on clearing the debris in the old town. By 1950 the rubble and ruins had been completely removed. In that time the decision had been made for a modern reconstruction based on the ideas of urban planning at the time. The "New Salzhaus" was completed in 1952.

There was a serious discussion about the pros and cons of a possible reconstruction of the Salzhaus. However, there was an architectural community and also large parts of politics, which were opposed to "historicism of the romantic kind" (Mayor Kurt Blaum), and still a great shortage of materials and finance.

Most of the initially submitted designs provided for simple and cheaply constructed cubist buildings for the Salzhaus, against which politicians decided in January 1951 in favour of gabled buildings in order to maintain the symmetry of the appearance towards the Römerberg.

Nevertheless, the new Salzhaus belongs to the small number of buildings from the early 1950s which are to be regarded as an artistic contribution of a time that is primarily determined by material constraints.

The "Salzhaus" of the post-war period is a modern reinforced concrete building on the preserved ground floor of the previous building. The decoration of the new building, on the other hand, is unusually rich for the time it was built. Below the windows there is limestone cladding, the eastern side is occupied by a glass mosaic spanning the three full storeys by the artist Wilhelm Geißler. It is intended to symbolise the mood of development and departure after the war and shows the motif of the phoenix from the ashes.

Finally, the six wooden relief panels by the sculptor Johann Michael Hocheisen from 1595 were incorporated into the new front on the Römerberg instead of on the first floor of the original building. They are located in pairs below the southernmost or left side of the house for the observer standing in front of it and still give a good impression of the high quality of the historic Salzhaus.

Today the city's Salzhaus serves as an administration building with an information centre for tourists on the ground floor.

Possible reconstruction
The original historical building has still not disappeared from the city's collective memory. In the 1980s, there were still efforts by the citizens to rebuild the Salzhaus true to the original in the course of the reconstruction of the east line of the Römerberg, which only failed due to a lack of money.

An exhibition of the fragments in the Historisches Museum Frankfurt in December 2004 also showed that not as much building substance was lost in the Second World War as is generally assumed - around 60% of the facade is still intact in city archives. In 2008, on the occasion of the planned reconstruction of some important Frankfurt town houses on the area of the Technical City Hall, which was to be demolished in 2009, the documentation Spolia of the old town of Frankfurt was published. It also shows for the first time an inventory plan of the preserved façade parts of the salt house, which according to the study "should be incorporated into the new building of the Historical Museum as outstanding spolia".

Literature

 Architects & Engineers Association (ed.): Frankfurt am Main and its buildings . Self-published by the association, Frankfurt am Main 1886
 Johann Georg Battonn: Local Description of the City of Frankfurt am Main - Volume IV . Association for History and Ancient History of Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main 1866, pp. 142–143
 Hartwig Beseler, Niels Gutschow: Fates of War in German Architecture - Losses, Damages, Reconstruction - Volume 2, South . Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1988, p. 812
 Georg Hartmann, Fried Lübbecke (ed.): Old Frankfurt. A legacy . Verlag Sauer and Auvermann, Glashütten 1971, pp. 72–77
 Hermann Heimpel: The salt house on Römerberg . In: Frankfurter Verkehrsverein (ed.): Frankfurter Wochenschau . Bodet & Link, Frankfurt am Main 1939, pp. 152–156
 Historical museum presents the art of carving from the "Salzhaus" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine: Newspaper for Germany (ed.), Frankfurt am Main November 9, 2004
 Walter Sage: The community center in Frankfurt a. M. until the end of the Thirty Years' War. Wasmuth, Tübingen 1959 ( Das Deutsche Bürgerhaus 2), pp. 96–99
 Carl Wolff, Rudolf Jung: The Architectural Monuments of Frankfurt am Main - Volume 2, Secular Buildings . Selbstverlag / Völcker, Frankfurt am Main 1898, pp. 239–245

Notes

External links

Frankfurt am Main in the air war
 View from the cathedral of the destroyed Römerberg, colour photographs by Paul Wolff in the summer of 1944
 FAZ article with u. a. new facts about the actual maintenance of the salt house
   (Archive from June 17, 2013 on the Internet Archive )

History of salt
Buildings and structures in Frankfurt
Renaissance architecture in Germany
Buildings and structures completed in 1600


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Meta M1: A smartwatch that you won't be ashamed to wear
by Josh Ong — in Insider
The latest trend is for smartphone makers to expand into the watch market, but many of them lack the experience of designing for your wrist. Meta Watch, a spin-off of Fossil, approaches the smartwatch space as an experienced watchmaker with a technology background.
Originally announced at the beginning of the year, Meta's M1 watch begins shipping today with units expected to arrive next week. The new premium model is designed by Frank Nuovo and ranges in price from $249 to $449. The watch internals remain the same across price points, but the extra money goes toward different band styles and finishes.
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I also had some trouble keeping the watch connected to my phone over Bluetooth LE. Occasionally, the two devices would get disconnected and my iPhone wouldn't be able to reconnect. To re-establish the link, I'd have to reset the watch.
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Kinetic role of helix caps in protein folding is context-dependent.
Secondary structure punctuation through specific backbone and side chain interactions at the beginning and end of alpha-helices has been proposed to play a key role in hierarchical protein folding mechanisms [Baldwin, R. L., and Rose, G. D. (1999) Trends Biochem. Sci. 24, 26-33; Presta, L. G., and Rose, G. D. (1988) Science 240, 1632-1641]. We have made site-specific substitutions in the N- and C-cap motifs of the 5-helix protein monomeric lambda repressor (lambda(6-85)) and have measured the rate constants for folding and unfolding of each variant. The consequences of C-cap changes are strongly context-dependent. When the C-cap was located at the chain terminus, changes had little energetic and no kinetic effect. However, substitutions in a C-cap at the boundary between helix 4 and the subsequent interhelical loop resulted in large changes to the stability and rate constants of the variant, showing a substantial kinetic role for this interior C-cap and suggesting a general kinetic role for interior helix C-caps. Statistical preferences tabulated separately for internal and terminal C-caps also show only weak residue preferences in terminal C-caps. This kinetic distinction between interior and terminal C-caps can explain the discrepancy between the near-absence of stability and kinetic effects seen for C-caps of isolated peptides versus the very strong C-cap effects seen for proteins in statistical sequence preferences and mutational energetics. Introduction of consensus, in-register N-capping motifs resulted in increased stability, accelerated folding, and slower unfolding. The kinetic measurements indicate that some of the new native-state capping interactions remain unformed in the transition state. The accelerated folding rates could result from helix stabilization without invoking a specific role for N-caps in the folding reaction.
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