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Woman whose body was found in the Charles had a Virgo-symbol tattoo
By adamg - 7/11/19 - 11:05 pm
UPDATE: State Police say she was a 23-year-old Mission Hill resident.
State Police have released a photo of a tattoo they found on a woman whose body was recovered from the Charles River yesterday, in the hopes somebody might recognize it and help them identify her. Read more.
Woman's body recovered from Charles River
State Police report its marine unit recovered a woman's body from the Charles River between the Mass Ave. Bridge and Community Boating around 7:25 a.m. after a kayaker reported her floating in the water. Read more.
Road narrows, fog widens
By adamg - 6/26/19 - 6:04 pm
Lillie Marshall reminds us of that truism (OK, which we just made up) while looking downtown from the Cambridge side of the Charles this afternoon.
But that was nothing compared to what Cody DaSilva saw while actually out on the water in Boston Harbor: Read more.
Man's body pulled from Charles River
State Police report divers pulled a man's body from the Charles River near the Longfellow Bridge around 6 p.m. Read more.
Around 9 p.m., those will be fireworks
The Boston Fire Department alerts us there will be 15 to 20 minutes of fireworks, starting at 9 p.m., on the Charles River behind the Museum of Science. Enjoy or hold your dog.
One of the better views on the T
By adamg - 5/18/19 - 11:55 am
See it larger.
Erin Kane got an unobstructed view from the Red Line as it crossed the Longfellow Bridge this morning:
Boston on a sunny spring day is pretty great
Rise and shine, sleepyheads
By adamg - 5/9/19 - 8:36 am
Rick Macomber watched a new day dawning over the Charles River and the BU Bridge this morning.
Hopefully, none of them fell in
By adamg - 3/7/19 - 9:43 pm
Roving UHub photographer Alice Murphy was amazed to see some BU kids sailing on the Charles today.
Yes, a helicopter was flitting over the area this morning
Out on a run this morning, Jason Richardson spotted a Coast Guard helicopter flying in a training mission over the Charles by the Esplanade.
The crew also flew low and loud along Mass. Ave. in Cambridge and Central Square.
A crackling good time on the Charles River
Rick Macomber reports:
The crackle of breaking ice pierces the silence as this boat slowly pushes through the frozen Charles River last night
Not quite ready for skating
By adamg - 1/14/19 - 9:33 am
Gary Waldeck spotted the ice that had formed overnight by the mouth of the Charles River.
Dashing through the, um, water
By adamg - 12/22/18 - 4:09 pm
Why, yes, that was Santa dashing through the Charles by the Esplanade today, as captured by Rob Colonna.
Rudolph with your nose so bright, won't you guide my sloop tonight?
By adamg - 12/9/18 - 10:23 pm
Acraftymitch photographed Boston on a cold night tonight, including Community Boating's Christmas boat on the Charles.
Copyright Acraftymitch. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
Some Boston bridgework
By adamg - 12/2/18 - 1:32 pm
What's old is new: Myron Freeman took in the new lights on the rebuilt Longfellow Bridge yesterday (see it from the other side).
Brad Kelly, meanwhile drove into the spidery arms of the Zakim Bridge recently: Read more.
Sometimes, it's good to be in a fog
By adamg - 11/26/18 - 11:17 pm
617 Images took in the renovated Longfellow Bridge in the early morning fog.
Jason the roving UHub photographer, meanwhile, got a good look at the Back Bay in the fog from the turnpike around 8:30 a.m.: Read more.
Citizen complaint of the day: Damn dirty seagulls
A disgusted citizen files a 311 complaint about the condition of the tops of the newly rebuilt seasoning shakers along the Longfellow Bridge:
Lovely seagull poop on all 4 towers of the beautiful Longfellow bridge.
Ominously beautiful
Rory Nolan watched storm clouds move in over the Charles shortly before 6 p.m.
Just another great sunset
Caitlin loved the sunset this evening:
The storms have taken the heat and humidity and left us another amazing sunset.
Across the river, Chris Wagner also enjoyed the sunset in Allston: Read more.
Sam the Eagle visits West Roxbury
At the very end of Rivermoor Street in West Roxbury, just behind the last building in the industrial park there, is a dead tree that towers over everything else. This afternoon, a bald eagle perched up there for a long time, taking in the view over the Charles River, the train tracks and the banks of Millennium Park.
David Parsons watched the July Fourth fireworks shot off from the Mass. Ave. Bridge. Read more.


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Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in Russia: Improving, But Still Uncertain
Baker, C. Mark
Sutcliffe, Jonathan H.
Wilson, Kirsten Hetzel
Romman, Kinan H.
Article from: OGEL 2 (2009), in EU - Russia relations
Russia's ascent as a major player in the world economy in recent years has resulted in a spike in business activity-and business disputes-between Russian and foreign parties. As a result, the enforceability of foreign arbitral awards in Russia remains a practical concern for those doing business with a Russian entity. The difficulty of enforcing foreign arbitral awards in Russia has received widespread attention, no doubt due at least in part to the conflict between Russia's modern arbitration laws and the Russian courts' application of those laws. Despite the incorporation of ...
C.M. Baker; J.H. Sutcliffe; K. Wilson; K.H. Romman; "Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in Russia: Improving, But Still Uncertain"

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West Virginia Abortion Laws
Within the state of West Virginia, Abortion is defined as the purposeful termination of a pregnancy through procedural means. Subsequent to the decision of Roe v. Wade, abortion became legal within the United States – however, West Virginia state legislation expresses a variety of stipulations with regard to a legal abortion process:
• A legal abortion may occur in the event that the protection and preservation of the life of the mother carrying a fetus is compromised as a result of a pregnancy; an abortion can take place in order to save the life of the mother only upon accredited and sanctioned medical review – only a licensed medical doctor will be permitted to both review and perform cases of abortion within the state of West Virginia
• An illegal abortion is deemed as an abortion process that occurs in the event that the health and wellbeing of the mother is not in danger; furthermore, an illegal abortion is defined as a procedure that occurs outside of legal, accepted, and authorized medical procedural protocol – unlawful abortion is considered to be a felony
• Individuals accused of performing illegal abortion procedures can be punished with a prison sentence ranging from 3 to 10 years; in the event that am mother dies during such a procedure, a charge of murder can be brought forth – unlawful, purposeful miscarriages can range in punishment from incarceration to monetary fines
West Virginia Marijuana Laws
Within the state of West Virginia, the possession of Marijuana - or Cannabis products – as well as the acts of growing or distributing marijuana without the expressed permission of the West Virginia State Government is a punishable, criminal offense. The following penalties are associated with Marijuana within the state of West Virginia:
Possession/Under the Influence of Marijuana
1. Amount: Any
• Penalty: 90 days' to 6 months' incarceration
• Fines: $1,000
• Classification: Misdemeanor
2. Amount: less than 15 grams
• Penalty: Automatic Conditional Discharge
Cultivation/Sale of Marijuana
Supplementary Charges include Possession, Sale, and Sale to a minor with regard to Drug Paraphernalia; Marijuana charges may be subject to increase to the proximity to a school zone or Public Park – the sale of Marijuana to a minor may also incur additional fines and incarceration
• Penalty: 1 to 5 years' incarceration
• Fines: $15,000
• Classification: Felony
4. Amount: Any (upon transport into West Virginia)
• Fines: varies
Within the state of West Virginia, Medical Marijuana is considered to be illegal both for patient use and cultivation
West Virginia DWI and DUI Laws
Driving while intoxicated (DWI) and driving while under the influence (DUI) charges exist in the event that an individual ingests illegal drugs, alcohol, or controlled-substances, which may impair their respective ability to safely operate a motor vehicle; the following DUI and DWI laws exist within the state of West Virginia:
• Zero tolerance laws exist in the event that an individual below the legal age permissible to consume alcohol is suspected to be unlawfully operating a motor vehicle; within the state of West Virginia, the Zero Tolerance Blood Alcohol Content Level (BAC) cannot exceed .02%
• The BAC limit for individuals operating motor vehicles may not reach .08%; this can constitute a DUI or DWI offense
• In West Virginia, there currently exist no supplementary penalties incurred due to BAC levels exceeding the expressed, legal limit
• Implied consent is a legal instrument that is employed within the realm of a DUI Arrest that entails a verbal or written contract resulting from the willing participation in a regulated activity, such as the operation of a motor vehicle; within West Virginia, law enforcement agents are permitted to act in accordance with implied consent laws
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• A waiting period for the purchase of a firearm does not currently exist in the state of West Virginia
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• Within the state of West Virginia, and individual must maintain residence for a period of no less than 6 months
• Any individual may be adopted; children above the age(s) of 12 must express consent with regard to a potential adoption
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• A divorce must be filed subsequent to 60 days residence within the state of West Virginia; in the event that an individual –or individuals – were married in West Virginia and lived there on a continuous basis, a time constraint for filing does not exist
• 'No Fault' divorce does exist on the grounds of irreconcilable differences; requires 1-year separation
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• Dog racing wagering is legal
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The New Yorker Live
The Big Story: Reimagining Joseph Mitchell's New York
David Remnick discusses Joseph Mitchell's life and work with the New Yorker staff writers Mark Singer and Ian Frazier, along with the biographer Thomas Kunkel.
(chattering)
We just published something we never thought
we would publish in The New Yorker.
Another piece by Joe Mitchell and it's no secret
that there's another piece of about that length
and maybe one a bit shorter,
that'll come out down the line.
How did it come about?
We thought that Joe Mitchell had stopped publishing
in the early '60s, mid '60s with Joe Gould's Secret
and there would never be another thing again.
Well David, what happen was, you're right,
he did stop publishing.
Joe Gould's Secret came out
in the fall of 1964 and then nothing.
And Joe was working on things.
He was pursuing stories about people
he cared about very much.
A woman named Ann Honeycutt, who was sort of a woman
that was very well known to the New Yorker men.
He was pursuing, you know--
Could you elaborate 'cause I--
(audience laughs)
Let's just say it involved Thurber, Gibbs, McKelway
and a cast of thousands.
She was a very interesting woman.
He was pursuing the idea of a story
about his dear friend Joe Cantalupo,
who is one of the key figures at the Fulton Fish Market.
He was pursuing a lot of things
but he wasn't really finishing anything.
And ultimately he decided he would write somewhat.
He took an autobiographical turn.
He thought maybe what he wanted to write.
He wanted to write a big story about New York.
A book length story about New York
and he didn't really like writing about himself.
But ultimately he decided that this was perhaps
the only way I could do it.
So he said, this was in the late '60s, early '70s.
He sat down and he started producing and it's funny
'cause you go into the files,
he's literally rereporting his life from North Carolina on.
So, he wrote the piece that you saw that you published
that was the first chapter.
And the second chapter, which I think you'll publish
down the road a bit is more,
takes him back to his childhood
and the third piece becomes kind of a bridge
back to the current time.
So and that's all we have,
as far as I know unless something else surfaces
and he, like everything else,
he got into it and he stopped and he put it away.
And that's where it stayed until in 1995,
Up in the Old Hotel came out
and to great acclaim, and he was so--
Should say that that's a collected works, it's everything.
Before that, the only way you could get
Joe Mitchell's books were in used book stores.
And if any of you in the crowd,
if you're interested enough in Joe to be here,
you definitely need to have the book Up in the Old Hotel.
And he pulled these stories back out because he thought,
well maybe I could get these into publishable shape.
Unfortunately, shortly thereafter he became sick
and died, and they went into his files again.
Mark, you took on an almost impossible assignment in 1999,
which is to write a profile of somebody who was gone
and to try to figure out the predicament
that remained a mystery for years
and may still be a mystery,
which is why Joe Mitchell stopped publishing in 1964
and continued doing something for 30 odd years.
What was the nature of the mystery?
What did you make of Joe Mitchell and his predicament
where writing was concerned and his life?
What was his life in those last 30 years?
His life I think is as described in the piece
in this week's issue.
I think that he was on a quest.
I think that he was literally wandering all over New York,
in a way that reading about it is, whether he's recreating
Ulysses in his wanderings or not, who knows?
But he's looking for something
and it's a spiritual quest of course.
And that's what's literally there.
I didn't have the benefit of that of course.
I only knew really what I'd read of his work
and what I tried to learn from his work.
So, I knew generally how he felt about New York.
I knew how he felt about the modern world
and what changed then.
And I don't know how.
Someone said something to me,
it was like a water cooler conversation
at the magazine one day
that made me think well and they came up with the title
which happens to be the title of this event tonight,
but it was the title of the piece
which was Joe Mitchell's Secret.
Obviously a play on Joe Gould's Secret
and what was that secret, if anything.
And I'm not a critic.
I'm a reporter, so I could appreciate his writing
but really, I approached it as a reporter.
And what I learned was that he didn't stop writing.
He had certainly not stopped trying
and I went to see his daughter Nora Mitchell Sanborn,
who lives in New Jersey and is a lovely person
and she welcomed me and we talked about whatever.
I didn't talk to Joe's other daughter, Elizabeth
who lives in Atlanta.
What I got from Nora was, she took me back to a bedroom
where there were these jars.
There were bowls and there were jars
and they were marmalade jars mostly.
He had marmalade every morning for breakfast
and in them were pieces of paper and found objects.
And he was cataloging what he had found either in New York
or in North Carolina and these things,
I realized as I went through them,
the detail, they weren't just rusty nut, you know
It was where he found it, near whose farm,
and he would tell you a little bit something
about the neighbor's farm
and it was all these, just scribblings.
And this was a compulsive thing with him clearly.
I had a conversation with Nora yesterday thinking about
what we were gonna talk about today,
and she told me something that Tom has known,
was that, I knew that he went out with a sheet of paper
and pencils in his jacket
and he always wore a suit, of course,
and I knew that when he went out.
Anything just squeaked--
So, you were--
Yes, it's me.
I knew that he went out with a piece of paper
and a pencil basically.
What I didn't know was that he was keeping a diary.
You should've seen it.
And what he would do was he would go home.
He would write down whatever he wrote down
and people would hear him at the old office on 43rd street,
either 25 or 20 West 43rd,
typing during the day but when the cleaning woman
came in at night, the desk was blank,
whether there was anything in the waste basket,
I don't know, but there was no evidence
of what was going through his typewriter.
And part of it was his diary.
I was at least able to say, most importantly
in that piece I wrote, that he never stopped trying.
I think there's something inevitable poignant about
both what you find in the writing itself,
the stories that he writes, and then of course, in his life.
Sandy, when you read the piece,
none of us have read this piece,
other than Tom, until very, very recently,
what did you make of it?
What did you make of its literary quality?
What advance, or if any, he was making as a writer
and did it solve any mystery about Joe Mitchell as such?
Joe was kind of a religious person.
He was not religious and he was in context
where nobody that he hung out with
I think was very religious.
But he was an agnostic about disbelief,
that is he wasn't so sure that
there wasn't something after death.
There's a passage in this where he says he thinks that maybe
the fires of hell are real.
So, he was kind of a theological writer
and what this piece did for me was to show
how seriously he took it.
I mean, I don't know exactly what the timeframe
of this piece is.
But I knew Joe and went drinking with him
on a couple of occasions and one of them,
we were just sitting there talking about the words
to Protestant hymns, and he didn't say at the time,
you know, I go to Mass constantly,
I go to like 10 different Masses, you know.
He's describing, goes to all these different Masses.
And there's a part in this piece
where he just keeps going to all these different churches.
It seems to me that he got to a point
where he might have had to take a kind of Tolstoy step
to actually become sort of a religious figure maybe even.
I mean why are we here?
'Cause he's a really heavy guy, you know.
Maybe he could have taken that next thing
and he just no, wait a minute that's not possible.
But there's a part in this piece
where he goes into St. Patricks and he looks up above,
and he says, 70 feet up are the paths
of the previous cardinals and there are three up there.
And then he says, there's now four
because Cardinal Spellman has since died
and his hat is up there too.
And he goes and he's looking at it and a priest says,
well, would you like to come behind this velvet rope
and take a better look?
And he steps past it and he looks up and then,
or before that, he has said the priest is talking
to a washer woman who is scrubbing the steps.
Now normally, you would just say she's scrubbing the steps.
But he says scrubbing the steps with Old Dutch Cleanser,
and that's where you just go really deep.
Mr. Hunter says, in the piece about Mr. Hunter,
there are passages, they're bible passages
where you go so deep, you can't get to the bottom.
Well Old Dutch Cleanser.
What is the history of the city?
It's a Dutch city originally, and what is Joe?
He says, I'm not a Catholic.
And then when he talks about how he goes back
when he's at the mass, and he says,
I go back before the reformation.
Well, he's a product of the reformation.
He's a Protestant.
He's, I believe he was a Baptist.
So that when, and John Calvin was Dutch, right,
so, here he is, an Old Dutch Cleanser
and suddenly you've gone way back.
You've gone below kind of the steps,
below the floor of the church almost.
You've gone into the history of the city.
He was out there, and he was really looking for something,
and I didn't find, I found the piece,
I was sorry that it ends and there's nothing that follows it
but I felt a huge, I mean I love the piece,
and I thought it cast a huge amount of light
on his previous pieces,
and it just made me think, you know,
somebody like Joe, they are in progress.
You know, it's like what, when the poet dies,
he belongs to his readers, you know.
Well, Joe belongs to us now, and he's developing.
We're not done, he's not done,
and this piece, and I really look forward to the other two,
it's like, where is this, where is this writer going,
and how is gonna be seen as time pulls back from him
and as you, as you see him with a wider context?
So, I didn't feel frustrated with this piece at all.
I felt like it's something that will be read and reread
and you know, you'll get more out of it every time,
and I, you know, I think it's, again, it's wonderful
that that piece turned up and that it was published.
Tom, as a biographer, what did you learn from that piece?
Is it possible to glean any notion of his state of mind,
his circumstances on the question
that bewitches any biographer of Joe Mitchell?
From this and two to come.
Well, I think Sandy put it very well
from the standpoint of Joe was a,
he was born a Baptist, he was very much formed
from sort of these southern fundamentalist
practices and beliefs and even though, shall we say,
he outgrew them later, he never really got past them,
and he was always, but he was a constant seeker.
He really did believe there was something else out there.
He wanted to know more about it,
and so on that level, it certainly validated that.
And I agree, in fact, the first time I ever read it,
I was just, I'm a Catholic,
I was floored by the image of the miters up on the ceiling
and the fact, not long after,
I actually walked to the cathedral
when I was in New York to find them.
It's just, but as a biographer,
the other thing you have to remember,
that I learned from that piece or it underscored,
this was written in the late '60s, early '70s,
and Joe, remember he hadn't published then
in five, six years, and he was prone
to depression all his life,
and this was about this point in his life
where he was so discouraged by what was happening
in the city, I mean New York, think about it, you know,
late '60s, what was going on in America,
what was going on in New York, and--
[David] What was the nature of the discouragement though?
Well, he, don't forget, I mean he, for one thing,
he just loved the architectural patrimony of the city,
and New York was just hell bent on knocking down
every building of consequence it seemed.
You know, that was still there and for him,
that was just such a painful metaphor
for what was happening with his city.
He came to New York right at the beginning of the depression
so his New York was the New York of the '30s,
the '40s, the '50s,
for many people, it was sort of this magical time,
and by the late '60s, he just almost couldn't take anymore
what was happening with his New York,
and so he starts talking about living in the past,
and so, his New York that he writes about in that piece,
even though we don't know for sure,
but it really is much more of a New York
that unfolded for him while he was here.
So, I think it's more that New York,
looking in the rear view mirror,
is wistful and melancholy.
We have two writers here who write
beautifully about New York and who are not from New York,
as most New Yorkers are not,
Mark is from Oklahoma and Sandy is from Ohio.
When you read Joe Mitchell writing about New York,
you must feel some kind of outsider kinship,
this person who arrives in the city,
or maybe not, I don't know.
I've never compared myself to him,
so it's not the same thing.
I just think about what I learn from him,
and what I learned was about listening.
He was the best listener, anyone who--
Met him every encountered.
Sandy and I both had the experience of going out
to drink with him finding that about,
in my case, I'm a short hitter,
so it was about one martini in,
and I had just assumed control of this conversation.
It was just spouting idiocy, I assume,
and Joe just leaning forward and, yes, yes, oh yes--
And you just keep talking, well,
as reporters, we want people to talk,
and the way you do that,
reading him, it was implicit to me that the way
to be a reporter was to shut up most of the time,
to get out of the way of the person that you're talking to.
The ideal interview is one, if you have a tape of it,
in which the reporter's voice
is heard as little as possible.
It's not quite psychotherapy, but it's--
Close. It's something in there,
and then just detail.
I wasn't only learning that from Joe.
I think we, Sandy I don't know, in what order you read.
I know you said that we you came here,
you and I were both in our early 20s
when we came to the magazine,
and I hadn't read anything, and so I was just
inhaling New Yorker reporting at that point,
and Liebling obviously was the other person
that I was learning from,
but that was more about character.
How do you describe people?
And humor was essential to all of this.
That was the fundamental lubricant in all of this.
It was, we've been talking here in sort of a door way
about how somber and poignant Joe is.
He was incredibly funny.
All these pieces, there's every kind of humor in them,
and so it was a textbook example,
but you could only do what you could do.
Yeah, I think that it's, when I first came here,
I really couldn't hear very much
because I just couldn't, I didn't hear New York that well.
It doesn't sound like where I came from.
People talk differently.
And what you try and do is, as a reporter,
find the thing that you can hear, and that's,
you're not just looking out,
but you're looking into yourself
and saying, what is my aptitude for,
and with Mitchell, he was going around
and finding out how he fit in.
It was similar to, you know, for me.
I grew up in a rural place,
not as rural as where Mitchell grew up,
but it does take a lot of adjustment
just to feel like what is going on here.
And for Joe, I think it was, a lot of it was looking for
the natural world, which is very, very vivid here.
This is one of the great natural places on the planet,
in terms of the combination of fresh and salt water
and the combination of land and an archipelago
that's just perfectly situated for a harbor.
It's just, and a confluence of rivers,
it's just a wonderful place in the natural world.
And it has lots of birds, and it has lots of fish.
It has fresh water and salt water fish.
It has all kinds of nature, and it's getting more nature.
We've now got wild turkeys in New York City.
I mean, I could go on and on.
And what Mitchell was doing was finding something
that corresponded to what he knew,
and I think I took a lead from him in that.
I wanna mention it, when you describe wildflowers
and birds and things like this that you're identifying
in your pieces, it really pisses me off.
It's the only reason I do it.
Mark is not gonna know what Japanese honeysuckle is
and he's gonna be bugged.
And I couldn't even find it on Wikipedia.
And Joe, and he talks about this.
Like, I like to take a wildflower book--
A wildflower book, right.
Sandwiches and wander through a cemetery,
and then he does identify all these things,
and there's a moment in this piece in the magazine
when he does that somewhere in the Bronx.
He's looking at some little, you do that too,
and as I say, it's a personal thing with me.
Take it as an affront, as it is meant.
Yeah, he can, he knows vastly more than I do,
and that wildflower section in Mr. Hunter's Grave
where he says, Well, wildflowers are there,
I was just astonished, and I got a wildflower book,
and I went to Mr. Hunter's grave.
Oy, this is it.
And of course, it was the middle of winter,
so it was very hard to identify anything.
There's not as many--
Can I just say, only a guy from Ohio goes,
in the middle of winter, looking for wildflowers.
What kind of activity is that?
Well you know, it's global warming,
a lot of things are out now that didn't use to be,
and yeah, and then I went
to the Sandy Ground Historical Society,
and they had a film made of that cemetery in 1980,
and you couldn't see the graves.
There were so many, if you know this wonderful piece,
and if you haven't read it, it's the greatest piece,
in my opinion, ever written.
We went out there, it's exactly the same
as Mitchell described it, and Mr. Hunter,
when he's talking to Mitchell, points out this graveyard,
this tombstone of this guy named Daws Landis,
and I went to the church there, Mr. Hunter's church,
which is an African Methodist Episcopal church,
and it's still operating,
and I met Daw Landis' great-great-granddaughter.
Mr. Hunter says, he tells the story of Daws Landis,
and he says, this guy, you know, he was an oyster man,
and then he retired, and he did this and he did that,
and he had an orchard, and he had a peach orchard,
and he had a peach that was a champion peach.
He would take it to various contest, you know,
like state fairs, and he said, and this peach
was the greatest peach,
and the name of this peach was Stump The World.
And I just, I was there and reading that
'cause I took the book with me,
and I look at this old weathered thing,
where Mitchell says on the tombstone, it says,
asleep in Jesus, long gone, that's long eroded away,
but the name is still there,
and to know that all of this incredible wealth of knowledge
about this place is all Joe's, he found it.
And Mr. Hunter, when he takes him to his grave
where he will be buried, it has his wife's name
and the year of birth and death of his wife,
and then it has Mr. Hunter's year of birth,
but it doesn't have his year of death,
and he says, of course, after I die,
this'll be added on here,
but you know, Mr. Hunter at that point was 85
and he didn't die for another 10 years after that.
But anyway, he says, my name will be added on here,
and it's still blank.
They never did add the year of his death.
Tom, you just heard Sandy describe Mr. Hunter's Grave
as the great, maybe the greatest piece ever written,
and right now, there are a lot of people around
that think of Joe Mitchell as a real king,
a real master of nonfiction, and yet,
until the mid '90s, you couldn't find his books.
I mean, part of your job as a biographer
writing a literary biography
is a biography of a reputation in time.
He was, why was he a secret?
Why was he a cult figure rather than
somebody that was in print and available
and whose reputation had been sustained
not just by a small clutch of writers and admirers
but a broader readership?
Well, it was largely a self-inflicted wound.
And let me just say, I agree.
I don't know whether Mr. Hunter's Grave
is the greatest story ever, but in my opinion,
of all the wonderful stories that Joseph Mitchell wrote,
I think it's, I think it's the best in part because
it's doing the same thing that Shakespeare does,
and Sandy quoted this wonderful line,
Mr. Hunter talking about, talking with another minister
about some of these biblical passages
that go so deep you can't go any deeper,
and the story does, it just, it works
on level after level after level, and of course,
you don't know it going into the story
where you're gonna end up, and it really is,
it's just taking this unbelievable journey.
It's so rich that, again, if you haven't read it,
do yourself a big favor.
It doesn't take that long.
When I say self-inflicted wound, David,
basically, the reason Joe went out of print
was because he would not allow him,
he would not let the publishers keep him in print.
A part of his concern was that he had seen,
you know, Liebling was his great friend.
He had seen reissues of Liebling's work
and what Joe thought were not that great paperback form.
They didn't tend to get a lot of critical notice
when they came, reissues came out.
He just, he didn't, there was a piece of him
that didn't mind that was a kind of a rarity to find,
and so, I talk about it in my book.
I mean, publishers begged him, begged him his entire life
to let them bring out reissues of the books,
they even, or the anthology.
And he was even quite reluctant at the end.
It was Dan Frank at Pantheon, the editor, wonderful editor,
who finally broke through and Joe acceded to,
and thank goodness for Dan.
What did he promise?
What was it that made him change his mind?
Well, interestingly, and Dan's a clever guy, he wrote Joe.
Dan was a young editor at the time, Joe was an old man,
and Dan, they hadn't met, but Dan said,
could I please take you to lunch,
I promise the one thing we won't talk about
is reissues of your book.
So, he did what editors do, which is just lie.
Lie. Yes.
As you know. Make unreasonable promises,
lie, then push. Exactly, exactly.
And therefore, and they did, and they went,
and they talked about everything under the sun
except reissue and they established a relationship,
and it made it happen, but Joe, when,
he always thought the books would be reissued
and when they were,
he actually liked the idea of the anthology.
He had for some time.
And that it would be hardcover,
it would be really substantive.
It wasn't the people didn't want him,
I mean it wasn't that they forgot him,
he just wouldn't let 'em.
You talk about this publication and it led to, I think,
the happiest literary event I've ever seen in New York.
There was a wonderful bookstore on 75th and Madison
called Books and Company, kind of a posh bookstore
but a really good literary bookstore,
and the reading for that book was held there on warm night,
I forget, the summer, spring, something like that,
and people were spilling into the streets,
and he just kinda ambled in and did his thing, and it was,
for one night, for one night, he was the Beatles.
He had discovered, he had discovered
a completely new generation of readers with that book,
which I assume still exists, I hope.
It's in print, I hope, I hope it's in print.
Oh, absolutely.
And that's the last scene in my book, by the way.
Now, a tender subject maybe.
We were talking about this back there.
I hesitate to call it backstage but back there.
And the question is, what of Joe Mitchell's pieces
would be possible today?
And that's a code word in nonfiction world
for which of his techniques could you do now
and would they be flagged by fact checkers
and what are the rules now as opposed to then
and should they be and all that stuff?
Maybe I'll start with Tom on this question.
What is your impression of how Joe regarded fiction and,
the border between fiction and nonfiction and why?
Well, what David is referencing is the,
if you read Joe Mitchell, and many of you have, of course,
you know that one of the hallmarks of his pieces,
for instance, is that he has his characters talk
in extraordinarily long speeches, monologues, remarkable,
that don't happen in real life.
And many of his pieces also are constructed in a way,
call it a visit, like Mr. Hunter's Grave
happens in the course of an afternoon.
Well, in truth, Joe probably met with George Hunter
10, 15 times, had hours and hours
and hours and hours of conversation with him.
Everything that Mr. Hunter says in the story,
he almost certainly said,
and he almost certainly said it the way he said it,
but Joe would take many of these speeches
and fuse them into one long declamation,
and again, he would take many visits and have them,
and that was artistic license,
and this was at a time when frankly,
the modern conventions of journalism,
which pretty much state maybe to the '50s and beyond
hadn't really, really taken, let's just say there was
more latitude and a lot of places about that sort of thing.
I don't think Joe was terribly unique.
I think Joe pushed the boundaries,
and I think the New Yorker probably pushed the boundaries
as a publication in terms of what may have been acceptable,
even, you know, in that time frame, but for Joe, at least,
that didn't matter because he was interested
in a larger truth, if you will, than whether the visit
happened over two or three visits as opposed to one.
That didn't matter.
What mattered was what got said and conveyed.
So, I'll stop there, but that's to kind of tee it up.
Sandy or Mark?
Well, I think he, you know, it's a rule of writing
either fiction or nonfiction, I mean,
if it's not fiction based on somebody,
but you can say pretty much anything you want
if you say the person is really good looking.
And I think that with a lot of Joe's pieces,
really with all of 'em,
he loved the people that he was writing about.
[David] Right, it wasn't oppositional.
So, it's not opposition, it's not like,
okay, I'm gonna make you look bad.
He's makin' the person look the opposite of bad,
and he's seeing 'em with love and an aesthetic appreciation,
and what Mark is talkin' about with Joe's ability to listen,
what those quotes convey is that relationship.
This person who's talking has not been listened to,
and Mitchell was listening and that that also,
I think sort of justifies the length of it.
I think basically, it's the affection of it
and also the artistry.
If it's so beautiful and unbelievable,
you're just not gonna stop and go wait a minute,
I wanna see the transcripts of this, you know, because--
[David] It's not the point.
It's not the point.
I think he was, well, I mean, I think that,
that the art of it takes it past any kind of,
you know, security considerations or like,
we're gonna check your tapes and see if the,
we're gonna look at your notebooks and make sure
you got all this, you know, some reason for it.
But now we do, but now we do.
I think this became more of an issue
when oppositional journalism entered the New Yorker
and other places in a more vivid way, in longer nonfiction,
and therefore then the rules had to be kind of unified
and a problem like that would be finessed.
You would sort of nudge the reader in the ribs and say,
and let him or her in on what you were doing,
and then it was okay.
These meetings took place over,
it's very quickly done, and where trouble began
was when the old, old rules of non-oppositional reporting
got glommed onto oppositional reporting
and people objected, rightly objected,
and that's when I think these things had to get rethought.
It's a tricky thing especially when it's,
you're not just representing yourself,
but you're next to another piece in a magazine
that's also reporting to be nonfiction.
'Cause if you can make it up, there's a word for that,
and there's nothing wrong with it.
It's a glorious thing, it's called fiction.
It's a great question, but it's a great question
of is today, Joe literally would not be able,
he couldn't do Mr. Hunter's Grave that way.
He could do it, no doubt it would be a beautiful story,
but it would be a different story.
I think he absolutely could do it
with a very subtle little fill-up about technique
that would let him off the hook, and on Old Mr. Flood,
he had to change, I forget what the story is,
I think there was some controversy about this.
In a second edition of this, here Tom,
you're gonna know the details of this better,
told the reader that, in fact, these pieces,
they're a composite characters and so on and so forth.
That was never in the original New Yorker.
No, and he kind of comes clean,
I don't know what pressure was exerted, if any,
and that doesn't take away my enjoyment of Mr. Flood at all.
That's the only time he ever said that,
and it's reasonable to assume that he did it all along.
Absolutely, I think so.
When you say that it would be okay,
you edit a magazine, right?
So, you're saying that if a piece came in there,
you could publish it in your magazine.
If you're straight with the reader about you're up to.
Could the New York Times publish it?
I'm not in charge of that.
But it's a question about, you know, the New Yorker,
you know, why are we special?
In other words, what makes it allowed here but not there.
And I think that the whole thing--
I'm not saying it's allowed.
I would say that if you publish Mr. Hunter's Grave
and had some very brief passage about what the terms
of Mr. Hunter's Grave were, and it could be very subtle
and fleet, but as long as it's clear, that's one thing.
I mean, we've discussed other profile writers.
These giant quotes that go on and on and on,
and clearly there were questions in between
and there were other things that formed these,
there are ways of telling the reader what you're up to.
There are ways of doing it, and it's not so terrible,
and the price you pay of not doing it
is then reading Sy Hersh next to it,
and the reader going, that never happened.
He's makin' that up just like Joe,
so part of it is the pressure of having a publication
with things side by side,
but the last thing I wanna do,
first of all is to go on and on about this,
but the last thing I wanna do
is somehow hurt, subjugate, ruin the artistic pleasures
of Joe Mitchell who I revere as much as anybody here.
The question is, if you're gonna call something nonfiction
in a magazine that has a bunch of terms
that are going out to the reader,
the reader has to understand what's goin' on.
Otherwise, you run into deep, deep trouble.
With that very sort of hyper pompous
and more serious maybe than we wanted to get into
in conversation about that point,
I think there's definitely an influence.
He loved, he loved the fire and brimstone preachers.
It scared the hell out of him, literally,
to go to these revivals,
but he was mesmerized by them.
Then when he came to New York as a reporter for newspapers,
he often wrote about African-American preachers
in particular, in part because he just loved
the rhythm of the way they spoke,
so sound was very important to Joe, and the older he got,
the more that sense of that rhythmic and the repetition
became a signature of his style, absolutely.
Well, when Joe came to New York, he was, I don't know, 21.
He came literally, it may have literally been
that Black Friday, so timing is everything,
and he wanted to be a newspaper writer,
and that's what he did.
He came, he talked himself into a job
and spent the first decade of his life in New York
writing newspaper articles, first for the Herald Tribune,
great newspaper, and then the World Telegram,
and so it's kind of ironic when people talk
about Joe Mitchell and the longest writer's block.
Joe Mitchell, for the first 10 years of his life,
wrote millions and millions and millions of words.
He would write two, three stories every day for these papers
and newspaper writing, these guys will probably tell ya,
it's a training ground, it lays the foundation,
develops discipline, and you learn how to report,
and you learn how to listen if you're smart,
and 10 years in, he published a book called
My Ears Are Bent, which, that's right,
and that was sort of the best of his newspaper work
up until that time.
So, that was hugely important to him.
He would not have become the writer he was
if he hadn't had that apprenticeship.
As for my book, I've just finished the first draft,
I've been talking to editors, I'm in the revisions,
which I hope to have done this summer,
so I would hope that it would be out maybe early next year.
I'm beginning to appreciate Joe Mitchell
and taking years to get something done.
Part of the reason Joe stopped being able to publish was,
there was a series of things in his,
you know, personal setbacks.
He published the last Joe Gould story in late '64.
In '63, Joe Liebling, arguably his best friend, died.
In '63, his mother died.
Move into the early '70s,
and it was in that late '60s, early '70s period
where he is writing these autobiographical pieces,
but he's not publishing them.
Then his father dies and then, in the mid-'70s.
Then his wife has a stroke, then has cancer, then she dies.
And he's in the throes of depression,
and so he's sort of of a mindset like, why bother?
These were huge contributions to why
he just couldn't get the impetus to get past it.
It was really a delight to hear from all of you.
Thank you, Sandy, Tom, and Mark, thank you.
(audience applauds)


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Notable Cyclones Part VIII: Hurricane Camille [1969]
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I have chose to continue my Notable Cyclones Topic.
Hurricane Camille was the third tropical cyclone and second hurricane of the 1969 Atlantic hurricane season. Camille was the second of three Category 5 hurricanes to make landfall in the United States during the 20th century, which it did near the mouth of the Mississippi River on the night of August 17, resulting in catastrophic damage. Camille was the only Atlantic hurricane with official winds reported to reach at 190 mph until Allen in 1980.
The storm formed on August 14 and rapidly deepened. It scraped the western edge of Cuba at Category 3 intensity. Camille strengthened further over the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall with a pressure of 909 hPa. estimated sustained winds of 190 mph (305 km/h), and a peak storm surge of 24 feet (7.3 m); by maximum sustained wind speeds, Camille was the strongest landfalling tropical cyclone recorded worldwide, and one of only four tropical cyclones worldwide to ever reach 165 knots [190 mph] winds. The hurricane flattened nearly everything along the coast of the U.S. state of Mississippi, and caused additional flooding and deaths inland while crossing the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. In total, Camille killed 259 people and caused $1.42 billion (1969 USD, $9.14 billion 2005 USD) in damages.
Figure 1: Hurricane Camille's Track.
History of Hurricane Camille
A tropical wave left the coast of Africa on August 5, becoming a tropical disturbance on August 9, 480 miles east of the Leeward Islands. Aircraft reconnaissance identified a closed circulation in the disturbance on the 14th near Grand Cayman and the system was designated Tropical Storm Camille with 52 knot [60 mph] winds.
The storm already had a well organized circulation and rapidly strengthened from August 14 to August 15 to a 100 knot [115 mph] major hurricane before hitting the western tip of Cuba later that day. Land interaction weakened Camille to a 85 knot [100 mph] hurricane, but it returned to perfect conditions as it crossed the Gulf of Mexico (possibly while passing over the Loop Current). On August 17, Camille reached an intense minimum central pressure of 905 hPa, and it continued to strengthen to a peak of over 165 knots [190 mph] winds (possibly the strongest ever recorded in an Atlantic hurricane). In the hours before landfall, a reconnaissance aircraft was unable to obtain a surface wind report, but it estimated winds of up to 178 knots [205 mph] and a minimum central pressure of 901 mbar (hPa).
Comparisons to Hurricane Katrina
Side-by-side comparison of Camille and KatrinaComparisons between Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 season and Camille are inevitable because of their similar strengths and nearly identical landfall locations. Before Katrina, Camille was considered to be the "benchmark" against which all Gulf Coast hurricanes were measured. Katrina was weaker than Camille at landfall but substantially larger, which led to both a broader and a larger storm surge. Katrina was described by those that experienced Camille as "much worse" - not only because of the massive storm surge, but from the fact that Katrina pounded the Mississippi coast for a longer period of time. Camille also drew part of its record storm surge from adjacent coastal waters; Lake Borgne and Lake Pontchartrain actually receded, sparing the city of New Orleans from flooding.
Some locals argue that Katrina's death toll was made higher because those who survived Camille with no flooding and little damage believed Katrina to be less of a threat, creating a false sense of security among Camille veterans. An innkeeper at the Harbour Oaks Inn, Tony Brugger, stayed at the inn and died when his inn collapsed. A popular rumor has Brugger telling a radio station during an interview that he wouldn't leave because since Camille's surge had not affected the inn, Katrina's would not either.
Figure 2: Hurricane Camille at peak strength
Camille produced the seventh lowest official barometric pressure ever recorded in the Atlantic basin, a scant 905 mbar; the only hurricane to hit the United States with a lower pressure at landfall was the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935. A reconnaissance flight indicated a pressure of 901 mbar,[19] but this pressure was not verified, and remains unofficial pending reanalysis. The wind speed of Camille can only be approximated, as no meteorological equipment survived the extreme conditions at landfall, but Camille is estimated to have had sustained winds of 165 knots [190 mph] at landfall, with gusts exceeding 182 knots [210 mph]. Before Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Camille likely had the highest storm surge measured in the United States, at over 24 feet (7.3 meters).
The 24-foot storm surge quoted by the Army Corps of Engineers was based on high water marks inside surviving buildings, of which there were but three. Prior to the collapse of the Richelieu Apartments, Ben Duckworth shined a flashlight down a stairwell and found the water within one step of the third-story floor; this establishes a surge height of 28 feet at that spot at that time. About 15 minutes later, the building collapsed and the evidence vanished with it.
Dr. Joe Smith
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Re: Notable Cyclones Part VIII: Hurricane Camille [1969] [Re: TS2]
You bring back some memories for me. I was an instructor stationed at Keesler (Biloxi) AFB during Camille. I 'met' one of the site moderators, 'danielw' who was one of the many 'street urchins' left semi-homeless in Biloxi and as an NCO instructor after the storm, our focus went from teaching electronics to disaster recovery. I don't actually recall meeting Danny, but he seems to remember me....I am 6'7" so I guess to a little kid I would stand out I think it was more of a we were in similar situatations rather than actual meetings but you get the idea. We were without power for over 3 months ON THE BASE in the housing areas so I feel for Katrina victims some who are without homes and what they must be going through, some still I would expect. While Camille was probably stronger, it was a tad smaller and slightly (from New Orleans perspective at least, better positioned than Katrina which was bigger and much worse in terms of positioning for damage.
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Ethiopia, Rwanda and Uganda: Top 10 improved world travel destinations
Three Eastern African nations have emerged among the top ten fastest-growing destinations for tourism in the world.
The 2019 annual report compiled by the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) shows that Ethiopia is the fastest-growing travel destination in the world with Rwanda in sixth place and Uganda holding a twelfth position on the list.
Ethiopia's tourism sector grew by a staggering 48.6 percent in 2018, making up 9.4 percent of the economy and creating 2.2 million jobs. Over 8 percent of Ethiopia's total workforce now works in tourism.
Rwanda also saw growth rates of 13.8 percent and Uganda 11.3 percent, with all 3 showing the pull of East Africa both in terms of its wildlife, history, and beaches, the Nation Media Group reported from Nairobi.
Kenya also saw a big growth in 2018 at 5.6 percent which had created 1.46 million jobs and made up 8.8 percent of the total annual economy.
Kenya stands as the leading tourist hub in Eastern Africa, taking an advantage of its rich wildlife, historical sites, and beaches on the Indian Ocean coast and improved tourist services, mostly hotels and air transport facilities.
In its annual analysis quantifying the global economic and employment impact of travel and tourism in 185 countries and 25 regions, the World Travel and Tourism Council's research reveals that the sector accounted for 10.4 percent of global GDP and 319 million jobs, or 10 percent of total employment in 2018.
It adds that travel and tourism's growth in 2019 is expected "to remain resilient" despite a slowing global economy.
"Our forecasts point to a 3.6 percent expansion for travel and tourism, faster than an expected global economy growth of 2.9 percent in 2019," the report says.
It adds that one in 5 of all new jobs were created by travel and tourism over the past 5 years showing the growing importance of the sector to the global economy.
Travel and tourism GDP grew by 5.6 percent in 2018, significantly above the African economic growth rate of 3.2 percent.
This places Africa as the second fastest-growing region in 2018, behind only Asia-Pacific.
Such growth is partly explained by North Africa's rebound from security crises as well as the development and implementation of policies that stimulate travel promotion.
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Jamaica Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett says his recent meeting with key members of the Jamaican Diaspora in London was very successful.
Speaking at a community meeting, held at the Jamaican High Commission in London, United Kingdom, yesterday, Minister Bartlett spoke of the importance and impact of the UK and global diaspora on the economy of Jamaica. He also commented that nobody can promote and advocate for Jamaica better than Jamaicans living around the world.
With visitor figures for January – March 2019 already outperforming the previous period in 2018 by 13 per cent, Minister Bartlett updated the diaspora community on the island's key tourism developments for the year ahead including 10,000 additional rooms by the end of 2020.
He also highlighted the new graduate school for hospitality management and tourism and the wider upskilling programs and qualification opportunities for Jamaicans on the island, to continue to grow the direct economic benefits for the workers of the tourism industry first hand.
"Making up 10 per cent of all arrivals into Jamaica each year, and with one in five workers in the Caribbean employed by tourism, it's important that we do not underestimate its penetration because if we do, we will lose sight of the fact that almost everyone in Jamaica has their being and sustenance connected to tourism.
Working closely with our diaspora communities around the world is vital to promoting our unique tourism message and we value them as advocates and ambassadors hugely," said Minister Bartlett.
Minister Bartlett also talked in detail about the importance of the recently launched Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Centre in Jamaica. A first of its kind, the Centre offers a global tourism resource dedicated to research and analysis on destination preparedness, management and recovery from disruptions or crises around the world which is being pioneered at the University of the West Indies.
Minister Bartlett, who represented Prime Minister, the Most Honourable Andrew Holness at the Caribbean Council's House of Lords Annual reception in London, returned to the island today.
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Iranians open homes to travelers stranded by floods
March 27, 2019 by Forimmediaterelease
As dramatic videos of deadly floods leaving behind destroyed vehicles and other damage circulate on Iranian social media networks, ordinary Iranians are doing what they can to help the affected citizens, including travelers whose Nowruz holidays have been unexpectedly disrupted. While criticizing the government for its inadequate response to the deadly flooding that has ravaged the country, ordinary Iranians are engaging in spontaneous relief efforts for the stranded and the displaced.
A 10-minute flash flood in the city of Shiraz, perhaps the most popular tourist destination in the country's south, killed at least 18 and injured scores more on March 25. Many of the victims are said to have been visitors. Now, locals in the birthplace of classical Iranian literature are inviting panicked holidaymakers to their homes, offering unconditional stay and food. "All services will be offered for free until the harsh weather dies down," one placard held by a volunteer in Shiraz read. Some even offer free body repairs for cars damaged in the downpours. Several local hotels and restaurants have joined the spontaneous campaign, dubbed "My Guest."
Similar public initiatives are underway to deliver badly needed assistance to those hardest hit in the northern provinces of Golestan and Mazandaran. The aid is flowing in the form of cash donations as well as basic supplies collected from communities across Iran, including those still recovering from a devastating 2017 earthquake in the country's west.
The government of President Hassan Rouhani has been under immense pressure for its perceived failure to handle the disaster. The president himself is under fire for staying away from the flood-hit areas. Seven days following the heavy rains, he has now traveled to the northern areas to oversee the relief operations. The government has already promised 7.1 trillion rials ($169 million) in compensation to affected households.
The powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has also established a strong presence. The force's commander, Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, was seen visiting inundated neighborhoods in the country's north half-submerged in floodwaters. While both the government and the IRGC have stepped in, some Iranians are interpreting the promises of more relief as publicity stunts meant to burnish their status and rooted in political rivalry between moderates and hard-liners.
An initial investigation into the deadly disaster in Shiraz has now pointed to negligence as the main cause of the deaths. According to a report by a crisis management team, one of the old watercourses in the city had been blocked by local authorities, probably for urban planning purposes, leading to the destructive overflow.
Meanwhile, the governor of Fars province noted that warnings had been issued two weeks before the disaster. But some social media users argue that all roads leading to the site of the flash floods should have been blocked. "How where you unable to block people but managed to fully cordon off the tomb of Cyprus the Great on his commemoration day?" one person tweeted. Every year, Iranian nationalists organize the Cyrus Day ceremony on Oct. 29 to remember the founder of the Achaemenid Empire. But in recent years the plans have been hindered by a security clampdown by the Islamic Republic, which deems such activities pro-monarchist.
Coverage of the massive flooding included more from Iran's ancient history. The iconic Persepolis monument, 60 kilometers (37 miles) northeast of Shiraz, reportedly remained unscathed amid the flooding. According to local officials, underground canals built by ancient Persians to avert flooding protected the UNESCO World Heritage Site. The news prompted praise from many Iranians, who drew comparisons between the current government's handling of such crises with that of their forefathers.
Yet despite the trauma, the floods have not produced only sad news. Pictures went viral of a smiling young couple who had planned their wedding in Golestan province for March 28. They decided to hold the ceremony earlier. Instead of a grand hall, the bride and the groom wed before the other displaced in a temporary accommodation center.
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Destinations need new resources to tackle the "invisible burden" of tourism
A report published today by the Travel Foundation, Cornell University's Centre for Sustainable Global Enterprise and EplerWood International describes how destinations must uncover and account for tourism's hidden costs, referred to as the "invisible burden," to protect and manage vital destination assets worldwide. Failing to do so puts ecosystems, cultural wonders, and community life at increasing risk, and places the tourism industry on a weak foundation that could crack under its own weight.
The range of costs not currently accounted for include those needed to:
upgrade infrastructure beyond resident needs, to meet tourism demand;
manage and protect public spaces, monuments, the environment and natural habitats;
mitigate exposure to climate change risks; and
address the needs of locals affected by rising real estate prices, driven by the demand from tourism.
Either residents are left to pay these costs, or they are simply not paid, increasingly leading to environmental crises, spoiled tourism assets, and growing dissatisfaction among local residents. Destination authorities urgently need access to new resources, systems and expertise to ensure that, as tourism grows, the true costs of every new visitor are fully covered.
Amid increasing concern about "overtourism" and calls from within the travel industry for improved destination management, the report, Destinations at Risk: The Invisible Burden of Tourism, was commissioned by the Travel Foundation to better understand the challenges and constraints that national and municipal authorities face. It provides a thorough review of the risks that destinations face and the solutions urgently needed, including:
New local accounting systems that capture the full range of costs stemming from the growth of tourism, in place of an incomplete set of economic impact measures.
New skills and cross sector collaboration, underpinned by data and technology, to achieve effective spatial planning, manage demand for public utilities and services, and evaluate the availability of vital, local resources.
New valuation and financing mechanisms to redress debilitating underinvestment in infrastructure and local asset management and enable the transition to low-carbon destination economies.
Principal report author, Megan Epler Wood, said: "The Earth's greatest treasures are cracking under the weight of the soaring tourism economy. New data-driven systems to identify the cost of managing tourism's most valued assets are required to stem a growing crisis in global tourism management. With the right leadership, finance and analysis in place, a whole new generation of tourism professionals can move forward and erase the invisible burden while benefiting millions around the globe."
Salli Felton, CEO of the Travel Foundation, said: "The invisible burden goes a long way to explain why we are now witnessing destinations failing to cope with tourism growth, despite the economic benefits it brings. It's not enough to call on governments and municipalities to manage tourism better, if they don't have access to the right skills and resources to do so. Destination managers need support to develop new skills and new ways of working that will enable them to move beyond tourism marketing."
Dr Mark Milstein, co-author of the report, said: "This is a challenge of investing for the long-term health of a critical global economic sector. Future success will require collaboration among business, government, and civil society so that destinations are managed as the valuable, yet vulnerable, assets that they are."
The authors conclude that some destinations are more vulnerable to the invisible burden and should be prioritised. For instance:
Where there is a high risk of climate change impacts (which would disproportionately affect a visitor economy) – for instance, island states.
Where the rise of the global middle class is driving tourism growth at unsustainable levels – for instance, in Southern and Southeast Asia.
Where there is a high percentage of economic dependence on tourism – for instance, in the Caribbean.
Where the ability of local government to manage tourism growth is low, in terms of budgets and human capital – a problem that has been found in both advanced and emerging economies.
The analysis draws upon academic literature, case studies, expert interviews and media reports, and provides a wealth of examples of the invisible burden. Cases are drawn from Thailand, Mexico, and the Maldives, as well as Europe, Africa, and Latin America. The report also gives insights into types of data-driven systems, such as GIS mapping tools and the Smart Cities concept, which can address growth issues and facilitate new forms of investment.
The free report is available at invisibleburden.org.
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Comparison of transvaginal ultrasonography and saline infusion sonography for the detection of intracavitary abnormalities in premenopausal women
F. P.H.L.J. Dijkhuizen*, Laila D. De Vries, B. W.J. Mol, H. A.M. Brölmann, H. M. Peters, Eveline Moret, A. P.M. Heintz
Applied Health Sciences
Objective: To compare the diagnostic accuracy of transvaginal sonography (TVS) and saline infusion sonography (SIS) for detecting intracavitary abnormalities in premenopausal women with abnormal uterine bleeding. Method: Consecutive premenopausal women who underwent hysterectomy for abnormal uterine bleeding were included. All women underwent TVS and SIS before their hysterectomy. The findings at TVS and SIS were compared with the findings of the hysterectomy specimen. Sensitivity, specificity, and likelihood ratios were calculated. Results: The results of 50 patients with abnormal uterine bleeding were evaluated. Histological examination revealed normal endometrial histology in 27 patients, submucus myomas in 13 patients and intracavitary polyps in 10 patients. The sensitivity of TVS in directly visualizing intracavitary abnormalities was 61% for a specificity of 96%. The likelihood ratio of presence of an intracavitary abnormality was 16 and the likelihood ratio of absence of such a finding was 0.41. When defining abnormality at TVS as direct visualization of an intracavitary abnormality or an increased endometrial thickness (cut-off level 5 mm), the sensitivity of TVS was 87% for a specificity of 56%, with corresponding likelihood ratios of 2 and 0.23, respectively. The sensitivity and specificity of SIS was 100% and 85% with likelihood ratios of 6 and 0.0, respectively. No intracavitary abnormality was missed by SIS. Conclusion: The diagnostic accuracy of SIS is higher than the accuracy of TVS. A combined approach using endometrial thickness measurement by TVS and, reserving SIS for patients with increased (> 5 mm) endometrial thickness, or endometrium inadequately visualized on TVS, is the optimal method of reducing the hysteroscopy rate.
Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Endometrial thickness
Saline infusion sonography
Transvaginal ultrasonography
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Dijkhuizen, F. P. H. L. J., De Vries, L. D., Mol, B. W. J., Brölmann, H. A. M., Peters, H. M., Moret, E., & Heintz, A. P. M. (2000). Comparison of transvaginal ultrasonography and saline infusion sonography for the detection of intracavitary abnormalities in premenopausal women. Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 15(5), 372-376. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1469-0705.2000.00115.x
Comparison of transvaginal ultrasonography and saline infusion sonography for the detection of intracavitary abnormalities in premenopausal women. / Dijkhuizen, F. P.H.L.J.; De Vries, Laila D.; Mol, B. W.J.; Brölmann, H. A.M.; Peters, H. M.; Moret, Eveline; Heintz, A. P.M.
In: Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vol. 15, No. 5, 01.12.2000, p. 372-376.
Dijkhuizen, FPHLJ, De Vries, LD, Mol, BWJ, Brölmann, HAM, Peters, HM, Moret, E & Heintz, APM 2000, 'Comparison of transvaginal ultrasonography and saline infusion sonography for the detection of intracavitary abnormalities in premenopausal women', Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 372-376. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1469-0705.2000.00115.x
Dijkhuizen FPHLJ, De Vries LD, Mol BWJ, Brölmann HAM, Peters HM, Moret E et al. Comparison of transvaginal ultrasonography and saline infusion sonography for the detection of intracavitary abnormalities in premenopausal women. Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2000 Dec 1;15(5):372-376. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1469-0705.2000.00115.x
Dijkhuizen, F. P.H.L.J. ; De Vries, Laila D. ; Mol, B. W.J. ; Brölmann, H. A.M. ; Peters, H. M. ; Moret, Eveline ; Heintz, A. P.M. / Comparison of transvaginal ultrasonography and saline infusion sonography for the detection of intracavitary abnormalities in premenopausal women. In: Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2000 ; Vol. 15, No. 5. pp. 372-376.
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Hi everyone and Happy Harry Potter Day!! Today marks Harry Potter's 35th birthday, and at the risk of making myself feel old, I take comfort in the fact that I'm the same age as The Boy Who Lived!
You are, and will forever be my hero of all heroes.
You are, and will forever be my favorite character of all time.
You are incredibly strong, brave, caring, clever and full of love.
You are an inspiration that never fails to give me hope.
Since I read the series, I've often thought: WWHD - What Would Harry Do?
I had so much fun gushing about Harry Potter all month!! Thank you and Faith so much for hosting the event!! You can count me in for next year too if we do this again :D I loved reading everyone's posts and comments so much and getting to dive back into the books and movies for about the gazillionth time. Happy Birthday Harry Potter!
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Yeah, Harry changed my view of the world, too, and shaped me as a reader.
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Berry Ring (also known as Bury Ring) is an Iron Age hillfort in Staffordshire, England, lying some two miles southwest of the county town of Stafford, a mile to the southwest of Stafford Castle and  half a mile to the west of the M6 motorway.

Description
It is a univallate hillfort, roughly oval in shape, on the northern part of elevated land north of the village of Billington. The defences, following the contours of the ground, enclose an area of about .

The rampart is about  high in the south-east, elsewhere about  high. The outer ditch is up to  wide and  deep. A counterscarp bank can be seen in the north, west and south, most clearly in the north-west where it is  high and  wide. The original entrance is thought to be in the south; its features are unclear because of sand and gravel extraction in recent times. There are other later entrances.

There is a spring-fed pond within the fort at the north-east side. There have been chance finds around the interior of flints, Iron Age pottery and medieval pottery.

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External links
 Berry Ring, Staffordshire
 Berry Ring, Roman Britain
 An image of Berry Ring from 1926
 Images and a map of the area

Hill forts in Staffordshire
Iron Age sites in England
Scheduled monuments in Staffordshire
Borough of Stafford

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The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has proposed to set up a Centre for Excellence in Bhubaneswar.
ICAI currently has around 600 members in Orissa and we intend to set up a Centre of Excellence in Bhubaneswar. We have sought the cooperation of the state government to allot land to us, said Amarjit Chopra, president of ICAI.
He was addressing reporters on the occasion of the two-day national conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants on 'New Paradigms of Competitiveness'. The conference is being held on November 13-14.
This is set to be the first Centre of Excellence of ICAI in the eastern region.
The state finance minister Prafulla Chnadra Ghadai who was present at the occasion, has assured to provide land for the proposed centre.
The topics chosen for the conference are Contemporary Issues in Auditing Special Emphasis to Reporting compliance in the changed Environment, Wealth Creation A Professional Perspective, Direct Tax Code Bill 2010 Changes in Conceptual Approach and Corporate Fraud & Forensic Audit to name a few .


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