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Germany and US U-19 Women's National Teams Play International Friendlies in Fairfax, VA
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While the US and German Women's National Teams are both off to great starts at the FIFA Women's World Cup in France, the national U-19 clubs will face off in two international friendly matches in Fairfax, Virginia at George Mason University on June 14 and 16.
Twenty-four German players will be making the trip to Virginia as they prepare for the final round of the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship happening this July in Scotland. The United States team presents the latest challenge in Germany's quest for the cup, which included matches against England, Belgium, and Spain in the opening round.
"For us, this trip to the US, with two international games against the hosts, is the ideal preparation for the final round of the EM in July," said coach Maren Meinert. "In the US, we will meet one of the best teams in this age group and can prove ourselves at a higher level."
This game is only one of the many exciting games happening this summer as the US and German women's national teams vie for dominance in tournaments across the globe. Follow their journeys on twitter @DFB_Frauen and @USWNT
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Top Clubs FC Bayern Munich and BVB Dortmund Embark on Summer Tours in the US
The Bundesliga season may be over in Germany, but the action is just getting started for soccer fans in the US! FC Bayern Munich and BVB Dortmund, two top-tier German teams, will both be touring the country to take on top clubs in other European Leagues and MLS in exhibition matches.
German and US Women's National Teams Shine at the FIFA Women's World Cup
This summer, soccer fans all over the world are coming together in stadiums and in front of televisions to watch their favorite teams play the world's most popular sport. Last month's Women's World Cup was one of the highlights of this summer's competitive schedule and featured strong performances by both the German Frauen-Nationalmannschaft and the newly-crowned champion US Women's National team.
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2. Place the fish fillets in the dish dot with the and bake, uncovered, for 5 minutes.
3. Add the port, lay a sheet of parchment or greaseproof paper over the top of the fish and continue to bake for a further 15 minutes or until the fish is tender.
4. Turn the oven off then strain the cooking liquor into a saucepan. Return the fish to the oven to keep warm.
5. Bring the cooking liquor to the boil and boil rapidly for 4-5 minutes, until slightly reduced.
6. Allow to cool a little then beat in the egg yolks and cream. Return to a low heat and reheat very VERY gently. Do not bring to the simmering point.
7. To serve - pour the sauce over the fish and serve immediately.


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Vale September 2000
CARR, Thomas George | (21 June 1999) CARROLL (née Perrin), Mary | (2 August 2000) CASSON, John | (14 July 2000) COTTLE, Robert William | (14 July 2000) CRAWLEY, Linda Kathleen | (5 May 2000) CURTIS, Lindsay, AM | (8 April 2000) HALEY, Bishop Albert Naunton | (6 June 2000) HANSON, Lyle Melvyn | (19 June 2000) MacGOWAN, Douglas John | (5 June 2000) MIDDLETON, Alice Victoria | (17 July 2000) NICHOLAS, Gladys | (22 July 2000) POWYS, David C | (10 August 2000) READ, David Docke | r (21 October 1999) STEVENS, RNB (Reg), DFC & Bar | (21 July 2000) THISTLETHWAITE, Ian Wallis | (20 April 2000) WIGLEY MB, BS, FRCP, Stanley Cuthbert | (3 June 2000)
Alice Victoria MIDDLETON (17 July 2000, in her 100th year)
Alice was born in Miram, Armadale, Victoria in February 1901. In 1919 she relocated to Melbourne to assist her elder brother Dudley who was blinded in the last few days of the Great War. She assisted him for some years studying for a law degree which he eventually obtained in spite of his disability. During this period as a result she acquired training in the skills of making artificial glass eyes.
She eventually relocated to Sydney and set up her own business making eyes mainly for the war wounded, and there met her husband William (Max) Middleton who had lost an eye on the Somme in 1917. He had been a long-term resident of PNG being on the staff of the first bank opened in Papua, the Bank of New South Wales at Samarai in 1910.
He had bought Kulili Plantation on Karkar Island in the mid twenties and this is where Alice settled after their marriage in 1928 and where she lived till the approach of the Japanese war. During this period her two sons were born, John in 1930 and Roger in 1936.
In the late twenties and through the thirties life on Karkar was very much a pioneer event, monotony only broken by visits of the BP ship, the Muliama, and the Nord Deutsche Lloyd ship, the Friedaren, to collect copra. The ships often carried interesting passengers and the officers were always entertaining.
Mice returned to Kulili after World War II but Max's health had deteriorated during his army service in PNG and he and Alice spent half the time each year in Australia, travelling always by ship right up until the last passenger service to PNG closed down. This allowed them to keep in touch with their many friends around the country till the mid seventies. Alice's last visit to Karkar was made late in 1993 to attend grandson Derek's wedding; failing health precluded further visits.
'Cyclone' Alice will be remembered by many for her wonderful sense of humour and boundless energy in the many years on Karkar and in New Guinea. She kept her keen wit right up to the end, passing away peacefully of old age but still willing herself to live to the end. Alice is survived by her sons and three grandsons (all resident in PNG) and five great grandchildren. The Middleton family
The Middleton family received the following message from the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, Sir Mekere Morauta: "Dear John – Roslyn and I were saddened to learn of the passing of your mother, Mice, last Monday. We extend to you and Anna, to Roger and Rosa, and your families, our sincere sympathies, our thoughts and our best wishes, at this sad time. We look to our merciful God to offer you comfort, and grant you all deep gratitude for the gift of life that your mother enjoyed and lasting peace in your hearts. God bless you!"
Thomas George CARR (21 June 1999)
Tom first went to the Territory in 1951, as a Stockman taking cattle by ship for W R Carpenter, to restock Ulaveo Plantation near Kokopo. A few years later he obtained a position with the Dept of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries at Port Moresby, at the Papuan Lowlands Livestock Station at the 8-mile. Tom and his wife Margaret (Heape) went South in January 1957 when Tom worked in various parts of rural NSW. Later he purchased a Header and commenced contract harvesting in Queensland and Northwest NSW wherever the ripening wheat, barley or oat crops called. He is survived by his wife Margaret and family. Condensed from Garamut
David Docker READ (21 October 1999, aged 67)
Docker passed away in Cairns after contracting leukaemia. He worked for the Department of Forests throughout PNG from the late 50s to the early 70s. He and his wife Maxine and daughter Erica then moved to Groote Eylandt for some years before settling in Northern Queensland. Docker was running a taxi business in Cooktown when he became ill. He is survived by his daughter Erica, Maxine having predeceased him. Condensed from Garamut
Marion HEARNSHAW (13 June 2000, aged 90)
Mrs Hearnshaw was the widow of Rev. WD Oakes who was a Methodist missionary in New Britain and New Ireland from 1933 until he was lost on the Montevideo Maru in 1942. As Mrs Oakes, she was in New Guinea from 1933 to 1941 when she was evacuated from Kavieng on the Macdhui with her two young sons, George and Parker. George later returned to New Guinea as a kiap in I954, leaving at Independence. George D Oakes
Douglas John MacGOWAN (5 June 2000, aged 66)
Doug was born in Rabaul along with his sister Muriel Larner, and two brothers Ian (deceased) and Kenneth. The family were evacuated from Rabaul in late 1941 on the MacAui. Their father, Public Works architect Bill MacGowan and a member of the NGVR, remained behind to escape later to Moresby under epic circumstances. Postwar, Bill was Deputy Controller of Commonwealth Department of Works until his death in 1953.
Doug finished his secondary education in Queensland postwar and immediately joined the Administration. He commenced with the Post Office and then transferred to Treasury where he served for about the next twenty years. During the sixties he was Senior Treasury Officer in Goroka. Following posting back to Moresby in the early seventies, Doug rejoined the Department of Posts and Telegraphs at senior level and was principal adviser to the Director when he resigned some two years after Independence.
Doug married Doreen Crawley, daughter of Police Bandmaster Inspector Dave and Kath Crawley. They had three daughters Karen and Diane (twins) and Jenny. A fine all-round sportsman from his youth, Doug excelled as an adult at cricket, tennis and golf. He endured with enormous courage his long battle with cardiac and stroke problems. His children and family, sister, Muriel Lamer and brother, Ken, survive him. Derek Baldwin
Ian Wallis THISTLETHWAITE (20 April 2000, aged 75)
Ian was born and educated in Sydney. He enlisted in the RAAF in 1943 and trained as a raio operator. He served in Beaufighters seeing action in Papua New Guinea and Borneo. In 1949 Ian applied for a position as patrol officer with the Department of Territories. He was accepted and after training at ASOPA spent the next 12 months in Port Moresby.
In January 1950 Ian, or 'Ian the Thistle' as he became known, was posted to Esa'ala on Normanby Island where he witnessed firsthand the tragic Mount Lamington eruption. Ian's service was mainly in the highlands and his appointments included Coroner, Magistrate, Collector of Public Monies and Native Labour Inspector. He dearly loved PNG and its people, and it was with heavy heart that due to ill health he had to return to Australia late in 1958.
Back in Australia, Ian worked for the Farmers and Graziers Association until retirement. He devoted over 40 years of his life as a volunteer worker with the St Vincent de Paul Society, helping to improve the lives of the disadvantaged. He was a member of the RAAF Beaufort Squadron Association and the Forestville RSL where he played bowls. He was also a keen golfer and fisherman. Ian is survived by his wife Margaret and children Paul, Leanne and Janine. Brian Delaney
Lindsay CURTIS, AM (8 April 2000, aged 71)
Lindsay took over from Wally Watkins as Secretary for Law on the latter's retirement in 1969. He came on secondment from the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department and brought with him many new ideas, great integrity and a tremendous capacity for hard work. During his two years in PNG he was an official member of the House of Assembly and made significant contributions to the legislative process. On his return to Canberra in 1971 he resumed his career in the Attorney-General's Department from which he retired as Deputy Secretary in 1989. He then became Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Wollongong, President of the ACT Administrative Appeals Tribunal and Chancellor of the Anglican Diocese of CanberraGoulburn.
Lindsay died after a short illness and is survived by his wife Ailsa and their children, Christopher, Elizabeth, Helen, Lyndal and Alison. Peter Clay
Stanley Cuthbert WIGLEY MB, BS, FRCP (3 June 2000, aged 83)
Stanley graduated in Pharmacy in 1937 and proceeded to study medicine at Melbourne University graduating in 1944. He gained his experience as a chest physician at the Brompton Hospital, London, and in 1950 obtained his Membership of the Royal Australian College of Physicians. Before coming to PNG in 1957 he had an appointment in thoracic medicine and tuberculosis at the Greenvale Sanatorium Melbourne. lie gained his FRCP London in 1971.
He was appointed as Senior Medical Officer, Tuberculosis, on the advice of Australia's senior TB specialist Sir Harry Wunderly.
He designed and set up a program which in his words was to "procure the reduction of the tuberculosis problem to the position of minor public health importance in the shortest possible time. The aim required that an expensive and comprehensive program should be mounted initially, using biological prophylaxis on a large scale, mass case finding campaigns, and intensive therapy campaigns including chemical prophylaxis".*
To achieve this near impossible objective he devised a comprehensive plan and obtained funding for Tuberculosis Control Units in what were to become the four health regions. This program was successful and over the 36 years Stanley was in Papua New Guinea tuberculosis became one of the lesser health problems. Stanley warned in his history Tuberculosis and New Guinea that political and other forms of instability would shape the extent of tuberculosis in the future. Unfortunately, as he predicted, there is evidence of its resurgence.
Stanley was one of the many Australian specialists and general practitioners who were part of the rapidly expanding health services of the 1960s. He made the health and well-being of the people of Papua New Guinea his main career. With his personal qualities, administrative skills and high intellect, he made a significant contribution to the professional roles he chose. He saw clearly what had to be done and set about doing it. It was my privilege to work with him through his entire PNG career.
After retirement in 1973 he worked in various positions in Sydney hospitals and health services. His thoughts were often on the health problems of PNG and on the risk of political instability undoing the good that his work had done. His wife Elaine died in 1997. Stanley is survived by his children Stephen, Mandy and Lisa and eight grandchildren. Roy F R Scragg
* Burton-Bradley BG (1990) A History of Medicine in Papua New Guinea, Wigley S C pp 167-204 Tuberculosis and New Guinea.
Albert Naunton HALEY (6 June 2000)
Father Haley, as he was then, was the Church of England Minister in Rabaul in the late 50s to early 60s. Pat Hopper
John CASSON (14 July 2000, aged 62)
A barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, John Casson accepted a legal position in the PNG administration and in 1965 joined the prosecutions branch as crown prosecutor. Later he held positions at the Land Appeals Council and the Supreme Court. He helped complete a constitution for the University of Port Moresby. He left PNG in 1972 to work in the Public Solicitors Office in Melbourne and later the Legal Aid Commission of Victoria. Herald Sun, 1 August 2000
Mary CARROLL (née Perrin) (2 August 2000, aged 58)
Mary went to PNG in 1973 to visit her sister, Sheila Thomas, who at the time worked at ADCOL. Mary loved the place and was fortunate to find a job at the Harbour Master's Office which enabled her to stay. Later she worked at the Bureau of Management Services at Waigani. Mary met her future husband Mick Carroll in Port Moresby. Mick was a career officer in DDA.
Mary and Mick came south in 1978 and settled in Grafton where they successfully ran a Newsagency until retiring in 1996. Mary passed away peacefully at home after a determined battle against lung cancer. She is sadly missed by her husband Mick, children Rob and Dawn, grandchildren Aaron and Jessica and all her family and friends. Mary is remembered for her unfailing optimism and unbounded love and regard for others. (Provided by Mary's brother-in-law, Ivor Thomas)
Robert William COTTLE (14 July 2000, aged 79)
Bob was in the RAAF for five years in the Pacific and at war's end was a W/O tail gunner. After graduating from Gatton Agricultural College, Qld, he joined the Department of Agriculture in the early fifties and served till the late sixties, mainly as a District Agricultural Officer in the Highlands and Madang Districts. He played a significant part in the development of the coffee industry.
In 1961 he married Ida Dobbyns, matron of the Madang Hospital and universally known as 'Dobby'. The Cottles lived for many years in retirement at Clontarf, Queensland. Bob developed his stamp and coin collection extensively and became well known as a collector. Dobby died in 1981. Harry West
David C POWYS (10 August 2000, aged 76)
David arrived at Boram school near Wewak as second-in-charge to Fred Barron in 1952. At the instigation of the legendary Simogun Pita he was sent to Dagua in 1953 to open a government school and remained for three years. With his wife June he shared what was then an isolated posting with Bob and Mary Pulsford of the Department of Agriculture, Stock and Fisheries. David moved on to Moresby and Sogeri and transferred to Trade and Industry in 1963. He returned to Australia in 1965 and after retiring from the Australian Education Council in 1984 was active as a volunteer with the Botanic Gardens and the Print Handicapped Radio Station. He is survived by June and their four children. Harry West
Lyle Melvyn HANSON (19 June 2000, aged 64)
Lyle grew up in Rockhampton, Queensland, and arrived in the Milne Bay District as a 20year-old cadet patrol officer in 1955. He moved on to New Britain in the early 60s. Most of his 20-year PNG career was in Milne Bay, New Britain and Highland Districts. Lyle was fortunate in his many coastal postings, for his great love was the sea. He used the yacht he sailed from Sydney to facilitate his work, particularly in the Duke of York Islands. For many years he was a familiar and popular figure in Rabaul and Kokopo.
Bill Kelly said at his funeral, "He was hard-working, dependable and knowledgeable, in spite of his predilection for larrikin off-duty pastimes. He was unconventional by the standards of the 60s. His common sense and wit helped him do his job well."
With his beloved Sally, Lyle moved to Yorkey's Knob near Cairns at Independence in 1975 and enjoyed the maritime life until last year's move to Bribie Island, Lyle is survived by Sally. Harry West
Gladys NICHOLAS (22 July 2000, aged 91)
Gladys was engaged to Bill Nicholas who was employed in the Government Printing Office, and went to Moresby in 1935 to be married. For a time she worked for A.P.C. Their daughter Lyn was born in 1937. In 1941 she was employed by Mr Bertie, an old-time resident and local solicitor, who was in charge of the evacuation of women and children to Australia in December that year. In a letter to the Association in 1990 she wrote of events surrounding the evacuation: "Mr Bertie and I were frightfully busy, people were coming in to make their Wills before being evacuated. … The stores reduced the prices of everything almost to the point of giving goods away…" After the war Gladys returned to Moresby with her daughter and rejoined A.P.C. Later she worked for the Lands Department, the Supreme Court, the Registrar General's Department and the Public Curator. Bill was appointed Government Printer in May 1953.
Gladys's main interests in PNG were the Yacht Club where her husband was an active member for 25 years, and the Girl Guides which she was associated with for some years. The couple left Moresby in 1962 and Bill died six years later.
Gladys has written an account of her life in PNG and a history of the Printing Office which included her husband's work as OIC, New Guinea Printing and Press Unit, the unit which produced Guinea Gold for the troops in PNG during the war. Her article was published in Una Voce, September 1993, pp. 17-19.
Gladys is survived by her daughter Marilyn Anne McInnes and grandchildren. Taken from Gladys's letters and the Una Voce article
Linda Kathleen CRAWLEY (5 May 2000, aged 90)
Kathleen Crawley was born in Tasmania and travelled by ship to Rabaul in March 1938 to marry David Crawley (ex British Army) who had joined the New Guinea Police Force in 1935 and later became Police Bandmaster.
Kath, with two very young children, was evacuated from Rabaul on the Macdhui early in 1942 just prior to the Japanese invasion. David made his escape from Rabaul on foot through New Britain, and later returned to serve with ANGAU at Bisiatabu. Kath spent the war years in Sydney and returned to PNG early 1946 to rejoin David who was then stationed at the Sogeri Police Training Depot. In 1947 their third child was born.
Kath was an active member of the Sogeri community. She taught her children by correspondence and at times filled in as teacher at the tiny Sogeri Primary School. Like many Territory women she managed alone for long periods when David was accompanying the band on tours of Australia. In 1957 the Police Training Depot was moved to Kila, Port Moresby, where they lived until 1963 when David retired. After an extensive trip overseas they settled in Toowong, Brisbane. David died suddenly in 1966 at the age of 60.
Kath's warm and generous nature won her a wonderful network of friends and neighbours and she kept busy with various community interests. For many years she regularly met with many of her old PNG friends. She was devoted to her family.
Kath is survived by her son Allen, daughters Doreen and Joan, four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Doreen MacGowan
R N B (Reg) STEVENS, DFC & Bar (21 July 2000, aged 82)
Reg attended North Sydney Boys High and at the age of 18 decided to satisfy some wanderlust. He went to Port Moresby where he managed a store for Percy Heinz Ltd which dealt mainly with the indigenous population. Just prior to marriage he joined Government Stores where he was Acting Paymaster. In early 1938 Reg married Nancy Hurd of Chatswood at ELI Protestant Church. Reg became Acting Government Storekeeper. Their first son was born in 1939
At the outbreak of war Reg was keen to join the RAAF, however he was not granted release until 1940 when he was the first PNG resident to join the RAAF. After initial training in Australia he was sent to England where he trained and flew on Spitfires.
In March 1942 Reg was posted to the Middle East and in June 1942 he joined 3 Squadron, one of Australia's most famous fighter squadrons, flying Kittyhawks. Reg received one of the quickest promotions ever, from commission (Pilot Officer) to Squadron Leader in four weeks.
In July 1943 Pilot Officer Reg Stevens was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for courage and devotion to duty in the Western Desert. His aircraft had been shot down on several occasions and on others badly damaged in air combat and by enemy ground fire. He was made CO in the same month. In August 1943, now as Squadron Leader, Reg won an immediate Bar to his DFC when, as leader of a Kittyhawk formation, he flew through an intense anti-aircraft barrage and attacked enemy shipping in Milezzo Harbour, Sicily, from a low level.
After being away for almost three years, Reg returned to Australia in 1944 to train pilots. Following discharge from the RAAF in 1945, he returned to Port Moresby with his wife and family. In 1946 he was posted to Higaturu as Native Labour Officer. Postings to Lae and Wau followed. In 1950 he was posted to Samarai as Senior Inspector of Native Labour, a post he retained until returning to Sydney in 1952.
Following a long stint in hospital in 1952, when he was encased in plaster for many months to try and correct a spinal injury received early in the war, he was deemed medically unfit and retired from the PNG administration. He then settled in Newcastle where he worked for Comsteel and later Titan, taking early retirement at age 54 due to war-related injuries.
Reg and Nancy retired to the mid north coast where Reg continued to take leadership roles in the community especially assisting young people in business. In their retirement, Reg and Nan made many trips to PNG and retained old PNG friendships.
Reg is survived by Nancy, his wife of 62 years, their three children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Noelene Stevenson (Reg's daughter)
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This smart, beautifully acted British crime drama, which premiered in the U.S. yesterday, is a tear-jerker.
An 11-year-old boy is murdered, in a picturesque English seaside town, and we see the effects of this tragedy begin to ripple through the community. Meanwhile DS Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman -- Tyrannosaur; Doctor Who: The Eleventh Hour) returns from leave to find a promised promotion has been yanked out from under her. "Her" job was given to Scottish DI Alec Hardy (David Tennant -- well known to my fellow nerds as the Tenth Doctor, but without the cute hair and quirky charm). Hardy comes with a dodgy history that is not yet explained -- something went very wrong with his last big case.
Ellie -- openly warmhearted and already well integrated into this close knit little community -- is a foil for outsider Alec, who is taciturn, acerbic, and just outright rude. He is not without compassion, though. It isn't reflected in his words, but we see it in his eyes. He seems to be a clever, focused, very driven man who doesn't suffer fools gladly and cares not one wit for niceties.
Sadly, this crime hits too close to home for Ellie. The victim, Danny, was her son's best friend. Watching her reaction to learning the identity of the victim is heart wrenching. Seeing the effect on Danny's parents, Beth (Jodie Whittaker) and Mark (Andrew Buchan), is -- needless to say -- even more devastating.
I'm a big fan of mysteries and detective stories, on both page and screen, and at first glance, I felt I was looking at a character and premise I'd seen many times. A small community riveted by a senseless tragedy. A tough, ornery detective who seems to be recovering from some sort of dodgy incident in which -- possibly -- he didn't play by the rules. I briefly wondered whether this series was going to show us anything new.
However, I quickly decided I was watching something different. First, I was riveted by the outstanding performances. I knew Olivia Colman was brilliant after seeing her in Tyrannosaur, but she still impressed me. I've always loved David Tennant (who doesn't love David Tennant?), but I hadn't known how gifted he is until now. He portrays a character who, thus far, has expressed very little with words. (He considers a harsh "Go away!" to be an adequate response to an interpersonal problem), yet his eyes convey volumes.
Secondly, instead of focusing tightly on the mystery, the show lingers on the interconnections among the characters and the effects of the tragedy on the community. It accomplishes this without losing the forward momentum of the mystery. Already, in the introductory episode, we can see this community is full of secrets, and some of them will cause tremendous pain.
this series has concluded in the UK, and today while surfing the internet, I accidentally stumbled upon the identity of the killer. I didn't mean to spoil the whodunnit for myself, but it can't be unseen. To make matters worse, it's a character I'm already predisposed to like ... a lot. Excuse me while I go stand in a corner and cry.
I didn't know what the show was about, but it looks interesting. That's an impressive cast as well. I might give it a look when it's available to stream online.
I'm waiting for it to come to streaming, too, which may be a while (the first episode happened to be available, for free, online). The cast really is good. Olivia Colman can definitely rock a dramatic role. And this is completely different from any role I've ever seen Tennant in, which isn't surprising since I've only seen him in a small role in Harry Potter IV, In Doctor Who, and in one lightweight romantic comedy. The Doctor Who role was meaty enough to offer a glimpse of his talent, but I was more impressed with him here. Great to see him getting a chance to spread his wings.
My husband had wanted to watch Broadchurch. I never heard of it, and then you did this review. Thanks for the tearjerker note. I'll have the tissues on standby.


Tidbits and Food for Thought – New Filing Dates, Statutes of Limitations and Maybe a Second Bite at the Apple?
In early October, the Michigan Department of Treasury officials told lawmakers that refunds for taxes improperly collected on more than 76,000 accounts due to a "computer glitch" would take at least 12 more weeks to process, depending on other priorities.
In a recent notice, the Michigan Department of Treasury ("Department") issued an important announcement. If a taxpayer had filed a written request with the Department that all copies of all letters and notices regarding a dispute be sent to the taxpayer's representative, the Department must send a copy of all letters or notices sent to the taxpayer regarding that specific dispute. See MCL 205.8.
The Department did not always honor that request, resulting in the taxpayer thinking the representative had a time-sensitive correspondence when, in fact, the representative did not have the correspondence. The result is predictable—some deadlines to the Court of Claims or the Tax Tribunal for requesting an informal conference or appeal submission were missed.
Read the article in its entirety: Tidbits and Food for Thought – New Filing Dates, Statutes of Limitations and Maybe a Second Bite at the Apple?


Touker Suleyman has become a household name thanks to his appearances as a panellist on BBC Two's Dragons' Den, which he joined in 2015. But in the fashion retail industry, he is better known for his ownership of companies including manufacturer Low Profile, Jermyn Street shirtmaker Hawes & Curtis and womenswear brand Ghost. This year he also invested in womenswear etailer Finery London.
Hawes & Curtis has been hit by stiff competition, rising costs and the drop in the value of sterling since last year's Brexit vote. Suleyman is now prioritising its international online business and new flagship on Oxford Street. Meanwhile, he is building Ghost's online and US wholesale businesses, and helping Finery to reduce its costs. His net worth is estimated at around £150m.


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Discover what London sounded like 300 years ago on this epic audio tour, tracing the caffeinated birth of the modern enlightened world. Set in the most historic part of the City, it can be enjoyed on site or at home.
Two hours of compelling narrative and suspense-filled drama woven into a cinematic sound design faithfully recreating the lost acoustic world of 17th and 18th-century London. Produced by a team of five sound designers from the worlds of TV, pop, classical music, radio, and theatre.
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The route guides you through the hidden courtyards, ancient alleys, and hallowed churchyards of the City, revealing some of London's best-kept secrets along the way.
A continuous two-hour experience with voices from the past and present guiding you through the City, the walking tour is a transcendental experience. But it can also be enjoyed at home as an immersive documentary in its own right.
Although not necessary to navigate, included is a beautiful hand-drawn map of the area.
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Do I have to be in London to take the tour?
The tour is set in the City, but it also works as an immersive historical documentary to be enjoyed at home.
The tour is a continuous two-hour experience, with voices from the past and present guiding you through the alleyways and courtyards of the City. There's no need to skip between tracks; you can leave the phone in your pocket.
Where does it start?
By the steps of St Michael's Church in Cornhill. When you buy the tour, we will e-mail you a beautiful hand-drawn map for you to print out or transfer to your smartphone or tablet. We will also send a link to a Google map, marking the starting point.
About two hours.
Which devices will it work on?
The tour is in MP3 format, which is supported by all iPods, tablets and smartphones. You can play it on your phone, your mp3 player, directly from your computer or even burn it to a CD.
Can I listen to the tour on my iPhone?
Once you have downloaded the MP3, you can drag and drop it into your iTunes library for syncing to your phone.
Is the tour the same as the live Coffeehouse Tour?
The live tour is a shared, interactive experience with free shots of c17th coffee and a chance to question leading experts. The audio tour is a richly atmospheric, cinematic adventure with a wider range of characters, stories and music.
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Anna Sutton
Dr Green's Shakespearean London tour is exceptional. He is an engaging story teller whose wit and eloquence is next to none. Within minutes I was standing on London Bridge, transported to a completely different era. The sounds and smells of 16th-century London fired my imagination and watching the Tower's polar bear fish in the Thames was a sight to behold! I cannot recommend Dr Green's tours highly enough - get in there before the word hits the street...
Anna Miners
If you want to learn about stews, stinkards and Sackerson the bear, look no further. On this engaging tour Dr Matthew Green gives you the lowdown on Shakespearean London in gory detail. We were entertained, horrified and amused in equal measure. It was great to be learning things from such a knowledgeable expert, if only our school history lessons had been this much fun. The well-known places are brought to life with little known facts and there are less well known places off the beaten track thrown in, so I am sure that even the most well-read Londoner will go away with something new. Sometimes he is a little too good at making you feel like you have gone back in time when you are faced with the spectacle of what passed for entertainment in those days! What brilliant value for money.
Professor Richard Tiner
The tour was simply amazing! It provided a depth of information that was academically appropriate, but you delivered it with a style and flair that was highly entertaining for university students—they absolutely loved it. I told the class that I especially enjoy a "field trip" that teaches ME something, and yours did! The anecdotes and "tales" brought the early history of print media to life. Nice job!
Guardian Journalist
An unexpectedly fascinating tour, which takes you back in time through the medium of strong, invigorating black coffee. This would be fascinating stuff even if it were just a straightforward lecture, but at various points along the tour, actors jump out of the shadows and bring the story to life.
The Londonist
Sejal Sukhadwala
giving a fascinating insight into the consumption of chocolate [in eighteenth-century London], this two-hour walking tour is a new initiative led by historian Dr Matthew Green. These chocolate houses were notoriously debauched places with smoky, candle-lit interiors, where the uber-rich socialised amid the intoxicating smells of sweat, perfume and bubbling cauldrons of chocolate.
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Q: knockout.js and view models with existing getters/setters (not ko.observable) knockout.js seems to be optimized for object/field binding and can use ko.observables to create getter/setter functions.
But what if the members of the view models I want to bind to already are getter/setter functions?  What is the simplest way to get these two integrated?
var example = {
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How will this work for ArrayOfSomething?

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Flames rally for 'Holm-opener win
Kristen Anderson, PostmediaMore from Kristen Anderson, Postmedia
Updated: October 7, 2018 11:07 AM MDT
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In the off-season, Bill Peters had a hunch that Elias Lindholm would be a good fit on the Calgary Flames top line with Johnny Gaudreau and Sean Monahan.
It's early — two games into the 2018-19 National Hockey League season — but Saturday's 7-4 win over the Vancouver Canucks showed just the type of damage the trio is capable of.
Lindholm had two meaningful goals, including the game-winner on a third-period power play and finished the game with five shots and was also 12-for-14 in the face-off circle. One particularly nice draw happened 12 seconds into the first period, which he won directly back to Mark Giordano's stick who passed it over to TJ Brodie. Lindholm redirected the shot past Canucks goalie Jacob Markstrom which set the tone.
"It's good for those guys when you change teams to get a goal right away," said the Flames head coach who picked up his first win with this franchise. "He plays hard, he plays that way each and every night, gives guys lots of good looks … I think that line has a chance to be dangerous each and every night. Again, not to beat it up, but Monny taking some face-offs on the left side and Lindy on the right, I think it's a very dangerous situation.
"When you can start with the puck and execute off face-offs it makes life easier … makes sense to me that they can be a successful line. Each guy brings something slightly different, but they compliment each other."
But the fact of the matter was the Flames conjured up some third-period magic was when it really mattered.
Down 4-3 and looking like they were going to take it on the chin like they did on Wednesday, Monahan tapped in a Gaudreau feed after some cycling and good puck movement from Tkachuk (who also nabbed his 100th NHL point on the play and had a career-high four assists on the night). Then, with 5:32 left on the clock, Gaudreau cruised into the offensive zone and set up the man-advantage, feeding Lindholm for his second of the game.
Mike Smith came up with a timely (and showboat, Mike Vernon-like) glove save on Nikolay Goldobin also in the third period while Austin Czarnik and Michael Frolik sealed the deal with empty-net goals.
"I thought three things were real big," Peters said. "We were resilient after 40 — down one — and you have win the third period in this league if you want to get points. I thought we were resilient on the power play when it got waved off. I get it, I watched it, I seen what they seen … It could have gone either way, but I get the call.
"To still score on that ensuing powerplay with time left was huge. Then, Smitty's save when it was (tied). That glove save was huge."
Two points was the ultimate response to an over-hyped storyline that extended from the 5-2 Canucks' season-opening win at Vancouver on Wednesday. During the first period of that game, Travis Hamonic suffered a facial fracture after absorbing a Erik Gudbranson punch during a fight that stemmed from a hit into the boards on Dillon Dube.
Gudbranson was assessed an interference penalty, and Hamonic challenged the 26-year-old Canucks defenceman to a fight, standing up for his teammate.
Prout was inserted into Saturday's lineup anyway, and Bill Peters indicated that it was so that the Flames could be a little heavier around Smith's crease. Nothing came of it, however, and it definitely didn't do anything to contain Canucks rookie wunderkind Elias Pettersson who dazzled again with two goals and an assist including a set-up on Vancouver's go-ahead goal from Bo Horvat during a five-on-three.
It only took 22 seconds for Pettersson to work his magic on the 44-second two-man advantage, but Prout made it easier when he failed to pick up Horvat in front of Smith's crease. Horvat was served a tap-in on a silver platter by the 19-year-old Swedish sensation which gave the Canucks a 4-3 lead to end the second period.
Pettersson shone early in the second period as he scored a power-play marker from the right circle with 2:52 elapsed.
And just when you thought things couldn't get any worse for Calgary's power play, the Flames had a goal — a Tkachuk garbage goal, shovelled-in — called back after it was ruled Derek Ryan had impeded Markstrom.
Shortly after the goal was disallowed, Gaudreau finally scored on the same power play thanks to a fat rebound kicked out after a Monahan shot. Tie game.
Well … for a few minutes.
"I know our power-play wasn't great in Vancouver — probably one of the reasons why we lost there," Gaudreau said. "We knew we needed to step up.
"We were moving the puck around pretty well. A lot of practise the past two days, a lot of video, on the power-play … I think we definitely got a little bit better there. Still some room for improvement, but I think it was a good effort from our team tonight."
The Canucks tied it at the 13:15 mark of the first period, a strange sequence which saw Noah Hanifin lose his right-handed stick which prompted Lindholm give the Flames defenceman his right-handed stick which prompted Gaudreau to give Lindholm his left-handed stick. Either way, the Flames were hemmed in their own zone for way too long, and Smith eventually lost sight of the puck until Pettersson was fed in front.
At the time of Sutter's short-handed marker — that found a pocket under Smith's arm — he'd allowed two goals on five shots.
No, not great numbers. Especially added to his numbers from Wednesday (five goals allowed on 22 Canucks' attempts).
Three seconds after Goldobin's high-sticking penalty expired, the one that led to Sutter's goal, Giordano tied it 2-2.
While it might be early to criticize the Flames on their special teams, Saturday's victory didn't exactly flatter their newly re-vamped units, another storyline that carried over from Wednesday's game when the Flames went 0-for-seven on the man advantage. They finished 3-for-6 while their penalty kill leaked two goals on six Canucks' power plays.
"I thought the Monahan unit was very dangerous," Peters said. "Gave up a tough one on the short-handed goal, and instead of sitting there and sulking, I thought they dug in and got to work and got us back in the game."
Meanwhile Smith's highlight reel save on Goldobin was only the 16th shot he faced in the game, going 23 minutes between saves and allowing two goals on the first five shots. A strange game that didn't exactly flatter the 36-year-old netminder's stats (he allowed four goals on 20 shots in the end.)
The Flames sent 35 shots Markstrom's way.
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Q: Android Gmail app does not render background image in HTML email HTML email. Everyone's first and last love.
I've built an table-based email that has a background image with text overlay as a 'hero' module. I used a background image on a div w/ inline CSS. Works great everywhere except Outlook 2010/2013, and Android Gmail native app.
Did android gmail app stop supporting background images?
Even this didn't work... bulletproof sample(backgrounds.cm) to illustrate and litmus says no go on outlook and android gmail app.

      Please work, please, darn it

A: Good question.  There's a lot of conflicting information about this topic.
For instance, this link suggests to inline all CSS, whereas this link suggests to embed all styles in the head.  And even further - if this link is correct, Gmail's e-mail preprocessor strips sketchy-looking CSS from the email body altogether:

Gmail doesn't allow backgrounds (mostly). If you include any reference to a URL, your entire declaration will be ignored. For example:
background: #000;  /*This will be accepted */
background: #000 url(http://www.test.com/test.jpg); /* This entire line will be ignored */

Anyway, I had a similar issue involving a background image not working on a
 element, which I resolved* by way of adding a class to my table ...

... with an accompanying stylesheet declaration:

I also added duplicate references to the image both via the background-image CSS property, and the background HTML attribute (because god knows what the Gmail preprocessor is doing).

*This won't work for Outlook, as Outlook doesn't support background images at all.

A couple of other ideas for your case: make sure the link is actually up and make sure the server is correctly configured to externally serve whatever kind of image this is supposed to serve up.
If all else fails, maybe you could try using a URL which resolves directly to an image.  Gmail might strip all of that out it it makes the determination that it looks too sketchy.


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Q: Scheduled task with Python and third party library on Windows 10 This is my first scheduled python task on Windows with a third party library (Pandas). I installed python for all users on the machine so it is at C:\Program Files\Python39. After I pip install pandas it is installed at C:\Users\MyUserName\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python39\site-packages.
Running a simple read_csv and then write_csv works in a batch file, but when I run with a scheduled task (as a service account that doesn't have Pandas installed) it doesn't work. I tried moving the whole site-package directory with pandas in it over to C:\Program Files\Python39 with no luck.
I was finally able to get it to work by adding
import sys
sys.path.append('C:\Program Files\Python39\site-packages')

to the beginning of my script. My two questions are then:

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*Why does pip only install a package for the user when python is installed for all users?

*Why isn't the script able to locate pandas without explicitly telling it where to look for it? Is it because the user that the script is running as does not have it in their PATH?


Luxemburgish quartet Mutiny On The Bounty is getting a great leap upward among the stars in the instrumental Math-Rock galaxy over the last years.
Acclaimed as "brutally beautiful" by Rosilde Festival (Denmark), MOTB's sound can be linked to the complexity of Battles, the energy from And So I Watch You From Afar or the pop-appeal of Foals.
Branded by their rock influences but also more electronic sounds, MOTB is going from atmospheres to a powerful groove.
With Digital Tropics, a brilliant instrumental album released last year, MOTB is coming for the first time this November to tour in China with Danish instrumentalists The Seven Mile Journey!
BTW, another MOTB showcase gig on Nov.6th will be in Temple Bar Beijing, FREE ENTRANCE!


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Eine Torflinse, auch Moorlinse genannt, ist ein meist kleines, im Querschnitt linsenförmiges Moorgebiet, das allerdings freiäugig nur selten als solches zu erkennen ist.

Torflinsen finden sich vor allem in Niederungsgebieten der Urstromtäler des Mitteleuropäischen Tieflands wie in Norddeutschland, in den Niederlanden, Belgien und in Polen.

Entstehung und Namensherkunft
Die meisten Torflinsen sind in kleinen Senken als Niedermoore entstanden und haben sich im Laufe von oft mehreren Jahrtausenden zu Hochmooren entwickelt. Die Bildung in sandigen oder tonigen Senken führt zu Querschnitten in Form einer Linse, was auch den Namen erklärt.

Viele dieser Moorgebiete wurden in den letzten Jahrhunderten entweder nur teilweise abgetorft bzw. umgegraben, oder man hat sie mit Erde oder Sand überdeckt. Daher ist oder war oft nicht erkennbar, dass sie eine Gefahr für die Stabilität einer Bebauung darstellen.

Gefahren und Auffindung
Werden Gebäude oder Verkehrsanlagen auf einer Torflinse errichtet, ohne für eine entsprechend tiefe Gründung der Fundamente zu sorgen, so droht ein späteres Absacken der Baukörper mit entsprechender Bildung von Setzungsrissen.

Im Regelfall werden Torflinsen erst durch diese Bodensetzungen beim Gebäude- oder Straßenbau entdeckt. Selbst dann ist es aufwändig, ihre räumliche Ausdehnung festzustellen, weil sie kleinflächig zwischen Ton- und Sandschichten in unterschiedlichen Stärken auftreten können. Bei konkretem Verdacht kann die Erkundung geotechnisch erfolgen, etwa mit einem Lastplatten-Druckversuch.

Beispiele
Die Stadt Rungholt wurde auf einer Torflinse errichtet und ging in der Zweiten Marcellusflut am 16. Januar 1362 aufgrund des sich absenkenden Grundes unter.
Auch wurden Abschnitte der Bahnstrecke Neumünster–Flensburg (Kursbuchstrecke 131) auf einer Torflinse erbaut, was nach der Absenkung des Bahnkörpers eine Reduzierung der Streckengeschwindigkeit und aufwendige Sanierungsarbeiten notwendig machte.

Eine Torflinse wurde dem Architekten Andreas Schlüter (1660–1714) zum Verhängnis. Sein Münzturm vor dem Berliner Schloss fiel einige Tage nach der Eröffnung in sich zusammen, was den preußischen König Friedrich erboste und das Ende von Schlüters Karriere einleitete.

 2017 sackte bei Tribsees die Fahrbahn der Bundesautobahn 20 in Richtung Westen auf etwa 100 Metern Länge um einen halben Meter in den moorigen Untergrund ab und wurde daraufhin im September 2017 gesperrt. Für die Reparatur wurden mindestens zwei Jahre veranschlagt. Bis Oktober 2017 sackte die betroffene Fahrbahn an dieser Stelle auf 40 Metern Länge um mehr als zweieinhalb Meter ab und wurde dadurch auf ganzer Breite stückweise zerstört. Ursache für den Vorfall ist laut Verkehrsminister Christian Pegel, dass die Autobahn bei Tribsees über einer Torflinse verläuft, die mit kleinen Betonkernen stabilisiert worden war. Diese haben möglicherweise der Last nicht standgehalten, die genaue Ursache soll ermittelt werden.

Weblinks
 Sanierung der Torflinse Lottorf bei Flensburg (PDF-Datei; 157 kB)

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Jun 16, 2018 · 11:27 am
SSC CHSL 2017 results: CHSL Tier-I results 2017 declared, check CHSL results at ssc.nic.in
The SSC has declared CHSL Tier-I 2017 exam results. A total of 48,404 candidates have qualified for the SSC CHSL Tier-II exam, which is scheduled for July 2018.
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The Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has declared the results of the Combined Higher Secondary Level (CHSL) 2017 Tier-I exam. The SSC on Friday, June 15th, released the names and roll numbers of the candidates, who appeared for the CHSL Tier-I exam, specifying whether they have cleared or not. Final answer keys and exact marks of the candidates who participated in the exam will be released by the Commission in a few days.
The SSC informed in a notification that a total of 48,404 candidates cleared the CHSL (10+2) Tier-I exam and qualified for the SSC CHSL Tier-II exam. All candidates who are expecting their CHSL 2017 results can check the SSC's official website, ssc.nic.in, to find out whether have cleared.
The cut-off marks for the unreserved category was 143.50, while the cut-offs for SC, ST, and OBC categories were 122.50, 112.00, and 139.00, respectively. Among the 48,404 candidates who have qualified for the CHSL 2017 Tier-II exam, 14,371 are from the unreserved category, 15,984 from OBC, 8,152 from SC and 3,959 from ST category. The remaining qualified candidates are from ex-servicemen - OH, VH, and HH categories.
The Commission also stated that the results of 173 candidates have not been released for various reasons including using unfair means during the exam, malpractice, appearing twice and debarment. The list of candidates whose results have not been released is available in the official SSC CHSL Tier-I results 2017 notification.
The Commission will announce the exact date of the CHSL Tier-II exam shortly, but the exam is expected to be held in the month of July.
Here's how to check SSC CHSL 2017 Tier-I results
Click on this link to access the document with the CHSL Tier-I results.
Search by name or roll number to find your SSC CHSL results in the document.
Around 26.51 lakh candidates had appeared for the CHSL 2017 Tier-I examination, which was conducted from March 4th to 28th, 2018. The recruitment drive aims to fill 3,259 positions of Lower Divisional Clerk/ Junior Secretariat Assistant, Postal Assistant/ Sorting Assistant and Data Entry Operator.
The SSC CHSL Tier-II exam is of the descriptive type, and candidates will have to write an essay of around 200-250 words and letter/application of around 150 words. The CHSL Tier-II exam will carry 100 marks and candidates will be given 60 minutes to display their writing skills.
SSC CHSL 2017 final result to be declared today; check at ssc.nic.in
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Changing Arctic Governance and Options for the Arctic Council
The Arctic Council. Photo Credit: U.S. Department of State
By: Ashley Postler, Columnist
After becoming Arctic Council Chair in 2017, Finland elected to continue the institution's "process of long-term strategic planning" set in motion under the previous US chairmanship.[i] Toward this effort, the Council will likely consider two priorities: reinforcing the member states' collective position within the organization in the midst of expanding membership and maintaining regional stability despite a mandate that excludes hard security issues. While supporting these institutional priorities, the U.S. should also strive to manage non-Arctic states' roles in the region and promote Arctic security while maintaining flexibility in the Council's original structural design.
Origins and Successes of the Arctic Council
The Arctic Council was established in 1996 with the Ottawa Declaration by the eight circumpolar nations—Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the U.S.—who became the Council's Member States. Geopolitical conditions at the time were favorable, and environmental protection and related issues, such as the clean-up of nuclear waste, were considered the most pressing areas for cooperation. As a condition for US involvement in the 1990s, the Council was established as a consensus-based forum and not a treaty organization.[ii],[iii]
Despite the Council's lack of international legal authority, member states have successfully convened multiple legally-binding agreements outside the organization's parameters. Additionally, the Council provides Arctic indigenous groups a high-level platform to consult on the organization's activities as permanent participants. Moreover, the Council's loose architecture is considered to have contributed to keeping the Arctic largely immune from tensions elsewhere across the globe since its establishment after the Cold War.
More Members, More Problems?
Due to the globalized nature of the effects of climate change, an increasing number of non-Arctic states deem the Arctic too important to leave regional governance to the circumpolar states,[iv] prompting many to seek and gain observer status in the Council. Council membership has now expanded to include 13 non-Arctic observer states, raising questions among the member states about how to maintain their decision-making authority while balancing the latter's formal representation and interests.
A possible solution may actually be to foster increased inclusion for observers. With broader opportunities for engagement, observers could more easily be socialized to the Council's institutional norms.[v] Observers' adherence to such norms could make them more amenable to member states' steering, and ensure that collectively the member states retain primary decision-making responsibility. Moreover, increased avenues for involvement could make observers feel more welcome in the Council, and less likely to seek membership in outside forums through which to influence regional governance beyond member states' purview.[vi] Prior to China's admission to the Arctic Council as an accredited observer in 2013, some Chinese scholars suggested that such membership was inimical to China's interests, because "observer status [would] bring more obligations but fewer rights."[vii]
Conversely, the risk is that increased involvement opportunities for observers could instead grant them increased power and influence within the Council at member states' expense. To mitigate this risk, the Council should continue to vertically limit while laterally broadening observer engagement to ensure member states retain primary decision-making authority.
No Mechanism to Address Emerging Security Concerns
Another increasingly important challenge involves emerging military security issues in the Arctic, which the Council is prohibited from addressing per the Ottawa Declaration.[viii] NATO, which presently lacks an Arctic policy, is not an ideal choice to fill this void, since formal expansion into the Arctic would likely be met with pushback by Russia.[ix] Taken together, these omissions leave the region vulnerable to tension and conflict.
In particular, Russia's Arctic military buildup and accompanying rhetoric over the past decade has fostered insecurity among its Arctic neighbors. Of growing concern is China's mounting Arctic FDI foothold which grants it increasing soft power and influence in the region. The burgeoning Sino-Russian partnership in the Arctic compounds these concerns. The geopolitical situation in the Arctic is thus more tense than it was when the Council was established, and warrants serious contemplation of security concerns.
Any reform to "broaden the Council's remit" to include security issues is generally dismissed.[x] A workaround to this limitation might be to elevate the Council's delegatory capacity, encouraging it to recognize what it does well, and limit its "role to functions which only it can perform."[xi] Security issues might therefore be delegated to organizations like the Arctic Coast Guard Forum (ACGF).
Several years prior to its establishment in 2015, the ACGF was conceptualized in a CSIS report as needing to "focus first and foremost on information sharing" and cooperation—including with the private sector—to support certain Council agreements such as those pertaining to search and rescue and oil spill response.[xii] This model enables the Council to better direct its limited resources toward projects it alone can manage. However, the ACGF faces some limitations, for example, "sensitive information cannot be shared as between NATO members," and individual coast guard mandates are not always compatible with an overarching Arctic security vision.[xiii]
In 2016, a subsequent CSIS report introduced the prospect of transforming the Council into an Arctic OSCE-type institution covering economic, human, and security "dimensions" at play in the region.[xiv] Naturally, such a "redesign" would require "an extraordinary amount of political will and diplomatic energy…[that] does not exist currently."[xv]
Perhaps, then, the OSCE itself could offer a medium.[xvi] The eight Arctic states already all belong to the organization; should the OSCE seek to join the Council as an observer—particularly one with a mandate to address security issues—, it might be less encumbered by observer guidelines and better poised than the rest of its cohort to pursue institutional engagement opportunities. For example, it could spearhead a Council working group on Arctic security, and include other observers. This could bring security issues into the Council's purview more meaningfully than delegating responsibility to another organization, without having to restructure the Council's mandate or architecture. It could also serve to reinforce member states' collective position in the organization relative to its growing membership, which will be critical for the Council to navigate and manage increasing international interest in the Arctic in the coming decades.
[i] "Finland's Chairmanship Program for the Arctic Council 2017-2019," Arctic Council, 2017, 17, https://arctic-council.org/images/PDF_attachments/FIN_Chairmanship/Finnish_Chairmanship_Program_Arctic_Council_2017-2019.pdf.
[ii] Heather Exner-Pirot et al, "Form and Function: The Future of the Arctic Council," The Arctic Institute, February 5, 2019, https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/form-function-future-arctic-council/.
[iii] Evan T. Bloom, "Establishment of the Arctic Council," The American Journal of International Law, Vol. 93, No. 3 (July 1999), 721, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2555272?seq=10#metadata_info_tab_contents
[iv] Oran R. Young, "The Arctic in Play: Governance in a Time of Rapid Change," The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (2009), 430.
[v] Piotr Graczyk et al, "Preparing for the Global Rush: The Arctic Council, Institutional Norms, and Socialisation of Observer Behaviour," 126, in: Governing Arctic Change, K. Keil and S. Knecht (2017).
[vi] Ibid 131.
[vii] Peiqing Guo, "An Analysis of New Criteria for Permanent Observer Status on the Arctic Council and the Road of Non‐Arctic States to Arctic," KMI International Journal of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Vol. 4, Iss. 2, December 2012, 21.
[viii] "Declaration on the Establishment of the Arctic Council, ("Ottowa Declaration")," The Arctic Council, Ottowa, Canada, September 19, 1996, see footnote #1, page 6, https://oaarchive.arctic-council.org/bitstream/handle/11374/85/EDOCS-1752-v2-ACMMCA00_Ottawa_1996_Founding_Declaration.PDF?sequence=5&isAllowed=y
[ix] Av Ragnhild Grønning, "NATO reluctant to engage in the Arctic," High North News, November 24, 2016, http://www.highnorthnews.com/nato-reluctant-to-engage-in-the-arctic/.
[x] Oran R. Young, "The Arctic Council at Twenty: How to Remain Effective in a Rapidly Changing Environment," UC Irvine Law Review, Vol. 6 Iss. 99 (January 2016), 109, https://www.law.uci.edu/lawreview/vol6/no1/Young_Final.pdf.
[xi] Heather Exner-Pirot et al, "Form and Function: The Future of the Arctic Council," The Arctic Institute, February 5, 2019, https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/form-function-future-arctic-council/.
[xii] Heather A. Conley et al, "A New Security Architecture for the Arctic: An American Perspective," Center for Strategic and International Studies, January 2012, 38, https://csis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/legacy_files/files/publication/120117_Conley_ArcticSecurity_Web.pdf
[xiii] Andreas Østhagen, "The Arctic Coast Guard Forum: Big Tasks, Small Solutions," The Arctic Institute, November 2, 2015, https://www.thearcticinstitute.org/arctic-coast-guard-forum-big-tasks/
[xiv] Heather A. Conley and Matthew Melino, "An Arctic Redesign: Recommendations to Rejuvenate the Arctic Council," Center for Strategic and International Studies, February 2016, 17, https://www.csis.org/analysis/arctic-redesign.
[xv] Ibid, 18.
[xvi] Rachael Gosnell, "An Arctic Role for OSCE?" University of Maryland School of Public Policy, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland, March 30, 2018, http://www.cissm.umd.edu/arctic-role-osce
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The fact that DC reporters have internalized the sixty-vote Senate is a sign that things have gotten truly bad. The Debt Commission is a bad idea, but it's not a terribly controversial idea, since the odds are it will be completely ineffective. As has been noted, the structure of the debt commission makes it extremely unlikely that it will come up with a set of recommendations that both (a) actually do anything about the fiscal situation, and (b) stand any chance of passing. Despite this, Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is opposed to the commission, on the grounds that it has a teensy tiny chance to raise taxes. But there's no indication from Politico that McConnell's going to join with a collection of liberal Democrats to filibuster the rather pointless commission. They could simply let it through with the knowledge that it's highly unlikely to do anything.
At the very least, when reporters say that a bill needs 60 votes to pass the Senate, they ought to say who it is who is threatening to mount filibuster. And then they ought to note that the U.S. Senate is the only legislative body in the industrialized world where routine legislation is subject to a supermajority requirement. But while treaties need 67 votes to pass, nothing needs 60 votes to pass; that requirement is a choice made by current members of the Senate.
I'm less bothered by the normalization of the sixty-vote senate in the press that how Senate Democrats seem to have internalized it as a reason not to govern. The talking points issued the Day after Brown won were staggeringly pathetic is this regard. I am not a fan of using reconciliation but Senate Dems need to be thinking of some way other than 60 to accomplice something and if it's reconciliation than I would rather have flawed bills than no bills at all.
Indeed, you appear to be right. The vote failed 53-46; by unanimous consent, the parties must have agreed to the 60-vote threshold.


Red Eléctrica's Electric Vehicle Control Centre (CECOVEL) received the EnerTIC Award in the Smart Vehicle category at the fifth edition of the awards ceremony. This project, which launched in 2017, is a solution designed by Red Eléctrica to coordinate the mass deployment of electric vehicles.
The enerTIC Awards recognize innovative technological projects implemented by companies and organisations committed to energy efficiency and sustainability. Susana Bañares and Joan Manresa, from the Demand-side Management and Smart Grids Department, accepted the award at a ceremony that took place in December in Madrid.
In order to be eligible for awards consideration, both public and private organisations presented projects in 16 categories, including Smart Industry 4.0, Smart Cities, Smart Energy, Smart Data Center, Smart International Projects, and Smart Vehicle.
The CECOVEL project is a Red Eléctrica initiative designed to support electric mobility in the current energy transition scenario.
Launched in January 2017, CECOVEL facilitates the monitoring of electricity demand for the recharging of electric vehicles, making these new electricity consumers visible.
This collaborative project is undertaken with participation from Spain's main charging managers. Moreover, it currently monitors over 900 recharging stations.
This project makes it possible to see electric mobility in real time and integrate electric vehicle charging into the national power system, thus optimizing the use of renewable generation.


The "shackles" of the Republican party are capital "O" off presidential nominee Donald Trump, he declared.
Debate sensation Ken Bone got his now-famous red sweater a Kohl's in Wisconsin. Of course.
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Poverty and Income Inequality are Separate Issues
Categories: Income Distribution
By David Henderson, Jan 26 2014
"One reason that action to limit growing income inequality in the United States is difficult is that the growth in inequality is not a simple picture. Old-line leftists, if there are any left, would like to make it a single story–the rich becoming richer by exploiting the poor. But that's just not a reasonable picture of America in the 1980s. For one thing, most of our very poor don't work, which makes it hard to exploit them. For another, the poor had so little to start with that the dollar value of the gains of the rich dwarfs that of the losses of the poor. (In constant dollars, the increase in per family income among the top tenth of the population in the 1980s was about a dozen times as large as the decline among the bottom tenth.)"
The above is a quote from a book published in 1990. The author is a well-known economist. Question: What is that economist's name? Hint: he won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2008 and writes a regular column and blog for the New York Times.
That's right. Those words were written by none other than Paul Krugman.
I quote this paragraph, not to embarrass him, pleasurable as that is, but to make a more serious point. It is this: the income inequality in the United States today cannot be explained by rich people exploiting poor people.
What matters is not whether inequality increases but whether people of all income levels are doing better.
These are the opening paragraphs of my piece, "If Obama's worried about poverty, he should focus on it, not income inequality," FoxNews, January 24, 2014.
Read the whole thing, which is short.
Daniel Kuehn
I am a little confused about this line: "I quote this paragraph, not to embarrass him, pleasurable as that is, but to make a more serious point."
Why would anyone think this would embarrass him anyway?
@Daniel Kuehn,
Because it's the kind of thing he would never write today.
OK I guess that's what I'm confused about. Just the other week when he was criticizing Bret Stephens on income inequality by citing CBO data on how everyone's income grew since the 70s, the rich just grew faster. He's attributed the growth among the rich to what's been going on in finance and that's not an exploiting the poor argument (and I don't think anyone is doubting that finance has a lot to do with the growth of the top 1%).
OK – cool. At least I know what you're referring to, but I think you're being a little pessimistic.
The reason for the focus on inequality rather than poverty is political; the former mobilizes envy and resentment.
1990 was back when he was an economist, Daniel.
Since the late 90's he' rarely be confused with one. I think the embarrassment come from how many of his present positions are easily rebutted by citing Economist Krugman from the era when he wrote Nobel quality work.
Peter Gerdes
I don't buy that people genuinely care primarily about their absolute economic wellbeing.
If this was indeed true than the poor today should be far happier with their lot in life than the rich of 100 years ago. Accounting for the decreases in warfare and crime the poor today are much less likely to die violently than even the wealthy (excluding, perhaps, the topmost 1% with enough money to have serious political influence) and with the advances in health care have a longer life expectancy than the wealthy of 100 years ago.
In terms of material possessions the poor of today have microwaves, refrigerators, indoor plumbing, gas/electric stoves etc.. They also have access to fruits, vegetables and other goodies (twinkies) that didn't even exist 100 years ago. In terms of access to material goods the poor of today are substantially better off than even the wealthy of 100 years ago.
So why does it (pretty obviously) suck to be poor today? Well you don't get to live near your work (if you have a job) and your work is probably boring with long hours. But land is (virtually) impossible to create so possession of desirable land is ALWAYS reserved for those who have more wealth than the rest of society. No amount of absolute economic expansion can change the fact that if you are relatively poor (very small fraction of your societies resources) you won't have access these kinds of rare goods.
Why else does it suck to be poor? Well your children don't get the educational opportunities of the rich. Again, however, this isn't about making everyone better off, since many fewer would have completed HS 100 years, but about making sure you have roughly the same level of educational achievement as the richest part of society.
David Henderson: "What matters is not whether inequality increases …"
When you invite your friends on dinner, you are careful to give all of them equally good meal. If you intentionally give large ice-cream cups to all guests except to chosen few, the chosen few will be seriously offended. Adults do not care much for ice-crime – and in developed world they can buy as much as they want. So, it cannot be much of envy. It is probably about need to be recognized as important members of the group; the same need that dominates life of teenagers. It is heavy issue. I checked few studies, it appears likely that inequalities cause crime and depression (medical condition). There is even some rank theory of depression. To some degree, then, crime and depression probably cause absolute poverty. It appears there are lot of criminals and depressed on very bottom of the society.
Surely, relative inequality is not only problem, but it is hard to dismiss it. However, politician should be explicit about his actions, almost like judge should, and he should left people without doubt why/if he wants to reduce inequality. So, I guess you have some right here.
I, for one, do not give all of my guests the same size serving of ice cream – the women would protest such a large serving, the lactose intolerant would feel slighted having even been served icecream, those who wish seconds (or thirds) would be unhappy…
My point being, beyond the fact that your specific metaphor rings particularly false to me, is that there are an infinite number of hierarchies and the focus on income inequality seems to me to be one where those at the top of the political hierarchy (DC) are trying to quash those atop of the economic hierarchy (NYC) because the political hierarchy is zero sum.
You say in your linked article that "What matters is not whether inequality increases but whether people of all income levels are doing better." I believe that's true, but there's psychological research showing that relative income/inequality matters, not just absolute inequality.
To the progressive, there are poor people, working just as hard as many rich people, and yet they see far lower gains. Often there's very little they can do, due to unlucky circumstances. Is that "fair"? If fairness matters, doesn't this relative income gain? Even if it's not unfair, could not redistributing from rich to poor, in theory (I don't believe it works), combat poverty and inequality simultaneously?
Life is what it is, and there's not a lot we can do to make a big change. But it's too simplistic to say that these things just don't matter.
Roger McKinney
True, if you lack envy. For the non-envious, the only thing that matters is whether the rich acted legally to get their wealth. If so, then we should be happy for them.
No one will understand the issue of inequality without reading Helmut Schoeck's "Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior." Unless concern for inequality focuses on whether the rich violated the law, then all concern about inequality is pure envy.
As Schoeck shows, socialism has made envy a virtue. We should only be concerned about equality before the law, not equality of incomes or wealth.
Steven H Noble
While I'm personally more sympathetic to his old position than to his current position, I'm now inclined to take his new position more seriously.
First because it is hard to change one's mind. The fact that Krugman has means that he must be so concerned about inequality that he could get past the dissidence of contradicting himself.
And second, it now clearly can't be argued that he simply doesn't understand the position that inequality doesn't cause poverty. We know he understands this side of the argument because he has expressed it himself.
People should take pride in their changes of heart. It allows them to say "ah, I used to believe as you did. And then I grew wiser and saw the folly of those ideas."
Isn't it remarkable that we can very much solve most of our scarcity problems, but can never hope to solve our envy problems?
The dinner analogy is so awful I had to comment. Wealth and income are not distributed like ice cream at dinner. Income and wealth are created.
Glen Smith
Envy creates opportunities. I've seen many a successful marketing program based on envy. I've also read about many dictators who built their armies of loyal followers through the manipulation of envy.
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Microsoft's Bing search engine can be accessed by internet users in China again after it was blocked for two days behind the country's so-called Great Firewall. As indicated by sources speaking anonymously with the FT, the state-owned telecom China Unicom has confirmed the order came from the government.
Bing is one of the few Western search engines available behind the Great Firewall, thanks to an agreement to host its servers in China, and therefore be subject to the government's censorship policies which are created to keep dissent to a minimum. According to a report in Financial Times, mainland Chinese users wrote on social media that attempts to access Bing's China site, cn.bing.com, failed.
The wording of the U.S. company's statement "means Microsoft received no government order, but clearly China has the power to block a URL and that may be what happened", said independent United States tech analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group.
Microsoft Search Engine Bing Blocked by China, Latest US Tech Giant to Face Difficulties in "Dragon" Land.
"We can confirm that Bing was inaccessible in China, but service is now restored".
Users in China began noticing Bing was no longer accessible on Wednesday, which prompted Microsoft to investigate.
Google has said that it has no immediate plans to re-launch a search engine in China, but has admitted it has looked closely at the idea. Microsoft censored search results on sensitive topics, in accordance with government policy.
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`He's a Bloody Genius and So On'
Two books in recent years -- Rachel Cohen's A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists and Richard Lingeman's Double Lives: American Writers' Friendships – squandered the promising premise of tracking intersecting literary careers. Both books are dutifully written, at best (Cohen's is pretentious, Lingeman's plodding), and both foundered, in part, because of the artists they chose to examine. Who cares about James Baldwin, John Cage, Norman Mailer and Gertrude Stein (in Cohen's case), and Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady (in Lingeman's)? By choosing mediocre (albeit fashionable) writers, Cohen and Lingeman compromised their claims on the respect of readers. One of Lingeman's subjects, Herman Melville, wrote "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," and there's nothing mighty above Baldwin, Cassady, etc.
Let me suggest an alternative set of writers whose relations are more worthy of study. Consider Yvor Winters -- an influential critic and poet, and a one-man social network. He and his students and other acquaintances, including Edgar Bowers, J.V. Cunningham, Thom Gunn, Donald Justice and Janet Lewis, would constitute a book unto themselves.
What I have in mind is not a dry, obligatory recitation of dates and tired anecdotes but a work in the spirit of Richard Holmes' two-volume life of Coleridge, an act of sympathetic, imaginative re-creation, like superior fiction. See how Holmes describes the single meeting between Coleridge and Keats, all drawn from primary sources, corroborated by secondary sources, and as vivid and amusing as a good story. He quotes a letter Keats wrote to his brother George, saying Coleridge "broached a thousand things," then renders a comic account of the older poet's conversation: "-- let me see if I can give you a list. – Nightingales, Poetry – on Poetical sensation – Metaphysics – Different genera and species of Dreams – Nightmare – a dream accompanied by a sense of Touch – A dream related – First and Second Consciousness," and so forth for another five lines.
Now consider how the preeminent American novelist and poet of the postwar era, Saul Bellow and John Berryman, were excellent, sustained friends. Their mutual respect and the love of each man for the other is a refreshing exception to the customary jealousies and backstabbing of the literary life. Bellow contributed an affectionate forward to Berryman's posthumously published novel Recovery. Berryman had died a suicide on Jan. 7, 1972. Bellow begins:
"He wrote in one of his last letters to me, `Let's join forces, large and small, as in the winter beginning of 1953 in Princeton, with the Bradstreet blazing and Augie fleecing away. We're promising!'"
They enjoyed each other's work and company immensely. Bellow agonized over Berryman's alcoholism and general self-destructiveness:
"He knocked himself out to be like everybody else – he liked, he loved, he cared, but he was aware that there was something peculiarly comical in all this. And at last it must have seemed that he had used up all his resources. Faith against despair, love versus nihilism, had been the themes of his struggles and his poems. What he needed for his art had been supplied by his own person, by his mind, his wit. He drew it out of his vital organs, out of his very skin. At last there was no more. Reinforcements failed to arrive. Forces were not joined. The cycle of resolution, reform, and relapse had become a bad joke that could not continue."
Berryman had read The Adventures of Augie March in manuscript, and when prominent reviewers were uncomprehending, Berryman published "A Note on Augie" in The New York Times Book Review on Dec. 6, 1953:
"I would guess that the effect of the sharpness and acrobatic freedom of Augie March ought to be salutary, as Crane's naturalism was [Berryman had published Stephen Crane: A Critical Biography in 1950]."
In her memoir Poets in Their Youth, Berryman's former wife, Eileen Simpson, recalls the arrival of Augie:
"A few days later John came home with the typescript of Saul's new novel and said, `I'm going to take the weekend off to read this.' Seated in his red leather chair, immobile for hours except to light a cigarette, make a note on a small white pad, run the corkscrew he liked to toy with through his fingers, or let out a high-pitched `eeeeeeeeeeeee,' which meant he was laughing so hard he couldn't get his breath, he trained his intelligence on The Adventures of Augie March, giving it the kind of reading every writer dreams of having. After the first chapter, he said, `It's damn good.' When he finished, `Bellow is it. I'm going to have lunch with him and tell him he's a bloody genius and so on.'"
Most importantly, in the first volume of his master work, 77 Dream Songs, Berryman dedicated "Dream Song 75" to Bellow:
"Turning it over, considering, like a madman
Henry put forth a book.
No harm resulted from this.
Neither the menstruating stars (nor man) was moved
at once.
Bare dogs drew closer for a second look
"and performed their friendly operations there.
Refreshed, the bark rejoiced.
Seasons went and came.
Leaves fell, but only a few.
Something remarkable about this
unshedding bulky bole-proud blue-green moist
"thing made by savage & thoughtful
surviving Henry
began to strike the passers from despair
so that sore on their shoulders old men hoisted
six-foot sons and polished women called
small girls to dream awhile toward the flashing & bursting
tree!"
What a year, 1964: 77 Dream Songs and Bellow's Herzog.
Posted by Patrick Kurp at 8:38 AM
D. G. Myers said...
Not Bellow and Berryman, but Bellow and Isaac Rosenfeld. Patrick, you must put in a "pre-order" for Steven Zipperstein's forthcoming book about Rosenfeld. It is no accident that I named two of my sons Saul and Isaac.
Art Durkee said...
Certainly not Yvor Winters. He did more to create the current horrid "workshop poetry" culture, and it's sinkhole of self-regard, than almost anyone.
Say what you like about Cage. One of the most original thinkers of the century. The fact that he's still vilified so often means folks still haven't caught up to him.
But that's just my opinion. Which doesn't mean it's any less valid than anyone else's, of course.
I do not want to start a dust-up, Mr. Durkee, but I respectfully disagree with your comment about Yvor Winters. (I have no opinion about John Cage.) Although Winters certainly influenced a great number of poets (who held him in high regard), he had nothing whatsoever to do with the creation and/or proliferation of the "horrid 'workshop poetry' culture" to which you refer. (By the way, I completely agree with you that such a culture does exist, and that it is indeed "horrid.")
First, given Winters's idiosyncrasies and strictness (in every sense of the term) it would have been impossible for him to create such a culture, even if he wanted to. Second, "workshop poetry" and "workshop poets" have nothing to do with traditional forms. For Winters, formality and tradition were all-important. Third, his era of influence came way before the workshop culture to which you refer. Fourth, having taken classes with Edgar Bowers and Alan Stephens (both of whom studied with Winters) at the University of California at Santa Barbara in the 1970s, I can assure you that they were every bit as idiosyncratic and strict (in their own unique ways) as Winters, and not "workshop poetry" types. (An aside: I am a retired lawyer, not a poet, and have never attended any poetry workshops.)
Finally, if you read any of the poets mentioned by Mr. Kurp (I would add Donald Stanford and Alan Stephens to the list), you certainly do not find "workshop poetry." For an interesting site on Winters, please see "The American Literary Rhadamanthus." (I have no personal connection with the site, but am recommending it because it is good.) Please take this response in good spirit: I was just taken aback at seeing Yvor Winters in any way associated with "workshop poetry", since (in my mind at least) he represents the furthest thing from it.
Richard Holmes widens the lens in his most recent book, The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science. His goal was to bring a literary sensibility to the writing of science history, and he succeeds....wonderfully. I bought the book while on a business trip to the UK; it won't be availble from its American publisher until July. As a scientist who loves good writing, I recommend the book without reservation, even to those who normally flee from any book with "science" in the title. Like all great books, it's really a story about the mysteries of the human spirit.


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