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Copley Press sold the Union-Tribune cheap but for good reasons: it was doing even worse than other ailing metro newspapers. Now the company, the last remnant of the old newspaper empire, is selling the rest of its assets into weak markets.
It wasn't always so: when it started breaking up the company four years ago, it got juicy prices — at least in retrospect — for its holdings.
In March of last year, the company basically paid Beverly Hills–based Platinum Equity to take over the Union-Tribune by selling the buyout firm San Diego real estate worth around $100 million for a bit over $50 million. For example, Platinum paid $35.5 million for the Mission Valley headquarters, which had an assessed valuation of $91.3 million. Copley sold Platinum several other buildings cheap too, although Platinum has already sold one of them at a loss in this dismal commercial real estate market.
There are a number of reasons for the low prices, but one has been spelled out by none other than Hal Fuson, who took over as chief operating officer in June of 2007. On his Facebook page, Fuson admits that during his incumbency, the company's cash flow plunged "to almost nothing." Cash flow is cash receipts less cash payments — money in, money out. The new Platinum management told employees that the company was about to go into the red under Copley, but to my knowledge, this is the first time the old management has admitted it.
On Facebook, Fuson went on to say that "the great majority of newspapers remain profitable on a cash operating basis." Ergo, the Union-Tribune was doing worse than its peers. (Many newspaper chains have gone bankrupt, but that has been almost entirely because of excessive debt, Fuson said correctly.)
The revelation was not surprising. San Diego is the nation's 17th-largest market. The U-T's daily circulation was only 24th among metro dailies last fall. (Take away the nationally circulated Wall Street Journal and USA Today, and the U-T results are still poor.)
I asked some former top officials of the U-T about the underperformance. "We should have done some [personnel] cutting earlier," says one. "Many times we ramped up for cutting, but David Copley didn't want to do it."
David Copley also dragged his feet on selling Casa del Zorro in Borrego Springs. It had been a hideaway for his mother and father. David had recovered from his heart transplant there, promising at least one employee he would never sell it. Top management was dying to dump it because it was a huge drain on profits. The entrepreneur whose investment group bought it (and couldn't revive it) says it was losing $5 million a year. Although Casa had valuable assets, Copley got only $4.5 million for it.
Copley Press reacted very slowly to craigslist, which eventually stole the classified ad business from the big dailies. The company didn't wake up to what Monster.com would do to personnel ads, either. "I remember sitting in a meeting when craigslist came up," says a former top manager. "Somebody said it was probably some kid in a garage."
There were economic factors. The housing crash hit San Diego harder than most other cities. This affected real estate sales and severely dented related markets such as furniture and appliances.
Karin Winner, U-T editor, did not get along with Gene Bell, U-T president, but Winner had David Copley's ear. As a result of the animosity, the newspaper took too long to integrate its print and online operations.
Ed Moss, current president and publisher, doesn't address former management's deficiencies but points to what his team is doing. "New partnerships with 10News, Cox Communications, and Monster are just a few of the ways we've added content," he says. Companies large and small can now make more efficient advertising buys, he says. He expects that with these changes, the U-T can "sustain profitability."
Fuson is on the board of Copley Press. Dean Dwyer is its chief financial officer. I asked both why the company had underperformed and how it might do in its upcoming asset sales. Neither would talk. I asked Fuson about his Facebook remarks, too, and got the silent treatment.
But here's the rundown, as far as I can determine: In 2006, Copley Press sold the Daily Breeze of Torrance for a good price: $25 million. Separately, Copley sold the real estate for another $14 million to $16 million. Home run.
Then in 2007, the company sold its money-losing Ohio and Illinois papers for well over $380 million in cash to GateHouse Media, which soon collapsed under the weight of debt piled up in a poorly plotted and ill-timed acquisition binge. Copley said that some of the proceeds would go toward settling the estate of the late Helen Copley. That suggested that luck might have been involved in the timing. Still, in hindsight, it was a home run with the bases loaded.
Then the company went down swinging on three pitches. In mid-2008, as the financial crisis billowed, it said it might sell the U-T. The deal was announced on March 18, 2009, and consummated May 4. On May 4, McClatchy stock was selling for 62 cents; Monday it was going for $5.19. A.H. Belo was at $1.68 and Monday was at $7.67. Lee Enterprises, owner of the North County Times, was at 64 cents and Monday was at $3.68. E.W. Scripps was at $1.89 and Monday was at $9.04. Admittedly, the overall stock market took off on a liquidity-fueled toot in March of 2009, but newspaper stocks have risen far more rapidly than the general market. The conclusion is inescapable: Copley sold the U-T near the bottom of the newspaper market.
Now it is selling the contents of the Copley Library, along with the building itself at 1134 Kline Street, La Jolla. The collection is a magnificent one, containing such items as a broadside of the Declaration of Independence, worth perhaps $800,000, and a letter from Abraham Lincoln to one of his generals, possibly worth $700,000. Sotheby's will sell the items at four auctions beginning April 14 and ending a year later.
"A lot of people are hurt and angry" that the collection is leaving San Diego, says a La Jolla socialite, who thinks the contents should have been donated to a local institution. Prices for Americana are down about 30 percent now, "but that's not necessarily true for books and manuscripts," says an expert in the field. "Some of these items will bring huge, huge prices."
The library building in La Jolla was originally advertised for $5.4 million as a possible home. "We're in escrow," says Rob Insinger of Prudential California Realty. The potential buyer "plans on using it for a library collection open to the public."
The company put its La Jolla headquarters building at 7776 Ivanhoe on the market last fall. The price has been reduced from $11.5 million to $9.85 million, says Mike Slattery of Cassidy Turley BRE Commercial. "Most people are looking at using some space for themselves and dividing it and remodeling for small tenants," he says.
The company is trying to sell 22 acres next to the late Helen Copley's Foxhill estate for $22 million. But it won't become a multihome development, says Greg Noonan of Prudential California Realty. "We would hope that we would find a buyer wanting a single parcel for a dream home or subdivide it into five or seven lots. There would be a tremendous amount of opposition if somebody wants to have density."
Does David Copley need the money? After all, his $33 million yacht has a large staff. He is probably not hurting financially. He is remodeling Foxhill, and most think he has no intention of selling it.
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- David Copley names Hal Fuson as Union-Tribunechief operating officer — June 14, 2007
- Helen Copley's Legacy — Nov. 9, 2006
- David Copley's Wallet Losing Heft — March 30, 2006
But it won't become a multihome development, says Greg Noonan of Prudential California Realty. "We would hope that we would find a buyer wanting a single parcel for a dream home or subdivide it into five or seven lots. There would be a tremendous amount of opposition if somebody wants to have density."
Wow is this guy a dreamer.
No one is going to buy 22 acres of La Jolla property b/c no one has the money, and even if they did they would not be able to afford the taxes on it. Even the billionaires in the middle east don't have that kind of money to throw around today.
A developer with bank LOANS will buy it and put up as many SFR as he can-be it 5 or 25- whatever the City will allow. But not for 5-15 years from now, because that is how long it will take for the RE market to come back.
As for the UT failure, what it really comes down to in my eyes is poor, poor management. To overlook craigslist as a kid in a garage shows about as much ignorance as you can have. To not have the UT Editor and President in a solid working relationship ridiculous-that is Management 101, and the UT failed spectacularly at that.
Selling off the Ohio and Illinois papers for $380 million was just timing-nothing more. If they sold the UT for $500 million in 2006, they could have bought it back in 2009 for 10 cents on the dollar, that shows not intelligence, but just artful timing in the markets.
Response to post #1: But as Noonan told me, there are a bunch of high-powered lawyers living in the area. There is no way that dense development would get through. In re craigslist: other papers were asleep, too, but Copley may have been somewhat more asleep. The old management did miss some bets. It should have hooked up with TV long, long ago, as current management is now doing. I was on TV at the time I was with the U-T, but I could sense some management resentment. Employees were not discouraged from going on TV, but were certainly not encouraged. The company could have gotten a billion dollars for the U-T in 2004 and perhaps 2005. Best, Don Bauder
"Happy Days: The Music Video!"
Is that Burl on the poopdeck?
Response to post #3: That's an incredible youtube. Anybody who is curious about the $33 million David Copley yacht should watch it. It's the yacht at all angles. Best, Don Bauder
The essential question remains. Is David Copley so nearly broke that he must sell everything, including the library? If he is, where did all the fortune go? That yacht was and continues to be a drain on his personal cash flow. But really, how much does it cost him in a year?
There is something odd going on in this picture. A few people know about it, and are not talking. I suppose we'll get a clearer picture when and if he sells the yacht, or puts it in long-term storage. David won't do that unless he has to. His health is precarious, and maybe he just cannot think beyond the day after tomorrow. There has to be some better explanation for this fire sale of Copley assets.
Response to post #5: You make some excellent points, and obviously I thought a lot about the question of David's finances in putting this column together. At one social gathering in La Jolla, a socialite asked several friends of David why he was auctioning off the assets from the library instead of donating them to a San Diego institution. Replies: maintaining the yacht costs money. That would suggest that he is concerned about having enough to maintain his lavish lifestyle. However, there are other factors: he is spending a bundle to refurbish Foxhill, and people do not think he intends to sell it. (They could be wrong, of course.) David and Helen had investments outside the newspaper business. I have strong reason to believe that far too much of that portfolio was in techs before the tech crash, but I don't think it would have wiped him out. We don't know how much of the $380 million-plus the company got for the Ohio and Illinois papers went for settling Helen's estate. (And of course no one knows why in the world the company had not figured her estate taxes; she was almost comatose for years before she died.)
All told, I concluded that David has an extremely expensive lifestyle, and the fire sale of these assets will help him maintain it. But I don't think he is hurting. However, I am open to any new information. My assessment is based on what I could gather, and, of course, I got no cooperation from Copley Press.
Incidentally, in the print edition, the building shown is misidentified as the Copley Library. It is actually the La Jolla headquarters. Best, Don Bauder
The real energy at the UT right now is the amazing amount of hate the community of commenters generates. They can turn almost any story into a screed about Obamacare or illegal immigrants or welfare queens. It's impressive. Given how well Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh have done at building bile into a brand, the UT folks should really be looking at how they can monetize this amazing force.
Response to post #7: For years, the Copley organization had a distinct right-wing bias in news coverage and, of course, editorial positions. However, the city of San Diego now has more registered Democrats than Republicans, although Republicans still have a lead countywide. If the U-T tries to monetize the Beck/Limbaugh hate approach (it already has a political blog that does so), it should offset that bias with coverage that appeals to voters not of that persuasion. After all, the name of the game is making money, especially now since the publication is owned by a private equity group that probably wants to sell it in 5 to 7 years, just as it flips other assets it buys. The bias of commenters on blogs does not necessarily represent the bias of the community. Best, Don Bauder
That yacht was and continues to be a drain on his personal cash flow. But really, how much does it cost him in a year?
Let me put it this way, Michael Jackson bought Neverland ranch for $10 million, but his monthly nut (he had a staff of over 150 employees) was over $1 million per month to operate it. Overhead can kill on black holes like ranches/amusement parks and yachts.
A yacht the size of Copley's requires a full time crew, and that has to be several hundred thousands per year standing alone.
That is a beautiful yacht!
Response to post #9: I don't know how big that yacht crew is. I know that at various times he has feted 4 or 5 members of the crew at one of his soirees. One could find out how big the typical crew is by checking yacht manufacturers and giving the dimensions of David's yacht. David may require more high-paid medical help than others with yachts that size. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #10: As word of David's yacht got out, some U-T staffers were a mite indignant, because they were working with equipment that was far from beautiful or luxurious. Best, Don Bauder
NOTE: The word in art circles is that some of the Copley Library materials are staying in the San Diego area. Log books from the Star of India, dictionaries, thesauruses, and art reference books are going to San Diego institutions. However, the ones donated locally are said to be of little or no value, and that's why they are not going to Sotheby's to be auctioned. James S. Copley papers will stay with the Copley family, according to these sources. Best, Don Bauder
Log books from the Star of India
That is an interesting tid bit of info-how did the Copleys end up with the Log book from the Star of India?
Response to post #14: I don't know the answer to that. Remember, too, that this is the word circulating among people in the Americana industry. Since Copley Press won't cooperate with me, I had no way of checking. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #15: Good sleuthing. David's investments could possibly throw off half a million a year in income, but the size of his financial asset portfolio, and what it contains, is something we don't know. Congratulations for shedding more light on this question. Best, Don Bauder
I saw the BIGGEST yacht I have ever seen in my life at Shelter Island today-it was parked at the end of the Kona Kai Hotel (Shleter Pointe??), between the end of the hotel and the little house the Harbour Patrol uses as a base, it was right there.
"Ocean Victory", 4 levels, and at least half a football field long...it DWARFED everything else in the marina, I don't even know how a boat that big was able to go that far into the bay.
Here it is;
This list of the world's 100 largest yachts has the "Ocean Victory" at #56, SP.
(Here's the clip, if you don't wanna scroll.)
"YACHT NUMBER (56) OCEAN VICTORY: 248'6" (75.75M) Boat Builder:- Feadship (De Vries), Holland, 2008 Information on the superyacht owner, country, price, designer etc:- The Makkum yard built this classic Feadship, now one of the largest yachts to be launched by the Dutch builder. Among the onboard amenities are a heated contra-flow swimming pool, a 12-seat cinema, a beach platform and an LED system that bathes the decks in the colors of the rainbow. Alberto Pinto and Laura Sessa designed the interior for a Russian owner."
(I did see info that indicated the Russian owner sold it to another undisclosed party last year.)
As far as I can tell, it's not available, SP. Bummer. And almost as sad, Number 89 on the list went on the auction block in Grand Cayman today.
Ya just missed it. So close...
Response to post #18: That's a lacht of yacht. What we don't know yet is who owns it. One of you online yacht experts can probably find that. We do know, apparently, that SurfPuppy does NOT own it. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #19: So the Russky sold it. I'd still like to know to whom. Best, Don Bauder
I still want to know how a yacht that big was able to get into the boat slips ;)
BTW-if anyone is around Shelter Island ther next few days they should check this baby out.........
Response to post #22: I hope that anybody who checks it out takes photos of the people on the yacht. That might give us some hint of the ownership. Best, Don Bauder
I was wishing I had a digital camera with me when I was there yesterday........it was such an impressive yacht.
Response to post #24: I suppose there is no chance that you could somehow steal the yacht. Would it be difficult to hide it? Best, Don Bauder
A few months ago there was a huge yacht next to the Star of India called Apoise. That thing was a monster (219'8", 89th largest yacht in the world), but this thing is even bigger (248'6", 56th largest yacht).
For perspective; Larry Ellison owns the 453' Rising Sun (6th), and Paul Allen owns the 413' Octopus(9th), so the get quite a bit bigger (hard to believe)!
Here are some obscene pictures of Octopus. I particularly like the heli-pad, and the fact it sails with a 40' submarine and a 63' tender.
I can't find an owner listed for Ocean Victory http://www.superyachttimes.info/yachts/details/83/
The Apoise is owned by Dave Ritchie, owner of Ritchie Bros. Auctions of Canada. It was scheduled to be sold yesterday at an (of course) auction. http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?p=8802939
Helpful hint: To avoid redundancy, read previous comments.
Response to post #26: Paul Allen not only owns the 9th largest yacht, but he gets huge taxpayer subsidies for his pro sports teams. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #27: Your post #19 is filled with information. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #30: Donated almost $1 billion to whom? Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #32: Even back in 1996, Paul Allen was a billionaire. Allen purchased an option to buy the Seattle Seahawks. He said he would pay $250 million for the team only if the people of the state of Washington would vote to cover the bulk of the cost for a new stadium/exhibition center. The stadium would cost $425 million and $325 million would be a public subsidy. Allen put $3 million into newspaper advertising pumping up the vote on the matter. Opponents only put in $160,000. The measure won by 51.1%. Best, Don Bauder
Allen was diagnosed with Hodgkins disease 27 years ago, so he has been living on borrowed time for a long time now. He retired from Microsoft in 1983 due to his health.
I'm sure he has had plans in the works for decades now for distributing his wealth, since his health has been a question since the early 80's.
BTW, he also owns the Trailblazers. He has a long and contentious stadium issue there. He bought it through a shell company, let the company go bankrupt and revert to the creditors because he didn't like the repayment terms, immediately demanded the creditors invest $40 million into the arena to keep it "state of the art" as stated in the Blazers lease. He then agreed to sell the team along with the arena (still owned by the creditors) only to abruptly pull the team off the market after they had received several offers. Some say it was just a ploy to see what price the creditors were willing to take for the arena, some say it was because he got wind that the Sonics were moving and his competition was gone and the Seattle market was available for possible relocation. In either case, Allen owns the arena again.
FYI, the Apoise sold for $46 million. Ritchie Brothers Auctions was bragging that is the largest sale ever for the auction company, but it was in fact just over half the purported $90 million that Dave Ritchie paid for the yacht at the top of the market just four years ago.
$11 million a year before you even start to pay for staff and supplies. I wonder what he could have chartered for that?
I still think Paul Allen is really Blofeld and he runs SPECTRE. Who else needs a 40' submarine, an internal dock with a 63' tender and two helipads as possible escape routes from their yacht?
Even back in 1996, Paul Allen was a billionaire. Allen purchased an option to buy the Seattle Seahawks. He said he would pay $250 million for the team
Paul Allen bought the Seahawks from a guy named Ken Berhing, who was the developer of Blackhawk, one of the most upscale and expensive country clubs in the nation. I remember Berhing built what was then (78 or 79) the biggest house in the county (at the time), a 10K SQFT home named "Xanadu", with a 2K sq ft master bathroom. Then some other millionaire built a 20K sq ft home, so Berhing then built a 40K sq ft home with a 30 car subterranean garage (all in Blackhawk).
I have read numerous accounts of what Berhing paid, but the one I heard most often was $25 million. Goes to show you how the pro sports scam has really blossomed.
Blackhawk also had a very upscale retail shopping center, about 100K sq ft, and it flopped big time.
Response to post #34: It appears to me that Allen used a sugar pill in explaining his bid for a subsidy, rather than a sledge hammer as Moores and Spanos did. Remember, Moores and Lucchino claimed "There is no Plan B." Any business executive without Plans A,B,C,D, and E is an imbecile. In this case, San Diegans were imbeciles to buy into their claim. Of course, both are now gone. Moores took $650 million out of the Peregrine scam and close to a billion dollars out of ballpark district real estate that he had gotten cheap, and rode off to Texas. The San Diego media don't seem to have noticed. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #35: Gates and Buffett appear to be giving it away before they die. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #36: Yes, the Trailblazers story is still another one. Don't kid yourself: Paul Allen is an operator. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #37: On what do you spend the $11 million a year BEFORE staff and supplies? I'm not saying you are wrong. I am just curious. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #38: Do the Seattle media tell the truth about Paul Allen? If you came to San Diego and read the mainstream media, you would think Moores and Spanos were angels. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #39: Back in the mid-1990s, the pro sports scam was in its halcyon days. Despite all the blatant thievery in the intervening years, most of these scams still work. Did you notice Mayor Bloomberg falling for the Yankees scam? Pathetic. Best, Don Bauder
The Yankee scam was particularly distrubing b/c they took away PUBLIC PARKS, from kids, as the land where they built the new Ynakee stadium.
@ #48: Both Spanos and Moores have made significant contributions to concerns in San Diego (and Don, if you run me off for being off-topic I'm taking it personally, because you and everyone else are doing the same thing). Here's a link to Spanos' philanthropic endeavors:
Here is a broad overview of Moores, which doesn't include 7 million gifted to SDSU:
Note that Spanos has been much more generous to Northern California (Pacifica, his alma mater, specifically), than to San Diego. Regardless, I am cynical of such donations. They offset income on purpose. Also, they cast such ownership in a admirable way so that their representation of their franchises are more highly considered by the populace. The Kroc's were more anonymous, which, in my opinion, is true philanthropy.
"As I said Don, your bias towards sporting team owners is well documented."
Sporting team owners, I believe. Sports team owners, not so much.
Response to 46; One of the most noxious things about that Yankee deal is that the people paid for a huge part of it, and then were priced out of Yankee games. That happens in all these stadium subsidy scams, but the Yankees one topped them all. The recession forced the team to lower some of the prices, but still the new Yankee stadium remains the epitomization of socialization of the risk and privatization of the gain. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #47: One well-known pro sports team owner -- I believe it was Bill Veeck -- that that you buy a team to sell it. You don't make money operating it. The value of most pro sports franchises has escalated significantly over time. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #48: Moores gave away a lot of money while he was angling to get his $300 million subsidy. The U-T would almost invariably put his latest donation on page one. I wanted to point out to the editors that this purported generosity was just a ploy to get his deal, but I was in enough trouble already, and the U-T propaganda mill was part of the big push. Moores raked in $650 million from the Peregrine scam (San Diego's largest) and another $700 million to $1 billion from his real estate deals in the ballpark district, and then road off to Texas. The elder Spanos now has dementia. I don't know about the charitable proclivities of his son Dean. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #49: Yes, the rich have to give away money for tax reasons. But you mentioned Joan Kroc. Now there was an angel. There is no way you could say she was giving away money for her own political reasons. Best, Don Bauder
NOTE: I just re-read post #53 and realize that my own dementia is showing. I said that Moores "road off to Texas." Arggh! Getting old is painful. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #56: You may be right, but I'm not sure that most of Joan Kroc's donations came after she sold the Padres. I believe the Padres were a small part of what she got upon Ray Kroc's death. If she waited to sell the team before giving away a lot of money, it could possibly have simply been a matter of timing. That's when she herself was getting on in years and began giving away money munificently. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #57: Yes, I have called pro sports owners con men, liars, extortionists, gamblers and often tied to organized crime. There are a number of books on the stadium scam -- outright theft from taxpayers in ailing cities. If you read those you should have no problems with the labels con men, liars, and extortionists. As to big gamblers tied to organized crime, read "Interference" by Dan E. Moldea, published by Morrow in 1989. It is meticulously researched and footnoted. Best, Don Bauder
Response to #43: Don said: "On what do you spend the $11 million a year BEFORE staff and supplies? I'm not saying you are wrong. I am just curious. Best, Don Bauder"
Dave Ritchie bought the yacht Apoise in 2006 for $90 million, then sold it a week ago for $46 million. That means he lost $44 million in the 4 years he owned it, or $11 million a year.
Response to post #60: Oh, that's his loss. OK. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #62: Joan had a daughter. I think she was from Joan's first marriage. For awhile, her daughter's husband, whose name escapes me, ran the Padres. I believe they later divorced. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #63: Again, I highly recommend that you read "Interference" by Dan E. Moldea. The NFL may not be as mobbed up now as it was in the early years, but you have to face one thing: gambling pushes pro football, and other sports as well. For another side of the Allen deal in Seattle, read "Sports Economics" by Rodney Fort. At the time, he was a professor in the state of Washington. (He is now at Michigan.) This textbook explains what these arena/ballpark/stadium subsidy deals are all about. Fort is objective. Books by other economists are more heavy on opinion. Best, Don Bauder
For awhile, her daughter's husband, whose name escapes me, ran the Padres. I believe they later divorced. Best, Don Bauder
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@ #56: Why would I take offense? I am not a fan of either current owner. I was very much a fan of the Kroc's. If I am going to fall in love with a sports team, the Kroc's are/were the type of ownership that I want. Ray deeply cared about the team and the fans.
@ #71:
Yes, potentially, posting comments on the internet can lead to misunderstandings concerning the intent of the comment. And no matter what, I've come to understand that I'm going to piss SOMEONE off, regardless of my intentions otherwise. It can be frustrating. I have absolutely no problem with opinions different from my own, it's enlightening and entertaining.
If someone gives out some erroneous information, I have a tendency to correct it when I recognize it, and that sometimes leads to a somewhat hostile exchange. Otherwise, like yourself, I see it as a simple difference of opinion, which makes the entire experience enjoyable. My links to Moores' and Spanos' charitable efforts were nothing more than participatory information. No worries.
I think she spent close to $100 million on the Salvation Army community center,bequeathing over $1billion more after her death and her bequest of $200 million is legendary to NPR supporters such as myself. Don put it accurately. She was an Angel.
By maninthemirror
I remember one natural disater years ago that happened somewhere in the states-midwest?- a flood, hurricane, something big. This disaster made many, MANY people homeless and (as I recall it) someone donated an enourmous amount of money ($100 million??) to help these people-donated it anonymously.
Well-Guess who it was????
Joan Kroc.
That tells me everything I need to know about Joan Kroc-she was light years ahead of ANYONE else in San Diego for putting their money where their mouth is.
Someone mentioned Ray as being the kind of team owner they could rally behind-I agree 100%. He was a great owner of the Padres. Every now and then they run a profile on McDonalds-and Ray Kroc- on TLC or Bravo or one of those cable chanels and they cover the Padres ownership by Ray-good stuff.
Yes, potentially, posting comments on the internet can lead to misunderstandings concerning the intent of the comment. And no matter what, I've come to understand that I'm going to piss SOMEONE off, regardless of my intentions otherwise. It can be frustrating. I have absolutely no problem with opinions different from my own, it's enlightening and entertaining.
By refriedgringo
Hey, welcome to the club!
But I will say this, some of the people who get "pissed off" will try to silence you and your opinion/s just b/c they don't agree with it- and they do that by making personal attacks.
That has happened to me more than once here and when they start trying to silence your opinion b/c they don'/t agree with it by making baselss personal attacks, then that causes problems.
So different opinions is one thing, making personal attacks b/c of your opinion/s is another animal all together.
Yeah, SP, it's problematic. I guess I'm lucky in the sense that I really don't have an ideology to defend, but I think that the personal attacks are based on opposing ideologies. I can defend the religious and the athiests, I have no poker in that fire, so to speak. I don't vote, I grew up a conservative but abandoned all politics after the GOP refused to back Kemp, and I have a profound respect for liberal ideals (classical liberalism, if you will). Economically, I am firmly behind the Smith/Hayek camp, but I realize it wouldn't work in a society where the Federal Reserve maintains so much power and linkage to the Federal Government. Concurrently, I recognize Keynes' bold attempts at quantifying economic tendencies and equating them in order to predict outcome.
I think the key to understanding each other is to leave our ideologies in the junk drawer for a while and take what we say at face value. I have no issues with anyone claiming that I'm all wet, so long as it's honest and not personal.
Response to post #66: You make a good point. Rabid sports fans are not going to listen to any economist or fraud expert saying that a stadium deal is a ripoff. It's not a ripoff for a taxpayer who just loves sports, goes to a lot of games, watches it on TV, etc. It IS a huge ripoff for those who care about a city's financial stability, infrastructure, maintenance of existing infrastructure, libraries, art and culture, etc. Unfortunately (to me), the sports entrepreneurs wanting a handout outspend the opposition by 100 to 1 in the election. Is this democracy? You decide. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #67: I met the daughter and her husband once and I got the impression that she was younger than I was. But if she is in her late 60s now, she is, unfortunately for me, younger than I am by several years. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #68: That's it: Ballard Smith. He was a former prosecutor, as I recall. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #69: Agreed. If only more owners were more like the Krocs. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #70: As I recall, one thing that annoyed a lot of San Diegans was that Ballard Smith traded off Ozzie Smith. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #71: Nobody on this blog should take offense at any insults hurled at anybody else. We aim to displease. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #72: That's the spirit of this blog. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #73: You have an ankle problem? I'll bet somebody on this blog has another kind of ankle problem: a bracelet. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #74: And Joan Kroc wasn't giving money away as a means to an end, such as getting a massive subsidy for a sports facility. I believe the flood was in one of the Dakotas -- North Dakota, I think. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #75: Hey, if we're going to make personal attacks -- I do it all the time -- we have to expect to get hit with some flak. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #76: The Smith/Hayek/Austrian/U. of Chi. camp is vulnerable now -- particularly vulnerable to the observation that they are living in a dream world that probably never existed. I used to be in that camp. Best, Don Bauder
Don, I do not at all believe that the Smith/Hayek microeconomic principals are at all incorrect. I read you back in the days when you supported them, and I think that you were right in doing so. The problem is attempting to apply such ideas in the current economic climate. It isn't possible. For it to work, you'd need to disolve the Fed, and we know that isn't going to happen.
Taking Estonia as a wonderful example, they did a stellar job, right up until the global economic disaster brought them down. And Don, they had a flat tax. It worked. Unfortunately, they have no exports to speak of. Otherwise, we'd have a great discusion about it.
Response to post #88: The Fed is around 100 years old. We had it long before the U of Chi. school rose to prominence. It seems to me that Road to Serfdom was written in the 1930s or shortly thereafter. I don't know that the Austrian School antedates the Fed. I believe there are other reasons why the Austrian/U. of Chi. schools aren't workable today. For one, fraud -- price fixing, offshore manipulations, accounting machinations (especially hiding of liabilities), deliberately complex financial instruments etc. -- makes a truly free market a fantasy. Greed killed the Adam Smith followers; it wasn't just the Fed. Best, Don Bauder
Agreed, but Don, in any economic model we wish to build, greed will be a factor. It's the part of human nature that Keynes failed to address, people simply want to make a lot more money than they probably have a right to earn. But you're correct, it isn't just the Fed. I do, however, wonder what would have happened if the Fed didn't have an open window to dip into the economy and affect it like they did. Not that this particular downturn wouldn't have happened, but would it have been less dangerous? I wonder about that.
Response to post #90: Certainly, the Fed utterly failed in its regulatory duties. Fraud was rampant as the housing bubble grew. Fed economists should have known that home prices wouldn't always keep rising and people were tying themselves up in mortgages they would never be able to continue paying. Fed regulators should have understood that the essence of white collar fraud is contrived complexity -- exactly what derivatives are. The Fed's Alan Greenspan, a one-time devotee of Ayn Rand, was himself tied up in the Austrian/U. of Chi ideologies, or something close to them. He was blinded by his own ideology, which in his case was a near-religious belief in the efficacy and honesty of so-called free markets. He has admitted that he has to reevaluate the models he believed in. Those models never take the existence of crooks and greed sufficiently into account. Best, Don Bauder
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Part of a story I wrote about greed in the mortgage industry. Greed drove the last market. Refried, these "no experience necessary" loan "specialists" made an obscene amout of money. With no experience.
But you're correct, it isn't just the Fed. I do, however, wonder what would have happened if the Fed didn't have an open window to dip into the economy and affect it like they did.
The economy went bust b/c the gov ALLOWED private business to manipulate the markets through the lowering of underwriting standards for home loans. THAT CREATED THE BUBBLE.
Response to post #92: Yes, and it was going on at big outfits such as Countrywide and Washington Mutual. Of course, the big Wall Street banks were stealing far more with equal rapidity. Best, Don Bauder
Response to post #93: That helped create the housing bubble, yes. But remember there was another bubble: the mortgage-backed derivatives one. Blame Wall Street (and foreign banks), along with rating agencies and regulators, for that scam. Best, Don Bauder
Yes, and it was going on at big outfits such as Countrywide and Washington Mutual.
You nailed that one Don;
"Washington Mutual created 'mortgage time bomb,' Senate panel says"
Before Washington Mutual collapsed in the largest bank failure in U.S. history, its executives knowingly created a "mortgage time bomb" by making subprime loans they knew were likely to go bad and then packaging them into risky securities, a congressional investigation has found.
In some cases, the bank took loans in which it had discovered fraudulent activity -- such as misstated income by borrowers -- and rolled them into mortgage securities sold to investors without disclosing the fraud, according to the report released Monday by the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
Response to post #96: Yes, that story broke yesterday (Mon. April 12.) The abuses were so destructive that I could only shake my head. Even before that report, ex-employees had told how they would complain that a mortgage should not be made; it was clear that the buyer couldn't pay. The employees would be fired or disciplined. It will be interesting to see if there are criminal penalties for top management. Best, Don Bauder


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So peeps, are you on Pinterest? What do you like to pin? Are you planning out renovations by pinning inspirational ideas to one board for each room? Do you like to pin fashion style? Inspirational quotations? National Geographic wonders? Cats playing the piano? I find I like it all and have a little bit of everything. I also get to contribute to our Design Public Pinboards sometimes, so when you see something weird on there, it probably came from me, like this:
So whomever I pinned it from says it's the "Waiotapu Thermal Reserve, Rotorua, New Zealand." The thing is with Pinterest that you just have to hope that's true and be grateful that anyone left any sort of note whatsoever. If there's one problem with Pinterest, it's their crediting proecss. Luckily, this one linked to a conscientious Tumbler user who linked it to the original picture taken by lengkiong on Flickr.
Other boards we've been having fun with as summer approaches are I Want To Go To There, full of bucket-list worthy destinations with a disproportionate amount of them in Greece.
We're also having fun grabbing up pictures for a Treehouse pinboard. Is it because it makes us feel like kids? Probably!
Of course, we're loving Outdoor Spaces and Vertical Gardens for spring and summer, and have been stashing up photos during our winter hibernation!
The possibilities are really endless; what are you guys pinning these days? Is there anything you'd like to see us gathering? I so appreciated it when a reader requested that we start to collect Modern Basement Renovations – it was a great idea I had not thought of. Please dont be shy, shoot us a comment and let us know what you'd like to see from Design Public's Pinterest Page!


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Spinone Italiano
|Spinone Italiano
|Other names
Italian Spinone
Italian Griffon
Italian Wire-haired Pointer
Italian Coarsehaired Pointer
|Common nicknames
|Domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris)
The Spinone Italiano (Italian pronunciation: [spiˈnoːne itaˈljaːno][note 1]) is an Italian dog breed. It was originally bred as a versatile gun dog. To this day, the breed is still a capable dog for that purpose. The Spinone is a loyal, friendly and alert dog with a close lying, wiry coat. It is an ancient breed that can be traced back to approximately 500 BC.[citation needed]
It is traditionally used for hunting, pointing, and retrieving game (HPR), but, in addition to that purpose, the intelligent and strong Spinone may be practically anything ranging from a companion to an assistance dog.
The Spinone has a square build (the length of the body is approximately equal to the height at the withers). It is a strong-boned, solidly built dog with a well-muscled body and limbs that are suited to almost any kind of terrain. A brown and white Spinone can sometimes be confused with a German Wirehaired Pointer by someone unfamiliar with the breeds. However, the long head and pronounced occipital are unique to the breed. He has an expression that shows intelligence and understanding and is often described as having human-like eyes. The tail of the working Spinone is customarily docked at half its length (approx 5.5 to 8 inches or 140 to 200 mm from the base of the tail). Non-working UK based Italian Spinones are no longer docked, in accordance with current legislation. Even as adults, Spinoni retain disproportionate, puppy-like, webbed paws which make them powerful swimmers.[1]
The coat is tough, slightly wiry, and close fitting. The preferred length is 1.5 to 2.5 in (3.8 to 6.4 cm) on the body; however, the ears, muzzle, head, and parts of the legs and feet are covered with shorter hair. Eyebrows have longer and stiffer hair; longer but softer hair covers cheeks and muzzle, creating a profuse moustache and beard.
The Spinone should not have an undercoat. A long, soft or silky coat is undesired and is a sign of excessive grooming. The Spinone should not appear too groomed. They have rough fur that makes them distinguishable, and are known for this.[citation needed]
Acceptable variants (UK and US) are solid white, white with orange markings, orange roan with or without orange markings, white with brown markings, and brown roan with or without brown markings. Pigment of skin, nose, lips, and the pads on their feet should be a fleshy red-orange in white dogs, slightly darker in orange and brown roan dogs. The white and orange coloration is unique amongst the wire-haired gun dogs. .[2]
Height and weight[edit]
Height at withers:
- Dogs: 60 to 70 cm (24 to 28 in).
Weight should be in the correct proportion to size and structure:
- Dogs: 34 to 39 kg (75 to 86 lb).
The Spinone is easy going, docile, and affectionate towards both people and dogs. It is well known for being loving and gentle with children. Its extremely patient nature also helps with this, but children should be taught not to take advantage of this trait. It is loyal to those it knows and still friendly to those it does not. The breed is not known for any aggression, but any dog breed can develop fear aggression if not properly socialized during the "window of socialization" from ages 6 weeks to 14 weeks.[citation needed]
Centuries of working with man as a hunting companion has created a loyal, intelligent dog that is easily trained, although some can be stubborn about performing a learned task if they see no point in it. Because they are sensitive, motivational training works best for this breed, as this gentle dog's feelings can easily be hurt when handled incorrectly.[citation needed]
The Spinone can be a very active breed, but it is not a racy dog like most other hunting breeds. The Spinone typically moves at the relaxed trot that is characteristic of the breed. It has often been called the perfect dog to run or jog with, because it will not run off in front and leave its human companion struggling to keep up as it prefers the slower pace itself.[citation needed] It can be more than happy in a small yard and does not necessarily need acres of land. A small garden combined with regular walks would suit a Spinone well.
In part due to its long beard and lip folds, the Spinone can have a tendency to slobber.
Like all purebred dogs, it has its share of health problems, but careful breeding is helping the situation cease.[citation needed]
Life expectancy[edit]
In 2004, The Kennel Club in the United Kingdom conducted a breed health survey [1] which found the average life expectancy of Italian Spinone to be 8.7 years.
Known medical issues[edit]
- Cerebellar ataxia: Cerebellar ataxia (CA) is a deadly hereditary condition that is known to affect Spinone puppies. It is a recessive gene; therefore, both sire and dam must have been carriers for any pup in a litter to have this condition. No puppy with CA has lived past the age of 12 months to date. Most puppies that have been diagnosed with the condition are euthanised at 10–11 months. However, the AHT (UK) has developed a test for this condition. Carriers can now be identified to a 95% certainty.
- Hip dysplasia: Like some large breeds, the Spinone can suffer hip dysplasia. This is when the hip bones develop abnormally. Abnormal joint motion causes early onset arthritis and makes it difficult and painful to do any exercise. Dogs diagnosed with severe hip dysplasia can have one of a number or surgical repairs including removal of the femoral head (FHO), surgical remodeling of the joint (triple pelvic osteotomy) or total hip replacement (implant of an artificial femoral head(ball) and acetabulum (socket)).
The breed is believed to have been developed in the Piedmont region of Italy. As the Spinone is a very ancient breed (it is believed to be one of the oldest gun dogs in existence), it is not known exactly what the origins of the breed are; there are many different theories. Some of these claim that the Spinone could have originated in Italy, France, Spain, Russia, Greece, or Celtic Ireland.
Some people familiar with the history of the breed claim that the Spinone descended from the Spanish Pointer, whilst others claim that it was the ancient Russian Setter that is responsible for the breed we know today. An even more popular theory is that Greek traders brought coarse-haired setters to Italy during the height of the Roman empire, where the dogs were then crossed with various others and the modern Spinone eventually emerged.
The French claim that the Spinone has descended from crosses of several French pointing breeds, whilst the Italians believe the Spinone is the ancestor of the Wirehaired Pointing Griffon, the German Wirehaired Pointer, and the Pudelpointer. Any one of these claims could be true; perhaps several of them are correct.
During the Second World War, the Spinone became close to extinct. Both the war and the fact that Italian hunters had begun using other breeds (such as setters, pointers, and spaniels) in the hunt, whereas before it was primarily the Spinone. Many breeders had to resort to crossing the Spinone with other wire-haired breeds, such as the Boulet, Wirehaired Pointing Griffon and German Wirehaired Pointer.
The breed was not officially known as "Spinone" until the early 19th century. Before then, some areas knew the breed as the "Spinoso". The breed may have been named after an Italian thorn bush, the spino, which was a favorite hiding place for small game because for larger animals it was practically impenetrable. Only thick-skinned, coarse-haired animals could fight through the branches unharmed to locate the game. The Spinone was the breed most capable of doing so, and, perhaps, therefore the name was formed.
Today the Bracco Italiano is the most popular hunting dog in Italy, although the Spinone is still common. The Bracco is a racier, higher energy dog, while the Spinone excels at hunting close or in dense cover, and in retrieving from water.
The Duchess of Northumberland has a Spinone called Fuzzy.[3]
See also[edit]
- ^ The plural Italian form is Spinoni Italiani pronounced [spiˈnoːni itaˈljaːni].
- ^ "Breed description".
- ^ "Spinone Ital". AKC.
- ^ Tighe, Chris. "The Duchess of Northumberland and her £50m garden project". Financial Times.
- Italian Griffon breed description at the Italian federation (ENCI).
- The American Kennel Club official site
- The Italian Spinone Club of Great Britain
- The Spinone Club of America
- Italian Spinone Sculpture
- /http://www.spinone-club.de - Der Deutsche Zuchtverein für Spinone Italiano
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Spinone Italiano.
- Larkin, Peter & Stockman, Mike (2003). The ultimate encyclopedia of dogs, dog breeds & dog care. Hermes House. ISBN 1-84309-128-3.
- Hall, Derek (2005). The ultimate guide to dog breeds. Regency House. ISBN 1-85361-516-1.
- Fry, Carolyn (1999). The Italian Spinone. Kingdom Books. ISBN 1-85279-084-9.


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Harry Potter (series)
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- For quotes from the film series, see Harry Potter (films).
Harry Potter is a series of novels by J.K. Rowling. It is about a young boy named Harry Potter and his adventures as he attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, learns how to perform magic and comes face to face with his archenemy, Lord Voldemort.
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1997)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007)
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- Ron: Last time I eat them then.
- Text: Chimara eggs are classified as Class A Non-Tradeable Goods.
- Harry: So Hagrid'll be getting some any time now.
- Text: [describing the Hippogriff] It can be tamed, though this should be attempted only by experts...
- Ron: Has Hagrid read this book?
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- Ron: But XXXXXXX if you're Lockhart.
- Ron: [about Puffskeins] I had one of them once.
- Harry: What happened to it?
- Ron: Fred and George used it for Bludger practice.
About Harry Potter (series)Edit
- Back in November I was tracked down by a Scotsman journalist who had noticed the similarities between my Tim Hunter character and Harry Potter, and wanted a story. And I think I rather disappointed him by explaining that, no, I certainly *didn't* believe that Rowling had ripped off Books of Magic, that I doubted she'd read it and that it wouldn't matter if she had: I wasn't the first writer to create a young magician with potential, nor was Rowling the first to send one to school. It's not the ideas, it's what you do with them that matters.
Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on.
- Neil Gaiman "Fair Use and Other Things", NeilGaiman.com, (April 19 2008).
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|Harry Potter (book series, film series) by J. K. Rowling
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|Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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|films part 1 and part 2
|Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
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Mount Saint Mary College offers an honors program with credit.
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Incoming freshmen qualify on the basis of exemplary high school
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Honors students must maintain a cumulative grade index of 3.4 to
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The first-year freshman honors program is exciting and rewarding
in so many ways: it gives students access to some of the College's
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Honors students are placed in one or two designated freshman
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covers the same content as regular, non-honors credit courses in
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the honors designated sections.
Resident freshmen who are accepted into the College's honors
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Preventing Dehydration During Cancer Treatment
The Importance of Fluids
During cancer treatment, it is very important that you be well hydrated. Water is needed to keep your body functioning. It is needed for regulating your temperature and for removing wastes and toxins. Two-thirds of your body is water. Even mild dehydration can cause some of the following symptoms:
- Fatigue
- Dry mouth
- Feeling light headed
- Headaches
- Irritability
- Constipation
- Nausea
Tips to Avoid Dehydration
You should have at least 64 ounces of fluid a day. You can do this by drinking:
- Eight, 8-ounce glasses or
- Six, 12-ounce glasses of fluid a day.
If you have a fever, diarrhea or vomiting you will need more fluids to replace fluids that are lost. Thirst is not always a good indicator of how well you are hydrated. Keep track of the fluids you drink to make sure you are getting enough fluids to stay hydrated.
Good Sources of Liquids to Keep Hydrated
All food contains some fluid. Only those that are liquid at room temperature should be counted toward your goal of 64 ounces per day. The following is a list of foods and beverages that can be counted toward your fluid goal:
- Water
- Milk
- Coffee*
- Tea*
- Fruit or vegetable juice
- Soda*
- Gatorade®
- Soup and broth
- Gelatin
- Ice cream
- Fruit ice
- Popsicles
- Sorbets
- Nutritional supplements, such as Boost or Ensure
- Hot chocolate
- Milkshakes
- Ice cubes and ice chips
* Drinks that contain caffeine will contribute to fluid loss. Use decaffeinated versions of these drinks instead.
If you do not like to drink plain water, try carbonated waters, flavored waters, add a slice of lemon or lime, or mix water with fruit juice.
If you have severe vomiting and can't keep fluids down, try sucking on ice cubes and ice chips, and taking small sips of fluids frequently. This will be better tolerated, than drinking 6 or 8 ounces at one time.
When to Contact Your Care Team
Even when following your care provider's advice, you may become dehydrated. If this occurs, your care provider may recommend IV fluids or other treatment for dehydration or the conditions causing dehydration. If you experience the following symptoms of dehydration, contact your care team immediately:
- Feeling very thirsty or thirst that doesn't stop when you drink.
- Less frequent urination.
- Dark-colored urine.
- A loss of more than 5% of body weight within one week.
- Muscle cramps.
- Lightheadedness.
- Increased fatigue.
Conversions to Help You Track Fluid Intake
- 1 quart = 4 cups = 32 ounces = 960ml
- 1 pint = 2 cups = 16 ounces = 480 ml
- 1 cup = 8 ounces = 240 ml
- 1/2 cup = 4 ounces = 120 ml
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Story by Julie Wesolowski
If you're not in a STEM field, you probably have no idea what crystallography is. But you should, and this is why: (1) Almost every drug that's gone on the market in the past 30 years was developed through crystallography; (2) It's a fascinating science—in a sci-fi movie kind of way—involving the shooting of X-ray beams at crystals; and (3) UB is at the forefront of the field.
Now UB, representing a consortium of eight research universities and institutes (see "Our Partners"), is poised to make even greater strides, thanks to a prestigious $25-million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The award, a Science and Technology Center grant, is given out every four years and is the first of its kind for UB. Out of hundreds of applicants, UB was one of only three institutions to receive the grant; the other two recipients were Harvard and MIT.
The money will go toward the establishment of the BioXFEL research center at the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute in Buffalo (XFEL is short for "X-ray, free-electron laser"—more on that below). UB and its partner institutions will be focusing on developing X-ray bioimaging techniques—including a next-generation form of crystallography called serial femtosecond crystallography—with the ultimate goal of developing new drugs and/or other methods to treat disease.
Eaton E. Lattman, professor of structural biology, chief executive officer of the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (HWI) and director of the BioXFEL research center, breaks down the science.
What is a crystal?
Crystals are solids that contain a repeated arrangement of millions of atoms or molecules.
What is crystallography?
Crystallography is a kind of microscopy that lets us see atoms and molecules in crystals and the distances between them. With crystallography we can make 3-D pictures of molecules so we can understand how they work.
For example, in the molecular form of water, the oxygen atom is bigger and hydrogen atoms are smaller, and it's arranged in space like a boomerang. That's a real picture of what a water molecule looks like.
Proteins, the big molecules that do all the work in our bodies, have thousands or tens of thousands of atoms. Each atom is connected to other atoms by little links called bonds that hold a molecule together.
Why use crystals?
We use crystals because the experiments involve shooting X-rays at the molecules. If we tried to shoot X-rays at one molecule, it would get so damaged it would never give us a picture. Since each crystal has millions of the same molecules in it, the damage gets divided up.
What happens when a crystal is X-rayed?
X-rays are a form of light that shows a very fine detail of a molecule. When the X-rays bounce off the molecules, they form a pattern. With that pattern, a picture of what's in that molecule can be recreated.
How is crystallography involved in developing drugs?
Drugs interact with particular protein molecules in our bodies. You develop drugs by understanding the biology of a particular protein molecule and then finding a way to control that protein by designing a drug that interacts with it.
What is serial femtosecond crystallography?
In femtosecond crystallography, we X-ray a series of many small crystals until we have sampled all the orientations that we would have taken with one X-ray of a larger crystal.
We use the X-ray, free-electron laser (XFEL), an extremely powerful new kind of X-ray beam, which is actually an intense string of very short pulses. These pulses are femtoseconds long (less than a millionth of a millionth of a second), allowing us to get a picture of a crystal before it is damaged. This enables us to do experiments we couldn't do before.
What kind of new experiments can you do?
The XFEL will let us see motions of molecules for the first time. Moving pictures will show how these proteins really work so we can understand biological processes in greater depth.
And how does that impact drug development?
Serial femtosecond crystallography will give us the ability to create more drugs at the beginning stages of the drug-development pipeline so we can design drugs without side effects. Specifically, we can observe the motions of the molecules and design a drug to bind to a target (protein) we want, while also designing it not to bind to a target we don't want. It will also allow us to gain a new understanding of basic biological processes, which will eventually lead to new ideas about drugs.
According to Lattman, the biggest hurdle in crystallography is growing crystals that are large enough for experiments. It's all trial and error—and the failure rate is 80 to 90 percent. Consequently, crystallographers spend most of their time growing the crystals rather than making the images. (See "Why It's So Hard to Grow Crystals")
With an XFEL beam, researchers can use crystals that are 1,000 times smaller than the crystals used now. That, says Lattman, would push the success rate above 50 percent. However, femtosecond crystallography brings its own set of challenges.
For one, there's only one XFEL laser in the world, and it's not in Buffalo. It's in a lab at Stanford University in California, and competition for its use—from researchers in a whole range of fields—is stiff. UB's track record with femtosecond crystallography hasn't helped matters. "We've been so successful that there are other people in the field who want to use it too," Lattman says.
Other complications involve learning how to grow the tiny crystals (though it's easier than growing large crystals, it's still a difficult process), shipping them across the country and getting them into the beam at the right time. At this point, researchers are far from solving any of these issues. On the plus side, HWI's decades of expertise in X-ray crystallography clearly convinced the NSF that if anyone can figure it out, they can.
"At this moment growing crystals is a trial-and-error process. This is because each protein is different, so that the recipe for one does not work for the next. Our steps in growing are:
Early beginnings: 1956
Originally called the Medical Foundation of Buffalo (MFB), HWI gets its start through the combined efforts of endocrinologist and medical researcher George F. Koepf and his patient and benefactor Helen Woodward Rivas.
Recruiting a visionary: 1970
Herbert Hauptman is recruited from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., to the Medical Foundation of Buffalo. He also joins UB's biophysical sciences faculty. In 1972, he becomes research director of MFB.
Nobel Prize: 1985
Hauptman and Jerome Karle of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory jointly win the Nobel Prize in chemistry for essentially inventing crystallography. Hauptman is the only person to have received the Nobel Prize while living in Western New York.
A new identity: 1994
The Medical Foundation of Buffalo is renamed Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute in honor of early benefactor Helen Woodward Rivas and Nobel Laureate Herbert Hauptman.
The 21st century and beyond
Since 2001, HWI functions as the Department of Structural and Computational Biology for UB. It typically trains a dozen PhD students every year.
HWI also houses the American Crystallographic Association, which boasts a membership of 2,200 scientists from more than 60 countries spanning the globe.
Its legacy
HWI scientists have crystallized and determined the structure of more than 300 steroid hormones, 100 thyroid hormones, 50 ion-transport antibiotics, 30 prostaglandins and hundreds of additional compounds, including proteins and enzymes implicated in diseases.
While most of the administration of the grant will take place in Buffalo at the BioXFEL research center, UB and its seven partner institutions across the country will collaborate on the NSF grant to do the following:
Margarita L. Dubocovich, chair of pharmacology and toxicology and senior associate dean for inclusion and cultural enhancement at UB, will direct the BioXFEL educational program. With two of its partner universities, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Arizona State University, UB will recruit graduate, undergraduate and high school students to get involved in the field of molecular biology through newly created educational programs.
As one of only three universities to receive the Science and Technology Center grant, UB's academic image in the field of molecular research is getting a major boost. That will have an impact on UB's ability to recruit faculty and students, and to attract new technology companies to the Buffalo Niagara region. Additionally, Lattman and his colleagues are already planning for other grant opportunities that will supplement research borne of the BioXFEL center
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Much like those of the Civil War, the stories of World War II can – and do – fill the shelves of bookstores and libraries. Plenty may overlap or prove superfluous, but new research, archival discoveries, and fresh perspectives can still reap rewards for historians and
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Into this category goes Erik Larson's In the Garden of Beasts, a disturbing but highly compelling account of the life of the American ambassador to Germany and his family during Hitler's rise to power. Larson, author of "The Devil in the White City" and other bestsellers, focuses on a narrow yet intriguing chapter of the buildup to the war: what life was like in Berlin among the social and political elite as Hitler became chancellor, told through the eyes of a most unusual ambassador and his family.
William E. Dodd was the 64-year-old chairman of the history department at the University of Chicago when he fell into the unlikely role of ambassador to Germany.
Dodd, an established historian, had hoped for a quiet State Department posting in a region with little strategic importance (the Netherlands, perhaps), something that would leave him largely free to work on what he really cared about: an ambitious four-volume history of the American South.
President Franklin Roosevelt, however, was desperate to find someone to send to Berlin. The newly appointed Chancellor Hitler had already created an air of menace that caused several more likely candidates to turn down the job. Eventually Roosevelt turned to Dodd.
The new ambassador, a "humble Jeffersonian," grew up a farm boy and lacked the typical Ivy League background and résumé. He eschewed finery and pageantry and became a State Department joke when he shipped his family's battered Chevrolet to Berlin to navigate among the Mercedes-Benzes that ferried Nazi officials.
Dodd also economized by leasing a four-story mansion owned by a Jewish banker on the edge of the Tiergarten, Berlin's Central Park. ("Tiergarten" translates, literally, as "garden of animals" – or beasts.)
Dodd and his family – his wife, Mattie; his son, Bill; and his daughter, Martha – paid a paltry $150 per month for the first three floors of the mansion. The banker, a man named Panofsky, squeezed into the top floor with his family, hoping that living with the American ambassador would make persecution much harder, even for Hitler and his goon squads.
Dodd arrived in Berlin as isolationism ran rampant in America. Even when American tourists in Germany were beaten and detained for the flimsiest of reasons, the State Department and others in government paid little heed. Martha, Dodd's 24-year-old daughter, became a fixture on the Berlin social scene, promiscuous and outspoken if naively smitten with what she at first believed to be a German renaissance.
Drawing on letters and government accounts, Larson brings Berlin roaring to life in all its glamour and horror during the first year of Dodd's ambassadorship. Martha flirts and gossips with Nazi power brokers, including the head of the Gestapo, as well as foreign correspondents and a Russian spy. When she meets Hitler, he kisses her hand.
William Dodd was briefly persuaded that the situation in Germany wasn't as bad as critics charged, that Hitler's promises of moderation would be realized. Within several months, however, he saw clearly that Hitler and his cronies were madmen who must be stopped.
By September 1933 – three months into his tenure – Dodd was talking tough with Nazi leaders. In a private meeting with the German foreign minister, Dodd said, "You cannot expect world opinion of your conduct to moderate so long as eminent leaders like Hitler and Goebbels announce from platforms, as in Nuremberg, that all Jews must be wiped off the earth."
Europe and the United States, however, didn't want to hear of German aggression, and at every turn Dodd and his reports were undermined by colleagues back home. Dodd's health suffered – he endured constant headaches and stomach trouble – as he watched Germany become a police state where people were routinely beaten (or worse) for crimes such as failing to salute storm troopers or for dating a Jewish person.
Larson effectively juxtaposes political machinations and persecutions with more quotidian events. Even amid tense and scary times, people went to dinner, danced, fled or stayed, fought, and loved. As Hitler launched the Night of the Long Knives purge – a series of cold-blooded murders carried out under the false claim of an imminent coup – Martha and a boyfriend set out for a romantic lakeside picnic, oblivious to the 500 to 1,000 deaths carried out at Hitler's orders.
Much to William Dodd's distress, little changed even as Hitler, Goebbels, and others all but acknowledged they would do whatever they wanted while offering no plausible justification for the seemingly endless atrocities. Hermann Goring, during a press briefing to foreign correspondents, offered this answer about the fate of General Schleicher, a former minister of defense: "[He] had plotted against the regime. I ordered his arrest. He was foolish enough to resist. He is dead."
Frustrated and disillusioned, Dodd now refused to go through the pretense of reasonable negotiation or diplomatic meetings with the German government.
Unfortunately Dodd's attitude earned him only scorn in Washington. The undersecretary of State asked of Dodd: "What in the world is the use of having an ambassador who refuses to speak to the government to which he is accredited?"
Four-and-a-half years after he arrived, Dodd was forced to resign. He returned to the US and traveled the nation, lecturing on the German menace and what he had witnessed in Berlin.
Dodd's successor, Hugh Wilson, took a different approach, blaming the American media for criticizing Hitler and the Nazis, and describing Hitler as "the man who has pulled his people from moral and economic despair into the state of pride and evident prosperity they now enjoyed."
The German disaster Dodd predicted unfolded after he left Berlin. In similar fashion, no one in Larson's story has a happy ending. Dodd's wife died unexpectedly at 62, while Dodd himself suffered increasingly poor health and made no progress on his Southern history.
In February 1940, more than a year before the Pearl Harbor bombing ended the American dream of isolation, Dodd died. Now, thanks to Larson, Dodd's courage and foresight live on, a welcome new chapter in the vast canon of World War II.
Erik Spanberg, a freelance writer in Charlotte, N.C., frequently reviews books for the Monitor.
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Although Skagway is located more than 500 miles from the gold fields in the Klondike, the town benefitted from the discovery because of its location along a transportation route to Canada's interior. The Klondike Gold Rush established Skagway, but its ice-free, deep water port and the completion of a railroad to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, in 1900 kept the town alive.
William Moore's investigation of White Pass and his knowledge of past gold strikes led him to stake a homestead in Alaska's Skagway River valley. His dream to profit from the stampeders' use of his property and businesses on their way to the Canadian gold fields did not turn out exactly as he had planned. His wharf was successful, but he was forced to share his profits with outside investors because he did not have enough money to expand the operation to keep up with the flood of stampeders. By 1898, three other companies had built wharves and were competing with Moore. Moore's business managed to thrive, however, because his wharf was closest to the site where railroad tracks eventually were located.
The Moores also sold lumber from their sawmill, but they were unsuccessful in obtaining permission to construct a toll wagon road. It was George Brackett, former mayor of Minneapolis, who finally received a permit to establish a toll road. Officially opened in March 1898, the 16-foot wide wagon road stretched 15 miles from Skagway to White Pass City, where the steep climb to the summit began. The road, which was made of logs in some places and blasted rock in others, allowed travelers a shorter and easier route to the Yukon. It was used heavily for the rest of that year, but it was destined to be replaced by yet another improved method of transportation.
In May 1898, the company which became the White Pass & Yukon Route began constructing the first major commercial railroad in Alaska. Beginning in Skagway, the narrow gauge railroad wound through the twisting, narrow, rock-strewn wilderness of the White Pass. The completion of the railroad from Skagway to Bennett Lake in June 1899, and to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, a year later, secured Skagway's role as the main transportation gateway to the interior of northern Canada. Without this improved transportation method, the neighboring town of Dyea could not compete and was soon abandoned. The railroad company helped Skagway's economy at a time when the prosperity of the gold rush period was diminishing. It provided jobs and built large machine shops, an office building, hospital, residences, and even a private athletic club.
When completed in June 1900, the $10 million White Pass and Yukon Route railroad connected the geographical area outside of Alaska and northern Canada with the Klondike. Steamers from West Coast cities docked at Skagway's port where freight and passengers loaded directly onto the train. The railroad carried goods and passengers 110 miles north to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, where they transferred to sternwheel steamers on the Yukon River and continued on to the Klondike. This was a tremendous improvement over earlier transportation methods. Travelers no longer had to carry supplies on their backs or lead overburdened pack animals over the agonizing Dead Horse Trail.
The great rush to the Klondike gold fields had ended by the time the railroad was completed. Even after all the claims had been staked, however, this transportation route was still necessary to bring gold out of the Klondike and bring in supplies and equipment. Miners, surveyors, and mining engineers used the railroad and steamer route. They worked in the mines each summer, left the Klondike before the onset of harsh weather, and returned in the spring. With an efficient transportation system in place, Skagway replaced St. Michael, Alaska, as the major shipping center for freight such as zinc, lead, copper, and silver coming out of the Yukon.
The railroad provided Skagway with a narrow but stable economic base for almost 80 years after the Klondike Gold Rush ended. Today, the White Pass & Yukon Route railroad traverses the historic White Pass route, carrying tourists over a twisting rocky path through incredible scenery to an awe inspiring, snow-covered summit. This railroad is one of 20 engineering feats in the world declared an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark. Since 1978, the Klondike Highway has connected Skagway to Canada's interior. A transportation gateway for commerce and tourism, Skagway serves as an example of how a frontier town survived the end of its boomtown era.
Questions for Reading 3
1. Why did Skagway become the major Alaskan point of departure to the gold fields?
2. How did Skagway continue to exist after the gold rush ended when other gold rush towns disappeared?
3. How did the railroad affect the journey to the Klondike? How might the railroad have affected the permanent residents of Skagway?
Reading 3 was adapted from Alice Cyr, "White Pass & Yukon Route Training Text for Terrific Train Guides," prepared for White Pass & Yukon Route Railway, Skagway, Alaska, 1993; Alison K. Hoagland, Buildings of Alaska (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993); Ken Johnson, "White Pass & Yukon - Cold Region Triumph," APEGGA, vol. 22, no. 8, September 1994; and Roy Minter, The White Pass: Gateway to the Klondike (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1987).
Reading 3 was adapted from Alice Cyr, "White Pass & Yukon Route Training Text for Terrific Train Guides," prepared for White Pass & Yukon Route Railway, Skagway, Alaska, 1993; Alison K. Hoagland, Buildings of Alaska (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993); Ken Johnson, "White Pass & Yukon - Cold Region Triumph," APEGGA, vol. 22, no. 8, September 1994; and Roy Minter, The White Pass: Gateway to the Klondike (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1987).


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BABSON PARK, Mass. -- The Brandeis women's basketball team was unable to overcome a pair of large early deficits as the Judges fell to local rival Babson, 64-35, tonight. Brandeis evens its record at 1-1, while the Beavers, ranked No. 5 in the nation by d3hoops.com and No. 7 by the WBCA, improves to 2-0.
The Judges, who played Babson their closest regular-season game of the 2010-11 season, were unable to overcome a slow start. The Beavers scored the game's first 13 points before a Nicolina Vitale (Clinton Township, Mich./Chippewa Valley) free throw got the visitors on the board. The lead extended to ahead 18-1 at the 10:02 before the Judges finally made a field goal from junior transfer Erika Higginbottom (Millbury, Mass./Worcester Acad.). The Judges closed the half on a 16-8 string, thanks to four more points by Vitale, and were within seven at one point before Babson's Kathleen King hit two free throws with 1:22 left to give the hosts a 26-17 lead at the break. Babson opened the second half on a 19-5 run over the first 9:12 of the second half, doubling up the Judges, 45-22, and the hosts cruised from there. The Beavers' 38 second-half points were more than Brandeis's entire tally for the game.
Vitale finished with nine points to lead the Judges, establishing a career-high in points, while her four rebounds and 17 minutes were the second-highest totals of her career. Higginbottom grabbed six rebounds off the bench, tying with senior guard Kelly Ethier (Springfield, Mass./Minnechaug Regional) for team-high honors. Grad student Diana Cincotta (Plymouth, Mass./West Boylston) added six points. Brandeis shot just 27.3% from the field (15-55) and 10% from downtown (1-10).
The Beavers had three tremendous performances from their front court. King and preseason All-American Nicki Wuerdemann each had double-doubles. King had game-highs with 21 points, 12 rebounds mand five assists, whileWurdemann added 19 points and 11 caroms. Sarah Collins stuffed the stat sheet 10 points, nine rebounds, seven blocked shots and six steals. Brandeis held the Beavers to just 38.5% from the floor (21-55), but the hosts connected on 20-of-27 from the line (74.1%), outscoring Brandeis by 16 from the charity stripe.
Brandeis is back in action on Saturday afternoon at 5 p.m. when they kick of the 2011 Brandeis Judges Classic against Endicott College, while the Beavers travel to Williams College to take on Tufts University Saturday at 8 p.m.


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