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On 25 May, Harvey Weinstein, the now notorious American film producer, was led in handcuffs from a New York police station to a court where he was charged with rape and sexual abuse. He was freed on bail while awaiting trial and fitted with an ankle bracelet to monitor his movements.
Ideological uses…
The "Weinstein affair" has been known all over the planet since the New York Times and the New Yorker published an inquiry into the numerous cases of sexual abuse committed by Weinstein, who has been denounced by dozens of women. Since then an even greater number of women have exposed similar aggressions and crimes by other men in all sectors: cinema, business, politics, etc.
At the beginning the media coverage of the "Weinstein affair" served mainly as a pretext for embarrassing Trump and pushing towards his impeachment. In the days of Bill Clinton, sexual abuses committed by a man who had a feeling of impunity because of his powerful position were used to weaken the president: the famous "Lewinsky affair"[1]. In October 2017, when the Weinstein affair came to light, the ignoble behaviour of this character was an open secret in American intellectual and cultural circles. By mediatising the resulting public anger, the American bourgeoisie had found yet another way of implicating the president, who also has form in this same area (among other things, the difficulties he now faces for his pay-offs to two women, a playboy model and a porn star, to keep them quiet about extra-marital affairs early in his marriage.)
At the same time, the international impact of this case shows that there is much more involved than yet another Machiavellian strategy of the bourgeoisie. It reveals a real and profound indignation around the condition of women in this society. The participation in International Woman's Day demonstrations on 8 March 2018 was much bigger than in previous years and held in more countries (there were demonstrations in Turkey, Russia, Philippines, India, Pakistan, Switzerland, South Korea, Congo, the Ivory Coast, etc) and with more determined slogans denouncing rape and other forms of aggression against women.
This legitimate anger was however rapidly recuperated by the bourgeoisie through a social network campaign orchestrated by the media and entertainment industry, marked by a tendency to blame men in general and to spread feelings of victimisation and guilt. The truth is that the ruling class only wants people to express themselves freely when they are dragged into false dilemmas: men against women, good men against chauvinist pigs, while at the same time making full use of traditional reactions of puritanism and prudery. Righteous speeches proliferated; in several countries governments passed new laws or planned to do so, claiming to strengthen "equality between the sexes" around issues of pay, or to ensure harsher penalties for sexual harassment and attacks. The ruling class could not remain silent in the face of widespread anger which was, however, unable to break out of an inter-classist, sectional framework, unable to raise itself onto a class terrain, and which thus posed no real threat to the bourgeoisie's class privileges. The bourgeoisie thus took advantage of this situation to keep everything inside the mystifications of democracy, inside the illusion that discrimination could be eliminated in the context of existing society.
This is a mystification. When prisons are full of men who have harassed women in the street or beaten up their wives, what has to change in society to remove the material basis of such behaviour? The bourgeoisie knows perfectly well that imposing harsher penalties on base behaviour towards women is just applying sticking plaster to a deep wound, and this makes its empty gestures even more despicable. By offering women the protection of the state, the bourgeoisie is simply imprisoning the "woman question" in the cage of bourgeois democracy, reducing it to a matter of deviant behaviour in a society where there is supposedly no inbuilt obstacle to "equality between men and women".
This is precisely the trap that has to be avoided by this wave of legitimate indignation. If women are viciously exploited, mistreated, considered as slaves and sexual objects to men, this is not the product of a kind of "deviation" in this society, or of a tendency for it to go backwards, but an expression of its real nature as a system of class exploitation and oppression.
…of a real oppression
The workers' movement didn't take long in highlighting the specific condition of women in capitalist society. In 1845, Engels wrote The Condition of the Working Class in England in which he described how capitalism was destroying the health, the future, the lives of children and women by integrating them into the inhuman conditions of production in the big factories and mines. He also explained how a boss could easily abuse women in his employ because he wielded the power of life and death over them. But it was above all in The Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State that Engels showed that the subordination of women was deeply linked to the division of society into classes, to the existence of private property, arguing that the historic struggle of the proletariat contained within it the possibility for the real emancipation of women. Basing himself on the work of Morgan, Engels demonstrated that the appearance of private property gave rise to the family, the initial economic cell of class society. The man was now in charge and the woman was turned into an object, the property of the man and the procreator of children who would inherit the property of the male head of the family.
In the same period August Bebel, in his classic work Women and Socialism, described how capitalist relations perpetuated this position of women in the service of the man and how the social structures of capitalism were based on this position, especially bourgeois marriage. In capitalism women remain the property of men, reduced to a useful object at the beck and call of masculine desire. Bebel demonstrates that the logical expression of this situation is the fact that prostitution is necessary to the good functioning of capitalist society.
Marxism was thus very early on able to show that the subordination of women to men was not fundamentally a moral or even physical question, but a material and social one. With the development of the productive forces, humanity was led to abandon the collective social forms of primitive communism and adopt a form of organisation based on private property and the division into social classes. Capitalism, by integrating men, women and children into production has got rid of the old sexual division of labour but its social structures retain the framework of the subordination of women to men, particularly through marriage and the family.
The behaviour under the media spotlight today fully confirms this. Social evolution since the days of Engels and Bebel, far from putting women in a better place, has perpetuated her situation as an object for use. Women are still considered as fundamentally inferior beings, and the material development of the system has led to a growing dehumanisation of women's relationships with men. Advertising, for example, makes brutal use of the female image, treating women as sexual objects. Pornography has become increasingly widespread thanks to the internet and acts as a vehicle for educating young people in completely reified relations between the sexes, normalising the most degrading behaviour and justifying sexual violence and harassment, especially at work where relations of domination and submission are more visible than elsewhere.
Furthermore, the workplace less and less supplies the minimal conditions for a social life. The decomposition of the social fabric and current conditions of exploitation produce and accentuate an atomisation of the individual which plunge many into solitude and sexual misery.
At the same time, the bourgeoisie has also developed a concern for the "woman question". Feminist movements are nothing new and have appeared regularly throughout the history of capitalism. After all, don't bourgeois women also suffer from the rule of their husbands? No doubt: but the feminist movement begins from a basis of inter-classist demands which, on the one hand, can only have a very limited effect in the context of this society, and, on the other hand, present a real danger for the proletariat in the sense that, like all inter-classist movements, feminism draws us away from the class demands and positions which alone contain the solution to the problem.
The necessity for a fight on class lines
Through a deep understanding of the inextricable link between the oppression and exploitation of women and the organisation of capitalist society, the workers' movement was able to take up the concern for the situation of women while demarcating itself very clearly from the feminist movement developed by a part of the bourgeoisie that was calling for women to have access to education, the right to vote and so on. Clara Zetkin and August Bebel, within German social democracy, and Alexandra Kollontai in the Bolshevik party, to mention only a few, all emphasised the primary responsibility of capitalist society in the condition of women and thus the importance of linking this question to that of the working class as a whole, to the united struggle of male and female workers for the construction of a new society where men and women will live without chains.
What's more, it was the workers' movement which was behind International Women's Day, the first of which took place on 28 February 1909. After 1914, International Women's Day saw militant marches against the imperialist war, and in Russia, on March 8 1917[2], the mass demonstration of women (and male) workers raised slogans against war and hunger and was the spark that lit the fires of the proletarian revolution.
What has changed for women under capitalism since the situation described by Engels in 1845? In the developed countries, women have gained a certain number of rights: access to education, the vote…some are even at the head of big companies or even big countries! But their condition, in a more subtle and hypocritical way, is not that different. If women are no longer forced to work up until the day they give birth as Engels saw in English industry, an unemployed woman is bound to remain unemployed if she is pregnant and the chances of young women finding jobs is reduced by the "risk of maternity". As in the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, the working class is basically faced with the same problems. But in the past workers' parties could take up these questions and develop propaganda and education which had a real impact on the working class. Today, when capitalism can only keep going by engendering the decomposition of social relations, the working class is experiencing great difficulties to recognise its class identity. This is a major obstacle to understanding the necessarily revolutionary character of its struggle, which has to integrate the fight for a radical change in the feminine condition. What the workers' movement has always put forward - that women will only lose their chains when the whole of humanity is freed by the victory of the proletarian revolution and the building of communism - the proletariat is finding hard to understand because of the low level of its class consciousness.
In this situation the bourgeoisie is posing the problem on the rotten and dangerous ground of inter-classism. According to this ideological standpoint, which derives from the ruling class, women must unite to free themselves from men and seize some of the power that men try to conserve for themselves and against women. Not only does this conception hide and exclude the antagonistic character of social relations (as though female workers have the same social or economic interests as bourgeois women), it also encourages the illusion that the state is the guarantor of "equality", the force that restrains the powerful and slightly reduces their advantages in favour of the weak. In this framework, the feminist struggle is supposed to put pressure on the state to obtain more rights and more equality. Above all, it's the old formula of divide and rule, the cultivation of obstacles to the unification of the class struggle, both in the future and in the immediate.
The indignation being expressed against the unjust, humiliating, and degrading treatment of women reveals the visceral incapacity of the capitalist system to allow a real improvement in the living conditions of the exploited. In complete opposition to all the arguments about the existence of social and economic progress, these conditions are getting worse given the continuing tendency towards the unravelling of the social tissue. All the "oppressed categories" (women, immigrants, homosexuals, this or that race or ethnicity, etc) who feel threatened or rejected are not suffering as a result of their particular condition as such but because the capitalist system only operates on the basis of two categories of human beings - the exploiters and the exploited - and through the competition of each against all which, under the pressure of the crisis, and above all of social decomposition, tends to exclude any form of difference, to restrict solidarity to the ghettoising framework of the defence of particular interests or identities.
What August Bebel wrote in the introduction to Women and Socialism remains impressively relevant today:
"The woman question deals with the position that woman should hold in our social organism, and seeks to determine how she can best develop her powers and her abilities, in order to become a useful member of human society, endowed with equal rights and serving society according to her best capacity. From our point of view this question coincides with that other question: in what manner should society be organized to abolish oppression, exploitation, misery and need, and to bring about the physical and mental welfare of individuals and of society as a whole? To us then, the woman question is only one phase of the general social question that at present occupies all intelligent minds, its final solution can only be attained by removing social extremes and the evils which are a result of such extremes". GD, 2.7.18
Picture: International Women's Day, March 8 1917, a spark for the revolution in Russia
[1] See also the article written at the time of the "Strauss-Kahn scandal", when "DSK" was president of the International Monetary Fund and a potential candidate for the Socialist Party in the presidential elections in France: "Affaire DSK: la femme est toujours le 'prolétaire de l'homme'", Révolution Internationale no 424.
[2] Last Sunday in February in the Russian calendar. Subsequently the 8 March became the official day of the event.


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The first question is easy. C-NET (short for Community of New English Teachers) is an online forum to create and support interaction among beginning English teachers. In the C-NET wiki, you can discuss highs and lows, trade tips, ask questions and gain ideas about teaching with fellow Purdue graduates of the English Education program.
The second question is slightly more involved. The short answer is "because you might benefit from interacting with other English teachers facing similar experiences" but there's a bit more to it than that. Bear with me and I'll explain.
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There you have it. The early years of teaching are always hard and often isolating; creating a supportive community can be difficult in those first years; but new teachers can only benefit by sharing and learning with others.
C-NET is my attempt to support a community of former Purdue students who are now beginning English teachers. This collaborative wiki allows you to share your experiences with fellow teachers in similar situations. It also provides you with a space in which to learn new ideas and gain new perspectives. And perhaps it will also encourage some reflection on your teaching and your students' learning
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Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games (commonly referred to as the Olympics), which began in Athens in 1896, are quadrennial sporting extravaganzas which currently exist in both a summer and a winter version. The Summer Games are held every leap year and recent such events have featured over 10000 athletes from nearly 200 countries competing in 300 sports events in 28 different sports. The Winter Games are held in the even numbered years between the Summer event and typically approximately 2400 athletes from nearly 80 countries competing in 80 events in 7 different sports. Specific Games are informally referred to by the name of the host city (and year, especially if the same city has hosted more than once) i.e. Berlin, 1936.
The Games are organized and governed by the International Olympic Committee which determines which sports are to be included and where the Games are to be held. The modern games began as a revival of the ancient Olympics through the organizing efforts of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
Over the years since its inception, the Games have come to occupy a position of increasing significance not only in a sporting sense, but also in terms of their function in society. And they have also shared in the general problems of society as a whole, which includes political exploitation (the Berlin games of 1936), political controversy (Soviet bloc, African and United States boycotts), terrorism (Munich 1972), and issues such as amateurism, the role of women in sports, commercialization, and doping in sports.
The next Summer Games are scheduled for Tokyo, Japan, beginning in July 2020, while the next Winter Games are scheduled for Pyeongchang, South Korea, in February 2018. The most recent Summer Games took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August 2016, and the last Winter Games were held in Sochi, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, in February 2014. The host city for the 2024 Summer Olympics will be decided in 2017.
Genesis of the modern Games
The 19th century witnessed a boom in organized sports of all kinds. It was during this era that many of the most important present-day sports came into being. For example, baseball and basketball in the United States were invented in the latter half of the 19th century. At the same time, older sports were revamped with rules changes (or just the first set of standardized rules). Football (to use its official Olympic name - it is commonly known as soccer in the United States and Australia), as just one example, owes its first set of standardized rules, along with significant rules changes, to the 19th century.
For all sports, increased popularity was also the norm and the first continuous, organized competitions were held while at the same time the first sports clubs and associations were founded. This was the century that, for example, saw the development and spread of the Scottish Highland games. Likewise, it was during the 19th century that the Amateur Athletic Association was formed in the United States and intercollegiate sports competitions first became established and popular.
Sport in this era was, however, mainly an upper class, aristocratic phenomenon as here was the only element of society with the leisure time to pursue such activities.
In the late 19th century, the site of the Ancient Olympic Games was, a century after it had first been discovered, finally unearthed by the German archaeologist Ernst Curtius. Inspired by this event, as well as by his idealization of physical activity as part of a well-rounded education, Pierre de Coubertin, a Frenchman with a lengthy noble heritage, resolved to revive the Ancient Games in modern form.
There had been other attempts in the 19th century to revive the ancient Olympic Games in some form. Beginning in 1849, for example, Dr. W.P. Brooks instituted what he called Olympian Games at Much Wenlock, in England. These Games were held annually for over 40 years following that. Another serious revival was attempted in Greece, beginning in 1859. However, these events were Pan-Hellenic in nature and, being restricted to Greek athletes, they attracted little attention outside of Greece. The series ceased in 1889.
When de Coubertin first proposed reviving the ancient Games in a lecture in 1892, he met with little success, but two years later, he convened an invitational sports congress in Paris (June 1894) at which time the participants founded the International Olympic Committee and set about to organize the first modern Olympic Games which they scheduled for Athens, Greece, two years later, planning to hold similar events every 4 years thereafter.
Those first games featured the participation of ca 200 athletes (all male) from 14 countries participating in 43 events in 9 different sports.
Growing pains
After the initial success of the first Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, the Olympic movement struggled. In contrast to the present day where potential sponsors compete for the right to host the Olympics, in the early years of the 20th century, there was no line up of bidders desirous of organizing the Games. Instead, the IOC had to search for sponsors and organizers, generally meeting with indifference or worse.
The Games of the 1900 Olympics in Paris, France and those of the 1904 Olympics, eventually held in St. Louis, Missouri (USA) after the first organizers in Chicago bowed out, were held in conjunction with world's fairs and occupied a decidedly secondary role by comparison to their host expositions. Nor was the participation of athletes up to the desired level for a truly worldwide event as the Games aspired to be. The 1904 Games in St. Louis attracted competitors from only 12 countries (fewer than at Athens 8 years earlier) and although there were over 600 entries, nearly 80% of them were from the United States. In addition, at both Paris and St. Louis, the IOC had to battle the local organizing committee for control over the Games.
Things took a turn for the better with the 1908 Olympics in London, England.
Issues in Olympism: the concept of amateurism
Olympism is the term coined by Baron Pierre de Coubertin to describe the ideals of the Olympic movement which he founded. It encompasses several idealistic goals regarding the nature of sport and its relation to society and is described in the Fundamental Principles of Olympism in the Olympic Charter.
In the 19th century, sporting activity was considered to be primarily a leisure-time activity or pastime, the proper concern only of the leisure class. In the latter part of the century, many sport clubs restricted their membership to those of the upper classes by explicitly barring from membership all those who earned their livelihood from wages or any kind of gainful employment whatsoever, whether sport related or otherwise.
When the modern Olympic Games were inaugurated, such explicit class bias was not considered in keeping with the Olympic ideals, yet it was still felt that professionalism would sully the game by compromising the concepts of fair play and sportsmanship. As a result, the concept of amateurism was presented in a revised form, one which still, however, exhibited a clear class bias. Participation in the Games was to be restricted to those who derived "no material benefit, directly or indirectly, from any sport". In the parlance of the day, sport was to be "an avocation, not a vocation".
Inter-war years
The 1916 Games were scheduled for Berlin, but the outbreak of World War I resulted in their cancellation. One other result was that de Coubertin decided, in the spring of 1915, to move IOC headquarters to Lausanne in neutral Switzerland, where it has been headquartered ever since.
Issues in Olympism: nationalism
Issues in Olympism: women's participation in the Games
The first Games in the modern era, those at Athens in 1896, featured no women participants although, in contrast to the Ancient Olympic Games, women were allowed as spectators. The founder of the modern Games, Baron de Coubertin, felt that in reviving the Ancient Games, he should follow their lead and restrict the competition only to males and this was also in keeping with his overall hostility towards the participation of women in the Games and in sports generally. He felt, along with most of his Victorian contemporaries, that such activities as sport were unsuitable for women.
In subsequent versions of the Games, a few women were allowed to participate in selected events - those considered sufficiently "feminime" so as not to upset Victorian sensibilities. Thus, in 1900, women were allowed to participate in golf and tennis and some swimming and diving events for women were allowed by 1912. But women's participation in the track and field events, considered the heart and soul of the Games, was fiercely resisted.
Cold War rivalries (1948-64)
Time of troubles (1968-84)
Issues in Olympism: politics, violence, and boycotts
Munich 1972
On September 5th, 1972, members of the terrorist group Black September kidnapped and ultimately murdered 11 Israeli athletes and coaches. A German police officer was also killed, making this the worst incidence of violence at the modern Olympic Games.
African nations boycott
United States boycott (Moscow 1980)
Soviet bloc boycott (Los Angeles 1984)
Struggling with success (1988 to present)
Issues in Olympism: commercialization of the Games
Issues in Olympism: doping in sport
Doping or other attempts at artificially enhancing athletic performance have been a feature of competitive sports from its inception, even in ancient times. But with the development of modern pharmaceutical techniques, including a number of new and powerful drugs and masking agents, the phenomenon assumed an extra dimension, threatening to subvert the very concept of fair competition itself. But it took some dramatic and high profile events to spur authorities to act.
During the 1960 Olympic Games cycling competition, Danish cyclist Knud Enemark Jensen died following a crash. The immediate cause of death was a fractured skull, but when an autopsy revealed traces of amphetamines in his blood, it was widely held (though subsequent analysis cast doubt on this) that doping was a contributing factor, if not the ultimate cause, of his death.[1] As a result, there was considerable pressure on sports organizations to adopt measures to combat the use of drugs in sports, if for no other reason than to protect the health of the athletes.
After drawing up a list of banned substances, the IOC first began full scale drug testing at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s there were suspicions of large scale state sponsored doping programs involving a number of countries. These suspicions were substantiated in the case of the former German Democratic Republic, thus revealing the full extent of the problem facing the Games, and sport as a whole.
Another problem was the fact that the IOC only has jurisdiction during the Games themselves. Without the cooperation of the affiliated International Federations (IFs) throughout the rest of the year, and between Olympiads, those athletes who resorted to banned substances in an attempt to gain a performance edge could simply design their doping programs around the schedule of the testers. In addition, until the late 1990s, even in those cases where the IF was involved in the antidoping fight, when an athlete tested positive for a banned substance the matter was turned over to the athlete's National Governing Body (NGB) for disposal. In many cases, the NGB was reluctant to take meaningful action against one of their star athletes. To do so, in some cases, would even jeopardize their funding.
The problems were highlighted in the summer of 1998 when a routine checkpoint at an out of the way border crossing uncovered a large quantity of Erythropoietin (EPO) and other prohibited substances being transported in a Team Festina car at the Tour de France. Several riders and team support crew were charged with doping. But the incident highlighted the fact that doping was widespread and that the users of banned substances were not being detected by the antidoping procedures then in place.
Following these events, a major reappraisal took place regarding the role of public authorities in the antidoping fight. The IOC convened the World Conference on Doping in Sport in 1999 in order to address a wide range of problems and possible solutions. As a result of this Conference, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) was established later in the year to develop uniform policies and procedures and generally to coordinate the antidoping fight.
Theme music
For the Olympic Games in Grenoble, France, ABC bought the rights for "Bugler's Dream", a composition by French composer Leo Arnaud from a larger composition "The Charge Suite". This is the familiar seven note theme associated with the Olympics, the Olympic theme song. For the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, the organising committee commissioned John Williams to update the fanfare and theme for the Olympics. His composition, "Olympic Fanfare and Theme" encompasses "Bugler's Dream" arranged by a full orchestra, rather than the simpler original version which only included tympani and horns. Williams' composition starts with Arnaud's original composition with an added cymbal crash at the start, and then replays the theme with a full orchestra.
After the success of the 1984 theme, William's went on the write additional music for the Olympic Games in Seoul (1988), Atlanta (1996) and Salt Lake City (2002). Although his dissonant composition "Summon the Heroes" was heavily played during the Atlanta games, it fell short of the patriot fervour that was generated by "Olympic Fanfare and Theme".
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- ↑ In an article published in the journal Sport in History (Volume 25, Issue 3, December 2005) in which Jensen's death at the 1960 Rome Olympic Games is examined, author Verner Møller states: "While evidence suggests that the incident did prove something of a catalyst for firming up anti-doping policy, it will be shown here that the oft-repeated claim that Jensen's death was doping-related is in fact unfounded."


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If there was any upside to the coronavirus tsunami that engulfed the planet in 2020 for a brief moment as we were forced to shelter from the relentless waves of destruction the noise of vehicles suddenly disappearing off the roads and the roar of airplanes evaporating from the skies provided us with a pleasant albeit transient experience of the relative silence we might enjoy if we commit to a dramatic reduction in man-made carbon emissions in order to salvage the planet. This year was an inflection point during which the whole of humanity had to turn its back on coal fired energy and embrace alternate forms of energy supply such as solar panels and wind farms so that by 2030 we could achieve 100% renewable energy.
As devastating as it's been to human lives and the world economy the virus might be giving us the unique gift of restructuring to a greener economy. According to the Paris Climate Accord this was going to be the year that countries submitted new plans to reduce greenhouse gases with a U.N. climate conference planned in Glasgow for November to consolidate this momentum. This meeting has been deferred for a year. However as international travel drastically abated and oil hit an all-time low in mid-April investors started to appreciate how patterns might change for the good of the planet and there's already been a massive thrust to divest from companies who are mired in the old economy and support those who are embracing clean energy.
Around the globe countries have taken hold of a greener, climate-friendly economy as part of their coronavirus recovery plans and the International Monetary Fund stands ready to financially support those that do. A number of countries have lined up to pursue the Green New Deal, in Paris and Milan for example key thoroughfares have been shuttered to car traffic and are now designated entirely for bikes, but the USA and at home Australia have been recalcitrant with little visible evidence in this country that we understand how pivotal it is that we start leaving our vehicles at home.
Aside from reducing our engagement with transportation which adds to our carbon footprint and relying on governmental initiatives to alter our destructive path we need to find ways to consume, waist and throw away less. Individual action on climate change includes a range of climate-friendly behaviours that each of us can execute to meet the Paris Agreement for the carbon footprint required per person, which currently resides at a level much higher than it needs to be to appreciably reduce planetary warming.


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Improved transit doesn't necessarily permanently eliminate congestion on the roads, but it does enable a greater number of people to move around more efficiently at a given level of congestion.
By Nicholas Kevlahan
Published June 19, 2014
An article posted recently in Wired does a good job of explaining induced demand:
The concept is called induced demand, which is economist-speak for when increasing the supply of something (like roads) makes people want that thing even more. Though some traffic engineers made note of this phenomenon at least as early as the 1960s, it is only in recent years that social scientists have collected enough data to show how this happens pretty much every time we build new roads.
When a city makes it easier to drive by adding lanes, more people choose to drive and those lanes fill up with additional cars.
Induced demand does not just apply to automobile lanes, however. It also applies to other transportation modes, like pedestrian infrastructure or bike lanes or public transit.
It is important to be careful about the "reducing congestion" argument for investment in new public transit. Improved transit doesn't necessarily lead to less traffic congestion, due to the induced demand effect:
You might think that increasing investment in public transit could ease this mess. Many railway and bus projects are sold on this basis, with politicians promising that traffic will decrease once ridership grows. But the data showed that even in cities that expanded public transit, road congestion stayed exactly the same. Add a new subway line and some drivers will switch to transit. But new drivers replace them. It's the same effect as adding a new lane to the highway: congestion remains constant. (That's not to say that public transit doesn't do good, it also allows more people to move around. These projects just shouldn't be hyped up as traffic decongestants, say Turner and Duranton.)
Improved transit doesn't necessarily permanently eliminate congestion on the roads, but it does enable a greater number of people to move around more efficiently at a given level of congestion.
If there was no transit and everyone had to drive an automobile, there is no way the roads could handle the total demand. Cities with insufficient transit inevitably end up with essentially non-functioning road networks because there is no feasible alternative.
That is what has been happening on Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) roads, where travel times have been increasing dramatically as the region has fallen behind on transit improvements.
There are also many people, especially in Hamilton, who are unable to work at optimal jobs because of the lack of transit options. The opportunity cost of a transportation system that doesn't allow people to match themselves with the best jobs has been estimated to cost the GTHA between $1.5 and $5 billion a year in lost productivity.
A counter-example is Vancouver, which has demonstrated that congestion goes down if you improve transit, cycling and walking options and change land use to higher density mixed use so that more people can live in a way such that driving doesn't make sense.
But the article is probably right if all you do is improve transit but leave everything else the same - especially if the city is relatively low density - then traffic won't necessarily decrease.
This is the case in dense cities like New York and Paris, which have both heavy traffic and good transit, but where (as we see during strikes) the city would be entirely non-functional without transit since only a small portion of the population can drive at any given time.
Luckily, Hamilton has been developing a land use plan together with its LRT plan, which should maximize our advantage.
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By Cyclical (anonymous) | Posted June 19, 2014 at 12:23:24
Congestion results as not easy to reach destinations by other means. 'Smart centres' killed walkability. LRT definitely good for small business and vice versa.
By H1 (anonymous) | Posted June 19, 2014 at 13:46:04
"estimated to cost the GTHA between $1.5 and $5 billion a year in lost productivity." I thought that was the cost of congestion on the GTA roads? If you use reality to look at this you would know that there are no empty workspaces not producing things because there are no workers. employers don't pay you if your not at work, that means employers aren't losing, there is no loss. The loss is personal time. time spent waiting in traffic. but according to the article if more busses and trains were added the roads would be as slow, just more people would be making the trip. I did not know there was such a worker shortage!
By Pxtl (registered) - website | Posted June 19, 2014 at 15:11:34 in reply to Comment 102692
"It's okay, we're only wasting billions of dollars in unpaid time, not paid time!"
I am embarrassed on behalf of whatever causes you hope to represent.
By Noted (anonymous) | Posted June 19, 2014 at 21:56:04
A few years old, but this Metrolinx report gives you a sense of the temporal and economic impact of congestion.
Table 1: Extent of Excess Travel delay in the GTHA, 2006
Minutes Per Day, Per Commuter
City of Hamilton: 4.8
Halton Region: 7.8
Peel Region: 11.1
City of Toronto: 15.6
Region of York: 12.9
Durham Region: 8.8
GTHA Avg: 11.5
Figure 6: Regional Distribution of the Total Annual Cost of Excess Congestion Experienced by Commuters, 2006 ($ million)
City of Hamilton: 94
Halton Region: 249
Peel Region: 845
City of Toronto: 1,389
Region of York: 623
Durham Region: 309
By H1 (anonymous) | Posted June 20, 2014 at 10:11:55 in reply to Comment 102714
70% of Hamiltonians (ie. 139,470 commuters) work somewhere within Hamilton 23,400 of those (ie. 17% of intra-Hamilton commuters), worked downtown (ie. Downtown Community Improvement Project Area, or Queen/Victoria/Cannon/Hunter plus James from LIUNA Station to St. Joe's) as of the summer of 2010. The remaining 116,070 (ie. 83% of intra-Hamilton commuters) work somewhere other than the Downtown CIPA. StatsCan indicates that 23,445 Hamilton workers commute to Burlington and another 21,880 Hamilton workers commute west to Oakville, Mississauga, Brampton and Toronto.
94million loss / 27880 commuters @ 4.8 min per commuter that $895. per minute. wow ! that's some productive business we are missing out on!
I can use stats too. most are meaningless.
By N1 (anonymous) | Posted June 20, 2014 at 15:30:27 in reply to Comment 102746
As of 2011: 200,865 commuters in the Hamilton Census Subdivision, 139,470 of whom are most directly impacted by Hamilton congestion. To that we can add the 38,340 workers commuting from other communities to work in Hamilton. To each of those 177,810 commuters you can assign varying congestion costs and time expenditure, since depending upon where they live they may encounter congestion outside of Hamilton during their commute. It's all relative.
By Noted (anonymous) | Posted June 20, 2014 at 08:06:08 in reply to Comment 102714
As of 2006, Hamilton congestion represented 2.68% of total annual GTHA congestion costs.
2.68% of $15B = ~$402,000,000
2.68% of $34B = ~$911,000,000
By jason (registered) | Posted June 19, 2014 at 22:59:19
Hamilton has tons of gridlock and congestion. I hit a red light once.
By DowntownInHamilton (registered) | Posted June 20, 2014 at 18:00:45 in reply to Comment 102721
I hit a red light once.
Did it hurt?
By CharlesBall (registered) | Posted June 20, 2014 at 08:48:59 in reply to Comment 102721
I posted about my first trip down King a few weeks ago. I had another on Wednesday at 12:36. Did it just to see if it was an anomaly the last time.
14.7 minutes between Wellington and Margaret on King. Less buses in the left lane between John and James but most of the delay was between the "International Village" and Bay St.
Once again bus lanes largely empty. Lots of taxi traffic stuck as well as me.
Maybe moving the taxis into the bus lanes would help a little.
Don't know why it is attractive to potential residents or businesses to have cars lined up and spewing exhaust all day in front of their homes and businesses. Can't see the current arrangement as a long term solution.
I like the idea of elimination passenger cars from Wellington to James. Just let Buses, Deliveries, and Taxis on King.
Comment edited by CharlesBall on 2014-06-20 08:55:56
By Anon (anonymous) | Posted June 20, 2014 at 09:23:39 in reply to Comment 102728
Ever heard of Cannon Street? If you want to go Downtown, King makes perfect sense. If you want to go THROUGH Downtown; not so much. Nor should it.
By John Neary (registered) | Posted June 20, 2014 at 11:23:14 in reply to Comment 102733
Cannon is also downtown, FYI.
By Anon (anonymous) | Posted June 20, 2014 at 08:35:01 in reply to Comment 102721
You should try driving on the Mountain. You'll have to stop for lots of red lights. Funny thing though. No one ever complains about that.
By DrAwesomesauce (registered) | Posted June 20, 2014 at 04:03:00
Yeah, once I had to drive from Dundas to the East End and I had to stop twice. I was so p*ssed off > I felt like my rights as a driver were under attack.
Twenty minute city, b*tches!
By H1 (anonymous) | Posted June 20, 2014 at 10:20:21
I just love it when people move next to a factory and complain about the noise and smell and demand it gets shut down. I Love it when people move to the end of the runway at an airport and complain about the noise and smell and demand flights are restricted. I love when people move to a highway and complain about the traffic. Hwy 8 cut through the village of Hamilton to link Niagara with Gault.
By Tell us More Granddad... (anonymous) | Posted June 20, 2014 at 11:02:14 in reply to Comment 102748
And the highway numbers for Bay, Cannon, Queen, Hunter, Bold, Duke, Herkimer, Charlton.........ahh, forget it.
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"If you're going to be a genealogist, you know when you're born," said Tesluk, a New Canaan resident. "I think it chooses you."
That doesn't mean it's too late to start. Tesluk says that everyone has a story to discover about their family.
But Tesluk knew at an early age that she would enjoy combing through documents and piecing together genealogical puzzles. When she was just 12, she conducted her first family history interview with her grandfather.
In high school, Tesluk said her mother drove her from Washington, D.C. — where they lived at the time — to North Carolina so she could conduct genealogy research in a courthouse. Tesluk still relishes the time spent in rooms full of records.
"There's something about the smell in a courthouse," she said. "It's wonderful."
Tesluk is the genealogist for the New Canaan chapter of the Hannah Benedict Carter Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. Her main position is confirming genealogical records of potential members.
But, on her own, she follows her lifelong passion by researching her own family history. She now has new tools that weren't available in the past. Documents that were once only found in a courthouse or library are now available online.
"This is really an exciting time to be in genealogy," she said, speaking about technology such as programs that can covert historical documents to text or DNA tests that may reveal information on a person's heritage.
Tesluk said she has great luck with the DNA tests. She discovered, for example, that her great-grandfather was from Ireland of English descent, but he did not live in England as previously believed.
She said her family was blown away by the results and called the technology a "game changer" in genealogical research.
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U.S. - Doctors speaking on behalf of the nation's medical community Wednesday recommended that Americans not stare directly into the black, empty void encompassing the nation's comment sections.
While doctors have long known of the harmful effects of dwelling upon the vast wastelands comprising comment sections on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and websites at large, the symptoms have become far more pronounced in recent years, according to medical professionals.
"We've found that severe psychological side effects may accompany thinking too long and hard about any comments you encounter while you're on the internet," Dr. Sherman Danforth, a leading psychology expert told reporters. "If you must browse a comment section for any reason, we recommend a brief, cautious glance to get a sense of it, but turn away quickly, lest you do irreparable damage to your psyche."
Doctors also confirmed staring too long into the void of comment sections can have the undesirable side effect of having the void stare back into you.
"Each day, thousands of people stare too long into the black hole of vitriol present in online comment sections, correlating things which were not meant to be correlated in the human mind, and end up babbling incoherently about 'the eyes in the darkness,' 'the black pit,' and 'the nameless one,'" Danforth added.
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The Company may repurchase its common shares in amounts and prices as it deems appropriate, all subject to various factors, including the Company's capital position and needs, market conditions, other capital management objectives and opportunities. Under the terms of the repurchase program, repurchases can be made in the open market or in privately negotiated transactions. The repurchase program does not obligate the Company to acquire any specified amount of common stock and, at the Company's discretion, may be modified or suspended at any time. The Company intends to finance any stock repurchases through available cash and its revolving credit facility.
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Two canoes: to Fort Chipewyan
So, Governor George Simpson and Chief Trader Archibald McDonald have reached the banks of the Clearwater River, which will lead them westward toward the Athabasca River. They will travel down the Athabasca, to Fort Chipewyan: in the other stream, John Work and Peter Skene Ogden will go up the Athabasca, toward Jasper's House. Their paths will not cross again.
The route which we are following today is the route of the incoming brigades to New Caledonia before the York Factory Express existed. Chief Trader James McDougall came out this way in 1826: he returned to New Caledonia with the incoming Columbia Express of 1826. leaving them west of Jasper's House and crossing the mountains via the Yellowhead Pass.
Let us begin the journey down the Clearwater River in 1828:
Saturday 9th [August 1828]. Did not start the men before four [am], in consequence of the fatigues of yesterday. Were under weigh at a quarter to five. Got over Portage de Pins and La Bonne Rapids before seven. Breakfasted at the head of a cascade, where we carried a few pieces for three-quarters of a mile. Dined in the usual way as we dropped down[river]. Water low in this place. Passed the mouth of Pembina River at half-past five. Encamped late, within a couple of leagues of the big Athabasca River…
This Pembina River cannot be the same Pembina River that runs into the Athabasca River below, or east, of Fort Assiniboine. These men have not yet reached the Athabasca, nor will they go past that Pembina River.
Sunday, 10th. Head wind. Thunderstorm with flashes of lightning and tremendous fall of rain throughout the night. The water being shoal, we did not start before four o'clock [am]. Arrived at the Grand River Athabasca, which we found "good water." Fine runs along the river. Passed Red River and the Little Hills opposite at half-past ten o'clock. Passed the Bituminous Springs on right, about noon, and reached Pierre au Calumet (pipe stone) on left hand at two o'clock.
The Little Athabasca River was the Clearwater, and the Grand Athabasca the Athabasca River itself. They are now going down the Athabasca, hence northward, past modern-day Fort McMurray to Athabasca Lake. Every fur trader that went down that river commented on the coal and the "bituminous springs" they saw there.
Had the pleasure of passing this afternoon on board with the Governor. About four o'clock a heavy dark cloud in the south-west indicated the approach of a storm which, in a few minutes, poured down upon us in hail stones of at least the size of a small pistol ball, and continued for about twenty-five minutes. The evening wet, cold, and chilly. Encamped on Poplar Point…
Monday 11th. Started after three. Breakfasted at eight, about nine miles above L'Embarrass, which we passed at half-past ten, leaving the old fort of Mr. Ross nearly opposite on the right hand. At one o'clock, White Fish Creek on the right. Did not enter Athabasca Lake before five. Crossed with the poles. Strong head wind. Strong head wind. Changed [dressed for arrival] on Coal Island, and arrived at Fort Chipewyan by seven, where we found Mr. William McGillivray. Mr. Smith arrived here from the portage with his three boats two days ago. The Indians were much pleased to see their old trader, Mr. Simpson, once more among them. It is just a month since we left York Factory. New, but very small potatoes.
There is a ton of information in this last paragraph: Coal Island is at the mouth of the Athabasca River, where it flows into Athabasca Lake. As always happens before they arrive at a post on their route, the men and gentlemen wash and dress in fresh shirts, and the voyageurs don their fancy feathers and ribbons, or whatever else they may carry that fits their culture, be they Iroquois, Metis, or Canadien.
"L'Embarrass" would be a blockage in the river, and it is likely that this is the Grand Rapid of the Athabasca. The old fort of Mr. Ross must have once stood on this rapid — does anyone know? There were a number of forts along this river in the past: Fort of the Forks was just north of the junction of the Clearwater River with the Athabasca. North of that was Fort Pierre-au-Calumet [mentioned above], on the east side of the Athabasca. North again, close to where the Athabasca flows into Athabasca Lake, was Pond's House, and on the opposite side of the river and a little to the north was Fort Nottingham. The map I use for this information is dated 1811: many if not all of these posts had disappeared by the time Governor Simpson came north to take over the HBC's Athabasca District in 1820.
In regard to "Pond's House:" this was Peter Pond's house, built in 1778, forty miles south of the entrance to Athabasca Lake. Peter Pond was the first white man known to have crossed from the Hudson's Bay watershed into the Arctic river systems (although, of course, the Metis and, perhaps, their Canadien fathers, were there before him).
Further to Governor Simpson and Fort Chipewyan: In his book, James Raffan, author of Emperor of the North: Sir George Simpson and the Remarkable Story of the Hudson's Bay Company, gives a good description of the HBC's Fort Wedderburn, and of the NWC's Fort Chipewyan:
After a canoe-based six-week crash course in the workings of the fur trade under the tutelage of Robert Miles, immersed in the experience of travelling with a working HBC brigade in all its tattered drunken glory, [George] Simpson arrived on September 20, 1820, at Fort Wedderburn on Coal Island at the west end of Lake Athabasca. Clearly visible on the bluffs of the northern shore of the lake, a mile and a half away, were the magnificent wooden palisades, peaked roofs, watch tower and opposing flag of the rival Nor'Westers' long-standing Fort Chipewyan. Wedderburn, by contrast, was more or less as John Clarke and his men had laid it out in 1815, a "scarcely habitable" north-facing assemblage of damp and smelly low-doored, sparsely windowed, hand-hewn, moss-chinked log buildings with its own approximation of a pointed log palisade surrounding the installation. Behind the "fort" was a huge cliff — good for defense, bad for keeping direct sunlight out of the buildings for six months of the year. And in front, off to the right, barely ten paces from Fort Wedderburn itself, was a most vexatious watch house built by the Nor'Westers, "an army of murderers, robbers, bullies and villains," in the summer of 1819 to intimidate the enemy.
Another good description of Fort Chipewyan is found in Eric Ross's Beyond the River and the Bay: Some Observations on the State of the Canadian Northwest in 1811 with a View to Providing the Intending Settler with an Intimate Knowledge of That Country, [University of Toronto Press, 1970, 1973] — an amazing book!
On a rocky point on the north shore of Lake Athabasca near the entrance to Slave River is Fort Chipewyan, the North West Company's headquarters for the Athabasca Country. Before 1804, it had been on the south shore of the lake as shown by Arrowsmith's map of 1811. Like most of the other important posts of the North west, Fort Chipewyan is surrounded by marshes which are much flooded in the spring and autumn. During those seasons, as at the others posts, the marshes are filled with ducks and geese. These are shot and preserved for winter use in salt which is "very plenty at this place" and which can be traded "at a very easy rate" from the Indians. Near the post is the usual garden which during part of the year relieves the endless monotony of the trader's diet. Here, as elsewhere, the diet consists largely of fish from the lake, although whenever possible, this is supplemented with moose, reindeer, and buffalo meat.
It sounds as if Athabasca Lake was a shallow lake, if they poled across the lake. In the notes to Peace River, the author tells us that Athabasca Lake was also called "The Lake of the Hills," because of the east-west running height of land between the northward running rivers such as the Athabasca, and those running to the east and Hudson Bay. The editor also describes the lake as a "picturesque and beautiful sheet of cold, clear, snow-fed crystal water," about two hundred miles long and about forty-five miles wide. At the west end of the lake the Athabasca River continues its flow north, but is now called the Riviere des Rochers. A few miles upriver is the mouth of the Peace River, which unites with the Riviere des Rochers and flows north under the name of Slave River. It is the Peace River we are interested in, of course. This is the river that will carry Governor Simpson west into New Caledonia.
Tuesday 12th. Boisterous weather during the whole of last night and to-day. Men could do nothing to their canoes. Mine remains here, and we take another in its stead of rather a larger size..
Wednesday 13th. Weather much changed. Making every preparation to start tomorrow. The Governor closed his public correspondence for the season this side of the Rocky Mountains, among which is a Chief Factor's Commission for Mr. Peter Warren Dease. All the Chipewyans are within reach of the Fort, and came in to-day and had an audience with the Governor. Mr. James Heron was introduced to them as the successor of Mr. William McGillivray, who accompanies us to-morrow for the west side of the mountains, family and all. All the buildings about this place are in a state of decay. Gardens not very extensive…
Thursday 14th. Constant rain again the whole of this forenoon, and could not start before half-past twelve. Mr. McGillivray embarks with the Doctor [Hamlyn], and I have the honor of taking a place with the Governor in his canoe…
And so they have departed from Fort Chipewyan and will begin their journey, via the Slave River and the Peace, to the west side of the Rocky Mountains. If you want to go to the beginning of this thread, click here: https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/two-canoes-one/
This is the Governor Simpson thread (there is also a John Work thread at this point). When the next Governor Simpson post is written, it will appear here: https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/two-canoes-thirteen/
When the next post in this series (probably John Work's) is written, it will appear here: https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/two-canoes-twelve/
Copyright Nancy Marguerite Anderson, 2017. All rights reserved.
- John Work's journey from Moose Lake to the Red Deer River
- 1843 Brigade Trail: Green Lake to Horse Lake


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This past January, upon seeing a demo of IntoNow, we noted that the media check-in game just changed. Apparently, Yahoo agreed — they've just acquired the company for something in the range of $20 to $30 million, sources with knowledge of the deal tell us.
There are a couple fascinating layers here. First of all, IntoNow launched just 12 weeks ago. That's $0 to $30 million (roughly) in just under three months. Second, Yahoo moved fast — really fast — to get this deal done. And they had to — Facebook and Twitter were interested as well, we hear.
Yahoo's maneuvering here seems to be the opposite of the way they handled the Foursquare negotiations (or should we say, didn't handle them). We hear that pretty much immediately after IntoNow launched, Yahoo reached out about a possible deal. Music ID service Shazam was also said to be very interested at the time along with one other player in the TV space. But Yahoo SVPs Bill Shaughnessy and Blake Irving wanted to get this deal done bad and they pushed Yahoo to make it so.
Of course, Facebook and Twitter entering the picture during the due diligence period likely helped as well. While both of those companies are said to have had "informal" talks with IntoNow in the past month, Twitter, in particular, was seen as very interested in the space. In other words, don't be too surprised if they make a move to scoop up one of IntoNow's competitors — GetGlue, Miso, etc. — as they continue to explore the relationship with television content.
But the competitors lack the audio tracing technology that IntoNow brings to the table. It has helped the service gain traction quickly. We hear they already have between 500,000 and a million users, even though they're iPhone-only currently. And the amount of content tagged was at a million after just one month, but they're way past that now.
Now the big question: what will Yahoo do with IntoNow?
It will continue to be very much supported as well as integrated across some of Yahoo's other properties, we're hearing right now. And Yahoo's resources should help them expand to Android, iPad, etc. The entire team of seven is expected to join Yahoo full time with IntoNow CEO Adam Cahan becoming a VP on the product/tech side of things.
While it did only launch 12 weeks ago, IntoNow did have a slightly more complicated beginning. Technically, they were spun out of Auditude, a video monetization startup that raised a second round of funding in January and saw Cahan transition out as CEO to start this new project. Rather than raise a new round of funding right away, IntoNow took some of the Auditude capital in exchange for an ownership share.
Still, thanks to a mostly cash deal (with some stock), we hear that the investors including Greylock Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and a group of angels should be very happy with the quick deal.


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This is a large cart used in Japanese festivals. It is pulled through the streets by several dozen people using two large ropes attached to the front. Usually priests ride the cart. This is an image which I drew as an illustration for the book "
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Washington State covers a land area of 66,544.06 square feet, according to the 2000 U.S. Census Bureau statistics. The state features vistas that include snow-capped mountains; Pacific coast beaches, lakes and streams; and national parks filled with evergreen trees. Though the state boasts a plethora of ski destinations, it also offers more than 200 golf courses, most of which open when winter thaws into spring. Golf resorts have courses that meander through Washington's diverse mountainous terrain.
The Resort at Port Ludlow
The Resort at Port Ludlow sits on the shores of Ludlow Bay, just a ferry ride away from Seattle. This golf resort features 18 holes of golf—two nine-hole courses lined with evergreen trees and overlooking the Olympic and Cascade Mountains. Golfers face natural water hazards that include streams, lakes and swamps with cedar stumps; deer often visit golfers on the course. The Audubon Society has designated this course a Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary because of its natural landscape. Its Boat-in and Play package includes two nights at Port Ludlow Marina, 18 holes of golf for one or nine holes for two, and a $25 voucher at The Fireside restaurant. Accommodations consist of 37 guest rooms and houses; all accommodations have fireplace, private balcony or patio, free wireless Internet and hot tubs.
The Resort at Port Ludlow
One Heron Road
Port Ludlow, WA 98365
Suncadia Resort
Suncadia Resort is located on the eastern slopes of the Cascade Mountains on the shores of the Cle Elum River. This AAA Four Diamond Award resort is approximately 80 miles southeast of Seattle. It boasts 36 holes of golf surrounded by pine forests and granite mountain peaks. Prospector golf course offers mountain views; and in 2006, Golf Digest named this course one of the Best New Public Courses. Golf, Stay and Play packages include deluxe accommodations and a round of golf per person. Glade Spring Spa offers spa services and has four hot outdoor mineral baths of varying temperatures. The golfers massage works tense muscles using warm compresses and essential oils. Accommodations include lodges, 18 guest rooms and rental homes with fireplaces, private balconies, refrigerators and LCD televisions.
Suncadia Resort
3600 Suncadia Trail
Cle Elum, WA 98922
Skamania Lodge
Skamania Lodge sits on 175 forested acres in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. Located 45 miles east of Portland, Oregon, this golf resort is near 70 waterfalls, including Multnomah Falls. Designed by Bunny Mason, the resort's 18-hole golf course is surrounded by mountain cliffs overlooking the Columbia River. Wildlife such as deer, turtles, geese and raccoons frequently visit the meadows and ponds along the course. The Bigfoot Family Golf Program, offered between June and September, designates specific evenings for families to play on a modified nine-hole course with mascot Earl's footsteps serving as markers along the course. The Golf and Spa Escape package consists of a round of golf, a $100 credit to Waterleaf Spa and complete access to spa facilities. All 254 guest rooms have flat-panel televisions with video games.
Skamania Lodge
1131 SW Skamania Lodge Way
Stevenson, WA 98648
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Social organization forms in fish groups have been very poorly studied. However, NELISSEN (1985)
found that Melanochromis auratus (BOULENGER, 1897) establishes linear rank orders in
aquarium tanks. This Mbuna cichlid (Lake Malawi) is closely related to all other species of the
ten Mbuna genera (RIBBINK et al., 1983) belonging to the very complex community (Mbuna is a
community of a monophyletic species flock; FRYER and ILES, 1972). After this study the question
arose whether other Mbuna cichlids have the same kind of social organization. In order to find
out about this a study of M. johanni (ECCLES, 1983), Pseudotropheus
« ornatus » (not yet described) and P. lombardoi (BURGESS, 1979) was
carried out. A few groups of M. auratus were also observed in order to make a comparison
between the four species. Individuals of the same species were kept in groups of 3 to 6 members.
The colour patterns and their changes were described, the length of the individuals was measured
and the agonistic acts (full display, chasing, circle fighting, mouth fighting, quivering,
avoiding and fleeing) were recorded. These recordings of aggression and aggression inhibition
were converted into interaction matrices for analysis. All three species establish a linear rank
order in aquaria similar to the dominance hierarchy formed in groups of M. auratus (see
NELISSEN, 1985). In these rank orders interactions are ordered: - the interactions depend upon
the status of the animals in question. - neighbouring animals in the hierarchy interact more
frequently with each other then [sic] with other group members.


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Hallowed Fountain
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Color: LandCard Text: (T: Add W or U to your mana pool.)As Hallowed Fountain enters the battlefield, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, Hallowed Fountain enters the battlefield tapped.Rarity: RCard Type: Land - Plains IslandArtist: Jung ParkName: Hallowed FountainFinish: RegularCard Number: 241/274Set Name: Return to RavnicaCategory: Return to Ravnica


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Glengoyne Distillery
Glasgow School of Art
The Jolomo Studio
Glengoyne has commissioned John Lowrie Morrison OBE Aka JOLOMO .. to paint a collection of seasonal paintings inspired by Glengoyne Distillery.
Each of the four paintings will be printed on Limited Edition Whisky Gift Tins and released annually until 2019, with Glengoyne making a donation to The Mack Appeal .. to help Glasgow School of Art recover from the 2014 fire.
'Autumn Moon Over Glengoyne' is the first in the series from Jolomo and was officially inveiled on Monday 10.th. October 2016 at Glengoyne and Glasgow School of Art.
The four year collaboration is expected to raise approximately £ 50.000 for The Mack Restoration Appeal Fund.
Photographs of –
Alan Horn GSA Director of Development
Iain Weir Marketing Director @ Ian MacLeod Distillers
John Lowrie Morrison Artist
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Well, I'm only a whole MONTH late making this announcement... but our beautiful second daughter made her appearance on November 21st! We've been a little (ha!) busy since then moving across the country (more on that later), so I'll just leave you with this for now!
Welcome to the world, Josephine Jayne! We are so glad we get to be your parents and that we got an extra 20 days with you... if pre-eclampsia is good for anything, it's extra snuggles! :)
Friday, December 22, 2017
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The Ornithological Council is planning a minor revision to the Guidelines to the Use of Wild Birds in Research. This foundational publication, now in its third edition, provides an in-depth guide to the animal welfare considerations when performing research involving wild birds, including ethical considerations and the legal framework that must be followed by researchers. Topics include investigator impact generally, collecting and trapping, marking, transport, housing and captive breeding, minor and major manipulative procedures, and euthanasia.
The last edition was published in 2010. The Ornithological Council is interested in compiling updated references from the last 10 years so we can include those in the next update. If you are aware of a methods paper relevant to a topic covered in the Guidelines, please submit the citation (and if you have it, a PDF of the paper or a link to it) to Laura Bies (firstname.lastname@example.com). Also submit papers that are not methods papers per se but assess the impact of the study methods.
We are also looking for volunteers to coordinate the literature reviews for each chapter. If you are interested in volunteering, contact Laura Bies at email@example.com.
The chapters in the Guidelines are:
- Introduction
- Impact of Investigator Presence
- Capture and Marking
- Transport of Wild Bird
- Captive Management
- Minor Manipulative Procedures
- Major Manipulative Procedures
- Scientific Collecting
The 2010 edition of Guidelines is available here.


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This is an ambitiously creative crossover of classics, time travel, and the definition of love.
The scope of this book is impressive!! Time-travel always leaves me flummoxed — like how does your brain not spin while you write things in the future to rewrite the past but also preserve the past but also capture the future!!!! The foreshadowing here! The details! The way a seemingly random event NOW turns out to be a pivotal moment later. It all ties up so neatly at the end too, with the twisty plot coming together and characters' arcs and tales weaving together in a satisfying conclusion.
The story follows a mashup of famous classics. We're set in the not-so-distant future in London. Enter Romeo x Juliet but also Wuthering Heights! (I also think there were other Shakespeare plays mentioned?) Add time travel into that and it's super creative. It both modernises the old classics and also pays homage to their century-old origins. Ellis is such a sweetheart and Jules is so badass.
I do think knowing the original classics would give the reader more depth as they read Waking Romeo. I unfortunately don't know either classic 😭 so I'm sure I didn't catch a lot of layers and references.
As for the idea of having faith? Nobody worships God anymore; we just worship the past.
It also really delves into the topic of love. What it is. What it means. Unpacks instalove — the good and bad versions. And it said a lot about how we mentally rewrite situations to feel better about them. Like Juliet (Jules) is a grungy teen who tried to kill herself when she thought her "true love" (Romeo) died. While they both survive (though Romeo is in a coma), Jules starts writing their story as a play in the style of Shakespeare. But she writes a romantic version of true love. Reality? Not so simple. Add in a ton of time-travel and brain-bending as they manipulate fate — it's a whirlwind.
Overall, it's a mind-twisty story full of reveals and secrets that will definitely keep you guessing!
"Hell is…" he says again, like he is trying to say more, yet cannot.
Jules answers him with a gentle, "I love you."
What if Juliet Capulet met someone who made her doubt true love? What if Wuthering Heights was a message to a time traveller? A cosmic reimagining of Romeo and Juliet and homage to two literary classics in a compelling novel about fate, love and time travel from an award-winning author.
It's the end of the world. Literally. Time travel is possible, but only forwards. And only a handful of families choose to remain in the 'now', living off the scraps that were left behind. Among these are eighteen-year-old Juliet and the love of her life, Romeo. But things are far from rosy for Jules. Romeo is in a coma and she's estranged from her friends and family, dealing with the very real fallout of their wild romance. Then a handsome time traveller, Ellis, arrives with an important mission that makes Jules question everything she knows about life and love. Can Jules wake Romeo and rewrite her future?
A highly original mashup that delights as it disorients … and asks what would have happened if two great literary love stories were somehow intertwined.
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Thanks to Allen and Unwin for the Review Copy!


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Business & Civic Organizations
American Business Women's Association
The American Business Women's Association (ABWA) is a national association of working women founded in 1949.
General Federation of Woman's Clubs
As women volunteers, they are united and dedicated to providing service to Hermitage's governing bodies, educational systems, health causes, and in particular women's issues that unite them in understanding various issues and opportunities for friendships.
Girl Scouts & Boy Scouts
Girl Scouting is committed to helping all girls from every background to develop the confidence, determination, and skills needed to thrive in today's world. The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated to provide a program for community organizations that offers effective character, citizenship, and personal fitness training for youth.
Hermitage Historical Society
The Hermitage Historical Society was incorporated in 1996.
Hermitage Kiwanis
Kiwanis is a Native American expression word meaning "self-expression" or "to make oneself known."
Hermitage Volunteer Fire Department
The Hermitage and Patagonia Volunteer Fire Departments have been serving the citizens of Hermitage for over 50 years, The officers and members of these departments receive no compensations, and their reward for their time and labor to respond to emergency incidents is simply the satisfaction of serving the citizens of Hermitage in their time of need.
Hickory VFW Post 6166
A Veterans' of Foreign Wars organization.
Mercer County League of Women Voters
The organization's purpose is to promote political responsibility of citizens by informed and active participation in their government.
Rotary Club of Hermitage
Hermitage Rotary was founded in 1954. Members are proud to serve our community and the world, by awarding two scholarships yearly to local high school students, donating money/assisting other service organizations and help beautify the city by planting flowers at East State Street and Shenango Valley Freeway.
Sharon Lions Club
Their charter name is the Sharon Lions Club; however their service area includes Hermitage, Sharon, Sharpsville, and Brookfield, OH, and membership is open to all adults.
Shenango Valley YMCA
The Shenango Valley YMCA helps people develop values and behavior that are consistent with Christian principles.


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A man charged in the latest drug bust near Jefferson City was out on appeal for charges of first-degree robbery, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon. Terrill Reynolds also has prior convictions on two counts of forcible rape and second-degree assault.
Reynolds was just arrested on Thursday with two other women during a drug raid at 4804 Westport Drive, near South Country Club Drive. Jefferson City police confirm Reynolds sold undercover officers meth between March and April. Investigators say the transaction was recorded on video.
Members of the sheriff's department and MUSTANG drug task force carried out the search warrant Thursday. They found three bags of marijuana, meth paraphernalia and hypodermic needles.
Prosecutors also say Reynolds admitted to being a heavy cocaine and meth user.