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Using TEDEd for Active Learning
Sharonda Bishop, Instructor from Cal Poly Pomona, uses TEDEd to incorporate video learning of instructional material via Q&A, adding in-depth resources on the topic, and having a discussion board with the learners.
QLT Objectives Met
QLT Section 4: Student Interaction and Community
- Objective: 4.4 Learning activities facilitate and support active learning that encourages frequent and ongoing peer–to–peer engagement.
QLT Section 6: Technology for Teaching and Learning
- Objective: 6.2 Technological tools and resources used in the course enable student engagement and active learning.
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- Material Type: Assignment
- Author: Sharonda Bishop, Instructor
- Institution: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
- Date Created: 2021-02-15
- Course Format: Hybrid / Blended
QM Standard Equivalents
- QM General Standard 5: Learning Activities and Learner Interaction
- Standard: 5.2 Learning activities provide opportunities for interaction that support active learning.
- QM General Standard 6: Course Technology
- Standard: 6.3 A variety of technology is used in the course.


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BELGRADE, SERBIA (Aug. 14th, 2018) – Review.Network, a blockchain-based startup that is focused on enhancement of the review and market research sector, revealed today that it managed to successfully obtain $1.4 million (USD) from seed investors. The capital backing, which was also provided by private investors, will be allocated to paying the team and to the platform's developmental process.
The "the Yelp! Of Blockchain," as it is often referred to, currently has 100,000 beta users and it is backed up by a group of experienced individuals in areas such as tech, academia, and financing. The company also announced the official start date of its Initial Coin Offering (ICO), which is planned to begin on Sept. 1st, 2018.
"Worldwide, consumers often form opinions and make decisions — like where to eat, sleep, drink, play and even work — based on online reviews," stated the CEO and Co-Founder of Review Network, Filip Karaicic.
He went on to point out the two most important issues which are currently plaguing the review industry today: efficacy and transparency. As reports and data have revealed, people are more inclined to giving reviews when they went through a negative experience with the service or product, meaning that an accurate representation is not given for all sides of the matter; and there are also many fake reviews.
Karaicic states that through the use of a distributed ledger and AI [artificial intelligence] technologies, they have developed a way to incentivize reviews and guarantee their accuracy.
"We also figured out a way to allow brands to tap into our validated reviewer base for market research. This funding, which we're thrilled to announce, validates our approach and will help us develop this event even faster."
According to the detailed whitepaper of Review Network, their platform was developed to improve the effectiveness and transparency in two simple implementations. The first one comprises a well-calculated token economics system which monetarily rewards and motivates the contributors that are beneficial to the community and penalizes those that are not.
The second implementation involves the platform's decentralized community consensus system which enables the community to self-regulate. For instance, when a review is written, it then goes through a validation process conducted by selected community members (the selection is made either by reputation, by blind auction, at random or considering how much stake they own in the system).
Also, the network will serve as a convenient medium through which companies can directly connect with users that make reviews, thus securing the most honest and accurate market research. The platform will be used in all types of industries (restaurant, hotels, etc.), and will be made available in Beta mode in Q4 of this year. When it will be in its Beta version stage, the platform will be accessible to its 100,000 Beta users.
The team behind Review Network is comprised of over 30 experienced and qualified staff members, which include names such as: Robert Golladay – former head of the European branch of IBM's digital business automation business; Reinhard Fellmann, Ph.D. – former Morgan Stanley investment banker and London School of Economics and Political Science lecturer; and Ivan Bjelajac – a former GoDaddy Director (EU).
Currently, the company is in its presale stage, with the launching date of the ICO being set on Sept. 1st, 2018. There are ongoing discussions with many popular exchanges including OKEx, Huobi, Cryptopia, Bitfinex, Bittrex, Kraken, Poloniex, Bibox, Bcex and hitBTC, to list the token on their platforms.
Review.Network Information
By offering a medium through which companies and consumers can directly interact, Review.Network can change the way companies do their market research. A precisely targeted user community will be incentivized to truthfully reply to surveys and review products and services through a reward system. This reward system will also lead to the creation of a social network with valuable feedback, which will produce unbiased and relevant data for companies in a key population sector.
For additional information, contact the following address: [email protected]
Media Pages:
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQSoy59YJl__jUevptJChmA
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ReviewNetworkOfficial/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/ReviewNetworkHQ
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/review-network/
- Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ReviewNetworkHQ/
- Medium: https://medium.com/reviewnetwork
- Telegram Community: https://t.me/reviewnetworkCommunity
- Telegram Announcments: https://t.me/reviewnetwork

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City Hall closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr Holiday
Mayor Scott Schertzer announced that City Hall will be closed on Monday, Jan. 20, in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. However, some city departments will operate on a regular or modified schedule for the day.
- Sanitation crews will collect garbage and recycling Monday. Customers who normally have refuse collected Monday are requested to have their collections at curbside by 7 a.m.
- Marion Area Transit will observe normal business hours.
- The Marion Senior Center will be closed.
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In 1972—before the internet, before the porn explosion—Deep Throat was a phenomenon: the first scripted pornographic theatrical feature film, featuring a story, some jokes, and an unknown and unlikely star, Linda Lovelace. Escaping a strict religious family, Linda discovered freedom and the high-life when she fell for and married charismatic hustler Chuck Traynor. As Linda Lovelace she became an international sensation—less centerfold fantasy than a charming girl-next-door with an impressive capacity for fellatio. Fully inhabiting her new identity, Linda became an enthusiastic spokesperson for sexual freedom and uninhibited hedonism. Six years later she presented another, utterly contradictory, narrative to the world—and herself as the survivor of a far darker story.
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For those concerned with the impact and lifecycle of construction materials, BEES is a new design tool that helps designers and consumers make informed decisions. Construction and manufacturing have a significant effect on the environment. Cooper-Hewitt's Exhibitions department specifies, purchases, and uses many materials in our exhibits. We strive to be as environmentally sensitive as possible, but determining which materials are truly green is not as simple as using a single criterion, such as low VOC emission. Single-attribute claims may be misleading because they fail to account for other impacts that occur in the lifecycle stages of a material—how it is harvested, manufactured, packaged, transported, and ultimately disposed of. In 1994, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Healthy and Sustainable Buildings Program started the Building Environmental and Economic Sustainability project (BEES) project to address these issues. NIST developed the BEES software using scientific principles for selecting building products that achieve a balance between environmental and economic performance, based on the decision maker's values. The final score shows which materials have the greatest and least impact on the environment, from cradle to grave, and also helps determine the relative cost-effectiveness of the material. Materials are evaluated using the following criteria, weighted for their relative importance (depending on the weight set you select): • Ozone depletion • Acidification • Indoor air quality • Smog formation • Noncancerous effects • Habitat alteration • Eutrophication (mineral deposits causing algae growth) • Ecological toxicity • Cancerous effects • Water intake • Criteria air pollutants • Fossil fuel depletion • Global warming BEES is supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. EPA Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program; and the USDA has an expanded version of BEES that supports bio-based products eligible for preferred Federal purchasing. According to the agency, "While the BEES tool has been primarily used to evaluate building products to date, its evaluation methods are applicable to any product, used for any purpose." If nothing else, you may gain an appreciation of how complex the manufacturing of every material in your life really is. A new version of the software is now available online for free: http://www.nist.gov/el/economics/BEESSoftware.cfm
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Petite Nala is from the "N Pup" litter born in July 2021 and we are currently taking applications for them. They will be ready for homes at the end of September. We welcome you to apply, but please be sure you have the time, patience and energy to raise a puppy before applying.
If you think you might be interested in adopting, your first step should be to complete an Adoption Application. After you have completed your application, you will immediately get a confirmation that we have received your application. It takes a lot of time to process the applications, so we ask for your patience while we do so. If you see that the dog you were interested in has been adopted it means there were many applications for that dog and we did not get as far as processing your application before a home was found. We welcome you to apply again if you see another dog that interests you. If you have a question, please email your question to email@example.com. It is much easier and quicker for us to respond by email as we receive many phone calls each day. Completing an application does not commit you to adopt, but please be sure that you are serious about adopting and have the time and patience to raise a puppy before you apply.
We do adopt out of state, however we do not transport or ship dogs. Potential adopter must be able and willing to travel to the Rescue to meet the dog they are interested in.
*PLEASE double check all of the phone numbers that you provide as if they are incorrect, we will be unable to process your application. Please also let your references know that someone from NCCR will be calling them. Most adoption team members call from their personal phone so advise your references that there may be an unknown number or a private number calling them.
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Pass the Mic: 15 Big Hits Not Sung by the Lead Singer
"Beth," "Sister Christian" and more smashes performed by unlikely vocalists
While there are many bands without even one good vocalist, some groups are blessed with several. Think of the Cars, the Commodores or the Beatles, all of whom had multiple hit singles with different band members taking turns at the microphone. Sometimes, however, a band gives a member who isn't the usual lead singer a chance in the vocal booth. Occasionally, it's even the drummer, and now and then, the resulting track becomes a huge smash, maybe even big enough that it overshadows everything else the band has ever done.
In our modern age of careful brand management by corporate A&R guys, we don't see that sort of fluke hit very often, but consider these 15 examples of when a band's hierarchy got upended and a popular single was sung by somebody other than the usual lead singer.
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TOOELE, Utah – The owner of a female husky faces a slew of charges after the dog allegedly killed more than two dozen animals in the backyards of at least two Utah homes in just a couple of hours, according to KSTU.
Police caught the culprit – a 4-year old husky – and now her owner is facing nearly 30 misdemeanor charges.
One of the Tooele residents who lost several animals, Trip Kiss, runs a petting zoo with his wife to teach animal husbandry to children with disabilities. Chickens, ducks, peacocks, a turkey and a tortoise, are just a few of the zoo's residents.
In the early morning hours of Memorial Day, he said his motion sensors went off. When Kiss looked at the surveillance video, it showed a husky running around his yard and driveway. He said the husky was targeting his animals.
"He was chewing our goose that was at the back end there, he dug out the rabbits in their enclosure," Kiss explained.
In the video, Kiss said the Husky can be seen carrying away two rabbits. It trots out of the camera's view and into the dark.
When Kiss realized what was happening, he said the husky had already killed several of his animals.
"Two rabbits, two ducks, five chickens, a turkey, a goose," Kiss said.
He said the goose was specially trained.
"The goose was so friendly," Kiss said. "It would follow us around at Renaissance fairs, charities."
Kiss said the husky took the animals and scattered them in a two-block radius around his home. He spotted the husky in his neighborhood with one of his chickens still alive in the dog's mouth.
"The dog continued to chew on it, and it died in the dog's mouth, and he dropped it," Kiss said.
He called police, and Tooele Police Sergeant Jeremy Hansen said they found out Kiss wasn't the only animal owner affected.
"A second lady from a couple houses down came and told the officers that 15 of her chickens had also been killed by the same animal," Sgt. Hansen said.
It took a couple of hours, but they finally caught the husky and brought her to the shelter to contact the owner.
Mackenzie Morton said she got the call from the shelter to explain they had her 4-year old husky, Nikita.
Morton said Nikita went missing from her boyfriend's home, which isn't far from Kiss' house.
"I didn't know where she went, because it was dark at night," Morton explained.
She said she looked for Nikita, and came across a few dead chickens in a neighbor's yard.
Nikita took off from there, Morton said, and she couldn't find her after that. Morton said she didn't want to wake the neighbors, so she kept the door cracked open at the house for Nikita to return.
"I didn't think she was going to go on a killing spree," Morton told KSTU. "I did not know that, at all."
She said what Nikita did left her in shock because her husky hasn't acted like that before.
Morton is now offering an apology to the homeowners.
"That's not fair," Morton said, getting choked up. "And I'm so sorry."
For Kiss, he said he isn't mad at the dog. He explained that he's more upset that more wasn't done to catch the husky when she escaped or to alert the neighbors to the dead chickens right away.
"I feel anger," Kiss said. "I feel anger toward the owner, because she could have prevented this."
Sgt. Hansen said the officer cited Morton with 27 counts of misdemeanor attacking animals and one count of misdemeanor animal running at large.
He said the city attorney is screening the case for the final charges.
Nikita is in quarantine at the animal shelter. Sgt. Hansen said after the 10-day quarantine is up, an administrative hearing will determine what to do with the husky.


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it gives me great pleasure to present to you the new and extended version of Lone Survivor which is now entitled:
'The Director's Cut'
first, allow me to let the launch trailer* speak for itself:
*(trailer by childhood friend and collaborator Caspar Newbolt of Version Industries)
so what is The Director's Cut, exactly?
i won't try to describe the original game again, much has already been written and said about it, and i prefer to leave the interpretations up to the players. especially with interactive media, everyone's perception of a story is different and, to me, equally valid.
Lone Survivor has been lucky enough to have found a following, all of whom have their own interpretation of the game. and for those fans especially, i have made The Director's Cut. it contains some elements which didn't quite make it to the original game because they seemed too elaborate and i needed to get the game out, it contains a lot of new ideas which i've had since releasing the last update a year and a half ago (and having since had time to think more about my own interpretation), and it has a sort of meta-narrative which ties it all together which emerged as i began to work on it.
on top of this, the game has been polished, fixed, tweaked and honed in hundreds of different ways. i spent weeks improving the look of the lighting, and even found and fixed bugs that the 800,000+ people who own the game had hadn't yet reported!
the PC + Mac release, on Steam and the game's website, won't be far behind. in other words, it will be out as soon as i can physically do it. it will take time as it's not a simple port, but it is my next priority and i will have more news about this soon.
i originally planned to do a fairly straight port of the original game, but when Sony said they'd be interested in new content, i started to think about whether i could implement some of these ideas. and i got a bit carried away with it. i thought it would take about six weeks, but it ended up taking around nine months!
i've been working tirelessly alongside Curve Studios for the whole period, not just creating the new content, but making sure the ports and all their related marketing materials are up to my (i now realise) stupidly fussy standards: drawing PS3 background images and store images myself, searching 7 years of old hard drives to re-source all the audio so that we didn't convert from the .mp3 format the original game uses to the .ogg format that the PlayStation uses, rather, from the original .wav masters – for a marginal improvement in audio quality that only musos will hear. i've spent many a night uploading endlessly tweaked Photoshop marketing images to the Curve servers at 3am, or rewriting the cloud-save interface to look more 'Lone Survivor', repeatedly redrawing the PlayStation button images until i found the most beautiful '6/7/8/9 pixel circle', playing the different paths through the game time after time alongside the QA department. i have had endless email debates with the production team and Sony on how to make the trophies as cool-yet-unobtrusive as possible, i have designed the competition prizes by hand, the list goes on and on… and that's to say nothing of the hard work Curve put in on their side!
to my knowledge, anything that could be done to make the experience better has been done, and Curve totally got that these kinds of details were important to me, and humoured me time and time again when i asked for things to be tweaked. Sony were amazing to work with (and i must send special love out to Shahid Kamal who helped make it happen in the first place), listening to my outlandish requests, and even allowing me to be one of the first ever third-party games to mess with the Trophy format, certainly the first predominantly made by one person… yes, it's been an almighty task, but we got there in the end.
Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut is out today on PSN in USA + EU
(priced $12.99 / €12.99 / £9.99)
i hope you enjoy the game
– jasper
The Changes
i knew the fans would be the most sensitive to changes in the game, so to me the challenge was to go back and improve the original game without in any way changing or spoiling the original vision. for this reason, i decided to make the majority of the new content, including the two new endings, only accessible in New Game+. so when you play the game for the first time, it should feel as before, only far more polished and nicer to look at and listen to. but when explore it for the second time, you may discover an entire extra layer to it…
it's been really hard to keep the details to myself for so long, but the game's secrets are no doubt being discovered right at this very moment by the fans. i greatly look forward to hearing what you think of the new content, so be sure to share your thoughts here (or via email, see address at top-right, if you'd prefer) if you do get a chance to play it.
anyway, here's a rundown of the new features of Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut (without spoiling the specifics of its content):
general features:
- whole new lighting engine, also supports 1 extra hardware light
- many locations have additional lights and / or tweaked lighting
- anamorphic lens flare for the flashlight
- new sleeping and game over music
- new title screen and game over screen
- 2 additional locations
- new gamma settings, saving of gamma and aspect settings
- new expert mode
- hundreds of small bug fixes, balance tweaks and improvements
- automatic monster-facing on gun-draw
- a few small easter eggs
- new short sidequest
- ending 'collection'
- 'The Ritual'
specific to New Game+:
- around 6 new locations
- 2 completely new endings
- 3 new songs
- over 20 new items
- 2 new sidequests
- new enemy
- new dialogue for all characters in the game
- many other easter eggs that are better left unspoilt
specific to PlayStation:
- trophies (including a platinum)
- cloud-save (cross-play)
- French & German languages (EU)
- Cross Buy (buy on one format, get both PS Vita and PS3 versions)
- controller support!
specific to PS Vita:
- touchscreen controls for inventory, option screen & textboxes
specific to PS3:
- rumbbbbbbbllllle
(new titlescreen on PC, to show it is actually in the works!)
Competitions! Competitions! Competitions!
we are also going to be giving out prizes that i designed myself, to the press to run competitions and so on. i spent a long time on them to hopefully make them really exclusive and unique:
5 super-limited 'First Aid Edition' art-card prints, signed and individually numbered by myself
(now only 5 more exist and i'll be keeping them for posterity!)
super limited edition physical prints of the game soundtrack in vintage PS2 survival horror style (i had fun making these and they look really cool in the flesh)
actual Sleepy Cat plushies (from my original sketch on the right) made by sukisuki.co.uk
(… yes, Sleepy Cat is real!)
for more information about the competitions and prizes, or to request a press kit / review code, please contact:


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Ward Maillard: Well, we did the warm up. That was before the race, now after the race we have to do the warm downs. I was having the wonderful experience of taking visual notes during the last few days, and there are some "thought chickens" too that may be worthwhile. I even have a "thought elephant," I've never had one of those before.
Vivian Wright: You're getting out of control.
Ward Maillard: It really is true. There was one thought chicken that said, "What makes 'busy' safe?" That was a gift from Valerio. "What make's busy safe?"
There was, "Not talking verses listening," courtesy of Ryan.
Of course there was "The man in the sombrero," from Angeles. All of us guys are going out to buy sombreros. Also the "silver haired lady with the doe eyes." I'm fortunate to be married to a brunette haired lady with the doe eyes, and so I know who I'm throwing my sombrero to.
Here is a question to go home with. "We have chosen to be here. Why?" You chose to be here. I have infinite gratitude to the people who say, "yes" because you have come into the commons. Peter and I were talking about it a little bit this morning, and the thing that really struck me dead center this time was the notion of "the commons," and that we are meeting on that commons. We're taking back the commons in a sense, because the commons, to some extent, have been co-opted. So this becomes the "restoration of the commons."
And, there was what Peter was saying about language this morning, "in a word is a world." And in fact, when we name the world, it comes into existence. In the Vedic tradition, in the creation hymns, it talks about the sages sitting in a circle to name the world into existence. To name something for what it really is means to enter into an intimacy with that thing in order to name it. What comes from sitting in the circle and naming the world into existence, is friendship, and community. Community happens when strangers enter the room, and are willing to sit together and name the world.
I was also thinking about the restoration of the commons because the notion of transformation or development, the things that need to be fixed. We don't need to be fixed. I think, inherently within us is a kind of perfection that becomes inhibited by stories that don't serve us. So point to the "re-storying," – "restoring the commons" – "re-storying the commons." This is the work that Chene Swart, who I hope we will have with us again next year, and her work in Narrative Therapy. As our departed friend, Sri said, "The world is not made up of atoms it's made up of stories." So, what is the story that we're bringing into the world, and how is it serving us and how is it serving the world.
In the restoring of the commons, the commons is the place where we take the time to find the words to express a possibility that can't be named by anyone else. So the possibility that we all are, in this circle, can't be named by anyone else. And that's powerful.
For those within this Mount Madonna community who show up, what they're doing is bringing their flowering., bringing the nutrients in the earth that get drawn up through the roots of this community. And the people who come from outside the community, or better from the extended community, because there is no outside, are bringing their nurturance and the nutrients to this place, that make this community strong. There's an exchange on the commons here that vitalizes the lives of those who are in the community and puts vitality out into the world.
I am struck with profound gratitude for this magnificent play group. It is a three-day play date. What a wonderful luxury. The gift that Peter and Angeles and Vivian bring; it's the confidence to be humble with their gifts. It's the gentle firing of the rockets on the space-craft as it orients itself towards its destination. It's done with a lightness and a generosity of spirit. I always noticed that Peter names the gifts in the room so that we can find them. He sees me and so I can show up.
The thing that I didn't share (from the assignment, "Make a sentence about what you are bringing into the world") because I thought in some ways it was so obvious that I was a little embarrassed to read it, but it's a declaration, "that I'm bringing a world of greater awareness into being by listening, reflecting and noticing people's gifts." That's what I think, Peter, you do for so many people. You notice their gifts. And in that process there's a reflection where people suddenly come awake to who they are.
And Vivian, your gift of wild humor and your bullets and flowers, they're not a bandoleer, you wear them all over you, you know. The humor and the wildness to a point is so valuable.
Bob and Sampad, the gift of music.
And the students here; you're not students. You're our teachers, really. I heard some things come out of your mouths where I just went, "wow!." You know, who is teaching who? Amber was instructing us the other night about, "You have to take care of your physical being, your emotional being, your psychological being, and your spiritual being if you want to do good work in the world." And I was seeing this wise woman talking to the elders going, "Shape up guys, you have to get it together now if you want to keep going."
As we come to the end we actually come to the beginning of the next journey where we go out from here hopefully with some energy and insight, I always do. But I want you top know how much you all matter. Your showing up, how much it matters. This couldn't happen without you.
This is the commons. And this is the place where we name the possibility that only we can name. Thank you. I want to end with this gratitude and this sense of incredible well-being, because you are here.


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SVB Collapse
March 13th, 2023
Financial markets were shaken last week as Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the California bank subsidiary of SVB Financial Group (SIVB), fell into FDIC receivership. SVB is the first FDIC-insured institution to fail since 2020 and the largest by assets since Washington Mutual failed in 2008. Prior to the latest distress, the bank held more than $200 billion in assets. SVB's failure was then followed by another over the weekend, crypto-focused Signature Bank. The news, not surprisingly, caused market participants to speculate if there will be another shoe to drop. For some, these developments have brought back painful memories of the financial crisis 15 years ago.
Before explaining what happened, let's start with the most recent headlines. Sunday night we got word that the U.S. government would step in to prevent contagion by offering SVB customers access to their uninsured deposits. And by designating SVB as a systemic risk to the banking system, the Federal Reserve (Fed) and U.S. Treasury Department are able to use emergency lending authority to help prevent runs on other banks (by making it easier to borrow against depreciating securities without suffering the balance sheet damage SVB experienced). The top priority in this situation was to prevent runs on other banks, particularly the many small and mid-sized banks not under the watchful eye of the Fed and not subject to sophisticated stress tests. The Fed Board of Governors will hold a special meeting today at 11:30am ET.
Now to the 2008 comparison. Back then, the problem was far-reaching credit risk—junky mortgages on virtually every financial institution's balance sheet (and the balance sheets of many non-financial institutions). Credit risk is not the problem this time, it is interest rate risk. Rising interest rates caused the value of the bonds on SVB's balance sheet to lose value. Once those securities were marked to market, as is prescribed by accounting rules, SVB was no longer capitalized as well as it needed to be, prompting the FDIC to place the bank in receivership.
But that wasn't the whole story. SVB's niche customer base was another big problem. Its emphasis on early-stage venture capital customers meant its deposit base was more concentrated and less sticky. Many of those start-up companies burned through a lot of cash recently, while funding options such as initial public offerings dried up.
One other unique element of this story is SVB's mismanagement of its balance sheet. Its heavy exposure to interest rate sensitive Treasury and other government securities, with insufficient interest rate hedging activities, left the bank particularly vulnerable to a run. Once the bank was known to be facing solvency issues, word traveled fast through the venture capital community and the deposits fled as fast as these entrepreneurs could log into their online accounts.
With the federal backstop now in place and few, if any, other large banks facing similar interest rate risk, any further spillover should be limited. One potential silver lining is the Fed will likely slow its rate hiking campaign until confidence in banks is restored, though a quarter-point hike on March 22 still seems likely.
So what should investors do? Some caution is warranted as sentiment around the banking system remains fragile. But we believe tactical investors should maintain multi-asset allocations at or near benchmark levels. And don't lose sight of opportunities to potentially add risk after the SVB distress passes. Conditions will improve before long, in our view. For longer-term, strategic investors with well-balanced allocations, we would not make any changes at this point.
In closing, SIVB's niche clientele and its balance sheet mismanagement were distinctive contributors of the bank's downfall. Meanwhile, the government's actions to backstop deposits and provide short-term funding to banks that need it, greatly reduce the odds of a systemic crisis. We may see a bit more market volatility than we would like to see in the short term, but this is not another 2008.
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The moment that I will look back at as the moment deep in my gut that I knew, was September 29, when I was flying on a plane with Governor Palin to Sedona for debate prep, watching the split screen on the TVs . . . and it showed the stock market down seven, eight hundred points; it showed the Congress voting down the bailout package on the other side, and then, House Republicans went out and told the world that the reason that they voted against this legislation, allowed the stock market to crash, allowed the economy to be so injured, was because Nancy Pelosi had given a mean and partisan speech on the floor. And this was their response. And I just viewed it as beyond devastating, and thought that at that moment running with an "R" next to your name, in this year, was probably lethal.
Got that? House Republicans "allowed the stock market to crash," and that's why John McCain lost, rather than because of Schmidt's insistence on Sept. 24 that the candidate suspend the campaign, call for a postponement of the debate, and fly to Washington to push for the unpopular $700 billion bailout. Classic.
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Healthcare IT: Savior Or Sinkhole?
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The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has done an outstanding job of promoting EHR technology through Meaningful Use financial incentives, and it has fostered a spirit of cooperation among IT stakeholders. But ONC sometimes sounds more like a cheerleader than an objective observer on the extent to which modern informatics can transform healthcare.
The jury's still out. A RAND Corporation report in 2005 predicted that the efficiency and safety improvements made possible with health IT could save the U.S. healthcare system $81 billion a year. Since 2005, however, annual health spending has soared from $2 trillion to $2.8 trillion, and quality and efficiency have improved only marginally, despite an increase in health IT adoption, according to researchers Arthur L. Kellerman and Spencer S. Jones in a newly released RAND study published in Health Affairs.
Kellerman, chair of policy analysis at RAND, and Jones, a RAND information scientist and instructor at Harvard Medical School, lay it on the line: "In our view, health IT's failure to quickly deliver on its promise is not due to its lack of potential but to shortcomings in the design and implementation of health IT systems. ... As a result, we believe that the anticipated productivity gains of health IT are being hindered by the sluggish pace of adoption, the reluctance of many clinicians to invest the considerable time and effort required to master difficult-to-use technology, and the failure of many healthcare systems to implement the process changes required to fully realize health IT's potential."
[ To see how patient engagement can help transform medical care, check out 5 Healthcare Tools To Boost Patient Involvement. ]
ONC recently boasted about paying out $10.3 billion as of December 2012 to more than 180,000 physicians and hospitals to encourage installation of EHR technology and to bolster its meaningful use in patient care. The new RAND report suggests the program isn't exactly generating meaningful savings.
Like many other observers, the RAND scientists spotlight the lack of interoperability among electronic health record systems as a key barrier. One reason: Providers "have little incentive to acquire or develop interoperable health IT systems," the authors say.
In talking with thought leaders and clinicians, I also get the impression that many healthcare providers would rather forego the incentive checks and even cough up the eventual penalty fees than deal with the aggravation of implementing an EHR system.
Although Kellerman and Jones are right to point to poor design and lack of interoperability as obstacles, the other key to turning EHRs (as well as CPOE and clinical decision support systems) into cost-effective tools is to change the healthcare payment model.
Before healthcare providers small and large will see the need for this technology, they'll have to be forced into a pay-for-performance model that requires a lean, mean operational approach to patient care. Once that financial model is fully in place, clinicians will see the value of a computer-assisted system that picks up needlessly duplicative lab tests, life-threatening drug allergies buried in paper medical records, and the like. Because without such a system, all the excessive tests and adverse patient outcomes will come out of their pay checks.
Cathy Schoen of the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation attempting to improve the U.S. healthcare system's performance, said it best: "When you pay [providers] differently -- especially emphasizing team care -- information systems become critical as they get used in an efficient and effective way, because people want to avoid duplication. ... They want real-time information on where the patient is and what's going wrong."
Health IT doesn't have to be a sinkhole in which we pour billions of dollars. And in fact many individual provider organizations have proved that it can improve quality of care and lower costs. But as a nation, we still fall woefully short of that goal.
Clinical, patient engagement, and consumer apps promise to re-energize healthcare. Also in the new, all-digital Mobile Power issue of InformationWeek Healthcare: Comparative effectiveness research taps the IT toolbox to compare treatments to determine which ones are most effective. (Free registration required.)
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Croatia's Ivan Horvat set new national record 5.70m in men's pole vault qualifying – IAAF World Championships, Beijing 2015! 5.70m is also RIO 2016 OLYMPIC GAMES entry standards!
Varaždin, Croatia (26.07.2015.) – Ivan Horvat set a new Croatian outdoor record by jumping 5.65 meters. With this result Ivan was fulfilling its norm for the upcoming World Cup in Beijing.
11.05.2013 in Split was held the international athletics meeting "Split 2013", where Ivan Horvat set a new Croatian outdoor record by jumping 5.61 meters.
All the main protagonists cruised into tomorrow's pole vault final during a low-key qualification. In Pool A European No.2 Bjorn Otto of Germany and Greece's Konstadinos Filippidis both cleared the automatic qualification height of 5.75m at the first time of asking. Renaud Lavillenie led the qualifiers from pool B with a second time clearance at 5.70m. The Olympic champion from France is bidding to become the first man in history Read More ...
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The 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships, the 32nd edition, will take place in Göteborg, Sweden, 1-3 March. Ivan is in Qualification – Group A, here is start list:
Ivan Horvat set new Croatian national indoor record in pole vault – 5.60m.
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December 20, 2009
UPTON, NY — Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have found a new way to use a synthetic form of DNA to control the assembly of nanoparticles — this time resulting in switchable, three-dimensional and small-cluster structures that might be useful, for example, as biosensors, in solar cells, and as new materials for data storage. The work is described in Nature Nanotechnology, published online December 20, 2009.
The Brookhaven team, led by physicist Oleg Gang, has been refining techniques to use strands of artificial DNA as a highly specific kind of Velcro or glue to link up nanoparticles. Such DNA-based self-assembly holds promise for the rational design of a range of new materials for applications in molecular separation, electronics, energy conversion, and other fields. But none of these structures has had the ability to change in a programmable manner in response to molecular stimuli — until now.
These illustrations show how a 3-D crystal made from nanoparticles changes between two distinct states via an intermediate structure (top row, middle) when looped (left) versus unlooped (right) double-stranded DNA chains are used to link the particles. The scientists were able to measure the distance between the particles in each structure by recording x-ray scattering patterns (bottom row). Switching from looped to unlooped DNA increased the interparticle distance by about 6 nanometers.
"Now we're using a special type of DNA-linking device — a kind of 'smart glue' — that affects how the particles connect to make structures that are switchable between different configurations," says Gang. This reliable, reversible switching could be used to regulate functional properties — for example, a material's fluorescence and energy transfer properties — to make new materials that are responsive to changing conditions, or to alter their functions on demand.
Such responsiveness to changes in environmental conditions and the ability to adopt new forms are hallmarks of living systems. In that way, these new nanomaterials more closely mimic biological systems than any previous nanostructures. Though far from any form of truly "artificial life," these materials could lead to the design of nanoscale machines that, at a very simple level, mimic cellular processes such as converting sunlight into useful energy, or sensing the presence of other molecules. Responsive materials would also have benefits in the field of optics or to produce regulated porous materials for molecular separations, Gang says.
The scientists achieved the goal of responsiveness by creating structures where the distance between nanoparticles could be carefully controlled with nanometer accuracy.
"Many physical characteristics of nanomaterials, such as optical and magnetic properties, are strongly dependent on the distance between nanoparticles," Gang explains.
In their previous studies, the scientists used single strands of DNA attached to individual nanoparticles as linker molecules. When the free ends of these DNA strands had complementary genetic code, they would bind to attach the particles. Constraining the interactions by anchoring some of the particles on a surface allowed the scientists to reliably form a variety of structures from two-particle clusters (called dimers) to more complex 3-D nanoparticle crystals.
In the new work, the scientists have added more complicated double-stranded DNA structures. Unlike the single strands, which coil in uncontrollable ways, these double-stranded structures are more rigid and therefore constrain the interparticle distances.
Additionally, some of the strands making up the double-stranded DNA molecules have complicated structures such as loops, which pull the bound particles closer together than when both strands are exactly parallel. By varying the type of DNA device, between looped and unlooped strands, and measuring the interparticle distances using precision techniques at Brookhaven's National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS) and at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), the scientists demonstrated that they could effectively control the distance between the particles and switch the system from one state to another at will.
The approach resulted in two-configuration, switchable systems both in dimers and nanocrystals, with a distance change of about 6 nanometers — about 25 percent of the interparticle distance. By comparing kinetics in the two systems, they found that the switching between states is faster in the simpler, two-particle system. The dimers also retain their ability to return to their initial state more precisely than the 3-D crystals, suggesting that molecular crowding may be an issue to further investigate in the 3-D materials.
"Our hope is that the ability to induce post-assembly reorganization of these structures by adding DNA or other molecules as external stimuli, and our ability to observe these changes with nanometer resolution, will help us understand these processes and find ways to apply them in new kinds of nanomachinery in which the system's functionality is determined by the nanoparticles and their relative organization," says Gang.
Future studies will make use of precise imaging capabilities, such as advanced electron microscopy tools at the CFN and higher-resolution x-ray techniques that will become available at Brookhaven's new light source, NSLS-II, now under construction.
Gang's collaborators on this work include Brookhaven colleagues Mudalige Kumara, Dmytro Nykypanchuk and William Sherman, as well as Mathew Maye, a former Brookhaven chemist now at Syracuse University. The research was funded by the DOE Office of Science, by a Laboratory Directed Research and Development grant, and by a Goldhaber Distinguished Fellowship. Brookhaven Science Associates, which manages Brookhaven Lab, has filed patent applications related to this work. For information about these patents and licensing opportunities, contact Kimberley Elcess, email@example.com, 631 344-4151.
Upon publication, the paper will be available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/NNANO.2009.378.
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The general consensus is that food labels that advertise lower sodium are a good way to help people make more healthful choices. But after that, what we think those labels mean gets a bit fuzzy, according to a new study.
Nutrition researchers were wondering just how we interpret the various sodium-related claims slapped on food packages: claims like "low in sodium" but also how a food product will reducing the risk of disease like hypertension, or "help lower blood pressure."
"Governments have gone out of their way to set different criteria for the different types of claims," says Mary L'Abbe, a professor of nutrition at the University of Toronto and a co-author of the study. "But the consumer wouldn't necessarily see that."
Indeed, the Food and Drug Administration goes after companies that don't have data to back up claims on disease and lowering blood pressure, but not on claims about sodium. Canada's food labeling policies are similar to those in the U.S.
When L'Abbe and her colleagues questions asked 506 Canadians about a fake tomato soup can with various label claims, they found that any claim about sodium, preventing disease or lowering blood pressure made the product more appealing.
About one-third of the people polled had high blood pressure. They tended to be more positive about sodium labeling overall.
Most of them also weren't snowed by the "Tastes great!" claim. But people were also a bit fuzzy on why reduced sodium was good.
When asked about a variety of health issues, including losing weight, constipation, and diabetes, participants in the survey said that lower-sodium products would prevent all of them. Alas, reducing sodium helps only to reduce blood pressure.
"What we saw there was a halo effect [with the low-sodium claim]," says Christina Wong, a graduate student and lead author of the study, which was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. "They see a whole range of health benefits that are totally unrelated to the nutrient."
Second bit of good news: People are positive about reduced sodium foods overall. Manufacturers have been lowering sodium levels in foods but fear to advertise that because customers might shun them, NPR's Dan Charles reports.
But L'Abbe says: "Some manufacturers say consumers have negative impressions toward reduced-sodium foods, but our research doesn't show that."
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In When Everything Changed, Gail Collins picks up the saga of women and their role in the culture, economy, and political life of the United States where she left off in America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines (2003). That exhilarating earlier volume began with the Mayflower and ended in the Seventies. Lively, always entertaining, and frequently enlightening, When Everything Changed is a worthy sequel. Its subtitle is "The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present," and amazing it is. In half a century, Collins shows us, everything really has changed. And yet…
And yet, the basic conflict between motherhood and career, like some sort of blotchy chronic dermatitis, keeps erupting in new unexpected patches. It is a sign of just how intelligent and generous a writer Collins is that by the end of her book, the feminist dilemma seems less an incurable virus than a challenge, one that has already been met with so much energy, stubborn courage, and radical hope, not to mention desperation, drama, and, sometimes, in retrospect, downright silliness, that we feel we are all on a human adventure, and all on it together.
The former editorial page editor for The New York Times and now a columnist there, Collins is a serious and accomplished journalist who here regards the journalistic reports of her predecessors with wit, fascination, and skepticism. Some of the most enjoyable moments in the book come when Collins quotes newspapers like her own. In 1960, she notes, women had held the right to vote for forty years, and it was estimated that there would be more women voting for president than men. Indeed, women had even participated in the presidential nominating conventions the summer before the election. How did the press cover this infusion of female civic participation? With a quick nod to a rather insignificant news item, Collins puts it all in context:
The meal begins with "Swan Canterbury," which consists of fresh pineapple on a bed of laurel leaves surrounded by swans' heads in meringue,' the New York Times reported in a story headlined "GOP Women Facing a Calorie-Packed Week."
A skillfully constructed tale, When Everything Changed is not only a history of women; it is also, necessarily, a story of historical perception. So much of American women's fate has been tangled up in the culture's vision of a woman's "role" that Collins is able to set the historical events and often nearsighted contemporary accounts side by side with great effect, sometimes comic, sometimes enraging.
She begins in the suburbs of the Sixties, a place that in the popular imagination of 2009 has taken on almost mythical status, like the dark forest of fairy tales, a place of little boxes housing quietly despairing adulterers in gray flannel suits and quietly despairing dipsomaniac housewives. The era's own suburban myth was, of course, quite different:
By 1960 the United States was no longer a farming country—only 30 percent of families lived in rural areas. The nation was booming, and its prosperity reached farther down into the working class than ever before. Sixty percent of families lived in a home they owned, and 75 percent had a car. A quarter of all families were living in the suburbs, the much-exalted fulfillment of the American dream—to own a nice house on a plot of land, with healthy children going to good schools and destined for even higher levels of prosperity.
That prosperity looks quite modest from today's suburban vantage point of a seven-thousand-square-foot McMansion:
In the beginning, the newly constructed dream houses were, by our current standards, very small. (In the famous Levittown development on Long Island, the basic house was a 750-square-foot, four-room Cape Cod with one bath and two bedrooms.)
But after squeezing in with their in-laws during the Depression or the war, the suburbs must have beckoned like a little bit of heaven.
For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house to work. Just as postwar prosperity eliminated the need for many women to work outside the home, the new suburban life also removed the opportunity. "The early suburbs," Collins writes, "were singularly unfriendly to the concept of a two-income family." Day care was nonexistent. The mother or grandmother or aunt who might once have acted as a babysitter did not live nearby—they were back on the farm or in the cities the young suburbanites had fled. "Besides," Collins notes, "many of the young couples setting up housekeeping were escaping hard times, and a stay-at-home wife was a kind of trophy—a sign that the family had made it to middle-class success and stability."
If many women welcomed the role of full-time housekeeper and homemaker, it did not reflect, Collins points out, a "lack of enterprise" on their parts. Even with the economic boom that made staying home possible, the jobs available to women were limited in both kind and potential. And at least as housewives they were in charge. For black women, in particular, the chance to stay home and take care of their own children instead of someone else's was welcome, as Ebony pointed out in an article titled "Good-bye Mammy, Hello Mom." Automatic washers and driers, frozen dinners, A Campbell Cookbook: Cooking with Soup, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, steam irons, wash-and-wear, and, of course, Jell-O: for women who just a generation before might not have had running water, all these time-saving products ought to have saved time.
"Yet," Collins notes, "the housewives did not seem to be working any less…. A methodical study by the sociologist Joann Vanek that used pretty much all the data available concluded that in the 1960s, the full-time homemaker spent fifty-five hours a week on her domestic chores," which is a little more than was spent in the 1920s by all those women feeding each shirt into a clothes wringer.
Like the new highways that added more and more lanes, which simply filled with more and more cars, the empty hours became glutted with new chores. "In the 1950s the average household laundry soared from thirty-nine pounds to sixty-five pounds a week." Women "took up gourmet cooking or interior decorating." Collins interviews one woman who made her own diapers, another who vacuumed the entire house every day. It was a world of proto–Martha Stewart perfection and consumption encouraged by advertisers and the magazines they supported. Even the hallowed halls of Harvard paid tribute to the happy housewife: "The (male) president of all-female Radcliffe celebrated the beginning of every school year by telling freshmen that their college education would 'prepare them to be splendid wives and mothers and their reward might be to marry Harvard men.'"
Of course, like any popular social trend celebrated in newspapers and magazines, this land of aproned domestic juggernauts was not an entirely accurate picture. Collins points out that even though the stay-at-home wife was the ideal, some 40 percent of married women with school-age children did in fact have jobs. According to other magazines, those not devoted to women and the appliances and soaps they might buy, "the prototypical suburban husband…was going off to work at a white-collar job that often entailed a great deal of psychological stress. And where did his salary go? To pay for more work-saving appliances for his nonworking wife!" At the same time, Redbook ran an article in 1960 called "Why Young Mothers Feel Trapped."
Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped. But
it surprised the nation—or at least the media—that the women who had acquired better homes and more conveniences than any previous generation should seem to be particularly miserable. "She is dissatisfied with a lot that women of other lands can only dream of," said Newsweek.
And then came Betty Friedan. Her book, Collins writes, hit in 1963 "like an earthquake." The shameful, confusing malaise felt by many women after the war now had a legitimate source, and the source had a name: The Feminine Mystique. Friedan busted the myth of the happy housewife so thoroughly that it took decades before women who were happy housewives dared to say anything about it. Women, Friedan said, "were being duped into believing homemaking was their natural destiny." The dueling desires of motherhood and selfhood were articulated at last, and the feminist movement turned from the clear-cut demands of suffragism and equal pay to the less-defined realm of empowerment.
Collins follows the progress of the idea of feminism and the politically active women's groups who drove it forward not only through influential and well-known feminists like Friedan, but also through the stories of aging but indomitable suffragettes like Alice Paul, and women unintentionally caught up in the argument like Lois Rabinowitz, who was fined for wearing pants to traffic court in 1960.
One of the things that is startlingly clear from the first chapter is how much women's history has been bound up, sometimes literally, in women's clothes, used symbolically by both sides: Hemlines, silk stockings (a sign of vanity in one era, of propriety in another), Bella Abzug and her hats (her mother told her they were "a surefire sign that she was not a secretary"), Gloria Steinem and her sunglasses, the hideous Eighties power suits with their floppy bows, the post-feminist stiletto heel. Decisions on how to dress were sometimes strategic, sometimes controversial, always significant. Collins quotes Muriel Fox, one of the founders of the National Organization of Women, saying, "I have pictures of the early NOW meetings. We wore hats." During the heyday of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Collins writes, an earlier custom of wearing one's Sunday best to sit-ins in order to be taken seriously had given way to jeans, a more practical outfit for being thrown in jail and a statement of solidarity with the working class. But, Collins notes,
Marian Wright Edelman said she would never forget "the disappointed looks" of rural black Mississippians "who heard there was a Black lady lawyer in town…and who came to look for and at me. When they saw me in blue jeans and an old sweatshirt, they were crestfallen. I never wore jeans in public again in Mississippi."
Collins, whose prose is vigorous and direct, has an unflaggingly intelligent conversational style that gives this book a personal and authoritative tone all at once. Whether she writes about fashion or the great political and social events of the day, she observes the telling details that an academic writing in greater depth or a polemicist offering stronger theoretical arguments might pass over. With deadpan comic restraint Collins provides that unexpected detail or statement or observation that can put an entire episode into its legitimately absurd perspective. The Miss America pageant that inspired a radical feminist protest (organized by Robin Morgan and including a guerrilla sheep and the promise of bra-burning)? "It was the one program that President Nixon said he let his daughters, Julie and Trisha, stay up late to watch." In 1984, when the honorific "Ms." was considered by the late William Safire in The New York Times ? "To our ear," he wrote in his "On Language" column, "it still sounds too contrived for newswriting." To other ears at the Times as well apparently. In the same year, Collins says, the Times reported in a story about Gloria Steinem's fiftieth birthday party that the dinner's proceeds "will go to the Ms. Foundation…which publishes Ms. Magazine, where Miss Steinem works as an editor."
Sometimes the absurdity Collins reveals is less humorous than it is grotesque. Viola Liuzzo, a white mother of five who drove from Detroit to Selma in 1965 to join the civil rights protests, was shot and killed by the Ku Klux Klan while giving a fellow marcher, a black man, a ride home. "FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, briefing the attorney general on Liuzzo's death, told him 'that she was sitting very, very close to the Negro in the car; that it had the appearances of a necking party."
Collins writes extensively about the crucial and leading role of women in the civil rights movement. Women like Unita Blackwell, a sharecropper from Mississippi, were instrumental in local voter registration drives, while SNCC was based on the ideas of Ella Baker. Yet the official positions of power within the movement were held exclusively by men. Women were marginalized at the same time that the male leaders of the movement relied on the unthreatening decorum and perceived powerlessness of a lady for gaining white good will. Collins points out that almost all the victims of racism taken up as symbols of the cause were women: "When the Montgomery bus driver told [Rosa Parks] to give up her seat to a white man or be arrested, the petite, middle-aged seamstress calmly replied, 'You may do that.'" She also notes that ladies like the "Women's Political Caucus, a quiet organization of Montgomery's middle-class black teachers and social workers," were often far more radical than their male counterparts: "While the ministers pressed the bus company for a more orderly system of dividing the seats between the races and more courteous drivers, the women wanted total integration."
A tale of women in the last fifty years is necessarily a tale of reform movements, and Collins takes us from the civil rights movement to the antiwar movement, a time when radical women were often relegated to making sandwiches for the men. At a 1968 New Politics conference in Chicago, when some of the women attending wanted to introduce a resolution on women's rights, the men in charge refused. One of the women was literally patted on the head by the chairman. "'Cool down, little girl,' he said. 'We have more important things to do here than talk about women's problems.'" When a woman spoke at the Washington antiwar rally during Richard Nixon's inauguration, some of the men in the crowd called out, "Take it off!" and "Take her off the stage and fuck her!" The free love movement, too, with its flower power and hippy communes, kept one traditional structure firmly in place—women performed the domestic duties.
Women who wanted to work were supposed to be single. This attitude informed even supposedly freethinking books like Helen Gurley-Brown's Sex and the Single Girl. The message of that volume is that single girls should busy themselves seducing their bosses while they bide their time and hone their seductive skills until Mr. Right finally shows up.
One group that was forced to remain single in order to continue at their jobs was stewardesses. Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's movement that liberated us, however. It should not be a surprise that members of one of the few professions that welcomed women, exclusively, would fight for women's rights. And they did. Amelia Earhart notwithstanding, women were effectively barred from becoming pilots by the Commerce Department. They became stewardesses instead, a job that began with nurses and soon changed to attractive servers. For small-town girls it beckoned as a glamorous career, a way to travel, to see the world.
The pay, however, was low, and the job itself turned out to be far from glamorous. As late as the Sixties, "one regular run, the 'Executive Flight' from New York to Chicago, actually barred female passengers. The men got extralarge steaks, drinks, and cigars—which the stewardesses were supposed to bend over and light." The women were monitored by "counselors" who weighed them and took their measurements regularly to make sure they kept their figures. "Besides limits in weight and height, stewardesses were required, according to one promotion, to have hands that were 'soft and white'—a hint as to how welcome African-American women were at the time." When the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission convened, the flight attendants' union was the very first in line. In a House subcommittee hearing in 1965,
Representative James Scheuer of New York jovially asked the flight attendants to "stand up, so we can see the dimensions of the problem." The airline industry continued to argue with a straight face that businessmen would be discouraged from flying if the women handing them their coffee and checking their seat belts were not young and attractive.
To which Martha Griffiths, one of the few women representatives in Congress, replied, "What are you running, an airline or a whorehouse?"
Flight attendants were also among the first women to turn to the courts for equal rights. In addition to the requirements of appearance, stewardesses were not allowed to marry. Supervisors scanned wedding announcements looking for transgressors. When Eulalie Cooper was fired by Delta after six years for being secretly married,
a Louisiana judge agreed with the airline that serving food and ensuring safety on an airplane was a job that young single women were uniquely qualified to do, and therefore fell under the [Equal Employment Opportunity] law's exemption for "bona fide occupational qualifications."…
And yet with all of Collins's examples of laws and ideas that have contributed to keeping women in their place, When Everything Changed is not simply a book about what the world of men has done to hold women back; nor is it a book about the worthy and courageous things women have somehow pulled off in a man's world, though it certainly pays tribute to feminist heroes, both famous and uncelebrated. This is instead a narrative that has not yet reached its conclusion. The book recognizes and records an ongoing story that ought to be obvious but has so often been obscured in the last fifty years of change, upheaval, and polemics: simply that in the process of both shaping it or being shaped by it, women live in the world, and there's just no getting around it.
This is an account of women crying out for change and coming to terms with the consequences of that change, and it is not always a pretty sight. Collins reminds us of the absurdity, the excess, on both sides. Some aspects of the women's movement have come to seem almost as quaint as the early demonstrators in white gloves—the consciousness-raising groups, the calls to sexual warfare, the "freedom" names like Warrior and Sarahchild that women adopted to escape the taint of patriarchy. But Collins never loses sight of their importance as part of this modern epic. She shows women, like men, adapting as best they can. Some of those adaptations seem preposterous now, but without them, we could not have evolved to where we are.
And where exactly is that? There are now more working mothers than ever before. Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960. Last February, The New York Times reported that with the loss to the recession of jobs in traditionally male fields like construction, working women were about to outnumber working men for the first time in American history. And yet…
Eleanor Roosevelt was able to talk wartime shipbuilders into creating innovative and comprehensive on-site day care for the children of thousands of working mothers. Her success in promoting the private sector's responsibility for day care has never been repeated. Sufficient government-run day care is not available for most working mothers, either. At the same time, few employers are willing to create schedules friendly to working mothers. The "image" of women, too, has changed and changed back and twisted itself pretzel-like until we have drunken high school girls exposing themselves to the cameras of Girls Gone Wild in the name of freedom and liberation.
Collins ends her book with a look at three very current characters, three powerful mothers who have had to deal with the contradictions of careers and parenting, making it up as they went along: Hillary Clinton, who waited until she was in her thirties to get pregnant, facing her generation's now familiar difficulties of fertility and child care; Michelle Obama, who has been able to recreate an earlier era of extended family members helping out by bringing her mother with the First Family to the White House; and Sarah Palin, who throws her various children over her shoulder and brings them along on the plane at taxpayers' expense. None of these tough, successful women has discovered the perfect road.
Even so, we've obviously come a long way, baby, as the saying goes, and the effect of much of the earlier sections of the book is one of an uncomfortable jolt to memory, a snort of laughter and a grimace, which all add up to a mixed feeling of shame at our early follies and of smug satisfaction at how far we sophisticated Americans have come. If the book is less satisfying as it approaches the present day, perhaps it is because, without the perspective of time, we can't predict exactly which of our notions and behavior will reveal themselves as ridiculous in twenty or thirty years' time. The last few chapters of this "Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present" is intelligent and thorough, but it is also a little too close for either comfort or discomfort. It is what we know, it's home, and home never really feels like it's part of the journey at all.
What we do know for certain is that the difficulties of growing up female have not been weeded out—they continue to blossom, unexpected, inevitable, invasive plants—and if we're lucky, Gail Collins will continue to comb through them, careful and hopeful, smelling the roses along with whatever else she digs up.
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011
a better brunch
Recently, Dan and I went out for brunch at a place run by a former Top Chef contestant whom I will not name. Dan ordered a glass of orange juice, thinking it would be fresh-squeezed. This restaurant is not a diner, it's a pretty respectable-looking place. The kind of place where the word "artisanal" is thrown around a lot. And we watched the bartender pour a glass of Tropicana straight from the plastic bottle. We looked at each other like, damn. Can't you at least put that in a carafe and attempt to fool us? We have that juice at home...where we don't have to pay $4 a glass for it.
Brunch at home, however, is a different story.
Last Saturday was a freaky day because it snowed. In October. One day there was cool, crisp fall weather and the next day the sidewalk was covered in a layer of slush. We stood at the window, our mouths agape. Our out-of-towner friends were on their way over. On foot. A really, really good brunch was in order. Poor people.
My favorite thing to make for brunch is a Dutch baby, a puffy pancake you bake in a skillet. I've written about them before--they are far easier than pancakes but people are usually impressed by them because they are unusual. Sometimes I put fruit in them, sometimes nuts, sometimes both. On Saturday it was sliced red pears.
Brunch usually means eggs and people who travel to brunch in the snow deserve more than something simply poached or fried. So I whisked a dozen eggs together and scrambled them with bits of smoked salmon, goat cheese and a handful of chopped dill.
And fried some bacon. (Duh.)
Our friends arrived and removed their shoes and wet socks, which Mabel promptly tried to steal. (We're working on that.) You can't take off your socks at a restaurant, so that's automatically better, right? By the time everyone had had their coffee and tea and eggs, the awful weather was forgotten. It seemed almost cozy to watch the snow fall from inside the apartment.
Was this brunch worth the trek? They said it was, but then again, they left our house to walk thirty minutes in the sleet to a museum. So maybe it wasn't the brunch, maybe they're made of tougher stock than me. I'd like to think it was the eggs, though.
Saturday brunch with Nancy and Jason
Scrambled eggs with smoked salmon, goat cheese and dill
Pear Dutch baby
Raisin toast
Scrambled eggs with smoked salmon, goat cheese and dill
(Serves 4 people)
9 eggs
1 Tbsp. butter
2 oz. soft goat cheese, plus a little extra
1/2 cup smoked salmon, sliced into thin strips
3 Tbsp. chopped dill
Salt and pepper
In a medium-sized bowl, beat the eggs until the yolks and whites are fully combined. In a medium-sized skillet, melt the butter over medium heat. When the butter is melted, add your eggs and lower the heat to medium-low. When the eggs just start to set, add the goat cheese, salmon and dill and stir. Stir frequently, so large curds form. Remove the eggs from the heat when they are set and no longer liquid. Top with a little extra goat cheese. Serve immediately.
8 comments:
- Margaret Pinard said...
I am not a brunch joiner either, thank heavens there are more of us! And I have been wanting to make a Dutch baby for a long time (ooh that sounds bad), so it's getting kicked up to the top of the list for when our DC weather looks snowy again. Great post!
- November 2, 2011 at 9:48 AM
- Casey@Good. Food. Stories. said...
Having to catch a ridiculously early train to meet people in the city for 11:30 brunch has made me a brunch-hater too... there's a perfectly awesome bagel place down the street, and I can make my own bloodies here, thankyouverymuch!
- November 2, 2011 at 4:54 PM
- Julie said...
I'm not a big fan of brunch, either, for all the reasons you mention. So crowded and expensive for food that's usually pretty mediocre.
That pear dutch baby looks fantastic! - November 3, 2011 at 9:43 AM
- Daniel said...
$10 for eggs? $4 for juice? I say no more! Let's stage a Sunday brunch boycott. We are the 99%!
- November 4, 2011 at 3:24 PM
A testimonial: These eggs are worth crossing Brooklyn for. The combination of salmon, egg, cheese and dill works perfectly. And I definitely recommend your combination of bacon and bread, not to mention the Dutch baby (who knew there was such a thing?). Thank you for a delicious Saturday morning!
- November 6, 2011 at 9:39 PM
- Lisa said...
Nancy: You are too kind. Thanks again for making the trek out to see us! Can't wait to do it again.
- November 11, 2011 at 2:28 PM
- Michele said...
I've seen so many recipes for dutch baby pancakes and I've been dying to try them. I have to figure out if I hae the right type of pan. What do you use?
- November 28, 2011 at 2:13 PM
- Lisa said...
Hi Michele! I use a cast iron skillet but any pan that can go on the stovetop and in the oven will work.
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The Eternal City
If you ask your travel agent to book you a trip to the Eternal City, chances are he will pick up his time schedule and book you on a flight to Rome.
He'd be wrong. The Eternal City is not Rome.
The Midrash tells us that when an historic sin was committed by a Jewish ruler the angel Gavriel stuck a reed into the Mediterranean Sea, and around that reed arose a sandbar, and from there grew Rome. Rome is not the eternal city. It wasn't there at the beginning of time. For something to be eternal, not only does it have to be there at the beginning of time, but it has to be there at the end of time as well.
When Hashem created the universe, He didn't create it as an expanse, as a myriad of stars spread out on an almost infinite blackness. Rather, He first created a single point, and from there all space and time unfolded.
We know where that point is. It is a rock that sits on top of a small hill nested between several others of very similar appearance. On that rock, Abraham brought his son Isaac as an offering. It was around that rock that the two Holy Temples were built. The name of that rock is the Even Shesia, the 'Foundation Stone.'
That rock is the center of the universe. Around that rock is the Temple and around the Temple is Jerusalem. Around Jerusalem is the Land of Israel. And around the Land of Israel is the Universe.
Exactly 30 years ago, the eternal city was united again under Jewish rule. The Hebrew date was the 28th of Iyar. It just so happens that the 28th of Iyar is also important in Jewish history for another reason: On the 28th of Iyar, Samuel the prophet passed away.
What do the two have in common?
At the beginning of the reign of King David, Jerusalem was not in Jewish hands. When King David re-conquered the Land of Israel, Jerusalem was in the hands of the Jebusites. The exact location of Mount Moriah, the place of the Even Shesia, was no longer known.
Before David could plan the building of the Holy Temple he had to know exactly where Mount Moriah was. It was the prophet Samuel, together with King David, who, through prophetic insight, established which of the hills in Jebusite Jerusalem was in fact the correct location.
So it was through Samuel the prophet that we know today the location of the Temple in Jerusalem. Maybe it was for this reason that Jerusalem was 're-discovered' in June 1967 on the exact date of his passing from this world.
But there's more.
It the first Book of Samuel 15:29, the following prophecy is written: "However, the 'Netzach Yisrael' will not lie."
That phrase 'Netzach Yisrael' can be understood in two ways. It can mean the 'Eternal One of Israel' - Hashem - Who will not lie, Who will never desert His people through the long night of exile.
But Netzach Yisrael can also mean 'the eternity of Israel' or 'the victory of Israel' will not lie. The survival of the Jewish People, through both persecution and the softly stifling embrace of assimilation, will not lie. It will stand as an everlasting proof that the Jewish People are what the Torah calls them: An eternal nation with a G-d given mission.
It was Samuel the prophet who said 'the eternity of Israel will not lie' nearly 3,000 years ago. How could he have known that the Jewish People would still be around in 1967, some 3,000 years after he spoke that prophecy? And not only were they around, but they were re-capturing the city he had helped to re-identify on the exact day that he passed on to the world of truth.
Yalkut Shimoni - I Kings 172; I Samuel 15:29; Talmud Berachot 58a; Talmud Zevachim 54b;
Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 580:1; Rabbi Mordechai Becher
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