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How much importance do advisors give to upfront compensation when considering a move from one broker-dealer to another?
At a time when the data shows that the population of financial advisors is both shrinking and aging, it can be tempting to accept the more lucrative packages that wirehouses, banks and even regional firms are offering to brokers looking to switch firms, particularly given the expenses of starting an independent advisory firm.
But the better the deal, the more onerous the commitment, says Mark Elzweig, president and founder of the executive search firm Mark Elzweig Co.
Elzweig, who participated in a panel discussion titled "Recruiting Deals by Channels" during ThinkAdvisor's Going Independent virtual conference, said that "the more someone is giving you, the longer they want you to stay so that they can make a more reasonable return on their investment."
Wirehouses do offer the biggest packages, but focusing just on the size of the signing bonus prevents many advisors from realizing that even though the independent channel may offer less money up front (Elzweig puts it at between 10% and 15%, with some of the larger firms perhaps topping out around 50% to 60%), their deal terms are actually less restrictive.
More importantly, the independent channel offers greater long-term opportunities and rewards for those who really care about growing their own business and seeing it flourish, other experts say.
Consider that the average drop in production after a move is around 30%. That's quite a significant amount, and unless an advisor has carefully planned his or her move and made sure they're doing the best they can to retain a good percentage of their client book, it can be hard to make up the numbers required to meet the terms of a wirehouse or regional firm's deal, even if these deals offered good money up front, said Jon Henschen, president of Henschen & Associates.
"Advisors too often fixate on transition dollars," Henschen said, and this impedes them from seeing the bigger picture, that "culture is better than cash."
Finding a good fit where an advisor can grow the business model they want with the requisite amount of support can actually turn out to be much more lucrative in the long term, Henschen said, even if upfront expenses are high and the initial payout is low.
An ideal advisory business, according to panelist Tom Kindle, vice president at Pershing, is one that relies on the strengths of an empowered team, transferable value and loyal clients, and the way in which they come together to maximize potential.
"You can get pretty close to those fronts at a wirehouse but can you get as close as you'd like?" he said.
In an independent structure, those three facets that are integral to business success are that much more accessible, said Kindle. So while taking a seven-to-nine year package with attractive upfront compensation at a wirehouse or a regional firm might seem like too good a deal to turn down, taking it means making an implicit long-term commitment to a larger firm that may not ultimately prove to be the best decision.
In an independent structure, "you can choose your technology, choose your brand, your office space, your custodian" and so much more, Kindle said. "You have choices with respect to compliance, you have access to tons of investment research; you're not losing out. There are plenty of firms that, once you go independent, will help you monetize your business."
Advisors should view a move toward an independent structure as a time of opportunity, Henschen said, a chance for new business possibilities, the uncovering of new assets and an even an opportunity to say goodbye to clients who may have been difficult to manage.
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So far, we've had no problems related to this, which is also why there are no solid agreements on the subject. With that in mind, I would prefer we have a decent permission declaration before some kind of disagreement crops up.
With that in mind, I think we should sticky a general-purpose guideline in the assets dev forums which touches on the following subjects:
- Usage of Tamriel_Data objects by other affiliated projects. Tamriel_Data is a joint asset repository for several related projects (P:C, SHOTN, TR, etc.) Any asset made or donated to one project should therefore be implicitly usable by other projects. Give the cooperative nature of Tamriel_Data, we cannot accept files that are exclusive to one project alone.
- Usage of Tamriel_Data objects by the community. Tamriel_Data is built as a repository for high-quality resources that can be used by other modders in the community, either by making their mods dependent on Tamriel_Data.esm, or by unpacking the files and repackaging them in their own mods. We ask that all third-party modders acknowledge the origin of repackaged assets, and give credits in their readme files. Any PT modder who does not wish for his work to be used outside of Tamriel_Data should mention this explicitly alongside his contribution: otherwise, it will be assumed that the modder agrees to share his work with the community.
- Usage of Tamriel_Data objects for other games. Occasionally, it happens that we are contacted by third-party modders who work on projects for Oblivion or Skyrim. Not quite sure if we can make a general rule for this? Thoughts? Of course, any asset that is partially based on a vanilla asset cannot be used for other games in any way.
- Pre-arrangement assets: obviously, this agreement cannot work retroactively. For assets that are currently in data, the best course of action would probably be to track down the original modder, if they are still active, and ask for permission directly. If anybody currently active has qualms about sharing one or more of his assets, it would be best if they note this somewhere so that we can include this in a permissions file.
- Maybe a general reminder that assets have to be either wholly original or based on resources that themselves offer full permission for usage and modifications.
- Related to this, I think it might be a good idea to include a "no take-backs" rule: once an asset is donated, you cannot arbitrarily demand that it is removed from data. Maybe a bit paranoid, but I think it might pay to write this down somewhere.

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55. Therapy technique ... and a hint to what's hidden in 17-, 24-, 34- and 45-Across?: ROLE-PLAYING
Scramble ROLE and you're off to the races:
17A. Cara cara or Washington fruit: NAVEL ORANGE. Originated at Hacienda de Cara Cara and believed to be a hybrid from the Washington navel and the Brazilian Bahia navel. Now we know.
24A. Where I-30 and I-40 meet: LITTLE ROCK. Interstate geography lesson.
34A. Traveler's rest: MOTEL ROOM. There's probably a couple in Little Rock.
45A. Actor who appeared in nine films with Sydney Greenstreet: PETER LORRE. What better way to namecheck the actor than remember this great 70's track from Al Stewart, played live on the BBC's "Old Grey Whistle Test" music showcase.
Straightforward enough theme, one that you need to go back and look for when you see the reveal. Nicely consistent with the even two-letter split across the two words of each theme entry.
I found the top-center section a little tricky and had to go back to finish up at the end. I actually didn't finish this one correctly - I had a personal Natick with LILA and ALL, both unknown to me. I guessed "Y" instead of "A" for no good reason.
Let's see what else we've got to talk about:
1. Spinal segment: DISC
5. One without a permanent address: NOMAD
10. What sit-ups strengthen: ABS
13. College World Series home: OMAHA. NCAA Baseball. I never watch it, but I knew the location. Funny how that works.
15. Offer one's two cents: OPINE
16. Burst: POP
19. Poirot's street: RUE. Agatha Christie's character Hercule Poirot is Belgian, and some detective work suggests he was born and grew up in Spa, which in the French-speaking part of Belgium, and therefore his street would be a "rue", rather than a "straat".
20. "Open: An Autobiography" subject: AGASSI. Tennis star André.
21. Blintz topping: ROE
22. Actress Meyer of "Saw" films: DINA. Never saw them. Thank you, crossses.
23. Hue: TINT
27. Tonsillitis-treating doc: E.N.T.
28. IV units: CC'S
29. Roman goddess of agriculture: CERES
30. __ Moines: DES
31. "Down Came a Blackbird" country singer McCann: LILA. As aforementioned, she's not familiar to me. Handy crossword name though, I'll endeavor to remember.
33. Committee leader: CHAIR
36. Boat filler: GRAVY. I think my favorite clue/answer of the day.
38. Passed-down tales: LORE. Passed-down tales of an actor in this puzzle? Lorre lore.
39. Convened: SAT
42. Pool table slab: SLATE
43. Part of Q&A: AND. Question-and-answer session
44. Pub potable: ALE
49. Pierce player: ALDA. "Hawkeye" portrayer Alan in "M*A*S*H"
50. Crew pair: OARS
51. Poet's preposition: ERE
52. Cubs pitcher Jon: LESTER. I didn't even notice this one until now, it filled itself in. I wouldn't have had a clue either.
54. "Suits" TV network: USA
57. Liberal arts maj.: SOCiology
58. Battery terminal: ANODE
59. Car opening?: RENTA
60. Compass pt.: E.N.E.
61. Parsonage: MANSE. Usually for Baptist. Methodist or Presbyterian ministers.
62. Light shirts: TEES
1. Gave: DONATED
2. Picture: IMAGINE
3. Learned ones: SAVANTS
4. Trunk: CHEST
5. Country partly in the Arctic Circle: Abbr.: NOR.
6. Tricky genre: OP ART Here's one that doesn't make your head spin too much at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt:
7. Annual North Dakota State Fair site: MINOT. I quite confidently filled in "FARGO" with no crosses to confirm any of the letters, and spent some time trying to convince myself it had to be right. They two places are more than 280 miles apart, so not even close!
8. Mike Trout, notably: ANGEL. What happens next year if he gets traded?
9. See 56-Down: DEE.
10. Like some knowledge: A PRIORI
11. Bar employee: BOUNCER
12. Represents, with "for": SPEAKS
14. Gore and Michaels: ALS
18. Original Pennsylvania headquarters of Quaker State: OIL CITY
22. Journal subject: DREAM
25. "__ of Dogs": 2018 animated film: ISLE
26. Reverberated: ECHOED
28. Well-off, after "in": CLOVER
32. Free Clear detergent maker: ALL. No clue, as previously mentioned.
33. Ithaca campus: CORNELL. Now I know where Cornell is. Learning moment.
34. Partners: MATES
35. Laugh good and loud: ROAR
36. "The Hustler" actor (1961): GLEASON
37. Grind: RAT RACE
39. Soup cracker: SALTINE
40. Ristorante request: AL DENTE. I'm not sure you request pasta "al dente", that's how it comes. If it's not, you send it back.
41. Riot squad's supply: TEAR GAS
42. Partner, perhaps: SPOUSE
46. Hotelier Helmsley: LEONA. Quite a figure. "The Queen of Mean" was jailed for tax evasion, allegedly saying "We don't pay taxes; only little people pay taxes".
47. Sweater fabric: ORLON
48. Clarinetist's supply: REEDS
49. So far: AS YET
53. Sound catcher: EAR
55. More than bump into: RAM
56. With 9-Down, river of the Carolinas: PEE. Unknown to me, I'll try to remember the Pee Dee for the next time it crops up.
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OXFORD — A local man returns to court for a Jan. 7 motion hearing after he was ordered held without bail on charges he stabbed his girlfriend in the arm on Dec. 26.
Scott M. Skeean, 49, of 23 Joe Jenny Road was charged with attempted murder, assault and battery, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. A dangerousness hearing was held Monday in Dudley District Court.
Mr. Skeean's lawyer is requesting the commonwealth pay $1,000 for a private investigator for his defense, and $2,500 for a psychologist to evaluate Mr. Skeean's competency to stand trial, according to court records.
According to a police report, a doctor at UMass Memorial Medical Center — University Campus, Worcester, called police to report that Mr. Skeean's girlfriend had said Mr. Skeean stabbed her.
The victim had a deep, right-arm laceration, which required seven stitches, police said.
The alleged incident occurred at Mr. Skeean's house while the victim was sleeping on a couch, police said.
The woman told police Mr. Skeean grabbed her legs and pulled her to the floor. She said she couldn't understand what Mr. Skeean said as he attacked her.
She told police Mr. Skeean punched her arms and face while he sat on her chest, police said.
She said he eventually got off of her, walked away, and returned with the knife, the report said.
In addition, she said he pulled off her sweater and cut off her shirt and bra with the knife, the report said.
She said Mr. Skeean tossed her jacket at her and told her to get dressed. They got in his truck, but during the ride, she said she grew confused and weak, the report said.
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Sullivan receives grant for genetics study of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder
Dr. Sullivan's project is one of 15 selected out of 170 proposals submitted by researchers worldwide. Each will each receive $100,000 annually in support of one year of research.
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CHAPEL HILL – Patrick Sullivan, MD has received a 2010 Distinguished Investigator Award from NARSAD for a comparison of genetics in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
His project is one of 15 selected out of 170 proposals submitted by researchers worldwide. Each project will each receive $100,000 annually in support of one year of research.
Sullivan, who is Ray M. Hayworth and Family Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the UNC School of Medicine and a member of the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, has identified four families that are affected by schizophrenia and/or bipolar disorder and will perform DNA analysis to try to identify variations and genetic links to psychosis. Two families are from northern Sweden and the other two families are from southern Spain, in Andalusia. All have an unusually high number of affected family members. Sullivan will employ methods that will allow him to study rare genetic variants, including changes in the copy number of genes.
Once candidate pieces of DNA are identified, Sullivan and his team will sequence the DNA from subset of cases and compare any possible sequence variations with unrelated samples. Findings should contribute to the continuing effort to identify genes associated with schizophrenia to improve understanding, diagnosis and treatments for disorders that have psychotic symptoms.
Other members of the research team for this project are Danyu Lin, PhD, Dennis Gillings Distinguished Professor in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Wei Sun, PhD, Yun Li, PhD, and Ann Collins, PhD. Wei Sun and Yun Li are assistant professors of biostatistics in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health who also have appointments in the Department of Genetics in the School of Medicine. Ann Collins is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Genetics.
NARSAD, formerly known as the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD), has adopted the business name "NARSAD, The World's Leading Charity Dedicated to Mental Health Research" to reflect the broader funding interests of the organization. In addition to funding research about schizophrenia and depression, NARSAD funds research such as childhood psychiatric disorders, bipolar disorder, and anxiety disorders.


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Iraqi security forces are preparing to storm Falluja and break a month-long standoff with armed groups who are in control of the city, senior security officials and troops said.
Anti-government fighters, among them insurgents, overran two cities in the Sunni-dominated western province of Anbar on Jan. 1. against a backdrop of deteriorating security across the country.
At least 12 people were killed in bombings across Iraq on Saturday, mostly in the capital Baghdad, just 70 km (40 miles) away from Falluja, a city currently surrounded by the army.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had held off an all out assault on the city to give local tribesmen a chance to expel them, but security officials told Reuters a decision had been made to enter Falluja by 6 p.m. (1500 GMT) on Sunday.
"That's it: they were given enough time to make their choice, but they failed," a top security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said of the tribesmen and militants.
The official said the governor of Anbar had sent a "final warning" to armed groups and tribal fighters in Falluja. Whoever wanted to leave the city would be given safe passage and those who lay down their arms will be offered amnesty, he added.
"The message was clear, we offered them to leave the city and be a part of the national reconciliation project," the security official said. "But, if anyone insists on fighting our forces, he will be considered an ISIL member whether he is or not."
Maliki has appealed for international support and weapons to fight al Qaeda, although critics say his own policies towards Iraq's Sunni minority are at least partly to blame for reigniting an insurgency.
"Security operations need to go hand-in-hand with inclusive policies, based on the respect for human rights, the rule of law, social development," U.N. envoy to Iraq Nikolay Mladenov said in a statement on Saturday.
Falluja residents and local officials said communications had been cut in the city and its outskirts. Troops stationed in the surrounding area said they had received orders to be ready to raid the city.
"We are prepared to enter any minute. Some of our troops in southern and southeastern Falluja have already moved in closer to the city," said a commando whose unit was deployed on the highway just outside.
More than 140,000 people have fled their homes in Anbar in recent weeks in what the United Nations described as the largest displacement in Iraq since the sectarian slaughter that climaxed in 2006-07.
Officials said airstrikes and shelling on the city would intensify before a ground assault by special operations SWAT teams to clear remaining pockets of resistance.
"We expect to engage in a fierce battle in the southern areas of the city where militants are holed up," said a SWAT officer deployed in Falluja, who also declined to be named.
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Mickey Rooney, a Hollywood legend whose career spanned more than 80 years, has died at the age of 93.
Los Angeles Police Commander Andrew Smith said that Rooney was with his family when he died on April 6 at his North Hollywood home.
He said police took a report but indicated that there was nothing suspicious and it was not a police case and he had no additional details on the circumstances of his death.
It is likely no one in showbusiness history will ever match Rooney's career for sheer length and variety.
He starred in silent comedy shorts, MGM musicals with Judy Garland, the popular Andy Hardy family films, an Emmy-winning TV drama and a Broadway smash, Sugar Babies.
He was nominated for Oscars four times and won two special Oscars.
Rooney started his career in his parents' vaudeville act while still a toddler, and broke into movies before age 10. He was still racking up film and TV credits more than 80 years later.
"I always say, 'Don't retire - inspire,'" he said in March 2008. "There's a lot to be done."
Among his roles in recent years was a part as a guard in the smash 2006 comedy A Night At The Museum.
Rooney reigned from 1939 to 1942 as the number one money-making star in movies, his run only broken when he joined the Army.
"Mickey Rooney, to me, is the closest thing to a genius I ever worked with," Clarence Brown, who directed his Oscar-nominated performance in The Human Comedy, once said.
Rooney's personal life matched his film roles for colour. His first wife was the glamorous Ava Gardner, and he married seven more times, fathering seven sons and four daughters.
Through divorces, money problems and career droughts, he kept returning with customary vigour.
"I've been coming back like a rubber ball for years," he commented in 1979, the year he returned with a character role in The Black Stallion, drawing an Oscar nomination as supporting actor.
Rooney was among the last survivors of Hollywood's studio era, which his career pre-dated. He signed a contract with MGM in 1934 and landed his first big role as Clark Gable as a boy in Manhattan Melodrama.
Rooney was soon earning 300 dollars a week with featured roles in such films as Riff Raff, Little Lord Fauntleroy and most notably, as a brat humbled by Spencer Tracy's Father Flanagan in Boys Town.
The big break came with the wildly popular Andy Hardy series, beginning with A Family Affair.
But Rooney became a cautionary tale for early fame. He earned a reputation for drunken escapades and quickie romances and was unlucky in both money and love. In 1942 he married for the first time, to Gardner, the statuesque MGM beauty. He was 21, she was 19. The marriage ended in a year, and Rooney joined the Army in 1943, spending most of his World War II service entertaining troops.
Rooney returned to Hollywood and disillusionment. His savings had been stolen by a manager and his career was in a nose dive. He made two films at MGM, then his contract was dropped.
"I began to realise how few friends everyone has," he wrote in his second autobiography. "All those Hollywood friends I had in 1938, 1939, 1940 and 1941, when I was the toast of the world, weren't friends at all."
His movie career never regained its pre-war eminence. The Bold And The Brave, a 1956 World War II drama, brought him an Oscar nomination as best supporting actor. But mostly, he played second leads in such films as Off Limits with Bob Hope and The Bridges at Toko-Ri with William Holden. In the early 1960s, he had a wild turn in Breakfast At Tiffany's as Audrey Hepburn's bucktoothed Japanese neighbour.
In 2011, Rooney was in the news again when he testified before Congress about abuse of the elderly, alleging that he was left powerless by a family member who took and misused his money.
"I felt trapped, scared, used and frustrated," Rooney told a special Senate committee considering legislation to curb abuses of senior citizens. "But above all, when a man feels helpless, it's terrible."
That year Rooney sued his stepson Christopher Aber and others on allegations that they tricked him into thinking he was on the brink of poverty while defrauding him out of millions and bullying him into continuing to work. Aber declined comment on the suit except to say, "this lawsuit is not from Mickey Rooney - it's from his conservators who are stealing from him." Both Rooney and his conservator were named as plaintiffs.


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I love it when I hear about yet another eco-friendly manufacturer who makes stuff that qualifies both as functional and fashionable...and at a good price.
I'm a big believer that certain folks (like me, I admit) will spend more and accept less in order to buy green. But the vast majority of humans don't want to spend more, and don't want to sacrifice features or function.
That's just reality.
So, I like Reveal. I like their prices. I like that their items have style, and I like that most of it is vegan too!
Not sure I like (or even understand) why this laptop bag is designated as a Man's accessory. Don't see anything particularly manly or anti-feminine about it.
But other than that little weirdness, I like what they have. I just wish they had more. It's a pretty small selection right now.
They have extensive information about what makes their products sustainable, so I encourage you to check it all out.
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Donnerstag aus Licht combines music, movement and light to form a monumental opera that hasn't been heard in the UK since 1985. The energetic young ensemble Le Balcon joins forces with London Sinfonietta, the New London Chamber Choir and musicians from the Royal Academy of Music to take on this sonic spectacle, appearing for two nights only in May.
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As part of its criminal probe into the IRS's treatment of politically active conservative groups, the Justice Department is "investigating the circumstances of the lost emails from [former IRS official Lois Lerner's] computer," according to prepared testimony by James Cole, the deputy attorney general. Mr. Cole is set to appear at a hearing scheduled for Thursday before...
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Tractors are a part of the landscape around here. They work the fields, plant crops, bale hay and mow lawns. Don't forget about the tractor pulls that are a big fan favorite at every county fair. But have you ever seen a tractor used as a musical instrument? I mean a part of the band? Watch the video after the jump and say yes, I have!


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A separate metadata file in XML format is also delivered to NSIDC with the HDF-EOS file; it contains the same information as the core metadata. Three levels of QA are conducted with the AMSR-E Level-2 and Level-3 products: automatic, operational, and science QA. If a product does not fail QA, it is ready to be used for higher-level processing, browse generation, active science QA, archive, and distribution. If a granule fails QA, SIPS does not send the granule to NSIDC until it is reprocessed. Level-3 products that fail QA are never delivered to NSIDC (Conway 2002). Automatic QA Chang visually examined random samples of SWE products to ensure they were consistent with an understanding of climate and that no gross errors were present. Future validation will involve comparing retrieved SWE values with estimates from airborne gamma observations over the U.S. (Carroll 1997) and with snow gauge data (Carroll et al. 1995), as well as comparing snow extent with MODIS snow maps (Chang and Rango 2000). Operational QA AMSR-E Level-2A data arriving at GHCC are subject to operational QA prior to processing higher-level products. Operational QA varies by product, but it typically checks the following criteria for a given file (Conway 2002): * File is correctly named and sized * File contains all expected elements * File is in the expected format * Required EOS fields of time, latitude, and longitude are present and populated * Structural metadata is correct and complete * The file is not a duplicate * The HDF-EOS version number is provided in the global attributes * The correct number of input files were available and processed Science QA AMSR-E Level-2A data arriving at GHCC are also subject to science QA prior to processing higher-level products. If less than 50 percent of a granule's data is good, the science QA flag is marked 'suspect' when the granule is delivered to NSIDC. In the SIPS environment, the science QA includes checking the maximum and minimum variable values, and percent of missing data and out-of-bounds data per variable value. At the Science Computing Facility (SCF), also at GHCC, science QA involves reviewing the operational QA files, generating browse images, and performing the following additional automated QA procedures (Conway 2002): * Historical data comparisons * Detection of errors in geolocation * Verification of calibration data * Trends in calibration data * Detection of large scatter among data points that should be consistent Geolocation errors are corrected during Level-2A processing to prevent processing anomalies such as extended execution times and large percentages of out-of-bounds data in the products derived from Level-2A data. The Team Lead SIPS (TLSIPS) developed tools for use at SIPS and SCF for inspecting the data granules. These tools generate a QA browse image in Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format and a QA summary report in text format for each data granule. Each browse file shows Level-2A and Level-2B data. These are forwarded from Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) to GHCC along with associated granule information, where they are converted to HDF raster images prior to delivery to NSIDC. SWE is estimated for SD retrievals greater than 1 mm. Based on dthe 2002-2003 winter AMSR-E data and 38 coincident ground observations in the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Global Telecommunications System (GTS) network, the standard error is 24.2 cm. Further validation is planned using multiple local, regional, and global data sets. See NSIDC's AMSR-E Validation Data for information about data used to check the accuracy and precision of AMSR-E observations.EnglishNASA/MSFC/AMSR-E SIPSNASA NSIDC DAACNASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Centerhttps://nsidc.org/daacData Center ContactNSIDCUser email@example.com Snow and Ice Data CenterCIRES, 449 UCBUniversity of ColoradoBoulderCO80309-0449USAHTTPS2.1 MBHDF-EOSBasist, A., N. C. Grody, T. C. Peterson, and C. N. Williams. 1998. Using the Special Sensor Microwave Imager to Monitor Land Surface Temperatures, Wetness and Snow Cover. Journal of Applied Meteorology 37(9): 888-911. Brodzik, M. J. 1997. EASE-Grid: A Versatile Set of Equal-Area Projections and Grids. Boulder, CO, USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Brown, R. D. and R. O. Braaten, 1998. Spatial and Temporal Variability of Canadian Monthly Snow Depths, 1946-1995. Atmosphere-Ocean 36: 37-45. Chang, A. T. C., and A. Rango. 2000. Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document for the AMSR-E Snow Water Equivalent Algorithm, Version 3.1. Greenbelt, MD, USA: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. (view PDF file) Chang, A. T. C., J. L. Foster, Dorothy K. Hall, B. E. Goodison, A. E. Walker, and J. R. Metcalfe. 1997. Snow Parameters Derived from Microwave Measurements During the BOREAS Winter Field Experiment. Journal of Geophysical Research 102: 29663-29671. Chang, A. T. C., J. L. Foster, and Dorothy K. Hall. 1987. Nimbus-7 Derived Global Snow Cover Parameters. Annals of Glaciology 9: 39-44. Chang, A. T. C., J. L. Foster, Dorothy Hall, A. Rango, and B. Hartline. 1982. Snow Water Equivalence Determination by Microwave Radiometry. Cold Regions Science and Technology 5: 259-267. Chang, A. T. C., R. E. J. Kelly, J. L. Foster, and Dorothy K. Hall. The Testing of AMSR-E Snow Depth and Snow Water Equivalent Estimates in the Northern Hemisphere. Poster presented at the AGU Fall Meeting, San Fransisco, CA., 8-12 December 2003a. Chang, A. T. C., Richard E. J. Kelly, J. L. Foster, and Dorothy K. Hall. Global SWE Monitoring Using AMSR-E Data. Poster presented at the Proceedings of IGARSS, Toulouse, France, 21-25 July 2003 Chang, A. T. C., Richard E. J. Kelly, J. L. Foster, and Dorothy K. Hall. Estimation of Snow Depth from AMSR-E in the GAME-Siberia Experiment Region. Poster presented at the Proceedings of IGARSS, Alaska, USA 2004. Carroll, T. R. 1997. Integrated Ground-based, Airborne, and Satellite Snow Cover Observations in the National Weather Service. 77th AMS Annual Meeting; Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems, Long Beach, CA. Carroll, S. S., G. N. Day, N. Cressie, and T. R. Carroll. 1995. Spatial Modeling of Snow Water Equivalent Using Airborne and Ground Based Snow Data. Environmetrics 6: 127-139. Conway, D. 2002. Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - EOS Quality Assurance Plan. Huntsville, AL: Global Hydrology and Climate Center. Dewey, K. F. and R. Heim, Jr. 1981. Satellite Observations of Variations in Northern Hemisphere Seasonal Snow Cover. NOAA Technical Report NESS 87. Foster, J. L., A. T. C. Chang, Dorothy K. Hall, and A. Rango. 1991. Derivation of Snow Water Equivalent in Boreal Forests Using Microwave Radiometry. Arctic 44(1):147-152. Goodison, B., A.E. Walker, and F.W. Thirkettle. 1990. Determination of Snowcover on the Canadian Prairies Using Passive Microwave Data. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Remote Sensing and Water Resources. Enschede, The Netherlands, 127-136. Grody, N. C. and A. N. Basist. 1997. Interpretation of SSM/I Measurements Over Greenland. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 35: 360-366. Hallikainen, M. T., and P. A. Jolma. 1986. Retrieval of Water Equivalent of Snow Cover in Finland by Satellite Microwave Radiometry. Geoscience and Remote Sensing: IEEE Transactions GE-24(6):855-862. Hansen, M., R. DeFries, J. R. Townshend, M. Carroll, C. Dimiceli, and R. Sohlberg. 2003. 500m MODIS Vegetation Continuous Fields. College Park, Maryland: The Global Land Cover Facility. Hansen, M. C., R. S. DeFries, J. R. G. Townshend, M. Carroll, C. Dimiceli, and R. A. Sohlberg. 2003. Global Percent Tree Cover at a Spatial Resolution of 500 Meters: First Results of the MODIS Continuous Fields Algorithm. Earth Interactions, 7 10:15. Josberger, E. G. and N. M. Mognard. 2000. A Passive Microwave Snow Depth Algorithm with a Proxy for Snow Metamorphism. Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Applications of Remote Sensing in Hydrology, Santa Fe, NM. Kelly, Richard E. J. and J. L. Foster. The AMSR-E Snow Water Equivalent Product: Status and Future Development. Poster presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA., 5-9 December 2005a. Kelly, Richard E. J., J. L. Foster and Dorothy K. Hall. The AMSR-E Snow Water Equivalent Product: Algorithm Development and Progress in Product Validation. Poster presented at the Proceedings of the 28th General Assembly of the Union of International Radio Science, New Delhi, India, 23-29 October 2005b. Kelly, Richard. E. J., A. T. C. Chang, L. Tsang, and J. L. Foster. 2003. A Prototype AMSR-E Global Snow Area and Snow Depth Algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 41(2): 230-242. Kelly, Richard E. J., A. T. C. Chang, J. L. Foster, Dorothy K. Hall, B. b. Stankov, and A. J. Gasiewski, A.J. Testing AMSR-E Snow Retrievals with Cold Lands Processes Experiment Data. Poster presented at the AGU Fall Meeting, San Fransisco, CA., 8-12 December 2003. Kelly, Richard E. J., A. T. C. Chang, J. L. Foster, and Dorothy K. Hall. The Effect of Sub-pixel Areal Distribution of Snow on the Estimation of Snow Depth from Spaceborne Passive Microwave Instruments. Poster presented at the Proceedings of IGARSS, Toulouse, France, 21-25 July 2003. Knowles, K. 2004. EASE-Grid Land Cover Data Resampled from Boston University Version of Global 1 km Land Cover from MODIS 2001, Version 4. Boulder CO, USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media. Krenke, A. 1998, updated 2004. Former Soviet Union Hydrological Snow Surveys, 1966-1996. Edited by NSIDC. Boulder, CO: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media. Kunzi, K. F., S. Patil and H. Rott. 1982. Snow-cover Parameters Retrieved from Nimbus-7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) Data. Geoscience and Remote Sensing: IEEE Transactions GE-20(4):452-467. Matzler, C. 1987. Applications of the Interaction of Microwaves with the Natural Snow Cover. Remote Sensing Reviews Series, Vol. 2. London: Taylor and Frances, Inc. Remote Sensing Rev., 2, 259-391. Pulliainen, J. T., J. Grandell, and M. T. Hallikainen. 1997. Retrieval of surface temperature in boreal forest zone from SSM/I data. IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing 35: 1188-1200. Robinson, D. A. and G. Kukla. 1985. Maximum Surface Albedo of Seasonally Snow Covered Lands in the Northern Hemisphere. Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology 24: 402-411. Rott, H. and J. Aschbacher. 1989. Proceedings of the IAHS Third International Assembly on Remote Sensing and Large Scale Global Processes, Baltimore, MD. Publicaton No. 186. Sturm, M., J. Holmgren, and G. E. Liston. 1995. A Seasonal Snow Cover Classification System for Local to Global Applications. Journal of Climate 8: 1261-1283. Sun, C. Y., C. M. U. Neale, and J. J. McDonnell. 1996. Snow Wetness Estimates of Vegetated Terrain from Satellite Passive Microwave Data. Hydrologic Processes 10: 1619-1628. Walker, A. E. and B. E. Goodison. 1993. Discrimination of Wet Snow Cover Using Passive Microwave Satellite Data. Annals of Glaciology 17: 307-311. 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People are talking and eyebrows are being raised regarding the scorching lyrics of former Destiny's Child member Kelly Rowland's new single, "Dirty Laundry," from her album, "Talking a Good Game."
Around the time Beyoncé Knowles' solo career was zooming into the strastosphere, Rowland was locked in an emotionally and physically abuse relationship. So now she is venting — and using harsher language than anyone could have ever imagined.
"Forget the records, off the record I was going through some bull—-," sings Rowland passionately. She says she was "soaked in tears for years." On one occasion Knowles strongly advised her close friend to leave — and at the time Rowland says she was "on the kitchen floor" and "he took the keys."
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1) Go Down; 2) Dog Eat Dog; 3) Let There Be Rock; 4) Bad Boy Boogie; 5) Problem Child; 6) Overdose; 7) Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be; 8) Whole Lotta Rosie.
Pay attention how nearly each and every song on this album begins with a little dry guitar «click» sound, sometimes accompanied with a muffled, but intentionally preserved, initial countdown. It is a unique thing for Let There Be Rock: already on Powerage, all the intros would be made thoroughly clean. So it is symbolic, and the best guess is that the band is telling us that, having found its schtick on the previous two albums, it has now found its sound.
Because if AC/DC ever did make the transition from «hard rock» to «metal», or any other sort of sound-related transition if these terms do not suit us, this is the spot. Malcolm and Angus add a rough, leaden touch to their guitars, going for more distortion and «dirt», and realize the headbanger's dream: a sound so fat and crunchy that, when played at the proper volume, it never fails to bring out your devil if only God did not forget to endow you with one.
The album is not without problems. Some of the songs have lazy riffs — 'Go Down' recalls their least inspired blues-rock romps, 'Overdose' has never even once surfaced as a live recording, 'Dog Eat Dog' is equally so-so, and, for some sort of silly censorship reason, the classic number 'Crabsody In Blue', worth it for the title alone, has never surfaced on the international version of the record, instead replaced by a slightly shortened version of 'Problem Child'. This is depressing, especially given that the whole album hosts but eight numbers.
Still, fillerish as they are, all of these songs rock as well, and none of them spoil one's appetite for the classics. 'Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be' has one of the band's most memorable «angular» riffs going for it, and a great cool 'Hey you! Yeah, you!' from Bon at the start. The title track and 'Whole Lotta Rosie' are acknowledged classics, both for their mock-anthemic quality and the utmost level of madness that Angus achieves with his solos, literally the musical equivalents of a fire team drowning your burning house or car in avalanches of foam; at the end of 'Whole Lotta Rosie', one risks the real danger of suffocating, since there is every chance of you forgetting how to breathe under the onslaught of the younger Young's incessant pummeling.
But, upon being heavily saturated with the two hits, my heart chooses to belong elsewhere. Where 'Bad Boy Boogie' is frequently viewed as merely a cool element in the band's stage show — it is that number during which Angus does his strip show — I have gradually come to the conclusion that it might simply be the AC/DC song. Everything about it is perfect to perfection. The noisy intro, and how the song's riff grows out of it. The riff itself — simple, bluesy, amazing in its austerity, triggering your inner rhythms like crazy. Bon Scott as the ideal man to blurt out the message: 'It was the seventh day, I was the seventh son — and it scared the hell out of everyone!' The breathtaking pause before Angus rips into the solo. The lengthy one-note passage. The deception as the drums kick back into full gear, only to disappear entirely a few bars later. The build-up back to the main melody, by which time — notice? — the riff has actually changed, but did not lose any of its power. Mark Evans' crescendo on the bass, piling up high high high until Bon relaunches the vocal part. In terms of how much is going on, it may be the band's most complex creation, ever, and yet it is still perfectly fit for the hormone level of a seventh grader, a masterpiece of insulting brutality.
Let There Be Rock is an arrogant, but perfect title. Presumptuously, it almost seems to imply that before it there was no rock as such, and that it is only now that this pack of sacrilegious Australians, playing God, allow it to come into existence. (Presumption seriously confirmed by the video that accompanied the title track, in which Bon is seen dressed as a preacher and Angus, oh good heavens, is playing with a self-made halo stuck on his head). Of course, Bon's lyrics, hilariously retelling the story of the birth of rock'n'roll, would seem to contradict that. But whoever listens to AC/DC for the lyrics, hilarious as they might be?
Come to think of it — from a certain point of view at least, they may be right. Certainly rock had never ever sounded quite like this, and, more importantly, it has never ever sounded more «rock» than this. In the whole history of popular music after 1977, no one has ever written a song that rocks — in the simplest, commonest, basest sense of the term, not in its intellectualized perversion — harder than 'Whole Lotta Rosie'. So, «let there be rock» indeed. Thumbs up without a single question asked, even despite all the filler.


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Stresemann, Gustav
died Oct. 3, 1929, BerlinGerman chancellor and foreign minister of the Weimar Republic.Noted as an expert on municipal affairs and a writer on economics, he was elected to the Reichstag (1907) as a member of the National Liberal Party. In 1918 he founded the German People's Party and sought to form coalitions with other democratic parties. As chancellor (1923) and foreign minister (1923–29), he worked to restore Germany's international status, pursuing a conciliatory policy with the Allied Powers. He negotiated the Pact of Locarno, supported the reparations revisions in the Dawes and Young plans, and secured Germany's admission to the League of Nations. He shared the 1926 Nobel Prize for Peace with Aristide Briand.Gustav Stresemann.Courtesy of Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz BPK, Berlin
* * *▪ chancellor of GermanyIntroductionborn May 10, 1878, Berlin, Germanydied October 3, 1929, Berlinchancellor (1923) and foreign minister (1923, 1924–29) of the Weimar Republic, largely responsible for restoring Germany's international status after World War I. With French foreign minister Aristide Briand (Briand, Aristide), he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1926 for his policy of reconciliation and negotiation.Youth and educationStresemann was the son of Ernst Stresemann, a Berlin innkeeper and beer distributor. He was the only one of five children able to attend high school and university. From early childhood he displayed a strong "inclination toward solitude," as he put it as a student, as well as a tendency to be melancholy and to daydream. At school he displayed an unusual gift for history, especially modern history. He was especially interested in the lives of great personalities, particularly Napoleon (Napoleon I) and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von), both of whom fascinated him throughout his life and inspired several of his literary studies.Stresemann, attending the Universities of Berlin and Leipzig from 1897 to 1900, first studied literature and history but changed to economics, probably to improve his professional prospects rather than in recognition of his practical gifts. While a student he belonged to a relatively progressive fraternity and retained a lifelong attachment to the sentimental glories of student life. In 1900 he received his doctorate with a dissertation entitled "The Growth of the Berlin Bottled-Beer Industry." The subject of his study, based on his knowledge of his father's business and dealing with the decline of a sector of small business as a result of competition from giant industry, was characteristic of his origins as well as of his point of view. It was used against him in future political struggles by right-wing opposition.As a liberal Prussian Protestant, Stresemann became a typical representative of the chauvinistic spirit prevailing in imperial Germany. He believed in the spiritual, military, and economic superiority of the German Empire, and his political idealism (nationalism) manifested itself in a sentimental enthusiasm for the heroic liberalism of the revolutions of 1848 (1848, Revolutions of), as well as in a romantic style of speech.Political riseAfter completing his studies, Stresemann began his professional career in a trade association. Unusually rapid success in commerce gave him a springboard into politics. As an administrative assistant in the German Chocolate Makers' Association from 1901 to 1904, he gained a reputation as an accomplished organizer and negotiator. By 1902 he had founded the Saxon Manufacturers' Association, and as its legal representative until 1911, he occupied an important position in economic life at the age of 25.His wife, whom he married in 1903, was the sister of a fraternity brother and the daughter of the Berlin industrialist Adolf Kleefeld. Of Jewish extraction, Stresemann's charming and elegant wife played a leading role in Berlin society of the 1920s. They had two sons.After initially sympathizing with the ideas of the Protestant social reformer Friedrich Naumann (Naumann, Friedrich) and collaborating with his National Social Union, Stresemann joined the National Liberal Party in 1903. Strongly represented in Saxony at the time, the party became Stresemann's political home. Often involved in conflicts over his support of social-welfare measures with the right wing of his party (which was dominated by representatives of heavy industry), he attracted general notice at his first appearance at a party congress in 1906.As a Dresden city councillor from 1906 to 1912 and editor of the Dresden magazine Sächsische Industrie ("Saxon Industry"), Stresemann became a well-known writer on economics and an expert on municipal affairs. Recognizing the importance of the press in influencing public opinion, he took advantage of it to support his aims.He was elected in 1907 to the Reichstag (parliament) as a National Liberal from the Annaberg district in the Saxon metal-mining country, thus gaining a foothold in national politics. At 28 he was the youngest deputy in the Reichstag. The party chairman, Ernst Bassermann (Bassermann, Ernst), helped to advance his political career, and Stresemann was soon considered Bassermann's "crown prince." Stresemann was primarily interested in economic policy both as a journalist and a deputy. He energetically defended the interests of the commercial middle class, but his advocacy of extended social-welfare legislation embroiled him in a conflict with the representatives of his party's right wing, which in 1912 prevented his reelection to the National Liberal Party executive committee. After losing his seat in the new Reichstag elections in the same year, he traveled with other business leaders to the United States to study economic conditions.By this time Stresemann, who had moved to Berlin, was one of the best-known leaders of German economic life. He occupied leading positions in a number of trade associations, including the German-American Economic Association, established at his suggestion. Stresemann's many offices brought him financial independence. He was known for his organizational gifts, knew how to handle people, and was aware of the power he wielded. As a member of the pan-German (Pan-Germanism) Deutscher Kolonialverein (German Colonial League) and an advocate of a strong naval construction program, he supported the imperialist goals of German policy carried out under the aegis of Alfred von Tirpitz (Tirpitz, Alfred von) and Bernhard, Fürst (prince) von Bülow (Bülow, Bernhard, Fürst von). Tirpitz had served as state secretary of the Imperial Naval Office, in which post he created the German battle fleet, and Bülow was chancellor of Germany (1900–1909).Policies during World War IStresemann was a part of the great majority of Germans who, in the firm belief that Germany was conducting a purely defensive war, greeted the outbreak of World War I with enthusiasm. Because of his poor health he was exempted from military service. His political hour struck, however, in December 1914, when he was returned to the Reichstag in a special election.Stresemann emerged during the war as one of the most vociferous exponents of Pan-Germanism and as a champion of Germany's extensive claims on Polish and Russian territory in the east and on French and Belgian territory in the west. He virtually took over leadership of his party's Reichstag faction from Bassermann, whom military service and illness kept away from Berlin much of the time. During these years Stresemann moved increasingly to the right. From 1916 he worked closely with the German Army Supreme Command under Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg (Hindenburg, Paul von) and General Erich Ludendorff (Ludendorff, Erich) and became their parliamentary mouthpiece. He advocated unrestricted U-boat warfare and opposed the policy of Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg (Bethmann Hollweg, Theobald von), who held to a moderate course and did not allow himself to be committed to expansionist war aims.Stresemann played a leading role in Bethmann Hollweg's overthrow in July 1917 but failed to bring back to power the former chancellor Bülow, whom he admired. After Bassermann's death in the same month, Stresemann succeeded him as leader of the party's Reichstag faction, becoming chairman of the entire party later in the same year. Despite radical differences within the National Liberal ranks, Stresemann was able to prevent a party split between the Reichstag faction and its more conservative counterpart in the Prussian House of Deputies over the Prussian three-class suffrage system, in which a citizen's vote was weighted according to the value of his property. Hoping to strengthen the monarchy, Stresemann advocated abolition of the voting system. On the other hand, he allowed himself to be deceived about the seriousness of the military situation of the Reich and its allies until the Supreme Command admitted defeat at the end of September 1918.Conversion into a "realistic republican"The defeat, the collapse of the monarchy on November 9, 1918, and the flight of Emperor William (Wilhelm) II (William II) to Holland were cruel blows to Stresemann. Nonetheless, he quickly accommodated himself to the realities of a republican Germany. However, when the newly formed left-liberal German Democratic Party, led by Naumann (Naumann, Friedrich) and the renowned sociologist Max Weber (Weber, Max), refused to admit him to its higher councils, Stresemann founded his own party, the German People's Party. A right-liberal grouping of educated and propertied elements, it sought to rally the right-wing supporters of the former National Liberal Party. Stresemann, fundamentally a monarchist and an opponent of the Weimar Republic, assumed an ambiguous "wait-and-see" attitude during the rightist Kapp Putsch of March 1920. When the putsch was suppressed, however, he prepared to cooperate politically with the republic. He tried to persuade the democratic parties that the German People's Party was qualified to participate in a coalition and pressed for a position in the government. For the time being, however, he was still counted among the "national opposition" to the Weimar coalition—the Social Democratic Party (Social Democratic Party of Germany), the German Democratic Party, and the Centre Party.Stresemann, a member of the German National Constituent Assembly in Weimar in 1919–20, was an opponent of the new German constitution. He also opposed the Treaty of Versailles (Versailles, Treaty of) and was to devote his political life to its revision. From 1920 until his death Stresemann was a Reichstag deputy and chairman of the German People's Party, and in August 1923 he became chancellor of the Reich at the head of a "Great Coalition," composed of representatives of the Social Democrats, the Centre, and the German Democrats, as well as of his People's Party.As chancellor from August 13 to November 23, 1923, during the crisis over the Allied occupation of the Ruhr, and as foreign minister from August 1923 to his death, Stresemann exercised decisive influence over the fate of the Weimar Republic, and he became a statesman of European stature. His first decision as chancellor was to abandon the policy of passive resistance in the Ruhr, which in January 1923 had been occupied by French and Belgian troops to enforce payment of German war reparations. This policy had accelerated inflation and was precipitating a financial collapse.On the domestic scene, he sought to steer his way among opposing domestic forces. While proceeding harshly against communist-influenced state governments in Thuringia and Saxony, he displayed a lenient attitude toward revolutionary attempts of the radical right, such as the Beer Hall Putsch of Adolf Hitler (Hitler, Adolf) on November 8–9, 1923, in Munich (Beer Hall Putsch). At the height of the internal political crisis of November 1923 there was danger that the occupied territory west of the Rhine (Rhineland) (occupied by the Allies) might withdraw from the Reich. Only the stabilization of the currency in the middle of November—the last significant achievement of Stresemann's government—restored domestic order and created the basis for economic recovery.Years as foreign ministerOverthrown by a vote of no confidence, the cabinet resigned in November 1923. Stresemann took over the post of foreign minister in the new government and held it, unchallenged until his death, in coalition governments of varying composition under three chancellors ranging from the left to centre. His policy was aimed at securing a reconciliation with the victorious Western powers, especially France, for Germany had already renewed ties with Russia (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) through the Treaty of Rapallo in 1922. By meeting the reparation payments, for the reduction of which he fought as stubbornly as he did for removal of French troops from west of the Rhine, he hoped to gain a favourable position for his negotiations with the victorious Allies. His enduring aim was to obtain equal rights for Germany and to restore it to its former position among the countries of Europe.Principally, however, this meant a revision of Germany's eastern border of 1919, which would require Poland to return Danzig, the Polish Corridor, and Upper Silesia, as well as the annexation of Austria. Realistically appraising Germany's central position in Europe and exploiting Anglo-French and Anglo-Soviet tensions, Stresemann tried to achieve his goals through negotiation, but his seesaw policy between East and West was strongly criticized by many contemporary critics. Yet Stresemann retained his optimism, often carrying it to extremes, and this outlook frequently led him to underestimate opposition both at home and abroad.Stresemann's successes in dealing with the Allied powers during those years can be marked out in stages. In 1924 the U.S.-proposed Dawes Plan was signed, providing for reduction in payment of reparations and stabilization of German finances. It was followed in 1925 by the Pact of Locarno (Locarno, Pact of), which included acceptance of the new Franco-German border, agreements to arbitrate disputes with other nations, and immunity from new sanctions by the victors of World War I.In 1926 the first Rhineland zone was evacuated by the Allies, Germany was admitted to the League of Nations (Nations, League of), and the Berlin Treaty with the Soviet Union (an agreement providing for mutual neutrality) was signed. In 1928 the Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war was signed by Germany. Stresemann did not live to see the complete evacuation of French troops from the Rhineland and the completion of the new settlement reducing German reparations through the Young Plan (also a U.S. proposal) in 1929, although he had conducted the negotiations when already marked by death.Any summary of Stresemann's diplomatic successes should not obscure the fact that he devoted an extraordinary amount of effort to combating strong domestic opposition that arose, above all, from his own party. Stresemann, who took the importance of the press into consideration, used publicity to promote his policy but, by making premature statements, often aroused political hopes that could not be realized. After his spectacular secret meeting in 1926 with Briand—which gave rise to exaggerated hopes—Franco-German rapprochement came to a standstill. In the last two years of his life, which were marked by illness, Stresemann became increasingly dissatisfied at his failure to further his foreign policy, especially after his party dwindled and large sections of it went over to the extreme right. He himself contemplated formation of a new party of the liberal centre. The domestic struggle in particular weakened his already precarious health, and he died after suffering two strokes, at the age of 51.AssessmentBy virtue of his six years of service as foreign minister and the esteem he enjoyed, particularly abroad, Stresemann made an essential contribution to securing the Weimar Republic's stability and survival for a few years. Because of domestic undercurrents and opposition, he succeeded at the cost of extraordinary personal effort.On his death, the republic, which honoured him with a state funeral, lost one of its few statesmen. In his personal as well as his political development he embodied the uncertainty of the period of transition from monarchy to republic. Yet he was unable to integrate his own party, over which he jealously maintained leadership, into the Weimar state and thus failed, as he wrote in 1929, to form the bridge "between the old and the new Germany."As an advocate of a "policy of national realism," as opposed to a "pacifist policy of resignation," he was by no means a champion of European unification. He supported its objectives, however, since he could thus more easily obtain the urgently sought revision of the Treaty of Versailles.Stresemann's image is still controversial. He was first pronounced a hero after 1945, when he was viewed as a champion of a united Europe. This view was succeeded in the 1950s by an increasingly critical evaluation, especially during the disclosure of his voluminous literary estate, which was at first exclusively at the disposal of U.S. historians. He was then portrayed as a flexible and opportunistic politician of nationalistic sympathies who shrewdly adjusted his aims to meet the needs of the time, and it was said that Stresemann had not become a democrat out of conviction but rather that he had raised "finessing" to the level of a principle. His volatile character and sentimental attachment to uniforms and tradition were also emphasized. The communists, meanwhile, regarded him as a representative of monopoly capitalism and a forerunner of Hitler.More recently, he has been characterized as a "pragmatic conservative" who remained flexible in his choice of political means while pursuing his national aims of restoration of German wealth and power and the continuation of German traditional social and economic order. Others have emphasized the European aspect of the German "patriot" Stresemann, a viewpoint from which German historical research has departed. Yet, his political changeability notwithstanding, Stresemann is counted among the few statesmen of his time.Rudolf MorseyAdditional ReadingBiographies include Annelise Thimme, Gustav Stresemann: Eine politische Biographie zur Geschichte der Weimarer Republik (1957); and Felix Hirsch, Gustav Stresemann: Patriot und Europäer (1964), which is supplemented by his Stresemann: Ein Lebensbild (1978), focusing on the years 1923–29. Aspects of Stresemann's career are examined in Henry L. Bretton, Stresemann and the Revision of Versailles (1953); Hans W. Gatzke, Stresemann and the Rearmament of Germany (1954, reissued 1969), an excellent treatment of a single topic; Henry Ashby Turner, Stresemann and the Politics of the Weimar Republic (1963, reprinted 1979), an overview; Donald Warren, Jr., The Red Kingdom of Saxony: Lobbying Grounds for Gustav Stresemann, 1901–1909 (1964), basic for Stresemann's rise as a corporate lawyer; Martin Walsdorff, Westorientierung und Ostpolitik: Stresemanns Russlandpolitik in der Locarno-Ära (1971), with a detailed bibliography; Robert P. Grathwol, Stresemann and the DNVP; Reconciliation or Revenge in German Foreign Policy, 1924–1928 (1980); and Manfred J. Enssle, Stresemann's Territorial Revisionism: Germany, Belgium, and the Eupen-Malmédy Question, 1919–1929 (1980).
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September 2010
US Cover for HELLHOLE (Tor Books)
This February, Brian Herbert and I will introduce our first non-Dune novel, Hellhole, the start of a new epic SF trilogy to be published by Tor Books. We just received the final US cover, with a painting by Stephen Youll.
"Terra Incognita" Audiobooks now available
Hachette Audio has just released the unabridged audio edition of the second Terra Incognita novel, The Map of All Things. Award-winning narrator Scott Brick is the reader.
Book Signing at the Columbia Memorial Space Center
On the day following the Writers of the Future event at the end of August, Rebecca and I appeared at the newly reopened Columbia Memorial Space Center in Downey, California at a launch party for the new Star Challengers series. This educational center, space museum, and Challenger Learning Center is an extensive complex on the site where some of the original Apollo Program work was done.
Since 1996 I've been a judge and guest instructor for the annual Writers of the Future Contest; Rebecca became a judge in 2007. It's one of the most gratifying things we do each year—teaching a dozen or so of the best new writers to emerge from the many thousands of submissions received each quarter.
I just received my editor's copies of Blood Lite II: Overbite, the second volume of humorous horror stories, just in time for Halloween. The book should be in stores by next week.
Rush and a Mountaintop
Two great Rush concerts in one week and summiting a 14,264-ft peak; it's tough to decide which part I enjoyed most. (On the other hand, I don't have to decide.)
Appearance Schedule for DragonCon
The following is my complete appearance schedule at DragonCon this weekend. In addition we also have a table in the lower dealers' room, and you can usually find me there if I'm not on stage.
1 PM—reading (Hellhole and Blood Lite 2)
2:30 PM—autograph session (with Rebecca)
4 PM—How to Increase Your Writing Productivity (lecture)
1 PM—Challenger Center panel
2:30—Oil Spill Disasters
4 PM—autographing (w/June Scobee Rodgers & Rebecca at Catalyst Game Labs booth, upper dealers' room)
Meet June Scobee Rodgers at DragonCon
On Saturday, Sept 4, June Scobee Rodgers—founder of the Challenger Learning Centers—will be appearing with me and Rebecca, as well as Loren Coleman (publisher of Catalyst Books) at DragonCon in Atlanta. We have a panel at 1 PM about the Challenger Learning Centers for Space Science Education, as well as the Star Challengers series and the new release of the first volume, Moonbase Crisis.


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Toward a Fuller Discussion of Grand Jury Resistance
From Indybay – by Ben Rosenfeld
A couple years ago, I asked people to pause before branding as a cooperator a person who gave pre-scripted testimony to a grand jury after a exhausting her legal options. Although some people construed my piece as advocating "partial cooperation," I have never uttered those words except to disclaim them. Instead, I've spent hundreds of unpaid hours representing grand jury resisters or pairing them with other lawyers, coordinating joint defenses, advising colleagues how to give legal expression to their clients' principled resistance, drafting and sharing motions, assisting with appeals, petitioning to open proceedings and unseal records, developing printed materials, and inveighing against the malignant grand jury system.
Perhaps I made a mistake in vouching for a person who had not debriefed to the community after testifying. I took that chance to protect her from denunciation, knowing her circumstances to be more nuanced than the term "cooperator" usually conveys, and because I hate seeing the government succeed in dividing activists. My aim was to spark deeper discussion in order to encourage more informed and effective resistance.
There are many good reasons to sound the clarion note of non-cooperation. It galvanizes resistance, honors the sacrifices of those jailed for contempt, keeps things straightforward, and is rooted in the critical fact that even innocuous sounding questions/answers can lead to harmful results. But other truths impinge on this ideal framework: Ostracizing every person who enters the grand jury chamber has personal, social, and security costs of its own. It creates rifts, spreads alienation, siphons resources, and serves the FBI's political ends. (more…)


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October 17, 2013
Review - Life, Death and Vanilla Slices by Jenny Éclair
Jean is hit by a car on her way back from the shop with a box of vanilla slices. She always buys them when she wants to celebrate but what is the event that she is celebrating? Her grown-up daughter Anne, comes back home to care for her and they both have time and space away from their daily routines to reflect on their shared history and how their family was formed. Anne was her father's favourite, her sister Jess was her mother's. But when Dad died it got a bit lopsided, Mum, and I know it must have been hard for you because I think you did love me, it was just you liked Jess more. I'm glad I don't have a favourite with my boys, though to be honest, I don't like either of them much at the moment. The reason your parents make decisions may be based on things you knew nothing about; and children have inner lives that their parents cannot fathom. Jenny Éclair is one of my favourite Grumpy Old Women and a noted stand up comedian and this is her third novel. Some of the words from the reviews on the cover include unflinching, brilliantly sharp, black humour, brave, angry, melancholy, rich and honest. I agree with all of them. It made me think differently about being both a daughter and a mother. Wendy
October 16, 2013
Review - The Venetian Contract by Marina Fiorato
Feyra is a Turkish Muslim young woman from Constantinople, who has trained as a doctor but is on the run to Venice after the Sultan dies and his son inherits power. Their ship brings plague to Venice and Feyra takes refuge in the house of Palladio, the great architect, who has been contracted by the Doge to build a great church so that God will help Venice in her time of trouble. She is able to share the secrets of the great Islamic buildings in Constantinople with Palladio, which inform his designs. She then forms a professional working relationship with a Venetian doctor who has set up a hospital on an island where he can try new methods of combating the plague. This is an interesting time in medicine and the passages with Feyra and the doctor are the strongest. The author states that she wanted write a story about Palladio, but I think she has been taken over by her young heroine and the medical story. Although the different parts of the story do not really hang together well, you get an excellent feel for Venice in the late 1500s and a charming romance. Wendy
Labels: Fiction, Historical, Italy
October 15, 2013
Review - Norwegian by night by Derek B. Miller
I was at first quite annoyed by Sheldon, the 82 year old slightly demented hero of this book but he surely grows on you. Sheldon has come to Norway to live with his grand daughter after his wife died. He has only been here a couple of weeks when there is a murder in their apartment and he goes on the run with a small boy because he isn't sure who may try to hurt him. We learn of Sheldon's war history and how he lost his son in the Vietnam war. He had wanted to fight for America because although European countries were based on tribes, America was based on an idea – an idea for all who came to the country to share regardless of their origin. The strands of family and belonging that cloud his remembrance as he navigates an unfamiliar land are built into an absorbing tale of love and loss. He is hunted by the police and by the killers but the journey also gives him a new view of his adopted country and its beauty of land and of people. There is a dramatic conclusion when all the strands come together. By the end, Sheldon has become exactly the romantic warrior hero he always pretended he wasn't albeit with arthritis and much reduced eye sight. It's worth persevering until he gets you under his spell. Wendy
Labels: Fiction, Mystery, Scandinavian
October 13, 2013
Review - The Single Girl's To-Do List by Lindsey Kelk
This is a fluffy romp through modern romance. Rachel has been in a relationship with Simon that is comfortable and that she doesn't question. When he wants a break from their relationship, at first she is devastated but with the help of her two best friends, she makes a list of actions to enable her to take charge of her life. The ensuing adventures help all three of them understand just who is Mr Right for each of them. If you wanted to revitalize your own life, what would be on your list? Light entertainment for an idle afternoon Wendy
October 12, 2013
Review - The Black House by Peter May
Inspector Fin McLeod is returning home to assist with a murder inquiry to the Isle of Lewis off northern Scotland, a land of harsh beauty. He hasn't been back for many years. It was a brooding landscape that in a moment of sunlight could be unexpectedly transformed. Fin knew the road well, in all seasons, and had never ceased to marvel at how the interminable acres of featureless peatbog could transform by the month, the day, or even the minute. The dead straw colour of winter, the carpets of tiny white spring flowers, the dazzling purples of summer. To their right, the sky had blackened, and rain was falling somewhere in the hinterland. To their left, the sky was almost clear, the summer sunlight falling across the land, and they could see in the distance the pale outline of the mountains of Harris. Fin had forgotten how big the sky was here. When Fin grew up, the swings were chained up on a Sunday. The community was close-knit, united in a harsh and dour faith. Fin has escaped but never really left. The current investigation brings him back to where it all began. I particularly liked the way in which Fin comes to revise his thinking about his best friend and the school bully who made their lives miserable. An evocative probing of human failings and the long term effects of choices you make along the way. Wendy
October 10, 2013
Review - A Dangerous Inheritance by Alison Weir
I first read Alison Weir many years ago when I read her elegantly wonderful biography of Eleanor of Acquitaine. Her scholarship in English history is well respected and forms a firm foundation for her story telling skills. This is her fourth historical novel and it is the story of two girls who were close to the English throne, Kate Plantagenet, base born daughter of Richard III, in the 1480s and Lady Katherine Grey, cousin to Elizabeth I and sister of the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey, who was briefly put on the throne by Protestant sympathizers in the 1550s, prior to Mary I's ascension to the throne. At first I was a little confused as to who was who as the narrative shifts between the two girls and I needed to keep referring to the extensive family trees given at the front of the book. But fairly quickly, the two stories took shape, each Kate's voice became distinctive and the feeling of being right beside them developed. Period detail is excellent (especially the sumptuous clothes and the streetscenes) and her re-take on the mystery of the Princes in the tower, which exerts fascination to both Kates, is excellently imagined and described. Both girls love deeply but their fates are determined by their family connections and their dangerous closeness to the throne. Thoroughly recommended. Wendy
Labels: Fiction, Historical, U.K.
October 08, 2013
Review - Rush of Blood by Mark Billingham
Mark Billingham has a very good series featuring Inspector tom Thorne, but this is a stand alone which follows 3 English couples who meet on holiday in Florida. Shortly before they all fly home, a girl goes missing. She isn't found until weeks later and by then they have begun a series of dinners at each of the couples' homes. An inexperienced trainee detective constable is tasked with follow up interviews with the holiday makers and she notes some inconsistencies in their accounts. Then a girl goes missing in England and suddenly a Trans-Atlantic investigation is underway. Billingham does a good job of revealing the personalities and the stresses affecting them. More than one person has opportunity but who has the motive. It culminates in a shocking discovery and a death. A very well constructed thriller and a page turner. I didn't guess it although I was on the right track. Wendy
October 06, 2013
Review - The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson
This is a short but difficult book to come to grips with. Set in the 1600s in the height of the witch mania which has blighted our western history, Winterson evokes the hard conditions afflicting the poor and dispossessed. Scratching a living on the margins of society and with no-one to speak for them, the characters in this novel who find themselves locked up and awaiting trial for witchcraft live through dreadful travails. By the end of it though, I didn't find any character I could care about. Just about everyone was rather wretched. It feels historically accurate largely due to her sure usage of local dialect and sure hand with the living conditions but I'm not really sure why Winterson has told the story? What do you think? Wendy
Labels: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, U.K.
October 05, 2013
Review - The Truth by Michael Palin
Palin's second novel is the story of an ageing writer who yearns for success and he is planning his great novel when he is offered the biography of one of the world's heroes, a humanitarian and environmental activist, Hamish Melville. This is a thoughtful and layered look at fame and how it is used and abused. If you seek after truth, whose truth are you seeking? Keith's adventures in following his subject eventually lead him to understand himself. I enjoyed this book. Wendy
Labels: Fiction
October 04, 2013
Review - Taboo by Casey Hill
Reilly Steel, which has to be one of the most deliciously imagined names for a detective heroine, is a forensic expert who has been trained by the FBI but finds herself living in Dublin, where she has moved in order to be closer to her father. There is a frisson of cross cultural conflict as she adjusts to the Irish way. Contrary to expectation, Dublin provides a series of murders which she solves with the help of Detective Chris Delaney. A nice amount of revealing depth about the detectives and an intricately plotted whodunit. It feels a little light but mysteries come in all shapes and sizes. Wendy
October 02, 2013
Review -Scream by Nigel McCrery
DCI Mark Lapslie has an intriguing neurological condition – synaesthesia – which means he experiences a taste sensation when he hears sounds. The tastes are not at all related to the sound and may be pleasant or nasty. The story involves his condition in an intricate plot where a tape of a woman screaming is the only clue that the police have to go on. Why does she scream 27 times before she dies and who else has gone missing? This is a well written, competent police procedural but be warned there are very gruesome murders. Wendy
Labels: Fiction, Large Print, Mystery, U.K.
Review - Sunshine on Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith
The Number 1 Detective Agency series by this author is rightly acclaimed but I think I prefer the Scotland Street series with its gentle musing on modern manners and the perennial problems of human nature. The gentle skewering of middle class pretensions continues as does the warm understanding of people's individual worries and concerns. McCall Smith is witty and engaging as Bertie and his neighbours and friends have another series of adventures. Pure bliss. Wendy
Labels: Alexander McCall Smith, Fiction, U.K.
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