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Most financial advisors expect to see a spike in revenue in 2011 but continuing market volatility and a growing unease over Washington have put a chill on any unfettered enthusiasm.
As "New Realities in Wealth Management: From Dusk Till Dawn," a new report from Aite Group, frames it: "Overall, the path to recovery remains lengthy and littered."
Compensation expert Alan Johnson, downgrading his Wall Street year-end projections following a turbulent second quarter, called the solid first quarter an "anomaly" and identified the absence of an economic recovery, the varying impact of regulation in the U.S. and abroad, and ongoing uncertainty in world markets as key drivers this year in financial services compensation.
"On average, compensation may be up a little bit," said Johnson, who heads Johnson Associates in New York City. "But my forecast is not nearly as robust as it was early in the year."
Notably, Johnson attached this footnote to his forecast, issued in mid-August: "Caveat: Assumes turbulent market conditions don't lead to 2008 type meltdown."
If there is any one distinctive characteristic about the current state of advisor compensation, it is that there are so many moving parts. The bottom line as Danny Sarch, president of Leitner Sarch Consultants in White Plains, N.Y., draws it: the potential for a cut in pay, particularly at the wirehouse level.
"Take Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, as an example. [CEO] James Gorman has been very public about wanting a 20 percent return on the wealth management side. But every time quarterly earnings come back, where is it? Eight or nine percent, far short of that," notes Sarch. "It's the big elephant in the room: What can we get away with as far as cutting advisor pay that won't cost us much in terms of defections? As a rational person, when you've cut and stretched, at what point do you say 'Okay, what else do we do?' Advisor compensation has to be under scrutiny. I'd find it hard to believe they could go too many years without tinkering with the grids."
Still, financial advisors are a generally cheerful lot as the Aite report suggests. "Financial advisors are always optimistic," observes Sophie Schmitt, co-author of the survey. "In every study, you'll see that they think higher growth is coming versus what they just experienced." Consider: Most financial advisors surveyed by Aite in the first quarter of this year expect 2011 revenues to grow by 19 percent over levels a year earlier. (At press time, there were no data on growth expectations in more recent quarters.)
Schmitt said the optimism may be fueled in part by a "significant" change over the last two years in the way advisors are compensated. According to Aite's research, the percentage of commission-only advisors dropped by 40 percent between late 2009 and early 2011. It's no secret that many advisors and firms have long looked to the fee-based model as a more sustainable income source. "The subscription model allows you to spend more time deepening relationships. The more time you spend face to face, the more revenue you have," she added. "You're not out there hunting for that next client."
When financial advisors were asked to select the business model they believed would grow the most as a percentage of their total book over the next few years, 60 percent cited fee-based assets. Notably, Schmitt said, those advisors who were most heavily invested in fee-based products experienced the highest growth in 2010.
The upward tick in fee-based business corresponds with a renewed push by the wirehouses to improve the composition of their advisors' books of business. Through compensation-related measures, according to Schmitt, wirehouse advisors are being incentivized to focus on larger clients and reduce smaller accounts as a path toward increasing the revenue generated per advisor. As an example, she said, Bank of America Merrill Lynch is developing new pay incentives that include rewards for working in teams, having fewer but wealthier clients, and bulking up fee-based accounts. The firm already compensates advisors for referring small clients to its Merrill Edge platform, according to Aite.
At the moment, Sarch says, many advisors are in a holding pattern as they contemplate the shifting landscape that has come to define the compensation conversation.
"They are worried on this level: How can I continue to grow my business in an uncertain environment? The very best advisors, they are going to grow their business no matter what. I met a guy last week who's up 22 percent from last year," he said. "My point is I think the best guys are doing even better. My sense is the good guys are holding their own. This middle group feels lucky and glad to stay flat. Advisors at the bottom will lose market share because it's a downward spiral for them in terms of how successful they can be relative to their peers. If the cuts come, the organizations are going to do what's best for the firms. That may mean cutting their lower-end advisors and sprinkling fairy dust on everyone else."
Regulatory Flux
At this time last year, the industry was abuzz about what the final Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform legislation would look like and how it would impact advisor compensation going forward. The regulatory reforms weren't on the fast track, but they were on track. Not so today.
In late July, Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., the new chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, announced he wants to overhaul the Securities and Exchange Commission. He also urged the SEC to delay moving forward on a rule that would impose a fiduciary standard of care on anyone providing retail investment advice. Caught in the squeeze: broker/dealers awaiting guidance on how to proceed.
"He's being quite aggressive with respect to Dodd-Frank, which puts all advisors under a fiduciary standard. And he's asked SEC head Mary Schapiro to back off even though she wants to pursue fiduciary status for brokers," says Lou Harvey, who as president of Dalbar, the Boston-based consulting firm, has followed the matter closely. "It seems to me that Mary Schapiro is in no position to buck Congress. The only way is if she had the support of the administration. When you look at the politics of it, Mary Schapiro is still wearing Bernie Madoff around her neck. I don't think Mr. Obama is going to come to her rescue."
As a result, according to Harvey, compensation issues triggered by the fiduciary debate are likely "frozen" until after the 2012 elections.
Harvey says advisors today are concerned on two major fronts: the existing policy at the firm level to prohibit fiduciary arrangements with smaller accounts, and a Department of Labor fiduciary rule proposal that would cut many advisors out of the IRA advice business.
Harvey believes firms should change their policy to accommodate fiduciary arrangements with small account-holders now, not later. "Advisors are complaining bitterly about the policies of their firms," he said. "I have not heard in years this level of noise about policies."
Further, he added: "Advisors are fearful about what's going on in Washington. They're sitting out there and they see these things coming down the path. I would say the volume has turned up but not the nature of it. More people are asking the question: How am I going to survive in this new world?"
The Financial Services Institute, an advocate for independent financial services firms and advisors, has made the re-crafting of the DOL's "flawed" fiduciary rule proposal a top priority. The way FSI positions it: An unintended consequence of the proposal is that advisors will lose their ability to be compensated through commissions on advice given to investors with IRAs and would no longer be able to help many Americans plan for retirement.
FSI, through its lobbying arm and a grassroots campaign involving thousands of advisors, has asked DOL to withdraw the proposal and study its impact more closely before moving the rule forward as planned next year.
"As a small investor, the only affordable way to pay for IRA advice is via commission. Under this rule, you won't be able to do that with your current advisor. By extension, it appears to me a severe negative impact on small investors and advisors," says Dale Brown, FSI's president and CEO. "By sweeping so many advisors into that expansive [fiduciary] definition, it precludes them from being able to earn a commission. A fee-based arrangement is not appropriate for every client, particularly small investors — so the small investor gets priced out of the reach of professional advice."
Looking immediately ahead, some industry observers say regulatory reform will cease to be the big headline as firms grapple with what is in front of them.
"The big firms are in cost-cutting mode. They're looking to cut costs and one of the first things they look to is broker compensation. They're going to look for ways to tweak it and incent advisor behavior," says Mindy Diamond, president of Diamond Consultants, a recruiting firm in Chester, N.J. "The big news today is all about driving margins and efficiencies. The changing regulatory environment is less of a story — not because people aren't concerned about it, but because the answers seem so far away."


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SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea's top nuclear envoy left for Washington Tuesday for talks on North Korea's planned rocket launch, as Seoul urged China to play an active role in getting Pyongyang to cancel the mission.
Lim Sung-Nam, Seoul's chief delegate to the stalled six-party talks on the North's nuclear programme, will meet with senior US State Department and National Security Council officials during his three-day visit.
Before his departure, Lim said Seoul and Washington would "maximise diplomatic efforts and the coordination between South Korea and the US to block North Korea's launch".
Pyongyang's announced on Saturday that it intends to launch a long-range rocket between December 10 and 22.
The United States and its key Asian allies South Korea and Japan have condemned the move as a disguised ballistic missile test that violates UN resolutions triggered by Pyongyang's two nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009.
In a briefing in Seoul, foreign ministry spokesman Cho Tai-Young again called on the North to call off the launch and abide by its obligations under the relevant UN resolutions.
"If the North pushes ahead with the launch, it will face consequences," he said, without elaborating.
Cho said China, North Korea's sole major ally and its biggest trade partner and aid provider, had a "crucial" part to play.
"We hope China will play an active role in keeping peace and stability on the Korean peninsula", he said.
Envoy Lim on Monday met ambassadors in Seoul from China, Russia and Japan - other members of the six-party talks on North Korea - to discuss a common response to the planned launch.
Pyongyang insists the launch is a "peaceful" and purely scientific mission aimed at placing a satellite in orbit.
A previous attempt in April failed when the carrier exploded shortly after take-off.
China has expressed "concern" at the launch plan, with the foreign ministry urging "relevant parties (to) act in a way that is more conducive to the stability of the Korean peninsula".
Russia added its "regret" at Pyongyang's announcement and noted that North Korea was obliged to abide by UN resolutions. UN chief Ban Ki-moon is "seriously concerned" that the launch would heighten tensions in the region and urged the North to re-consider its decision, his office said in a statement Tuesday.
"He further calls upon (North Korea) to re-establish its moratorium on missile launches, as required by the Security Council," the statement said.
Analysts say the international community is running out of options for pressuring the impoverished but nuclear-armed North, which is already under layers of sanctions.
The six-party, aid-for-denuclearisation talks have been at a standstill since Pyongyang walked of the forum in April 2009. It staged its second nuclear test a month later.

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Glutamine synthetase (GS) (EC 18.104.22.168)[3] is an enzyme that plays an essential role in the metabolism of nitrogen by catalyzing the condensation of glutamate and ammonia to form glutamine:
Glutamate + ATP + NH3 → Glutamine + ADP + phosphate
Glutamine Synthetase uses ammonia produced by nitrate reduction, amino acid degradation, and photorespiration.[4] The amide group of glutamate is a nitrogen source for the synthesis of glutamine pathway metabolites.[5]
Other reactions may take place via GS. Competition between ammonium ion and water, their binding affinities, and the concentration of ammonium ion, influences glutamine synthesis and glutamine hydrolysis. Glutamine is formed if an ammonium ion attacks the acyl-phosphate intermediate, while glutamate is remade if water attacks the intermediate.[6][7] Ammonium ion binds more strongly than water to GS due to electrostatic forces between a cation and a negatively charged pocket.[4] Another possible reaction is upon NH2OH binding to GS, rather than NH4+, yields γ-glutamylhydroxamate.[6][7]
Glutamine Synthetase can be composed of 8, 10, or 12 identical subunits separated into two face-to-face rings.[6][8][9][10] Bacterial GS are dodecamers with 12 active sites between each monomer.[6] Each active site creates a 'tunnel' which is the site of three distinct substrate binding sites: nucleotide, ammonium ion, and amino acid.[4][6][10][11] ATP binds to the top of the bifunnel that opens to the external surface of GS.[4] Glutamate binds at the bottom of the active site.[7] The middle of the bifunnel contains two sites in which divalent cations bind (Mn+2 or Mg+2). One cation binding site is involved in phosphoryl transfer of ATP to glutamate, while the second stabilizes active GS and helps with the binding of glutamate.[6]
Hydrogen bonding and hydrophobic interactions hold the two rings of GS together. Each subunit possesses a C-terminus and an N-terminus in its sequence. The C-terminus (helical thong) stabilizes the GS structure by inserting into the hydrophobic region of the subunit across in the other ring. The N-terminus is exposed to the solvent. In addition, the central channel is formed via six four-stranded β-sheets composed of anti-parallel loops from the twelve subunits.[6]
GS catalyzes the ATP-dependent condensation of glutamate with ammonia to yield glutamine.[4] The hydrolysis of ATP drives[8] the first step of a two-part, concerted mechanism.[4][6] ATP phosphorylates glutamate to form ADP and an acyl-phosphate intermediate, γ-glutamyl phosphate, which reacts with ammonia, forming glutamine and inorganic phosphate. ADP and Pi do not dissociate until ammonia binds and glutamine is released.[6]
ATP binds first to the top of the active site near a cation binding site, while glutamate binds near the second cation binding site at the bottom of the active site.[5][7] The presence of ADP causes a conformational shift in GS that stabilizes the γ-glutamyl phosphate moiety. Ammonium binds strongly to GS only if the acyl-phosphate intermediate is present. Ammonium, rather than ammonia, binds to GS because the binding site is polar and exposed to solvent.[7] In the second step, deprotonation of ammonium allows ammonia to attack the intermediate from its nearby site to form glutamine.[12] Phosphate leaves through the top of the active site, while glutamine leave through the bottom (between two rings).Goodsell, DS (June 2002). "Glutamine Synthetase". RCSB Protein Data Bank. Retrieved 8 May 2010.[7]
Biological function
GS is present predominantly in the brain, kidneys, and liver.[4][10] GS in the brain participates in the metabolic regulation of glutamate, the detoxification of brain ammonia, the assimilation of ammonia, recyclization of neurotransmitters, and termination of neurotransmitter signals.[4][13] GS, in the brain, is found primarily in astrocytes.[14] Astrocytes protect neurons against excitotoxicity by taking up excess ammonia and glutamate.[13] In hyperammonemic environments (high levels of ammonia), astroglial swelling occurs.[13][15][16] Different perspectives have approached the problem of astroglial swelling. One study shows that morphological changes occur that increase GS expression in glutamatergic areas or other adaptations that alleviates high levels of glutamate and ammonia.[13] Another perspective is that astrocyte swelling is due to glutamine accumulation. To prevent increased levels of cortical glutamate and cortical water content, a study has been conducted to prevent GS activity in rats by the use of MSO.[15]
There seem to be three different classes of GS:[17][18][19]
- Class I enzymes (GSI) are specific to prokaryotes, and are oligomers of 12 identical subunits.[20] The activity of GSI-type enzyme is controlled by the adenylation of a tyrosine residue. The adenylated enzyme is inactive.[21]
- Class II enzymes (GSII) are found in eukaryotes and in bacteria belonging to the Rhizobiaceae, Frankiaceae, and Streptomycetaceae families (these bacteria have also a class-I GS). GSII are decamer of identical subunits.[10]PDB: 2OJW.
Plants have two or more isozymes of GSII, one of the isozymes is translocated into the chloroplast. Another form is cytosolic. The cytosolic GS gene translation is regulated by its 5' untranslated region (UTR), while its 3' UTR plays role in transcript turnover.[22]
- Class III enzymes (GSIII) have, currently, only been found in Bacteroides fragilis and in Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens. It is a double-ringed dodecamer of identical chains.[23] It is much larger (about 700 amino acids) than the GSI (450 to 470 amino acids) or GSII (350 to 420 amino acids) enzymes.
While the three classes of GSs are clearly structurally related, the sequence similarities are not so extensive.
Regulation and inhibition
Regulation of GS only occurs in prokaryotes.[24] GS is subject to reversible covalent modification. Tyr397 of all 12 subunits can undergo adenylylation or deadenylylation by adenylyl transferase (AT), a bifunctional regulatory enzyme.[24] Adenylylation is a post-translational modification involving the covalent attachment of AMP to a protein side chain. Each adenylylation requires an ATP and complete inhibition of GS requires 12 ATP. Deadenylylation by AT involves phosphorolytic removal of the Tyr-linked adenylyl groups as ADP. AT activity is influenced by the regulatory protein that is associated with it: PII, a 44-kD trimer.[24] PII also undergoes post-translational modification by uridylyl transferase, thus PII has two forms. The state of PII dictates the activity of adenylyl transferase. If PII is not uridylylated, then it will take on the PIIA form. The AT:PIIA complex will deactivate GS by adenylylation. If PII is uridylylated, then it will take on the PIID form. The AT:PIID complex will activate GS by deadenylylation.[24] The AT:PIIA and AT:PIID complexes are allosterically regulated in a reciprocal fashion by α-ketoglutarate (α-KG) and glutamine (Gln). Gln will activate AT:PIIA activity and inhibits AT:PIID, leading to adenylylation and subsequent deactivation of GS. Furthermore, Gln favors the conversion of PIID to PIIA. The effects of α-KG on the complexes are opposite.[24] In the majority of gram-negative bacteria, GS can be modified by adenylylation (some cyanobacteria and green algae or exceptions).[25]
Inhibition of GS has largely focused on amino site ligands.[6] Other inhibitors are the result of glutamine metabolism: tryptophan, histidine, carbamoyl phosphate, glucosamine-6-phosphate, cytidine triphosphate (CTP), and adenosine monophosphate (AMP).[5][8][26] Other inhibitors/regulators are glycine and alanine. Alanine, glycine, and serine bind to the glutamate substrate site. GDP, AMP, ADP bind to the ATP site.[6] L-serine, L-alanine, and glycine bind to the site for L-glutamate in unadenylated GS. The four amino acids bind to the site by their common atoms, "the main chain" of amino acids.[5] Glutamate is another product of glutamine metabolism; however, glutamate is a substrate for GS inhibiting it to act as a regulator to GS.2 Each inhibitor can reduce the activity of the enzyme; once all final glutamine metabolites are bound to GS, the activity of GS is almost completely inhibited.[8] Many inhibitory input signals allows for fine tuning of GS by reflecting nitrogen levels in the organism.
Feedback regulation distinguishes the difference between two eukaryotic types of GS: brain and non-brain tissues. Non-brain GS responds to end-product feedback inhibition, while brain GS does not.[6] High concentrations of glutamine-dependent metabolites should inhibit GS activity, while low concentrations should activate GS activity.[6]
- Methionine sulfoximine (MSO): MSO is an inhibitor that binds to the glutamate site. Bound to GS, MSO is phosphorylated by ATP that results in an irreversible, non-covalent inhibition of GS. The S-isomer configuration is more inhibitory.[6] Glutamate entry is blocked into the active site by a stabilization of the flexible loop in the active site by MSO.[7]
- Phosphinothricin[1](PPT, Glufosinate): Phosphinothricin is an inhibitor that binds to the glutamate site. Glufosinate is used as an herbicide. Glufosinate treated plants die due to a buildup of ammonia and a cessation of photosynthesis.[10]
- Many synthetic inhibitors are available today.[6]
Research on E. coli revealed that GS is regulated through gene expression. The gene that encodes the GS subunit is designated GlnA. Transcription of GlnA is dependent on NRI (a specific transcriptional enhancer). Active transcription occurs if NRI is in its phosphorylated form, designated NRI-P. Phosphorylation of NRI is catalyzed by NRII, a protein kinase. If NRII is complexed with PIIA then it will function as a phosphatase and NRI-P is converted back to NRI. In this case, transcription of GlnA ceases.[24]
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- ^ InterPro:IPR001637 Glutamine synthetase class-I, adenylation site
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- ^ van Rooyen JM, Abratt VR, Sewell BT (August 2006). "Three-dimensional structure of a type III glutamine synthetase by single-particle reconstruction". J. Mol. Biol. 361 (4): 796–810. doi:10.1016/j.jmb.2006.06.026. PMID 16879836.
- ^ a b c d e f Garrett, Grisham (2017). Biochemistry (6th Edition). United States of America: Cengage Learning. pp. 886–889. ISBN 978-1-305-57720-6.
- ^ Ivanovsky RN, Khatipov EA (1994). "Evidence of covalent modification of glutamine synthetase in the purple sulfur bacterium". FEMS Microbiology Letters. 122 (1–2): 115–119. doi:10.1111/j.1574-6968.1994.tb07153.x.
- ^ Krishnan IS, Singhal RK, Dua RD (Apr 1986). "Purification and characterization of glutamine synthetase from Clostridium pasteurianum". Biochemistry. 25 (7): 1589–99. doi:10.1021/bi00355a021. PMID 2871863.
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InterPro entry IPR008146
Glutamine synthetase (EC) (GS) [PUBMED:2900091] plays an essential role in the metabolism of nitrogen by catalyzing the condensation of glutamate and ammonia to form glutamine.
There seem to be three different classes of GS [PUBMED:8096645, PUBMED:2575672, PUBMED:7916055]:
- Class I enzymes (GSI) are specific to prokaryotes, and are oligomers of 12 identical subunits. The activity of GSI-type enzyme is controlled by the adenylation of a tyrosine residue. The adenylated enzyme is inactive (see INTERPRO).
- Class II enzymes (GSII) are found in eukaryotes and in bacteria belonging to the Rhizobiaceae, Frankiaceae, and Streptomycetaceae families (these bacteria have also a class-I GS). GSII are octamer of identical subunits. Plants have two or more isozymes of GSII, one of the isozymes is translocated into the chloroplast.
- Class III enzymes (GSIII) have been found in Bacteroides fragilis. in Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens. It is a hexamer of identical chains and in some protozoa. It is much larger (about 700 amino acids) than the GSI (450 to 470 amino acids) or GSII (350 to 420 amino acids) enzymes.
While the three classes of GS's are clearly structurally related, the sequence similarities are not so extensive.
Gene Ontology
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|Molecular function
|glutamate-ammonia ligase activity (GO:0004356)
|Biological process
|nitrogen compound metabolic process (GO:0006807)
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Pfam Clan
This family is a member of clan GCS (CL0286), which has the following description:
This clan represents a superfamily of carboxylate-amine/ammonia ligases [1] that includes Gamma-Glutamylcysteine synthetase (gamma-GCS) and glutamine synthetase (GS). Gamma-Glutamylcysteine synthetase (gamma-GCS) catalyses the first step in the de novo biosynthesis of glutathione.
The clan contains the following 9 members:Amidoligase_2 ATP-gua_Ptrans DUF2126 GatB_N GCS GCS2 Gln-synt_C Glu_cys_ligase Pup_ligase
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|Sonnhammer ELL , Griffiths-Jones SR , Eberhardt R
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|Average length of the domain:
|304.50 aa
|Average identity of full alignment:
|27 %
|Average coverage of the sequence by the domain:
|64.30 %
HMM information
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search method: hmmsearch -Z 45638612 -E 1000 --cpu 4 HMM pfamseq
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The tree is built by looking at each sequence in the full alignment for the family. We take the name of the species given by UniProt and try to map that to the full taxonomic tree from NCBI. In some cases, the name chosen by UniProt does not map to any node in the NCBI tree, perhaps because the chosen name is listed as a synonym or a misspelling in the NCBI taxonomy.
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Since we reduce the species tree to only the eight main taxonomic levels, sequences that are mapped to the sub-species level in the tree would not normally be shown. Rather than leave out these species, we map them instead to their parent species. So, for example, for sequences belonging to one of the Vibrio cholerae sub-species in the NCBI taxonomy, we show them instead as belonging to the species Vibrio cholerae.
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There are 5 interactions for this family. More...
We determine these interactions using iPfam, which considers the interactions between residues in three-dimensional protein structures and maps those interactions back to Pfam families. You can find more information about the iPfam algorithm in the journal article that accompanies the website.
For those sequences which have a structure in the Protein DataBank, we use the mapping between UniProt, PDB and Pfam coordinate systems from the PDBe group, to allow us to map Pfam domains onto UniProt sequences and three-dimensional protein structures. The table below shows the structures on which the Gln-synt_C domain has been found. There are 392 instances of this domain found in the PDB. Note that there may be multiple copies of the domain in a single PDB structure, since many structures contain multiple copies of the same protein sequence.
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1. Where are you doing your internship?
At Golden House [Editor's Note: a local domestic violence agency and shelter]
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I talked with a student who had interned there in the past, and she said it was a great experience, so I looked on their website for more information and then sent their volunteer coordinator an application.
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It relates a lot to my Infancy and Early Childhood and Middle Childhood and Adolescence classes and what we learn about how what happens in childhood can influence you later. I also learned about the power of violence in my Health Psychology class…What's great is that I get to see information from many classes in a real-life setting.
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Lynx trade G Sugar Rodgers to Liberty
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) The Minnesota Lynx have traded second-year guard Sugar Rodgers to the New York Liberty for the rights to swap third-round picks in the 2015 draft.
The Lynx announced the move on Wednesday. Rodgers was chosen in the second round last season, but played only sparingly on a veteran-laden team. She averaged 1.9 points in 7.6 minutes per game last season.
The Lynx won their second WNBA title in three seasons last year and didn't have room for Rodgers on the roster after selecting Duke guard Tricia Liston in the first round of the draft on Monday night and signing free agent guard Tan White on Wednesday.
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Summer is winding down, and—as the annual U.S. Open tournament gets underway—tennis is in the air. The sport doesn't boast teams behind which entire cities can rally, or a climactic season to speak of, or even a top player with the celebrity status of a baseball or basketball player. But tennis does have a devoted fan base; people who love to watch tennis often also play tennis, and therefore tend to feel strong sense of ownership in the sport.
Over the years, a number of recreational tennis players have written about tennis for The Atlantic from a variety of angles. Their articles, spanning the twentieth century, have addressed everything from an amateur's motives to the exclusivity and racial discrimination of country clubs to the delight of playing with a wooden racket. The writers all share one thing in common: a deep affection for the game.
More than a hundred years ago, in "Lawn Tennis" (August 1903), Arthur Stanwood Pier wrote an article staking out his position that tennis is better than other sports. Pier argued that, while Tennis does not involve the "heroic injuries" of more brawny sports like polo or football, it is the element of opposition—not of real danger—that glorifies a sport. And tennis is pure opposition.
Tennis more than any other game has the qualities that gave the duel its fascination; it is all eager and alive, two men at close quarters, feinting, parrying, thrusting, both alert for an opening to give the final coup de grace.
It's all the better, Pier continued, when the coup de grace can be delivered with a devilishly placed winner.
There is a human amusement in making your antagonist run back and forth thus earnestly and desperately; but one has a more exalted satisfaction in placing a shot so sudden, swift, and accurate that the opposing player has not time to move. Teasing your man, you feel your power over a particular individual; paralyzing him by a stroke, you experience a moment of omnipotence.
A little more than twenty years later, Stephen Wallis Merrihew referred to that same "exalted satisfaction" in his article "The Amateur at Bay," (October 1924), in which he defines and defends amateur status. Sports, he wrote, are amateur "not by definition, but by right of being." He continued,
Just as pedestrians are accorded priority on thoroughfares because pedestrianism is the natural state of man, so amateur sports stand on a higher plane than professional sport. The player antedated the ticket-taker, the amateur antedated the professional.
Today's Grand Slam tournaments—rife with endorsements and million-dollar prizes—couldn't be further from the "higher plane" of amateur sports, but Merrihew's cherished amateurs are hardly a thing of the past: they can be found in all shapes, sizes, ages, and ability on public tennis courts around the world, playing without a thought of money. If not money, what is their motivation? Love of the game for starters. But Merrihew says there's more to an amateur's drive:
Every sport devotee knows that while love of the game attracts and holds him to his specialty, there are times when love is absent from his play and when he gets no pleasure from his mightiest efforts. Pride, the honor of the club, or section, or country, the fighting spirit—these are among the mixed motives that drive one forward toward victory in the fifth set of a tennis match or in the finish of a Marathon race.
"A Beautiful Game," (January 1959), by Ralph Samuelson, is a perfect example of the varying motives that inspire amateur players. The story takes place during a country club's annual summer tournament, and Herbie, the young narrator, starts out with a credulous love of the game.
I had been hitting volleys and smashing lobs up at the net and now was back at the baseline, and John and I were just rallying easy. It was a beautiful afternoon there at the Club; God, I loved it, it just gets you—the cool hazy early summertime before the heat sets in and the girls in their white skirts and brown legs and the brotherhood of tennis all mixed into one—like the Olympics, almost, the way it brings things together.
He breezes through his early matches, but later, in the final round, his euphoria subsides and the pressure sets in. "A tournament is a queer thing, all right. It starts out with so many, and so few in the stands watching, and ends up with so few, but so many in the stands." The ambience on the court bears no resemblance to the delightful conditions of the previous afternoon.
I noticed the flag go limp on its pennant as if a lead weight had been tied to the end of it. The breeze stopped dead. There was nothing but him and the sun and a great white splash of crowd in the stands on my right, and that's about all I remember of that set, running back and forth across the court as he ran me, and his shots hitting those side lines as if they were two yards wide and no wind.
He loses the first set, and it only gets worse. In the blistering heat, he loses the second. He manages to eke out the third set, but by the fourth, there's no inkling of pride, honor of the club, or fighting spirit—let alone love of the game.
After that I was wondering who I was, waiting for his serve that kept getting stronger and beginning to see my backhands hitting the tape instead of clearing, and I thought of the thermos jug again as I ran from side to side and wondered when to go to the net and when not to, my right hand wet and trembling whenever I let go the racket to wipe the grip against my t-shirt. All I could think of was to get a drink when this misery was over.
Herbie's plight is familiar to anyone who's ever lost a humbling match. But there's a bigger issue at hand in this story: Herbie's opponent in the finals—a boy referred to only as "the Negro"—is the first African-American to play in the club tournament, and club members are less than enthusiastic. He warms up alone by hitting against the wall, and his first-round opponent defaulted to avoid playing with him. The story was published nearly a decade after Althea Gibson became the first African-American to compete in the U.S. Open, but Samuelson's description of the crowd for the final match shows an enduring racial tension.
The crowd was there, all in white, and they were quiet because of the Negro, you could feel it. They had been following the tournament and anticipating that the Negro would be beat out before now. They couldn't really relax and enjoy the tournament as they had in the past. He was kind of ruining their summer.
Samuelson's story evokes the malicious side of the notorious country-club exclusivity. But the self-absorbed, snobby, image-obsessed culture can also be comical. Arthur Hoppe's "The Tiddling Tennis Theorem" (January 1977), based on an existing tennis club, is a risible account of a tennis instructor who taught everything but tennis. "The Professor," as he was called, taught at the Tiddling Tennis Club—a pleasant, tree-shaded club encompassed by a stone wall in a once fashionable but steadily deteriorating neighborhood. During a student's first lesson, the Professor would invariably begin with a monologue:
So you have decided to take up tennis. A marvelous decision. You couldn't have chosen a sport with more to offer: a concentrated exercise, intellectual challenge, inexpensive equipment, and a new circle of friends who will provide lifelong companionship. Of course, as in all sports, there are difficulties to surmount. The first difficulty you will encounter is that no one wants to play with you.
The problem, he explains, is that "no tennis player, no matter what his caliber, wants to play tennis with any other tennis player who is not better than he." The first lesson addresses the various ways to "disguise the fact that you are a rank beginner," in hopes of successfully arranging a game. "At this very moment, millions of tennis players are hitting the ball back and forth over nets between white lines. And precisely half of them wish they were playing with someone else." The second lesson covers the reverse situation: how to avoid a game should a lesser player offer.
The danger of accepting the challenge of this lesser player lies not only in the damage it will do to your social standing to be seen playing with him, but in the threat that he may defeat you if you are off your game. And, as you are always off your game, this is a distinct possibility.
But the most important part of tennis is acquiring the right look—and for that, the Professor sends his students to Miss Agnes, "a thin and dour woman who is feared by all but the oldest members."
"Three shirts, three shorts," she says, piling them on the counter like an Army quartermaster. "Be sure to put them through the washing machine for at least sixteen or seventeen cycles before wearing them. That's sixty-two-fifty. One pair of leather tennis shoes at twenty-five. All the best players wear leather tennis shoes. Now you'll want this ninety-five-dollar composition aluminum, fiber glass, and wood racket with the steel-belted throat. It's strung with the finest gut, of course, to give you more feel on your touch shots. It's valuable because it's expensive. Carry it around and everybody'll think you're a good player. And because it's the latest racket on the market, they'll ask you how you like it. Just say, 'well, it's probably taken a little edge off my drives, but it's sure helped my tennis elbow.' And speaking of tennis elbow, you'll want this three-ninety-five strap to go around your forearm. That shows you have tennis elbow which proves you've played a lot of tennis and are therefore a reasonably good player. Then you'll need this elastic knee bandage to explain, once you get on the courts, why you aren't."
The "ninety-five-dollar composition aluminum, fiber glass, and wood racket with a steel belted throat" is a fitting (if mocking and exaggerated) example of the late 1970s movement away from traditional wood rackets and on to the bigger, more powerful metal frames that granted power at the expense of control. The pros held on to their wood rackets until the early 1980s, swearing that the power of metal couldn't trump the control of wood; but metal rackets got even more powerful and young players readily made the switch, and by the mid-eighties, wood rackets were becoming a thing of the past. Now, the transition to metal seemed part of the natural evolution of the game, and most people wonder how they ever played with wood rackets.
But Marshall Fisher's "The Feel of Wood" (July 1995) tells a different story: he says wood rackets—and grass courts—are essential elements of the game, and wants to bring them back. "Although I grew up playing mainly on hard courts, tennis with a big racket on asphalt sometimes seems as much an abomination as baseball indoors on Astroturf." And he's not alone in this sentiment. A tennis club on Cape Cod that hosts an annual "Woody Tournament"—"No steel, aluminum, graphite, titanium, or composite need apply. If it didn't come from a tree, leave it at home..."—is just one example of a resurgence of old-school tennis. Practicing before the first round of this tournament, Fisher rediscovered a long forgotten pleasure: the feel of wood.
Sure, it was harder to find the sweet spot on the small head: and even when I did, there was none of the space-age power of today's launch pads. It required a lot more skill to hit any particular shot. At the net I really had to volley, with the correct half-swing form; I couldn't just stick out my shield and rely on its innate power. Fundamental technique, remembered deep in the muscles, became critical again. The game was also more fun.
Fisher's longing for a return to wood rackets is more than nostalgic: he says that the advances in racket technology have actually changed the nature of the game, and not for the better. Fifteen years after the International Tennis Federation allowed oversized metal rackets,
...most tennis fans lament the state of the professional men's game, in which a typical point consists of an ace, or perhaps one or two cannonball shots after the serve. The power that professionals can summon from state-of-the-art rackets is simply too much for the delicate touch game of yore to survive.
But with wood, Fisher explains, the pace remains slow enough that
...one needs, and has a chance to use, every shot in the book. The chip return, the slice approach shot, the defensive underspin lob, all find their strategic moment. And the feel of grass underfoot complements the feel of wood in the hand: these are the conditions for which the game was designed.
Today, most tennis tournaments are played with big rackets on hard courts; top participants star in TV commercials; and the box seats are reserved for fashionable millionaires who don sunglasses and straw hats. But once the matches get started, it is nothing more than two players in pure opposition, battling in the blistering heat of the sun, "feinting, parrying, thrusting, both alert for an opening to give the final coup de grace."
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Art Thompson was born in the village of Whyac, an isolated village on the western end of Nitinaht Lake on Vancouver Island. His ancestral roots are in both the Coast Salish (Cowichan) and Nuu-chah-nulth (Ditidaht) nations. His father and grandfather were both artists known for their ceremonial pieces such as masks and regalia, as well as totem poles and canoes. Art spent much of his childhood away from both his family and cultural traditions. At the age of two, he contracted tuberculosis and was hospitalized for the next three years. Shortly after he was able to return to his family he was sent away to residential school in Port Alberni. He ran away several times before finally securing employment in the logging industry at the age of thirteen.
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
The Denver & New Orleans Railroad in Elbert County, Colorado
Terry Courtright has prepared another informative piece about Elbert County History!
This information is taken from the comprehensive and thoroughly illustrated book "Denver & New Orleans—In The Shadow of the Rockies" by James R. "Jim" Jones (published by Sundance Publications, Ltd., 1997), which is available through the Elbert Library.
In 1881, former Colorado Territory governor John Evans and associates began work on the Denver & New Orleans Railroad. It was to be the first standard gauge route to cross the Palmer Divide and would be a strong competitor to the Denver & Rio Grande along the Front Range on the way to joining with the Fort Worth & Denver City RR on the Canadian River in New Mexico, which in turn would interconnect to the Gulf Coast and New Orleans. The D&NO route generally followed Cherry Creek southeast from Denver, crossing it in present day Parker, and climbing along Hilltop Road entered today's Elbert County by mid December, 1881. From there the route meandered down to Running Creek at today's Elizabeth, and then continued south closely following county roads 17-21 and 106 to Elbert Road and the present town site of Elbert by mid January, 1882. The town of Elbert was moved from 7 miles southwest to the present location to be along the railroad and became an important stop. Before the end of January, construction had exited Elbert County, following Kiowa Creek and today's Elbert Road south to cross the Palmer Divide at Apex, then on to Eastonville, Falcon, east of Colorado Springs and on to Pueblo by the end of April, 1882. The railroad seemed always to struggle financially and through several reorganizations by 1898 was known as the Colorado & Southern Railway. In the early 1900's, only limited freight and "mixed" trains were running the rails between Denver and Colorado Springs. On May 30, 1935, a great flood swept down Kiowa Creek and washed out much of the tracks in and south of Elbert. Nearly half of the buildings in Elbert were destroyed and 6 people from Elbert and Kiowa lost their lives. Because repairs to the tracks was not economic, rail service south of Elbert was discontinued, and to Elizabeth and Elbert only limited schedules were run. Truck and automobile routes were improving and the train was no longer necessary to rural areas. By the end of October, 1936, the railroad through this part of Elbert County was completely abandoned.
In the railroad's heyday, it was an important method for getting farm and ranch products to the cities and necessary merchandise back out to the rural communities. The trains carried the mail on a daily basis. Sheep, cattle, horses and hogs; milk , cream and cheese from local producers; lumber and timbers; coal; and a wide variety of produce including potatoes, beans, corn, wheat and other grains were all carried more seasonally. Mercantile stores were located along the route and their warehouses were often positioned beside the tracks. Passenger traffic was important on a daily basis before the roads became easily travelled and before the automobile was widely in use. And it was especially popular to take Sunday picnic excursions from the cities to Elizabeth and Elbert to view wildflowers and escape the summer heat. While the Elbert County Fair was held in the fields south of Elbert, several passenger trains from both Colorado Springs and Denver would bring people out for the festivities.
Although continuing development is removing traces of the road bed in many areas (as the grade is used for roads, and the fill is hauled away for other purposes), the abandoned route can still be seen from several county roads as shown on the accompanying map. Respect private property, refer to Jim Jones' book for more details and enjoy your search in Elbert County!
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The remains of the track run right in front of my house which is cool and this was one of the stops along the way too. There is a foundation of an old building right by where the tracks were too.ReplyDeleteReplies
I would love to photograph the area you are speaking of. Where is it?Delete
- James R. JonesJuly 7, 2013 at 7:31 PM
I enjoyed reading this piece on the D&NO/C&D Falcon Line. Thanks for the references to my book, written over a seven-year period beginning in 1990. Sadly, the 2600 copies are long gone and eBay prices are rather hefty. I've been living in my native Vermont for a dozen years, but plan to revisit beloved Colorado prairie places and friends in 2017. We'll celebrate the book's 20th anniversary with a special show. I'll also be shooting a documentary on the subject that summer. I've been transcribing and digitizing interviews with many wonderful people-- now gone-- who lived in Douglas, Elbert, El Paso and Pueblo Counties during the rail years and survived the 1935 Flood among other events. Folks interested in the railroad, and history of the towns along it, may e-mail me at email@example.com
Sincerely, James R. "Jim" Jones
author, Denver & New Orleans: In The Shadow Of The Rockies
Plans are in the works to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the flood through Elbert, at a special event on the exact date and time the biggest wall of water crashed through town on May 30th. I'll make my first return to Elbert County, from my Vermont, to provide a program and offer a $10 DVD documentary on the railroad and the people along it. Follow the Elbert County Historical Society website as details unfold. We'd like to arrange to have people who remember the flood to be there. I look forward to seeing old friends and making new ones. James R. "Jim" Jones 1/4/15ReplyDelete
"Here Comes The Flood, There Goes The Train" will be a special 80th anniversary remembrance of the May 30, 1935 flood though Elbert and Kiowa. The event is scheduled to take place in downtown Elbert beginning at 930am, with a one-hour program by author/historian James R. "Jim"" Jones and the Elbert County Historical Society. A second show, for early evening-- in a larger venue-- perhaps Elizabeth will also be held. A meet and greet with Jim happens at the ECHS museum in Kiowa 2-4pm that day. Jim, who is flying out from Vermont for the event, would like to see see the many friends he made while writing DENVER & NEW ORLEANS- IN THE SHADOW OF THE ROCKIES during the 1990s. Follow the Elbert County Historical Society webpage as details unfold.ReplyDelete
Thanks for this informative piece. I am with friends near Kiowa, and on the way here thought I say the remnants of a railroad. This has fleshed it out somewhat. I will be visiting the Kiowa Museum this afternoon. Stan Jefferson, Litchfield Park, AZReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 11, 2017 at 1:20 PM
Evidence is most lively on the backroads from Elbert to Elizabeth, and south of Elbert on the left a few miles south toward Eastonville. The rails crossed Palmer Divide at Apex, with Eastonville below. A colorful railroad, gone soon after the May 30, 1935 flood. A DVD documentary features images and interviews (most conducted in the 1990s)with residents who lived it. Look for C&S RAILWAY: HERE COMES THE FOOD THERE GOES THE TRAIN! on DVD at the museum in Kiowa or through me. The books prices are coming down, as original owners are passing on. I suggest you look on-line for a good deal on one. Lastly, thanks to the great people of Elbert for the awesome attendance, 107 people strong, at our 80th anniversary event two years ago. I hope to return again for the 85th! JAMES R. "JIM" JONESReplyDelete


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