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Legal and business service firm DWF has signed an agreement. That is, to buy a Canadian law firm for a sum of millions of pounds.
The company has opted to acquire Whitelaw Twining Law Corporation. A company located in Vancouver and TWK Management Ltd. Thus, an Intra-group company that provides services, named ‘Whitelaw Twining’.
Whitelaw Twining specialises in insurance commercial litigation as well as personal injury, and dispute resolution.
The Benefits of The Acquisition:
The acquisition offers a great strategic match. That is, an increased capacity and an improved platform for North America. Hence, as well as an obvious synergy to DWF’s current Canadian insurance. Furthermore, adjusting business. Apart from this, a global focus on the insurance sector.
The purchase is valued as high as CA$42.6m (PS27.7m). In addition to this, a total amount of CA$26.0m (PS16.9m) to be paid in cash or shares. Furthermore, a loan in the amount of CA$16.6m (PS10.8m) that must be paid back or taken over.
Sir Nigel Knowles, group chief executive of DWF, said. Obviously, “To our Canadian market for legal services, we are highly delighted to enhance our services. Whitelaw Twining is one of the most reputable legal firms in Canada. Furthermore, offers a premium possibility for the clients we serve. It also permits us to increase our coverage and adapt to changes in Canada. Hence, as well as the wider Connected services. Additionally, the Mindcrest capabilities across North America.”
An Alliance That Is A Key One For Future Growth:
According to Daniel Shugarman, the country managing partner of Whitelaw Twining” Its a delight to have formed an alliance. This is an alliance, in conjunction with DWF Group. Thus, combining our capabilities in the areas of Legal Advisory and Connected Services capabilities. Ultimately, to the benefit of our clients.
“Over forty years of existence, Whitelaw Twining is now a practice with three lawyers in Vancouver. Thus, to an international full-service litigation law firm. Hence, serving clients in 17 different languages. The next level for our firm and further bolstering our standing in Canada. Apart from this, allowing our team members to assist our clients around the world.”
The acquisition’s finalisation is contingent upon the fulfilment of certain conditions. Before the end of the year 2022. The above conditions needs to be fulfilled.
DWF in United Kingdom:
DWF has its headquarters in Manchester. Furthermore, has offices located in Belfast, Birmingham & Bristol. A decent presence in Scotland in capital Edinburgh & Glasgow city. Apart from this its Leeds in West Yorkshire, U.K. Furthermore, Liverpool & the Capital of U.K, i.e. London. Finally, the headquarters in Manchester in Lancashire county and the gorgeous city of Newcastle.

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Former President Barack Obama announced Wednesday which Democratic candidates he was endorsing ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. The 44th president released a list of 81 Democratic candidates across 13 states that he said he will be campaigning for in the upcoming elections this fall.
Among the list of 81 names endorsed by the former president include politicians at all levels of government. Some of the notable names on Obama's endorsement list include; California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Ohio's Richard Cordray and Georgia's Stacey Adams, all of whom are running for governor in their home states.
Surprisingly, there was only one Senate race on Obama's list of endorsements. Rep. Jacky Rosen (Nevada) was endorsed by Obama as she runs to replace Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV). One surprising omission to many Democratic activists was Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas), who is running against Sen. Ted Cruz for his Senate seat in the fall.
No incumbents were included on the list, a choice that was intentional, an Obama spokesperson said. The former president wants to boost challengers and newer candidates ahead of the midterms.
The statement avoided any mention of President Donald Trump who has already begun campaigning for his chosen candidates who are up for re-election in the fall.
“I’m proud to endorse such a wide and impressive array of Democratic candidates — leaders as diverse, patriotic, and big-hearted as the America they’re running to represent,” the former president said.
Obama tweeted that he believed his list of endorsed candidates would work hard on strengthening the country.
I’m confident that, together, they’ll strengthen this country we love by restoring opportunity, repairing our alliances and standing in the world, and upholding our fundamental commitment to justice, fairness, responsibility, and the rule of law. But first, they need our votes.
Democrats need to pick up at least 23 seats in November to take back the House and two Senate seats to pick up the Senate.
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Oregon Voters Keep Estate Tax
Oregon voters rejected a proposal that would have eliminated the state's estate tax, which is imposed on estates worth $1 million or more. Because of the $1 million exemption, about 98% of Oregon estates don't owe any tax.
Proponents of the estate tax repeal, Measure 84, argued that it was necessary to save family farms and businesses. Opponents responded that estate tax affects only the wealthiest citizens and is a fair method for the state to raise revenue.


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|Bonding with Al Metallurgies for 200mm MEMS Devices|
|Keywords: MEMS Wafer Level Bonding, Aluminum Bonds, Eutectic Seals|
|Aluminum metallization is used frequently in MEMS device structures and offers the potential to serve as a sealing metallurgy during device packaging steps. The vast majority of MEMS devices are sealed using anodic or glass frit seal rings to create hermetic packages for the accelerometer, pressure sensor or gyroscope. However, metal seals would enable smaller device geometries by providing for high hermeticity levels which enable seal ring shrinkage and device geometry scaling to smaller sizes. There are two broad categories of metal seals utilizing aluminum based metallurgies; diffusion type bonds and eutectic bonds. The main advantage of the eutectic alloys is that the sealing ring will melt and under controlled flow mechanics it will accommodate surface roughness and disparities. In this way the eutectic metal bonds have similar advantages to glass frit processing. Diffusion bonding, on the other hand, requires intimate contact between the two surfaces and places limits on the surface topography that is acceptable. In all types of metal bonding the cleanliness of metal layer is essential for high quality interface formation. Several cleaning methods can be used to remove surface oxides prior to bonding. A popular method used for both bumping technologies and for copper or aluminum bonding is formic acid vapors. The vapor phase limits damage to underlying layers, is very rapid and enhances the bond quality. Because re-oxidation is equally important during the thermal treatment steps in the bond chamber, forming gases utilizing up to 4% hydrogen can be used to suppress and prevent oxide formation. Specifically in the case of automated production on 200mm wafers several advancements are needed to process aluminum metallurgies successfully. For the eutectic category of bonds a very uniform applied pressure and temperature must be applied to the wafers to ensure even alloy formation within the interface and to avoid distortion of the seal rings. For the diffusion based processes it is understood that the aluminum oxide is not soluble in the metal and hence the use of cleaning as well as high applied forces (up to 90KN) are needed to get successful 200mm wafer level aluminum diffusion bonds. Acoustic micrographs 200mm wafers successfully bonded with Al blanket layers show perfectly formed diffusion bonds with no voiding. This paper will focus on the metallurgies used in aluminum processing of MEMS wafers and 200mm production methods for this new bond process technology.|
|Shari Farrens, Chief Scientist - Wafer Bonder Division
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RAWALPINDI: Two weeks long multinational joint counter terrorism exercise ‘Fajar Al Sharq-V’ was conducted at National Counter Terrorism Centre, Pabbi with participation of Special Forces contingents from the brotherly countries.
Exercise ‘Fajar Al Sharq-V’ is a multinational joint exercise in Counter Terrorism domain among the Special Forces of Pakistan, Bahrain, Iraq and Kuwait. The exercise is aimed at nurturing of joint employment and interoperability besides, harnessing the historic military to military relations among the brotherly countries, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) in a statement said. The member countries have displayed zeal and enthusiasm for benefiting from each other’s’ expertise/experience.
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you heat 4.31 grams of a nickel 2 phosphate hydrate. You heat to a constant mass of 3.09 grams. What is the formula of this hydrate?
chemistry - Daisy, Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 5:48pm
chemistry - DrBob222, Thursday, April 11, 2013 at 6:20pm
4.31-3.09 = 1.22 = mass H2O driven off.
mols H2O = 1.22/molar mass = ?
mols Ni3(PO4)2 = 3.09/molar mass?
Now find the molar ratio of the Ni(II) phosphate to H2O. It look like 10 to me but check that.

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With only 3 weeks to go before the big day, the organisators behind the Women’s strike in Iceland on Oct 24th. 2016 contacted Webmom for help. The main target of the work was to put up an information central to mobilize the women of Iceland to march against the gender gap and remind the society of the importance of the labour of women. Icelandic women could on the 24th of October 2016 finish working at 14.38. To reach out to the women we build a Facebook Page, run twitter campaign and Instagram, all connected to the webpage. A Snap-chat channel was created and handed over to the young feminists from the University of Iceland. All in all everything went according to plan, web and digital channels worked as planned.
The website is now dormant and will be until the next strike in 2020. But it had to mentioned here.

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Partnership to promote preventive care for pets
The decline in the frequency of veterinary visits for cats and dogs in the United States is posing a risk to pet health, according to
Reptile owner donates blood, passes on lethal Salmonella infection
The New England Journal of Medicine reports that a snake is the source of a Salmonella organism that infected two platelet recipients
Japan's animal relief operations face considerable challenges
Japan is in the throes of what is known in the disaster and emergency management community as a cascading disaster.

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Lumidee began singing and rapping at the age of twelve. After graduating high school, she collaborated with a local neigh- borhood producer to record her debut single, „Never Leave You (Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh)“ for an independent record label. She signed with Universal Records, where she released her debut album called „Almost Famous“ in 2003. Her debut sing- le, „Never Leave You“, peaked at number 3 in the United States and number 2 in the United Kingdom. The track Almost Famous sold around 300.000 copies in the U.S.
For the next few years, Lumidee was not in the mainstream music industry in the US, instead veering more towards reg- gaeton and dancehall music. After her hit single „Never Leave You“ faded, Lumidee went overseas to continue her musical career in Belgium, Germany, France and the Netherlands. She released „Grimey Streets“ in 2004, which was a mixtape consisting of new material, freestyles and tracks from Almost Famous.
Lumidee was also featured on several tracks in this era, having moderate success in Europe.
In 2006, Lumidee released a song for the FIFA World Cup album soundtrack entitled „Dance!“. It featured a sample of the Whitney Houston track, „I Wanna Dance With Somebody.“ The song was a club hit in the most of Europe, success- fully entering the charts in the countries where it was officially released. In 2007 she released her second album called Unexpected, which was released under TVT Records. The U.S. single, „She‘s Like the Wind“, peaked at 43, but it was not released in Europe. There, the label released the single „Crazy“ featuring Pitbull which had moderate chart success in Germany, Austria and the UK.
Lumidee made an appearance on MTV Cribs, showing her New Jersey home, which aired on August 2007.
In early 2010 Lumidee released the mix tape „Luminadee“, which was exclusively available on Coast2CoastMixtapes.com. In 2011, she appeared in a re-work of Remady‘s dance hit „No Superstar“ it peak #2 on the Germany & Austria Itunes Charts. 2013 she team up with with DJ/Producer Nicola Fasano & Steve Forest and released her track „Crazy“ feat . Pitbull that Hit the #1 on the Japan iTunes Charts. Her 2013 remake of „Dance!“ feat. Fatman Scoop is about to move the european dance floors - „So come on and dance!
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Monday, 9 November 2009
This is the second, improved draft of my contents page. The inspiration was taken from a kerrang contents page, it is a great design and perfect for mine. There are 3 main fonts in my contents page, in order to keep with the convention of other magazines, it keeps things simple and easy to read. All the stories are down the left hand side making it easier for them to find, with the pictures on the right hand side, each picture is a representation of the articles. At the top right hand corner is a quote from 'Bart McCracken' from 'The Used', this shows us a little bit of an interview and what is in the magazine. The picture at the bottom may or may not go, however there is work that needs to be done on it as it does not look right, the shot of the model is a medium close up shot. Putting the photos of the 'superstars' on the right hand side will attract the reader onto the page and if the picture is attractive enough it will attract the reader to the page that that person is on, meaning they will read the stories with more interest and wanting to read the article means they will buy the magazine. Each main title is made to stand out by it being made bright yellow with an outer glow, and to make it stand out more it has a black rectangle around it, this also makes it look more professional and stand out.

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Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
I travelled to Toronto to showcase my landscape work at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition. This show was so well attended and I was impressed by the calibre of artists showing in the exhibition. With 7 pieces that found new homes in the Toronto area – I am looking forward to applying again for 2018.
The Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition is Canada’s largest, longest running juried contemporary outdoor art fair. Founded in 1961,Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
was established to nurture artistic excellence and artists’ entrepreneurial spirit, and to showcase contemporary art to the general public. For more information, visit Toronto Outdoor Art.
Art in the Garden
A huge thank you to all who attended Art in the Garden on Saturday July 29. This was my busiest, best attended outdoor garden show yet and I am so honoured to have such a wonderful support network in Alberta! Thank you to everyone who came out, enjoyed some art, chatted and those who even took pieces home to adorn their walls.
Make up your mind – Acrylic on Canvas 36″ x 36″ 2500.00
I am at Odds – Acrylic on Canvas 36″ x 36″ 2500.00 (Currently at Crescent Hill)
Private Studio Tours
Looking to add artwork to your home, but want to see works in person? Want to see my newest works yet to be on display? Visit my studio for a private tour and artwork selection to suit your space. Be inspired and see the brush marks in person! Please email Studio Tours
for more information.
After 10 days in New York City, I am happy to return home and get back into the studio. The Affordable Art Fair New York City was a fabulous new experience and I was absolutely delighted with the overall turnout and feedback I received for my artwork.
I cannot let you go – Acrylic on Canvas 36″ x 36″ 2500.00 (Currently at Crescent Hill)
I am lost and found – Acrylic on Canvas 36″ x 36″ 2500.00
I reflect you, You reflect me – Acrylic on canvas 2500.00
Reclaimed Terrain Acrylic on Canvas 48″ x 48″ 4800.00
I am, Because of you – Acrylic on Canvas 48″ Diameter 4800.00
Terraced Ground Acrylic on Canvas 40″ Diameter 3000.00
I am excited to display this new series of paintings at Gibson Fine Art in Calgary, Alberta. This series explores the ever changing relationship and the conversations between the Land and Sky. As a visual artist, I am constantly inspired by this relationship of the ethereal sky and the tangible ground.
My work primarily focuses on the depiction of the Canadian landscape. The landscape of Canada and specifically that of Western Canada is in a constant state of change. From weather to the effect of human presence to the pastoral landscape, idyllic in the minds of prairie dwellers, there are never ending conversations of patterns, lights, and landscape horizons. I aim to capture the relationship between the sky and ground. This stark divisional line suggests a disconnect and yet neither sky nor ground would exist without the other. This balance of space defined by the horizon line is the simple definition of the Canadian landscape. I sketch and paint the views of Alberta and British Columbia from life, and transfer these ideas to larger scale canvas’ and boards. I document the shifting movement of the clouds and weather patterns with gestural brushwork, thick uses of both oil and acrylic paint and vivid color. I aim to capture the landscape not as a mimetic depiction, but as a gestural interpretation of the movement of the land itself, and its ever fluctuating subtleties of the natural, urban, growth, desolation, and regrowth.
This exhibition runs from February 25 – March 11, 2017
The opening reception will be March 4, 2017 1 – 3pm
Gibson Fine Art
628 11 Ave SW #102,
Calgary, AB T2R 0E2
For more information, please visit Gibson Fine Art or contact Samantha Williams-Chapelsky for exhibition images and pricing at email@example.com
Affordable Art Fair New York
I will be travelling to New York City in late March to showcase a new body of work at the Affordable Art Fair held in Chelsea. The Show will run from March 29 – April 2, 2017. I am excited to attend and display my work along side fellow artist Jenny Keith. For more information, visit https://affordableartfair.com/ or for tickets to the event, contact Samantha
These two pieces will be travelling to New York to showcase at the Affordable Art Fair. I am experimenting with Golden Light Molding Paste and a few new palettes of colours to create a relationship between the sky and ground.
Still working away in my studio on this show – so stay tuned for new pieces!
The Lily Pad Acrylic on Canvas 40″ Diameter – SOLD
New Series in Progress
My Abstract Landscapes on Tondo canvas’ are coming along – I am loving the shape and finally feeling confident in its challenges and opportunities!
As fall approaches, I am back in my studio painting from some of my recent summer travels around the world. I have to say, I was most inspired by the landscape of Iceland and I am so passionate about this latest series of work!
Stay tuned for more pieces on the way!
My newest series is in progress – and I have to say- I think it is one of my favorites!
These works are exploring a new subject for me but continuing on my exploration of cloudscapes.
Skies of Kites Acrylic and Stone on Canvas 40″ Diameter – SOLD
Acrylic on Terraskin – framed 24″ x 24″
The World’s Greatest Acrylic on Canvas 40″ Diameter 3000.00
Halo Effect acrylic and stone on canvas 36″ Diameter – SOLD
This series of cloudscapes is a continuation on from my most recent work, which referenced the sky in abstract variations of color and texture. This series aims to create a gateway of space for the viewer to travel into a surreal world of clouds and sky through a shaped canvas called a Tondo.
The Tondo is an Italian word for a circular painting or relief. This style was popular during the Renaissance, but can be found in art history since antiquity. In the renaissance, the Tondo portrayed a window into a three dimensional space. Often it was used to depict mythological, classical or literary themes. Today, the term shaped canvas is particularly associated with certain works created mostly in New York after about 1960, during a period when a great variety and quantity of such works were produced.
Artists such as Frank Stella, Damien Hirst, and Tomokazu Matsuyama have used this unique shape to depict the object-like nature of art.
The challenge with this shape of canvas is that it has no axial orientation, leaving the artist to be in a constant state of shifting and changing its position. The Tondo shape is the perfect shape with a link to art history as well as recognition for the minimalist painters in the 1960s whose work has influenced so much of today’s contemporary art world.
This body of work aims to challenge the conventional rectangular shape of landscapes today, and entangle realism and surrealism. Through referencing artists such as JMW Turner, I aim to look for the awe in the weather patterns of the sky, and expectations of change in the clouds. By referencing artists such as Helen Frankenthaler, and Frank Stella, I shift the focus from capturing the realistic aspect of the cloudscape to one of layers of abstraction and nuance.


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The three beach volleyball programs of northwest Tucson have faced divergent fates this season.
The Ironwood Ridge Nighthawks (7-3) and Canyon del Oro Dorados (5-5) find themselves in the playoff hunt in Divisions I and II, respectively. The Marana Tigers, who are in their first season of beach volleyball competition, are 1-9 in Division I. The state tournament kicks off Tuesday, April 23 in both divisions, with the top-16 teams in each division qualifying.
Ryan Call, who has led CDO’s beach volleyball program since its inception last year, believes local athletes are getting into the groove this year.
Call believes the programs at CDO, Ironwood Ridge and Marana will all take off in time, thanks to the glut of athletic talent in northwest Tucson.
“The sport of beach volleyball simply put is pure athletic. You must be good at each skill or it will get quickly exposed in a match,” Call said. “It’s special, because it’s still a team sport that highlights individual skills. It’s finesse, meets footwork meets power meets quickness meets anticipation. The ultimate athlete with nowhere to hide.”
Jennifer Ball, who coaches both the girls indoor and beach volleyball, believes the spring sport can boost her program’s status in the region.
Ball knew her team would struggle this year, given how little experience her players had in sand matches, but that the program will take off in due time.
She believes the future is bright for beach volleyball in Tucson, given the wealth of playoff-caliber teams in the region.
“Our athletes have grown so much as a result of this season,” Ball said. “This is the first year Marana has participated in beach volleyball so we knew we would face a lot of challenges. They have improved so much, and each match brings growth and development.”
Ball said she’s thrilled to see indoor players embrace the beach game so quickly, helping the game take off in the region.
“I am always impressed by athletes who are willing to try something new despite the difficulties they know they will encounter,” Ball said. “I love that so many athletes in Arizona are willing to go through that to establish beach volleyball here.”
The final week of the beach volleyball regular season takes place through Friday , April 12.
The Nighthawks play at Mountain Pointe Wednesday, April 10, before closing out the year with a home match against Desert Vista, on Friday.
The Dorados played Amphitheater Tuesday after deadline, and host Combs Friday to close out the regular season.
Marana’s debut season under Ball ends with road matches, against Maricopa after deadline on Tuesday and Corona del Sol on Friday, with matches tipping off at 4 p.m. each day.
The state playoffs for Divisions I and II in beach volleyball include seperate competitions for teams and pairs, with the former kicking off Tuesday, April 23, and the latter starting Monday, May 6 in Division I and May 7 for Division II.
The first two rounds of the team tournaments will be held at the higher-seeded team’s court before moving on to Casteel High School in Queen Creek, Arizona, for the seminfinals and finals in both divisions. All rounds of the pairs tournament will be held at the Queen Creek school.
The tournaments in each division will include the five automatic qualifiers that have won their respective regions, with 11 at-large berths handed ou in each division. The top pair from the top eight-ranked teams automatically qualifies for the pairs tournament, with the remaining eight pairs coming from a coaches seeding meeting. Those coaches will seed the top eight pairs in each of the two divisions.
Rankings and tournament information can be found on the Arizona Interscholastic Association’s website, azpreps365.com.


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American western river steamboats represent a unique form of shipbuilding. Designed and built on the American frontier during the core of the 19th century, such boats rapidly evolved to fit the specific needs of the great inland river systems that drained inland North America. In this build I will replicate a typical specimen of this design, the steamboat Bertrand, trying to accurately duplicate the features of these fascinating vessels. I hope you’ll follow along, both to enjoy the construction, and to learn about this obscure but fascinating (to me, at least) part of maritime transportation history. These boats are almost, but not entirely, unlike an ocean-going vessel of the same period, in large part due to the demands of their specific riverine habitat. Below, my updated workbench with Bertrand profile on the wall for inspiration.
The “western” in western river steamboat refers to the landscape between the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains. Over the course of the 19th century, this area went from the mostly unknown wilderness of Lewis & Clark’s 1804 expedition up the Missouri River, to a land mostly settled and integrated into the United States by the dawn of the 20th century. Most of this landscape centers on the Mississippi River basin, including its major tributaries such as the Ohio and Missouri Rivers. This system drains over 1 million square miles (almost 3 million square km), covering parts of 31 American states and 2 Canadian provinces. Almost all the rivers in the system were navigable in the 19th century for most of their lengths, creating a vast trade and transportation network across the continent’s interior long before railroads appeared on the scene, when roads were all but non-existent (map below from National Park Service).
The Bertand, built in 1864 and sunk in 1865, was a wholly typical and unremarkable western river steamer, except for its rediscovery beneath a US Wildlife Refuge along the Iowa/Nebraska border in 1968. The boat and its cargo were remarkably well-preserved, due to quick burial beneath river sediment by the quickly changing channel of the Missouri River, and the anoxic environment thus produced. The Bertrand’s mint-condition cargo is now on display at a fascinating museum at the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge, which also hosts a detailed large-scale model of the craft (shown below). The archeological excavation of the craft resulted in a plethora of information about period steamboat construction. In pairing with the later, but similar, discovery of the sunken steamboat Arabia along the Kansas/Missouri border and subsequent founding of a similar museum in Kansas City, the two wrecks represent a spectacular repository of historical and maritime knowledge and preservation. Below, the gorgeous large-scale model of Bertrand at DeSoto (FWS photo).
I live and farm near the Missouri River, and have long been fascinated by the history of its steamboats. My first-ever attempt at wooden ship modeling was a scratchbuilt version of the Far West, perhaps the most famous of its class, a sternwheeler which ascended the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers to extraordinary distances, and carried General Custer’s troops to and from the infamous Battle of Little Big Horn. The Bertrand is a similar craft to the Far West, which was built to ascent the shallow, treacherous river to Montana, while the Arabia was a sidewheeler more typical of the lower Missouri River below Omaha, Nebraska (and the Ohio and Mississippi). I had initially intended to build the Arabia next, but due to a lack of available plans, and my inability to make it to Kansas City to do research at her eponymous museum, I changed my focus to the Bertrand. Below, my model of the Far West for context:
I’ve had plans for the Bertrand for several years, having purchased them at the same time as my Far West plans, and consulted them on that project. Now, the goal is a similar boat but at much greater detail: I would like to build the Bertrand frame-by-frame, just as initially constructed in the riverside yards at Wheeling, West Virginia. I have a shelf of texts on western steamboat history and construction, and several more detailed references on the excavation of the Bertrand on order through inter-library loan. I intend to leave one side of the hull unplanked, and possibly the same side of the superstructure, to show full detail throughout. Below, longitudinal internal section of the Bertrand from the plans I'll be using.
I hope you’ll join me on this (likely) wordy trek through a relatively unknown period of American maritime history and design. Few other steamboats grace this site, so I'd like to fill the gap a little with this project. I’ll try to interweave build details with explanations and demonstrations of why the boat was designed and built the way it was, to give context to this project and help share my love of these steamboats and their (my) home. This project is a significant undertaking for me, a serious step up from my previous Bounty launch kit and various smaller and less-detailed scratchbuilding efforts. I hope to be open to suggestion and advice, and I hope readers will be patient with the slow progress I'll likely make as I juggle this project with the summertime demands on my time, as well as the budget necessary to do this with my uncertain income as a self-employed farmer and writer. Welcome aboard, and unlike most boats of this type, we'll hope this one doesn't sink or blow up on the journey!
UPDATE: Build completed and index available.
I finished this project in January 2016, and compiled an index of the general steps involved, with links to each one. You can review the build index here, in a post at the end of this log.
Edited by Cathead, 09 July 2016 - 01:35 PM.

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Recent advances in high-throughput T cell receptor (TCR) sequencing have allowed for new insights into the human TCR repertoire. However, methods for capturing antigen-specific repertoires remain an area of development. Here, we describe a potentially novel approach that utilizes both a biological and statistical enrichment to define putatively antigen-specific complementarity-determining region 3 (CDR3) repertoires in unselected individuals. The biological enrichment entailed FACS of in vitro antigen-activated memory CD4+ T cells, followed by TCRβ sequencing. The resulting TCRβ sequences were then filtered by selecting those that are statistically enriched when compared with their frequency in the autologous resting T cell compartment. Applying this method to define putatively peanut protein–specific repertoires in 27 peanut-allergic individuals resulted in a library of 7345 unique CDR3β amino acid sequences that had similar characteristics to other validated antigen-specific repertoires in terms of homology and diversity. In-depth analysis of these CDR3βs revealed 36 public sequences that demonstrated high levels of convergent recombination. In a network analysis, the public CDR3βs were shown to be core sequences with more edges than their private counterparts. This method has the potential to be applied to a wide range of T cell–mediated disorders and to yield new biomarkers and biological insights.
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Utah Senatorial candidate Mitt Romney:
Thank you Mr. President for the support. I hope that over the course of the campaign I also earn the support and endorsement of the people of Utah.
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) February 20, 2018
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If Trump had said 4 years ago the things he says today about the KKK, Muslims, Mexicans, disabled, I would NOT have accepted his endorsement
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) March 3, 2016
What’s up here, aside from “Also Mitt Romney” flexibility being one of Mitt Romney’s calling cards? I think part of the answer can be found in the one sentence above that’s not about Trump.
Romney might have been able to get away with rebuffing Trump’s endorsement, or so the conventional wisdom would have it. Utah is very Republican, but weak on Trump. As of last month, only 70% of Utah GOPers approved of how Trump was doing his job; that’s still a lot of Utahns, but Romney seems more popular in the state than Trump.
To date, the main knock against Romney running for Senate — both from his democratic opponent and from in-state Trump supporters (including the UTGOP chair) — has been that Mitt is a carpetbagger. Romney sold his Utah home before his 2012 run (though he bought property there again in 2013).
Romney seems sensitive to the charge. At his first campaign event — a Utah county GOP dinner — he skipped a speech in favor of taking questions from the audience. He left the event alone in a pickup truck. He’s been visiting a dairy farm and a restaurant, not to mention door-knocking. Dare we call it a “listening tour”?
Utahns may or may not care a ton whether Romney accepted Trump’s endorsement. But you can bet Trump would care. (Indeed, one might speculate that Trump was sold on endorsing him because he knew it would put Mitt in an awkward position.) Had Romney rebuffed the endorsement, you can bet Trump would have enjoyed skewering him on Twitter and perhaps in the regular media.
A Romney-Trump fight is one of national politics. Romney is trying to run a local campaign. Not all politics are local, but Romney wants them to be in this case. So he accepts the endorsement on Twitter, which relieves him of having to answer questions directly or at length on camera, and he moves on.
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The "Justice forJ6" rally on Saturday, organized by an ex-campaign staffer for former President Donald Trump, is expected to draw about 700 people, DHS said.
Rachel Maddow reports on security measures being put in place by twice-shy Capitol security ahead of a planned rally for January 6th rioters, for whom Donald Trump expressed support and solidarity.
A Capitol cop is one of six facing disciplinary action after taking a selfie with a rioter on January 6 which he claims was a tactic used to calm him down after he was seen leading other Trump supporters
‘Trump is literally calling people to DC in a show of force,’ one of the rioters allegedly said
As Capitol security officials gird for Saturday's pro-Trump rally in Washington, lawmakers and their aides have been given a simple directive: steer clear of the building.
"His jailers treat these men like scum. There's absolutely no presumption of innocence," she said. "This reminds me of how the Jewish people were treated by the Nazis."
Demonstrators in support of jailed pro-Trump rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 showed up Saturday in less-than-anticipated numbers.
On Thursday, Department of Homeland Security warned about the potential for violence at the rally planned for Saturday
Simone Gold is one of the Capitol insurrection defendants being celebrated at a scheduled “Justice for J6” rally in DC on Saturday as a “political prisoner” by the pro-Trump rally organizers. But the controversial doctor and lawyer won’t be able to make the event, which has law enforcement girding for possible violence. Like many of [
Landon Copeland, who was charged in connection with the Capitol riot, doesn't expect a big turnout on Saturday unless Trump says to "go to the Capitol again."
Editor’s note: This article first appeared in David Corn’s new newsletter, This Land. You can sign up for a free 30-day trial of This Land here. A conservative outfit has announced it is organizing a rally on September 18 at the US Capitol to—get this—seek “justice” for the rioters arrested during the insurrectionist raid on Congress [
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Implicit individual differences: relationships between implicit self-esteem, gender identity, and gender attitudes
Version of Record online: 12 DEC 2002
Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
European Journal of Personality
Volume 17, Issue 1, pages 19–37, January/February 2003
How to Cite
V. Aidman, E. and M. Carroll, S. (2003), Implicit individual differences: relationships between implicit self-esteem, gender identity, and gender attitudes. Eur. J. Pers., 17: 19–37. doi: 10.1002/per.465
- Issue online: 4 FEB 2003
- Version of Record online: 12 DEC 2002
- Manuscript Accepted: 28 AUG 2002
- Manuscript Received: 5 SEP 2001
The study examined whether the magnitude of same-sex-favouring implicit gender bias depends on individual differences in self-esteem and gender identity as theorized by Greenwald et al. The Implicit Association Test (IAT) was used to measure implicit self-esteem, gender identity, and gender attitudes. Explicit self-esteem and gender identity were measured with questionnaires. The IAT revealed a strong automatic preference for female words in 34 female undergraduates but, surprisingly, no significant gender bias in 32 males. Individual levels of this gender bias were predicted in both sexes by IAT-derived implicit measures of self-esteem and gender identity, as well as by their interaction. Neither declared gender identity nor explicit self-esteem added to the prediction. The results are discussed in terms of balanced identity design and the potential influence of method effects on the findings. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


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November 10, 1938. "Fulgencio Batista, the Cuban Army Sergeant who has risen to the heights of Caribbean Dictator, arrived in Washington today. This is the first time the Cuban Dictator has set foot outside his native land in 37 years. Gen. Malin Craig, the Army Chief of Staff, is shown with him as they pass the Capitol in a Cadillac." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative.
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Joe Alaskey, voice of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, dies at 63
- Joe Alaskey has died at age 63 after battling cancer.
- Alaskey was the voice of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.
Alaskey, 63, had been battling cancer.
Alaskey was one of the actors who handled Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck after the 1989 death of the famed Mel Blanc.
Daffy Duck proved to be one of his most prominent roles. He won an Emmy in 2004 for his performance on Cartoon Network’s “Duck Dodgers.”
The actor voiced many other beloved Looney Tunes characters including Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat and Plucky Duck. In addition, Alaskey also voiced Grandpa Lou Pickles on Rugrats, appearing in three films and the spinoff series, “All Grown Up.”
He didn’t just do cartoons. Among his other roles: Jackie Gleason in the TV movie “King of the World” and the voice of Richard Nixon in “Forrest Gump.”
Fans of Alaskey took to Twitter to express their condolences.
Mark Evanier, a television writer and friend of Alaskey, wrote a tribute on his blog.
“The one I liked best was when he sounded like Joe Alaskey,” Evanier wrote. “He had a long, long list of voices but that’s the one I will miss the most.”
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Grain Storage – How Long Will It Last?
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The properties along the proposed project alignment are zoned Commercial (C2-1, C2-1VL, C2-1 VL); Restricted Density Multiple Dwelling (RD1.5-1, RD2-1, RD2-1VL, RD3-1, RD5-1); Multiple Dwelling (R3-1 , R3-1VL); Public Facilities (PF-1XL)
The Coronado Trunk Line Project would involve construction, operation, and maintenance of a new 30-inch-diameter welded steel potable water pipeline. The new pipeline would be approximately 7,200 feet in length and would extend along segments of Robinson Street, Council Street, West Temple Street, and North Coronado Street. The proposed project would include installation and operation of a regulator/relief station vault and a flow meter vault within Robinson Street, as well as trunk line appurtenances along the alignment. The new trunk line would connect two existing trunk lines (the First Street Trunk Line within Beverly Boulevard and the Sunset Trunk Line within Sunset Boulevard). The new connection would enhance system reliability and resiliency during planned or emergency outages and allow water service to continue within the Solano Reservoir service area while the reservoir and other facilities in the area are being repaired and/or replaced.
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Two articles on PainSci cite Mascarenhas 2015: 1. The Complete Guide to Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome 2. Does Platelet-Rich Plasma Injection Work?
PainSci commentary on Mascarenhas 2015: ?This page is one of thousands in the PainScience.com bibliography. It is not a general article: it is focused on a single scientific paper, and it may provide only just enough context for the summary to make sense. Links to other papers and more general information are provided wherever possible.
The full text of this paper concludes:
Recent systematic reviews on the topic conclude that there is still a paucity of high-quality data providing sufficient evidence to support or disprove the clinical utility of PRP in symptomatic osteoarthritis of the knee. There is even less clinical evidence supporting its use in other joints or in the treatment of focal osteochondral defects despite the basic science evidence in favor of its use. In addition, not all basic science and clinical studies on PRP have concluded it has positive effects.
So garbage in, garbage out, no real conclusions possible: not enough good data even for the knee, even less for other joints. And there’s contradictory evidence.
~ Paul Ingraham
original abstract †Abstracts here may not perfectly match originals, for a variety of technical and practical reasons. Some abstacts are truncated for my purposes here, if they are particularly long-winded and unhelpful. I occasionally add clarifying notes. And I make some minor corrections.
Clinical and laboratory research aimed at biological approaches to cartilage repair are currently in high demand due to the poor regenerative capacity of articular cartilage in the setting of a diseased articular environment. Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) takes advantage of supraphysiological concentrations of platelets and their growth factors harbored in α-granules, which together attempt to return the diseased articular cartilage to a preinjury state. The local use of PRP directly at the site of cartilage injury is thought to stimulate a natural healing cascade and accelerate the formation of cartilage repair tissue. This article provides an overview of the basic science behind the use of PRP in the treatment of cartilage injury and disease. Both initial and current examples of the use of intra-articular PRP in clinical human studies are provided. These include the use of PRP either alone or as an augmentation device with various other procedures, including arthroscopic microfracture and cell-free resorbable polyglycolic acid-hyaluronan implantation. Finally, the authors describe some of the potential future roles of PRP in clinical settings based on recent literature. These include Achilles tendon rupture, chronic tendinosis, chronic rotator cuff tendinopathy or tearing, muscle injury, and meniscal repair.
This page is part of the PainScience BIBLIOGRAPHY, which contains plain language summaries of thousands of scientific papers & others sources. It’s like a highly specialized blog. A few highlights:
- No long-term effects after a three-week open-label placebo treatment for chronic low back pain: a three-year follow-up of a randomized controlled trial. Kleine-Borgmann 2022 Pain.
- Exercise and education versus saline injections for knee osteoarthritis: a randomised controlled equivalence trial. Bandak 2022 Ann Rheum Dis.
- Association of Lumbar MRI Findings with Current and Future Back Pain in a Population-based Cohort Study. Kasch 2022 Spine (Phila Pa 1976).
- A double-blinded randomised controlled study of the value of sequential intravenous and oral magnesium therapy in patients with chronic low back pain with a neuropathic component. Yousef 2013 Anaesthesia.
- Is Neck Posture Subgroup in Late Adolescence a Risk Factor for Persistent Neck Pain in Young Adults? A Prospective Study. Richards 2021 Phys Ther.


Dolich, Andy, and Newhouse, Dave. Goodbye, Oakland: Winning, Wanderlust and a Sports Town’s Fight for Survival. Chicago: Triumph Books. 2023. Pp. 256. No index or chapter notes. $28 (hardcover).
Reviewed by Richard A. Macales
“There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth. And no one is lying. Memories shared serve each differently.” – Robert Evans, investigative journalist and humorist.
Sixty-five years ago, fans began to discover that sports were no different from any other American big business; they were just more glamorous to own. A city’s “beloved” team was no longer perceived as a “community asset” to be held as a “right” in perpetuity. In the spring of 1958, Major League Baseball’s (MLB) Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants, two fabulously successful and profitable teams, fled for even greater riches to Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively.
On Opening Day, April 15, 1958, the geographically renamed San Francisco Giants hosted the Los Angeles Dodgers. Three days later, the Dodgers reciprocated, hosting the Giants. Both games were played in temporary stadiums until their permanent “sports cathedrals” were built. In San Francisco, the stadium was built atop a landfill; in L.A., 300 acres of land, expropriated by the city from the Latino community earlier in the 1950s for “modern” affordable public housing, were given to the Dodgers.
Less than two decades later, fans were then given another eye-opener when U.S. courts and the Major League Baseball Players’ Association (MLBPA) allowed the athletes themselves to be granted free agency. The players had the freedom to leave their given team for proverbial greener pastures after their contracts were completed––against most owners’ wishes. Free agency eventually spread to all sports. These moves ushered in a new era of sports economics. While multimillion-dollar contracts would begin to go to the players, billions began to flow into the construction of new stadiums, as owners also raked in billions from TV revenue.
Herein lays the saga of Oakland sports.
Moneyball, the Academy Award-nominated movie in 2011 starring Brad Pitt based on the book of the same name by Michael Lewis, highlights how the Oakland A’s managed to field competitive teams with low payrolls during the first two decades of the 2000’s. Billy Beane (now A’s part-owner) pioneered the so-called “moneyball” executive, using his eye for scouting to groom young talent into Major League all-stars only to lose them to wealthier clubs in free agency. Under Beane’s leadership and use of “sabermetrics” between 2000 and 2020, the A’s made 11 trips to the playoffs, in addition to setting an American League record with a 20-game winning streak in 2002 (the season on which Moneyball focuses).
Sports Illustrated/Fan Nation writer Jack Vita rates Moneyball as “one of the best sports movies in cinematic history.” Curiously, “moneyball” — the film and the book, as well as the concept — is minimally mentioned in a chapter about Hall of Fame manager Tony LaRussa, who doesn’t believe in sabermetrics.
The competition between cities to lure pro sports teams and star athletes can be more intense and intriguing than the actual level of play on the field itself. And the city of Oakland, California––described as “across the Bay from San Francisco” by sportscaster Joe Garagiola during the A’s 1973 World Series––has felt the impact of the economic upside and downside of sports perhaps more than any other city.
Beginning in the mid-1960s, Oakland fans had very good teams to root for in a variety of major league sports. But only the National Football League’s (NFL) Raiders regularly drew sellout crowds at their home games. Other Oakland teams performed in front of mainly sparse crowds, sometimes numbering in the mere hundreds (including last season’s A’s).
As for the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) Golden State Warriors, they only regularly drew sellout crowds in Oakland when they began their current dynasty in 2015. Previously, since their move from Philadelphia to San Francisco in 1962 and then on to Oakland in 1971, they were among the lowest drawing teams in the NBA, even as their first half-decade in San Francisco featured Wilt Chamberlain and Rick Barry in Warriors uniforms. When Chamberlain returned to Philly in a 1965 mid-season trade and Barry “jumped” leagues to join singer Pat Boone’s Oakland Oaks of the fledgling American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1967, the Warriors’ most recognizable face was their eccentric hippie owner, Franklin Mieuli.
Which leaves Oakland with its colorful baseball team: the A’s.
Goodbye, Oakland, by Andy Dolich, a former senior marketing executive with the A’s and NFL’s San Francisco 49ers, and Dave Newhouse, an Oakland sportswriter since 1964, teamed up to write a memoir on their years in sports in the Bay Area. Newhouse covered the 49ers for the Oakland Tribune, and is the author of several books, including Founding 49ers: The Dark Days Before the Dynasty. Dolich’s and Newhouse’s latest book covers the personalities that brought Oakland from fame to “wanderlust,” as they describe it. Authors Dolich and Newhouse did not write the book as a “history” of Oakland sports. It is too bad they didn’t. There is no index, no chapter notes, and only minimal sources cited in the bibliography. This work is the authors’ close-up opinions and yarns of some of the owners, athletes, and pro teams that called Oakland home.
Not all clubs reciprocated by using “Oakland” as their geographic team name. Dolich and Newhouse sum up the ingratitude: “Oakland saved [Franklin] Mieuli financially, yet he couldn’t deign to honor Oakland by name, conceiving of the ‘Golden State’ moniker. How ridiculous that was…He wouldn’t lower himself to say he was ‘Oakland’… He was hoping one day to put the team back in San Francisco.” Mieuli clearly “left his heart in San Francisco,” as Tony Bennet famously sings. But by 1971, he felt Oakland was the more suitable location for his Warriors. Current owners moved them back to San Francisco in 2019.
The same situation arose with the National Hockey League’s (NHL) “California” Golden Seals, mentioned only very briefly by Dolich and Newhouse. Perhaps the Seals’ ineptness during their nine years in Oakland (1967-76), didn’t fit the authors’ narrative of the “City of Champions” so their existence is downplayed.
The Oakland Clippers rate a full chapter devoted to this pioneering American pro soccer championship team (1967). Titled “First National Champion: No-Helmut Football,” Oakland’s soccer team began their existence as the “California Clippers.” Their primary investors, two Texas oilmen, wanted the team to play in San Francisco, but were told that suitable facilities were unavailable in “The City.” So, they begrudgingly found a soccer “pitch” in the recently-opened Oakland Coliseum. The owners, who had scant knowledge of “The Town,” initially refused to identify their club with “Oakland,” like the NHL’s Seals. At some point during their two-year existence (1967-68), they changed the team’s geographic name to “Oakland” Clippers. Under either moniker, it spelled very low attendance. They folded in 1969.
The Golden Gaters, of the original World Team Tennis (WTT) league (1974-78), also refused to use the name Oakland (revisionist history refers to them as the “San Francisco” Golden Gaters). In the WTT’s second season, the Golden Gaters, co-founded by Billie Jean King’s ex-husband, Larry King, hosted the league’s all-star game at the Oakland Coliseum Arena, home court of the Golden Gaters. This historic match included, for one night, some of the all-time greatest tennis legends in the innovative coed league: Billie Jean King, Rod Laver, Chris Evert, Martina Navratilova, Tony Roche, Yvonne Goolagong, Tom Okker, and Virginia Wade, among others. The WTT press guide of 1978 does not mention Oakland as the location of the all-star game, played in front of “12,581, the second largest WTT crowd ever.” Oakland is the only all-star game host city omitted by name. Neither the historic all-star game, nor the Golden Gaters, who made it to the WTT championship finals in 1975 and 1976 are mentioned in Goodbye, Oakland. Rather, it lists two short-lived “Oakland” teams in “TeamTennis,” a de facto non-major league.
Dolich and Newhouse place the failure of major league sports in Oakland primarily on the owners, sans the Haas family (for whom Dolich worked as a marketing whiz). A fair share of the responsibility also lies on the steps of Oakland City Hall. Whereas previous mayors and city council members placed sports as a high priority (and still lost teams via moves to other cities), the focus in recent years has been on trying to resolve the city’s housing crisis and halt the further shuttering of Big Industry, traditionally the backbone of brawny Oakland. The authors write about the positive features of life and non-sports culture in Oakland. The book also delves into racial divides associated with Oakland, including its complex relationship with and negative perception compared to other Bay Area cities, most notably San Francisco.
Back to the owners. The Haas family, of San Francisco-based Levi Strauss blue jean fame, owned the A’s from 1980 to 1995. In a chapter titled “Heavenly Haases: Ownership Paradise,” Dolich recalls the Haas family heavily investing in A’s teams, resulting in winning three American League pennants in a row (1988-90), including one World Series (in 1989 versus their cross-Bay rival, the San Francisco Giants, in the “Earthquake Series”). The Haas family, whose roots in California date back to its statehood in 1850, have always been civic-minded; they never considered or threatened moving the A’s out of Oakland as had other owners before and after them, according to Goodbye, Oakland.
Dolich’s front office launch with the A’s came when their combative owner Charles O. Finley’s rein came to an inglorious end in 1979. In Finley’s final year of running the A’s, they drew a paltry 306,763 fans. Fed up with free agency and skimpy fan support during his team’s World Series championship years (1972-74), it was as if Charlie O wanted the A’s to fail in his final years in Oakland so he could punish all of Major League Baseball. He attempted to sell them for a tidy profit to a Denver billionaire. The would-be owner wanted to move the A’s to the Mile High City. But it wouldn’t be. The Oakland Coliseum would not let Finley out of his A’s stadium contract. When Finley owned the NHL California Golden Seals and ABA Memphis Tams, he cleverly made his teams, and his meddling presence, so problematic that he forced the NHL and ABA to directly buy him out at a hefty profit. This ploy did not work with MLB and Finley’s ultimate arch-nemesis, baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn. That forced Finley to sell the A’s to the Bay Area-based Haas family for somewhat less money (albeit still a large profit for Charlie O!).
When the Haases came aboard and provided life support for the A’s for Oakland, they brought in Dolich to bolster their presence in the entire Bay Area and beyond. He helped boost attendance to a whopping 2.9 million in 1990 during the A’s pennant streak. Dolich writes that of his many accomplishments in over four decades of sports management (which includes working with teams in the NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB and pro soccer), the A’s franchise attendance record in 1990 ranks as one of his proudest achievements. This took place in the season immediately following the devastating Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989, which put the Bay Bridge, separating San Francisco and Oakland, out of service to cars and trucks.
As is invariably the case when a team relocates out of its home city to another, there is recrimination by fans and the media. Dolich and Newhouse punctuate this sentiment in Goodbye, Oakland. But do the facts back up their assertions? As referenced at the beginning of this review, there are three sides to a story.
When discussing Raiders owner Al Davis, who died in 2011, they write that he was either loved or loathed by the fans and the media; the authors viewing him as the latter. But many would not agree with their assessment of Davis. Brief credit is given to him by the authors for his progressive hiring practices. As for Davis fostering positive and meaningful interracial relations on the team and within the community, some modest praise is made by the authors and the book’s contributing writers.
Dolich and Newhouse briefly note that Davis hired the first Black head coach since the 1920s in Art Shell in 1989). He also hired the second Latino head coach in Tom Flores in 1979, who would coach the Raiders to two Super Bowl championships. Both were inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame for their contributions to the Raiders. Davis also championed the advancement of women in the front office, hiring the first female CEO by an NFL team in attorney-turned-TV sports analyst Amy Trask. All of the aforementioned “firsts” deserved more detailed coverage.
Davis vowed to boycott the Raiders’ participation in the 1965 AFL All-Star Game in then-racially segregated New Orleans, reported Sports Illustrated. Davis had the game moved to another city. Always the maverick, GM Davis also lobbied AFL owners to relocate exhibition game to other locales where segregation was not enforced; if not, the Raiders were no-shows. During Oakland’s most turbulent years in the 1960s and 1970s, Davis’ stance endeared him and the Raiders to the majority Black populace.
The authors also fail to account for Davis’ significance to Oakland sports in ways beyond his relative racial progressivism.
When Davis first arrived on the Raiders’ scene 60 years ago (1963) as head coach and general manager, he took over a team that was the laughingstock of the old rival American Football League (and which had played home games in an unwelcoming San Francisco their first two years!). Davis accepted the Raiders’ job on condition that he had complete authority to run all aspects of the team’s operations. The request was granted to him by the Raiders’ two primary stockholders back then, F. Wayne Valley, an unyielding construction magnate, and Ed McGah, who also ran a construction firm. Davis immediately turned the Raiders into winners. In their first season under Davis, the Raiders’ won-loss record was 10-4, earning him American Football League (AFL) Coach of the Year honors. Before Davis arrived, the Raiders had a cumulative record of 9 wins and 33 losses in the franchises’ first three seasons (1960-62).
In Davis’ brief stint as AFL commissioner in 1966, he and Kansas City Chiefs’ owner and AFL founder Lamar Hunt were the architects of the AFL merger with the NFL. Hunt was the lead negotiator in the covert meetings with NFL hierarchy; Davis served as the tough “public face” of the league to the media. After the merger between the AFL and NFL was completed in 1970, Davis rose to become the Raiders’ managing general partner, and the primary stockholder by 1976. His efforts upgraded the stature of the entire AFL as a truly “major league” operation which affected the “bottom line” for the enrichment of pro football owners and the players who cashed in from free agency in later years.
While the acclaimed HBO documentary, The Rebels of Oakland: The A’s, The Raiders, The ‘70s takes a highly favorable view toward Davis and a critical look at A’s owner Charles O. Finley, Dolich and Newhouse are highly critical of both of these outspoken owners. Nevertheless, during the 1970s, the Oakland Raiders made the playoffs seven of 10 seasons, losing six times, five of them in the American Football Conference Championship Game, according to the authors. These were the Raiders’ glory years.
The authors’ critique derives from the Raiders’ transfer from Oakland to Los Angeles, from 1982 to 1994, which alienated many. This move, however, did not operate out of a vacuum. According to the authors, the Raiders’ founding co-owner, F. Wayne Valley, was influential in getting the Oakland Coliseum built. It opened in 1966, and the Raiders were the first major league sports tenant. Eventually, Valley and Davis became bitter foes. Valley sold his final shares in the Raiders in 1976. Whether or not Valley used his connections with Oakland Coliseum management to not have the stadium upgraded to NFL standards of that era is unclear. Not acceding to the Raiders’ stadium request may have been Valley’s countermove against Davis and McGah in Oakland. Or so he may have thought. In either scenario, this may have forced Davis’ and co-owner McGah’s hands, resulting in the Raiders’ move to large-market L.A.
By 1980, when the Raiders announced their move, the Rams had just relocated to Anaheim, outside Los Angeles’ city limits in Orange County. Looking back on the Raiders’ years in L.A., the authors quote a former team “public relations aide” who claimed that a senior team executive told him privately that the move to L.A. “wasn’t working out.” The year of this comment is not stated in the book. In luring the Raiders to L.A., city officials did not keep stadium improvement promises to the Raiders at the Los Angeles Coliseum or at any other potential L.A.-area location for a new stadium. As a result, the Raiders returned to Oakland in 1995, where they played until 2019 when they transferred to Las Vegas.
In their treatment of the Raiders, the authors err in accepting the narrative of Wayne Valley and his deceased widow, Gladys, who died in 1998, without question or consideration of other perspectives. Since Al Davis’ passing 12 years ago, his son, Mark Davis, has controlled the day-to-day operations of the team. The senior Davis was gone when the son negotiated the move to Las Vegas. Carol Davis, Al’s widow, remains co-owner. Only time will tell if the Raiders’ Las Vegas move is successful in the long-term, unlike the team’s experience in L.A.
After reading of Oakland’s travailing experience as a “major league” city, one wonders what Bill King, the legendary voice of the A’s, Raiders, Warriors and Giants, would say. He was close with the owners on both sides of The Bay. King passed away in 2005, so he couldn’t be interviewed. But at least he could have been acknowledged by the authors. Instead, legendary sportswriter Jerry Izenberg sums up the situation best in the preface: “The Raiders are Gone. The Golden State Warriors are gone. The Athletics [A’s] are on their way out. The saddest sign in all of sports will be Oakland’s municipal scoreboard. NO GAME TODAY.”
Rich Macales, a native Angeleno, was a former senior writer and public information officer for UCLA. He is a contributor to the anthology/encyclopedia, American Sports: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas, edited by Prof. Murry R. Nelson, ABC-Clio. For Sport in American History, he wrote a two-part series, posted on the beginning and end of major league sports in Oakland


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Bengaluru: Once known as the `City of gardens`, now an IT hub, Bangalore is making the most of it gardens for sure. The beautiful open lands have turned hot spots that are under the constant vigilance of cops, who are in the lookout for couples making out in public!
Bengaluru is the city’s new name and it seems with its rechristening, the city’s attitude too has changed drastically. But ironically, the city is heading towards extreme modernization even as it’s named sounds exceedingly desi.
Desperate couples have chosen gardens to make love in the darkness of the night and have also been successful in evading cops.
To evade interruption while making out, couples have claimed that they pay a meager amount of Rs 20 to cops, who let them make merry for 30 minutes.
H Girish, a software emgineer said, "We live very close by and this is the only time we get for ourselves. Usually we just pay the beat cop around Rs 20 and he lets us free for half an hour. Other times, we just finish our business and leave the place."
Talking to a tabloid, a night-beat cop said, “Couples often head to popular parks like the Lal Bagh Botanical Garden and Cubbon Park, or just chose to get it going up dark alleys. During regular night patrolling, we have realised that Residency Road (Behind TNT), Sadashiv Nagar (Opposite the club house) and Koramangala (Opposite Forum, near Monday to Sunday) are the most popular hook up spots,"
Lovebirds choose the dark lanes and have least inhibitions going atop cars to make out. Some couples are even caught in the act when the police are forced to lift blankets off them.
"Obscene acts in public are punishable under law. We file cases on grounds of the public nuisance that they create. Most of these couples are either college students or BPO employees fooling around in public places, which could prove to be dangerous for the couple. Sometimes, we escort the couples to their homes and complain to their parents," Sunil Kumar, Additional Commissioner of Police said.
About 5 cases of obscenity are registered with the Bangalore police every day and as many as 100 are reported in a month.
However, J Arvind, an IT professional feels that the Police have no business in interfering. He was caught getting too intimate with his girlfriend.
He said, "We come here because we like the ambience. What we do in our personal space is our business. The cops have no right to torture us like this."
But the moral police feel it is important to maintain the sanctity at public places and couples must not make their relationship look disgraceful.
"We understand that rooms at hotels and lodges are costly, but we don`t feel happy about catching semi-naked couples exploiting public places. There is a time and place to do certain things, and roads are not that place," said Kumar.