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A Touch of Silver
Twenty-five years is a healthy stretch measured against a human lifespan. It marks the horizon line of accurate memory. It is the rough demarcator between assured fact and the amended recollection of experience. Consider for a moment who you were and what you were doing in the Spring of 1985. If you have children, perhaps they were quite young, or perhaps you yourself were quite young – or at least quite a bit younger, or perhaps you yourself were not yet even on the scene.
A few historical facts to help re-create the world of 1985: Amadeus won the academy award for best picture and We Are The World was the major musical event. Calvin and Hobbes made its debut in the papers. Politically, of course it was the midpoint of the Reagan era. The Unibomber was making news and explorers had located the wreck of the Titanic. The technologically hip could purchase a new Amiga personal computer, play an electronic game called Tetris , and begin an ongoing relationship with Microsoft by installing the just-released Windows 1.0.
Another thing that was going on in the spring of 1985 was a furious spate of organizing and planning going on in the fertile mind of one Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer. A well-respected clinical psychologist and U.C. Berkeley professor, Lisby was also the musical protégé of Jack Langstaff, founder of The Revels.
For fourteen years, the Revels had been playing in Cambridge, MA, and by 1985, was beginning to branch out into a few other cities. “Why not perform in the Bay Area?” reasoned Lisby, and with characteristic determination, she began to assemble the people and resources necessary to realize her dream.
That first year, Jack directed a production of songs and dances, loosely arrayed around a medieval theme, which came to be the standard show used to introduce Revels to new cities (we reprised it here as our twentieth anniversary production in 2005). It was performed at the music hall of Mills College and generated an audience response that emboldened Lisby and her colleagues to try it again. And again. And again.
Twenty-four “agains” later, California Revels is entering its Silver Anniversary Season. With this December’s Christmas Revels – our twenty-fifth - we will have completed a quarter century of celebrating the power of music and community. Not only have we reliably brought back the joy of the annual Winter Solstice Celebration year after year, but we have extended the magic of folk ritual and traditional celebration to the other seasons as well.
This landmark year, in addition to our usual observances of May Day, The Summer Solstice and numerous festivals and street fairs, we have several 25th Anniversary special events planned.
- The annual Summer Solstice Gala, slated for June 20th at the Snow Building of the Oakland Zoo, has become a popular tradition with feasting, singing, dancing the Helston Furry, and the Deer Creek Morris dancing the sun down on the longest day of the year. Because this is such a significant anniversary, this year’s Gala will feature a retrospective of music and dance from various shows and traditions spanning our quarter century of performing in Oakland. This event always sells out, but we’ll let you know as soon as tickets are available.
- Labor Day marks the end of the summer vacation season and signals the start of the school year, but this year, Labor Day, September 6th also coincides with another important observance. It is Wakes Monday, the day on which the Deer Dancers of Abbots Bromley, England make their traditional rounds.
Accordingly, California Revels is planning to host the first ever Abbots Bromliad. We plan to make history as dance teams from all over join us in a festive celebration, culminating in the largest group performance of the Antler Dance ever attempted. There will be picnicking, singing, dancing and games in this free-to-the-public event. Watch for more details in this newsletter.
- If you’ve been counting, you know that approximately 1750 performers have graced the stage of the Christmas Revels over our twenty-five years. This Fall, we are planning a reunion pot-luck cast party backstage at the Scottish Rite Theatre to bring the Revels chorus family back together and celebrate their accomplishments. If you’ve appeared in a Revels at some point in our history, expect to hear from us about this one. Lots of memories and memorabilia will be shared.
And speaking of memories, we’ll be recounting some of the stories and legends surrounding the California Revels each month in this newsletter. You’ll hear facts and anecdotes, many of them relatively true, as well as the usual banter about Revels paraphernalia and fascinating background information on the Winter show. Stay informed and join us in celebrating twenty-five years of “Creating Community through Celebration”.
- David Parr, Artistic Director


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Sound economic policies and strong institutions have transformed Asia and the Pacific over the past five decades into a center of global dynamism, according to a new book from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The book—Asia’s Journey to Prosperity: Policy, Market, and Technology Over 50 Years—explains the reasons for Asia’s economic success, while cautioning against complacency.
Developing Asia’s share of global gross domestic product (GDP) rose from 4% in 1960 to 24% in 2018. Including Australia, Japan, and New Zealand, the share increased from 13% to 34%. During the same period, developing Asia’s per capita GDP grew 15-fold (in constant 2010 United States dollars), from $330 to $4,903, boosting incomes and lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty.
“In 1966, when ADB was established, developing economies in the Asia and Pacific region were very poor. There was pessimism about prospects for industrialization and broad development. But the region’s performance over the past 50 years has surpassed expectations by any measure—be it economic growth, structural transformation, poverty reduction, or improvement in health and education,” said ADB President Mr. Takehiko Nakao.
The book emphasizes that there is no such thing as a unique “Asian Consensus” in the region’s journey to prosperity. Rather, the policies pursued in Asia can be explained by standard economic theories, not so different from those prescribed by the “Washington Consensus” set of policies. Economic transformation in the region came about in much the same ways as in many developed economies. What was important was that many Asian countries took a pragmatic approach. They implemented import liberalization, opening up of foreign direct investment, financial sector deregulation, and capital account liberalization in a sequential way and based on meeting certain conditions.
In the past half century, many Asian countries enjoyed a “demographic dividend” and benefited from rapid technological progress, globalization, and the generally open trade and investment regimes of developed countries. However, even with favorable demographic and external conditions, the process of economic growth is not automatic.
Asia’s postwar economic success owed much to creating effective policies and strong institutions. It was supported by governments’ pragmatism in making policy choices, decisiveness in introducing reforms, and an ability to learn from their own and other’s achievements and mistakes. In many countries, a clear vision for the future, which is often championed by forward-looking leaders and shared across a wide spectrum of social groups, contributed to broad-based growth and made a difference, especially when backed by a competent bureaucracy.
Over time, Asian economies adopted open trade and investment policies; facilitated agricultural modernization and industrial transformation; supported technological progress; invested in education and health; mobilized the high level of domestic savings for productive investments; promoted infrastructure development; pursued sound macroeconomic policies; and implemented policies for poverty reduction and inclusiveness.
The book notes that Asia should not be complacent and that it is too early to describe the 21st century as the “Asian Century”. Developing Asia still faces pockets of persistent poverty, increasing income inequality, large gender gaps, environmental degradation, and climate change. Millions still lack adequate access to health, education, electricity, and safe drinking water. Mr. Nakao also pointed out that it will take more time for Asia to become as influential as the West has been over the last five centuries. Asia must continue to make efforts to strengthen its institutions, contribute to the development of science and technology, assume more responsibilities in tackling global issues, and articulate its own ideas.
The book was produced by a diverse ADB team, led by the management group of the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department and the President himself, over 3 years. It provides a broad historical overview of rapid transformation in all ADB’s 46 developing economies, beyond the newly industrialized economies and several Southeast Asian countries discussed by the well-known 1993 World Bank publication, The East Asian Miracle. It considers a longer time horizon from the immediate postwar period to the present, capturing the transition from centrally planned systems to market-oriented economies. In writing, the team tried to make the book as interesting as possible by including anecdotes, data, and country examples.
The book consists of 15 chapters: (i) an overview of 50 years of development; (ii) the roles of markets and the state; (iii) industrial transformation; (iv) land reform and green revolution; (v) technological progress; (vi) education, health and demographics; (vii) investment and saving; (viii) infrastructure (energy, transport, water, and telecommunication); (ix) trade and foreign direct investment; (x) macroeconomic policies; (xi) poverty reduction and income equality; (xii) gender and development; (xiii) environmental sustainability and climate change; (xiv) multilateral and bilateral development finance; and (xv) regional cooperation. Several chapters benefit from contributions by staff engaged in ADB operations.
Amidst Strong Economic Rebound in Russia, Risks Stemming from COVID-19 and Inflation
Following a strong economic rebound in 2021, with 4.3 percent growth, Russia’s growth is expected to slow in 2022 and 2023, with a forecast of 2.4 percent and 1.8 percent growth, respectively, according to the World Bank’s latest Regular Economic Report for Russia (#46 in the series).
The Russian economy has now recovered to above its pre-pandemic peak, with growth driven by a strong rebound in consumer demand. In 2022, growth will be supported by continued strength in commodity markets, but will likely also be hampered by COVID-19 control measures and tighter interest rates.
Household consumption in the second quarter increased to more than 9 percent on the previous quarter (seasonally adjusted), showing the fastest rate of growth in a decade. Labor markets also saw a substantial upswing, with unemployment falling to a four-year low and real wages growing.
Russia’s current account surplus has also been exceptionally strong, on the back of high commodity prices and low levels of outbound tourism. The federal budget has been consolidated, led by a strong growth in revenue, and is on track to meet the authorities’ target of meeting the fiscal rule next year.
“This surge in spending resulted from the release of pent-up demand created by pandemic restrictions,” said David Knight, Lead Economist and Program Leader, World Bank. “It was aided by increased credit, Russian tourists staying at home for the holidays this year, and resource inflows via the energy sector.”
The report assesses the short-term risks weighing on Russia’s growth and finds that low vaccination rates are necessitating stricter COVID-19 control measures that may reduce economic activity, while more persistent inflation will likely call for tighter interest rates for a longer period, limiting the growth outlook.
The report also analyzes how Russia could be impacted by global economic growth under three different green transition scenarios, and suggests that domestic climate action can help mitigate some of the possible impacts of a global green transition and create new opportunities for Russia.
The country’s new low-carbon development strategy, which aims for a 70 percent reduction in net emissions by 2050 and net carbon neutrality by 2060, will become an important first step for Russia. A focus on enabling the transition to a more diversified and faster growing economy will call for strengthening of a broad range of assets including human capital, knowledge, and world-class market institutions.
“Environmental sustainability is becoming central to the global economic agenda. Increased commitments by countries and firms to carbon neutrality signal that wholesale changes to policy frameworks will be needed in the coming years,” said Renaud Seligmann, World Bank Country Director for Russia. “With Russia’s pledge to become carbon neutral by 2060, the country now needs to take concrete actions of moving towards decarbonization.”
To accomplish these goals, the report recommends the implementation of carbon pricing and the consolidation of energy subsidies for consumers in Russia. At the same time, measures should be taken to ensure people are protected from the costs and any adverse impacts of the transition.
The report estimates that consumer energy subsidies on electricity, gas and petroleum in Russia amounted to 1.4 percent of the country’s GDP in 2019. By redeploying these resources, the authorities could increase GDP and ensure that no consumers are left worse off. At the same time, this would help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and move Russia closer to its goal of a green and sustainable economy.
World trade reaches all-time high, but 2022 outlook ‘uncertain’
Global trade is expected to be worth about $28 trillion this year – an increase of 23 per cent compared with 2020 – but the outlook for 2022 remains very uncertain, UN economists said on Tuesday.
This strong growth in demand – for goods, as opposed to services – is largely the result of pandemic restrictions easing, but also from economic stimulus packages and sharp increases in the price of raw materials.
According to UN trade and development body UNCTAD, although worldwide commerce stabilized during the second half of 2021, trade in goods went on to reach record levels between July and September.
Services still sluggish
In line with this overall increase, the services sector picked up too, but it has remained below 2019 levels.
From a regional perspective, trade growth remained uneven for the first half of the year, but it had a “broader” reach in the three months that followed, UNCTAD’s Global Trade update said.
Trade flows continued to increase more strongly for developing countries in comparison to developed economies overall in the third quarter of the year, moreover.
The report valued the global goods trade at $5.6 trillion in the third quarter of this year, which is a new all-time record, while services stood at about $1.5 trillion.
For the remainder of this year, UNCTAD has forecast slower growth for the trade in goods but “a more positive trend for services”, albeit from a lower starting point.
Among the factors contributing to uncertainty about next year, UNCTAD cited China’s “below expectations” growth in the third quarter of 2021.
“Lower-than-expected economic growth rates are generally reflected in more downcast global trade trends,” UNCTAD noted, while also pointing to inflationary pressures” that may also negatively impact national economies and international trade flows.
The UN body’s global trade outlook also noted that “many economies, including those in the European Union”, continue to face COVID-19-related disruption which may affect consumer demand in 2022.
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In addition to the “large and unpredictable swings in demand” that have characterized 2021, high fuel prices have also caused shipping costs to spiral and contributed to supply shortages.
This has contributed to backlogs across major supply chains that could continue into next year and could even “reshape trade flows across the world”, UNCTAD cautioned.
Geopolitical factors may also play a role in this change, as regional trade within Africa and within the Asia-Pacific area increases on the one hand, “diverting trade away from other routes”.
Similarly, efforts towards a more socially and environmentally sustainable economy may also affect international trade, by disincentivizing high carbon products.
The need to protect countries’ own strategic interests and weaknesses in specific sectors could also influence trade in 2022, UNCTAD noted, amid a shortage of microprocessors called semiconductors that “has already disrupted many industries, notably the automotive sector”.
“Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the semiconductor industry has been facing headwind due to unanticipated surges in demand and persisting supply constraints…If persistent, this shortage could continue to negatively affect production and trade in many manufacturing sectors.”
Small Businesses Adapting to Rapidly Changing Economic Landscape
The World Economic Forum has long been at the forefront of recognizing the strategic importance of sustainable value creation objectives for business. While interest has mostly focused on how large corporations contribute to the global economy and sustainable development objectives, small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) are often overlooked as major drivers of economic activity, as well as social and environmental progress around the world.
A new report released today finds factors that previously disadvantaged SMEs can lead them to new opportunities. Nine case studies from multiple industries and regions highlight what SMEs can do to increase their future readiness.
Developed in collaboration with the National University of Singapore Business School, the University of Cambridge Judge Business School and Entrepreneurs’ Organization, the report also finds that SMEs are lagging behind in terms of societal impact. Although there is a clear need to operate in line with sustainability goals, many SMEs have yet to include explicit strategies and performance measurement centred on societal impact.
The top challenges cited by SME executives include talent acquisition and retention (for 52.5% respondents), survival and expansion (43.8%), funding and access to capital (35.7%), non-supportive policy environment (21%), the difficulty of maintaining a strong culture and clear company purpose and value (20%).
SMEs can leverage their size, networks, people and the strengths of technology to support their goals of sustainable growth, positive societal impact and robust adaptive capacity. While it is essential for SMEs and the wider economy to increase their future readiness, they can thrive only insofar as the necessary supporting infrastructure and regulatory frameworks exist.
“We hope this will inspire and encourage SMEs and mid-sized companies to harness their potential in becoming a major driver of sustainable and inclusive economic growth and innovation by focusing on several core dimensions of future readiness,” said Børge Brende, President, World Economic Forum.
“Through this report, the Forum aims to highlight the significant role SMEs can play not just locally but also globally. The New Champions Community is a step towards bringing these smaller companies into the forefront of global discourse around socioeconomic development and engaging them in a community of forward-thinking companies from across the world,” said Stephan Mergenthaler, Head of Strategic Intelligence and Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum.
The report aims to develop a deeper understanding of organizational capabilities and orientations needed for SMEs to successfully generate lasting financial growth, affect society and the environment positively, and develop high levels of resilience and agility.
It relies on robust research methods and combines rigorous primary and secondary research. The takeaways and conclusions presented in the research have been derived from an analysis of over 200 peer-reviewed articles and engagement of more than 300 CEOs and founders of SMEs through surveys and in-depth interviews.
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A significant part of the medical staff sick COVID-19, many quit, and to treat people nothing.
“Today was the doctors in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the hospital, examined the head of one of the branches, which came from bilateral pneumonia and test positive for COVID-19. While lacking conventional oxygen therapy, but it seems that it is long,” writes Korsunov.
He notes that, apart from this head, “COVID-19 hurt another officer, Deputy Director on medical part, head of WIT, three anesthesiologists and a bunch of doctors, nurses, Junior staff”.
According to Professor Korsunova, “hospital month in a row uploaded by 100% or more, but no other hospital is the second by population city of Ukraine does not accept patients with suspected COVID-19”.
All this has led to the fact that, according to Korsunov, “employees quit every day, and the atmosphere in the hospital on the verge of explosion.”
He also commented on the information about the fact that all hospitals are fully provided with everything necessary for the treatment of patients with coronavirus, “by the Way that everything is provided and everything is there, but corrupt doctors direct relatives in the laboratories and the pharmacy Director hospital buys drugs at their own expense, and on medication for the head office, which is now in ICU, raise funds throughout the hospital. That’s the life indeed”.


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Mentorship: Choreography and Performance
Karen generously invited me to come to one of her rehearsals with San Francisco Bouffon clown Nathaniel Justiniano. The two were paired to make and perform a piece together in two weeks for the wildly popular Brief Encounters. I came in a couple rehearsals in.
First of all, I notice how different the two artists practices are to one another, and what ripe artistic landscape this creates. The contrast opens up some intriguing and sometimes heated discussion between the two prolific artists.
Nathaniel notes that it's not a good idea to break down comedy. It's more about the depth of conviction of the performer that makes something funny. He also notes that the willingness to be laughed AT is a real vulnerability and that is a large component of Bouffon. I remember my own experience with Bouffon years ago at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre fondly, but remember how raw and taboo it felt. I ate it up. To me, it makes a sacred practice of scraping away the reverence out of the unspeakable things in life and exposes grotesque realities.
Karen and Nathaniel do a run of the piece. It's funny, the kind of awkward humour that I enjoy. At times I cannot tell if they are really sparring through the performance dialogue or if it is planned choreography, and I love that I am put in that middle ground. It feels real. Is the awkwardness created or does it truly exist between them, right now? This questioning allows me to stay completely present because I am looking for answers actively. It's uncomfortable in the best way.
I notice the organicity of the transitions. They are made without me noticing them.
Nathaniel later describes himself as a fun house mirror of Karen, that he doesn't exist without her. He expresses that the more Bouffon that she becomes the less he exists. Karen expresses that she gets sucked into and back out of Bouffon.
They have some disagreements about certain sections, and discuss personal boundaries. Boundaries are so different across practices, and though this becomes an issue for a short time in the room, as an outside eye, I feel it is part of what makes duet magic between the two.
I leave with my own questions about mining material in creative space. How can artistic content and research infect the self and deepen it? How can you emerge out of it with gold and not let it paralyze you? These questions come up for me specifically, as I have often experienced it is those tough spots that can yield to vulnerability that when exposed can lead to performative access points that the audience can hold on to.

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NEWHAVEN MP Norman Baker has publicly said he will boycott the official opening of the incinerator - and is urging other elected representatives to do the same.
The unpopular energy from waste facility, which now dominates part of the Ouse Valley just outside Newhaven, is being opened on July 4.
The Liberal Democrat MP is calling on MEPs and county, district and town councillors to join him in snubbing the ceremony.
Mr Baker said: “I have absolutely no wish to attend this poisonous event.
“This gigantic intrusion into the landscape was forced on the town against the wishes of virtually all its residents by the Tory county council.
“It has damaged the landscape and sent out a message that Newhaven is simply a convenient dumping ground for the rest of the county. There is nothing to celebrate.”
Mr Baker continued: “What is even more shocking has been the complete failure of the county council to negotiate any benefits for the people of Newhaven by way of planning gain.
“Any half-decent council would have secured millions in compensation, or the rerouting of heat generated to provide cheap district heating for the town.
“Instead, all we have are a few pathetic trees which would struggle to hide the sign to the incinerator, let alone the monstrous building itself.
“I would have hoped that Veolia, having been completely let off the hook by the council, would have had the decency to put their hand in their pocket and come up with a decent sum.
“If the company wants to be part of the town as it says it does, it needs to realise it owes Newhaven big time. Until it does, the incinerator will remain an alien intrusion in the landscape.”


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2 19.1 Looking for LifeAstrobiology is the study of life’s origins and distribution – astrobiologists study Earth’s extreme habitats to determine the range of conditions living things can tolerateLife on Earth is protected by the ozone layer, which serves as a natural sunscreen, preventing most UV radiation from reaching the planet’s surfaceLife can adapt to nearly any environment with sources of carbon and energy – including extreme temperatures, pH, salinity, or pressure
3 Lessons from Chile’s Atacama Desert Figure 19.1 The Mars-like landscape of Chile’s Atacama Desert. Scientist Jay Quade, visible in the distance at the right, was a member of a team that found bacteria living beneath this arid desert soil.
4 19.2 The Early EarthKnowledge of modern chemistry and physics are the basis for scientific hypotheses about early events in Earth’s history
5 Origin of the Universe and Our Solar System Big bang theoryThe universe began in an instant, 13-5 billion years agoAll existing matter and energy suddenly appeared and exploded outward from a single pointThe universe is still expandingEarth formed from dust and debris orbiting the sun, about 4.6 billion years ago
6 Formation of the EarthFigure 19.2 Artist’s depiction of our sun surrounded by a cloud of dust, debris, and gases. Earth and other planets formed from the material in this cloud.
7 Conditions on the Early Earth Earth’s early atmosphere came from gas released by volcanoes, and was low in oxygenRain washed minerals and salts out of rocks to form early seas
8 ANIMATION: Origin of organelles To play movie you must be in Slide Show ModePC Users: Please wait for content to load, then click to playMac Users: CLICK HERE
9 Early EarthFigure 19.3 An artist’s depiction of early Earth.
10 Take-Home Message: What were conditions like on the early Earth? Earth’s early atmosphere had little or no oxygenMeteorites pummeled the planet’s surface, and volcanic activity was more common than it is today
11 19.3 Formation of Organic Monomers All living things are made from the same organic subunits: amino acids, fatty acids, nucleotides, and simple sugarsSmall organic molecules that serve as building blocks of life can be formed by nonliving mechanisms
12 Possible Sources of Life’s First Building Blocks Stanley Miller showed that amino acids form in conditions that simulate lightning in the atmosphere of early EarthWächtershäuser and Huber synthesized amino acids in a simulated hydrothermal vent environmentAmino acids, sugars, and nucleotide bases may have formed in interstellar clouds and been carried to Earth on meteorites
13 water containing organic compounds electrodesto vacuum pumpspark dischargeCH4 NH3 H2O H2gaseswater outcondenserwater inwater dropletswater containing organic compoundsboiling waterliquid water in trapFigure 19-4 p31113
14 A Hydrothermal Vent on the Seafloor Figure 19.5 A hydrothermal vent on the seafloor. Mineral-rich water heated by geothermal energy streams out, into cold ocean water. As the water cools, dissolved minerals come out of solution and form a chimney-like structure around the vent.
15 Take-Home Message: What was the source of organic molecules to build the first life? Small organic molecules that serve as the building blocks for living things can be formed by nonliving mechanisms.For example, amino acids form in reaction chambers that simulate conditions on the early Earth, and are present in some meteorites
16 ANIMATED FIGURE: Miller's reaction chamber experiment To play movie you must be in Slide Show ModePC Users: Please wait for content to load, then click to playMac Users: CLICK HERE
17 19.4 From Polymers to Protocells We will never know for sure how the first cells came to be, but we can investigate the possible steps on the road to life
18 Properties of CellsAll living cells carry out metabolic reactions, are enclosed within a plasma membrane, and can replicate themselvesCells have a genome of DNA that enzymes transcribe into RNA, and ribosomes that translate RNA into proteinsStudies support the hypothesis that cells arose from a stepwise process that began with inorganic materials
19 …self-assemble on Earth and in space inorganic molecules…self-assemble on Earth and in spaceorganic monomers…self-assemble in aquatic environments on Earthorganic polymers…interact in early metabolism…self-assemble as vesicles…become the first genomeprotocells in an RNA world…are subject to selection that favors a DNA genomeDNA-based cellsFigure 19-6 p31219
20 Origin of MetabolismBefore cells, nonbiological process that concentrate organic subunits might increase the chance of polymer formationConcentration of molecules on clay particles in tidal flats may have caused organic subunits to bond as polymersThe iron–sulfur world hypothesis holds that the first metabolic reactions began on the surface of rocks around hydrothermal vents
21 Origin of the GenomeAn RNA-based system of inheritance may have preceded DNA-based systemsRNA world hypothesisRNA may have stored genetic information and functioned like an enzyme in protein synthesisRNAs that function as enzymes (ribozymes) are common in living cells today
22 Origin of the Plasma Membrane The cell’s plasma membrane allows organic molecules to concentrate and undergo reactionsMembranous sacs (protocells) containing interacting organic molecules may have formed prior to the earliest life formsIn experiments, small organic molecules can react with minerals and seawater to form vesicles with a bilayer membrane
23 Laboratory-Produced Protocells A Illustration of a laboratory-producedprotocell with a bilayer membrane of fattyacids and strands of RNA inside.B Laboratory-formed protocell consistingof RNA-coated clay (red) surrounded byfatty acids and alcohols.
24 Testing a HypothesisC Field-testing a hypothesis about protocell formation.David Deamer pours a mix of small organic moleculesand phosphates into a hot acidic pool in Russia.
25 Take-Home Message: What do experiments reveal about steps that led to the first cells? All living cells carry out metabolic reactions, are enclosed within a plasma membrane, and can replicate themselvesMetabolic reactions may have begun when molecules became concentrated on clay particles or in tiny rock chambers near hydrothermal ventsRNA can serve as an enzyme, as well as a genome. An RNA world may have preceded evolution of DNA-based genomesVesicle-like structures with outer membranes form spontaneously when certain organic molecules are mixed with water
26 19.5 Life’s Early Evolution Fossils and molecular comparisons among modern organisms inform us about the early history of life
27 Origin of Bacteria and Archaea Life that arose 3-4 billion years ago was probably anaerobic and used dissolved carbon dioxide as a carbon sourceEarly fossil cells are similar in size and structure to modern archaea and bacteriaThe first photosynthetic cells were bacteria that used the cyclic pathway (does not produce O2)
28 Fossil Prokaryotic Cells A Possible cells from 3.5 billion years ago.B Two types of cyanobacteria from 850 million years ago.
29 The Proterozoic EraThe oxygen-producing, non-cyclic pathway of photosynthesis first evolved in cyanobacteriaIn the Proterozoic era Layers of photosynthetic bacteria formed large dome-shaped, layered called stromatolitesOxygen accumulation in air and seas halted spontaneous formation of molecules of life, formed a protective ozone layer, and spurred evolution of organisms using aerobic respiration
30 StromatolitesC Artist’s depiction of stromatolites. The surface of each stromatolite consists of amat of living photosynthetic bacteria. Beneath it are layers of earlier generations ofbacteria that trapped sediment and precipitated minerals. The inset photo showsthe layered structure of a fossil stromatolite.
31 The Rise of EukaryotesThe earliest evidence of eukaryotes is lipids in 2.7-billion-year-old rocks – the lipids are biomarkers for eukaryotesA red alga that lived 1.2 billion years ago is the oldest species known to reproduce sexually, a trait unique to eukaryotesMulticellularity and cellular differentiation allowed evolution of larger bodies with specialized partsSpongelike animals evolved about 870 million year ago; animals with more complex bodies existed about 570 mya
32 Fossils of Some Early Eukaryotes A Grypania spiralis; 2.1 billion years agoB Tawuia; 1.6 billion years agoC Bangiomorpha pubescens; 1.2 billion years ago
33 Take-Home Message: What was early life like and how did it change Earth? Life arose by 3–4 billion years ago; it was probably anaerobic and did not have a nucleusAn early divergence separated ancestors of modern bacteria from the lineage that lead to archaea and eukaryotic cellsThe first photosynthetic cells were bacteria that used the cyclic pathway; later, the oxygen-producing, noncyclic pathway evolved in cyanobacteriaOxygen accumulation in air and seas halted spontaneous formation of the molecules of life, formed a protective ozone layer, and favored organisms that carried out the highly efficient pathway of aerobic respiration
34 19.6 How Did Eukaryotic Traits Evolve? Eukaryotic cells have a composite ancestry, with different components derived from different lineagesArchaea-like nuclear genes govern genetic processes (DNA replication, transcription, translation)Bacteria-like nuclear genes govern metabolism and membrane formation
35 Origins of Internal Membranes In eukaryotes, DNA resides in a nucleus bordered by a nuclear envelope – a double membrane with pores that control the flow of material into and out of the nucleusA few modern bacteria also have internal membrane-enclosed compartmentsThe nucleus and endomembrane system probably evolved from infoldings of plasma membrane
36 infolding of plasma membrane ERFigure Evolution of internal membranes.A Infoldings of the plasma membrane could have evolved intothe eukaryotic nuclear envelope and endomembrane system.nuclear envelope19-10a p191036
37 Bacteria with Internal Membranes B Bacterium (Nitrosococcus oceani)with highly folded internal membranesvisible across its midline.C Bacterium (Gemmata obscuriglobus)that has DNA enclosed by a two-layermembrane (indicated by the arrow).
38 Evolution of Mitochondria and Chloroplasts The endosymbiont hypothesis holds that mitochondria and chloroplasts descended from bacteria that were prey or parasites of early eukaryotic cellsMitochondria are genetically similar to aerobic bacteria called rickettsias; chloroplasts are similar to photosynthetic bacteria called cyanobacteria
40 Evidence of Endosymbiosis Endosymbiosis can occur when a bacterium infects a eukaryotic cellEventually, host and symbiont become incapable of living independentlyExample: The photosynthetic organelles of glaucophytes are dependent on their host – they can’t survive on their own
41 photosynthetic organelle that resembles a cyanobacterium Figure Cyanophora paradoxa, a glaucophyte protist with large photosynthetic organelles that make the bacterial protein peptidoglycan.Figure 19-12a p317
42 photosynthetic organelle that resembles a cyanobacterium Figure Cyanophora paradoxa, a glaucophyte protist with large photosynthetic organelles that make the bacterial protein peptidoglycan.Figure 19-12b p317
43 Take-Home Message: How might eukaryotic organelles have evolved? A nucleus and other organelles are defining features of eukaryotic cellsThe nucleus and ER may have arisen through modification of infoldings of the plasma membraneMitochondria and chloroplasts most likely descended from bacteria

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Founded in the capital’s Old Town and exuding its unique artistic spirit, the hotel Artagonist entered the top 10 per cent best and most-liked hotels in the world, global travel recommendation portal TripAdvisor announced this week.
“In the hotel, we seek to embody the unique spirit of Vilnius and its Old Town. Our visitors are surprised and amazed not only by our exceptional architecture and abundance of art and culture, but also the atmosphere of the city, which you cannot put into words. We also reflect all of this in our activities – from the interior to our service, our attitude to work and to our clients,” says Vilius Vaičekauskas, the director of the Darnu Group hotel group.
TripAdvisor compiled its list of the best hotels based on evaluations and responses from the past year that visitors left regarding the hotels they visited. In consideration of these criteria, one of the largest Lithuanian living, work, and recreation space-creators Darnu Group’s Artagonist hotel was announced one of the global Travellers’ Choice award winners.
The Travellers’ Choice awards annually evaluate not only the best hotels across the world, but also the best travel directions, experiences, restaurants, beaches, airlines, and other aspects of importance for a high-quality trip.
Awards for both design and hospitality
This award is not the first that the exclusive Artagonist hotel, located in Vilnius’ Pilies Street, has received over its recent years of operation. It has previously received awards for its design and hospitality.
In 2018, during the international hotel awards held in Ukraine, where more than three hundred of Europe’s well-known hotels competed, Artagonist earned the main prize for design solutions. That same year, in a special awards ceremony, the Vilnius city municipality awarded the title of most hospitable accommodation company in Vilnius to Artagonist.
Artwork created especially for the hotel was created by sixteen Lithuanian artists. Rooms are decorated with textiles, painting, wall graphics works, frescoes and sculptural installations, and the artwork surrounds hotel guests not only in their rooms, but also in the hotel’s common areas.
In 2017, it was announced that TripAdvisor recognised Artagonist as the best-rated hotel by visitors in all of Vilnius.


Los Angeles, March 26 (IANS) Jessica Alba says acting is like a “vacation”.
The 33-year-old, who has daughters Honor, six, and three-year-old Haven with husband Cash Warren, insists working on a movie is a much more “easy” job than her day-to-day dealings with her eco-friendly brand The Honest Company, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
“Acting is totally the easy job. It’s like vacation! It’s also something I have been doing for so long,” ELLE magazine quoted Alba as saying.
“It’s difficult because you have to be open and vulnerable and in the moment. It’s hard for me to be in a mental state to do all of that sometimes, but it’s much more the creative side of the brain.
“That’s tough for a lot of people and it’s tough for me… My day-to-day stress is running my business and knowing I am part of a bigger movement with my company,” she added.
The 33-year-old actress feels a lot more “pressure” in her business, but she is willing to work hard at it to make her family proud.
“We have a lot of employees who rely on us and lots of customers to deliver this quality product to. I do feel that pressure and I also want my kids and husband and family to be proud of me. It’s a completely different business,” she said.


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Thousands are returning to homes and surveying damage in central Pennsylvania after the flooding triggered by Hurricane Lee. Some of them are wondering if the damage they are facing now was made worse by the mitigation efforts that followed previous generations' floods and storms. What if the levees that saved some cities created the floods that have now inundated neighboring towns?
That's the verdict from some small towns in today's Philadelphia Inquirer.
After the Wyoming Valley levee was raised an additional three to five feet in 2003, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said the modified levee would protect from an Agnes-level flood, estimated to be a once every 345-year event. Friday morning the Susquehanna River in Wilkes-Barre crested at 42.66 feet, about 1.5 feet higher than Agnes.
How could a 345-year flood happen twice in a half century?
Part of the answer may be sprawl and development in outlying areas that drain into the Susquehanna River. Wetlands and forests act as a sponge, soaking up and consuming water. Every rooftop, roadway, driveway, parking lot and piece of concrete robs the land beneath it from its absorbency. Rather than being retained in the ground, the runoff water is swiftly carried to gorged rivers and streams.
But Konrad said he's not sure if development made a difference in Northeastern Pennsylvania's recent flooding. While homes, roads and patios make the ground underneath impervious to water, saturated ground can be just as impervious. For that reason, development is more likely to promote flash flooding.
"We know development exacerbates flooding, but it tends to be greater on small events that normally wouldn't cause flooding," he said. "When the ground is already saturated and has no storage capacity, its acts as though it is impervious, so development doesn't make a difference."
So the problem may be levee building, and the often unsuccessful efforts of humans to guide a river's course. (Just ask those who would presume to steer the Big Muddy.) But it may also be how society has been building on land, with little regard to the way all that hard surface would respond to something inevitable: a hard rain.

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Multichannel News magazine reports that the History Channel will air the documentary "Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed" on May 28 at 9 PM. But it has some unconventional movie pundits.
Eric J. Smith felt "History should be applauded for the diverse group of commentators it has drawn together. Politicians Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich give their opinions alongside journalists Linda Ellerbee, Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather. And their voices are joined by intellectuals like Camille Paglia and Mary Henderson (author of Star Wars: The Magic of Myth), directors Peter Jackson and Kevin Smith and comedian Stephen Colbert."
Jonathan Last notes there's also Iranian commentary on the last installment of the series.
Bill Maher, host of HBO's "Real Time", tore into Jerry Falwell on the May 18 edition of his show, saying, with a photo of Falwell in the background, such things as, “... death isn’t always sad." The worst comments from Maher came from his argument for turning homosexuality into a religion, with references to the Mass as gay oral sex and reception of Holy Communion as gay oral sex. Here is the clip. WARNING: the material is very offensive.
On the May 21 edition of "The View," co-host Rosie O’Donnell responded to the fall out from her moral equivalency rant on Thursday. Rosie claims some cable news outlets "twisted" her words, and then got personal with token non-liberal Elisabeth Hasselbeck, calling her critics the "crappy shows" that "Elisabeth watches."
"But I didn't say it. You know who said it? Those crappy cable shows said it. The ones Elisabeth watches. Those shows."
Hasselbeck harshly reacted to those comments and it prompted Rosie to personally attack her more.
HASSELBECK: I watch all cable news, number one. I watch all of the, because that's part of my job and as an American citizen I try to broaden as many concepts as possible by watching all those news programs, okay. I do, obviously, like, like certain shows. I'll throw them out if you want me to. Like "Hannity and Colmes," they're one of my favorites, because they hold debates [applause] They hold debates on that show and I think that is, that is like what we do here only, you know, we have four women. And I think it's special here. But to say that, you know, someone can't hold two thoughts at the same time just because I believe in terrorism when there are Democrats out there running for office who don’t want to believe in terrorism and they want to treat it like the boogeyman. How are they going to protect us from something--
Regardless of the answer, one of soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore’s primary sycophants, Laurie David, actually wrote an article for the Huffington Post Sunday tying the devastation to this small town to climate change and green principles.
I kid you not.
In a piece entitled “Putting the Green in Greensburg,” David sickeningly used a natural disaster to further her goal of destroying the American economy in the name of protecting the environment (emphasis added throughout, h/t NBer Sick-n-Tired):
On Monday’s "Good Morning America," the ABC program extended its habit of offering copious amounts of time to Democratic political contenders. GMA devoted 10 and a half minutes of coverage to promote former Vice President Al Gore and his new book, "The Assault on Reason."
This is the same network that, in March, featured 30 minutes of softball questions with Senator Hillary Clinton in a "town hall" style meeting, a campaign gift that the network has yet to offer to a Republican presidential candidate.
The May 21 segment contained an odd disconnect as Gore proceeded to accuse the media of focusing on unserious, silly subjects and Diane Sawyer mostly accepted, or did not disagree with criticism of the medium. The ABC host prefaced a question about the former Vice President losing weight by saying, "But to dig not-very deep, once again, at my peril here-" Gore proceeded to interrupt and hector Ms. Sawyer over wondering about such things. "Well, listen to you. Listen to you," Gore began.He continued:
The Today show’s very belated attack on Rush Limbaugh on Monday, complete with Hillary’s minions comparing the hilarious Al Sharpton parody to a "minstrel show" (complete with blackface film clip), reminds me: how did NBC cover the last blackface controversy? That would be leftist blogger Jane Hamsher Photo-shopping Joe Lieberman in blackface on The Huffington Post last August 2 as she claimed he was an "integral part of the GOP’s bully machine for the last six years."
NBC didn’t. A Nexis search for terms like "minstrel show" and "blackface" found no mention of the blogger who stepped over the line. On the August 6 edition of Meet the Press, in a segment featuring Lanny Davis for Lieberman and Jim (brother of Howard) Dean for Ned Lamont, host Tim Russert ended with a very weak tip to the bloggers in that race:
As Al Gore and his band of not so merry global warming alarmists in buses and in the press try to convince Americans that they need to alter behaviors in order to save the planet, an inconvenient truth is being cynically withheld: this is going to cost a lot of money.
Of course, one of the delicious hypocrisies is that these are the same people who decry the current economic boom as only helping the rich, and state regularly and fervently that the poor and middle-class are being left behind.
At the same time, such mid- to lower-level wage earners should be saddled with exorbitant additional expenses to shelter them from a wolf that might never come knocking at their doors.
Makes sense, right?
With that in mind, the Chicago Tribune’s Laurie Goering wrote a fabulous piece recently exposing some of the potential costs of this exercise that most media don’t want you to know (emphasis added throughout, h/t Benny Peiser):
In a failed attempt by the New York Times to provide some balance to its shoddy pro-prosecution coverage of the Duke lacrosse "rape" hoax, Sunday's Sports section featured sports reporter Pete Thamel's profile of the reinvigorated 2007 Duke lacrosse team, which that morning was on the verge of making it to lacrosse's "Final Four" (Duke advanced, winning the day's match against instate rival North Carolina).
Yet in "This Time, Spotlight Is Kinder to Duke," Thamel managed to locate ubiquitous popular culture commenter Robert Thompson to make the defensive suggestion that while the Duke players may have been innocent of rape, they may have been guilty of…being college students:
USA Today's "On Deadline" blog this morning picked up on a 5-day old McClatchy Newspapers item that showed Justice Clarence Thomas spoke exactly zero words during Supreme Court oral arguments since February. The original article it referred to seemed to take subtle swipes at the 58-year old George H.W. Bush-appointed jurist.
Mum's the word for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Very, very mum.
reticence to new heights, Thomas zips his lip during the robust
intellectual combat known as the oral argument. While his eight
colleagues joke, thrust, parry and probe, Thomas leans back in silence.
And that's how he stays.
Yet rather than leaving Thomas's silence to his quiet demeanor or personality, Doyle went on to suggest to readers that the taciturn Thomas was not intellectually engaged in his work (emphasis mine):
Trying to stir trouble for Rush Limbaugh this morning over his "Magic Negro" parody about Barack Obama, "Today" relied on misleading comments from a left-wing outfit without bothering to mention its highly-partisan orientation. NewsBuster Noel Sheppard had given readers a heads-up about the story on Saturday.
NBC's Michael Okwu narrated the segment, aired during the second half-hour of this morning's show. He began by harkening back to Don Imus's MSNBC career-ending comments about the Rutger's women's basketball team. Fretted Okwu: "which leads some to wonder: has Limbaugh been getting a free pass?" Okwu described the creator of the parody [Paul Shanklin] as a "white" political satirist.
Friday's CBS Evening News plugged its special on Walter Cronkite with a story, as introduced by Katie Couric, about a "journalist who stood up to the Commander-in-Chief" during a time of "another unpopular war," as Couric was transitioning from a story about the debate over Iraq War funding. Couric was referring to Cronkite's decision in February 1968 to declare on the air that America would have to negotiate without victory to end the Vietnam War.
After correspondent Jim Axelrod filed a report on the latest effort by Congressional Democrats to put conditions on Iraq War funding, which ended with Axelrod opining that President Bush has an incentive to reach a deal soon because of the President's low approval rating over the "unpopular war," Couric drew a comparison to the Vietnam War by introducing the Cronkite piece referring to "another unpopular war." Couric: "And now we want to take you back 40 years to another unpopular war and to a journalist who stood up to the Commander-in-Chief. It was Vietnam, the President was Lyndon Johnson, and that journalist? CBS News correspondent Walter Cronkite." (Transcript follows)
I know. It’s only a cartoon. However, could these folks have been any more obvious about who they support for president?
NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” showed an animated short on May 19 depicting every possible 2008 presidential candidate, from both sides of the aisle, sitting down and having a tell-all chat with Oprah Winfrey.
As the frontrunners one by one told Oprah secrets that would surely cost them votes in the election, one thing became perfectly clear: Hillary Clinton was the only serious candidate that avoided saying anything even remotely embarrassing (video available here, h/t Allah at Hot Air).
By far the biggest target was Rudy Giuliani, Hillary’s main foe, who spoke up a total of ten times (the reader is warned that some of this stuff is pretty raw):
Sometimes you read something by a member of the MSM that is just so elitist, someone whose arrogance is so amazing, that it is hard to believe it was written by a member of a democratic society.
We MSM watchdogs love to poke our fingers in the eyes of the homogeneously leftist elitists in the media establishment assailing them for their pervasive assumptions of their own superiority. We don’t often, however, get to see them come right out and say that they truly do think they are better and smarter then the rest of us mere commoners. Usually they are sly enough not to show their arrogance so obviously, leaving it unsaid but broadly hinted at. But, once in a while their egos get the better of them and they let that upturned nose snort just enough at the rest of us to let us know where our “place” in life is.
Today's funny headline, from The Washington Post: "Bush Is 'the Worst in History' In Foreign Relations, Carter Says." The AP doesn't not seem to see what's funny in these remarks: this clown couldn't manage a hostage rescue in the desert, and he's denouncing this president? The article had no reference to Carter's foreign policy failures as president.
AP reported "The denunciation of a sitting president was unprecedented for Carter, a biographer said." That biographer was Douglas Brinkley, who wrote a very favorable book on Carter's post-presidency years. But the tone doesn't sound all that different from Carter's 2004 speech to the Democrat convention, when he kvetched that all the post-9/11 good will "has been squandered by a virtually unbroken series of mistakes and miscalculations."
Air America, the liberal radio network that launched to great fanfare and media accolades has gone bankrupt, foundered in the ratings and done nothing for its "celebrity" hosts. That hasn't stopped the network from being aborted though:
Air America is scheduling a high-profile lineup of presidential
candidates, political players and celebrities for next week as part of
the liberal talk network's "relaunch" after suffering financial woes.
candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards, along
with luminaries like Robert Redford, Paul Newman and Gloria Steinem,
are among the more than 30 guests scheduled, the network announced
New shows are also being added to the schedule,
featuring famous correspondents and hosts, including Robert F. Kennedy
Jr., Arianna Huffington and Bob Kerrey. The network also redesigned its
Web site, where hosts will regularly blog along with a newly-hired
blogger, Nancy Scola.
Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the
subject of persistent presidential speculation despite his denials of
any interest, was to tape his interview Thursday, facing questions from
a former political foe, Mark Green.
You think the blogosphere is a hostile place? Well, you ain’t seen nuttin’ yet.
Internet Haganah, a global network dedicated to identifying and confronting terrorist activities over the Internet, reported Sunday that a Palestinian forum named al-Ommh was running a rather disgraceful poll.
At issue is whether or not Alan Johnston, the BBC member who was captured in Gaza in March and is still being held by the terrorist group Jaish al-Islam, should be executed (h/t LGF).
The results reported by IH were despicable (emphasis added):
The New York Times explored Hillary Clinton’s service on the Wal-Mart Board of Directors in the Sunday newspaper. Reporter Michael Barbaro employed a typical focus on inoculating liberals against conservative attack: "Her years on the Wal-Mart board, from 1986 to 1992, gave her an unusual tutorial in the ways of American business — a credential that could serve as an antidote to Republican efforts to portray her as an enemy of free markets and an advocate for big government."
Citing a board of directors credential is hardly proof you’re not an advocate of big government. Just think of all the major corporations – including NBC-owning General Electric – that eagerly allied themselves with the Clinton tax and health plans in 1993. Major corporations and big government are often the coziest of allies. Barbaro sinks into the usual template about how this shows how Hillary the Trailblazing Idealist is an odd match for Hillary the Get-Along-to-Go-Along Pragmatist:
Have you noticed that most of the articles you see that are skeptical about man’s role in climate change come from foreign publications based in countries like Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada?
Why do you think that is?
Are the American press too emotionally attached to the issue -- and, in particular, the chief spokesman, soon-to-be-Dr. Al Gore -- to even consider the possibility that the debate isn't over, and that their role as journalists is supposed to be to further discussion rather than squelch it?
While you ponder, an editor for Australia’s The Age, Melanie Griffin, published an absolutely delicious article Sunday slamming the upcoming "Live Earth" concerts about to be thrown in the name of global warming alarmism (emphasis added throughout):


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PARIS — Germany’s year just keeps getting worse.
France handed the struggling Germans a 2-1 defeat in the UEFA Nations League on Tuesday, meaning Die Mannschaft has lost two straight competitive games for the first time since 2000.
It was Germany’s sixth loss overall in 2018, and fourth in its last six competitive games after a group-stage exit at the World Cup.
The latest defeat, which followed a 3-0 humbling against the Netherlands on Saturday, came despite taking an early lead and dominating the first half against the World Cup champion.
Forward Antoine Griezmann helped France rally as he got the better of goalkeeper Manuel Neuer again, scoring both goals for the host at a packed Stade de France.
The result will only increase the pressure on Germany coach Joachim Loew, who guided the team to a World Cup title in 2014, along with three major tournament semifinals, last year’s Confederations Cup win and one other final since 2008.
Midfielder Toni Kroos gave Germany the lead from the penalty spot after 14 minutes and the visitors had chances to go further ahead before Griezmann equalized with a superb header in the 62nd. He showed perfect timing to meet Atletico Madrid teammate Lucas Hernandez’s cross from the left with a glancing header which looped over Neuer’s outstretched hand.
With 10 minutes left, Griezmann coolly put France ahead with a penalty for his 26th international goal. He sent Neuer the wrong way, having also done so in the European Championship semifinals two years ago — when Griezmann also scored twice.
Deschamps acknowledged his side had been outplayed in the first half.
“We struggled to stop them, they went through us,” he said. “Our positioning wasn’t quite what it should have been.”
But France has forwards other countries dream of, includling World Cup star Kylian Mbappe .
His pass picked out midfielder Blaise Matuidi’s run and centre half Mats Hummels was adjudged to have impeded Matuidi, although there was no video review available to the referee and Loew said the penalty should not have been given.
The win moved World Cup winner France top of Group 1 in the top-tier League A with seven points, while Germany is last with one point. The Netherlands can still top the group by beating France and Germany.
Germany and France drew 0-0 in their opening Nations League game.
Coach Joachim Loew tried a more adventurous formation this time, bringing in 23-year-old Serge Gnabry and 22-year-old Leroy Sane — both pacey wingers. With left back Nico Schulz also pushing up regularly, France was completely stretched in the first half.
The opening goal came after France midfielder Paul Pogba lost the ball and Sane’s low cross drew a penalty when it hit the arm of defender Presnel Kimpembe — who again looked vulnerable following a poor performance in a 2-2 draw against Iceland in a friendly last Thursday.
After Kroos slotted his penalty away into the right corner, he could easily have been celebrating another goal in the 20th.
The fact he wasn’t was no fault of his own.
Sane again used his pace to pull clear down the right, but fluffed an easy pass to Kroos, who was totally unmarked near the penalty spot.
Early in the second half, the 19-year-old Mbappe burst away from the sluggish Hummels, but shot instead of dribbling past Neuer and the agile goalie blocked it with his left leg.
Moments later, Schulz found Sane down the left but he skewed his shot wide — which proved the turning point as France took control.
Despite another defeat, Loew felt encouraged.
“We were absolutely on a par with the world champions,” he said. “It was a very good reaction after the Netherlands game.”
France plays the Netherlands in Rotterdam on Nov. 16 and the Germans host the Dutch three days later.

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Colts drop homecoming contest in a shootout
SILVER CITY — There was plenty of excitement at the homecoming contest between Silver High and Clint High on Friday night in Silver City. But, when the fireworks stopped, the visiting Lions held on for a 32-28 win to spoil the homecoming game for the Fighting Colts.
Getting better is something that head coach Raul Diaz has been preaching over and over, and after picking up their first win last week, the Colts played up to par and had some missed opportunities against the undefeated Lions of El Paso, Texas.
After Clint got on the board and led, 7-0, Silver came back to tie the game in the second quarter after Joe Hanson connected with Alex Marquez from eight yards out. The Lions would score right before halftime to take a 13-7 lead into the locker room at halftime. But, the fireworks would begin in the third quarter. Clint would score again and go up, 19-7. On the next drive, Hanson would connect with Steven Cross from 30 yards out to put the game at 19-13. Hanson would give Silver its first lead of the contest as he hooked up again with Cross - this time from 28 yards out - and Silver led, 20-29.
The Colts' defense would hold again and force Clint to punt from deep in its own territory. Silver's special teams would tackle the punter in the endzone and force the safety to increase its lead to 22-19.
Clint finally got going and marched down the field to score a touchdown. The Lions would hold the 26-22 lead. Clint held and again marched down the field to put the ball in the endzone and increase its lead to 32-22. But, the drama unfolded as Silver got the ball and it didn't waste anytime going down the field and finding the endzone. Hanson connected with Marquez to pull Silver within four, at 32-28, after the failed extra point. Silver would then recover an onside kick and get a chance to win the game with a touchdown. The Colts moved the ball but the game would end on a Hanson interception in the endzone and Clint would hang on for the win.
"Our offense has started to put points on the scoreboard," Diaz said. "Our defense has to hold people. In every game we know it's going to be close and we are getting better each week."
The Colts have Chaparral and Ruidoso next before starting District 3-4A play.


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The Arawak Language of Guiana
C.H. de Goeje
The Arawak or Arowak inhabit the costal districts of Surinam and British Guiana; they formerly lives still further East, even as far as the mouth of the Orinoco and Trinidad. In this work Brett’s texts (1856) have been used in the first palce, and an endeavour has been made, to discuss all the particularities of the language as found in these texts (from the preface).
Contents: Rules for pronunciation, finite verbs, character of the Arawak words, infinfite verbs, auxilary verb a, intensives, conjunctions, form-ation of verbs, classes of utterances, family relations, origins of the Arawak language, etc. (Re-edition; originally published 1928 in Amsterdam; written in English).
ISBN 9783862901098. LINCOM Americana 03. 315pp. 2011.

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The usage environments of POFs have been limited to indoor, because of the low glass transition temperature of conventional acrylic materials. In this research, novel materials were studied for the improvement of the transparency and thermal stability of GI-POF, which can endure cruel environment such as the in-vehicle network. Approach on transparency improvement was focused in this talk. As the result, it was clarified that P3FMA based GI-POF have low-loss characteristic comparable to PMMA-d8 based GI-POF. Therefore, the superiority of partially fluorinated acrylic resins was suggested, and F5PMA, which is high thermal stability partially fluorinated acrylic resin was proposed as a novel material of GI-POF.
|出版ステータス||Published - 2006 12月 1|
|イベント||55th Society of Polymer Science Japan Symposium on Macromolecules - Toyama, Japan|
継続期間: 2006 9月 20 → 2006 9月 22
|Other||55th Society of Polymer Science Japan Symposium on Macromolecules|
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text: HONG KONG filmmakers have never been big on historical films. They cost too much, take too long to research and shoot - and are simply not commercial enough. So a sweeping epic about three controversial Chinese sisters, requiring two years of exhaustive research and costing $50 million, couldn't and wouldn't be done, they said. Director Mabel Cheung Yuen-ting proved the naysayers wrong when she made The Soong Sisters in 1995. The 144-minute version is one of the few, if not only, records of the lives of these three most remarkable sisters. The story of the Soong sisters - Ai-ling, Ching-ling and Mei-ling, who died last week at 106 - was one that needed to be told. And to commemorate Mei-ling's death, Hong Kong film-goers are being treated to a special one-week screening of the film. Ai-ling was the wife of wealthy industrialist and former Kuomintang finance minister H. H. Kung and became one of the richest and most powerful women of her generation. Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen and essentially became first lady of the Chinese republic after the overthrow of the Qing dynasty. Mei-ling's fate lay with military leader Chiang Kai-shek, who would go on to found Taiwan's Nationalist government. 'I never set out to make a historical epic,' says Cheung, who researched the sisters with her scriptwriter husband Alex Law Kai-yui. 'I just thought it was an interesting story of three women, but when I really started work on it, I had to ask myself if I was crazy to even attempt it.' Cheung and Law went through more than 200 books on the sisters and found just as many versions of the 'true story', depending on the political affiliations of the writers. Ai-ling (played by Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng in the film) and Mei-ling (Vivian Wu) - viewed as a capitalist and a traitor respectively - were barely mentioned in mainland history books. Many Taiwanese, on the other hand, had never heard of Ching-ling (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk). 'There is no absolute truth, even in history books. History depends on who is in power. In the end, we wrote own interpretation. I don't claim my version is the true version. It's just my interpretation of the history. We also have to give them the respect they deserve,' says the filmmaker. Cheung and Law finally found the 'history' they were looking for in the New York Public Library, which housed personal letters sisters wrote to each other, friends and teachers. 'We wanted to see the private side of these sisters and what their relationship was like after their political affiliation took them separate ways. The letters we found at the library shed a lot of light on that,' says Cheung. The correspondence between the sisters - always written in English - showed they remained close. Another that Mei-ling wrote to an American friend while she and Chiang were fleeing to Taiwan revealed how her husband would pick roses for her every day so she could have them by her bedside when she slept. 'Mei-ling's marriage to Chiang had always been viewed as a political affiliation. In many versions, Chiang was just waiting to divorce her five years later and take back his second wife. But this letter showed that they weren't just that.' The one thing Cheung and Law never achieved was to meet the woman at the centre of their work. Already in her late 90s when they started the project, Mei-ling refused to give interviews. Securing the film's released was another trial, when, as one of the first Hong Kong-China co-productions, it fell foul of mainland censors, who objected to a scene in which Mei-ling pleads passionately with the Chinese army for the release of her husband in Xian. It took more than a year of negotiations before the film could finally be released in April 1997 without the Xian footage - which has since been lost. Producer Ng See-yuen claims Mei-ling saw the film on DVD and said it was 'quite well done', but Cheung never heard from the former first lady personally. 'We had a charity premiere and invited her. She didn't come, but sent her lawyer along. The lawyer seemed to enjoy the film,' the filmmaker says. 'The only lament I have is that Soong Mei-ling lived through and witnessed so many historical events, but never left behind any official audio or visual documentation of her feelings about them.' The Soong Sisters (in Putonghua with Chinese and English subtitles) is screening at UA Pacific Place.


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With multiple Division I programs vying for her signature, Sinclair Cole was ready to take her time with the decision of where she would be playing softball at the next level. Offers from Howard, Grambling State and Florida A&M on the table, Alabama A&M coach Cassandra Brown told Cole to take her time with the decision and that was enough for Cole to feel right at home.
“I really think they may have been my best offer,” Cole said. “My parents are alumni so I have been there and had fun so it’s a familiar atmosphere but it’s still far enough away that I can branch out on my own.”
Cole made the announcement she was committed to the Bulldogs last week and she will make it official with a signing at Tallassee on Dec. 4. After signing with A&M, Cole will put all of her focus on getting the Tigers over the hump as they search for a spot in the Class 5A state tournament in the spring.
“I still have a lot to do here,” Cole said. “I want to go all the way and win state. I think we have the team to do it so I’m looking forward to winning with these girls.”
Over the last two seasons, Cole has been one of the leading hitters in Tallassee’s strong offense. She has a .313 batting average over 246 at bats and has recorded seven home runs and 71 RBIs.
Cole has also been heavily involved with Tallassee’s pitching rotation, going 24-1 in the circle. Last year, Cole finished with a 2.18 ERA in 100 innings, including four scoreless innings in the postseason.
“She works really hard at that,” Tallassee coach Pat Love said. “She’s a great pitcher and she’s a strong player with some great stuff. Any time you take a pitcher that can hit like that too, coaches like to see that. And she has a lot of pop in that bat.”
While Cole will continue to work in the circle for the Tigers, she knows she may focus on hitting once she gets to A&M. She also said that was a big factor in her decision as she believes the Bulldogs can help her develop at the plate.
“I know I’m a power hitter and they have a hitting facility that coach (Brown) said I could use whenever I want,” Cole said. “Sometimes I just like going by myself and hitting for fun so that was a big plus.”
Cole said there is plenty to do before she can be fully prepared for the next level but she is ready to get to work. She said the biggest thing will be staying in shape and working on conditioning as those things will be needed more than ever to play in college.
Love has high hopes for his program every year but he said the goal is always to get better and prepare the players to have a future on the field. Love said Cole still has work to do but there is not going to be any change in her approach to the game this year.
“To be honest, I really think I’m going to coach the same way,” Love said. “Everything we do here is to get them ready for the next level. We’re always tough on them so I don’t think she needs us to be any tougher.”