Seattle will build a protected bike lane on 2nd Ave downtown before Pronto Cycle Share launches later this year, Mayor Ed Murray announced during the Cascade Bicycle Club Bike to Work Breakfast Tuesday.
The pilot bike lane project will be built in part with help from the Green Lane Project and will stretch from Pike Place Market to Pioneer Square, the mayor said.
The announcement puts the city on a much faster track to start building its downtown bike lane network than was previously discussed, and the news seemed to surprise even many bike advocacy insiders.
The mayor hinted at the news during a press event Monday announcing Alaska Airlines as the major sponsor for the newly-named Pronto Cycle Share system. When Seattle Times’ Mike Lindblom asked the mayor about whether he was concerned about launching bike share before there are protected bike lanes downtown, Murray said, “I may have something to say on that at the Cascade Bicycle Club breakfast.”
Alaska Airlines CEO Brad Tilden took the Bike to Work Breakfast mic after Mayor Murray and praised the news of the downtown bike lane, which should help the Alaska Airlines-sponsored bike share system.
As we reported recently, Chair of the City Council Transportation Committee Tom Rasmussen said be thought it was “very optimistic” for a protected bike lane to be in place downtown before 2016. That timeline was based on the Center City bike lane plan process, which will come up with a full route plan for a downtown bike networks and significant design work for at least a mile of protected bike lanes.
It’s not yet clear how the 2nd Ave pilot project will interact with the Center City plan, but it could be a chance for the city to get an idea of what a protected bike lane downtown can actually mean for the city. And the design successes and struggles could inform the rest of the plan.
The mayor did not mention design specifics other than to say it will be fully separated from traffic. Stay tuned for more details when we get them.
UPDATE: Speaking of the 2nd Ave bike lane, Cascade has a remarkably well-timed policy ride Thursday focused on downtown. Meet 4:30 p.m. at McGraw Square. Happy Hour at Von Trapp’s on 12th at 5:30:
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This makes me happy in so many ways. As a daily user of 2nd Avenue I’m looking forward to not getting nasty stares from people who don’t understand why I’m not using the bicycle death lane. As a contributor to People for Bikes I’m excited to see their work paying off directly in my city. As a McGinn supporter I’m glad to see my fears that Murray wouldn’t take cycling seriously appear to have been unfounded.
Downhill bike lanes are often unnecessary due to the lack of speed differential between modes of transport.
Protected bike lanes particularly hem in cyclists and frequently subject them to needless navigation of curves built in to accommodate intersections, bus stops and so on. Two-way separated bike lanes, on a hill would essentially confine the highest speed differential users (uphill cyclists vs. downhill cyclists) in a vary narrow space.
Color me dubious.
A lot of people refuse to go downtown on a bike (but would otherwise) without these lanes.
These protected bike lanes aren’t being built for you. They’re being built for my children and my wife and my parents.
They’re being built for people who don’t want to bomb down hills while mixed with traffic–people who want to go at a leisurely pace, physically separated from traffic, and not have to try to keep up with Metal Boxes of Death.
Actually its being built for a lot of people. People who want to go a little faster, people who want to go a little slower… but overall for people who do not feel safe riding next to cars or mixing with pedestrians.
The people who still want to ride in the street can do so, but the folks who would bike downtown if there was a comfortable space for them will have it.
Yes, there is no law in Seattle that says you must use the bike lane if you don’t want to. And I will fight any such attempt to make that a law. I think people should bike where they feel safest, and it’s the city’s job to make sure that an actual safe option exists. Right now, most people find it safest to just not bike downtown, and that’s not acceptable.
Tom, no law requiring using the bike lane, but laws say to ride to the right if you can’t keep up with traffic.
Section 11.44.040 RIDING ON ROADWAYS. Every person operating a bicycle upon a roadway at a speed slower than the normal and reasonable flow of motor vehicle traffic thereon shall ride as near to the right side of the right through lane as is safe, except as may be appropriate while preparing to make or while making turning movements, or while overtaking and passing another bicycle or vehicle proceeding in the same direction.
“…ride as near to the right side of the right through lane as is safe…”. The bicycle driver gets to decide how far to the right is safe. Often times due to poor pavement, narrow lanes and proper lane positioning, the center or even center left of the lane is the best position. Bicycle drivers should not feel that they need to ride in the gutter. Weaving left into the lane to avoid potholes and then back to the gutter over and again is unpredictable and unsafe. If there is consistently poor pavement on the right side of a lane, or if the lanes are too narrow for a safe automobile pass, I will always take the center.
Two-way sidepaths are not an all-ages-and-abilities facility, and that’s a good thing.
I hope SDOT recognizes this in implementing a Second Avenue sidepath, and explicitly encourages faster cyclists to take their place in the general travel lanes. That’s safer for the fast cyclists, *and* it’s safer for the people who want the lower design speed and lower stress of a sidepath.
The Bike Lane of Death is the worst of both worlds — an inherently dangerous facility that’s plainly visible to motorists, with no indication that it’s an optional facility for cyclists. (Yes, motorists driving Washington streets should know that, but many don’t. We have a lot of drivers who moved here from segregated states where leaving the bike lane is illegal.)
Let’s hope the design lives up to the City Council’s mandate in the BMP Update that going forward, all new facilities will comply with state and Federal safety standards, unlike most of Seattle’s legacy bike lanes.
Then, to keep it a low-speed, low-stress route for those who prefer that environment, let’s hope SDOT also installs sharrows, properly centered in a general travel lane, to remind faster cyclists, and make it abundantly clear to motorists, that cyclists don’t have to use the sidepath.
Great news, but I hope we can see this coming 2nd ave protected lane connected safely to existing and coming new infrastructure.
It would be great to have a relatively seamless, connected bike lane from north to south through town connected through downtown.
I bet this will outlast the bike share. That’s going to be an epic fail. At least this has some value.
I assumed you were correct until today. With both this and the bikeway on Broadway, I think there is potential there. I still think it is really stupid that they didn’t start with the Burke Gilman (from at least Fremont to the UW) but I think they have a shot at staying in business long enough to provide that line.
Unfortunately, the bikeway on Broadway doesn’t help me get to Capitol Hill (from the U-district) until the last 1/4 mile. North of Denny, Broadway is exactly the same as before the construction started.
Nevertheless, it’s a great start. Hopefully, it will provide enough momentum to generate the will to extend it to all the way to Roanoke at some point in the future.
Bravo, that section of 2nd is easily one of the least comfortable areas in the city. Even if it only serves tourists (it won’t) it will still be a demonstration for what the other planned routes will be like. People who are just trying the bike share downtown will expect more. Hopefully we are going to a space where people don’t look at cyclists and think “they are crazy to do that” to “hey I can do that!”
A little birdie told me this was in the works last week. My first thought was, intersections, intersections, intersections.
If done well, this could be awesome. If the intersections are death-traps, then it will serve as a lasting example of what not to due in a high-traffic area, hopefully without the corpses.
It really all depends on who is given the project. SDOT is hit or miss on project managers.
For downhill riders a rolling wave of simultaneous green would be awesome.
Yes! Would also be a great for walking and driving safety due to lower speeds.
“rolling wave”… but it has to be timed for bicycle speeds, 20 to 25mph, otherwise the traffic speeds up to stay on the wave.
Definitely a well-timed wave, but what about the cars? Do bikes get there own lights , no right or left on red and a 5 second head start to avoid getting hooked?
The only safe option is to separate the phases. General traffic turns get a signal cycle while bikes have red, turns have red while bikes have a green. There’s really no other good way without turn-pocket-mixing-zones (boo!) or with dangerous conflicts. I could see maybe some intersections being better as walk/bike scrambles or something, but yeah, no turns across a bike green.
Note if bicycle signals are used, the Seattle City Council really should get around to amending the Municipal Code so that bicycle signal faces are actually legal in the city.
They’re already in use on Broadway, but they have no legal status — code recognizes circles, arrows, walk/don’t walk, but a green bicycle signal does not grant bicycles the right to enter an intersection, and a red bicycle signal does not require people on bikes to stop.
(The Seattle Municipal Code equivalent to RCW 46.61.055 is in SMC Chapter 11.50 OBEDIENCE TO TRAFFIC-CONTROL DEVICES. That’s what gives legal force to traffic signals, and it does it very prescriptively by the shape as well as the color of a signal. Bicycle shaped signals simply don’t exist in the code.)
If that’s the case, it might make more sense to do this on third, where the buses only turn at specific intersections, and general traffic is prohibited. The long delay for cars, both parallel and crossing, with a completely separate phase for bikes is going to get some pushback from the windshield-disabled majority. This would be avoided on 3rd, as bikes could safely get a green simultaneously with the buses, except and the few intersections where the buses need to turn. There they can be phased.
Yeah, at the very least preventing motor vehicle lanes from turning during the bike signal phase. I don’t know whether combined pedestrian + bicycle scrambles are exactly a best practice (at least according to David Hembrow) but it would make it much easier for turning cyclists by avoiding extra stages and stops. Who knows if the timings would work and the downhill cyclists speeds could be a negative factor.
Yeah, the turning cars is the big problem. I think that between intersections the street should look something like this: http://streetmix.net/-/130818
Then at intersections where a left is possible (due to one way only half of them) the parking switches to a turn lane: http://streetmix.net/-/130823
Cyclists on the cycle track and vehicles in the general purpose lane all get to go on green, with the greens timed to cycling speeds. Vehicles can turn right on green via the bus lane. Vehicles are stopped with a red arrow in the left turn lane during this phase. No turn on red signs would be needed since left to one way turns on red are legal.
Then there is a short phase where north/south cyclists/peds are stopped and the left turn gets a green. Then all north/south traffic stops and east/west traffic and pedestrian get a green. On this phase north/south left have a flashing yellow to allow them to turn, while yielding to east/west traffic and peds.
A rolling wave of green for cyclists would be great, but it needs to be timed to no faster than the design speed of the bicycle facility, or it will encourage cyclists to ride faster than is safe.
While they don’t have separate speed limits posted, sidepaths often have much lower design speeds than the streets next to them.
If you have a 15 mph design speed on a cycletrack, and you time your lights to 25 mph, you’re encouraging people on bikes to out-drive the sight distances and turning clearances of the path, which is dangerous not just for them, but for any cyclist or pedestrian entering or crossing the path.
(Or, of course, you time the lights of the travel lanes to 25 mph, and use that as another incentive for fast cyclists to take the street so the cycletrack is a low-speed, low-stress alternative. Make the corridor as a whole an all-ages-and-abilities facility by giving fast riders speed and slow riders comfort.)
Stuart: You’re probably right about the all-walk/bike. I was just imaging some of the strange super intersections near Pioneer Square and trying to suggest that there might be various ways to deal with intersections.
Josh: We definitely agree there! I don’t know what the best speed is. What does Portland use in its downtown green wave streets? It’s a fairly comfortable bike speed. 15? Maybe the speed on a downhill would be a little higher, not sure. A job for an imaginative expert!
One other issue with a “scramble” phase, Federal regulations prohibit using bicycle signal faces to control a bicycle scramble phase, so you’d have to come up with some other way of indicating it. (All-way red, with signs for bicycles to use pedestrian signals?)
Tom: I’d actually be really excited to have all scramble phases used on 2nd. I wouldn’t mind as a cyclist at all. It think it would just be necessary to keep the signal phase timed for pedestrians crossing diagonally, which would be longer than an a cycling only phase.
So happy about this. Looking forward to more details on the design. I’ve been waiting for this for years.
Agreed! It’s simultaneously ahead of schedule and way overdue.
I’m giddy about this temporary lane, but I also hope that a right-running track is considered for the permanent installation. Most cars turning off of 2nd are going east up the hill on Pike, University, Spring, or Marion, and even a fully-protected lane will still expose people to left hooks and conflicts, not to mention the 5 large parking lot exits just between Pine and University! The west/right side of 2nd is fundamentally more urban, with Pike Place Market, City Target, and small retail all along the blocks until about Marion. 2-way, right-running protected lanes with Dexter-style bus bulbs could work really well. Almost all bus traffic on 2nd is peak-only, and taking the left parking lane for general traffic would allow you to maintain peak throughput capacity while giving both buses and bikes new and safer facilities. Thoughts?
So then I have to worry about both right turning traffic hooking me and inattentive pedestrians walking off the bus right into my path? No thanks. I ride Dexter daily and the relatively low pedestrian traffic crossing the bike lane to get to/from the idslands is already stressful enough.
Anyone know how wide 2nd is? Maybe a layout like this (looking Northwest):
The lane where the bus-stop-platform is can be parking in the areas between bus stops, which will help protect the bike-lane from wayward cars.
Good question on road width. Anyone know? A rough measure from Google Maps suggests something like 50 feet curb-to-curb (not counting the sidewalks). So you’d probably have to lose either one travel lane or one parking lane (which is ok).
Something like this: http://streetmix.net/seabikeblog/21/seattle-2nd-ave-remix-remix
Again, not sure about the exact measurements. And I doubt in that example that the one general travel lane will work.
So maybe move all the parking into that between-bus-stops space and make it permanent, then have bus lane – general – general – curb. Like this: http://streetmix.net/seabikeblog/23/seattle-2nd-ave-remix-remix
My preference would be to lose a travel lane instead of parking, since that would also greatly increase safety for people on foot. But it could be an interesting debate if businesses would rather keep a travel lane instead of parking. But obviously, something’s gotta give since the tiny 5-foot lane currently there isn’t enough space.
You can find right-of-way widths (both street & building-to-building) on this SDOT document: http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/sim_arterial_list.htm
And traffic volumes: http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/docs/2012_Traffic_Flow.pdf
Wow, how have I never seen that ROW page before? Super handy.
So, this is basically (give or take a foot here or there) the existing conditions on 2nd, assuming the numbers in that doc are correct: http://streetmix.net/seabikeblog/23/seattle-2nd-ave-remix-remix
If I’m not mistaken, Seattle and King County will soon have to deal with a lot more buses on the surface streets of downtown. When light rail gets to Northgate, the buses get kicked out of the tunnel. I think it would make sense to turn second avenue into a combined bus/bike street. Something like this (http://streetmix.net/-/130869). Once you take the cars off of the street, then riders have a lot less to worry about. Buses will only make a handful of turns, and they will do so slowly. Those intersections can be well marked and regulated as well (e. g. separate right or left turn light with a stop light for bikes and pedestrians, but a turn for buses).
I should have mentioned that this would require turning 2nd into two way (for buses).
No left turns by cars driving on 2nd. Remove all parking on the left side of the street. Anything less is giving in to the idea that death by auto is a necessary evil.
I was going to say the same thing. I used to ride on the bike lane on 2nd Ave on my commute to downtown. I was constantly frustrated by the left-turning vehicles who wait right on the bike lane despite the green marking. I currently ride in the middle lane of 5th Ave. instead.
Drivers should actually merge into the bike lane for turning. That is the correct way to do it. Drivers who turn out of a general purpose lane without merging first are what causes hook accidents. I can’t find info specific for Seattle or Washington, but this is a good overview from California: http://velotraffic.com/2012/10/requiring-motorists-to-merge-into-bike-lanes-prior-to-right-turns/
Thanks for your comment, Leif.
I understand your point. I believe the law is actually the same in Washington State. That doesn’t lessen the frustration for me. They are doing what they are supposed to do, but that prevents me from riding in the bike lane smoothly. Hence my agreement with Jayne.
Leif is correct, in fact, cars merging into bike lanes before turning is one of the engineering assumptions behind national bike lane standards… it’s the only reason you’re allowed to have a bike lane on the edge of a street that allows turns across the bike lane. (You’d never put a through lane to the right of a right-turn lane, or to the left of a left-turn lane, the accident risk is too obvious.)
The alternative is separate signal phases for bicycles, with no turns on red, so that through cyclists can safely pass to the right of right-turning traffic, or to the left of left-turning traffic. But adding signal phases reduces throughput and increases wait time for all modes, bikes, pedestrians, and cars.
I’m crossing my fingers that this isn’t a two way cycle track, just a buffered lane. I really don’t want to be speeding downhill at 20mph and endangering bicyclists coming toward me at 5mph. I’m not sure cycle tracks are the best ideas on hills.
There’s also something like this: http://streetmix.net/seabikeblog/23/seattle-2nd-ave-remix-remix
Two-way cycletracks aren’t a great idea on hills, but they can be made reasonably safe if:
1. The downhill direction has a suitable design speed for expected real-world bicycle speeds — that requires significantly more width than the 5 feet SDOT gives on level ground, along with more parking removal to permit longer sight distances, broader turning radii, etc.
2. The downhill and uphill directions are clearly delineated, with actual enforcement of the center line.
3. Pedestrian crossings are minimized and/or controlled… no ambling through 25-30mph bicycle traffic to get to a parked car, etc.
Short of that, you really need to encourage faster cyclists to use a travel lane that’s designed for vehicular speeds, and enforce a lower speed limit on cyclists who use the cycletrack down hill.
I take 2nd to Jackson, where the existing bike lane ends, turning left to go to the ID. Just started commuting again for Bike to Work month after taking the winter off, and now the streetcar tracks are in place. This seems like it could really use some signage and a better crossing.
Currently the bike lane ends and puts you on the inside of a two lane turn. If there’s a car on the outside you’re force into crossing the tracks at an oblique angle. I’ve already seen one rider go down in three days of commuting. If the new protected lane continues the entire length of the existing bike lane on 2nd I really hope it addresses this issue.
Without getting too off topic, does anyone have suggestions on the best path through there now? The crosswalks require walking a half block first and 3rd Ave (which branches right from 2nd due to the grid change) is official right turn only when it hits Jackson.
Crossing and signage treatments for the streetcar tracks are going in right now, bike boxes, some scary sidepath treatments, new signals for the streetcar crossings, etc. Not up to state or federal stafety standards, but better than typical legacy Seattle bike facilities.
The “final” designs released by the First Hill Streetcar project don’t really address bicycle treatments along here, but they’ll show you the rest of the layout.
There appear to be some two-delay left turn boxes going in for some of the track crossings, and there are some warning signs at other track crossings, but some of the layout does appear to expect cyclists to make pedestrian crossings.
If you’re confident enough to merge into the center lane on 2nd a few blocks before Jackson, you can put yourself in the right-most left-turn lane, giving you a better angle at the tracks. That’s the route I usually take.
There’s a crosswalk at 3rd & Jackson, you could ride straight across Jackson and pivot at the curb, a 2-stage turn without a turn box.
The specific problem Patrick and Lisa are talking about is that the 2nd Ave Extension bike lane sets you up to be in a turn lane that drops you onto the left lane of eastbound Jackson, the lane with the streetcar tracks (there are two left-turn lanes, and you’re in the leftmost one).
As Lisa points out, if you can get over a lane to the right, that’s where you want to be. If you don’t think you’ll be able to get over, today your best bet is probably to turn left on Main Street and take 5th or 6th down to Jackson. If you miss that and are stuck far-left at Jackson, you can scoot over to 4th on the north sidewalk then use the crosswalks to get where you want to be.
As far as future infrastructure goes, if a protected bike lane heads down the left side of the 2nd Ave Extension, it should probably either include explicit support for doing this (not too different in concept from the Union/Madison craziness but hopefully with a little more clarity and eventually more space to maneuver) or a “crossbikes” along the east face of the Extension/Jackson intersection with a signal phase different from the vehicle left (plus a bike box for cyclists that want to turn right on Jackson — protected lanes need lots of these in any case).
I was going to suggest Main as an alternative, but Main has the old waterfront streetcar tracks that turn right onto 5th. I’ve seen people go down trying to make the Main-to-5th turn, there isn’t a heck of a lot of space to the right of the turning tracks.
If you do want to try Main, I’d veer right just before the tracks, dodge left perpendicular to the tracks into the intersection, then make a hard right turn to the left of the tracks on 5th.
At the SBAB meeting today SDOT representatives announced that this was going to be just paint, and two-way.
Hopefully a half measure like this doesn’t poison the well for the real thing. And more importantly, hopefully a facility even more unsafe than the current bike lane doesn’t result in increased accidents.
Ride safe, everyone.
I really hope this isn’t the case. How could they have already determined the design with zero public input?
“Just paint” as in not even separate signal phases? Or just no physical barrier between the sidepath and the street?
Barrier separation is mostly for perceived comfort, there’s very little actual safety impact. But competent intersection treatments are vital, especially for the 50% of riders essentially going the wrong way down a one-way street.
The impression they gave was that because this is to be a pilot, it would be done as cheaply as possible so that it could be re-aligned if its not working.
I’ll reiterate my belief that if the City wants to cheap out on intersection treatments they need to just make left turns off 2nd Ave illegal. Then they don’t need to slow down all other traffic by adding new signal phases.
I’m not sure just banning left turns off of 2nd would be enough. Coming down the hill on a one-way street, drivers can make a left on red to get onto 2nd, checking only to their right for conflicting traffic. You’d need to ban that, too.
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Railroads, responsible investment and solar panels would never have grown into full-blown industries without initial backing from governments. But how can nascent industries obtain state support? A broad study of the European photovoltaic sector sheds light on the best conditions for a viable sector to emerge alongside strong established rivals.
A popular story in universities and media is that new industries are born and blossom like flowers, purely on the strength of the energy and vision of entrepreneurs. “But the truth is, they need a gardener equipped with tools and water!” quips HEC Professor Rodolphe Durand, who has long worked on how interactions between states and companies shape industries. In the case of emerging new industries, “the gardener” is the state. As Durand points out, the notorious so-called GAFAs emerged “at the intersection of universities and start-ups, with support from both the federal state and the state of California.” Thanks to massive government sponsorship, China was able to foster the growth of its own version of the GAFAs. With only fragmentary state support, Europe has so far failed to do so. It turns out that new industries might not be able to emerge on their own, like wild flowers, after all. “Incumbents enjoy economies of scale, and they have got the networks to distribute their products” – competitive advantages that simply cannot be matched by newcomers without supportive public policy. So how do emerging industries attract state backing?
Light from the photovoltaic industry
Rodolphe Durand et al. were able to shed light on the conditions in which emerging industries come to receive state support by studying the European solar photovoltaic (PV) sector. Solar PV production grew rapidly in the 1990s and 2000s, but it was highly dependent on public incentives. “It would never have taken up unaided, because of the high cost of panels and the need for distribution infrastructures,” Durand explains. Incentives primarily took the form of feed-in tariff (FIT) policies, whereby governments guarantee the purchase of renewable electricity fed into the grid at a particular price, typically for a guaranteed number of years.
“Whatever the new sector, its chances of success in obtaining regulatory support increase with coherence.”
Why did the government decide to invest in FIT policies for these novel technologies? Back then, concerns about global warming and the 1986 Chernobyl accident encouraged mobilization around environmental issues. Regulators attempted to reduce dependency on foreign fossil fuels, and the most commonly cited motivation for FIT policies was to develop a domestic industry. The move was important for future competitiveness, but also came at a cost – both in terms of spending and of potential threat to the established industries and current economic stability.
Durand et al. theorize that two main features determined state support: the nascent industry’s identity and the structure of rival interests. Regulatory aid is unlikely to occur in a vacuum; there must first be an existing, distinct category to nurture and protect the novel industry. Alternative industries are in competition with incumbent industries for state attention, meaning that the power of rival interests probably plays a part.
How a new industry proves itself
As a new industry category emerges, it initially comprises few members and is not immediately seen as a valid field of activity, but as more firms participate and start carving out a market, acceptance grows. In addition, as the number of companies grows, they are more likely to create supportive networks and cultivate social ties, which also increases recognition. Accordingly, policymakers are more likely to endorse what is already showing signs of being accepted as a meaningful and viable sphere of economic activity. But to really gain legitimacy, a novel industry must also be coherent in its identity. For instance, when oil companies such as Shell or BP entered the solar PV industry, their moves (soon labeled “greenwashing”) were perceived as inconsistent with their core businesses and dampened the recognition of the new sector by the state. Indeed, Durand et al. found a significant effect of both category density and coherence in the cross-country data they collected and analyzed. But, again, the wider competitive context also influences the likelihood of regulatory support.
Fighting for turf
The researchers examined the concentration of established industries – here, the dominant, century-old traditional energy sector – and found that a higher concentration of rival interests actually created a more favorable context for nascent industries (whereas one could have expected entrenched companies to capture resources, or even to use their muscle to quash emerging rivals). The main explanation is that neither the state nor the traditional sector perceives the new industry as a threat. For instance, when the German government pioneered feed-in tariffs for solar PV, the coal industry had such a high share of the market that it had little to fear from the emerging industry. In 2000, the total installed capacity of solar PV in Europe was less than 1/1000th of that of the non-renewable energy.
Hardly surprising then, that the technology was just not taken seriously, as one environmental activist told the researchers: “they think it’s so small and just to power a few lightbulbs”. A strong incumbent can also strengthen a new industry’s sense of purpose, as it portrays itself as a clear and convincing alternative. One PV professional interviewed in the study figured that the nuclear power industry, France’s dominant player,“ served as an enemy… and you need an enemy to push an idea forward”. And again, this positive effect of rival interests was stronger when the emerging industry appeared coherent.
Based on an interview with Rodolphe Durand and on his paper “Shine on Me: Industry Coherence and Policy Support for Emerging Industries”, co-written with Panayiotis (Panikos) Georgallis and Glen Dowell (Administrative Science Quarterly, 2018).
Reposted from HEC Paris.


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Since midterm, I have learned about the skull and have learned more about cross contour line drawings. In terms of cross contour drawings, I am grasping a better understanding of showing different planes of a form. I had never thought about lines wrapping around forms before this class. It is a very simple concept, but it takes time to get used to. In previous drawing courses, we were trained to pump out drawings using shading and value to describe a form. It was a challenge to switch gears, but a good challenge since my abilities have significantly improved. In terms of drawing the skull, I was surprised how well I did. I have never really drawn a skull before. I had mostly avoided it previously because I didn’t know I was capable of drawing one. When looking through my drawings before I knew how to describe the skull, the head looks odd on each one. It always bothered me that I was capable of drawing a decent body, but there was the head looking blank and awkward. Now that I can draw the skull, it is much easier to describe the form of a human head when drawing a figure. Once I had the bone structure of the head figured out, the features came more easily, since they all have their specific place in the skull.
The main reason I took this course was to be able to confidently draw the human form. In paintings and drawings in the past, I had always avoided subjects that include people, since I was afraid that I would not be able to pull it off. I am an Art Education major and as a teacher I should be able to draw just about anything, including human beings. This course has made me confident in my drawings and I feel better qualified to teach in a high school setting. If a student asks me how to draw the facial features, I will be able to answer that question and draw an example.


GA Drilling will present its capabilities at SPE ICoTA Well Intervention Conference that will take place on 9 – 10 November 2016 in Aberdeen, United Kingdom. It will exhibit plasma-based technology for well intervention in company’s stand. This event is accompanied by a major exhibition of all the latest intervention tools, technologies, and services, available to the market including PLASMABIT technology. The official topic of SPE ICoTA Well Intervention Conference is “Extending the life of the North Sea through cost effective Well Intervention solutions”.
Iain Pittman, a member of the Advisory Board, will deliver presentation under the title “Plasma-based Technique for Simplification of Well Plug & Abandonment” on Thursday, 10 November (expected slot at 14:45). He is a senior well abandonment & intervention engineer with a plenty of experience in the implementation of solutions during the design and operational phases of the well lifecycle. Iain Pittman will pitch innovative thoughts along representatives of major operators, such as BP, ConocoPhillips and Total.
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Chapter Philanthropy & Service
In addition to national partners, collegiate chapters also support local causes through philanthropic fundraising and hands-on service on their campuses and in their local communities.
The Detroit Metro Alumnae Chapter supports several non-profit organizations throughout the year. At our annual Mother Daughter Luncheon in May as well as when we host our National Founders Day every other year, we raise money to donate to both the National Philanthropy and local philanthropies that are near to our hearts.
Every year in March or April, we get together with the Delta Tau chapter to pack food boxes at Focus Hope in Detroit, MI. Focus Hope is a non-profit that is nationally renowned as a civil and human rights organization diligently working to bridge the racial divide in southeast Michigan through their food program, career training programs, and HOPE Village Initiative. While packing boxes on the assembly line, we have a chance to bond with our newest generation of sisters, all while helping to promote the progress of mankind. More information on the Focus Hope organization can be found here: http://www.focushope.edu/
Each June we hold a pet shower for the Michigan Anti-Cruelty Society located in Detroit, Michigan. The Michigan Anti-Cruelty Society is funded completely by private donations. Sisters bring items from their wish list and monetary donations as well. More information on this organization can be found here: http://www.macsshelter.org/
During the holiday season we adopt a local family and wrap the presents together at our annual Christmas Party and ornament exchange.

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Lucknow. Former UP cabinet minister and president of Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party, who is in discussion with his statements against the BJP government. Omprakash Rajbhar CM in one of his tweets Yogi Adityanath But while targeting it, he said that the Chief Minister of UP is trying to intimidate the youth. Threatening to confiscate their property. He asked the CM that out of 69000 teacher recruitment, 5844 posts are reserved for backward and Dalits? Why was his right robbed? The youth of UP can’t even raise their voice for their rights? That is why his government wants to silence the voice of the youth by making threats. With this, Rajbhar said that the Yogi government has done only the work of robbing the rights of backward, downtrodden and deprived sections for four and a half years. Rajbhar warned you not to worry Chief Minister Yogi, ‘Bhagidari Sankalp Morcha’ will not let you sit on the CM’s chair again. The answer to the threat will definitely be found in 2022. The youth of Uttar Pradesh is sitting at the booth ready to forfeit your bail.
Also read: Government to launch portal for online registration of children who have lost parents to COVID-19!
It is worth mentioning that Om Prakash Rajbhar, President of Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party, has frequent meetings with AAP MP Sanjay Singh and sometimes Bhim Army founder Chandrashekhar. Apart from this, he also meets Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav. So not only with Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party President Shivpal Yadav, Rajbhar also meets Asaduddin Owaisi of AIMIM. In such a situation, Rajbhar and former UP cabinet minister Babu Singh Kushwaha have formed the Partnership Sankalp Morcha under pressure politics. In which there are many small political parties.


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LINCOLN — Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital will unveil its HOPE mobile vehicle at an official ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday.
The vehicle, made possible by generous donations, will replace Logan County’s first mobile health unit, said Executive Director of Community Development Marty Ahrends, the hospital’s executive director of community development. The Healthy Communities Partnership is in charge of the mobile unit.
HOPE stands for Healthcare Oral Prevention Education.
"While the previous mobile health unit was used to exclusively deliver primary health care and public health service, the new HOPE mobile is equipped to deliver oral health care services as well," said Ahrends. "Children are invited to meet the HOPE mobile dentist, dental hygienist and nurse, tour the HOPE mobile and pick up a trick-or-treat bag."
The ceremony will be today from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. with a short presentation at 4 p.m. The event will held at the rear of the hospital, at the corner of Seventh and Walnut streets.
The HOPE mobile unit is an outreach of the Healthy Communities Partnership and a new service for the children of Logan County, said Ahrends.
She said as many as 800 children in Logan County need preventative oral health services, but go without due to lack of access to dental providers. Ahrends said children with oral health problems miss 12 times as many days of school as those with good oral health.
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Orphazyme A/S (NASDAQ: ORPH) shares skyrocketed over 300% in the regular session on Thursday.
What Happened: Shares of the Denmark-based biopharmaceutical firm touched an intraday high of $77.77, running up 1,387%.
There was no announcement made by the company on Thursday that could explain the volatility in shares which halted trading 20 times until the afternoon.
On Thursday, volumes touched 7.56 million shares whereas the average volume is 61,335.
Orphazyme shares ended Thursday’s regular session 302.4% higher at $21 and fell 9.29% in the after-hours trading to $19.05.
Why It Matters: On Monday, Orphazyme said its application for arimoclomol, which will be branded as MIPLYFFA for Niemann-Pick disease type C, is under priority review with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration — with the expected Prescription Drug User Fee Act action date of June 17.
On the same day, Orphazyme had announced that ORARIALS-01 pivotal trial of arimoclomol in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) did not meet both primary and secondary endpoints.
In March, arimoclomol failed to meet primary and secondary endpoints in Phase 2 and 3 trials in inclusion body myositis patients.
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The Houston Texans rode a wave of emotion on Sunday night.
At first, hometown hero Case Keenum appeared to have won the Texans their third game of the season with three huge touchdowns to fellow Houston legend Andre Johnson. And then, halftime came and all the sudden the wheels fell off of the Texans’ train. Houston took a 21-3 lead into the half, but it’s was what happened during the intermission that changed the entire pace of the game.
Gary Kubiak collapsed on the field while retreating back to the locker room and was taken to a nearby hospital in a move that many are calling “precautionary.” The 52-year-old head coach has no history of health issues, but appeared to be in considerable pain and was stopped in his tracks. Thankfully, reports say that Kubiak did not suffer a heart attack and did not lose consciousness during the episode.
Meanwhile, the Indianapolis Colts came out with a head of steam in the second half as three touchdowns from T.Y. Hilton and three missed field goals from Texans’ kicker Randy Bullock allowed the Colts to steal a 27-24 win. However, this was a total coming-out party for second-year quarterback Keenum, who was actually given the starting role from Kubiak.
While we all hope for the best in terms of Kubiak; good NFL fans should thank him for having the cuts to give the Houston native an opportunity of a lifetime.


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This year marked the 10th anniversary of the spark of the Arab Spring. While the process of change has had its ups and downs, it has continued, and we have seen this recently in Sudan and Algeria. The most important ongoing impact is the way these movements have weakened the political systems across the region, even in countries that have escaped overt change and haven’t seen strong opposition.
The lack of trust in political systems, low credibility and accusations of bad governance and corruption are the trends that are shaping the conviction of the new generations. This is a very important issue that should be considered, as it could drive the shift to a new style of confrontation with political systems.
The main trend of previous protests during the Arab Spring has been around accusations of individual corruption, and the evolution of this trend is towards institutional corruption, which shifts the negative sentiment from anti-individual to anti-state.
It is important, then, to realize that any future uprising amongst the new youth will be driven by those who lived and grew up disappointed in the older generation and are increasingly disillusioned with the state and its structures. This suggests that future protests will have a higher proportion of those younger generations with more advanced technological expertise, as the generation of TikTok is more likely to drive anarchy rather than calls for political reform.
In Jordan, during the Arab Spring protests, people were calling for political reform and policy change based on existing institutions with a respect for the state. However, this sense of responsibility and respect for the state has been draining, as corruption and lack of transparency, nepotism and favoritism are becoming the main characterizations of governments.
This development increases the risk as the approach could legitimize in the minds of the protestors to act against the state as people no longer feel they belong and are the subject of exploitation, while seeing government and state policies as the reason behind their misery. This makes it critical to deal with the perceptions of corruption, which is threatens the existence of any state as a cancer that affects the efficiency and productivity of the system. Mistakes in management that causes human catastrophe in healthcare, infrastructure and transportation are seen as a result of this corruption, so it is important to address.
In Jordan, talk of corruption and the inefficiency of addressing it has been increasing noticeably. The perception of corruption is increasingly solidifying in the minds of people. A new approach to restore the image of the state in fighting corruption is becoming a critical necessity.
The efficiency of the bureaucracy is an important issue to resolve to this end. What is required is an administrative or white-collar revolution, to revive the spirit of our institutions based on the concepts of reward and impeachment. The bureaucracy must clearly know that success will be rewarded but that failures and mistakes will be held accountable to ensure that everyone does their job properly. Reform is necessary in order for our institutions to competently respond to a crisis in a steadfast manner.
The state should apply innovative methods and changes, starting with strong laws and virtuous officials. This would not just be necessary to maintain a good healthy image of the state, but it is also important to restore the people’s confidence, rebuilding credibility, and re-establishing hopefulness and optimism.
It is important not to forget that people need to see action and real change at all levels, such that they actually notice the changes in their daily lives. This can only be done by impacting all types of officials with a new motivation structure to change the mechanisms of work and achievement.
A shared sense of responsibility is the key to open the doors of credibility and trust. This sense of awareness can only be built by building and rewarding efficiency, which in turn leads to effective political leadership, rather than a lack of responsibility which destroys any efficiency in the system, political inclusion of youth, and put an end to the centralization of power in the hands of small group of people.
Dr. Amer Al Sabaileh


Today, the U.S. Department of Labor announced the Final Rule for the Honoring Investments in Recruiting and Employing (HIRE) American Military Veterans Act, signed by President Trump in May. This establishes a new HIRE Vets Medallion Program, which is intended to recognize companies with a HIRE Vets Medallion Award, for their commitment to recruit and retain America’s military service Veterans.
Beginning in 2018, the Labor Department will conduct a HIRE Vets Medallion Program Demonstration—more details will be available soon so be sure to visit http://www.hirevets.gov/ for updates.
The HIRE Vets Medallion Program is a powerful opportunity for companies, of any size, to signal their commitment to employing Veterans. Throughout the coming year, the ongoing investments companies make in our veterans will count when they apply for the HIRE Vets Medallion Award in 2019.
“The Department of Labor looks forward to shining the spotlight on employers who make hiring Veterans a priority and encouraging other employers to hire our nation’s heroes,” says U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta.
Here’s how you can get involved and prepare to apply:
- Sign up here to get the latest news about the program and its demonstration,
- Bookmark hirevets.gov, and check back frequently for updates on how and when to apply,
- Spread the word about the new @USDOL @VETS_DOL #HireVets Medallion program on social media
This article was submitted to VAntage Point by the U.S. Department of Labor.


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MOSCOW, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- Russia will deploy its newest S-500anti-missile systems in response to the deployment of Western anti-missile shield in Europe, a senior military officer said Friday.
"We'll be able to organize anti-missile defense ... This is our response to the U.S. anti-missile defense," said Kirill Makarov, deputy commander of Russia's airspace defense forces, in an interview with the state-run Russia-24 TV channel.
The S-500 systems are designed to destroy enemy's aircraft, middle-range and strategic missiles.


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The plan was the most prominent of several pieces of legislation approved this week aimed at strengthening the rights of immigrants in California. But it also brought new protests from critics who say the state is protecting undocumented workers at the expense of federal immigration laws.
The bill, sent to Gov. Jerry Brown late Thursday, comes after some of California's top law enforcement officials including Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck and L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca expressed strong support for the idea. They argued that immigrants should not fear cooperating with police or feel harassed simply because of their immigration status.
Activists have complained for years that undocumented immigrants stopped at drunken-driving checkpoints have had their cars impounded even if the drivers are sober because they don't have valid licenses. Police also say these immigrants, unable to get car insurance, are involved in more hit-and-run accidents.
Kim Raney, president of the California Police Chiefs Association, said his organization backed the plan only after it was amended to add various security measures. His biggest concern was that the driver's licenses could be used as identification for air travel, potentially causing problems for federal security agencies.
"These licenses will include a special watermark on the front and language on the back that makes it clear this license is for driving only and not identification," said Raney, who is also the police chief of Covina. "TSA and federal officials and law enforcement will all be aware that these grant driving privileges only and aren't confirmed identification."
Raney said the plan should put an end to many of the headaches police departments deal with concerning unlicensed immigrant drivers.
"You either have a license or you don't have a license. You have no reason not to be insured," he added. "This should end the entire debate over impounds."
But the larger debate about how immigration laws are enforced is far from over.
Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington said the California plan amounted to a "quasi-amnesty."
"The whole point of immigration law is to make it impractical to stay here illegally," he said. "This is doing the exact opposite. The point of this is to make it practical to live here illegally. ... What it means is the government is formally incorporating illegal aliens into institutions of our society."
Indeed, backing from law enforcement is far from universal. Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood, who has spoken against giving undocumented immigrants licenses, said Friday his position had not changed.
"I just think that if someone is in the country illegally, for us to give them a legal ability to drive makes absolutely no sense," he said. "That ... really bothers me."
Youngblood challenged the idea that giving undocumented immigrants driver's licenses would eliminate insurance issues in hit-and-run or other collisions. A license is no guarantee the driver would carry insurance, he said.
"It's not with our citizens," he said, "so how could it be with people in the country illegally?"
Los Angeles Police Department Chief Beck on Friday called the bill "a big step forward in making our roads safer."
Beck has been an outspoken supporter of issuing driver's licenses to immigrants in the country illegally, arguing it would reduce the number of hit-and-runs because such immigrants would have less fear of being caught for driving without having insurance.
Over the last few years, Beck and the L.A. Police Commission have moved to ease rules for when police officers impound the cars of those in the country illegally.
That move was opposed by the Los Angeles Police Protective League, which represents rank-and-file officers. The union argued that the new policy violated state law by stripping officers' discretion to impound cars.


A commonly used therapy for cancer is based on the necrosis of cells induced by heating through the illumination of nanoparticles embedded in cells. Recently, the photoacoustic pressure shock induced by the illumination pulse was proved and this points to another means of cell destruction. The purpose of this study is to propose a model of the photoacoustic pressure in cells.
The numerical resolution of the problem requires the accurate computation of the electromagnetism, the temperature and the pressure around the nanostructures embedded in a cell. Here, the problem of the interaction between an electromagnetic excitation and a gold nanoparticle embedded in a cell domain is solved. The variations of the thermal and photoacoustic pressures are studied in order to analyze the pressure shock wave inducing the collapse of the cell’s membrane in cancer therapy.
This section presents the physical model and the numerical method used to solve the photoacoustic problem. The photoacoustic or thermoacoustic process refers to the generation of acoustic waves by absorption of electromagnetic energy.
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That contrasts with the temperature propagation (see Figure 3a,b) that is mainly located in the near vicinity of the gold nanoparticle (i.e., only a few nanometers from the gold nanoparticle, corresponding to the spatial expansion of the nanoparticle along the y-axis: − 50 to 50 nm). Therefore, only the nearest zone around the nanoparticle sees the temperature elevation. Figure 4 illustrates that the cell’s membrane is receiving a pressure shock wave (i.e., the variation of pressure is non vanishing at the position of the cell membrane).
The paper focuses on the analysis of the direct 3D numerical computation of the time-dependant photoacoustic pressure of a gold nanoparticle embedded in a cell. The adaption of the computation process was achieved to optimize both the temperature amplitude and the propagation of the acoustic wave pressure. The variation of the pressure at the limit of the cell’s membrane relative to the time of excitation is presented.
We discuss the ability of the use of pressure to disrupt the cell membrane, which can be an alternative way to induce lysis of the membrane. The use of complex particles or cell shapes can extend the domain of its application, especially to the study and the design of a pressure-based non invasive theragnostic for cancer.
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Authors: Thomas Grosges | Dominique Barchiesi


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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is urging the Indian government to ban elephant exhibits and training over warnings of tuberculosis. The prevalence of tuberculosis can be a public health threat, according to the animal rights organization.
PETA called on the Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying as the country is concerned over coronavirus to provide concern to another zoonotic disease, tuberculosis. Elephants that are used for rides or in circuses, television, festivals and parades could put the public at risk.
“Many captive elephants in the country suffer from TB. It is high time we unshackle all elephants and allow them to live freely, as nature intended. Banning their use in performances would bring us closer to that goal and protect the public from this source of tuberculosis. COVID-19 has shown us that zoonotic disease risks must be taken seriously. The Ministry can issue a central notification in the official Gazette of India banning the exhibition and training of elephants as performing animals,” said PETA India CEO and veterinarian Dr Manilal Valliyate in a letter to the government.
Individual studies have found that elephants carry tuberculosis, including a 2016 paper that said, “There is evidence to suggest cross-species tuberculosis transmission.” Elephants have received various protections from the government in recent years, but PETA and other animal rights groups recommend ending them for exhibition and training as well.
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Police blotter: Man charged on outstanding domestic violence warrant
Published: Sunday, September 2, 2012 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, September 2, 2012 at 12:36 a.m.
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James Raymond Hill Jr., 22, 990 N. Highway 150, Pacolet, has been charged on an outstanding arrest warrant for criminal domestic violence.
Deputies say Hill is one of four people involved in a chase that occurred Friday afternoon, starting near the intersection of Goldmine and Poole Springs roads and ending at a wooded area on Emma Cudd Road near Lawson's Fork Creek.
Deputies discovered the vehicle wrecked in the woods, and the four people had fled. Deputies, K9 units and a helicopter searched the area.
Hill is the only one of the four who had been arrested by Saturday night. He was arrested Friday and later released from the detention center after posting a $2,000 bond.
The case remains under investigation, and charges could be filed on the four people.
Deputies are looking for someone who stole a computer and phone system, and damaged two television sets at St. Luke United Methodist Church, 105 McKay Ave.
An incident report stated that a crude message was written on an office wall, and deputies discovered what appeared to be urine near one of the entrances to the church.
A church representative called the sheriff's office Friday after discovering the damage and missing items.
The representative told deputies that the break-in most likely occurred
sometime between late Thursday night and Friday morning.
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NEPALGUNJ, April 25: Balika Rawat of Fultekra, Nepalgunj had never imagined that some day she would be able to start an industrial venture of her own. Then one day her husband, the only breadwinner of her family, was killed by the Maoists.
Twelve years ago, during the insurgency, Rawat´s husband was accused of being a police informer and put to death by the Maoists.
But Rawat´s fortunes have bounced back she started a small scale industry which makes paper files and envelopes. At her Panchankanya File and Envelope Industry, which collects and recycles used paper, Rawat has hired 12 other people. All her employees earn more than Rs. 6,000 a month.
“I was confined to my home for many years after my husband was murdered,” Rawat says, “but eventually I realized that that was not going to help me and I decided to start this industrial venture.” According to her, the venture is making a net profit of Rs. 50,000 a month.
Rawat´s case is a rarity in Nepali society. She faced difficulties in the beginning and overcame many obstacles that came her way. “Some of my relatives suggested to me to stay back home but it was not possible to feed and educate my children without working.”
After she decided to start her venture, she sought help from NGOs, but to no avail. That did not discourage her but instead prompted her to start up the ventue on her own. It has since grown progressively and now manufactures 30,000 files and 15,000 envelopes a month.
To establish a foothold for her products in the market, she sold the files at Rs. 2 per piece while the prevailing market price was Rs. 5. Due to the price advantage, demands for Panchakanya files and envelops swelled in a very short time. Rawat says, “The demand is such that we have not been able to fulfill it.”
With the income from the industrial venture, Rawat has sent her children to school in Kathmandu. Her eldest son is pursuing his studies in Chartered Accountancy and a younger daughter is enrolled at higher secondary level. Rawat has been spending Rs. 35,000 a month for the education of her children.

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today for the first time since Breslau I'm sitting at my desk, and I want to send you a Christmas greeting. How much I would prefer to travel to visit you! But that is out of the question, because I am chained to the editorial office, and every day I am there until midnight, at the printing presses to oversee the making up of the issue, and besides in these disturbed times the most urgent information and instructions that must be given still come in at 10 or 11 at night, and they must be responded to immediately. On top of that almost every day, from early in the morning, there are conferences and discussions, and public meetings in between, and as a change of pace every few days there come urgent warnings from "official sources" that Karl and I are threatened by gangs of killers [Mordbuben], so that we are not supposed to sleep at home but must seek shelter somewhere else, until the point was reached that this business became too stupid, in my opinion, and I simply came back here to Südende. I have been living this way, in the midst of tumult and turmoil and all in a rush from the first moment, and I don't have time to come to my senses or get my bearings. In all this I have only one small favorable prospect: we are expecting Julek [Marchlewski] soon, [and] then I could perhaps relax for a short time and go to visit you. It only depends on when he will succeed in coming across the border.1
Tensions are growing sharper here, both outwardly—with the Ebert people—and internally, in the USPD. You are probably receiving Rote Fahne regularly now and you see that we never cease to call for a party congress [of the USPD]. Yesterday there came an official rejection of that demand. The party is in complete disarray—Ströbel, Haase, Bock (!), and the Freiheit are openly demanding that a "line of demarcation be drawn against the left," which means against us. On the other hand, in the provinces the merger between the USPD and the Scheidemanns is in full swing. Zietz is now conducting herself in an extremely ambiguous manner: it was she who cooked up a "nationwide conference" [instead of a party congress] and who blocked the holding of a party congress.
Tuesday! And now yesterday [that is, on December 25 during the day—this letter being written around midnight at the end of Christmas day] there was of course a "revolutionary disturbance" again. There was an enormous demonstration [and march] to the Imperial Palace, and then a section of the demonstrators spontaneously headed for the Vorwärts building and occupied it! An armored car and 18 machine guns were found inside! I was then called in a hurry to a session and didn't get home here until 11:30 p.m. tonight. Today [on December 26] I have to go back into the city right away. And that's how it's been all these days. It remains that way, at least as I am writing this hasty greeting.
A thousand best wishes!
1 Julian Marchelewski was taken into „military protective custody” on May 22, 1916, and imprisoned in the Berlin municipal prison. On October 25, 1916, he was transferred to the Havelburg internment camp, from which he was freed in mid-1918 by the Soviet government in exchange for German prisoners of war. He went to Moscow by way of Petrograd, from which he was able to return to Berlin only after overcoming great difficulties, and not until January 18, 1919.
Quoted by Rosa Luxemburg: The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg, edited by George Adler, Peter Hudis and Annelies Laschitza, translated by George Shriver, Verso 2011, p. 487-488.


SEATTLE — A ballot initiative proposed by a new housing and homelessness advocacy coalition would establish a public developer that would create, own and maintain public housing in Seattle. The Seattle Times reports the initiative filed Monday is known as “social housing,” essentially publicly owned housing that is insulated from private market forces and designed to be permanently affordable. This model is popular in Europe. The city clerk’s office will review the new ballot initiative to ensure it has been filed correctly. Once that has been settled, the initiative will receive a ballot title and members of the coalition will begin collecting signatures from Seattle residents. The coalition needs almost 27,000 signatures to qualify for the ballot.
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Pulitzer Book calls for re-examination of U.S. race history
"Slavery By Another Name" recounts the little-known story of how in the decades after President Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation to free slaves, hundreds of thousands of black Americans were re-enslaved as convict laborers.
Author Douglas Blackmon said on Tuesday the story was "absolutely essential" to understanding why a U.S. racial divide still exists and why the country's black minority lags behind the rest of the population in terms of economic and social health.
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Jules R. Benjamin - 4/26/2009
The book sounds like a needed extension of the Post-Reconstruction history of the South. The perverted use of the "law" against black men and their economic exploitation once in prison still haunts the African American community. Three generations later, white share croppers think of their ancestors as living through "hard times;" the contemporary view of black "ex-cons" is not just history.
- 2 conservative groups are leading the fight against the new AP standards
- The secret of successful history departments
- AHA president suggests older historians should consider making way for younger historians
- Niall Ferguson Joins Schwarzman Scholars as Distinguished Visiting Professor in China
- Francis Fukuyama is still bullish on where history is headed, but Americans should worry: republics can decay.


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Katy Perry and
John Mayer have apparently ended their brief romance.
The couple were first linked last month and after a string of sightings of them followed, it seemed clear they were enjoying each other’s company more than a little.
But a source has now apparently confirmed to People magazine that they are no longer seeing each other but are likely to keep friendly.
The source said: ‘They’ll end up as friends. They were honestly having fun. People made it out to be far more than it was.’
Katy, 27, and 34-year-old Mayer were spotted on a number of dates including mutual friends’ house parties, Hollywood hot-spot Chateau Marmont Hotel and LA’s Soho House.
They were also said to be working on music together but that might prove a little awkward now they’re no longer dating.
Perry has previously gushed of Mayer, as she admitted she could never get serious with him, so this was perhaps on the horizon for the pair.
During an interview in 2009, she said: ‘I couldn’t marry John Mayer, it’d be so intense. I’d definitely shag the s**t out of him though. I’ll go on record saying that.’
Mayer is a known lothario across the pond, having dating Jennifer Aniston, Jessica Simpson, Lindsay Lohan and Taylor Swift in the past.
Since Katy’s split from Brand, she has been linked to French model Baptiste Giabiconi, Florence + The Machine guitarist Rob Ackroyd.

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On the first day of this year’s DC Blockchain Summit in Washington, D.C., concern that a heavy-handed approach from the federal government may stifle blockchain innovation within the u. s. was lessened by the regulators themselves, who told attendees that they often support permitting the technology to flourish.
That message was bolstered on day 2 of the conference, when U.S. Representative Tom emmer (R-Minnesota), a lawmaker who has taken on blockchain as a difficulty on capitol hill. Emmer, who co-chairs the legislative assembly Blockchain Caucus, expected that 2019 “stands to be the year of blockchain, the year we separate hype from reality, and begin harnessing blockchain in the right-use cases to lower costs and increase efficiency,” he told attendees on March seven.
But he conjointly stressed the requirement for coordinated government oversight. “Congress has a clear role: we must insure that regulation is simple and precise,” Emmer said. “If a patchwork of regulations emerges, the industry will suffer, and prove government to be ineffective. This confusion will beyond question result in a lot of regulation, which is able to solely stifle the innovation and potential application of the technology.”
The financial stakes were highlighted throughout the conference once it absolutely was noted that there’s $130 billion in price presently being keep in public blockchain networks, and that ten percent of the world’s gross domestic product is predicted to be stored by 2025.
Emmer counseled the Chamber of Digital Commerce for releasing its National Action plan for Blockchain, that necessitate a pro-growth restrictive approach to developing blockchain technology within the U.S. The document specifically mentions however the technology is already being applied in supply chain networks for following food safety.
“The National Action plan also provides a required need clear regulation before enforcement. although regulators of blockchain and cryptocurrency have been considerably restrained and have allowed innovation during this area to flourish, we’re presently operating beneath ‘regulation by enforcement.’ Regulators should offer clear rules of the road to make sure that even the tiniest start-up with a superb plan will become a serious enterprise.”
Emmer said he’s doing his half to hurry the expansion of blockchain within the U.S. through his Blockchain regulatory Certainty Act, a bill he introduced in January. The legislation ensures that blockchain developers that never take charge of client funds don’t have to register as a cash transmitter within the states in which they operate.
“Money transmitter laws were enacted to ensure the protection of the buyer entrusting another entity with their funds so as to transmit them. If no funds are being entrusted to a different, it ought to make sure that these rules don’t apply,” he said
DTube, as you might have guessed is the decentralized answer to YouTube. The app looks similar to the familiar video site, but there are a few key differences. Content creators can upload videos and have the opportunity to earn cryptocurrency.
The app is censorship resistant, claiming that only the users can censor content through the power of upvotes and downvotes. There are no ads and creators don’t have to worry about algorithms prioritizing popular content over new posts.
We browsed around, finding that most of the content is about crypto and blockchain topics. Granted, that’s probably because DTube isn’t exactly widely publicized on mainstream internet publications or social networks.
Auckland-based cryptocurrency savings and trading platform Vimba has gotten a $330,000 grant from a government entity Callaghan Innovation.
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CFTC Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo credited bitcoin futures with helping the cryptocurrency market reach a more “sustainable” level.
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‘Beautiful Ruins’ isn’t typical Hollywood novel, author says
Jess Walter’s critically acclaimed new book “Beautiful Ruins” contains many of the characters and attitudes of the classic Hollywood novel — doomed heroes and heroines lurching from troubled pasts toward impossible dreams. The bestseller, generating waves of buzz this summer, mixes key ingredients of a recipe used by such authors as Nathanael West and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
“Beautiful Ruins” features a dying American actress visiting a remote Italian isle and entrancing a local man who can barely speak English. There’s also a foul-mouthed 72-year-old film producer who, after years of cosmetic surgery, now has “the face of a nine-year-old Filipino girl,” and scenes on the set of the 1963 movie “Cleopatra,” one of the most expensive and memorable failures ever in the film industry.
But no — it’s not that kind of story, insists Walter, who’s known on the literary circuit for preceding works such as “The Financial Lives of the Poets,” which is being made into a movie starring Jack Black. “Ruins” may have a Hollywood setting and a keen eye for the foibles of the industry, but it is not a Hollywood novel per se.
“It’s so hard to trace the path of a novel, because so much is random,” Walter explained during a recent L.A. stop on his national book tour.
“This is about Italy in the 1960s, Hollywood now, Hollywood then, the Seattle music scene, the Donner party, World War II,” the Spokane-based, 47-year-old author said. “Hollywood is like a giant mirror, I think, and I used it that way in the book, reflecting characters back to themselves.”
Also reflected in the novel is Walter’s personal life. The idea for the book arose on a vacation to Italy in 1997, as Walter explored villages etched into cliffs, which illustrate the novel’s cover. At the time, his mother was terminally ill with cancer and she became the inspiration for the sick actress who begins the novel.
“I had an impulse to set her somewhere she’d never been, somewhere she never had the opportunity to travel to,” he said. “The sweep of the characters’ lives had to do with me reflecting on my mother’s life, from beginning to end. I started the book in ’62 because she would’ve been 20 then.”
The movie “Cleopatra,” which starred the love-besotted couple Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, was shooting in Italy that year, he said. The novel’s intricate pieces, spanning five decades and about 4,500 miles, are also inspired by Walter’s life as a journalist, author and on-and-off screenwriter. He wrote “Ruins” over 15 years, in between finishing five books and pitching several films. Since its publication last month, “Ruins” has earned glowing reviews, including an NPR critic who called it a “literary miracle” and is moving up on coast-to-coast bestseller lists.
Though his mother isn’t a starring character, the first figure to appear, the dying actress Dee Moray, is dedicated to her. Dee’s departure from “Cleopatra” set off a ripple of complex story lines connected by one all-alluring force: the entertainment industry, Walter said.
“I’ve been simultaneously drawn to and repelled from Hollywood for years,” he said. “I wanted to explore how we’re all defining ourselves now. With Facebook and Twitter, we’re all our own little publicists in a way. And the thing we think of as Hollywood is this kind of studio system, this thing that is sort of fractured and not what it was. The novel is full of shots at the vacuous banalities Hollywood turns out.”
Some examples: One chapter (that could stand alone as a short story) is dedicated to “Donner!” — a highly detailed movie pitch that describes a group of cannibals devouring the unfortunate hero’s children. “It’s the least likely movie to ever be made,” he said, “but it reads exactly like a guy pitching a movie.”
Twisted reality shows within the text — including Midget House (“a bunch of drunk midgets in a house” and Hookbook.net (“insane people going on dates and having them filmed”) — have attracted interest from real-life producers, according to Walter.
“I think I would explode in flames of irony if I were to option an idea that I was satirizing in a novel,” he said, laughing.
So if it’s not exactly a Hollywood novel, what is it? If he had to classify it, Walter would call “Ruins” a romance, a coming-of-age, a comedy and a historical fiction. In place of moral dilemma, he writes satire with laugh-out-loud lines like, “Do you expect me to leave your father just because he is dead?”
“I’ve been told it’s too entertaining,” Walter said. “I guess if someone has to point out a flaw, that’s the best possible flaw.”
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One of Arsenal’s stars who is now on the injury list has sent out a message to the fans on social media after suffering his latest setback ahead of the international break.
Arsenal’s main problem under the reign of Arsene Wenger was about injuries to key players and following his departure in May this year, those concerns have failed to be eliminated at the club.
Heading into the international break, key striker Danny Welbeck succumbed to a serious injury blow in the clash against Sporting Lisbon in the Europa League, a match which saw the Gunners settle for a 0-0 draw on home turf.
Back home… Thanks for all the love and support. No doubt I will be back stronger than ever before. Recovery grind starts now 🙏🏿❤💪🏿 pic.twitter.com/Kv8qxTGgDk
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The 27-year-old was immediately able to undergo an operation on his ankle after suffering severe damage.
With not too long left on his contract at the Emirates stadium, many have questioned whether Welbeck has indeed played his final game in an Arsenal shirt.
But the England international has remained positive and here was his message after receiving treatment


by Matt Kupec
October 30, 2019
It seems like every non-profit and educational institution is in the midst of a major fundraising campaign! Campaigns are so frequently launched that it now feels like it is more the norm to be in a campaign than not to be in a campaign.
I have had the chance to lead four major fundraising campaigns:
- “The Campaign for Hofstra University,” a $30 million effort that was Hofstra University’s first-ever comprehensive campaign. That initiative raised $32 million in total.
- “The Bicentennial Campaign” at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, a $320 million effort that was launched on the celebration of UNC’s 200th That campaign raised $440 million in total.
- “The Carolina First Campaign,” a $1.8 billion campaign launched by UNC-Chapel Hill. This effort wound up totaling $2.38 billion in commitments, at the time the 5th largest campaign by a University in U.S. history.
- “Forever SIU Campaign,” a $75 million effort launched by Southern Illinois University Carbondale. This effort is nearing the $90 million mark in commitments as the campaign marches on.
Having run four major fundraising campaigns, I know the important role that volunteer leadership can play in the subsequent success or failure of these important fundraising initiatives. In this blog post, I share my thoughts about successfully working with volunteer leaders in a campaign:
Recruiting Volunteer Campaign Leaders. Finding the right mix of individuals to serve as volunteer leaders of your campaign is one of the most important decisions an organization can make. I’ve had the privilege of working with some giants like Hugh McColl, Billy Armfield, Paul Fulton, Charlie Shaffer, Mike Overlock, Barbara Hyde and Mary Ann Dickson in the two UNC campaigns. SIU has a star in Dan Korte and if the campaign gets extended additional great leaders will join the SIU effort.
But what do you look for when recruiting campaign chair(s)? Do you need just one chair? Maybe co-chairs? How about multiple chairs? There are number of factors you should consider when recruiting volunteer leaders. How passionate are the individuals about your organization? Are they major donors? If not, does that matter? Are they connected? Do other volunteers respect them? What about the proper balance of your leadership group in terms of gender, race, and age?
These are all important questions to ask when recruiting leadership for the campaign. Remember, you will be working very closely with these individuals for the duration of the campaign so it is important that you select the right people to lead your campaign.
To read the full article, go to http://mattkupec.org/matt-kupec-working-with-fundraising-campaign-volunteers-leaders/


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VILNIUS - Kinze Manufacturing Inc., an Iowa-based maker of farm machinery, will open it’s first factory outside the U.S. in Lithuania this year to support expansion in Central and Eastern Europe, reports Bloomberg. The Baltic plant is “geared to increasing sales in Russia, Ukraine and the whole of the European Union,” Kinze Vice President Susanne Veatch said on May 7 in a joint statement e-mailed by Lithuania’s investment agency in Vilnius. Important EU markets include the Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Hungary, she said.Kinze, which says it’s th...
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