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Finding Aid to the P. P. Balakshin Papers, 1929-1989
Finding Aid to the P. P. Balakshin Papers, 1929-1989
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Appendix A: Bibliography of Peter Balakshin's Published Works
Autobiography of Petr P. Balakshin
August, 1986
Container List
Series 1: General Correspondence, ca. 1929-1985.
Scope and Content Note
Adamovich, Georgy
SEE: Russian Writers' Guild of California
Aldanov, Mark (Nice, France) 1955
Allen, Hervey (Oxford, Maryland).
Re: translation of his poem, "Saga of Leif the Lucky" 1935-1936
Amfiteatrov, Alexandr Valentinovich (Levanto, Italy).
Includes 1984 article by Balakshin 1934-1936
Aufderhaar, Ursula (professor at University of Gottingen, Germany).
Re: Baron Ungern of Mongolia 1977-1978
Baratynsky, Ol'ga Aleksandrovna.
SEE: Iliyn, Ol'ga Aleksandrovna
Bem, A. L. (writer and literary critic; Prague, Czechoslovakia) 1937
Bicilli, P. (writer and literary critic; Sofia, Bulgaria).
Includes letters by A. Gomolitsky (poet, editor of the Anthology of Russian Poetry in Poland; Warsaw, Poland) and Alex Sokolovsky (poet; Jasst, Rumania) 1935-1937
Bolotine, Cleopatra Mikhaylovna, (writer; New York, N.Y.) 1985
Botsaris, Elena Vitol'dovna (professor of Russian literature and history, University of Madrid, Spain) 1974-1978
Botsaris, Elena Vitol'dovna
SEE: Gorny, Sergey
Bourkoun, Tamara Markovna (London, England).
Re: "Finale in China" 1978-1982
Bourov, Alexandre (Amsterdam, Holland).
Includes Book Review by Balakshin 1956
Chamberlin, Sonya
SEE: Chamberlin, William Henry
Chamberlin, William Henry (editor of
The Russian Review; New
Includes letter from his wife, Sonya (San Francisco, Calif.) 1936-1943
Crowley, Joe (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Re: situation in Shanghai 1983
Crueger, John R. (professor of Turko-Mongolian languages, University of Indiana) 1984-1985
Daniels, Camilla (writer and translator; Carmel, Calif.: translated Volkov`s manuscript on Mongolia and some of Balakshin`s stories) 1933-1937, 1964
Fabritsius, Lev Evgenievich (writer, associate of the magazine
Toronto, Canada).
Re: contributing to the magazine 1975-1978
Fisher, H. H. (Chairman, Committee on Russian Research, Stanford University).
Re: literary works by J. Kolyschko, Stanford University 1936
Frankenstein, Alfred ("San Francisco Chronicle"; San Francisco, Calif.).
Re: Victor Harmann, painter 1936-1937
Gidoni, Aleksandr Grigorievich (writer, poet, associate of the magazine
Sovremennik, its last editor; Toronto, Canada).
Re: contribution to the magazine 1976-1977
Ginrich, Arnold (Editor of Esquire Publishing Co.; Chicago, Illinois).
Re: translation of Langston Hughes' "The Folks at Home". Includes letters by Hughes 1936
Glagolin, Boris Sergeyevich (artist of the Moscow Art Theatre; Los Angeles, Calif.) 1935-1940
Gomolitsky, A.
SEE: Bicilli, P.
Gorny, Sergey (pseudonym), (Berlin, Germany).
Includes letters by Aleksander Otsup (his brother) and E. Botsaris (on Gorny in Spain), and the 1984 article by Balakshin: "The Other Side Of A Binocular" 1934-1937
Goul, Roman Borisovich (writer and editor of New Review; New York, N.Y.) 1974-1985
Grebenshchikoff, Gregory Dmitrievich,
Includes 1984 article by Balakshin: "The Shaman in Pattented Shoes" 1934-1935
Homitzky, Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich (playwright; New York, N.Y.) 1977-1980
Hughes, Langston
SEE: Ginrich, Arnold
Iliyn, Ol'ga Aleksandrovna (writer and poetess; San Francisco, Calif.) 1972-1985
Kaufman, Evgeny Samilovich (Harbin, Manchuria).
Includes 1984 article by Balakshin: "The Newspaper Trust" 1940
Kelly, Galina (journalist; Monterey, Calif.).
Re: "Finale in China" 1978
Khaindrova, Lidiya Yulianova (poetess), letters from Harbin, Manchuria
Khaindrova, Lidiya Yulianova (poetess), letters from Krasnodar, USSR
Kochurova Shandor, Viktoriya Ivanovna
SEE: Ktorova, Alla
Kolyshko, Iosif Iosifovich (Nice, France).
Includes 1984 article by Balakshin: "The Big Man" 1934-1936
Kolyshko, Iosif Iosifovich
SEE: Fisher, H. H.
Kostrukoff, Nicolas (director and conductor of the Platoff Don Cossak Choir; Chicago & Los Angeles) 1939
Krusenstern Peterets, Yustina Vladimirovna (writer, journalist, script writer for 2 Voice of America, format editor of Russian Life; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil), re: "Finale in China" 1959
Ktorova, Alla (writer, several books, published in many emigre publications; Washington, D.C.) 1975-1976
La Farge, Olivier (writer; New York, N. Y.) 1937
Landau, Mark
SEE: Aldanov, Mark
The Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.) 1957, 1979, 1982
Lichtman, Z. G.
SEE: Roerich, Nikolay
Lilienthal, Philip E. (University of California Press; Berkeley, Calif.).
Re: "Finale in China" 1963
Ljoschin, Wasilij Ivanovich (writer; Unterhaching, Germany) 1974-1975
Loukashkin, Anatoliy Stepanovich (prominent leader of the Russian community of San
Francisco, one of the creators of the Museum of Russian Culture)
research materials for "Finale in China" and its distribution in Calif. 1952-1973
Lukins, Garold
SEE: Roerich, Nikolay
Maevsky, Vl. (professor, author of books on history of Russia; Sea Cliff, Long Island, New York) 1966-1967
Mantulin, Valentin Nikolaevich (Pearl River, New York).
Re: restaging operas "Life for the Tzar" and "Boris Godunov" 1985
Mazurova, Aleksandra Nikolaevna (writer, lecturer, one time a mentor in literature to Yehudi Menuhin; Florida) 1930-1945
McKeehan, Irina Vladimirovna (American Concert Management; New York, N.Y.)
Re: life and art of the Russian singer Dmitry Alekseyevich Smirnov 1982-1984
Mendelson, Ernst Ellion (Israel) 1980
Miller, Boris Georgievich (associate of
Posiev and book distributor in
England; London, England).
Re: book distribution 1979-1985
Miloradovich, S.
SEE: Shakhovskaya, Zinaida
Nesmelov, Arseny (pseudonym) (Harbin, Manchuria).
Includes 1984 article by Balakshin: "Singing Yearning" 1930-1936
O'Brien, John William, Maj. Gen. (Military Attache, Australian Embassy; Washington,
Re: manuscript on life of Japanese Admiral Toyoda 1951-1953
Official Documents and Commendation on work as Military Historian with Gen.
MacArthur's Staff in Japan
Orloff, Aleksandr Serteyevich (actor of the Malay Theater in Moscow and director of the dramatic theater of San Francisco; San Francisco, Calif.) 1970-1980
Osorgin, Mikhail Andreevich (Paris, France).
Re: unlawful reprints, includes 1984 article by Balakshin: "Literary Poachers" 1934
Otsup, Aleksandr Avdeyevich
SEE: Gorny, Sergey
Otsup, Sergio
SEE: Aleksandr Avdeyevich
Pereleshin, Sentyavina Sinitskaya
SEE: Pereleshin, Valery Frantsevich
Pereleshin, Valery Frantsevich (poet, translator of poems from foreign languages; Rio
de Janeiro, Brasil).
Includes some letters by Sentyavina Sinitskaya (his mother) 1974-1977
Petlin, Nikolay Nikolaywvich (former editor of
Russian Life; San
Francisco, Calif.).
Re: the newspaper Russian Life 1977-1983
Pil'sky, Pyotr (Riga, Latvia)
Includes 1984 article by Balakshin: "The Riga Pulp Literature" 1934
Poznyakova, Irina Vladimirovna
SEE: McKeehan, Irina Vladimirovna
Rachinskaya, Elizaveta Nikolaevna (writer, of "Migratory Birds", radio script writer for the BBC, London), letters from Harbin, Manchuria and London, England 1936, 1937, 1983
Rahr, Lev Aleksandrovivh (publisher of
Possev-Verlag; Frankfurt,
Re: book publishing 1975-1978
Reznikova, Nataliya (Harbin, Manchuria) 1936
Riasanovsky, Valentin Alexandrovich (professor, scholar on Mongolia; San Francisco,
Re: "Finale in China" 1950-1964
Rittenberg, C. (Coeditor of
Sodrujestva; Vipuri, Finland).
Includes letters by Michael Shcherbakov (Editor of Vrata, literary magazine; Shanghai, China) and Vasilieff (Editor of The Modern Woman; Shanghai, China) 1934, 1937
Roerich, Nikolay (Kulu, Pundjab, India).
Includes letters from the Roerich Museum, signed by Z. G. Lichtman, Richard Rudritis and Garold Lukins; also includes 1984 article by Balakshin: "News From The Himalaya" 1935-1937
Roger, Conrad (St. Catherine College; Oxford, England).
Re: "Finale in China" and persons mentioned in the work 1966
Rossi, Angelo (Mayor of San Francisco; San Francisco, Calif.) 1940
Roudneff, Vadim (Editor of Annales Contemporaines; Paris, France) 1936
Rudritis, Richard
SEE: Roerich, Nikolay
Russian Historical Archive (Prague, Czechoslovakia)
Russian Writers' Guild of California (Campaign of a group of Russian writers,
organized by Peter Balakshin, to protect literary rights of Russian Emigre writers; San
Francisco, Calif.)
Includes letters by Georgy Adamovich (Nice, France) and Andrey Sedykh (Paris, France); other letters by writers interested in protecting their works from unlawful reprints, are scattered through other folders 1933-1934
Samarin, Vladimir Dmitrievich (former associate of an emigre's publication in the
Soviet Union during World War II; Milford, Connecticut).
Re: his case of collaboration with Nazi and forth coming trial 1982
Savin, V.
SEE: Sovremennik
Sedykh, Andrey
SEE: Russian Writers' Guild of California
Shakovskaya, Zinaida (Editor, La Pensée Russe; Paris, France).
Includes letter by S. Miloradovich (her associate) 1973
Shakhovskoy, John (Archbishop of the American Orthodox Church; Santa Barbara,
Re: Gay Parade in San Francisco 1982
Shcherbakov, Michael
SEE: Rittenberg, C.
Sladko Petrishchev
SEE: Pereleshin, Valery Frantsevich
Sokolovsky, Alex
SEE: Bicilli, P.
Soljenitsyn, Aleksandr (Editor of the newspaper Russian Life; Paris, France). Includes copies of letters and other material re: the newspaper 1976
Sollogub, Apollon Aleksandrovich (Editor of the newspaper
Russian Life;
San Francisco).
Includes copies of letters and other material re: the newspaper 1983-1985
Sovremennik (magazine of literature and art; Toronto, Canada).
Includes correspondence with V. Savin (its editor) 1974
Speransky, Valentin (Paris, France).
Includes letters by Yuri Terapiano (Paris, France), references to Maris Vega, and 1984 article by Balakshin: "Parisian Meetings" 1956-1973
Struve, Gleb Petrovich (Professor of University of California; Berkeley,
short letter exchange 1983
Tahir, M. (Ankara, Turkey).
Re: "Finale in China" 1972
Terapiano, Yury
SEE: Speransky, Valentin
Teffi, Nadejda (Paris, France).
Includes 1984 article by Balakshin: "The Silver Sailboat" 1934
Timochenko, V. P.
SEE: Vernadsky, George
Tolstaya, Aleksandra L'vovna (The Tolstoy Foundation) 1940
Tzvetaeva, Marina (Vanves, France).
Includes 1984 article by Balakshin: "The Guests of Some Other Evenings" 1936
SEE: Rittenberg, C.
Vega, Maris
SEE: Speransky, Valentin
Vernadsky, George (professor, Yale University).
Includes letter by V. P. Timochenko (professor, Stanford University) 1936-1937
Volkov, Boris (poet, author of extensive study on Mongolia Manuscript at Hoover Library, Stanford University) 1937
Volkowysski, Nikolay Moiseyevich (editor of Russian newspaper
Mech in
Warsaw and correspondent of
Segodnya, Russian newspaper in Riga, Latvia),
letters from Warsaw, Poland
Weinbaum, Mark Efimovich (editor of the Russian language New York daily Novoye Russkoye Slovo; New York, N.Y.) 1934-1941
Werner, Artur Mikhailovich (director of Russische Andrej Sacharow Akademie e. V.;
Keln, Germany)
Re: translation of "Finale in China" into German
Wetjen, Albert Richard (writer; Portland, Oregon; New York, N.Y., San Francisco,
Re: permission to translate his stories in Russian 1935
Yanovsky, Vasily Semenovich (Paris, France) 1936
Zurov, Leonid Feodorovich (Grasse, France).
Includes 1984 article by Balakshin: "Letters From Bunin's Estate" 1929-1936
Series 2: Correspondence and Papers re "Finale in China," ca. 1942-1978.
Scope and Content Note
Bogunsky, Nikolai Filippovich (contributor to the story of the White Russian
Emigration in China; San Francisco, Calif.).
Copies of letters mailed to him in connection with his material on political events in the Far East, involving some leaders of the White Russian communities in China 1957-1960
Butow, Georgy Ivanovich (publisher; Munchen, Germany).
Copies of letters to him in connection with the publishing of two volumes of "Finale in China" 1956 1960
Cheremshansky, George
SEE: Cheremshansky, Yury Apollonovich
Cheremshansky, Yury Apollonovich (policeman and latter detective of the Shanghai
Municipal Police prior to World War II, informer of CIA on Russian affairs, contributor to
the morbid story of "Finale in China"; Washington, D.C., Tokyo).
Copies of letters to him 1956 1966
Fomichev, Mikhail Filippovich (writer, newspaperman, contributor to the story of the
White Russian Emigration in China; Toronto, Canada)
Valuable material on various aspects of the emigre life in China and on Tubabao, Philippines 1959-1960
Guinkh, Nikolay Sergeevich (Victoria, Australia).
Comments on "Finale in China" from Australia 1962
Goble, Paul A. (historian, modern history of Russia; Chicago, Illinois)
A letter on Baron Ungern and search of his life and activities in Mongolia 1978
Golubeff, Nikolai Pavlovich, M. D. (Sydney, Australia).
Correspondence in connection with his claim of defamation in "Finale in China" 1960
Karpoff, Vladimit Ivanovich (contributor to the story of the White Russian Emigration
in China; Aarhus, Denmark)
Valuable material on political situation, excesses, lawliness faced by the emigres in their ordinary life 1948-1961
Kaznoff, Ivan Petrovich (contributor to the story of the White Russian Emigration in China, victim of torture at the hands of the Emigre Secret Police in Harbin, considered by some as a double agent; Blangies (Hainout), Belguim) 1955-1959
Ivanovsky, Alex A. (writer, publisher; Brooklyn, New York)
Letter on "Finale in China" and inquiry about someone from Harbin 1962
Kamkin, Victor Petrovich (publisher and bookseller, owner of Victor Kamkin, Inc., bookstore in Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.), correspondence in connection with publishing and distribution of "Finale in China" 1958-1969
Kurohasi, Tosio (captain of the Kempetai, Japanese Gendarmery, interpreter, fluent in
Russian, so called the Black Angel of the Russian emigre community of Shanghai; Tosio,
Tokyo, Japan).
Copies of letters to him 1957-1959
Kuroki, K.
SEE: Kurohasi, Tosio
Loukashkin, Anatoly Stepanovich (member of the Museum of Russian Culture, Inc., San
Francisco; San Francisco, Calif.).
Correspondence in connection with "Finale in China", preparation, publishing, distribution 1955-1960
Martynoff, Nikolay Andreevich (served in the Chinese Police in Harbin and with the
Japanese kempetai gendar mery, inhabitant of an old people's home for Russian refugees in
Blangies (Hainout), Belguim).
Copies of letters to him in connection with his work as a contributor to the "Finale in China" narration 1955-1961
Morozova, Olga Aleksandrovna (contributor to the chronicle of Russian emigrants on
Tubabao Island, Philippines, former residents of Shanghai, China, her article "Notes on
Tubabao" became an important part of the second volume of "Finale in China"; Alhambra,
Correspondence 1959-1960
Orekhoff, V. V. (editor of magazine "Sentinel"; Brussels, Belguim).
Copies of letters to him 1956-1960
Perekrestenko, Vladimir (chairman of the Association of Russian Writers and
Journalists in Belguim; Brussels, Belguim).
Correspondence on research for material in connection with White Russian Emigration in China 1959
Potebnya, Yuri (Seattle, Washington).
His notes on the readers' response and effects of "Finale in China" on various groups of the Russian emigre. Also, Balakshin's reply to his letters 1959
Pojdestvensky, Serafim Pavlovich (member of the NLU, a political Russian anti
communist organization, publishers of the newspaper "Posiev" and literary magazine "Grani";
Frankfurt a/Main, Germany).
Comments on "Finale in China" in connection with his review of the story of White Russian Emigration in China 1959
Roudenko, V. (Sydney, Australia).
A letter describing the execution of his two sons by the Japanese gendarmery on false suspicion that they were Soviet spies 1961
Sapelkin, Veniamin Vasil'evich (writer and journalist, author of works on Pushkin and
Dostoyevsky; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
Copies of letters to him in search of material on China and the White Russian emigration 1957
Serebriannikova, A. (staff writer for "
Russian Life"; San Francisco,
Notes and comments on "Finale in China", her reply to Balakshin's letter about Red China, an article she wrote in "Russian Life" 1957
Shabalin, A. P. (New York, New York), letter on "Finale in China" 1960
Shevchenko, David, Rev. (priest of the Russian Greek Orthodox Church; Tubabao,
Appeals from Tubabao, Philippines, to various persons on behalf of the emigres, its residents, formerly of Shanghai, China 1942-1952
Spassovsky, Mikhail Mikhaylovich (editor of the Chinese Russian newspaper in
Shanghai, writer, journalist, lecturer; Wentworthville, Australia, formerly of Shanghai,
Correspondence in connection with the story of "Finale in China" 1957-1960
Terapiano, Yuri ("La Pensée Russe"; Paris, France).
Copy of letter to him 1960
Zondervan, Felox, M. D. (Vancouver, Canada, formerly of Harbin, Manchuria).
Correspondence regarding emigre's life in China as depicted in "Finale in China" 1961
Press Reviews on "Finale in China"
Letters of University Presses 1963-1973
Synopsis of "Finale in China"
Letter to Publishers, copy
"A Bough of Lilac".
Reply to some reviewers 1955
Letters to possible contributors, their last names not remembered, copy 1957-1960
Photographs of some people appearing in "Finale in China"
Supplement: General Correspondence, 1934-1989
Scope and Content Note
Arens-Pulawski, Veronika correspondence on P. Balashin's work 1985-1988
Bobrova-Zuckert, Ella Russian-Canadian writer, poetress lecturer 1975-1986
Zuckert, Evsay
Concertmeister with leading symphony orchestras, conductor, composer
Congress of Russian-American, Inc. 1988
Cool, Valery
Bibliographer 1988
Despotuli, Valdmir
Editor of "Nowoje Slowo" (New Word) 1934
Fabricius, Lev
Editor of Sovremenni K, Russian magazine, Toronto, Canada 1975-1978
N. Russian National Center 1937
Hamilton Library, University of Hawaii 1987
Litvinoff, Boris
Newspaperman, essayist, script writer for Radio Free Europe, Muchen, Germany Litvinoff, Natalie member of the national Labor Union, Frankfurt, Germany 1959-1983
Mazurova, Aleksandra
Writer, lecturer, once a mentor of Yehudi, Menuhin 1951-1963
Nasha Gazeta (Our Newspaper)
Russian-Canadian Newspaper, Maz Roiz, publisher and editor 1987-1988
Orekhoff, Vasily
Publisher and editor of "Chasovoy" (La Sentinelle), Brussels, Belgium 1959
Russian Life,
Russian language daily newspaper correspondence on improving the paper, its contents and appearance 1986-1988
Solzenitsyn, Aleksandr
Writer 1976
Solovieff, Michail
Newspaperman, writer. Once a foreign correspondent of Pravada and Izvestiya, Soviet Union, captured by Germans, 1962 Head of Radio Our 1957-1960
Soh, Jin C
Korean diplomat and historian, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley 1986
Stephan, John J.
Professor of History, University of Hawaii 1987-1989
Svirsky, Gregory
Soviet writer, author of several books of Anti-Soviet trend. Forbidden to publish more books in the Soviet Union. Immigrated to Canada 1987-1988
Voos, (Psakian), Karina V.
Newspaper writer, once co-editor of "Russian Life", San Francisco 1964-1988
Zalewski, Woiciech
Librarian, Green Library, Stanford University 1989


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List of most and least expensive states to live in the U.S.
For the first time, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis released price-adjusted estimates of personal income for states and metropolitan areas for 2008 to 2012, and it shows that, at the very least, it's more expensive for Members of Congress to live in the nation's capital on their $174,000 salary than in any state from which they hail.
The results show the District of Columbia, in 2012, had the highest "regional price parity" of any state. Granted, D.C.'s really a city, not a state, and set against their more natural comparisons, it ranks fifth, behind the Urban Honolulu area, New York-Newark-Jersey City, San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk and San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward. Beaches, hedge funds and technology are the key to prices, evidently.
The cheapest metro areas, by this methodology, were Danville, Ill.; Jefferson City, Mo.; Jackson, Tenn.; Jonesboro, Ark.; and Rome, Ga.
See related look at most and least expensive cities to live in the U.S.
Put another way,it costs 54% more to live in Honolulu than in Danville.
The top five states (outside of D.C.) were Hawaii, New York, New Jersey, California and Maryland, and the bottom five states were Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Missouri and South Dakota. So, it costs 36% more to live in Hawaii than in Mississippi.
The BEA says it produced the report in large part so people and businesses can have a better understanding how their personal income may be impacted by a job change or move. There is regional consumer price index data, but those statistics aren't designed for regional or city comparisons, whereas this data is, a spokesman says.
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The question was closed instead of migrated so I have opened a new question on meta
Currently intended role of StackApps.com is not entirely clear.
Right now, it seems to be focused on shaking out the bugs in the API and providing a somewhat noisy area of app announcement, via the 'apps' tab, that to a non-technical user just looking for a cool app is likely to be intimidating to the point of being unusable.
If the 'apps' tab is intended to ultimately be an end-user resource for finding apps, it will have to be redesigned to be more app-store-ish and controlled by more than adding a tag.
But what I do not see a lot of is 'how can i do xxxx with the api' and 'how to do xxxx' with the api, basically an api app developer centric site with code snippet heavy content similar to Stack Overflow..
here is the Area 51 proposal for such an api app developer site:


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Short intro: wrote a post about how I didn't like how some folks were (seemingly) bragging about how high they pay their postdocs on the internet, got a lot of responses, wrote a post with some ideas about how postdocs and PIs could approach the subject of pay. That was meant to deal with short term practical consequences. Here, I wanted to highlight some of the responses I got about aspects of postdoc pay that have to do with policy, likely with no surprises to anyone who's thought about this for more than a few minutes. Again, no answers here, just mostly reporting what I heard. So sorry, first part of the post is probably kind of boring. At the end, I'll talk about some things I learned about discussing this sort of thing on the internet.
First off, though, again, for the record, I support paying postdocs well and support the increased minimum. I think a minimum starting salary of $48K (however inadvertently that number was reached) seems to be a reasonable minimum to enforce across the US. Based on what, I dunno, honestly. I just think we need a flat national minimum: it would be hard/weird for NIH to do it by cost of living across the US, but at the same time, relying on institutions to set their own wage scales is ripe for abuse. More on that later.
Anyway, it is clear that one of the top concerns about postdoc pay was child care. No surprise there, postdoc time often coincides with baby time, and having kids is expensive, period. One can get into debates about whether one's personal life choices should figure into how much pay someone "deserves", but considering that the future of the human race requires kids, I personally think it's a thing we absolutely must be considering. There are no easy answers here, though. Igor Ulitsky summed it up nicely:
@erlichya @dgmacarthur @arjunrajlab biggest issue is by far the family part. $50k used to be ok for a single person in Cambridge, but 1/2— Igor Ulitsky (@IgorUlitsky) December 4, 2016
@erlichya @dgmacarthur @arjunrajlab a family with 2 kids needs $90k. Problem is that paying based on fa. status discriminates as well 2/n— Igor Ulitsky (@IgorUlitsky) December 4, 2016
@erlichya @dgmacarthur @arjunrajlab solution needs to be affordable daycare. 3/3— Igor Ulitsky (@IgorUlitsky) December 4, 2016
I think Igor is absolutely right, an institutional child care subsidy is really the only way to do it. The problem otherwise is that the costs are so high for childcare that just paying everyone enough for childcare regardless of family status would quickly bankrupt most PIs' grants. But just paying more based on "need" has a lot of flaws. I think it was telling that at least some trainees said that they wouldn't begrudge their coworker with a kid if the PI paid them more. Well, what if your coworker had parents who lived with them? Or parents who could live with them? Or a spouse who earned a lot of money? Or was home from work often because of the kid? And how much extra should they be paid? Enough for "cadillac" child care? Bare minimum child care? I just don't think it's reasonable or wise for PIs to be making these decisions. If, on the other hand, the institution stepped in to make this a priority (as both my postdocs have argued), then this would solve a lot of problems. They could either provide a voucher applicable to local daycares or provide daycare itself at a heavily subsidized rate (I think Penn does provide a subsidy, but it's not much). This is, of course, a huge expense for institutions to take on, and I'm sure they won't do it willingly, but perhaps it's time to have that discussion. Anecdotally, I think there really has been a change—before, many academics would wait until getting a faculty position (maybe even tenure) before having kids, whereas now, many academics come into the faculty position with kids. I think this is good and important especially for women, and I think it's pushing this particular issue for postdocs into the foreground.
The other big issue folks brought up was diversity. Low wages mean that those without means face a pretty steep price for staying in science, potentially forcing them out, as this commenter points out from personal experience. I think this is a real problem, and again, no real answer here. I'm not convinced, however, that the postdoc level is where that gap typically emerges—I'm guessing that it's mostly at the decision to go to graduate school in the first place. (The many confounders likely make such analyses difficult to interpret, though I don't know much about it.) Which is in some ways perhaps a bit surprising, since unlikely medical/law/business school, you actually get paid to do a PhD (although I believe most analyses still suggest that you could earn more overall by just getting a job straight away, maybe depending on the field). Also, higher pay would mean fewer postdoc positions, making the top ones more competitive, thus potentially further hurting the chances for those facing bias, although my guess is that this latter concern would not outweigh the former on diversity.
Along these lines is the notion of opportunity cost, with at least a few people (typically computational) noting that the postdocs they want to hire can earn so much on the open market that if they didn't pay them a lot, it would be hard to get them. At the same time, interestingly, a couple trainees invoked the ideals of the free market, saying that people should be paid whatever they can earn. Hmm. Well, I think this gets into the question of what the cost of doing science is. All stages of scientist (from trainees to PIs) probably on average earn less than we could in private industry, with that differential varying by field and circumstance—that is the price for doing what we love. The obvious question is whether this sets up a system primed for abuse. There are some who are willing to work like a dog for next to nothing for the chance to keep doing science. For this reason, there has to be a reasonable minimum to ensure at least some degree of diversity in the talent pool. Beyond that, I personally have no problem with people paying above the minimum if they so choose (and institutional policies that prevent that strike me as pretty unfair and something to fight against). If this helps keep talented people in science, great!
The notion of a free-market approach to pay is an interesting one, one that led me to the following question about the cost of doing science. Let's say that I had a ton of money. Is there some amount of money I could pay to get a postdoc that I otherwise would lose to some big name PI? Like, let's say I paid my postdoc $1M per year. Well, I'd probably be getting a lot of top quality postdoc applications (although still probably not even close to all). But what about $100K? How much would that factor into someone's decision to do a postdoc with me? I venture to say that the answer is not much. How little would someone be willing to accept for the opportunity to work with a big name who could greatly aid their quest for a faculty job? All I can say is I'm glad there's a minimum. :)
I also learned a bit about online discussions on this topic. As I said in my first post, I was super reluctant to discuss this topic at all online, given the opportunity for misunderstanding and so forth. And sure enough, I got some of what I thought were unfairly accusatory responses. Which, of course, is something that I was guilty of myself (and I apologize to MacArthur for that). Hmm. I still stand by, sort of, my point that the original tweet from MacArthur came across in a way that was perceived by many as boastful, even if that was not his intent, and that that may not be the most productive way to start a discussion. That said, I also have to acknowledge that waiting for the "perfect" way to discuss the issue means waiting forever, and in the meantime, just saying something, anything, publicly can have an effect. Clearly the collective tweets, posts and responses on the topic (most are imperfect, though I particularly like this one from Titus Brown) are having the desired effect of engendering a discussion, which is good. And, as a practical matter, I'm hopeful that airing some of the institutional differences in postdoc pay may help both trainees and mentors (see some examples in my second post). It is clear that there's a lot of mystery shrouding the topic, both for trainees and PIs alike, and a little sunlight is a good thing.
All that said, I still think that in addition to online rants of various kinds, with an issue this complex, it's pretty important for us all to talk with each other face to face as well. After all, we're all on the same team here. Academia is a small world, and while it's important to disagree, personal attacks generally serve nobody… and might as well be transparent about who you're disagreeing with so they can disagree back:
.@arjunrajlab Finally: you can stop subtweeting me. I can handle being named in your posts; and anyone who wants to can search text anyway.— Daniel MacArthur (@dgmacarthur) December 4, 2016
@dgmacarthur Sure thing, sorry, I guess your Twitter feed has provided some inspiration a few times… :)— Arjun Raj (@arjunrajlab) December 4, 2016
@arjunrajlab I like to consider myself your arrogant Boston muse.— Daniel MacArthur (@dgmacarthur) December 4, 2016
(In my defense, the only reason I "subtweeted" is that I really didn't want to call MacArthur out personally because his was just the latest tweet out of many of this kind I had seen. And I suppose it worked in that many people I know who read the post indeed had no idea who I was referring to. But giving him the chance to respond is probably on balance the right thing to do.)
Anyway, while I have not met MacArthur in person, I'm guessing we'll probably cross paths at some point, at which point my main concern is that we'll discover we agree on many things and so I won't have anything else to write about… :)


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(CNN) -- Noel was upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane Thursday as it moved away from the Bahamas and out into the cooler waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Although the storm is predicted to remain well off the U.S. coast, residents "from North Carolina northward" should pay attention to it, forecasters said.
Noel triggered flooding and landslides that killed at least 64 people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti this week.
Some 37,500 people were forced from their homes. Watch surging floodwaters that wiped out a town »
As of 11 p.m., the hurricane's maximum sustained winds were near 80 mph, with higher gusts, the hurricane center said. The storm's center was about 80 miles (285 kilometers) north-northeast of Nassau, Bahamas, and about 760 miles (1225 kilometers), west-southwest of Bermuda. See the storm's projected path »
Hurricane-force winds extended 45 miles (75 km) from Noel's center, and tropical-storm force winds extended up to 145 miles, the NHC said.
Forecasters expect no significant change in strength during the next 24 hours, during which time Noel is expected to lose tropical characteristics.
"Noel should then strengthen and increase in size as an extratropical cyclone," the hurricane center said.
Forecasters predicted Noel would dump up about 1 inch of rain across North Carolina's Outer Banks and 2 to 4 inches with isolated maximum totals of 6 inches across eastern New England.
Earlier Thursday, a tropical storm warning for southeastern Florida was discontinued as Noel turned north-northeast and headed in the opposite direction.
The hurricane center said total rainfall of less than 1 inch was expected in Florida in connection with the storm, and rainfall of about an inch was possible along the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
The forecasters said at 11 p.m. that all watches and warnings for the Bahamas were discontinued. A gale warning for Bermuda remained in effect, meaning that sustained winds 39 to 54 mph are expected or occurring.
On Thursday morning, CNN meteorologist Reynolds Wolf said high waves were seen off the coast of Florida because of the storm.
In the Dominican Republic, the Center for Emergency Operations reported 30 deaths, 15 injuries and at least 25,000 evacuations. The nation's government late Wednesday arranged for $200 million in emergency aid for the disaster-struck areas. See scenes of heavy flooding »
The money will be chiefly used to finance the construction of temporary homes and the repair of damaged buildings and houses, a press statement said.
In the impoverished nation of Haiti, which shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic, devastating floods and mudslides have ravaged the area and left 34 people dead, World Vision aid worker Elvire Douglas told CNN in a phone call from Port-au-Prince.
More than 9,000 people have sought refuge in shelters posted throughout the country after nearly 2,000 homes were damaged and 745 others were destroyed, she said. In addition, some people are still missing.
Cuban civil defense officials said about 9,000 people had been evacuated from the eastern part of the island that was hardest hit by the storm.
Noel is the 14th named storm of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, which ends on November 30. E-mail to a friend
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I have an urgent alert regarding Scarlett Johansson, whose name I am including here in the lead because it introduces the column, and will totally increase my Google hits.
I have an urgent alert regarding Scarlett Johansson, whose name I am including here in the lead because it introduces the column, and will totally increase my Google hits. Scarlett Johansson Scarlett Johansson Scarlett Johansson Scarlett Johansson. I am all about metadata up in here.
This morning I received an important e-mail from a mysterious character who identified himself only as "Serge G." (No relation to Warren.)
Serge is pretty obviously either an international superspy, mustachioed evil genius or has come here from the future. Because Serge's missive WARNS ME about STOLEN BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL, and somewhat less capitalized-ly, trouble involving the Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2007 regarding Scarlett Johansson, who, his e-mail's subject line helpfully clarifies, is an actress. So we're not talking about Scarlett Johansson the regional marketing manager for TiresPlus. Let's be clear about that.
Receiving this e-mail caused me to put down my morning ham and deal with several dozen crucial questions at once, including: Who is this Serge, and why is he so obsessed with the uppercase? Does his interest in the Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2007 (which he identifies with exclamation points, for added awesomeness) extend to the inherent rights of the non-superhot? Who stole Scarlett Johansson's BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL, because frankly that sounds a little bit fun.
And finally, why would Serge or anyone want to enact federal legislation prohibiting the cloning of Scarlett Johansson? That is an outrage! Just think of it, a glorious, sun-kissed utopian future inhabited by hundreds — thousands! — of Scarlett Johanssons ambling about, working at our coffee shops, directing our traffic, fixing our mufflers, checking us out at our Targets, writing our speeding tickets, refereeing our college basketball games.
There could be a Scarlett behind the wheel of every bus, a Scarlett putting out every house fire, Scarletts behind the Genius Bar at every Apple store! A world with many thousands of Scarletts holds nothing but promise and wonder, mostly because of the fact that, statistically speaking, at least one of them would want to make out with me.
Anyway, Serge's e-mail begins — and here I should probably warn you to sit down and get a mug of piping hot cider, because I am about to blow your damn mind — by stating that Scarlett Johansson is not a person at all, but a lousy filthy clone from Germany, which means in addition to being a fake person, she is comprised mostly of bratwurst.
Serge writes, "I would like inform you that Scarlett Johansson (actress) actually is a clone from original person Scarlett Galabekian last name, who has nothing with acting career. That clone was created illegally by using stolen biological material. I'll tell you more, those clones (it's not only one) made in GERMANY - world leader manufacturer of humans clones, it is in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate. You can not even imaging the scale of the cloning activity."
(He's totally right, by the way. I just tried imaginging the scale of the cloning activity, and it sort of turned my mind to Grape Nuts right there.)
You can, however, imaging how a dark revelation of this sort puts a very weird spin on the beginning of your day. But imaging being Serge, and so motivated and compelled to get this out that you can barely even string together a remotely grammatical sentence.
Still, the weird, intrusive man has a point: Not only did they go swab Scarlett Galabekian without telling her about it, but Galabekian is "not happy with those movies, images, video, rumors and etc. spreading on media in that way it would be really nice if we all will try slow down that actress' career development, original Scarlett will really appreciated that."
So, yeah. Think about that next time you feel like sitting down with a bratwurst and checking out "Lost in Translation" on HBO.
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CARSON, Calif. – LA Galaxy defender Leonardo continued his return from injury on Monday with a 45 minute shift in LA reserves 2-0 victory over Chivas USA.
Leonardo has missed the Galaxy's last two league matches with left adductor fatigue that he states occurred in the closing moments of the team's 1-1 draw with Seattle Sounders FC on Sept. 21 and then became re-aggregivated during LA's trip to Costa Rica for CONCACAF Champions League play.
"It was the first time that I've played or trained with the group. The last couple days, I've been training off to the side and it was good for me to do that. I realized that there are a couple things that I need to work on and I'll work on that."
Rookie Kofi Opare has performed well in Leonardo's absence, but following the reserves victory, assistant coach Curt Onalfo admits that the Brazilian center back is back in the mix for a starting role—possibly as soon as LA's Oct. 16 game against the Montreal Impact.
"[This appearance keeps] him sharp. He's been out two weeks and it keeps him in the mix for the next game," said Onalfo. "We just wanted to be smart [with playing him 45 minutes] and moving him along slowly. He's on target [for Montreal]."
The Brazilian center back agrees that Montreal could be a target for him.
"My fitness is not that far off where it was just two weeks ago, I didn't lose that much," said Leonardo. "I'm confident that I can get it back in the next couple of days. Yes, we're off for a few days this week, but I'll have a few individual sessions to do that."


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[information week] Led by a surge of broadband users in China, worldwide broadband subscriber lines have passed the 500 million mark, according to a report released Monday by the Broadband Forum.
The Broadband Forum said that China is the "powerhouse" of broadband with 43% of new broadband subscriptions added in the second quarter ending in June. According to market researcher Point Topic, broadband gains in the U.S. and Canada have slowed significantly to levels not seen in a decade.
"The end of housing stimulus packages in North America has badly affected growth in broadband," said Point Topic CEO Oliver Johnson in a statement. "It has only taken 11 years to get to half a billion fixed broadband lines. The Internet and all that it brings has taken hold like no technology since the invention of fire.
"It has brought the world closer together, improved health and education standards and introduced an era of cooperation and information sharing that will hasten economic growth and improve standards of living for potentially billions around the world."
China led the recent broadband deployment figures with nearly 5.5 new broadband lines, bringing its total to 120.6 million total lines. China and other Asian countries account for nearly 41% of the worldwide broadband count.
Although still in its infancy, IPTV subscription growth is beginning to show strong growth, according to Point Topic, which said total worldwide IPTV subscriber growth hit 38.5 million. Europe leads the IPTV category with 19 million subscribers. The US is in third place, trailing China, with 6.5 million subscribers.
The Broadband Forum noted that the growth in FTTx is outstripping both DSL and cable. The Broadband Forum is composed of more than 200 firms and organizations providing and developing broadband products and services.
Broadband Use In China Soars, U.S. Slows
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Broadband - China has seen a surge in new users, 43% of the new global users in Q2 2010
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text: Piet Jansen was a Dutch comic artist and illustrator, who worked with writer Toon Kortooms in the 1940s and 1950s. Jansen and Kortooms were the authors of the oblong comic book 'Faaske in het land der Peelreuzen', that was published by Oost-Brabant in either 1946 or 1948. Jansen signed this comic "Obé". For the publisher De Spaarnestad, they made the comic strip 'Tom en Bola' for the final three issues of Tombola, the children's supplement of Libelle, in 1954. 'Tom en Bola' was also published in Taptoe under the title 'Billie en Buster' in 1966.


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What Kind of Milk Should you Drink?
Maylin Rodriguez-Paez RNGoat milk, flax milk, soy milk, almond milk, hemp milk, rice milk, and even donkey milk — with so many choices out there, how do you know what to choose?
Yes, it can be a bit overwhelming.
In this post, we'll examine the pros and cons of today's most popular forms of milk. The goal here? To help make your "milk-based" nutritional decisions a little bit easier to swallow.
Cow's MilkThe market for "alternative milks" has been largely fueled by the anti-milk movement. While we're not exactly anti-milk, we recognize it's not for everybody. A good portion of the world's population is lactose-intolerant, and let's not forget that milk allergies are not uncommon.
There are also concerns about growth hormones, toxins, and antibiotic-resistant bacteria, so it's understandable why alternatives exist. But before you chuck cow's milk altogether, consider its benefits. Milk is a complete source of protein and according to studies, it helps to fight obesity.1
Rice MilkThe good thing about rice milk is that it is more tolerable for people who are allergic to other milks, but overall it's probably our least favorite. You're getting little protein, lots of carbs, and according to some reports — an unhealthy dose of arsenic.2
Our advice? Drink it sparingly, if at all.
Goat MilkFor some, goat's milk is an acquired taste. For others, it's a staple. Some of the longest living people in the world (Ikarians) drink goat milk on a daily basis.
Studies show goat milk has immune-modulating, anti-inflammatory, and cholesterol-lowering effects.3-5 Not only that, it may prevent the development of high blood pressure and heart-related problems.6
Goat milk may be more tolerable for people who are allergic to cow's milk but there is still a significant risk for cross-reactivity.7
Almond MilkAlmond milk is perhaps one of the most popular "milks". It has a creamy texture and considered delicious by many. While there is little research on the benefits of almond milk, the benefits of almonds are undeniable.
Eating them has been linked to lower blood sugar and LDL levels.8 But as appealing as almond milk sounds, you're better off eating whole almonds. Much of the health benefits (antioxidants, fiber) are actually attributed to the almond skin which is removed during the preparation of almond milk.
Regardless, it's hard to deny the usefulness of almond milk. It's a nice substitute for cow's milk. If you can, make your own at home or buy the non-sweetened versions at the supermarket.
Soy MilkThis one's pretty controversial. Critics argue it's estrogen-loaded and bad for your health. We, on the other hand, recognize its pros and cons. Yes, soy contains phytoestrogens, but they are actually good for you. Research shows they help protect against a variety of health conditions including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, osteoporosis, and hormone-related cancers.9-10
On the other hand, soy like all other beans contains anti-nutrients in its raw state. These compounds interfere with digestion and the absorption of nutrients.
The solution? Fermented soy products. During fermentation, the anti-nutrients are destroyed. If you're a fan of soy milk, buy the fermented kind. It's hard to find, but it's definitely worth the try.
The Bottom LineWhat's the best milk? There really is no right or wrong answer. Each has its pros and cons. But in the end, aim to drink a milk that has a decent amount of protein, little sugar, and lots of nutrients.
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- J Dairy Sci. 2011 Feb;94(2):998-1004.
- J Bioproces Biotechniq 2012, 2:5. Available at: http://omicsonline.org/potential-health-benefits-of-almond-skin-2155-9821.1000e110.pdf. Accessed May 20, 2014.
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"Pushkin was the first in Russia to write permanent fiction, the first truly original Russian novelist…. Pushkin's literary prose is rational, analytical, intentionally bald, pruned of all irrelevant ornament, and almost affected in its simplicity….
"The Captain's Daughter was the only work of Pushkin's that had a powerful influence on the next age — it contains all the essence of what Russian realism was to become — though it is still a story told in the orthodox manner, as a story should be.


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America is an Okay Place to Be
On this almost July 4th, let us take a look back at the wonderful things our country has done these last 12 months in America's long tradition of freedom. There was this one time when...I mean, we had to have...well someone said...okay, we'll keep looking. Maybe it's behind the eggs.
I'm kidding, of course. You'd see something if it were behind the eggs because an egg carton is fairly short. Also, I'm kidding about not being able to think of great things America has done this past year. Despite all of the crappy stuff for which we get made fun (see grammar rules, anal), America is an okay place to be. I expect "America is an okay place to be" to shortly replace "America the Beautiful" as one of the songs we teach to third graders.
It's hard to go somewhere without hearing someone complain about a facet of America. And that's wonderful because we're all allowed to. We can complain about politics and religion and columnists and anything we want to, and that's part of our charm. Though I doubt the authors of the constitution ever imagined anyone would complain about me, mainly because our forefathers hadn't met me yet when they wrote it.
Maybe we shouldn't have sent troops to Iraq. Or maybe we should have sent more. Maybe the guy at the war protest with a sign that says "I Like Ike" should be medicated. Whatever our opinions, we're free to talk about the issues, and even make fun of them on shows like Saturday Night Live, which we will also later make fun of. We are free to both be stupid and point out stupidity, and to me, that is real freedom. Or at least all the freedom I need because man, am I stupid. And I keep noticing it.
Some of us are free to eat all the fast food we can, while others are free to sue the fast food restaurant for serving it to them. Still others are free to make fun of the people who sued and others are free to make fun of the people who made fun of the people who sued but happen to fall down while making fun of them. Ahhh, now that's freedom.
This country is a grand one, filled with road signs with unintentional sexual innuendo of which college kids take pictures and laugh at for years. This country is a majestic one, ripe with out of touch laws that haven't been repealed and therefore make great email forwards. This country is a fine one, overflowing with souvenir postcards and license plates and miniature ears of corn with "Cheboygan" written on the side, so you don't get it confused with all of your other miniature ears of corn.
I love it here. I love all the traffic and the taxes and the toxic waste and the jaywalking and the Jehovah's Witnesses and the jury duty. Okay, not the jury duty. But I love the creative way I've been getting out of it for the last five years, and ain't that America.
Sometimes, I get upset with America, and I want it to be a better place. But I try not to forget about how wonderful it already is. Where else can a 23-year-old unemployed kid make a living on 800 words a week? Seriously, if you know, tell me, because I need to know where else someone as lazy as I am can survive. Again, I'm kidding. I couldn't survive anywhere else and I know it.
Some people make fun of the American people for being even lazier than me. And in some respects, they're right. Individually, we are in our boxers at noon on a Tuesday playing Double Dragon. But collectively, we have mowed the lawn, taken out the garbage, and cooked a five-course meal by the time most countries have woken up. And then we sit around for the rest of the day playing Double Dragon.
Sure, I'm embarrassed by a lot of what happens in our country. I'm not proud of our history of segregation, classism, and reality TV. But while we haven't aced the final quite yet, I don't see any other countries ruining the curve.
So when the Fourth of July comes, which will probably happen in a matter of days, celebrate what we have. Set off fireworks and eat hot dogs and listen to the Star-Spangled Banner. Then make fun of people for singeing their hand on the fireworks and spilling hot dog ketchup on their shirt, and not knowing the words to the Star-Spangled Banner. And for god sakes, shut up about what's wrong for a day and smile about what's right.
Like getting out of jury duty.


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Don't Mistake Chemistry For Love
[Secrets Of The Heart]
Why do women catfight over men?
Why do we "whilst doing laundry" and having turned the pants pockets inside out and found a number without a name, instinctively called it and confronted the outside woman instead of confronting "our man"?
Have we not yet realized that the man is the common enemy in such cases? The woman at the end of the line probably doesn't even know you exist.
Usually when a long term partner or wife calls the outside woman it is not with the intention of having a catfight. It is because she feels threatened and wants to warn the outside woman off; like in an old song by Betty Wright, "woman to woman", where she sings, "the man you are in love with is my man. From the top of his head to the bottom of his feet and woman to woman I think you understand just how much I would do to keep him."
Women will fight because they are fearful of losing the man they love. Women will fight because they are trying to desperately hold on to the dream that is slipping away. When you enter into a relationship you assume it is forever unless explicitly agreed otherwise, therefore a woman will not simply stand by and let another walk away with their treasure, it's kind of like the alpha male protecting his territory.
The most logical and harder option would be to confront the man in your life for an explanation and listen because it takes two to make a relationship work. If the explanation does not make sense, neither will a catfight; only walking away will make sense, even if it is unimaginable. This however is easier said than done because a woman in love would have built her life around her man and love does not die simply because you have been wronged.
So a woman will use any weapon at her disposal. She will lie, smear and harass; but is it all worth it? It is not, because the common enemy will simply sit back and enjoy the ruckus, perhaps because some men secretly enjoy women catfighting for them. It gives them a sense of pride and being valued, like "yeah, I am the man!!!"
It is reported that catfighting is on the rise in several fields of entertainment. The appeal of a catfight was facetiously explained by Jerry Seinfeld, as "Men think if women grabbing and clawing at each other, there's a chance they might somehow, you know--kiss."
If it makes sense to walk away, then take comfort in knowing that, if Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa's report is to be believed, then you are walking away from a man of low IQ. Dr. Kanazawa, a psychologist at London School of Economics and Political Science states that cheating on a partner is a sign of lower intelligence. He added that more intelligent men are more likely to value sexual exclusivity as reported in a London paper, Metro.
There is no dignity in a catfight. It is a losing battle. It is a pointless exercise like the war in Vietnam; it killed, maimed and achieved absolutely nothing. A catfight is petty, nasty and senseless; but all too often we have fallen victim to its appeal in favor of a heart to heart at home.
Women in long term relationships tend to get comfortable. It's all about routine, responsibilities and no variation and therefore nothing left to unravel; whereas the outside woman offers newness of feelings, intense chemistry and connectedness and a kind of mystery--like chill in June and heat in December.
Women in long term relationships should learn to keep love alive. Love once planted like a seed should be watered and nurtured for a healthy and strong growth.
Create a nag free zone; an interesting and welcoming environment that your man will want to come to. It may seem like I live in the dark ages but this is reality. Learn to be a chef, lover and lady, because goddamn believe that is what the outside woman will be doing.
Communicate, praise and appreciate your man. Don't quit the gym either.
The more you try to get rid of the outside woman, the deeper she will try to plant her foot. She is after all a competitor, fighting for her own survival.
She has in most cases deluded herself that rather than dipping her feet into your shoes, she has actually filled them, all of size 7. What she fails to understand is that chemistry is not love. Love is a song you sing over and over and over, long after the chemistry is dead and gone.
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And, here is the building it sits atop, but, from the ground level. This is Coolidge Park on the north side of the Tennessee River.
A sign I found outside the entrance of that building, well, my my, a carousel. Alrighty now!
Inside that building we find the 1894 Dentzel carousel.
From that web site we learn that "The antique carousel was restored by local master wood carver Bud Ellis and a devoted team of craftspeople and volunteers at his studio "Horsing Around" located near Chattanooga."
The carousel has 52 whimsical hand carved animals, a calliope band organ, and ornate between gold leaf benches.
A pig, a giraffe and a horse (behind the pig).
Man's favorite, was the frog, with another giraffe nearby. If you look beyond the frog, you can just pick out the ostrich with a "Uncle Sam" hat.
And, that is the rest of the story, a weathervane in the shape of a horse, and tucked under that roof, a wonderful carousel.


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Paradise in blue
We've been two days sailing the Pacific Ocean; now she lies ahead of us: Isla del Coco, Cocos Island – uninhabited and more than 500 kilometers from Costa Rica, the mother country. Our divers' hearts all soar …
Suspense is mounting on the sundeck of the Argo. The biggest ship belonging to the Undersea Hunter Group – 40 meters long, room for 18 guests and 14 crew members – approaches the island slowly, almost hesitantly. On board, an excited murmuring of joyful anticipation can be heard. Many of us have been waiting a very long time for a chance to visit this remote patch of earth that restricts visitors to 3000 per year. Cocos Island, just 24 square kilometers in size, attracts adventurous souls and lends wings to their imagination. For generations, the story has been handed down that after carrying out raids all the way from Mexico to Peru, the pirates buried their treasure here, between rainforest and cloud forest, among jagged cliffs, gaps in the rock hung with lianas and sandy bays. Countless treasure hunters have set out to find that treasure. The story of the island is said to have inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's most famous work, Treasure Island. These days, Isla del Coco is a nature reserve, designated a national park in 1978. But we never got to do treasure hunting. For all the mysterious promise of the rocks jutting out of the water, we visitors are dead set on discovering delights not to be found on land: The waters around the island are among the most beautiful diving spots in the world.
Diving is a purely daytime activity because most sharks are in hunting mode at night
Our skipper, José Mendiola, lets the small boat slam into the troughs between the waves. "I'm still practicing," he says with an apologetic grin – it's only his second week. Before that, Mendiola plowed the waves fishing for tuna, so he still has to get used to human passengers. Now he's steering the dinghy with its eight dive passengers away from the Argo and across to the first dive spot, a steep rock close to the main island. The wind whips spray and rain into our faces almost the moment we wipe them dry. "That's Coco for you, every day a surprise," is all Mendiola says. I'm beginning to feel a little seasick – or maybe it's just the excitement. Another two meters closer to the rock so that the undercurrent doesn't get a grip on us later. I can't help feeling that the rock was quite close enough already – the waves are thundering against it. "Ready? Three, two, one!" dive guide Juan Manuel Camargo Urrego yells into the wind. With a back roll, we eight neoprene figures slide into the ocean.
The silence of the deep is broken by crackles, creaks and crunches. Parrotfishes nibble at brown-and-white coral as they pass, yellow-and-white butterfly fish swoosh by – these waters are as busy as any Manhattan intersection at rush hour. Camargo Urrego, 44, from Colombia, shakes a small silver rattle to gain our attention and points ahead with his arm outstretched. We stare into the blue, straining to see what he's . Suddenly, a silhouette makes a brief appearance just ahead of us, then sways mightily first left, then right. It's three meters long and has an oddly flat head with eyes protruding at the side – a hammerhead shark. Slowly, the curious creature turns away to one side and like lightning, tiny butterfly fish flit over and start nibbling at its skin. As though in a trance, the predator stays perfectly still, its mouth slightly open, as if it were enjoying a full-body treatment.
Camargo Urrego steers his group sedately away from the shark cleaning station and out onto the open sea. Visibility is barely ten meters here, so the tingling sensation in the nape of my neck is all the stronger when these creatures suddenly appear from nowhere: Above and below us, hundreds of hammerheads whoosh past by. For a brief reverential moment, the mechanic breathing sounds of the oxygen devices fall silent. "Pura vida," says Camargo Urrego with a grin, as we all gather beside the dinghy once more – to divers the large shoals of hammerheads the island's greatest attraction for divers.
It's always a pleasure to show visitors this fascinating animal kingdom – a gift almost – ,says Camargo Urrego. He is responsible for his guests' wellbeing not just under water but on board, too, and since an accident in winter 2017 in which a young woman died after being attacked by a tiger shark, that responsibility has been of particular importance. Dive instructors, government and tour operators were left unsettled by the incident. The dive safaris have now improved their safety precautions as recommended by shark expert, so that these days, dives take place only during the day because nighttime is when most sharks are in hunting mode. White flippers are also prohibited because they contrast starkly with their surroundings, thus attracting the animals' interest. Also, two dive guides now also join the group under water to keep them together – even if some of the people on board regard such precautions as excessive. He knows no fear under water, says Jim Harris, a Texan pensioner who has just entered his 517th dive in the logbook. Shark attacks on divers are extremely rare; surfers and swimmers are far more vulnerable, he says. Geiner Golfín Duarte, 41, knows the statistics that reveal an increase in shark attacks on human since the 1980s. "This is also because people are moving further and further out into the oceans," say marine biologist Duarte, who works on the island as a ranger. He works with nine other national park rangers to ensure that humans – those on site, at least – wreak as little damage as possible to nature. The greatest problem is the illegal fishing: "Colossal ships haul tons of tuna and sharks out of our seas." The fishermen don't even respect the protected waters around the island, although here, the fishing boats tend to be the smaller local boats. Duarte and his colleagues do patrol the island daily, however. A radar capable of detecting ships located nearby was added to the equipment a few years ago. This puts a lot of fishermen off, but social media are even more effective, says Golfín Duarte. "The fear of being seen on the web as a lawbreaker." The threat of having their photo taken usually does the trick. But even so, there's still room for improvement, the ranger says, pulling on his fish-hook bracelet, deep in thought.
It's not just the forest and underwater world, but also the products of human greed that are protected: In 1997, UNESCO declared the island a World Heritage Site along with the tunnel systems delved in the heavy clay by many treasure hunters. The most coveted object is what is known the "Lima Treasure," which is said to have been stolen by William Thompson, a Scottish captain, in the early 19th century and then buried on the island. Gold coins, precious stones, statues, total estimated value: over 100 million euros. One August Gissler from Remscheid in Germany was reputedly the most dogged treasure hunter. He lived on the island – intermittently – for 17 years from the end of the 19th century, and President Rafael Yglesias Castro even appointed him its governor in 1897. Hoping to uncover an enormous treasure, he and his wife, Mary, along with many settler families dug here for gold and precious stones. In his entire time on the island, adventurer Gissler found a mere 33 doubloons in the sand. He died a pauper in New York in 1935. Neither before nor after Gissler, has there been any proof of more treasure being uncovered on the island.
One last time, the Argo's small dinghy takes us out to the loveliest underwater spot: Manuelita, a large rock off the main island. The water's surface is smooth as a mirror today, and the sun is glittering on the bow wave. Skipper Mendiola is in a good mood. We will be descending to the depths one last time to see the underwater wonders of the island. Once more, our divers' hearts beat a little faster. A tornado comes swirling up from the dark depths to the surface and turns out to be a cloud that soon encircles our group: a cloud of mackerels. Thousands of eyes gawk, silvery bodies sway, small mouths open and shut – a veritable divers'dream has come true. The legendary natural scientist and filmmaker Jacques Cousteau (1910-1997) called the Isla de Coco "the most beautiful island in the world." What a smart man!
This story first appeared in Lufthansa Exclusive, the frequent traveller magazine. For more information about Lufthansa Miles & More offers, please click here.


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Outdoor Adventures
August 21, 2012
From the majesty of Mount Hood to the rugged beaches of the Oregon coast, Lewis & Clark students can explore all the natural beauty the Pacific Northwest has to offer through the College Outdoors program.
Whether you're a master backpacker or sea kayaking for the first time, there's something for everyone. Dozens of trips each year provide access to spectacular outdoor environments and activities ranging from cross-country skiing and yoga on the beach.