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Cantor Fitzgerald: Miracle on Wall Street
Eight years after 9/11, Cantor Fitzgerald has come roaring back to life thanks CEO Howard Lutnick.
By Rich Blake
In mid-December 2001, Cantor Fitzgerald chairman and CEO Howard Lutnick sat down in a conference room in an interim midtown Manhattan office and prepared to address his London staffers by videoconference. Set up in the mid-1980s, the U.K. operation numbered 700 strong, and it had by all accounts turned in a near-superhuman effort to help keep the bond brokerage firm going in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks that took the lives of 658 of its 960 New York–based employees. Cantor had pulled through and had even managed to turn a substantial profit in the fourth quarter of that fateful year. The firm had also begun to deliver on a promise to provide financial relief to the families of their fallen comrades.
"It's not that we're going to survive," a weary but upbeat Lutnick told his staffers at the time. "Survival was from Tuesday, September 11, to Tuesday, September 18. We're not about surviving anymore — we're about succeeding."
Nearly a decade after 9/11, Lutnick's firm has more than made good on his prediction. Not only has Cantor Fitzgerald emerged from the shadow cast by that horrific day, the firm has also fully rebooted its core Treasury brokerage and institutional equity trading operations while building out an ambitious palette of new businesses ranging from merchant banking and real estate private equity to state-of-the-art casino gaming technology and carbon emissions trading. Former employees have returned, and veterans from top Wall Street firms have found homes at Cantor, including many who were displaced by the current financial crisis. And in a development that is both symbolic and inspiring, sons and daughters of employees lost on 9/11 are now working or interning at Cantor and its sister company, interdealer brokerage firm BGC Partners, which Cantor merged with its listed electronic bond-trading platform, eSpeed, in April 2008, effectively taking BGC public.
"The best way to honor the people who you love is to care for the people who they loved," Lutnick told Institutional Investor in a recent interview.
Cantor, one of the few remaining private partnerships on Wall Street, won't disclose its profits. But its CEO's high-profile pledge to donate 25 percent of the firm's earnings over five years to the families of fallen employees provides a glimpse, as Cantor gave more than $180 million from 2001 to 2006, suggesting that average annual profits during that period were about $140 million. (Cantor would not comment on this estimate.)
These days, Cantor is nearly twice as profitable as it was before 9/11, Lutnick allows. Together with BGC, it employs nearly 4,000 people globally, double the firm's pre-9/11 head count. In 2008, when many Wall Street firms — including Jefferies Group, a firm that some analysts view as its closest publicly traded peer — suffered severe declines in revenue and profits, Cantor stunningly earned 80 percent more than in the previous year, in part by deftly ridding itself of virtually all of its inventory of risky securities. In July 2007 the firm had $60 billion in fixed-income assets on its balance sheet, according to Lutnick, much of it mortgage-related securities. By September of that year, the firm had just $20 billion — all of it government-issued.
Both sides of the Cantor house are resurgent. BGC, which has pulled off a string of acquisitions and hired hundreds of brokers, is now bigger than Cantor's original interdealer arm ever was, and Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., the firm's capital markets franchise, has ramped up its institutional equity sales and trading activity and plunged into fixed income. In 2006 it became one of the select few primary dealers authorized to trade with the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank.
Lately that operation has also been on a hiring binge: In the past eight months alone, Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. has hired at least 125 people — and it plans to add more than 100 more as it continues to take advantage of the extraordinary dislocation in securities markets.
"We're hiring the most talented, experienced people anywhere and giving them the entrepreneurial freedom to run their businesses," says Shawn Matthews, CEO of the division.
Cantor's overarching goal is to create all of the business lines that one could have found at the full-service Wall Street partnerships of yesteryear, such as equity research, many types of debt capital markets, leveraged finance and even investment banking, built around Cantor's core competency of sales and trading. In July the firm even announced that it was entering the prime brokerage space long dominated by the big banks.
"We're in the process of becoming the type of firm that disappeared when Wall Street rolled up all those middle-tier firms into a half-dozen giant firms," explains Matthews. "We've seen how that's worked out for everyone," he adds wryly.
Wall Street has taken notice. "Looking back eight years ago, it's difficult to imagine that Cantor's interdealer business could have come all the way back to being one of the top five in the world, yet here they are," says Daniel Harris, a Goldman, Sachs & Co. market structure sector analyst who covers BGC.
Lutnick and his top executives cultivate an entrepreneurial spirit and encourage their lieutenants to hire friends and family. That has always been the Cantor way — and it helps make the firm a unique Wall Street institution.
"This can be a tough business, and there can be long hours," explains Lutnick. "So why not surround yourself with friends, family members, people who you genuinely want to be around? I tell people, 'Let's make money, and let's have fun doing it.'"
That environment resonated with Matthews, a former hedge fund manager who joined the firm four years ago as a mortgage-backed-securities trader and quickly rose through the ranks. "From the day I arrived, I felt like this is the type of place you want to stay for the rest of your career," he says. "And that is very important to me."
For some employees, though, working at Cantor can summon complex emotions. A case in point is Tom Shea, whose brothers Joe and Dan were Cantor executives who perished on 9/11. Shea, 53, joined the firm a year ago after more than two decades on Wall Street, most recently working as a mortgage-backed-securities salesman at Bear Stearns Cos. at the time that firm all but went belly-up.
"I didn't necessarily join Cantor to carry on the family tradition," Shea explains. "I joined because Howard and Shawn were serious about putting together a high-quality debt capital markets operation."
Still, Shea wondered whether he could handle working for a firm whose name was synonymous with his family's tragic loss. "I thought about it and realized this isn't an emotional burden," he says. "This is a chance to continue the legacies of my brothers, who both loved to work here, and to make an impact on an organization in a professional and positive way."
On the morning of 9/11 after Lutnick dropped off his eldest son, Kyle, for his first day of kindergarten at Horace Mann School on Manhattan's Upper East Side, reports of the World Trade Center attack began hitting the airwaves. Lutnick made it by car to the entrance of the first tower just moments before it collapsed. In the 2003 book by Tom Barbash, On Top of the World: Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, & 9/11: A Story of Loss & Renewal, Lutnick described his state of mind as he walked uptown in a trance, caked with soot and ash. Everything he had built, so many people he knew, including his younger brother, Gary, a Cantor partner, were gone. "I'll move my family to Montana and figure out a new life there," he thought.
But somehow, by the middle of the day, the CEO had resolved to keep the firm going. The London office was game to take on whatever might come — and as the day wore on, it emerged that several key people, including general counsel Stephen Merkel, head of operations Tom Trillo and chief technology officer Joe Noviello, were alive and accounted for. Fate had intervened: Merkel was delayed in getting to work that morning because he had stopped to inquire about a gym membership. Trillo was still driving to work when the towers fell. Noviello was away on a fishing trip.
From the start, Cantor worked to rebuild for the sake of fallen colleagues' families. "That's the only thing that got us through," says Lutnick. "The whole mission revolved 100 percent around them."
Even so, he realized that to survive, Cantor would have to thrive. "I knew right from the start that we couldn't keep the place going just for the sake of keeping it going," Lutnick says. "We had to be really, really successful. Because think about it: We had 658 families to look after."
Some chroniclers have linked Cantor's resilience in the wake of the attacks to its eSpeed platform, but it was two other assets that in fact enabled the firm to carry on in the face of what seemed like certain extinction: the London office, headed up at the time by Lee Amaitis and a key lieutenant, Shaun Lynn, and the U.S.-based institutional equity business, which was run by Phil Marber, who retired from Cantor earlier this year.
London wasn't just key to the survival of the firm — London was the firm, at least in terms of its core interdealer brokerage business. With the U.S. bond markets set to reopen on Thursday, September 13, London staffers assumed the various roles and jobs of their missing colleagues — at the time, many still hoped that some would be found alive — and set about untangling a seemingly endless chain of logistical knots. The firm had already executed a few thousand trades worth billions of dollars in the brief time preceding the terrorist attack that Tuesday morning. In less than 24 hours, the London office built a functional Treasury clearing system to support eSpeed.
Back in New York the institutional equity business was up and running surprisingly fast — it began kicking in sizable revenues almost immediately. What was left of the firm was now operating in disparate locations, with employees gathered in a disaster recovery space in Rochelle Park, New Jersey; at Lutnick's Upper East Side apartment; at a Darien, Connecticut, sales office; and in conference rooms at Cantor's law firm, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in New York. A crisis center for families was set up at the Pierre Hotel near Central Park. Financial media company Bloomberg lent space, and the firm sublet an unused trading floor in UBS's Park Avenue offices. Right away, Cantor began hiring.
On Thursday, September 13, one former employee, Heidi Olson, who had left Cantor in the spring of 2001, came back to work. "I knew that people were gathering in these makeshift quarters, and I just showed up," says Olson, who had worn many hats at the firm during her six-year tenure there, including helping to launch eSpeed. She now serves as chief administrative officer of the institutional equity business. "We were all insane with grief, but at the same time, there were so many things to figure out and deal with, you just wanted to do everything in your power to help."
Many head traders and portfolio managers on the buy side of the business considered their counterparts at Cantor as friends and wanted to help in any way they could too, which was another big factor in helping to save the firm. Indeed, when the equity markets reopened on Monday, September 17, Cantor was deluged with so many trades that the firm's still-fragile infrastructure was nearly overwhelmed. After making it through that first week, Cantor clearly had a fighting chance.
Slowly, the firm began to ramp up its interdealer brokerage business. That effort was led by Daniel LaVecchia, who had built out Cantor's foreign exchange desk in London and was stationed there when the Twin Towers fell. After returning to New York in 2002, he began aggressively recruiting new brokers. One of his earliest hires was Billy Clark, who had signed on to work on the currency options desk before 9/11 but whose start date was later in the fall of 2001. Everyone already working on that desk was killed.
"I remember calling him up and asking, 'Are you still coming?'" recalls LaVecchia. "And he says, 'Yeah, I'm still coming.' I told him, 'Well, I know I didn't hire you to be the boss, but guess what? You're the boss.'"
By the first anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center, Cantor had made great strides in rebuilding its front and back offices and was delivering on its pledge to provide the families of colleagues who had been killed with 25 percent of the firm's profits for five years and health care assistance for ten years. The company also established 9/11 as a charity day, with all trading revenue earned that day earmarked for nonprofit organizations. The first charity day raised more than $5 million.
"It was gradual, but by late 2003 things started to return to normal — or close to it, anyway," recalls LaVecchia, who says he worked 20-hour days for weeks on end, fueled solely by adrenaline and the desire to provide for the families of his deceased friends.
Adds Lutnick: "I'd say after about two years we had rebuilt the car. And so at that point it was time to take it for a ride and see what it could do."
In London, Cantor's interdealer business, run by Amaitis and Lynn, was not only thriving, it was once again challenging competitors like ICAP, also based in London, and New York–based GFI Group for dominance. But that business and the other side of the house, sales and trading in fixed income and equities, which in the old days were under one roof, were now spread out and competing for resources and Lutnick's support.
In 2004, Amaitis and Lynn approached Lutnick about carving out what by then had become primarily a London-based interdealer business. Lutnick and his fellow partners agreed to break Cantor in two by spinning off the interdealer operation in August of that year, with Cantor Fitzgerald keeping a majority stake in the new business — named BGC Partners, based on the initials of Cantor co-founder Bernard Gerald Cantor. The firm had never taken on much debt, but in early 2005, Cantor borrowed about $380 million — "You might recall that was an excellent time to borrow money," Lutnick points out — and BGC Partners was born.
Almost immediately, BGC began snapping up smaller rivals. In May 2005 it acquired Maxcor Financial Group, parent of interdealer brokerage Euro Brokers, which was based in the South Tower on 9/11 and had lost 60 people.
The message had been sent: BGC meant business. Several more acquisitions followed between the fall of 2006 and this summer, among them Aurel Leven Securities in France, Marex Financial's derivatives business and, most recently, Liquidez DTVM in Brazil.
At about the same time that BGC was being created, Cantor landed a talented mortgage-backed-securities trader, Shawn Matthews. A savvy finance pro, yet easygoing and quick with a laugh, Matthews, now 42, started trading bonds in the early 1990s as a clerk for investment bank Wertheim Schroder & Co. Before long he was trading the firm's own capital. Soon he hired a clerk to work for him but eventually left to co-found a global macro hedge fund, Alchemist Capital Management. After leaving the fund, Matthews joined Cantor to handle the trading of new mortgage-backed securities. In 2006 he was promoted to head up the desk, and a year later he was running all of fixed income.
"Shawn is the spirit of both the new Cantor and the old," says Lutnick. "He gives his people the room they need to run their businesses, but he's also right there in the trenches with his sleeves rolled up."
Cantor had by then come fully back. The firm's five-year donation of 25 percent of profits had surpassed expectations. And both Cantor and BGC have raised tens of millions of additional dollars for a variety of causes through their annual 9/11 Charity Day: With celebrities and professional athletes lending a hand on BGC's trading desks, all commission revenues are donated to a wide range of nonprofits around the world. Last year alone the event raised $7 million.
For a host of reasons — a vacation, an early client meeting, a child's first day of school — about 300 of Cantor Fitzgerald's New York employees were not in their offices on the top floors of One World Trade Center when the first plane struck the Twin Towers. One Cantor employee, David Kravette, had gone down to the lobby to collect a visitor at about 8:40 a.m.
"I continue to be amazed at our comeback," says the 48-year-old, who after 9/11 switched from helping to run eSpeed to working as a rank-and-file equity sales trader. The whole culture of closeness that the firm had before tragedy struck — hiring brothers and buddies — has been recreated.
"Honestly, I never thought I'd see that again," continues Kravette, who has been friends with Lutnick since junior high school and is part of a group of roughly 150 New York employees who were at the firm pre-9/11 and still work at either Cantor or BGC. The company has moved on to a new chapter without sacrificing its distinctive culture.
Cantor's chief executive credits the firm's rebound to human talent: "We've brought in incredible people," asserts Lutnick.
The camaraderie carries over to Cantor's trading floors, where the buzz is intense but friendly. One noticeable aspect of life at the firm is that the concept and rituals of seniority are of little consequence. The salesperson with only a few years of experience who helps the team by bringing in business is on par with the guy who boasts 20 years of rainmaking. CEO Matthews, for example, sits in a glassed-off office adjacent to the fixed-income trading floor located on East 59th Street — not around the corner in the firm's Park Avenue executive suite — and spends as much time on the floor as in his office. Traders and salesmen are free to pop in as they please. Many employees golf together on weekends.
"People genuinely care about one another," says Olson, the former Cantor employee who rejoined the firm two days after 9/11. "When you're 22 you hang around with your colleagues after work, but that's supposed to stop when you get married and have kids and move to the suburbs. Not here. We're a family."
About two years ago this aspect of Cantor's culture took on new meaning: Kids of employees who perished on 9/11 began coming to work for the firm. They took posts as interns and entry-level clerks. One works on the equity desk. Another interned briefly at BGC while still in high school. All of them were made to feel accepted in a way unique to an industry that isn't exactly known for warm embraces.
Although the buck stops with Lutnick, one result of Cantor's unusually close-knit structure is an ongoing vigorous and open exchange about the business. This paid off handsomely in the spring of 2007, at the start of the credit crisis, when Lutnick frequently found himself discussing the worsening economic situation with Matthews, who understood the mortgage market as well as anyone on the Street.
Together they arrived at a stark conclusion that changed the game for Cantor as the crisis intensified: The firm's entire inventory of legacy mortgage securities had to be taken off the books. By the fall of that year, Cantor had rid itself of all of these assets and, with much of its debt repaid, shifted its focus to helping clients execute transactions in one of the most tumultuous markets of all time. As firms like Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers Holdings and Merrill Lynch & Co. got into trouble, Cantor picked up market share.
"We weren't trading our own money, except for very selective situations and only to facilitate client orders," notes Lutnick. "So clients knew they could trade with us and get treated fairly."
Just a few years ago, for example, Vanguard Group wasn't doing much trading with Cantor. But that quickly changed. Cantor "stepped it up late last year and early this year, when we saw hardly any liquidity," says Greg Nassour, co-head of investment-grade corporate bonds at the mutual fund firm, which runs about $100 billion in actively managed fixed-income assets. "That shows up in the amount of trades we do with Cantor." Going forward, he adds, "I see doing more trading with the firm."
Although the crisis has created a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hire top talent, not all of Cantor's new additions have been displaced from fallen banks. Matthews recently hired Goldman Sachs trader Marty Teevan to head up high yield and distressed debt. Teevan has in turn brought more than 25 people on board.
So how did Cantor get a Goldman employee to jump ship? Teevan, now 40, is the clerk that Matthews hired back in the day at Wertheim. They stayed in touch through the years after Matthews gave him his start. More than anything, though, Cantor offered Teevan a chance to build his own business, run it his way and earn a clear-cut percentage of the profits.
"Cantor is known for the quality of its people," he says. "We're bringing in terrific talent across sales, trading and research."
And in true Cantor fashion, Teevan — who worked at UBS before Goldman — recently hired a former colleague from the banking giant, a salesman named Kelly Robinson who was a groomsman at Teevan's wedding and is the godfather of one of his kids.
It's a mantra that Cantor has always followed: Hire people you know and love. On 9/11 this tradition exacted an excruciating price. But in the aftermath it helps explain exactly how the firm has been able to carry on, and why, against all odds, Cantor is on top of the world again.
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The taxation of risk policies – throw away existing principles
The National Treasury released the first batch of fiscal amendments on 10 June 2014. One of the most significant amendments relates to the way in which risk policies will be taxed in the hands of long-term insurance companies ("Insurers").
By way of background, the business of an insurer has to date been divided into four separate funds for tax purposes, being –
the individual policyholder fund relating to policies owned by individuals;
the company policyholder fund relating to policies owned by corporates;
the untaxed policyholder fund relating to policies owned by untaxed entities and annuity contracts; and
the corporate fund which reflected the remaining assets of the insurer.
To date both risk polices as well as investment policies were categorised within the relevant policyholder funds concerned. However, the proposals will have the effect that risk policies will have to be accounted for by an insurer in the corporate fund and no longer in any of the policyholder funds. In other words, it will only be risk policies that are accounted for in the policyholder funds concerned.
The proposals are to the effect that any policy issued by an insurer during any year of assessment commencing on or after 1 January 2016 in respect of a risk policy must be accounted for in the corporate fund. A risk policy is defined as a policy in terms of which any benefits payable under the policy is dependent on any future event, the happening of which is uncertain, or in terms of which any amount payable under the policy is only payable by reason of death. It includes any reinsurance policy in respect of these issues.
Importantly, however, to the extent that the policy contains both investment and risk elements, the policy will be deemed to be a risk policy even if only a small portion of the policy benefits may be attributed to risk and/or investment. This categorisation may well give rise to manipulation as it would be relatively easy to decide in which fund a policy must be accounted for. To the extent that a decision is taken to reflect the policy in the corporate fund, one can merely attach a small element of risk to the policy. In cases where it is more advisable to account for the policy in the policyholder fund, one can split the policy so that only investment risk is accounted for in one policy and the risk element in another policy.
It is noteworthy that no reference is made to existing losses that may have been derived in a policyholder fund and how that is to be dealt with going forward. The only reference is that the insurer must place assets having a market value equal to the liabilities in respect of the relevant policies in the fund concerned.
Once the policy is reflected in the corporate fund, however, a number of new principles are introduced. Firstly, the corporate fund is only entitled to claim a deduction equal to the amount of the insurance liabilities as reduced by reinsurance assets in respect of the risk policies as determined in accordance with accounting principles. The amount of insurance liabilities reduced by reinsurance assets relating to risk policies that have been claimed in a preceding year of assessment must be added back. The problem, however, is that the corporate fund now contains a mix of both risk business as well as the surplus assets of the insurer.
In order to overcome this difficulty, premiums will now be included in the income of the corporate fund on the basis that claims actually incurred will be allowed as a deduction. This is similar to the treatment of the short-term insurance industry.
However, the proposal goes much further in the sense that – dividends going forward will become taxable;
reinsurance claims received will become taxable, whereas reinsurance premiums paid are deductible;
capital gains will now be subject to normal tax at the rate of 28% and not the normal corporate rate.
There are a number of fundamental changes in the normal taxation principles that apply to corporate taxpayers. The fact that dividends will become taxable and capital gains are subject to normal tax at the rate of 28% is far-reaching.
This should be seen against the background that insurers are to be taxed on an annual basis in respect of unrealised capital gains. It is appreciated that not all of the dividends and capital gains will be taxed, but only a percentage thereof, calculated with reference to the premiums received compared to the total value of assets in the corporate fund. Even on this basis, however, it seems inconsistent with existing tax principles and the previous amendments that have been made to the taxation of the long-term insurance industry. If anything, one should rather consider the use of a fifth fund in which the risk policies must be reflected. This will have a much more equitable effect than throwing these polices into a corporate fund where a number of inconsistencies will arise.
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Kazuo Ishiguro Draws On His Songwriting Past To Write Novels About The Future
Published March 17, 2021 at 12:10 PM EDT
Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2017. His previous novels include The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go. He also writes lyrics for jazz singer Stacey Kent.
Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro didn't set out to become a novelist. In the 1960s, he came to San Francisco from England with his acoustic guitar, hoping to make it as a singer-songwriter.
Things didn't work out the way he had planned. Within a month, someone stole his guitar, and eventually Ishiguro turned to writing fiction. But he continues to draws on his roots as a songwriter.
"Many of the things I do, still to this day as a writer, as a novelist, I think it has its foundations in what I discovered and the kind of place that I arrived at as a writer of songs," Ishiguro says.
Ishiguro's latest novel, Klara and the Sun, is set in a future time, where children no longer go to school; instead they learn on devices, isolated from each other. The story is narrated by a human-like robot, who serves as one child's "artificial friend." If certain elements of the novel feel oddly prescient of pandemic life, Ishiguro says that's purely coincidental.
"I finished the book before the pandemic, and I have to say, [the pandemic] took me completely by surprise," he says. "I couldn't have dreamt that something like this would happen. ... In the novel, I'm talking about a society that is undergoing profound changes and it doesn't quite know how to reorganize itself."
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On why he wanted his narrator to be an artificial person
Klara was especially interesting for me because she doesn't bring any baggage with her. ... She's like a tabula rasa at the beginning, and she's quite childlike and very open. ... That appealed to me. I wanted some of that childlike freshness and openness and naivety to survive all the way through the text in her. I wanted her to remain a very optimistic character who has a childlike faith in the presence of something good and protective in the world — even as she learns all these other things, darker things about the human world that she occupies.
On sympathizing with Klara, despite her being an A.I.
It shouldn't be that surprising, really, though, that an artificial creature could actually solicit our sympathies as much as a human one. Because after all, characters in books are artificial. We're making that kind of leap anyway. When we read books and you get weepy over the fate of some character, we're not weeping over a real person. We've put ourselves into some kind of space where we're relating to created beings. At some level, we're responding metaphorically because we think that it impinges, in some metaphorical relationship to our real lives, I suppose. I never thought it was going to actually be an intrinsic problem in terms of how my readers would feel because my main character was artificial.
On how songwriting was his foundation in writing
I feel like I served my apprenticeship, as a novelist, writing songs. And in some ways, that's why I was able to kind of jump into my career at a relatively mature point. I think my first novel isn't like a typical first novel. And [the success of] The Remains of the Day — which a lot of people still think is one of my best books, that's only my third book, written in my early 30s — is because ... I went through the other stages in my songwriting. And I think I realize, even now, new things about songs and the value system that counts when you try to write songs, seriously write songs. I now realize more and more as I get older how they define my decisions as a novelist.
On listening to singers to inspire his writing
When I'm writing, the actual voice of the narrator is very important and I find I take enormous inspiration ... from listening to singing voices.
When I'm writing, the actual voice of the narrator is very important, and I find I take enormous inspiration ... from listening to singing voices. I love to listen to Stacey Kent, who I write lyrics for, or many other singers. There's something almost impossible to capture in words about the quality of a singing performance. I'll listen to Nina Simone, all kinds of singers, ... and just the voice — not much the lyrics of the songs — sometimes the voice alone gives me something to aim for in my writing. I'll think, it's that feeling she gets there, that's what I want in this passage, and I can bypass the intellectualizing of it or the articulating it in words. I can just try and go for that kind of feeling.
On if winning a Nobel Prize in 2017 changed his confidence
This is, by and large, how I've experienced prizes and honors throughout my career: It feels to me like that happens somewhere outside out there on a different planet, almost in a parallel universe, and the person who receives these things is some sort of avatar. I'm really proud and grateful to get these honors, because many, many writers who are as good as me or better don't get these honors. So let me just say that I'm profoundly grateful for them. However, when I'm writing in my disheveled, untidy study, it's got nothing to do with what I'm doing. I have a very lonely sense of success or failure. I'm trying to bring something into being and sometimes I can do it and sometimes I can't. And that's about the extent of it, really.
Sam Briger and Kayla Lattimore produced and edited the audio of this interview. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Petra Mayer adapted it for the Web.


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Sebuah post yang telat karena ulang tahun yang 121 (twelfty-first) Professor JRR Tolkien jatuh tanggal 3 Januari. But better late than never, right?
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January 3 - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Bio: Born on January 3, 1892, J. R. R. Tolkien was an English writer, poet, philologist, and professor. More than almost anyone else, his cycle of works—including The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion—have left an indelible influence on high fantasy to this day. Tolkien fought in WWI, and taught at the University of Leeds and the University of Oxford. In addition to his fantasy work, he translated numerous works of Anglo-Saxon and Middle English. In 1972, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. He passed away on 29 November 1971, at the age of 82.
Anecdotes:
The tombstone of Tolkien and his wife bears the names Beren and Lúthien, two characters from his legendarium.
Tolkien constructed the grammar and vocabulary of at least fifteen Elvish languages and dialects.
At times, he began classes by appearing in chain mail, bellowing the opening lines of Beowulf. "According to one of his students, 'He could turn a lecture room into a mead hall.'"
Tolkien was also very involved in reconstructing 'extinct' languages, such as Medieval Welsh and Lombardic. The poem "BagmÄ" Blomā" ("Flower of the Trees") might be the first original work written in the Gothic language in over a millennium.
He has been published almost as prolifically after his death as he was when he was alive.
Tolkien began work on The Hobbit early in the 1930s while marking School Certificate papers. He found a blank page and, with sudden inspiration, wrote the words, "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
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The sun went down, and Morwen sighed and clasped his hand and was still; and Húrin knew that she had died.
From The Children of Húrin
[…"You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!"] "Thanks goodness!" said Bilbo laughing, and handed him the tobacco-jar.
From The Hobbit
Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hills of the Emyn Muil, and into the Land of Shadow.
From The Fellowship of the Ring
Frodo was alive but taken by the Enemy.
From The Two Towers
"Well, I'm back," he said.
From The Return of the King
[Here ends the SILMARILLION.] If it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old the fate of Arda Marred; and if any change shall come and the Marring be amended, Manwë and Varda may know; but they have not revealed it, and it is not declared in the dooms of Mandos.
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Human Faces, Lost in the Statistics
By Staff Report | November 12, 2008
By T.J. Johnston, Newsdesk.org
Main article: "Attacks on Homeless Excluded from Crime Data: Advocates"
Since 1999, when the National Coalition on the Homeless, started releasing yearly figures on attacks against people without housing, it has claims to have tracked 774 violent acts against homeless men, women and children in 235 cities throughout 45 states and Puerto Rico. Of these attacks, 217 were fatal.
Newsdesk.org took an up-close look at four individuals made victims by this violence in 2007 — and found real human faces lost in the statistics.
New York: "Quality of Life"
Before David Pirtle found housing in 2006 and became an advocate for the National Coalition on the Homeless's speakers bureau, the former restaurant manager spent two-and-a-half years homeless in New York City.
One autumn night in 2004, Pirtle was sleeping in an abandoned stairwell. A group of possibly intoxicated teens woke him by beating him with a baseball bat. His teeth were knocked out and his ribs broken.
He never reported his injuries to anyone.
"Homeless people normally stay away from the police," he said. When other homeless people he knew reported their assaults, there was never any follow through.
"I think the main reason homeless people are targets is because we're easy," Pirtle said. "The more you dehumanize a group of people, the easier it is to justify attacking someone."
The NCH asserts that homeless people are dehumanized when quality of life laws are passed and activities associated with homelessness are criminalized; New York City was a pioneer of this approach under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
San Francisco: "The N Word"
"When a hate crime happens, it's a result of someone not really taking enough time to use deep insight of some heavy political issue," Willie Warren, 53, of San Francisco said, taking stock of the beating he suffered on Sept. 2, 2002, when he was homeless.
Warren has been a longtime civil rights volunteer with the Coalition on Homelessness (the San Francisco group is not affiliated with NCH).
He believes his injuries were borne of animosity toward homeless activists, as well as race and class prejudice.
That Labor Day weekend, Warren walked past a bar in the Tenderloin neighborhood on his way to KFC. He greeted a woman he recognized, then heard someone address him by the N-word.
At 6-foot-5 and almost 300 pounds, Warren wasn't easily intimidated. He observed two muscle-bound men — one slightly taller than Warren — who were intoxicated.
"They looked like they work out at Gold's Gym," he said. Still, he tried to defuse the situation.
"Why are you saying this when I don't know you?" Warren said to them. In the ensuing verbal exchange, he mentioned his work with an organization campaigning against a city ballot measure to reduce welfare benefits to homeless people.
"You represent those sorry-ass people?" Warren recalled taller man saying.
The other man tried to grab him from behind, but Warren fended him off with his backpack. Before he could get his pepper spray, Warren was struck with a wooden object about one foot long and almost three inches in diameter — he thinks it was a mop handle — and lost consciousness.
He was treated for his injuries, including a lump over his left eye. He also had headaches for a week and needed Vicodin to sleep. He made a full recovery, when his doctors said he only had a 3 percent chance.
Police later told Warren they had a description of both attackers and the location in South San Francisco where a taxi dropped them off. His attackers remain at large, but Warren is not deterred from his advocacy.
"If you thought I was a homeless advocate then, watch me now," Warren said.
Cleveland: "A Welder by Trade"
Anthony Waters avoided walking on Cleveland's major streets mainly as a survival strategy: 10 of Ohio's 13 homeless attacks last year happened in Cleveland.
A welder by trade, Waters stayed at the 2100 Lakeside Men's Shelter since April. Staff remember him as a loner – polite and well-spoken — who tried to get sober. Occasionally, he would visit his mother's house six miles away.
He was on his way to his mother's on June 25, taking a shortcut through an industrial area. Around 9:15 p.m., at least three teenage males wearing white T-shirts jumped him – one had what appeared to be a BMX bicycle.
A surveillance video from a nearby towing company recorded the beat down while a 911 call was made.
His ribs fractured and spleen lacerated, Waters died at the hospital. He was 42.
Police retrieved a bicycle resembling the one on tape, but haven't found the attackers.
San Francisco Bay Area: "Bolinas Border Patrol"
Ricky Green, 32, left behind his career as a graphic artist for a self-described "spiritual journey" that took him to Bolinas, Calif. where he lived outdoors.
On June 23, Green faced down a bunch of young men at Brighton Beach for harassing another homeless man.
"I stand up for my truth," Green told Newsvine.com. "And because I stand up for my truth with such authority — people tend to get offended."
Marin County deputy sheriffs said the group, who had been drinking, stabbed him and hit him with a skateboard, a flashlight and bottles.
Green was found in the bushes, bloodied and half-conscious. He was airlifted to a hospital 50 miles away, where he spent two weeks recovering.
Green later told the press he was surrounded and blinded by headlights before the beating. By Green's accounts, the group was part of a self-styled "Bolinas Border Patrol" who hated outsiders. The skateboard police found had the initials BBP written on it.
Five people, ages 16 to 22, pleaded guilty to assault. A sixth is facing trial for attempted voluntary manslaughter and assault.
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Viktor Ivanovich Nazarov (Russian: Виктор Иванович Назаров; born 18 October 1962) is a Russian businessman and politician. Nazarov served as the 2nd Governor of Omsk Oblast from 2012 through 2017. Prior to his election as governor, he was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Omsk Oblast and the General Director of OmskRegionGaz.

Biography

Viktor Nazarov was born on October 18, 1962 in the village of Ingaly in the Bolsherechensky district of the Omsk region. He graduated from Omsk State University with a degree in law.

In the December 4, 2011 elections, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Omsk Region from the Tukalin Electoral District.

In April 2012, then-Russian President Dimitry Medvedev nominated him to the post of Governor and he was approved by the approved by the Legislative Assembly of Omsk Oblast in May 2012 with 43 for and 1 against his appointment. taking over May 30, 2012. The inauguration took place at the Omsk Academic Drama Theater.   On September 13, 2015, he was re-elected for a new term. Nazarov resigned as governor on October 9, 2017.

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Probably a tad overdo for a live album, Greece's Rotting Christ, for the better part of a few decades now, have come to embody the shape-shifting, in-focus, exotic ethos that resonates from their home country. They haven't heightened their symphonic elements the way Septicflesh have, yet Rotting Christ's recent output finds the band going in the opposite direction of the smooth, sleek, massively underrated song-first approach found on Triarchy of the Lost Lovers and A Dead Poem, two must-haves from the mid-90s. Being that they have quite a few studio albums to their credit, a proverbial live album makes way in the form of Lucifer over Athens.
A total of 31 songs are split over two discs, essentially covering all facets, nooks, crannies, etc. of the band's career. Recorded over two nights in 2013 in RC's hometown of Athens, for a live album, it has the necessary energy, most notably from an energetic crowd, entirely in tune with the crescendos, melodic climbs, and breaks that accompanying many of the band's songs. Choice, worthy cuts include "Athanatoi Este," "A Sorrowful Farewell," "Among Two Storms" (both culled from the aforementioned A Dead Poem), and "The Sign of Existence," pulled from the band's early, venomous black metal days.
Considering the balance struck between all eras of Rotting Christ's existence, Lucifer Over Athens has plenty to offer, not to mention some unheralded numbers like "The Nereid of Esgalduin" or "The Fourth Night of Revelation." Praise for Rotting Christ's catalog aside, Lucifer Over Athens should serve as a nice gateway into the band's next studio album, titled Rituals, which is due early next year. A true, living, breathing Greek extreme metal institution, Rotting Christ are well worth your time, whether it's a live album, or any number of full-lengths to their credit.


The campaign against glyphosate started a few years ago. The fairly benign herbicide was so closely tied to Roundup Ready crops it became inexorably tied to biotechnology. Activists tried hard to ban cultivating GMO crops….But when bans failed and the federal government passed national labeling requirements, their focus shifted to more and more to glyphosate.
Their efforts paid off when the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer designated glyphosate as a probable carcinogen. The decision was immediately controversial and decried by scientists around the world. And we now know IARC's committee was stacked with particular people set to make sure it found a particular result.
After IARC's announcement, regulatory agencies around the world decided to review their positions on glyphosate. Every single one concluded IARC was wrong.
These developments aren't the product of some random coincidence. I've long warned "Big Green" knows exactly what they're doing and that we shouldn't underestimate them. These activist organizations, like the Environmental Working Group and the Organic Consumers' Association, are rich, organized, and powerful. What they've accomplished in just a few short years against glyphosate should remind us of their capabilities.


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Both directors continually look for practices to help their customer find the most cost effective and efficient solutions. They recently developed a Hydraulic Test Kit which is used by the Samatrix Engineers to advise customers on the best available options.
Samatrix have strived to accomplish quality accreditations over the years and have achieved ISO9001, NICIEC and Safecontractor. All engineers are CRB checked and Samatrix employs only fully qualified mechanical and electrical engineering staff.
Sam and his team are looking to expand in the coming years with an emphasis on finding new products and services to help the customer save even more.
Samatrix's clients are mainly found in South West England, South West Wales, and the whole of Wales. For more information on the Pumping, Installation, Monitoring and Servicing Solutions which Samatrix can provide you with please contact us today.


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Great Brittany: discovering the Crozon peninsula
Brittany holidays
If you're going to Brittany – keep driving west. You'll find huge uncrowded beaches, plenty of delicious seafood and some fairly dodgy festivals
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Going coastal … heather-clad cliffs along the Crozon peninsula. Photograph: Getty Images
The road to Lost-Marc'h is lined with blue hydrangeas. In this wild Atlantic setting, the tame shrub normally associated with suburban front gardens has taken on a vivid new life, tumbling over stone walls and winding its way into the hedgerows.
To our left, heather-clad cliffs plunge towards secret coves, which tempt us to pull over at every lay-by. We keep driving west, passing through tiny hamlets where the dour, granite walls of the sturdy slate-roofed cottages are leavened by front doors and shutters painted in vibrant cornflower blue.
Crozon, Brittany, map.
The air is filled with the tang of garlic and the sound of chatter drifting up from the restaurants
The villages seem deserted, but handwritten signs propped against garden gates advertising "moules frites" suggest otherwise. The road gets narrower until it peters out in a small car park surrounded by heathland. There's a handful of camper vans and outside one a Dutch family is clambering into wetsuits. We follow them along a sandy track, emerging onto an exhilarating sweep of sand, pounded by Atlantic breakers and colonised by a handful of surfers. It feels like being let in on a secret.
Beaches like this – vast, bracing, beautiful – are what Brittany does best and some of the finest examples are on the Crozon peninsula, a narrow finger of land poking into the Atlantic in the far west of France. Spend a week here and your definition of "personal space" starts to expand dramatically. Within a couple of days, you'll find yourself muttering darkly if someone dares to put up their windbreaker within 100m of you.
Moment of peace … the Eurocamp at Domaine de Ker Ys
Brittany is not exactly uncharted territory for the British, who cross the Channel in their thousands every summer to exchange the unpredictable British weather for the, well, equally unpredictable Breton weather. But it's probably fair to say that very few make it to the Crozon peninsula, despite it being only 50 miles from the port at Roscoff (and 140 miles from Saint-Malo). This may be due to the low-key nature of the tourist infrastructure – there are no big hotels or famous attractions – and also because long tracts of the northern shore are owned by the French navy and off-limits to tourists.
The French, however, are well-acquainted with Crozon's craggy charms and accommodation tends to be booked up way ahead in summer, particularly in the two main tourist hubs, the cheerful seaside town of Morgat, which sits on a crescent of soft sand in a sheltered bay, and the fishing village of Camaret-sur-Mer, known for its seafood restaurants.
Through Eurocamp, we booked a two-bedroom mobile home at the Domaine de Ker Ys, a small holiday park overlooking the enormous Pentrez plage. It lacks some of the bells and whistles of Eurocamp's bigger sites (no children's club, disco or on-site restaurant), but the outdoor pool with waterslide and the sandy beach keep our seven-year-old happy.
Seaside colour … the high street at Camaret-sur-Mer. Photograph: Alamy
Our Eurocamp courier, Chris, is a useful source of information on the best markets and festivals. The Bretons are fond of a municipal shindig and in the summer you can't drive anywhere without seeing a poster advertising a hog roast, artisan market, free concert or a "fest-noz", the local version of a ceilidh (occasionally featuring bagpipes… don't say you weren't warned).
Our visit coincides with the Festival du Bout du Monde, which takes place every year on the first weekend of August. We book day tickets, envisaging a family friendly affair with folk music and face-painting. As we are kettled through the gates with thousands of French teenagers off their faces, it dawns on us that we've made a mistake. "Why has that man got bubbles coming out of his mouth, Mummy?" is the cue for us to beat a retreat to the campsite, which is hosting an all-you-can-eat crêpe night. We watch in awe as a whippet-thin Frenchman returns to the pancake counter a heroic nine times.
One morning, we join a boat trip out of Morgat to explore the peninsula's caves. The harbour, blue as the Mediterranean and calm as a millpond, is a hive of activity, with paddle-boarders punting back and forth and flotillas of children on tiny dinghies trailing behind their instructor's boat.
The next day, we head for Trez Bellec, where a patchwork of fields slopes down to an endless strand of hard-packed sand, the sort of beach that makes you think you can do cartwheels. We spend a couple of hours jumping the waves and watching sail-buggies skittering across the sand (book a lesson at the Centre Nautique de Telgruc-sur-Mer) before walking to Le Cargo, a café/bar in a converted shipping container, serving local ciders and ales and platters of charcuterie, cheese, oysters and smoked trout.
On our last night, we drive into Camaret-sur-Mer. The air is filled with the tang of garlic and the sound of chatter drifting up from the parade of harbour-front restaurants. We walk out along the "sillon", the long shingle jetty which curves across the bay.
Bounty hunters … one of the many hidden coves along the Brittany coastline. Photograph: Getty Images
From the sea wall, the Atlantic looks milky and calm and in the low evening sun the walls of the Chapelle Notre-Dame de Rocamadour, at the end of the jetty, glow soft and golden like buttery Breton shortbread. Inside, wooden boats and life belts hang from the ceiling beams, tokens of thanks from mariners who survived perilous Atlantic crossings.
In front of the church, the rusting hulks of fishing vessels are a rueful reminder of a time when sardine fishing, rather than tourism, was the main source of income here. We take pictures of the artfully decaying wrecks and follow our lengthening shadows back to the shore.
A return crossing from Portsmouth to St Malo with Brittany Ferries costs from £453 for a car and three passengers, including an en suite cabin on the outward overnight journey (0330 159 7000; brittanyferries.com). A week at the Domaine de Ker Ys in a two-bedroom Classic mobile home costs from £541 with Eurocamp (01606 787125; eurocamp.co.uk). Prices based on departures in early July
France holidays
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Boophis feonnyala  è una rana della famiglia Mantellidae, endemica del Madagascar.

Distribuzione e habitat
La specie è nota solo per un'unica località all'interno del parco di Andasibe, nel Madagascar centro-orientale ma potrebbe essere presente anche in altre località.

Note

Bibliografia

Voci correlate
Anfibi del Madagascar
Fauna del Madagascar

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni
  Boophis feonnyala Amphibiaweb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation.

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1915 Obituaries: Dec 2, 5 and 6
Laura Aanenson / December 6, 2015
The following notices of death appeared in the December 2, 1915 issue of the Minneapolis Journal;
"DUNKLEY-Mrs. Anna, aged 91 years, widow of John Dunkley, died Thursday morning at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. F. H. Hale, 2316 Logan av N. She is survived by two sons and three daughters, William Dunkley of Minneapolis, John Dunkley of Foxborough, Wis., Mrs. Fred Gaskill, Mrs. F. H. Hale and Miss Ella Dunkley of Minneapolis. Services Friday afternoon at 2:30 at the residence. Interment Wolf Creek, Wis."
"THE FUNERAL services of Mrs. Elizabeth DeMarais will be held from the Lakewood chapel at 2 o'clock this afternoon. She is survived by three sons, J. D. DeMarais, Los Angeles; A. S. DeMarais, Port Huron, Mich., and K. A. DeMarais, Avon, Idaho, and two daughters, Mrs. C. O. Worrell and Mrs. G. A. Bobb of Minneapolis."
"HANSON-Alfred, 2032 Minneapolis av, died Wednesday at St. Barnabas hospital, age 41 years. He is survived by his mother and three children. He was a member of Hugnad lodge I. S. W. A. and Glee club. Funeral Friday, 2 p.m., at Hugnad hall, corner 21st av S and Lake st. Interment at Lakewood."
"M'NERIN-Georgia, age 32 years, daughter of Mrs. Mary McNerin, died Thursday morning at the residence of her aunt, Mrs. D. E. Welch, 3633 Blaisdell av. Funeral Saturday morning from residence at 8:30 a.m. Services Church of the Incarnation at 9 a.m. Interment St. Mary's cemetery."
"ROBERTS, PATROLMAN JAMES A., age 45 years, died Wednesday night at his residence, 2834 5th av S. He was a member of the Uniform Rank of Knights of Pythias. The funeral services will be held from the residence Saturday at 2 p.m. Interment Lakewood."
"CLEMENTS-Mary A., age 32, died Thursday at St. Barnabas hospital. Funeral will be held Saturday from her home, 1430 Adams at NE, at 8:30 and from St. Boniface church at 9. Interment St. Mary's."
"KJELLANDER-C.O., age 49 years, died Monday at Hastings, Minn. Funeral Friday at 2 p.m. from residence2013 30th av S. Member of Cedar camp No. 4419, M.W.A. Interment Crystal Lake."
"MEINKE, CARL, age 73 years, died Tuesday at his home, 3106 Thomas av N. Funeral services Friday at 2 p.m. from the residence. Interment Brooklyn Center."
"LINDQUIST-Andrew, age 61 years, died Monday at Rochester, Minn. Funeral Friday 2 p.m. from residence, 2637 29th av S. Interment Crystal Lake."
"EMMA M. GOODRICH, wife of John C. Goodrich, Eden Prairie, died Tuesday night. Funeral from M.E. church, Eden Prairie, Friday, 1 p.m."
and from the December 5, 1915 issue of the Minneapolis Journal;
"SANDERS-MRS. IDA BELLE, wife of Allen C. Sanders, died Friday morning at the residence of her brotherinlaw, Mr. John G. Rickel, 4629 Fremont av. S. She is survived by her husband, a sister, Miss Effie J. Kennedy, and father John Kennedy of Minneapolis, and a brother F. J. Kennedy of Paynesville, Minn. Services Monday, 3:30 p.m., at Lakewood chapel. Interment Lakewood."
"HENRY BUEHLER, age 42, died Saturday at his residence, 1131 Adams st NE. He was a druggist on Adams and Broadway for many years. Was a member of Cataract Lodge A. F. of A. M. He is survived by his wife and two daughters, four sisters and two brothers, all of Minneapolis. Funeral services will be held at the residence at 2 p.m. Interment at Lakewood."
"HATHORN-LELAND C., aged 30, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Hathorn of Seattle, died on Friday at Hill Crest hospital of appendicitis. Funeral on Monday at 2 o'clock at the Lakewood chapel. Besides his parents he leaves a sister, Miss Irma Hathorn of the Agricultural school at Morris, Minn."
"VAN STRUM, FRED T. Funeral services of the late Fred T. Van Strum, 643 East 18th st., will be held Monday afternoon, Dec. 6, 1915 at the First Baptist church, 10th st. and Harmon place. Friends are invited to attend the funeral services. Interment at Lakewood."
"FAWCETT-SARAH N., wife of J. B. Fawcett, age 83 died Saturday noon at her residence, 2008 Park av. She is survived by her husband, and a daughter, Mrs. C. N. Crowther, and a son Walter W. Services at Lakewood chapel at 11 a.m. Monday."
"ANDERSON-Henry, age 27 years, died Friday at his home, 4509 32d av. S. He is survived by his mother and two sisters. He was a member of Flour City Lodge No. 118. I.O.O.F. Funeral Monday, 2 p.m., at the residence. Interment Layman's cemetery."
"HOOVER. A., died Dec. 2 at the residence of his son, Wm. H. Hoover, 4445 44th av. S. Remains will be shipped to Cedar Rapids, Iowa for interment."
"NOLAN-Mrs. Rosanna Nolan, at her home, 2014 Upton av. N. Dec. 4. Funeral notice later."
and from page 19 of the December 6, 1915 issue of the Minneapolis Journal;
"JOHNSON-ERICK, died Thursday at the age of 64 years. Funeral Tuesday from the undertaking parlors of Fred E. Lindquist at 2 p.m. Interment in Layman's cemetery. He is survived by three sons, John, Sidney and George Johnson and one daughter, Mrs. John Peterson. He was born in Helsingland, Sweden."
"NOLAN, MRS. ROSANNA, died Dec. 4 at her home, 2014 Upton av N. She is survived her two sons, Michael and Daniel, and one daughter, Mrs. W. F. Doran. Funeral from the residence Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. and from the Ascension church at 9 a.m. Interment St. Mary's cemetery."
"KIRKWOOD, WALLACE E., second son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward T Kirkwood, died at his home in Robbinsdale Sunday morning, Dec. 5, 1915, aged 80 years. Funeral services at the Church of the Sacred Heart, Robbinsdale, Tuesday, Dec. 7, at 1:30 p.m."
"DASEY, JAMES J., age 48 years, died Sunday evening. Funeral Wednesday morning at 8:30 from the residence, 2745 Hennepin av. Services procathedral at 9 o'clock. Interment St. Mary's cemetery."
"VAN WIE, in this city Dec. 5, Ella F. Van Wie, aged 63 years. Funeral from the parlors of J. Warren Roberts, 913 Marquette av. Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. Burial at Lakewood."
"LINDBERG, CHARLES, age 32 years, died Saturday evening. Funeral Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the residence, 2712 E 28th st. Interment Layman's cemetery."
"PALMER, MRS. THOMAS W., age 64, died Sunday, the 5th, at the residence, 2424 Aldrich av. S. The funeral was held from the home this afternoon."
"SMITH, MRS. MARIE, 3043 21st av. S. passed away Sunday evening. Funeral notice later."
My transcription above is exactly as the notices appeared in the December 2, 5 and 6th, 1915 issues of The Minneapolis Journal with the exception of the quotation marks at the beginning and end of each obituary. Abbreviations, capitalization, grammar and references to people, places and things are indicative of the era in which this information was first published.
When possible, the deceased have also been memorialized on Find A Grave.
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Seven students from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, started in 2013 with great endurance and creativity to represent the interests of young chemists towards the Austrian Chemical Society (GÖCh), the chemical industry, and the public. They work to build a larger network among young chemists covering other Austrian universities and to expand their international cooperation with other young chemists' groups. Read more.
The inaugural issue of ChemMedChem was published in January 2006, and so the journal is currently celebrating its 10th anniversary.
ChemMedChem's anniversary celebrations will be held later this year at the annual National Meeting in Medicinal Chemistry of the Medicinal Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI) in Palermo (September 11–14, 2016). This is particularly fitting, as ChemMedChem succeeded Il Farmaco, a journal of the SCI.
Chemists cooperated with artists, they visited each other at their workplaces, discussed their work, learned from each other. The result is a unique exhibition, well-received, which stimulates interest in chemistry and arts. Find out more.
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Capella University is also featured in our ranking Top 10 Online Master's in Education Degrees.
Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Capella University is an online, for-profit institution of higher learning. The school delivers the majority of its education via online distance learning classes, and it is owned by the Capella Education Company. Capella offers more than 25 certificate programs, 142 undergraduate and graduate specializations, and 1600 online courses. Approximately 36,000 students from 61 other countries and all U.S. states pursue degrees from Capella, with 26 percent seeking a bachelor's degree, 42 percent seeking a master's degree, and 29 percent seeking a doctoral degree. An estimated 86 percent of the 1,488 faculty hold doctoral degrees and reside in six countries and 48 states.
Capella University was established in 1993 as The Graduate School of America by Stephen Shank, former CEO of Tonka, and Dr. Harold Abel, former president of Walden University, Central Michigan University, and Castleton State College. Abel then became the first president of Capella as well. In 2010, The Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) awarded Capella University and three other universities with the CHEA Award for Outstanding Institutional Practice in Student Learning Outcomes.
Online Master in Education Degrees From Capella University
Capella University offers four different online master's degrees in education: the Master of Education, the Master of Science in Education, the Master of Science in Education Innovation and Technology, and the Master of Science in Higher Education. All degrees are accredited by the NCATE, ensuring that the school meets standards of quality for its programs and faculty. In addition, Capella offers two online, competency-based formats in the M.Ed. program: FlexPath and GuidedPath. FlexPath is entirely self-paced, and students can complete as many as they want, up to two at the same time, each quarter for one set tuition fee. GuidedPath involves a pre-set path from start to finish, and assignments are due at the end of each week with message-board discussions in the middle of the week.
The online 46-quarter-credit Master of Education degree consists of four core courses and six specialization courses. The curriculum provides students with a deep understanding of cultural competency, technology integration, pedagogical methods, and curriculum assessment innovations. Students will learn how to assess student progress, strengthen instruction, leverage the latest technology, reach more students, embrace new findings, and cultivate and grow diversity.
Students pursuing the online MS in Education can choose from a number of specializations, including early childhood education studies, early childhood education, curriculum and instruction, instructional design for online learning, English language learning and teaching, training and performance improvement, special education teaching, reading and literacy, leadership in educational administration, or K-12 studies in education. The number of credits required and courses taught for the MS in Education degree will depend on the specialization chosen.
Students earning the MS in Education Innovation and Technology degree will learn how to impact their classrooms with technology by developing the skills and knowledge necessary to teach innovative thinking through technology, integrate devices into course plans, and achieve digital transformation. Students may also choose a specialization in this degree such as professional growth and development, personalized learning, instruction in the 1:1 environment, competency-based instruction, or general education technology.
Finally, the MS in Higher Education allows students to become experts in post-secondary and adult education by focusing on the needs of diverse learners, education trends, administration, leadership, and learning theory. Program specializations include integrative studies, adult education, and higher education leadership and administration.
Depending on the master's degree in education chosen, students may be eligible to transfer credits from previously attended institutions. Each program, course, and assignment is designed to deliver skills that students can immediately apply for success in the field of education. The FlexPath option is also available for each of these degrees, allowing students to complete their studies at their own pace and on their own time. In addition, faculty and expert staff support students throughout the program to help them meet challenges and reach their long- and short-term goals.
Capella University Accreditation Details
Capella University is regionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), and its bachelor's and graduate-level teacher education programs are accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). Accreditation ensures that every degree offered by the school is respected, recognized, and relevant. Accreditation is an assurance to the public and learners that Capella meets or exceeds quality standards for its fiscal stability, learner services, curriculum, and faculty. In addition, if students have studied at more than one accredited college, accreditation makes it possible for them to transfer credits.
Capella University Application Requirements
In order to be admitted into a master's degree in education from Capella University, students must hold a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution. Students must also submit a $50 nonrefundable application fee that covers the cost of transcript requests and evaluations and other administrative expenses. The school requires official transcripts from all previously attended institutions as well as a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 2.3 or better on a 4.0 scale. Students must also complete an Experience and Access Acknowledgement Form that verifies they know what to expect in terms of completing coursework. GMAT and GRE scores are not required for admission. Applicants pursuing the FlexPath Self-Paced Learning option must also demonstrate a minimum GPA of 3.0, although if a student has a lower GPA, he or she may be able to provide additional documentation for review.
Capella University takes a straightforward approach in terms of its tuition costs. Students pursuing a Master of Science (MS) in Education will pay $444 per credit, while those seeking a Master of Science in Higher Education or a Master of Science in Education Innovation and Technology will pay $408 or $398 per credit, respectively.
Students may also be eligible for financial aid in the form of a federal work-study program, grants, loans, or scholarships. Specifically, graduate students may be entitled to seek aid from Federal Graduate PLUS Loans or Federal Direct Unsubsidized Loans. In order to determine eligibility, students are required to first complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). In addition, Capella University is a military-friendly school that offers many assistance programs and benefits such as military tuition discounts and the Yellow Ribbon Program to veterans, active-duty servicemembers, spouses, and their dependents.


Are you looking for a new, fun way to get involved with GBA this summer? Dare Me For Charity just may be the event for you! Dare Me For Charity is a reality television show that is sweeping across the US this summer. It's ushering in a whole new way to think about how we can support our favorite nonprofits.
Dare Me For Charity shows that any asset you have—even if it's a love of rollercoasters and adrenaline rushes—can make a huge difference for an organization in your community. The goal of the show is this: to connect nonprofits and their supporters in order to raise money through extreme (but safe!) obstacles and jumps.
Participants in Dare Me For Charity's events literally jump from higher and higher heights for their charity of choice. Teams will have multiple opportunities to perform in challenges for their organizations, all while raising awareness about the organization on national television.
Do you think you have what it takes to be a part of GBA's Dare Me for Charity team?
For more information, check out the main website (http://dareme4charity.com/) and the Indy event site (http://dareme4charity.com/campaign/list/city/23).
Dare Me For Charity is coming to Indianapolis on Fridauy, July 25th. A fifteen-dollar registration fee gets you three jumps for GBA!
If you're interested, be sure to register before space fills up! We'd love to see families, students—anyone—come out for this unique and charitable event!


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From the Studio: CdA Music Conservatory's "Messiah"
By E.J. Iannelli
Published December 1, 2022 at 11:36 AM PST
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Kent Kimball of the Music Conservatory of Coeur d'Alene in the SPR lobby
Kent Kimball of the Music Conservatory of Coeur d'Alene on Handel's masterpiece
Kent Kimball, president of the Music Conservatory of Coeur d'Alene, stopped by the KPBX studio to chat with E.J. Iannelli about their upcoming performance of Handel's Messiah this weekend.
Although there are often multiple performances of Messiah in Spokane each holiday season, it has been several years since Handel's oratorio has been produced in or around Coeur d'Alene.
Kimball explained how this North Idaho performance came about and why both the concert and the work itself are important.
The concert will include Parts I, II and III of Messiah—roughly two hours of music—as performed by a chorus of 50 singers, a 20-piece professional orchestra and a quartet of top-tier soloists: Amy Porter (soprano), Amanda Glover (alto), Jadd Davis (tenor) and Max Mendez (bass).
The event is also a singalong, which means members of the audience can join in. There will be a 30-minute rehearsal for audience singers that will begin one hour prior to the concert. Audience singers are encouraged to arrive around 1:30pm to check in.
Admission to the event is free.
The Music Conservatory of Coeur d'Alene's Messiah takes place at 3pm on Sunday, December 4, 2022 at the Schuler Performing Arts Center on the North Idaho College campus.
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People with Type 2 diabetes are no strangers to needles, with some injecting bolus insulin after meals, others injecting basal insulin once or twice a day, and others still doing both.
Novo Nordisk is working on a once-weekly basal insulin that could cut down on these injections, and the phase 2 data look promising.
In one study, the company tested the drug, dubbed insulin icodec, in 154 patients with Type 2 diabetes that was not well controlled with oral diabetes meds and once- or twice-daily shots of basal, or background, insulin. Some were switched over along with a loading dose of insulin glargine, better known as Sanofi's Lantus.
Patients who took Lantus as well as insulin icodec fared better than patients taking Lantus alone. In the last two weeks of the 16-week trial, they kept their blood sugar within the range of 3.9 to 10.0 mmol/L nearly three-quarters of the time (73%), compared to 65% for patients on Lantus alone. A blood sugar level of 7.8 mmol/L is considered normal. Patients who took insulin icodec alone did about as well as patients on Lantus, spending 66% of their time within that range, compared to 65% for the Lantus patients.
The study, presented Tuesday at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, met its primary endpoint, but it did not hit its secondary endpoints. These included changes from baseline hemoglobin A1C—which averages blood sugar level over the past two to three months—or reducing episodes of hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar. Though neither insulin icodec regimen beat Lantus alone on these measures, Novo is chalking the data up as a win since patients didn't do worse on the new drug.
"We know that many people with type 2 diabetes prefer simplicity, meaning fewer injections and more convenience than what is currently provided with once- or twice-daily basal insulin treatment regimens," said lead investigator Harpreet Bajaj, M.D., an endocrinologist at LMC Diabetes & Endocrinology, in Ontario, Canada. "This phase 2 trial demonstrates the potential benefit insulin icodec could offer to people with type 2 diabetes in need of insulin therapy, aiding easy transition onto a new treatment option without the daily burden and complexity that is associated with current therapies and potentially even experience more time in good glycaemic control with low risk of hypoglycaemia."
Novo also presented data for insulin icodec from 247 patients with Type 2 diabetes who had never taken insulin before. The data, published in the New England Journal of Medicine and previously unveiled at the virtual meeting of the American Diabetes Association in June, showed that the once-weekly insulin lowered blood sugar at similar rates to Lantus, with a comparable safety profile, to boot.
The company plans to start a phase 3 study for insulin icodec by the end of the year. If approved, the new treatment could not only reduce the frequency of injections for patients who already take insulin, but it could encourage more people to start taking insulin.
"Many people with Type 2 diabetes are reluctant to initiate insulin therapy due to the need for daily injections. This may affect how well their diabetes is managed," said Martin Holst Lange Novo's senior vice president, global development, in a video discussing the results.
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Hear from Sydney FC's Head of Strength and Conditioning Andrew Clark on how he's managing your Sky Blues stars during this split round, with 16 days before our next Hyundai A-League clash.
Split Round in the league this week, what do you first assess when approaching this week?
We try to replicate a normal week but we also use the opportunity to overload players in certain areas or allow players to recover from persistent niggles.
Is it a detriment to the players to not play a competitive match this weekend?
No not really. We look at it as an opportunity that we don't get often in a season to do extra work to take parts of our game to the next level.
What are the main things you focus on with the players this week, with no A-League match to prepare for?
We treat every player as an individual, and during this week satisfy individual needs, but continuing to develop our style of play always takes precedence.
How do you keep the players training 100% during the week?
At this stage of the season the players are highly motivated to continue on the path that we are on. The players have been fantastic in driving each other to be better every day.
How are the players looking for the run in to the Finals Series?
The team is in the best condition that it has been all season. We plan to continue to improve the levels of performance of the players until the Grand Final day.


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A Clermont County Lake Helps Prevent Major Flooding In Cincinnati
Published March 2, 2018 at 6:00 AM EST
Harsha Lake at East Fork State Park in Clermont County.
Construction work on the Harsha Lake and Dam in the early 1970's.
High water at East Fork State Park because of the high level of Harsha Lake.
Flooded boat ramp at East Fork Lake State Park.
Editor's note: This story was first published in March 2018.
Many people associate Harsha Lake at East Fork State Park in Clermont County with boating and recreation. While those activities are important, that's not the reason it was built.
Harsha Lake's one primary goal: control the amount of water flowing into the Ohio River and eventually, the Mississippi River.
Samantha Bachelder is a park ranger with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which operates the lake about four miles south of Batavia on the East Fork of the Little Miami River.
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Construction work on the Harsha Lake dam in 1976.
"We were originally built because of the 1937 floods that happened in Cincinnati and Dayton," Bachelder said.
Those floods caused major damage throughout the Ohio River valley. The Ohio crested at 80 feet in Cincinnati on January 26, 1937, its highest level ever in the city.
"Congress at the time decided to pass another flood control act in 1938 and basically provided all of us the funding to be able to build these projects," Bachelder said. "Even though they didn't get built till much later on, the funding and authorization was provided then."
Construction on Harsha Lake started in 1970, and it was fully operational in 1978.
It's part of a series of lakes, locks and dams along the Ohio River from Pennsylvania to Illinois designed for flood control.
There are four other lakes for flood control in southwest Ohio and southeast Indiana that are part of the Miami River flood control project. Those include: Caesar Creek Lake in Waynesville; West Fork of Mill Creek Lake in Winton Woods; C.J. Brown Dam & Reservoir in Springfield; and Brookville Lake in Indiana.
Bachelder said Ohio has basically no natural lakes, they are almost all man-made, whether they were built for flood control or as reservoirs.
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The high-level of Harsha Lake has closed a boat ramp and restroom at East Fork State Park in Clermont County.
As of Thursday, the Harsha Lake level was about 762 feet above sea level. That's about 30 feet higher than the summer.
Beaches, boat ramps and some buildings are closed because of high water.
The highest the lake can go is 795 feet, but it's never been close to that. The historic high was 777 feet in 2011.
When it comes time to start releasing water, attention will turn to the large, concrete control tower that rises out of the lake near the earthen dam.
"There are hydraulic gates that are in that tower," Bachelder said. "That tower goes all the way down to the bottom of the lake and those gates, we have a couple different kinds. We have our main gates which are very large, and then we have our bypass gates which are much smaller and let out much less water."
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The control tower for Harsha Lake in Clermont County.
Harsha Lake is part of the Corps of Engineers headquarters in Louisville, and Bachelder said officials there will determine how much water to release and when.
"Depending on how much water Louisville says that we can let out, we'll determine what size gate we need to use," Bachelder said. "What they do is they give us a measurement in cubic feet per second, that's how we measure how much water is coming out of the dam."
The release will be controlled and it will take some time for the lake to return to its normal level.
"Each lake is designed to only let out so much water a day, typically they measure that in feet, so you're only allowed to go down let's say two feet a day," Bachelder said. "That's because we want to prevent erosion downstream and also you can't overwhelm your downstream water because if we all let water out at the same time, you're just going to bring that Ohio right back up."
In July 2010, the Corps of Engineers estimated Harsha Lake had prevented more than $87 million in flood damages.
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Somatic cell gene therapy for the treatment of severe disease is considered ethical because it can be supported by the fundamental moral principle of beneficence: It would relieve human suffering. Gene therapy would be, therefore, a moral good. Under what circumstances would human genetic engineering not be a moral good? In the broadest sense, when it detracts from, rather than contributes to, the dignity of man....Somatic cell enhancement engineering would threaten important human values in two ways: It could be medically hazardous....And it would be morally precarious, in that it would require moral decisions our society is not now prepared to make, and it could lead to an increase in inequality and discriminatory practices.
In short, genetic enhancement risks violating human dignity by opening up the possibility of discrimination.


First opened in 2012, Neptune Park is a 30-foot tall climbing pyramid constructed from tubular metal and rope. The rope forms netting, which not only allows children to scramble up and race each other to the top, it is also a safety feature that prevents them from falling too far.
Peru's capital city is home to a giant obstacle course known as the "Ghost Train Park": a vibrantly colourful creation imagined and built by architecture collective Basurama. Featuring swings, climbing nets, zip wires and more, it's not only a fun environment for kids and adults alike, it's also a great example of how recycled materials can be used for worthwhile purposes. The majority of the obstacle course was created from materials from Lima's disused railway tracks.
The playground at Istanbul's Zorlu Centre has something for everyone. The area by the entrance is designed for younger children, with a slide, hammocks, trampolines and more. As you head towards the centre of the playground, the whole landscape changes. Here, you'll find a giant netting structure, a bridge and a slide that can be used by multiple children at once. There are also two towers with lookout nests that can be climbed for a view over the whole playground – it's a truly impressive place to play.
This is not a playground for anyone who is scared of being below ground! Zip World in North Wales is home to Bounce Below – a giant subterranean playground that's located within an old Victorian slate mine. There are various different levels to explore, with slides and walkways connecting a whole host of bouncy nets and huge trampolines (hence the name). The highest level is 180 feet above the floor. It's not just for older children either: there's a separate area for those aged between three and six.
In this Japanese playground, recycled tyres sit alongside traditional playground equipment to create an area that could have come straight from a child's imagination. There are tubular metal structures such as steep slides and jungle gyms, among other equipment, and the tyres form attractions such as tyre swings, bridges, tunnels and climbing equipment – including models of Godzilla and a giant robot. Without much shade, it's best visited in the early morning or late afternoon.
If you reckon your next playground project could take on these greats, you'll be wanting a company that can help you to realise your dream. Pipecraft specialises in designing and creating all sorts of items from tubular metal, while working completely to your spec, your budget and your timeframe. Contact us to find out how we can help.


"Men must have legends, else they die of strangeness," said Les Murray, worried we lacked myths. Kidding, right? We have nothing but, from Ned Kelly to Ern Malley, to the Dismissal, and back to "the Dreaming", which is itself a myth, a creation of anthropologists. Every nation has myths; we appear to specialise in metamyth, in which the mythmakers get mythologised. They do it with taxpayers' dollars now. The recent sequence of mini-series detailing the heroic doings of Packer, Murdoch et cetera was simply a way of using the local content provisions to mythologise Australian tycoons past and present, on TV stations they owned, past and present. That is a degree of recursiveness that suggests Australia's tycoons are vanishing up their own fundament. Soon nothing they don't want us to see will be sighted of them, save Jamie Packer's red kabbalah wristband, trailing like a tampon string of power.
Were there a real interest in telling our history, Tom D. C. Roberts' new biography of Keith Murdoch, father of Rupert, would be first in line for a TV treatment. One would be pleasantly surprised should that occur, because the book is not merely a demythologisation of the stories Keith made his fortune on, but of the man as mythmaker himself. The man who allegedly alerted us to the folly and slaughter of Gallipoli, to the waste of life and the indifference of British commanders was, then and forever, playing so many ends against each other that any notion of a middle disappeared. As Roberts shows, Keith developed what Rupert perfected; the presence of the media mogul, and his journalistic minions, working both sides of a story, advising politicians at the same time as reporting on the words they uttered, presenting them as news. It was the making of him as a mini-mogul, the undoing of him as a man. As with all great myths, the nemesis has passed to generations anew.
The Murdochs were Scots folk, from the town of Rosehearty. (Rupert, after a visit there, wore a cap emblazoned with the town's name, perhaps in homage to Charles Foster Kane's "Rosebud".) Keith's father Patrick emigrated and became entwined with the Melbourne establishment. When son Keith went back to the old country in 1908 to make his way, he took with him a letter of introduction from Alfred Deakin. Progress was slow at first, especially due to a bad stammer, alleviated by Lionel "King's Speech" Logue, but he became a clubbable freelancer and then a keen student of the new "tabloid" press in New York, before returning to Melbourne. Along the way, he lost his faith in God, but, as he assured his father, gained faith in the media: admitting to the masses that there was no higher authority would create anarchy; the press was there to do the job the pulpit once performed, but purveying a necessary myth, not the truth.
This "moral" defence of elitist manipulation would echo down the century.
Back in Melbourne, Keith's rise was "meteoric", as his new tabloid style would have had it. He reported federal politics for The Age then Sydney's Sun, before his connections got him into the action in Gallipoli when war broke out. That he broke the imposed silence over the disastrous course of the campaign is true; less well known is that he was simultaneously advising both Australian prime minister Billy Hughes and New Zealand prime minister William Massey on PR tactics to get conscription introduced, then breathlessly reporting their every move (he never tried to enlist himself).
Keith's progress was rapid because he moved from apostasy to cynicism without bothering with an intervening period of decency. He smeared a sitting and military-serving Labor MP, to turf him out of his seat; he marshalled anti-Semitic mutterings against John Monash. The First World War put him at the centre of a whirlwind global career, befriending Lord Northcliffe, bonking the British prime minister's daughter (and maybe, later, a sexagenarian Nellie Melba), sucking up to royalty before returning to Melbourne to run the Herald. There he dumped his fiancée to marry the better-born Elisabeth, and pushed a passion for the modern: broadcasting, photojournalism, eugenics, flying. When he helped engineer Joe Lyons' split from Labor to create the United Australia Party, he had Lyons photographed with Charles Kingsford Smith and won him the election.
His star rose until World War II when, appointed by Menzies as director-general of information, he attempted to impose a draconian censorship regime (one he urged support for via regular radio addresses). When Curtin sacked him, the Herald began to flout censorship to such a degree that General Douglas MacArthur, based in Melbourne, called him "a quisling". In private. Publicly, they had a great mutual respect, or so the myth goes.
Trying and failing to pull together a national newspaper group with British financing, he was defeated by ill health, and died in 1952 after trying to purge left-wingers from the Herald newsroom. He had lived long enough, however, to see his son Rupert abandon such leanings and write like a "real" journalist. "He's got it!" Keith exclaimed, reading one early effort. Murdoch fils would go on to what the father couldn't, creating a media empire in the manner he had been taught: "preach and teach". And smear, favour, influence, distort and censor.
This article was first published in the print edition of The Saturday Paper on Nov 28, 2015 as "Tom D. C. Roberts, Before Rupert". Subscribe here.