Kaiserslautern Synagogue
Near the Kaiserslautern city center is a rather unique monument. It’s a virtual reality memorial to commemorate the Jewish synagogue that stood there until August 1938. At that time Kaiserslautern was slated to become a center of Nazi influence in the Palatinate part of Germany. Having a prominent Jewish synagogue in the city did not help the city’s desires to attract Nazi favor so the city elders decided a closer adherence to a local architectural code and a need for a parade field meant that the synagogue must come down. The last service at the Kaiserslautern synagogue was on 27 August and the demolition of the building began a few days later on 31 August 1938. This occurred just a few months before Kristallnacht (Crystal Night), the Night of Broken Glass, when Nazi led crowds in Germany and Austria attacked over 1600 synagogues, setting 267 on fire. Ninety-five synagogues were destroyed just in Vienna. When the Kaiserslautern synagogue was leveled it had a Jewish membership of 738, in 1945 less than 25 remained.
In 1994 when a synagogue in Lübeck, Germany was set aflame a professor at Technical University Darmstadt was so alarmed that this behavior would return to Germany that he and eight of his students began work on a means to save or recover the images of buildings that no longer existed. What they came up with is a system called 3d-cad-simulations. It allows a viewer to see a building, three dimensionally, which no longer exists, exterior and interior. Kaiserslautern would use this technology to create the memorial to its lost synagogue.
The city had placed a memorial plague and declared “The Synagogue Square” in October 1980. In September 2002, Kaiserslautern rebuilt a portion of the original synagogue’s archway and then encircled the area where the building had stood with 3d-cad-simulation view ports.
Jeff and I were recently in Kaiserslautern for the day and stopped by The Synagogue Square. The city really has done a nice job telling the story and showing where the synagogue stood and how it appeared.
These pillars are replicas of the original synagogues main entrance.
From behind the main entrance pillars you can see two of the stainless steel view ports. Lean over and look into the view port and you'll see the synagogue as it looked from that angle over 70 years ago.
A plaque at the memorial shows how the synagogue appeared and main entrance before final, complete demolition.
We took some pictures through a few of the view ports. You can see a reflection of the camera lense but also a pretty good image of what magic the view ports reveal, both outside and inside the synagogue.
For anyone in the Kaislautern area that might be interested in seeing The Synagogue Square, it's at the corner of Fischerstraße and Schubertstraße near the city center.
Posted by Sandy and Jeff at Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Megan Carter October 2, 2011 at 12:23 AM
Very sad about what happened to the Jewish population so many of the synagogues during Nazi Germany. Kaiserslautern's memorial is amazing. I love the 3d pictures. Also, the black and white picture shows how amazing this synagogue used to be. Glad to hear it is being remembered though.
catherine February 19, 2012 at 11:20 AM
what a beautiful building it used to be what a complete tragedy for the jewish people they deserve to be remembered especially in the places they suffered most.
Tango Therapist July 30, 2014 at 9:21 PM
The history of the destruction of the Synagogue is not correct as given here. 10 Nov. 1938 was Kristallnacht, and that is when the synagogue was destroyed along with the majority of homes and apartments where Kaiserslautern Jews lived. Men were sent off to their deaths, and families followed. The memorial has a list of murdered Jews from the city. Hardly anyone I know in the city seems to know much about this monument. I speak German and I asked others about it Many were ignorant of it. It is a small town and next to the largest bank in town. Your depiction is actually quite disturbing more than historically accurate. You write: "At that time Kaiserslautern was slated to become a center of Nazi influence in the Palatinate part of Germany. Having a prominent Jewish synagogue in the city did not help the city’s desires to attract Nazi favor so the city elders decided a closer adherence to a local architectural code and a need for a parade field meant that the synagogue must come down. The last service at the Kaiserslautern synagogue was on 27 August and the demolition of the building began a few days later on 31 August 1938." The demolition happen at the same time and was a surprise attack on the Jewish civilian population. A German man came back to say he was sorry, according to a Nov 2013 Newspaper account. He told the mother of two who stood there in their destroyed home, "I am so sorry. You husband was a good doctor and he saved my daughter's life. But I did not want to lose my job, and I was ordered to destroy your house." Kaiserslautern had terrible blood on their hands. It wasn't "the Nazis" but the complacency of the German people at that time that allowed this to happen. America-- and it seems all humanity--has these lapses, and we do not seem to learn the great depravity that humankind is capable of. Instead we say, "Remember!" and "never again." The synagogue was and still is the most beautiful building ever in Kaiserslautern since Roman times, and you said "a closer adherence to a local architectural code and a need for a parade field meant that the synagogue must come down." It seems as if you were voting on the council yourselves to justify this very ugly human tragedy.
DiAnna March 28, 2017 at 10:17 PM
This is incorrect, according to documentation in Kaiserslautern, "The Nazis destroyed the synagogue in the late summer of 1938, even before Kristallnacht took place."
Sandy and Jeff March 29, 2017 at 1:21 AM
You are correct DiAnna on your comment to Tango Therapist above and thank you. This is what I stated in the blog "The last service at the Kaiserslautern synagogue was on 27 August and the demolition of the building began a few days later on 31 August 1938. This occurred just a few months before Kristallnacht (Crystal Night)"
Rowdy July 30, 2014 at 10:16 PM
If you did some research on the Kaiserslautern Synagogue you will find that my facts are correct. The Kaiserslautern Synagogue was not destroyed on Kristallnacht. It had already been torn down by then for the very reasons I stated; the desire of local powers to attract and gain Nazi influence.
The comment a "closer adherence to a local architectural code and a need for a parade field meant that the synagogue must come down" are not my thoughts or my view. That comment is based, again, on the research that I did and was the excuse and ruse that the city fathers gave and their justification for tearing down the synagogue. Your final sentence is actually quite insulting, insinuating that I condone the actions of the Kaiserslautern people who orchestrated this tragedy.
My family Herze attended here after moving from Essweiler in 1902, On October 20th, 1940 all 7 in the family were deported and eventually killed in the Holocaust....a stumbling stone memorial was placed at the last address where they were free in June 2014. I am glad to see photo of where they once worshiped.
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Gophers golf coach talks signing Simley prep star Isabella McCauley to 2022 class
By Jeff Wald
Simley golf star Isabella McCauley will stay home to play for the Gophers in 2022 after signing with Minnesota in November. ((credit: University of Minnesota Athletics))
MINNEAPOLIS - Rhyll Brinsmead was just two months into her tenure as University of Minnesota women’s golf coach when she got a text message that she hopes changes everything for the program.
The Gophers were in South Carolina at the Briar’s Creek Invitational last March, having just completed a full day of 36-hole competition. Brinsmead got a text message, from Simley High School star and Inver Grove Heights native Isabella McCauley, the top player in Minnesota and one of the best in the nation.
"Can you talk tomorrow?" McCauley texted Brinsmead.
Gophers golf coach talks Simley star Isabella McCauley signing with Minnesota
University of Minnesota women's golf coach Rhyll Brinsmead talked this week about Simley star Isabella McCauley signing to play with the Gophers in 2022.
Brinsmead was not optimistic, figuring McCauley would want to talk right then and there over the phone if she wanted to make a verbal commitment to the Gophers.
"I said ‘Hey we’re going to be traveling, can we do this call right now?’ I’m thinking let’s just get this over with," Brinsmead said.
The Gophers’ head coach, assistant Matt Higgins and McCauley all connected via FaceTime. Brinsmead was bracing for disappointment, with McCauley having narrowed her college options from five schools to three and Minnesota still involved. But due to COVID-19, Brinsmead hadn’t been able to have McCauley on campus for an official visit. She hadn’t even seen the prep phenom play in-person.
McCauley sat up in her chair, and the phone revealed she was sporting a Minnesota hooded sweatshirt. She gave Brinsmead her verbal commitment to play for the Gophers in 2022. One of the best female amateur players in the country will play for her home school.
"I screamed, the team was in the room next to me and they all came running in. I said ‘she’s coming!’ In 17 years of doing this, it was one of those moments I’ll never forget because it means so much to not just our program, but the university and the Minnesota golf community," Brinsmead said. "Anybody that knows the golf community, it was just awesome."
McCauley made that commitment official last month, signing a National Letter of Intent to attend Minnesota in 2022.
"I chose the University of Minnesota because of the amazing team culture and coaches," McCauley said last month. "Being able to stay close to my family was a major factor as well."
McCauley is well-known in Minnesota golf circles. She’s the top high school player in the state, and made headlines twice in 2021. She became the first woman to win the Minnesota Golf Champions tournament, which features the best male and female players in the state, shooting 9-under par over three rounds. She went wire-to-wire at Minneapolis Golf Club. Most recently, McCauley was the runner-up in the Notah Begay III Junior Golf National Championship.
This past summer, McCauley became the youngest Minnesotan ever to qualify for the U.S. Women’s Open. She just missed making the cut at The Olympic Club in San Francisco. She was just 17 years old at the time, and it was Brinsmead’s first time watching her play live. McCauley’s week included a practice round with star Michelle Wie.
"Here’s this kid playing with these seasoned tour professionals. I knew she was good, but to watch her play 36 holes at the U.S. Open and she missed the cut by 1 or 2, she’s the real deal," Brinsmead said. "She just plays like she’s been doing it for years, she’s got this killer instinct about her. She went out in that second round and shot under par on one of the hardest golf course set ups I’ve ever seen. She’s got the whole package."
Brinsmead thought she might have a chance to keep McCauley early on. In her first week on the job, McCauley was one of the first reach out via email. They couldn’t meet in person because of a recruiting dead period, so the communication was over FaceTime and on the phone.
Brinsmead’s message was clear: If the local talent is there, she wants them to be Gophers.
"I could tell straight away she was willing to listen to what we were going to sell and the direction we wanted to take this program. We kept on telling her you could be the hometown hero," Brinsmead said. "Our goal is to keep the Minnesota kids home that can play at this level. It’s important, this state is golf crazy. I was in Georgia for 13 years, I’ve never lived somewhere that loves golf as much as Minnesota does."
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Stay out of Seymour, mountain bikers warn after black bear chase (VIDEO)
The North Shore Mountain Bike Association is warning people to avoid trails in the Seymour area after a few run-ins with a particularly territorial black bear.
Cooper Quinn, president of the NSMBA, said the group will be posting signs at the trailheads between the second switchback on Mount Seymour and the top of Hyannis Drive.
Video posted online Wednesday shows the bear persistently chasing a group of men on their mountain bikes until they eventually band together and shout the bear away.
“Given the nature of the last interaction, we figure it’s best to minimize people in the area for a little bit,” Quinn said. “We are going to ask people to stay away from that area and those trails for a little bit to give that bear some space. It’s clearly getting a little fed up with people and just needs a little bit of room.”
Quinn said he was a little too close for comfort with the same bear last week.
“It was certainly not afraid of humans,” he said. “It was not being aggressive or anything like that, but made it clear it was time for me to move on.”
The NSMBA doesn’t have authority to close the trails, which are provincial jurisdiction, but Quinn said the group would monitor the situation and keep in touch with the Conservation Officer Service, B.C. Parks and the North Shore Black Bear Society, which they recently partnered with to educate trail builders.
Black Bear Society president Christine Miller welcomed the NSMBA’s decision to warn people away. Miller said the mountain bikers in the video did the right thing by holding their bikes up and shouting at the bear.
“If he was predatory, he could have caught them easily,” she said. “It’s best to stand side by side on the trail if there’s space to do that to make themselves look more dangerous or powerful.”
Miller has received reports of a bear in the same area approaching people to steal their food, indicating the bear has been fed on the trails, either intentionally or unintentionally.
While she agrees people should avoid the Seymour area trails for a while, Miller advises everyone going into the wilderness to carry bear spray.
“The best thing we can do for bears like that is shoot them with bear spray to let them know ‘OK, we’re here too and give us our space,’” she said. “That behaviour is becoming more dangerous. It is approaching a last resort in the sense that if someone reacted inappropriately, it could result in human injury.”
Right now, bears are foraging upwards of 20 hours a day to pack on weight before hibernation, Miller said, so residents need to be extra vigilant about keeping their yards free of an easy meal.
According the last batch of data released by the province, more than 400 bears were killed in British Columbia between April and August after getting into conflicts with humans.


Once there was a bus conductor who was very rude to his passengers
Once there was a bus conductor, who was very rude to his passengers.
One day a beautiful young girl, of around 18 years,tried to board the bus, but he didn't stop the bus.
The judge was not at all impressed with him and gave him capital punishment.
He was taken to the electrocution chamber. There was a single chair in the center of the room and a single banana peel at one corner of the room. The conductor was strapped to the chair and high voltage current was given to him. But to everyone's amazement, he survived. The judge decided to set him free, and he returned to his profession.
A couple of months later, an elderly gentleman tried to board the bus.
This time the Bus conductor, remembering his earlier experience stopped the bus. Unfortunately the elderly gentleman slipped and died due to his
injuries. The conductor was taken to the police station and then to the court, to the same judge. Though he hadn't done anything wrong, but considering his past record the judge decided to set an example and gave him capital punishment.
The Bus conductor was again taken to the same electrocution chamber where there was a single chair in the center of the room and a single banana peel at one corner of the room. He was strapped to the chair and high voltage current was given to him.
This time he died instantly !!!!!!!!!!!
The question is why didn't he die on the first occasion but died instantly the second time??
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(4) Old Aunt Martha's Cape Neddick Maine Restaurant Photographs
Cape Neddick York Maine Restaurant Food Diner Luncheonette Photo Photograph Gas Gas Station Tourist Tourism Cook Cooking Candy Baker Bakery Nostalgic Advertising
The pictures show a view of all (4) Old Aunt Martha's Cape Neddick Maine Restaurant Photographs in this lot. Two of these are dated 1937 on the back. The other two are from around the same time. Three of these are mounted on backing boards and one is in a matt frame.
The first photo is an exterior shot of the restaurant. There are (7) old automobiles to the left by an ''ANCHOR GROVE'' arch sign. To the right is an old gas pump. It has a 21 cent price for gas as well as three small signs that read:
SOCONY MOTOR GASOLINE
SOCONY GASOLINE
SOCONY MOTOR OIL
At the far right is one of the cabins that were rented out. The flag and flag pole were drawn on the building in ink, but they look real unless looking through a magnifying glass. There is the number ''33915'' in the lower right corner. There are many signs on the front of the building itself. They read as follows:
AUNT MARTHA'S THE HOME OF GOOD EATS
AUNT MARTHA'S
SANDWICHES OF ALL KINDS
FRIED CLAMS - STEAKS - WAFFLES
LOBSTERS ANY STYLE
FRIED CLAMS TO TAKE OUT
SALT WATER KISSES AND FUDGE FRESH DAILY
WE MAKE OUR OWN PASTRY
The second photograph is an interior shot of the restaurant with (9) people. These are believed to be the owners, waitresses, and soda jerks. The photo has some old damage but there is still a lot of detail. At the back of the bar is a large old Coca-Cola display sign and a few smaller signs. On the counter is a ''SCHULER'S'' display case and other displays filled with candy or salt water taffy. There are also rolled mints and maybe gum at the right. At the left in the foreground are packages and bottles of Vermont Maple Syrup and Maple Sugar Candies. There is a sign with prices above them. There is a large clock on the back wall and two signs. One is a Special Menu and the other advertises Chop Suey. The waitresses are in uniform and the soda jerk is wearing an apron. There is also an old electric fan on the counter and glass light fixtures..
The third photograph is another interior photo. This one has (11) people believed to be the owners, waitresses, and soda jerks. This photo has some of the same things as the last and some addtional features. This one has a sign in the back that reads ''MAIL HOME A BOX - AUNT MARTHA'S HOME MADE KISSES''. There are hanging glass light fixtures, a large clock on the wall, a ''CHOP SUEY'' sign, a ''WAFFLES'' sign, and another sign. High on the back wall are light up numbers for the waitresses. On the counter there is a light, napkin holder, candy bowl, Candy jar, a straw jar, and bags of candies. The left hand side of the picture below there is light glare that is not on the photo.
The fourth photograph was taken in the kitchen. It has (6) people including the owners and cooks. In the photo there is the stoves, grill, shelves, meat slicer, plates, pots, pans, light fixtures, bowl, and some advertising packages including a Quaker Oats can, Corn Starch, Baking Soda, Phillies Cigar box, and more.
Each of the photographs (not counting the matt boards) measure about 7'' x 5''. They are in various conditions with wear as pictured. Below here is an article that was found with some historical reference to Aunt Martha's:
Aunt Martha's a Cape Neddick fixture
By Peter A. Moore
York Weekly, York, Maine
Aunt Martha's Dining Room and Luncheonette, which was located on U.S. Route 1, in Cape Neddick, about halfway between Mountain Road and Logging Road. When this photo was taken gasoline was selling for 21 cents per gallon, a far cry from today's prices. The building, which has not been used for many years now, still stands today, and it was last used as the Surfwood Restaurant.
From the mid 1920s until 1960 there was a restaurant on U.S. Route 1, in Cape Neddick, called Aunt Martha's. It was located about halfway between Mountain Road and Logging Road. Before it was Aunt Martha's it was a roadside stand known as Anchor Grove, which offered the traveling public a place to eat, get gasoline, or to stay overnight in one of the rental cottages on the property.
Around 1924 the property was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. George E. Atherton. I base this on the fact that the first time the Athertons appear in the York Town Report, as non-resident taxpayers, is in the 1925 town report, which covered the year period ending Feb. 12, 1925. After purchasing the property, the Athertons changed the name to Aunt Martha's, possibly after George's Aunt of the same name. The restaurant was one of the few good eating places between Boston and Portland, and it was well advertised in the Boston papers and it did a lively business.
There were many different views of the restaurant, which the Athertons made into post cards. Each card had the following, written on the back of the card. ''One of the most beautiful spots on the Maine highway, U.S. Route 1, between York and Ogunquit was Aunt Martha's Lunch and Dining Room. We serve from a sandwich to a full course dinner. Stop on your way up or down. Our cooking and refrigeration are done by electricity; pastry, bread, rolls, ice cream, and candies are made fresh daily on the premises. Banquets and parties can be arranged by telephoning York 8124R, Manager George E. Atherton, Cape Neddick, Maine.''
In 1945 the business was taken over by Atherton's daughter, Beatrice Kendall. Her husband, George, did the cooking, and Bea, as she was known, added a candy shop. When George died, Bea struggled to operate the business by herself. In 1960, she sold the property to June Collopy, and one of the stipulations of the sale was not use the name of Aunt Martha's. The name was changed to Surfwood Restaurant. Major renovations were required because the building was in poor condition. The restaurant operated summers for about 10 years. It has not been used for several years now.
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Systems Science Friday Noon Seminar Series
Helping Scientists Connect Their Datasets
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Scientific datasets associated with a research project can proliferate over time as a result of activities such as sharing datasets among collaborators, extending existing ones with new measurements, and extracting subsets of data for analysis. As such datasets begin to accumulate, it becomes increasingly difficult for a scientist to keep track of their derivation history, which complicates data sharing, provenance tracking, and scientific reproducibility. Understanding what relationships exist between datasets can help scientists recall their original derivation history. For instance, if dataset A is contained in dataset B, then the connection between A and B could be that A was extended to create B. In our initial work, we developed a set of relevant relationships, proposed the relationship-identification methodology for testing relationships between pairs of datasets, developed a set of algorithms for efficient discovery of these relationships, and organized these algorithms into a new system called ReConnect to assist scientists in relationship discovery. We evaluated existing alternative approaches that rely on flagging differences between two spreadsheets and found that they were impractical for many relationship-discovery tasks. Additionally, a user study showed that ReConnect can improve scientists' ability to detect useful relationships between datasets. While ReConnect helps with identifying relationships between two datasets, it is infeasible for scientists to use it for determining relationships between all possible pairs in a large collection. In this talk, we introduce an end-to-end prototype system, ReDiscover, that identifies, from a collection of datasets, the pairs that are most likely related. Our preliminarily evaluation shows that ReDiscover can predict selected relationships with high precision and within reasonable computational cost.
David Maier is Maseeh Professor of Emerging Technologies at Portland State University. Prior to his current position, he was on the faculty at SUNY Stony Brook and Oregon Graduate Institute. He has spent extended visits with INRIA, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Microsoft Research and National University of Singapore. He is the author of books on relational databases, logic programming and object-oriented databases, as well as many papers in database theory, object-oriented technology, scientific databases and data-stream processing. He received the Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation in 1984 and was awarded the 1997 SIGMOD Innovations Award for his contributions in objects and databases. He is also an ACM Fellow and IEEE Senior Member and serves on the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications at The National Academies. He holds a dual B.A. in Mathematics and in Computer Science from the University of Oregon (Honors Col lege, 1974) and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University (1978).
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Maier, David, "Helping Scientists Connect Their Datasets" (2016). Systems Science Friday Noon Seminar Series. 95.


Gary May: "George Floyd could have been me"
EECS alumnus Gary S. May (M.S. '88/Ph.D. '91, advisor: Costas Spanos), the first Black chancellor of UC Davis, has penned an op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle titled "UC Davis chancellor: George Floyd could have been me" in which he observes that "at a traffic stop, no one knows I am a chancellor. No one knows I have a doctorate." He explains that building an inclusive society that recognizes and respects people of all socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds, and a wide variety of political views, gender identities, and personal experiences, will increase our capacity to "make discoveries and solve problems." "It requires collective effort," he writes. "It requires each one of us, in our own way, working to make a difference, whether that’s through video recording, peaceful protest or working to change procedures that reflect bias."
San Francisco Chronicle: UC Davis chancellor: George Floyd could have been me
Eden McEwen awarded SPIE 2020 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship
Eden McEwen, a fourth year undergraduate double-majoring in Computer Science and Physics, has been awarded a 2020 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by the international Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), for her potential contributions to the field of optics and photonics. McEwen's research interests focus on predictive control and hardware design of adaptive optics systems for ground based astronomical observing in the optical and near-infrared. She has worked with groups at Berkeley, Keck II Observatory, NASA JPL, Caltech, and the University of Hawaii’s Institute for Astronomy. McEwen is a 2020 Goldwater Scholar and hopes to continue her studies in optics with a graduate degree in astrophysics.
Eden McEwen
SPIE Scholarship Program
Olivia Hsu to give speech at national IEEE-HKN virtual graduation celebration
EECS alumna Olivia Hsu (B.S. '19) will be giving a speech at the national 2020 IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) virtual graduation celebration on Saturday, May 30, 2020. Hsu is the winner of the 2019 IEEE-HKN Alton B. Zerby and Carl T. Koerner Outstanding Electrical or Computer Engineering Student of the Year Award, and is the representative for the Mu (Berkeley) Chapter, which has won the IEEE-HKN Outstanding Chapter Award every year since 2001. While at Berkeley, Hsu co-founded the student group Space Technologies at Cal (STAC) and won the 2019 EECS Arthur M. Hopkin award, which recognizes outstanding EE undergraduates who "demonstrate seriousness of purpose and high academic achievement." She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Stanford with a focus on computer architecture, digital circuits, and computer systems. IEEE-HKN will host the event for the first time this year in place of the campus commencement ceremonies which have been cancelled nationwide.
IEEE-HKN Online Graduation Celebration Registration
11 EECS faculty among the top 100 most cited CS scholars in 2020
The EECS department has eleven faculty members who rank among the top 100 most cited computer science & electronics scholars in the world. UC Berkeley ranked #4 in the global list of universities with the highest number of influential scholars in 2020 (35, up from 24 in 2018). Profs. Michael Jordan, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, Jitendra Malik, Trevor Darrell, David Culler, Shankar Sastry, Randy Katz, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, Lotfi Zadeh and Dawn Song all ranked in the top 100 with an H-index score of 110 or higher, a measure that reflects the number of influential documents they have authored. Jordan ranks fourth in the world, with an H-index of 166 and 177,961 citations. The H-index is computed as the number h of papers receiving at least h citations among the top 6000 scientist profiles in the Google Scholars database.
Guide2Research: Ranking for Computer Science & Electronics
Mark Hopkins appointed to Reed faculty
CS alumnus Mark Hopkins (B.A. CS '00) has been appointed to a tenure-track position in the department of Computer Science at Reed College in Oregon. He will be part of the division of Mathematical and Natural Resources where he will study uncertain reasoning and machine learning, with a particular interest in how these can be applied to computational linguistics. Hopkins earned his Ph.D. from UCLA in 2005 and had managed Project Euclid at the Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence (AI2) in Washington state before being hired as a visiting associate professor at Reed in 2018.
Celebrate 2020 EECS Graduates on Tuesday, May 19
The College of Engineering will be hosting a Celebration of Graduates on Tuesday, May 19, 2020. The site will go live at 9 a.m. and visitors will be allowed to engage with the content as they wish. The online, self-guided program is intended to acknowledge and celebrate our graduates’ accomplishments and will include recorded video remarks from the dean, department chairs and other speakers, as well as personalized slides for each graduate. Plans for a formal graduation ceremony will be announced at a later date. Congratulations messages to graduates posted on social media using the hashtag #becelebration2020 will appear on the celebration site. Contact bears@berkeley.edu for more information.
Berkeley Engineering: Celebration of 2020 Graduates
Berkeley EE and CE grad programs rank 1 and 2 in 2021 US News & World Report
Berkeley Electrical Engineering ranked #1, and Computer Engineering ranked #2, in the 2021 US News and World Report graduate school rankings. EE tied with MIT and Stanford as the top graduate Electrical/Electronic/Communications Engineering program in the nation, while Computer Engineering tied in second place with Stanford after MIT. It should be noted that tuition for both MIT's and Stanford's Master's programs come to over $53.4K annually, while Berkeley's costs $11.4K in-state and $26.5 out-of-state per year. Berkeley was ranked as the third best Engineering school overall.
Berkeley Engineering: New rankings show Berkeley still has top public engineering graduate program
Chenming Hu donates IEEE Medal of Honor winnings to EECS department
EE Prof. and alumnus Chenming Hu (M.S. '70, Ph.D. '73), who won the 2020 IEEE Medal of Honor, has chosen to donate his $50K prize to the EECS department. Hu, who was cited “for a distinguished career of developing and putting into practice semiconductor models, particularly 3D device structures, that have helped keep Moore’s Law going over many decades," is also the subject of an IEEE Spectrum article. He was hired on the Berkeley faculty in 1976 and has been called the "Father of the 3D Transistor" due to his development of the Fin Field Effect Transistor in 1999. Intel, the first company to implement FinFETs in its products, called the invention the most radical shift in semiconductor technology in more than 50 years.
IEEE Spectrum: IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Transistor Pioneer Chenming Hu
UC Berkeley ranked one of the best colleges for Electrical Engineering in 2020 by Gradreports
UC Berkeley ranked a very close second on Gradreports' list of "25 Best Colleges for Electrical Engineering 2020." The rankings are based on the median salary of students who graduated with a B.S. in EE one year after college. Graduates of MIT and Berkeley both earned a median salary of $116,600 but the median debt carried by MIT students was $614 less than that of Berkeley (at $14,347). By contrast, graduates of third-ranked Carnegie Mellon earned median salaries that were $17,600 less than Berkeley salaries, and carried $9,424 more in debt. Gradreports' methodology was based on data reported by the US Department of Education in November 2019.
Gradreports: 25 Best Colleges for Electrical Engineering 2020
Accel Scholars offers industry-oriented opportunities for undergrads
The Accel Scholars program, a joint venture between Silicon Valley venture capital firm Accel and the EECS Department, was created to empower undergraduate engineering and computer science students by providing access to Silicon Valley leadership, personalized mentorship, and an industry-relevant curriculum that covers topics not generally taught in class— like how to grow a career, how to build a professional network, and how to raise money to start a company. Accel Scholars is open to all Berkeley undergraduates who have demonstrated leadership, excellence in their pursuits, and/or a deep passion for a particular area of their discipline. Apply by visiting the Accel Scholars page on the EECS website until April 5, 2020.
Berkeley EECS: Accel Scholars


Emma Elizabeth Paige Fillerup
Emma E. Fillerup
Graveside services for Emma E. Fillerup, 79, will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5, 1992, at the Lusk Cemetery in Lusk, Wyo. Fillerup died Sunday, Nov. 22, 1992, at the Goshen Care Center in Torrington. She was cremated at Scottsbluff, Neb.
Memorial gifts to the Goshen Care Center or the Memorial Rose Garden at Community Hospital in Torrington would by appreciated by the family.
Emma Elizabeth Paige Wilson was born May 3, 1913, at Omaha, Neb. She grew up and received her education in Manville, Wyo., where she graduated in the class of 1932. In 1932 she married Christian Jassmann at Lusk and they ranched north of Lusk for many years. She had been affiliated with the Baptist Church and she was a past member of the Rebekah Lodge #12 at Lusk. In 1985 she moved to Torrington where she has been a resident of Goshen Care Center.
Survivors include her four children with her first husband: three daughters, Helen Mae Moriarty of Sheridan, Wyo.; Mary Ann Hart of Gillette, Wyo. and Judith Valerie Lamb of Torrington; a son, David Ray Jassmann of Lusk; two sisters, Gertrude Ruffing of Lusk and Shirley Wolf of Krakow, Wisc.; eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Ray O. Wilson, Iva Paige Wilson and Fred L. Paige; two brothers, Merton Wilson and Fred Leon Paige and one granddaughter, Kimberly Jassmann.
The Colyer Funeral Home in Torrington and the Bader-Peet Mortuary in Lusk are in charge of arrangements.
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White Home secures offers for 200 million extra doses
By On Feb 11, 2021
President Joe Biden makes brief remarks before signing several immigration control bylaws for his administration in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on February 2, 2021.
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President Joe Biden announced Thursday that his administration had signed contracts for an additional 200 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine, bringing the US total to 600 million.
“We just signed the final contracts for 100 million more Moderna and 100 million more Pfizer vaccines just this afternoon,” said Biden on Thursday during a tour of the National Institutes of Health in late July.
The Washington Post reported the news first. Previously, White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain appeared to confirm the news and retweet the Post story from his official White House Twitter account.
Since both Pfizer and Moderna approved vaccines require two doses three to four weeks apart, a total of 600 million doses would be enough to vaccinate 300 million people.
Biden is trying to accelerate the pace of vaccination in the US after a slower-than-expected rollout under the administration of former President Donald Trump. Around 34.7 million out of around 331 million Americans have received at least their first dose of a Covid vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And 11.2 million of those people have already got their second shot.
The schedule for delivering the additional doses was not immediately clear.
Each company will leverage US-based manufacturing capabilities to “fill, finish, and ship vials while the bulk goods are manufactured,” according to a separate statement from the Department of Health and Human Services.
Pfizer has already signed a contract with the US to supply 200 million cans. The company announced earlier this month that it plans to complete these shipments by May, earlier than originally forecast in July. Moderna also has a US contract for 200 million cans.
States have complained that the demand for vaccines is exceeding supply. The government previously stated that it is using the Defense Manufacturing Act to help Pfizer meet its manufacturing goals for its vaccine.
In addition to securing more doses for states, the Biden government is using the military to aid in the administration of doses and establishing mass vaccination centers in the United States.
On Wednesday, the government announced it would work with Texas officials to build three new community vaccination centers in Dallas, Arlington and Houston. A few days earlier, the government had announced that it would send troops on active duty to California to help vaccination centers for Covid-19 employees.
U.S. officials also hope vaccine supplies will increase after Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine is emergency approved by the Food and Drug Administration, which could happen as early as this month. The FDA scheduled a meeting of its Advisory Committee on Vaccines and Related Biological Products on February 26th to discuss the vaccine. The US could approve the vaccine the next day.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced in August that it had signed a deal with Janssen, J & J’s pharmaceutical subsidiary, worth approximately $ 1 billion for 100 million doses of its vaccine. The deal gives the federal government the opportunity to order another 200 million cans, according to the announcement.
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Losing the UEFA Europa League on the Legal Turf: Parma FC’s bitter defeat by Giandonato Marino
6. June 2014 Antoine Duval International Sports Law Cases, International Sports Law Commentaries (0)
This year the race for UEFA Europa League places in Serie A was thrilling. In the final minutes of the last game of the season, Alessio Cerci, Torino FC striker, had the opportunity to score a penalty that would have qualified his team to the 2014-2015 edition of the UEFA Europa League. However, he missed and Parma FC qualified instead. More...
Olympic Agenda 2020: Window Dressing or New Beginning?
4. June 2014 Antoine Duval (0)
Shortly after his election as IOC President, Thomas Bach announced his intention to initiate an introspective reflection and reform cycle dubbed (probably a reference to former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder’s publicly praised Agenda 2010) the Olympic Agenda 2020. The showdown of a year of intense brainstorming is to take place in the beginning of December 2014 during an IOC extraordinary session, in which fundamental reforms are expected. More...
The French collective agreement for professional Rugby tackled by Kelsen’s Pyramid - Guest Post by Patrick Millot
28. May 2014 Antoine Duval International Sports Law Cases, International Sports Law Commentaries (0)
Pursuant to Kelsen’s famous pyramid, the authority of norms may be ranked according to their sources: Constitution is above the Law, which is in turn superior to the Regulations, which themselves stand higher to the Collective Agreement etc…Under French labour law, this ranking can however be challenged by a “principle of favourable treatment” which allows a norm from a lower rank to validly derogate from a superior norm, if (and only if) this derogation benefits to the workers.
On 2 April 2014, the Cour de Cassation (the French Highest Civil Court) considered that these principles apply in all fields of labour law, regardless of the specificity of sport[1]. In this case, Mr. Orene Ai’i, a professional rugby player, had signed on 13 July 2007 an employment contract with the Rugby Club Toulonnais (RCT) for two sport seasons with effect on 1 July 2007. More...
Quantifying the Court of Arbitration for Sport - By Antoine Duval & Giandonato Marino
23. May 2014 Antoine Duval International Sports Law Commentaries, International Sports Law Material (0)
Graph 1: Number of Cases submitted to CAS (CAS Satistics)
Dahmane v KRC Genk: A Rough Translation
22. May 2014 Oskar van Maren International Sports Law Cases, International Sports Law Material (0)
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UEFA may have won a battle, but it has not won the legal war over FFP
21. May 2014 Antoine Duval International Sports Law Commentaries (0)
Yesterday, the press revealed that the European Commission decided to reject the complaint filed by Jean-Louis Dupont, the former lawyer of Bosman, on behalf of a player agent Striani, against the UEFA Financial Fair Play (FFP) Regulations. The rejection as such is not a surprise. The Commission had repeatedly expressed support of the principles underlying the UEFA FFP. While these statements were drafted vaguely and with enough heavy caveats to protect the Commission from prejudicing a proper legal assessment, the withdrawal of its support would have been politically embarrassing.
Contrary to what is now widely assumed, this decision does not entail that UEFA FFP regulations are compatible with EU Competition Law. UEFA is clearly the big victor, but the legal reality is more complicated as it looks. More...
The Nine FFP Settlement Agreements: UEFA did not go the full nine yards
19. May 2014 Oskar van Maren Blog, International Sports Law Commentaries (0)
The UEFA Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play Regulations have been implemented by UEFA since the season 2011/12 with the aim of encouraging responsible spending by clubs for the long-term benefit of football. However, the enforcement of the break-even requirement as defined in Articles 62 and 63 of the Regulations (arguably the most important rules of FFP) has only started this year. Furthermore, UEFA introduced recently amendments to the Procedural rules governing the Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) allowing settlement agreements to be made between the clubs and the CFCB.
On Friday 16 May, UEFA finally published the nine separate settlement agreements between the respective clubs and the CFCB regarding the non-compliance with the Financial Fair Play (FFP) break-even requirements. More...
FFP the Day After : Five (more or less realistic) Scenarios
17. May 2014 Antoine Duval Blog, International Sports Law Commentaries, International Sports Law Publications (0)
Yesterday, UEFA published the very much-expected settlements implementing its Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations. Today, we address tomorrow’s challenges for FFP, we offer five, more or less realistic, scenarios sketching the (legal) future of the FFP regulations. More...
Dahmane v KRC Genk: Bosman 2.0 or Storm in a Teacup?
14. May 2014 Oskar van Maren Blog, International Sports Law Cases, International Sports Law Commentaries (0)
Mohamed Dahmane is a professional football player of French-Algerian origin, who has played for a variety of European clubs, including French club US Mauberge, Belgian club RAEC Mons and Turkish club Bucaspor. However, he will mostly be remembered as the player whose legal dispute with his former club (Belgian club KRC Genk) revived the debate on football players’ labour rights. More...
Get Up, Stand Up at the Olympics. A review of the IOC's policy towards political statements by Athletes. By Frédérique Faut
9. May 2014 Oskar van Maren Blog, International Sports Law Commentaries (0)
The Olympic Games are a universal moment of celebration of sporting excellence. But, attention is also quickly drawn to their dark side, such as environmental issues, human rights breaches and poor living conditions of people living near the Olympic sites. In comparison, however, little commentary space is devoted to the views of athletes, the people making the Olympics. This article tries to remediate this, by focussing on Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter which prevents athletes from freely expressing their (political) thoughts. More...
11. November 2021 Antoine Duval International Sports Law Events, International Sports Law Material (0)
11. November 2021 Antoine Duval Blog, International Sports Law Cases, International Sports Law Commentaries, International Sports Law Publications (0)
Editor's note: Jeremy Abel is a recent graduate of the LL.M in International Business Law and Sports of the University of Lausanne.
The famous South African athlete Caster Semenya is in the last lap of her long legal battle for her right to run without changing the natural testosterone in her body. After losing her cases before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and the Swiss Federal Tribunal, she filed an application before the European Court of Human Rights (Court). In the meantime, the Court has released a summary of her complaint and a series of questions addressed to the parties of the case.
As is well known, she is challenging the World Athletics�� Eligibility Regulations for the Female Classification (Regulations) defining the conditions under which female and intersex athletes with certain types of differences of sex development (DSDs) can compete in international athletics events. Despite the Regulations emanating from World Athletics, the last round of her legal battle is against a new opponent: Switzerland.
The purpose of this article is to revisit the Semenya case from a European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) perspective while considering certain excellent points made by previous contributors (see here, here and here) to this blog. Therefore, the blog will follow the basic structure of an ECHR case. The following issues raised by Semenya shall be analysed: the applicability of the ECHR, Semenya’s right to private life (Article 8 ECHR) and to non discrimination (Article 14 ECHR), as well as the proportionality of the Regulations. More...
11. November 2021 Antoine Duval International Sports Law Events (0)
Sport events, especially when they are of a global scale, have been facing more and more questions about their impact on local communities, the environment, and human rights.
It has become clear that their social legitimacy is not a given, but must be earned by showing that sport events can positively contribute to society. During this half-day conference, we will debate the proposal of a European Social Charter for Sport Events in order to achieve this goal.
In January 2021, a consortium of eight partners launched a three-year project, supported by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ scheme, aimed at devising a European Social Charter for Sport Events (ESCSE). The project ambitions to develop a Charter which will contribute to ensuring that sport events taking place in the European Union are socially beneficial to the local communities concerned and, more generally, to those affected by them. The project is directly inspired by the decision of the Paris 2024 bid to commit to a social charter enforced throughout the preparation and the course of the 2024 Olympics.
This first public event in the framework of the ESCSE project, will be introducing the project to a wider public. During the event we will review the current state of the implementation of the Paris 2024 Social Charter, discuss the expectations of stakeholders and academics for a European Social Charter and present for feedback the first draft of the ESCSE (and its implementing guidelines) developed by the project members. It will be a participatory event; we welcome input from the participants.
The Asser International Sports Law Centre, powered by the Asser Institute, is contributing to the project through the drafting of a background study, which we will introduce during the conference.
Please note that we can provide some financial support (up to 100 euros) towards travel and/or accommodation costs for a limited number of participants coming from other EU Member States or the UK. To apply for this financial support please reach out to ConferenceManager@asser.nl. `
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On Thursday 14 October 2021 from 16.00-17.30 CET, the Asser International Sports Law Centre, in collaboration with Dr Marjolaine Viret (University of Lausanne), will be launching the second season of the Zoom-In webinar series, with a first episode on Diversity at the Court of Arbitration for Sport: Time for a Changing of the Guard?
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) is a well-known mainstay of global sport. It has the exclusive competence over challenges against decisions taken by most international sports governing bodies and its jurisprudence covers a wide range of issues (doping, corruption, match-fixing, financial fair play, transfer or selection disputes) including disciplinary sanctions and governance disputes. In recent years, the CAS has rendered numerous awards which triggered world-wide public interest, such as in the Semenya v World Athletics case or the case between WADA and RUSADA resulting from the Russian doping scandal (we discussed both cases in previous Zoom-In discussion available here and here). In short, the CAS has tremendous influence on the shape of global sport and its governance.
However, as we will discuss during this webinar, recent work has shown that the arbitrators active at the CAS are hardly reflective of the diversity of people its decisions ultimately affect. This in our view warrants raising the question of the (urgent) need to change the (arbitral) guard at the CAS. To address these issues with us, we have invited two speakers who have played an instrumental role in putting numbers on impressions widely shared by those in contact with the CAS: Prof. Johan Lindholm (Umea University) and attorney-at-law Lisa Lazarus (Morgan Sports Law). Johan recently published a ground-breaking monograph on The Court of Arbitration for Sport and Its Jurisprudence in which he applies empirical and quantitative methods to analyse the work of the CAS. This included studying the sociological characteristics of CAS arbitrators. Lisa and her colleagues at Morgan Sports Law very recently released a blog post on Arbitrator Diversity at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which reveals a stunning lack of diversity (based on their calculations, 4,5% of appointed CAS arbitrators are female and 0,2% are black) at the institution ruling over global sport.
Prof. Johan Lindholm (Umea University)
Lisa Lazarus (Morgan Sports Law)
Dr Antoine Duval (Asser Institute)
Dr Marjolaine Viret (University of Lausanne/PMA Avocats)
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Zoom In webinar series
In December 2020, The Asser International Sports Law Centre in collaboration with Dr Marjolaine Viret launched a new series of zoom webinars on transnational sports law: Zoom In. You can watch the video recordings of our past Zoom In webinars on the Asser Institute’s Youtube Channel.
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The European Commission’s ISU antitrust investigation explained. By Ben Van Rompuy
5. October 2015 Oskar van Maren Blog, International Sports Law Cases, International Sports Law Commentaries (0)
In June 2014, two prominent Dutch speed skaters, Mark Tuitert (Olympic Champion 1500m) and Niels Kerstholt (World Champion short track), filed a competition law complaint against the International Skating Union (ISU) with the European Commission.
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Today, the European Commission announced that it has opened a formal antitrust investigation into International Skating Union (ISU) rules that permanently ban skaters from competitions such as the Winter Olympics and the ISU World and European Championships if they take part in events not organised or promoted by the ISU. The Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, stated that the Commission "will investigate if such rules are being abused to enforce a monopoly over the organisation of sporting events or otherwise restrict competition. Athletes can only compete at the highest level for a limited number of years, so there must be good reasons for preventing them to take part in events."
Since the case originates from legal advice provided by the ASSER International Sports Law Centre, we thought it would be helpful to provide some clarifications on the background of the case and the main legal issues at stake. More...
Interview with Wil van Megen (Legal Director of FIFPro) on FIFPro’s EU Competition Law complaint against the FIFA Transfer System
Wil is working as a lawyer since 1980. He started his legal career at Rechtshulp Rotterdam. Later on he worked for the Dutch national trade union FNV and law firm Varrolaan Advocaten. Currently he is participating in the Labour Law Section of lawfirm MHZ-advocaten in Schiedam in the Netherlands. He is also a member of a joint committee advising the government in labour issues.
Since 1991 he is dealing with the labour issues of the trade union for professional football players VVCS and cyclists’ union VVBW. Since 2002, he works for FIFPro, the worldwide union for professional football players based in Hoofddorp in the Netherlands. He is involved in many international football cases and provides legal support for FIFPro members all over the world. Wil was also involved in the FIFPro Black Book campaign on match fixing and corruption in Eastern Europe. More...
The Scala reform proposals for FIFA: Old wine in new bottles?
29. September 2015 Oskar van Maren Blog, International Sports Law Commentaries (0)
Rien ne va plus at FIFA. The news that FIFA’s Secretary General Jérôme Valcke was put on leave and released from his duties has been quickly overtaken by the opening of a criminal investigation targeting both Blatter and Platini.
With FIFA hopping from one scandal to the next, one tends to disregard the fact that it has been attempting (or rather pretending) to improve the governance of the organisation for some years now. In previous blogs (here and here), we discussed the so-called ‘FIFA Governance Reform Project’, a project carried out by the Independent Governance Committee (IGC) under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Mark Pieth of the Basel Institute on Governance. Their third and final report, published on 22 April 2014, listed a set of achievements made by FIFA in the area of good governance since 2011, such as establishing an Audit and Compliance Committee (A&C). However, the report also indicated the reform proposals that FIFA had not met. These proposals included the introduction of term limits for specific FIFA officials (e.g. the President) as well as introducing an integrity review procedure for all the members of the Executive Committee (ExCo) and the Standing Committees. More...
Why the CAS #LetDuteeRun: the Proportionality of the Regulation of Hyperandrogenism in Athletics by Piotr Drabik
Piotr is an intern at the ASSER International Sports Law Centre.
On 24 July the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) issued its decision in the proceedings brought by the Indian athlete Ms. Dutee Chand against the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) in which she challenged the validity of the IAAF Regulations Governing Eligibility of Female with Hyperandrogenism to Compete in Women’s Competition (Regulations). The Regulations were established in 2011 as a response to the controversies surrounding South African athlete Caster Semenya (see e.g. here, here, and here), and for the purpose of safeguarding fairness in sport by prohibiting women with hyperandrogenism, i.e. those with excessive levels of endogenous (naturally occurring) testosterone, from competing in women athletics competitions. Owing to the subject-matter that the Regulations cover, the case before the CAS generated complex legal, scientific and ethical questions. The following case note thus aims at explaining how the Panel addressed the issues raised by the Indian athlete. It follows a previous blog we published in December 2014 that analysed the arguments raised in favour of Ms. Chand. More...
Not comfortably satisfied? The upcoming Court of Arbitration for Sport case of the thirty-four current and former players of the Essendon football club. By James Kitching
4. September 2015 Oskar van Maren Blog, International Sports Law Cases, International Sports Law Commentaries (1)
Editor's note: James Kitching is Legal Counsel and Secretary to the AFC judicial bodies at the Asian Football Confederation. James is an Australian and Italian citizen and one of the few Australians working in international sports law. He is admitted as barrister and solicitor in the Supreme Court of South Australia. James graduated from the International Master in the Management, Law, and Humanities of Sport offered by the Centre International d'Etude du Sport in July 2012.
On 12 May 2015, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) announced that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) had filed an appeal against the decision issued by the Australian Football League (AFL) Anti-Doping Tribunal (AADT) that thirty-four current and former players of Essendon Football Club (Essendon) had not committed any anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) identified within the AFL Anti-Doping Code (AADC). The players had each been charged with using Thymosin-Beta 4 (TB4) during the 2012 AFL season.
On 1 June 2015, WADA announced that it had filed an appeal against the decision by the AADT to clear Mr. Stephen Dank (Dank), a sports scientist employed at Essendon during the relevant period, of twenty-one charges of violating the AADC. Dank was, however, found guilty of ten charges and banned for life.
This blog will solely discuss the likelihood of the first AADT decision (the Decision) being overturned by the CAS. It will briefly summarise the facts, discuss the applicable rules and decision of the AADT, review similar cases involving ‘non-analytical positive’ ADRVs relating to the use of a prohibited substance or a prohibited method, and examine whether the Code of Sports-related Arbitration (CAS Code) is able to assist WADA in its appeal.
This blog will not examine the soap opera that was the two years leading-up to the Decision. Readers seeking a comprehensive factual background should view the excellent up-to-date timeline published by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. More...
EU Law is not enough: Why FIFA's TPO ban survived its first challenge before the Brussels Court
25. August 2015 Antoine Duval Blog, International Sports Law Cases, International Sports Law Commentaries (0)
Star Lawyer Jean-Louis Dupont is almost a monopolist as far as high profile EU law and football cases are concerned. This year, besides a mediatised challenge against UEFA’s FFP regulations, he is going after FIFA’s TPO ban on behalf of the Spanish and Portuguese leagues in front of the EU Commission, but also before the Brussels First Instance Court defending the infamous Malta-based football investment firm Doyen Sport. FIFA and UEFA’s archenemy, probably electrified by the 20 years of the Bosman ruling, is emphatically trying to reproduce his world-famous legal prowess. Despite a first spark at a success in the FFP case against UEFA with the Court of first instance of Brussels sending a preliminary reference to the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU), this has proven to be a mirage as the CJEU refused, as foretold, to answer the questions of the Brussels Court, while the provisory measures ordered by the judge have been suspended due to UEFA’s appeal. But, there was still hope, the case against FIFA’s TPO ban, also involving UEFA and the Belgium federation, was pending in front of the same Brussels Court of First Instance, which had proven to be very willing to block UEFA’s FFP regulations. Yet, the final ruling is another disappointment for Dupont (and good news for FIFA). The Court refused to give way to Doyen’s demands for provisional measures and a preliminary reference. The likelihood of a timely Bosman bis repetita is fading away. Fortunately, we got hold of the judgment of the Brussels court and it is certainly of interest to all those eagerly awaiting to know whether FIFA’s TPO ban will be deemed compatible or not with EU law. More...
The New FIFA Intermediaries Regulations under EU Law Fire in Germany. By Tine Misic
12. August 2015 Oskar van Maren Blog, International Sports Law Cases, International Sports Law Commentaries (0)
“I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955, it's a little hard to come by.” (Dr. Emmett L. Brown)[1]
Availing oneself of EU law in the ambit of sports in 1995 must have felt a bit like digging for plutonium, but following the landmark ruling of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the Bosman case[2], 20 years later, with all the buzz surrounding several cases where EU law is being used as an efficient ammunition for shelling various sports governing or organising bodies, one may wonder if in 2015 EU law is to be “found in every drug store” and the recent cases (see inter alia Heinz Müller v 1. FSV Mainz 05, Daniel Striani ao v UEFA, Doyen Sports ao v URBSFA, FIFA, UEFA) [3] cannot but invitingly evoke the spirit of 1995.
One of the aforementioned cases that also stands out pertains to the injunction decision[4] issued on 29 April 2015 by the Regional Court (Landesgericht) in Frankfurt am Main (hereinafter: the Court) in the dispute between the intermediary company Firma Rogon Sportmanagement (hereinafter: the claimant) and the German Football Federation (Deutschen Fußball-Bund, DFB), where the claimant challenged the provisions of the newly adopted DFB Regulations on Intermediaries (hereinafter: DFB Regulations)[5] for being incompatible with Articles 101 and 102 TFEU.[6] The Court, by acknowledging the urgency of the matter stemming from the upcoming transfer window and the potential loss of clients, deemed a couple of shells directed at the DFB Regulations to be well-aimed, and granted an injunction due to breach of Article 101 TFEU. More...
Compatibility of fixed-term contracts in football with Directive 1999/70/EC. Part 2: The Heinz Müller case. By Piotr Drabik
23. July 2015 Oskar van Maren Blog, International Sports Law Cases, International Sports Law Commentaries (0)
The first part of the present blog article provided a general introduction to the compatibility of fixed-term contracts in football with Directive 1999/70/EC[1] (Directive). However, as the Member States of the European Union enjoy a considerable discretion in the implementation of a directive, grasping the impact of the Directive on the world of football would not be possible without considering the national context. The recent ruling of the Arbeitsgericht Mainz (the lowest German labour court; hereinafter the Court) in proceedings brought by a German footballer Heinz Müller provides an important example in this regard. This second part of the blog on the legality of fixed-term contract in football is devoted to presenting and assessing the Court’s decision.
I. Facts and Procedure
Heinz Müller, the main protagonist of this case, was a goalkeeper playing for 1.FSV Mainz 05 a club partaking to the German Bundesliga. More...
Compatibility of Fixed-Term Contracts in Football with Directive 1999/70/EC. Part.1: The General Framework. By Piotr Drabik
On 25 March 2015, the Labour Court of Mainz issued its decision in proceedings brought by a German footballer, Heinz Müller, against his (now former) club 1. FSV Mainz 05 (Mainz 05). The Court sided with the player and ruled that Müller should have been employed by Mainz 05 for an indefinite period following his 2009 three year contract with the club which was subsequently extended in 2011 to run until mid-2014. The judgment was based on national law implementing Directive 1999/70 on fixed-term work[1] (Directive) with the latter being introduced pursuant to art. 155(2) TFEU (ex art. 139(2) TEC). On the basis of this article, European social partners’ may request a framework agreement which they conclude to be implemented on the European Union (EU, Union) level by a Council decision on a proposal from the Commission. One of the objectives of the framework agreement,[2] and therefore of the Directive, was to establish a system to prevent abuse arising from the use of successive fixed-term employment contracts or relationships[3] which lies at the heart of the discussed problem.[4] More...
UEFA’s FFP out in the open: The Dynamo Moscow Case
Ever since UEFA started imposing disciplinary measures to football clubs for not complying with Financial Fair Play’s break-even requirement in 2014, it remained a mystery how UEFA’s disciplinary bodies were enforcing the Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play (“FFP”) regulations, what measures it was imposing, and what the justifications were for the imposition of these measures. For over a year, the general public could only take note of the 23 settlement agreements between Europe’s footballing body and the clubs. The evidential obstacle for a proper analysis was that the actual settlements remained confidential, as was stressed in several of our previous Blogs.[1] The information provided by the press releases lacked the necessary information to answer the abovementioned questions.
On 24 April 2015, the UEFA Club Financial Control Body lifted part of the veil by referring FC Dynamo Moscow to the Adjudicatory Body. Finally, the Adjudicatory Body had the opportunity to decide on a “FFP case. The anxiously-awaited Decision was reached by the Adjudicatory Chamber on 19 June and published not long after. Now that the Decision has been made public, a new stage of the debate regarding UEFA’s FFP policy can start.More...


IFRS Standards are required for domestic public companies Yes. Joint-stock companies, commercial banks, insurance organisations and legal entities classified as large taxpayers and business entities with a state share and state-owned enterprises approved by the State Assets Management Agency are required to prepare financial statements applying IFRS Standards. Other companies may voluntarily prepare financial statements applying IFRS Standards.
IFRS Standards are required or permitted for listings by foreign companies Yes. Foreign companies are subject to the same regulations as domestic companies.
The IFRS for SMEs Standard is required or permitted No. National standards are required.
The IFRS for SMEs Standard is under consideration Yes. The Ministry of Finance may consider whether to permit or require the adoption of the IFRS for SMEs Standard.
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The MoF is the authorised body for the implementation of IFRS Standards in Uzbekistan.
MoF: https://www.mf.uz/en
MoF: iakhmadkhonov@mf.uz
On February 24, 2020, the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan signed Resolution No. 4611 ‘On Additional Measures to Transition to International Financial Reporting Standards’ (Resolution No. 4611).
This resolution requires joint-stock companies, commercial banks, insurance organisations and legal entities classified as large taxpayers to prepare financial statements in accordance with IFRS Standards from 1 January 2021.
Moreover, business entities preparing financial statements on a voluntary basis in accordance with IFRS Standards are exempted from submitting financial statements in accordance with national accounting standards (NAS).
Uzbekistan has adopted IFRS Standards for certain companies (see above).
Apart from certain companies (see above), starting from 2020, the State Asset Management Agency will annually approve and publish, by 1 June, a schedule of business entities with a state share and of state-owned enterprises that must implement IFRS Standards and that do not meet the criteria above.
Yes. Required for some, permitted for others, see above. Joint-stock companies, commercial banks, insurance organisations and legal entities classified as large taxpayers and business entities with a state share and state-owned enterprises approved by the State Assets Management Agency are required to prepare financial statements applying IFRS Standards. Other companies may voluntarily prepare financial statements applying IFRS Standards.
Yes. foreign companies are subject to the same regulations as domestic companies.
All companies mentioned in Resolution No. 4611.
IFRS Standards endorsed by the Republic of Uzbekistan, which are the IFRS Standards as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board.
For companies that prepare financial statements applying IFRS Standards, the audit report states conformity with IFRS Standards.
To create a legal basis for the use of IFRS Standards in Uzbekistan as a regulatory document, the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated August 24, 2020 No. 507 ‘On approval of the Regulation on and the procedure for recognizing International Financial Reporting Standards and Interpretations to them’ was adopted. Recognition of IFRS Standards in the Republic of Uzbekistan is approved by an order of the Ministry of Finance.
To recognise IFRS Standards as legal documents, on August 24, 2020, the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan adopted Resolution No. 507 ‘On approval of the Regulation on and the procedure for recognizing International Financial Reporting Standards and their Interpretations’.
With this Resolution, the Cabinet approved IFRS Standards and the procedure for recognising documents accompanying IFRS Standards.
In accordance with this Resolution, IFRS Standards for adoption in the territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan and IFRIC Interpretations are included in the following documents issued by the International Accounting Standards Board:
IFRS Standards, including any new IFRS Standards.
Interpretations of IFRS Standards;
amendments to IFRS Standards;
other documents specified by the International Accounting Standards Board as integral parts of the IFRS Standards.
This Resolution also established the procedure for expert examination of IFRS Standards for application in Uzbekistan and the procedure for endorsement of IFRS Standards in Uzbekistan.
No. The full set of the IFRS Standards has been endorsed in Uzbekistan.
According to Resolution No. 507, the Ministry of Finance is responsible for translating IFRS Standards into Uzbek, and it is also now leading the process to produce the official translation. Resolution No. 507 also details the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and the IFRS Foundation for translating IFRS Standards into Uzbek.
The translations follow the official IFRS Foundation translation process, including the requirement for ongoing translation of updates to IFRS Standards.
The Ministry of Finance may consider whether to permit or require the adoption of the IFRS for SMEs Standard.
National accounting standards issued by the Ministry of Finance.


Unpublished Kafka to see Light of Day
July 28, 2010 / Editor / 1 Comment
For more than 40 years, the treasure trove of unseen and unpublished possibly important Franz Kafka works lay stacked in piles in a humid apartment in a Tel Aviv suburb. The cache consisted of thousands of decomposing postcards, letters, manuscripts and drawings by the Czech-born Jewish writer.
Well, after a legal battle taking more than two years, papers from a collection began to emerge from the vaults, yesterday, of a bank in ZÃ¼rich, Switzerland.
The amount of works discovered could lead to a re-assessment of the tormented and reclusive writer, who died at age 40 in 1924, from Tuberculosis, whose family was killed in the Holocaust.
Kafka was born in 1883 in Prague â€“ when he died, he was a little-known Jewish writer with a handful of published German stories to his name.
Just prior to his death in a Vienna sanatorium, the writer entrusted his friend, Max Brod with his collection of unpublished handwritten documents, insisting famously that all papers “should be burned unread and without remnant” after his death. Well this never happened and Max Brod’s former secretary was watching over them in the cat infested first floor Tel Aviv suburb.
Brod, after Kafka’s death did not follow his friends wishes and instead published some of the works including The Metamorphosis, The Trial and The Castle.
When the Nazi’s invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939, Brod, a fervent Zionist, stuffed the collection of manuscripts into a suitcase and left for Israel.
Esther Hoffe, Brod’s housekeeper and alleged lover sold an original manuscript of The Trial in 1988 at Sotheyby’s, on behalf of the German literary archive in the city of Marbach. It fetched an estimated one-million dollars. On a separate occasion, when she was arrested at Israel’s Ben Gurion airport on suspicion of smuggling, letters and a travel journal by Kafka were found in her bag.
Israel’s state archive was allowed to catalogue Hoffe’s collection, yet there was always a suspicion that she had hidden away the most valuable portions of it.
Now that Hoffe has recently passed away at age 101, many in the Jewish Country are angry about talk of removing some of the papers from the country and selling them to Germany’s Marbach archive. Israel regards the Kafka legacy as a national treasure and a very key to pre-Holocaust European Jewish life.
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How Jewish was Franz Kafka? He did not attend a synagogue on the sabbath until his last year, he misspelt the Hebrew word for circumscriber, he ate vegetarian never kosher, defended Yiddish theatre when laughed at by ‘non-ghetto Jews’ etc. Are the signifiers of their religion not valid historically? Esther Hoffe should have allowed full access to the papers years ago, but still they are legally hers. This reminds of the hacking of Bruno Schulz’s art from a wall in Drohobycz (ex-Poland) to be displayed in Israel as by a ‘Jewish artist’. According to Kafka’s life, the material–if displayed anywhere-should be in Prague.


News / Job: Accounting Manager, Arterial Network
Job: Accounting Manager, Arterial Network
Arterial Network,
08 February 2017, Côte d'Ivoire
Arterial Network seeks a full-time person to manage finances of the organisation. Arterial Network is a Pan-African network of artists, arts organisations and activists engaged in capacity building, advocacy, research, cultural policy, information dissemination, workshops, conferences, publication of reports and best practice toolkits, all geared towards growing and strengthening the cultural and creative sectors in Africa, and making a contribution to democracy, human rights and development on this continent. With its continental secretariat in Abidjan, Arterial has official affiliates in 19 countries and wide representation in other parts of Africa. The successful applicant will be part of a team based in Abidjan, reporting to the Administration and Programme Manager.
Minimum Criteria
A Bachelor of Commerce/ Accounting degree or similar field
5 years’ experience as Accounting Manager for an NGO
Excellent understanding of MS MS Excel and accounting software used in Côte d'Ivoire.
Experience in the Arts and Culture sector
Bilingual(French & English)
Ivorian nationality and / or permanent resident in Côte d'Ivoire
Applicants should send their CV, a letter of motivation and three references to [email protected]orgbefore 20 February, midday. Only short listed candidates will be contacted for interviews.
For more information about the position, please click here.
http://www.arterialnetwork.org/opportunity/job_accounting_manager_feb2017
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Business SpecialOct 7th 2000 edition
Spaghetti Monti
EVEN in an all-American merger, it is no longer enough to satisfy American regulators alone. The bigger the merger, the more likely it is to attract scrutiny in Europe as well. The European Commission claims the right to investigate any merger involving a firm with a significant presence in EU markets. In July the commission followed the Americans in blocking a merger between WorldCom and Sprint. It is still scrutinising the AOL/Time Warner deal. But this week Time Warner and EMI withdrew their merger plan following the commission's objections.
If it does not block deals, the commission can demand radical changes in their terms. This year it allowed Vodafone AirTouch, a British telecoms firm, to take over Mannesmann, a German one, but only so long as it sold a Mannesmann subsidiary, Orange. In July the commission told Microsoft it could not take control of Telewest, a British cable company, but would have to settle for a minority stake instead.
Like their American counterparts, European trust-busters have been getting bolder and busier. There has been a sharp increase in activity since a new competition commissioner, Italy's Mario Monti, took over in September last year. The commission has formally blocked only 13 mergers in the past ten years—but three of those decisions were made by Mr Monti. In his first week at work he blocked a deal among British package-holiday operators. So far this year he has blocked two deals outright: the WorldCom-Sprint merger, and one between two Swedish motor-vehicle makers, Volvo and Scania. An aluminium deal, Alcan's bid for Pechiney, collapsed in the face of his objections.
Commission officials insist that Mr Monti is not being more interventionist as a matter of policy. Rather, the commission is doing more because the number of mergers is rising so fast. Unlike the Americans, who have to challenge a merger in court, the commission has the power to block it—though it has only four months after notification in which to do so. Its decisions can be appealed to the European Court of Justice, but that rarely happens because of the cost and time.
The entwining of the American and European markets means that more mergers are attracting simultaneous American and European scrutiny. EU officials stress that they and their American counterparts work closely together. The biggest transatlantic antitrust row came in 1997 when American antitrust authorities wanted to bless a merger between Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, whereas the commission wanted to block it. In the end it scraped through, with some conditions attached by the EU. Since then, says one commission official, “we are on the phone all the time discussing issues with counterparts at the FTC and DOJ. The procedures are not necessarily the same but the policy is the same.”
Could that change? It might. Some American officials think the EU is already more aggressive than they are, for instance in stopping vertical mergers. Mr Monti is also conservative in his view of the “new economy”, insisting that the old rules still apply. He does not believe that temporary monopoly is a necessary reward for innovators in new markets. A shift in America towards greater tolerance could leave Europe looking heavy-handed.
This article appeared in the Business Special section of the print edition under the headline "Spaghetti Monti"
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OII Europe and ILGA-Europe Statement on the adoption of a historical intersex resolution by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
October 3, 2013 by Editorial
ILGA-Europe and OII Europe welcome the adoption of the resolution “Children’s right to physical integrity” by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe which for the first time ever addressed the issue of bodily integrity of intersex children.
This resolution covered other issues such as female genital mutilation, the circumcision of young boys for religious reasons, and the submission to or coercion of children into piercings, tattoos or plastic surgery.
The resolution calls on Council of Europe Member States to “undertake further research to increase knowledge about the specific situation of intersex people, ensure that no-one is subjected to unnecessary medical or surgical treatment that is cosmetic rather than vital for health during infancy or childhood, guarantee bodily integrity, autonomy and self-determination to persons concerned, and provide families with intersex children with adequate counselling and support.”
This is the first resolution of its kind by any European institution. The language of the resolution signals a shift from the current medical domain to a human rights approach, and addresses the right to bodily integrity, autonomy and self-determination while calling for the end of cosmetic medical and surgical treatment.
ILGA-Europe and OII Europe call for relevant European institutions to take note of this resolution and indeed carry out the research that is necessary to increase knowledge about the specific human rights and social situation of intersex people.
ILGA-Europe and OII Europe also thank Marlene Rupprecht who was the Rapporteur of the report that led to this resolution for taking on board the input provided by our two organisations and Genital Autonomy and for putting the human rights of intersex people firmly on the agenda.
Resolution 1952 (2013) Children’s right to physical integrity
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1st Aug 2018 5th Jan 2019 Dr Jorge E. Núñez
Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 28) [Post 113]
In cases such as Northern Ireland, to grant self-determination in the form of independence would imply an unbalanced situation amongst the involved agents that may create an unnecessary gap between people who have an otherwise peaceful relationship. The previous posts this week introduced the notion of self-determination and some of the consequences full independence may bring about. The crucial issue is how self-determination is “weighted”—even considered as a right—against public good, general welfare, a fair and just environment for all (not only the majority or any minority). Then, it is not that self-determination is good or bad as a right or as an international remedy per se. Yet, because of the specific situation in which it is applied and the way in which it is used may be.
In cases such as Northern Ireland, a solution between status quo and complete independence should be reached. Some scholars have tried to re-define the idea of self-determination making it more inclusive but somehow giving shape to an eclectic international institution, and that agrees with shared sovereignty:
“[…] the right to national self-determination must go beyond self- government but to stop short of statehood, and thus I introduce a modified right to self-determination, which states that all national groups have an equal right to self-determination provided that the realization of the right does not require the acquisition of independent statehood as a necessary condition.”
Anna Moltchanova, National Self-determination and Justice in Multinational States (Springer, 2011), in partic. p. xvi and Chapter 5.
Hence, if the relationship between a sovereign State and a large group within its population is already problematic, self-determination leading to independence may in fact be a viable solution. However, in the specific case of Northern Ireland in which the involved agents have a peaceful relationship apart from Brexit, to apply self-determination in the form of independence appears as an inadvisable way of dealing with it. It goes against that relationship and threatens an otherwise peaceful environment. Nevertheless, if self-determination is understood as the collective right a group has to determine their political status, and this group is willing to accept the claims of other agents, it can be an institution that may offer a positive outcome. Besides, it may lead to shared sovereignty, as the next posts will show.
NOTE: based on Chapter 5, Núñez, Jorge Emilio. 2017. Sovereignty Conflicts and International Law and Politics: A Distributive Justice Issue. London and New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group.
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Ken Clarke 'to Be Sacked' in Next Reshuffle
Nick Hallett
One of the Conservative Party’s longest serving frontbenchers is expected to be sacked in a forthcoming government reshuffle. Kenneth Clarke is currently a Minister without Portfolio in the government and is one of the few remaining Conservative Europhiles.
In his place, the Sunday Telegraph reports that Prime Minister David Cameron to be keen to promote a number of younger MPs, especially women. One such MP could be Anna Soubry, the outspoken Defence Minister who sits firmly on the left of the party.
Commentators accuse the Conservative Party of having a “woman problem”, with few senior government posts being held by female MPs. Following the resignation of Culture Secretary Maria Miller over an expenses scandal earlier this year, the Government front bench was left with just two female Cabinet ministers.
Other women tipped for promotion are Esther McVey, a former TV presenter who is a strong media performer, and Education Minister Liz Truss.
If Kenneth Clarke is sacked, it will mark an end to five decades on the Conservative Party front bench. He was first appointed as a junior Minister in Ted Heath’s government in 1972, and has since served as Education Secretary, Health Secretary, Lord Chancellor, Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer. He has also stood three times for the Conservative Party leadership, but lost out due to his staunch pro-EU views.
Like Clarke, Anna Soubry is on the Conservative Party’s left wing. She is known for her pro-immigration views and earlier today caused further controversy by saying that some people who are concerned about immigration are “frankly racist”.
She was also a staunch supporter of Nick Clegg’s failed House of Lords reforms that caused one of the biggest rebellions in the history of the Conservative party.