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Southern Yacht Club is located in the West End area of New Orleans, on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain. Established in 1849, it is the second oldest yacht club in the United States.

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The Second Oldest Yacht Club

New Orleans in the antebellum era was a thriving port city, banking center and cultural leader. However, during the summer months, many New Orleanians would retreat to the Gulf Coast to flee the city’s heat, humidity and outbreaks of yellow fever. Summer homes, hotels and boarding houses dotted the coast along the Mississippi Sound to Mobile Bay. The first recorded regattas in this region were held as early as the 1830s in the coastal ports of Biloxi and Mobile.

A favorite destination among New Orleanians was the Pass Christian Hotel. There, SYC’s organizational meeting was held on July 21, 1849 and the hotel became its headquarters for several years. James W. Behan was elected as the club’s first president (the title “commodore” was not used until 1854) and eighteen yachts answered the starting gun for the club’s inaugural regatta that summer.

Activities continued at “The Pass” until 1857 when the club relocated to New Orleans and held its regattas on Lake Pontchartrain. Meetings were held at various locations in the city.

The Race to the Coast

The year after its founding, on July 4th, 1850, SYC held the first of what was to become an annual race from New Orleans to Pass Christian. The racecourse winds its way across Lake Pontchartrain, through The Rigolets to Lake Borgne and then into the Mississippi Sound. This annual Race to the Coast continues today and is among the oldest regattas still regularly contested in the United States.

A Clubhouse, at last

The seventeen years of Civil War and Reconstruction greatly curtailed boating activities until 1878 when the club was reorganized and its first postwar regatta held. The following year, a handsome clubhouse was built over the water on the shoreline of Lake Pontchartrain. It became the scene of many elaborate social events as well as sailing competitions. In 1899 a new and larger clubhouse was erected under the leadership of Commodore Albert Baldwin. Regattas continued annually on the lake with the fleet competing each summer in interclub races on the Gulf Coast.

The Fish Class sloop, designed by SYC member Rathbone DeBuys, had its debut in 1919 and quickly became the most popular one design class in the Gulf South. Other early classes of yachts introduced were the Massachusetts Bay 21 Footer, Star and Sound Interclub.

The 1899 clubhouse was extensively enlarged and renovated in the 1920s. The grand ballroom addition hosted many gala events which featured many of the emerging jazz pioneers of the day. The grand structure saw heavy use by the US Navy and Coast Guard during World War II and, in 1949, it was replaced by a modest, concrete and steel structure. This building was expanded in the 1960s and ’80s, and another major expansion was set to begin in 2005.

The Gulf Yachting Association

In 1919, America’s Cup celebrity and sailing benefactor, Sir Thomas Lipton (who lived in New Orleans as a young man), donated an elaborate trophy to SYC for an Interclub Challenge amongst Gulf Coast yacht clubs. This effort helped spark the reorganization of the Gulf Yachting Association. Originally conceived in 1901 by members of SYC and several other Gulf Coast clubs, the GYA brought together yachtsmen from Houston to St. Petersburg and as far inland as Arkansas to encourage the sport of yacht racing.

The popular Fish Class became the standard-issue yacht of each GYA club for the annual Lipton Cup Challenge, which remains keenly contested to this day. The GYA’s year-long interclub series is named for SYC Commodore Auguste Capdevielle, who passed away in office in 1940.  In 1968, the Flying Scot replaced the aging Fish Class as the GYA interclub yacht.  Today, the GYA has over thirty member clubs.

The Olympic Games

The 1932 Olympic Games saw SYC Star Class skipper Gilbert Gray and crew, Andrew Libano, win a Gold Medal.  It was U.S.A.’s first-ever Olympic medal in sailing.  SYC sailors continued to be regular participants in the Olympic Trials, but none would reach the games until G.S. “Buddy” Friedrichs, Jr., with crew, Barton Jahncke and Click Schreck, won the Gold Medal in the Dragon Class in 1968.

SYC’s next Olympian was Flying Dutchman sailor, Steve Burdow, crewing for Paul Foerster in the 1992 Games.  The pair won the Silver Medal that year.

From 1996 to 2008, SYC was represented in four straight Olympic Games.  Skipper Johnny Lovell and crew, Charlie Ogletree, dominated the Tornado Class during this period, winning multiple national and international class championships.  Their greatest success came in 2004, when they won the Silver Medal.  In 2008, SYC would be represented in two Olympic classes in Tsingtao, China.

Luxury yacht builder John Dane, III had made several runs at the Olympics during his lifelong sailing career, but it was not until 2008, at the age of 58, that he finally achieved his goal.  Sailing in the uber-competitive Star Class, with his son-in-law as crew, John peaked at just the right time to win the Olympic Trials and represent U.S.A. in the 2008 games.  Unfortunately for both Dane and Lovell, the conditions were not as expected and their careful light-air preparation became a liability.  Neither team won a medal.

The Olympic Sailing Association at New Orleans

A Founding Member of the NSHOF, the Olympic Sailing Association was founded by SYC members to encourage development of future Olympians. This successful non-profit organization maintains a strong presence throughout the Gulf Coast region.

Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina made landfall just east of New Orleans on August 29, 2005 causing widespread destruction throughout the region. Though only modestly damaged by wind and flood waters, the clubhouse was ultimately destroyed by a massive fire which burned, unchecked, in the hours following the storm. Sadly, many historic trophies and other priceless artifacts were lost in the fire.

After two years of construction and countless hours of work by Commodore Jim Wade and the Governing Committee, the new clubhouse was opened in 2009.  Once again, SYC had a permanent home and, like the previous clubhouses, it is the crown jewel of the New Orleans Lakefront.

Over the years, SYC sailors have won four Olympic medals and numerous national and international championships. Through more than one hundred and fifty years of prosperity, depressions, wars, yellow fever epidemics, floods and hurricanes, the Southern Yacht Club has always maintained a tradition of keen competition, sportsmanship and eponymous hospitality.

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Perched on the open ramp at the rear of a British Chinook helicopter, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas flew home from the annual Spring Storm military exercises, pleased to see NATO allies cooperating. But she later said that other types of warfare were on her mind.

Her nation, which borders Russia, has seen a rise in sabotage, electronic warfare and spying — all blamed on Moscow.

As the war in Ukraine turns in Russia’s favor, defenses are being bolstered in the front-line nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, as well as in Finland and Poland.

Kallas says Russia is conducting a “shadow war” against the West.

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda urged vigilance, saying Tuesday he had information that “acts of sabotage can happen again.”

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said at least nine people were recently arrested on suspicion of beatings and arson, allegedly directed by Russia’s secret services, and described them as Ukrainian, Belarusian and Polish nationals, some “from the criminal world.”

Not everyone sees the attacks as interconnected, Kallas told the Associated Press, despite NATO’s assertion this month that Moscow is intensifying its campaign against the alliance from the Baltics to Britain. Russia dismissed that allegation.

Because many Russian intelligence operatives already are sanctioned, Western officials and experts say the Kremlin is shifting tactics, hiring others for hybrid operations — nonmilitary strategies including cyberattacks, election interference and disinformation, and attacks on foes of President Vladimir Putin .

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With crucial elections in the West, officials say they believe the tempo of such activities will only increase, and some want tougher countermeasures.

Kallas cited a warning from an intelligence agency to a European country that one of its warehouses was targeted by Russian military intelligence. When a fire occurred at the warehouse two weeks later, officials in the country suggested that “we don’t know it is the Russians,” she said. Kallas did not identify the country.

The West must have a “serious discussion of a coordinated approach,” she said. “How far do we let them go on our soil?”

Estonia has taken the challenge of finding Russian agents of influence “very seriously” since regaining independence from the USSR in 1991, rebuilding its security services from scratch, U.S. Ambassador George Kent told AP.

This year in Estonia, a university professor was arrested on charges of spying for Moscow, 13 people were arrested over attacks allegedly organized by Russian military intelligence operating under diplomatic cover, and flights between Finland and the Estonian city of Tartu were disrupted by Russian jamming of GPS signals.

In October, a Baltic Sea gas pipeline and telecom cables were damaged after a Chinese ship dragged its anchor for more than 115 miles in an incident that is still under investigation. That ship was later seen in a Russian port.

Britain expelled Russia’s defense attache in May after two British men were accused of working with Russian intelligence services to set fire to a London warehouse. In April, two German Russian nationals were arrested and accused of trying to attack military sites in southern Germany.

“What I would like to see is the recognition that these are not isolated events,” Kallas said. “Second, that we share information about this amongst ourselves. Third, make it as public as we can.”

Estonia, a nation of 1.3 million people, has a reputation for aggressively pursuing espionage activity and publicizing it, seizing more Russian agents per capita than other European nations.

It is “not very plausible” that there’s such a large pool of agents in Estonia that makes them easier to catch, said Kusti Salm, permanent secretary at Estonia’s Defense Ministry, in an interview with AP, implying that other countries could work harder at it.

Former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, in office from 2006 to 2016, said that some nations don’t act because they hope to do business with Russia again.

“People are afraid of decisive action, and the absence of decisive action basically tempts bad actors to keep pushing their luck,” added Ilves, who dealt with a major cyberattack blamed on Russia in 2007.

Russian officials, he said, “will push their luck until something bad happens, but they won’t pay the consequence. We will.”

That could lead to unintended deaths and injuries, Estonian officials and security experts say, citing a trend of Russia outsourcing attacks to locals, sometimes recruited cheaply on video-gaming platforms and social media. That makes it harder to identify connections between attacks or to trace them back to Russia.

Bulgarian investigative journalist Christo Grozev, who exposed Russian intelligence involvement in the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal in 2018 in Britain and the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in 2020, was a victim of such outsourcing.

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A former Austrian intelligence officer was arrested in March for supplying Grozev’s address to Russian intelligence, which allegedly hired burglars to break into the journalist’s apartment in 2022 to steal a laptop connected to the Navalny investigation. Grozev had to move from Vienna last year after authorities said they couldn’t guarantee his security.

Grozev said his son was in his room playing computer games when the 2022 break-in occurred, adding: “Imagine if he had walked out.”

He and other journalists discovered links between an attack on a Russian opposition figure in Argentina last year and a Polish organized crime cell. When the information was passed to Polish authorities, they found a connection between the Argentina attack and one on Russian opposition figure Leonid Volkov in Lithuania in March. Lithuania’s security service said that attack was probably Russian-organized.

Grozev said nations need to enforce intelligence sharing between their own security services and police and prosecutors and create a “proactive international working task force” to combat foreign influence operations.

Although Russia has been blamed for attacks in Europe for decades, Estonian officials and security experts indicated there’s no collective mechanism for dealing with them, and suggested the European Union do more.

Kallas says Russia uses spies in the guise of diplomats “all the time,” and senior Estonian officials support a Czech initiative limiting visas for Russian envoys to the country where they are posted.

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That would make it harder for them to travel in the EU, where IDs aren’t needed at the border. It also could reduce the possibility of one nation expelling spies, only to see them return to another and continue working under diplomatic cover.

Estonia also is pushing for separate sanctions within the EU to counter hybrid threats. Although many Russian intelligence agents already are sanctioned, these could dissuade some “intermediaries” — local organized crime figures, disillusioned youths and potential spies and collaborators— from working for Moscow, said Jonatan Vseviov, secretary general of Estonia’s Foreign Ministry.

While some countries feel such exposure could cause instability and erode trust, Grozev called it an important deterrent.

Russian intelligence agents running operations abroad are “extremely averse” to incidents where they are named and shamed, Grozev said. Such individuals can be denied promotion, and proxies will realize they cannot be guaranteed immunity, he said.

The threat of sanctions and reduced opportunities for travel and study abroad can also help discourage younger Russians from joining the security services.

Russia seeks “to sow fear” and break Western support for Ukraine, Kallas said.

Vseviov said Putin wants to use every tool available, including the shadowy attacks, to “undermine our unity, collapse our policy and destroy the collective West, as we know it, as a functioning body.”

Burrows writes for the Associated Press. AP journalists Monika Scislowska in Warsaw and Jan M. Olsen in Copenhagen contributed to this report.

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Russian missiles kill 7 in Ukraine’s second-largest city where Moscow’s troops are pressing

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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles slammed into Ukraine’s second-largest city in the northeast of the country and killed at least seven civilians early Thursday, officials said, as Kyiv’s army labored to hold off an intense cross-border offensive by the Kremlin’s larger and better-equipped forces.

At least 16 people were injured as S-300 missiles struck the city of Kharkiv , regional Gov. Oleh Syniehubov said. The sound of 15 explosions reverberated around the city of some 1 million people.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the attack “extremely cruel.” He expressed renewed frustration at not getting enough air defense systems from the country’s Western partners to prevent the barrages after more than two years of unrelenting war .

The city of Kharkiv, which is the capital of the region of the same name, lies about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Russian border. Moscow’s troops have in recent weeks captured villages in the area as part of a broad push, and analysts say they may be trying to get within artillery range of the city.

In what is shaping up to be Ukraine’s biggest test since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, outnumbered and outgunned Ukrainian forces are being pressed at several points along the about 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line that snakes from north to south along the eastern side of the country.

With Ukraine short of air defenses and waiting for more Western military support that recently started trickling in, its army has been pushed backwards in places while Russia has pounded its power grid and civilian areas. Kyiv endured further power outages Thursday.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said the attacks underscored the country’s “urgent” need for more U.S.-made Patriot systems to defend its skies. Germany recently pledged one of the missile systems “but getting six more as soon as possible remains critical not only for Ukraine’s survival but for peace in Europe,” Kuleba wrote on the social media platform X.

Zelenskyy said the main hotspots in recent fighting have been Kharkiv and the neighboring Donetsk region, where in February Ukraine’s defenders withdrew from the stronghold of Avdiivka . For the Kremlin, taking control of all of partially occupied Donetsk is a war priority.

At the same time, and in an apparent effort to stretch Ukraine’s depleted forces, Russian troops have made incursions in the northern Sumy region.

Nearly 1,500 people, including 200 children, have been evacuated from the towns of Bilopillia and Vorozhba in that region, according to regional Gov. Volodymyr Artiukh.

“The main focus (of the fighting) is on the entire border area,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address Wednesday.

In Liubotyn, a small town about 10 kilometers (6 miles) west of Kharkiv city, Russian missiles struck the town’s center, injuring eight civilians.

Russia’s defense ministry said Thursday that its forces had taken control of the Donetsk settlement of Andriivka , which Ukrainian forces had held since grueling combat in September that left the village in ruins.

Elsewhere in Donetsk, Russian forces claimed advances in the vicinity of Chasiv Yar, Konstantinovka and Rozdolivka.

It was not possible to independently verify the claims. Recent Russian advances have been incremental.

Ukraine has also trained its sights on Russian regions across the border. Russia’s defense ministry said Thursday that 35 Ukrainian rockets and three drones were shot down over the Belgorod region. Regional Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said one drone struck a house and exploded after being shot down, killing a woman.

Follow AP’s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine

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Since he was a teenager, Vincent Do has been immersed in the rave and nightlife scenes. Across the southwestern U.S., Do has promoted and even produced yacht parties, raves, and DJ shows. For him, these events are more than just fun — they’re ways for him to socialize and meet like-minded audiophiles, people who want to talk about music as much as they want to dance to it. He’s been working as a promoter in Las Vegas for more than a decade, but he says the city is still missing a proper party bar for lovers of electronic dance music — a concept he says that Scottsdale, Arizona has nailed but that Vegas still finds elusive.

When it opens later this year at 1021 S. Main Street, Do’s Audio Bar will lean into the EDM theme. Do plans to have memorabilia on the walls — much of it autographed by DJs and hip-hop artists. He’s planning a rotating gallery, populated by the paraphernalia and mementos of event photographers and stagehands. And even the bathrooms will pay homage to events like Coachella and Burning Man.

“Audio Bar is what we call a high-energy party bar,” says Do, who is a managing partner in the business. “It’s a party where the energy inside will permeate to outside.” People can dress casually, he says, which is an important element for cities that still reach 90 degrees at night during the summer season. And although the concept may seem on its face like a cross between a club and a bar, Audio Bar is “definitely not a lounge,” Do says.

By day, Audio Bar will function as a listening bar , with record players and headphones available for visitors to peruse through the bar’s collection of EDM vinyl. “We’re trying to recreate that feel from back in the day with record stores, or even Blockbuster,” says Do. “You used to go to stores and be able to meet people that really love music, where you can chat with the person behind the counter.” Do says that nightclubs are too loud to have that kind of conversation with other music lovers, so Audio Bar will function as a way to achieve that social element — at least until the music gets pumping after dark. And on Saturday and Sunday mornings, it will host brunch, much in the spirit of the raucous midday bacchanalia that is Lavo’s party brunch.

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Audio Bar joins other Vegas nightlife destinations that straddle that line between nightclub and lounge. Bruno Mars’s Pinky Ring opened last fall with live jazz music, a packed dance floor, and no-phones-allowed policy. And Jing in Downtown Summerlin threads the needle between restaurant and ultra lounge — even if it commands a more effortful dress code than Audio Bar requires. That’s not to mention the Fremont East block, with its barhop-ready high-energy bars. Its closest approximation may be the now-closed Artifice Bar , just across the street. Corner Bar Management is currently transforming that space into the private membership Doberman bar.

Do worked for years as a club promoter in Southern California and Scottsdale, Arizona, and he says it’s the Scottsdale vibe he wants to bring to downtown Las Vegas. The secret, he says, will be actually good EDM music and a dress code that doesn’t require visitors to think twice about what they’re wearing. “Truthfully, one thing Scottsdale has going for them is they really do have a lot of attractive people that go out,” says Do. Game, set, match, Las Vegas.

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The Line — May 2024

Most American Alpine Journal (AAJ) stories cover climbs from the prior year. But in some parts of the world, where January and February are prime for climbing—Patagonia, Antarctica, parts of Africa—we do our best to report the latest ascents. With that in mind, here are a few stories about recent climbs that will appear in the 2024 AAJ—plus one ski descent—from four different continents.

Fanny Schmutz follows the wild ice chimney just below the headwall on Cerro Torre’s Southeast Ridge. Photo by Lise Billon.

HISTORIC WOMEN’S CLIMB ON CERRO TORRE

On February 23, 2024, Lise Billon, Fanny Schmutz, and Maud Vanpoulle launched an attempt on the Southeast Ridge of Cerro Torre in southern Patagonia. This historic route avoids most of the bolts on the headwall placed by Cesare Maestri in 1970, and was completed in 2012 by Hayden Kennedy and Jason Kruk , who then removed more than 100 of Maestri’s bolts. The Southeast Ridge was freed, with variations, the same year by David Lama and Peter Ortner . The 800-meter route goes at around 7a+ C2 WI5 (or free at 7c). All three women had spent many seasons in the massif, and this year they traveled to El Chaltén with no other goal besides the Southeast Ridge. After a month of waiting, a good window arrived. Despite difficult, snowy conditions on the start of the climb, the three women topped out on Cerro Torre after three days, completing the 13th ascent of the route since the Maestri bolts were removed. (Americans Tyler Allen and Scott Bennett summited via the same route on the same day.) The French trio’s climb of the Southeast Ridge was the first by women and is highlighted in the 2024 AAJ as part of our initiative to elevate coverage of cutting-edge ascents by female teams. (See “State of the Art: Expanding the Coverage of Women’s Climbing in the AAJ” in the 2020 edition.) Lise Billon wrote the story of the 2024 climb, and you can read it at the AAJ website now .

Adam Fabrikant descending Third Ledge on the north face of the Grand Teton in March 2024. Photo by Sam Hennessey.

WILD TETON DESCENTS

Sometimes great stories take time—we started work over two years ago on a history of ski alpinism in the Tetons with ski writer and producer Jason Albert. For AAJ 2024 , Albert paired with IFMGA guide and big-mountain skier Adam Fabrikant to complete our “Recon” feature on the Tetons, but not without some last-minute additions. One of these was Fabrikant’s second ski descent of the north face of the Grand Teton with Sam Hennessey; the two descended the face in March 2024, about a month before the AAJ headed to the printer. This roughly 2,500-foot face was first skied in 2013 by local guides Greg Collins and Brendan O’Neill. Although many rappels were required to negotiate the complex line, Hennessey said the ski route was far from contrived: “Honestly, the north face has some amazing skiing in an outrageous position. We thought it was an excellent day of skiing.”

The north face descent made it into the upcoming AAJ , but then, in April, Fabrikant, O’Neill, and Michael Gardner teamed up for a massive link-up that instantly put our story out of date: Their “Enduro Traverse” linked the full southern Tetons skyline on skis, from Buck Mountain to Teewinot. As Fabrikant presciently wrote about the Tetons at the end of the “Recon”: “‘Skied out’ isn’t part of the vocabulary here.” Stay tuned for his AAJ report on the Enduro Traverse. By the way, if you’re a fan of ski alpinism, be sure to check out The High Route , an excellent website and podcast on backcountry skiing produced by Jason Albert, co-author of the “Recon” in AAJ 2024 .

Above: Nathan Cahill working on the route Dez Mangas at Serra da Leba, Angola, later led free at 5.11c. Photo by Diogo Rebelo. Right: a sandstone headwall floating above the mist at Fenda da Tundavala. Photo by Nathan Cahill.

THE SANDSTONE OF SOUTHWEST AFRICA

American climber Nathan Cahill has spent recent years helping to develop the climbing of Angola, a nation in southwestern Africa that has spectacular granite, conglomerate, and sandstone cliffs. In February 2024, Cahill traveled to the Huíla Plateau, site of Angola’s second-largest city, Lubango, to explore sandstone walls that rim the plateau. A highlight, described in Cahill’s report for the upcoming AAJ , was Serra de Leba, a deep canyon west of Lubango, where he put up a few short routes and a six-pitch 5.10c. Many unclimbed routes await. In a few months, Serra de Leba will be the site of the first Angola Climbing Festival (August 16–25), hosted by Climb Angola.

FIRST FREE ASCENT OF PICAFLOR IN COCHAMÓ

Hayden Jamieson pulling the crux on “The Strenuous V4” pitch (5.13+). Photo by Ian Dzilenski.

Who doesn’t love a good story of perseverance? A last-minute addition to this year’s AAJ tells a great one. American climber Hayden Jamieson spent two seasons in the Cochamó Valley of Chile on a quest to free Picaflor , a 24-pitch route up Cerro Capicua, first climbed in 2017 at 5.10+ A1. In January 2022, Jamieson and friends freed all but a single crux of the 1,050-meter route: a desperate slab sequence on pitch 20. “I had invested around ten days of work into pitch 20 and deemed it possible, but just barely,” Jamieson wrote in his AAJ story. “I knew that I’d need to improve my climbing level if I wanted to stand a chance at freeing Picaflor , so for the next two years I trained with that specific intention.”

Jamieson returned in January of this year with Jacob Cook and Will Sharp, and for five weeks the trio worked the route. At some point, Sharp spotted a potential variation to the crux slab traverse that had shut down Jamieson in 2022. “Despite being ‘easier,’ this pitch still clocked in at around 5.13+, and we gave it the tongue-in-cheek name ‘The Strenuous V4,’ ” Jamieson wrote. On February 23, the trio began a seven-day push: Each climber led the route’s two 5.13+ cruxes, and they split the other leads evenly, with everyone freeing every pitch. Jamieson’s inspiring story for AAJ 2024 is available now at our website.

FIRST ASCENT (AND SKI DESCENT) IN ANTARCTICA

In January 2024, Antarctica guide Phil Wickens led a team of six aboard the yacht  Icebird  to make ski ascents and descents on the Antarctic Peninsula. On January 14, the team landed on the east coast of Liard Island and traversed to the unnamed glacier that flows northeast from Mt. Bridgman, the highest point of the island (around 1,410 meters). The following day, they made the first known ascent of Bridgman, via an improbable-looking line up its east face, and then enjoyed the 4,500-foot ski descent back to sea level. Wickens’ report is at the AAJ website .

Descending Mt. Bridgman on Liard Island, along the Antarctic Peninsula, after the first ascent. Photo by Phil Wickens.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky police officer who arrested top-ranked golfer Scottie Scheffler outside the PGA Championship is receiving “corrective action” for not having his body-worn camera activated when he approached the golfer’s vehicle — an interaction that allegedly resulted in the officer being dragged to the ground, authorities said Thursday.

Louisville officials said during a news conference that they are not aware of any video footage of the initial interaction last Friday between Scheffler and Louisville Detective Bryan Gillis outside the gates of Valhalla Golf Club on a dark and rainy morning. But Gillis wrote in a report on his failure to turn on the camera that Scheffler “demanded to be let in and proceeded forward … I was dragged/knocked down by the driver.”

Police did release video Thursday from a street pole camera that appears to show Scheffler’s SUV turning into the golf club entrance, prompting an officer to run toward the vehicle and seemingly strike it as it comes to a stop. The camera is too far away to capture the full details of the encounter.

Another video released by authorities comes from a police vehicle dashcam and shows Scheffler in handcuffs as he is escorted by officers.

The local prosecutor handling the case has requested that any additional video or evidence related to the case not be released “until the conclusion of the legal process,” the mayor said.

Scheffler was arrested on charges that he injured Gillis and disobeyed commands, but the golfer said “he never intended to disregard any of the instructions,” and the incident was caused by a misunderstanding.

After the news conference, Scheffler’s attorney Steve Romines said his client was not at fault.

“Our position is the same as it was last Friday, Scottie Scheffler didn’t do anything wrong, we’re not interested in settling the case,” Romines said. “We’ll either try it or it will be dismissed.”

The city’s police chief noted that the department’s officers are expected to maintain their body-worn cameras in a “constant state of operational readiness.”

“Detective Gillis should have turned on his body-worn camera but did not,” Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel said. “His failure to do so is a violation of LMPD policy on uniforms and equipment.”

The report on the internal investigation said Gillis should have at least had his camera on in standby mode while directing traffic before the incident with Scheffler.

Gwinn-Villaroel said he “received corrective action” for the violation. The document released Thursday said Gillis completed a “failure to record” form as required by policy, and was “counseled by a member of his command” and a “performance observation” was completed.

Gillis wrote in the document that he was requested to respond to a fatal accident at Valhalla when he saw Scheffler’s vehicle “traveling in the opposing lanes coming at me.”

Scheffler was driving before dawn to Valhalla Golf Club to play in the second round of the tournament when he encountered Gillis.

Gillis, who approached Scheffler’s car on foot, wrote in an arrest report that Scheffler “refused to comply and accelerated forward, dragging” Gillis to the ground. Gillis said his uniform pants were damaged in the fall and he was taken to the hospital for his injuries.

A few hours later, after a trip to jail, Scheffler returned to the golf course in time for his 10:08 a.m. tee time. He finished the tournament Sunday tied for eighth place , enough for a tournament payout of about $520,000.

He is scheduled to return to Louisville on June 3 to be arraigned on four charges, including second-degree felony assault of a police officer.

Louisville police’s current body camera policy was enacted amid controversy in 2020 after officers shot Breonna Taylor , a 26-year-old Black woman who was killed during a botched drug raid. At the time, the plain-clothes officers who served the warrant and fired at Taylor were not required to wear body cameras.

The new policy required all officers to turn on the camera “prior to engaging in all law enforcement activities and encounters.”

The police chief at the time of Taylor’s death was later fired when officers at the scene of another fatal shooting failed to turn on their body-worn cameras.

Associated Press writer Bruce Schreiner in Frankfort, Kentucky, contributed to this report.

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Four Psychology Students Present Research at External Conferences in April 2024

Four psychology majors presented research to outside audiences in April 2024. Alongside former SMCM Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Amie Severino ‘11 (now at Mount Saint Mary’s University), Briana Corbin ’24 presented at the Anxiety and Depression Association of America conference in Boston, MA. Gabrielle Blew ’24, Angelie Roche ’24 and Katya Scott ’24 presented their individual St. Mary’s Projects (all conducted under the mentorship of Professor of Psychology Libby Nutt Williams) at the L. Starling Reid Undergraduate Psychology Conference held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA on April 26.

Corbin’s poster, “Risk Factors Associated with the Etiology of Adolescent Mood Disorders,” was based on work conducted as part of her 2023 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) project with Severino. Abstract: Risk factors in a young person’s environment can lead to the expression of mood disorders such as anxiety and depression in adolescence. These mental health disorders often lead to detrimental psychosocial and academic impacts during adolescence and may persist throughout adulthood. It is important to identify the risk factors of adolescent mood disorders to allow for the implementation of early interventions. We implemented a rigorous methodological strategy to synthesize the existing evidence of environmental risk factors for anxiety and depression of adolescents in the United States (age 13-19) from quantitative, empirical sources that were published in the last 10 years (2013-2023) in peer-reviewed journals. After reviewing 29 articles from an initial search query of 16,363 articles, we identified common themes of risk factors associated with the development of anxiety and depression in adolescence. These themes were trauma, factors relating to the neighborhood and community the youth resided in, negative life events, victimization, peer rejection, factors related to the income level of the youths' environment, discrimination, family factors, and substance use. Only one of the 29 studies examined puberty as an indication of adolescence. Additionally, a few studies indicated the interaction of mood disorders with biological implications, such as anxiety being associated with sleep disturbances. Understanding how to effectively address these identified risk factors is essential to clinical interventions for adolescent mood disorders and the potential life-long biological consequences.

Blew presented a poster entitled “To Gift or Not to Gift: Examining the Impact of Telehealth on Client Gift Giving.” Abstract: Gift-giving is an ethical dilemma in psychotherapy, often discussed by many psychotherapists. There is no clear answer on how therapists should respond when they are presented with a gift by a client, which is likely due to the controversy of gift-giving within psychotherapy more broadly. There is a lack of understanding of how other morally gray areas of psychology, such as the introduction of telehealth, have impacted the overall issue of client gift-giving. Zoom interviews were conducted to better understand therapists’ views and experiences with client gift-giving, and how their experiences differed between in-person and telehealth settings. Eight therapists who had been practicing for a minimum of five years, have provided telehealth services and who have been offered at least one gift by a client were interviewed. These interviews were analyzed using Consensual Qualitative Research methods (Hill, Thompson, & Williams, 1997; Hill et al., 2005). Major findings include that only four of the eight therapists had received gifts while seeing clients via telehealth, with these gifts usually being delivered through electronic means. Additionally, most of these therapists had only one experience where a telehealth client had attempted to give them a gift. Typically, the therapists felt like gift-giving is less prevalent via telehealth, which may be related to how it fosters a less personal relationship. Overall, these results suggest that telehealth may have minimized the ethical dilemma of gift-giving within the realm of psychotherapy.

Roche presented a poster entitled “Summer Camp Counselor Experiences: The Influence of Training, Self-Efficacy, and Organizational Cohesion.” Abstract: Many overnight camps use Counselor-in-Training (CIT) programs to prepare adolescent campers for the counselor role. Although research has investigated the efficacy of individual CIT programs, studies have not compared the experiences of previous CITs to the experiences of new, non-CIT counselors across camp types. We recruited 314 camp counselors (130 previous CITs and 185 non-CITs) from camps across the US and Canada for an online survey assessing their self-efficacy and organizational cohesion (Chen et al., 2001; Ruga, 2014) and other items related to their experiences as first-year counselors. The majority of the sample reported positive experiences. Although CIT completion did not correlate significantly with any variable, individual and camp factors such as job fit, satisfaction with training and comfort talking to administrators correlated with self-efficacy and organizational cohesion. More between-camps research is needed to examine training, overall climate and the true efficacy of CIT programs.

Scott presented a talk entitled “Art Therapy with Ukrainian Refugees: A Pilot Program”. Abstract: There is little empirical research available that explores art therapy with adult refugees. Refugees face increased risk for mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder; post-migration, they also often face challenges such as cultural isolation and a loss of community. As the number of refugees worldwide increases at an alarming rate, well-researched, culturally sensitive systems of mental health support must be made available to anyone who requires them. Group art therapy may be a particularly helpful intervention due to a focus on social connections and a de-emphasis on verbal processing, which might help lessen the impact of language barriers and support those with difficulty expressing painful experiences in words. To ensure programs are culturally sensitive, adopting the Multicultural Orientation (MCO) framework is an ideal approach. Current research on art therapy with refugees is extremely limited, particularly with adults. However, incorporating culturally significant materials into art therapy programs may be a promising route for future work. To address this gap in research, we conducted a mixed-methods study of a five-week group art therapy program incorporating culturally significant materials with adult Ukrainian refugees. Via pre- and post-intervention surveys, we analyzed the program’s potential influence on anxiety, resilience, and connection to community. We also conducted brief interviews with participants about their experiences in the program and analyzed these using Consensual Qualitative Research (CQR). The results offer potential directions for research in this area that should be further explored in future studies.

For her SMP work, Katya Scott was presented with the Myron G. Marlay Award for Science at this year's Awards Convocation. Angelie Roche was selected as one of two winners of the 2024 Department of Psychology's SMP Award.

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SFA to improve fish farming infrastructure in southern waters after Barramundi Group exits

SINGAPORE – The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) is looking to improve fish farming infrastructure in the southern waters, saying the only farm operating there, the Barramundi Group, has plans to exit.

Before new fish farms take over the sites on Pulau Senang and Pulau Semakau, SFA is exploring the feasibility of having new farms share facilities there, the agency told The Straits Times.

Barramundi Group, which farms Asian sea bass, had open-water sea cages off Pulau Senang and Pulau Semakau, as well as a land-based hatchery and nursery on Semakau. 

Its head of strategy and operations Tan Ying Quan said that farming in the southern waters comes with higher-than-usual operating costs due to inadequate infrastructure, making it challenging to be cost-competitive and to achieve long-term profitability. 

That was an important reason why the company stopped farming here, and decided to focus its operations in Brunei instead, he said.

Said Mr Tan: “For one thing, transporting goods, such as fish feed and equipment, can be challenging with no dedicated jetty for fish farmers to use. We must get a private-hire crane whenever we need to move large items from mainland Singapore to the islands and back. We also pay hefty yacht club berthing fees to have parking space for our staff transport boats.”

In addition, the hatchery and nursery on Semakau – which can produce two million fingerlings, or juvenile fish, annually – does not have access to grid-supplied electricity or fresh water. 

So it has to transport diesel and fresh water weekly to sustain operations, contributing to significantly higher operating costs since it took over the site in 2012.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the group stopped operating the Semakau facility in 2021 to cut costs.

Instead, it relied on its smaller hatchery and nursery on St John’s Island – where its research and development work is currently based – to grow fingerlings.

SFA recently awarded a tender to Singapore-based consultant DHI Water and Environment to study the environmental impact of farming in the waters off Semakau and Senang islands.

Once the study is completed, the agency will re-tender out the sea spaces for farming, while stipulating the allowable level of production for fish and fingerlings.

At the same time, it will determine the acceptable level of nutrient discharges from the farms there, to ensure that impact to the surrounding environment can be minimised. 

Professor Dean Jerry, director of the Tropical Futures Institute at James Cook University, said fish and shrimp produce organic waste as a by-product of their metabolism, as they break down protein into nutrients, such as ammonia, which are then released into the surrounding waters. 

Regardless of the type of farm – be it open-water sea cages or closed-containment systems – some level of nutrients will still be released into the water, he noted.

Closed-containment systems, which essentially separate the water where fish are kept from the natural environment, are thought to be more beneficial as they result in less pollution in the surrounding waters, as fish food, for example, is not being directly discharged into the sea. 

The southern waters have fast currents, which help the nutrients to disperse quickly.

They also have a good mangrove ecosystem, which essentially helps to absorb the nutrients released from the farms, thereby allowing the water to be filtered and improving water quality, Prof Jerry said. 

“The proposed environmental studies will provide science-based guidance to help us better understand our aquaculture sites, for the aquaculture industry to operate in a way that is environmentally responsible and supports the long-term resilience of our marine ecosystem,” said an SFA spokesman. 

The agency is also gathering data to determine the optimal site allocation for aquaculture farms, and to develop environmental monitoring guidelines. 

According to its annual report for 2022/2023, a study was conducted to assess the current state of sediment quality around farming zones. This will help SFA to monitor changes over time and assess whether farming activities were conducted sustainably.

According to the same report, another study was conducted to understand the connectivity of pathogens between farming sites, so the agency can look into biosecurity measures needed to minimise transmission of disease between farms. 

In June 2023, the Barramundi Group had to temporarily pause farming after an outbreak of scale drop disease virus (SDDV), which is endemic in Singapore’s waters.

The virus can kill more than 70 per cent of a pen of barramundi at a time, and causes scale loss and fin erosion. It cannot be transmitted to humans.

Mr Tan said that the endemic virus was ultimately the farm’s Achilles heel, especially since there are no effective vaccines available for it.

The firm will continue its research and development work in Singapore, he added. 

It is developing fish vaccines through its subsidiary, Uvaxx, and working on a selective breeding programme to rear Asian sea bass, which grows faster and is resistant to SDDV. 

The company will continue to scale up its operations in Brunei, with a view to exporting fish to Singapore, said Mr Tan.

In addition to developing a jetty to facilitate goods and staff movement to the Southern Islands, he hopes that the Government and key industry players can jointly develop key farming infrastructure such as a hatchery and nursery, to supply the industry with high-quality and disease-free fingerlings.

This can significantly reduce each farm’s capital and operating costs, protect Singapore’s biosecurity, and improve farm production, he added. 

“But, ultimately, we have to decide for ourselves: With the limited resources we have in Singapore, should we continue to diversify the fish species we farm, or focus on growing one particular fish species to increase the chances of success?” 

He added that for each species, there is competition for resources to develop specific vaccines, genetics, feed and know-how. “Focusing on developing a single species increases the chances of the local aquaculture industry to achieve economies of scale, while providing a more attractive market for solution and technology providers to participate.”

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