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International Monetary Fund Economic Counsellor Maurice Obstfeld answers questions during the World Economic Outlook Press Conference at the 2015 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings October 6, 2015 in Lima, Peru. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe

The Helbling Haus windows by Kimhaz - Here and There

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AM15 World Exocomic Outlook Press Conference by International Monetary Fund

International Monetary Fund Deputy Director Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti (L), IMF Economic Counsellor Maurice Obstfeld (C) and Chief of the World Economic Studies Thomas Helbling (R) at the World Economic Outlook Press Conference at the 2015 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings October 6, 2015 in Lima, Peru. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe

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International Monetary Fund Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department Olivier Blanchard (C) speaks on a panel to discuss World Economic Outlook with Chief of the World Economic Studies Thomas Helbling (L) and Deputy Director Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti (R) at the first press briefing of the 2014 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings October 7, 2014 at IMF Headquarters in Washington. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe

2014 Spring Meetings by International Monetary Fund

International Monetary Fund Economic Counsellor Olivier Blanchard (C), Senior Economist Samya Baida-Strom (L), Chief of the World Economics Thomas Helbling (2nd L), Deputy Director Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti (2nd R) and Chief of Media Relations Conny Lotze (R) hold a joint press conference on the World Economic Outlook April 8, 2014 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe

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International Monetary Fund Deputy Director Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti speaks at the first press briefing with Deputy Division Chief Rupa Dutta-Gupta (L), Chief of the World Economic Studies Thomas Helbling (2nd L) and Economic Counsellor Olivier Blanchard (2nd R) at the 2014 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings October 7, 2014 at IMF Headquarters in Washington. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe

AM15 World Exocomic Outlook Press Conference by International Monetary Fund

International Monetary Fund Deputy Director Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti answers a question at the World Economic Outlook Press Conference at the 2015 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings October 6, 2015 in Lima, Peru. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe

AM15 World Exocomic Outlook Press Conference by International Monetary Fund

International Monetary Fund Economic Counsellor Maurice Obstfeld answers questions during the World Economic Outlook Press Conference at the 2015 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings October 6, 2015 in Lima, Peru. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe

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International Monetary Fund Deputy Chief of the World Economic Studies Division Thomas Helbling speaks on a panel to discuss World Economic Outlook at the first press briefing of the 2014 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings October 7, 2014 at IMF Headquarters in Washington. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe

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International Monetary Fund Deputy Chief of the World Economic Studies Division Thomas Helbling (L) speaks as IMF Economic Counsellor Olivier Blanchard (R) on a panel to discuss World Economic Outlook at the first press briefing of the 2014 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings October 7, 2014 at IMF Headquarters in Washington. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe

Oncidesa Memoria John Helbling 'Chris' AM/AOS by Richard Noel

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Originally, this hybrid was considered an Oncidium but most of its ancestry has been reclassified to Gomesa, One thing the photo does not show is the size of this flower. The lip is nearly 6cm across - very large compared to the typical brown and yellow oncidium. The cross was made by a good friend from the local orchid society. I won a division of the awarded clone at our annual summer picnic and auction.

Model%20Chapter%20Award by ALAMO AFCEA

The Alamo Chapter received Model Chapter of the Year recognition again in May 2013. Celebrating at AFCEA USNI EAST in Virginia Beach, Va., are: (l-r) Sandra Banks Dance, Kelley Crooks, Col. Paul Welch, Emily Rausch, Vic Helbling with wife Rosie, Brandon Gressett, and (kneeling, in foreground), Bill Morrow and Bill Robinson.

Käthe von Nagy and Aribert Wäscher in Ronny (1931) by Truus, Bob & Jan too!

Dutch postcard, no. 662. Photo: Ufa. Käthe von Nagy and Aribert Wäscher in Ronny (Reinhold Schünzel, 1931)

Hungarian actress Käthe von Nagy (1904-1973) started as the ‘Backfish’ of German films of the late 1920s. In the early 1930s, she became a fashionable and charming star of the German and French cinema.

Käthe von Nagy was born Ekaterina Nagy von Cziser (Kato Nagy) in Szabadka, Austria-Hungary (now: Subotica, Serbia) in 1904. At the age of 16, she planned to get married and therefore her parents put her in the Sancta Christiana Convent near Vienna. After that, she worked in her father's bank office in Budapest and secretly started to write short stories for a newspaper. She also attended the acting school of director Béla Gáal and in 1926, against the will of her parents, she went to Berlin to make films. While searching for an acting job she earned her money as a correspondent for the Hungarian newspaper Pester Hirlop. Hungarian director Alexander Korda helped her get her first film job. It was a supporting role in Männer von der Ehe/Men Before Marriage (Constantin J. David, 1927), which got her the reputation of a ‘backfisch’. The director, Constantin David, would also become her first husband. Soon followed roles in Gustav Mond... Du gehst so stille/You Walk So Softly (Reinhold Schünzel, 1927) and Die Königin seines Herzens/Vienna, City of My Dreams (Victor Janson, 1928) starring Liane Haid. With her first leading role in Die Durchgängerin/The Runaway Girl (Hanns Schwarz, 1928) she became the up-and-coming young actress of the European cinema of the 1920s. Next followed the Italian production Rotaie (Mario Camerini, 1929) and Mascottchen/Mascots (Felix Basch, 1929) with Jeanne Helbling.

In 1930, Käthe von Nagy smoothly moved into the talkies. She appeared as a resolute demimonde dame with psychotherapeutic powers in the Jekyll-and-Hyde-drama Der Andere/The Other (Robert Wiene, 1930), costarring Fritz Kortner and Heinrich George. She said goodbye to her ‘backfisch’ image and impersonated frequently on the screen. Her operettas and musical comedies were very popular and confirmed her promise of the late 1920s. To her successes of the 1930s belong Ihre Majestät die Liebe/Her Majesty Love (Joe May, 1930) with Franz Lederer, Meine Frau, die Hochstaplerin/My Wife, the Impostor (Kurt Gerron, 1931) opposite Heinz Rühmann, Ronny (Reinhold Schünzel, 1931), Ich bei Tag und Du bei Nacht/I by Day, You by Night (Ludwig Berger, 1932) opposite Willy Fritsch, Der Sieger/The Victor (Hans Hinrich, Paul Martin, 1932) with Hans Albers, Das Schöne Abenteuer/Beautiful Adventure (Reinhold Schünzel, 1932), the anti-Soviet propaganda film Flüchtlinge/Fugitives (Gustav Ucicky, 1933), Die Töchter ihrer Exzellenz/The daughters of Her Excellency (Reinhold Schünzel, 1934) and Salonwagen E 417/Luxury Train (Paul Verhoeven, 1939) with Paul Hörbiger.

Because of her multilingual education Käthe von Nagy was able to establish in the French cinema too. As Kate de Nagy she became a star in France. To her French productions belong La Capitaine Craddock/Captain Craddock (Hanns Schwarz, Max de Vaucorbeil, 1931) with Jean Murat, La route impériale/The Imperial Road (Marcel L’Herbier, 1935) with Pierre Richard-Willm, Cargaison blanche/Woman Racket (Robert Siodmak, 1937) opposite Jules Berry, and La bataille silencieuse/The silent battle (Pierre Billon, 1937) starring Pierre Fresnay. She withdrew from the film business with the beginning of World War II. After the war, she appeared only twice on the screen, in the French drama Cargaison clandestine/Alarm in San Juano (Alfred Rode, 1948-1950) with Luis Mariano, and the German remake of Die Försterchristl/The Forester's Daughter (Arthur Maria Rabenalt, 1952), alongside Johanna Matz. In the mid-1950s she went to California where she worked as a French teacher at Happy Valley School in Ojai, California. Käthe von Nagy died of cancer in Ojai, USA in 1973. After her marriage to Constantin J. David, she was married to the Frenchman Jacques Fattini.

Sources: Thomas Staedeli (Cyranos), Operator 99 (Allure), Filmportal.de, Wikipedia, and IMDb.

And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.

2014 Spring Meetings by International Monetary Fund

International Monetary Fund Economic Counsellor Olivier Blanchard talks to members of the media after holding a joint press conference on the World Economic Outlook April 8, 2014 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe

WEO Presser by International Monetary Fund

Rupa Duttagupta (L),Deputy Division Chief, Research Department;Thomas Helbling (2nd L),

Division Chief, Research Department IMF; Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department, Olivier Blanchard (C); Deputy Director of the Research Department, Jӧrg Decressin (2nd R) and Division Chief of the Communications Department, Conny Lotze (R) hold their joint press conference on the World Economic Outlook during the 2013 World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings October 8, 2013 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Staff Photograph

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International Monetary Fund Economic Counsellor Maurice Obstfeld takes his seat for the World Economic Outlook Press Conference at the 2015 IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings October 6, 2015 in Lima, Peru. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe

2014 Spring Meetings by International Monetary Fund

International Monetary Fund Economic Counsellor Olivier Blanchard (R) and Chief of the World Economics Thomas Helbling (L),hold a joint press conference on the World Economic Outlook April 8, 2014 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe

190125-A-QG670-1073 by West Point - The U.S. Military Academy

Phil Helbling, Class of 1985, donates the ring of Col. Lyman H. Hammond Jr., Class of 1950, on behalf of Hammond's family as part of the West Point Association of Graduates' ring melt ceremony Jan. 25, 2019. Fifty-five rings were donated and melted. The gold will be used as part of the Class of 2020’s rings, which they will receive in August. The tradition started in 2001 and to date, 575 rings have been donated. Each year, a portion of the previous year’s melt is included to tie each of the classes together. (U.S. Army Photo by Brandon O'Connor)

2015 IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings by International Monetary Fund

International Monetary Fund Economic Counsellor and Director of Research Department Olivier Blanchard (C) along with his staff Oya Celasun (2ND R), Thomas Helbling (2nd L), Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti (L) and Ismaila Dieng (R) hold a press briefing on the World Economic Outlook April 14, 2015 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Staff Photo/Stephen Jaffe

2014 Spring Meetings by International Monetary Fund

International Monetary Fund Economic Counsellor Olivier Blanchard talks to members of the media after holding a joint press conference on the World Economic Outlook April 8, 2014 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe

2014 Spring Meetings by International Monetary Fund

Members of the media raise their hands to ask a question to International Monetary Fund Economic Counsellor Olivier Blanchard (C), Senior Economist Samya Baida-Strom (L), Chief of the World Economics Thomas Helbling (2nd L), Deputy Director Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti (2nd R) and Chief of Media Relations Conny Lotze (R) hold a joint press conference on the World Economic Outlook April 8, 2014 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe

2014 Spring Meetings by International Monetary Fund

International Monetary Fund Economic Counsellor Olivier Blanchard answers a question during a joint press conference on the World Economic Outlook April 8, 2014 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe

2014 Spring Meetings by International Monetary Fund

International Monetary Fund Economic Counsellor Olivier Blanchard (C), Senior Economist Samya Baida-Strom (L), Chief of the World Economics Thomas Helbling (2nd L), Deputy Director Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti (2nd R) and Chief of Media Relations Conny Lotze (R) hold a joint press conference on the World Economic Outlook April 8, 2014 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe

2014 Spring Meetings by International Monetary Fund

International Monetary Fund Deputy Director Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti answers a question during a joint press conference on the World Economic Outlook April 8, 2014 at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Staff Photograph/Stephen Jaffe

Hockey Tough-2nd Edition - Saul L. Miller - Sidney Crosby 2016 Stanley Cup Champions by Myles Mattila

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Stanley Cup winner 2016, Con Smythe Winner, @penguins

Available in June 2016

Learn the focus, emotional control, and mental-preparation skills to excel in the tough and physically challenging sport of hockey. The book includes insights from the game’s top players, coaches, and scouts and is loaded with mental-coaching techniques, examples, and exercises from one of hockey’s most experianced.

Dr. Saul L. Miller is one of North America’s leading performance and sport psychologists. He is the author of seven books including, his two latest: Performing Under Pressure: Gaining the Mental Edge in Business and Sport and Why Teams Win: 9 Keys to Success in Business Sport and Beyond. Dr. Miller consults with sport teams, corporations and health organizations across North America. The focus of his work is enhancing performance, team building, and helping people achieve success while dealing effectively with pressure, stress, and change.

PSYCHOLOGIST HELPS SWISS CHAMPS

By Medicine Hat News on April 26, 2016.

Two weeks ago ex-Buffalo Sabre Derek Roy scored the championship-winning goal as SC Bern beat HC Lugano 3-2 for Switzerland’s National League A hockey title.

But there was more to it than that.

Bern barely made the playoffs, Lars Leuenberger taking over from fired coach Guy Boucher mid-season. How did they become the lowest-seeded team to win the Swiss league? Some are crediting Canadian sports psychologist Dr. Saul Miller, who has worked with the Medicine Hat Tigers in the past, with helping turn the season around.

Here’s a Q and A done with Miller about the stunning result:

Q: You’re getting a lot of credit for SC Bern winning the Swiss hockey championship this year.

Saul Miller: Well, in this last decade I’ve been fortunate to have been involved with three teams that won the Swiss hockey league championship: with Lugano in 2006, Bern in 2010 and now Bern again in 2016. Yes, this one was special.

Q: What was so special about it?

Miller: Well, unlike previous seasons when I began consulting with teams early in the season, this was a late intervention. There were only four games remaining in the schedule and Bern was struggling. They were sitting in 10th place looking like they would miss the playoffs. It had been a rough season. The head coach (Guy Boucher) had been fired and there had been a number of significant injuries to key players, several season-ending, and, they were on their fourth goalie. One Swiss newspaper sarcastically heralded my arrival with an article about Bern’s probable demise entitled, Better Call Saul. I hadn’t been with Bern since 2012 but it felt familiar coming back. And it helped that I knew a number of the players from my work there in the past.

Q: What exactly did you do with the team? Did you work more with individuals or with the whole team?

Miller: Both. I started right away working with the whole team to shift the mood, to clarify our immediate goal (making the playoffs) and to introduce a framework for thinking that could generate more success. The metaphor I used was hunting; hunting in our end, hunting in their end, hunting every shift. I underlined that to be successful we had to be TEAM FIRST and that required a superior team effort from everyone. We had to hunt like a pack, every shift. Then, I met individually with each player. We talked about positive thinking and imagery, about mental preparation. I showed each of them a breathing technique to help them relax and recharge, and have more emotional control. We also had several leadership meetings with half a dozen of the team leaders reinforcing the idea of TEAM FIRST.

Q: How did the players respond?

Miller: Something definitely shifted. We won a couple of big games and squeaked into the playoffs in eighth place on the final weekend. The next challenge or goal was to beat Marc Crawford’s first place Zurich team that had won a couple of championships in recent years.

Q: Were you there in Switzerland with the team for the whole playoffs?

Miller: No, after 17 intensive days with the team I headed back to North America. However, I stayed in touch with them in a variety of ways. Starting with the first playoff game and then alternating every other game thereafter, I had a video message for the team, which was played in the dressing room and posted on the players’ e-network. On alternate games there was a written message from me posted in the dressing room and on the players’ network. I also conferred with the coaches before or after each game, and I stayed in contact with every player using individual email messages and in a few cases with Skype face-to-face communication. This was the pattern we maintained throughout the entire playoffs.

Q: And something remarkable happened.

Miller: Yes, eighth place Bern went on a tear. We beat first-place Zurich in four straight games in the first playoff round. Then we faced second-place Davos, who had won the championship the previous season. We beat them four games to one in the second round. The final challenge was Lugano, whom we defeated four games to one to win the Swiss championship and make Swiss hockey history. It’s the first time in Swiss National League history that an eighth place team has won the league championship.

Q: That was quite a ride to go from being possible playoff outsiders in 10th place with a few games left in the regular season to winning the championship.

What were the critical factors in that turnaround?

Miller: The players bought into the idea that winning was a possibility. They adopted a team first attitude and a relentless hunting mindset. And they were able to stay focused on the goal, especially in the last two series against two physical teams. There was a lot of chirping, slashing, late hits and some distracting after-the-whistle stuff in both series. I stressed the importance of focus and reminded the players of an old Arab desert saying, “The dogs bark and the caravan moves on.” The idea was that nothing takes us off track; we’re relentless, we keep our focus. I repeatedly reminded the players, after each shift, they take a breath, hydrate, and get ready to hunt again. The mantra was, “Wave after wave, shift after shift.”

Q: And the players bought into all this?

Miller: After winning the championship Justin Krueger, a Cornell graduate and former AHL player emailed me and said, “Saul everyone believed in what you were telling us and our caravan just kept rolling on.”

Q: What about the coaching staff, how did they respond to your involvement?

Miller: That was very important. In any league, it’s always the coach’s team. For me to operate effectively, I need the coach to trust me and believe in what I do. Both Lars Leuenberger, the former assistant coach who took over after Boucher was fired and the general manager had been with Bern when I was there four years previously and were familiar with my work. They asked me to come over. Lars gave me complete free reign to do what I thought was right. What was also a huge help to my communicating from afar was the goalie coach, Reto Schurch, who excelled with the Internet and with video production. Working together we were able to create some inspiring, focusing pre-game videos for the players that caught their attention, sharpened their focus, raised the emotion, and, at times, elicited a smile.

It was a total team effort at every level and the players’ relentless hunting mindset, shift after shift, wave after wave transformed a 41 per cent winning record prior to my arrival, into an 85 per cent winning record in the playoffs.

Q: It’s an impressive demonstration of how sport psychology can have significant impact on a team’s success and also your ability to get these concepts across.

Miller: The players made it happen. They responded. Let me read to you comments that four veteran Bern players sent me, incidentally, all of whom have had NHL experience:

“We were dealing with a challenging and at times frustrating season until your arrival. Your work with us, and your presence made us realize our true potential. With your help we were able to become a true winning team” — Timo Helbling

“Saul, A lot of guys needed someone like you to come in and change the mood. It was a pleasure to talk with you and listen to all your messages” — Cory Conacher

“Saul it was a pleasure working with you. You helped us more than you can imagine. You were the difference maker and everyone here appreciates the effort and wisdom that you gave us” — Derek Roy

“Saul, we couldn’t have done it without you! Like you said, a total team effort. Different hero every night” — Andrew Ebbett

Q: And finally Saul, what did the coach have to say about your involvement?

Miller: He was very generous. Let me read what Lars said to the Swiss press: “Saul helped us win a championship. His spirit, his gesture, his mind have always been with us, even when he wasn’t here anymore and could only support us by video messages. There are a lot of mental coaches, but what was impressive for me is you listen to Saul Miller cause he knows ice hockey and he gets respect from the players, beginning in the first minute, he arrives.” — Lars Leuenberger, SC Bern head coach

Q: Well, you’ve won championships in Switzerland and you won a championship with the Tigers when you were here in Medicine Hat. With all of Canada’s seven NHL teams failing to make the playoffs this year perhaps they could use your help.

Miller: I’ll be by the phone. What this exercise illustrates is that the mind is a powerful force. When a team has a positive focus, a belief that they can, some talent and the willingness to work hard and persevere almost anything is possible.