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LAS VEGAS - Carmelo Anthony said he was having trouble sleeping. In the aftermath of the fatal police shootings of two black men, followed by the retaliatory killings of five police officers in Dallas by a sniper, Anthony awoke in the middle of the night this month and logged on to his Instagram account.

"Just started typing," Anthony said Monday as the men's national basketball team commenced its training camp in Las Vegas ahead of the Olympics next month in Brazil. "That's how everything came about."

Anthony, 32, who is chasing his third gold medal, appears determined to use his platform as a sports star to advance his growing interest in social activism, particularly when it comes to gun violence. He plans to help organize a town-hall meeting with community leaders in Los Angeles soon, he said.

"Because at the end of the day, what I put out there on Instagram and what we did for the ESPYs kind of sparked something," Anthony said, referring to a message he helped deliver at the ESPN sports awards show last week. "So now we got to follow through with that and make sure everybody is following through."

Anthony said he was disturbed by the fatal police shootings this month of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La., and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minn., and by the violence in Dallas. Anthony subsequently posted a 307-word essay on social media that called for unity and for high-profile athletes to help effect meaningful change.

"We have to put the pressure on the people in charge in order to get this thing we call JUSTICE right," Anthony wrote, adding: "While I don't have a solution, and I'm pretty sure a lot of people don't have a solution, we need to come together more than anything at this time. We need each other. These politicians have to step up and fight for change."

On Sunday, there was still more violence: three law enforcement officials dead in Baton Rouge after a gunman opened fire. Anthony said he was running out of words in the wake of so much bloodshed.

With his essay, Anthony posted a 1967 photo of Jim Brown, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (then known as Lew Alcindor) and other black athletes who had gathered to support Muhammad Ali's refusal to fight in Vietnam.

"I'm calling for all my fellow ATHLETES to step up and take charge," Anthony wrote. "There's NO more sitting back and being afraid of tackling and addressing political issues anymore. Those days are long gone."

The message resonated. Anthony said he had heard from high-profile friends: LeBron James, Chris Paul and Dwyane Wade, who were to appear at the ESPY Awards on Wednesday. Anthony had not planned to attend, he said, but James, Paul and Wade invited him to share his message. As he stood on stage next to them, Anthony opened the televised show by reiterating his view that the country was in dire need of a conversation.

"We cannot ignore the realities of the current state of America," he said. "The events of the past week have put a spotlight on the injustice, distrust and anger that plague so many of us. The system is broken. The problems are not new. The violence is not new. And the racial divide is definitely not new. But the urgency to create change is at an all-time high."

James, in particular, has used his celebrity platform to speak on social issues. In December 2014, he helped lead a movement among players to wear T-shirts emblazoned with the phrase "I Can't Breathe" - a popular cry among protesters in the wake of a grand jury's decision not to indict a New York police officer whose chokehold led to the death of an unarmed black man, Eric Garner, on Staten Island that July.

At the ESPYs, James and Wade both called on other athletes to exert their influence.

"As athletes, it's on us to challenge each other to do even more than we already do in our own communities," Wade said. "The conversation cannot stop as our schedules get busy again."

Anthony easily could have bowed out of the Olympics to rest for the coming N.B.A. season. But as he told reporters in March, with the Knicks scuffling through another disappointing stretch, he wants to play in the Olympics so he can be reminded of "what that success feels like."

The Knicks wound up missing the playoffs for the third straight season. They have made improvements in recent weeks, however. Phil Jackson, the team president, traded for Derrick Rose and acquired Joakim Noah, Courtney Lee and Brandon Jennings in free agency, bolstering the Knicks' rotation and, if everyone can stay healthy, their playoff hopes.

"The front office stepped up," Anthony said. "On paper, we look good. We look real good."

At the same time, the Olympic experience clearly means something to Anthony - perhaps now more than ever, he said, given recent events.

"The timing couldn't have been any better for us as a country," he said, "having a chance to come together, be united, and then go over there on the biggest stage you can possibly play on and have that voice, represent something that's bigger than us 12 players."

In 2004, Anthony made a brief but notorious appearance in a video that advised against "snitching" to law enforcement officials. On Monday, he was asked to reconcile those views with his current social commentary. He said that he had matured, that he had grown to understand the power of his voice.

"That was something I didn't know at 19, 20, 21 years old," he said. "You just don't know those things. You go through life like nothing can affect you."

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LAS VEGAS - Carmelo Anthony said he was having trouble sleeping. In the aftermath of the fatal police shootings of two black men, followed by the retaliatory killings of five police officers in Dallas by a sniper, Anthony awoke in the middle of the night this month and logged on to his Instagram account.

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A dominant discussion around the United States men's national soccer team in the past three years has concerned the dwindling number of Americans playing abroad. Since 2013, partly because of aggressive recruiting by M.L.S., a core group of national team players who had established a toehold in Europe - players like Michael Bradley and Clint Dempsey, and later Jozy Altidore and Alejandro Bedoya - has migrated home.

United States Coach Jurgen Klinsmann has sent mixed signals on the trend, alternately criticizing and supporting the decisions of his players to leave top European leagues for what he considers less challenging competition. In an interview with ESPN last week, he placed some of the blame on young American players themselves, lamenting a sense of "contentment" in youth national team players who seem unwilling, or unable, to force their way past older pros and onto the field.

The discussion is more than a simple matter of debate, however. Finding challenges and playing time for young players has important ramifications for the national team, both in the current World Cup qualifying cycle - which continued Tuesday night with a 4-0 victory by the Americans over Trinidad and Tobago in Jacksonville, Fla. - and beyond.

"We would have loved some young ones to be further than they are right now," Klinsmann said in an interview with ESPN last week, although he added, "There are a lot coming through different pipelines."

While the generation that could one day replace Bradley and Dempsey and others has been slow to take its place in Europe, the new season has shown signs that the trend could be changing.

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The American Bobby Wood, left, earned a move to Hamburger of the Bundesliga after a standout year in Germany. Credit Axel Schmidt/Reuters

In England's Premier League, the American Lynden Gooch has started the first three games in Sunderland's midfield, and another promising American midfielder, the former under-20 national team captain Emerson Hyndman, has recovered from an injury he sustained shortly after signing for Bournemouth. In the Netherlands, forward Rubio Rubin is playing again for Utrecht after a long-term injury cost him most of last season.

That progress builds on successes from earlier in the year, when Matt Miazga completed a move from M.L.S. to Chelsea; Bobby Wood completed a standout year in Germany that earned him a move to Hamburger of the Bundesliga; and DeAndre Yedlin started regularly in Sunderland's successful relegation fight. Most impressive, Christian Pulisic, 17, broke into Borussia Dortmund's first team and became the youngest player in Bundesliga history to score two goals.

On Friday, Wood and Pulisic (twice) scored for the United States in a World Cup qualifier against St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Still, while some of the players have made solid first steps on the European ladder, none are yet impact players. This has been a source of frustration for Klinsmann, who said during the Copa América Centenario this summer that "you want them to have a fight that takes them to the next level."

"We struggle traditionally with our 18-, 23-year-old generation," Klinsmann said. "I think DeAndre is an exception. Bobby fought his way through. John Brooks fought his way through, but we need more."

Many of the rising young Americans agree with that assessment. Gooch, 20, has been affiliated with Sunderland since he was 10, and he joined the club full time after signing a professional contract in 2012.

"You have to have a lot of patience, and you have to be mentally strong, because it is really hard to break through," said Gooch, who has started under Sunderland's new manager, David Moyes. "I've been lucky enough that this manager came in and has given me the chance. Whereas if someone else came in, he might not have liked me as a player."

Like Gooch, Hyndman made the move to Europe at a young age, signing with Fulham at age 15.

"You've got to do all the right things," Hyndman said. "Talent is part of it, but if you don't work on it, then you won't get anywhere."

Klinsmann said: "Here in the U.S., you call a younger player a rookie at the age of 22. Well, at 22 in Europe, if you're not broke through yet, you're done. They move you down to the third or fourth level."

Utrecht's Rubin, a 20-year-old from Beaverton, Ore., is one of a growing number of young American players who skipped college, and M.L.S., to go directly to Europe. Considered by many a top American striking prospect when he signed with Utrecht at 18, he has struggled with injuries, and cultural adjustments, since making the move.

"Young Americans, we kind of struggle at times and we kind of doubt ourselves," Rubin said. "We always get talked down on. People say we're not good enough as Americans. People say you play basketball or American football, but you don't really play soccer. You hear that a lot. So the hardest part is trying to find that confidence."

But promising teenage years and a solid first-team debut are not guarantees that success will continue. Dortmund added a handful of high-priced signings to its midfield this summer, which could make it harder for Pulisic to earn regular minutes. Yedlin, owned by Tottenham and on loan at Sunderland, was sold to Newcastle in the second-tier Championship last month. And Miazga was recently lent to Vitesse in the Netherlands.

Still, none of the players seem in a hurry to return home.

"I think it's become very easy for people to want to go back, especially if things aren't going their way," Gooch said. "For me, I always knew I've been good enough to play in the Prem. So to show everyone I'm good enough and fly under the radar - no one expected this, and I didn't even expect this, to be playing already - I do take a lot of pride in that. I'm very happy to be one of the few that is doing that."

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At the best of times, conference calls can be unwieldy, from the guy who fails to mute the flushing toilet, to the latecomers who join midway through and ask questions that have already been answered. And then there are the people who get dropped off - and the inevitable beeping sound of rejoining.

But perhaps the trickiest part of any conference call has become how to get a word in edgeways. There's no body language to cue up your eager-to-speak moment, none of the visuals of face-to-face communication. With so many voices struggling to be heard - interrupting is the norm. So how can you interject without being rude?
Having your say
Sylvain Barrette, a French Canadian who works in asset management in Frankfurt, adapts his style by culture and says there's no way around interrupting on calls. "You just have to do it."

Even so, over the years he's developed his own techniques. For instance, Barrette finds it easier to interrupt French people, compared to Germans, because French have "a certain level of chaos on the call anyway", he says.

At the end of the day, what matters is to be polite

"With French people, everyone is talking at the same time. It's almost normal for us to interrupt each other. As for Germans, you have to wait for the verb at the end of the sentence. It's very impolite to interrupt a German, especially in German," Barrette said. "At the end of the day, what matters is to be polite."

First, ensure you have a good reason for interrupting, says Richie Frieman, who blogs as the Modern Manners Guy and is author of REPLY ALL... And Other Ways to Tank Your Career. Reasons may include pushing people to make decisions, summing up next steps, or moving certain discussion topics to future calls, he says. Next, test the waters to find the right way to interrupt on calls with people from different cultures and different hierarchy levels by listening first to the way people from that culture do it. Or look for advice from people with that particular cultural expertise.
Don't be a shamer
Once you interrupt a conversation, you have the stage, Frieman says, so don't be anti-climactic.

"You better make sure that you're coming with something substantial. Not that it's going to be, 'Yeah, I agree with Dave.'" If the interruption is constructive, it will go over better, Frieman says.

Being constructive is not so easy, though, if you're rolling your eyes on the other end of the line as someone thinks out loud, repeats a point, or lets everyone else know about his or her position of power or superior intelligence.

"I hate it when somebody says, 'Let's wrap it up'... This diminishes the person's standing," Frieman said. If you imply that a contribution was not valuable, you often end up looking bad.

To avoid this, he interrupts gently, segueing to thank the speaker for sharing, ignoring it when little progress was made. Then Frieman quickly turns the conversation so that the rambler has no chance to resume with the foregone point. He will say, "That's a really good point, and one thing we could think about for next time, since we're running out of time, is XYZ."
Be clear and concise
Katharina Barta, an Innovation Design Expert for the Creator Space program at BASF in Ludwigshafen, led part of a global project last year that involved planning six major tour stops around the world. She says she spent a large percentage of her time during the project in global conference calls, some starting as early as 6:00 or as late as 20:00.

Sometimes you really need to jump in. That's the only way to structure the call back to the agenda

Interrupting others was an integral part of leading calls, she says, and it was made easier because the team had taken time up front to define clear roles and responsibilities. When calls were of an exploratory nature at the beginning of the project, Barta took a more open-ended communication approach. But as project deadlines loomed, she was more willing to jump in.

Often, she says she interrupted when she felt she had heard enough arguments for or against a certain point that needed to be decided. It was time to override the chatter and call the matter to vote. "Sometimes you really need to jump in. That's the only way to structure the call back to the agenda," Barta said.

On calls, you have to be a bit pushier than in in-person meetings

On the telephone, though, compared to in-person, it was more difficult for Barta to interrupt, since she couldn't raise her hand or lean forward, she said. "The technical delay on the phone line made it harder. In a large group, there's only one voice talking and the others are muted, and then I can't say hmmm to transition. You usually have to wait for the real break to speak. On calls, you have to be a bit pushier than in in-person meetings."
Try a disclaimer
Sometimes the best time to be assertive is during those moments when everyone is talking at once anyway and laughing about it, or when there has been silence, says Frieman. "You can't be faulted for trying to say something when there's silence."

And remember that not every interruption has to be in the same style. You may say " Sorry, but" a lot, which can be tiring or make you seem unsure of yourself, so look for other phrases. Some people clear their throat, say yeah, yeah, yeah, or butt in with their own guttural tone.

If you're feeling that people may have had enough of your interruptions, you can always try to soften the blow with a disclaimer at the beginning of the call, warning that you intend to interrupt in a friendly way if people go off-track or long.

* Respect other people's time.

Or, do it as Barta does: "I give a disclaimer in the situation. If I feel a comment is something we can discuss later, then I interrupt him and say, 'We have that milestone coming up... can we discuss next time?' Disclaimers and rules for calls help give people a good feeling about which behaviour is more welcome and what is less ideal for that situation."

She adds: "With a disclaimer, they feel more secure about the conversation."

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European students applying for UK degrees in 2017 need guarantees about funding or their numbers could crash, university leaders will hear later.

EU students currently pay the same fees and have the same access to loans as UK students.

But those starting in 2017 and 2018 could lose out after Brexit, Universities UK president Dame Julia Goodfellow will warn in a speech.

Ministers should provide urgent reassurance, Dame Julia will say.

Following the EU referendum in June all four UK nations confirmed that current EU students and those starting courses this autumn would be eligible for loans and grants to fund their studies for the duration of their courses.

But there has been no such clarification for EU students applying to start degrees next year or the year after.

The Brexit process is likely to take at least two years, so these students could face changes to fees and funding during their courses, and this could put them off applying to UK universities, Dame Julia will argue.

The application process for degrees starting in 2017 opened on Tuesday so the situation has now become urgent, she will warn the Universities UK annual conference in Nottingham.

'Crucial questions'

She wants the UK government to take "swift and positive action" to reassure EU students applying for next year that they will pay the same fees and have access to the same financial support throughout their courses.

This is necessary to "prevent a likely sudden decline in EU student applications" across the UK, she will warn.

Currently more than 125,000 EU students are studying at UK universities, about 5% of the overall student population, Dame Julia, who is vice-chancellor of the University of Kent, will say.

"Put simply, universities are currently unable to answer two crucial questions that are being frequently asked by prospective EU students considering whether to apply to start courses in the UK in autumn 2017: 'What fees will you charge for any years of my course which are post the date of exit?' 'Will I be able to access any financial support?'

"This issue is urgent. Ucas applications opened yesterday for the 2017-18 intake and EU students are almost twice as likely as UK students to apply very early for those courses with October deadlines.

"I urge government to take swift and positive action to address uncertainty, prevent a likely sudden decline in EU student applications and provide much needed reassurance to prospective EU students and universities across the UK."

Research fears

Dame Julia's warnings follow concerns about the stability of research funding at UK universities, with some research groups saying they lost out on grants in the weeks following the referendum.

The latest global university ranking table, published on Tuesday by QS, shows UK universities losing position compared with international competitors.

"Uncertainty over research funding, immigration rules and the ability to hire and retain the top young talent from around the world seems to be damaging the reputation of the UK's higher education sector," said QS head of research Ben Sowter.

Mr Sowter said his research was carried out before the referendum but he believes the result will have "undoubtedly added to this uncertainty".

A Department for Education spokesman said: "EU students make an important contribution to our world-class universities, and we want that to continue. While the UK remains a member of the EU, rules regarding the student loans EU nationals receive are unchanged - EU students currently eligible to receive funding will continue to do so for courses they are currently enrolled on, or about to start this autumn.

"The government will continue to work closely with the sector."

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There's Trajan's Arch and Marble Arch, the Arch of Constantine and Napoleon's Arc de Triomphe. You can ride to the top of the biggest of them all, the 630ft (192m) high Gateway Arch in St Louis, or, in southern Spain, stare amazed at hundreds of intersecting horseshoe-shaped arches in the hypostyle hall of what was once the Great Mosque of Cordoba.

The world's most famous arches have no claim to high culture, innovative engineering or grand history

And yet the world's most famous arches may well be those - with no claim to high culture, innovative engineering or grand historical narrative - of McDonald's. Under the sign of these arches, currently on display at more than 30,000 restaurants in 119 countries, 68 million customers a day are served variations on a theme of burgers and fries washed down with Coke and shakes. But this famous M logo formed of two intersecting golden arches and developed over a number of years came about more by accident than design.

In 1937, Patrick McDonald, who had come to California from New Hampshire the previous decade, opened The Airdrome, an octagonal drive-up hot dog stand outside Monrovia airport, northeast of Los Angeles. He ran it with sons Richard ('Dick') and Maurice ('Mac') who, in 1940, moved the stand to San Bernardino. Eight years later the brothers re-launched it with their new assembly line fast-food concept, meaning they could sell burgers at 15 cents, half the price of their competitors. A new roof sign boasted "McDonald's Famous Hamburgers".

In 1952, Dick and Mac sat down with the LA architect Stanley Clark Meston and his assistant Charles Fish. The plan was to design a McDonald's roadside restaurant that could be franchised. Dick had sketched out two half circles he thought would look good at either end of the structure, catching the eyes of motorists and their hungry families. Meston, who had worked as a set designer for Universal Studios and for Wayne McAllister, architect of streamlined 1930s drive-in restaurants, turned Dick's half circles into a pair of striking 25ft high tapered and neon-lit 'golden sheet' metal parabolas. In tune with the latest architectural fashions and engineering inventions, they looked more like a million dollars than 15 cents.

The McDonald brothers even failed to retain the rights to the McDonald's name

Meston's arches, crafted by sign-maker George Dexter, made their debut in 1953 with the first franchised McDonald's at Phoenix, Arizona. The franchisee was Occidental Petroleum executive Neil Fox. Fox's brothers-in-law and business partners, Roger Williams and Bud Landon, took a franchise on the third new-look McDonald's in Downey, California. Threatened with demolition, this remarkably original building was listed in 1994 and restored by the McDonald's Corporation. At this building you can see how, from certain angles, the twin golden arches intersect, and how the McDonald's logo emerged.
Lovin' it
The McDonald brothers themselves were content to let the franchise expand slowly and steadily, but not so Ray Kroc, one time jazz musician, radio DJ and paper cup salesman. While selling milkshake machines in the early '50s, Kroc saw the potential of a hamburger chain with a distinctive design and fast, cheap food. Appointed franchise manager in 1955, six years later the energetic Kroc bought the company from Dick and Mac for $2.7m.

The brothers lost out big time as Kroc transformed McDonald's into a global corporation. The fast-talking Chicagoan had promised them a royalty on every new restaurant, but the agreement had been a handshake and never written down. They were to be no royalties. Disingenuously, Dick and Mac had also failed to retain rights to the McDonald's name. The story of how Kroc took control of McDonald's, pushed the brothers aside and made his fortune is told in The Founder, a film directed by John Lee Hancock, starring Michael Keaton and due for release later this year. The movie poster reads, "He took someone else's idea and America ate it up".

As America ate, Kroc dropped the parabolic golden arches from the ends of restaurants, transforming them, graphically, into the double arch, or M logo, perfected in 1968. This was the year McDonald's broke away from Meston's forward looking architecture, opting instead for an altogether more old-fashioned mansard roof style that has characterized the burger chain ever since. Crystal clear by 1968, the logo was revised in 2003, the double arches now shadowed and plumper than before.

If McDonald's had lost the elegant simplicity of its original architectural design, the corporation was seen increasingly as both a great US success story and as a bulging threat to health. Although the premise of Morgan Spurlock's provocative 2004 film Super Size Me was easily undermined - no one, least of all Spurlock needed to eat 5,000 calories a day at McDonald's, and eat nothing other than McDonald's three times a day for a month - it did point the finger at the way in which the fast food chain had lost the innocence it enjoyed in the 1950s.

A Nasa mission to an asteroid named Hamburga was to have been sponsored by McDonald's

McDonald's golden arches could now be seen as symbols of aggressive global capitalism, excessive consumerism and of US cultural imperialism. And yet they are not invincible. The arches of McDonald's Sedona, Arizona branch, opened in 1993, are turquoise, to blend by law into the local landscape. For much the same reason, the mission-style McDonald's designed by Fresno architect Gary Vigen in Monterey, California and opened in 2010 features black arches, while on the Champs-Elysées, Paris and in medieval Bruges, the arches are white.

The golden arches, however, were to have gone far beyond America and Europe. Cancelled in 1995, a Nasa mission to asteroid 449 - named Hamburga after the Germany city, not the beef patty - was to have been sponsored by McDonald's.
Happy meals
Back on Earth, the arches have attracted the attention of contemporary artists, much as Campbell's soup cans had appealed to Andy Warhol. The Australian artist Ben Frost has used countless McDonald's fries containers as canvases for images drawn from comic books, cartoons and the worlds of fantasy, fetish, manga and super-heroes.

In Freudian terms, it was suggested that the arches symbolised a mother's nourishing breasts

Masato Nakamura's installation of McDonald's arches was first shown at Tokyo's Museum of Contemporary Art in 1998. This crown of arches can mean anything you want, he said. The work was inspired because he had come back recently from a world trip and found the golden arches in many of his photographs. He even had the full backing of McDonald's itself. Presumably, the company saw this enigmatic work as a good advertising opportunity.

Perhaps it was. When in the 1960s McDonald's gave up on Meston's architectural arches, the company nevertheless listened to the American psychologist Louis Cheskin, who had worked successfully for Ford. In Freudian terms, suggested Cheskin, the McDonald's arches symbolised a mother's nourishing breasts. While this might seem a little too much like Carry On or Beavis and Butthead for comfort, McDonald's has certainly played on tens of millions of people's inner child, as well as children themselves, with its Ronald McDonald clown, forkless food - much of which requires little in the way of teeth or chewing - and bright poster colours.

However you view the burger chain, its corporate identity straddles the world. No wonder spoof images of the Gateway Arch in St Louis depicting the biggest arch of all as a pair of giant intersecting golden parabolas can seem, at least for the time it takes to get served at McDonald's, all too convincing.

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