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Lilly King Growing Up as She Reaches Conclusion of Her NCAA Career
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In four years of coaching Lilly King at Indiana, Ray Looze can remember two occasions when King cried. The first came a few months after King won Olympic gold in the 100 breast, when the post-Games letdown and the prospect of establishing a new normal in life became too much for the then-19-year-old.
The other time Looze saw King reduced to tears was at this year's Big Ten Championships, when the Hoosiers defeated heavily-favored Michigan to win a conference title in their home pool in Bloomington.
"I had never won a team title in anything," King said. "Not in high school swimming, not in age group swimming, never. The only team thing I would have won before would have been, like, a dual meet. I was really kind of overcome with emotion—after diving, once we realized we were going to win, once it was for sure, after three years of getting destroyed."
King was teary-eyed on the last day of the meet as Indiana closed in on victory, only to break down completely when she saw diver Jessica Parratto, a sixth-year senior and the only other U.S. Olympian on the Indiana team, in tears herself. King called the title "probably one of my favorite moments of my career so far."
For the first time this season, Looze saw King embrace a leadership role on the Indiana team, stepping out of her usual place as the point-scorer who modeled both excellence and self-confidence for her younger teammates but rarely vocalized anything. The coach's voice flushed with pride as he spoke about King's transformation.
"Lilly has been great at taking care of Lilly, and that's what great athletes do—they take care of themselves," Looze said. "But she really took care of her freshmen and her teammates. I've never seen her leadership any better."
King still considers herself "a big goofball who likes to have fun," but she has grown up. The crucible of the Olympics and what came after forced her to.
King at the 2016 Olympics — Photo Courtesy: Rob Schumacher-USA TODAY Sports
When King thinks back on her experience almost three years ago in Rio, she realizes that "I had no clue what was going on." She remembers eating McDonalds at nearly every meal during the Games, standing in line for a half-hour each time, and she spent each night exploring the Olympic Village in hopes of acquiring pins from non-U.S. athletes.
And yet, she won. Twice, actually, with golds in the 100 breast and as a member of the U.S. women's 400 medley relay. "I had convinced myself that I was going to win, and I did," King recalls now.
But the moment that forced her to grow up faster than she had ever planned came the night before her golden swim. After Russia's Yulia Efimova won the first semi-final of the women's 100 breast, NBC cameras captured King wagging her finger at a television screen in the ready room showing video of Efimova.
And after King posted a quicker time to win the second semi-final heat, she told a captive TV audience in a post-race interview that because of Efimova's checkered history with banned substances, the Russian didn't deserve to be competing in Rio.
"It was quite literally overnight that I became famous or whatever," King said. "I remember before my semi-final of 100 breast, I went over to the pool and I had 5000 followers on Instagram. I came back, and I had 30,000 followers on Instagram. It was insane."
And then when King returned from Brazil, she realized that seemingly everyone in her hometown of Evansville, Ind., knew exactly who she was. She found that going out to eat with her family was no longer a peaceful experience, and she began wearing a hat or sunglasses in public to hide her face.
"In Bloomington, it wasn't really an issue—people would say hi, and that was it," King said. "But when I would go home to Evansville, people would lose their minds. They would stop and say, 'I don't mean to bug you.' 'Okay, but you're bugging me.'"
Shortly after the Olympics, King attended an age group swim meet to visit with her old club coach and old teammates. Instead of a relaxing reunion, she found herself pinned up against the wall signing autographs and taking pictures.
"At the time, I was like, 'Oh, I'm old enough to handle this,' which I was, but thinking about the kids on our team who are 19 going through that, like our freshman, it's kind of crazy."
Now a senior at Indiana, King will head to this month's NCAA championships with a chance at another slice of history—becoming the first woman to sweep both breaststroke events in four consecutive seasons. Previously, Stanford's Tara Kirk won four straight titles in the 100 breast and three in the 200 breast, while USC's Rebecca Soni won a pair of 100 breast titles to go along with her four 200 breast national championships.
"I've never thought about the glory of winning eight titles, but it just happened," King said. "I won my freshman year, and I wanted to keep winning. It'll be cool, and thinking that I'll be the first one to do it is also pretty cool. Knowing what I put into those swims and knowing what happened behind the scenes is pretty important to me."
When she won as a freshman, King became the first swimmer to ever crack 57 in the 100-yard breast with her 56.85. With improvement always on her mind, King expected that she would soon break into 55-second territory. When she didn't break 56 at her sophomore year NCAA championships, King said of her race, "it sucked." One year later, after touching in 56.25 for a new American record, King said, "I kind of expected more from myself."
That left her senior year, and King decided midway through the season that she wanted to break 56 for the first time in Bloomington at the Big Ten Championships. So she did, touching the wall in 55.88—a whopping 1.41 seconds quicker than the 57.23 that had been the American record when King began her collegiate career.
"It was just that feeling of, 'Finally, I did it.' Obviously, 55 is fast, but it doesn't feel as fast as it should because in my head, I've been going 55 for so long. That's all I've been thinking about, going 55," King said. "It took a couple months of me telling myself that this was the week that I was going to break 55. It was so in my head that there was no way I wasn't going to do it."
At the NCAA championships, there should be little drama in the 100 breast, with King seeded first by 1.86 seconds. Texas A&M Aggies Anna Belousova and Sydney Pickrem could make the 200 breast a bit more competitive, but King's American record of 2:02.60 is more than two seconds faster than the lifetime best of anyone else in the heat.
After that, King will become a professional swimmer and turn her attention full-time to long course. Looze expects that once King gets through the transition to the professional lifestyle, which can be tricky, that she will be the "perfect pro."
"It's a really cool time to be just turning pro," King said. "We have so many new opportunities to swim, between the FINA (champions) series and ISL. We have all these new things that are happening, so I'm kind of excited about that, getting to race more and travel more. I'm excited I finally don't have to talk to compliance when I need money. It's kind of a new adventure for me."
King admitted that she's still irritated about a relatively disappointing summer of 2018, when she failed to top Efimova for the top time in the world in the 100 breast and finished second behind fellow American Micah Sumrall in the 200 breast at the Pan Pacific Championships. King's attitude and focus soured with the knowledge that there was no showdown with Efimova waiting for her at the end of the summer.
How does she know that slippage won't happen again when the stakes are bigger? Because King won't allow it. That's how she operates. When fully committed to a goal, like swimming the first 55-second 100-yard breast at the Big Ten Championships, she locks in.
"When it comes down to it, I'm going to swim fast when I need to swim fast," King said. "I think with the circumstances of the meet this summer, I swam as well as I could. When it comes down to crunch time, I'll be ready."
But even with all this high-level swimming on the horizon—and the next Olympics just 16 months away—there's another piece to King's life right now, a four-hour chunk of her day where that killer instinct is absolutely useless. It's a chunk of time when no one cares that she is the best breaststroker in the world.
The last bit of her undergraduate experience no longer includes going to class but rather teaching. King is a student-teacher, working with middle schoolers in physical education. King adores the group she works with, calling these teenagers and pre-teenagers "so much better than adults."
This is the time when King can be her pure "goofball" self with no worries about public presentation or someone's doping history.
"I love that when I go to school, it's four hours every day where I don't have to be Lilly King. I'm Ms. King. I'm their teacher. They don't care that I've won this or that. They love that I'm verified on Instagram. I think that's hilarious. It's time to focus on other people and not myself," King said. "It's four hours where I don't have to think about swimming."
This real-world experience has provided some perspective—and even a dose of humility. Before the world again encounters Lilly King as a key Olympic actor in Tokyo, she's embracing this chance to grow up.
Makes me sad that Lilly King thinks her fans are bugging her. When she is no longer relevant to her fan base, then she will no longer be relevant to advertisers, which is what turning pro is all about! I remember Missy Franklin telling me she was counseled by an Olympic teammate to "enjoy every fan, every bit of excitement, for soon they will no longer know your name"
Brent Lichty
What a great article. Congrats Lilly on a great career so far with more to come.
Andrea McHugh
"OK, but your bugging me." 🤦♀ ~ wow
Denise Zimmerman Wood Ai
Andrea McHugh I've seen people surround these athletes to a point where they are pinned in and have to have security make a way out. I totally understand her comment. Don't judge unless you've been there.
I agree.Shes had a wonderful career and I hope she appreciates her fans now that she's"grown up" rather than seeing them as an annoyance
Jason Titzer
Andrea McHugh – the general public has no respect for privacy and personal space. When someone is out with their family, do they not deserve that privacy and space?
Jason Titzer I never ever said that! If she felt she was being "bugged" as I'm sure other athletes have as well at some point, there's no need to say that, even in an interview. Personally, I know she's not the most humble person and likes to put on a show in the pool. Many can attest to that. She's amazingly talented in the pool….but shows poor sportsmanship and isn't the most humble. Her saying she was being bugged….🤦♀🙌🏻
not the best ambassador for our sport.
Redonto
Why do I get this feeling that as a gym teacher, Lilly King is going to be like the gym teacher Balbricker in the Porky's movie?
dunc1952
David — great article; especially liked the insights from Looze.
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His wife and young Henry Sieck worked day and night to bring assistance to the sick, find care for the children newly orphaned, and keep a level of calm. In addition, Henry took on the pastoral duties of Dr. Gotsch. Trinity lost nearly a hundred of its members to the disease, oftentimes, entire families.
In the fall of that year, the epidemic subsided and Memphis and Trinity did its best to carry on. Dr. Gotsch found himself too weak to carry on as pastor so on his recommendation, the congregation called Henry Sieck to be its pastor.
Five years later, Memphis again was struck with Yellow Fever. Having experienced the death and devastation of the last epidemic, thousands of Memphians fled the city. It had not been discovered yet how Yellow Fever was spread. Outlaying communities set up armed militias to guard the roadways and train lines, stopping anyone from or having passed through Memphis.
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I had read Pastor Sieck's diary earlier, and when Ebola hit the news I immediately thought about Memphis' yellow fever epidemic. I think about some of the stories and videos that have come out of Monrovia and see how similar it had to have been for Memphis. Does the LC-MS have a partner church there? This crisis should be a natural thing for Trinity to rally around – we have been there and done that.
Let us also pray that their country is not destabilized politically and economically after the Ebola crisis abates.
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Cinema isn't dead, it's just different
Jim Emerson June 21, 2010
Commenting on Jonathan Rosenbaum's article in Cineaste ("DVDs: A New Form of Collective Cinephilia," Michael Althen wrote that, for him, cinema is not what it used to be:
It only exists in festivals -- and on DVD. That's a long way from my/our former belief that cinema can only exist if it follows the well-known liturgy of an anonymous mass staring at a screen. On the other hand, this was a somehow romantic construct fueled by Truffaut's "Day by Night" and other cinephile movies. To be honest, that was not how I discovered the Movies. Born in [the] Sixties, growing up in a suburb, I saw most of the influential movies of my life on TV: "Le Samourai," "The Party," "Jules and Jim," "Citizen Kane", "Le scandale"... Did these less-than-ideal-viewing-circumstances diminish in any way the experience? Maybe.... [Maybe] Cinema is not dead -- but it's different. Its future will be defined by those who grow up having the possibility to choose between Blu-ray at home and 35mm somewhere in the dark.
It seems that cinema, like criticism, is forever dying and never quite dead. (See my recent post, "It's the End of the Cinema as we know it (then and now).") Movie formats and formulas are always being tinkered with -- which is not to say you have to like the new recipes, any more than you were obliged to savor the flavor of New Coke back in the 1980s.
But there's no contesting the reality that, thanks to digital delivery systems (DVD, Blu-ray, downloads), more films, old and new are available in high quality prints than ever before. Thanks to improved technologies, more films are being seen under better circumstances (including high-definition home and computer screens) than at any time in history. To fully appreciate just how good most films now look on digital video, it really helps if you grew up watching movies not only in first-run downtown movie palaces but in neighborhood second-run and bargain theaters, on cathode-ray televisions (first bluish-black-and-white, then garish color), or in classrooms with 16mm Bell & Howell projectors and beat-up nontheatrical prints (often double dupes), or even the well-worn, splicey 35 mm prints that endlessly travelled the repertory-house circuit.
Rosenbaum himself argues that the debate over the optimal way to experience movies (both aesthetically and socially) has been greatly oversimplified:
For far too long, an absolutist either/or mentality has been ruling the debate about changes in global film culture brought about by DVDs (and much the same mentality has needlessly assumed that we have to "choose" between reading about film on paper or on the Internet). Presumably, one is forced to either go along with the doubts and demurrals of some of my favorite programmers and archivists... who stand up for original formats, or to embrace the more optimistic projections of bloggers such as myself and Girish Shambu, who tend to emphasize how many films can be seen nowadays on DVD over the diminished properties and quality of image and sound found in nontheatrical venues.
Last week when I went to see "Splice" at an AMC multiplex in North Seattle, I couldn't help but think how much better the movie would have played at home on my five-year-old 55-inch Sony Bravia and makeshift 5.1 surround system than it did on the big screen in the nearly unoccupied auditorium. It wasn't dark enough in the room, the print was soft (as was the projection), there wasn't enough light on the screen -- even the sound was less than vivid, perhaps due in part to the muddied acoustics of the empty hall. It's not that anything was particularly wrong with the presentation, it just wasn't very good.
(Ironically, the automated platter systems most multiplexes installed in the '70s and '80s -- so simple even a teenager could simply push a button, thus sparing the theater the expense of a union projectionist -- have improved to the point that the overall quality of projection has now risen to the mediocre. There seem to be fewer breakages, equipment failures, egregious focusing and framing problems... but most movies look pretty blah in these characterless boxes anyway. At least they look better than the unavoidable ads and the trailers, many of which are projected in murky video with the houselights half up.)
Most of the complaints about "the theatrical experience" -- justified or not -- haven't changed for decades: rude, noisy audiences; high ticket and concession prices; having to actually pay to sit, captive, while you are bombarded with advertising... And now, of course, there are tweets and texts flashing all over the place, too. No thanks -- I'd rather watch a movie in a dark, quiet room on a sharp screen, enveloped in clear, sharp sound. Whether I'm watching "Splice" or a Lubitsch picture from the '30s, chances are it's going to be a better experience than I could get in almost any theater -- and I can arrange the time and place myself.
Which brings me to the other key issue addressed in Rosenbaum's piece: the social element. The ways we communicate now, through phones and computers, through Facebook as well as face-to-face (thank you), have been extended to our involvement with, and discourse about, movies. Rosenbaum writes:
In the past, cinephilia as a collective experience and activity was almost entirely a matter of audiences experiencing films together, as part of the same crowd--or else, at the very least, comparing notes months later in paper publications. Today there's a new kind of networking that's based much less on people being in the same places at the same times and more on alerting other people to what's available and where and how, and then reflecting on what's seen and heard afterwards, with several others, via the Internet.
Weighing these two experiences against one another, the emphasis has mainly been on the material differences between viewing a film in 35mm on a large cinema screen and viewing a digital transfer on a home screen that is almost always smaller. But surely the social differences are no less pronounced and pertinent, and the changes in how films are now being experienced in social terms apart from their viewing also need to be explored. Those who insist that what was formerly a communal activity has now become a solitary one are often committing the error of limiting the social experience of cinema to a particular set of viewing conditions when it has always been more complicated than that, especially once one takes in such activities as film criticism, film education, and various kinds of discussion. So the extensions of these latter activities via blogging and chatgroups now have to be factored in, along with the relative reduction of people seeing the same films at the same time in the same viewing spaces.
Anybody who follows an ad hoc network of movie bloggers (paid or unpaid) knows that these loosely organized, often overlapping communities carry on discussions that aren't necessarily connected to films that are new in theatrical release. Just as there's been a wide-ranging consideration of "slow/contemplative cinema" in recent weeks in film sites, magazines and personal blogs (Nick James, Steven Shaviro, Harry Tuttle, Vadim Rizov, Glenn Kenny, et al. -- referring back to a 2008 article by Matthew Flanagan, "Towards an Aesthetic of Slow in Contemporary Cinema"), there's no rush to wrap it up. I'm just mentioning it now, though I've been following and thinking about it for, gosh, more than a month. Good grief! That's approximately six years in Internet Time, isn't it? (I'm with Girish on this: we need a Slow Internet Movement along the lines of Slow Food and Slow Cinema, if we're really going to take advantage of the archival nature of the web. It's not just about being first and fast and superficial; it's an opportunity to consider a spectrum of arguments and evidence.)
Anyway, my point -- and Rosenbaum's -- is that the Internet provides a valuable and enjoyable forum for movie-related social interactions (even if a troll should intrude upon occasion). As for the "audience experience," Rosenbaum simply points out that, in the case of many worthwhile films, theatrical screenings are not an option, much less the only option, available to those who want to see them.
He mentions Jacques Rivette' and Suzanne Schiffman's twelve-hour "Out 1" (1971) and Bela Tarr's seven-hour "Sátantángó" (1994) as "extreme examples" -- which got me to thinking once again about whether all films are really "meant to be seen" with an audience. (What if you show up at the theater and there's only a handful of people there? Should you leave and ask for your money back because you're not getting the "full theatrical experience" the filmmakers theoretically intended?)
This issue has long bugged me. When I was a daily newspaper film critic (especially in Los Angeles), studios would invariably insist on screening comedies and action movies in a large auditorium with an invited (usually radio-station giveaway) audience. The idea behind this strategy is that critics would think the movie was funnier or more rousing if they were surrounded by a lot of other people with an incentive to laugh and cheer (after all, they were getting to see a free movie before it opened!). I do not think this worked particularly well for me. I sometimes resented the knee-jerk audience responses (like having someone elbow you in the side to tell you when you're supposed to react). Other times, it was fine. I would recommend seeing Marx Brothers comedies with an audience the first time, if you can. The gags and performances were honed on the road in live tours so the timing for laughs would be just right; when you watch them at home for the 400th time they can appear to have a little too much air in them. As for Buster Keaton, the greatest filmmaker of all time, it doesn't really matter because you may spend so much time wide-eyed in awe that laughing becomes almost incidental. (Some things in Keaton are so funny I honestly do forget to laugh.)
Whether or not you think cinema is dead, or you have reached the end of your own particular road, cinephilia itself is not a thing of the past.
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NASA Earth Expeditions
The Shady Fire, a Deviation From Plan
The Shady Fire smoke plume seen from the DC-8 on Thursday, July 25, 2019. Credit: Bernadett Weinzierl, University of Vienna
By Ellen Gray / BOISE, IDAHO/
"It's nice to have a flight plan to deviate from," said DC-8 pilot Tim Vest at the debrief on Thursday night. It was just after 10 p.m. and the DC-8 had just returned from a 6-hour flight over a fire they weren't planning on visiting.
The original plan for the afternoon was to fly to eastern Washington State, where several fires were burning in clear skies. But wildfires are tricky things. That morning during flight planning, the Shady Fire, less than 30 minutes away by air in the Salmon-Challis National Forest, didn't look like it was going to generate an impressive smoke plume. But a half hour before take-off at 4 p.m., after the instrument teams were aboard and the DC-8's doors were closed, the scientists staying behind to monitor the flight from the ground pulled down new satellite images.
"They said, take a look at the Shady Fire once you're in the air," said Carsten Warneke from the University of Colorado working at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. He's one of FIREX-AQ's project scientists and was sitting in the DC-8's cockpit jump seat as Thursday's flight mission scientist.
Flying north on their original plan to the Washington fires, Carsten – and everyone else with an eastern-facing seat – looked out the window. Shady's smoke plume was big and billowing. The hot and dry conditions of the late afternoon had invigorated the fire and helped to loft its smoke thousands of feet into the atmosphere.
The Shady Fire seen from the ground in the Salmon-Challis National Forest on Friday, June 26, 2019. Credit: U.S. Forest Service
"It was very exciting," said Carsten. Measuring smoke was why the science team was flying. "But it was also a surprise. We had a completely different flight plan, but then there was that plume."
So, less than half an hour after take-off, the flight plan changed.
Fortunately, the Shady Fire had been the second fire on the list for the previous day's flight, although they'd only made one pass over its then-low-lying plume. Tim Vest and his co-pilot, Dave Fedors, both from NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center, were able to use the that plan once they redirected.
Aboard the DC-8, monitors show Wednesday's flight plan in black overlaid by the actual path of the plane in red. On the left you can see the sharp right turn from diverting from the original plan. At this point in the flight they'd completed one sequence of the lawnmower sampling path. July 25, 2019. Credit: NASA
Flying over a wilderness area was a huge advantage. With no other air traffic, aside from a pass from a plane gathering a hotspot survey for the U.S. Forest Service, the pilots had a lot of room to work with. They guided the plane in a series of maneuvers that began with flying above the plume at 15,000 feet to gather data from the remote sensing instruments. Then they cruised to a lower altitude of about 5,000 feet above the terrain and flew through the plume in a pattern called "the lawnmower" that cut north-south back and forth across the eastward-stretching plume. By the time they'd completed the first pass, the plume had been spread by winds farther east, and the smoke gases had been reacting in the atmosphere for about two and a half hours since they began. So they went back to the source and "mowed" it again, and then did a third pass east to west through the length of the plume. By the time they headed back to Boise, the plume had extended to the Wyoming border.
Flying through the plume, it was surprisingly dark, said Carsten. During each lawnmower pass, they had zero visibility where the smoke was thickest, closer toward the Shady Fire's vertical plume (which they didn't fly through because it was too hot and turbulent). The light that filtered in, especially as they moved toward the less dense eastern end, was yellowish-brown that snapped to clear once they exited the smoke on each perpendicular pass.
"It was smelly, too," said Carsten. "Not as bad as I was expecting but it still smelled like smoke."
The view from the jump seat right after take-off. From here, Carsten as mission scientist can easily communicate with the pilots and flight engineer in the cockpit. July 25, 2019. Credit: NASA
As mission scientist, Carsten was in charge of meeting the science goals of the flight. This largely meant he was frequently switching between chatting with the ground team who had the updating satellite imagery and two different headsets on the plane: one on the science team channel where requests for adjustments were flying thick and fast, and one on the pilot channel to figure out what was possible and safe for the aircraft. Balancing all that information, Carsten directed the details of the flight to try to get the best measurements for everyone.
"Then after we turned at the end of each pass, I would call out on the science channel 'Get ready we're measuring smoke in 30 seconds,'" he said.
A close up of the Shady Fire's smoke plume during sampling on July 25, 2019. Credit: Bernadett Weinzierl, University of Vienna
The Shady Fire started from a lightning strike on July 10 at about 6 p.m. Since it's in a wilderness area far from populated areas, the U.S. Forest Service has closed nearby roads and trails and is monitoring it, but otherwise letting it burn for now – with the exception of protecting specific buildings and assets in the area. So far it has burned more than 2600 acres of primarily subalpine fir and lodgepole pine trees.
For the FIREX-AQ science team the Shady Fire is exactly what they're looking for to study smoke dynamics in the atmosphere – what are the gases and airborne particles in plumes and how do they evolve as they age and spread downwind.
"We're measuring everything a non-chemist knows about and then 500 more chemicals," said Carsten. The DC-8 is loaded up with instruments and more than 30 scientists to run them during flight. Among the gases they're measuring are carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides, as well as particulate aerosols including soot and black carbon.
The interior of the DC-8 has instruments where seats would be on a commercial plane. They suck smoke inside through inlets and tubing that connect to the instruments. July 25, 2019. Credit: NASA
They're also measuring chemicals formed in the plume, such as ozone. Ozone near Earth's surface is a pollutant and health hazard that the Environmental Protection Agency monitors to evaluate air quality. It forms from a reaction of nitrogen oxides with volatile organic compounds (both emitted in large amounts from the fire) in the presence sunlight (that often forgotten ingredient in atmospheric chemistry.) During Thursday's flight, the team saw ozone forming in the plume.
The science team's excitement was palpable when they returned, and the instrument teams spent Friday getting a first crack at their data. Their deviation from the plan had been a huge success.
At the Friday morning briefing, when the team was taking a look at their options in Washington and Oregon for Saturday's proposed flight, project scientist Jim Crawford from NASA Langley said, "Put together a flight plan for each of them."
"And," said Jack Dibb, project scientist from University of New Hampshire, "have a plan for Shady in our back-pocket."
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NASA's view from space shows our planet is changing, but to really understand the nitty-gritty of these changes and what they mean for our future, scientists need a closer look. This year NASA takes you on a world tour as we kick off new field research campaigns to study regions of critical change from land, sea and air.
Preparing for Landing: NASA's S-MODE Wraps up Last Week of Experiments
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Unexpected Turbulence for the S-MODE Airborne Instruments
Liftoff! Aircraft Experiments Take Flight for NASA's S-MODE Mission
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BERKELEY COUNTY, SC (WCSC) - A new lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses a Goose Creek daycare facility of neglecting a one-year-old child with serious injuries.
Attorneys filed the lawsuit in Berkeley County, where the parents and child live.
Paul and Kayla Gombwer claim in the lawsuit their child was under the care of Harvest Time Academy when he was injured.
The suit claims when the child's parents picked him up from the facility on September 25, 2018, they noticed bruising on his body and took him to MUSC.
"The doctors at MUSC noted an indication of child abuse via injuries resulting from blunt-force trauma and diagnosed [the child] with a fractured sternum," the suit said.
According to records with the South Carolina Department of Social Services, DSS has inspected Harvest Time Academy several times since 2017.
Most inspections DSS conducted were based on complaints filed with the department.
DSS inspected 7 instances of improper supervision, 7 operating policy deficiencies and 4 instances of unauthorized or unqualified caregivers.
The owner of Harvest Time Academy said over the phone that the accident referenced in the lawsuit could not have happened under their care because the facility was not open when the child was injured.
He also said the facility has not been charged with negligence.
When asked about the number of complaints and inspections of deficiencies at the facility, the owner said every daycare facility has complaints like those.
The owner declined a formal interview before getting advice from an attorney.
After learning from the news media of a lawsuit filed on behalf of a child who was formerly enrolled at its daycare center, Harvest Time Academy, LLC, has retained Attorneys Myesha L. Brown and Margie A. Pizarro to represent its interests. While Harvest Time has not been formerly served with the lawsuit, it looks forward to responding to any allegations involving this incident, all of which have previously been investigated by the Goose Creek Police Department and the South Carolina Department of Social Services.
Harvest Time has provided child care to members of this community for the past 10 years, gaining the trust and confidence of generations of families. The center looks forward to continuing to provide quality child care for many years to come.


KYIV - Ukrainian President and presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko said that, if he is reelected, he plans to prepare Ukraine for joining the European Union and NATO during his second term in office.
"I am planning to prepare Ukraine for joining NATO and the EU by the end of my second presidential term. And to start absolutely realistic negotiations on joining the EU and make sure that Ukraine receives a NATO Membership Action Plan in 2023," Poroshenko said at a meeting with voters in the center of Kyiv on Sunday.
As early as at a NATO summit in London in December 2019, "after the voters give me another mandate for five years, I intend to bring up the MAP matter," Poroshenko said.
He said he had made NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg aware of this intention in a letter.
It had been reported earlier that the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada had called on the NATO member states on February 7 to support Ukraine's determination to become a NATO member and start a formal dialogue on granting a MAP to Ukraine at the NATO summit in London in December 2019.
The Rada also urged the North Atlantic Council, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, and the national parliaments of the NATO member states to support Ukraine's declared intention to join the alliance.
The address was initiated by Maxym Burbak, the leader of the People's Front faction, and Artur Herasymov, the leader of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc faction at the Rada.
In sending greetings to Stoltenberg on the occasion of his approaching 60th birthday, Poroshenko expressed the hope that Ukraine would receive a NATO Membership Action Plan at the alliance's summit in London in December 2019.


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Montt y Cia SA updates
Surface landowners versus mining concession holder rights
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The relationship between surface landowners and mining concession holders in Chile is governed by law, which grants preferential rights to the latter. Mining concession holders may exercise their rights to search for minerals and impose mining easements on landowners. However, in the case of state property, such matters are regulated by a ministerial order.
Legal framework for lithium gets recharged
Until 1979, the Mining Code 1932 defined the legal regime for lithium. During that period, lithium was treated like any other mineral and could be privately owned without special restrictions. This situation has changed with the enactment of a number of laws. Most recently, the Ministry of Mining's Supreme Decree 64 established special operation contract requirements and conditions for the exploration, exploitation and processing of lithium deposits in the Atacama region.
Lights on – El Pelicano solar park opened
The El Pelicano solar park, a photovoltaic power plant located north of Santiago, was recently opened. The plant, which represents an investment of $250 million, has a capacity of 110 megawatts (MW) and will provide approximately 42% of the energy required by the Santiago subway system. In 2014 solar power in Chile had an installed capacity of 11 MW. With the launch of the El Pelicano project, this capacity has risen to 2,100 MW.
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Kannada superstar Yash's recent release film KGF 2 is busy earning a bang at the box office. A full 19 days have passed since
the film was released. In so many days, the film has earned Rs 360 crore from the Hindi box office alone. Whereas at the worldwide level,
the film has crossed the Rs 1000 crore mark. With this, the film has become India's fourth 1000 crore film.
Not only this, with this the film has also earned a bumper at the Tollywood box office. Along with this, it has dusted big films
in the list of all-time highest grosser films of Telugu cinema. See list here. Prabhas starrer director SS Rajamouli's film
Bahubali 2 is at number one in this list. The film had collected a total collection of Rs 1414 crore from All Over India.
South Cinema's Ram Charan and Jr NTR's film RRR are on the second position in this list. The film has done
a total business of Rs 767 crore at the Indian box office. According to a report by Koimoi.com, superstar Yash's film KGF 2 has so
far collected a huge amount of Rs 711 crore at the Indian box office. This film is soon going to break the record of RRR.


If you've ever considered becoming a makeup artist, you probably have a lot of questions to ask.
To get started, we will look into the creative side of things, such as skill assessment, growing as a makeup artist, the essential financial and business elements — like client management, time investment, and salary scales.
From building your first makeup kit to establishing your career, this is all going to be about becoming a freelance makeup artist.
How do I get the word out there?
How do I make sure everything goes well?
Before your idea becomes a plan and you start the process, reviewing the financial aspects will help you decide whether becoming a freelance makeup artist is a viable career option.
The first question that immediately comes up in every aspiring makeup artist is the wide range of salary options.
As a constantly growing industry worth over $455 billion, the beauty industry has labeled makeup artistry as a goldmine for self-made women by Forbes.
The average salary of a freelance makeup artist is between $35,000-45,000 while the top 10% can make up to $75,000 per year, which perfectly represents the versatility of this career path.
Want to do Bridal makeup? Fantasy? Natural? Why not?
With dedication, talent and business skills, you can reach the top and earn enough money to make this your full-time career.
On the other hand, if you're looking for something more part-time for extra income on the side, freelancing offers a very well paid hourly basis with little qualifications.
Finding the right rate to charge as you're just starting out isn't easy.
Your Location – look around your area and see what your competitors are charging. Focus on local customers by listing your business in Google's directory so when someone nears you need a makeup artist, you will show up.
Target Audience – don't be afraid to have a higher price point if you are targeting the luxury side of the industry. Just make sure you have the talent and skills to prove the price point.
The industry can see talent immediately. There doesn't need to be a PhD in makeup, a successful form of art is one that resonates.
You might be a beginner obsessed with makeup or someone who's already been through beauty school. Before you start planning the details, make sure you have a good understanding of your skills and current qualifications.
For beginners, I'd definitely recommend doing a professional makeup course (even if it's an inexpensive online one) just to see what is out there and how sufficient your knowledge is compared to others.
Constantly refreshing your knowledge to keep up with the trends.
Gaining experience and building up your portfolio being a volunteer makeup artist for photoshoots is also an essential step.
If you can showcase your best works, your audience will form an initial trust and will choose you based on those skills.
If you already have the initial experience you need as a freelance makeup artist, consider looking into additional business courses, masterclasses or research materials.
Learning more about how to promote your business, how to secure investment and other growth options will make you more confident in making the next steps.
This is the part where you can have fun with both your creative and business ideas. You should put your personality into your business.
Creating a brand identity as a freelance makeup artist is essential, not only because it's a competitive field, but also because a good identity sells your service effortlessly.
Artists can specialize in anything and everything.
Do one specification perfectly (like lips) then you'll be the next Vlada Haggerty.
Often having a strong niche is a brand. Perfect certain techniques – for example, some artists do only mermaid inspired looks (fantasy with pastel colors.) Some are more like full transformations based in horror and halloween looks.
Going beyond style, think about race and ethnicity, it's a big part of it too.
Indian bridal weddings have their own style compare to American bridal weddings.
Twiddle down on your niche.
Aim to define a target audience and building your brand around connecting with your chosen audience. Instead of pushing your services in a traditional way, find a more personal level of engagement with your prospective clients. This will set you apart from the competition.
Building up your own kit will be a time and money consuming part of the process, but it's one of the most important investments you can make.
A professional kit will increase your credibility (who wouldn't trust an artist who only works with handpicked, pro products) and could help you do your job with confidence.
You have to note allergy and sensitivities in your clients so avoid inferior products. This is not always determined by price (some drugstore brands are great) but it's part of your job to do ample makeup and product research.
For this step, try to request and find as many samples as possible and aim to find the best qualities, textures and color varieties to provide versatile services.
Check out Ipsy Makeup Glam Bags for a wide variety of brands and materials in sample sizes.
Besides the biggest brand names like MAC or Urban Decay, you can also support independent, local brands which will definitely appeal to your customer base.
To cut down on the cost of building up your makeup kit, apply for the Pro Artist memberships that will give you up to 30% discounts on products.
Invest in a business scheduler, separate phone number, business cards, daily planner, and a calendar app.
If this is more than a hobby then invest in a cosmetic train case to organize your kit and keep things sanitary. It's very easy to spread bad bacteria and skin infections, do not be held liable for that!
First aid (state specific) but usually band-aids, gloves, etc.
Consider things like gasoline, time, babysitting, tools, taxes, liability insurance (if you absolutely need it) and such on top of your earnings.
Keeping your supplies down also means you can keep your overhead and prices lower.
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Beauty Appointments: if you are open to having a management system, signing up to at-home booking services will help you connect with clients. These can done with a simple Facebook or Instagram page.
A great benefit of this career is that one platform doesn't cross out the others. If you decide to work full-time, you can manage your time and choose a few slots for at-home services, while working the rest of the days in your private salon space.
You can easily promote your freelance makeup business by focusing on social media and creative collabs.
Reach out to other beauty insiders (such as hairdressers and nail artists) to collaborate and promote each other, and constantly share your work with your audience on your social profiles to showcase your talent.
I know, the first few weeks can be tough, but once you've set up your accounts and have spent time on managing them, your business will start to get more and more recognition.
Having the first few clients will not only seem like a personal success (which you will definitely deserve to celebrate!) but will also have a defining impact on your business.
Without a doubt, gaining credibility as a makeup artist can be one of the trickiest parts of starting out, yet it's one of the most important aspects to a successful career. Similarly to other services, getting the trust of your first few customers will easily set you apart from your competitors and make your business more appealing.
Your happy clients will leave review on your social media, recommend you for their friends and will confidently work together with you again.
Besides providing an excellent service, there are many other small details that will improve your client relations. Being a welcoming makeup artist who's interested in the clients' personal makeup preferences will help you create friendly relationships. Over time, you will also have a better understanding of all your returning clients and will know how to provide the perfect makeup sessions for them individually.
So how much time will all this take? Luckily, as a freelance career option, you can build it up by taking smaller steps at first. If you have a job at the moment, taking 1-2 hours every day from your free time to research, plan, do an online qualification will be enough at the beginning.
Once you're ready to go live, take more time to manage the business and ensure that the launch goes effortlessly. For example, having a Sunday when you sit in a café and focus on creating your service list for hours, or having a weekend where your only duty is going through makeup stores, testing products is a great way to connect with your business more.
This tip has come up many times in the article, but I feel the need to emphasize it a bit more: gather inspiration from your own life experience with beauty services, and apply it to your work ethic and business model.
There is a lot of socialization that comes into play too. You could be seeing brides on their big day. As a makeup artist, you need to have the calming skills to get them ready for their biggest day. This all comes with raw experience.
While assessing your skills and looking through possible qualifications, getting a bit insecure is completely normal. (Look at Instagram! It's insecurity palooza.) You might find yourself doubting your skills or thinking you're not good enough, but these thoughts shouldn't stop you!
Putting a dash of your personality into your branding and marketing will help you create a personal connection with your audience. Stay true to you!
With such a rapidly changing industry, you will always need to be on the hunt for new product launches and application technique. Instead of following every new method you come across, be selective and only choose the directions that suit your personal brand.
Keep a good grasp of your online presence, your brand, be tech savvy, and own your skills.
Becoming a freelance makeup artist holds endless opportunities for aspiring creatives. There is a lot more scope to cover and details that only come with experience. Get started using your artistic skills to gain a full-time income, managing your own work hours, being part of a hyper-creative, competitive industry is going to be the best reward – plus a few extra bucks for your talents certainly doesn't hurt!


Dianne has many years' experience working for central government departments, currently HMRC. She has a leading role to increase the technical capabilities of HMRC's Digital and Technology workforce in order for HMRC to meet the governments demanding Digital agenda. She is an expert in the use of the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFiA) and the BCS SFiA+ products. She gives regular presentations to other Government Departments and Corporates demonstrating how to get the most out of the products. Has recently been appointed to the new, high profile, BCS Customer Employer Panel which will: discuss the market challenges and trends of today, debate future direction, shape the future of IT/Digital learning and development, sharing best practice to maintain standards & excellence to improve the BCS offering and future direction to provide greater value to the UK Digital and Technology community.
Simon has extensive experience in the design, transition and operation of IT and Telecommunications, Security and Training capabilities through service with the UK Armed Forces. He became a professional member of the BCS on gaining an MSc in Design of Information Systems from Cranfield University while serving and has been involved with the Branch on returning back to native Shropshire in 2011. Simon retired from military service in 2015 and now works as a Project Manager in the Financial Services sector, based in Telford, delivering change and capabilities within the in-house IT and back office support. A keen advocate of Cyber Security, Leadership and Management and the System of Systems architectural approach, he is also a Chartered Manager through the CMI.
With extensive experience in Software Testing and IT training with EDS and Capgemini. Hollie set up a Business Intelligence Consultancy called Purple Frog Systems with her husband which quickly won successful big data contracts working with global companies.
She also runs a web design company called FraggleWorks specialising in online marketing and business consultancy.
She volunteered to develop the BCS Shropshire website and eventually become branch chair for 4 years from 2012 to 2016.
Edward started out in IT with Unilever having got a MSc in IT from Aberystwyth University, a hot bed of BCS champions! He became an IT project manager with Unilever focussing on the foods business. His main interests were initially Client Server systems involving Oracle. This developed into business workflow systems such as procurement and expense management using web technology, particularly Microsoft. Edward set up his own business in 1997 undertaking bespoke work for large and small companies in addition to joint ventures with other software companies.
Edward believes not only in the professionalism of the individual (BCS), but also of the company (UKITA). He believes in "giving to receive" and as such is the Shropshire Branch Chairman of UKITA (UK IT Association). UKITA seeks to support, champion and represent SME IT companies and particular to champion their professionalism through its own quality mark.
Edward is from Shropshire, having been brought up on a farm in South Shropshire. He loves singing and sings in an eclectic men's "a cappella" folk group called "The Men From Off" which is based at the Three Tuns, Bishops Castle. They are an "experience"…..
Ian is a Certified Fellow of the BCS who started his professional career on an apprentice style placement at the Inland Revenue, following the successful completion of the apprenticeship he moved into a software testing position and has continued to specialise in the software testing profession for nearly 30 years.
Having worked in a number of IT services companies, EDS, HP, Wipro, Capgemini, Steria and currently at Cognizant where he is responsible for Testing Business Development activities across the UK and Continental Europe.
Outside of his full time role Ian undertakes a number of roles to provide input back into the industry and local community; as an active director of the UK Testing Board (UKTB) responsible for links into ISTQB for Glossary, Syllabus and Marketing, He supports the TMMi foundation, Co-opted member of the governments Trustworthy Software Imitative, and is also a local school governor.
Alan studied in Sheffield (Hallam University) in 1976 & was one of the first graduates through a Computing Science course focused at the computing industry. His course provided half year assignments with clients which gave Alan his first IT work experience at the Driver & Vehicle License centre in Swansea. His first 10 years of IT employment was spent with two small businesses providing ICL VME technical support for BT & Friends Provident.
He then joined BT in 1987 but switched architecture to IBM VME & VSE operating systems to support telecommunication applications, for Marches and the West region. Alan then extended his technical support skills in Unix, Linux & Windows has the industry demand for mainframe support switched to distributed systems. To support this transition into open systems, Alan successfully studied appropriate undergraduate modules at Wolverhampton University.
Has technologies offered savings in computer service costs e.g. 'lights out' Data Centres Alan worked on projects to automate the implementation of monitoring, backup, performance & server tools for BT's internal server estates. Following BT's venture into the ICT market Alan applied his automation skills to the large scale National Programme for IT( NHSfIT) (*), contracts that BT secured since 2006. Alan currently has a lead product support role within BT exploiting HP's Server Automation (Opsware) software currently for three NHS large scale national programmes.
(*) BT provides computing for the National Spine database underpinning the patient care record service & new IT Service & Systems for London & Southern UK regions.


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Margot Robbie Says She's Working on Another Harley Quinn Spinoff
Britt Hayes
In Suicide Squad, Harley Quinn was one of the few shining spots in David Ayer's otherwise messy attempt to introduce the grimy super-villain collective. Margot Robbie's natural charisma elevated the character beyond Joker's occasional girlfriend and sidekick (and emotional punching bag), and she really zeroed in on the aspects of her personality that have made Harley Quinn such a fan-favorite. It's no surprise that Warner Bros. is already plotting a pair of spinoffs for the character, but according to Robbie, there's a third Harley project in the works, too.
Speaking with MTV News to promote I, Tonya, Robbie revealed that she's plotting another Harley Quinn spinoff — separate from the Joker and Harley movie and Gotham City Sirens:
I've been working on it for two years now. It's hard to kind of talk about it because all this stuff is under lock and key, but no I've been working on a separate spinoff Harley thing for a while now… [Not Sirens], it's a totally separate one. Yeah, there's a lot going on right now and I honestly don't think anyone knows what's gonna be the next thing to happen, but I think everyone's keen to get Harley back on screen so everyone's working on different versions of what that could be.
Like Sirens, Robbie says the third Harley movie would also see the charming criminal teaming up with other women. Not long after Suicide Squad hit theaters, WB lined up Gotham City Sirens, which would see Harley joined by other DC female villains like Catwoman and Poison Ivy. David Ayer will write and direct that film, while Warrior's Gavin O'Connor will take over Suicide Squad 2. In addition, Robbie is reuniting with Focus duo Glenn Ficarra and John Requa for another spinoff that centers on Harley's relationship with Jared Leto's Joker.
While WB's DC movie universe is still kind of a mess, it seems like they're at least paying attention to what their audience enjoys — namely Wonder Woman and Harley Quinn. Surely it's no coincidence that the two most popular characters in the franchise are women, right?
Everything You Need to Know About Harley Quinn, From Breakout Batman Villain to 'Suicide Squad'
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MIAMI, Dec. 8 - Lingering near his departure gate at Miami International Airport on Wednesday, Rigoberto Alpizar appeared flustered and loath to make the last, brief leg of his long journey home.
"He was standing up against the wall with his wife," said Alan Tirpak, a fellow passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 to Orlando, who spotted Mr. Alpizar next to the passageway leading to their plane around 2 p.m. "He looked agitated -- had a very nervous, agitated look to him. As I walked past them, his wife told him, 'Let's let these people get on first. It will be O.K.' "
Minutes later, after the couple had found their seats at the back of the aircraft and Mr. Tirpak had settled into his seat near first class, Mr. Alpizar ran through the aisle toward the front of the plane, almost knocking over a flight attendant, "trying desperately" to get off with his wife at his heels, recalled another passenger, Natalia Cayon.
When he ignored calls from two federal marshals to stop, he was gunned down in the passageway.
The marshals said Mr. Alpizar had said he had a bomb.
Relatives said the couple had been returning from a stressful vacation. Mr. Alpizar's wife, Anne Buechner, had been robbed in Peru, losing her wallet, passport, laptop computer and cellphone, said her sister-in-law, Kelley Buechner of Milwaukee.
"That really upset Rigo," Ms. Buechner said in an interview at her home, using the family's nickname for Mr. Alpizar, a Costa Rica native who became an American citizen a few years ago. "Anne was robbed in Peru, and it was very unsettling to them both."
Mr. Tirpak, flying home from a business trip, said that as the couple waited to board Mr. Alpizar had begun singing the refrain from the old spiritual, "Let My People Go."
The Miami-Dade Police Department, which is investigating whether the shooting was justified, said it had interviewed more than 100 passengers and crew members from Flight 924 and that preliminary evidence suggested Mr. Alpizar had repeatedly refused to surrender. The White House, meanwhile, defended the actions of the air marshals.
"I don't think anyone wants to see it come to a situation like this," said Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman. "But these marshals appear to have acted in a way that's consistent with the extensive training that they have received. And we'll see what the investigation shows, and lessons learned from that will be applied to future training and protocol."
Chief Willie Marshall, who leads the Miami-Dade criminal investigations unit, said Mr. Alpizar had run off the plane and, while on the passageway, reached into a bag that was "strapped to his chest." That was when both air marshals opened fire with multiple shots, he said.
Chief Marshall said that homicide detectives had interviewed Ms. Buechner throughout the night and that she had told them her husband had received a diagnosis of bipolar disorder roughly a decade ago. "She provided us some very valuable information and insight about what was going on with her husband," he said. "She told us he had not taken his medication recently."
Though Chief Marshall said the couple had been on a vacation, a neighbor described it as a missionary trip and said both were frequent churchgoers.
Both marshals aboard Flight 924 were hired in 2002, said David M. Adams, a spokesman for the Federal Air Marshal Service. One was a four-year veteran of the Border Patrol and spoke fluent Spanish, he said, and the other had worked for two years as a customs inspector.
Mr. Adams said he did not know what language the air marshals had used to address Mr. Alpizar. But another marshal, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because air marshals have been threatened with dismissal for speaking to the news media, said he understood that instructions had been given in both Spanish and English.
One marshal said that air marshals are typically the first to board planes, even before the disabled and travelers with young children, and that Wednesday's incident had occurred before the plane door was closed. He theorized that the marshals had probably not had a chance to observe Mr. Alpizar in the boarding lounge.
Chief Marshall would not reveal the specifics of his agency's interviews with people who were on the aircraft, including whether any had said they heard Mr. Alpizar threaten that he had a bomb. But Mark Raynor, an American Airlines pilot and local union official in Miami, said an account he heard from the plane's captain had supported law enforcement accounts of the shooting.
Mr. Raynor said the captain had been outside the cockpit at the time of the shooting and witnessed it, but the first officer had been inside the cockpit and had seen nothing.
Chief Marshall said detectives were waiting to interview the two air marshals and hoped to do so on Thursday. The marshals were placed on paid leave on Thursday, pending the outcome of an internal investigation, officials said.
Ms. Buechner returned Thursday to the white ranch home she had shared with her husband of 18 years in Maitland, outside Orlando. Relatives who had flown to Miami drove her the roughly four hours home after she had finished talking to detectives, Chief Marshall said.
Ms. Buechner did not speak to reporters who had gathered outside the home on a bleak, rainy day, but her brother, Steven Buechner of Milwaukee, and her sister, Jeanne Jentsch, of Sheboygan, Wis., emerged to read a short statement and ask the news media to leave the family alone.
"Rigo Alpizar was a loving, gentle and caring husband, uncle, brother, son and friend," Ms. Buechner said. "He was born in Costa Rica and became a proud American citizen several years ago. He will be sorely missed by all who knew him."
Kelley Buechner was more forthcoming as she talked to a reporter while drinking coffee in her Milwaukee living room, the television news droning in the background.
She said Mr. Alpizar had learned English after moving to Florida from Costa Rica. She described him as a joyous, playful man who enjoyed working in his garden and taking his niece to Disney World and the beach when she visited every summer.
"It's not the Rigo we knew," she said. "This person who you are seeing is not our Rigo."
Until now, Kelley Buechner said, she had never heard that her brother-in-law was bipolar, only that he had had "a chemical imbalance" for which he took vitamins. She said she had never known Mr. Alpizar to stop taking his medication.
If he was bipolar, she said, it was fitting of Anne Buechner not to discuss it with family. "She's the type who doesn't want to burden people with her problems," Kelley Buechner said.
Her daughter, Ciara, 11, described Mr. Alpizar as a gentle uncle whom she could not imagine hurting anyone. "If I caught lizards and accidentally killed one, he would almost be kind of sad," Ciara said of her annual visits to Florida. "He would say, 'What if that happened to you?' "
Reporting for this article was contributed by Terry Aguayo in Miami, Jeff Bailey in Chicago, Christine Blank in Maitland, Fla., Dennis Blank in Orlando and Barbara Miner in Milwaukee.


Thanks to our lovely audience, and to the wonderful Chrys Salt and Brian Johnstone, for an excellent event on Tuesday night.
The theme of War was unavoidably sombre, but the sheer quality and diversity of the poetry read was uplifting. Interspersing poems from various conflicts, old and contemporary, with the letters home of Chrys's son (who was sent on the Iraq invasion), was a masterstroke – bringing the topic alive in a way with which any parent or child could intimately relate.
To name just a few of the moments which will last long in memory: Chrys reading "the seven rivers of Hiroshima"; Brian telling us of the Falklands, and a soldier burying a dead comrade whose face said "don't bury me"; Chrys's collateral damage – "where are the meanings we had before? Gives language a bad name, does war…"; and the ultimate statement of grief: "I don't remember what words are and how to use them".


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Emergent Bodywork basically gives the plan of the session back to the body on the table. It's asks the body, "What would you do if you had a couple hands and some elbows at your disposal?" What Emergent Bodywork practitioner Kevin Troiano noticed nearly 10 years ago was that the body can actually respond to such questions, that it does in fact, have a plan that is ready to be enacted.
Using his extraordinary implicit sensitivity, Kevin can hear the instructions coming from deep within our nervous system's innate intelligence. Emergent Bodywork sessions are a response to and interaction with this intelligence. The effect for clients is an experience that feels continuously relevant and remarkably precise essentially because each contact is a direct response to a request that the body itself has implicitly made. Clients experience deep and lasting relief and cumulative benefits.
For those with specific issues or chronic problems, Emergent Bodywork can quickly and efficiently address matters. There is very little bandying about. Since the body only seeks out what is best and most necessary for its health, Emergent Bodywork is wonderful for addressing complex issues in the body.
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That the council prepare temporary road closed (or similar) signage at severely flooded sites to discourage drivers from sending additional flood water into houses and properties.
When or where possible, the Area Office erects road flooded signs to warn motorists in advance of flooded areas. The Area Office would have to investigate the implications of erecting temporary road closure signage in this context.


CloudFIT is a two-year research project (Jan 2010-Dec 2011) funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (PTDC/EIA-CCO/108299/2008).
You can read the project summary for more information.
Keywords: Distributed Systems, Intrusion Tolerance, Security, Availability, Cloud Computing.
This page was last modified on 17 June 2010, at 14:15.


Q. What brought you to Garage Guru?
A. I saw a piece about Monkey Bar Storage in Entrepreneur magazine. I thought: "What a great idea for a business, there are SOOOOO many garages in Metro Vancouver – and sooooo many people with just a LOT of STUFF to store!" Organizing a space is a passion of mine. So we started Garage Guru as a very small business, and we've expanded over the years to include other lines, to the point where now we cover all types of garage storage needs throughout the Metro Vancouver region.
Q. What's your role at Garage Guru?
A. We're not too concerned about titles here – you can call me Guru-in-Chief. Or you can just call me Christine!
Q. What do you do when not at Garage Guru?
A. I love to hike the Mt. Seymour trails, go for bike-rides, travel the world and hang out by the ocean with Tom at our house in Deep Cove.
A. Christine was desperate, and willing to hire anyone! I GOT THE JOB!
A. Hard Worker, and in charge of Friday lunches.
A. I spend as much time as possible with my family and keeping active in sports!
A. Christine has been a close family friend for years. She used to use my carpentry experience for her own home before she started Garage Guru!
A. Installer! I'm the guy that transforms your garage from design to reality! I'm also the staff's entertainment (I guess I sing a lot).
A. Along with Maggie, I work at being the best parent I can be to our young sons Harrison and Thatcher. We always do little projects around the house, play sports and catch up on our favourite shows!
A. I used to be a cabinet-maker and a mutual friend introduced me to Christine. Her small but growing company seemed perfect to showcase my skills and to be more creative.
A. I'm an installer, but I'm also a friend.
A. I'm pretty devoted to biking and Netflix.


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10 Trends Driving Action on Climate Change in 2011
[Editor's note: This article originally appeared at SocialFunds.com.]
Viewed through the lens of growth, 2010 can be seen as one in which sustainable investment moved closer to acceptance by the mainstream investment community, in the US and elsewhere.
By the end of the year, three reports detailing regional states of sustainable investment -- in Europe, the United States, and Australia and New Zealand -- had been published, and each showed that uptake of environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) factors in investment decision-making was on the increase. (Here are articles on the reports: Growth in Sustainable Assets Outpaces Mainstream, Sustainable Investment in Australia and New Zealand Outperformed Market in 2010 and Principles for Responsible Investment Publishes 2010 Report on Progress.)
Furthermore, the number of signatories to the United Nations' Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) has grown to include over 800 signatories with a total of $22 trillion in assets under management. The number of new signatories since July 2009 now stands at 268, "evidence," the PRI states, "of the increasing recognition by institutional investors worldwide of the need to consider environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues when investing."
Considering that many observers had cautioned that consideration of ESG factors by investors and corporations would decline in the wake of the financial crisis, such results are encouraging for practitioners of sustainable investment.
However, 2010 was a year in which the political winds in the US in particular turned sharply to the right, and the year's top stories indicate that the engagement practices of sustainable investors, both with companies and legislative and regulatory processes, will be if anything even more crucial in 2011. Here are the top five sustainable investment stories for 2010.
5. Congress passes health care reform legislation.
Despite the ongoing economic recession and high unemployment, President Obama maintained his priority of seeing health care reform enacted by Congress, and succeeded in the face of fierce opposition by most Republicans in Congress. In March, the House of Representatives passed the bill in a 219-212 vote, and a reconciliation bill passed the Senate afterward.
Sustainable investors have long made health care reform a central part of their mission. The number of shareowner proposals addressing health care reform increased considerably in the last two years, in an effort led by the AFL-CIO, which pointed out that access to affordable, comprehensive health care insurance is the most significant social policy issue in America.
In November 2009, in advance of the 2010 proxy season, the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) sent letters to 36 members of the US Chamber of Commerce that had issued public statements in support of the principles of healthcare reform, asking them to clarify whether or not the Chamber speaks for them on health care reform and, if not, to make a public statement to that effect. (Here is an article on the ICCR's letter campaign: Companies Are Asked to Distance Themselves From Chamber on Health Care Reform.)
Following the historic vote in the House, ICCR members issued a statement welcoming the reform of health care in the US, stating, "Access to health care is a fundamental human right, benefits society and serves the individual, the common good and employers."
4. Congress fails to act on climate change.
Of all the macroeconomic issues with which sustainable investors have been engaged, none have a more far-reaching global effect than climate change. In June 2009, when the House passed the Waxman-Markey climate change bill, it seemed cause for celebration.
However, the Senate then failed to pass even modest legislative proposals addressing climate change, leaving the Obama administration with little choice but to pursue regulatory options for meaningful reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), basing its authority to regulate emissions on a 2007 Supreme Court decision relating to the Clean Air Act, established regulations requiring large facilities emitting over 25,000 tons of GHG emissions a year to demonstrate that they are using the best practices and technologies to minimize GHG emissions.
Sustainable investors associated with Ceres, the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), and As You Sow have aggressively pursued climate change mitigation through resolutions asking for improved reporting by companies as well as assessments of risks and opportunities associated with climate change. (Here are several articles on the subject: Environmental Shareowner Resolutions Gain Record Levels of Support in 2010 Proxy Season, Investors Lead Way on Climate Change As Senate Fails to Act, Leading Companies are Not Waiting for Climate Change Legislation, Carbon Disclosure Project Issues 2010 Reports on Climate Change Disclosure by Companies in Global 500 and S&P 500 and Investors Call on World Leaders to Act Now on Climate Change.)
3. Congress passes financial regulatory reform legislation.
Since the financial crisis and subsequent global economic recession, many books have been published lionizing the few industry insiders who foresaw the collapse of the subprime mortgage lending market. None of them, however, have detailed the prescience of many sustainable investors who have been issuing warnings about the practice for many years.
ICCR members introduced shareowner resolutions addressing underwriting practices in the mid-nineties, and resolutions addressing securitization practices in the late nineties. During the 2010 proxy season, ICCR members asked companies to report on policies for collateralization of their derivatives.
The Senate responded to calls for financial reform in May, when it passed the Dodd-Frank bill by a vote of 59-39. As Senate and House conferees met to craft a reconciliation bill in June, the Social Investment Forum (SIF) published a letter outlining the organization's support for provisions that would improve corporate governance, protect consumers, and provide regulatory oversight of investment products. (Articles on the subject include: Investors and Shareowners Applaud Senate Passage of Financial Reform Bill, Sustainability Investors Make Their Voices Heard on Financial Reform Legislation and SEC Settlement with Countrywide Executives: A Template for Personal Liability?)
2. BP oil rig explodes in Gulf of Mexico.
That the worst environmental disaster in human history occurred in the controversial practice of deepwater drilling was not much of a surprise. Sustainable investors have called on companies to effectively address the risks associated with such practices, which are becoming increasingly prevalent as the clearly unsustainable global reliance on fossil fuels encounters limitations in conventional extraction.
That BP turned out to be the company that caused the disaster should not have come as much of a surprise either, given its lengthy history of health and safety violations, especially in the US. Yet despite the violations, which led to multiple deaths in Texas City and elsewhere, BP had remained a favorite of many sustainable investors, largely due to its reputation as an effective reporter. The latest disaster finally forced many investors to reconsider their assessment of BP as a top sustainable company, and 2010 saw the company's removal from several sustainable indexes. (Here is a sampling of BP coverage: Sustainability Investors Reconsider BP Holdings in Wake of Gulf Disaster, BP Among Companies Removed from Global Sustainability Index, Shareowner Resolution Addresses Risk Management at BP and Oil Spill Commission Asked to Recommend Improved Disclosure by Offshore Drillers.)
1. Supreme Court decision opens floodgates for corporate political spending.
The Supreme Court ruling in January on Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission, which prevents the government from regulating corporate expenditures on election campaigns, sent a shock wave through the community of advocates for corporate accountability and shareowner rights.
In effect, the Court ruled that the rights of corporations are the same as those of private individuals, despite their clearly articulated legal status as separate entities.
Following the ruling, President Obama said, "With its ruling today, the Supreme Court has given a green light to a new stampede of special interest money in our politics. It is a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans."
The Center for Political Accountability (CPA), launched in 2003, seeks to bring transparency and accountability to corporate political spending. Thus far, more than 75 companies have voluntarily adopted the framework for political disclosure, including half of those listed on the S&P 100.
In response to the Supreme Court ruling, Bruce Freed, President of CPA, said, "The Citizens United decision will place companies under immense pressure to use shareholder funds to support candidates, groups and causes whose positions and activities could threaten a company's reputation and bottom line and shareholder value."
In November, a coalition of investors led by Domini Social Investments and Walden Asset Management submitted proposals for the 2011 proxy season addressing corporate political spending at four large corporations. The four companies sit on the Board of the US Chamber of Commerce, which reportedly poured $75 million into the 2010 election. (Articles on the decision and its impact include: Advocates for Corporate Accountability Denounce Supreme Court Ruling on Political Spending, In Wake of Controversial Supreme Court Decision, Shareowner Activists Develop Plan for Corporate Disclosure of Political Spending,Social Investors Brainstorm Responses to Citizens United and Shareowners Launch Campaign Against Corporate Political Spending.)
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